Player's Lounge: The Magic Formula?

Hotels dot Com Number forty two. Barry Checks the Old Old Original, the old forties original, Rick Johnson's newest member of the show, and the survivor himself, the black survivor. You know what you know? As you say that, though, as you say that, I do want to take take a moment to say that this is the first season where the mandate for fifty percent of the cast having to be people of color is in effect. So this will be the most diverse season. You'll see a lot

of Black Survivors, Latino, You'll see Asian. It's gonna be a good season and it's gonna be the most diverse fund season where you the last Black Survivors that what are you the last black? We know that I watch the Shore In case you don't know, the new episode of Survivors going to air tomorrow at debuts tomorrow and are on. Danny McCray is there, So check Twitter. What's your Twitter handle? Social media handles at Danny dmc forty four on Twitter, at Danny McCrae forty on Instagram. Okay,

so make sure you're following. They're all also give retweets as well. Um, how many black men were on the show? Uh, there were cast four four? How many black women there were? One? Two to two six six? Okay, so when I watch, I'm going to identify who is that crazy man? All these they always they're always looking for one, I mean, and nobody captured it better than the old reality show Flavor of Love. I doubt I was almost gonna say, I almost can guarantee it's probably gonna be a woman,

Miss New York Man. Flavor made sure she took that fifteen minutes and they made sure that that woman I loved the end when she got cut, I don't care, I don't care. And you just see it, walk up the seeing the car crying. Let me tell you something, she should have got some hands put on her. But spending that la place that was on she should have put she should have put her hands on her every time she's seen her, because it was a lugie. It was speaks to it. It wasn't just no regular spit,

all right, it was that. It was that stuff that come from down up and to wipe it off the So hopefully on your reality show Survivor, we don't see anything like that. But I just know the magic formulas they make these television shows as they looked for one crazy Negro. Was that was bridget on our show? Yes, yes, yes, the Flavor of Love. That was when I was I raise my hand. I unfortunately got sucked into shows that was the best years of it, rains waste themselves. It

was so bad it was good, you know. I tell myself. I had to stop watching The Millionaire Matchmaker and and Real Housewatch I was. I was unfortunately doing that. I had to stop. I'm a real housewise watcher. Now. I watched the Salt Lake. I watched Potona. I don't even know. Yeah, I watched. I watched all that's interesting. Watch she did she did. I didn't know anything about it until I saw her watching one of them like that. All right, wait,

it's something to New Jersey. They man, it's interesting to see the like the different dynamics based on the location. Right, So Beverly Hills versus New York versus Atlanta. You know it's a it's the only female on the show. I just want to say, you, guys, I did not start this conversation nai go on social media thing. That's why BRIT's there. You guys just talking about Real Housewife. Never seen it, don't watch it. I enjoyed the Real Housewife.

I enjoyed, I watched. I watched a lot of reality TV, and now I am on reality TV. Look at my guy out here. I never survived. I've never watched Survivor, so this will be my first time. I've never watched Survivor, so be into this. A couple of reality shows I just haven't watched. That's that's one of them, so I'll be interested in that. Never watched the batchroom of The Bachelorette, so same, that's a another one that I won't won't

get into. Watched that. I'm on that, I'm on that on that church is right there, President, and y'all, I'll watch none of these shows. Bravo, the team, Bravo, Yeah, I'm on it. And millions he had him down here, My boy, Bill, you know, had some legal trouble right now, baby, well let's shot at them. Cabot. We're gonna we're after dark with Andy Cole. We're talking about you. You know it'll be good Andy bring out Bones Fossils. So Bone, let's talk about that punt unit sitting here to recap

what happened. We have a kamara, We've got a coach from mccarte. I mean literally, you could have Andy Cole right there because that was it was a issue in the game. But if you start to think about Bones Fossils two years that's a special teams coach. You look at this and you just say, hey, man, brother bro

bro him what you're doing. Jerry Jones spoke about it on one oh five three the Fan, and Jerry said that he's a conservative person in terms of special teams, and Jerry went into his background playing at the University of Arkansas for Frank Boyles where they won a national championships. Jerry's a very conservative guy when it comes to special teams. Bones Fossil ended up talking about. Now, just in case,

let me just highlight the play. So at this point in the football game, it is a fourth and twenty on the forty six and the Cowboys go out to the punt. They get the rough and to kicker with one fifty three to go, and they call it on Camaro and then the Chargers get the football first intended to thirty nine. They run off one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight plays, they missed the field goal. They missed the field goal, and the Cowboys going to the half fourteam

to eleven. And this is what bones Fossil said to the media yesterday. I didn't get who they actually my jersey number because it was a train wreck right there at the block spot. But what I got on film is that they're number forty, hook Kamara and pulled them back into the punter. And you know, you can make a great case it was holding or that the punter hit his own blocker, but there's a lot of bodies at that pilot, so um our goal is to come after him. Okay. That was a part of the explanation.

He also went on to say and tried to rationalize what happened in the game by putting it on the fans and saying, all right, you know, well, cat with fans, you want to you know, you want to aggressive, So I tried to get a fans what they need and like, can't wait to talk to Danny and Arry about this guy who played on special teams. So Danny, I'm gonna start with you phones fossils, like I'm trying to just get a fans. Well, that will get a people what they want. Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna go too

hard on on coach file. So I think the last two years, well, his first year here, he made some head scratching decisions as far as what he's calling and when he's calling it um and this has been no different. I would have rather him come out and say, hey, man, this was our game plan and this is what we said we were gonna do in this situation, and it just didn't work out for us. And you know, we'll think about that a little harder next time we get

into the situation. Instead, my man says, hey, Cowboys fans, you know I answered the call foree y'all. Man, I heard y'all. I've been listening to the podcast, I've been reading the newspaper. I actually heard y'all in the stands. Since it was so many Cowboys fans in the stands out there in LA and I heard y'all saying rush, rush, rush, rush, and I say, you know what, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and satisfy the fans because that's the type of coach that I am, all right, And then he called

the blocking. It didn't work out for him. It doesn't really make much sense to explanation. You know, he's the coaching to call those things. Didn't make much sense to me. But you know that's why he get paid the big bucks for now. Yeah, I mean, look, it was it was just a bad mistake and you got to own it. I mean, look, if he if he goes out there and blocks the punt and we're in great field position or were even scored, and he's a genius, but it

happened the opposite way. He ended up getting the flag and prolonging the Chargers drive on that one. So for me, you know, as a coach, you would love for him to just say, you know what, hey, that's the risk I took. You know, I'm in this business to take risks, and that was a risk that ended up failing for me. But you know, it happens. It happens. It's called football.

But instead of that, he tried to you know, switch things around a little bit and say, hey, you know what, I did this for the fans, for the diehard fans that you know, we've been used to mediocrity here for the past couple of years, and you know what, I'm taking risk. I'm a risk. Take I did this for y'all. No, no, you didn't do that for the fans. You went out there, you tried to block the punt. You tried to you know, put your special team stamp on the game and ended

up backfiring. I mean, that's just as simple as it was. He just gotta take it on the chin and ride with it like that. But instead he tosses on Cowboys Nation. You know, Cowboys Nation is not going to respond well today. Yeah, you know, we got some of the most wilent fans out there. They go, they're gonna voice their opinion. So I'm interested to see how they react to this. But to me, you gotta take that one on the chain. Well as a fan, it's a slap in the face

to the fans because it's something that didn't work. It's like, oh see, y'all said this and didn't work. So guess you guys don't know what you're talking about That's what it sounded like to me. So I don't know, but I think I'm not as mad as at him for the play or the situation. I think that that's what you're supposed to do when you're playing football, is in

that situation as a special teams person rush the kicker. Unfortunately, I think he didn't really look at who he has on the field because Kamara, that was his first game playing yesterday. He's not a vet. So I think if you would have had a seasoned guy in that, he would have been able to read the situation better and not have made that mistake. I think that was where the mistake was, is not knowing who's out there and who's in a situation to do something like that if

you know it works. It worked with the Steelers game. It's it happens, and he's the everybody's hero if that does work. So I think you do have to do that kind of stuff. And he said that was his game plan every time. It's not a question, that's what we're doing. And I don't fault him for that at all. I just think he should have known who he had out there as a coach and decided, hey, you know, maybe I'm not gonna put this on this guy right now because I don't think he's ready to deal with that.

So oh, go ahead, And he asked, oh no, I you know, it's like I said, it's his right to make the call um fourth and twenty. You know, like I said, he does have to know his guys. But I think this is just a continuing trend for my man bones Fossil, all right, Like I said, you know, we run a fake punt on for my own twenty last season. Uh, and it makes absolutely no sense. Is was it a reverse? A reverse? It was reverse, so you actually lose yards on the play in order to

try to gain some more yards. And you know, in the situation didn't make sense. Even if he didn't pass it. It was fourth and five, he had run thirty yards just to get bad um. You see some of the squift kicks that happen in game one, uh this year, where we're like, why don't you just kick it out the back of the end zone. We have our field goal kicker who misses so much time throughout the preseason comes in and try to kick a sixty yard or just some of the some of the decisions here like

you got. You gotta have faith in your guys, but at some point you gotta protect your guys as well. I want to ask you, do you think he has too much faith in the guys, because is he, like you know, um, writing up stuff that these guys can't handle at this point in time. No, I think that he has too much, too much leeway. I think that somebody needs to put him to the side and say, hey, man,

come on you. You are about to single handedly at some points get us all fired, all right, because you know, as the head coach here, it all comes back to me no matter what, right, because you know they're gonna say, hey, man, did you run that by McCarthy and then McCarthy say it was okay for you to run a faith from

the twenty? Did he say it was okay for you to try to rush the kicker on fourth and twenty instead of playing it safe and giving our offense the chance to move the ball down the field like they've been doing all day. Right, So I think this is you know, at some point you have to set as a bro hey, just call caller regular if you're gonna try something crazy, walk over to me and ask me and I can tell years ahead ahead. I just want to say real quick, you don't want, you know, offense

wins loses game, defense wins. You don't want the special teams to be the reason why you lose the game. So yeah, but that's been a consistent Probably that makes sense for the past he wants to put his a game, but for the past three seasons. Yeah, we keep talking about the Cowboys losing the special team's battle. You go back into once again, look at the situation the football game. It's fourth and twenty. You're getting the football back. It is one fifty two o nine when he calls, so

it's right before the two minute drill. Here, you're getting the football back. The previous possession, you'd gone ten yards they start, I mean, ted Blade, you started it. You're only twenty three dry stall members a fourth and five and incomplete pass to Cooper at the forty one. So you were having some success with your football team at this point time. Just get the ball back. Let Dak run the two minute drill. Did you need to at this point time in a three point game go for this? Yeah.

I looked at and I said, Nah, that really wasn't the time to go ahead and do that. Your offense have been playing well and just didn't have a lot of possessions. Cow was eight possessions in this whole football game. So that's my thing. I just kind of shook my head at it. Here is Bones Fossil with the media yesterday giving his explanation about the going for the black punt. I think Cowboys fans aren't the play it safe type, so I was gonna give them what they wanted, come

after their ass on punt rush. So I hope they're happy with it because we came. We came after them. Um, it's kind of the miset going into the game and we're gonna we're gonna come after this, come after this football. And you can sure debate everything, but I'm still not so sure that we actually roughed them well at three point lead. I find that interesting. So, Danny, I was

telling you earlier. So in my ethics class, my business ethics class that I'm taking here last night, I had to read one of these long papers and in it it talked about a rationalization, and that's what you just heard from Bones False. It's called rationalization. I ain't gonna rationalize what it is I did even though you guys are like, what the heck did you do? And within that it says the problem is how to admit a wrongful conduct at the same time avoid the blame to

The major strategy here is passing the buck. One acknowledges the existence of a problem but makes someone else responsible for it, which is I did this for the fan, I did for you, I do it for me. Now that was for you. No, no, this is wrong. And I go back to one reason why bones Fossil got let go with the Rams. One of the stories that I heard was that he called a fake punt and didn't tell Sean mcbeck, and that was kind of like, you know, we're gonna go ahead, do go out a

little separce. Some he did that last year too. I want to notice, So what do you think our issue is specifically with special teams, Coach? I feel like we've lost two two really top not guys right around the league. You would say that Joe D. Camillis is a known name around the league. He got out of here in what the Chicago and then you see rich as soon as John got the job out there for the Raiders, Rich as like I'm out of here and then yeah, risk Besoa. So we bring in Ko, who is trying

to run Rich's skins. He was and he wasn't and he wasn't ready to do it. Uh, and now we got we got bones from La, who's the total opposite of what Joe D And Rich were as far as their philosophy when it comes to special teams. Right, you take chances when when it makes sense. Right, I got a punt block against Philly the year we went four and twelves. Yeah, we were all the way in their territory. Our quarterback was out, So at that point we were desperate when you know what, I'm sad to make a play.

Not the situation that we went through. Uh, this Sunday, we gotta you gotta get a happy medium here. Like when we had Joe D and we had Rich out here, we didn't really have a big emphasis on special teams and they always kind of just you know, through guys in there were never really outside of you maybe Will Burn and a couple of other Cats, we didn't have any core special teamers and they didn't really put the

emphasis on special team. So I feel like those guys felt like, hey, you know, we're not wanting here, We're gonna go somewhere where we're wanted. Now we have the situation where fossils in here and we're putting them up on the pedestal. We're giving him all this leeway. You can call what you want this fourth and three, go ahead and call these guys, bring your guys in, do what you want to do. And we're putting this huge emphasis on special teams. So he feels like, hey, I

got a little juice here. Let me go ahead and flex a little bit. And so far his flexes have been, you know, not the right thing to do, especially last year after those couple fakes that we had on fourth down, which are still head scratching to me. I just think we gave him a little bit too much leeway. We got to find a happy medium in there, somewhere to where he's not just going out here calling fakes and

colin blocks and you know, in opportune times. I mean, like you said, why wouldn't you just that too minute, Drew, It's fourth and twenty, Why don't you set up a nice return to get the ball back for your offense. The Chargers haven't stopped the offense all day. Dak was doing this thing all day. So let's just sit back, let the offense do what they gotta do instead of trying to put our special team stamp on the game. And that's what I think Rich and Joe d did

a great job. They let the game come to them. They didn't just go out there and take Hella wrists like that. And that's what we're seeing last and messing up my top ten defense. Man, if they get more yards, they get more yards. Almost almost tied the game the game luckily the field goal was real quick new Yeah, I can taste that steak right now that Danny's fitting the half after pay me after this top ten, get

that heavy butter with the libster. Yeah, it's crazy because we got Washington twice, we got a Philly who I think we're gonna shut down this week. So I mean, we got a chance to get up to fifteen games, and we're getting better. The defense is getting better. We talk about the defense, it's getting better. Huh yards about yea, we get better. We guess the total defense. Now, yeah, you know you didn't the point that out, but now

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pulled up in the under this syce. She looked like Miss Jackson fast away too. I've seen that somebody posted up the bottom everyone. So yeah they Yeah, that was the most quote matter life, which was more quotable Friday. Friday back in Parker Folicia turned into a thing. That's what's broke. I'm selling that the bottoms. I'm selling them those sponsors. Yeah, twenty five dollars for them bottoms. Man, y'all hit me up in my DMS. I got what

does the tattoo say? Huh, what does your tato it says? Warrior? I got that. You know, that's one of them the mistakes you make when you are heading into college. That happens. That's why I haven't got another tattoo since tattoo since college. I gave my word it won't have it again. Okay, so you can watch Danny shirtless surd tomorrow. Why look they take us out. Knew he still has his picture. He's looking at the motivation motivation babies. Spend class baby,

put that up. Put that up on your spend and spend class warrior. I like the fur old brown. Hey, what's that? Look the rock was given in muy man. You look good? You look good, brother, Move on. I'm proud. Look good. We're proud of it. You're proud of you, young brother. We get to talk about it tomorrow. So how about Cowboys? Cowboys take on the Eagles Monday night football, first home game over Jerry World. Randy Gregory expected to

be back covidless. So now you get Gregory back here, how would you utilize my like a Parsons in this game? Now that you're going to be able to get Randy Gregory back, who had a very good training camp, you're dan Quinn. Now you at one more piece. You improve your defense. I'm very interested to see what kind of game plan to come up with. And you've got Jalen Hurts who has been doing a nice job for Philadelphia in terms of running and throwing the football here and

year number two. I mean, I think it depends on the down, the distance in the situation in the game. But I'm listening to Dan Quinn say that he can do a lot of good things that linebacker as well. So you're going to see him play both positions. I'm gonna take him at his word. You're going to see him rush the edge. And I tell you, when Jalen Hursts try to turn that right corner, when you got blessed, you appreciate you got four three five out there of Russian.

It's gonna be a lot different than when you got somebody running the four or five, four six. And so I think they're gonna use him in some very creative ways to make sure that they keep some pressure on Jalen Hurts and don't let him escape out the pocket and out run some of those those bigger defensive ends

on the edge. I mean, I think he's going to be used utilize that d N more this week, in just this week, And I know coach Quinn said that he didn't want to like overload him or anything like that, but he just, I mean, he just fits so seamlessly into that position this week and it was just so easy for him. I don't think they're gonna pull it all the way back obviously, and have him go just back to linebacker. I think he's still going to play most of the snaps at d N this week. Yeah,

I move his butt backer linebacker. Man, I'm gonna tell you right now, because he ain't gonna go against a backup set the tackle like he did against the charges Brown Blago was outre He want to get his backup and yes he was dominant, but I don't see that happen in the week end and week out. Plus, if you if you keep him at that DN spot, it's a great chance, you know, to contain Hurts and all that, I understand, but you take a lot away from his

playmaking ability. If you put him that linebacker, he has a way to affect a lot of situations because he can run sideline. The sideline he'd get deep back there. Against the past, he can actually spy on Hurts a little bit because if he's locked up in there at that defensive end and Hurt sees that he's overall that side, he can escape on the other side. Randy Gregor gats some speed too, but he don't go that Parson speed.

So for me, I'm saying move him back to linebacker, give him some give him some spots though at the d end, Like give him some packages at the d n where he can use his speed rush off the edge, maybe a third and long situation or something like that. But just having him down in and down a at the defensive ender, I'm not sure I can get down with that. I like his siline of saline ability at the linebacker. Plus it gets his more opportunity to make

plays out there. What I can guarantee you'll see it's him line up a defensive end and somehow drop back to is like. I can see that as well. I can see the full the front. I think they also need him a linebacker because what we do know about the Eagles is they also have Jalen Hursts, but they also have Miles Sanders and I forget the kid's name, number fourteen, but he's been making some plays out of the backfield. Has a receiver number, so you know he

has some speed. You know he's elusive. So they're going to need that speed out of the two linebackers forty two and eleven in order to keep those guys under wraps. Looking at Jalen Hurts his numbers, he is the Eagles leading rusher um seventeen attempts one hundred and forty four yards after eight point five yards a run, So seventy two yards a game is what he's been getting out there. So while I'm not going to call him Lamar Jackson, but disout ability that you know, whenever Lamar's on the

football field, look out. And so when I think about Michael Parsons, hey, look you you probably need to get him back in linebacker. So hey, we've got to be aware since you got Randy Gregory and Dorg's Armstrong out here closing on the ends and then you got Jalen Smith in the middle along with Michael Parsons, just kind of make sure. Hey, look man, we've got to make sure we keep this quarterback from getting out here and

scrambling for seven eight yards per run. And what you know, and if we look back at that tape, what was his favorite move? That inside rush? He would set him up outside inside, set him up outside inside. You can't do that against a guy like Jalen Hurts. Can you take that inside? Leave that outside out there? Like that? He is out the gate nine times out of ten. And the dangerous part of Hurts is he's not just gonna take off and run. He's looking to extend to

play and hit folks downtown of what his receivers. He got speed out there with Gregor and Smith. So for me, if he's gonna be on that defensive end he is, they got to instill in his mind before the game, make sure you stay outside, keep contained, keep containers. If he keeps doing it up and under move herschell will

be out the gate. Yeah, and I would say, you said Lamar Jackson, I would liking him more to He's not Russell Wilson, but as far as the way that he runs and the things that he's trying to do is closer to Russell Wilson than Lamar Jackson. And we know Russell Wilson can cause him some serious damage. We see it. Yeah, we see what he's doing. Will lock it out there, you know, So you want to make sure you got some speed out there to keep Jalen,

you know, under under wraps. So that's gonna be interesting this week is what Dan Quinn and Joe Junior device as far as the Cowboys defense, which and what the thing I did my report on after the game for Channel five, which is how impressed I was with what Mike McCarthy and that whole coaching sab did on a short week, having to deal with so many issues. All Right, you got, you got, you got Randy Gregory, who's album. People are thinking, well, you know, maybe he can get

him there, he can get there. Toward the end, McCarty's like, nah, I don't look at him. And then here's tank launch on a Wednesday, breaking's footing to come up with that kind of game plan. And oh, by the way, and I don't know how much you guys touched on yesterday the safety play, jay Ron Curse getting down there, the linebacker spot playing in the slot some there, yes sixty something play, Kaz coming up with that critical interception in

the end zone there and Malie Hooker play. I mean, I'm just very impressed with how how Witness got these guys playing some nice football in the secondary, which makes Danny say, do me a favorite, because you said if McCarthy and those dudes did with all the stuff they had going on, Hey man, just for me, Okay, when you talk about adjustments that bid that are being made on defense, and how you making up for Randy Gregory and take being out and the DB's playing better and

all that stuff. You make sure you say dan Quinn and those guys. Okay, Mike McCarthy let him be on the offense. But as far as what's happening on the D as much blame as we gave to Nolan when he was here, we're gonna get a blame the DQ, and we're gonna give the props the DQ for the adjustments that he was able to make with those guys being out Well, that's McCarthy said that at the presser. He gave it to Dan said dan Quinn and his staff.

But at the same time, what I will also say is this, at least the head coaches wanted to get out the way or let you know, let the guy do his thing. He get out there, everybody way, let him. Who are you talking about, He's not fighting, I'm serious. So we just got through talking about bones fossil, uh, you know, having too much rope. All right, He could do whatever he wants to calling those plays, all right.

We last year when Nolan was running the defense, we was saying that Mike McCarthy was out there telling Nolan he needed to do so we were saying Nolan was out there running whatever you want to because he's been in the lab. But when you talk about the offense, who do you talk about? Man, you talk about killing moorees that am I am? I lying? I'm not talking out of everybody's well. I ain't talk too. But when you say Kelly, we got on the list, Kelly Moore

is the offensive play calling guru. All right, dan Quinn came over. He's running the defense and we got you know, bones out here and going role get once in a while. So he wasn't in the lab. McCarthy wasn't that. He was there somewhere. So he was somewhere too. According to you, the only thing Mike McCarthy's, the only thing he needs to do is this. No, no, no, that's what the that's what they called some of the best coaches. They make sure that they surrounding their selves with the best

coordinators and they continue to be great doing that. Nothing wrong with it. And he don't want to call plays, that's him. I'm not saying he can't call plays. Killing Moore's a play caller. That's that's just what it is. His defense. It's Mike responsible for the clock. He absolutely is. You know, you had one job. I'm no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I think I think that that's an overall problem. I think you got many coaches that are out there specifically.

I hate to say it, but I know if you watch Rich on the sideline of the Raiders and how he was here, he was the one who was in Jason Garry's ear telling him, Hey, you know this is about to happen. Look at the clock here. Do you want to go? You know? X y Z so if I'm ya, don't know who that guy is for McCarthy, but they gonna have them on notice. This week the Defense Bashlmazon Cowboys Hour yesterday and he was asked about is there a an identity for this defense yet? Like

what is your guys's identity? And he said, effort and energy. Would you guys agree with that? Absolutely, but don't break absolutely? Are you sold? Listen? Mary Nelson say this man, effort can erase a lot of mistakes, all right, And I'm sure these dudes out here making making mistakes. Nobody plays a perfect game. But when you watch the tape, exactly what he said, that is what you see flying off the film. These dudes are going coming out here they're

playing full speed. They thinking about it later, right, it's not it's not a whole bunch of thinking on the field. You can see them, they see they see ball, get ball, and that's how you're gonna win these games. And that's what they've been doing, bib. But don't break it works. But can we hold up because there's gonna be laws. We all know there's gonna be laws in the season

where these teams ain't gonna turn the ball over. Can this defensive candis team still win games without getting crucial takeaways? You know, I don't think so, But I think they come in bunches. But they also don't come in bunch. But I think I think the way that Dan so far so, the way that Dan Quinn has been able to disguise and scheme up stuff for certain plays and also still stay true to his defense, I think that's

what's helping us get these turnovers. Like I said yesterday, if you watch some of those plays, he's making it look like man, he's got the safety out there lined up on the running back. Running back motions back in you think it's man to man. This dude goes back and play cover four and cover two it's two high safety and you're confusing the young quarterback. I think that him continuing to put those things in, they're gonna call

some turn up. The two the two biggest players in these first two weeks, the red zone forced fumbled back Kyz and the interception at thek in the red zone by Kyz as well. I'm just I'm they're playing a lot better. But I'll be completely sold once we get, you know, zero takeaways and we're still able to hold an offense and we're still able to get these done. I like tanks too. I like tanks. We'll say, may

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and one, the Cowboys are one and one. Washington won in one, Giants owed two in the NFC, so this is a game for a share, if not sole possession of first place depending on how this goes. Cowboys offense right now number four the National Football League in total yards four hundred and thirty five a game. Cowboys scored twenty points in the win over the Charges, thirty one points in the close loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So let us dive into the offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.

Two games in, I want everybody to tell me thumbs up on what he's doing or you need to see more. I'm not gonna give him a thumbs down because the offense, in my opinion so far, has definitely done a lot of what it needs to do. So I'm gonna we're gonna start with you now. I'm gonna get my mad town of pay. That's gonna cost you a little bit more now. But I'm gonna give Kelly Moore huge two

thumbs up. I mean, look, we got on this guy last year about his play calling and how he doesn't get his playmakers the ball in space and all this other stuff, and I feel like he's done a great job adapting to what the defense has given it to him. Like when we first talked about that Tampa Bay game, we all thought, you know, their front seveners, their strength, Vito, they Dominicans, shoe all that. I don't know how they're

gonna be able to run the ball. Keller Moore thought outside the box and said, let me go ahead and attack their secondary and it's for the run game. We're just gonna do a couple of bubble screens, get our guys the ball in space, and let them do damage. And that's exactly what they did. They didn't pull off the victory, but that wasn't the offense's fault. I felt

like Keller Moore called a great game plan. He didn't get the ball to Zeke a lot, but he got that offense going and productive, and then we fast forward it to week two against the Chargers, where we looked at there and we looked in and said, okay, they're specialized in a three three five defense, three down line and three linebackers and usually five dbs out there. If it's not that, there's a three four defense, which again

three down linemen, four linebackers. So when you're going against defenses like that, those run lanes are going to be wide open because all you got is three down linemen right there. So what did Kelly Moore do? He attacked their weaknesses and what we did We gave the ball to Pollard, we gave a ball to Ezekiel Elliott, and those guys went to work. We went out there controlled the game. If you look at it, we controlled the game throughout the game. I mean it was there was

no question about it. We made one mistake on that interception, but other than that, I feel like the offense played flawlessly. I think his adaptability this season has been remarkable, and he's going out the weaknesses of defenses and that's what the offensive coordinator supposed to do. Hopefully he can keep this going. But for me, right now I'm giving them two thumbs up. Let the church say amen, Amen. Yeah, what he said. I give him a thumbs up as well.

I think he did a great job. I always say, you know, people say it's crazy and if it doesn't work, you know, and I think everything that he's been doing now, a lot of times people you know, they're stuck in their ways. They've been doing something for a long time. When you have a young guy come in, people are like, he's doing all this crazy stuff. Um, like we said yesterday, seven guys touched the ball multiple times in the game, not just once, multiple times in the game, and so

you're like, everything's being spread out. There's not this one guy we're focusing on. I loved it. He did what he was supposed to do to get us a win, and it worked out with Pollard as well. He was actually nominated for FedEx Ground NFL Player of the Week. Um. The other two nominees are Nick Chubb and Derrick Henry, So he is in very good company there. Make sure you guys go vote for him. Um. The money goes to an HBCU. It's like two thousand dollars that's donated

in his name. But you have till tomorrow to vote, So you guys should vote on NFL dot com. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna get my thumbs up. You know I'm two thumbs up. Oh y'all. Did I think our offenses look look very very good? When I when I complain about Zeke not getting the balls because I'm biased and I want to see I want to see I want to see Zeke running. But what he's been doing has been working. Um, I think now he's going to have an opportunity to

get it. Maybe three thumbs up. And because my man of Mark Cooper has the Bruce Ribs, you already out gallup, So you're gonna have to figure out a way to make this offense work when you're not seeing double teams on a Mark Cooper and you just have Ceedee Lamb and now you have Tony Pollard and Zeke in the game as your main threats. Um, So I think he's gonna have an opportunity to prove prove his worth more. He's already doing a great job and hopefully he can

continue to do so. Because Philly's defense, Yeah, they really they still can play. Can one are the things that you're coming into this week is you're not talking about Terrence Steel in a negative way. The Cowboys went out here as he filled in for Collins at the right tackle. They gave him the proper help out there, and the young man did a really nice job. I asked Dac

about that after the game. I thought it was something they needed to be we needed to talk a whole lot about because people were fearful thinking, oh my gosh, Joey Bolsa is about to come out here. Michael Parson has had a much had much more impact as a defensive rush in than Joey Bosa did for the Chargers. Sixty plays by the offense, they had eight possessions. They scored on four of them. That's great efficiency on the road.

Twenty seven passes, thirty one runs. Totally different game plan that he had from what you had to do against the Bucks. He was criticized against the Bucks, but folks, let's look at the fact that Tampa's defensive backfield wasn't good. You're already down one start. He had another starter break his arm in the game. That was where you needed

to attack. I just thought he did an excellent job of mixing up and having the balance and the opponent was different and he came up with a different game plan. So to me, I got to give Killing more two thumbs up for what he's done so far in these two games. He's put the Cowboys in the position offensively. I think they needed to be Listen, there's no break for my man. Still Now, Okay, he got he got some Yeah, okay, I love it that he might have

a chance out. Yeah, I still wanted to drink your protein shaking, do all that, you know, make sure everything is right. But it looks better. It looks a lot better with Graham being out because he was was playing well. Yes, all this real quick, because I know we run out of time. Let's just say Still puts together five excellent displays. No pressures, no sacks, No, not a chance, No, no chance at all. Because I think when you're just when something's going well, you don't need to mess it up.

Don't change it. I don't care if Collins comes back. If something's working right now, let's keep back because we could lose Collins again. Something else could happen. He could get another test. Some is some issue. I say, if it's going well, let's keep it going. Yeah, I'm gonna go back with ELC just because he was playing well before he uh, you know, got suspended, and he is,

he is making the big bucks. So I think they're still going to give him that shot to get back in the game and have still as a swing tackle because now they know that they have a reliable swing tackle. And the thing that you have with Collins is you've got an ability to let him play more one on one. You don't have to give him the kind of help that you have to give Steal. So that's why you're going to go back to college because he'll get killing more,

more options in his offense. Now after the season, there's a whole new different kind of conversation going on. During the season, I mean, that's that's that's that's your guy. And uh, he didn't lose the spot because he wasn't playing well, right, so what about the play on the field, And that's and that's not Jerry's emo, right, Yeah, yeah, He's going to give you an extra chance of anything, right, j Jerry's gonna give you a second and third chance to to prove yourself and make sure you could do

that thing right. Just look at Randy Gregory. So he's not gonna lose the spot just based off being suspended. Yeah, players lounge for a Tuesday, let's get back back at it on a Wednesday. Players are off up. What do you got coming up TV wise this week? Here of the shows I'm doing? Um, I do Cowboys Rewind on Fridays airs on Sundays at eleven am. And then Cowboys Flashback just aired yesterday at six pm on CBS, and

then it's on YouTube as well. So and then me and Danny are going to be doing a sit down interview tomorrow. Um. I believe it will air on TV, but it will for sure be on our websit or on the Cowboys website. It'll be probably on my YouTube because I gotta be like, I know this guy, you know, before he gets off famous and big lely to me. We will be doing a sit down interview talking about Survivor.

That will all right, that's it, Players Lives, We'll talk to you tomorrow right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.