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the COVID's been running around rapid. I am new Discuss joined by Barry Church and Danny McCray is out, gonna be out for a little second here. So the show must go on, though, it's got to go on. The famous words, the show must go on. Yes, So the Whington football teams hosting the Dallas Cowboys Sunday and landover Maryland. Barry, I want to go back to the first time you ever went to FedEx Field. What were you thinking it

was gonna be? Versus when you showed up and you drove through there and you're like, it's here, man, I'm not gonna lie to my first That was my very first regular season game in twenty ten and we went to Washington. We lost that game. I think that was when the Agelo Hall scoop and scored the fumble. They won like thirteen to three or something crazy like that. But that was my first time going to an NFL game, period. So then Washington was it was up there, and like

you said, man, we're driving up. I'm thinking, you know, all stadiums in the NFL are glamorous, like so I went you know, small high school and Toledo. Of course that's a mid major, so the stadium is not gonna be crazy. So my man, I'm thinking, I've never been to an NFL game and I'm only driven past, you know, the Steelers stadium, and that stadium was pretty dope. So to me, I'm like, all right, man, this this is gonna be amazing. I can't wait to see you go

through this tunnel and get to the locker room. It's gonna be so high tech. Man. We pulled up in their I was like what, And then we walked pack. We walked through the tunnel of the tunnel, crocks all over the tunnel. The locker rooms small and looked like it was built back in nineteen sixty five and they haven't done any reservations to it, so I was extremely disappointed. But the atmosphere was pretty cool. Man atmosphere was definitely

pretty cool. That tradition, that rivalry is definitely alive in there. And for the most part, like we talked about the other day, it's all Cowboys fans. It's like it's like a home game away from you know, Dallas. So I loved going up to Washington. I got a great record against that team. So hopefully it continues on our Sunday. The thing that's weird is as you're driving through this town in Maryland and you pass RFK on the left where they used to play, where the place used to jump.

So you pass the old stadium. Then you drive it through this neighborhood. You pass apartments and liquor stores and in these this is kind of shopping, this kind of shopping areas, and the next thing you know, you're here. You know, it's a whole bunch of landing. The stadium is there, and you're like, okay, yeah, so so what you were used to is all right, here's at and

T Stadium. You know, this palatial place next to you know, another baseball diamond, and then you're passing the Steelers in your Hinsfield, which is right next to where the Pirates play. Those stadiums are right there together. And then you come to this and you're like, oh, okay, and then you realize how old it is when you go down. This is an old place, man. Man, it's it's old. It's real old, and it's real small. Like it's just like the locker rooms you know at at and T Stadium.

It's like, you know, you got a whole bedroom as your locker, but in there, it's like, man, it's literally like a cubby and everybody's so tighten. Like there's offenses on one side, then there's a wall, then there's a defense on the other. And the training room is right there, so I mean, it's just it's real compact. You're right next to the opening of the stadium, so if you're playing in there in this cold, they leave the doors open in the locker room, it's freezing. So I mean

it's just all around. Man. They need to get up out of there, and newly they need to get up out of that stadium. But okay, I don't see it coming anytime soon. Well, ideally from from the things you keep reading in the Washington Post is Dan Snyder wants to go to RFK. He'd like to get something built there, but that apparently is not happening. And then of course they've talked about going in Virginia someplace. So I'll say this, it's gonna be hard to find public money and votes

for that stadium. Who's gonna want to vote for Daniel Sardy. He's an unpopular man. He's taken the team, which which had a long list of season ticket holders over ten thousand plus, and he's whittled that damn to Now you roll up in there, you know it's a home game for the other team. Cheeseheads came up in there, took over last year. Colts fans were up in there. So so he's he's really done a lot of damage. And these votes are hard. I remember when Denver was trying

to get the votes for their stadium. They've won the Super Bowl and it barely passed. I remember when they were trying to get Cowboys stadium build here. Jerry had to work real hard and had bill parcels out there. I mean, they were out here trying to convince people they give us your vote, so you'll give us public money for this stadium. So I don't know where Daniel Snyder is going to be able to go get it.

And then you look at all the messages that are going on at his organization, inside the organization, and they're not winning, so I should say they're not winning championships anymore like they used to. So so we'll see. But they have won four straight football games. They are two games behind the Cowboys, so this game is going to be important. Montest Sweat, one of their pass rushers is not going to be playing in this contest. We already know Chase Young, who they took in the draft last year,

number two overall. He's out for the season, and they're tied in Logan Thomas, who has had some pretty nice games against the Cowboys past a couple of years. He will not play in this football game. So the Boys is they're getting some guys back Washington, losing some guys here. Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. They lost some important pieces, definitely Logan Thomas. You know, he's missed the majority of this season and then he comes back these last couple of games.

He plays well against the Raiders and then boom, he takes that injury right there the last victor or the last time they played. So to me, that's a huge loss because that was kind of like their security blaming. That was Heinekes like security blaming. When everything breaks down, he's looking for Logan Thomas. So without him being there, I think they still have Ricky Sills Junior. I think

he's still there as they're tight end. He's another one of those wide receivers slash tight end type guys, so we should be able to contain him. But even with all those injuries, we know on the defensive side of the ball, Sweat, who's been out for the majority of the year as well, will miss again because of COVID. But with all those injuries, they still on the offensive side of the ball, they still have those cowboy killers. And I'm talking about Gibson and I'm talking about Scary

Terry McLaurin. I mean those two guys alone they do some damage to the Dallas Cowboys last time they met up, I believe in Washington, Gibson went off running the football and we know what Scary Terry could do on the outside. And it's like we go through this every single time we play a guy in the division that just does well gets Dallas. Look at with the Raiders, the Shan Jackson, he came back. He was a cowboy killer. Nobody knew

anything about this guy this season. He wasn't doing anything, and then boom, he plays against us and goes off. So those two guys have the capabilities to be in game records. So it makes me a little bit nervous. But I'm with you, knew I think the Boys got this handle. I look at Neville Gallamore coming back. I just cannot emphasize that enough of how much I'm expecting him to be the player I saw a training camp who was an improved football player, who was the best

interior defensive lineman they had. And when I go back to camp and guys that I saw improvements from, Terrence Steele was one of the guys that we saw improvement from, improvements from. We saw Cdelad making incredible plays. We saw Sean mckewen the tight end playing out of football. We saw a lot of guys in that second year with a full camp that we're getting better. So I'm expecting Nevill Gallimore to get out there to help fortify the

defensive line to help stop the run. Tristan Hill is coming back off the suspension to go along with, Hey, yeah, don't punch nobody. How about that, you know, at least not not after the game, but but hope hopefully losing that paycheck will get him in the right frame of month. And and then also Osagi Zua. So if you get some more beef up front going on with Carlos Watkins, get some more beef up front, stop that run. Then you get your defensive ends back to Tank Lawrence and

Rady Gregory. We know Tank Lawrence is very good at helping to stop the run as well. I like what the Cowboys from a defensive standpoint they're gonna be able to bring. And then now you've got Michael Parsons with the ability to line him up in different pressure points. So I'm expecting the Cowboys and Dan Quinn to go out and fit, you know, figure out how do you

stop the run? First, stop Gibson and then it's chart as far as Terry McLaurin goes, okay, hey Treyvon, go get it, go, get you know, do what you did to Justin Jefferson and other football players out there, and if Taylor Heneke wants to go ahead and throw digs his way to try and put some pressure out there for him, if I the Cowboys that welcome it. Yeah,

And I'm with you on that. And you gotta be thinking, man, with these names you were throwing out along the defensive line, I mean, when's the last time they were this deep along that that that unit. I mean you didn't even talk about Basham or Daurance Armstrong. I mean you got Carlo's Watkin's returning, you know, interceptions for touchdowns we get you know, he'll returning like all those guys you just mentioned.

I'm just thinking to myself, like, man, I don't even know when the last time we had a defensive line that was this deep to where you could literally rotate maybe three separate units and still have high productivity like that. To me, it just blew my mind. Like I'm just sat there and thing like, Man, this team this defensively, and if they all get healthy and remain healthy, I mean, this defense can be scary in the long run. I don't want to sound like a Homer. I don't want

to do that. I try to make sure when I come here on the players lounge about to you by hotels dot Com that I tell it like it is. And I'm looking at the Cowboys having played three games in twelve days, battling some injuries, battling some COVID and they did not look their best as they lost two of the three in that stretch. And know the New Orleans Saints win wasn't some great win like they went out there and beat Atlanta. They had to struggle, they

had to earn the win. But I don't think I'm being a homer when I tell you the Cowboys are now getting ready to get some reinforcements back that can improve this football team for a stretch run into the playoffs, and they can improve themselves. You can do this, I mean, and I say this looking back at Tampa Bay last year seven and five at one point, and people look at the Buccaneers saying, hey man, we don't know if this thing is really working out with Bruce Arians and

Tom Brady. We don't know. And we saw them get it together. You saw a guy like Vita Vea come back. You can get better. And in fact, we saw Tampa struggling with that secondary Barry. Remember the week one Dak Prescott was torturing that secondary up there. They're getting guys, They're getting guys back, and you're starting to see them

play a better brand of football. So, if we are being fair and we talk about what the Cowboys are getting back and the ability to put out a lineup, they yet to have the lineup that they penciled down, the lineup that they thought they had in training camp. They haven't had an opportunity to roll those guys out. This could be in on Sunday and at the most important time against the team that is behind you. You go ahead and win this game. Man, You got three up on him and you got four to play. Could

be pretty good. You're right about that, And I'm sure after we take this break, I got a question to ask you when we get back with all that, with all that along and defensive line, do you keep Parsons at the linebacker or do you still do what he does best? And that's after the quarter. This we will discuss after we take this break. Barry Church, Knwi Scruggs, Danny mccraize out today. This is the player's Loads, brought to you by Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio at Smoothie

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Toledo Rocket himself. He is Barry Church. I don't know if he's gonna head down to the Bahamas Bowl and not to support the Rockets, but if you're going to go to a bowl game, that would be a very good one to go to, my man, a very good one. So I would love to join the Toledo Rockets down there. I'm gonna give Coach Candle a shout see if he can hook something up for your boy to get me down in the Bahamas and lot Nui. I didn't know,

but the Rockets were seven and five this year. You know, I thought we barely made it Bowl eligible wise, but hey, if we were a game above it seven to five. Man, here's one thing that I will say for the Mac teams. They're lucky because most of the bowl games they get to go to are are outside the Midwest most of the time. Yeah, man, yeah, I feel sorry for some

of these Texas teams. Man, you sit up here, you get to go to bowl game, and they go roll you right down the road, like what waiting We're going to San Antonio. We're going to prison real quick. Yeah yeah, I mean I would be hot like he man, all year long, you're waiting on this nice bowl game and they gonna send you and you're staying in the state of Texas, you know, not even get to go to New Orleans, you know, I mean you do not want

you that. That would frustrate outside of the Cotton Bowl, because the Cotton Bowl is a great game, and that's that's one of the big that's one of the big bowls.

But yeah, man, if you're just a Texas team like UT San Antonio, Man, you want to go to California, you want to go somewhere, and then you look up and see, man, Toledo gets to go to the Bahamas Bowl, I'd be swoven, you a lying, I'd be solid exact Like if I'm not in the College Football Playoff, Like if I'm not one of the four teams in there, and I gotta do one of these other bowls. Take me to the Mohamma's Bowl. They'd be somewhere where I can,

you know, enjoy the week out there. You know. Football, Yeah, we're gonna practice a little bit, but outside of football, we need to lay on the beach somewhere and hang out. Not much rather do that than, like you said, go ahead and go right down the street, you know, to the Alamo Bowl or somewhere like that. Man. I it's just it's just a bad straw right there, man, bad draw. Yeah. Yeah, then I feel sorry for um, for SMU. Man, they got to go to Boston. They're going to the Fenway Bowl,

so they're playing in Fenway Park. It's gonna be cold, cold, so hey, you get the leave Texas, but you're going up to Boston. Man, it's gonna be cold up in here. So yes, yes, your your Toledo Rockets have it really good. I mean, look, if you're not in the Sugar Bowl, the Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, Bahama's Bowl, is a heck of a consolation. Man. Now that you can go recruit with you're out there, man, you can recruit with that without a doubt. And also you can you

bring your clubs do a little golfing down there. So, hey, Toledo, if you're listening, man, hook your boy up, hooky boy up. Man, I'll be on the sound. I'll do whatever whatever you need, quality control, whatever you need. I'm there a man. Just you know, send a ticket for your boy. Meanwhile, Danny's LSU Tigers are gonna go take on k State in Houston at the Texas Bowl. I don't think I don't think that's what the LSU kids thought was gonna happen.

It's the start of the year. They're gonna go just right down the road to go a couple of hours out of Houston for a bowl game. But yeah, that's gonna be a family, family and friends bowl right there where all you see in the stands is just you know, family, the immediate family, and some friends. Man. That's that's all that's gonna be right there. Now, all right, let's dive back into some cowboy defensive questions as they get ready to face Washington in their key game on Sunday. And look,

I'm a huge fan of Michael Parsons. I think you and I were both there at first just wondering Okay, hey man, you drive have to had the corner, but you took the next best defensive player that was one of the top three guys we kind of focused on were Sir Patrick Surtan of Alabama, jac Horne, South Carolina, and then it was Michael Parsons. But we were all about a defensive player. Our guy, Danny McCrae was all about offensive tackle. So Mica has turned out to be

a sensational pick at twelve. He is going to win the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. Now with Tank Lawrence coming back at one defensive end spot Randy Gregory at the other, I say you put him back at linebacker. But the beauty of what dan Quinn is going to be able to do is he'll be able to dial up pressure any kind of way he wants. So he can have him play some bass, he can have him

line up over the center. I mean, he can bring him so many different places, man, that I just think, I think we're about to see Michael Parsons go next level if we see and think we can get Randy Gregory playing like he had before he got injured, Tank Lawrence doing what he's been able to do when healthy in his career, and Neville Gallimor taking another step in his second year. I think this can free up Michael Parsons and do some damage. Yeah, you're right about that, man.

I'm agreeing with which because this will be the first time really that dan Quinn will be able to use him as like a defensive weapon, you know, a physician list, just defensive weapon out there, because you got the guys on the outside. Let's just say tank. You know he's coming back strong. He came back in that Saints game and played pretty well at nine PM. Let's say that Gregory does the same thing when he comes back. You

have your two bookends on the outside. So you could, like you said, you can play with Michael Parsons alignment. You can blitz him up the center, you can have him attack the wink link of the offensive line. But you could have him everywhere and pretty much use him as a defensive weapon. I mean, when we first started talking about this guy, I thought, all right, you know he's a beast, but I think he needs to stay at linebacker. You know, he can he can affect the

game more that way. You know, he doesn't have to come off the field. Because at the defensive lineman you're gonna have to rotate. But he proved me wrong. Man, when he got down to that defensive line, he was still able to give you fifty to sixty snaps and he was causing havoc for every offensive line that was out there, whether it was a tackle or there was

he moved them inside playing guard. So now that we're so deep at the defensive line, I think you can truly use him as a weapon no matter what the situation. You can put them back in the past coverage if you want to attack it, you can have push d Law on the inside and have Parsons on the outside as an end. You have so many capabilities of using this guy and his talent and his abilities. I mean, it could be a scary sight. It could be a

scary sight if it all works out. But to me, Gregory has to come back like he was before he was injured, because he was on a roll, he was on a tear. If he can do that, then man, the sky's limit for this defense and what they can do with parsons. And then the question you have to ask is, Okay, who do you double team? I mean literally,

who do you double team, where do you go? And so I think dan Quinn is going to be able to just get in getting you talk about getting in your bag, He'll be able to get in his bag and do some different things. If everyone is as we talked about, is able to play at the level that we believe they can on this defense, and now you're talking about trying to get this unit to gel for their last five games. Here, we could be talking about a different type of Cowboys team. I was chatting with

Rick Goslin and he was talking about New England. He says, Hey, that's not the same team that the Cowboys faced. He said, that's a different team now, which means you know what they were able to grow and you coach them up. I look at that same standpoint for what I think the Cowboys can do and be. This defensive unit can get better, they can grow, and you could go into the playoffs talking about a different type of football team.

Offensive side, we got some other questions, but right now, defensively, I like what they could possibly do, and not only a different team, but a healthy team, Like if they're able to get back all these reinforcements and they're able to stay healthy for this playoff run. I mean, you're looking at a dangerous squad. I mean the last time they were all together as one, like as a defense, everybody was healthy, was Week one, you know, against Tampa Bay, and we said all that game went out, I mean,

you know it. It was a high scoring affair, but the defense was able to get four takeaways as well. So to me, this is just this team to start to come together. They're starting to gel as a unit. Everybody's kind of knowing the strengths and weaknesses of what they're asked and we're being asked to do out there, and they're playing at a high level. I mean it's not only the defensive line. You look at the second level.

Vander esh you know, he might not stand out as much, but he's not he's not giving up players or busting coverages like he has in the pasts. And then you look in the secondary. I think Anthony Brown. You know, we get on him a lot on the show earlier in the season, but this guy has had an extremely solid season. Outside of two games, you know, the one game against the Raiders and then the Tampa Bay game, He's played extremely good, a solid corner on the outside

opposite of trait or digs on the other side. We know all know how he's playing. So to me, this defense is gelling. It's getting healthier and it could be scary going come playoff time. If these guys can all gel, now that's an optimal word. If they can all gel. Folks, If it doesn't happen this Sunday, do not panic. Okay, it may take some time to get everything, all the pieces together and Barry, this is where you can talk

to to people. Being a former safety in the league, sometimes you've got a thought of what you think it could be and it may take you a little bit to get there. I present to you the New England Patriots took them a little bit to get to that vision of what Bill Belichick's wanted on both sides of the football, but they got there with five games to go. I believe the Cowboys can be able to get there.

This is a key game that you like to go ahead and get in the bag because to beat Washington at their place, knowing that you get them the day after Christmas at your place, this can be a big help in terms of being able to wrap up this division and try to tinker with a couple of things if you want to, and don't forget you've got Arizona after you face walk the Washington football team at Jerry World. So I like what I'm seeing on the defensive side

of things. Offensively, we got issues, but right now the defense maybe the side of the football that can kind of help carry the Cowboys right now. Yeah, well i'd have done. I think, you know, they can help carry it or do their job to get just team to where it needs to be. Um, like you said, we got them because we got Washington to a two out of the next three games. And to me, if we wrap this up in Washington this weekend, I think it's

done for the division. I think that you know, that puts a three game lead between the Cowboys and the next closest you know, guy, or next closest team in the NFC East. So I think it pretty much gives us the leeway to pretty much solidify that playoff position and get that division lead or that division crown. So this is definitely a huge game. And like you mentioned this, this defense, they're gonna they have to take some time

to jail. It's not just gonna happen overnight. I mean, you got pieces in here that are ultra talented but had yet to really play together as a whole all season. I mean, de Barcus Lawrence came back last week. He showed that he can he's been He's back to where he used to be, and he can affect the quarterback and affect the run game. But it's still gonna take a little bit of time for all these pieces to jail and see where they fit perfectly. So I'm interested

to see what they do on third downs. That's gonna be a huge key for me to see how they're gonna play this package or they're gonna make it kind of like just a fast Nascar type package where you kick the loll in and you put Parcels on the edge with Gregory and then maybe a Neville Gallimore or Thorn's Armstrong at the other tackle position. So I'm interested

to see what they do on third down. But this is definitely a huge game and these guys definitely need to bring an a game and hopefully this defense can continue. It's a high level of play. So Barry, what is the mindset for a football team sitting here with this kind of league? Knowing if you go to Washington, you may be able to go ahead and soak up this division right now. But on the flip side, if you don't handle your business, you've now given them life. So

you gotta be you gotta be extremely locked in. You gotta be extremely locked in, and I think this team is. I mean, they know the opportunity they have right now to pretty much take a commanding lead in this division and pretty much lock it up. So I think Dak and the leaders on this team they won't let this. They won't let the guys wander. They won't they won't let a Denver Broncos type situation happen again. And I think that good for us that it already is out

of our system. We saw what happened in Denver. I don't think this team will let that happen again. So they're gonna be extremely locked in now, is it? You know Washington gonna come or come with their A game and they might you know, beat this team. Yes, that is a that is a possibility, but overall, I don't think it'll be because the team's not focused or not

ready to play. I think they know what's on the on task right here now that they know what the goal is, so hopefully they come to Washington ready to play. He's buried church, I knew, he scrugs. Danny McRae with the day off, but do not forget. You can watch Danny tonight on Survive or forty one. That's over at CBS. That's tonight seven pm, Dallas for worth time. He said,

there was only two episodes left, right two one. It's two okay, So you got this one tonight and the next week is the finale because they wrap these things up before Christmas. So that's how these shows kind of how they do it. So they wrap it up the week before Christmas. So so it's this week next week Danny is in the final six. So make sure you check him out there. Jerry Jones pointed the finger. He rarely does it. He usually protects people, but he pointed

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all right, so so Church. Jerry Jones does a show every Tuesday on one to five, three of the Fan. I used to do that show, so I understand those questions. You want to get into Jerry and seeing where he's at. So Sean and r J, who are the hosts. They asked Jerry about Dak, you know, is he healthy? And you know, because because they don't think that Dak has been the same since coming back of the calf injury.

And that's a fair that's a fair assessment. That's a fair from from you know, not being involved, you know, with the team, you can look from and say, hey, look it's been different. And so Jerry proceeded to say that, all right, the receivers if kind of let them down, yeah, not kind of where they needed to be at some times here and some people thought it was a shot. But one thing Jerry didn't say, which I definitely believe he was. He would have been a legitimately fined to

save us. Hey man, we have way too many drops, Okay, way too many drops. And Noah Browns, Cedric Wilson, especially in Kansas City just didn't have the kind of football game that they needed to have. Okay, there was their time to go ahead and and and be there. They weren't. They just simply weren't. So it was a problem because you had cooper out with COVID and then you had um Um, you had cdlam who left the game with the concussion. Those guys didn't not pick up slack. Yeah,

and get you right about that. Man, I don't know how it would take this. You know, if I was a you know, if I was a receiver, but I was in that receiving room, I don't know how it would take this because he's kind of he's kind of putting it on them. He's kind of putting the saying, hey, you know, a lot of girls throws they you know, they weren't in it. They weren't overthrows or under throws. You know, the receivers got to help them out. They

got to be able to catch the balls. And you know, you know, I just don't know how I would feel about that because the room, like you said, there's been a lot of drops. You know, I understand that the A team really wasn't in there. It wasn't you know, like the whole the whole time. It wasn't you know, a CD gallop and cooped together. You know, we had some said will since we had some Noah Browns in there, and occasionally a Malik Turner as well, and so it

wasn't the A team that was in there. But there was a lot of drops. There was a lot of drops out there, and for him to kind of say, hey, you know what, the receiver's gotta help out. They gotta do something better is it's kind of a shot. It's definitely kind of a shot. And if I'm a receiver, I'm taking it that way. But there's not much you can really do. You just gotta go out there and step up, step your game up, and when a ball

strow on your way, you gotta catch it. Make plays. Hey, look, you're talking about several guys who are going to be free agents. So if Jerry said it and you're trying to get your bag, I'd be listening to it because you know who's going to decide your fate here with the Cowboys, Jerry Jones. Okay, so Jerry to me, and I look at Jerry that told you how he feels. A man, I don't think you're helping my forty million dollars quarterback out. Even if the forty million dollars quarterback

has been off target. Bottom line is perception, perceptions reality, So the man who writes the checks has a perception of what's going on right now. So you've got Amari Cooper. Think of it this way. The only safe person is cde E Lamb. He's still under his rookie contract. But the MARII Cooper, all of the guarantees are coming, so if they want to move on from him, they can with no issue. And E. Centric Wilson's FREEC Michael Gallants a free agent, and and Noah Brown should be. I

think he may be a free agent as well. So there's guys who are to be thinking about, hey, I need to be there. They definitely should think because you know, if Jerry's if Jerry's saying I'm thinking that, you know, somebody told him, man, so they had to be somewhere in the scouting department or the coaches. Somebody told him like, man, yeah, these receivers need to step it up. You know, they ain't helping press scout up out a lot out there, and they need to step it up. So you know,

it's not only Jerry feeling that way. So if I'm a receiver. Like you said, man, you gotta think man. So not only is Jerry thinking, and probably the money man is thinking that scouting department and maybe even these coaches. So if I'm trying to get paid, I'm trying to get that bag. If I'm trying to be with these cowboys long term, gotta step the game up, man, especially in these primetime games coming up, got these division games coming up. Ain't a better way to make money. You

gotta step it up and make these plays. So I'm a receiver definitely listening, got with a keen ear saying, all right, this is what Jerry's saying. All Right, I gotta I gotta get back ground on. I gotta get back to work. So but I'm sure to listen. They got enough playmakers over there. So you're you've been a player in the league, and you know how players are sensitive to what they hear. If Jerry is going to go ahead and put this out on his radio show,

imagine what he's saying behind the scenes. Most times people guard what they say if it's not in a positive light about their football team. Jerry's the ultimate optimist, but he's out here saying, hey, man, these guys runs wrong. I think kind of. They basically say they let that down. That's what he's saying, Mikey here, let that down. So maybe that's the Maybe that's the Jedi mind trick. They go ahead and get it lit up here and FedEx field on. I don't know, but I think you think

these receivers. You think these receivers are over there, like, man, they're trying to get us up out of here. Man, what we're gonna do? Man? Hey, look man, if I'm Michael Gallup, I'm worried. I'm worried about it. Um it's okay. You want to get your wife on the show here a church? Does that? That me? That's not me? That's you, man, Yeah, that's you. That's you in the background. Oh we're good now. I believe I thought that was you? Was you over there?

I'm like, what's going on? I'm a I'm all alone, man, you don't won't got the whole family, but I'm all alone. See me all right? I was like, hold up, man, I know they're me over here tripping CD mmmm blameing Dallas cowboyd dot com boy you go, okay, I thought it was you knew it for sure. I'm like, oh, over throwing his other story. He's the stuff Chris, you out here like these cowboy receivers like Jerry saying, how

are you dropping? Just dropping the ball man. So so here's here's something that that I do wonder about, is how healthy is Dak Prescott because he came off the calf injury and we have not seen him play like he did before the calf injury. Could he be compensating at all? Is it still hurting? You ask him and he says he's all good. But still at the end of the day, I do wonder because he's not the

guy he was before he got hurt. You do you think it has more to do with his calf injury or do you think it's this offense being more predictable, or like this offense not being as balanced of attack as it has been earlier in the season. Either way, I mean, I'm interested to know that because, like you said, he's ever since that calf injury, ever since he's went out with that calf, he's come back, he's just been

a little shaky. I don't know if it's been off with the throws, just that connection, that timing with these receivers. We hadn't seen like it, like it was at the beginning or before he got his calf injury. So I'm not sure. I don't know if it's the injury that kind of threw his game off, or it's just kind of defenses picking up on what they're doing out there and his offense maybe more predictable. But I'm not quite sure newly on that one. Okay, here's just just wild theory. Okay,

just just my wild theory. Um, could the calf also be connected to last year's century? You know? Could it all be kind of a cumulative thing that's that's going on there. Obviously the offense hasn't been hitting. We're watching Dak with some throws and making some throws that we just don't normally see. He's off. So yeah, I mean that's why I just look at the interception he threw, Look at the interception he threw against the Saints. I

mean that wasn't double coverage. It was underthrowing. Yeah, that's so that's why, that's why we have the questions that we have, because things are off. Dak is not one hundred percent right, just like we can look at Ezekiel Elliott. We know he's not healthy. Mike McCarthy spoke today and he's like, well, you know what, um, guys have different injuries.

Everything's different. Like you can't compare what Dad was going through with Zeke when they when Dad was hurt with the calf and they decide to rest him versus Zeke and why they're not resting himself. Things are not on point. And Church, I come back to you, you played this game. How much do they make sure they never tell us the media and the fans because guys don't want to have their business out there. They want to protect themselves. Oh oh, they want to protect themselves always. I mean

it's hard enough for a player, at least. I know for me it was to tell the training staff I was hurt. Now you know I wasn't in a I wasn't it at the level of you know, the Zeke or a dad to where you know I was the you know, had to I had to be on the field, but I didn't want to give you know, I didn't want to tell anybody I was injured lest I had to. That's it was visible on the field that I was injured.

So definitely, these guys and these teams are definitely gonna you know, protect against you know, letting everything out there. But I could for sure see a scenario where the cash giving him a little just a little pain back there. Maybe that's why these passes have been the offer. He hasn't had that connection. But wherever the case may be, they gotta get it through. They gotta get something worked out because we gotta get back on this role. We

gotta get these playoffs. So to me, you know, if it's injured, if it's figuring out the offense of what they're going on, they definitely got to switch something up because we need to get this offense back to where it was at the beginning of the season. Cowboys are favorite in this one, so Vegas thinks that they could win this football game. The Cowboys have played well on the road. To Mary Cooper, who had a social game

coming back from COVID against the Saints. I expect him to be on point and doing his doing out there. So and that is what what's that seven seven to one against the football team. I mean, it ain't no way. I'll say it's a blowout. And I don't think there's a way that the football team gets this done, but we'll see all right, you know what. We can talk about that tomorrow. So make sure you're watching tonight. Only two episodes of Survivor or Left Survivor forty one are

Dame even Prey is on. The show starts at seven on CBS and if you miss it, go to CBS dot com. So he's in the final six, he's out today. I think he's in trouble. I think he's in trouble. Dowey, I don't know, man, I just he lost he lost, he lost, uh one of the teammates. So man, I don't know, I don't know. I think he's in trouble this time, man. And that's why we gotta watch. That's a beauty. Gotta watch. We have to watch, all right, We'll do it tomorrow. Players lines right here. Brought to

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