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Speaker 1: I'm Knwey scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys players Barry Church and Danny McCray. Gentlemen, how are
Speaker 1: we doing here on a Thursday? Mccraig, Um, I didn't
Speaker 1: mention your man yesterday giving out those hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 1: Lu Y, that's old news. That's old news. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: throwing up the exterday. You know what I'm saying. Shout
Speaker 1: out to O'Dell. Listen. But the thing, the thing, listen
Speaker 1: to it. The thing about the Odell, the whole Odell
Speaker 1: situation is we got so many recruits and so much
Speaker 1: so much pub off of that that I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at Odell for that man we got. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: that we got some five star guys. That came in
Speaker 1: just just based off of O'Dell and how much he's
Speaker 1: done and how visible he is for the university. So
Speaker 1: I'm cool with him. Hey, why why they suspend that
Speaker 1: man for two years? Like that man, he wasn't what
Speaker 1: it was. They had his boys pay rent, that's all.
Speaker 1: He was trying not listen. They had to because if
Speaker 1: they didn't, If they didn't and they didn't do their
Speaker 1: self imposed stuff, then the n NC double A probably
Speaker 1: would have came down a lot harder on them. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's something that they had to do. He
Speaker 1: knew he was doing some doing some stuff, so I'm
Speaker 1: sure he's not mad at the university sol LSU. And
Speaker 1: this is the thing I get, And this is what
Speaker 1: I don't understand about the NCA. Who they choose to
Speaker 1: to condemn and who they choose to let roll Scott free.
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that Odell Beckham Junior the
Speaker 1: only person around the slapping these guys with with a
Speaker 1: little bit of cat I mean, that's that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing about it. And you can't tell me any
Speaker 1: any university worth a salt it's slapping kids with something.
Speaker 1: These days, you better look at Texas A and M.
Speaker 1: Look at Texas A and M. I mean they got
Speaker 1: some of the richest boosters there is. I mean it's crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know, but it was visible. But it was
Speaker 1: like he did it on national TV and he was
Speaker 1: definitely tripping. Yeah, he was definitely tripping on that one.
Speaker 1: It was one of my one of my boys, a
Speaker 1: big Florida State fan. And when Jamie's got caught with
Speaker 1: the crab legs, I got on him. I said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: if you all try, if you all try to really
Speaker 1: be at SEC school, how come some booster didn't slap
Speaker 1: this man with a gift card to that, to that
Speaker 1: grocery store. These at all the times that this man
Speaker 1: shouldn't be had to walk to go out here with
Speaker 1: the wink wink nod nod from the guy slapping this
Speaker 1: dude some real real gift cards, like take care of
Speaker 1: your people. Man. I know it's the ACC, it's a
Speaker 1: basketball league, but if you all want to run, if
Speaker 1: you want to roll like that, SEC, can you roll
Speaker 1: like yesec I mean, Jimbo came from LSU. He knows
Speaker 1: how it is. Tell the boosters to take care of
Speaker 1: the players. Was he just coming off? Was he just
Speaker 1: coming off a hisman after he got busted with them
Speaker 1: with them crab legs. Yes, man, you can't even you
Speaker 1: can win the hot man. It's crazy in these streets, man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Like I said. Man. And for the record,
Speaker 1: I don't know nothing about nobody giving out, no money
Speaker 1: and no universe live. Wow. I don't know nothing about
Speaker 1: that saying I'm not you're just gonna by the way,
Speaker 1: I want that clear. Beside. Beside, besides catching Odell on camera,
Speaker 1: I don't know nothing about nothing, nothing, nothing that you'll
Speaker 1: getting long, d mac you care because she getting long, man,
Speaker 1: It ain't it ain't it ain't longing and new he
Speaker 1: new he's about to look going to hold the Nile
Speaker 1: stage over here about I'm sure he's gonna say he
Speaker 1: didn't say nothing about what we're talking about. That. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Sec. It's the SEC, Danny. Okay, it's the SEC. Okay,
Speaker 1: stop that, stop that, all right, let's I'm not confirming it. Okay.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the camp right here on the playoffs line.
Speaker 1: All right, mccraig, let's go there, Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: with the hope message today, as he said, not quote
Speaker 1: win the division games, you win the division. So Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy is on that feel good tip. They they've got
Speaker 1: Washington coming up this week, it's a road game. You're
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia next week. So Mike McCarthy is focusing in
Speaker 1: on the positive of Hey, gotta win these NFC East
Speaker 1: games that are already won and old there you go.
Speaker 1: You like that? You like that? Hell you like that?
Speaker 1: Uh no, absolutely no. Let let me tell you something
Speaker 1: about the whole division thing and all that stuff. That's
Speaker 1: he's really he really has to watch out for Philly
Speaker 1: because I'm watching. I'm watching Philly, and I see when
Speaker 1: they get healthy, they're gonna be a different team. They
Speaker 1: get their receivers back, they get Miles Sanders when he
Speaker 1: gets back, he'll be healthy, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got weapons on the outside. Our defenses isn't very good,
Speaker 1: so that'd be a battle for us. We got Washington
Speaker 1: coming up, who has an awesome defensive line. Offensive line
Speaker 1: is shaky, so that isn't very good. And we played
Speaker 1: a very close game with the New York Giants and
Speaker 1: almost lost that one if it wasn't for you know,
Speaker 1: some guy not getting set all time on that special
Speaker 1: team's play. So if you think, think about it, we
Speaker 1: could we could lose all these games just as well
Speaker 1: as win them. So I don't want to hear you
Speaker 1: know it, feel good about none of that. Got up
Speaker 1: here and beat Washington and then maybe you could say that, Hey,
Speaker 1: well you know what, Mike, let me let me go
Speaker 1: ahead and sip some of this cool leg because I'm
Speaker 1: right there with you, big dog. Look, man, this division
Speaker 1: is trash. And you know I had a couple of
Speaker 1: my you know, Monday, Tuesday, you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: of winsday. I was kind of frustrated, so I let
Speaker 1: my emotions speak for the better of me. But I'm
Speaker 1: right there with you. Mike. You can go ahead and
Speaker 1: you could take the reins of this division. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and take off the Washington Redskins. Look, all you gotta
Speaker 1: do is get seven wins. That's all you gotta do
Speaker 1: is get seven wins. I think we can beat New
Speaker 1: York again. I think we can sweet Philadelphia, and I
Speaker 1: think we can sweep Washington. So look, other games, you
Speaker 1: might lose the Baltimore, you might lose the Philly, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. But if you can get to seven wins,
Speaker 1: which I think this team can do. I think you
Speaker 1: can get to the playoffs. So I'm gonna start sipping
Speaker 1: some cool a man, I got it back. What have
Speaker 1: you seen? Tell about what I say to make us
Speaker 1: they can sweep the division. Don't worry about what I've seen. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, just just just know, just know, all right,
Speaker 1: we're coming back. I'm sipping the cooler. I'm with you, Mike,
Speaker 1: your boys here, Man, I'm this is gonna be your
Speaker 1: worst win. This is gonna be your worst week for picks.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be your worst week. I can almost
Speaker 1: guarantee you that I'm about I'm promoting Danny to the
Speaker 1: haters club already, where he's the hater the club, Big Light,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm gonna I'm gonna sip some of
Speaker 1: this cool lag for you, Big. That's how the tables
Speaker 1: turned nine. Nineteen ninety eight was the last time we
Speaker 1: set the division. And I'm sitting here listen to the
Speaker 1: church a couple of weeks ago talking about how the
Speaker 1: kol Ai don't have no sugar and all this little stuff. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I don't know, Mike McCarthy gave
Speaker 1: one speech about how when you play one game at
Speaker 1: the time, the same speech that every coach gives and
Speaker 1: you're like, uh yeah, now, now the kool Ai got
Speaker 1: some sugar in it. I'm confused. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: what happened. I'm gonna tell you what happened to the
Speaker 1: kool a. So, Mike, you know, I'm saying, we wrapped
Speaker 1: it up. We talked after that loss to Arizona game
Speaker 1: a call. I'm like, look, Mike, we gotta fix something out.
Speaker 1: We gotta figure something out. Man, this ain't going the
Speaker 1: way we thought things were gonna go. You're making my name,
Speaker 1: no snammas look bad. So we've talked and I filled
Speaker 1: up that I redid the tool. I went and put
Speaker 1: some sugar in there, you know, spun it all up,
Speaker 1: got that red kool Ai going. So hey, we're good man,
Speaker 1: and so like this. So you're taking responsibility for some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that's gonna happen for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. So if it goes bad, this was the
Speaker 1: phone call you put in and this is the vice
Speaker 1: you gave and it didn't work out. No serdamas right. Look,
Speaker 1: look I'm telling y'all we're gonna get the seven women.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling you. Heard it from CP Chris Bay.
Speaker 1: The last time we swept the division was nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: And look it's time. It's time. It's time to do
Speaker 1: it again. And this is the year worst worst teams,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, the year. This is the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: not write it down, new I see you write it down,
Speaker 1: Write it down, Church that down thirty seven pm. Church says,
Speaker 1: seven wins, Church seven. We're gonna win seven to nine
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Oh, seven, seven to nine playoffs. Division chants.
Speaker 1: I think that was my prediction anyway. So I mean, yay,
Speaker 1: just just relax. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. That
Speaker 1: was actually my prediction. I think you went like five
Speaker 1: and something. I got it written. Now, you got it
Speaker 1: written down, you got it. I'm writing it. Oh hey baby,
Speaker 1: I try to keep it right here in the hand,
Speaker 1: dandy baby. Okay. So so at ten and I got
Speaker 1: the time a timestamp this one two thirty seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: I when Church time stamp two thirty seven. At ten
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty twenty, Mike McCarthy came out and said,
Speaker 1: when the division games, you win the division, and Barry
Speaker 1: just decided to go guzzle choke himself all on this
Speaker 1: kool aid. Okay, all right, that's confused. The kool AI's pour.
Speaker 1: All right, the cool he didn't tell you it's in there,
Speaker 1: but Church, he didn't tell you nothing that you didn't
Speaker 1: know when the when the division games and you win
Speaker 1: the division. I told you already. Don't worry about what
Speaker 1: me and McCarthy know. I already told you. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Don't worry about all that. Just know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Coach Church season officially, Coach Church about
Speaker 1: what Coach Church? Yeah, that's all right, Nora Dimas, Coach Church,
Speaker 1: nostre dimas Church, whatever you want to call me, Cowboys
Speaker 1: winning the division seventy nine? Man, you heard, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Coach Church. Let me address this. This is here because
Speaker 1: this is a very big issue going into the game,
Speaker 1: and it is obviously the offensive line. All Pro guard
Speaker 1: Zack Martin is in concussion protocol, so we still don't
Speaker 1: know where he stands just yet. I'll assume Connor mcgovernor
Speaker 1: is going to be the starter if Zack Martin can't play.
Speaker 1: I remember it's a short week because he got hurt
Speaker 1: on a Monday night, and the left tackle position is
Speaker 1: still we think we know what they'll do, but it
Speaker 1: hasn't been confirmed yet. So Cameron Irving, according to Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy practice yesterday, he should be called up Sunday at Washington.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about him as a left tackle, and
Speaker 1: he only had limited snaps in week number one, So
Speaker 1: you're really talking about throwing out a left tackle potentially
Speaker 1: who's not really played any meaningful game snaps this year.
Speaker 1: So I think this is something to be concerned about
Speaker 1: when you're talking about one potential two new guys starting
Speaker 1: on this offensive line against the Washington team does have
Speaker 1: so a formidable defensive block, so you may want to
Speaker 1: make sure you throw that in it while you're getting
Speaker 1: drunk on this cool. I'm sipping on the cool that
Speaker 1: I told y'all put the sugar in it. And honestly, look,
Speaker 1: we were two fumbles away. We were two Zeke Elliott
Speaker 1: fumbles away from I think nicking that game a lot
Speaker 1: more interesting than it was. So for me, I think
Speaker 1: I think Zeke gonna be able to hold onto the ball.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hold onto the ball, and we're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do something, bok Man, I'm telling y'all what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Y'all can deny it all y'all want to.
Speaker 1: We're going seven and nine. I've never heard that before.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that. We were two fumbles away tumble.
Speaker 1: I say it win. I didn't say to win. I
Speaker 1: did not say it win. I said that game a
Speaker 1: lot more interesting. That's all it was. It was there
Speaker 1: was nothing. There was never anything going to be interesting
Speaker 1: about that game after like the first two drives or
Speaker 1: I see you the text messages that said not for long.
Speaker 1: When they said this is gonna be a defensive fense,
Speaker 1: it turned ended up fumbling and giving that it's a
Speaker 1: short No Kyler murch Kyler Murrasy stopped overthrowing his receivers.
Speaker 1: He started hitting some guys open down the field. They
Speaker 1: started running the ball, and it was the same story
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the season. It was nothing new.
Speaker 1: Andy don't didn't look like anything. So Zeke could have
Speaker 1: ran all he wanted to. He looked like absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it wouldn't have been interesting. But listen,
Speaker 1: you you are no you are no dumb. At seven
Speaker 1: or nine I cannot wait. I cannot wait because the
Speaker 1: division game is coming, so your whole, your whole game
Speaker 1: can be gone. It'll be gone. Yeah, exactly. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be the first game on our way
Speaker 1: to win in a division. I'm here with you, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm to win. I pray. It may sound like I
Speaker 1: don't I have. I have hopes for us going to
Speaker 1: the playoffs and turning something around. I have really high
Speaker 1: hopes for that. But nah, you know, no, No, listen,
Speaker 1: I've get I've given the game plan. I say, we
Speaker 1: need to run the ball, we need to stick with
Speaker 1: it if we If we do that, that's that's the start.
Speaker 1: That's the start. I just want to see that. M hm.
Speaker 1: So Church, are the Cowboys actually going to go turnover free?
Speaker 1: Because they have not done that since Week one against
Speaker 1: the Rams. No turnovers against Atlanta, three turnovers against Seattle,
Speaker 1: three turnovers against Cleveland, three turnovers against the Giants, two
Speaker 1: turnovers against Arizona. Four turnovers. That's something we're going to
Speaker 1: have to fix. I'll can see that. Like, if we
Speaker 1: keep turning this ball over like that, it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be No. Seven and nine. We might be three and
Speaker 1: thirteen or two and fourteen. Who knows what we might be,
Speaker 1: but we got to do better on that end. I
Speaker 1: will can see that. Andy. You can't be out there
Speaker 1: throwing picks, going on willy nilly. If it's not there,
Speaker 1: just throw the ball away. Live to see another down. Zeke,
Speaker 1: take off the sleeves, get that contact with the skin,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be good. We're gonna be good. Let
Speaker 1: me take away those turnovers. Got to let me ask
Speaker 1: let me ask you this because I just gotta be
Speaker 1: a clarification. Give me your top three things that the
Speaker 1: team has to do to go seven or nine. So
Speaker 1: one is they gotta stop turning the ball over. Give
Speaker 1: me two more that you have to see for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys to go out there and win the division.
Speaker 1: Instead of throwing the ball fifty four times, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to run the ball at least thirty sometimes we're
Speaker 1: gonna I don't care if we're down fourteen nothing early
Speaker 1: in the game. Consistently give the ball to the Segue.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get rid of these fumble problems. You
Speaker 1: gotta go through the offense through him. That's number two
Speaker 1: and number three. This defense man Look, I'm not even
Speaker 1: asking you to play great good. Just play average. Just
Speaker 1: play average run defense, average pass defense, and I think
Speaker 1: will be right to get to seven wins because I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not asking you to do anything spectacular. Just
Speaker 1: just just stay in your gap. Just stay in your
Speaker 1: gap and if the ball ends up running until you
Speaker 1: make a tackle. But those are the three things that
Speaker 1: we got to do in order to get to seven
Speaker 1: and nine. I think we can do it. I think
Speaker 1: we can do it. Okay, got it down, wrote it Okay,
Speaker 1: I got it down here, Church, Church. You know you're
Speaker 1: on record. Man, Okay, I mean we got you record,
Speaker 1: We got you, got it down. Whatever you got to do,
Speaker 1: whatever you got to do. I'm there, man, I'm in
Speaker 1: I'm sold. I'm in there, I'm in there. I'm with you. Mike.
Speaker 1: You ain't you ain't it. You ain't buy yourself on this.
Speaker 1: We're on the same page on what the what on
Speaker 1: what they need to do to win? But uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: says you talked to Mike. I mean, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: probably got some inside information. That's what that's what they
Speaker 1: gonna do if they do that. I'm riding all the
Speaker 1: way with you. I say seven to nine and do it.
Speaker 1: But they haven't shown me anything that proves that that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the game playing or the defense clay that way.
Speaker 1: So you so you're jumping on the seven to nine
Speaker 1: or what. No, No, No, I know I'm not because
Speaker 1: I don't believe that they are going to do all
Speaker 1: three of those things. I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I ain't Mike. You heard that though, Danny into the
Speaker 1: Doughters Club too. He ain't trying to jump on his
Speaker 1: bandwagon with us. So it's all good. I better the
Speaker 1: Dollars Club, says two weeks ago. So I mean you
Speaker 1: don't throw me in there. I've been I've been in
Speaker 1: there there. You roll it out here with hope and change,
Speaker 1: and I'm not right there with you on that. When
Speaker 1: we come back, Mike McCarthy has Barry Church backing, and
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Speaker 1: here and uh man, you know he's on that. Barry
Speaker 1: said he drinking a kool a Cowboys on seven to
Speaker 1: nine and win the division. And yeah, So since you're
Speaker 1: being pastor, I wanted you to know that you are
Speaker 1: not alone. Okay, you you are not alone. Um, here's
Speaker 1: your boy swiper, Jayla Smith quote the head coach. He's
Speaker 1: a players coach. He's about everyone being men. If you've
Speaker 1: got something to say, own up to it. His door
Speaker 1: is always open. We can constantly communicate about anything we
Speaker 1: want to here. I personally feel that it's a blessing
Speaker 1: to have him as a coach. We've got to perform.
Speaker 1: That's for Jalen Smith, So Barry Church, Jaylen Smith. They're
Speaker 1: all lining up behind macarthy. Man. It's that kind of
Speaker 1: Thursday May. It's positive Thursday. Everybody on a positive here
Speaker 1: swiping for coach McCarthy. Who's swiping clear eye view. Go ahead, daddy,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I thought you got something I was about
Speaker 1: to say. Listen, listen, I'm all for it, man, like,
Speaker 1: line up behind your coach. I just think it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy that it took Mike McCarthy to come
Speaker 1: out and say, hey, y'all can come to me and
Speaker 1: talk to me about anything, before somebody came out and say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a player's coach. His door is always open. Boll Yeah.
Speaker 1: He just said that, and obviously some people didn't think
Speaker 1: it was because they spent some stuff to miss later.
Speaker 1: So I mean, listen, I hope they tightened up the ship,
Speaker 1: and I hope the leaders step up and get these
Speaker 1: guys to start acting right and keeping stuff in the house,
Speaker 1: because that is the quickest way, you know, for this
Speaker 1: ship to seek a little faster than it is right now.
Speaker 1: Be a team players, be accountable, and keep that stuff
Speaker 1: in the locker room so you don't have this type
Speaker 1: of mesk going on. I man, I'm glad, I'm glad
Speaker 1: he joined the McCarthy bandwagon with your boy over here.
Speaker 1: We wish you might. We got we got Team Swiper
Speaker 1: and we got your boy. No tra domins. We're good
Speaker 1: for now. We're good on the we're good on the
Speaker 1: on the McCarthy bandwagon right now. But wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: funny if at this whole time it was Jayla to
Speaker 1: what that? That's this? If if this whole time stop
Speaker 1: that would be stop it, stop it, I'm not coming now.
Speaker 1: That would be made for TV right there. Stop that,
Speaker 1: stop that, you stop that coming a little that? Oh man, down,
Speaker 1: stop that stop that. I'm not even partenticating about that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out who it was. You sure, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think they are. Oh, it
Speaker 1: might not be there in the season. It might not
Speaker 1: be there in the season, but eventually it's gonna come out.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna spill it, somebody who's no longer on the
Speaker 1: team after this year, because it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of guys getting released, a lot of guy's not coming back,
Speaker 1: and somebody's gonna come out and they're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna explode. Whoever said that, I believe it. I
Speaker 1: believe it's gonna happen. Now, stay with your point right there, mccram,
Speaker 1: because if this season ends up with a losing record,
Speaker 1: it's all three of us have predicted at this point time.
Speaker 1: Even if they win the division seventy nine, according to you,
Speaker 1: Barry Church is still losing record. They've got a choice
Speaker 1: to me, do you stay with the with Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: and his defense and change out the players, or do
Speaker 1: you say, you know what, Coach Nolan, we don't believe
Speaker 1: in you and what you're doing. We're gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and you know, keep rolling with the players here bringing
Speaker 1: someone new. But but they've got to make this choice
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Are they're gonna roll
Speaker 1: with the players, roll with the coaches. Where does Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones side. I do think that that's a decision to
Speaker 1: have to be mad because I don't see this thing coexisting.
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of enough players since a role
Speaker 1: to a role with might know, I mean literally all
Speaker 1: of them. All of them are playings U far, So
Speaker 1: I mean, what you're gonna do get rid of all
Speaker 1: of them and bringing all new players. You got a
Speaker 1: lot of money tied into these guys, so it's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm putting it up more on Nolan than the players.
Speaker 1: But the defensive coordinator just does not seem to be
Speaker 1: inspired these guys to play the correct way and and
Speaker 1: and the teaching obviously isn't getting done right because like
Speaker 1: we said, they had disciplined with the eyes and the
Speaker 1: feet in the gap control, they haven't done any of that,
Speaker 1: and they don't and they don't play inspired or maybe
Speaker 1: maybe last game, you know, I've seen them jogging running
Speaker 1: a little bit, but then we call Jalen jogging on
Speaker 1: the on the last run. So it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: ninety eight percent of it was good and then two
Speaker 1: percent was like, well, you know, what the hell is
Speaker 1: going on. They just forgot about, you know, the inspiration.
Speaker 1: So it's I think it's Nolan. I think you stick
Speaker 1: with the players, you bring somebody else in that doesn't
Speaker 1: switch the scheme up and make these guys do something
Speaker 1: they're not used to and let them play. You know what,
Speaker 1: I thinking so much? Yeah, I think it. I think
Speaker 1: it just comes down to, you know, how they end
Speaker 1: up finishing the year. Um. You know, if it's it's
Speaker 1: it's extremely bad right now, we've all seen it take
Speaker 1: We've all seen it lows going on out there. Um,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, if they're able to string stringing
Speaker 1: together a couple of wins and and string together a
Speaker 1: couple of good performances on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: especially heading into you know, maybe the playoffs are heading
Speaker 1: into next year, Um, I think I think they'll keep
Speaker 1: them around. I think they'll switch out a couple of
Speaker 1: players here and there. But to me, it all just
Speaker 1: comes down to how they're able to finish out the year. Okay,
Speaker 1: bad and listen, if they shut down Baltimore, they shut
Speaker 1: down Pittsburgh, they come out to put some performances up,
Speaker 1: you know against those teams. Uh, you know they have
Speaker 1: some high powered offers and teams that can score. Then
Speaker 1: maybe he has a chance. But you shut down Philly
Speaker 1: and you're shut down Washington, you go out there and
Speaker 1: get ran through by those by those other teams, then
Speaker 1: I think he's out of here for sure. Well, this
Speaker 1: just to go back and look at the you know,
Speaker 1: the first game, all right, the first game they held
Speaker 1: the rams of twenty points. But after that, this defense
Speaker 1: gave up forty to Atlanta, thirty eight to actually thirty
Speaker 1: nine too at to Atlanta, thirty eight to Seattle, UM,
Speaker 1: forty nine to Cleveland, thirty four to the Giant, a
Speaker 1: bad Giants team. And um, but but wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I got to take away that that thirty four you
Speaker 1: know that that was seven of them were given up
Speaker 1: by the by the offense. So they took seven off
Speaker 1: the board, So I give it back to them. They
Speaker 1: took seven off the board, Okay, all right? And then um,
Speaker 1: then you know thirty eight points by by Arizona. So
Speaker 1: I mean, what we're seeing here is and especially from
Speaker 1: a yard of standpoint, what we're seeing here is a historic,
Speaker 1: historically bad reach about sixty years of cowboy football, and
Speaker 1: we have not seen it this bad defensively, and that's
Speaker 1: where they're going. They're going on pace to set historic
Speaker 1: lows defensively. And to me, Jerry's got to ask himself
Speaker 1: with this conversation with he and Mike McCarthy, sit the
Speaker 1: players or is it the coaching staff, and they've got
Speaker 1: to decide what are they going to do one or
Speaker 1: the other? And yes, you're right, they have money tied
Speaker 1: up into Tank Lawrence and they just they extended him out.
Speaker 1: So you can't just sit around here and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to three to four and take either
Speaker 1: you love it or leave it. I mean, they've got
Speaker 1: to make some decisions here. But right now we're seeing
Speaker 1: more four three concepts and I think they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to stick with that. But I do think at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, and I expect them to have
Speaker 1: a losing season the way they're going and the way
Speaker 1: this defense is played, then they've got to make that decision.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's just gonna be Mike, No,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be some more guys on the staff.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be more than just one guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: from a defensive backstandpoint, you guys have talk continually about that.
Speaker 1: Talk to other people who know the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and they actually question what teaching is going on here
Speaker 1: because they don't understand how guys are so caught out
Speaker 1: a position here. So it won't just be Mike Nolan.
Speaker 1: If they decide that they want to go and if
Speaker 1: they are not gonna roll with these defensive coaches, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting, man, It really is, because right now,
Speaker 1: so far not good. It's just not good. He knew.
Speaker 1: The quick question is is Big Cat still as either
Speaker 1: assistant d line coach or is he the head guy? No,
Speaker 1: Jim tom Sula is the defensive line coach, and Leon
Speaker 1: Letting his assistant. So and Jim, you know once again,
Speaker 1: now you know, Jim tom Sula came in here with
Speaker 1: a really good reputation. You know, you're talking about these
Speaker 1: coaches who came in here and we all thought, hey, man,
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be better, this guy's gonna make it good.
Speaker 1: Jim tom Sula was one of those guys, and so
Speaker 1: far it's not looked good at all. Now I'll ask
Speaker 1: this question, is it Jim tom Sula or is it
Speaker 1: the players, the carpenters, or the Carpenters tools because down
Speaker 1: Terry Poe has been has done nothing. Gerald McCoy ended
Speaker 1: up with a season ending injury. Never you made it
Speaker 1: to the regular season, you thought he would be your
Speaker 1: number one defensive tackle. Tristan Hill became your starting defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: He's out for the year. Antoine Woods looks as though
Speaker 1: he's too small for this defense the way they're trying
Speaker 1: to play it, and maybe now that they're back into
Speaker 1: a four to three he can play a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford, I mean come on now, I mean only
Speaker 1: hit his thing called on Sundays, Yes, and he recorded
Speaker 1: goose eggs all Sunday. I think he had a zero
Speaker 1: stat line on Sunday with twenty two snatch. I mean
Speaker 1: we started talking about about the potential top ten draft
Speaker 1: pick next year. You know, start looking at who had
Speaker 1: some of the best defensive tackles in the game, because
Speaker 1: there is a definite problem up front the Cowboys when
Speaker 1: it comes into fensive tackles by so so so so
Speaker 1: just just to go into the D line, you know,
Speaker 1: and coaches versus the players doing bad. So d Law
Speaker 1: got paid based on how he was coached from his
Speaker 1: previous defensive coordinator Tyron Crawford. Same thing. Robert Quinn came in.
Speaker 1: He was coached by the previous defensive coordinator who was
Speaker 1: specialists in the D line got paid based off that
Speaker 1: because these guys were able to play. Tristan Hill was
Speaker 1: not even getting any playing time based off what they
Speaker 1: thought of Tristan Hills, the previous defensive coordinator. The new
Speaker 1: guy comes in, Tristan Hill is the starter. He's having
Speaker 1: the best camp ever, right. So I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: coaches because previously these guys have been able to produce.
Speaker 1: Besides think having that that off year last year, the
Speaker 1: guy has been been one of the top defensive linemen
Speaker 1: in the league. And everybody who's come through here has
Speaker 1: been able to make plays. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they can't. And Tristan Hill couldn't touch the field
Speaker 1: last year, and now the coaches see him and he's
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, Spectaclar. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: going on what the coaches are seeing, and I just
Speaker 1: I don't think they're seeing the right stuff on coaching
Speaker 1: the right stuff now. I mccraig, when we remember that
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back, we looked at the ratings
Speaker 1: here and on those ratings, you know, Christian Hill was
Speaker 1: rated ahead of ahead of uh, let me check my notes.
Speaker 1: He here, man, We'll go ahead and check my notes.
Speaker 1: But he was the number one spectacle bro I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you're trying to I know you're trying to
Speaker 1: satisfy bold boy, but he was. It was the best
Speaker 1: bunch man. Man, that's bad. That's the guys they brought.
Speaker 1: That's the guys they brought in. This coach staff okay
Speaker 1: that and brought and and and said that we can
Speaker 1: win with these guys. Mary Nelly didn't do that. Mary
Speaker 1: Nell brought Hill, and he realized they made a mistake,
Speaker 1: and he got he broke tocol away and they realized
Speaker 1: they made a mistake, right, and and and and they
Speaker 1: and they rolled with it. They didn't let those guys
Speaker 1: give him the conference. But Crawford was already here. So
Speaker 1: Crawford's on a little crowd, was already here, but he
Speaker 1: was he was balling. He Crawford, Crawford was balling before
Speaker 1: he before he got an injured. He's just come back
Speaker 1: from injured. He's just not the same guy so far.
Speaker 1: But he's it's not like he hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: play when he when Mary Nelly was here, he was
Speaker 1: a guy and he got paid those stuff on how
Speaker 1: well he was playing. Okay, but Tyrone Crawford's contracts up
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, and I think we
Speaker 1: could all go ahead and understand it. Though Tyrone not
Speaker 1: coming back. Okay, you know that nine million they're paying
Speaker 1: him this year to Tyron Crawford won't be nine million, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Nine Million's making a lot of money, making a lot
Speaker 1: of money. So yes, And that's why I just say this,
Speaker 1: This whole D line, um, you got You've got Olden
Speaker 1: Smith who's on a one year deal, Everson Griffinson a
Speaker 1: one year deal. So I mean, outside of Tank Lawrence
Speaker 1: and Tristan Hill, I don't think I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a whole new D line. It's gonna be. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a whole new D line next year for
Speaker 1: se right. You know, if the Cowboy's in there with
Speaker 1: a top ten draft pick, you're talking about having to
Speaker 1: look at the D line. Um, whether you want to
Speaker 1: go defensive end, defensive tackle. We talk about corner at
Speaker 1: some point, D that safety issue. Uh, does Layton Vanderesh
Speaker 1: finish this season, you know, you could be looking at
Speaker 1: a linebacker. You've had offensive tackle problems here. I mean
Speaker 1: you've got issues in places that you can go um,
Speaker 1: I mean even guard. You know, let's just say there's
Speaker 1: another great guard out there like that Quinn Nelson and
Speaker 1: Notre Dame who Indianapolis took, and he is as great
Speaker 1: as Zach Larren has been. This kid is off to
Speaker 1: that type of start to his career. You know, there
Speaker 1: could be a guy like that there because cornor will
Speaker 1: have been going into his final year. So they got
Speaker 1: options that they can if they got a top ten
Speaker 1: pick where they can truly take look at the who's
Speaker 1: the best player on the board, and he could fit
Speaker 1: in a whole lot of places on this I knew
Speaker 1: it real quick. Let me ask you, let me ask
Speaker 1: you real quick. You talked about, you know, adding offensive
Speaker 1: line help. What do y'all think about bringing in Quentin Spain,
Speaker 1: who I think he just got released from the Bills.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't tear your guard. I mean he's
Speaker 1: been a start in this league for a while. You
Speaker 1: think Cobbos should give him a look, you know, especially
Speaker 1: with all the offensive line problems we have. They drafted
Speaker 1: and used the third round pick on Connor McGovern two
Speaker 1: years ago. I'd like to see what would I would
Speaker 1: like to see what this young man has. And here's
Speaker 1: why you need to know, Church, you better start figuring
Speaker 1: out if as this season is going downhill, you better
Speaker 1: start to figure out who are the young guys and
Speaker 1: worth saving and who do you need to go ahead
Speaker 1: and start to replace. Because if they end up paying
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott a long term deal, they're gonna have shorter
Speaker 1: and shorter funds available. So they're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: sure if they draft a player or they have a
Speaker 1: player that's drafted, that they are able to play and
Speaker 1: help this team. And if not, they got to move on.
Speaker 1: But the season's not even over. We're still first place.
Speaker 1: We still got a chance this year. It's not like
Speaker 1: you out of it. We still got a chance this year.
Speaker 1: We can't just go a chance to do what Church.
Speaker 1: You never Once you get in, once you get in
Speaker 1: the tournament, anything can happen. I mean y'all both, anything
Speaker 1: can happened once you get in the tournament. If we
Speaker 1: get all we gotta do is get there. All we
Speaker 1: gotta do is get the man, I'm just trying to assume, like,
Speaker 1: guess who would be the first team that we would play?
Speaker 1: Was it be like green Bay might be like the
Speaker 1: possibilities a team that would that we would have to play.
Speaker 1: Ain't anything can happen. The best thing that happens, we
Speaker 1: don't get blown out. They thought the same. They thought
Speaker 1: the same about Eli and them Giants when they had
Speaker 1: to go up the Lambou Field. Green Bay was fien seven.
Speaker 1: I think they was not that was that was anything.
Speaker 1: We're talking about nine to seven, verse seven and nine.
Speaker 1: They had, they started, they had, they had a start quarterback,
Speaker 1: They had a crazy good defensive line, they played good defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the exactly how they were trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of the lot I was trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of before that year. It was it was
Speaker 1: nont matter if they was trying to get rid of.
Speaker 1: He was playing well in the playoffs and they did
Speaker 1: better than that was happening. Anything could happen when you
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs. Anything you got, you got some
Speaker 1: take another sea. We've got to take another break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got no words listening to Church today. I mean
Speaker 1: it's not he's not just drinking kool Ai eating spiked
Speaker 1: church Man liquor, so I'm a hard liquing. Okay, let's
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Speaker 1: the captain of the Haters Club, you know, the doubters,
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Speaker 1: But it's all good because we don't need that negative
Speaker 1: negativity on this McCarthy bus ride. All right, we're going
Speaker 1: check this out, check this out. So now so we
Speaker 1: the haters, right, so we all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: haters my man made a one eighty from the first
Speaker 1: seven weeks, six weeks of the season, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and now since we're now on his side,
Speaker 1: we to hate us. Well, you you, you are delusional.
Speaker 1: You went out there and you shot a good goal
Speaker 1: game yesterday that you came back and here today you know,
Speaker 1: feel feeling super optimistic and it's not really making sist
Speaker 1: to us. But listen, I have I have ultimate faith
Speaker 1: that within two weeks you'll be right back on our side.
Speaker 1: All right, we were gonna see we're gonna see you now.
Speaker 1: All right, So gentlemen, and another names we're talking about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys here is Randy Gregory. So Randy Gregory can
Speaker 1: play this week. Um, he's practiced. Mike McCarthy said positive
Speaker 1: things about Randy Gregory, and just reading social media, I
Speaker 1: know Cowboy fans are talking about Randy Gregory and how
Speaker 1: much it will help on the pass rush. And I
Speaker 1: simply say this, if you're another team out here, you're
Speaker 1: trying to run through the tackles. You know, you're trying
Speaker 1: to run in the between the guards and sending them.
Speaker 1: You're trying to run inside because the Cowboys have yet
Speaker 1: to stop the run. And you know, okay, Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: can help pass rush, but right now, if you're a team,
Speaker 1: you're trying to run the ball on the Cowboys. I mean,
Speaker 1: Arizona came in here in for two sixty one and
Speaker 1: had done that all year long. Kenny Drake has been
Speaker 1: a regular guy. This dude rolls off one sixty four.
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman was out on the street. Two weeks later,
Speaker 1: he's running against the Cowboys and looking strong. So um,
Speaker 1: I still have to see some improvement on this defensive
Speaker 1: upfront with defensive tackles. Before I could sit around here
Speaker 1: think that somebody off the edge is gonna help. I mean,
Speaker 1: we thought ever Ston Griffin was gonna help this football team.
Speaker 1: Whatever Son Griffin done, not not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: one and a half sacks. So to me, that d line.
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm an offensive coordinator, if I'm Scott
Speaker 1: Turner of Washington, I'm sitting up here trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how can I run Antonio Gibson up in the
Speaker 1: guts of this Cowboys defense. Here, hold on, don't don't
Speaker 1: forget now. I know you want to put it all
Speaker 1: on defensive tackles, but we ain't holding the edge on
Speaker 1: the defensive ends either. I think we've been beat on
Speaker 1: two reverses, one for a touchdown, one for passler to down.
Speaker 1: I think all the Smith out there on the edge,
Speaker 1: d Law out there on the edge, we're giving that
Speaker 1: up too. So let's not let's not just put the
Speaker 1: whole running game. You know, on those defensive tackles. We
Speaker 1: have not performed in the running game like we're supposed
Speaker 1: to inside or outside, so the edges will be under attack.
Speaker 1: And so with the inside that third eleven, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: just runs around the pocket. Ever since Griffin didn't set
Speaker 1: the edge two different times in football game where Griffin
Speaker 1: didn't set the edge and Kyler Murray just ran right
Speaker 1: around him. So, um, but I don't think you gotta
Speaker 1: worry Kyle Allen doing that this week. No, d Law
Speaker 1: didn't set the edge on the on the last reverse
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. You know that they run that right
Speaker 1: to the right side, right around us, and they and
Speaker 1: they run it in too, so I mean issues all
Speaker 1: over the place. I had Christian Kirk on that place,
Speaker 1: and that was okay to happen. At least let it
Speaker 1: be good for my fantasy team. Do you expect anything
Speaker 1: great out of Randy Gregor when he comes back this
Speaker 1: week or if he if he plays this week? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't expect anything great out of him. But then again,
Speaker 1: I didn't expect anything out of Aldon Smith, and he
Speaker 1: came out here and balled out. So for me, hopefully
Speaker 1: he can provide something, some type of juice, some type
Speaker 1: of pop, at least some type of edge to this defense.
Speaker 1: And but but overall, you know, just being his first
Speaker 1: game back, if he's able to even crack the lineup
Speaker 1: and get in there and do some work, I don't
Speaker 1: see much from him. But hopefully we can at least
Speaker 1: get some hustle. He can provide some type of juice,
Speaker 1: some type of edge to this defense. But we'll see,
Speaker 1: all right, Stay with Alden Smith here, guys. He didn't
Speaker 1: practice yesterday because he had a neck injury. He jammed
Speaker 1: his neck. He'll be limited today. Mike McCarthy says he
Speaker 1: doesn't think it's anything big and um he expects Alden
Speaker 1: Smith to be in the lineup as the Cowboys go
Speaker 1: up to Washington face the Washington football team. Alden Smith
Speaker 1: obviously the Cowboys leading sack leader at this point in
Speaker 1: time in the season. So that's the latest on Alden
Speaker 1: Smith in his situation. Look, negative me, negative me. With
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy in this, I don't think anything's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Because we heard that about Yo Collins, we heard that
Speaker 1: about T. Smith. So I'm taking I'm taking all this.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think it's a big deal. Stuff
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. You know. Hopefully he's okay,
Speaker 1: but you know that none of that means anything to
Speaker 1: me anymore. Oh, all right, we've got we've got three
Speaker 1: minutes left in the show. So I know you guys
Speaker 1: want to talk about one of your former teammates here
Speaker 1: possibly signing a contract. Yes, sir, go ahead, Church, Look
Speaker 1: I'm doing it already, man, throw up. All right, we've
Speaker 1: been talking about this thing for about what a year
Speaker 1: and a half, and my boy knew it, you know,
Speaker 1: Captain Captain of the Haters club over there, he was
Speaker 1: talking about all we don't want to see any more
Speaker 1: of these posts. He's doing routes on air. I mean,
Speaker 1: are we done seeing these dads behind videos? No, we're
Speaker 1: not done, because the team looked at those videos and
Speaker 1: they said, you know what, he still got some juice
Speaker 1: left in the tank. So let me go see if
Speaker 1: he can him out for a workout. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: go up to Baltimore. He's gonna work out, and I'm sure,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure if barring any injury, he's gonna go
Speaker 1: up there, destroy that workout. He's gonna start on the
Speaker 1: practice squad and you know what happens from there. We've
Speaker 1: seen it plenty of times this year, guy's veterans on
Speaker 1: the practice squad being brought up to the regular team. Look,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that I think can still give
Speaker 1: you a threat in the red zone. He still has
Speaker 1: that jump ball potential. So look, I'm throwing up the
Speaker 1: X man. I'm drinking his cool AI too, throwing up
Speaker 1: the X. Let's do something in Baltimore, man, let's ball out.
Speaker 1: I absolutely think he's gonna make a difference in Baltimore
Speaker 1: and to get on new way again. Church. He already
Speaker 1: went up there and killed the workout. And then after
Speaker 1: he killed the workout and he came home. I heard
Speaker 1: somebody say, are we done with this now? They sent
Speaker 1: him home? All right, he's not. He's not getting picked up.
Speaker 1: And now we're talking about, oh, he's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the practice squad. Well, he has to. He has to
Speaker 1: play in a long time. They're not gonna take up
Speaker 1: a roster spot for a guy who's not gonna be
Speaker 1: on the active roster. They gotta get him acclimated. They
Speaker 1: gotta make sure that he's hilter. They can't just go
Speaker 1: out there and throw him out there. He is coming
Speaker 1: off for achilles injury. So yeah, he's gonna start off
Speaker 1: reactor squad, but he will be on the active roster.
Speaker 1: And guess who was right, me and Buried Church NFL team.
Speaker 1: NFL team this year? What you got to say about
Speaker 1: that newest scrubs real quick, before you real, real quick?
Speaker 1: Not a game, okay, he has practice. By the time
Speaker 1: they played he's gonna be on the active roster. By
Speaker 1: the time they played Gallas, he's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: active roster. Come on, come on, new he keep it real.
Speaker 1: You know. The practice squad is something totally different this
Speaker 1: year than it has ever been. It is not the
Speaker 1: same practice squad that you're trying to make it seem
Speaker 1: like it's what they what they sign you on to
Speaker 1: get started and get you acclimated before you go out
Speaker 1: there and have to take up a roster spot, so
Speaker 1: that it's not deep practice squad as as you think
Speaker 1: about it in the past. This is a totally new thing.
Speaker 1: Brandon car started on the practice squad and then he
Speaker 1: was on the active roster a sap I think within
Speaker 1: the first week. So this type of stuff has happening
Speaker 1: all around the league. So practice why doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: That means we likedz and now we want him on
Speaker 1: our team. We're gonna get him acclimated to hear me
Speaker 1: on an active roster as soon as he's ready. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got a minute left, So I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: this simple question. December third, the Cowboys travel to Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Will Dez Bryant be a member of the Ravens and
Speaker 1: playing against the Dallas Cowboys December third? The only thing
Speaker 1: that's stopping from from from doing that is if he
Speaker 1: if he uh, you know, suffers an injury or he's
Speaker 1: not healthy. That's a yes question, sir, That's a yes,
Speaker 1: yes question. Sir, Yes, if he's healthy. Yes, about a doubt, okay,
Speaker 1: And with that we conclude the players louds for this thirst.
Speaker 1: We will have our predictions tomorrow as the Cowboys take
Speaker 1: on the Washington football team. It is Dallas Week up
Speaker 1: there in Washington. We don't call it Dallas Week down
Speaker 1: here because nobody cares about Washington. So for Barry Church,
Speaker 1: Danny mccraie, i'm knew he scruts. And thanks to our
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