WEBVTT - Media Mash: Must-Win Stretch 0:00:03.220 --> 0:00:05.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys.com and the 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:14.970 Dallas Cowboys football club. This is media match a round 0:00:15.030 --> 0:00:18.850 table of Cowboys insiders dropping wisdom and offering sizzling take 0:00:18.890 --> 0:00:22.110 on the current state of your Dallas Cowboys brought to 0:00:22.130 --> 0:00:25.870 you by seat geek, the primary ticketing partner of the 0:00:26.010 --> 0:00:27.110 Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:27.250 --> 0:00:29.500 Now your host, new East scrubs. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.250 Time for the Media Mash, everybody. Hop on in here 0:00:36.290 --> 0:00:37.850 as we get ready for the Cowboys to face the 0:00:38.110 --> 0:00:44.489 Arizona Cardinals. We've got longtime Cowboy insider Ed Werder in 0:00:44.510 --> 0:00:47.459 the house, Hall of Fame rider. We've got former Cowboy 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.760 beat writer and author Jean-Jacques Taylor. And I was cleaning 0:00:51.820 --> 0:00:52.540 out my desk. 0:00:53.420 --> 0:00:55.970 How do you mean that? You got fire? Like Clarence? 0:00:56.020 --> 0:00:56.070 No. 0:00:56.100 --> 0:00:56.690 On your day off? 0:00:59.210 --> 0:01:01.090 See how well Jacques and I work together still after 0:01:01.150 --> 0:01:01.750 all these years? 0:01:01.750 --> 0:01:04.709 30 seconds and you all are just throwing jabs. 0:01:04.730 --> 0:01:05.450 We missed you. 0:01:05.470 --> 0:01:05.550 Hurt. 0:01:05.569 --> 0:01:08.069 Oh, so hurt. 0:01:08.170 --> 0:01:10.210 Yeah, I thought I saw Nick wearing a blazer today. 0:01:10.330 --> 0:01:12.000 I was like, hey. 0:01:12.140 --> 0:01:15.819 He took the Channel 5 job too. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:15.900 So. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:16.380 Proceed. 0:01:17.220 --> 0:01:21.020 The book that I found on my desk says The 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.980 Boys Are Back. And it's a picture of. Ezekiel Elliott 0:01:25.060 --> 0:01:26.440 on the cover written by Jean-Jacques Taylor. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:27.670 Oh, I was going to say, the boys are back. 0:01:27.940 --> 0:01:30.250 Dak and Zeke bring something back to Ben D. 0:01:30.290 --> 0:01:30.930 Ten years old. 0:01:31.110 --> 0:01:32.389 Ten years old. Wow. 0:01:32.490 --> 0:01:33.230 Times have changed. 0:01:33.310 --> 0:01:34.450 That's hard to believe. 0:01:34.490 --> 0:01:39.190 I had about four jobs then. I just laughed. I 0:01:39.350 --> 0:01:40.270 was like, ah, that. 0:01:40.310 --> 0:01:44.050 And then yesterday, I'm checking my feed. Oh, here's Ed 0:01:44.110 --> 0:01:45.310 on Dan Patrick's show. 0:01:45.380 --> 0:01:46.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:51.700 And you had a great line about... Troy Aikman in ESPN, 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.340 and you said, well, Dan, you know, it's not the 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.070 first time ESPN has let go of talent. You and 0:01:56.170 --> 0:01:56.990 I are familiar with that. 0:01:57.070 --> 0:01:59.950 You and I well know that ESPN never lets its 0:02:00.010 --> 0:02:02.970 best talent leave. This is something that they're morally opposed to. 0:02:03.190 --> 0:02:04.890 Yeah, as I like to say, I got laid off 0:02:04.930 --> 0:02:07.370 after two national awards. Oh, yes. 0:02:07.410 --> 0:02:09.810 You also worked for ESPN as well. 0:02:10.250 --> 0:02:10.450 Yes. 0:02:10.810 --> 0:02:12.930 I got laid off in the year I was honored 0:02:12.970 --> 0:02:14.190 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:02:14.350 --> 0:02:18.090 That's what I mean. That was wild. It'd be a trip, man. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.510 You're going in here, you're going out here. Yep. 0:02:22.220 --> 0:02:24.540 Anyway. Nobody gets to leave on their own terms, man. 0:02:24.590 --> 0:02:25.490 It's like playing in the league. 0:02:26.730 --> 0:02:27.850 Only it doesn't pay as well. 0:02:28.030 --> 0:02:28.730 Yeah, that part. 0:02:29.370 --> 0:02:31.329 True, true, true. It doesn't hurt as much either. 0:02:31.889 --> 0:02:34.010 But I did think that what you were talking about 0:02:34.030 --> 0:02:37.110 with Troy and the people, because it happened on the 0:02:37.130 --> 0:02:39.919 fan where Jerry said on 105.3, the fan team's flagship 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:41.860 station on Tuesday, yeah, we got a role for Troy 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.810 in here, yeah. And then when Dan pressed you on it, 0:02:44.820 --> 0:02:46.780 you just went about laying out why. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.140 Yeah. 0:02:48.470 --> 0:02:49.310 May not be a fit. 0:02:49.350 --> 0:02:53.430 So tell those who didn't catch the show and you're 0:02:53.450 --> 0:02:57.160 hit there, why Troy Aikman coming to work for the 0:02:57.180 --> 0:03:00.040 Cowboys probably may not be a fit. 0:03:00.380 --> 0:03:05.100 Primarily because Troy Aikman played quarterback on the teams where 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.660 Jerry was a general manager after Jimmy Johnson prematurely left 0:03:08.710 --> 0:03:14.889 the organization. And I don't think Troy believes that. Jerry 0:03:14.930 --> 0:03:17.310 and his performance as a general manager made the most 0:03:17.450 --> 0:03:20.610 of the remainder of Troy's career. And there have certainly 0:03:20.650 --> 0:03:24.280 been times where Troy, in a place where he's free 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.880 to deliver his opinion and obligated to do so, has 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:33.040 been critical of Jerry's management style and decision-making. And I 0:03:33.060 --> 0:03:38.810 just can't see Troy coming back to the Cowboys organization 0:03:39.470 --> 0:03:42.830 without being the general manager, which is the title Jerry has. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:48.060 and has been very protective of without having real control 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.880 and real authority that I just don't think Jerry wants 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.580 to surrender to anyone, much less somebody who's as close 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.900 to Jimmy as Troy is. Like to me, the only 0:03:56.940 --> 0:04:00.860 thing that could be worse than Jimmy and Jerry as 0:04:00.900 --> 0:04:03.000 a partnership is Troy and Jerry. 0:04:03.310 --> 0:04:07.610 Because they're the same person. From a mindset. 0:04:07.710 --> 0:04:13.130 And whatever success they had from the moment they hired Troy... 0:04:13.770 --> 0:04:17.870 to winning super bowls again, Troy's going to get credit 0:04:17.890 --> 0:04:19.570 for that. Just like Jimmy got credit for it. And 0:04:19.610 --> 0:04:23.010 that's something Jerry's been arguing against for 30 plus years. 0:04:24.210 --> 0:04:27.060 So I think Jerry, I think Jerry spoke out because 0:04:27.250 --> 0:04:29.680 just like he did with Tony Romo, right? When Romo 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.860 lost his job at CBS, Jerry, like Jerry loves those 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.330 guys and he has compassion for the situations that First Tony, 0:04:37.370 --> 0:04:39.950 and now Troy finds himself in where Troy's been the 0:04:39.990 --> 0:04:43.130 number one analyst in the NFL for 30 years on television. 0:04:43.180 --> 0:04:45.099 And now there just might not be a place for 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.820 him because it's a weird business run by odd people. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.120 And so I think Jerry has a great deal of 0:04:51.180 --> 0:04:53.460 sympathy for him and would do anything he could to 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.370 help them overcome this obstacle, this adversity, just like he 0:04:57.390 --> 0:05:01.589 would with Tony. And I think Troy regrets that Jerry... 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.680 Jerry's comments put him in a place where he then 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.320 responded about, he'd be interested in rejoining the organization when 0:05:08.339 --> 0:05:10.080 I think he really knows that that's not going to happen. 0:05:13.140 --> 0:05:14.140 Is that what you wanted? No, no. 0:05:14.460 --> 0:05:16.500 Ed mentioned Jerry and Troy, but Oh, by the way, 0:05:16.510 --> 0:05:18.730 there's Steven Jones is in the mix of that too. 0:05:19.750 --> 0:05:21.330 And you've got a Will McClay in the mix of 0:05:21.350 --> 0:05:21.729 that too. 0:05:21.850 --> 0:05:24.390 Well, you know, the thing about Troy is if you look, 0:05:25.089 --> 0:05:28.289 if you look beyond the football, you know, Troy is, uh, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.099 very astute as a businessman. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:31.820 He runs a lot of business. He's involved in a 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:32.460 lot of businesses. 0:05:32.500 --> 0:05:35.380 He runs eight beer, which is doing really well regionally, 0:05:35.420 --> 0:05:37.560 which is what it's supposed to do right now. But 0:05:37.580 --> 0:05:41.410 you ask anybody about his involvement in all those, it's 0:05:41.490 --> 0:05:45.250 always in a decision-making role. It's always making sure that 0:05:45.290 --> 0:05:47.270 the ship is guided where he wants it to go 0:05:47.630 --> 0:05:50.550 because he feels he can, he can, uh, make it successful. 0:05:51.130 --> 0:05:53.210 Well, he wouldn't come here and have any less role. 0:05:53.370 --> 0:05:55.760 So if there's not a leadership role where you're actively 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.840 making decisions, um, that put the organization in a certain direction, 0:06:00.860 --> 0:06:02.680 he wouldn't want that job anyway because he'd spend his 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:03.660 entire time frustrating. 0:06:03.860 --> 0:06:06.820 Right. If he was going to come back and run 0:06:06.860 --> 0:06:09.610 the front office like John Elway did in Denver after 0:06:09.670 --> 0:06:11.990 he was a Super Bowl winning quarterback in that organization, 0:06:12.089 --> 0:06:14.670 or as Matt Ryan is attempting to do now with 0:06:14.690 --> 0:06:17.310 the Falcons, or John Lynch as a general manager with 0:06:17.330 --> 0:06:21.380 the 49ers, where he has real control and real authority 0:06:21.580 --> 0:06:25.380 over the roster, over making trades, over hiring coaches, then 0:06:25.540 --> 0:06:26.560 I just don't see Troy doing it. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:27.040 Okay. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.729 So then what about The way the Rangers, the Texas 0:06:31.770 --> 0:06:34.490 Rangers have done things with the special advisor role. 0:06:35.029 --> 0:06:36.510 It's the same thing. I ain't got no power. 0:06:37.350 --> 0:06:39.190 But would he be interested in something? 0:06:39.250 --> 0:06:42.539 I would say no, because what's the one thing any 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.540 of us have good friends and they say, hey, Ed, 0:06:44.700 --> 0:06:46.820 I got a problem. Let me tell you my problem. 0:06:46.860 --> 0:06:49.039 I tell you my problem. And you say, well, Taylor, 0:06:49.980 --> 0:06:50.820 I think since. 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.930 You came to me, your best option is this. And 0:06:53.940 --> 0:06:56.010 I go, okay, thanks. And then I do something else. 0:06:56.210 --> 0:06:57.770 Or I don't listen. And you go, well, what the 0:06:57.810 --> 0:06:58.210 hell are you. 0:06:58.150 --> 0:07:00.110 Calling me for? I think Troy's willing to be a 0:07:00.150 --> 0:07:02.170 sounding board for free. Like, I don't think he needs 0:07:02.190 --> 0:07:05.450 a position in the organization with a title and a 0:07:05.490 --> 0:07:08.610 salary to offer Jerry advice or Steven advice or Will 0:07:08.630 --> 0:07:10.010 advice if they were to call him. He cares about 0:07:10.030 --> 0:07:13.370 the organization. And it's because he cares about the organization. 0:07:13.390 --> 0:07:16.130 But more than that, he cares about winning. He's going 0:07:16.170 --> 0:07:17.910 to want to be able to have a way to 0:07:18.090 --> 0:07:21.910 influence the decisions that lead to winning. Not just winning 0:07:23.210 --> 0:07:27.780 games every week, but winning championships and contending for titles. Like, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.020 I was at Peter King's book signing last night for 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.500 his book, The Game, and Troy was his guest. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:34.120 You were in there. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.510 Yeah. I don't know that. Yeah, I've been reading it. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:36.980 Okay. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.340 Troy was his guest, and somebody asked him the inevitable question. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.770 They said, Troy, if Jimmy had remained the coach for 0:07:43.810 --> 0:07:46.710 a longer period of time, would you and Jimmy have 0:07:46.730 --> 0:07:48.930 won Super Bowls like Belichick and Brady? 0:07:48.950 --> 0:07:50.090 Yeah. 0:07:51.310 --> 0:07:53.720 He said, I can't say that we would have won 0:07:53.860 --> 0:07:56.580 that many, but I can say I believe we would 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.420 have won more than we did. And he said the 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.840 biggest thing was not having Jimmy put him in a 0:08:02.860 --> 0:08:06.480 position where he couldn't just be the best he could 0:08:06.500 --> 0:08:08.850 be as a quarterback or the best teammate he could be. 0:08:09.210 --> 0:08:12.130 He also had to. get involved in coaching aspects that 0:08:12.230 --> 0:08:14.730 made it uncomfortable for him. And Tom Brady never had 0:08:14.770 --> 0:08:16.610 to do it. Tom Brady may not have had a 0:08:17.210 --> 0:08:19.690 great life playing for Bill Belichick. It might have been 0:08:19.750 --> 0:08:22.270 quite miserable most of the time, even though they were 0:08:22.290 --> 0:08:25.930 winning Super Bowls. But at least he never had to 0:08:26.410 --> 0:08:28.800 put Bill's shoes on and go coach his teammates. 0:08:28.980 --> 0:08:32.900 That great NFL films clip when he's on the sidelines 0:08:32.980 --> 0:08:36.500 yelling about guys and he's giving it to Jack Riley. 0:08:36.620 --> 0:08:37.540 And, you know, it was. 0:08:39.190 --> 0:08:41.190 That was a good Troy moment right there. 0:08:41.330 --> 0:08:44.090 He let loose. You know, he hates that clip. Because? 0:08:45.290 --> 0:08:46.850 Because it shows a side of him he doesn't like 0:08:46.870 --> 0:08:49.420 to show. It's like the Jordan stuff that comes out. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.140 Because it shows him demeaning a coach in a way 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:57.160 that it's just the competitiveness in him and the fact 0:08:57.220 --> 0:09:00.090 that he doesn't make excuses for. 0:09:01.510 --> 0:09:01.770 Failure. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:03.520 And he doesn't tolerate fools. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.660 And so for me, I look at that as just, 0:09:05.740 --> 0:09:09.420 this is the confrontation. Confrontations happen. You know, Parcells, he's 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.280 talking about like, you know, hey, you need some of that. 0:09:11.300 --> 0:09:14.000 And even just in the Saban documentary, he calls them butt-chewings. 0:09:15.470 --> 0:09:17.750 The way they were playing back then, especially under Jack, 0:09:17.770 --> 0:09:20.250 there was just guys not doing what– hey, this is 0:09:20.309 --> 0:09:21.589 your role. 0:09:21.929 --> 0:09:23.410 And Troy's like, wait a minute. 0:09:23.780 --> 0:09:24.459 Where's our coach? 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.780 Yeah, why am I doing this? I shouldn't have to 0:09:26.820 --> 0:09:29.059 do this. That's your job. What are you guys getting 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:29.270 paid for? 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.040 And because you're not doing that job, now you want 0:09:31.100 --> 0:09:33.300 me to do that job while I'm getting my A 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.530 kicked out here because you're not doing your job. Right. 0:09:35.730 --> 0:09:38.530 And the fans are sitting there booing A. 0:09:38.590 --> 0:09:40.110 Like all of a sudden, I'm no good. 0:09:40.250 --> 0:09:42.410 But I see people now are like, this is what 0:09:42.450 --> 0:09:45.890 we need in this Cowboys organization. We need somebody who 0:09:46.170 --> 0:09:49.140 has fire and isn't afraid to be honest. And that's 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.220 probably true. To a point. 0:09:51.540 --> 0:09:54.600 Yeah. Troy, back to the Cowboys. 0:09:54.620 --> 0:09:58.090 It was interesting to hear, but I think I have 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.219 about as much faith in that happening is when I 0:10:02.260 --> 0:10:04.580 had you on TV and when the whole Dion, when 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.540 they were one, the news, my new stage, like, Hey, 0:10:06.570 --> 0:10:08.270 Dion Sanders to the Cowboys. 0:10:08.330 --> 0:10:09.090 I know. 0:10:09.309 --> 0:10:10.170 Never. No. 0:10:10.410 --> 0:10:13.589 Dion's Dion's going to get it. this for the contract 0:10:13.620 --> 0:10:14.990 extension and jerry's. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.530 Gonna help him with that right i'm like this is 0:10:16.550 --> 0:10:19.230 because again jerry cares about cares about his great players. 0:10:19.030 --> 0:10:21.729 This is friends helping friends yeah like and i said 0:10:22.230 --> 0:10:23.750 i remember being on set with you and i said 0:10:24.130 --> 0:10:26.969 so there's the rooney rule you got to interview two 0:10:27.030 --> 0:10:28.970 people and he said he talked to him and he 0:10:28.990 --> 0:10:33.170 didn't even count him as one hello hello we're not 0:10:33.210 --> 0:10:35.890 even using the spot for you when he could have 0:10:35.970 --> 0:10:37.949 used the spot for you and then nah that's so 0:10:38.410 --> 0:10:40.550 so anyway that's when you knew that okay there's no 0:10:40.590 --> 0:10:43.520 there's nothing there so All right, Cowboys taking on the 0:10:43.620 --> 0:10:46.950 Arizona Cardinals. This is going to be an early kickoff 0:10:46.990 --> 0:10:49.110 Sunday at Jerry World. They've had issues. 0:10:49.150 --> 0:10:49.809 Did you say kickoff? 0:10:50.490 --> 0:10:50.810 Kickoff. 0:10:51.130 --> 0:10:51.290 Okay. 0:10:51.590 --> 0:10:52.830 Yeah. 0:10:52.850 --> 0:10:55.290 As opposed to blank kicking. 0:10:55.790 --> 0:10:55.890 Oh. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.160 The ball will be teed up at Jerry World. 0:11:01.179 --> 0:11:01.880 Might be a dirty ball. 0:11:02.910 --> 0:11:03.730 Could be. High noon. 0:11:04.130 --> 0:11:04.550 High noon. 0:11:05.510 --> 0:11:09.860 This has not been the W that we circle at 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:10.780 the beginning of the year. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.040 It's not been that against these Arizona Cardinals. And C.D. 0:11:13.059 --> 0:11:14.880 Lamb says, hey, I never beat them in my career. 0:11:15.300 --> 0:11:17.120 Has it been like 18 years since they beat the Cardinals? 0:11:17.300 --> 0:11:18.520 Has Dak ever beat them? 0:11:18.660 --> 0:11:20.240 I mean. Yes, once. 0:11:20.540 --> 0:11:22.700 Okay, so it hadn't been 18. 0:11:22.700 --> 0:11:25.179 They've beaten them since they... They've lost eight out of nine. 0:11:25.220 --> 0:11:28.080 I got some stats here on what happened. So the 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.679 Cardinals are 2-5 right now. It's the fifth straight season 0:11:32.020 --> 0:11:35.270 that they've been below 500 through seven games. The Cowboys 0:11:35.290 --> 0:11:39.230 have them at home Sunday. The Cardinals have won four 0:11:39.270 --> 0:11:42.410 straight against Dallas and eight of the last nine in 0:11:42.429 --> 0:11:46.540 the series. Arizona comes to Dallas looking to be 5-0 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.809 all time at AT & T Stadium. The Cardinals, with four, 0:11:51.350 --> 0:11:56.210 currently have joined Dallas' NFC East rivals, Philadelphia with seven, 0:11:56.380 --> 0:11:58.580 New York with five, and Washington with five, as the 0:11:58.790 --> 0:12:02.439 only teams in the NFL with four-plus road wins at 0:12:02.540 --> 0:12:06.440 AT & T Stadium. Arizona's four-game winning streak at AT & 0:12:05.940 --> 0:12:09.640 T Stadium, its longest winning streak at any venue. They're 0:12:09.660 --> 0:12:12.120 working on SoFi right now. They're halfway there. They've won 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.059 both their games this year at SoFi. So as long 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.640 as the Cowboys don't agree to go play this game 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.300 at SoFi, maybe they'll be okay. 0:12:19.290 --> 0:12:23.170 I think the problem for Dallas is if you go 0:12:23.300 --> 0:12:25.520 out and ask a random fan, hey, what do you 0:12:25.540 --> 0:12:26.740 think about the Arizona Cardinals? 0:12:26.820 --> 0:12:28.820 Oh, they stink. They're terrible. Blah, blah, blah. 0:12:29.260 --> 0:12:31.300 And I think the Cowboys in all their arrogance have 0:12:31.340 --> 0:12:33.720 showed up at each of these games going, oh, it's 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:37.579 the Cardinals, dude. Let's just show up, bank this dub. 0:12:37.700 --> 0:12:40.829 And then the Cardinals at some point in the game go, hey, guys, 0:12:40.870 --> 0:12:41.550 we can win this one. 0:12:42.330 --> 0:12:44.040 And they turn it up, and the Cowboys are like, oh, 0:12:44.050 --> 0:12:44.349 my God. 0:12:45.300 --> 0:12:47.900 We can't reach that level now. Right. That's what CD 0:12:47.940 --> 0:12:50.190 said today, right? He said they've come into every one 0:12:50.210 --> 0:12:52.630 of these games with more energy than we have. So 0:12:52.970 --> 0:12:55.030 they've disrespected and dismissed the Cardinals. 0:12:55.070 --> 0:12:59.400 For a team, the Cowboys that in general haven't done anything. 0:13:00.300 --> 0:13:01.560 That's why I call it Cowboys arrogance. 0:13:01.820 --> 0:13:05.209 I told a friend of mine, I said, They've treated, 0:13:05.530 --> 0:13:07.350 in the past, treated the Arizona Cardinals the way they 0:13:07.370 --> 0:13:09.590 treated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year. And if you 0:13:09.610 --> 0:13:10.950 do that, you're going to be in trouble. They're not 0:13:11.010 --> 0:13:11.770 good enough to do that. 0:13:12.410 --> 0:13:13.699 No, they're not. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.740 And so, you know, I thought it was cool we 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.520 got matter-of-fact Dak today. So maybe that means that they're 0:13:18.540 --> 0:13:22.720 taking a business-like approach to this game. And they should 0:13:22.740 --> 0:13:24.979 because they haven't won two in a row except once 0:13:25.860 --> 0:13:27.360 during Brian Schottenheimer's tenure. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.050 Right, last year when they won three in a row. 0:13:29.059 --> 0:13:30.340 Yeah, and then they lost three in a row. 0:13:31.190 --> 0:13:34.079 Yeah, so they have nothing to be arrogant about. I 0:13:34.580 --> 0:13:36.610 don't even know why they're acting like they're mad. 0:13:38.250 --> 0:13:40.760 This is the second of three games that I believe 0:13:40.780 --> 0:13:41.740 they have to win. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.820 Okay, now see, here we go. I'm going to stop 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.059 you right there. You do this crap all the time now. 0:13:48.179 --> 0:13:51.040 I done told you. This team is not good enough 0:13:51.059 --> 0:13:53.140 to say, oh, they can beat this one. They can 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.439 beat that one. They can stack this. They can win 0:13:55.460 --> 0:13:56.220 four of the next five. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.080 They're not good enough to do that, man. 0:13:58.340 --> 0:14:00.750 And they've proved that they are right now. 0:14:01.330 --> 0:14:04.270 So quit talking about it. Quit talking about it. 0:14:04.309 --> 0:14:06.270 We're not players. We don't have to worry about that. 0:14:06.290 --> 0:14:09.500 It's also true. Philly, which you got done on Monday night. 0:14:09.900 --> 0:14:10.120 Yes. 0:14:10.220 --> 0:14:10.780 Arizona. 0:14:10.900 --> 0:14:13.460 And after that, you got Indianapolis. And they just decided 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.170 they wanted to get two of their best interior players. 0:14:16.230 --> 0:14:16.370 Right. 0:14:16.470 --> 0:14:19.390 Well, they're going down the list. You got San Francisco. No, no. 0:14:19.530 --> 0:14:22.010 After the Niners because Indy traded one of those players 0:14:22.050 --> 0:14:24.910 to San Francisco. So I'm just talking about this three-game 0:14:24.930 --> 0:14:25.510 stretch right here. 0:14:25.530 --> 0:14:27.230 But then you got the Titans in Philadelphia. 0:14:27.250 --> 0:14:28.890 You got four out of five at home. If they 0:14:28.910 --> 0:14:31.000 were a good team, you could say all these things. 0:14:31.020 --> 0:14:32.180 I'm just focused on my threes. 0:14:33.370 --> 0:14:34.220 A little trifecta. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:35.140 Like I'm betting the ponies. 0:14:35.220 --> 0:14:36.180 I got my trifecta right here. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.280 See, I think you ought to just do the parlay 0:14:38.300 --> 0:14:39.520 and make it just go down for. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:39.980 The whole six. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.100 That's when you lose your money. I'm just looking right 0:14:42.140 --> 0:14:43.540 here at my little three-finger stretch here. I'm looking for 0:14:43.570 --> 0:14:48.690 the big score. Where you've got the... Okay. If Brian 0:14:48.710 --> 0:14:51.979 Schottenheimer can't get these three... People are going to raise 0:14:52.020 --> 0:14:53.710 more questions about, are you the right. 0:14:53.620 --> 0:14:56.450 Guy for the job? We said that about Houston, Tampa Bay, 0:14:56.490 --> 0:14:58.250 and Green Bay, and they lost two out of those three. 0:14:59.110 --> 0:15:00.450 I know. 0:15:00.710 --> 0:15:02.120 And you can't keep doing this. 0:15:02.150 --> 0:15:06.380 And you're right. That's when Schottenheimer came under scrutiny for 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.500 the first real time, and he showed that he's sensitive 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.710 to all that criticism. One week said he was aware 0:15:12.750 --> 0:15:15.410 of it. Last week said he tunes us all out. 0:15:15.610 --> 0:15:18.570 So conflicting messages and all that. But to your point, 0:15:19.010 --> 0:15:22.229 the Cowboys schedule from now to Thanksgiving. They're the only 0:15:22.270 --> 0:15:24.870 team in the NFL with four home games from week 0:15:24.870 --> 0:15:28.030 8 to 12. Combined record of their next five opponents 0:15:28.050 --> 0:15:31.730 is 13-22. And half of those wins by San Francisco, right? 0:15:31.870 --> 0:15:32.030 Right. 0:15:32.570 --> 0:15:34.960 The Cardinals, the Colts, the Titans, and the Eagles all 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.220 have at least five losses. And the 49ers game is. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.040 At least a home game. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:39.880 Yeah. 0:15:40.700 --> 0:15:43.140 And 49ers are all beat up and banged up. But 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:43.530 they win. 0:15:44.100 --> 0:15:47.410 Well, they've got a superior offensive coach and a superior organization. 0:15:47.430 --> 0:15:48.270 Organization, right. 0:15:48.590 --> 0:15:51.470 So, you know, I would be surprised if they beat them. 0:15:51.570 --> 0:15:54.270 Once again, I'll stand on these. These are three must-wins 0:15:54.290 --> 0:15:56.390 you need to have. Philly, Arizona, Indiana. 0:15:56.410 --> 0:15:58.950 Are you betting the Scrubs? No, no. 0:15:59.070 --> 0:16:00.450 I'm not betting anything. 0:16:00.650 --> 0:16:02.710 I think what he's saying. I do sign it. Would 0:16:02.750 --> 0:16:05.190 you wager the Scrubs? 0:16:05.330 --> 0:16:06.850 Did you not do the gambling thing? 0:16:07.690 --> 0:16:09.460 I watched the video, and I turned it in first. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.080 That was a long time ago. 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.180 You know he can't be spending any of his time 0:16:15.260 --> 0:16:16.740 or money on such pursuits. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:17.280 Exactly. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:22.320 So after giving away the Baltimore game, after the embarrassment 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.970 against Tampa Bay, there's no more room for error here, man. 0:16:25.990 --> 0:16:26.140 Right. 0:16:26.350 --> 0:16:28.080 It is go time. Every game that's. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.710 Not against the 49ers, the Rams, the Seahawks, and the Jaguars, 0:16:31.730 --> 0:16:33.330 you've got to win if you're going to contend in 0:16:33.350 --> 0:16:33.590 the division. 0:16:33.610 --> 0:16:34.810 Okay, let me ask a different question. 0:16:34.970 --> 0:16:35.230 Yes. 0:16:37.270 --> 0:16:39.490 Are you injecting hopium in your veins once again? 0:16:40.470 --> 0:16:42.570 We're going to take a break, and when we come back, 0:16:43.130 --> 0:16:47.830 I'll answer the question about hopium, Kool-Aid, do you believe, 0:16:48.130 --> 0:16:51.610 all that good stuff with Jacques, Ed, I'm Newey. 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