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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newe scrugs.
Speaker 1: All right, baby, it's a Monday, a victory Monday. The
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have found their fifth win of the season.
Speaker 1: You're the Players Lounge by Toby Hotels dot Com. Forty
Speaker 1: five minutes NFL content coming at you. I have new
Speaker 1: he scroos, longtime Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys safeties, Danny McCray and Barry Church. Church. Are you
Speaker 1: back on that narcotic because the Cowboys one? Are you
Speaker 1: chasing down the bandwagon trying to jump back on it?
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. As the Cowboys demolished
Speaker 1: the forty ninety one thirty? What what chasing down the bandwagon? Not?
Speaker 1: I I told y'all before man, I got I told
Speaker 1: y'all I got off of that narcotic. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It wasn't good for me. It wasn't good
Speaker 1: for my blood. You know, I had high blood pressure
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. So I had to get off
Speaker 1: of that narcotic man. But I will say this, man,
Speaker 1: we got a chance. We got a chance. Man. I
Speaker 1: tried to tell y'all we got a chance. Man, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all doubt as long as y'all want to, But we
Speaker 1: got a chance. That's all I'm gonna say. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: not here to rant glow, just here to say we
Speaker 1: gotta you're glowing enough. You got an NC NFC East Championship,
Speaker 1: had on. What are you talking about? You you're talking
Speaker 1: about this right here? Oh you're talking about this. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you're talking about this NFC. Yeah, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: a little, a little early gift. Someone saying I'm not
Speaker 1: too supposed to give that away. It didn't didn't guarante
Speaker 1: say give that to somebody. I thought you're supposed to
Speaker 1: get that happen. It's memories, man, it's memories. It's all memories.
Speaker 1: So you didn't you didn't do what the coach asked
Speaker 1: you to do, did you. Huh Nah? I can't do that, man.
Speaker 1: So so so so let me get this correct alright,
Speaker 1: So you're not back on the kool aid, but you
Speaker 1: win your NFC East Champ had to insinuate that we're
Speaker 1: going to win the NFC Championship, but we just got
Speaker 1: a chance. I just want to make sure we clear
Speaker 1: on this one. I'm saying. What I'm saying is I think,
Speaker 1: like I said last week, we got a we got
Speaker 1: a low chance to get to the playoffs. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say thirty five percent chance to get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs because we don't control our own destiny. And
Speaker 1: what those guys are doing up in Washington, I just
Speaker 1: don't see them losing all three of their final games.
Speaker 1: They got to probably the best front seven in football
Speaker 1: right now, so I don't think they're gonna lose all
Speaker 1: their three games up there, And that just leads me
Speaker 1: for this. I'm gonna think. I think we're gonna go
Speaker 1: seven and nine, like I predicted last week. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna win these final games, but we're gonna be
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs just because Washington's gonna end up
Speaker 1: winning one of those two, even if Haskins is at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Okay, all right, Okay, so so you're
Speaker 1: kind of this seems to me, McCray, Is this a
Speaker 1: half measure by Church like he's got one. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a half measure. That's what I thought. What you're talking about,
Speaker 1: what you're talking about hands, it's called hedging your miss
Speaker 1: that's all you're doing. We were feeling you, though, we
Speaker 1: got you what you mid. I admitted. I admitted last week, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna be wrong on us going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I admitted it. I said, hey, I'm gonna end up
Speaker 1: Owen McCray a snake from Nick and Sam's. I admit that.
Speaker 1: But what I did say is seven and nine is coming, man,
Speaker 1: seven and nine is coming. And y'all wrote it all
Speaker 1: off like it was nothing. McCarthy can't win back to back.
Speaker 1: Ain't did that since two thy seventeen. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: middle boy, many look at you saying okay, now all right.
Speaker 1: So so so I'm going to ask this. First off,
Speaker 1: you know, the win and the way they won, good
Speaker 1: to see complimentary football. Okay, four turnovers, twenty four points
Speaker 1: off the turnovers defense created three of them. How should
Speaker 1: I look at this game? Because I talked about this
Speaker 1: last night on NBC five. Do I look at it
Speaker 1: as it's wins against the Bengals and wins against the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers quarterback by Nick Lullins and the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I forgot who quarterback there? Who? Who quarterbacks from McCrae,
Speaker 1: who rank? Okay, okay, so so yeah, so so do
Speaker 1: I look at it that way, because I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins was was dark. He might as well just
Speaker 1: pointed at dudes before he threw it to you and
Speaker 1: threw the ball. I mean, that was that was some
Speaker 1: terrible quarterbacking. That was a terrible quarterbacking. Man m one
Speaker 1: saying that on Friday. You actually you did say that
Speaker 1: on Friday. You said that on Friday. Know, you said,
Speaker 1: if they have to throw the ball, then Nick Mullins
Speaker 1: is going to throw the ball to the opposing team's defense.
Speaker 1: We know what You're I'm looking. I'm going back and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my notes and it says right here,
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins turnover machine interceptions in five straight games, twelve
Speaker 1: turnovers in the last five games for the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers as a team. So when when I did talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, what needed to happen, and I did say, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Yeah, I appreciate you, Danny, because you're not
Speaker 1: jargon my memory. Because I did say this is the
Speaker 1: only statistic we need to know, and it was twelve
Speaker 1: turnovers and that the forty nineers are a turnover machine.
Speaker 1: That was the whole and Dallas ended up getting four
Speaker 1: of them. But mullins, he was worse than I thought.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy really is. This is a bad guy.
Speaker 1: And if Kyle Shannahan brings him back next year, I'm
Speaker 1: shocked because I've seen everything I need to see out
Speaker 1: of this dude. This dude's bad and he's not getting better. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not getting better at all. Look, look, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: I'm all for the win. It's as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: it may not sound like I'm happy as we go
Speaker 1: throughout this show, but anytime you can get a win,
Speaker 1: I will continue to repeat this. Any win in the NFL,
Speaker 1: NFL it's earned and deserved. Let me walk out of
Speaker 1: there with the duba I will now. Now, I will
Speaker 1: say this, if you talk about a team you like,
Speaker 1: as much bad luck as we've had over these last
Speaker 1: few weeks, it's some good luck that have been rolling
Speaker 1: our way. If you talk about the injuries that some
Speaker 1: of these teams sustained throughout the game, when we're playing them.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about some high impact players get hurt during
Speaker 1: the game and it helps us, you know, be able
Speaker 1: to play offense or defense. I'll tell you what. When
Speaker 1: Morstat went out, I was like, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the next guy comes in and he does the
Speaker 1: same thing, because you know, when you play against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's it's put whoever in there and they can run
Speaker 1: the ball. And then the second team running back went down,
Speaker 1: and then we Tevin Coleman and yep, and then you
Speaker 1: see and then you see Mullers have to go out
Speaker 1: there and try to throw the ball. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: here it is because one thing about it. We were
Speaker 1: not stopping to run. But that injury saved us and
Speaker 1: helped us. And I take it. Whatever whatever happens throughout
Speaker 1: the game, you have to be able to adjust. And
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers weren't able to do that and
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins kind of burying them. But we've had some
Speaker 1: good luck throughout this season, especially these last few games.
Speaker 1: Call it what you want. You can say what you
Speaker 1: won't say we played against Mullin better. You can call
Speaker 1: it luck saying Mozart went out. Whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it. I don't care that Cowboys did what they
Speaker 1: had to do and they got the dove. Did they
Speaker 1: stop absolutely that they gave up four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: some yards. Yes, and Mike, Mike, no one's on his
Speaker 1: way out. Of course, he's on his way out. But
Speaker 1: you know what, the Cowboys did what they had to do.
Speaker 1: Tony Poller came in there, shows some juice out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, receiving the ball, running the ball as well.
Speaker 1: That offensive line, that offensive line, I gat to give
Speaker 1: him a little kudos because I mean I wear on
Speaker 1: them time and time again. But they played pretty well.
Speaker 1: They kept Andy Dalton up right, they kept holes for
Speaker 1: for Tpter run through in and the other running back
Speaker 1: I think his name is Rico dow Well, if I'm
Speaker 1: not a butchering NKO down from South Carolina. He was able,
Speaker 1: he was able to perform well. And you know what,
Speaker 1: they didn't get their playmakers the ball. I think Almari
Speaker 1: Cooper only had two catches. But Cede Lamb Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: showed out once again and he's becoming that number one
Speaker 1: threat as as this season progressing. As his rookie season's progressing,
Speaker 1: and this guy is becoming more and more of a guy.
Speaker 1: And I could see him taking over that number one
Speaker 1: role next next year. But overall, it was a great
Speaker 1: team win, even the special teams. The special team showed up.
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was just an all around
Speaker 1: great victory for the Dallas Cowboys. And I will say this,
Speaker 1: I think Chris Jones punted his last ball as a
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys because that guy we got back there at
Speaker 1: the punting, a new founder or new Wander, whatever his
Speaker 1: name is. He's down in those things like a like
Speaker 1: a like a golf like a golfer man. He's just
Speaker 1: checking it up right by the hole. He played great,
Speaker 1: great overall team under miss Wander. Come on, miss w
Speaker 1: miss Wander. That's what it. Come on. Listen, my man
Speaker 1: on the kool ai and no nobody on the roster.
Speaker 1: The boy was right, because your boy right, it's all good.
Speaker 1: It's a church. He's not gonna be able to get off.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to be like a key
Speaker 1: to leave to get on Fox TV if you can't
Speaker 1: get the key to man, y'all, we're talking about a
Speaker 1: key to key. How did he get on box? We
Speaker 1: don't don't don't even don't even Richardson texts you own
Speaker 1: a key to le that. You know, key will he
Speaker 1: will get dealt with if you message we're talking that
Speaker 1: he really you brought it up Church, you brought the hell.
Speaker 1: He was terrible. He was terrible. I don't can't you
Speaker 1: hear this from that? He wasn't. No, he wasn't terrible. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just your boy, man, that's your boy. Man. I
Speaker 1: was that's all good, man, that's all good. I was
Speaker 1: entertained you in the feud. Hello, I was you know
Speaker 1: what I listen. You know, I'm not gonna say I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna get on the kids to leave man in
Speaker 1: his stories on the fifth you know, I didn't hear it,
Speaker 1: but but I can't. I heard him when he was
Speaker 1: when he commentated against the chroche, so I can imagine,
Speaker 1: you know what what was going on on that broadcast.
Speaker 1: And he was trending on Twitter, so I knew it
Speaker 1: must have been something crazy going on. Yeah, it's never
Speaker 1: a good thing to keep trending. The kid kept it real,
Speaker 1: that was all. He just kept it real. And he
Speaker 1: had on Christmas suit. You know it was it was
Speaker 1: a Michael Irvin special. It was a special Okay, the
Speaker 1: green the green suit, you know, the plaid on there,
Speaker 1: the jack plaid in the red tie. So anyway, he's
Speaker 1: getting the names right church. You gotta get their names,
Speaker 1: Rico down all Okay, you gotta get the names right here.
Speaker 1: That's what this thing is all about here, Okay, all
Speaker 1: about because I'm right, man, hey Son knew it, KNEWI listen,
Speaker 1: you started off the season talking about my man d
Speaker 1: law and I told you that he was going to
Speaker 1: show up. He's worth the bread. Now. He might not
Speaker 1: have the twelve or thirteen sexs that I called him
Speaker 1: out for. No, but he's been playing playing, He's been
Speaker 1: playing his tail off for the last few games, and
Speaker 1: he's been playing amazing. Earning that check. That's that's that
Speaker 1: he's getting paid, unlike a couple of other guys that's
Speaker 1: on the roster. About to say, he might be the
Speaker 1: only one earning that check on the day. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is a side swipe at me, Danny. I
Speaker 1: feel like I feel like you just tried to take
Speaker 1: Definitely was a saw. It was definitely, And I'll simply
Speaker 1: go back and stand on this merit that I've said
Speaker 1: all alone. When you get the rickest richest contract in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history. There are expectations that come with it. Last year,
Speaker 1: the expectations were not met, and so coming into this year,
Speaker 1: I'm just simply asking for the expectations and for the
Speaker 1: player to be the player who got that check. I'm
Speaker 1: not asking for anything other than that, Okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing that we asked for any big
Speaker 1: time athlete. When you get that the money is hey
Speaker 1: play up to the contract. Playing to the contract, that's
Speaker 1: all I listen, listen, you said that, And then last
Speaker 1: week I heard you talking about people saying Zeke is
Speaker 1: having you know, for all that's going on him, averaging
Speaker 1: sixty yards a game is okay because all this stuff
Speaker 1: going on on the offense. So I'm just saying, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that at the d Law hits five sex,
Speaker 1: then you got to do that, Zeke and hit sixty
Speaker 1: yards a game. And then you also got to do
Speaker 1: that to a man coop out here getting two catches,
Speaker 1: two catches, three targets of the game too. All right,
Speaker 1: leave law Law. He is outperforming the rest of the
Speaker 1: dudes that got these big time contracts on the roster. Wow.
Speaker 1: Think he's outperforming the other guys in his same tax bracket.
Speaker 1: You tell me on our roster, okay, on our roster.
Speaker 1: I want you to go pull a tape here, Okay,
Speaker 1: please go pulls to tape. What have I said he
Speaker 1: hasn't been worth the money when I talk about Zeke
Speaker 1: saying hey, well, I think I don't think Zeke is
Speaker 1: quote unquote problem and a guy that wasn't worth away
Speaker 1: or a guy who shouldn't have said ab I haven't
Speaker 1: said that about Tank. I just said when you that
Speaker 1: you have to live up to what they want from
Speaker 1: when you. Okay, that's what I've said. That's we said.
Speaker 1: No as as coming out of last year, you said
Speaker 1: that he did it, and I'm saying going into next year,
Speaker 1: I just need to hear the same stuff about Zeke.
Speaker 1: I need to hear the same stuff about Coop. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about d Law because the
Speaker 1: way he's closing about the season, he's bringing bringing it
Speaker 1: into next year. That's all I'm saying. Okay, here's the
Speaker 1: different one of the big differences for Tank versus Zeke
Speaker 1: and Cooper, and I come back to what you have
Speaker 1: said here. Danny McCray on the players lives coming. Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore does not use these guys properly. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different for a guy like Tank versus
Speaker 1: these guys now obviously, and I said it last week.
Speaker 1: Any defense, it doesn't have Tank lords the vault, did
Speaker 1: it defensive coordinated? It needs to be fired. That's a
Speaker 1: fireball offense right there. And you got a base package
Speaker 1: and you're telling Tank to run off the field. But
Speaker 1: the first play against the Bengals for Doran's Armstrong, that's
Speaker 1: a misuse of the town. But you can't sit up
Speaker 1: here say that Ezekiel Elliot and Amory Cooper have been
Speaker 1: used properly. We can't see. And you have to think
Speaker 1: about that when you start talking about the use of
Speaker 1: the money. I do not believe that Kelly Moore has
Speaker 1: used these two guys correctly. What how many targets and
Speaker 1: Cooper have yesterday? Let me say, let me tell it
Speaker 1: he had. He had three targets yesterday, two catches for
Speaker 1: ten yards. I watched the third down play where he
Speaker 1: had single coverage on Richard Sherman and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, throw it over here to Coop. Let Coop
Speaker 1: go make a play doesn't happen. I'm sitting here later
Speaker 1: on watching the Cardinals game. What do I see? I
Speaker 1: see Kyler Murray throwing it over here? DeAndre Hockeins would
Speaker 1: due dreed out over the end. Zoe went out there
Speaker 1: and made a play. Come on, man, come on, okay, listen,
Speaker 1: and you're better say that. I'm really became because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring it low, because I'm gonna bring I bring
Speaker 1: up by Church in because this will happen. Now you're
Speaker 1: talking about Zeke and not being used correctly, and I
Speaker 1: listen and Church has been on this too. How many
Speaker 1: times to do fumbled this season? How many times is
Speaker 1: he giving the ball away? When you're talking about performance,
Speaker 1: you're also talking about being able to be reliable holding
Speaker 1: on to the ball. Some of those games where he fumbled,
Speaker 1: they snatched him out and then they let Tony Poler
Speaker 1: get in. And if you watch the game yesterday, you
Speaker 1: start the question yourself and say, man, which one of
Speaker 1: our running backs and member performing the best in the season.
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going TP now I'm Aari Cooper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't understand, listen, I don't I don't understand, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm lost for words with the SamArt Cooper situation. He's
Speaker 1: on a fantasy team, like I said, and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna luckily scratch out to win. But as I watched this,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh, I don't know, man. Noah Brown
Speaker 1: got in there and got more targets to coop. Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb got more targets to coop. The tight end got
Speaker 1: more targets to coop. Tony Powler got more targets. Listen,
Speaker 1: if you name you can name him on the roster.
Speaker 1: They had no targets to coople this game. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we won the game. Like at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we won, And maybe that's the new formula. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: the new formula for us to just spread the wealth around,
Speaker 1: get the tight ends involved, get Tony Pollan involved, getting
Speaker 1: Noah Brown involved. It said Wilson, I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is, but we how many yards if we have
Speaker 1: all I'm all for it. I'm all forty how many
Speaker 1: yards that we have offen could have we could have
Speaker 1: had ten yards on offense. No, but but that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But that's what I'm saying you're not gonna
Speaker 1: win that. You're not gonna win many games that way
Speaker 1: by by our defense getting four turnovers, you know, giving
Speaker 1: giving an offense to ball on our own terry, I
Speaker 1: mean in the defense territory each time. That stuff not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. You have to find a way to be
Speaker 1: able to make long drives on offense consistently and traded.
Speaker 1: We played the game, it's not gonna happen. You have
Speaker 1: to be able to get your star players involved or
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win. You know, the really significant games, right,
Speaker 1: you'll beat the forty nine like that, You'll you'll beat
Speaker 1: Minnesota like that sometimes. But when you get into some
Speaker 1: real competitive games and you're not able to sustain long
Speaker 1: drives and get these players involved, you ain't gonna win.
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna happen. And I'm Mark Cooper getting
Speaker 1: to the three targets and two catches, but nine yards.
Speaker 1: The dude needed four catches to break his own personal record.
Speaker 1: Could even get it this game, couldn't even get it.
Speaker 1: Maybe in Philly, maybe see And and and that's the mad part.
Speaker 1: It's it's a possibility that the man still might not
Speaker 1: even break his own personal catch record and he needs too,
Speaker 1: I believe, and he still might not even do that
Speaker 1: in Philly. Don't make no sense, it makes It makes
Speaker 1: absolutely zero sense to me. And that is the biggest
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars suck to me that I've seen.
Speaker 1: You look at the numbers and all that, you say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: the dude got this many catches this video. You watch
Speaker 1: the game. It ain't the same like new he said.
Speaker 1: You look at the hop yesterday. You look at Metcalf,
Speaker 1: you look at look at Calvin Riddard, you look at
Speaker 1: whole look at these guys, and you watch the games
Speaker 1: and you can see that their numbers match up with
Speaker 1: what you see when were you watching on the film.
Speaker 1: When you look at Coop, it doesn't match up. And
Speaker 1: it's not his fault in my opinion. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. Gotta take a break. Okay, take
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back. Since Danny's in this run,
Speaker 1: let's run Zeke down. We'll let you continue to run
Speaker 1: down z as we talk about by Tony palm upon
Speaker 1: him and trying to snap Zeke's money. When we return
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Speaker 1: time Cowboys reporter joined by former Cowboys safety's Danny McCray
Speaker 1: and Barry Church. Tony Polyde started for Ezekiel Elliott. Elliott
Speaker 1: out with a calf injury, did not play. Tony Poler
Speaker 1: with a one hundred and thirty two total yards of offense,
Speaker 1: had two rushing touchdowns and looked very good social media buzzes.
Speaker 1: They were trying to figure out ways to cut Ezekiel Eli.
Speaker 1: People are double with Zekiel all out Tony Powder. Obviously
Speaker 1: I don't feel that way, but uh, you know, Danny McCrae,
Speaker 1: you've been on your soap box running people down, So
Speaker 1: go ahead, go down and rundown. Listen. I've been on
Speaker 1: this show many times saying Zeke deserves all the money
Speaker 1: that he got. And I've been on this show saying
Speaker 1: that Keller Moore doesn't know how to use the guy,
Speaker 1: even coming into the season saying, yeah, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: this dude the vault. He out there running routes. And
Speaker 1: then I watched the game and I'm saying, this is
Speaker 1: what I thought that they were gonna do when Zeke
Speaker 1: they the one the ball to Tony Poler, he running
Speaker 1: the ball, all these creative ways to give him about
Speaker 1: especially in the first drive, it was Tony Pollard the
Speaker 1: whole drive and I'm looking like you got a ninety
Speaker 1: million dollars running back and you said that you were
Speaker 1: going to have him involved in the passing game, in
Speaker 1: the running game, this is what I envisioned for. And
Speaker 1: then soon as Zeke is out, this is the game
Speaker 1: player that you put it for Tony Pollard. It was
Speaker 1: very confusing. So I don't know if it's something that
Speaker 1: they don't feel like Zeke can do, or that they
Speaker 1: thought he was that he could do before they actually
Speaker 1: seen him on the field, or what's going on. But
Speaker 1: what I see from Tony Pollard is what I expect
Speaker 1: to see expected to see from Zeke as far as
Speaker 1: creativity and getting them involved in the in the game.
Speaker 1: Zeke deserves his bread. Tony Poller got out there and
Speaker 1: did it for a game. Nothing against him, But we've
Speaker 1: seen Zeke be the workhouse for many years and I
Speaker 1: think he still has that in him. This year had
Speaker 1: lived up to it with the fumbles. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: other than that, his use has just been off. But me.
Speaker 1: I'm just big on him with how many times he's
Speaker 1: fumbling the ball, But I still think I think he
Speaker 1: still has it. Yeah, look, I think I think Zeke's
Speaker 1: you know, he deserves the money. How he got I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he was a workhorse back for since he's
Speaker 1: been in the NFL. But I don't think it's not
Speaker 1: fair to ask the question, has has Tony Poller looked
Speaker 1: better than Zeke this year? I think he has. I mean,
Speaker 1: so far, when we give Zeke the ball, the ten
Speaker 1: or twelve, we do give him a game. I mean
Speaker 1: there's three or four yards in a cloud of dust.
Speaker 1: I think his as longest running this season has been
Speaker 1: twenty six yards, and during that run he looked like
Speaker 1: he could have got tracked down by d Lyman. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and act like this guy's
Speaker 1: he's he's Christian McCaffrey, or he's he got all the juice.
Speaker 1: He doesn't. Right now, he looks more like a fullback
Speaker 1: than a running back, and Tony poll looks a little
Speaker 1: bit better than he does, looks like he has a
Speaker 1: little bit more, looks a little bit better out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. I mean, I'm not I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: telling any lies out here. When we see t I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna go that far. He's called Mary breaks when
Speaker 1: he's got his long breaks. Man, he hasn't looked as
Speaker 1: fast as he had in the past. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a I don't think that's an unfair judgment. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's an unfair judgment like that the black
Speaker 1: cow use check. You called it the black collar man.
Speaker 1: You can't say nothing on this show, y'all will take
Speaker 1: something with it. When he was out there, he has
Speaker 1: not looked as fast as he's had in the past.
Speaker 1: And Tony Pollard looked like he has a little bit
Speaker 1: more juice. That's all I'm saying. I mean this dude, okay,
Speaker 1: but coming to the game is dude eighth in the
Speaker 1: league In Russian you called him a full back. Wow,
Speaker 1: just a tough craw You guys are tough today. Man,
Speaker 1: you got a tough crow said he looked like a
Speaker 1: full back. Tough, tough four yards in the cloud of dust.
Speaker 1: That's what we've gotten so far. He not better than Tony,
Speaker 1: I mean, Tony Poler, not better than Zeke. But I'm
Speaker 1: still on that he's not better than Zeke. That's like
Speaker 1: the Jude, that's like the Juju Smith thing. Right when
Speaker 1: when Antny o'brown left, you realize that Juju Smith really
Speaker 1: wasn't a number one receiver. He was kind of feeding
Speaker 1: off the fact that Antonio o'brown was get so much attention.
Speaker 1: I think that's the same thing that's going on with TP.
Speaker 1: No offense to him, but he's still not Zeke and
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a body of work that says so
Speaker 1: either okay, so what do you make of the people
Speaker 1: saying cut him or get out the contract? I mean,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on that? Mccraig. I got the
Speaker 1: same thought. If Keller's not going to find a way
Speaker 1: to utilize him correctly and he's gonna come out with
Speaker 1: all the creative stuff when Tony Pollard gets in the game,
Speaker 1: then you got to find a way to move on
Speaker 1: because other than that, you're just seeing ninety million dollars
Speaker 1: to a guy into a guy that you're not really
Speaker 1: taking advantage of it. It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 1: So you either got to find a way to use
Speaker 1: him and let Kelly Moore know that this is what
Speaker 1: we want to see from Zeke, or you know, some
Speaker 1: of these people might be right. Then if you're gonna
Speaker 1: utilize Tony Pollard in a better way to use Z,
Speaker 1: then find a way to move on from or get
Speaker 1: something to return from him for him. I just don't
Speaker 1: see how we can get out of this deal. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it is, he's lied. I feel like he's locked
Speaker 1: up until at least twenty twenty twenty three. So I
Speaker 1: don't know how we can get out of this deal.
Speaker 1: And I don't see anybody trading for him to get
Speaker 1: a ninety million dollars running back. I just don't see
Speaker 1: it happening. So, like you said, Danny, I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to just stick with this guy. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see what he has to do next year when he
Speaker 1: gets a full, healthy offensive line, and hopefully if Kellen
Speaker 1: his back, he has a better game plan implemented to
Speaker 1: get the most out of Ze. So let me this question. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me ask this question here, because you guys have
Speaker 1: been in the locker room and you have been around
Speaker 1: players who've had down teasons, would it be prooting for
Speaker 1: the head coach and even the owner, Gerald Wayne Jones,
Speaker 1: to come out and say, look, last year, Zy that's
Speaker 1: a bad year. We don't blame it all on you.
Speaker 1: We had issues, offensive line issues, quarterback issues, but you
Speaker 1: need to be better for us in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Is there anything wrong with them saying that? Because around
Speaker 1: here nobody ever wants to tell anybody they've had a
Speaker 1: down you and if you how tell somebody they had
Speaker 1: a down year, you're hating or you're not respecting them.
Speaker 1: As I the charge was leveled against me about what
Speaker 1: I said about Tank Lawrence. When you look at dudes
Speaker 1: and just say, hey man, I need you to be
Speaker 1: better because you can be better. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: what have we seen when Tank turns it on in place?
Speaker 1: This a better football team. If Ezekiel Elliott plays better
Speaker 1: and gets it on, guests, what I think we'll see.
Speaker 1: I think we'll see a better football team. But who's
Speaker 1: the person that can come out here actually say the
Speaker 1: twenty one Hey, bro, that ain't what we paid for.
Speaker 1: You're right, I think it's got to be upper management.
Speaker 1: I think they because it's not like they're telling lies.
Speaker 1: They're being honest with him and saying, hey, look, you
Speaker 1: had a down year. And I think he even himself
Speaker 1: would admit, like Hey, it's not the best year that
Speaker 1: I've had out here with it in a Dallas Cowboys uniform,
Speaker 1: and I can be better. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: they need to tell him this offseason. They need to
Speaker 1: get it in this head, like, look, man, we need
Speaker 1: you to be that workhorse. We need you to be
Speaker 1: that guy once again, and we're gonna ride with you
Speaker 1: because look, I mean, it's all coming down to how
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to respond to this. I mean
Speaker 1: there's two ways that can happen. They can tell them this.
Speaker 1: They can break them to him like this, and he
Speaker 1: can go on the shell piled about it and just
Speaker 1: become a worst player. Or he can feed off of
Speaker 1: that oh saying, oh they think I lost it, they
Speaker 1: think I don't got it anymore, they don't think I
Speaker 1: got the juice, and he can go out there and
Speaker 1: prove them wrong. So I think it could go both ways.
Speaker 1: But knowing Zike, I think he'll feed off of that
Speaker 1: and become a better running back. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: whatever room they sit him down there and talk to
Speaker 1: him about you better have killing more Mike McCarthy in
Speaker 1: there and get on the same speech. You need to
Speaker 1: utilize this guy the way they we're paying them, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's not all on him. When you
Speaker 1: get on the seat, you say, hey man, we need
Speaker 1: you to hold onto the ball. The number one thing
Speaker 1: we need you to do, and the number one setback
Speaker 1: that you had this year was fumbling the football. That
Speaker 1: calls us to have to put Tony Poulin in because
Speaker 1: at certain points we couldn't trust you in the game.
Speaker 1: That is the number one thing that you need to fix.
Speaker 1: Other than that, the offensive coordinator, head coach, they need
Speaker 1: to find a way to utilize you and your skills
Speaker 1: to your maximum ability. So they need to have Zeke
Speaker 1: whoever the offensive coordinator is, Kelling or Mike McCarthy in there,
Speaker 1: and they need to have a group conversation. Zeke needs
Speaker 1: to take some honors and the coaches need to take
Speaker 1: some honors on this as well. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. There was one player
Speaker 1: yesterday that I looked at and I said, maybe this
Speaker 1: guy has a starting role for this defense next year.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys gonna win. They would have five and nine in
Speaker 1: this win the DP. It's played well, creating three turnoverst
Speaker 1: was with four turnovers overall. And I asked this question
Speaker 1: to you here all the players line about you by
Speaker 1: Hotels dot Call, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, what's up when
Speaker 1: we think about next year? It's Donovan Wilson, a guy
Speaker 1: you look at who can be a starter for your
Speaker 1: defense next year at safety. Go ahead, d mack Uh,
Speaker 1: listen the way that he's played this year. I would say, yes, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think you could keep both of those guys
Speaker 1: back there, So you still have to bring in a
Speaker 1: venturing guy us. He's made some plays, and I think
Speaker 1: that he has the potential to be a starter. I
Speaker 1: would still have him come in and compete. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know what a veteran guy see if he could beat
Speaker 1: him out. But I think from what we've seen from
Speaker 1: him as long as he continues to get better, he
Speaker 1: has the possibility to be a starter. Yeah, I'm with
Speaker 1: McCray on this one. Um, he definitely has the possibility
Speaker 1: to be a starter, as you've seen him out there
Speaker 1: flashing making plays, and it's not just you know, wanting
Speaker 1: you know, one play here, one player there. It's been
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. I mean it started in Minnesota
Speaker 1: when he was striking guys out there and causing fumbles,
Speaker 1: and in this week we see his coverage skills in
Speaker 1: the back end, being able to break on passes and
Speaker 1: read quarterbacks eyes back there. So he's not just a
Speaker 1: box safety or one dimensional safety that you can play
Speaker 1: is basically an extra linebacker. This guy has talent. He
Speaker 1: has talent in the coverage, and he has talent when
Speaker 1: he strikes opponents, and he has talent in the run game.
Speaker 1: So for me, he can be a future starter. And
Speaker 1: he's young, and he's young, and he's coachable. You don't
Speaker 1: see this guy really out there blowing coverages, making big
Speaker 1: time mistakes like we've seen in the past. This guy,
Speaker 1: I think he has it. Do you think he has
Speaker 1: the ability to be one of the better safeties in
Speaker 1: this league? But it's gonna take a little bit of
Speaker 1: time and better coaching, and I feel like he'll be
Speaker 1: able to do it. So this is true. He's very
Speaker 1: cheak right now. So let me ask this question to
Speaker 1: you guys, because when I was watching him in preseason
Speaker 1: action and you guys, hey, here's the guy who's making
Speaker 1: some plays. But they never looked at it. You know,
Speaker 1: they go this offseason, they go give Akaha Clinton Dick's
Speaker 1: money and they say, hey, wen, go it again. And
Speaker 1: then they had Darrey Thompson. So why is it taking
Speaker 1: so long for them to see things that? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: and other media people, you know, people like Dave Helmett,
Speaker 1: people who watch this team are saying, hey, man, that
Speaker 1: that guy's making plays here. How Come? How come it's
Speaker 1: taking so long for them to see what other people
Speaker 1: are seeing? And we're not trained professionals, you know, these coaches.
Speaker 1: It's the safety position. I mean we all noticed going back,
Speaker 1: you know, since I think who was the last safety
Speaker 1: they paid around here? Ken Hamlin. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: just the safety position and this organization, and it's this
Speaker 1: organization they just devalue that position. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: We've seen it over time and time again that safeties
Speaker 1: can make a huge impact on a defense. Look at
Speaker 1: Tyrn Matthew with the Kansas City Chiefs, look at due
Speaker 1: to Baker's doing in Arizona and when Earl Thomas was
Speaker 1: in his prime. I mean, the safety position can have
Speaker 1: a huge impact. But for some reason, if Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I don't know why, they just do not value this position.
Speaker 1: They feel like they can just plug and play anybody
Speaker 1: in there. And we've seen it hurt this team in
Speaker 1: the past and hurt this defense. So for me, they
Speaker 1: need to take a stronger look at Wilson and feel
Speaker 1: like he can be the starter going forward. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then and then then for me, I think sometimes what
Speaker 1: happens is a player of practice is different than they play, right,
Speaker 1: So sometimes what you see it practice isn't what you
Speaker 1: see on the field. So I think once he was
Speaker 1: able to get on the field and actually make those plays,
Speaker 1: and he was able and they were able to see
Speaker 1: that he was out there and he could make them consistently,
Speaker 1: I think they kind of threw the practice take to
Speaker 1: the side and was like, this guy's a true baller.
Speaker 1: He can do this on a consistent basis. That's that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that I can see, you know, especially
Speaker 1: since they don't really let us in and you know,
Speaker 1: to see practice or getting any details or what's really
Speaker 1: going on out there. So that I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: only thing I can come up with in my mind. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: all right. So so I just wondered because I think
Speaker 1: that he's that guy that, um you look at it,
Speaker 1: you know, with Xavier Woods coming up to it right now,
Speaker 1: I would not I would not resign him. And you know,
Speaker 1: looking at a player and Wilson, who you get cheaper?
Speaker 1: And do you go back and revisit in Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: if you're the Cowboys, because now you have the ability
Speaker 1: to set the price you want for it. Earld Thomas,
Speaker 1: who did not play football this year. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think you go in that role. I don't think you
Speaker 1: go with a you know, a very high price veteran
Speaker 1: free agent out there. I think you go with a
Speaker 1: lesser known commodity, maybe a Trey Boston if he's up,
Speaker 1: somebody in that realm where they're not gonna cost you
Speaker 1: an arm and a leg to sign them. But they're
Speaker 1: very good as far as leadership and being a quarterback
Speaker 1: of the defense. Because that's all I think that they
Speaker 1: need back there in the secondary. I think they got
Speaker 1: their striker, I think they got their playmaker and Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think the last key piece missing in that secondary
Speaker 1: is a guy to put all the pieces together, the
Speaker 1: guy that's back there kind of like a Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: kind of like a quarterback of the defense, to get
Speaker 1: these guys lined up and let them let their playmaking
Speaker 1: ability go ahead and go ahead and be out there
Speaker 1: and be great. So for me, I just think they
Speaker 1: need a quarterback back there, and you can get that
Speaker 1: for relative and cheap. Yeah, And I think it really
Speaker 1: depends on the defensive coordinator and what type of scheme
Speaker 1: they're trying to run, because the safety position has evolved
Speaker 1: into guys blitzing off the edge, some guys covering some
Speaker 1: guy's free rum, and some guys playing in the middle
Speaker 1: of some guys playing in the box. So you just
Speaker 1: need to find out what type of scheme you're gonna
Speaker 1: run and what type of player fits that fits that
Speaker 1: scheme best before you just kind of go out there
Speaker 1: and just just throw anyone in there. Because all safeties
Speaker 1: are different. All of them specializes in something different and
Speaker 1: they can maximize their opportunities in different ways. So find
Speaker 1: out what you're doing defensively, find out what scheme you're running,
Speaker 1: and then pick a player that fits that scheme, because
Speaker 1: it's obvious that that players don't come first defensively in
Speaker 1: terms of who fits the scheme or we're just going
Speaker 1: based off what the players can do and making a
Speaker 1: scheme fit around them. All Right, tough tough day for
Speaker 1: Team Tank on Sunday, Cowboys win. Get the five wins
Speaker 1: this year. So Dallas went from having the fourth overall
Speaker 1: pick before the win over the forty nine ers to
Speaker 1: winning the game now having the eighth overall pick in
Speaker 1: the NFL draft with two games to go, So doubled
Speaker 1: up from four to eight. And it's gonna keep dropping.
Speaker 1: It's gonna keep dropping because I'm telling y'all, man, these
Speaker 1: last two games Philly, New York, I believe we got
Speaker 1: whichever order that is, they're gonna get you two games.
Speaker 1: So you think they're gonna end up probably picking fifteen
Speaker 1: ish sixteen ish. And I don't know if Team Take
Speaker 1: loves that. I don't know if the Dallas for Worth
Speaker 1: loves that, but that's what's gonna happen. Well, Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: is going to start for the Eagles on Sunday at
Speaker 1: Jerry World. Their head coach Doug Peterson confirmed it. Lake Vanderesh,
Speaker 1: Cowboys linebacker, underwent an MRI on Monday to confirm a
Speaker 1: ligament issue, but it's possible that he could play on
Speaker 1: Sunday ligament in his ankles. So look, the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: gonna have an issue with this young fella here. Four
Speaker 1: hundred and one total yards against Arizona, three hundred thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards on the road, three touchdowns, and then he
Speaker 1: ran the ball sixty three times I should say eleven
Speaker 1: times for sixty three yards, had a touchdown rush. So
Speaker 1: this is basically another Lamar Jackson type situation. And Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan didn't exactly call a really good defensive game when
Speaker 1: they played Baltimore. And that's just being kind. So Church,
Speaker 1: you know, if you look, this is a tough this
Speaker 1: a battle if Philadelphia's favorite in this game, by the way, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. And this out of these last two games,
Speaker 1: this is the game that pretty much scares me, man,
Speaker 1: because I thought we were gonna have hurtson or wins
Speaker 1: in there, but he seems that he's gonna be riding
Speaker 1: the pine for the rest of this year. Hurts, Man,
Speaker 1: he looks good. He looks good, and against Arizona they
Speaker 1: were trying to bring the pressure and he's just he
Speaker 1: has this cool kind of calm, collected just feel about him.
Speaker 1: He just feels like he's beyond his years as a rookie.
Speaker 1: When he goes out there, He's moving the pocket, he's
Speaker 1: good on the run, and he's a lot more accurate
Speaker 1: than I thought he was coming into this NFL. So
Speaker 1: for me, this game scares me, man, because not only
Speaker 1: can you know, can Hurts you know, bring out the
Speaker 1: best of these receivers, but he seemed to bring the
Speaker 1: best out of mouse Sam who you know this year,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been up and down for him, but
Speaker 1: with that added threat of Hurts's legs, it seemed that
Speaker 1: read option with Miles Sanders has come alive in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: So this game scares me overall. And plus Philadelphia's defense,
Speaker 1: they still got that front seven, and that front seven
Speaker 1: can get after the quarterback with Cox and those boys.
Speaker 1: So for me that this game scares me, But I
Speaker 1: still I still got them boys coming out on top.
Speaker 1: We went in three straight. We went in three straight.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go seven to nine. Count on it. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and continue
Speaker 1: where I lived off with Jalen Hurts. And listen, the
Speaker 1: greatest thing for this dude because he is battle tested,
Speaker 1: he's been through the Alabama lost his job, went to Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and the best thing for me to see is Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts performed better than two of which I wanted that
Speaker 1: to be happened in the National Championship to where Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: We're going there and beat Alabama. But we're gonna see it.
Speaker 1: In the NFL. Jalen Hurts is out there playing cool,
Speaker 1: calm and collected, and knew he compared to the Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there saying he throws a ton better than
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Right now, we have our hands full with
Speaker 1: this We have our hands full with this guy. Yes,
Speaker 1: he throws better than Lamar Jackson. Look, I wasn't comparing him.
Speaker 1: It's I was because I was contrasting the game that
Speaker 1: the game plan they had against Baltimore. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about with Lamar Jackson and what they were doing.
Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm not comparing the quarterbacks at all.
Speaker 1: I'm just comparing that they had to go up against
Speaker 1: a quarterback, a running quarterback, and a team they wanted
Speaker 1: to run the ball if you got another one in
Speaker 1: the game. Playing against Baltimore was bad. So I'm not
Speaker 1: comparing the two quarterbacks at all. Okay, Hurt Jayleen Hurt
Speaker 1: Jen is a cute dog, so you know I'm gonna
Speaker 1: beat I'm a dad for my boy. Came down for
Speaker 1: dad for the dog team. So no, no listen, and
Speaker 1: and and and and and I said to this extent
Speaker 1: to the fact that Jalen Hurts is less of a
Speaker 1: scrambling quarterback then than Lamar Jackson. The game is less
Speaker 1: tailored for him to run quarterback powers and quarterback sweeps
Speaker 1: than it is when you play a team like Baltimore.
Speaker 1: This guy is going to drop back and then create
Speaker 1: those plays, kind of more like Russell Wilson. After he
Speaker 1: dropped back, he doesn't see it, then he's gonna make
Speaker 1: that smart decision to take off and run versus when
Speaker 1: you play at Lamar Jackson, it's probably run first and
Speaker 1: make sure you're on your keys and then defend the past. Well,
Speaker 1: late Vanderesh's ability to and I've never had an ankle
Speaker 1: ligament situation. Maybe one you guys have, but it just
Speaker 1: seems to me when you're playing a team where you
Speaker 1: got to worry about the quarterback using his legs and
Speaker 1: as a linebacker, that could be that could be a tough,
Speaker 1: tough go for Vanderes to really be ready and get
Speaker 1: down on Sunday. So it may be seeing more Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: which we saw yesterday when Vanderesh had the league football game.
Speaker 1: If I'm vander esh Man, make sure you healthy before
Speaker 1: you come in there, because the worst tag you want
Speaker 1: in your NFL career, especially as early as his NFL career,
Speaker 1: is you don't want that injury label. You don't want
Speaker 1: them guys to say, hey, he can't stay healthy. He's
Speaker 1: just a rotational piece. So if I'm late in, man,
Speaker 1: make sure you're healthy because you don't need any more
Speaker 1: setbacks this year. Speaking of that, do you pick up
Speaker 1: do you pick up his fifth year option? If you're
Speaker 1: the Cowboys? Oh that's ad you go ahead McCray on
Speaker 1: this one. I don't know, go ahead, listen. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I was wrong. I was wrong on lv Um this
Speaker 1: season because I had no faith in him to be
Speaker 1: able to come back from the neck injury and then
Speaker 1: the columbone injury, and he's he's proving me wrong. Um
Speaker 1: as far as his play on the field when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: I think you still have an opportunity to see some
Speaker 1: great things from him. So it is a it's a
Speaker 1: tough question to ask an answer, but as a right now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes here, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Here's my okay, this is just my my, my point
Speaker 1: on Vanagh. When the new defensive coordinator comes in here,
Speaker 1: I'd like to really know do you put him back
Speaker 1: out of outside linebacker when he had a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: season when he looked more comfortable, versus putting him at
Speaker 1: middle linebacker where guys had a neck issue and you're
Speaker 1: out here banging in the guys. I would love to
Speaker 1: see right out of the game. Where do you play
Speaker 1: the play? This is true, This is true. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's durable enough to play in that middle. And
Speaker 1: that's what we've seen so far. That middle linebacker. You've
Speaker 1: got to be stouting here because you're taking on pulling
Speaker 1: guards fullbacks each and every down. And look, he has
Speaker 1: a size to do it. But these soft tissue injuries
Speaker 1: his neck problems have. He might be better suited on
Speaker 1: the outside, where he can use his hands more and
Speaker 1: he can use his speed to get around blocks. In
Speaker 1: that middle, you gotta be straight, head on bam every
Speaker 1: single playing. I don't know if he's built for that well.
Speaker 1: To help new Ye out, I think a real important
Speaker 1: part of playing middle linebacker is having a defensive line
Speaker 1: in front of you that kind of keeps you, keeps
Speaker 1: you clean and allows you to see stuff and go
Speaker 1: attack blockers instead of taking them all you know, five
Speaker 1: yards in your defensive backfield. So you fix the d lineup,
Speaker 1: make sure that they are on their p's and ques.
Speaker 1: And I think it will help v out playing in
Speaker 1: the middle of that's what they have him at. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, but still yes or no on picking up
Speaker 1: the fifth year option. Oh, I'm I must say yes.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes. Give him one more year, just
Speaker 1: full health. Hopefully he's healthy for the entire year and
Speaker 1: he's able to get back to that two thousand and
Speaker 1: eighteen for him when he was a Pro Bowl, All
Speaker 1: Pro player. Mccraig, Oh, I say, I say yes, I said,
Speaker 1: I said right now is a tough decision, you know,
Speaker 1: tough answer. But right now I'm leaning toward yes, because
Speaker 1: I still think he has some stuff left in the tanking.
Speaker 1: If you keep him clean and allow him the wrong
Speaker 1: freebak there, I think he could make some plasures just
Speaker 1: like it did in twenty eighteen. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. And here's what Timmy is gonna be very
Speaker 1: interesting is when the Cowboys draft, where if they take
Speaker 1: a linebacker in the first two rounds, then I don't
Speaker 1: think you do it. I don't. I don't think you
Speaker 1: do it because even if he's a free agent, you
Speaker 1: can tender you know, you can easily tender a contract
Speaker 1: to pay the player. Denver didn't do that to their
Speaker 1: tackle Garrett Bowls, and they ended up deciding to you know, okay, hey,
Speaker 1: we saw enough for you this year. We want to
Speaker 1: bring you back on a long term deal. So I
Speaker 1: just think with these injuries that have piled up right now,
Speaker 1: I would I would not do it, especially knowing that
Speaker 1: you're about to sign Dak Prescott to a pretty significant
Speaker 1: deal and you're gonna have free agent dollars that are
Speaker 1: going to be tight, and we just overall your cap
Speaker 1: is gonna be tight. So in order for you to
Speaker 1: go ahead and you know, get another year out of him,
Speaker 1: I think you really got to be sure, and injuries
Speaker 1: have to play a part in it. And then also
Speaker 1: the fact that you've got Jalen Smith and right now
Speaker 1: the contract you've given Jaylen Smith um, you don't look,
Speaker 1: that's not a winning contract for you. So how much
Speaker 1: do you want to put it into this line? How
Speaker 1: much do you want to put into this linebacker position?
Speaker 1: And these two guys are questionable. You thought these guys
Speaker 1: were trending up and right now they're not trending up
Speaker 1: at least this year. Maybe a new coordinator can come
Speaker 1: in here and fix this thing, but right now, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I don't know if I could. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's the key. It's a lot of trending. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of trending down with this defensive coordinator. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of trending up before he got here,
Speaker 1: and now was a lot of trending down. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still on the fact that a new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator or or some tidy's up because we never
Speaker 1: knew if mcnolah's gonna be here or not, so just
Speaker 1: some fixed fixtures and what he's doing, and maybe another
Speaker 1: year to have the scheme going on and have these
Speaker 1: guys learning and execute more properly. Maybe that might help
Speaker 1: them because like you said, they were trending up. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys were trending up. Yes, and that has
Speaker 1: changed this season. Yes, yes, definitely all right, another fun show.
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