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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI scrugs. Hey, everybody,
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Speaker 1: We are joined by poor Dallas Cowboys players Barry Church
Speaker 1: and Danny McCray. Gentlemen, Cowboys getting ready to face the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals right now. The Bengals have the third record
Speaker 1: in the league. They would draft third, the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: draft fifth. They meet in the queen City of Cincinnati
Speaker 1: on Saturday. How are we feeling about this so far? Church? Ah, Man,
Speaker 1: you know this game, this game coming up against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: I think we might actually win. Man, I think we
Speaker 1: might actually win. Don't confuse. That would be school, all right,
Speaker 1: that's not That's not me being back on the cooler
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I just feel like we have
Speaker 1: a good better chance of winning this game than any
Speaker 1: other game. So I'm gonna have to ride with Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But we'll do our predictions later. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not sure. I think this is the
Speaker 1: time when you start to see guys pop up on
Speaker 1: the injury report who really not heard, and they start
Speaker 1: packing in a little bit. And I say that just
Speaker 1: because you know, I see Zeke. I see Zeke is
Speaker 1: the first, the first the victim of the injury report.
Speaker 1: So we'll go through the rest of the week and
Speaker 1: see see how it plays out. But this is that
Speaker 1: time to where you start playing it for Vegas and
Speaker 1: playing for vacation and start seeing the family when you
Speaker 1: know you're pretty much out of there. So I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how our chances are to beat the Bengals. All right,
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are in their final four games of the season.
Speaker 1: This is the final quarter, This is the push in
Speaker 1: December and the past we used to talk about how
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would have some tough times in December. Right now,
Speaker 1: as far as this December goes, it's really not gonna
Speaker 1: be much to remember, because while the Cowboys are technically
Speaker 1: still in the race for the NFC Championship, it does
Speaker 1: not feel like it feels like Baltimore was the end
Speaker 1: of the run. As Barry Church said he was done
Speaker 1: drinking the koo leg. So let us ask this question
Speaker 1: here on the players line. Let's get right to it.
Speaker 1: Which players need to be in their final four games
Speaker 1: in a Dallas Cowboys uniform? If you were management, which
Speaker 1: players would you be looking at saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to say goodbye to this player and
Speaker 1: move on from them after the season. Who'd like to
Speaker 1: go first? If you want me to go first, I
Speaker 1: got my list, I'm ready to go. I would love
Speaker 1: to hear Newi's take. I would love to hear NAT's take.
Speaker 1: I want to see how you go about this. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, first, wait, wait, wait, Louie, Wait, wait, Louie, Louie, Louie,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, look, I'm gonna hold this up
Speaker 1: for the camera, just so everybody knows. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: have my names out. But I got my list because
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want nobody to think that
Speaker 1: I saw your list and then I started changing it up.
Speaker 1: All right, I don't want I don't want that to happen. Church.
Speaker 1: I hope you got yours already written down. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see no pins over there. You scratch the
Speaker 1: names out you know, you know, so you could they're okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, all right, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure all of the same page. Yes,
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford may nine million dollars this year. He's an
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent the Cowboys. He told just go ahead
Speaker 1: and move on and say thank you. The past two
Speaker 1: and a half years and just it's not been there.
Speaker 1: So Tyrone Crawford is off the list. The Cowboys defensive line,
Speaker 1: to me, has to be the first thing that they
Speaker 1: addressed in terms of improving it. So Tyrone Crawford would
Speaker 1: not be back on the football team. Chris Jones, the putner.
Speaker 1: Chris Jones's last two seasons have not been good. He's
Speaker 1: been injured. The punning and special teams you have not
Speaker 1: been good at all. Chris Jones had a great run,
Speaker 1: but like anything, it comes a point time where we
Speaker 1: gotta say goodbye. So putter Chris Jones would become Xavier Woods.
Speaker 1: He'll be an unrestricted free agent. The Cowboys need to
Speaker 1: rebuild this defensive secondary along with that defensive line. I
Speaker 1: thought the game in Baltimore pretty much told us all
Speaker 1: we need to know, you know, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys were hoping that he could become
Speaker 1: a difference maker. He has not. I don't necessarily put
Speaker 1: it all on Woods. I mean, when you're sitting around
Speaker 1: here drafted dudes in the fifth and sixth round, you
Speaker 1: can only expect so much. But they need to move
Speaker 1: on from him. Shaun Lee. Shaun Lee has been a
Speaker 1: warrior his time here. But Sean Lee, they need to
Speaker 1: stop it, just say say thank you. They want to
Speaker 1: offer him a spot in the organization somewhere, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You got too many questions at linebacker between
Speaker 1: Jalen and Layton vanderest you don't need a third question
Speaker 1: with Sean Lee. Cheetah O Woozia at the corner spot.
Speaker 1: You drafted Cheeto in the second round. You hoped he
Speaker 1: could be a player. This was the year. If he
Speaker 1: was going to show you something, it was going to
Speaker 1: be in a money year. He was hurt. Um, he's
Speaker 1: just a guy. He's a jag. You can go find
Speaker 1: another guy, and you can get a Cheeto for a
Speaker 1: lot cheaper price than what you're paying here. Darren Thompson
Speaker 1: understood the free agent. You got a lot of guys
Speaker 1: on your list. Thank you, Thank you, Darien. We appreciate
Speaker 1: your efforts, but you know, no, move on along Greg's
Speaker 1: arline the kicker. Uh, they can get out of this
Speaker 1: contract and not have to pay him over two million
Speaker 1: dollars next year. The cap George would be six hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty thousand dollars. So go ahead and and thank
Speaker 1: him for his service. UM called Kai four Bath back
Speaker 1: saying maybe sorry, uh, can we get you back on
Speaker 1: that million dollars deal? Um? But you go right there. Um.
Speaker 1: So these are guys and I'm just sitting here looking
Speaker 1: at and I'm just saying, uh, you know, thank you,
Speaker 1: but but we need to we need to move on
Speaker 1: the way. Also, I'd be looking at it at Cam
Speaker 1: Murky swing tackle. He was only on a one year
Speaker 1: deal anyway. But but if you can't play, um, no,
Speaker 1: you're not doing any good. The Cowboys, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: need to seriously think about it in this draft of
Speaker 1: taking the tackle in the one of the first three
Speaker 1: rounds or first four rounds. And I say that because
Speaker 1: as much as I am a Tyrant Smith fame and
Speaker 1: Tyrann Smith has Hall of Fame credentials and he's all
Speaker 1: decade player, we know he's been missing games the past
Speaker 1: four years and this year, you know, Tyrant play that
Speaker 1: first game and he's been out. Then when you've got Collins,
Speaker 1: you you've also invested heavily in. And these are guys
Speaker 1: that you just can't cut because the salary cap. You
Speaker 1: need to get a swing tackle, because you cannot just
Speaker 1: sit up here and say that both of these gentlemen
Speaker 1: are gonna play sixteen games. So you need to use
Speaker 1: some capital at that position to go get a guy
Speaker 1: who can do it and not try to run around
Speaker 1: here with you know, cam irving cam flaming these dudes
Speaker 1: who can't get it done. So that's where you got
Speaker 1: to go there. So that's that's my list of guys
Speaker 1: who need to be in their final four games with
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. As you turn this thing over, no,
Speaker 1: I love it, Douey, Hey say it with your chess
Speaker 1: man rattled scave all strong. I like it though, Man,
Speaker 1: You and me both got a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of similarities in our list. Man, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and rattle off a few myself if you guys
Speaker 1: don't mind. Number one on my list, man, number one
Speaker 1: on my list, and this is my boy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been teammates with this guy for seven years when
Speaker 1: I was with the Cowboys. I mean six years when
Speaker 1: I was with the Cowboys. But I mean it's his
Speaker 1: time and that's and that's Tyrone Crawford man. I mean
Speaker 1: you already said it knew he but you know that's
Speaker 1: a pile too much on him because you pretty much
Speaker 1: said I was I would get ready to say about him.
Speaker 1: But he's just making too much money, man. Ten million
Speaker 1: dollars this season and he didn't even record a single
Speaker 1: stat last week against Baltimore. No tackles, no sacks. I
Speaker 1: don't even think he had a quarterback pressure. And when
Speaker 1: you're going when you're getting that much money from an organization,
Speaker 1: there's expectations that come along with that. Now, if he
Speaker 1: was making you know, maybe two or three mill, I
Speaker 1: don't think he would be on this list. But the
Speaker 1: expectations of a guy making ten million, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go out there and you're gonna have to produce.
Speaker 1: And that's just something that we haven't seen from Tyron
Speaker 1: Crawford lately. I mean, yeah, I understand he's one of
Speaker 1: the leaders in the locker room and he kind of
Speaker 1: that guy in that defensive line room that everybody kind
Speaker 1: of respects and brings along with him. But he just,
Speaker 1: you know, leadership alone isn't worth ten million dollars. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna he's gonna have to go after this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, as my boys, my teammate,
Speaker 1: but he's just making too much money and he's not
Speaker 1: producing enough. Next on my list, I would have to
Speaker 1: go to a Woozier. I mean, look, this is a
Speaker 1: guy that he just has it develops in his time
Speaker 1: here with the Cowboys. They thought he was gonna be
Speaker 1: that guy. They thought he was gonna be that number
Speaker 1: two corner. And over these last two years he's been
Speaker 1: getting picked on. I mean, fifty fifty jump balls. Guys
Speaker 1: have been mostling them. Guys have been beating them deep.
Speaker 1: And when he came back from injury with that hamstring,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit too early, but he was on
Speaker 1: the field, he looked like he was carrying cinder blocks
Speaker 1: with him while he was running. He wasn't able to
Speaker 1: keep up with anybody. And as a corner in a
Speaker 1: national football league, you can't have that. You can't have that.
Speaker 1: Guys are too good out here. You gotta have a
Speaker 1: guy that can shut down on the other side, and
Speaker 1: he just wasn't that this year. So I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: you know, he might have to find free agency and
Speaker 1: might have to find a one year deal somewhere else
Speaker 1: to kind of get going with the rest of his career. Now,
Speaker 1: this one, this one might be a little bit of
Speaker 1: surprise to you guys, But I also got Alden Smith
Speaker 1: on my list. Now. Look, I know he came out
Speaker 1: early in the season and he was he's on fire.
Speaker 1: Everybody was like, oh, the Smith, Maddie. He know he's
Speaker 1: been five years off, but it was like, he only
Speaker 1: missed five games. This guys out here, he's legit. And
Speaker 1: I'll admit it. I was on that kool aid train
Speaker 1: as well. But after those first three, three or four games,
Speaker 1: I mean, we've rarely heard from Alden Smith. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been on the field and kind of a kind
Speaker 1: of a Tyran Crawford esque season. After after those first
Speaker 1: three games, I mean, he's on the field, but he's
Speaker 1: not making plays. He's not generating stats out there, and
Speaker 1: as a premier rusher, if he hits the freemire, if
Speaker 1: he hits the market he's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: more than we're willing to pay him. So I think
Speaker 1: we let him go. I don't think we swallowed a
Speaker 1: bullet and signed him back or anything like that, because
Speaker 1: I think his production hit the ceiling after those first
Speaker 1: three games, and if you saw after that, he's gone
Speaker 1: downhill consistently after that. And that brings me to third
Speaker 1: on my list. Gotta go woods man. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just been downhill since he made those comments about not
Speaker 1: all the time we're hustling and all that stuff. You
Speaker 1: can't make those comments. And as a safety back, this
Speaker 1: defense needs. This defense needs a leader. This defense needs
Speaker 1: someone in the back end that can control the secondary,
Speaker 1: get him all on the same page, making sure everything
Speaker 1: is commuted to Cadie out there. And I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's that guy. I don't know if he's young,
Speaker 1: or if the system he didn't really get the system
Speaker 1: like that, but as a free safety in the back end,
Speaker 1: you gotta be the quarterback of the defense, especially the secondary,
Speaker 1: and there was just too many lapses out there. We've
Speaker 1: seen too many busted coverages and I'm saying it all
Speaker 1: his fault. But as a leader back in there, in
Speaker 1: the secondary. You gotta be the quarterback, and you gotta
Speaker 1: make sure everybody's on the same page. And he just
Speaker 1: hasn't been able to do that with his tenure here
Speaker 1: in Dallas. So hopefully he'll be able to pick his
Speaker 1: game up somewhere else, but I don't believe it's going
Speaker 1: to be in Dallas. And lastly, I put my boy,
Speaker 1: mister swite clear abews Jalen on my list and look
Speaker 1: and look, I know I'm not the only reason he's
Speaker 1: on this list is because I'm not sure if we
Speaker 1: if we designate him as a June first cut, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if he counts that much against the cap.
Speaker 1: But if that is true, if we can make him
Speaker 1: a designated June first cut and we don't have any
Speaker 1: cap penalty, then he gotta go. Man. Look, I mean,
Speaker 1: look this this guy. I mean, he just has been
Speaker 1: in decline since two thy and eighteen. He seems to
Speaker 1: be flying all over the field, but it's in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction. I mean, he just seems like a chicken
Speaker 1: with his head cut off out there just running around.
Speaker 1: So for me, I mean, look, he's a good dude
Speaker 1: off the field, but we need more. We need more,
Speaker 1: and plus another. That's another guy with the expectations with money.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're making whatever he's making. I think
Speaker 1: he's making nine or ten a year. You gotta match
Speaker 1: that on the field, and we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen this splash play. So my boy, Jaila,
Speaker 1: you made no tradamis aka Church's list of the cowboys
Speaker 1: who will be going next year. Goodness, y'all, listen, what
Speaker 1: what's left for me? Goodness, y'all. Y'all went hard. Y'all
Speaker 1: went hard. So I guess I'm gonna just have to
Speaker 1: reiterate a couple of y'alls. Of course, you know new
Speaker 1: he said that text message yesterday with in the DM
Speaker 1: about how much Crawford was making, so he has to
Speaker 1: be number one on the list. Yeahs Nube. He asked
Speaker 1: me number on one, number one on the list if
Speaker 1: it's just because of how much money he's making versus
Speaker 1: the production, right, Like, I don't This one doesn't have
Speaker 1: anything to do with Nolan. As much as I want
Speaker 1: to blame it on him, I don't think this has
Speaker 1: anything to do with Nolan. I think it just has
Speaker 1: to do the decline and his ability to play the
Speaker 1: defensive line position. So you know they got they got
Speaker 1: to get out of there and save that because they
Speaker 1: need some money one if they plan on getting backed
Speaker 1: back in the building to be they started quarterback next year,
Speaker 1: So get get getting my grad Crawford out of there.
Speaker 1: I love them, I played with him, but you know,
Speaker 1: the old guard sometimes you got to get out of there.
Speaker 1: And that leads me into what newis said. But my
Speaker 1: guy fifty I talked about this earlier in the in
Speaker 1: the in the year when they were saying that Sean
Speaker 1: Lee was the guy who was coming in here giving
Speaker 1: all the speeches and being the leader of the team
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. He's not even the starter on
Speaker 1: the roster. He was he was out, he had surgery,
Speaker 1: and this is the guy you're looking to to be
Speaker 1: the leader on the field by sitting on the sideline
Speaker 1: and and trying to coach people up. I think I
Speaker 1: won't say it in a sense to where it's just
Speaker 1: like winning as far as holding people back, but they
Speaker 1: have to make room for somebody else to become the
Speaker 1: true leader in that defensive locker room, and with Sean leader,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's ever gonna happen. So you know,
Speaker 1: great career. Uh, maybe he can go out there to
Speaker 1: to Oakland with I mean to Vegas with Besoccia and
Speaker 1: them with you know, and reconnect with him. But he
Speaker 1: has to get out of there. Um. And I know
Speaker 1: that we can't get rid of this guy just based
Speaker 1: off the money. But if there's any way for us
Speaker 1: to move him and get something for him, I would
Speaker 1: say it's Tyrant Smith. I mean, this is if you
Speaker 1: talk about not if you talk about not being dependable
Speaker 1: to you know, for your offensive line and for your
Speaker 1: offense to be out there and like like you handicapped
Speaker 1: the team when you practice all week or get ready
Speaker 1: all off season and then they have to you know,
Speaker 1: prepare this backup guy because you haven't been able to
Speaker 1: be out there. And he's making a ton of money.
Speaker 1: I think his contract doesn't isn't up to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So if you if there's a way for you to
Speaker 1: find a way to move on from him, uh, you
Speaker 1: know and save a little bread and get you another
Speaker 1: tackle in there, because you're gonna be picking out this year.
Speaker 1: Get you another tackle in there, like Louis said, to
Speaker 1: shure up this offensive line, then I would say you
Speaker 1: should get that done, my guy, Greg Zeroline, Oh my goodness, listen,
Speaker 1: get him out of here, Get him out, Get him out.
Speaker 1: It didn't it didn't make it. It didn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense for you to bring him in,
Speaker 1: Like you had a service, serviceable guy back there already
Speaker 1: and you decided to let him go and then pay
Speaker 1: another guy seven million dollars to come over here and
Speaker 1: what you call him church? Hook him, luf, hook him luve?
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? He went from legatroun to
Speaker 1: hook him love makes absolutely no sense to me. And
Speaker 1: I will say this, I'm a little I think differently
Speaker 1: than you guys on this Xavier wood state for his
Speaker 1: for his lack of production, to his decline, I have
Speaker 1: to blame it on Nolan. Last year, we looked at
Speaker 1: this guy and we saw that he had the potential
Speaker 1: to be some type of good player, maybe not a superstar,
Speaker 1: but he was going to be a serviceable safety in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And within ten eleven months he has become
Speaker 1: absolute one hundred and eighty degree of what we thought
Speaker 1: that he was going to be. And if you look
Speaker 1: at this entire defense and this entire secondary and what
Speaker 1: we thought they were going to do this year and
Speaker 1: how they all declined because we weren't blind last year
Speaker 1: what we what we saw. We thought these guys were
Speaker 1: going to be able to improve from where they were,
Speaker 1: and they've declined. All of them across the board have
Speaker 1: declined from where they were. So I have to put
Speaker 1: a lot of this on the defensive coaching staff and
Speaker 1: specifically the defensive back coaches. So I don't think he's
Speaker 1: that bad. I think you bring another leader at safety
Speaker 1: in here and you let him be you know, play
Speaker 1: you know, play second, and I think he'll be serviceable still,
Speaker 1: all right, Um, So so that's where we're out there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to respond to the couple a couple names
Speaker 1: that you guys brought up here and why I didn't
Speaker 1: even them, And also Steven Jones has some pretty interesting
Speaker 1: comments about Dak Prescott and a contract with the Dallas Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: we were just talking about in the first segment players,
Speaker 1: we think should be in their final four games with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Okay, as they enter this final uh four
Speaker 1: games of the season. Now, Barrett, you brought up Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: and here's one reason why I'll push back on you there.
Speaker 1: It will cost you nine point four million dollars to
Speaker 1: not have Jalen on the team next year. Even if
Speaker 1: it's that's what post June cut. Well, you can split
Speaker 1: it up if you do it post June, so you
Speaker 1: can split it up that you basically want to go,
Speaker 1: you know, five million one year and basically five million next.
Speaker 1: But that's but yeah, that's that's still too much money out.
Speaker 1: You know, he would have to stay it in. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's still too to me, that's still too much dead
Speaker 1: money for to cut him with it. I mean so
Speaker 1: that I guess so so money that's why. So for me,
Speaker 1: money becomes that issue. The Cowboys push a lot of
Speaker 1: money on guys into next year because they're trying to
Speaker 1: get under the cap. Go back to Tyrn Smith here,
Speaker 1: which you brought up, Danny, it would cost you fourteen
Speaker 1: million dollars in dead money to cut Tyron Smith in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty two, it's fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: So Tyrant is basically going to be here. You put
Speaker 1: yourself in a position that it's kind of like barred
Speaker 1: against the credit card. The cowboys kept pushing his money
Speaker 1: down the road. So it's gonna cost you a lot.
Speaker 1: And that's why I ended up go ahead. Does he
Speaker 1: have any value out there? That's why I say, isn't
Speaker 1: a way to move on from or get anything anything
Speaker 1: for Tyrn Smith? You know, not at all. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. No, we're talking about injury history. It's just horrible, man,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna and cowboys are gonna. I think the
Speaker 1: cowboys are gonna want too much for him to trade
Speaker 1: him off. And you know, I don't think the teams
Speaker 1: are willing. They would be to give a guy too
Speaker 1: much for that injury history he has. They would be
Speaker 1: crazy that man. Listen, that should be when I'm NBA deal,
Speaker 1: sign it. Just get the contract off of you because
Speaker 1: it's and it's and listen, it's not his play. It's
Speaker 1: not nothing against him, like he can't control you know,
Speaker 1: his back and his neck and all that stuff. Like
Speaker 1: he's just getting injured. And it's been going on for
Speaker 1: the last few years. So, like I said, it's nothing
Speaker 1: against him personally, he just hasn't been able to stay
Speaker 1: healthy and that is hand becapping the team. And that
Speaker 1: started when against in the Atlanta game, when we saw
Speaker 1: Clayborne coming against six secks. That was the most eye
Speaker 1: opening thing for Tyrris Live being out of the game
Speaker 1: that I've seen since I've been here. Well, and just
Speaker 1: go back to what you guys were both talking about here.
Speaker 1: So if you just both went okay and they took
Speaker 1: took your suggestion in terms of taking of releasing Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith and Tyrn Tyring, you're talking about fifteen million dollars
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean twenty five million dollars basically. Uh,
Speaker 1: And that's just you know, twenty four million bucks. And
Speaker 1: that's just in a year where the salary cap is
Speaker 1: going to go down, you're basically just gonna have to
Speaker 1: eat it for a year. I'll say this in Jalen's defense,
Speaker 1: let me get another coordinator in here and then start
Speaker 1: to look at what do I really have because in
Speaker 1: my opinion, I don't think Mike Nolan did right by
Speaker 1: either player vander Esh, Jalen Smith, Riven Shanlee. I just
Speaker 1: don't think I just do not think these guys fit
Speaker 1: this system. I don't think that Lake Banderesh is a
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. I think Lake Vanderesh is an outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: I don't want a guy with the next problem in
Speaker 1: the middle. So I just think there's so many issues
Speaker 1: with this defense that I look at a guy who's
Speaker 1: got a high number and say, you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: give one more year. And then, by the way, the
Speaker 1: outtime for the Cowboys on this deal is after the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season now, so that's really where, Okay,
Speaker 1: how can you get out of this deal and not
Speaker 1: kill your cap. It's going to be in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: after the twenty twenty one season, and then it's a
Speaker 1: six million dollars hit, so you can say, okay, we'll
Speaker 1: cut it. Do a post June first cut. Do three
Speaker 1: million one year, three million the next. That's that's a
Speaker 1: little bit more manageable, and you might have Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: already done, and then you can kind of maneuver some
Speaker 1: things a little bit bit better. When you start to
Speaker 1: look at that thing. It's kind of like with Greg's
Speaker 1: rline here that you get rid of you cut this
Speaker 1: guy out of this year you know, your dead cap
Speaker 1: hit is only going to be six hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars. You can make that work versus trying
Speaker 1: to pay this guy two point three million dollars the
Speaker 1: next year. So that was kind of just, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of looking at why kind of with the
Speaker 1: way I did with that and not putting those guys
Speaker 1: on my list. Yeah, and I don't go back to
Speaker 1: the linebackers real quick. I never understood well, first of all,
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan's gone to begin with, But I never understood
Speaker 1: why they switched those guys up because I understand, you know,
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, vander esh he's a bigger body,
Speaker 1: and you kind of want a bigger body banging in there,
Speaker 1: but he had those neck issues. And with Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: he could have been in the middle linebacker because he
Speaker 1: doesn't move side to side well. And as a will linebacker,
Speaker 1: you got to be able to move well in space
Speaker 1: and that's just something Jalen doesn't do. So I would
Speaker 1: have stuck Jalen right in that middle, made him between
Speaker 1: the tackle player and he come down here that's exactly
Speaker 1: what he does best, and leave vander Esch on the
Speaker 1: outside as a will because he can move side to side,
Speaker 1: he has some lateral movement ability. So I think Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: you're right, knew we I think he did a disservice
Speaker 1: to all three of those linebackers by switching those positions
Speaker 1: when he came in, and we might have seen a
Speaker 1: better a better linebacker corps if they hadn't did that.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, man, I guess we could give
Speaker 1: these guys one more year and then to see how
Speaker 1: it play out after that. Listen, Church, you got you
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with yourself about about what they were
Speaker 1: in last year and what they're in now. You gotta
Speaker 1: remember that Mary and Nelly in front of those linebackers,
Speaker 1: they did a lot of stunts, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of pirates, a lot of a lot of games
Speaker 1: in front of them, so they didn't have to take
Speaker 1: on those blocks head on every every every time that
Speaker 1: the ball was ran. So it was a lot of
Speaker 1: chasing side to side. When you got d Law and
Speaker 1: the defensive linemen going spiking into the A gap and
Speaker 1: B gap, then you got Vanderish and Jay Leon Smith
Speaker 1: running sideline of the sideline getting over the top. So
Speaker 1: that's why you saw a lot of that pursuit and
Speaker 1: you saw those being saw those guys being able to
Speaker 1: run side a lot of sideline because what was in
Speaker 1: front of them when they were playing D line. Now
Speaker 1: it's just guys two gapping and then you gotta come.
Speaker 1: You gotta come meet the fullback or or the offensive
Speaker 1: tackle head to head, and we're seeing them, you know,
Speaker 1: not not do so well in those situations. Mccrai. Let
Speaker 1: me jump on what you just said there. And also,
Speaker 1: and this is another defensive of the linebacking group in general.
Speaker 1: When you're D line is as bad as the Cowboys
Speaker 1: D line, especially up the middle, it's hard to be
Speaker 1: a good linebacker in this league. I was talking with
Speaker 1: someone who who coached the Ravens and by the way,
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan used to be the Ravens if it's a coordinator,
Speaker 1: and they spoke about how they always had to make
Speaker 1: sure they had some good guys the front flour to
Speaker 1: keep Ray Lewis free, and that ray Lewis would basically
Speaker 1: man a guard, could you know, or you know, a
Speaker 1: tackle could get on ray Lewis and they could just
Speaker 1: push him around. And so because you know, ray was
Speaker 1: Ravens wasn't that big of a players, a heck of
Speaker 1: a players, a Hall of famer, But that was the thing.
Speaker 1: They had to try and keep it clean for Ray
Speaker 1: so he could get in there. Um, these linebackers haven't
Speaker 1: had it clean for two years, Okay, in in my opinion,
Speaker 1: I don't think they've had it clean for two years
Speaker 1: right now. We look at their play some of it.
Speaker 1: You can look at what's happened at the front four.
Speaker 1: That's why I would be leaning it in terms of
Speaker 1: just saying, hey, look, I'll give one more year and
Speaker 1: let's see what we can do up front as an
Speaker 1: organization to get this front four a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot better. Because what they've got right now, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: it's not working. Yeah, that's true, true, And we also
Speaker 1: got to take it too account. I mean it they
Speaker 1: didn't have an off season, they didn't have any type
Speaker 1: of OTAs, no type of captain's workouts, they had an
Speaker 1: abbreviated training camp, and no preseason. So I mean, I
Speaker 1: know those are all excuses, and then you know a
Speaker 1: lot of the NFL teams had to go through the
Speaker 1: same thing. But I think we need to get these
Speaker 1: guys just just one more after watch you definitely knew it.
Speaker 1: You spoke me into into giving these guys one more.
Speaker 1: I was ready to get rid of Jalen with the quickness,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I would. I wouldn't get rid of Jalen.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you on the all the Smith for
Speaker 1: a man, because one we're known to overpay guys, and
Speaker 1: I could see that being one guy that they decided
Speaker 1: that they just go overpayes because they saw some potential
Speaker 1: in the first few games and try to use that
Speaker 1: same excuse that you just used with no off season
Speaker 1: he was coming off you know, five year hiatus and
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. Don't overpay this guy, move on,
Speaker 1: go find you another another guy to play that position,
Speaker 1: or just invest in Randy Gregory because we've seen him
Speaker 1: be able to play once again in as long as
Speaker 1: you can depend on him to, you know, to stay
Speaker 1: available for you. All right, let me throw this out
Speaker 1: here on the Alden Smith thing. What if there's certain
Speaker 1: teams out there they're looking at an Alden Smith to say,
Speaker 1: you know, because of what happened in the past, we're
Speaker 1: probably gonna hit the pause if they don't trust them.
Speaker 1: And then with the salary cap going down, We're gonna
Speaker 1: see some massive discounts on some very good players. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could elect not to sign Alden Smith and
Speaker 1: they may be able to go get themselves another guy,
Speaker 1: you know, who could turn out to be a good
Speaker 1: player who fits in here, who another team says, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't want to pay that guy. It didn't work
Speaker 1: out with Everson Griffin, but it worked out the year
Speaker 1: before with Robert Quinn. So the Cowboys could find themselves,
Speaker 1: you know, and then they got Alden Smiths, So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys could find themselves in the market for another discounted
Speaker 1: defensive end. Right now, they've gotten the fifth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft, so maybe a top defensive end player is there,
Speaker 1: or a top defensive tackle player is there. So I
Speaker 1: think that you may be able to get him back
Speaker 1: at a good rate, because you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: this is gonna be dollar general prices out here for
Speaker 1: some really good players this off season because the cat
Speaker 1: in the way it is, man, you know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting. Would you would you want him back newly,
Speaker 1: even if at at a at a discount, at a
Speaker 1: discount of rate, would you want him back that has
Speaker 1: he shown that much that he's earned the right to
Speaker 1: come back. Um, once again, I'll say this, tell me
Speaker 1: who my coordinator is and and that's the conversation I
Speaker 1: would like to have with my guy. If my coordinators say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: let's let's you know, here's our free age. You know,
Speaker 1: you could bring in the coordinator and like anything, you
Speaker 1: run through the roster, what do you think about this
Speaker 1: player who's available? This is what the draft looks like.
Speaker 1: And I would say, make a make a decision there.
Speaker 1: Alden Smith may may decide he doesn't want to be here,
Speaker 1: especially if they change the scheme to straight forward three
Speaker 1: and he decides, you know, I don't want to go go
Speaker 1: my hand down. So you know, that's another thing there.
Speaker 1: We talk about some of these guys who are understrict
Speaker 1: the free ages, as though they want to come back,
Speaker 1: maybe they don't want to be back. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: Tito Tito May Tito, Who's he says, you know, man,
Speaker 1: I had enough of this. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: on this. This defense ain't no good. Um, I want
Speaker 1: to go somewhere else, you know, same thing with zaber Woods,
Speaker 1: some other guy. I mean, there's gonna be guy Jordan,
Speaker 1: because say the same thing. There's some guys who might
Speaker 1: say I don't want to be in Dallas anymore, So
Speaker 1: I will say, let's say this. I will say, this's
Speaker 1: a bit of advice to all those young dbs and
Speaker 1: young guys coming up another organization out there, like the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. As far as money on the field and
Speaker 1: off the field, I promise you the grass is not
Speaker 1: always greener. So put all that into account when you're
Speaker 1: making your choice in free agency. Just don't go chasing
Speaker 1: the money list today. That's just an old man. That's
Speaker 1: just an old man giving advice. And let me wrap
Speaker 1: up this all the Smith thing, all right, because listen,
Speaker 1: if it's one position on the field, actually one player
Speaker 1: right now that I will not allow Mike Nolan to
Speaker 1: be put the blame on. It's all the Smith to me,
Speaker 1: Like when I when I talked about the Marcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: it was, hey, man, the dude is not used to
Speaker 1: putting his hand down. Now he's playing standing up all this.
Speaker 1: If there's one guy who knew the scheme and was
Speaker 1: used to doing the stuff that Mike Nolan is asking
Speaker 1: these people, asking these guys to do, it's all the Smith.
Speaker 1: And we saw it at the beginning, and then we
Speaker 1: saw the drop off, you know, as the season has
Speaker 1: been going on. So as far as bringing in a
Speaker 1: new coordinator and finding out, you know, if Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: was the reason for him not being able to produce
Speaker 1: like like we expected him to be able to do.
Speaker 1: I can't give that one, annot sniff. I think we've
Speaker 1: seen what he has left in the tank and it's
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Speaker 1: All Right correction here deadcap hit money on tyrn Smith.
Speaker 1: It is eight point eight million dollars okay, that's it
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one. Eight point eight million bucks. That's
Speaker 1: still a high number. It's not the fourteen that I
Speaker 1: thought it was, but it is still eight million bucks.
Speaker 1: But it's saving five. Is that saving? You gotta pay
Speaker 1: him fourteen, but you release them and only pay eight
Speaker 1: for the dead cap. You're saving five though, right, all right?
Speaker 1: So let's say this. You you cut him, You tell
Speaker 1: me where you're going. If you don't have Smith at
Speaker 1: left tackle, you're gonna put the punds over there. No,
Speaker 1: you're getting a high draft pick. You gotta get this
Speaker 1: offensive line right now. Oh no, we gotta go defense
Speaker 1: with the draft. You gotta address, you gotta dress. I'm
Speaker 1: not the line. The reason, the reason he's got to
Speaker 1: be lined, the reason I'm not addressing. Listen, the best
Speaker 1: years of the Dallas Cowboys have been win when the
Speaker 1: offensive line was top notch and running and running the show,
Speaker 1: not the defense. You already got a hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: on one player on the defensive line. Get rid of Tyres.
Speaker 1: You already got LC out there coming back at right tackle.
Speaker 1: Get show up your love tackle position and play the
Speaker 1: offensive game. And Mike McCarthy wants to play no, n no,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. If you draft, if you draft
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman and with the with the with the
Speaker 1: fifth pick, you are making a mistake. I don't care
Speaker 1: what y'all saying. That is that will be a total.
Speaker 1: We got to be on the d line as long
Speaker 1: as it's on the defense. We need to spend at
Speaker 1: least six of the seventh picks. Gotta be on defense. Man,
Speaker 1: this team, this defensive team was prociers and we got
Speaker 1: so many free agents. I mean, we got we got
Speaker 1: a so so so when so when are you addressing
Speaker 1: the left tackle? I told you, I said within my
Speaker 1: first four picks, but my first pick right now, and
Speaker 1: I probably my first, second, and third might even be
Speaker 1: right here on on on defense, Danny, do you realize
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have given up more points than the New
Speaker 1: York Jets this year? I also realized that yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: but but but I know who the defensive coordinator is.
Speaker 1: These guys were not that. These are the same dudes.
Speaker 1: These guys were not that bad last year. They came
Speaker 1: in here, change the skins and gave up everything. I'm
Speaker 1: not listening defense. I know I ain't hearing MC Craze says,
Speaker 1: it's all on the it's all on the coaches. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm saying. I'm saying that our offense, like
Speaker 1: taking care of my offensive line and Dak Prescott who's
Speaker 1: coming off an injury, is more important than picking a
Speaker 1: defensive line and number five in the draft. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'll take I'll take my chances on Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith next year and playing two games. Go ahead, take
Speaker 1: my chances on Tyrn Smith coming back next year, Lele
Speaker 1: Collins coming back next year and using a pick along
Speaker 1: the way for a tackle. Like I said, but it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be my first pick. My first pick, and
Speaker 1: probably my second pick going straight to defense and probably
Speaker 1: defensive line. It'd be defensive line, defensive backfield. But I'm
Speaker 1: fixing this defense. This defense is bad. It has to
Speaker 1: be fixed, even if I go ahead, go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and go ahead now go ahead ahead no no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: no go go go oh. All right, So I'm about
Speaker 1: to say he also gotta take into the account with
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith those injuries in his past years, he ended
Speaker 1: up going throughout the season like he didn't stop the season,
Speaker 1: he didn't rest He didn't get surgery to fix it.
Speaker 1: He just thought, you know, after the seasons, then we're
Speaker 1: gonna take it. We're gonna take a accountability for it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fix it after season. But this year, I mean,
Speaker 1: he exited early, so he's had months and months off
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have the whole off season. He might
Speaker 1: come back refreshing, ready to roll. That's all I'm saying. Church.
Speaker 1: I would rather put him at tackle than go ahead
Speaker 1: and draft one in the first system I know my defense.
Speaker 1: This is literally the most time Tyres Smith's hand off
Speaker 1: in his whole career. This year he came got hurt.
Speaker 1: So I'm talking about thefore the season, before the season,
Speaker 1: they had no off season, they had no OTAs, they
Speaker 1: had no real training camp. This is the most time
Speaker 1: that the dude has had off and he he didn't
Speaker 1: have some Church. He came back and having a new injury.
Speaker 1: It was the back, and that was the net. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be right, all right, I've been ended. Let's end
Speaker 1: this one. He had moved on to the next top
Speaker 1: and he ended this one. Danny, Uh, your mindset is
Speaker 1: not the mindset of the Jones family. So so let's
Speaker 1: just end it right there, and let's move right because
Speaker 1: I because I want to pick Justin Jefferson. You're right,
Speaker 1: they don't have my mindset. We would add Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: on the squad for two hundred a game. Okay, that's good,
Speaker 1: That's that's good to know. Guys have decided. Glad LSU's
Speaker 1: decided not to play in a bowl game this year too.
Speaker 1: That's really really, really kind to them. We're gonna miss.
Speaker 1: We're gonna miss a lot of my bowl games than that.
Speaker 1: Don't worry Mada. John Macholda, the athletic who covers the
Speaker 1: Cowboys It's a fine job, tweeted this out twenty eight
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Let me read the tweet. Cowboys linebacker Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith said, it's quote unacceptable end quote that Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: had to address the team today about their effort. Quote.
Speaker 1: We can all give more effort. And that goes for
Speaker 1: all the players, including myself, and the same for the coaches.
Speaker 1: It's a big reason why we are where we are
Speaker 1: in quote. That's a lot to unpack right there. Would
Speaker 1: you like to start first, Danny McCrae, I mean, let's
Speaker 1: I don't have much of sin. But we addressed this
Speaker 1: when Xavier Woods came out in the media and said,
Speaker 1: you can't expect us to hustle for the entire game.
Speaker 1: You talk about the entire game. Jayleen Smith should have
Speaker 1: addressed that. Then they should have had somebody locker roll
Speaker 1: say age, Aya, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: You need to go recant that statement and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I made a mistake and I should be the first
Speaker 1: one out there hustling for every snap that I'm on
Speaker 1: the field. This is no surprise to me. I'm starting
Speaker 1: to wonder who anonymous is Jaalon Smith coming out here
Speaker 1: to talk about the means that they have an inside
Speaker 1: the team means and stuff. Let's get the let's get
Speaker 1: this stuff figuring out bro some stuff. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: stay in house. We know y'all late hustling. We watched
Speaker 1: the same film that y'all watching. It's week twelve. Now
Speaker 1: it's a little bit too late to fix this. We
Speaker 1: know y'all, and usting y'all about to turn the corner
Speaker 1: on us and get us drinking no kool aid. So
Speaker 1: I mean it is what it is. Look, it's just talk,
Speaker 1: talk and more talk. I mean that's all we've seen
Speaker 1: from this Cowboys team, especially on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. I think it was like week three or
Speaker 1: week four through Cleveland came in there, you know, the
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence got on there talking about where soft as
Speaker 1: you know what, and it's just all talking. We need
Speaker 1: to turn it around, we need to turn it around,
Speaker 1: and it's just nothing. All we hear is talk but
Speaker 1: no results out there. And this is another reason why
Speaker 1: I think Jalen needs to exit, because I mean, he's
Speaker 1: supposed to be the leader of this team. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to be the guy that's you know everybody. I'm taking
Speaker 1: accountability for everybody. This is my team, this is my defense.
Speaker 1: But you never hear in any of his post interviews
Speaker 1: or anything like that. He always says we need to
Speaker 1: do this or we need to do that. It's never
Speaker 1: starts with him. It's never like, oh no, I need
Speaker 1: to take accountable lead for my play. I've been doing
Speaker 1: this or I've been doing that. It's never that it's
Speaker 1: wee wee wee, or but when it's something good. Now,
Speaker 1: when he's getting picks or when he's doing something good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw how I read the quarterback on that one,
Speaker 1: I had to float back and you know, I had
Speaker 1: to get the interception on that one. I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's a great leader for this team, and his
Speaker 1: play has just not warranted what he's making off the field. Hey, Church,
Speaker 1: where does where does the lack of effort come in at? Like?
Speaker 1: How does that trickle into the locker room? And just
Speaker 1: go through all twelve weeks of the season to where
Speaker 1: you try to address it, you know, in the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and then you go, you know, getting
Speaker 1: the meeting, you said we're gonna fix this, and then
Speaker 1: the next four weeks you have the same issue. Then
Speaker 1: you go out there and get stuffed again and you
Speaker 1: turn the film on and you say, look, guys, this
Speaker 1: is the same stuff we've been talking about since week two.
Speaker 1: We talked about it again in week six, we talked
Speaker 1: about again in week eight, and now we're back here
Speaker 1: in week twelve talking about the same stuff. Do you
Speaker 1: like just throw your hands up in there, like, all right, y'all,
Speaker 1: if y'all ain't gona hustle, you know, I'm just getting
Speaker 1: rid of y'all. At the end of the season, I
Speaker 1: understand where y'all at or is this something that you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, listen, all right, now it's time to turn
Speaker 1: it on. Do we realize that we aren't hustling when
Speaker 1: we are out there on the field, Like I'm trying,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what the mindset is, because, like
Speaker 1: I said, when Marinella was here, all shout out to
Speaker 1: him for we was accountability on if you were loafing
Speaker 1: and you were not hustling. And I want to know
Speaker 1: if these dudes in there looking at that same type
Speaker 1: of sheet and seeing twenty and thirty loads out there
Speaker 1: on that sheet per game and being like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to do the same thing because
Speaker 1: they are they got no respect for anybody in that
Speaker 1: defensive room. Player, there's our coaches. It's no way, There's
Speaker 1: no way, because you know how Marinelli had. He had
Speaker 1: to chart up there, and he had a chart where
Speaker 1: there's loads, there's big plays, there's big hits, there's taking
Speaker 1: a ball away. And if you saw your name on
Speaker 1: that loaf chart, you were embarrassed because you know Marinelli,
Speaker 1: as soon as we got to that meeting, he was
Speaker 1: gonna pull out that pointer and just circle man Church.
Speaker 1: You had about eight loads of this game, and it
Speaker 1: was embarrassing. You didn't want to go into that meeting room.
Speaker 1: You felt less than a man going in there getting
Speaker 1: pointed out for loafing. And they and they put it
Speaker 1: on blasts and it's just like there's just no accountability
Speaker 1: with this defense. You know, one day it's we gotta
Speaker 1: work on hustling, we gotta work on hustling. But then
Speaker 1: they do to hustle, and then there's mental errors. And
Speaker 1: then when they there's no mental errors, there's no hustle.
Speaker 1: It's like they just can't get out of their own way.
Speaker 1: They just don't know. It's just it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: I might have a loss for words about this defense,
Speaker 1: but you're right, mccraye. It's like they just don't have
Speaker 1: the respect for one another out there on the field,
Speaker 1: Like he'll make the play, that guy could do it.
Speaker 1: It's just I haven't seen anything like this in a
Speaker 1: long time. All right, let me give you a little
Speaker 1: bit more from Jail and Smith, where he says it's
Speaker 1: non negotiable. Your effort has to be there, and uh,
Speaker 1: he says goes for players and coaches. It's a big
Speaker 1: reason why we are where we are, Why are you
Speaker 1: talking about these coaches. I'm just just just saying this
Speaker 1: is this is, this is what it was. Um Uh.
Speaker 1: Somebody in the building told me this season he said,
Speaker 1: one problem is nobody mother f's any of these players.
Speaker 1: And then I had another person tell me who they
Speaker 1: don't work in the building. Another person said, there's an
Speaker 1: entitlement factor that players have around the building. How do
Speaker 1: you feel about those two statements that I was told?
Speaker 1: It where your feelings? I think it's one hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: I think it is a one hundred percent right. Not
Speaker 1: Not enough players are fearing the coaches or the repercussions
Speaker 1: of bad play out there, and they just think, hey,
Speaker 1: you know I can play bad, I'll still be right
Speaker 1: in my checker. I'll still be able to cash my check.
Speaker 1: It's just no accountability and there's no fear of losing
Speaker 1: a job or getting mother or like you said, getting MFTR. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: same here. But like I said, the respect factor for
Speaker 1: the guy that you line it up next to and
Speaker 1: your coaches in the locker room in an organization, to me,
Speaker 1: is not there, especially when you have to address effort
Speaker 1: this many times in one season after you turn on
Speaker 1: the tape and you hear all the commentators, all your
Speaker 1: family and friends, everybody that's in the organization saying, man,
Speaker 1: this team is not hustle. They're not out there giving
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. You listen to this the entire season
Speaker 1: and you don't go out there and fix it. That
Speaker 1: is a big deal. I am wondering though, why Jaylen
Speaker 1: Smith continues to keep saying players and coaches address the
Speaker 1: people in your locker room, stop talking about the coaching.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go out there and you're going to play
Speaker 1: what they call do the technique that they teach you
Speaker 1: to play. What you can control yourself as a team
Speaker 1: and as an individual player is how much effort you
Speaker 1: give while you're out there in the game on the field.
Speaker 1: That's all you need to worry about. Lead them coaches alone,
Speaker 1: this is it just sends a bad signal, like I
Speaker 1: don't like hearing that. Now, Danny, let me ask this
Speaker 1: question here in the final two minutes that we have,
Speaker 1: what does it say about what Mark Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 1: doing as a head coach that these guys don't have
Speaker 1: the effort that you need. That they had two weeks
Speaker 1: off to get ready for a Baltimore and Baltimore runs
Speaker 1: for basically three hundred yards, and guys look so lost
Speaker 1: out there on the football field. That is that his
Speaker 1: homeboy Micnolan don't know what he's doing. He doesn't he
Speaker 1: doesn't know how he's not leading correctly to get his
Speaker 1: information down from his mind into his position coaches and
Speaker 1: down to his players. Somehow there's a disconnect from what
Speaker 1: he's seeing on the paper when he wants to put
Speaker 1: the scheme in to how he's communicating it to his
Speaker 1: uh secondary coaches and his linebacker coaches, the line coaches,
Speaker 1: and how they're communicated to the players. Because let's getting
Speaker 1: lost in there, all right, all right, we did not
Speaker 1: get a chance to dive into Stephen Jones and his
Speaker 1: um position on Dak Prescott. Let's save that for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it, and then also we can revisit
Speaker 1: more of this in terms of talking about the effort
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, because if I'm head coach Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: I'm worried. If I'm Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones, I'm
Speaker 1: really worried because if guys are wearing this star and
Speaker 1: are walking out there not giving their effort. That's a
Speaker 1: problem because the best teams in the league, this isn't
Speaker 1: an issue, and clearly it's an issue right now in
Speaker 1: that locker room. So we've got more to dive into.
Speaker 1: It has been a fun time here in our FWBC
Speaker 1: Virtual Mortgage Home studios here, so Danny mccraie, Barry Church too,
Speaker 1: four Dallas Cowboys. Good stuff. Let's do it tomorrow at
Speaker 1: two thirty pm. Chris Beam, our producer, awesome job. As always,
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