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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newy Scrugs. Hey,
Speaker 1: everybody all right, Thursday getting closer and closer to Sunday
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys going up to Minneapolis, Minnesota to take
Speaker 1: on the Vikings. I'm Newi Scrugs, a long time Cowboys reporter,
Speaker 1: joined by former Dallas Cowboys players Danny McCray and Barry Church.
Speaker 1: And McCray, I gotta thank you because I thought yesterday
Speaker 1: you opening up about how a player gets called in
Speaker 1: to take a salary cut, what it's like to make
Speaker 1: the decision, and then going forward and having to play,
Speaker 1: then leaving the Cowboys and then coming back and now
Speaker 1: ultimately working for the club. I thought that was just
Speaker 1: a really that was a really good story because I
Speaker 1: didn't know what and I'm sure those listening and checking
Speaker 1: us out right here on the players lines didn't know
Speaker 1: it either. Man. I thought it was really good stuff.
Speaker 1: It's a business man, it's a business and uh, you
Speaker 1: knows as the fans watch watch these guys go through
Speaker 1: contract negotiations, and you hear about players taking pay cubs.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I think it's important for them
Speaker 1: to understand what all goes into it because a lot
Speaker 1: of times the fans just, you know, they don't realize
Speaker 1: that you're a human being and you go through some
Speaker 1: of the things stuff they may go through on their
Speaker 1: job as well. So I mean, we're all human. I
Speaker 1: grew up in mature a little bit. I got over it,
Speaker 1: and now I'm back, so barry for you, and it's
Speaker 1: something I and that made me think about it. So
Speaker 1: you come up, you're you're up for a deal with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and they basically don't want to pay, and
Speaker 1: you go to Jacksonville and get paid. What was your
Speaker 1: feeling toward the Cowboy organization when you left? Oh, I
Speaker 1: mean you definitely resent him a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know where to can sit here and tell me.
Speaker 1: You know, when they're a free agent, they always want
Speaker 1: to go back to that club, especially when I was
Speaker 1: there for so long. I think I was there for
Speaker 1: like seven years, So of course I had a little
Speaker 1: bit of resentment. You know. I figured, hey, you know
Speaker 1: they would have. You know, I would at least get something,
Speaker 1: get something done, especially towards the ladder part of free agency,
Speaker 1: but it never really, it never really materialized. You know,
Speaker 1: the money man who we were speaking about yesterday, I
Speaker 1: add him. I only saw him maybe maybe like two
Speaker 1: or three times, and it was always a quick exchange
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, man, we're gonna get this done. We
Speaker 1: won't get this done, and it just never kind of materialized.
Speaker 1: So towards the end of the season, I kind of
Speaker 1: figured like, hey man, I'm about to get out of
Speaker 1: here and get paid somewhere else. You know, it's been
Speaker 1: real So even on the coaching exit meetings, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I didn't even go see my dB coach.
Speaker 1: I just left that saw Mary Nelly said, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: gave my piece to him. Coach Garrett was real quick.
Speaker 1: He kind of knew too. He kind of knew the
Speaker 1: situation because he was like, yeah, I know, I know
Speaker 1: you're coming up on free agency and everything. And I
Speaker 1: just kind of shook my head like yep, I'm about
Speaker 1: to get paid too. And so it was it was
Speaker 1: a quick in and out for me. But you know,
Speaker 1: of course I had a little bit resentment, all right,
Speaker 1: and now you're back here and you're doing things with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now I'm back. Never burn bridges, that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: Never burn bridges. You guys say it's a business, and
Speaker 1: everybody says it's a business. But the other portion of
Speaker 1: it that people don't understand, especially when you don't walk
Speaker 1: in these shoes, is how personal you take it. Because
Speaker 1: there's nothing like sports where everybody tells you, hey, we're
Speaker 1: a family, let's stick together. Sacrifice for the cat with
Speaker 1: sacrifice for your teammate, and then when it comes down
Speaker 1: to dollars and cents, all that is thrown out the window.
Speaker 1: So you live this mantra the team, the team, the team,
Speaker 1: and then when you want the team to play for
Speaker 1: you or the team to take up for you, you
Speaker 1: know that that part of it becomes very personal. And
Speaker 1: that portion of it I think fans don't really understand
Speaker 1: because you know, you don't live that life. You go
Speaker 1: to work and your job, you go to work for you.
Speaker 1: Here's a job where you're you're working with others and
Speaker 1: for others, so it's it's it's definitely a different type
Speaker 1: of atmosphere and different you know, these negotiations are very
Speaker 1: personal at the end. You can say business all day long,
Speaker 1: but it's dog one person. Yeah, And I think the
Speaker 1: coaches they do a good job of kind of letting
Speaker 1: you know from the jump, like if you're coming up
Speaker 1: as a free agent, they kind of let you know
Speaker 1: that that season, like hey man, we're separate from all that,
Speaker 1: like that's that's above our pay grade. But you know
Speaker 1: in the back of your head like no, you're putting input. Coaches,
Speaker 1: you're putting input. They're asking you about players. But they
Speaker 1: kind of do a good job to kind of separate
Speaker 1: themselves from upper management. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like you said, it does get kind of personal, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if you just don't burn any bridges is
Speaker 1: what I recommend. All Right, Players Lounge brought to you
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Speaker 1: Virtual Home Studios. Vikings coming up here. So I went
Speaker 1: and die. I've been looked into just a little bit
Speaker 1: of how the Minnesota Vikings had gotten themselves back in
Speaker 1: the playoff picture. And remember there's an extra playoff spot
Speaker 1: this year. They've won three straight games. And when I
Speaker 1: looked at, Okay, what's the big difference in these guys
Speaker 1: winning these three straight games over the Bears, Lions, and Packers. Well,
Speaker 1: to me, it's real simple. Against Chicago they ran the
Speaker 1: ball thirty three times, they passed thirty six times. Against
Speaker 1: Detroit they ran the ball thirty times, they passed it
Speaker 1: twenty times. And against the Packers in a win, they
Speaker 1: ran the ball thirty four times and passed it fourteen times.
Speaker 1: So in the last three games, one hundred and one
Speaker 1: attempts rushing the ball seventy attempts passing it. It's real simple.
Speaker 1: They're trying to run this thing and limit their quarterback
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. The Cowboys are going to have to stop
Speaker 1: the run on Sunday. Mccraye absolutely, and it starts with
Speaker 1: that because we know Dalvin Cook is the man, and
Speaker 1: he's going to come out and he's been rolling and
Speaker 1: you know, it looks like he's trying to break records
Speaker 1: coming out of here. And we talked about this a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, you know, before we played the
Speaker 1: Eagles and the Steelers. The Cowboys defense was to get
Speaker 1: right defense. If you want to try to go for
Speaker 1: two hundred, you know, then you coming here and you
Speaker 1: played the Cowboys, but they tightened up over the over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Although Pittsburgh really doesn't have
Speaker 1: a stout running game and neither does Philly, So this
Speaker 1: would be a true test for us to see if
Speaker 1: we were really turning in that corner and getting better.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we don't stop Dalvin Cook. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a long game for our defensive front d
Speaker 1: line and Jalen and LV Yeah, you know the formula
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Viking had are going with right now. It's
Speaker 1: something I thought the Cowboys would go to once Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott went down, which is a heavy heavy dose of
Speaker 1: Zeke and limiting the quarterback, you know, his production or
Speaker 1: his effectiveness on the game. But we haven't gotten that,
Speaker 1: you know that twenty sixteen Zeke out in the field
Speaker 1: yet this year, so we kind of resorted to throw
Speaker 1: on the ball more than we'd like to, and we saw,
Speaker 1: you know what's happening with that. We've lost a we've
Speaker 1: lost a lot of games in Minnesota has turned it around.
Speaker 1: But you're definitely right, Danny, as far as this game
Speaker 1: is concerned. The catalyst, the guy that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to slow down, the guy we're gonna have to stop
Speaker 1: is Delvin Cook. I mean, he's a man back there,
Speaker 1: He's a grown man back there, and we've seen what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do against you know, the Packers
Speaker 1: with those four touchdowns, and even against a Chicago team
Speaker 1: that I think has one of the better defenses in
Speaker 1: the league, he was able to run through them. So
Speaker 1: for me, it's gonna be extremely tough. O Our d
Speaker 1: line's gonna have to show up, especially those two guys
Speaker 1: in the middle, because we can't let them just run
Speaker 1: straight downhill at our linebackers or it's gonna be an
Speaker 1: extremely long day. So for me, Nevill Gallimore, Tyln Crawford,
Speaker 1: those boys are gonna have to step up. But overall,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna have to tackle better as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: we can't let this guy, you know, after contact, get
Speaker 1: five and six yards after that, because I mean, those
Speaker 1: those yards pile up and the next thing you know,
Speaker 1: he has three scores. So we're gonna have to tackle
Speaker 1: well and play great defense in the middle. I see
Speaker 1: what you're doing there too, man, I see what you're doing.
Speaker 1: See now you putt Noville Gallimore name in front of Crawford.
Speaker 1: You love to be started. You mentioned this started, you
Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of days ago. That's how they usually
Speaker 1: do it in the media. Man, if you ever pay
Speaker 1: attention to college football, they started listening to players and
Speaker 1: they always mentioned the players that they want to be
Speaker 1: up for the awards in the hivesman, And that's what
Speaker 1: you're doing right now for Nevill Gallimo, Man, I feel, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta do what you gotta do. Him and Gilbert
Speaker 1: those are your two guys. I'm sinking Neville Gallimore. I
Speaker 1: think he deserves. I mean, he's been playing well these
Speaker 1: past two weeks and for the majority part of this season.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyron Crawford has not shown up, So you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta do what I gotta do. So church Is
Speaker 1: Antoine was off your list. Non Antoine is not off
Speaker 1: my list. He just wasn't mentioned in my you know,
Speaker 1: my top two defensive tackles there. But he's been playing
Speaker 1: well as of late, so hopefully he can contribute to
Speaker 1: this stopping Dalvin cookas we're gonna need all hands on that,
Speaker 1: I mean, safeties, everything, and right now it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough It's gonna be a tough one for us.
Speaker 1: You do realize that the Pittsburgh still is really don't
Speaker 1: have a running game, and in neither of those Philly
Speaker 1: for the most part, that you know, the two teams
Speaker 1: that we that we stopped and turned the corner. All
Speaker 1: you do realize that, right I do. But I think
Speaker 1: we have in the middle right now, those we we
Speaker 1: got those guys out of the middle that you know,
Speaker 1: we're slowing our stars down, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We got rid of Pole, we got rid of everything Grid.
Speaker 1: We've been stepping it up. And to be all honest
Speaker 1: with you guys, I'm picking the Cowboys this weekend. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we got a chance. I think we got
Speaker 1: to Church. They've been slowing our stars down, Okay, our stars, Okay, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm listening. Man, I'm just writing down this, writing it
Speaker 1: all down. I'm just letting y'all know it was all
Speaker 1: crazy until you know it comes true, all right. So
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just being the first person to go
Speaker 1: out there and let everybody know what's happening. All right, Church,
Speaker 1: So let me give you a couple more stats before
Speaker 1: you you make your actual pick. Okay, Because Minnesota is
Speaker 1: number five in the NFL. In the rushing at one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three point six a game, they're number
Speaker 1: nine and attempts two hundred and sixty eight yards. When
Speaker 1: it comes to rushing touchdowns, they're number five in the
Speaker 1: n FELT with thirteen. Dalvin Cook's got twelve of those.
Speaker 1: He's number one in the league and rushing nine hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty four yards averaging five point five tots a rock.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys defense is thirty first against the run. They
Speaker 1: give up one hundred and sixty seven point four a game.
Speaker 1: All right, that's more than what Minnesota runs. For. Minnesota
Speaker 1: is a team that wants to run the ball. And
Speaker 1: if you remember the Cleveland game, they came in here
Speaker 1: with Kevin Stavanski. Where did Kevin Stefanski come from? Where
Speaker 1: was the offensive coordina at last year? Minnesota? They're gonna
Speaker 1: come up here and do what Cleveland did. And do
Speaker 1: you remember what Cleveland for? Three oh seven three hundred
Speaker 1: and seven yards? So Man Barry is right. I have
Speaker 1: James Corner in my fantasy league, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the best ways at times to understand how teams go
Speaker 1: because you watch a lot of their games. Pittsburgh's not
Speaker 1: interested in running it they're just not. So you're talking
Speaker 1: about a team. He's gonna come in here and run it,
Speaker 1: just like Cleveland with the better running back in Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are going to have to You gonna
Speaker 1: have to load up in the box. And and I
Speaker 1: go back to what I mentioned yesterday. Here are the
Speaker 1: players lounge. If you are trying to stop the run,
Speaker 1: as you should, now, you're leaving a guy like Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson out there with some one on one coverage. Baby,
Speaker 1: that could get scary. And then he got feeling out
Speaker 1: there too, who knows how to operate. So, um man,
Speaker 1: this is this is going to be a very hard matchup.
Speaker 1: And we know exactly what they're gonna do. Barry. They're
Speaker 1: coming at you. They're run, they are run. You gotta
Speaker 1: stop this run, man, And you're you're exactly right. But
Speaker 1: you gave the answer to what we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do in your whole soliloquy right there. We're going to
Speaker 1: have to stop the running. We'll have to pack the
Speaker 1: box and force Kirk Cousins to beat us with his arm.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't think he can do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kirk Cousins gonna beat us with his arm.
Speaker 1: I understand they got Jordan Jefferson out there, and who
Speaker 1: know they guy feeling on the other side, and those
Speaker 1: are there. There's are great receivers, but I don't think
Speaker 1: their quarterback can get them the ball. If we get
Speaker 1: a good rush on them, we're gonna have to force
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins to throw the ball at least thirty sometimes
Speaker 1: to have a win here. I think we could do that.
Speaker 1: Hold on, wait, hold on, you don't think that Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins can get Justin Jefferson the ball. Have you seen
Speaker 1: him lately? Did you remember? Remember when you just picked
Speaker 1: the Chicago Barris to beat the Minnesota Vikings. You know,
Speaker 1: Adam Thilan had two touchdowns and Justin Jefferson went for
Speaker 1: over one hundred. Kirk Cutgers, he didn't get the kirk
Speaker 1: cous Cousins can get them the ball. And that bears
Speaker 1: defense to me, is much better than what we've been
Speaker 1: putting out there. You know, with kl Fuller and those
Speaker 1: guys and Khalil Mack, they're much better. And they went
Speaker 1: up there and and put some points in some yards
Speaker 1: up there on those guys running back and receivers. So
Speaker 1: we got a full dead ahead of Kirk. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: can get it done. You know he's iffy every once
Speaker 1: in a while, but this is one of those games
Speaker 1: when they're on the roll and he's going to try
Speaker 1: to continue that when they play against us this week. Hello, look,
Speaker 1: I know we got a full plate on us. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we got Dalvin Cook coming in here. Kirk,
Speaker 1: he's been playing a little bit better. And those receivers
Speaker 1: out there, you know they're allowed to handle. But I
Speaker 1: believe we got a Woozier coming back off of injuries.
Speaker 1: Missed the pass. I believe six games with hamstring, he's
Speaker 1: coming back healthy. We offer a bye week, I mean,
Speaker 1: we got some momentum rolling. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: we pull this one off. And that's why I'm picking
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Man. That's a that's with or without double
Speaker 1: G at the end of at the quarterback Holme McCray.
Speaker 1: I love the I love how my man Church just
Speaker 1: forgets history. You say Kirk Cousins can't do it. He
Speaker 1: threw two touchdown passes and beat the Cowboys November tenth
Speaker 1: last year. On Sunday Night Football twenty twenty four, we
Speaker 1: all we all know we should have won. Say he can't,
Speaker 1: but you so you can't say he can't because he has.
Speaker 1: I don't believe he can do it again. I don't
Speaker 1: believe till the worst team. We're a worst team that
Speaker 1: last year. He just I don't think he can't. I
Speaker 1: don't believe he can do I think we can. I
Speaker 1: think we can pull this off. Now. It's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot, don't get me wrong, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take a lot. But I think we could pull this
Speaker 1: one off. Church. We played a perfect game, well almost
Speaker 1: a perfect game against Pittsburgh and lost, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to And we dropped two and we dropped two
Speaker 1: interceptions that game, Like we can't do things like that,
Speaker 1: Like if we want to pull stuff off like this,
Speaker 1: we can't go out there and drop two interceptions penalties
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. We gave that game
Speaker 1: away against Pittsburgh, and I think we could be if
Speaker 1: we don't get things that we gave it away. Okay,
Speaker 1: we definitely game away. Definitely, Nos. I got you. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear your pigs. You're gonna pick them today.
Speaker 1: You're picking them today, right, you may hear your picks today.
Speaker 1: I hope. I think. I don't think I'll pick them.
Speaker 1: I think I think we got it. I think we
Speaker 1: do all right. Let's uh, let's take a break here.
Speaker 1: We still have a Thursday night prediction. We need to
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Speaker 1: dive into that. And I want to dive into something
Speaker 1: we've already talked about this week in terms of the
Speaker 1: NBA and how it relates to the NFL, NBA guaranteed
Speaker 1: contracts versus the NFL and the pay cuts that we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about yesterday. That's still to come
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Barry Church and Danny McCray, former Dallas Cowboys players.
Speaker 1: I'm new, he scrugs. Who I've discovered the team since
Speaker 1: these guys were like in great school. Um So McCrae,
Speaker 1: you spoke yesterday about having to go take that pay cut,
Speaker 1: and yesterday it hit me once again as I'm watching
Speaker 1: the news reports that Clay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: who's coming back from knee surgery, got injured. And it
Speaker 1: was just confirmed later this afternoon that Clay Thompson has
Speaker 1: an achilles a ruptured achilles. So he's gonna miss the
Speaker 1: entire season. And the NFL those contracts are not guaranteed.
Speaker 1: The only thing is guarantees. You're signing a bonus. In
Speaker 1: the NBA, it's fully guaranteed. So Clay Thompson played all
Speaker 1: the last season, I should say he missed all the
Speaker 1: last season, didn't play at all. He was injured, and
Speaker 1: he's going to play another year. Say he's gonna get
Speaker 1: paid this year and not play. So last year he
Speaker 1: got paid thirty two point seven million bucks, didn't play
Speaker 1: because he was hurt. This year he will get paid
Speaker 1: thirty five point six million dollars and not gonna play.
Speaker 1: A link and the beauty of it, and it makes
Speaker 1: me go back to think about Dak Prescott. You know,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott ends up getting hurt, carted off the field.
Speaker 1: This is the final year of his contract. You know,
Speaker 1: he's guaranteed thirty one million bucks. But after this year,
Speaker 1: we don't know exactly what will happen with that. But
Speaker 1: here's Klay Thompson man guarantee the next three years. This
Speaker 1: is what he's gonna get the next three years, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: one and twenty one point one million dollars after this season.
Speaker 1: This is why the NFL Players Association should somehow, some
Speaker 1: way get together for the next CBA and say, guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta be willing to miss some games so you
Speaker 1: can get some guaranteed contracts. Because you look at the
Speaker 1: look at the way Klay Thompson can sleep tonight. You
Speaker 1: know he'll he'll be mad about not being able to play,
Speaker 1: but dog on it, thirty five point six million dollars
Speaker 1: will be coming to him this year. Wow. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if he's mad about not playing. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get in a hundred and twenty one nil over
Speaker 1: the next three years, and man, I mean that's remarkable,
Speaker 1: and that just goes to show you. You know, the association,
Speaker 1: like Basketball Association, their union, it's just so much better
Speaker 1: than ours. I mean, as a football player, we go
Speaker 1: out there and We're one of the most violent sports
Speaker 1: there is, and you know, we're the only only sports
Speaker 1: print or a sports organization out there. I think that
Speaker 1: doesn't have guaranteed contracts and it's it's ridiculous. And that's
Speaker 1: what you got to go through each and every year.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know when I when I was coming
Speaker 1: up as a free agent, my first go around, Um,
Speaker 1: I had tore my achilles that year. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: had basically that whole season, I'm sitting there thinking like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this might be my last go around because
Speaker 1: this was before achilles were just like you know, you know,
Speaker 1: curable now, but back then, it was kind of like
Speaker 1: if you like, I don't know if you're going to
Speaker 1: come back. And thankfully the Cowboys, you know, they they
Speaker 1: got me on a lower contract. But I had to
Speaker 1: take that contract because I didn't know what, you know,
Speaker 1: what future held from me. I didn't know if I
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to recover from this, and you know,
Speaker 1: where was I going to go next. It was only
Speaker 1: my second year in the league. So for me, you know,
Speaker 1: I had to take that contract. But for the NBA,
Speaker 1: I mean, they got to set up right, man. That's
Speaker 1: why their organisations are much better than ours when it
Speaker 1: comes to a player association. Yeah, I'm gonna go in
Speaker 1: just a little bit more on the difference between you know,
Speaker 1: us and the other two, the MLB and the NBA. Right,
Speaker 1: so they get the guaranteed dollars. You got guys who
Speaker 1: are not even playing no more than MLB and they
Speaker 1: still they still cashing checks. And then for us in
Speaker 1: the NFL. In the NFL, they find every type of
Speaker 1: way not to guarantee your money. Man, cut you, cut
Speaker 1: you right before the first regular season game and put
Speaker 1: you back on just so your whole season's salary isn't guaranteed.
Speaker 1: You get for us to have the most violent sport
Speaker 1: and put our body on the line of the most
Speaker 1: You get five years after your last game, and your
Speaker 1: insurance is up newly brought up the point of your
Speaker 1: pension once you played for ten years in the In
Speaker 1: the MLB, you get three hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 1: For us, it is based on it's based on your
Speaker 1: crew seasons and it's much lower than that. So I listen.
Speaker 1: But so it's not it's not just the contracts and
Speaker 1: the guaranteed money. Uh, that's better. It's all around for
Speaker 1: those associations and those uh, those leads taking care of
Speaker 1: their players financially and setting up their lives after after
Speaker 1: they're done playing whatever sport they are. It's a big difference.
Speaker 1: And hopefully in the future, you know, our players can
Speaker 1: get together and uh, you know, maybe like we said,
Speaker 1: hold out, you know, get everybody together and say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: don't cross that line and just wait till we get
Speaker 1: what we want. And then hopefully the players get the
Speaker 1: power and look choices if you had yeah, and if
Speaker 1: you look and I think if we had those fully
Speaker 1: guaranteed contracts in the NFL, I think you would see
Speaker 1: a lot lower numbers, Like you wouldn't see guys signing
Speaker 1: for four years and you know, one hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 1: I think you would see a lot lower number. But
Speaker 1: I also think the NFL players would respond well to that,
Speaker 1: just knowing that they got that security there with fully
Speaker 1: guaranteed contracts. So you know, I think they should definitely
Speaker 1: get get it done with the CBA. But if we
Speaker 1: won't see that for another what ten years, Yeah, listen
Speaker 1: and listen if you and then if you're gonna guarantee
Speaker 1: at least guarantee the bottom half of your roster. I mean,
Speaker 1: because you got like you're saying, really the most of
Speaker 1: the salary captains going to the top three four players
Speaker 1: on the team, and then the rest of the players
Speaker 1: are interchangeable. They getting released, you know, every week, they
Speaker 1: switching teams, they're going from city to city, and no
Speaker 1: guarantee contracts. And then you know, you start wondering why
Speaker 1: they say NFL players are going broke after three years.
Speaker 1: Half of the dudes ain't really making that much money.
Speaker 1: You'll say, you're looking at Peyton Manning, those dudes making
Speaker 1: a hundred, twenty hundred and thirty million dollars head quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you forget about the guys at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the roster who may be making three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: for a full season and then get cut at four times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you forget about that. But then you start saying
Speaker 1: you have an average. You know, the average NFL player
Speaker 1: goes broke after so many years. Some of the dudes
Speaker 1: that make fifty sixty thousand dollars and don't have no
Speaker 1: plan for their future after that because it was all football,
Speaker 1: so fella's a big decision here in a little bit
Speaker 1: bottle hour away from a Gordon Haywood still deciding whether
Speaker 1: or not he's going to take the thirty four point
Speaker 1: two million dollars to play for the Celtics this year.
Speaker 1: So he's still up in the air. There could be
Speaker 1: a signing trade worked out with the Atlanta Hawlks, but
Speaker 1: Gordon has got to make this really tough decision right
Speaker 1: now whether or not he wants the thirty four million now.
Speaker 1: Earlier today, this affected the Dallas Mavericks. Tim Hardaway Junior
Speaker 1: had it opted for nineteen point nine million dollars. And
Speaker 1: one of my friends who covers the team for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Bolling News, Brad Towns and said, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: Tim Hardaway has got a decision. The Mavericks just brought
Speaker 1: in three players at his spot. What would you do?
Speaker 1: And I said, and you know it was on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you take that bird in the hand during
Speaker 1: this pandemic, you take nineteen point nine million dollars and
Speaker 1: you worry about the rest later on and about I
Speaker 1: don't know. Seventy five minutes later, Tim Hardaway went ahead
Speaker 1: took that nineteen point nine million dollars. I mean to me,
Speaker 1: what was the decision? I mean, I mean as soon
Speaker 1: as I gotta make it automated, you know, and I
Speaker 1: don't know. And you guys, you know, you guys have
Speaker 1: spouses here, so I don't know what the wives are
Speaker 1: involved at all. But man, if I was married to
Speaker 1: somebody and they had a choice of you know, my
Speaker 1: wife had a deal and he was, hey, baby, it's
Speaker 1: nineteen point nine domes like what you wait on? If
Speaker 1: you don't sign, I'm gonna take this paper and put
Speaker 1: your name on it. I'm gonna send it in. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is not decisions to make. It's a pandemic. Who
Speaker 1: it's twenty million dollars. I need somebody know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I do I know he wan't dollars? Man,
Speaker 1: he nenba players. Baby, this this is a pretty good life.
Speaker 1: This is a good setup. These dudes half here. Man,
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish. I'm still. I'm still gonna get
Speaker 1: my lottery tickets on Wednesday and Saturday from far Ball.
Speaker 1: These dudes, I have make a needs type of decisions.
Speaker 1: Let me wait, let me wait, let me wait until
Speaker 1: they see if I want that thirty meal man, I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure. I'm not really sure. If I really wanted, man,
Speaker 1: they they could bring in a hundred dudes at my position.
Speaker 1: I'm still getting nineteen mils. I mean, I get the
Speaker 1: water boy, the town guy, whatever y'all need. Y'all need
Speaker 1: me to go get your coffee in the morning, whatever
Speaker 1: you need, I'm there. These decisions bad. It reminds me
Speaker 1: that Line and Jerry McGuire when they had the linebackers
Speaker 1: sitting up there with Roy Firestone and he starts tearing
Speaker 1: up and he says, y'all don't understand all the pressures
Speaker 1: of problems fifty four million come with I think all
Speaker 1: this problem, we don't understand all the presses and problems
Speaker 1: that Gordon Hayward has to deal with them thirty four
Speaker 1: million dollars because if he comes back to Boston, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be the start he was brought in
Speaker 1: to be a cornerstone with Kyrie. So it's really weighing
Speaker 1: on Gordon Hayward's mind about thirty four million dollars and
Speaker 1: playing with the Celtics again. So you know, these are
Speaker 1: first world problems, man, And I know you. I know
Speaker 1: NFL guys are like huh what, But it's it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different league, bro, it is
Speaker 1: different league boys rock Stars compared to we're over here,
Speaker 1: nowhere near that type of luxury that those NBA players have, Man,
Speaker 1: rock stars right now. But I mean port Port mccraige
Speaker 1: got the Cowboys sneaking you in the side. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: we talked to you real quick here you think cup. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you got Russell, You got Russell Westbrooker, James Hardlight. We
Speaker 1: don't want to be here no more? Well, well were
Speaker 1: we committed one hundred and twenty one million dollars each ship? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you committed to me, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to be here anymore. Fix this, send me to New Jersey.
Speaker 1: But look, look look at man. It's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of guys getting that experience that
Speaker 1: I had. All right, So coming up next year, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of guys getting called in that room.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, and some of them don't even have
Speaker 1: an option to take a pay cut. It just be
Speaker 1: a man. We were letting you go. We go ahead, man,
Speaker 1: we call we call you, We call you in early,
Speaker 1: so you know you can have a chance to hit
Speaker 1: free agency early, you know, so so a team could
Speaker 1: really do they work on you see if you want
Speaker 1: to make the squad man. But we figured we're doing
Speaker 1: you a favor, get out of here. And also today,
Speaker 1: Kelly Stafford, who is the wife of Matthew Stafford, quarterback
Speaker 1: of the short Lines, who was from Highland Park, Texas,
Speaker 1: she decided to make a social media video and in it,
Speaker 1: she goes on a rant and she says she's over
Speaker 1: living in a dictatorship called Michigan, and she's upset at
Speaker 1: Governor Whitmer and just things that are going on. And
Speaker 1: she says small businesses aren't gonna make it, so she's tired,
Speaker 1: she's fed up, tired of them. And it, uh, I
Speaker 1: found it interesting when your husband's made well over two
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars and you know you're you're mad, you're tired.
Speaker 1: But I found it very interesting. Um, obviously I tell
Speaker 1: you what that sounds like to me. That's uh, let
Speaker 1: me tell you so you know, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: see it. But that's that's why we do. No, no,
Speaker 1: I still let me take that and it's just my OI.
Speaker 1: I still don't understand how you can watch TV, look
Speaker 1: at numbers and see all this stuff and then be
Speaker 1: whining about people, uh, you know, having to wear mask
Speaker 1: and COVID being out there and you're having to take
Speaker 1: out these precautions. To me, it don't make no sense
Speaker 1: at all to to if that's the way you feel,
Speaker 1: if you catch COVID, do not take your butt to
Speaker 1: the hospital. Just sit at home, to sit at all
Speaker 1: and wait it out. Because you're the person who said
Speaker 1: you don't care and you want to put everybody in risks,
Speaker 1: So don't go in there. Take up no hospital bed.
Speaker 1: You know that somebody else needs that. You do went
Speaker 1: out there and gave COVID. Just sit on at home
Speaker 1: and wait it out. If that's the way you want
Speaker 1: to live. If you haven't seen it, I retweeted it,
Speaker 1: So m go to Newest Scrugs and e wy As Cruggs.
Speaker 1: That's my handle on Twitter's Newest Scrugs and e w
Speaker 1: y A Scruggs. Now within this video, now she goes,
Speaker 1: she makes her impassioned plea about you know, she's worried
Speaker 1: about small businesses and she doesn't like to shut down,
Speaker 1: and she says, this is my opinion, And for me,
Speaker 1: that one thing I think about is, Okay, yes it's
Speaker 1: Kelly's opinion, but how do we know Kelly. We know
Speaker 1: Kelly as Matthew Stafford's wife, So this is ultimately going
Speaker 1: to come back on him and he's going to be
Speaker 1: asked about it when you're just trying to try and
Speaker 1: win some games on a bad team where the coach
Speaker 1: about to get fired, and now your wife and her
Speaker 1: her thoughts on COVID come into the room. Um, how
Speaker 1: does that play in a locker room? Guys? When when
Speaker 1: people's Because we saw Cole Beasley's wife a couple of
Speaker 1: times out there, she went out a couple of trolls
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I mean, how does that play in a
Speaker 1: locker room? When spouses and moms and dads and brothers
Speaker 1: get get out here on Twitter? We saw Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: brother get mad at the Cowboys when they didn't sign
Speaker 1: him to a franchise quarterback. How does that go? Church?
Speaker 1: I don't know, No, I think I think that it
Speaker 1: just depends on the topic. It depends on what it is.
Speaker 1: For a situation like this, you might get talked about
Speaker 1: it a little bit. When you look over in the
Speaker 1: corner you see something, some guys whispering and laughing, you know,
Speaker 1: they might be talking about you. When it comes to
Speaker 1: Dak and his brother, I think people probably felt the same,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh so, so it wasn't that big of
Speaker 1: a deal, you know, because everybody's kind of on the
Speaker 1: same accord that should have got paid. But to me,
Speaker 1: like I said, it depends on the subject and what's
Speaker 1: going on and what they got on there, and they
Speaker 1: talked about. For me, this one you might get laughed at.
Speaker 1: Your wife might get talked about if you know, don't
Speaker 1: take it personal. She you know, she went out there
Speaker 1: the same the same way. If you remember Steph Curry's
Speaker 1: wife went out there talking about she was upset because
Speaker 1: people because dudes wasn't getting her DMS, and you know,
Speaker 1: so you know they ate they ate her up, you know,
Speaker 1: so you know, you gotta be you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1: So it just depends on the topic. She shouldn't have
Speaker 1: said it, you know, and they and Steph Curry had
Speaker 1: to come to her defense and still coming to other
Speaker 1: visit you know, every day every time she posts them.
Speaker 1: So why if you gotta be careful man, Because it
Speaker 1: looked bad on your husband. You put him on a
Speaker 1: little pressure. Hey you said it. All right there man,
Speaker 1: You hit the nail right there. Man, he might get
Speaker 1: laughed at, you might not. But slippery slope, my friend.
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Speaker 1: and take her out as soon as this show ends.
Speaker 1: No think shows at home. Nobody cares about you. Everybody's
Speaker 1: doing it. I mean dogs, go ahead. Where are you
Speaker 1: at on the total pole in your house? You know,
Speaker 1: as far as who who's running things around there? Where
Speaker 1: are you at you? One? Two, three, four? Where are
Speaker 1: you at? Bright? Just write chance this. Some dude rings
Speaker 1: the doorbell and I'm just looking at him like yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like yeah, you know your wife sitting me over here.
Speaker 1: I'm the fireplace guy. Okay, what you're gonna do? She
Speaker 1: already told me, So I'm like, go you know where
Speaker 1: it is? Yeah, okay, told her. I text her, Hey,
Speaker 1: uh you know duds here for the fireplace. She's like
Speaker 1: oh yeah yeah. So then she then she calls me.
Speaker 1: I'm like hold on here she is. Um, yesterday the uh,
Speaker 1: the dog's nose was bleeding and so my wife ended
Speaker 1: up taking her down to the vet in Arlington, and um,
Speaker 1: you know I knew and and and the kids, and
Speaker 1: I was sleeping the kids. So yeah, mom took took
Speaker 1: took took the dog down the vet. And I know
Speaker 1: she loves that dog more than me and the kids,
Speaker 1: and so I went on down there just check her
Speaker 1: because they would they wouldn't let her in because of COVID.
Speaker 1: They don't let you in with the dog. So they
Speaker 1: come out to the car, they take the dog in.
Speaker 1: So I drove on down there just you know, brought
Speaker 1: a little support, you know, to make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: everything was all good. But um, yeah, she loves that
Speaker 1: dog more than all of us. Man. So that's what
Speaker 1: the dog is here barking. So you know, before she
Speaker 1: left the day she said, take care of the baby.
Speaker 1: That's the dog. And yeah, so yeah, brother, I just
Speaker 1: write checks, you know, I just write checks. Got a
Speaker 1: good life insurance positive when I they can go ahead
Speaker 1: and move and try to live. I think I know
Speaker 1: my No, he's accepted it, man, he's accepted it. Accepted
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do, let gonna do. You can be like, well,
Speaker 1: I got three three kids, bro, I can't I can't
Speaker 1: put put put up a fight bro like Colombo. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, man, go ahead and defend yourself. I had
Speaker 1: that workout for Colombo. You gonna have new get fired
Speaker 1: out here. Yeah, man, I always know. The thing I
Speaker 1: joke about with my wife all time was like, you know,
Speaker 1: your next husband ain't doing all this right to let
Speaker 1: you know your next husband not gonna wash these dishes
Speaker 1: and do all these clothes. Ain't gonna do that. And
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna be out iron and iron and dishes.
Speaker 1: I mean iron and clothes and washing dishes like your
Speaker 1: next I've been not doing all that. And I'll joke
Speaker 1: with the toes like put that in your profile, your
Speaker 1: match profiles, and put all that that you wanted the
Speaker 1: match profile. When I'm going deadn't gone. You see how
Speaker 1: that all work out for it, Like y'all gonna miss me,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna miss me. She would have a man when
Speaker 1: you going to it, don't or they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: use that for one kid. They're gonna have a cleaner service,
Speaker 1: eld like that all the time. They're not gonna be
Speaker 1: watching no dishance clear and no clothes, none of that.
Speaker 1: You know what when I met her, when I met her,
Speaker 1: I had a housekeeper. I met her, I had a housekeeper,
Speaker 1: and uh absolutely, okay, there is yeah, yeah, And when
Speaker 1: she did work, when she did because she had some
Speaker 1: material designs on Andre Gerard's house and she had she
Speaker 1: had she had hired her to go over to Drey's
Speaker 1: house too and take care of some things and and
Speaker 1: help his help help help his little living situation out.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, man, but uh yeah, bro, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. Man. You know, I'm good, good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good man. You know, my daughter's like
Speaker 1: me most of the time, you know most you know. See,
Speaker 1: you guys got little kids, you just wait till they
Speaker 1: really start having their own minds about things. And in
Speaker 1: one line, I consistently said, I'm not as dumb as
Speaker 1: you guys think. I am just saying just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: and so consistently I you know, you tell people things
Speaker 1: and people do what they want to do and just
Speaker 1: let them do it. You let them do it, and
Speaker 1: then they just realized, you know, man, he's not as
Speaker 1: dumb as we thought. He's not as dumb as we thought.
Speaker 1: We had our last child, I told I told my wife,
Speaker 1: I said, look, I need to get two times. This
Speaker 1: needs to be it because my wife was forty three
Speaker 1: when we had our last child. To forty three, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, we don't need to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: We're good because obviously, you guys know, as you get older,
Speaker 1: you know, the chances of having some issues with Burtney
Speaker 1: with the birth is it's tough. So it's December and
Speaker 1: she she says, hey, I went and got it scheduled.
Speaker 1: Did She looked, and she says, what if I'm not
Speaker 1: done having babies? Sure, the babies doing July. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna argue with her because I know summer's coming. So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, like, you know, just act like you
Speaker 1: don't here, just going and sure enough, summer comes around.
Speaker 1: She's got two kids under five, and you know, it's tough,
Speaker 1: and she's like, yeah, I ain't gonna have I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm just done. This is it. I'm like so and
Speaker 1: and then every now and then, when you know, the
Speaker 1: three kids kind of get a little too much and
Speaker 1: she gets frowsed. I was like, wait a minute, what
Speaker 1: if you're not done having babies yet? You know, I'll
Speaker 1: just take all these lines. And I used to hear it.
Speaker 1: I just regirt to take them back, you know what
Speaker 1: I thought. You know, she's mad at one of them.
Speaker 1: The other day, I said, but remember when she was perfect?
Speaker 1: Remember that. I remember you said, you said that she
Speaker 1: was perfect. She's still not perfect. So just remember all
Speaker 1: these things that your wife tells you. It just actually
Speaker 1: just take these words and just didn't you say this?
Speaker 1: And uh and it's fun, it's and I'll be married
Speaker 1: eighteen years next month. Man, I've been married eighteen years
Speaker 1: next month. And and I tell I tell people all time.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's that's probably two three times longer
Speaker 1: than most people are married. So um, but now I
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't trade my wife for the world. Man,
Speaker 1: it is. Uh. It's been eighteen years, having three kids,
Speaker 1: watching three kids, you know, become their own little people.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's it's crazy. It's not the same I
Speaker 1: tell me all time. It's just not the same as
Speaker 1: when you walk down that island was just YouTube. Uh.
Speaker 1: Little people change things change you change everything. Um, but
Speaker 1: it is uh, it's it's been a good ride, man.
Speaker 1: And it's been longer than most of my friends. I
Speaker 1: can say that. And I've seen some friends of mine
Speaker 1: go through some stuff. So uh. To be eighteen years
Speaker 1: with one person and still love that person through all
Speaker 1: the all the things you go through in life, through deaths,
Speaker 1: through ups and downs, man, it is. It's a challenge.
Speaker 1: And I especially I feel for you guys as happenings
Speaker 1: because I've seen a lot of you guys tire and
Speaker 1: then marriages break up. Um. You know, it was a
Speaker 1: buddy he might have played for the Cowboys, his wife
Speaker 1: and I don't want to give his name away, but
Speaker 1: his wife when he retired, His wife says she felt
Speaker 1: like she died and told him it was worse than
Speaker 1: when she found out that she had got sick with
Speaker 1: the disease that she loved being she loved being an
Speaker 1: NFL wife. And and I see a lot I see
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. I see a lot of guys coaches,
Speaker 1: coaches wives as well. Man, when it ends, man, you
Speaker 1: got someone who head for the hills. So that's what
Speaker 1: I say, Man, eighteen years to be with somebody. Man,
Speaker 1: it's for a long time, like I have. Man's that's that's, that's,
Speaker 1: that's that's a blessing because you know your you guys
Speaker 1: have a tough life because when you meet your depending
Speaker 1: on when you meet your wife, and then where your
Speaker 1: where your lives go. And then of course, man, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you guys are like every other NFL player. I
Speaker 1: know somethinge you hurts from playing football. You know, nobody
Speaker 1: leaves one hundred percent good. Everybody leaves with something that's hurting. Man.
Speaker 1: And um, And it's a challenge, man, it is a
Speaker 1: challenge to be married to a professional athlete. This is true.
Speaker 1: I don't know true NEWI I'm gonna start calling you
Speaker 1: knew he walls man, because I'm telling you we went
Speaker 1: for about thirteen minutes. My boy like this all about
Speaker 1: nor dovas going long always it's three things, okay, So
Speaker 1: three thirteen. We got two minutes. We got two minutes on.
Speaker 1: Arizona is at Seattle. Arizona is at Seattle. Seattle ever favorite.
Speaker 1: So barry what you got, Barried what you got? Right?
Speaker 1: We got we got fifteen seconds left. Man, all right, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead, break it like this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm you know what, I don't even yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm all all over the place. Now I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Arizona winsdays man, twenty seven to twenty one. Why,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm going with it. I'm going
Speaker 1: with I'm going with I'm going with Seattle. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: going with Seattle. Seattle's gonna pull this off in a
Speaker 1: high scoring game, uh, thirty thirty five to thirty one. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going to rusted with he gonna shake
Speaker 1: back this week. Goodness, y'all funny, bro y'all funny. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, Well, where you know where
Speaker 1: I'm going on? You know where I'm going? Right? Where
Speaker 1: you going? Man? Where are you going with it? I'm
Speaker 1: going with d Max. So we're going with Seattle, all right,
Speaker 1: It's all right. So it's because as long as I'm
Speaker 1: write about one thing, that's all that matters. Man. As
Speaker 1: long as I write about this, it all rasa. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, wait, Church, Church, Church
Speaker 1: not gonna be here tomorrow. So Church, you gotta give
Speaker 1: your pick for the for the Vikings versus the calling
Speaker 1: Ones as we get it. Oh, I told y'all, I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Cowboys this week. You know, either either
Speaker 1: Andy Dog or Young Gilbert. I mean, they're gonna pull
Speaker 1: this thing out. It's gonna be a tough one. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a close game. But I got the Cowboys
Speaker 1: winning this one. Seventeen thirteen. Okay, all right, I listen,
Speaker 1: I'm it's gonna start busting out laughing at me. Huh,
Speaker 1: he goes. I go on the opposite. I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: going to thirty one seventeen man, Minnesota, just so you know,
Speaker 1: just so you know, he's just gonna blog. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the only one right this week. I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm the only right we've been on this one.
Speaker 1: I'll give I'll give my score tomorrow. But the Vikings
Speaker 1: are favored by seven and a half points. Um. But
Speaker 1: I am taking Minnesota to win and to cover minnesot
Speaker 1: Older does what Dallas does not do well, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, stop the run. Dallas doesn't stop the run,
Speaker 1: and Minnesota runs the ball. And if Nick Chubb who
Speaker 1: ended up getting hurt, then it was Kareem hunting a dude.
Speaker 1: I never heard of all rush for three hundred and
Speaker 1: seven yards um. And even though the Cowboys improved a
Speaker 1: little bit, I just think that it's going to be
Speaker 1: too much to go up to Minnesota for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: even off of bye week. UM. So so yeah, you're
Speaker 1: about to go over two over two this week. Churchvil
Speaker 1: Nevil Gallimore, Nevil Gallimo different. He's gonna be the difference.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he's gonna be the difference in the
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't wait, I can't wait, can't wait.
Speaker 1: Poor su this is a This has been fun. This
Speaker 1: has been fun. I tell you, Very, you're entertaining. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I do this, show it you you are
Speaker 1: what y'all man, y'all something else. But it's all good
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna go Walls. Barry's very Barry's back now, Walls, Walls,
Speaker 1: he knew it, knew you did. Started getting a little
Speaker 1: ushy on the you know you, I like your wife
Speaker 1: was listening to this, so you was a man. I
Speaker 1: love my white man. You know, I wouldn't do nothing
Speaker 1: without you. Know. I was like, nunwi gets today. No, no,
Speaker 1: I feel no, I feel I know listen, I feel you,
Speaker 1: I feel you. I listen, I believe that I ain't that.
Speaker 1: That's a long time. We were in the rookie stages.
Speaker 1: But she was getting a little mushy on here though. Man,
Speaker 1: I thought a little too little, come aout job. For
Speaker 1: a second, just for a quick second, I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought the show. You know, hey, we gotta let's seeb
Speaker 1: go man, Danny. Danny says, you gave to the show yesterday.
Speaker 1: I figured I needed to get back to you. That's
Speaker 1: what makes a good podcasts. We share. We share with
Speaker 1: each other on things. So we're still waiting on a
Speaker 1: church to come around. Church. I'm sharing with y'all my
Speaker 1: nore Dominos powers man, That's what I'm sharing to y'all.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. Yes, I'm I'm anna like a story of
Speaker 1: the church next week. Don't worry. I'm ana like one
Speaker 1: of the one he can't deny. He gotta go ahead
Speaker 1: and explain it once once I bring it up. Just
Speaker 1: let me think on it a little bit. Producer Chris
Speaker 1: Beam has to go. He's got another show to get to.
Speaker 1: So that has been the player's Lines, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Hotels dot Com. Um once again, it's a four
Speaker 1: day work week for Barry Church. He's not going to
Speaker 1: be with us tomorrow. So Danny McCray and boy Ye
Speaker 1: handle all the duties tomorrow while Churches out. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be doings. I come to the show every week, maby,
Speaker 1: I come to the show every old days off. You
Speaker 1: couldn't play for Bill Belichick, Barry, because there's no days off.
Speaker 1: I'll be here tomorrow. McCray will be here tomorrow. Goodbye,
Speaker 1: Big Mike putting the game. We're putting the game, playing together,
Speaker 1: me and Big Mike putting the game. That's what That's
Speaker 1: what we got. You stop camping, Stop camping. That's the show. Goodbye.
Speaker 1: We gotta end the show on that one. This has
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