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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mediamash, a

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Speaker 1: roundtable of Cowboys insiders, wisdom and offering sizzling takes on

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Speaker 1: the current state of your Dallas Cowboys. Now your host,

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Speaker 1: Steve Dennis, the current state of the Dallas Cowboys. Man,

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Speaker 1: that's a heavy sentence right there. This is Mediamash, the

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Speaker 1: final one of the season. So glad you're with us

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Speaker 1: for it, all of you out there across Cowboys Nation.

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Speaker 1: We are gathered here today. Chill loves when I say

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Speaker 1: that to bury the season, bury the season. I don't

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Speaker 1: think we're gonna bury the team, but I can't speak

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Speaker 1: for these guys. We're gonna We're gonna possibly discuss burying

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Speaker 1: parts of the team, but we're gonna bury this season.

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Speaker 1: That That is our mission here. And before I introduced you,

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Speaker 1: guys always tease me. I want to get a shot

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Speaker 1: of this right here on this camera. This is my

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Speaker 1: notepad that is completely blank. Jory and Slater love to

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Speaker 1: make fun of me for all of my preparation and

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Speaker 1: I've done none. Why this is an hour free for

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Speaker 1: all where we just go wherever you guys want to go.

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Speaker 1: Is this your way of saying that the Cowboys weren't prepared,

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Speaker 1: were prepared? Why should I prepare? By gosh, we got

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Speaker 1: matches right here. This is Jamashoda from the Athletic About

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Speaker 1: Them Boys podcast. We got Rob Phillips over here on

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Speaker 1: all Cowboys platforms. He goes into his fine off season

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Speaker 1: work now which it never ends, does it? Right? Never? Never? Never?

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Speaker 1: That's good, it's fun. And this is the longest tenured

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Speaker 1: beat man in Dallas Fort Worth. Over here are good

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Speaker 1: buddy clarencey Hill junior of the four or a star

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Speaker 1: telegram that means I'm old and not seen any wins

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Speaker 1: your battle testing. You know I want to I want

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Speaker 1: to start with this. If you guys don't mind, And

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Speaker 1: again this is a free from we can go wherever

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Speaker 1: you want to go. I don't care now, I'm not

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Speaker 1: real big in the talk. What free agents are they gonna?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like fans right now. I don't

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Speaker 1: give a bleep about that right now. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I were Jerry, I would disappear on a yacht for

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Speaker 1: a month. I would drink, I would I would disagree.

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Speaker 1: I would have the greatest time in my life and

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Speaker 1: not even think about a damn fan. I think Chris's

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Speaker 1: co signed that one dry. I disagree, and I think

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Speaker 1: it starts with his radio interview to morrow. He needs

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Speaker 1: to come out angry. He can't be selling the positivity,

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Speaker 1: the glass half full. He needs to come out and

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Speaker 1: show the fan base that he's angry by this result.

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Speaker 1: It can be he's had time to think about it,

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Speaker 1: there's no in between. He needs to sound like he's

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Speaker 1: angry about this thing. I know he is angry. I

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Speaker 1: don't and I don't think. I don't necessarily think he

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Speaker 1: will either. I know he all right. Let me start

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Speaker 1: there because I wasn't there. You guys were around Jerry

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Speaker 1: all the years that I was around Jerry. I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: You could always look into his eyes and figure things out.

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Speaker 1: Let's start there. Jerry after the game, immediately with you

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Speaker 1: guys gathered around, What did you see in his eyes?

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Speaker 1: A sick man, A man that was very sick. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean he said he was shocked. He didn't see

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Speaker 1: this coming. He thought this team was built to win. Win.

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Speaker 1: Now he, you know, obviously disappointed. He's ever been in

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Speaker 1: a long time. You know, we've heard that before. But

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Speaker 1: was very disappointed and how the season ended, there was

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Speaker 1: no question about that. He was deliberate, He was purposeful

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Speaker 1: in his words. I'm surprised he didn't I don't know,

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Speaker 1: intermittently every four minutes just projectile vomit a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You might have, well, this is this that after the game,

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Speaker 1: out the locker room quickly, right, Well, ye happened. He

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Speaker 1: knows that it's not going to be the same. He's

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Speaker 1: any other whelp. This is the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: It sucks that it's ending. There was more behind that.

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Speaker 1: Let me start with this real quick, Clarence, and see

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Speaker 1: been there year after year after year, you have a

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Speaker 1: totally different feeling right now, and then the current team

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Speaker 1: does so. Mike McCarthy, you can't blame him. He comes

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Speaker 1: This is year three for him coming up, and that's

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Speaker 1: the proper attitude. You have to stay in the present

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Speaker 1: and deal with what's next. Dak, same thing. Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: me finish my point. The point is those of us

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Speaker 1: We heard all that for ten years. His name was

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And that's the disconnect. What amazes me

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Speaker 1: a disconnect there. Yeah, that's fine, but you didn't take

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Speaker 1: And then Elvis suden Neck like, well, this is only

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Speaker 1: understand what you're saying from like maybe a Micah Parsons

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Speaker 1: I'm factoring in that too, and that shouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: used as an excuse. Well, I'm just saying that's his

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Speaker 1: You could they could have walked out with the boombox

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Speaker 1: that that's not real. That's not real. Okay. My point

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Speaker 1: but they didn't. So you hate that comment because you

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Speaker 1: good point. That's a good point. What would But what

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Speaker 1: Clarence want another bit, like look next to somebody next

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Speaker 1: to them and be like, uh guys, uh go get go,

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Speaker 1: get the sledgehammer in the watermelon scupe, go to Walmart,

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Speaker 1: go across the Austin Bowers mojo moments something and motivational tactics.

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Speaker 1: Your team is nervous and you got nothing nothing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not great, nothing, And then he said after the

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Speaker 1: are we gonna get? Remember? What are we gonna get?

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Speaker 1: Running game? What are we gonna get? We went down

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Speaker 1: the line. You know what, we just kicks? You know

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Speaker 1: nothing from all of them. That is the most amazing

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Speaker 1: coach says that, I mean that talk about projectile vomiting. Really,

425
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Speaker 1: so all next year is going to be about making

426
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Speaker 1: sure there's no penalties forget everything else. Oh, the Cowboys

427
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 1: only had three penalties today. They got beat by thirty two,

428
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Speaker 1: but they only had three that he should have just

429
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Speaker 1: squelched that. I mean, but he said on the radios

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Speaker 1: morning that needs to get it needs to come down

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Speaker 1: to per game. They need to get it down to

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Speaker 1: per game. Look, look, team, this team, this team was

433
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Speaker 1: no game for the most average has come down and

434
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Speaker 1: they have to reduce it at least two per games

435
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Speaker 1: than twelve. Needs to be less than twelve. Right. This

436
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Speaker 1: team was known for the most points in the league,

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Speaker 1: the best offense in the league, the most takeaways in

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Speaker 1: the league. And now what we remember from the biggest

439
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Speaker 1: game of the year is that one over here the

440
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Speaker 1: most penalties in the league. That just usurps everything that

441
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Speaker 1: they did all year, and he's gonna make it all

442
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Speaker 1: about that for next year. I think I think some

443
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,359
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444
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Speaker 1: and that's been a large talking point, is that because

445
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Speaker 1: he was asked postgame, is this undisciplined team? And he

446
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Speaker 1: said no, because it and he got he got torch

447
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Speaker 1: for that. So I think that's part of why he

448
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Speaker 1: came out and said what he said. All right, let's

449
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Speaker 1: look into the future in terms of what fans are

450
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Speaker 1: now thinking about Dak maybe about it all. I mean,

451
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Speaker 1: we can go right down the list. Let's do that again.

452
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Speaker 1: Not gonna bury the team because you can't do that.

453
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Speaker 1: They're gonna gear it back up. The team will survive.

454
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Speaker 1: They've got good pieces. They'll go to work and get

455
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Speaker 1: busy with next year. But who's got the energy for that?

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Speaker 1: we just decided our first free agent issue. Give the

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Speaker 1: punter one hundred million dollars one hundred million, give anger

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Speaker 1: the biggest you need to commit that much to you

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Speaker 1: contract in punting history. But you know the fact that

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Speaker 1: nobody showed up. Nobody showed up nobody. I mean we're

496
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Speaker 1: talking about special players. Trayvon Diggs, Oh what a season,

497
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Speaker 1: didn't do anything. Michael Parsons who made a couple of

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Speaker 1: plays but didn't do anything special. Dak oh, Dak one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million, we all know the numbers. You

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Speaker 1: you got it, good for you. What'd you do? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: Nothing special? Running Game Pollard never got an opportunity, Ceedee

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Speaker 1: Lamb never got an opportunity nothing, Tyring, who's healthy and

503
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Speaker 1: ready to go. What'd you do Tyring? Nothing? None of

504
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Speaker 1: them did anything in the biggest game of the year.

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Speaker 1: So what do you do with that? If you're a

506
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Speaker 1: fan and you've been through the Wars, or you look

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Speaker 1: at Clarence's face, who's been through the Wars for twenty

508
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,479
Speaker 1: five years. Look at him. I mean, he's he's so

509
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: exasperated he can't even see straight. And what do you

510
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Speaker 1: do with that? In terms of belief in dak In McCarthy,

511
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: in any of them, what do you do? No, that's

512
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Speaker 1: the most disheartening thing. I had an editor tell me

513
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Speaker 1: earlier in my career that you know, part of what

514
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: you do when you cover sports is you try to

515
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Speaker 1: sell hope. And there's been no time obviously haven't been

516
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: covering the team as long as chill, but there's been

517
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Speaker 1: no time in my life covering sports that I'm having

518
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 1: a harder time doing that than right now, because I

519
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: don't know how you sell any hope off of this

520
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Speaker 1: past seat. The roster is not gonna be better. You're

521
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Speaker 1: probably gonna lose your best assistant coach. They're just you're

522
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: gonna lose. They're just not gonna bring back most of

523
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: these players. Like even if they go out and they

524
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Speaker 1: start out and they can win their first seven games, like,

525
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Speaker 1: why would you believe it's gonna be so? I guess

526
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Speaker 1: the only thing I would say is that I do

527
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Speaker 1: feel confident Will McClay he has a big say in

528
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Speaker 1: the personnel department. But even that, there's only so much

529
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Speaker 1: you can do. This is a team that is going

530
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Speaker 1: to spend money in free agency, so you have to

531
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: twenty fourth pick in the draft. Like, who's really excited

532
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: about that right now? Sorry David Hellman, but like it

533
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: just there's just stuff that starts next week. That's what

534
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying to night, And and that's why I feel

535
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Speaker 1: for the fans. I just starts. It's got to be

536
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: hard for the fans to watch this be going through

537
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: this entire season and think that, oh yeah, no, next

538
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: year it's gonna be better. It's gonna be it's gonna

539
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: be much better. Like how do you how do you

540
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: see that McCarthy says, don't matter of fact, Oh yeah,

541
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: we'll be better next So that's just false confidence. Absolutely

542
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: it is, yes, but there's nothing about First of all,

543
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have not had back to back winning seasons

544
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: since oh six or seven, Okay, last time they've been

545
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: back to back playoffs season. So Mike did eight times

546
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Speaker 1: in Green Bay. Okay, thank you, thank you, Michelle. To McCarthy,

547
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: that is a fact. It was told to us yesterday.

548
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: That's why I brought it up Canadian. But but I'm

549
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: just saying though that, and you look at this team.

550
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Speaker 1: You talked about losing ascision coaches, and you talk about

551
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: losing players and they have decision to make on players. Uh,

552
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: they're not sweeping nfcast Again. The schedule is tougher. You know,

553
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: they play Cincinnata, they played Tennessee, they play uh Tampa,

554
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: Green Bay, they played Tampa, they play the Rams. I

555
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: mean when when when it's like every team left in

556
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know it's gonna be a too much

557
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: tougher schedule. You have proved shown that you cannot beat

558
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: these teams. We're gonna show up for these teams sitting

559
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: here right now. Where where are you gonna get the

560
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: energy from? Like, how do you go to t It's

561
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: not going to training camp And what's the hope going

562
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: to training camp? Make feel you know? It's like you

563
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: you start. I'm like because the season next year won't

564
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: start if they make the play until they made the playoffs.

565
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: Because if you don't make it, if you don't win

566
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs, none of it matters. This is the disconnect.

567
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: McCarthy is thinking, I went twelve and five. I am

568
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: building a team. Nobody else in North Texas is feeling

569
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: that way. Not when you play like you did Sunday.

570
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: That's right. It's not that you lost. It's the way

571
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: you like if you pick the forty nine ers, but

572
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: to win that game. But it's the way they lost.

573
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: So what's gonna happen is you guys are gonna gear

574
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: it up. Like I said, here comes free agency, here

575
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: comes the draft, Here it comes off season. And let's

576
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: say they go eleven and what is it now, eleven

577
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: and six next year and it's a good football team

578
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: and they win the division. Again, none of it matters

579
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: until they play that first playoff and show up And

580
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: why would anybody believe with this head coach, with this quarterback,

581
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Speaker 1: with this entire team that it would be any damn

582
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Speaker 1: And my thing is that you brought up Romo and

583
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: and the problem with the Cowboys is that they don't

584
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Speaker 1: know how to win. They don't know what it takes

585
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: to win. Showing up and being coming to practice and

586
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: doing obviously the workouts, that's not winning. That's what McCarthy

587
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: was hired for. Okay, I'm just saying that that's not winning. Okay,

588
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: the state program and brotherhood, that's not winning. Right, You

589
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: can love each other, they talk all that stuff that

590
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: none of they can't hate each other, and yeah, none

591
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 1: of that is winning, you know, And you have to

592
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: show up when it matters most. You have to make

593
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Speaker 1: the play at the cruiser time. Do these guys have

594
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: that in them? Do they know how to do that?

595
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: They have not shown the ability to do that. This

596
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: is a new generation of that. That's my whole point,

597
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: you see, it's a new generation, but it's a new

598
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: generation that lives on social media. Who at some of

599
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: the posts the fans are letting him hear it? Believing?

600
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: Who believes in Dak right now? Nobody's a bigger Dak

601
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: fan than me. I thought I was fooled. I thought

602
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: this was going to be a magic run by Dada.

603
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: In fact, I was so excited with two forty two

604
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Speaker 1: to go in the game. I love the brilliant drama

605
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: of it. I'm going, oh, this is great. My wife

606
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: is going to have you been watching the whole I

607
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: don't care. It's right now, he can take him down

608
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Speaker 1: and win the game and change everything, and he failed. Miserable.

609
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that that makes me not believe in him.

610
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just kind of puts him where I

611
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Speaker 1: think a lot of us thought he was like he's

612
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: not in that like maybe top five category, but he's

613
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: right there with I mean, there's so many other teams

614
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: they're in that same boat. Well, then why is he

615
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: got number two money? Okay, I'm saying let's go back

616
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Speaker 1: to that. Yeah, because I'm talking even those guys. That's

617
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: the type of money. Let's look what's going across the league.

618
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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford didn't have any problem of that first playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Joe Joe Burrow didn't have any Stafford, Josh Allen didn't

620
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Speaker 1: have any problem, right, Matthew Stafford, the Mat Stafford Mini prayer,

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Speaker 1: playout Games's deck that see he does in Week two? Okay,

622
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: and he threw seventeen passes. He wasn't asked to play well,

623
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Speaker 1: he didn't have two good team. You're missing the point.

624
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Speaker 1: The point is the excitement in the city. Joe Burrow

625
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: right now is the man in Cincinnati. He is the

626
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: man and if he loses the next game. Was like that,

627
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: it hit at that age two like it's teams will

628
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: adjusted Joe Burrow and he'll have to adjust to them

629
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Speaker 1: like Tony Romo the first few years. The point is

630
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Speaker 1: we're six years down the road and now we're going,

631
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, do we have the exact same player

632
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Speaker 1: we had in Romo here? No, but you don't have

633
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Speaker 1: any other options? Well, the options you guys. I'm not

634
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Speaker 1: taking anything off of Darkness because look, he has to

635
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: play better. He knows that. But Romo. You mentioned that

636
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: stretch Romo was in and that was a period where

637
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: Romo was trying to do it by himself. And I'm

638
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: not saying that's a narrative that grew that I firmly

639
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: disagree with. And go ahead, I don't think that's a

640
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: narrative when they're something. They made it all Romo friendly.

641
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: Remember now, if they failed, that was their mission. The

642
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: offensive line was not anywhere close to the offensive line

643
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 1: that he had when his back went out on him

644
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: in his career ended. I think the offensive line was

645
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: fine with Gerard, who was a pro bowler. Leonard Davis

646
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: was a pro bowler. You still had Flozell who was

647
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: very capable. You had Cozar who came in from Detroit

648
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: who was very that's that's like oh seven o eight.

649
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: Oh No, I'm talking about twelve thirteen. That was his window.

650
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: That's when they were thirteen and three. Yeah, and that's

651
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: when you know that that's that was you know, that

652
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: was the window that that you got to do it.

653
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: But I'm saying the team that they built for him,

654
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: we even bringing in Zeke in twenty fourteen, that was

655
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: his best chance, and his health went out on him,

656
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: that was his best chance because he was now a

657
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: much more capable quarter. He was complete command of the offense,

658
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: he'd been in it for ten years, all of that. Yeah,

659
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm saying will get to that level. I don't know. Okay,

660
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying I think he can. I still think he can,

661
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: but I think he has to be better. They have

662
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: to do things schematically to help him. If you watch

663
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner's video, that brought some insight from the a

664
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: third party perspective on what they can do to help him,

665
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: and they need he needs help around him. They said

666
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: it was good, Yes, I said it. Leading up, they

667
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: didn't have a running game with any consistency that was

668
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: going to hurt you in the playoffs. There's that up front.

669
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: There was some disconnect in the passing game. Obviously that's

670
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: partly on Dak, but not Everything around him was not

671
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: nearly as stable as it was in twenty sixteen when

672
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: he was a rookie, and yet I'm now thinking that

673
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: might have been a better team because they had that

674
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: dominant offense. Let me slow your role just for a second.

675
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: Robin reminds you that they scored more points than anybody

676
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: else in the league. They were the number one offense

677
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: in the whole freaking league. Get skewed by some fifty

678
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: point games and some bad teams, you're gonna write a

679
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: narrative that we look back on ten years later, like

680
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: everybody did with Romo, and I lived it. I saw

681
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: every second. Didn't agree with any of it. They built

682
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: a team around Romo that should have won more, and

683
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: Romo failed period. But now let's not do that. This

684
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: offense was dynamic. This offense scored points. Kellen Moore the

685
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: the wonder kid, and now we're gonna say, oh, they

686
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: just don't have enough around him. Amari's making a hundred

687
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: million a year. Is the first round draft pick. I mean,

688
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: if you want to now say Tyrann's done and and

689
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 1: and Zach is on the way down, Okay, that's fair,

690
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: but but these guys are Pro bowlers in front of him.

691
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: Come on, man, he's got to make better decisions. Don't

692
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: matter listen, that's part of it. That's part of it.

693
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: But he got there's no question about that. It's on deck.

694
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: He's the quarterback. But to say that he had Pro

695
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 1: Bowls in front of them, that's not true. Tymas Smith

696
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: was not in We know that's that's we know that's

697
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: not true. It's one that one Pro Bowl in front

698
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: of him. Okay, the running game was a shell of

699
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: its former self. Let's go to be honest about that.

700
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: They had no running game. It would be nice to

701
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: know how many touches did Paulard have? No and that's

702
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: a problem. Okay, Well that's something that that's something they

703
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: have to work at. No. But but at the end

704
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: of the day, you have to find a way to win.

705
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: I go back to Romo. We always come back to

706
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: Romo and two thousand and six, you dropped the snap. Okay,

707
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: that's your moment. That team's going to play Chicago next

708
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,439
Speaker 1: and who knows where that's going. That that that's that's

709
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: your moment. You have to show up when it's your moment.

710
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: We go back to the nineties Cowboys. They a year early.

711
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: They showed up. They were not scared of the moment.

712
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: These Cowboys have not and that includes that. As I said,

713
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: they don't know how to win. They don't show up.

714
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: In the moment, Michael Irvin is getting peppered by stephen

715
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: A Monday. Okay, poor Michael, he is getting peppered, and

716
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: Michael Michael's fault. But wait, you're right he's now in

717
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: that chair or you got to do that? Or are

718
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: you for watching that? Why are you watching that? I

719
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: watched most stuff except Skip Bayless. I'll never watch that.

720
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: But uh, Michael was genius. Michael looks stephen A right

721
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: in the eye and shut him up with one paragraph.

722
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: He said, these star cowboys need the show up and play.

723
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: I did it, Akman did it, Emmett did it. The

724
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: stars need to show up and play. That's all. That's it.

725
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: That's it, And it's perfect to say half of that

726
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: game because none of them did. None of them did.

727
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. They didn't. We talked with

728
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: Jared said, did this show. I'm saying they did not

729
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: play their best football when didn't matter most, they didn't show.

730
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: And when none of them show up, it's one thing.

731
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: It's like just a couple guys in. But when none

732
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: of them do it's hard to just say it's just

733
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: on the players, Like, there's got to be more to that.

734
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: I don't kink be the organization. Going back into the

735
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: coach again, Well, the fact that CD had one catch

736
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: is not CD's fault. Well he dropped one two. But yes,

737
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: the fact that the head coach said they were nervous

738
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: to start the game and did nothing didn't let him

739
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: go out there. Okay, guys, shouldn't have had the watermelons

740
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: in his train. You're right, Walmart is righteous. Hey, fella's

741
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: quick watermelons session. We're doing. We got this, we got

742
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: this hold on. We're not going out for the national anthem.

743
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: We'll buy some time getting what you what? What should

744
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: he have done, Chill? I don't know, but I want

745
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: to have sook the walls in that room. Wake the

746
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: hell up. Yeah, the use that word. But goodness, great internet,

747
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: if you vulinarians and just start slapping them. If you

748
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 1: see it, he said he saw it. He saw it.

749
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: He's the head coach and he saw it. Yeah. It's

750
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: not good, not good at all. I'm wondering what he

751
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: saw though, what what what was the I mean, how

752
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: do you tell somebody? Because John's right, watching the forty

753
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: nine ers video. I'm not saying, oh, I'm not there,

754
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: they're Yeah, that doesn't necessarily I don't know. I would

755
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: have probably because you walk in that locker room all

756
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: the time. You know how many writers season games you

757
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: walk in there. And I bet you it was real quiet.

758
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: And I bet you he walked in there, and there's

759
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: been plenty of times where it's been rocking in there,

760
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, he had a good feeling

761
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: about and he walked in there and it was probably

762
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: extremely quiet, and he could just tell on the look

763
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: on everyone's face is like, well, this is a big moment,

764
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: like this did he did nothing. He didn't speak to

765
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: the moment. He just step into the moment to do

766
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: something to give his team. And I just don't think

767
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: that's his style, that he got to out to your

768
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: sample size. I don't see that being him. But the

769
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: other thing is it's just like, you know, I go

770
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 1: back to the dak comments after the game. The pressure

771
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: got to them. Yeah, for sure, the pressure got to

772
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: them before got to them. It goes, it's decades of it.

773
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: Anybody who puts the uniform on here, the pressure gets

774
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: to a normal at the moment got to them. They

775
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: may have been better starting off on the road, I

776
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: don't know, but the pressure got to them. I tell

777
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: you this, Dak, God love him. First of all. I

778
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: want to say that when you start a sentence like that,

779
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: but I want to say this. You know I loved

780
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: Tony Romo. I don't know why you couldn't if you're

781
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: watching that team all his years. Okay, but Tony became

782
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: what Tony is. Does anybody else see the irony of

783
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: him calling the game and he's yucking it up about

784
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: Dak not getting the job done. I mean, he's being

785
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: a comedian up there in the booth while the Cowboys

786
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: are imploding, and I'm sitting there. The irony is just

787
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: killing me. I mean because I didn't I didn't watch

788
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: the he was he was just cracking funny. But but

789
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: Dak says, hey, I know what we have in this room.

790
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: We're not worried about it. We don't care what's going

791
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 1: on outside these walls. We know what we have in here, Dak.

792
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: That's what you have in there. What we saw against

793
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: the team that you're home and favored against, that's what

794
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: you have in that locker room. Man. We believe you.

795
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: We've been with you, but you got to show better

796
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: than that. And now I don't know how you can

797
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: believe in what tax it. And you know what makes

798
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: it worse, Steve, is that there were times towards the

799
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,479
Speaker 1: back end of the season where he was being asked

800
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: about some of this stuff and he got defensive and

801
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: he said some things like, uh, yeah, I know there's

802
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: people jumping off the bandwagon, but we don't care because

803
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: we know what we have in here. So it's like,

804
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: this isn't just after that playoff game. This has been

805
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: going on through the back end of the season when

806
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: they started struggling right at the Denver game. And so

807
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: that's why you have this large sample size to where

808
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: I don't care who they open with next year. I

809
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: don't care what they do. There's no way that anybody

810
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: is going to buy into any of this until it's

811
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: literally three hundred and sixty five days from now, and

812
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: that's a long It's the week of the next playoff game. Yeah, yeah,

813
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: it really is, and Cowboys fans should be very pumped

814
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: up for that week and very excited. But why, yeah,

815
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there thinking you're going to go through that

816
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people in stadium. Well yeah, I mean it's like,

817
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you want to talking about

818
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: sell thousand nine Ers fans in there, if you want to,

819
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: if you want to sell hope, it's that. I do

820
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: think unless the rest of the yeast gets vastly better,

821
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: if Russell Wilson winds up going to the Giants or something,

822
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: then they ought to win the division again on paper matter,

823
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 1: But body cares about that. But you got and I'm

824
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: saying they could get back to that right point, But

825
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: this is your point. Schedule is gonna be tougher. It's

826
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: tougher than ever is now because now you get the

827
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: seventeenth game against Joe Burrow and the Bengals. That's no fun.

828
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: So and then so then what you get once you

829
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: get back to that stage, then it's what do you

830
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: that's true? I mean, you got to go through the process.

831
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna start over, you're gonna ramp it up,

832
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: You're gonna the whole bit. And we get that year

833
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: after year after year. But I mean sometimes you gotta

834
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: pause and ask the big questions. And in about two

835
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve, the question became to some of us.

836
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: Is Romo the right guy? And here we are again,

837
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: it's a fair question. You gave all that money to Dak?

838
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: Is he the right guy? And they're not asking that

839
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: question in Cincinnati right now? There are other between Steve.

840
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: This isn't like replaced one of us where you can

841
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: just go get another guy that follows the Cowboys like

842
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: no offense. Yes, but we're talking about winning the show.

843
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: There's just not that many guys out there that do that.

844
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:10,919
Speaker 1: Is not that many guys that are good quarterbacks out there,

845
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: very few, you know, just get rid of Romo on that.

846
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that they did that and got

847
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: Dak is amazing. Even even how long did it takes

848
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: this day to get joe Burrow? You want to go

849
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: through all of that to get Joey b Well, you

850
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: just get him in the first pick of the draft. Hey,

851
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm talking since and Preston, Hey, you know what thirty

852
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: years of not doing anything? The ram is by the way,

853
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: the Rams are dangerous. They might go to the super Bowl,

854
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: who knows. But Clarence brought it up with Stafford, and

855
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: Stafford has not been great down the stretch, and even

856
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: as far as like a week or two ago. It

857
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: was like, oh, he's just the same guy he was

858
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: in Detroit. So I least he won a playoff game.

859
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: I hear you, the Cowboys are home. So what if

860
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: can you say I got you? I hear you on

861
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: that a playoff game too, just not this year. Yeah,

862
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: his rookie year he did no see'll be Russell Bills

863
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: right right, so and then yeah, and then the ram

864
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: that's and that's a good one that child brings up.

865
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd think for the longest sign that, oh

866
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: you got Russell Wilson, you're good. Do you think Seattle

867
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: right now? I was thinking like we got the last stuff,

868
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: we gotta do it, but we're good because we have Russ.

869
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 1: Now that you really still feel in that way about him, yeah,

870
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: it's it's but he's already won a super Bowl and

871
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: been to two. When you think that that matters right

872
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: now though, when the defense was the best part of

873
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: the team. Sure, I know, we don't like to let

874
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: the details get in. He did not lead their team

875
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl, but he got a super Bowl

876
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: in his resume. He's the quarterback and he won the

877
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Chill, but that's the end of the discussion.

878
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: But we all and since the defense has not been

879
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: the top deepen in the league, he let them to

880
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: know where. And that kind of goes back to my point. Hey,

881
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: he let them to know where. I mean, I got

882
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: part of it is he got a super Bowl champion.

883
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: He needs he needs to be better. He needs to

884
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: be better, but he does need help, just like everybody

885
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: loves that. Yes, why would you not. He's very much

886
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: like Tony, very likable, he's the right kind of guy,

887
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: all that, all that, but six years now, you're wondering, oh,

888
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: get back in this situation, what's that gonna do? There's

889
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: no questions. What's gonna You're gonna build it all around.

890
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: You're gonna starts with the quarterback. He has to play

891
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: his best football when it matters most. And in the

892
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: line wasn't good at times, but there were plays he

893
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: was inaccurate at times. There were plays he left out

894
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: there on the field. And you know, and I'm not

895
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: even talking about that the decision at the end. So yes,

896
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: he has to be better. There's no questions. That's where

897
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: the hope is. The hope is still gotta be with that. Yeah,

898
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: i mean, I'm telling you right now, if they lose

899
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: that game, and but he threw four touchdowns in like

900
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: three or fifty yards. But just like the defense sucked

901
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: and different the cat fumbling, you'd have that because that

902
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: is the biggest piece that you could have. But for

903
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: him to play like that, like we go back to

904
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: that two minutes and whatever forty five seconds for not

905
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: to execute in that situation, get get get seven. There

906
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: is just man, Oh, it's just the difference. And who

907
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: knows what the difference is. Okay, we've been in these discussions.

908
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: What what makes mahomes mahomes? All right? What is it

909
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: about that cat that if he's got two forty two

910
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: to go and three timeouts in the two minute warning

911
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: and all he needs is a touchdown, he's gonna do

912
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: it too quick Now you're gonna worry about it. Also,

913
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: lockstep with his with his coach. I think they're perfect fits.

914
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: Great to see what is it about those See what

915
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: we just keep around here? We hoped Romo was that

916
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: We now hope Dak is that there's only one home.

917
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: Well the other guys, Josh Allen, we don't know if

918
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: he hasn't done anything yet either, and we don't know

919
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: what he would do if he was playing for the

920
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys compared to playing for the Bills. Well, you could

921
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: just put just behind seven straight possessions against Belichick in

922
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: the first playoff game. Okay, that's enough for me right now.

923
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: But that's Buffalo men. I mean, it's just different when

924
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,800
Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys. But let's not act like wildcart playoff

925
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: wins means you've made it. We still cannot do that.

926
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm also winning in Buffalo is when not just because

927
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: he lost this game doesn't mean he will next year

928
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: in the same city. There's got to be growth. And

929
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: that's where the without question, because it's a quarterbacks league,

930
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: get the playoff field. Except for Jimmy g everybody that's

931
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: left is you can say, is a franchise. Jimmy Ge

932
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: want a playoff game. He suck. But you're like Jerry Clarence.

933
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: You're not getting any younger. I understand that, but there's

934
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: only there's only three of them that are proven as

935
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Petrick Holmes. Everybody else and

936
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: even with all of that, and and even with all

937
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: of them, you still don't know what they would do

938
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys quarterback. There's clearly a different pressure on

939
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: you because of a lot of the things you mentioned,

940
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys that have come before and

941
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: then get the job done, and just the magnitude of

942
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: how many you know, fans they have, just the polarized

943
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: polarization of this. Troy was talking about the other day

944
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: on the radio about how you know whether you're good

945
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: or bad. You're always one of the top stories, Like

946
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: you have all these endorsement deals. Everybody comes at after you.

947
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: Like doing it with the Bengals and the Bills is

948
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: not the same. Like do I think Joe Burrow would

949
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: be good here? Do I think Josh Allen would be

950
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: good here? Absolutely? But I don't know that they would

951
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: have any better results than what Dax had recently. I don't.

952
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 1: And I love Aikman's comments this week. By the way, Troy,

953
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: By the way, Troy Aikman, this is a dude who

954
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: was the first pick in the draft, almost got killed

955
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: his rookie year, and won three Super Bowls. Whatever that

956
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: dude wants to say, he's allowed to say. And what

957
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: he said about the simplicity of the game, Hey, you

958
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: may want to give Ceedee Lamb the ball more than twice,

959
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 1: but that he was not also pointing to the Cowboys

960
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 1: he was mentioned about. It's a league thing too. Just ridiculous.

961
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it goes back to you know, McCarthy

962
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: talked every week we like ball distribution forget. Yeah, that's

963
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: a good point. I mean, it makes no sense that

964
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: you want to get Hey, hey, hey, you want to

965
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 1: do ball distribution. Um, I got news for you, guys.

966
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: Um that team that they just played is real happy

967
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: that Cedric Wilson and Dalton Schultz got all the touches

968
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: and all the targets. They Hey, guys, it's it's what

969
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: they wanted you to do. You played right into their hand.

970
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: And that's what McCarthy. This is a quarterback front of

971
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: the offense, and that's about buzz back. The quarterback. Well,

972
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: you helped the quarterback by getting the ball in the

973
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: hands of your play. One of you guys said something

974
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: genius last week that I lately bought into. It was

975
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: either it was either you or you. I think that

976
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: said that Dan Quinn will not let this team get punked.

977
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: And when Deebo Samuel tells his coach get me the

978
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: ball on this first play and he scores a freaking touchdown,

979
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: that's getting punked some of this philosophy. It goes back

980
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: to Jason Garrett talked about what the guy I could do.

981
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: I didn't un see dan Quinn down there with a

982
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: helmet on for that, Jason, No, but he's your star.

983
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: Defense plays. But that's that's that's on the Marcus Larrence

984
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: and those guys that are on the field. That's not

985
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: on dan Quinn. And again you can know, but that

986
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: was made that that was a sudden saying situation. He

987
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: cut back because I watched it the day and IMCA

988
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: got cut off and he cut back, and that's fine.

989
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: But the defense played well enough, especially after the way

990
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: they don't think I think San Francisco ran over him. Well,

991
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:07,759
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992
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,880
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993
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:11,520
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994
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:13,080
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995
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,279
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996
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,760
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1041
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1049
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00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: cost way too much money and he can save a

1051
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: lot of money. And Cedric and Gallop and CD or

1052
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: fine by me, they're Flak Turner two by the Okay,

1053
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: they're fine. They're fine by you, but they're not better.

1054
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: And we just got done talking the last segment about

1055
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: Dak and being making the offense Dak friendly. I just

1056
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,200
Speaker 1: don't know how he's better off without Amori. But you

1057
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: do bring up a good point that the money is

1058
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: a lot when a Maori shows up, he's really good. Yeah.

1059
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: Is it that or is he not being featured like

1060
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: he should be or is it both? Do you? I

1061
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: think it's I think we've seen that characteristic from Amory

1062
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: with a couple of different coordinators. Okay, I'm just going

1063
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,239
Speaker 1: off of what and Troy made some great points on

1064
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: local radio, but I think that he's referring to Ceedee Lamb.

1065
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 1: But it's also goes for mari Cooper. There's single coverage

1066
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: for a Mariy Cooper on the outside go to. John

1067
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: was saying this weeks ago, like there's got to be

1068
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 1: a go to guy, And that's what I was trying

1069
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: to say before the break is this goes back to

1070
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's time here, where it's we're gonna take what

1071
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: the defense gives us and all that instead of and

1072
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: everybody's counter and rightfully so is Cooper Cup distribution? Yeah,

1073
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: it's the counter is Cooper Cup and Davante Adams and

1074
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase and all that, where not just find a

1075
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: way because this guy is really good. You don't have

1076
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: to do every game but in like that would have

1077
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: really helped in that game. Well, one of the things,

1078
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: one of the things that that Romo matured into was

1079
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback that did all that himself. When he knew

1080
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: it was time to go to Deaz, he went to

1081
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: DEAs no matter what the play call was. Dak needs

1082
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: that free You know, when do you think that happened

1083
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: for him? Though? Well, he was like around what year? Okay, eleven,

1084
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: twelve in there and I just got here in like eleven.

1085
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: It's after six five seasons. Maybe it depends on the

1086
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: coach and the coordinator. But right now Kellen does and

1087
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: give Dak that freedom, and he should. Dak smart enough

1088
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: to know, I gotta get the ball to CD and

1089
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: Mri here and and there's gotta be you got to

1090
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: get the bott of dollars to shows the number one

1091
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: tit in the league. And he's not bad. Now you

1092
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: can let him go though if you want to. I

1093
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: mean that's another nay, that be nice to keep him,

1094
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: But no, I would. I would sacrifice some Mari because

1095
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 1: of the money, Cedric and Gallup and CD to me

1096
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: make up a nice trio. Probably draft somebody, draft some

1097
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: young player and Malik will probably be here who I

1098
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 1: think is a good young possibility. Um Amri's a little

1099
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: top heavy for the production. That's simple. The problem with

1100
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: the you say top baby for the production because as

1101
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:45,840
Speaker 1: we talked about ball distribution, why would you pay a

1102
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: guy twenty million dollars and not make a point to

1103
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: make him a foot a part of y'all? We've been

1104
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: discussing that for decades. So is that I mean, that's

1105
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: that's I don't And you know why it never happened

1106
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: with Dez because he had a big mouth. You know

1107
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: why it never happened with t O because he had

1108
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: a big mouth. They were prima donnas who demanded the football.

1109
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: Amari plays chess. I don't. It doesn't. I don't need to.

1110
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't need to demand the football. My money demands

1111
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: the football you're getting. We talk about salary cap. How

1112
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 1: important are you paying a guy twenty movie a year

1113
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: that says get him the ball? He's important to what

1114
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: you do. You're right, while I don't need to scream,

1115
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: my money is screaming it no, but it work that way.

1116
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way. That's why Daz was always

1117
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: in Romo's face to make sure that he's getting the football.

1118
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it didn't win nothing.

1119
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, but you're just specifically talking about

1120
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: that aspect of it. We're talking about. Cannot let them

1121
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: let him disappear in a football game, can't. That's what

1122
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: white receivers. Do you think Jamar Chase is gonna let

1123
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 1: borrow forget about him? Well, he didn't speak up down

1124
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: the stretch and a very very diplomatic needs to do

1125
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: it on the field. Yeah, I don't know how. I

1126
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: don't know how. I don't know how you look at

1127
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: the dropping production down the stretch and say, well, let's

1128
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 1: take a Mari off this offense. Now we'll be bad. Well, ceedee.

1129
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: Lamb needs to become a hundred and thirty catch guy.

1130
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 1: He needs to be Michael Thomas rob When you say that,

1131
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: I'll maybe think of his like they cut him. And

1132
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: then it's just like twenty eighteen where it's just like

1133
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: we're at we're at the trade deadline and it's like, huh,

1134
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: they're trade in the first round and take from a

1135
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: receiver because it wasn't what we thought was when they

1136
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: went into eighteen. Well, it's different. Now you do have

1137
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 1: Ceede Lamb at eighteen, they didn't have a number one receiver.

1138
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:32,479
Speaker 1: They had three number three receivers. Basically, Yeah, I guess

1139
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: I can't bring up Calvin Ridley now because he disappeared

1140
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: this year with some issues. So you think CD could

1141
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: be the lead guy to be kept cup. He should

1142
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 1: catch the ball one hundred and twenty times like Michael

1143
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: Thomas did or will still maybe for New Orleans, who

1144
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: knows what he's I agree with you that they've got

1145
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: to create some money somewhere or just have to just

1146
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: try to skate by to resign who they can. Your

1147
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: options are to Marcus Lawrence, Zeke or a Marie. What

1148
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: are your other options in creating money? Oh? I don't

1149
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: think you can creating money off Zeke this year. I

1150
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: think you have to wait till another year. Another year

1151
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: you can restructure. Yeah, but yeah, you're another year on still. Yeah,

1152
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: which is okay because I think Zeke Pollard in in

1153
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: a newcomer real quick on this, because you are a

1154
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: house Steake guy. That's my running back. How do you

1155
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: feel about finding out yesterday that he had that PCL

1156
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: injury in Week four against Carolina? Well, I just think

1157
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 1: he's a ridiculous warrior. I've been saying that all along now.

1158
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: Whether that helps the team or not, Yeah, I think

1159
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: that Zeke refused to leave the field because he he

1160
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: does sort of set a tone in that regard. There

1161
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: are other guys on this team, Amari, who don't have

1162
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: that kind of an attitude. Zeke has that attitude. I'm

1163
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: not coming off the field now. Whether that's effective or not, discuss,

1164
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: but that's the kind of warrior he is. I think

1165
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: the discussion is I think I looked it up. Tony

1166
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: Pod played thirty percent of the snaps and they told

1167
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: us in camp they intimated it would be higher than

1168
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: that this year to save Zeke for the playoffs, and

1169
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't do it. Last week when we

1170
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: didn't remember, I was like, man, I just want to

1171
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: see them do somewhere, like maybe they're on the field

1172
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: at the same time there was one player. See that's

1173
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: the answer, because I think part of it is, well,

1174
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: Zeke's a great passpart and you see something Dack's getting

1175
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 1: just running for his life, Like, Okay, it helps to

1176
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: have Zeke in there. What about both of them together?

1177
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: They could some of that. Let's ask this chill are

1178
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: you still with us? Yeah? Do you think Pollard next

1179
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: year can be your main running back? Pollard is the guy.

1180
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: Pollard is going to be your thousand yard rusher. He's

1181
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: gonna be a three down back. Do you think he's

1182
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: that guy? Do I think the Cowboys are gonna make him? No?

1183
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: I'm asking you if you think it doesn't matter what

1184
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:56,439
Speaker 1: I think? Zeke, can we stop down right there? Say yes?

1185
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 1: Will he know it doesn't matter what I think? Good night?

1186
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,479
Speaker 1: Every about what? It doesn't matter because you know what's

1187
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen because he's going to be the starter. I

1188
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: just feel like you can get them both out there.

1189
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: There's got ways to use both of them. Creativity, I mean, yes,

1190
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: that's a good word. Well, we saw we saw some

1191
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: of it year. Yeah, yeah, we saw we saw guard

1192
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: you know, and then in the biggest game of the year,

1193
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: he decided the best thing to do with Pollard is

1194
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: not give him at all. All. I don't get I said.

1195
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: They didn't have an opportunity to say it's because of

1196
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,439
Speaker 1: the penalties whatever. Mike didn't really answer the question, really,

1197
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: he said, he said, I've only spoken to Kellen for

1198
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: like fifteen minutes last play. Yeah, I don't know. I'll

1199
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: say he was a weird game with Let's talk about

1200
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: the fans real quick, shall we? And Michelda. You tweeted it,

1201
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,920
Speaker 1: and when I read your tweet, I completely agreed with you.

1202
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 1: I've been around this team for twenty four seasons now

1203
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: and I have never felt this way that when that

1204
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: game ended. I felt bad for one group Cowboys fans

1205
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: that you said they deserve better in your tweet, and

1206
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you that it is. Man, I

1207
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: don't know how you're a Cowboys fan right now. I

1208
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: just don't now. The Georgia Bulldogs have been waiting a

1209
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,160
Speaker 1: hell of a long time to have what happened to them,

1210
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 1: So it's not easy. We all know that guys for

1211
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: a long time. Your Longhorns did it. So at some

1212
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: point it's got to be Cowboys fans turn again. Punched

1213
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: me in the face every year. Yeah, but you know

1214
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: number one recruiting class here they come. Baby, you better

1215
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 1: get a quarterback. You better get a quarterback. But I

1216
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: don't know what Cowboys fans do? Can we? All of

1217
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:46,760
Speaker 1: you listening? I mean, I I just felt so sorry

1218
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,479
Speaker 1: for you. I've never felt that way. Really, Where I'm going, God,

1219
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: they deserve better than this. Don't show what you have

1220
01:00:55,640 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: this season? Oh this quarterback? Oh Michael, oh try oh

1221
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: and then do that. The funniest part is that, and

1222
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: I hear this from Cowboys fans that they'll be like,

1223
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: They'll hear from their friends or other people that like,

1224
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: they're bandwagon fans. Then their responses, what's the bandwagon? Like?

1225
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: They're not like you know you you know how like

1226
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: if you went to the ac when the MAVs are

1227
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:22,200
Speaker 1: playing like the Warriors, Like, there's gonna be a ton

1228
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: of Warriors fans there. They've had like a dynasty run.

1229
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: You can get you can get understand that, like and

1230
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: obviously the Cowboys had that in the nineties, so you

1231
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: have some older fans that go back, but there's so

1232
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: many young fans are just like, if you think I'm

1233
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 1: jumping on the band the bandwagon of what I'm suffering

1234
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: through absolute mediocrity for the two decades I've been paying attention.

1235
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: What do you do? Chill? What's your message to the

1236
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys nation? Listen? I don't know because I know just

1237
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: talking to people and watching all the memes, and you

1238
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: know this would hit harder, this, this hurt more. You

1239
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: know there were people on suicide wire. There are people

1240
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,080
Speaker 1: who were giving up. You know, there there, there's Again

1241
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 1: I've said that there are generations of Cowboys fans who

1242
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 1: know nothing think about the Cowboys being winners. I mean,

1243
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: my kids have grown up and all they've seen is

1244
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: a mediocrity and heartache. You know, they around here, they

1245
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,040
Speaker 1: don't know anything about the five Super Bowls and three

1246
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 1: to what about it will be Greek mythology. This is

1247
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: all they know. This is what they see from as

1248
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: Cowboys team. And they hear from the older people about

1249
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: the greatness of the Cowboys, and certainly you see the

1250
01:02:19,440 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: they're always on TV and they're you know, the merchandise

1251
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: and all of us too. But it means nothing. My

1252
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: daughter laughed. My sixty year doesn't laugh. They lost again.

1253
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 1: What getspet my daughter on We're watching a football game

1254
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: with their friend Lexei and their college students and together again,

1255
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: hanging out all through Christmas, and we're watching a game

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Speaker 1: and Aikman's in the booth and both of them go.

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Speaker 1: Katie says to me, who is Aikman? Again? He was?

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Speaker 1: He was? What was he was? He like a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver for the Cowboys, And I said, really, you're both

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Speaker 1: born and raised in Dallas, Texas and you're both nineteen

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Speaker 1: and don't know what Troy Aikman was And they go, no,

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Speaker 1: not really, I know he was something. And then I go, well,

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Speaker 1: what was Romo Katie? And she knows Tony she wore

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Speaker 1: his jersey for a Christmas card when she was six.

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Speaker 1: But that's just amazing that they're born and raised here.

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Speaker 1: So two thousand and two is that the year they

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Speaker 1: were born? Yeah? So yeah, so no knowledge of Great.

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Speaker 1: They're getting to a level now where it's like that's

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Speaker 1: the majority of players on the roster. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: are of that age group that they weren't around like that.

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Speaker 1: It cracks me up when, like on these draft calls,

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Speaker 1: when we get some these again in the cameras car

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Speaker 1: after they were drafted, and they're always being asked about like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know what about the nineties? Cap was, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've seen some stuff on YouTube or whatever. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you don't know, probably fans it does. Is probably the

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Speaker 1: most recent guy they identified. I can say this. I

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Speaker 1: just recently turned forty, and they were the nineties Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Is the first team that like I knew of that

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Speaker 1: was like a dynasty thing. Yeah, I mean that that

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Speaker 1: goes back away. Well, I think the Cowboys fans do

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Speaker 1: take some solace in the fact that the rest of

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Speaker 1: the division's not doing anything. That's what. Yeah, the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: Redskins and Giants suck worse. You can get back to

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Speaker 1: this stage next year, and and then just and then

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Speaker 1: and then. What you're gonna have to take a humble

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Speaker 1: approach and don't get too fired up and just expect

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Speaker 1: the worst and maybe you'll be surprised. Is that the

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Speaker 1: attitude rob that just sold some season tickets right there.

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Speaker 1: It's just tough, but we've been there. I'm a passionate

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Speaker 1: buck Eye. I waited my whole life for two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two. He's a passionate long horn. That's the line

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Speaker 1: from Vince Vaughn and Dodgeballs. I feel like, if you

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Speaker 1: have a gold then you might not reach it. So

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Speaker 1: if I don't have any goals, then you are never disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't worry about it. Um all right, guys, that'll

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Speaker 1: wrap it up. Thanks so much for being here this

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Speaker 1: year on Media Match. I want to thank Slater and

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Speaker 1: Jory as well for a fun year discussing the Cowboys man.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you guys soon. Thanks for letting me talk

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Speaker 1: cowboys with you. Thanks to Derek Eagleton for letting me

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Speaker 1: be involved, Chris Beam Rookie for coming up with the idea.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Rookie for what you do. Hanging there Cowboys fans,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what to tell you. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting too old. Chills getting too old. I mean you

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Speaker 1: look at that. I'd like to give better advice, but

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Speaker 1: I just what the time when I used to try

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Speaker 1: to diet, But I just forget. Did you really a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, didn't you know that I used

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Speaker 1: to die for TV appearances? Not like Michael. You know

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Speaker 1: Michael Dies Clarence had one year too, where all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden he completely lost his belly. Hey yeah, one

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Speaker 1: year it's just disappear. Chill, where'd your belly go? And

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Speaker 1: then about eight months later it was back where and

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Speaker 1: we all felt better. Why aren't we talking about my belly?

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Speaker 1: All right? Guys? Thanks Cowboys fans hanging there by now.

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Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.