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Speaker 1: Newi Scrugs. Three Monday. Yes, it is a victory Monday
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football. The Cowboys shock a whole lot of
Speaker 1: people with a twenty to sixteen win at Minnesota's US
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Speaker 1: is Barry Church, former Dallas Cowboys safety number forty two,
Speaker 1: the Thereso Rocket. Yes, indeed, our other co hosts former
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. He's Danny McCray. Danny McCray unfortunately got hard
Speaker 1: up like so many Americans have this weekend with flight delayed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so sucks. Sucks. So d MAC can't get in from
Speaker 1: from Lay. There are a bunch of people who trying
Speaker 1: to who are trying to get up from DFW two
Speaker 1: Minnesota had to be rerouted or their flights were just canceled.
Speaker 1: P you hate to see it. I know that my photographer,
Speaker 1: Noah Buller, was supposed to leave it one he got
Speaker 1: his flight got canceled. He didn't get on a plane
Speaker 1: until seven. Clarence Hill didn't get on a plane until seven.
Speaker 1: Some other people had got delayed. I ended up being
Speaker 1: on a nine o'clock flight with Christie Scales and so ours.
Speaker 1: The nine o'clock didn't lead to till ten forty five.
Speaker 1: So it was yeah, I got in Minnesota one thirteen
Speaker 1: in the morning. Are you talking about Oh I thought
Speaker 1: you were talking about like you left at ten forty
Speaker 1: five in a day, No mine. Mine had a nine
Speaker 1: pm yeah, yeah, so it was yeah. So there were
Speaker 1: people a lot more delayed than what we were so
Speaker 1: in other Cowboy fans in general, So it was a
Speaker 1: lot for Cowboy fans to get on up there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, Cooper Rush was there. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: in there. He was in attendance for sure, and Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush with an outstanding memory and as an undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: sure you can relate to the man. There's just some
Speaker 1: moments that you probably have to be on the field
Speaker 1: and say look at me, and he's a fellow Matt guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Central Michigan's own nation, right, and to see that happened,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really cool moment for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was definitely a cool moment for him going out there,
Speaker 1: and he shocked a lot of people, including myself because
Speaker 1: I know I picked the Cowboys the wind going into
Speaker 1: the week, but that was with Dak Prescott behind the helms.
Speaker 1: We had Cooper rushing here, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: here we go, it's gonna be another Danucci moment out there.
Speaker 1: What the moment will seemed too big for him, The
Speaker 1: lights will be too bright for him out there. But
Speaker 1: I was extremely impressed on how he handled himself on
Speaker 1: the field against a Minnesota defense. Out there. He looked cool,
Speaker 1: calm and collected. And I'm not sure if that has
Speaker 1: to do with Kelly Moore's play calling, knowing his strengths
Speaker 1: and weaknesses out there, but the guy executed well. He
Speaker 1: put the ball where it needed to be. He had
Speaker 1: one interception out there on a bad It was a
Speaker 1: bad pass, it was a bad read out there, he
Speaker 1: threw it in between two safeties. But I love the
Speaker 1: resilience that he showed coming back into that game, not
Speaker 1: afraid to put it up in the air anymore, not
Speaker 1: afraid to go deep anymore. He went right back at him,
Speaker 1: and that's what you love about a quarterback. And he,
Speaker 1: to me, solidified his role as that backup here in Dallas,
Speaker 1: because if he would have went out there and let's
Speaker 1: just say he stunk up the joint, we would have
Speaker 1: been looking somewhere for trades. You know today, we'd have
Speaker 1: been like, oh man, we gotta find somewhere, whether it's
Speaker 1: you know, the guy in Chicago, somebody's got to come
Speaker 1: down here. But Cooper Rush, he came to play and
Speaker 1: showed that he belongs in this league. And you know,
Speaker 1: I got give him a round of applause because I
Speaker 1: was definitely one of the hardest critics of Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: talking about Double G, this Double G Dad, so hey,
Speaker 1: he definitely maybe swallow my words. He went out there
Speaker 1: and performed well. I saw a picture of Garrett Gilbert
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I saw that one. So that was me
Speaker 1: because the first half I was like, man, Double G
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been out there like that. Double G wouldn't
Speaker 1: have did that. But the resilience, it's like Cooper West
Speaker 1: to coo out there and battle and just go forward.
Speaker 1: And I mean he was putting that second half. He
Speaker 1: put on a display out there, and he was definitely
Speaker 1: one of the main reasons they brought home a w
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody in the press box at halftime, like,
Speaker 1: all right, man, gotta make a trade. Gotta make a trade,
Speaker 1: I said, And I said, I said, no said, first off,
Speaker 1: who are you going to trade for that knows your offense?
Speaker 1: Just like that Barry. You've played the league and you
Speaker 1: understand everybody's schemes not different because everybody schemes out the same.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of differences. So that was my first thought.
Speaker 1: You're trying to talk about trading for somebody who you know,
Speaker 1: they don't know your scheme. The second thing, and I
Speaker 1: told the person to media box, can we be fair.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who threw three NFL passes whole career. Okay,
Speaker 1: I said, there is an adjustment period. This is still
Speaker 1: the NFL. I said, give the guy some time. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying, Just give him some time. David Helmet
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot com. He tweeted in the first half,
Speaker 1: sorry folks, this is over. Helmet was like, this is
Speaker 1: he not gonna happen? At all, and where you give
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, Kellen Moore and the team credit. They made
Speaker 1: the adjustments at halftime and people were still right there
Speaker 1: with him. You come out in the second half and boom,
Speaker 1: there's that seventy four yard touchdown to Cedric Wilson, and
Speaker 1: now you're back in the football game. You're right there,
Speaker 1: it's tied, and you're feeling good. What Cooper Rush did
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five yards in the air on
Speaker 1: forty attempts for two touchdowns. They put it up that much.
Speaker 1: They had faith in him. Two minutes, fifty one seconds
Speaker 1: to go down sixteen thirteen, he takes Dallas down the field.
Speaker 1: They win the game. This was some serious stones man,
Speaker 1: and and I look at that for him and I
Speaker 1: just say, good for you, Idu. I got to meet
Speaker 1: his godfather before before the game. He had to rush
Speaker 1: Jersey on. Yeah. I saw that. I took a picture
Speaker 1: and tweeted out there. He tried not to give it away.
Speaker 1: He did. He was proud, but when you're a reporter,
Speaker 1: you know where, you know where to go with it,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the lack of answers and he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to say anything like okay, so you knew
Speaker 1: that he was going to to start. I was just
Speaker 1: really happy for Russ. What he looked like to me,
Speaker 1: Barry was that rookie year in his preseason when you saw, hey, man,
Speaker 1: this guy's got something here. He got That's what I saw.
Speaker 1: And I talked to him at training camp about hey,
Speaker 1: how do you get back into being that guy? And
Speaker 1: I don't know whether it was because he had nothing
Speaker 1: to lose or he just I don't know, but he
Speaker 1: looked like that guy. He did he did out there,
Speaker 1: and what was crazy to me was going into the
Speaker 1: week or not going into this game. So probably like
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sun of AB a little earlier on Sunday,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was talking about how there's no drawback when
Speaker 1: it comes to the playbook, like when Cooper Russia is
Speaker 1: out there, the whole playbook is wide open, and I
Speaker 1: thought to myself, how you gotta be talking crazy? Just
Speaker 1: this guy ain't got what it takes to be able
Speaker 1: to have full command of this offense. But he was
Speaker 1: able to go out there and do exactly what Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott would have done out there at a little bit
Speaker 1: lesser level. But he was very efficient out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had the one interception, but besides that, he was
Speaker 1: putting the ball where it needed to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: outside of that that interception and that CD Lamb dropped past,
Speaker 1: the guy was super efficient and he had a hell
Speaker 1: of a day from from Cooper out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: because there was a couple of times where it could
Speaker 1: have been intercepted, but the ball just seemed to bounce
Speaker 1: our way out there, and those are the type of
Speaker 1: bounces and the lucky draws that you gotta have when
Speaker 1: you're trying to make this long run. I mean, not
Speaker 1: everything is going to be perfect, but the way he
Speaker 1: was up was able to go out there deal the
Speaker 1: football around. Amari Cooper having a hell of a day
Speaker 1: out there. This is the first time I've seen him
Speaker 1: show up in an away game since he's been here
Speaker 1: in Dallas, and he went out there and he did
Speaker 1: what he had to do. They took advantage of that
Speaker 1: thin secondary with no Patrick Peterson. Harrison Smith's still the beast,
Speaker 1: but they kind they kind of shot away from him
Speaker 1: a little bit, and they could do that because the
Speaker 1: two corners they had on the edge they just weren't
Speaker 1: it and they knew that they could take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Kudos to Kelly Moore as well. This guy seem to
Speaker 1: be in his bag all year, no matter what the
Speaker 1: situation is. He's attacking these defensive weaknesses Tampa Bay. We
Speaker 1: saw the secondary. The next go around, we go against
Speaker 1: the charges, we go to the run game. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy is in his bag. He knew what he
Speaker 1: had coming into the game because Cooper Rush had took
Speaker 1: the majority of the first team reps doing practice throughout
Speaker 1: the week, so he knew what he had going into
Speaker 1: this game, and he called a masterful game. How do
Speaker 1: you you put Lia Collins at fullback next to McGovern
Speaker 1: and then you got the wishbone back there. I mean,
Speaker 1: some of the stuff he's drawing up, the creativity he
Speaker 1: has right now is on another level. And I would
Speaker 1: not be surprised if somebody comes and poaches him next
Speaker 1: year going into the offseason, because this guy right now,
Speaker 1: he's coaching at another level, he's playing at another level.
Speaker 1: I would definitely say at this point in time, Cowboy
Speaker 1: fans be prepared to have a new offensive coordinator. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, man, And I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: he's not on the shortlist for Minnesota because leaving Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the amount of people who wanted Mike zimmer On as
Speaker 1: head coach, Kubiak the offensive coordinator gone, and Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: gone were just high. It was just so high. And
Speaker 1: I was disappointed in Kirk. I was disappointed in Kirt.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wanted the Cowboys to win. But but
Speaker 1: why I fire you. You know, he's been playing some
Speaker 1: of the best ball of his career so far this season.
Speaker 1: I mean, thirteen tubs, only two interception. She's taking care
Speaker 1: of the football. But he just went out there and
Speaker 1: became a checkdown Charlie. And I don't understand. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe it was what dan Quinn's defense is doing to people.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. But he went to check down Charlie
Speaker 1: because there was a couple of examples on those boots.
Speaker 1: They loved to run boots with Kirk Cousins, and they
Speaker 1: ran a lot of them yesterday. But he had the
Speaker 1: deeper over option available, whether it was feedling, whatever, whether
Speaker 1: it was justin Jefferson, he had those options open, but
Speaker 1: he decided to go to the checkdown to the fullback
Speaker 1: or to the running back who surrounded by defensive players.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it was just the rush
Speaker 1: that Randy Gregory and those boys were providing, or just
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins just just reverting back to Washington. Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: but he did not look good yesterday. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what this did a great job of doing. Hold
Speaker 1: hold on, all right, go ahead, the defense the next
Speaker 1: sege all right. They deserved their own, their old slights
Speaker 1: of the five for what they did. Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: now eight and seventeen in primetime games in his career
Speaker 1: age of seventeen. The lights are too big. Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: is one and the oh. He turned out to five
Speaker 1: or three pass attempts into a one and oh three
Speaker 1: hundred yard performance out there and lowest primetime win percentage
Speaker 1: since two thousand. Kirk Cousins is number one and three twenty,
Speaker 1: followed by Eli Manning, Carson Palmer, and Jay Cutler minimum
Speaker 1: twenty five stars. It's gotta be something, you know, in
Speaker 1: the brand. There got to be something up top of that.
Speaker 1: Because he was performing well in all his other games,
Speaker 1: daytime games, it doesn't matter. He was performing, but when
Speaker 1: you get to those primetime and those lights, it's got
Speaker 1: to be something he's seeing all the reporters on the
Speaker 1: edge or something he's seeing, you know, but she to
Speaker 1: Foy and au him over there. It's got to be
Speaker 1: something that he knows everybody's watching it, and he kind
Speaker 1: of shells up. I don't get it, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He was playing great ball so far this season, so
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. The Minnesota they called him, they
Speaker 1: called PTK. PTK was Primetime Kurt because they just he's
Speaker 1: gonna just melt down. So they knew going into this
Speaker 1: it was going to be one of them games. He's
Speaker 1: the second highest paid quarterback the National Football League, making
Speaker 1: thirty one million dollars this year. So many, so much
Speaker 1: guarantee too, yeah, eighty all of it is Gary. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's no some all eighty four meals Garing. He made
Speaker 1: a hell of a deal. He is taking a bag
Speaker 1: and to see a guy making nine hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, sixtieth highest paid quarterback in the game bouncing
Speaker 1: before that, take the chances to go down the field
Speaker 1: where Kirk Cousins didn't want at all. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: the fans where were hot. A guy was doing his
Speaker 1: podcast in the media box after the game, and he
Speaker 1: was killing Kirk Cousins. He was just and you know,
Speaker 1: people are typing their stories. You hear and you just
Speaker 1: hear him killing him, and you could not sit up
Speaker 1: here and say, well, that's unfair. It was legitimate. It's
Speaker 1: legit because he look at these weapons he has on
Speaker 1: the outside. He got one of the best duos in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, Feeling and Jefferson and I know
Speaker 1: we got you know, days on one side, Brown who
Speaker 1: played well. But you can't tell me there was no
Speaker 1: options to take deep with those guys. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had plenty of opportunities to stretch the football field and
Speaker 1: he chose to either check it down or throw it
Speaker 1: out of bounds. Well, I mean in an intentional ground
Speaker 1: call that killed the whole team. That probably that probably
Speaker 1: switched the whole on minute. It killed him on that one.
Speaker 1: You just I mean, come on, Kurt, what are you
Speaker 1: doing out there? I go back into where they went
Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship game and lost and felt that
Speaker 1: if they could upgrade from case Keenom and they paid
Speaker 1: all that money for Kirk Cousins, that has been the
Speaker 1: biggest sunken costs I've seen in the NFL in the
Speaker 1: last three and a half four years. I would agree
Speaker 1: with you, because I mean, they had the one playoff
Speaker 1: run they be I think they beat the Saints in
Speaker 1: a while card or something like that. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just been that Minneapolis. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: it was then they ended up losing the NCY Championship.
Speaker 1: But they their their premise was, Okay, we're just a
Speaker 1: quarterback away. They thought they were the Rams. Like they
Speaker 1: thought they were you know what I mean, we were
Speaker 1: golf and staffing. You ain't bringing in staff, and this
Speaker 1: thing has been it's just been a big letdown. And
Speaker 1: now you've got Mike Zimmer, former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: He's on year eight there. This is not a playoff team.
Speaker 1: They're three and four football team. It's not. It's not.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you can sell that fan base
Speaker 1: on another year of Zimmer and Kirk much the same
Speaker 1: way you couldn't sell Cowboy fans on year ten eleven
Speaker 1: of Jason Garrett. They they had their field, they had enough,
Speaker 1: and then if you look at this defense isn't the
Speaker 1: same either. You know, Minnesota has been the past couple
Speaker 1: of years, they've been relying on a very stingy defense
Speaker 1: out there. Those guys are getting long in the tooth now.
Speaker 1: I mean Kendricks, I think he's on year eight, maybe
Speaker 1: Bars up there, Harrison Smith's already in his tenth year,
Speaker 1: So they're getting older there. They can't rely on that
Speaker 1: defense as much. Is I think that windows right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Green Bay's now running away with the division. So
Speaker 1: now you're sitting here trying to find yourself in a
Speaker 1: wildcard spot. Just start looking around the league and you
Speaker 1: just say, Okay, it's gonna be hard to get these
Speaker 1: spots because there's going to be a spot given to
Speaker 1: the second place team in the NFC when exactly rams
Speaker 1: A Cardinals are gonna get that. One of those teams
Speaker 1: is getting it right there. So so it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be hard. I mean, you're hard to get in. You're
Speaker 1: just gonna have a tough time trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how you can get in there. Now, the Saints are
Speaker 1: definitely now in a different situation because Sean Payton has
Speaker 1: confirmed that Jameis Winston has a torn acl Yeah, simmey
Speaker 1: and ain't it man, I think that's one of those
Speaker 1: guys like it was a spot duty deal where he
Speaker 1: came in play performed well. But I just don't think
Speaker 1: he can do that over to week week week basis.
Speaker 1: Defenses are going to figure out how they can pick
Speaker 1: apart Trevor Trevor Simmons. So that but but still Sean's
Speaker 1: gonna be creative enough. Let's take some hill. Was he
Speaker 1: just not? Is he injured or he just wasn't? Oh?
Speaker 1: They just man, that's something man, I wish I was
Speaker 1: getting his jacket seven million to be chilling. Ain't that?
Speaker 1: But there's one more team if Tampa gets the you know,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming Tampa's gonna win that division. They'll win until
Speaker 1: the Saints are gonna be right there fighting to get
Speaker 1: I would agree to get to. That's why I say
Speaker 1: for your Minnesota, you're quickly finding yourself in a tough
Speaker 1: spot in terms of trying to get one of these
Speaker 1: wild cards. So the division race is pretty much done.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get a wild card spot. And I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at their schedule to see who they're playing
Speaker 1: and how you know who they may be up against it.
Speaker 1: So that's why I ultimately come back to Mike Zimmer's
Speaker 1: in trouble. Yes, he's big. Like you said, if they don't,
Speaker 1: if they don't come away with a record that's at
Speaker 1: least over or five hundred, I can't see if them
Speaker 1: bringing them back. I mean, this is just too much mediocrity,
Speaker 1: and they put too much stock into this quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: they thought this combo would get them at least, you know,
Speaker 1: playoff caliber every single year. And after the first year
Speaker 1: or two, I mean, it's been mediocrity and they don't don't.
Speaker 1: Like you said, I don't think the fans are gonna
Speaker 1: stand for Look the offense, alright, thirty five million dollars,
Speaker 1: I mean thirty one million dollars. Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: twenty three or thirty five, one hundred and eighty four
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. Okay, that's not that's not gonna
Speaker 1: cut it. Contrast that to Cooper Rush twenty four or
Speaker 1: forty three, twenty five, two touchdowns and one interception. So
Speaker 1: and by the way, Minnesota won the turnover battle. You
Speaker 1: won the turnover battle two to nothing, and you simply
Speaker 1: couldn't go anywhere because you were terrible on third down.
Speaker 1: They were one for thirteen, one of thirteen by man
Speaker 1: on thirty. You can't win that way. It's just it's impossible.
Speaker 1: You go out you win the turnover battle, which is
Speaker 1: a big statistic on how you know who wins the
Speaker 1: game or not. But if you're out there one for
Speaker 1: thirteen on third down, you're not winning the money down,
Speaker 1: you're not extending these drives, and you're just giving the
Speaker 1: Cowboys more and more opportunities to win this game. If
Speaker 1: that would have been this, it would have been a
Speaker 1: blowout by halftime, two minutes and fifty one seconds to go,
Speaker 1: you're one of thirteen on third downs and you have
Speaker 1: a lead sixteen thirteen. So so while the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: the game and go to six and one, if you're
Speaker 1: if you're a Vikings player, you're really trying to ask you, so,
Speaker 1: how did we go lose that football game? And that
Speaker 1: is Those are the kinds of losses where you lose
Speaker 1: the fans. And that's a good fan base that I
Speaker 1: tell everybody, Man, if you're gonna go to an opposing game,
Speaker 1: go up there. Yeah. I like playing in Minnesota. It
Speaker 1: was like the world was against you, like it was.
Speaker 1: It was definitely a good atmosphere of playing. They do
Speaker 1: a good job. They care about that team. You got
Speaker 1: the skull chat. Oh oh, I mean it's it's it's
Speaker 1: definitely a live place. Yes, I mean it's different, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's a whole different. And to see to see
Speaker 1: that display and the way the fans were was interesting.
Speaker 1: If you look at it, like what were they doing offensively?
Speaker 1: Like if you look at the Cowboys, what was the
Speaker 1: play exactly like we got we can spread things out
Speaker 1: with getting thank you all these different we're getting our
Speaker 1: playmakers the ball in space, whether it's bubble screens, quick slants,
Speaker 1: anything like that. Minnesota, they're lining up in twelve personnel
Speaker 1: play action, Let's see if we get hit him deep.
Speaker 1: Play action. Let's see if we get him deep. When
Speaker 1: the running game wasn't doing that much. The play actions
Speaker 1: not gonna draw people up, so you're not gonna have
Speaker 1: these big holes in the in the defense where you
Speaker 1: can try to pick apart. It was just a bad
Speaker 1: overall game plan and I don't I don't know where
Speaker 1: they were thinking with that. You gotta be able to
Speaker 1: get your playmakers the ball in space. You got two
Speaker 1: of the best dealing and Jefferson they got a good
Speaker 1: slot receiver. I forget his name right now, but they're
Speaker 1: get a good slot receiver. They got Dalvin Cook out there.
Speaker 1: Let him do some work one on one, get him
Speaker 1: in space. I just I just didn't understand the game
Speaker 1: playing at all from Minnesota. So you sound exactly like
Speaker 1: a Minnesota Vikings saying yeah, because that's what they were
Speaker 1: saying last night. They were ticked, they were upset. There's
Speaker 1: talent here that's not being used. When why, I simply say,
Speaker 1: I don't know if if Mike Zimmer's going to get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to come back. Let's take a break here
Speaker 1: and dive more into this Cowboys. We talked about them
Speaker 1: being one of thirteen in terms of holding up the Vikings.
Speaker 1: There was several guys out there on the field, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, who you just looked at you had to
Speaker 1: tip your cap. Obviously, Cooper Rush gets the spotlight because
Speaker 1: he's the quarterback in the NFL's the quarterback league. But
Speaker 1: there's some guys all that defense yesterday that you and
Speaker 1: I got we're gonna talk about next and how great
Speaker 1: they were for the Cowboys in that twenty to sixteen win.
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Speaker 1: Cowboy fan here, they are six and one in November
Speaker 1: and you're thinking about putting some Cowboy items underneath the
Speaker 1: Christmas tree, you better do it now, okay, because when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are hot, the merchandise flies off the rack.
Speaker 1: This is true. I go back to doing a story
Speaker 1: when Bill Priacas was here with the Cowboys and it
Speaker 1: was Dak and Zeke's rookie year. They were they sold
Speaker 1: out of the twenty ones in fours they sold out.
Speaker 1: Then they were doing the two one four hurts. They
Speaker 1: were gone and they just couldn't keep Cowboys gear in stock.
Speaker 1: And the thing I also try to tell people, remember
Speaker 1: this is an international team. Yeah, it ain't local, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, it ain't just you know, it's the highest one.
Speaker 1: It's high sports franchise, and in this valuable sports franchise
Speaker 1: in the world. So yesterday, by the way, the players
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Speaker 1: Our other partner, Danny McCrae. He's its flight. Its flight
Speaker 1: got delayed out there in Los Angeles, so he couldn't
Speaker 1: get back in time. So we it was Claire Till
Speaker 1: the Star Telegram, Caval Watson's DATS Morning News and I
Speaker 1: we we went during the afternoon to the George Floyd
Speaker 1: Square in Minnesota where George Floyd was was killed, and
Speaker 1: there were a ton of cowboy fans there. And what
Speaker 1: was interesting, most of the cowboy fans we met from
Speaker 1: were from New Jersey taking over New York. They hated rivalry,
Speaker 1: they taking over New York. Coming up, we met more
Speaker 1: cowboy fans that were not from Texas there George Floyd World,
Speaker 1: and there were it was a truckload of cowboy fans
Speaker 1: at the George f travels. Would you say it travels
Speaker 1: as good as the Stellers or Green Bay and on
Speaker 1: that that fan base he's getting there. I put it
Speaker 1: up there with the Yankees. Oh you get it up.
Speaker 1: They were like that. Okay, it's a different it's it's
Speaker 1: at the Yankees Lakers level. Where where national treasures internationally? No, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you know if you go to Italy, you'll see somebody
Speaker 1: wear the Yankees hat. You know, you'll see. That's where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are at. And that's what I'm just going
Speaker 1: back to my original point. Come Christmas time, if you
Speaker 1: if you don't get it early, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: tough time getting it. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. When the Cowboys get into this kind of role.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get tickets to the games. If people
Speaker 1: want the gear, they want to wear their Cowboys stuff around. Oh,
Speaker 1: those tickets are gonna sky rocket man. Wait till wait
Speaker 1: till Arizona comes in town. I mean, a regular seat
Speaker 1: might cast you seven. Crisis will be marked up one
Speaker 1: for sure. So Cowboys six and one. I got to
Speaker 1: dive back into the Cowboys defense. One of thirteen they
Speaker 1: held Minnesota to on third downs. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: a trio, okay, a triplet trio of of powerful guys
Speaker 1: in terms of what Minnesota has. You know, Adam Feeling, Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Jefferson Cook. That's a hack of a trio, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they weren't getting off. Micah Parsons the rookie eleven total tackles,
Speaker 1: ten solos, four tackles for loss. I looked over here
Speaker 1: the first three, actually the first four leading tacklers for Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith, Xavier Woods, dance yone was at a good game.
Speaker 1: Where do they all play in the secondary? That's how
Speaker 1: you knew it was getting back. That's how if your
Speaker 1: safeties are out there totaling a lot of tackles out there,
Speaker 1: something ain't going right in the front seven. But with
Speaker 1: our front seven. Let me tell you about Marcat Parsons. Man,
Speaker 1: that is a full grown man right there. I'm in
Speaker 1: a Cowboys uniform. He is a full grown man. And
Speaker 1: when you go out there with the socks that he
Speaker 1: had on. So those those type of socks not most
Speaker 1: cats are wearing because they're just the superregular degulars. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just the blue halfway up then you know by
Speaker 1: the ankle it comes in. The White people don't wear those.
Speaker 1: They're either doing like the long blues or long whites.
Speaker 1: When you come out there and don't care about your
Speaker 1: swag like that and that type in uniform, you know
Speaker 1: that guy means business. It's like back in the day
Speaker 1: when guys used to come out there with the tape fingers.
Speaker 1: That guy might not be the best cover guy, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna come down and hit you. And that's what
Speaker 1: Parsons brings to this defense. I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at it, he's overwhelming offensive lineman that even think they
Speaker 1: get to the second level and might have a shot
Speaker 1: on him, he's either oh laying him or he's just
Speaker 1: flinging him to the side. And when you see him
Speaker 1: hit people at the point of attack at that line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, they're not falling forward for extra leaky yardage.
Speaker 1: Those guys are either getting stoned right there or they're
Speaker 1: going backwards. This guy, I mean, he just stands out
Speaker 1: and flashes. Each and every down you'll see an eleven
Speaker 1: Jersey coming out of nowhere, whether it's chasing down a
Speaker 1: guy or being there at the point of attack. This
Speaker 1: guy is making an extremely, extremely big time impact for
Speaker 1: this defense. And it doesn't matter what position you play,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad they put him at middle linebacker, because
Speaker 1: we've seen these past couple of weeks. If you let
Speaker 1: him marinate there and let him learn that position and
Speaker 1: get that position down, pad, he's just gonna get better
Speaker 1: and better and better. I mean, he's understanding his run fits.
Speaker 1: He's diagnosing these run fits, and he's beating his blockers
Speaker 1: to the point of attack. And it's not like he's
Speaker 1: you know, hammering when he should be spilling the guard
Speaker 1: or you know, spilling the guard when he should be hammering.
Speaker 1: He's hitting everything right, getting it back to his help.
Speaker 1: And it's just a full grown man out there, and
Speaker 1: he's making plays as a rookie that you don't see.
Speaker 1: I mean, even Sean Lee, who was great as a rookie,
Speaker 1: this guy is just he's looking like a full grown
Speaker 1: man out there. And it's just to me, it's extremely
Speaker 1: impressive because as a safety, you get to see all
Speaker 1: that in front of you go down and when your
Speaker 1: safeties are in the back end, being able to just
Speaker 1: worry about pass coverage if something leaks out maybe here
Speaker 1: and there, that's when that safety job gets extremely easy.
Speaker 1: So you got a guy in the middle at the
Speaker 1: linebacker position that is holding things down and is acting
Speaker 1: like a grown man out there, and he's playing. He's
Speaker 1: playing great right now for the Dallas Cowboys, so very church.
Speaker 1: I go back to the draft and when we were
Speaker 1: talking about what the Cowboys should do with the first pick,
Speaker 1: you and I were both on board taking a corner
Speaker 1: and taking the kid from Alabama who's in Denver, who
Speaker 1: will see this week? Patrick's certain the second and Parsons
Speaker 1: ends up being taken and overwhelmingly, i'd say Cowboy Nation
Speaker 1: was lukewarm. Yeah, I would agree with that. And I
Speaker 1: go back now and I think of where the problem was.
Speaker 1: You just Michael Parson's linebacker, and he didn't play last
Speaker 1: year either, So Michael Parson's linebacker, and what should have
Speaker 1: been said, Michael Parsons. Pressure player. That's what it is,
Speaker 1: a defensive weapon, pressure player. And we've spoken before on
Speaker 1: the show and I brought up a junior. Say out, junior, say,
Speaker 1: I brought pressure linebacker. But he just brought you a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure that you had to know where I was.
Speaker 1: And that's that's And I remember talking Will McClay and
Speaker 1: we were trying to find a guy and I and
Speaker 1: I brought up Pat Swilling and he said yes because
Speaker 1: Pat Swilling number fifty six when he played with the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints was a monster. Ricky Jackson got to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame and got a lot of credit,
Speaker 1: but Pat Swilling there was lt in a class by himself.
Speaker 1: Then you started looking at that next group of dudes.
Speaker 1: Pat Swilling was right in there in terms of the
Speaker 1: kind of pressure that he brought. Who had to be
Speaker 1: aware of Pat Swilling and Micah Parsons to me, is
Speaker 1: fitting into that. He's not a lineback. That's just too
Speaker 1: generic terms. Not many linebackers can bring this kind of pressure.
Speaker 1: As much as Jalen Smith in Layton Banderesh have had
Speaker 1: first good first contracts with the Colbums, they weren't the
Speaker 1: kind of pressure player that Micah Parsons. They're just not many.
Speaker 1: There's not many gays periods. That's like that right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the way this guy's jumping off the tape,
Speaker 1: it's it's outstanding. And then you go back to last year,
Speaker 1: we got exposed a lot at that second level when
Speaker 1: we're talking about running backs come out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: covering running backs out of the backfield tight ends. This
Speaker 1: guy has come here and slowly erased that I mean
Speaker 1: we go out there and look all those checkdowns, all
Speaker 1: those guys that were in open space that would make
Speaker 1: my boy Jalen Smith or Lvee miss and get an
Speaker 1: extra ten fifteen yards, that's getting erased by this guy.
Speaker 1: He's one part. I mean, it doesn't matter who the
Speaker 1: running back he is out there, Dalvin Cook, the other guy,
Speaker 1: the had He is erasing all that and it's open
Speaker 1: field tackling is extremely extremely impressive. Nice game by l
Speaker 1: Layton Banderash. Yeah, he's playing solid as well. J Ron Curse,
Speaker 1: give that guy contract, get him here now, because not
Speaker 1: only is his play on the field outstanding, but he's
Speaker 1: also a leader and you can see he's vocal on
Speaker 1: that sideline getting those boys ready to play. So so Church,
Speaker 1: help me understand this one here from the standpoint you're
Speaker 1: j Ron Curse, You're You're on a good defense right now,
Speaker 1: and this this is trending towards you're going to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs and witness to be. So this means opportunities
Speaker 1: for you in the free agent market. Oh yeah, how
Speaker 1: much do you look at the bag versus the scheme,
Speaker 1: because right now this is a scheme that they have
Speaker 1: utilized Curs' skills highlighting which haven't really didn't happen for
Speaker 1: him in Detroit, Minnesota, they're happening here. Yeah, So if
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm curse, definitely a bag is the forefront
Speaker 1: of my mind because if I mean, I could be
Speaker 1: wrong about this, but I don't think he's yet to
Speaker 1: get a super like a super deal as far as
Speaker 1: contracts concerned. I mean, he's being basically working on like
Speaker 1: one one year deals or bat minimum type deals. So
Speaker 1: the money is definitely going to be at the forefront
Speaker 1: of your mind. But what I will say is is
Speaker 1: not always greener on the other side. You may get
Speaker 1: the bag, you may have that that money to be
Speaker 1: able to help out your family and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: But if you want to longevity and if you want
Speaker 1: to be able to you know, maybe springboard your career
Speaker 1: to something else, there's nothing better than the star. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now, there's nothing better than this organization
Speaker 1: in the NFL when you're talking about making money outside
Speaker 1: of football, and they the scheme that you're in the
Speaker 1: defense is playing extremely well. Now, dan Quinn, he might
Speaker 1: get you know, poached off his job and he might
Speaker 1: get a head job opportunity somewhere else. But right now,
Speaker 1: his scheme and his system with Curse, it's working. It's
Speaker 1: working unbelievably because he's manning him up on tight ends.
Speaker 1: He has the length, he has the size and speed
Speaker 1: to run with those guys. But he's also great at blitzing,
Speaker 1: playing in the box versus the run, and he could
Speaker 1: play deep as well. And with this type of system,
Speaker 1: they run kind of a three safety rotation, so he's
Speaker 1: not necessarily always going to be in the deep end
Speaker 1: where he might get exposed, so he's always a round
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. They have a big nickel package
Speaker 1: for him, so they're definitely highlighting his his qualities out there.
Speaker 1: But I'm assure you that the money is going to
Speaker 1: be at the front of his mind going into this
Speaker 1: free agency. But like I said, the grass is not
Speaker 1: always greener. Make sure you make the right decision. The
Speaker 1: young man is able to place down the box a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's a badd It was that big. It's
Speaker 1: like six four. It's a big dude. Man. He runs it.
Speaker 1: He runs well. Daddy was big. Yeah, that's so he
Speaker 1: comes from come from good style. I had no idea
Speaker 1: that Pops yeah, the Freak. Yes, oh man, I wanted
Speaker 1: those dudes athletic as all get out. Yes, yes, no, no, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's I had no idea that was his pop.
Speaker 1: That's just how old we are. Now. Many guys we
Speaker 1: saw play their kids was playing with the Freak on
Speaker 1: Madden like that was that guy? Look, Patrick's certain, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the child's out here playing. So this is this is
Speaker 1: as Now, this is crazy. This is where you're at here.
Speaker 1: So I'll let me pull up here for Curse if
Speaker 1: I can. Where's Boom one year nine before taxes, that's
Speaker 1: before jay Ron curse man, So what a quality? Grab him?
Speaker 1: And I would I would, I would say all those
Speaker 1: you know, one year guys that they brought in have
Speaker 1: been such quality. You got Neo coming in here, Kaz
Speaker 1: Hookers is Compunica or it's out there contributing as well.
Speaker 1: So I think all these dealings that goes off to
Speaker 1: will McClay those boys for friends and so one point
Speaker 1: one million this year, well the signing motives of one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven thousand Curse for Curse. He's unrestricted
Speaker 1: next year. So he's twenty seven years old. He's still young.
Speaker 1: So so this is what I look here and saying,
Speaker 1: this is a guy you got it, you've got to
Speaker 1: bring back. Oh, by the way, another guy that you've
Speaker 1: got to bring back is Randy Gregory. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Talk about a destructive different force maker, difference make Jimmy
Speaker 1: Johnson's called difference makers. And imagine when we get d
Speaker 1: law back on the other side, how are you how
Speaker 1: are you going to block that offensively? You slide it
Speaker 1: one way. The other guy got a one on one,
Speaker 1: you slide it to that way. He got a one
Speaker 1: on one on that side. It's like pick your poison.
Speaker 1: We're talking about offensively picking your poison defensively if we're
Speaker 1: able to and that's a big thing I think that
Speaker 1: we were able to do last night. We were only eight.
Speaker 1: We were able to just rush four defensive lineman and
Speaker 1: get home and get pressure on Kirk Cousins. And that
Speaker 1: allowed our linebackers, our safeties to be out in courage
Speaker 1: and help out on need the dynamic duo they had
Speaker 1: on the outside. But it just goes to show you
Speaker 1: how much of a freak athlete, in a freak presence
Speaker 1: Gregory can be out there off of that edge. I
Speaker 1: mean he was going through double teams like a hot
Speaker 1: night through butter. And when we get those guys back
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore d law on that outside Brynt Urban, Brynton Urban.
Speaker 1: I mean it's we're getting we're getting healthy at the
Speaker 1: right time to make a run here in neuis. These
Speaker 1: guys might have something special on them. Okay, So let's
Speaker 1: spend our last ten minutes going back toward the offense.
Speaker 1: One injury to think about and one player who's going
Speaker 1: to come back, and how much of a role should
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Speaker 1: agent safety Danny's flight delayed in Los Angeles, as many
Speaker 1: flights are being delayed Cowboy fans in Minnesota. I hope
Speaker 1: you're able to get get on home today. I was
Speaker 1: listening to some guy who was trying to fly fly
Speaker 1: standby and he was trying to get home to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Said he woudn't get home to Atlanta un till six pm.
Speaker 1: You hate to see it. I mean they are got.
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Speaker 1: all over the country and some flights now I'm scared. Nah,
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Speaker 1: miss delayed or whatnot. So I got I got up
Speaker 1: at four forty five. My man to give us up
Speaker 1: at the before dawn. He was up before we're done.
Speaker 1: It was that cold. Minnesota's cold. I know he was
Speaker 1: cold that morning, but I needed to get on the plane.
Speaker 1: Wanted to get back here and do the show. Friday
Speaker 1: man appreciated Cowboys win twenty to sixteen. They are six
Speaker 1: in one. They face the Denver Broncos on Sunday at
Speaker 1: Jerry World. Broncos traded Vaughan and Millard today. He's now
Speaker 1: a member of the Los Angeles Rams. Rams going all in, baby,
Speaker 1: they got they they're trying to win. I mean they
Speaker 1: went and got Stafford. Now I got von Miller to
Speaker 1: go with. You know, Leonard Floyd and Aaron Donald out there,
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey in the back end. So they're doing all
Speaker 1: they can to get this this this Super Bowl run accomplish.
Speaker 1: It'd be a disappointment if they didn't get too far.
Speaker 1: So more kind of things that do concern the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So Denver, that's that's coming up on Sunday, that's a
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock game at Jerry World. Jameis Winston is out
Speaker 1: for the season. That's what head coach Sean Payton announced today.
Speaker 1: Acl Cowboys face New Orleans in a month. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a Thursday night, December second game on NFL Network
Speaker 1: at seven. Want to get the Superdome. So type of
Speaker 1: things starting when you when you're making not Super Bowl run,
Speaker 1: you know, you get a dash of luck here, a
Speaker 1: couple of injuries here, a trade there. It's starting to
Speaker 1: work out. We're getting healthy at the right time. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Movie So Denvers four and four they ended
Speaker 1: up winning. Yesterday they ended up pulling it out Bridgewater, Denver, Denver.
Speaker 1: So the next two games or our home games, it's
Speaker 1: Denver then Atlanta. I think I see those as two doubs,
Speaker 1: well even without you know, for if they want to
Speaker 1: rest for a little bit more. So, yes, does does
Speaker 1: Dak practice Scott played this weekend? We'll see does Tyrant
Speaker 1: Smith play this weekend against Denver? The second straight game
Speaker 1: where Tyrant went out. We spoke about it on the
Speaker 1: show that while Collins is not starting, do not think
Speaker 1: that this is all just settled. So as Smith went
Speaker 1: out in the game, tying Seki, which surprised me, went
Speaker 1: to left tackle and there were issues. Yeah, there were
Speaker 1: definitely issues over there. They worked on him a little,
Speaker 1: but that's the same thing that happened two weeks ago
Speaker 1: when he came in New England. When Tid Smith went
Speaker 1: out a little bit, you know, they start to realize
Speaker 1: who he is. That's the week spot they're gonna go
Speaker 1: at him. So I would not be surprised going forward
Speaker 1: if us just say next week Tyren Smith has to
Speaker 1: take out a week you know, ankle injury didn't heal
Speaker 1: up as good as he thought it would be, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss one more week. I would not be
Speaker 1: surprised if they slid either Likeell Collins, who's a natural
Speaker 1: left so that i'd be you know, easier for him
Speaker 1: on that left side, or Terrence Steel over there and
Speaker 1: put Collins on the right side. Either or I think
Speaker 1: they have a good matchup with those tackles on that outside,
Speaker 1: because if we know beforehand, if thy Smith would have
Speaker 1: went down, it would be just like losing Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: But oh, here we go. I mean it's gonna happen next.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna get the floodgates are just gonna open.
Speaker 1: But with a surprising play of Terren Steel out there,
Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, collins conditioning is good and he
Speaker 1: can go back out there and get those quality reps
Speaker 1: this week. I might. I don't see this as that
Speaker 1: big of an issue as it has been in years past,
Speaker 1: So depending on how they practice their reps this week,
Speaker 1: I would have imagine be Terrance still going to left
Speaker 1: tackle and Colin's it right to prepare if Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: doesn't play. When I was doing my broadcast after the
Speaker 1: game in Minnesota, I was watching guys come out. Smith
Speaker 1: walked out without a boot, so he was limping, but
Speaker 1: he walked out and didn't have it have a boot
Speaker 1: on or anything. Digs also was dealing with an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: He was fine, ended up saying that he was he
Speaker 1: was cool after the game. So that's something to think about.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup may be ready to go against Denver this week.
Speaker 1: What role do you see him havn't because it's not like,
Speaker 1: like said Wilson, you know, it's not like he's just
Speaker 1: a gadget guy, like he's just a guy that comes
Speaker 1: in and does reverses and trick passes or nothing like
Speaker 1: That's he's elevated his game to the point where he
Speaker 1: is a solid number three on this team. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw what he was able to do versus that
Speaker 1: cover two or that two man, split the gate, go
Speaker 1: up the gut. I love Gallup as a receiver, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has that gas to be
Speaker 1: able to get into the end zone on that play. Now,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see what they do with
Speaker 1: this situation, because said Wilson, to me, has played some
Speaker 1: of the best ball of his young career so far.
Speaker 1: And it's just not a It hasn't just been gadgets,
Speaker 1: all right. This guy's made some spectacular plays. We go
Speaker 1: back two weeks ago that fourth and fourth he saved
Speaker 1: the game against the Patriots with an unbelievable catch out there.
Speaker 1: So this guy can do many things for this Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense. And to be honest, I feel like he's
Speaker 1: a better run after the catch guy than Gallup is.
Speaker 1: Gallup may have him on the deep ball situation, but
Speaker 1: other than that, I see these two is very similar,
Speaker 1: and said Wilson, just being a better run after the
Speaker 1: catch type of guy. So to me, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't just throw Gallop in there, like all right,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're a bona fide guy, said Wilson. You
Speaker 1: take a seat number four. I would slowly get him
Speaker 1: in there, like how they didn't know Ah Brown and
Speaker 1: how they had him in there, you know, on the
Speaker 1: couple interances. I would slowly get Gallop in there and
Speaker 1: ingretiate himself and then you know, if he gets it going,
Speaker 1: then he gets it going. But I wouldn't force things.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't force things like they did with the Lyle situation.
Speaker 1: They didn't force Lyo back in there because ter still
Speaker 1: was playing some great ball. Same thing with said Wilson.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't just force it in there to try to
Speaker 1: throw off the functionary or nothing like that. Gallops a
Speaker 1: hell of a player. I'm sure he'll get his reps
Speaker 1: and get his balls thrown to him during the season,
Speaker 1: But right now, I think you work come in slowly.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop is a guy we all like. Yeah, both
Speaker 1: guys are going to be free agents, and I've heard
Speaker 1: some people say, well pay twelve pay Michael Gallop twelve
Speaker 1: million dollars and some people say, let Cooper go. I
Speaker 1: definitely wouldn't go with the second one. But if you
Speaker 1: don't understand what Amari Cooper brings professionally in leadership, then
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you don't truly understand how locker rooms were
Speaker 1: now not at all. There's a lot of substance to
Speaker 1: what Amari Cooper brings, and you pay the twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars next year, in my opinion, I would. I think
Speaker 1: he's definitely worth it. And if you're choosing between Wilson
Speaker 1: and Gallop, think on your surface, you said out it's
Speaker 1: a better player. But this isn't so much about the
Speaker 1: better players as much as you're talking about what fit
Speaker 1: and money you have. There's there's definitely there's a lot
Speaker 1: of contexts that goes into that. There is. And if
Speaker 1: Gallup is looking for a contract where he wants ten, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars, which is you know, that's fine. I
Speaker 1: think he'll get that too somewhere, then it's not going
Speaker 1: to be with it when you can bring said Wilson
Speaker 1: back for a substantially lower amount of money and the
Speaker 1: play wouldn't be that much of a drop I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd say it's more of a you know, Gallup may
Speaker 1: have him by maybe a couple of points here. Let's
Speaker 1: just say Gallups of nine and which I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's at nine out of ten receiver, but let's just
Speaker 1: say he's at nine, and then said Wilson might be
Speaker 1: you know, seven and a half eight. It's not that
Speaker 1: far over a drop off. A lot of times it's complimentary.
Speaker 1: How do you compliment the offense? And then at the
Speaker 1: same time, where you're talking about a salary cap where
Speaker 1: issues are definitely there, you have to find a complimentary
Speaker 1: salary to go with that. So ultimately it means you
Speaker 1: let good players go. Yeah, and they look, if you
Speaker 1: save money on Gallup, you can put that towards a
Speaker 1: lot of the defensive guys or one year contracts right
Speaker 1: now and there and the book. A couple of those
Speaker 1: guys like we mentioned Curse Kaz Hooker, Neil they've been
Speaker 1: playing well. Randy Gregory. Randy Gregory at the worst, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get franchise. So you've got so Michael Gallup almost
Speaker 1: becomes a luxury that you may not be able to
Speaker 1: make fit long term. When you're talking about the money.
Speaker 1: And if you're Michael Gallup, you're not gonna try and
Speaker 1: sit around here to take a hometown discut. You gotta
Speaker 1: go get the bag the first deal. You gotta. You
Speaker 1: gotta gill you can't. You gotta strike byle The iron's hot.
Speaker 1: He's played good, so he'll deserve a nice pay day.
Speaker 1: We'll dive more into that. Said Wilson. Three catches eighty
Speaker 1: four yards in a touchdown. Congratulations to him. Fantastic job
Speaker 1: by Mike McCarthy, the head coach, because he continually talks
Speaker 1: about how you hey, he takes everybody. Yeah, he's right.
Speaker 1: And you just saw last night in Minnesota another where
Speaker 1: you see young guys playing. You see where people are
Speaker 1: asked to come in here and fill some roles and
Speaker 1: they did it. So, Michael, I love what Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: doing as far as letting his coaches do their job.
Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't seem like and I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't seem like a coach that's overbearing saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, this is not the way I want my
Speaker 1: offense run. It's my way or the highway. He seems
Speaker 1: to let Kelly Moore do his thing, let Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: do his thing, and he might not get a lot
Speaker 1: of credit, but if they keep winning the way they are,
Speaker 1: it's gonna fall to him. Eventually at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, they'll say you're you know, you're the head
Speaker 1: coach and it's gonna be your team and you get
Speaker 1: the way, lass record and everything else. All right, Barry
Speaker 1: church Man, good stuff. We'll get back after tomorrow. A
Speaker 1: big shout out to Will and Alex helping make sure
Speaker 1: we get on the airs. People are trying to your
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Speaker 1: on the charter, just finding on American trying to get
Speaker 1: back here. Good luck and we'll cha have everybody tomorrow.
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