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Speaker 1: now live in Ohio. Hi everybody, and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Wednesday Morning Podcast. A couple of things. Matt Mosley is
Speaker 1: going to stop by to discuss Jerry Jones canceling his
Speaker 1: radio interview. Jerry is not prone to relinquish the spotlight,
Speaker 1: so canceling an interview is noteworthy. And in about ten minutes,
Speaker 1: Matt Moseley will stop on by speaking of the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Forty six million viewers watched The Cowboys and the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers on Fox. It's one of the most watched
Speaker 1: Divisional Round games of all time. When gambling sports gambling
Speaker 1: was legalized, I said, my only really concern of it
Speaker 1: is now the constant belief by degenerates who have to
Speaker 1: validate their betting losses. Is the games are rigged, folks.
Speaker 1: If Baseball was rigged, the Yankees would end up in
Speaker 1: every World Series. If the NBA was rigged, the Nickson
Speaker 1: Lakers wouldn't be a mess for now a decade straight.
Speaker 1: And if football was rigged, the Dallas Cowboys would not
Speaker 1: be as inept as they are as a playoff team.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are automatic ratings forty six million viewers popular
Speaker 1: NBA teams in the Conference Championships, or as they call
Speaker 1: him in the NBA, the Conference Finals get like six
Speaker 1: million viewers, one fifth of that. The Cowboys don't win
Speaker 1: playoff games because the Niners have a better roster. And
Speaker 1: the reason the Niners have the better roster is because
Speaker 1: they pay the right players. They have a better left tackle,
Speaker 1: they have deeper wide receivers, they have better linebackers, they
Speaker 1: have two legitimate corners. They're better at safety. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: tend to pay too much, pay too early, and pay
Speaker 1: the wrong people. They paid linebacker Jalen Smith a year
Speaker 1: later they had to get rid of him. They overpaid
Speaker 1: for a running back Zeke. They paid Dak more than
Speaker 1: he's worth. If you start looking at the Cowboys' biggest
Speaker 1: salaries running linebacker. That's not what the best teams do.
Speaker 1: Dallas has some individual star players, but they don't have
Speaker 1: a single great unit. The Niners have several, the Eagles
Speaker 1: have several, the Chiefs have a couple, the Bengals have
Speaker 1: a few. The Dallas Cowboys are out because they have
Speaker 1: often paid the wrong positions and players more than they're worth.
Speaker 1: And next year it's worse. Dalton Schultz free agent Zeke
Speaker 1: Dak massive cap hits. Zeke next year will be the
Speaker 1: number two running back cap hit in the league. He
Speaker 1: is not a top ten running back. Dak will be
Speaker 1: the number two quarterback cap pit. He's not a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback. Come on, he's not. So the games aren't
Speaker 1: rigged and the Cowboys are where they are for a reason.
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year to me as obvious Brian Dabele,
Speaker 1: New York Giants. But when I hear other people like
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and Nick Seriani getting suggested, I'm not bothered
Speaker 1: by it. But to me, coach of the year is overcoming,
Speaker 1: and that's what separates a great quarterback from just a guy,
Speaker 1: the ability to overcome. I've said this now for several years,
Speaker 1: and you've heard it before. Every quarterback is good with
Speaker 1: a run game and protection and a lead. The great
Speaker 1: ones Burrow Mahomes are great trailing, they're great without run game.
Speaker 1: They overcome. Well, that's Brian Dabele. So think about this.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has the best roster in football. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: on his third quarterback, but Garoppolo succeeded with this roster.
Speaker 1: Brock Purtty is succeeding with this roster. This is a
Speaker 1: great roster. Sarianni has done a great job, but this
Speaker 1: is a great roster in both instances, Kyle Shanahan and
Speaker 1: Nick Sarianni, the general manager, deserves a great deal of
Speaker 1: the credit. Brian Dable is winning with a quarterback who
Speaker 1: ended up at Duke that's an academic and basketball powerhouse.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurtz was recruited by Nick Saban in Alabama and
Speaker 1: then went to Oklahoma and Lincoln Riley. He's an elite athlete.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones went to an academic power certainly talented. Brian
Speaker 1: Dable got him to the playoffs in a pretty good
Speaker 1: division with a rebuilding roster and a quarterback who, if
Speaker 1: he was on the open market today would arguably fetch
Speaker 1: no offers. Jalen Hurts would get offers. Jalen Hurts would
Speaker 1: get several offers. A mobile twenty twenty three quarterback who
Speaker 1: was in the Heisman race, who puts up big rushing
Speaker 1: and passing numbers and doesn't turn it over much, Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts would fetch a half dozen offers minimum. Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure would fetch a single offer on the
Speaker 1: market because everybody understands the value of what day Ball
Speaker 1: did for Josh Allen and Buffalo and Daniel Jones in
Speaker 1: New York. To me, the Coach of the Year award
Speaker 1: is a slam dunk Brian Dable doing more with significantly
Speaker 1: less of a roster and a quarterback talent. Dove Cleman,
Speaker 1: he is a reporter NFL reporter is saying the Packers
Speaker 1: are now exploring trades for Aaron Rodgers to the AFC.
Speaker 1: Makes sense. They don't want to have to face him.
Speaker 1: I get it, it'd be humiliating to face him in
Speaker 1: a playoff game. This way, if you do face him,
Speaker 1: it's probably in a Super Bowl. I think it's really
Speaker 1: smart by Green Bay to consider this. For a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons. Number one, Aaron would not get to a
Speaker 1: super Bowl in the AFC. It's too crowded, too many
Speaker 1: good teams. Number two, this roster is capable in the
Speaker 1: NFC north of winning without Aaron. If Jordan loves a
Speaker 1: B to a B minus quarterback. Consider the additions needed
Speaker 1: for green Bay, so it's pretty good roster. They could
Speaker 1: use an edge rusher, a receiver, and a tight end,
Speaker 1: and maybe an offensive tackle at some point, though they
Speaker 1: addressed the offensive line in last draft. If you get
Speaker 1: an additional one and a two for Aaron Rodgers, you
Speaker 1: can literally and green Bay as a history of drafting
Speaker 1: pretty well and developing exceptionally well, green Bay in the
Speaker 1: first two rounds can essentially wrap up their needs in
Speaker 1: the draft. Yes, Aaron's a dead cap hit, but Jordan
Speaker 1: Love doesn't cost anything, so it's a wash. I just
Speaker 1: think it's time. I think when people ask for concessions
Speaker 1: in any job, if they're an elite performer, I think
Speaker 1: companies will adjust. Aaron now is not given you the
Speaker 1: offseason commitment. He's not getting you playoff double us. He's
Speaker 1: now really expensive and not terribly flexible in terms of
Speaker 1: his willingness to work with a new offense, new schemes,
Speaker 1: new players. I just think it's time. I don't even
Speaker 1: think it's a big risk. Remember when they moved off
Speaker 1: FARV for Aaron Rodgers. Farv was arguably the most beloved
Speaker 1: player in the NFL, along with maybe Peyton Manning. Aaron's not.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in Green Bay that
Speaker 1: are over over Aaron Rodgers. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people feel like he's held them a little bit hostage
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Now Jordan loves not as good
Speaker 1: as Aaron Rodgers. But don't forget Aaron's first year. He
Speaker 1: won six games as a starter, so it was bumpy,
Speaker 1: and also far within a year was winning a lot
Speaker 1: of games for Minnesota. If you ship Aaron to the AFC,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of open divisions now that Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is a real team, not a lot of wide open divisions.
Speaker 1: Where would Aaron go in the AFC if you're fearful
Speaker 1: of facing him again? He wouldn't be favored in the
Speaker 1: division with Belichick and Josh Allen Mahomes's division. He wouldn't be,
Speaker 1: to me favored in the Joe Burrow Division. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he'd be favored, honestly against Jacksonville. Jacksonville's got
Speaker 1: a shot up out offensive line, think up more weapons.
Speaker 1: They've got a highly capable offensive coach in a league
Speaker 1: that's pivoted in that direction. So I think, move an
Speaker 1: aeron to the AFC, and what do you need? Give
Speaker 1: me a first this year, a second next year, a
Speaker 1: third the following year. I'm good. Aaron's thirty eight, about
Speaker 1: to be thirty nine. It's not playing forever. That's the
Speaker 1: other thing. If it takes Aaron a year to kind
Speaker 1: of get up to speed with Rabel's offense or Robert
Speaker 1: Sala's offense Titans Jets, respectively, Aaron's only got about three
Speaker 1: years left. So it makes a ton of sense to me.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a scary proposition. The Vikings are
Speaker 1: not going eleven and oh next year and one score games.
Speaker 1: The Bears are a wreck offensively, don't even know if
Speaker 1: they have the right coach, and the Lions haven't won
Speaker 1: the division since nineteen ninety three. Now's the time. It's
Speaker 1: really the perfect time. You can still get several top
Speaker 1: picks for Aaron Rodgers, and this roster in Green Bay
Speaker 1: should have made the playoffs anyway, if Aaron would have
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Speaker 1: ed Order. Longtime Fox Sports ESPN rider Okay, Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: canceled his weekly radio hit, Matt. That's something he's not
Speaker 1: prone to do. That that's something right. Did he not
Speaker 1: want to defend Dak Prescott? You know, I do think
Speaker 1: this is uncommon. Most of the time. He will sort
Speaker 1: of go into hiding at times. Right after the season,
Speaker 1: and he's been known to kind of stay in hiding,
Speaker 1: and last year he did something similar and he kind
Speaker 1: of left Mike McCarthy twisting in the win and that
Speaker 1: allowed him to eventually be able to keep Dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is the reason this time around
Speaker 1: for him not showing up for his weekly hit. And
Speaker 1: I think Jerry what he does is he goes on
Speaker 1: like a geese hunt, and there's a place in Arkansas
Speaker 1: and he and the family they hold up and he
Speaker 1: likes to get away and kind of think of the
Speaker 1: next moves and everything, and he's just not ready to
Speaker 1: talk about this anymore. He defended Dak after the game.
Speaker 1: He said McCarthy's fine, So in a sense, I think
Speaker 1: in his mind he's already done that and now he
Speaker 1: can take some time and get away for a little bit.
Speaker 1: And there could be changes because Kellen Moore's interviewing with
Speaker 1: the Panthers to you despite Steve Smith saying after that
Speaker 1: last play, why would you ever interview Kellen Moore? Cancel
Speaker 1: the interview, but Steve Smith is not in charge of
Speaker 1: that interview process. So I mean there's a chance that
Speaker 1: Jerry could be losing both coordinators, and so you and
Speaker 1: I always end up talking about McCarthy. This literally could
Speaker 1: become all about Mike McCarthy to the point, could Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Could Jerry make a decision to say Mike sink or swim?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of moving parts here. The one thing
Speaker 1: I could tell you, probably for sure, is I don't
Speaker 1: think Jerry's entertaining the idea of Sean Pate. I think
Speaker 1: we can probably rule that one out. Yeah, Shan wants control.
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels. Did Jimmy Johnson did. I've always felt that
Speaker 1: Jerry likes to be necessary, and he feels more necessary
Speaker 1: with Mike McCarthy than he would Sean Payton. Sean Payton Parcels, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: don't make you necessary. They're not people that need your
Speaker 1: business acumen or your drafting acumen, you know. And this
Speaker 1: is I think Jerry feels necessary. He saved Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy wasn't getting interviews, he was being blamed for
Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers divorce. Jason Garrett didn't get many interviews.
Speaker 1: He's on NBC. He felt like he was a son.
Speaker 1: He was saving him. I think Jerry's had always had
Speaker 1: that feeling. I think that's why he's sometimes overpays for
Speaker 1: players he feels an importance in their life journey. Sean
Speaker 1: Payton doesn't make Jerry feel necessary. No, and he loves Sean,
Speaker 1: But Jerry doesn't respect coaches. Is really the bottom line.
Speaker 1: He doesn't pay the kind of money he will pay.
Speaker 1: I mean and fine money. But if the bottom line
Speaker 1: is the thought of trading draft picks for a head
Speaker 1: coach makes him laugh, like in his mind that would
Speaker 1: be a baffling thing to do. And I do think
Speaker 1: you're onto something when Jerry likes comfortable, hires Wade Phillips,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, and he just kind of likes people that
Speaker 1: will kind of do their thing. Let Jerry be Jerry
Speaker 1: and Sean. Sean would be okay managing Jerry because he
Speaker 1: knows him so well. In fact, Sean would be better
Speaker 1: at that than Bill. And Bill really wasn't that bad
Speaker 1: at it when he was here. Jerry just kind of
Speaker 1: went away and that was a weird thing. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he wants to go back to a place
Speaker 1: like that. But I do think I do think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good way to put it that
Speaker 1: Jerry does feel need to feel necessary, but also Jerry
Speaker 1: feels the knee. And when I say he doesn't respect coaches,
Speaker 1: well you saw it. You go back to Jimmy Johnson
Speaker 1: and his famous statement that I could find five hundred
Speaker 1: coaches with his talent to do what Jimmy did. Um,
Speaker 1: it's an infamous statement, but somewhere in the back of
Speaker 1: his mind he still kind of thinks like that. And
Speaker 1: then again, that's how you end up with a Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: someone who has championship skins on the wall with winning
Speaker 1: a world title. But so he knew it was a
Speaker 1: It was an okay, it was a defensible hire, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't a knock it out of the park hire.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson tweeted the final play of the game was dumb.
Speaker 1: It was ill advised and poorly constructed. Does Jimmy still
Speaker 1: hold weight? I mean that's in Dallas. I mean when
Speaker 1: Jimmy says that, what's the reaction. Well, I mean, he
Speaker 1: still has everybody's ear and we all love to see
Speaker 1: what he says. But I don't think it really nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, really bothers Jerry, Jerry ignores him to the
Speaker 1: point of leaving him out of the Ring of Honor,
Speaker 1: and so there's just a you know, there's just usually
Speaker 1: a large disconnect there, and Jimmy loves getting the sharp
Speaker 1: stick out and taking it to Jerry, and then he's
Speaker 1: been doing it for twenty five years or whatever, or
Speaker 1: you know, twenty eight years since whenever he left. So no,
Speaker 1: I do think people are interested. And you know what
Speaker 1: it did is it's just it just it goes into
Speaker 1: the sort of the lack of credibility when you do
Speaker 1: something like that. It's just again, it's not the end
Speaker 1: all be all, Like I don't think you fire a
Speaker 1: head coach off of the last play that had no
Speaker 1: chance in the first place. It's just it just looks
Speaker 1: silly and it makes it makes you look sort of
Speaker 1: a Mickey Mouse, you know, when you line up and
Speaker 1: try to do something like that and get your poor
Speaker 1: running back. You got him. It was a good it's
Speaker 1: a good snap. I think Zeke's got to anchor better.
Speaker 1: He's got to learn how to anchor better at center
Speaker 1: and uh, but but again, what does it remind you of? It?
Speaker 1: All those old bloopers reels we used to love, and
Speaker 1: I don't know you know, the NFL Follies or whatever
Speaker 1: we call that. That's what that looked like. So it
Speaker 1: kind of eats away at the credibility of Kellen and Mike,
Speaker 1: you know, in the whole gang. But I think what
Speaker 1: they'll do when they say make Dak friendly. They're gonna
Speaker 1: put a new voice in his here, and I think
Speaker 1: that'll be interesting to see who that ends up be.
Speaker 1: And it might be it could be Mike McCarthy. He
Speaker 1: would never admit this, but if Kellen Moore got another job,
Speaker 1: I think deep down Mike McCarthy would be happy and
Speaker 1: he would make a move and try to convince Jerry
Speaker 1: let me do this. Dan Quinn's a good coach, certainly
Speaker 1: done a good job hiring a defensive coach in this
Speaker 1: Dan age. Seven of the last eight coaches left in
Speaker 1: football were offensive coaches. Sean McDermott was the last defensive
Speaker 1: coach standing and laid an absolute fricking egg. That was
Speaker 1: maybe the most ill conceived offensive game plan with a
Speaker 1: great quarterback I've seen in the playoffs in years. It's
Speaker 1: one thing. If Daniel Jones struggles, it's another one. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen is three and out in his first drive and
Speaker 1: they have deep balls up the sideline in a snowstorm.
Speaker 1: Is not a game plan. It's winging it, it's calling plays.
Speaker 1: So I think dan Quinn will be around at least
Speaker 1: for another year. You know, they're in a really weird
Speaker 1: situation where Dalton Schultz can test the market, Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: can test the market. Zeke is wildly overpaid. I said
Speaker 1: this in the preamble to you, is that you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at why the Cowboys are the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they've often paid too early or too often for average players.
Speaker 1: They paid Zeke too early, Dak too much, Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: too early, and too much. You don't pay linebackers in
Speaker 1: this day and age safeties linebackers. You know, Seattle's finding
Speaker 1: that out when they have two high price safeties. Buffalo
Speaker 1: is finding it out. Buffalo's offensive lines to disaster, but
Speaker 1: they've got great linebackers and safeties. Is that it's going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting offseason. If they need another receiver,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz could be gone. Gallup has proven to be
Speaker 1: a three and at times I'm not sure he's that.
Speaker 1: What do you think personnel wise, franchise tag wise, what
Speaker 1: does the offseason look like? Well, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be an old Romo friendly type deal. Used to
Speaker 1: hear that terminology, and I think they're going to bring
Speaker 1: that one back to make this thing Dak friendly. This
Speaker 1: season got away from Dak. He got in a bad way.
Speaker 1: He says all the right things. He's a great podium guy,
Speaker 1: as you've talked about, but he didn't get it done.
Speaker 1: And so this offseason will be about putting Dak back
Speaker 1: together and finding Okay, why did this happen? Why did
Speaker 1: a guy that was sort of known for managing games
Speaker 1: and taking care of the ball all of a sudden
Speaker 1: to have a huge turnover problem. So a lot of
Speaker 1: that's going to be about that. Now when I say
Speaker 1: Dak friendly, I think that it's gonna be They're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to bring in more talent around him. Gallop,
Speaker 1: didn't you know they didn't work out this season. They
Speaker 1: had to go to t Y Hilton CD was all
Speaker 1: they had. Schultz is probably gone. We don't know what
Speaker 1: about Pollard because of the injury. There are people that
Speaker 1: are gonna put in their face right now. They're already
Speaker 1: doing it. What you know, why did you you didn't
Speaker 1: get anything for a Mari. You had two stud wide
Speaker 1: receivers and you didn't get anything for him. You got
Speaker 1: a fifth round pick for Amari Cooper. So that's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear this offseason is how do we make
Speaker 1: this thing Dak friendly and who can we bring in
Speaker 1: to build him up and to add more firepower, Because
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, here's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: They're gonna look back at these interceptions. What they're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you this offseason is a lot of it wasn't
Speaker 1: Dak's fault. I don't believe that. I mean, did you
Speaker 1: see the look in Dack's eye after those two picks
Speaker 1: the other day? Did you see that kind of deer
Speaker 1: in headlights? Like, I don't know what's happening. I don't
Speaker 1: know how this happened. But because they pay him so
Speaker 1: much and because he's their franchise quarterback, it's just like
Speaker 1: with Tony, they're going to have to They're going to
Speaker 1: have to make it not his problem. It's we didn't
Speaker 1: do enough to help Dak. We've got to do enough
Speaker 1: to help Dak get over the hump. And so that's
Speaker 1: what this whole thing is going to become about. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboy Twitter account, and this is very rare, took
Speaker 1: a shot at DAK. Now. I saw a story today
Speaker 1: that suggested Jerry o'kaye that how's that playing in Dallas?
Speaker 1: What's the rumor in Dallas about that? Because you don't
Speaker 1: see team Twitter accounts ripping star players even after bad games.
Speaker 1: First of all, the idea that somebody went to Jerry
Speaker 1: with a headline is ludicrous. Okay. I mean I've been
Speaker 1: in newspapers my whole life and websites and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's a joke. Like anybody who says, well, Cherry,
Speaker 1: Harry's fine with that. Now the thing I could defend
Speaker 1: him on if you kind of see it's like a
Speaker 1: link to a story. The story is probably has more
Speaker 1: nuance and it's not some kind of attack on DAK.
Speaker 1: But it just looks strange, And it is kind of
Speaker 1: funny that even after all this blowback and people are like,
Speaker 1: what are the Cowboys doing, they just kind of left
Speaker 1: it up there. So I don't think I would say
Speaker 1: this though. Deck is kind of going to go away
Speaker 1: for a while, we won't hear from him, but he
Speaker 1: was made very aware of it. I assure you that
Speaker 1: that Dak's people and anybody has said, boy, Deck, look
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys took care of you after the game
Speaker 1: by leaving this tweet up there. Now Again, from a
Speaker 1: journalist standpoint, the tweet the headline was sort of a
Speaker 1: match to a story, and like, whoever wrote that story
Speaker 1: didn't write the headline. Somebody from the Cowboys put that
Speaker 1: out there. And then suddenly what surprises me, Colin is
Speaker 1: that somebody and I know all the people in charge
Speaker 1: over there, they're good people, Like somebody just didn't delete it.
Speaker 1: Go and this is causing a firestorm. But maybe we
Speaker 1: should admire them for saying, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: we make fun of people when they delete something, right,
Speaker 1: they just left it out there, and who knows, But
Speaker 1: the thought of Jerry having any say or carrying in
Speaker 1: the least about what the website tweets out is beyond crazy.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like the Buffalo Bills and the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. This was kind of the spot Buffalo because
Speaker 1: Mahomes is hurt, Josh Allen's big salary kicks in Buffalo
Speaker 1: defense is going to have to probably get rid of
Speaker 1: a safety, a linebacker. This was the best of the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's roster. It may not look as Josh Allen's
Speaker 1: contract kicks in. It may not look this nice. Remember
Speaker 1: Kansas City had to get rid of Tyreek Hill, Savarious
Speaker 1: Ward of the corner. I mean once the big money
Speaker 1: kicks in. Cowboys had to let go of Amari Cooper,
Speaker 1: the Titans with Tannail had to get let go of A. J. Brown.
Speaker 1: So I feel like Buffalo, this was the best the
Speaker 1: roster was going to be. Now it's going to have
Speaker 1: to be leaner. And I look at Dallas and I
Speaker 1: say to myself, Okay, they can't get out of this
Speaker 1: Zeke thing. They can't get out of this Dak contract.
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz is leaving, Tyron Smith is expensive and old.
Speaker 1: Is there an argument this is the best of the roster? Well,
Speaker 1: this was the best year to break through. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think they might be able to do some things
Speaker 1: to help the offense. I don't know. I mean in
Speaker 1: a weird sort of way. The injury to Pollard may
Speaker 1: help them. When Pollard's a great player, how do you
Speaker 1: he was going to get huge money on the open
Speaker 1: market for a running back. Obviously, the value for a
Speaker 1: running back is not what it is in other positions.
Speaker 1: But they were people. Yeah, yeah, there are people that
Speaker 1: were going to be very interested in him. Well, on
Speaker 1: the open market, it might have been even more than that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he might have got ten to twelve. But
Speaker 1: now nobody knows what to make of this injury. And
Speaker 1: this is where Jerry's really good. Jerry can come in
Speaker 1: and go, Tony, we've brought you in here. You know,
Speaker 1: we've given you this platform. And Jerry loves to make
Speaker 1: that argument to players if you're if you retire a cowboy,
Speaker 1: you know you're going to have a job the rest
Speaker 1: of your life because you were a cowboy and all
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Zeke's probably gone. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you really gonna keep paying Zeke to be a short
Speaker 1: yardage running back? I mean, there's just really there's really
Speaker 1: no great place for him. I mean there's no there's
Speaker 1: no great fit. There's also not a market for Zeke,
Speaker 1: is there? I don't I don't think so. I mean
Speaker 1: they're trapped. He's he's so valuable to them just from
Speaker 1: Dak loves him, this sort of leadership. I don't really
Speaker 1: think that transit that wouldn't translate to some of these
Speaker 1: other places. I'm trying to think of where some people
Speaker 1: that have coached him have gone on to. But no, no,
Speaker 1: he's just I mean, there's no more tread on the tire.
Speaker 1: Just look at the numbers. He was averaging two point
Speaker 1: one yards per carry. Pollard was their home run hitter.
Speaker 1: Now Pollard, as of as our taping, just in the
Speaker 1: past hour or so, he had this surgery. Um the
Speaker 1: fibula that's gonna heal on its own, as I understand it.
Speaker 1: The ankle they had to do some surgery on. He's
Speaker 1: going to be ready by training camp next year. So
Speaker 1: but again, we don't know what he's gonna look like.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna have to say burst a gonna take
Speaker 1: him a while to get back up to speed. This
Speaker 1: is the killer for the Cowboys is you've got a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback on the other sideline in San Francisco. You
Speaker 1: hold them to nineteen points. He's good, I like broc Perty,
Speaker 1: but he didn't. It's not like he was just unbelievable
Speaker 1: in that game. He made a couple of really good throws.
Speaker 1: But you hold them to nineteen points and you're huge
Speaker 1: money quarterback goes out there in first half. It's just
Speaker 1: like he's walking in the in the I mean just
Speaker 1: in the woods or something like, hey man, what's going
Speaker 1: on here? Oh man, sine Clara is nice and he's
Speaker 1: just he's throwing picks and he could have thrown two more.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just demoralizing to an organization. That's why
Speaker 1: Treyvon Diggs, j Ron curse to Marcus Lawrence. You could
Speaker 1: sort of watch their body language after that game. That's
Speaker 1: not up. We're all in this together. That body language.
Speaker 1: Even dan Quinn that he's got to be thinking. We
Speaker 1: did everything we hood and we were knocking on the door,
Speaker 1: and the sad things for Cowboys fans and the people
Speaker 1: who cover them and everything. We all think it was
Speaker 1: nine to nine Colin, everybody'd been a moment in your
Speaker 1: mind where you thought, hmm, maybe the Cowboys win this thing,
Speaker 1: go the NFC title game. I would say eighty to
Speaker 1: ninety percent of all Cowboys fans and the people who
Speaker 1: cover them were just sitting there like, Okay, how did
Speaker 1: they lose this game? Which direction is it gonna Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be another interception, there's gonna be a long drive.
Speaker 1: How are they gonna lose it? There's nobody that truly
Speaker 1: felt like they were going to break through and it
Speaker 1: was nine to nine. I mean, they it was right
Speaker 1: there for the taking. So I think you can improve
Speaker 1: the roster. But the problem is, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you ever have a better shot. I mean, San franciscoes looted,
Speaker 1: but they don't have the right I mean, they got
Speaker 1: a third stream quarterback. Are we all gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and jump now? He may go on and win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and it will go all right, rock party,
Speaker 1: He's going to be their quarterback in the next five
Speaker 1: ten years. I'm not ready to say that. Well, here's
Speaker 1: the Cowboys dilemma is both the Niners they don't pay
Speaker 1: that quarterback for three more years, so they can keep
Speaker 1: their players. They'll probably move Trey Lance and the Eagles
Speaker 1: aren't moving. They're not moving any of their players because
Speaker 1: they don't pay Jalen Hurts yet. So Dallas is going
Speaker 1: to face those two stacked rosters again next year. And
Speaker 1: my takeaway is Dallas will be less talented next year.
Speaker 1: Now if Dallas, you know, they're a playoff teams, so
Speaker 1: they're not going to be in a great draft position.
Speaker 1: And most of your NFL gms have told me for years,
Speaker 1: you run out of first run players somewhere between the
Speaker 1: fifteenth and the eighteenth pick. So Dallas, if you're at
Speaker 1: the end of the first round, you know you're it's
Speaker 1: kind of no man's land. But I do think there's
Speaker 1: tight ends and wide receivers in the first two picks
Speaker 1: for Dallas that can absolutely elevate the offense. But the
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard situations rough because I think they you can't
Speaker 1: let Dalton Schultz walk and not go get a tight end.
Speaker 1: You can't, and you got to get an inexpensive tight end. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a good The first and second round have about
Speaker 1: four and you know tight ends have historically dropped in
Speaker 1: the draft. George Kittle was a fifth round pick, So
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is in a weird spot where they've
Speaker 1: really got to hit some home runs in the first
Speaker 1: three picks. Offensively, they also need a second corner. Now
Speaker 1: you can get that in later round. Seattle did this year.
Speaker 1: They got a corner in the fifth and the sixth
Speaker 1: round starters. But I do feel like this was the year.
Speaker 1: I mean, Brock pretty by next year, Matt he's gonna
Speaker 1: have multiple starts. This was the chance to get him
Speaker 1: and by the way they did. They the defense did
Speaker 1: get him like he It's not like they went out
Speaker 1: there and raced up and down the field. They got
Speaker 1: nineteen points and the Cowboys go out there and and
Speaker 1: just you know, and put up twelve points. So you're right,
Speaker 1: it was this game. This was so gettable and it
Speaker 1: just kind of makes you think that as it's currently
Speaker 1: constructed with this head coach. Now, there are people who
Speaker 1: still think Jerry could make a change at head coach.
Speaker 1: I mean, he loves to shape things up and make
Speaker 1: people uncomfortable, So I do think Jerry might enjoy the
Speaker 1: shake up of two new coordinators. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: going to do anything to Mike McCarthy, but I it's
Speaker 1: it's it really is. I think he's hold up thinking
Speaker 1: of a way and thinking of a plan. And he's
Speaker 1: the ultimate salesman, so he's thinking of a mantrap or
Speaker 1: what can we roll out there? Now the old Romo friendly,
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll go with the Dack friendly or whatever. But
Speaker 1: this will be about the redemption of Dad. This is
Speaker 1: our guy. He's totally fine. He's a great quarterback and
Speaker 1: he just had a bad season and maybe it was
Speaker 1: he was rusty after missing the five games. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, he missed five games, he still threw seventeen interceptions,
Speaker 1: and people say, well, Matt, not all these things were
Speaker 1: his fault. That's true, that's true, But there were a
Speaker 1: lot of pick sixes, three pick sixes since Week fifteen.
Speaker 1: They've got a quarterback problem and there's no easy fix.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody here wants a new quarterback, new head coach.
Speaker 1: None of that's happening. I mean, you can't move off
Speaker 1: that contract, so all you can do is try to
Speaker 1: build around him. But but you know Jerry Jerry right now,
Speaker 1: it's he's putting together before he can actually go do
Speaker 1: some things in free agency, he has to put a
Speaker 1: marketing plan together, and before he shows up in his
Speaker 1: comfortable meeting with everybody at the owner's meetings or wherever,
Speaker 1: the next to combine, wherever he speaks next, because he
Speaker 1: will sometimes go into hiding for a little while, he's
Speaker 1: going to come out with a whole new thing, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be about how close they were. Maybe
Speaker 1: he can use this powered injury or something. But what
Speaker 1: you're about to see is a circling of the wagons
Speaker 1: around Dak Like you can't even believe, and that's because
Speaker 1: they have no other alternatives. What are they going to do?
Speaker 1: Rip him? I mean, it's just they're going to They're
Speaker 1: going to put everything in Dad. You can fire your
Speaker 1: head coach, but right now you can't do anything about
Speaker 1: your quarterback. Okay, well, Mosley, that was some good work.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Put those glasses back on. Enjoy
Speaker 1: your beautiful family. Yeah, I know, I appreciate that. And
Speaker 1: you should know when I'm on with you on these podcasts,
Speaker 1: it just generates. I mean, just as we were getting
Speaker 1: ready to come on, I heard from somebody from Box.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. By the way, I'm supposed to be
Speaker 1: on the radio right now, but I think my show
Speaker 1: started about two minutes ago. Okay, Colin, I may need
Speaker 1: to I'm you need to go now. Hey, appreciate it.
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