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Speaker 1: by two former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny McCray and Barry Church.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is out for the year. I supposed you
Speaker 1: get out of the hospital today. Scott of Goldnick pr
Speaker 1: Maybean with the team sent out a press release today
Speaker 1: saying that this sex the surgery was successful and they
Speaker 1: expect Dak to be released today. All right, gentlemen, let
Speaker 1: me just take your thoughts on what you felt when
Speaker 1: you saw Dak Prescott down on the turf at Jerry World.
Speaker 1: Mccrat man, it was it was tough, man, it was heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: just because you know, I know, I know how people
Speaker 1: around the organzation feel about that. Really people around the world,
Speaker 1: and he's he's an ultimate leader. He's an ultimate of
Speaker 1: the right type of guy, the guy that people look
Speaker 1: up to, it does everything right. So just to see
Speaker 1: something goes so wrong for him was very tough. But
Speaker 1: you know, listening to everybody you know, reach out to
Speaker 1: him and show how much confidence they have in him
Speaker 1: and believe that he will come back even better than before.
Speaker 1: You know, was kind of the civil line in that one.
Speaker 1: But I feel I feel terrible for Man because he
Speaker 1: was he was on track to do some special and
Speaker 1: then the contract year and all that stuff is in there,
Speaker 1: so it's it's a lot going into it, and he
Speaker 1: has a lot going on through his mind. But praying
Speaker 1: for Man and hopefully speed to recover and come back better. Now, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you hate, you hate to see
Speaker 1: something like this happened, especially to a guy like like
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I mean on the field, he was a
Speaker 1: captain's he's the leader of this team. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: an unquestioned leader and a franchise leader of this team.
Speaker 1: And not only that, you hate to see it happened
Speaker 1: to the guy off the field. I mean, we had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting this guy and knowing him and
Speaker 1: getting to know him, and I mean, this guy is
Speaker 1: genuinely a great dude. Man like he eat, he never
Speaker 1: puts himself above anybody, and you just hate for something
Speaker 1: like this to happen for him. But um, like I said,
Speaker 1: this guy is strong, he's strong natured, and um, he'll
Speaker 1: be able to get through this, and I believe he'll
Speaker 1: be back. But for me, this, I mean, it just
Speaker 1: sucks just seeing him on the field like that. Man.
Speaker 1: So for me, like Danny said, man, thoughts and prayers
Speaker 1: go out to him. But I know he'll be healthy,
Speaker 1: he'll come back and ball out. I've been lucky enough
Speaker 1: to cover a lot of cowboy teams Jimmy's last team
Speaker 1: here that ended up winning the Super Bowl, UH, covered
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. And watching Dak Prescott leave that
Speaker 1: football field with tears in his eyes, and the way
Speaker 1: people rallied around him and the c Jason Garrett on
Speaker 1: the other side with the Giants to see his concern,
Speaker 1: I won't lie to you. I was sitting there and
Speaker 1: then my eyes watered up because it stinks that something
Speaker 1: like that happened to someone who's such a good person
Speaker 1: to someone who does everything right to someone who, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, has made Dallas foot war sports a better place. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went into a situation. It was very hard where
Speaker 1: he replaced Tony Romo Way, very loved football player, a
Speaker 1: guy who was popular and never did anything, never misstepped.
Speaker 1: You know, he never said anything negative and not anything bad.
Speaker 1: I mean he helped. He just he just operates the
Speaker 1: right kind of way. And I just want to give
Speaker 1: you a quick, you know, glimpse into my you know,
Speaker 1: my experiences with Dak. I'm not going to sip you
Speaker 1: tell hey, Dak and I are buddies and friends. We
Speaker 1: are friendly. Um I said to him, I said, my
Speaker 1: kid loves you. You are you are her you know
Speaker 1: you're you're her favorite player, and she wants to meet
Speaker 1: you one day. He says, let's make that happen. And
Speaker 1: he just looked at me again, okay, with sincerity. And
Speaker 1: I remember telling my kid, all right, Dak says that
Speaker 1: he'll meet you and you can get a picture with Dak.
Speaker 1: But you know, you gotta gotta get schoolwork done, you know.
Speaker 1: So she was wanting to get her schoolwork done, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately COVID COVID came around and we weren't able to
Speaker 1: do it. But you know, that's that kind of guy.
Speaker 1: He wants to be the leader of the franchise and
Speaker 1: he knows what goes along with it. He never gets
Speaker 1: tired of it. And you guys are players, and you
Speaker 1: guys have you guys now have kids, and you know
Speaker 1: that's the most important thing in your life. And when
Speaker 1: someone you know wants to willingly go out of their
Speaker 1: way to do something that would have to do to
Speaker 1: try to make your kids smile, it just makes you
Speaker 1: think so much more of him. And Dak is that
Speaker 1: kind of guy. And I know several people who have
Speaker 1: those kind of stories about the kind of man he is.
Speaker 1: And that was why I watered my eyes watered up
Speaker 1: because like, this is a good dude. Why does this
Speaker 1: have to happen? He just lost his brother this summer.
Speaker 1: He spoke openly about how he had reached a point
Speaker 1: of depression and went to seek help. And you know,
Speaker 1: we all know about the story of him losing his
Speaker 1: mother to can't And you just say, man, how many
Speaker 1: hits does a good dude like this have to take?
Speaker 1: So that was why I had tears in my eyes, man,
Speaker 1: because it was just like, damn not that. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was tough, man. And like you said, it just the
Speaker 1: just the people around that came to just in support
Speaker 1: of him. It just goes to show you how much
Speaker 1: he affected everyone, and like how how positively he affected everyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, Coach Garrett coming from the
Speaker 1: other sidelines to come and show his support, his whole
Speaker 1: team gathering around him, you know as he was getting
Speaker 1: hoisted up into the cart. I mean, it just goes
Speaker 1: to show you the testament of the type of man
Speaker 1: he was, the type of character he has, and the
Speaker 1: leadership he has. And like I said, man, we all
Speaker 1: wishing him a speedy and in our healthy recovery. But man, yeah,
Speaker 1: this one hurt. Just one't hurt him. Man, this one
Speaker 1: definitely hurt. And and I want to come to the
Speaker 1: defense of all all NFL football players who have played
Speaker 1: and will play on playing currently. This is why, you know,
Speaker 1: like unlike any other sport, unlike any other national league,
Speaker 1: where players always fight for, you know, the ability to
Speaker 1: get guaranteed contracts, ability to make their money when they can,
Speaker 1: because you know, you listen to the fans and they
Speaker 1: ask it, and they all ask why they and they
Speaker 1: moaned and complain when players trying to get all their money,
Speaker 1: and then you know, things like this happened. You know,
Speaker 1: not just back is Alice Smith. You know in the
Speaker 1: previous year, it's Ryan Shazier in a year. You know
Speaker 1: when when when things like this happened, Like football players
Speaker 1: are asking for this for a specific reason, and anybody
Speaker 1: who looks at them and says they're being greedy or
Speaker 1: or they shouldn't be doing this so they need to
Speaker 1: go out there and perform blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Take a look at this and swallow that pill and
Speaker 1: just realize that you were wrong and get on the
Speaker 1: side of the players, because the harsh reality of the NFL,
Speaker 1: these things like this will happen. And even though it does,
Speaker 1: players still deserve to make their money, you know, for
Speaker 1: what they did on the field, all they gave to
Speaker 1: the game. So stop hating on the man. Let these
Speaker 1: guys make their money. Get one on the side of
Speaker 1: the players. I want to take what you said. Add
Speaker 1: one more name to this. Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy Bridgewater was
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl quarterback who had taken Minnesota to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and in a practice just a routine practice, Teddy
Speaker 1: goes down and Teddy tears up his leg. I mean
Speaker 1: he tears it up. That guys were there crying watching it.
Speaker 1: They all knew it was bad when it happened, ended
Speaker 1: up happening before the season. And despite Teddy Bridgewater being
Speaker 1: the right kind of guy and loved throughout the Minnesota organization,
Speaker 1: you know what Minnesota did. They cut him. They cut him.
Speaker 1: He did not get made and then so Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: had the long, the long road to come back and
Speaker 1: was a backup player for for several seasons. And yesterday
Speaker 1: he led the Carolina Panthers to a victory and he
Speaker 1: ended up getting himself a multi year contract this offseason
Speaker 1: with Caroline after spending two years with the Saints. But
Speaker 1: I go back to that about how you better get
Speaker 1: what you can while you can't, because there's no guarantee
Speaker 1: that you're going to be healthy, and even more so,
Speaker 1: there's no there's no guarantee that your team will love
Speaker 1: you next year. And you're right, and look, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw another name in there, Tyrod Taylor. I mean, we
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on in that situation over in La.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a little bit different because it
Speaker 1: was the negligence of the team, But still, I mean,
Speaker 1: can they get away without giving him his money guaranteed?
Speaker 1: I mean the kid might not play the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. So I mean it's like you said, McCrae,
Speaker 1: it's a fight. And now people should realize why players
Speaker 1: go tooth and nail and fight for the most guaranteed
Speaker 1: money they can get because football's a violence sport and
Speaker 1: you never know what's going to happen on each and
Speaker 1: every down. So like mcraie said, man, you gotta get
Speaker 1: your money. So Edward Or ESPN Guide, knowing and respected
Speaker 1: a long long time edward Or had tweeted out talking about, hey,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was offered a contract, turned it down. We
Speaker 1: know a lot of the issue had come between the
Speaker 1: years of the Cowboys wanting a five year deal, Prescott
Speaker 1: wanting a four year deal, and there were other people
Speaker 1: in the media who jumped on that that hey, this
Speaker 1: was all Dak, Dak took a risk. This is what
Speaker 1: you do. How do you feel about that, gentleman, We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna dive into it. Uh, I guess we're
Speaker 1: diving into it, man, um, Look, man, Um. Emotionally, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, man, you know he's he's spot
Speaker 1: tooth and nail. He's never missed a start. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he's been the unquestioned leader of this team. So you
Speaker 1: know they need to go ahead and break him off
Speaker 1: what he wants and give him his money. Um. But
Speaker 1: then again, you know, it harps back to the business
Speaker 1: side of things, and you gotta take your emotions out
Speaker 1: of it. And if I'm the Cowboys, I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: they weren't willing to pay him when he he was healthy,
Speaker 1: and when he was you know, putting on work. You know,
Speaker 1: why would they go ahead and then pay him what
Speaker 1: he wants after this injury. I mean, I know it
Speaker 1: sounds harsh, but it's I mean, it's the reality. It's
Speaker 1: the reality of the business we're in. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough one. It's a tough cookie. Um.
Speaker 1: But I can see them, you know, maybe franchise and
Speaker 1: him one more time, just to see where he's act,
Speaker 1: get a little bit more sample size, making sure he's
Speaker 1: come back healthy from this injury. But overall, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a sticky situation and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it is a business, so I mean it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's a tough one, yeah, And then I think the
Speaker 1: only thing wrong with what Edwarder did was his timing.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I mean what he said was true,
Speaker 1: and the truth is that that did gamble on itself.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. And
Speaker 1: we still don't know it's not gonna work out. He
Speaker 1: just he just suffered a rusal injury. Um, things can
Speaker 1: still play out in his favor, depending on how the
Speaker 1: season goes and how Jerry Jones and then look several
Speaker 1: you know, he could still possibly give his forty mel
Speaker 1: we could go up there in theoked like straight guards
Speaker 1: or the argument that they knew he said, you know
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show was hey, depending on
Speaker 1: how Andy Dunn plays, maybe possibly they could go look
Speaker 1: for somebody else to say that. You know, anybody could
Speaker 1: well somebody another person with high caliber could carry his team. So,
Speaker 1: you know, he gambled on himself and it just didn't
Speaker 1: work out. Because right before this we were saying he
Speaker 1: gambled on himself and it worked out. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's just part of the game. So in his business,
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be any hard feelings between
Speaker 1: either one up. We all hope that the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: do us right, but the gamble, you know, in this sense,
Speaker 1: as far as the injury wise, it just didn't pay
Speaker 1: off like we hoped it would. So let me just
Speaker 1: reset in case some Cowboy fans don't understand. Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: being a fourth round draft pick, had a four year contract,
Speaker 1: so last season was his fourth d It's the fourth
Speaker 1: year of his deal, the final year, and they could
Speaker 1: not come to a contract. The Cowboys thought they had
Speaker 1: a deal done in September, but Dak's agent, Todd France,
Speaker 1: basically he's like, nah, nah, after he started the three games,
Speaker 1: we're not going to do that deal. They did not
Speaker 1: talk during the off season. We thought there'd be more conversation.
Speaker 1: There were not conversations. Todd Franz. Dak's agent had three players, okay,
Speaker 1: three of his clients were all on franchise tags. Not
Speaker 1: one of the three clients ended up signing a long
Speaker 1: term deal. So Dak Prescott came into this season on
Speaker 1: a one year deal for thirty one point four million dollars.
Speaker 1: He did not get his deal done, and I ended
Speaker 1: up texting with a prominent NFL agent, a guy who's
Speaker 1: had another, you know, high profile client get franchise tagged
Speaker 1: and he and this is what he wrote me or
Speaker 1: read it. He says, that's why you get deals done,
Speaker 1: because you shouldn't be gambling with the players health. And
Speaker 1: to me, as I saw Dak Prescott and tears going
Speaker 1: off that car, I just said to myself, Todd France,
Speaker 1: did you do right by your client? You wanted a
Speaker 1: four year deal, they wanted a five year deal. That's
Speaker 1: what it really came down to over years. Look, I
Speaker 1: think Dak is a tremendous football player, and I'm always
Speaker 1: going to be on the side of guys getting paid.
Speaker 1: But I'm also I've been in this thing long enough
Speaker 1: to know you do at some point in time, need
Speaker 1: to take what you can get. And take this bite.
Speaker 1: Because he's a quarterback. He'll get another bite of that apple,
Speaker 1: but make sure you put some of these guaranteed dollars
Speaker 1: in his pocket. And yes, he's guaranteed thirty one million bucks,
Speaker 1: but if this contract was five years, one seventy five,
Speaker 1: it would have been a hell of a lot more
Speaker 1: than what he's got. And now the Cowboys have the leverage. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dak had the leverage and the way he was playing
Speaker 1: this year, he was going to have the leverage. But
Speaker 1: this injury now puts the leverage back into the Cowboys
Speaker 1: hands during a pandemic. I'm not a fair of France.
Speaker 1: I gotta say, Man, the thought process and that to
Speaker 1: me is, you know, it's tough, right because what happens
Speaker 1: is Dak is a guy who has been through some stuff.
Speaker 1: He was going to get drafted. He ended up slipping
Speaker 1: to the fourth round. Things worked out for him, and
Speaker 1: Tony Romo got hurt, Like things besides this one, he said,
Speaker 1: been working out. So him gambling on himself and believing
Speaker 1: that he can get stuff done and get what he
Speaker 1: deserves was in his mind as well, you know, as
Speaker 1: far as being like, hey, I'm gonna go out here
Speaker 1: and I know that I'm good, and I know we
Speaker 1: got weapons, and I know that I'm gonna have the
Speaker 1: best season that I can to get paid the highest.
Speaker 1: So it's difficult to be like, hey, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: take this, you know, knowing that in my mind I'm
Speaker 1: a competitor and I know I can go outperform that
Speaker 1: and get and get more money so you know, it
Speaker 1: is on his ageing a little bit. But I know
Speaker 1: back believed in himself just as much as his agent
Speaker 1: did as far as going out there and playing on
Speaker 1: that one year deal just so he can get everything
Speaker 1: that he's worth. And a lot of times when people
Speaker 1: gamble on themselves, it works out, so he had a
Speaker 1: chance for it to work out. This is just one
Speaker 1: of those freak accidents that usually doesn't happen to a
Speaker 1: player in this type of situation, but it did just
Speaker 1: because it's the NFL. So he still had a chance
Speaker 1: to go out there and prove and get everything that
Speaker 1: he wanted. He still does. It just didn't work out
Speaker 1: this time. So it's tough. You know, maybe he should
Speaker 1: have took the money, maybe he shouldn't have, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't baking on getting injured. He was baking on going
Speaker 1: out there and have a he of a season like
Speaker 1: he was. It's see Danny, And this is where I
Speaker 1: come back to as as as the agent and the representative. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's how I'm thinking of this, is that I'm asking
Speaker 1: my client to take two years in it. Hey man,
Speaker 1: I want you to gamble another year. Okay, We're gonna
Speaker 1: turn down this boatload of money again and go out
Speaker 1: here and play in a sport where you know, dudes
Speaker 1: get hurt. I'm thinking more of the player in the
Speaker 1: long term. And I'm telling you there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people who are wondering because Todd France changed his agency.
Speaker 1: Now you think about this, Just just ask yourself this.
Speaker 1: You have three clients to a franchise tad, all three
Speaker 1: clients do not get long term deals, and you were
Speaker 1: the agent, now switch agencies. Could there have been some
Speaker 1: play there where he was trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: maybe some commissions that will not be a different way
Speaker 1: and he was gonna make more money off of I'm
Speaker 1: hearing that one client in Denver that he had who
Speaker 1: was under the franchise tact that there were no meaningful conversations.
Speaker 1: And then of course we heard the report from James
Speaker 1: Slater of NFL Network that at the end they tried
Speaker 1: to talk and then get anything done for Dak. I
Speaker 1: just I just have a problem that you know, where
Speaker 1: where was the contact? You know, you you got three
Speaker 1: dudes and nobody gets done. I mean, what are you
Speaker 1: doing as an agent? I'll just trying to figure Yeah,
Speaker 1: like what happens. If if if it ended up being
Speaker 1: like a Kirk Cousins deal where he ended up getting
Speaker 1: franchise and then ended up hitting big, then you know
Speaker 1: we'd be second guessing. Yeah, he's a smart guy. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know, Daks are
Speaker 1: just like the rest of his clients. They're grown men.
Speaker 1: If they wanted, you know, to take to go ahead
Speaker 1: and take the deal, they can tell him, Look, man,
Speaker 1: I don't care what you're saying, thy France, go ahead
Speaker 1: and take this deal. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, it was Dak's gamble, and he did gamble,
Speaker 1: and like Danny said, it just you know, it didn't
Speaker 1: work out the way he wished it would worked out
Speaker 1: this time. But like now, I mean, he bet on
Speaker 1: himself and that's the risk you take sometimes. Okay, Church, Now,
Speaker 1: now I come back to this, and this is where
Speaker 1: you know, I'm still having you know, I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, exactly what happened here. This
Speaker 1: is where COVID gets in the way where you can't
Speaker 1: really get some of that conversations with people one on one.
Speaker 1: But but just the fact that there was a conversation
Speaker 1: late okay late, So they were talking as the deadline,
Speaker 1: you know it was it was approaching three o'clock, but
Speaker 1: they ran out of time to get something done. Steven's
Speaker 1: acknowledged a little bit of that. So if you're trying
Speaker 1: to get something done here in the last moment, that
Speaker 1: tells me that there was a deal to be made
Speaker 1: and it didn't get done. Which that's where I go
Speaker 1: back to the agent. If why weren't you talking to
Speaker 1: these guys July first? You know, where's where's your list?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean to me, if you're probably an agent,
Speaker 1: you know, where's the logs of Hey, I talked to
Speaker 1: Steve and we or talked to you that you were
Speaker 1: trying to get something done for the client. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to sell your house and the real
Speaker 1: to talk to you at all about what's going on
Speaker 1: and you don't have an understanding, Hey, how are you
Speaker 1: going through this process? I mean, that's for me. That's
Speaker 1: when people represent me. I want to know what were
Speaker 1: you doing? What kind of conversations because these are negotiations,
Speaker 1: they're back and forth types of things, and do we
Speaker 1: know what happened? There were no convert the conversations because
Speaker 1: I'm still believe that on his four year deal. Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the whole thing about the conversation that has been reported
Speaker 1: several times, and the same thing about Todd France with
Speaker 1: one of his clients in Denver, the same thing where
Speaker 1: this this is a guy who wasn't picking up the
Speaker 1: phone engaging with people about trying to get something done
Speaker 1: with his guys here. So now I'm talking about that,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about that with his own agent, um to
Speaker 1: my knowledge, yes, yes, with the agent, but I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the agent with the club. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Got you So you're saying the agent wasn't reaching out
Speaker 1: to the club to get something done. He was just
Speaker 1: waiting on them to come and come and offer something, right,
Speaker 1: and and and it did that with at least two
Speaker 1: of the three guys that I know, at least two
Speaker 1: of the three, and that took What do you do?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? If that's the case. If yeah,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then that that's bad agents. That's
Speaker 1: bad agent work. If that's the case where he's not,
Speaker 1: you know, reaching out trying to get the best deal possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, if if that's the case, then yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm pissed at the agent. You know what.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Man, you don't have my best interest if
Speaker 1: you're not going out there fighting for me and you're
Speaker 1: just waiting on a call. So I mean, if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then I definitely would agree with you that
Speaker 1: Todd France was. You know, he didn't play as he
Speaker 1: didn't have Dak's best interests at hard. I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta play that. I gotta play devil. I came here man,
Speaker 1: because because even in that case, we just Dak is
Speaker 1: talking to his agent. Dak understands, and I believe that
Speaker 1: is a smart guy. Dak has been around the organization.
Speaker 1: He has some idea of what's going on, and to
Speaker 1: some sense, like everybody was saying, he probably felt played
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't give him what he wanted. And once
Speaker 1: they came back but the five year deal for the
Speaker 1: fourth time time, he was like, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't go here to do what I gotta do. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. I'm just having a hard time finding it.
Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe that they ran out
Speaker 1: of time on the deal making a deal that Dak
Speaker 1: wanted with four years I feel like he probably coming
Speaker 1: back with the same five year deal and it was like, bro,
Speaker 1: y'all still have come back with the same stuff. That's
Speaker 1: what I guess that all I'm going by is the
Speaker 1: James Slater report that um, Stephen and Dak You know
Speaker 1: that those two guys talked and then they were trying
Speaker 1: to work something out at the end and ran out
Speaker 1: of time. Those those particulars I don't know, but but
Speaker 1: this is just this is why I say why I
Speaker 1: hate the COVID thing. If we can't get near the
Speaker 1: players so that that opportunity to go in the locker
Speaker 1: room where you know, you have the side conversations with guys,
Speaker 1: if you try to get the okay hey off the record,
Speaker 1: tell me exactly you know? Is this report right? What
Speaker 1: happened here? And even Stephen, you know, you can't get
Speaker 1: next to Stephen to say okay, hey, look guide me.
Speaker 1: So I have an understanding. I'm hearing this. I'm hearing
Speaker 1: that there was a conversation at the end here. Is
Speaker 1: that true. I'm hearing that there was zero contact in
Speaker 1: the month of July. Is this true? You know, those
Speaker 1: kind of things that you'd like to get done at
Speaker 1: the reporter that you you know, you're it's it's tough
Speaker 1: right now that not to be able to kind of
Speaker 1: do the job as one. But for me, the fact
Speaker 1: that it's been reported they were trying to get something
Speaker 1: done at the end tells me that there was some
Speaker 1: there was some ground that was going to be met.
Speaker 1: And what have we seen with the cowboys recently. Go
Speaker 1: back to Mary Cooper, go back to Tank Loans, go
Speaker 1: back to Zeke, go back to Zach. They folded every time.
Speaker 1: So a part of me is thinking, here, cowboys about
Speaker 1: to fold and give them what they wanted, but they
Speaker 1: ran out of time. And that's why I go back
Speaker 1: to the agent and just say, hey, you got three duds,
Speaker 1: and all three dudes don't get done. And I'm hearing
Speaker 1: from two different organizations through my sources that this guy,
Speaker 1: the agent wasn't exactly on the phone engaging with dudes
Speaker 1: trying to get something done. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: he moves on to a new agency where apparently, I
Speaker 1: guess it's going to be a lot more favors for
Speaker 1: him to get deals done. So are you learning the
Speaker 1: jobs off the hook here? Because literally we've been talking
Speaker 1: about getting paid for like two years along. No no
Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no. Understand it.
Speaker 1: My issue is, as I and I go back to
Speaker 1: what I said earlier, I'm watching the player lead the field,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking that the agent didn't take care and
Speaker 1: make sure the client got the money. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: looking at now. As far as the Jones' go, we
Speaker 1: can have a whole another conversation about that, because I've
Speaker 1: said on the record before here they should have got
Speaker 1: that deal done that training camp of his final that
Speaker 1: that final year, that they should have you know what
Speaker 1: they were asking for thirty or thirty one, should have
Speaker 1: gave it to him, should have basically said, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you exactly what Goffin Wentz got. You
Speaker 1: can have what they're at because we feel you are
Speaker 1: right there with those guys. So I just I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear that about the last minute they called
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Speaker 1: Longtime Cowboys reporter. Former Cowboys players Danny McCray and Barry
Speaker 1: Church are alongside me. Dak Prescott gonna miss the season
Speaker 1: after a right ankle compound fracture and dislocation. More Cowboys injuries.
Speaker 1: Defensive tackle starter Tristan Hill is suspected to have an
Speaker 1: ACL and you start looking at the whole list of things.
Speaker 1: Here you got Tyrn Smith, left tackle out for the
Speaker 1: year with the neck. Right tackle l Collins out. Gerald
Speaker 1: McCoy the other stary defensive tackle. He is out for
Speaker 1: the year. They ended up cutting him. Linebacker Sean Lee's
Speaker 1: yet to play a snap this season. Linebacker Lake Vanderesh
Speaker 1: played one game, got a broken collar bone. He still
Speaker 1: yet to play. Starting center Joe Looney out with a
Speaker 1: sprain knee, so he's missing three weeks. Here, fellas, have
Speaker 1: you ever seen this kind of rash of injuries with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Nah, I mean I haven't seen overhere near
Speaker 1: this type of injury injury, but a team like this,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I man, do we give coach McCarthy.
Speaker 1: We talk a lot on here about him, but and
Speaker 1: rightfully so, but I mean, I know he didn't sign
Speaker 1: up for this. I mean, you're losing both the offensive tackles.
Speaker 1: You kill your quarterback number one. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: so many injuries on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: in the secondary as well. I mean, I've never seen
Speaker 1: a rash of injuries like this. I mean, good thing,
Speaker 1: we're in the worst division in football right now, where
Speaker 1: maybe even a seven and nineteen might make it out
Speaker 1: to make it out the NFC East because this injury rash,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's something that I've never seen before. Yes,
Speaker 1: same here and and I think we may have a
Speaker 1: few more than some teams around the league. But the
Speaker 1: league in general was facing a bunch of injuries. If
Speaker 1: you look at San France, they lost a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys like it's acls, it's achilles, it's high angle springs,
Speaker 1: it's hamstrings, it's it's guys all around the league. And
Speaker 1: I think Honestly, I gotta say that I think we've
Speaker 1: done a decent job, especially with our old line of
Speaker 1: handling these injuries and shoveling around and making some of
Speaker 1: these things work to where it's it's not a glaring thing.
Speaker 1: But at some point it's got to stop or we're
Speaker 1: looking at really calling a bunch of guys off the
Speaker 1: streets to fill in some of these spots. Man, because
Speaker 1: the ones that that really hurts you on the season Indians, right,
Speaker 1: because you can be in my hour for three weeks
Speaker 1: to come back when you get those season ending injuries
Speaker 1: like we haven't left right tackle a d tackle. You
Speaker 1: know those things are hard to come back from. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you the question that I asked um
Speaker 1: on my Sunday night TV show last night. And we've
Speaker 1: already done this once and I feel like we got
Speaker 1: to go ahead and do it again. Let's readdress the
Speaker 1: Cowboys record. Okay, So, so I went from I went
Speaker 1: from eleven and five, and checking my notes on the readjustment,
Speaker 1: I went down to eight day Church, you went down
Speaker 1: to eight. Nay, Danny, Danny mak, you went you went
Speaker 1: down to seven and nine. Let's readjust that one more time. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go first. I'm gonna take that eight, Nate down
Speaker 1: to six and ten, maybe five left. Oh. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you just lost Tristan Hill. This defense was bad yesterday
Speaker 1: against the Giants thirty seven thirty four, So you don't
Speaker 1: have Tristan Hill. Gerald mccourse hold John Terry Poe hasn't
Speaker 1: done a whole lot. Antoine Woods. I mean he was
Speaker 1: a starter a little bit last year. But I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You tell me how we're sitting around there at two wins. Okay,
Speaker 1: you think about it, they won time game, They've won
Speaker 1: two games, and you're like, wow, you're lucky to win
Speaker 1: those two games. So I'm sitting here at six and ten,
Speaker 1: five to eleven. I'm sorry you guys. What record you
Speaker 1: got here? Now? Church? How to readjust on a readjust? Man?
Speaker 1: I know I said eight and eight, but look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm you know, I'm still feeling my my optimistic man.
Speaker 1: I'm so, I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm only knocking
Speaker 1: one game. Man, I'm gonna say they go seven and nine. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm gonna say they go seven and nine. Man,
Speaker 1: I say they go seven and nine. I just you know,
Speaker 1: look this past game, granted it was against the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, and we know all know how hapless they are,
Speaker 1: but I felt like this defense had a little bit
Speaker 1: something going. I mean, it wasn't great, it wasn't great,
Speaker 1: but I felt like this defense started to roll just
Speaker 1: a little bit. We started to get something from d
Speaker 1: Law and those boys. So for me, I'm gonna only
Speaker 1: knock him one gang. I feel like Andy Dalton might
Speaker 1: be able to come in here and do a little something.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm gonna have my reservations, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go seven and nine. Yeah, I'm listening. I'm not
Speaker 1: changing mind specifically because the defense was never you know,
Speaker 1: it was never relevant in my picks um and the
Speaker 1: reason and even with dak Out the reason I'm keeping
Speaker 1: seven to nuts because it's because one of the views
Speaker 1: that I got from from the side watch it on
Speaker 1: TV was an aha moment of if we rang the ball,
Speaker 1: I think that we can actually win some games. I
Speaker 1: saw killing it and Mike McCarthy Alder slapping hands like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we figured it out like that, like they cracked a
Speaker 1: secret code that that we all knew, And I'm like
Speaker 1: all right, listen, it moving forward, especially when Andy DAWs
Speaker 1: our quarterback. If we focus our offense, I'm taking nineteen
Speaker 1: out of the picture because I don't know what the
Speaker 1: hick is going on him. If we yea offense on
Speaker 1: twenty one, because now for it's gone, so you gotta
Speaker 1: take four to nineteen. I focused on twenty one. Like
Speaker 1: we figured out the second quarter of this game, we
Speaker 1: have a shot to win some games. And the only
Speaker 1: thing that changed for me is I said we're gonna
Speaker 1: split with Philly. I still believe the same. So that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying with nights seven or nine. Look, look
Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, let's get back. Let's rewind it
Speaker 1: a little bit. I heard you talk about nineteen. What's
Speaker 1: going on with nineteen? I mean, is he coming up
Speaker 1: on these injury reports? I mean he only played what
Speaker 1: like sixty percent of the snaps last last week against
Speaker 1: New York. Like, I'm at a loss right now, I'm
Speaker 1: going wrong, I gotta say, because remember Churchill, we was
Speaker 1: asking who was gonna be the best receiver on the roster,
Speaker 1: and somebody was talking about CD Lamb and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, it's gotta be cool goodness, graciuss are wrong.
Speaker 1: Look at this focus is specifically like Cede Lamb is
Speaker 1: the guy. He runs the jet sleeps. I think Amari
Speaker 1: got one. But other than that, he runs the screens,
Speaker 1: the jet sleeps, he runs all the seed routs. He
Speaker 1: does everything. He's the perfect urn. This offense focuses around
Speaker 1: well now twenty one eighty eight. I mean, you're you're right.
Speaker 1: I would have never assumed he. I mean, and the
Speaker 1: guys out there making like spect He's doing all the
Speaker 1: dirty work as well as making all the spectacular plays.
Speaker 1: I mean this dude blocking people on runs. He's going
Speaker 1: over the middle taking shots. I knew it. I don't
Speaker 1: say this a lot, but man, man, you was right.
Speaker 1: You was right. Man. Her best receiver is making a
Speaker 1: hundred nigga. Baby, what do I signed up for that?
Speaker 1: What do I signed up for that? Gig I mean
Speaker 1: spectacular plays. C d Land the old Person's invisible water
Speaker 1: Dalton shows probably making both plays and coo, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? Then they said he played like shes not
Speaker 1: even on the field as the number more receiver. I
Speaker 1: don't get it. Got Cedric Wilson throwing touchdowns and said
Speaker 1: masic man Noah Brown, I mean, what's going on? But everybody, hey,
Speaker 1: over there, you know over there, like, yeah, I raked
Speaker 1: up pretty good. He had one target in the first half.
Speaker 1: I believe I'm sitting there back to the game here
Speaker 1: about fancy team like this has got to be This
Speaker 1: is nuts. Everybody getting to shine, exceling to do that
Speaker 1: is making a hunt. It don't make no sense. Make
Speaker 1: make it makes sense that please make it. So that's
Speaker 1: why you tried to trade them to me? Huh okay,
Speaker 1: here's what that's what does make sense is throughout this season,
Speaker 1: five games into it, there have been many times where
Speaker 1: we've questioned the usage of players that they've written big
Speaker 1: checks to. Some weeks we're worried about you know, they've
Speaker 1: forgotten about Ezekiel Elliott and you yesterday we were worried
Speaker 1: again about Amari Cooper. We've worried about where's you know,
Speaker 1: where's Tank Lawrence. I'm still trying to find it. Tyrone Crawford,
Speaker 1: Um where you're like, you gotta check man, You're gonna
Speaker 1: show up and do something. Jalen Smith, I mean this
Speaker 1: is I mean, when you start thinking about this team,
Speaker 1: there's some dudes who got checks and you're just like, wow, man,
Speaker 1: um where you at? And so so yesterday for you guys,
Speaker 1: you know it was Coop who was you know, getting
Speaker 1: it getting you know, getting that like, hey, wh where
Speaker 1: are you at? You know who's on the milk cart.
Speaker 1: I mean we might as well passed the milk cart
Speaker 1: around each week and just put different photos on it
Speaker 1: because missing man who's been giving lots of money. Um,
Speaker 1: it's happened. And you know, I don't I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. And I was sitting here watching
Speaker 1: the game like you guys. Oh, so let's see what
Speaker 1: happens when you give twenty one to football, things can happen.
Speaker 1: That the shocking thing for me and all of this
Speaker 1: when I started, you know, when I look at Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliot and how he's been used as Kellen Moore was
Speaker 1: on the team, That's what I don't get. You've seen
Speaker 1: what this guy can do. You've been a part of
Speaker 1: this team as a player and a coach. You know
Speaker 1: what twenty one can do. Why aren't you utilizing him more?
Speaker 1: Which is one of my frustrations with Jason Garrett. It's
Speaker 1: about the usage of twenty one because Jason played with
Speaker 1: twenty two Emmitt Smith. So you see what a dominant
Speaker 1: running back can be and do and how much easier
Speaker 1: it makes your makes life for your football team. If
Speaker 1: people aren't talking about this, but you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: all the time of possession again again, and when they
Speaker 1: win on those long drives, what do they do. They
Speaker 1: kept the defense off the field. If you want to
Speaker 1: help this defense, keep them off the field. They're not
Speaker 1: good enough to be on the field for thirty plus minutes.
Speaker 1: And what do we see yesterday? They're on the field
Speaker 1: a long time and here's another football team that's out there,
Speaker 1: you know, giving them the business. Luckily, the Giants are
Speaker 1: a bad team that makes mistakes. They had touchdowns coming
Speaker 1: off the board, and so the Cowboys were helped. I
Speaker 1: mean that special teams, My gosh, what in the world
Speaker 1: were they doing? You know, let's take a break. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break. I want to get into the special teams.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to be mad at,
Speaker 1: you would be mad at Amari Cooper. Can we be
Speaker 1: mad at John Fossil? Let's do that. Next players lines
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Speaker 1: on a victory Monday. That feels very hollow because Cowboys
Speaker 1: starting quarterback Dak Prescott is going to miss the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Andy Dalton takes over a great signing
Speaker 1: by the team. I thought in the offseason he now
Speaker 1: has the ability to really make some incentives here because
Speaker 1: a part of his contract was playing fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps. If Andy stays healthy, he will get y'all
Speaker 1: gone sixty five seventy percent of the snaps the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. So I've been a fan of Andy,
Speaker 1: covered him when he was a quarterback at TCU. Let's
Speaker 1: go back into that win yesterday and fellas very church.
Speaker 1: Danny McCray, you guys major bones with the Cowboys, is
Speaker 1: you know making the team through special teams? John Fossil
Speaker 1: was supposed to come here and be an upgrade over
Speaker 1: keithrow Quinn. The Giants had a touchdown call back on
Speaker 1: special teams because of former Cowboy Cam Irving. I thought
Speaker 1: a little tiki tacky, but luckily for the Cowboys who
Speaker 1: didn't work. Another time, the Cowboys are got the Giants
Speaker 1: lined up for a punt, but then they've got twelve
Speaker 1: men on the field, so now the punt becomes a
Speaker 1: field bowl, which they convert. And I'm just sitting there
Speaker 1: myself saying, I thought John Fossile was supposed to make
Speaker 1: it better. I don't feel like John Fossil's living up
Speaker 1: the old this hype that we gave him. Mccraig, if
Speaker 1: you listen, and you being honest with yourself and all
Speaker 1: the Cowboys fans and even even in the the organizationships, we
Speaker 1: look worse those special teams than we did last year. Um,
Speaker 1: you think about it this way, we lose that game
Speaker 1: because of special teams. If that tiki tach, you know,
Speaker 1: a legal shift, they snapped the balls too early, doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: And this is this has been a common theme for
Speaker 1: the entire season. You can always depend on special teams
Speaker 1: to come out there and make a name for themselves
Speaker 1: in a bad way throughout the the first quarter of
Speaker 1: the season and now moving into the second quarter of
Speaker 1: the season. And it's unfortunate because you know, every we
Speaker 1: were feeling good and you know, and this is one
Speaker 1: of those hollow Mondays because of that, but it should
Speaker 1: really be a hollow Monday as well, because we're all
Speaker 1: feeling out happy because we went out there and beat
Speaker 1: the windless Giants and kind of lucky. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not I'm not. I'm not really understanding
Speaker 1: and knew you were unfair to the defense. They only
Speaker 1: gave up twenty seven because we threw a pick six,
Speaker 1: So you know we're gonna say something good about many
Speaker 1: only give up twenty seven this week. That's that's true.
Speaker 1: So go ahead, go ahead, Which team, which which phase
Speaker 1: of the game is worse than last year? The defense
Speaker 1: or the special teams? Can they both be? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: they are? They both are. I mean, what in the
Speaker 1: hell is going on over there with the special teams?
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, we were supposed to have
Speaker 1: one of the best Cats in the game coming down
Speaker 1: here and supposed to get our unit right and right now,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't see a difference between him or
Speaker 1: Keith o Quinn. I mean, we gotta have the worst
Speaker 1: kickoff return unit in the NFL right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: the average start is like I feel like every time
Speaker 1: he returns the ball I'm talking about Tony Pollard. I
Speaker 1: feel like we only get to the fifteen yard line
Speaker 1: and it's like, I don't know what's going on. I
Speaker 1: don't know if guys don't understand the blocking schemes he's
Speaker 1: putting in there or what. But I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: see any difference between what they did last year and
Speaker 1: what they're doing this year. And then just the mistakes
Speaker 1: just keep on piling up. I mean, if on that
Speaker 1: fake field goal, how do you not notice a guy
Speaker 1: over there just chilling. I mean, you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: looking over there to your job. And if there's a
Speaker 1: and if there's only ten cats in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field for this kickoff, one of those edges is
Speaker 1: gonna be soft, so you should notice that, Like, hold on,
Speaker 1: there's not a wing over here protecting this. Let me
Speaker 1: look over there, hole Ingram's wide open over there. Like
Speaker 1: it's just little things like that that it has to
Speaker 1: go back to coaching. I mean, it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like we're questioning, you know, these guys want
Speaker 1: to or anything like that. They're just doing dumb mistakes.
Speaker 1: So I gotta say it's on coaching, and right now,
Speaker 1: Like I said before, I don't see the difference between
Speaker 1: Phil being and or not filming Fossil and Keith O'Quinn.
Speaker 1: It's perplexing to you right now. You do Church, you do.
Speaker 1: It's worse. We we got on We got on Cam.
Speaker 1: I think it's a block punt, and honestly, those type
Speaker 1: of things happen, you know, throughout the season sometimes like
Speaker 1: punts get block. I'm giving up a block punt and
Speaker 1: it wasn't coaching. I went out there as a player
Speaker 1: and I messed up, all right, But we got on
Speaker 1: them for table and often doing a fair catch at
Speaker 1: the wrong time. They didn't give up a touchdown, all right.
Speaker 1: They weren't out there, you know, messing up the way
Speaker 1: that this team is messing up this year. I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: We are out there almost losing games and giving up touchdown,
Speaker 1: giving up those type of big plays. All right. I
Speaker 1: will take what Keith O'Quinn was doing with the player
Speaker 1: error on the block punt and the fair kids are
Speaker 1: still giving us a chance to go out down there
Speaker 1: or versus giving up touchdown, giving giving up defense the
Speaker 1: ball on the one yard line on kickoff return. Having
Speaker 1: the worst one of the worst starting starting field positions
Speaker 1: in the league. I would take that. I will take
Speaker 1: the trade off so as I ain't listening to YouTube.
Speaker 1: Just talk about special teams in defense just right now
Speaker 1: in the second, you guys both think that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have five more wins than them this they got eleven
Speaker 1: games left, So you're basically thinking with half their games
Speaker 1: with this Rudy Pooh, special teams and a defense these
Speaker 1: players don't believe in. Right now, do you think they
Speaker 1: go with basic quick? When you've got that? When when
Speaker 1: you've got a Baltimore coming here, you got Pittsburgh, I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to Baltimore. You've got Pittsburgh. Who's coming here?
Speaker 1: You got to play a Cincinnati team that I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know or not, but but that
Speaker 1: that that Joe Burrow kids got guts and he's played
Speaker 1: very well and they haven't protected him. But but then
Speaker 1: that team you all they had, um, they should have
Speaker 1: been Cleshian, they should have been Cleveland. Didn't happen. You
Speaker 1: got Philadelphia? Oh okay, okay, but what you still got?
Speaker 1: All right? Because look like you said you still got
Speaker 1: what Philadelphia twice? You still got New York one more
Speaker 1: time and you got Washington twice. That's it. That could
Speaker 1: be an easily five wins. You take the NFC East
Speaker 1: and you're going in there seven to nine my prediction,
Speaker 1: that's all it's gonna happen. And I'm still and I'm
Speaker 1: still count Cincinnati is Listen. Baltimore was a loss already,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was the teams that you name, I already had
Speaker 1: them losing against so so so that that didn't change
Speaker 1: for me. I still think we didn't go out there
Speaker 1: in d Cincinnati. Listen, only if for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, killing Moore decides that we are going to
Speaker 1: focus our offense on running the ball, because I think
Speaker 1: that when we do that, we have an advantage over
Speaker 1: all those teams that I have us count winning against
Speaker 1: to make us go seven or nine. Now the other
Speaker 1: teast we got issue. You put a Quali part and
Speaker 1: you said if if but I saw it. I saw it.
Speaker 1: Do it. But can't we cattle if we're Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm not ready. I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: say I'm just abow to run the ball. You think
Speaker 1: it was a game, I'm telling I want to listen
Speaker 1: to CB I'm asked CB to find a clip of
Speaker 1: what happened once we scored with Zeke running the ball.
Speaker 1: I think it was to take yard score. The look
Speaker 1: in McCarthy and Kelly Moore's eyes, it was a true
Speaker 1: a ha moment. I text y'all and I said, I
Speaker 1: think Jared called down in there saying, let me tell
Speaker 1: y'all something, if we don't start giving twenty one the ball,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be some smoking the city. And then we
Speaker 1: saw it. Because you think about it now, we said
Speaker 1: we lost the time of possession. I'm taking it all
Speaker 1: because of the first half, because the first round he
Speaker 1: came down did the same thing. Zeke was not a
Speaker 1: feature part of the thing, and I think I think
Speaker 1: he didn't become a feature part of it into the
Speaker 1: second half. We so we slept through the first half
Speaker 1: without giving Zeke the ball, and I think now that
Speaker 1: second half gave us a good picture for what we're
Speaker 1: going to see for the rest of the season, especially
Speaker 1: any Doin's quarterback. Okay, were clearly we've got a lot
Speaker 1: to chop up and keep going. So we've got content
Speaker 1: and we got topics and content. Good Lord to keep
Speaker 1: you going the rest of the week. And before we
Speaker 1: get out of here, um, shout out to Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: and his fighting Missouri Tigers for getting themselves. Mickey never
Speaker 1: gets to celebrate on these podcasts because it's football. Do
Speaker 1: you know the SEC win from man Boy so good,
Speaker 1: good on Mickey, Good on him. He'll never see another
Speaker 1: win like that again. You know, it happened. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: happens when you put so many guys in the league
Speaker 1: and you lose. You know, Joe Burrow is just the Jerson.
Speaker 1: All these guys who were stars of the league right
Speaker 1: now based on the first quarter. So sometimes that stuff happens.
Speaker 1: You know. Queen Patrick, Queen had a picture said they
Speaker 1: don't forget about him. It's it's so many it's me.
Speaker 1: I can't name them all you know in the town
Speaker 1: that we have loved. But we lost a lot and
Speaker 1: we'll be back. I'm not worried, not worried. I can
Speaker 1: to celebrate that. That's the championship for a year. Look,
Speaker 1: and since we're doing shout outs, man, shout out to
Speaker 1: my boy White Lightning aka Jeff heath Man. Y'alla if
Speaker 1: y'all ain't see it yesterday, y'all missed out. My boy
Speaker 1: came from the rafters looking like sting from www. Whatever
Speaker 1: the wrestling thing was. He picked it off, took it
Speaker 1: almost to the house. Man, shout out to my boy
Speaker 1: Jeff heath Man. He didn't get it up love here,
Speaker 1: but he's doing his work in Las Vegas right now,
Speaker 1: by the way, and yeah, he appreciate that he was
Speaker 1: on the field, all says on the field US one
Speaker 1: hundred Jeff heath with the Vegas Raiders and a whole
Speaker 1: lot of Cowboys fans over him an apology. They ran
Speaker 1: that man down while he was wearing the silver and blue. Hey,
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