WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Final Thoughts & Predictions 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:23.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:28.600 label broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.280 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.120 All right, everybody, it is Friday. It is game week. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.599 We've got Cowboys and Rams on NBC five Sunday Night 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.159 football to start the season. All right, let's bring in 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.720 the stars of the show, Danny McCray and Barry Church. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:59.400 To quote Jason Garrett, how are we doing, guys? Is Friday, 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.680 Baby Friday? You know, we know we still got people 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.080 trying to figure out this this technology that we're working 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.120 with overhead the Cowboys. But other than that, you know, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.000 we were flying high. We're good. We're ready for Sunday. Okay, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.160 we were good over here. We're good over here, man 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.760 and the wise words of Jason Garrett. Man one day 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.120 at a time, one play at the time. Let's go. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.840 Cowboys are three point favorites against the Rams. And I'm 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.200 gonna start off with this because this is fresh, Okay, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.160 because Cede Lamb is just spoke to the media, and 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:34.200 Cedee Lamb says he expects Jalen Ramsey to travel with 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.520 Amari Cooper throughout the football game. Here, so let's revisit 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.760 what we spoke about yesterday here that I'm gonna start 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:47.480 with two Berry Church. Okay, Dak Prescott avoid throwing Tomari 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.680 Cooper since Jayla Ramsey, who you you say is one 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.840 of the top two corners in italygue on Sunday. Oh, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.360 I mean, you know, I say it. A lot of 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.960 people said he's definitely one of the top two corners 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.760 in the country, and he's not number two. But back 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.440 to the point here. If I'm Dak Prescott and we've 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.040 talked about this yesterday. If I'm Dak Prescott and I'm 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.440 looking out there and I'm seeing what I got. It's 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.040 eleven personnel for those who don't know. Eleven personnel. That's 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.120 three wide receivers, one tight end. And I'm looking over 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.239 there and I see twenty traveling with nineteen. Everywhere he goes, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.919 even when I'm sending him in motion across the field, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.960 anywhere he goes feel boundary. If he's sitting over there 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.520 with him, I'm licking my chops on the other direction, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.680 because like you said, you got Troy Hill over there, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.040 who has five total starts. Yes, he has experience at Nickel, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.600 but if they have him on the outside, that's a 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.040 totally different world than a Nickel. So I'm looking my 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.960 chops at that. You got Blake Jarwin matched up against 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.360 a linebacking core. That's kind of hurt right now. So 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.400 we got to see who they play at the linebacking corps. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.400 And then they do have good safeties back there and 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.760 rub and Johnson, but I don't know if they can 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.280 hang with the skill set of Blake Jarwin. We'll see 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.320 what he can do out there. But if I'm Dak Prescott, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.840 I'm licking my chops at all these other mismatches that 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.440 they have out there. And yeah, you know, I'm Amark Cooper. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.280 He might get thrown to him, maybe once or twice, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.880 but I'm forced nothing his way with twenty on him. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.119 So agree with your church. So you're so, you're not, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.600 So you are avoiding him or you're not. I'm just 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.040 want to make sure I'm clear on which I'm avoiding. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.760 I'm avoiding him, I'm avoiding clue. I mean I might 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.560 give him just so he you know, I might give 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.200 him one or two shots just you know, so I 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.480 don't have to hear him complaining about it. But I'm 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.280 avoiding twenty at all at all. I think I think 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.160 this is absolutely crazy. I'm never gonna change my mind 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.640 on this because one I'm gonna go back to this. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.160 You paid the man a hundred million dollars. That's top down, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.720 all right. So the ownership paid him and they expect 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.800 him to produce results too. You got this guy lining 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.280 up out there, and you will tell me that he 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.080 believes that his quarterback has such little confidence in him 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.680 when he's going to get a top of quarterbacks that 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.000 he will not get a ball thrown to him for 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.200 the entire game because Jaylon res is gonna be following him. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.080 I think that is total. That is horrible. That's a 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:57.720 horrible way to go into the game. And if they 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.600 do that, then they should think about raiding the Mark 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.200 Cooper to somebody else. If you paying it but eight 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.520 dollars and you're just not gonna throw the ball to 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.520 him because because you don't believe it he can beat 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.000 the goddess across from him. That is horrible. Undere million dollars, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.800 you should be anybody that's across from you. To me, 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:15.600 if you had a confidence for you to do that, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.120 I understand where you're coming from to this. But to me, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.200 it's more about not you know, in fear of Jalen 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.800 Ramsey or the matchup with Amari Cooper. It's just what 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.919 you have on the other side. It's just to me, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.000 it's more bountiful. I mean, you got Gallop, you got 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:31.960 Cede Lamb, who who who get to see play a 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.039 game in the NFL. But I mean the guys college 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.279 and come back to the side. I think he I 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.760 think he'll be able to transfer well to the NFL. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.960 But you got Gallop over there, you got Cede Lamb, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.599 you got Jarring all in mismatches. So if I'm if 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.240 I'm Dak Prescott, I'm not forcing anything over to Cooper. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.120 I just see over here, I got so many mismatches. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.120 Why don't I let them feast for this first game? 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.039 That's all. But I'm not. I'm not. I'm not saying 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.560 force it. That's what when we asked avoid enforce. That's 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.000 two different things. Right If you if you if it's open, right, 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.719 he's the number one read or something, look at him 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.000 first and then go on to your second read. If 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.120 he's not open. I knew he's asking should you avoid him? 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.560 Like if he's the one number one read on that 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.400 and then you see Ramsey following him, don't even go 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.240 to your number one read, just go to two, three 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.039 or four. And I think that's I think that's horrible. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.599 I think that's horrible. I think that's horrible going into 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.080 the season, and that's a horrible outlook for Mark Cooper 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.919 to believe his quarterback and coaching staff would want the 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.800 quarterback to do that. I think that is just a 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:31.839 bad way to start the season. You go ahead, No, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.040 you go ahead. No. I just think I just think 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.880 I think Danny's wrong because I am of the belief. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.200 And Barry you know it because you've seen it with 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.559 your own two eyes because you played with Jayla Ramps. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.400 You know what, Hey, fine, you can run out here, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.880 be a decourt. I'm gonna say, hey, you guys have 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.479 fun trying to beat Michael gall Let me throw Blake 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.320 Jarman down to see. Let's see how you beat that. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.159 Throw Zeke out of some coverage to seem some live 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.560 backers could pick up with. I ain't got enough weapons 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.360 here that I'm gonna sit up here and play chess. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.240 You want to move here, fine, I'm going over here. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.560 I'm making moves over there because I like the matchups 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.279 the Cowboys can have with the other players. That I 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:04.840 could just sit up here and tell, hey, Coop, guess 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.240 what give him next week? They give him next week? Yeah, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.760 see and and and that sound good from us sitting 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.440 on the side in the locker room. Let me tell 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.279 you something. If that's the way that you are perceived 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.760 as a player, that is not good for you, and 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.159 that is not good for the team, no matter what 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.720 y'all say. If if that happens, and the look is, man, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.920 look he got Jayla Ramsey on them, we're not throwing 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.640 the ball to him. And this is our top guy, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.159 all right, We're just not throwing it to him because 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.040 we don't believe he's gonna be able to get over Ever, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.240 that's a that's a horrible way to look. Nobody saying 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.880 you shouldn't throw it to Gallop, and you shouldn't try 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.800 Ceedee Lamb, and you shouldn't try Jarwin. But when Marie 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.520 Cooper's number is called, you should throw it to him 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.720 and give him an opportunity to make him play. That's 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.520 why you pay him no matter who's guarding up. Let's 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.920 let's go. Let's let's take this a step further. Since 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.760 we've got we've got three We've got three people here 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.760 with different issues on this. At least two of us 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.479 have the same issue. So give me an expected stat 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.160 line for a Mari Cooper against the Rams right here 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.679 on the players line the hotels dot Com, Danny mccraig, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.280 give me a stat line for a Mari Cooper that 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.800 you would say what I expect. So, so listen, I 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.760 wouldn't go as far to say, because my argument is 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.880 you should still give him a chance. He should get 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.880 eight to nine targets. You know he shouldn't. He should 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.680 not leave the game. He should not leave targets. He 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.080 should not leave the game with only being thrown to 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.560 two times in the season opener. That would be horrible. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.920 I'm basing it off how many times Dak Prescott, based 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.960 on this conversation, how many times Dak Prescott looked into 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.000 number nineteen's way, how many times Keller Moore called up 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.960 a play for number nineteen to get going in the 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.040 football game. So if it's eight to nine targets, I'm 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.040 all right with that. If he just doesn't produce, he 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.320 doesn't produce. But you went to your number one guy 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.560 and you gave him an opportunity to make plays and 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.040 he just didn't come up with it, and then you 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.160 moved on to the next guy. But if you, if you, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.680 if you come out of you say Mannaly threw the 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.239 battle to Mark Cooper twice, I think that is horrible. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.880 That's a horrible outlook for the for the season. All right, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.520 So he's got eight to nine targets for Cooper? How many? 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.000 What do you have in terms of targets? What do 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.800 you what are you rolling for me? Targets at the 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.160 very maximum, I'm thinking five to six targets. But I 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.720 think he'll get I think he'll get I think he'll 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.600 get about four catches for forty to fifty yards in there, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.160 and I think that would be a successful night of 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.560 going going against going against Ramsey. I think that would 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.000 be successful. For four catches, he's gonna catch four out 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.520 of five. He said he's gonna catch four out of 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.640 five passes and that's all that gonna throw to him. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:38.320 Good if he gets that, what you said he should 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.720 get max targets, he should get a five max targets. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.760 He's going to end up catching four him for sixty 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.600 yards and then look, I'm with him all the way. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.080 I'm with him all the way on this. I'm telling 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.080 you right now, Church, you're right. Don't let him move 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.480 you off this now, stay strong with me in here, Church, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.560 stay strong with me. Okay, right, he caught you. We 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.439 should just say, may I no more than six, No 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.559 more than six targets? O. Kay? Now that's and that's 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.000 gonna be a lot. So the church, we church were 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.600 right here because it's gonna be a bit first. Okay, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.920 so this is crazy, you said, and then all you 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.760 gotta do and say the word. That's all you gotta do. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.440 Mann is gonna catch. He's gonna catch eighty percent of 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.240 the balls throwing his way, and then that's gonna go 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.120 the other way and not throw to him anymore. I 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.480 think that's stats out raises. But if it happens, it happens. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.559 I just don't see it. I see eighth the nine targets. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.400 I'm not saying he's gonna catch eight to nine. I 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.360 say he's gonna get the ball thrown to him eight 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.959 to nine times. And we're saying he's gonna get the 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.320 ball five to six times. That's all. That's all. Okay, listen, listen, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.640 I'm fine with that. And when we get there on Monday, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.400 we'll discussed this. Okay, that's why I wrote it down. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:58.760 I wrote it down. Oh listen, I'll say I'm wrong. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.520 I'll say I'm wrong. The only way he doesn't get 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.199 that many target but he don't play, or if he 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.640 get hurt after the first snap, he's getting eight to 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:08.719 nine targets. Okay, this is good, This is this is 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.040 why we do. The players out here. We have disagreements 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.000 for this game, right and so already right out the game, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.040 I've got an ability to hit up and look at 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.720 this now. Now, Church, let's also make sure we let 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.959 all of the Cowboy fans know that this bias and 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.199 what is coming from Danny McCree on this because Danny 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.360 McCray has Amari Cooper on his fantasy football team. This 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:34.280 is this is very true, all right, Cowboys Nation, Cowboys Nations, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.959 let me true. Danny McCray has Amari Cooper on his 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.640 fantasy and he is vying, he's vuying game from a 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.559 Mary Cooper. I just don't see it. And this is 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.120 getting into this argument. It's now we know this. Let 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:52.679 me tell you this. Let me tell you this. I 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.160 am not banging on the Mark Cooper having a touchdown 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.160 or a honey yards in this game. I'm specifically talking 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.679 about targets for me. I believe in fantasy football this 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.120 is gonna be a rough week for me because Amari 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.880 Cooper is going against Jalen Ramsey and Leona Fournett just 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.120 got on a new team, so I already expect it 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.640 to be rough. But as far as targets and them 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.520 throwing confidence that they hunting million dollar man, I believe 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.240 they are gonna stick to that and give him the 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.559 opportunity to make plays no matter who's guarding him. That 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.520 they were sure to be a scared football player if 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.640 they just automatically went into the game decide that Jalen 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.600 Ramsey is going to eliminate him from the game. Plant 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.520 that is that it's not good, Okay. I want everybody 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.080 to have our Twitter handles and at social media handles 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.559 so they can go ahead and follow us throughout the 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.080 game about this debate that we're having here. All right, Church, 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.520 tell everybody where they can find you at on social media, 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.880 on both Instagram and Twitter, It's at Buried Church forty two. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.040 All right, yeah, man, and listen after Almara gets his 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.920 eighth target, y'all go ahead and tweet met at Danny 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.880 dmc forty four on Twitter or find me on Instagram 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.200 at Danny Underscore mccrai forty Just just let I need 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.719 no tag Newey, tag Church and let them know that 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:08.000 they're wrong. All right, all right, you find me on 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.839 Twitter at Newey Scrugs. It's n e w Y Scruggs. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.559 It's n e w Y Scruggs. So to recap our 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.680 debate right here, um Church and I believe that because 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.400 Jalen Ramsey's expected to travel with a Mari Cooper, CD 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.000 Lamb said this to the media on Friday afternoon that 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.080 we believe they're probably not going to throw the ball 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.240 very much to Cooper Price say stay away from So 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.439 we're saying five to six targets for Maria Cooper. We 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.480 got Danny who's got a Mario. No, no, no, I'm 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.480 saying that they're going to get him eight to nine targets. Okay, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.280 So this is our debate right here. Okay, this is 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.880 our debate, and that's what we're going what why are 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.400 you trying to change it? Now? I'm not trying to 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.959 change it. Let me tell you something. You changing it? 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.679 Church said a max of five. So why did we 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.719 get five to six? I just I just wanted to 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.520 make sure that we're on the same page here with this, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.880 with the I did said. I said, I said five, 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:08.520 I said five at the most six. I did say that. Yeah, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.040 this is true. So he followed, I followed what you said. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.719 I said, first of all, no, no, no, no, no, 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.320 no no, I said that at least. So he's going 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.280 over eight to nine. All right, he's going over that. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.880 He got it, going over about the targets, the least 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.280 amount of targets he gonna get this game. So tell 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.280 the fans how many catches and how many yards this 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.000 man's gonna get this? No, no, I can't. I can't 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.280 say that because football is zero. Some game. He's gonna 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.199 win something, he's gonna lose something. I can't predict that. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.520 I can only predict the game plan that they're going 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.800 in with. And Amari Cooper is going to go to 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.880 his number one guy. That's how you build confidence in 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.240 your receivers, and that's how that's how you make that connection. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.040 They're going to do that in week one and five 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.360 and five targets is not gonna get it done. Let 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:57.160 me read do realize it's an away game though, right, Okay, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:05.480 Danny says Cooper will have eight to nine targets. We minimum, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.960 we Church and I are saying he will have five 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:13.120 to six targets. That's where we're saying that. Okay, all right, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.439 you're good. So we're saying six or less. Okay, is 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.360 that good with you? Danny? We're saying six or less. Yeah, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.240 you want to If you want to stretch it out, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.480 that's five. If you want to stretch it out, that's fine. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.160 Go ahead, get you get yourself an extra, get your 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:30.800 extra catch for Lee Wayne, do what you gotta Do's okay, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:32.600 that's fine. This is good. This is good. This is good. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.920 So everybody, you got our you got our Twitter handles 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.840 and social media handles to go ahead and we go 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.840 stay on this and follow us. All right. 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Dak was on The Graham Benzinger Show, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.719 and that's that whole full show will air Sunday UM 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.399 in Dallas foot Worth on NBC five, right after I 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.159 do my Sunday show. So that's uh, Graham Benzinger with 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:02.080 Dak Prescott. Also Tad Prescott brother is also on this show. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.520 I've already seen the entire episode and I'm gonna tell 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.919 you right now that first segment is it's deep, it's emotional. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.840 When I finished watching it, I texted Graham, who's a 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.919 friend of mine. I said, Wow, Wow, these two kids, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.920 and I'm going to call them kids because I'm a 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.840 lot older than Tad and and Dak, and I just 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:31.160 my heart went out to them. And Dak Prescott told 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.800 the media the day after because those clips came out 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.720 and the day after Dak had said that that he 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.280 wanted to be vulnerable and that, you know, he felt 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.360 that was part of being a leader to say yes, 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.680 um during the COVID nineteen when his brother passed away, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.600 that he went and he was depressed, and he went 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.600 and he talked to someone about it. And I just 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.840 felt there was so much courage from Dak Prescott to 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:56.239 come out and say that. Skip Bayliss, who does one 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.560 of those talk shows where they debate and say crazy stuff, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.960 criticized Dak Prescott forward and he got lit up, and 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.399 his own company, Fox Sports, came out and said to 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.680 day disagree with his opinion. So I wanted to give 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.840 Danny McCrae and by and Bury Church right here on 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:14.280 their show The Players Lines the ability to go ahead 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.600 and say what you had your feelings are about what 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.560 Bayla said. And also Dak Prescott's message, Danny, go ahead 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:26.359 and start. So the start, I think Skip Bayless's lessons 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.639 was total garbage. And I was really surprised that Shannon 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.040 didn't step in and you know and kind of go 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.280 ballistic on him and saying what he said, Um, I 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.000 don't want to focus too much on them. I want 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:38.480 to say that I think it was real brave for 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.320 him to come out and you know, let everybody know 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.320 and use his platform to let everybody know that it's 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.560 okay to feel down and then it's okay to seek help. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.280 And I speak, I speak from experience with that one 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.280 from the standpoint of my wife is a therapist, right, 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.359 so if you ever, if you ever, if you know 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.879 her or you see her Instagram or Twitter or anything, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.680 she posts about mental health maybe ten or fifteen times 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.439 a day and she gets a lot of feedback from 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.920 a lot of dms. So people are really going through 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.800 this and they're starting to feel okay with reaching out 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.399 and getting help. And that is helping these people by 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.439 expressing his story and letting them know that everybody uh 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.440 is going through this or can go through this, and 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.080 nobody is exempt. So get help if you need it, 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.240 reach out and don't don't don't feel bad about feeling 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.720 that way. Yeah, that's one hundred percent right. And um, 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.720 as far as Skipp and Shannon show, I mean, I'm 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.080 a fan of their show, Undisputed, but the comments he 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.920 made on there, I think were extremely insensitive and just 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.959 weren't right at all. So just you know, I had 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.600