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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI scrugs.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, it is Friday. It is game week.
Speaker 1: We've got Cowboys and Rams on NBC five Sunday Night
Speaker 1: football to start the season. All right, let's bring in
Speaker 1: the stars of the show, Danny McCray and Barry Church.
Speaker 1: To quote Jason Garrett, how are we doing, guys? Is Friday,
Speaker 1: Baby Friday? You know, we know we still got people
Speaker 1: trying to figure out this this technology that we're working
Speaker 1: with overhead the Cowboys. But other than that, you know,
Speaker 1: we were flying high. We're good. We're ready for Sunday. Okay,
Speaker 1: we were good over here. We're good over here, man
Speaker 1: and the wise words of Jason Garrett. Man one day
Speaker 1: at a time, one play at the time. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are three point favorites against the Rams. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start off with this because this is fresh, Okay,
Speaker 1: because Cede Lamb is just spoke to the media, and
Speaker 1: Cedee Lamb says he expects Jalen Ramsey to travel with
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper throughout the football game. Here, so let's revisit
Speaker 1: what we spoke about yesterday here that I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: with two Berry Church. Okay, Dak Prescott avoid throwing Tomari
Speaker 1: Cooper since Jayla Ramsey, who you you say is one
Speaker 1: of the top two corners in italygue on Sunday. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I say it. A lot of
Speaker 1: people said he's definitely one of the top two corners
Speaker 1: in the country, and he's not number two. But back
Speaker 1: to the point here. If I'm Dak Prescott and we've
Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday. If I'm Dak Prescott and I'm
Speaker 1: looking out there and I'm seeing what I got. It's
Speaker 1: eleven personnel for those who don't know. Eleven personnel. That's
Speaker 1: three wide receivers, one tight end. And I'm looking over
Speaker 1: there and I see twenty traveling with nineteen. Everywhere he goes,
Speaker 1: even when I'm sending him in motion across the field,
Speaker 1: anywhere he goes feel boundary. If he's sitting over there
Speaker 1: with him, I'm licking my chops on the other direction,
Speaker 1: because like you said, you got Troy Hill over there,
Speaker 1: who has five total starts. Yes, he has experience at Nickel,
Speaker 1: but if they have him on the outside, that's a
Speaker 1: totally different world than a Nickel. So I'm looking my
Speaker 1: chops at that. You got Blake Jarwin matched up against
Speaker 1: a linebacking core. That's kind of hurt right now. So
Speaker 1: we got to see who they play at the linebacking corps.
Speaker 1: And then they do have good safeties back there and
Speaker 1: rub and Johnson, but I don't know if they can
Speaker 1: hang with the skill set of Blake Jarwin. We'll see
Speaker 1: what he can do out there. But if I'm Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: I'm licking my chops at all these other mismatches that
Speaker 1: they have out there. And yeah, you know, I'm Amark Cooper.
Speaker 1: He might get thrown to him, maybe once or twice,
Speaker 1: but I'm forced nothing his way with twenty on him.
Speaker 1: So agree with your church. So you're so, you're not,
Speaker 1: So you are avoiding him or you're not. I'm just
Speaker 1: want to make sure I'm clear on which I'm avoiding.
Speaker 1: I'm avoiding him, I'm avoiding clue. I mean I might
Speaker 1: give him just so he you know, I might give
Speaker 1: him one or two shots just you know, so I
Speaker 1: don't have to hear him complaining about it. But I'm
Speaker 1: avoiding twenty at all at all. I think I think
Speaker 1: this is absolutely crazy. I'm never gonna change my mind
Speaker 1: on this because one I'm gonna go back to this.
Speaker 1: You paid the man a hundred million dollars. That's top down,
Speaker 1: all right. So the ownership paid him and they expect
Speaker 1: him to produce results too. You got this guy lining
Speaker 1: up out there, and you will tell me that he
Speaker 1: believes that his quarterback has such little confidence in him
Speaker 1: when he's going to get a top of quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: he will not get a ball thrown to him for
Speaker 1: the entire game because Jaylon res is gonna be following him.
Speaker 1: I think that is total. That is horrible. That's a
Speaker 1: horrible way to go into the game. And if they
Speaker 1: do that, then they should think about raiding the Mark
Speaker 1: Cooper to somebody else. If you paying it but eight
Speaker 1: dollars and you're just not gonna throw the ball to
Speaker 1: him because because you don't believe it he can beat
Speaker 1: the goddess across from him. That is horrible. Undere million dollars,
Speaker 1: you should be anybody that's across from you. To me,
Speaker 1: if you had a confidence for you to do that,
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from to this. But to me,
Speaker 1: it's more about not you know, in fear of Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey or the matchup with Amari Cooper. It's just what
Speaker 1: you have on the other side. It's just to me,
Speaker 1: it's more bountiful. I mean, you got Gallop, you got
Speaker 1: Cede Lamb, who who who get to see play a
Speaker 1: game in the NFL. But I mean the guys college
Speaker 1: and come back to the side. I think he I
Speaker 1: think he'll be able to transfer well to the NFL.
Speaker 1: But you got Gallop over there, you got Cede Lamb,
Speaker 1: you got Jarring all in mismatches. So if I'm if
Speaker 1: I'm Dak Prescott, I'm not forcing anything over to Cooper.
Speaker 1: I just see over here, I got so many mismatches.
Speaker 1: Why don't I let them feast for this first game?
Speaker 1: That's all. But I'm not. I'm not. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: force it. That's what when we asked avoid enforce. That's
Speaker 1: two different things. Right If you if you if it's open, right,
Speaker 1: he's the number one read or something, look at him
Speaker 1: first and then go on to your second read. If
Speaker 1: he's not open. I knew he's asking should you avoid him?
Speaker 1: Like if he's the one number one read on that
Speaker 1: and then you see Ramsey following him, don't even go
Speaker 1: to your number one read, just go to two, three
Speaker 1: or four. And I think that's I think that's horrible.
Speaker 1: I think that's horrible. I think that's horrible going into
Speaker 1: the season, and that's a horrible outlook for Mark Cooper
Speaker 1: to believe his quarterback and coaching staff would want the
Speaker 1: quarterback to do that. I think that is just a
Speaker 1: bad way to start the season. You go ahead, No,
Speaker 1: you go ahead. No. I just think I just think
Speaker 1: I think Danny's wrong because I am of the belief.
Speaker 1: And Barry you know it because you've seen it with
Speaker 1: your own two eyes because you played with Jayla Ramps.
Speaker 1: You know what, Hey, fine, you can run out here,
Speaker 1: be a decourt. I'm gonna say, hey, you guys have
Speaker 1: fun trying to beat Michael gall Let me throw Blake
Speaker 1: Jarman down to see. Let's see how you beat that.
Speaker 1: Throw Zeke out of some coverage to seem some live
Speaker 1: backers could pick up with. I ain't got enough weapons
Speaker 1: here that I'm gonna sit up here and play chess.
Speaker 1: You want to move here, fine, I'm going over here.
Speaker 1: I'm making moves over there because I like the matchups
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can have with the other players. That I
Speaker 1: could just sit up here and tell, hey, Coop, guess
Speaker 1: what give him next week? They give him next week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: see and and and that sound good from us sitting
Speaker 1: on the side in the locker room. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. If that's the way that you are perceived
Speaker 1: as a player, that is not good for you, and
Speaker 1: that is not good for the team, no matter what
Speaker 1: y'all say. If if that happens, and the look is, man,
Speaker 1: look he got Jayla Ramsey on them, we're not throwing
Speaker 1: the ball to him. And this is our top guy,
Speaker 1: all right, We're just not throwing it to him because
Speaker 1: we don't believe he's gonna be able to get over Ever,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a horrible way to look. Nobody saying
Speaker 1: you shouldn't throw it to Gallop, and you shouldn't try
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, and you shouldn't try Jarwin. But when Marie
Speaker 1: Cooper's number is called, you should throw it to him
Speaker 1: and give him an opportunity to make him play. That's
Speaker 1: why you pay him no matter who's guarding up. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's let's take this a step further. Since
Speaker 1: we've got we've got three We've got three people here
Speaker 1: with different issues on this. At least two of us
Speaker 1: have the same issue. So give me an expected stat
Speaker 1: line for a Mari Cooper against the Rams right here
Speaker 1: on the players line the hotels dot Com, Danny mccraig,
Speaker 1: give me a stat line for a Mari Cooper that
Speaker 1: you would say what I expect. So, so listen, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't go as far to say, because my argument is
Speaker 1: you should still give him a chance. He should get
Speaker 1: eight to nine targets. You know he shouldn't. He should
Speaker 1: not leave the game. He should not leave targets. He
Speaker 1: should not leave the game with only being thrown to
Speaker 1: two times in the season opener. That would be horrible.
Speaker 1: I'm basing it off how many times Dak Prescott, based
Speaker 1: on this conversation, how many times Dak Prescott looked into
Speaker 1: number nineteen's way, how many times Keller Moore called up
Speaker 1: a play for number nineteen to get going in the
Speaker 1: football game. So if it's eight to nine targets, I'm
Speaker 1: all right with that. If he just doesn't produce, he
Speaker 1: doesn't produce. But you went to your number one guy
Speaker 1: and you gave him an opportunity to make plays and
Speaker 1: he just didn't come up with it, and then you
Speaker 1: moved on to the next guy. But if you, if you,
Speaker 1: if you come out of you say Mannaly threw the
Speaker 1: battle to Mark Cooper twice, I think that is horrible.
Speaker 1: That's a horrible outlook for the for the season. All right,
Speaker 1: So he's got eight to nine targets for Cooper? How many?
Speaker 1: What do you have in terms of targets? What do
Speaker 1: you what are you rolling for me? Targets at the
Speaker 1: very maximum, I'm thinking five to six targets. But I
Speaker 1: think he'll get I think he'll get I think he'll
Speaker 1: get about four catches for forty to fifty yards in there,
Speaker 1: and I think that would be a successful night of
Speaker 1: going going against going against Ramsey. I think that would
Speaker 1: be successful. For four catches, he's gonna catch four out
Speaker 1: of five. He said he's gonna catch four out of
Speaker 1: five passes and that's all that gonna throw to him.
Speaker 1: Good if he gets that, what you said he should
Speaker 1: get max targets, he should get a five max targets.
Speaker 1: He's going to end up catching four him for sixty
Speaker 1: yards and then look, I'm with him all the way.
Speaker 1: I'm with him all the way on this. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, Church, you're right. Don't let him move
Speaker 1: you off this now, stay strong with me in here, Church,
Speaker 1: stay strong with me. Okay, right, he caught you. We
Speaker 1: should just say, may I no more than six, No
Speaker 1: more than six targets? O. Kay? Now that's and that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot. So the church, we church were
Speaker 1: right here because it's gonna be a bit first. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is crazy, you said, and then all you
Speaker 1: gotta do and say the word. That's all you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Mann is gonna catch. He's gonna catch eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the balls throwing his way, and then that's gonna go
Speaker 1: the other way and not throw to him anymore. I
Speaker 1: think that's stats out raises. But if it happens, it happens.
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. I see eighth the nine targets.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna catch eight to nine. I
Speaker 1: say he's gonna get the ball thrown to him eight
Speaker 1: to nine times. And we're saying he's gonna get the
Speaker 1: ball five to six times. That's all. That's all. Okay, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. And when we get there on Monday,
Speaker 1: we'll discussed this. Okay, that's why I wrote it down.
Speaker 1: I wrote it down. Oh listen, I'll say I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'll say I'm wrong. The only way he doesn't get
Speaker 1: that many target but he don't play, or if he
Speaker 1: get hurt after the first snap, he's getting eight to
Speaker 1: nine targets. Okay, this is good, This is this is
Speaker 1: why we do. The players out here. We have disagreements
Speaker 1: for this game, right and so already right out the game,
Speaker 1: I've got an ability to hit up and look at
Speaker 1: this now. Now, Church, let's also make sure we let
Speaker 1: all of the Cowboy fans know that this bias and
Speaker 1: what is coming from Danny McCree on this because Danny
Speaker 1: McCray has Amari Cooper on his fantasy football team. This
Speaker 1: is this is very true, all right, Cowboys Nation, Cowboys Nations,
Speaker 1: let me true. Danny McCray has Amari Cooper on his
Speaker 1: fantasy and he is vying, he's vuying game from a
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper. I just don't see it. And this is
Speaker 1: getting into this argument. It's now we know this. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you this. Let me tell you this. I
Speaker 1: am not banging on the Mark Cooper having a touchdown
Speaker 1: or a honey yards in this game. I'm specifically talking
Speaker 1: about targets for me. I believe in fantasy football this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a rough week for me because Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper is going against Jalen Ramsey and Leona Fournett just
Speaker 1: got on a new team, so I already expect it
Speaker 1: to be rough. But as far as targets and them
Speaker 1: throwing confidence that they hunting million dollar man, I believe
Speaker 1: they are gonna stick to that and give him the
Speaker 1: opportunity to make plays no matter who's guarding him. That
Speaker 1: they were sure to be a scared football player if
Speaker 1: they just automatically went into the game decide that Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey is going to eliminate him from the game. Plant
Speaker 1: that is that it's not good, Okay. I want everybody
Speaker 1: to have our Twitter handles and at social media handles
Speaker 1: so they can go ahead and follow us throughout the
Speaker 1: game about this debate that we're having here. All right, Church,
Speaker 1: tell everybody where they can find you at on social media,
Speaker 1: on both Instagram and Twitter, It's at Buried Church forty two.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, man, and listen after Almara gets his
Speaker 1: eighth target, y'all go ahead and tweet met at Danny
Speaker 1: dmc forty four on Twitter or find me on Instagram
Speaker 1: at Danny Underscore mccrai forty Just just let I need
Speaker 1: no tag Newey, tag Church and let them know that
Speaker 1: they're wrong. All right, all right, you find me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Newey Scrugs. It's n e w Y Scruggs.
Speaker 1: It's n e w Y Scruggs. So to recap our
Speaker 1: debate right here, um Church and I believe that because
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey's expected to travel with a Mari Cooper, CD
Speaker 1: Lamb said this to the media on Friday afternoon that
Speaker 1: we believe they're probably not going to throw the ball
Speaker 1: very much to Cooper Price say stay away from So
Speaker 1: we're saying five to six targets for Maria Cooper. We
Speaker 1: got Danny who's got a Mario. No, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: saying that they're going to get him eight to nine targets. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is our debate right here. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: our debate, and that's what we're going what why are
Speaker 1: you trying to change it? Now? I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: change it. Let me tell you something. You changing it?
Speaker 1: Church said a max of five. So why did we
Speaker 1: get five to six? I just I just wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that we're on the same page here with this,
Speaker 1: with the I did said. I said, I said five,
Speaker 1: I said five at the most six. I did say that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is true. So he followed, I followed what you said.
Speaker 1: I said, first of all, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, I said that at least. So he's going
Speaker 1: over eight to nine. All right, he's going over that.
Speaker 1: He got it, going over about the targets, the least
Speaker 1: amount of targets he gonna get this game. So tell
Speaker 1: the fans how many catches and how many yards this
Speaker 1: man's gonna get this? No, no, I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: say that because football is zero. Some game. He's gonna
Speaker 1: win something, he's gonna lose something. I can't predict that.
Speaker 1: I can only predict the game plan that they're going
Speaker 1: in with. And Amari Cooper is going to go to
Speaker 1: his number one guy. That's how you build confidence in
Speaker 1: your receivers, and that's how that's how you make that connection.
Speaker 1: They're going to do that in week one and five
Speaker 1: and five targets is not gonna get it done. Let
Speaker 1: me read do realize it's an away game though, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: Danny says Cooper will have eight to nine targets. We minimum,
Speaker 1: we Church and I are saying he will have five
Speaker 1: to six targets. That's where we're saying that. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: you're good. So we're saying six or less. Okay, is
Speaker 1: that good with you? Danny? We're saying six or less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to If you want to stretch it out,
Speaker 1: that's five. If you want to stretch it out, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, get you get yourself an extra, get your
Speaker 1: extra catch for Lee Wayne, do what you gotta Do's okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine. This is good. This is good. This is good.
Speaker 1: So everybody, you got our you got our Twitter handles
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Speaker 1: I mean obviously tears and tears and tears, but I
Speaker 1: mean I sat there and tried to gather what had happened,
Speaker 1: um and wanted to ask why for so many reasons.
Speaker 1: It was like the sense of all these emotions coming
Speaker 1: off of my back and wiped up my tears. Probably
Speaker 1: after crying for thirty minutes with my dad and my
Speaker 1: h and my best friends who were all came to,
Speaker 1: you know, to console me and to be there. That
Speaker 1: is Dak Prescott. Dak was on The Graham Benzinger Show,
Speaker 1: and that's that whole full show will air Sunday UM
Speaker 1: in Dallas foot Worth on NBC five, right after I
Speaker 1: do my Sunday show. So that's uh, Graham Benzinger with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Also Tad Prescott brother is also on this show.
Speaker 1: I've already seen the entire episode and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you right now that first segment is it's deep, it's emotional.
Speaker 1: When I finished watching it, I texted Graham, who's a
Speaker 1: friend of mine. I said, Wow, Wow, these two kids,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to call them kids because I'm a
Speaker 1: lot older than Tad and and Dak, and I just
Speaker 1: my heart went out to them. And Dak Prescott told
Speaker 1: the media the day after because those clips came out
Speaker 1: and the day after Dak had said that that he
Speaker 1: wanted to be vulnerable and that, you know, he felt
Speaker 1: that was part of being a leader to say yes,
Speaker 1: um during the COVID nineteen when his brother passed away,
Speaker 1: that he went and he was depressed, and he went
Speaker 1: and he talked to someone about it. And I just
Speaker 1: felt there was so much courage from Dak Prescott to
Speaker 1: come out and say that. Skip Bayliss, who does one
Speaker 1: of those talk shows where they debate and say crazy stuff,
Speaker 1: criticized Dak Prescott forward and he got lit up, and
Speaker 1: his own company, Fox Sports, came out and said to
Speaker 1: day disagree with his opinion. So I wanted to give
Speaker 1: Danny McCrae and by and Bury Church right here on
Speaker 1: their show The Players Lines the ability to go ahead
Speaker 1: and say what you had your feelings are about what
Speaker 1: Bayla said. And also Dak Prescott's message, Danny, go ahead
Speaker 1: and start. So the start, I think Skip Bayless's lessons
Speaker 1: was total garbage. And I was really surprised that Shannon
Speaker 1: didn't step in and you know and kind of go
Speaker 1: ballistic on him and saying what he said, Um, I
Speaker 1: don't want to focus too much on them. I want
Speaker 1: to say that I think it was real brave for
Speaker 1: him to come out and you know, let everybody know
Speaker 1: and use his platform to let everybody know that it's
Speaker 1: okay to feel down and then it's okay to seek help.
Speaker 1: And I speak, I speak from experience with that one
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of my wife is a therapist, right,
Speaker 1: so if you ever, if you ever, if you know
Speaker 1: her or you see her Instagram or Twitter or anything,
Speaker 1: she posts about mental health maybe ten or fifteen times
Speaker 1: a day and she gets a lot of feedback from
Speaker 1: a lot of dms. So people are really going through
Speaker 1: this and they're starting to feel okay with reaching out
Speaker 1: and getting help. And that is helping these people by
Speaker 1: expressing his story and letting them know that everybody uh
Speaker 1: is going through this or can go through this, and
Speaker 1: nobody is exempt. So get help if you need it,
Speaker 1: reach out and don't don't don't feel bad about feeling
Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, that's one hundred percent right. And um,
Speaker 1: as far as Skipp and Shannon show, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of their show, Undisputed, but the comments he
Speaker 1: made on there, I think were extremely insensitive and just
Speaker 1: weren't right at all. So just you know, I had
Speaker 1: to say that about Skip, but for Dak Prescott, I mean,
Speaker 1: I felt like he was extremely extremely brave and showed
Speaker 1: remarkable leadership and putting himself out there for everybody to
Speaker 1: know that you know he had He's battling through these
Speaker 1: things just like everybody else. And the most important thing
Speaker 1: I think he did through putting itself out there was
Speaker 1: like that was that he gave strength to you know,
Speaker 1: little kids or you know boys and girls and grown
Speaker 1: women and men as well who are dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: some type of depression or have gone through similar things
Speaker 1: that he's gone through, that you don't have to do
Speaker 1: it by yourself. There's people that you can talk to
Speaker 1: to help get your emotions out there. If you feel
Speaker 1: like you're more if you feel like you don't really
Speaker 1: you know, I want to express yourself to everybody. You
Speaker 1: can see a therapist. You don't have to keep this
Speaker 1: all bottled in within yourself and dealing with it by yourself.
Speaker 1: And I think that was remarkable for what he did
Speaker 1: with that, and I hope he opened the light for
Speaker 1: a lot of people that they don't have to do
Speaker 1: this or go through this by themselves. I can't emphasize
Speaker 1: enough the amount of respect that I have for Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and what he's overcoming his life. He grew up
Speaker 1: in a trailer his mother, single mom. She was white,
Speaker 1: three black boys, and in the episode, they talked about
Speaker 1: how there was strife within their family because there were
Speaker 1: members on his mother's side who did not want to
Speaker 1: accept those kids because they were black. And then in
Speaker 1: that relationship and just how that ended up in some
Speaker 1: ways working out and in some ways not working out.
Speaker 1: But she dies while he's in college, and he talked
Speaker 1: about how Jace, the young brother who took his life,
Speaker 1: he was there to watch his mom. The other two
Speaker 1: were gone, so a lot of it came on him.
Speaker 1: He was a quiet man, he didn't say very much.
Speaker 1: So Dak loses his mother, he loses his brother. Now
Speaker 1: you think about this unit, it's four people growing up together,
Speaker 1: the mom and the three boys. Two of those are gone,
Speaker 1: half of them are gone now it is now just
Speaker 1: Dak and his brother Tad, And he spoke about how
Speaker 1: he wants to get up to Dallas Footworth with him.
Speaker 1: I don't know how anybody can go through those situations
Speaker 1: and not need to talk to someone and I find
Speaker 1: it brave. I have chills as I say this, because
Speaker 1: I have experienced firsthand what happens when someone takes their life,
Speaker 1: when the police come and knock on your door, it
Speaker 1: is it's serious and to me, and we're three black men.
Speaker 1: Many times in our community we try to tell people
Speaker 1: to be tough and and and we want people to
Speaker 1: think that, Joe, you just got to work through it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's nothing wrong with raising your hand and
Speaker 1: Danny talk about your wife is a therapist out there,
Speaker 1: A lot of black men don't want to come and
Speaker 1: raise their hand and say I need help. Also, when
Speaker 1: it comes to resources, there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there who are black, especially who don't have them
Speaker 1: Black and brown, who don't have the money to go
Speaker 1: get therapy. I'm lucky enough that I work at a
Speaker 1: job at NBC five in Dallas Fort Worth where they
Speaker 1: give us access to counseling. We have that as a
Speaker 1: free resource. There are a lot of folks who don't.
Speaker 1: And anybody like Skip Bayliss thinking that COVID nineteen didn't
Speaker 1: hit people, you don't understand people. Man. This thing this
Speaker 1: was isolation for a lot of people, and some folks
Speaker 1: didn't handle it very well, and that and I should
Speaker 1: say handle very well. It was an adjustment that some
Speaker 1: people had a hard time making. And I know this
Speaker 1: that Dallas Cowboys as an organization, as a locker room,
Speaker 1: they're taking care of Dak Prescott the same way they
Speaker 1: took care of Michael Gallim when his brother took us
Speaker 1: like two years ago. And I felt like we're giving
Speaker 1: Skip Bayliss a little too much credit and we're maybe
Speaker 1: not focusing enough on the Cowboys and the family unit
Speaker 1: that they have. I think Dak Prescott is going to
Speaker 1: be able to come out of this a better man.
Speaker 1: And I think Dak Prescott knows and feels the respect
Speaker 1: and love he gets. Charlotte Jones when on social media
Speaker 1: today and spoke about how brave she thought Dak Prescott was.
Speaker 1: So there, I've set my piece on that. This bothered me, man.
Speaker 1: That bothered me because we should be better people than this,
Speaker 1: We should be a better country. And as a person
Speaker 1: in the media, I'm telling you right now, there's a
Speaker 1: way we have to do our job. You have a platform,
Speaker 1: use the platform properly. This is not a proper use
Speaker 1: of the platform. And I'm ashamed that that is what
Speaker 1: was put out there by someone about another human being.
Speaker 1: We are lucky enough, Okay, we're lucky enough to cover
Speaker 1: these athletes. This has been a dream of mine and
Speaker 1: you along the way, Barry. Then you have to make
Speaker 1: a decision about how you want to go about doing
Speaker 1: this job. I have decided that I don't want to
Speaker 1: go about doing my job in a fashion where you
Speaker 1: cut down people like that. The man was being vulnerable.
Speaker 1: We need to be behind him and say, look, thank
Speaker 1: you very much and thankful Lee. There's enough people out
Speaker 1: there in the media and on social media and with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys family who got Dak Prescott's back, because we've
Speaker 1: got to be better than that, and we have to
Speaker 1: shut down the people like Skip Bayless and Fox Sports
Speaker 1: should be ashamed that they didn't spend that man or
Speaker 1: even yet tell him that he needed to no longer
Speaker 1: work there. Troy Eightman years ago when ESPN employeed Skip
Speaker 1: Bayliss told ESPN, I will no longer do any interviews
Speaker 1: with you as long as that man works here, and
Speaker 1: they got rid of him, and I really believe the
Speaker 1: Cowboy players should all stand up for Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: tell Fox Sports we're not coming on, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: do any interviews with you. When you want to do
Speaker 1: your Sunday show and send your reporters here, or Aaron
Speaker 1: Andrews wants to talk to somebody, Joe Buck and Troy
Speaker 1: want to talk some No, we're not doing it because
Speaker 1: you can't treat people like that. What what Skip Bayless did.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that was damaging. Man, that's wrong. That's
Speaker 1: not how you treat people. And you're supposed to be
Speaker 1: NFL partner or NFL TV partner. How do you go
Speaker 1: after one of the biggest names in the sport in
Speaker 1: that kind of fashion because you want to make some
Speaker 1: TV ratings. I'm done. I sat my peace, fellas, I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm done then I'm yeah, go ahead. It gives no
Speaker 1: time for me. Man. That was garbage. That's it. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to mention the guy. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all can have it. You know, if we keep talking
Speaker 1: about him, he you know, I'm done with it. Knew it.
Speaker 1: That was that was real powerful man. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: said what you said, and speaking from experience, I think
Speaker 1: that was big and uh yeah off of that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that got nothing to do with this, and like
Speaker 1: Danny said, KNEWI I was extremely well said, and you
Speaker 1: could tell it came from the heart and it came
Speaker 1: from passion man. And and you're right. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no there's no place in the media for people who
Speaker 1: cut down people like that, especially in the type of
Speaker 1: circumstances and situations that he was going through. It's just
Speaker 1: not called for at all, and it is garbage. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad you called it out the way you did.
Speaker 1: It was much needed. You guys working and have been
Speaker 1: in the locker rooms, it was your workplace, and you
Speaker 1: guys can speak to this firsthand. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in there who when we just look at
Speaker 1: them at the surface, they're they're great athletes, but when
Speaker 1: you get to know them, you realize they have everyday
Speaker 1: problems like everyone else, and that what we think is
Speaker 1: perfect is not. And here's Dak Prescott and his brother
Speaker 1: Tad saying they thought everything was cool with Jays, their brother,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. And I urge everyone please make sure
Speaker 1: you tune in on Sunday night if you're in Dallas
Speaker 1: foot Worth on Channel five and watch this interview that
Speaker 1: Graham Benzinger does because the pain, the tea. I mean,
Speaker 1: you see tears from these boys. Man, they lost their brother.
Speaker 1: It's gonna hit home. It's going to hit home for you.
Speaker 1: And I just came out of this with a whole
Speaker 1: lot of respect for Dak Prescott that he sit up
Speaker 1: there and let everyone know, Hey, man, I wasn't good.
Speaker 1: I wasn't good, but I went to see someone and
Speaker 1: he plans on having a good season. He's out there working.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to make a difference. You guys know,
Speaker 1: I always I always joke about Jason Garrett, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you a conversation that I had with Jason
Speaker 1: Wants last year, and he spoke so highly about Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott in terms of him saying, if Dak didn't play football,
Speaker 1: if he was at IBM, I would telling to hire him.
Speaker 1: I mean, his respect level for Dak Prescott as a
Speaker 1: human being as a man is off the charts. And
Speaker 1: you and I, you guys, you and I've been around
Speaker 1: in that lockero. We've seen a lot of people. This
Speaker 1: is one of the most impressive guys as I've ever
Speaker 1: been around. And I'm just talking about football, is talking
Speaker 1: about as a human being and as a man, and
Speaker 1: I just felt what happened went out of ounds and
Speaker 1: it didn't need to happen. There's a way we can
Speaker 1: all do this job properly, and there's a way we
Speaker 1: can do this job. And all, you know, try to
Speaker 1: call things out, But on that instance, man, that's not
Speaker 1: what that's not what it needed to be about. This
Speaker 1: is a good guy. This is a good guy who
Speaker 1: uses his platforms in the right way. And I just
Speaker 1: hope that as we get ready for Sunday, I hope
Speaker 1: that they have a good game. Let's take a break
Speaker 1: right here. When we come back, let's dive into this contest.
Speaker 1: Some of the matchups that we're looking for. There's one
Speaker 1: matchup in particular that I think for the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: they better look out for this young man because if not,
Speaker 1: it could be a long day. Let's do that. Next
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Speaker 1: top matchups. What are you looking at seeing, Church, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with you first. Heve well for me? My
Speaker 1: top matchup, it's a it's not it's not your regular matchup.
Speaker 1: I don't it's not player versus player. But what I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see. What matchup I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: is Mike Nolan the new DC for the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus this Rams offense and Jared Golf and all they
Speaker 1: got out there. Now, I know they lost a couple
Speaker 1: of pieces in you know, Gurley, and they lost Cooks,
Speaker 1: who can pretty much take off the roof of your secondary.
Speaker 1: But dude, they do still have some good pieces in
Speaker 1: cup and they do have Robert Woods out there and
Speaker 1: back they drafted his his name is escaping me right now.
Speaker 1: But they drafted a running back high who they're pretty
Speaker 1: high on. A yeah from Florida State, camp Akers from
Speaker 1: Florida State, who who can be a nightmare matchup for
Speaker 1: all linebackers. But that's for another subject. But Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what type of multiple schemes like
Speaker 1: defenses he's gonna bring into this fold. Now I know
Speaker 1: the camp has been abbreviated, and so I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if he can put all his defense in there at
Speaker 1: once or all the moving pieces and moving parts that
Speaker 1: he wants to put it in there at once. But
Speaker 1: I want to see how he'll attack Jared Golf and
Speaker 1: this offensive line. We know they struggled last season protecting
Speaker 1: Jared Golf, so I think they're gonna this Dollars defense
Speaker 1: is going to try to attack them by bringing nickels,
Speaker 1: bringing corners, bringing their linebackers, and I feel like they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a multiple look kind of just moving parts
Speaker 1: all over the place. So I'm interested to see how
Speaker 1: they attack this this Rams offense. But that'll be my
Speaker 1: matchup to look forward to this Sunday coming up. Oh yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: I have two so quickly. Uh you know, I think
Speaker 1: our d line versus the Rams offensive line. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to be the huge matchup if we can
Speaker 1: take advantage of them and create the pressure that we
Speaker 1: all expect that we can create. I think it'll be
Speaker 1: a you know, a smooth game for us. My other matchup,
Speaker 1: and not because I picked them to have eight or
Speaker 1: nine targets, is Jalen Ramsey versus Mark Cooper. And I
Speaker 1: say that specifically because as a defensive coordinator, if you
Speaker 1: are able to eliminate one half of the field with
Speaker 1: one player, you can do so many other things. On
Speaker 1: the other side. You can double the slide double, you
Speaker 1: can double two or three people you know in one play. Right,
Speaker 1: So if a Mark Cooper allows them to eliminate him
Speaker 1: with just Jalen Ramsey and they can just focus the
Speaker 1: rest of the defense on the other side of the field,
Speaker 1: it'll be a long bay for our offense. So I'm
Speaker 1: really interested in seeing that matchup and seeing if Mark
Speaker 1: Cooper can keep the defensive coordinator honors. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at Tyler Hickbee, the tight end for the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. Had a big game against the Cowboys last year,
Speaker 1: ended the season five weeks on a run. They finally
Speaker 1: figured out how to use this tight end and Jared
Speaker 1: Goff who's going to him very much? So how do
Speaker 1: the Cowboys cover Tyler Hickbee. I want to see that.
Speaker 1: I think that's a matchup piece that Sean McVay is
Speaker 1: going to be able to utilize. So I want to
Speaker 1: see how the Cowboys deal with that. And on the
Speaker 1: flip side, we've gone this whole show talking about his offense,
Speaker 1: stuff about Matt Ups, and nobody's mentioned Ezekiel Elliott. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy has never had a running back this good? Okay,
Speaker 1: McCarthy's you never had a running back this good. I
Speaker 1: want to know what's the past run ratio going to be? Yes,
Speaker 1: you can run aft your three receivers and then also
Speaker 1: have Blake Jarwin there. But to me, Ezekiel Elliott can
Speaker 1: be as good as Marshall Falk was in his prime
Speaker 1: in terms of catching the football and running it. I
Speaker 1: don't think that the Cowboys through the football enough to
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliot. When I look at what Alvin Kamara can
Speaker 1: do with the football, when I look at what Saquon
Speaker 1: Barkley can do with the football, Ezekiel Elliot can do
Speaker 1: those same things. Please go back and watch the tape
Speaker 1: of Ohio's tate. I was there Jerry for that National
Speaker 1: Championship game when they took on Oregon and that kid,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was so powerful ended up when the
Speaker 1: MVP in Ohio State won the first ever college football
Speaker 1: playoff matchup. I want to see if Kellen Moore and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy really unleashed Zeke went it's through passing, through running.
Speaker 1: I just think he could be the guy. Let's let
Speaker 1: Zeke eat in this football game. That to me is
Speaker 1: what I would say if I were talking to Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Kellen Moore, and I think that if they
Speaker 1: do that, everything else they want to do can really
Speaker 1: manifest itself from making sure that that is the guy.
Speaker 1: The other flip thing and I kind of want to
Speaker 1: go back on what you said here Church a little bit.
Speaker 1: Is the run game. When the Rams were powerful, we
Speaker 1: talk about the offense in the passing, but it was
Speaker 1: all about Todd Gurling and then being able to run
Speaker 1: the football. If they can run the football against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: then the Rams are going to be able to throw
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. Jared Golf is best in
Speaker 1: play action passing, but if you can't run, he can't
Speaker 1: do it. And that's what happened when they came to
Speaker 1: Jerry World last year. Todd Gurling on the twenty yards.
Speaker 1: They couldn't run the so Rams can't run, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have an opportunity within the game. Let's give a prediction
Speaker 1: for this contest right here, mccraig, what you got? I
Speaker 1: got thirty four to twenty one Cowboys. I think. I
Speaker 1: think we come out, we start off early, and we
Speaker 1: forced the Rams to have to throw the ball to
Speaker 1: try to come back, and we get a lot of pressure,
Speaker 1: get a couple turn numbers off golf because we know
Speaker 1: he'd throw them to you in some sacks from d Law. Oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right for me, I'm gonna go twenty eight seven
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. I feel like I knew he hit it
Speaker 1: right on the head. I feel like the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: get that run game going often and early and often,
Speaker 1: and I feel like that Rams defensive line just won't
Speaker 1: be able to hold up against it. I think they'll
Speaker 1: have their way in the run game, and that'll lead
Speaker 1: to Gallop, CD Lamb and Jarwin having their way in
Speaker 1: the past game. I'm Mark Cooper might get, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of sprinkles here and there, but I think
Speaker 1: that run game will lead to the opening up of
Speaker 1: the pass game, and I think eventually the squirrel just
Speaker 1: get greater and greater. Cowboys will end up taking this
Speaker 1: away from the Rams twenty I hear that, right. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that Rams offensive line it's not good. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's not good. All right. Vegas has the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as a three point favorite on the road. I've
Speaker 1: got a lot closer. In fact, the way I'm calling
Speaker 1: this game right now is I think the fact that
Speaker 1: you got a new defense that you're installing here. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Rams start the game and better
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys to have a lead, and that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys end up winning it as Dak Prescott leads a
Speaker 1: comeback and Dallas wins twenty eight twenty three. So that
Speaker 1: is my prediction Sunday Night football. Okay, you think you
Speaker 1: think Golf and the we're gonna be able to put
Speaker 1: up a couple of numbers, Yes, I do. I do. Um, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I think they'll be able to. Well. I
Speaker 1: mean also I kind of come back to they know
Speaker 1: the system they're running, and I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be an advantage. I looked last night and how Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson was trying to you know, deal with his targets
Speaker 1: a little bit, and he didn't have de Hoop. It
Speaker 1: was not the same offense that he'd been accustomed to,
Speaker 1: and I thought there were times where they struggle a
Speaker 1: little bit versus looking at Kansas City, who was just
Speaker 1: I mean, who we I mean, these guys were just
Speaker 1: pumping it in there from from jumping. If it's not
Speaker 1: for a couple of drop touchdown passes, the score might
Speaker 1: have been more than it was. Thirty four twenty was
Speaker 1: the final there. So I'm just thinking it just may
Speaker 1: take a little bit. And as you talked about before,
Speaker 1: Nolan didn't have the whole offseason, so I expect there'd
Speaker 1: be a little bit of confusion here and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: just getting used to Mike McCarthy. I said, expected just
Speaker 1: to be a little bit and I think that on
Speaker 1: the second half the Cowboys will find themselves and get
Speaker 1: their footing. But I think it may be a little
Speaker 1: bit tough. And also it's a new stadium and you
Speaker 1: guys have played in Statius before me what is it
Speaker 1: like to go into a place you have never been
Speaker 1: before and to try and get yourself acclimated. It's difficult.
Speaker 1: There's one place that I've never got acclimated to playing
Speaker 1: and I played there about ten times and I was Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I mean, no matter how many times you go into
Speaker 1: that place, I mean, you'll never get acclimented to those fans.
Speaker 1: So I mean, maybe LA will bring that same type
Speaker 1: of hype and me all, they don't have fans. That
Speaker 1: is true, that is true. Never mind that blew my
Speaker 1: whole point. Yeah, it's a it's a. It's an empty stadium.
Speaker 1: I think there'll be all right. Yeah, it'll be good.
Speaker 1: They'll be good. It's turf and screens. I think I
Speaker 1: think they'll be just fine. Let's touch on that. That
Speaker 1: that game last night, the Thursday night game between the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Houston Texans and Patrick Mahomes with three
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. Uh boy, the kid from LSU was everything
Speaker 1: that we spoke about here yesterday. He looked good. Uh.
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards a layer, twenty five carries, one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight yards. Uh, one touchdown. David Johnson. We talked
Speaker 1: about David Johnson playing for Houston. He I thought he
Speaker 1: performed well. Eleven carries, seventy seven yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: and he had three receptions for thirty two yards. Because
Speaker 1: they were behind, they couldn't establish the run very much.
Speaker 1: But I saw some positives there for for for for
Speaker 1: Kansas City, that this team could be even more dangerous
Speaker 1: and they can run the football. Like your thoughts on
Speaker 1: last night's game, Church, For me, it was, you know,
Speaker 1: definitely David Johnson performed better than I thought he would.
Speaker 1: Um the trade was still was still just crazy to me.
Speaker 1: I mean because as you can tell Deshaun Watson, he
Speaker 1: needs that kind of security blanket when it comes to
Speaker 1: passing the football. But the main thing I've seen from
Speaker 1: last night's game was the Houston Texans offensive line is
Speaker 1: downright garbage. I mean, I feel like every play Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson was back there, he was running for his life.
Speaker 1: And I mean, for them to put that much money
Speaker 1: invested into him, I know they're scratching her head, like, man,
Speaker 1: how are we going to keep this kid healthy throughout
Speaker 1: the season, Because I mean Kansas City sometimes they weren't
Speaker 1: even blitzing and they were getting after him. So they
Speaker 1: got to find some type of way to show up
Speaker 1: that offensive line because that kid was running for his
Speaker 1: life all game last night. Yeah, I think that game
Speaker 1: winner is expected. We knew that the Texas didn't have
Speaker 1: many weapons. Church, I'm glad you didn't pick up Randall Cob.
Speaker 1: We know, we know fuller usually in some big yards,
Speaker 1: but the Texans always find a way to drop the
Speaker 1: ball man and uh, and you've seen that a few
Speaker 1: times last night, even from David Johnson. He was the
Speaker 1: shining light. But they're gonna have a long season because
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson cannot do it with the receivers that they
Speaker 1: have out there. Reminds me of the Patriots from the
Speaker 1: previous year, where you're like looking around you like, who's
Speaker 1: this guy throwing the ball too? Though? Huh when I
Speaker 1: kept seeing I'm surprised you ain't saying that by Lsuan.
Speaker 1: I just want tonew It to pass it back to
Speaker 1: me so we can talk about these these idiots and
Speaker 1: there doing. Uh they're in the unit. No oh, oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. All right, go ahead, go ahead right there.
Speaker 1: But before before the game was played, Houston stayed in
Speaker 1: for the national anthem. Kansas City stayed out on the field.
Speaker 1: All the Kansas City Chiefs players stood for the anthem
Speaker 1: except for one player. And then and before they had kickoff,
Speaker 1: that all the players from Houston and Kansas City walked
Speaker 1: to the middle of the field. They locked arms in unity,
Speaker 1: and the Kansas City fans boot for Craig takeover. I think,
Speaker 1: I think it's nuts, but you know, I'm not surprised,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't hurt my feelings because as I watched
Speaker 1: all this stuff go on through the pandemic and I saw,
Speaker 1: you know, people in the streets and the protesting. The
Speaker 1: reason that I was so you know, I was so
Speaker 1: happy at thet what could possibly happen in the futures
Speaker 1: because I said, man, my generation and the generation after
Speaker 1: me and the generation after them will be will be
Speaker 1: the ones to make the change. When I look at
Speaker 1: them stands, and the way I see it, that's the
Speaker 1: old generation. No, you know, you know nothing against you
Speaker 1: and your generation KNEWI. But it's some people that are
Speaker 1: still living in the old times. And the new generation
Speaker 1: is going to be the one to come and change.
Speaker 1: And those people are out there protesting and starting companies
Speaker 1: and doing all this other stuff. So let those people
Speaker 1: sit in the stands, that old generation do what they
Speaker 1: want to. They will be the minority soon and the
Speaker 1: majority will be against racism. So that old. I'm not that.
Speaker 1: I'm not that on. I'm not that on. That's that's
Speaker 1: not the democrat. I'm not that demographic. Okay, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever generation is before us, before millennial. Are you a millennial?
Speaker 1: Well if you're not, I'm counting everybody, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: counting everybody before us to be you know, getting phased.
Speaker 1: You know, they stuck in those ways, and then you see,
Speaker 1: you know, the millennials and the gen Z's and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Now we're moving on, we're moving on, and
Speaker 1: we're kind of is getting eliminated piece by piece, and
Speaker 1: those old people they'll be stuck behind those seventeen thousand.
Speaker 1: They'll be in the minority soon and they'll be boring
Speaker 1: and looking like idiots. Why everybody else is you know,
Speaker 1: trying to trying to correct social injustice and fight racism.
Speaker 1: Jj Wat said he wasn't He said he wasn't sure
Speaker 1: what the booing was about. Jj Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: It was booing them saying we don't care about unity. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what the booing was about. We don't care about it,
Speaker 1: we don't want to see it. And it was very
Speaker 1: clear from the fans about how they felt when they booed,
Speaker 1: and you're I think sometimes when people think they're doing,
Speaker 1: you know, the right thing, and they think that other
Speaker 1: people are going to see it that way, they don't.
Speaker 1: There's some folks out there who are not going to
Speaker 1: be convinced. Somebody once told me a man convinced against
Speaker 1: his willings of the same opinion. Still, there are a
Speaker 1: whole lot of people out there who think that there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong at all. And this is where the players
Speaker 1: have to keep hammering the message home. Yes, there are
Speaker 1: things wrong. There are things that need to change. So
Speaker 1: J J. Watt, you got you gotta, you gotta, you
Speaker 1: gotta gotta open your eyes a little bit there, Bay,
Speaker 1: gotta open your eyes a little bit more, because there's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people that don't want unity. Even
Speaker 1: though the players came out there and said, you know,
Speaker 1: let's all stick together, let's let's be a better American
Speaker 1: and listen, let me say that it stop trying to
Speaker 1: make these people happy. I listen to them. We wanted
Speaker 1: to do something, we want to say here, we want
Speaker 1: to do something to not offend nobody. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the people that you are offending are the people
Speaker 1: that they're not gonna change their mind. That's the people
Speaker 1: that we're fighting against. Stop trying to make them people happy.
Speaker 1: We don't care about that. Let them boo. Let let
Speaker 1: them boo at the unity or whatever you're trying to show.
Speaker 1: This is gonna any racism will make everybody equal. Let
Speaker 1: them boo, let them be mad, let them people not
Speaker 1: like y'all, let them not watch the game. Nobody care
Speaker 1: about that. They will be in the minority. Let's let's
Speaker 1: cater to the people that want change, all right. So,
Speaker 1: so based on what we saw there, and we'll see
Speaker 1: different UM teams come out UM on Sunday with different,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously different ways that they want to express themselves.
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins already put a video out saying that they're
Speaker 1: not going to be involved. So what do you expect
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys to do it? So fight stating where
Speaker 1: there will be no fans. By the way, there will
Speaker 1: be no fans for this football game. So the national
Speaker 1: anthem is played Bury Church, what are you expecting from
Speaker 1: these cowboys? From these cowboys, I mean, we've we've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of talk the whole offseason about you know,
Speaker 1: they want you know what change to be made, and
Speaker 1: we need to speak to Jerry about having changed and
Speaker 1: being able to protest. So I expect going into so
Speaker 1: Far Stadium, especially without without there being no fans, I
Speaker 1: expect there to be some sort of protest from the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys um, whether it be taking a knee, or
Speaker 1: whether it be not coming out for the anthem or
Speaker 1: you know, showing us unity as like as the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and the Texans did. I expect something to happen. There's
Speaker 1: been too much talk in the offseason for nothing to happen.
Speaker 1: So we shall see. But I expect the protest to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what I expect. I hope
Speaker 1: we don't go out here and do nothing's super crazy
Speaker 1: for marketing or something just to you know, to be
Speaker 1: seen as the people who are doing the doing the most,
Speaker 1: doing the biggest. Then you know, do the thing that's
Speaker 1: gonna make change. Like Colin Kaepernick took a knee for
Speaker 1: a reason, and then now we're trying to like, you know,
Speaker 1: change at all, to change the message and make all
Speaker 1: these other people happy and do this, do what's gonna
Speaker 1: go gonna make the most difference and whatever that is doing.
Speaker 1: If that's taking a knee to show that that's that's
Speaker 1: when you stand that didn't do that. Like, so, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what they gonna do. I don't think we'll
Speaker 1: see that many needs taken though, because you know, this
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys and previously, you know people would threatened
Speaker 1: to get you know, not put on the field because
Speaker 1: of this. Don Terry Poe has had already come out
Speaker 1: and said so during training camp he planned to take
Speaker 1: a knee during the national anthem. Ezekiel Hellet on record
Speaker 1: saying that he expects some Cowboy players to lead demonstrations,
Speaker 1: and Dak Prescott said that whatever guys did, they would
Speaker 1: do individually. Tyrone Crawford came out and said that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to come out and do something powerful.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what will happen here, but I'll
Speaker 1: be ready for it and we'll obviously have a discussion
Speaker 1: on Monday to talk about it, and obviously that night
Speaker 1: on my Sunday show, I'll dive into it and we
Speaker 1: can touch on that aspect. Now, what about the fact
Speaker 1: that you're also having two national anthems played, Lift every
Speaker 1: voice and sing. Otherwise there was a black national anthem
Speaker 1: has been played first, followed by the national anthem, So
Speaker 1: that's going to be very interesting. Are is there any
Speaker 1: protest during the black national anthem and versus the the
Speaker 1: Star Spangled banner? You know what happens there. The Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins already said, look, we're not gonna come out because
Speaker 1: we're not going to put ourselves in a position to
Speaker 1: have to make any choices at all, and they did
Speaker 1: not want to be a part of what they felt
Speaker 1: was the NFL's marketing of how they were trying to
Speaker 1: put this out there. So, Church, what do you think
Speaker 1: about that? I think, you know what, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the more I think about the Miami way of doing things,
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like it could work. I mean
Speaker 1: it's basically them just saying, hey, look, we don't want
Speaker 1: to do anything with this, you know, NFL marketing, having
Speaker 1: this black national anthem in front of the you know,
Speaker 1: the the national anthem that everybody goes by. But I
Speaker 1: think it could work. I mean, they came up with
Speaker 1: their idea, they're they're unified in it, and it's showing that,
Speaker 1: you know, they're protesting this as a unified group. So
Speaker 1: I believe it could work. Well, yeah, listen, I'm at
Speaker 1: what people saying in the locker room. I tell you
Speaker 1: this in full transparency. I want people to show who
Speaker 1: they are. So if that's how you feel, come out
Speaker 1: in protest the black National anthem. I would love to
Speaker 1: see it. If that's the If that's the way you
Speaker 1: really feel about it. You know, people are protesting the
Speaker 1: you know, the other national anthems. So if you feel it,
Speaker 1: that's strongly about it, and that's how you feel about
Speaker 1: black people and in the national anthem, come out and
Speaker 1: protests the shorts. All right, let's uh, let's let's hit
Speaker 1: on a couple of topics before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: Number one, Alden Smith expectations Game one. Mccraig go, I
Speaker 1: give him a sack, you know, because they're so secretive.
Speaker 1: I have no idea where he's gonna play, how he's
Speaker 1: gonna play, so you know, that's kind of up in
Speaker 1: the air. So I see him getting a couple of
Speaker 1: quarterback persons. It maybe a sack, just just because I
Speaker 1: believe that we'll be up in the game and Jared
Speaker 1: Golf will be trying to complete a lot of passes
Speaker 1: to come back. If the if the depth charges is correct,
Speaker 1: and he's playing sam linebacker out there. Um, in the
Speaker 1: base coverages, I can expect him to look kind of
Speaker 1: lost out there. But um, if he you know, if
Speaker 1: he's off that edge like he usually is, man, I
Speaker 1: can I can see him. Um, I can see him
Speaker 1: having a sack or two out there, maybe just just
Speaker 1: because of the Rams offensive line being so terrible. So
Speaker 1: I can see him walking out of the game with
Speaker 1: a sack or two. And let's end it the way
Speaker 1: we began talking about the wide receiver position. So who
Speaker 1: has the bigger night? Mark, Michael Gallip or C. D
Speaker 1: Lamb Church y'all start with you? Well, y'all know how
Speaker 1: you know I already feel what's gonna happen with Cooper. No, no,
Speaker 1: nothing against him. It's just, you know, I feel like Ramsey,
Speaker 1: you know, just gonna you know, end up getting it,
Speaker 1: getting after him a little bit. Sou the bigger night.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go with the rookie. I think, um,
Speaker 1: out of all the receivers, I think McVeigh is gonna
Speaker 1: make the rookie, you know, prove itself out there and
Speaker 1: say you gotta beat this one along coverage before we
Speaker 1: put any attention on you, and I think that I'll
Speaker 1: give him a boost up because I think he's an
Speaker 1: extremely gifted wide receiver. So I think he'll have the
Speaker 1: best night out of all three of them. Listen, and
Speaker 1: just despite both of y'all, I'm going with nineteen, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why. All right, I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: going with nineteen because the kool aid that New Year's drinking,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start sipping a little bit. And i'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that McCarthy talked to killing. He said, we have
Speaker 1: to find a way to get Amari Cooper open and
Speaker 1: with the ball, just like the Saints do with Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: They put them all over the field, and so when
Speaker 1: teams run his own, you'll see Michael Thomas in the
Speaker 1: slot and he'll get away from Jayale Ramsey if he
Speaker 1: getting locked down like that. So I see to him
Speaker 1: getting a lot of opportunities, you know, to get open
Speaker 1: and beat the number one read. So I see him
Speaker 1: having a big night, albeit probably not against man coverage
Speaker 1: on Jalen Ramsey. I think they find a way to
Speaker 1: get them the ball and get them involved. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going Michael gallup as usual. There is disrespect here for
Speaker 1: number thirteen. Number thirteen will have the best night of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys wide receivers. Okay, and that just right there,
Speaker 1: and that that's it. And by the way, I expected
Speaker 1: Sequel Ellie to have be best offensive night period. I'm
Speaker 1: expecting two rushing touchdowns from exeque Ellie and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get about three or four receiving balls in
Speaker 1: the air, receiving and do his thing. And you know,
Speaker 1: pick up Gallup on your fantasy No, he's not, Okay,
Speaker 1: not this year. Okay, I'm just checking. I had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to take him and I didn't do it, and
Speaker 1: I regret that because I should have. I should have
Speaker 1: done it because Gallant was a part of my fantasy
Speaker 1: football championship team last year along with Dak Prescott. I
Speaker 1: was unfortunately did not get the band back together. Let
Speaker 1: him walking free agency. Ain't that song? Man? I know
Speaker 1: I was trying not to be too much of a homer,
Speaker 1: but I did. I did mess that up. I went
Speaker 1: another way, and I regretted it. I regret like I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. I shouldn't have done I should
Speaker 1: have just gone ahead and taking a guy that I
Speaker 1: believe will have a very good third season and have
Speaker 1: a breakout year. All right, look, everybody, enjoy the game
Speaker 1: on NBC Sunday Night. Football Week one is finally here.
Speaker 1: We're drinking the kool ai. We all say the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will win this football game, and make sure you check
Speaker 1: out our bet because McCray says Cooper will have eight
Speaker 1: to nine targets at least in this football game. Church
Speaker 1: and I disagree because Ramsey's expected to travel against Cooper,
Speaker 1: so we're saying he'll have no more than five or
Speaker 1: six targets. So tweet us during the game about it.
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