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Speaker 3: As we sit here and talk it out with Barry Church,
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Speaker 3: for the Packers, thirty two for the Cowboys at home.
Speaker 3: The season is over. Green Bay moves on. They will
Speaker 3: face Detroit. Tampa Bay defeated philadelp Tampa Bay goes to
Speaker 3: San Francisco, and the Cowboys are now left to talk
Speaker 3: about what was and what will be. We'll go around
Speaker 3: the table, start here, Danny mc craig.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts.
Speaker 4: One, We're the only home team to lose this weekend,
Speaker 4: which is which is absolutely It's unfathomable. I'm sitting there
Speaker 4: and I'm watching the game, and I don't I don't
Speaker 4: understand how one when they start panning in on CD
Speaker 4: and DAK again. I'm like, of all days, today today
Speaker 4: is when you gotta look like you got an issue
Speaker 4: like today's starting off the game today like it just
Speaker 4: the Packers came in as the hot team, looking like
Speaker 4: the New York Giants when they were nine to seven
Speaker 4: and they were getting hot and they're ready to go,
Speaker 4: and we just did not look we didn't look like
Speaker 4: we were prepared to play like schematically, we didn't look
Speaker 4: like we were there. I'm talking about man and the
Speaker 4: man guys, letting guys run wide open to where nobody's
Speaker 4: on them, mixing mad, they're not in the right gap,
Speaker 4: the same thing that's consistent through the week. And then
Speaker 4: and then offensively, you know, we revert back to our turnovers.
Speaker 4: Tony Pouler was actually having a decent day and you're like, okay,
Speaker 4: we were ready for the for the run game to start.
Speaker 4: And then the run game gets started and you still
Speaker 4: can't figure out a way to get Ceedee Lamb involved.
Speaker 4: You get an interception throwing at the Brandon Cooks, and
Speaker 4: then who would have thought Michael Gallup would have been
Speaker 4: the guy, right, the savior of like all right, somebody's
Speaker 4: gonna ball today and Michael Gallup is the guy, so
Speaker 4: six three listen, we got to be offensively, defensively, even
Speaker 4: on special teams.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing Turping get hit at the fifteen.
Speaker 4: Sam Williams out there with the kick catching the fid
Speaker 4: like it was a total team effort of losing that game.
Speaker 4: Coaching staff, players, all three phases. So very disappointing. But
Speaker 4: you know, here we are again. That was Cowboys, Baby
Speaker 4: were back one more time. And I know you guys
Speaker 4: are gonna break down a lot of the game, the
Speaker 4: play calling and how that went bad. But Gods, fundamentally,
Speaker 4: for me, there are things that I believe about football
Speaker 4: that I just feel as though your head coach has
Speaker 4: to have your guys ready. We talked about it all
Speaker 4: week about guys need to be mentally strong, and when
Speaker 4: they don't show up, you put that on the head coach.
Speaker 4: I couldn't believe what I was seeing out there. I
Speaker 4: couldn't believe that these guys came out as flat as
Speaker 4: they did.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not uncomfortable that.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't come out flat, but to that degree that
Speaker 4: nobody turns up, nobody says, hey, guys, it's not a
Speaker 4: game next week, So it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing
Speaker 4: to witness city. It was embarrassing for them to play
Speaker 4: to get that opportunity and have two home games. I
Speaker 4: didn't recognize what I was seeing out there. I just didn't.
Speaker 4: And it was the wrong time to change your identity.
Speaker 4: And that's something that you've been talking about since August,
Speaker 4: since two days, since training camp. What's this team's identity?
Speaker 4: And when they got into the playoffs, they changed that
Speaker 4: and I was embarrassed by what I saw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, I mean you hit the word that
Speaker 5: needed to be said. I mean, I was an embarrassing
Speaker 5: loss on all fronts. He's talking about all three phase
Speaker 5: of the game. Offense, defense, special teams. Even Aubrey. I
Speaker 5: think he missed a kickout there, and that's when I
Speaker 5: knew it, you know, put the nail in the coffin.
Speaker 2: But it was they came out.
Speaker 5: Flat, and to me, that's something that you don't really
Speaker 5: see from a McCarthy team. You know, all these seasons
Speaker 5: he's been here, usually he has his team ready, his
Speaker 5: record accounts for I mean, after a bye week, after
Speaker 5: a loss, I mean, the numbers are there, you know,
Speaker 5: He's usually a coach that's gonna have and get the
Speaker 5: best out of all of his players, and that's what
Speaker 5: we all talked about last week is one of the
Speaker 5: attributes that makes him a great coach. But they came
Speaker 5: out flat, extremely flat. And I knew Green Bay had
Speaker 5: a lot of confidence going into that game. We he
Speaker 5: did the pregame on the sidelines, you could just feel
Speaker 5: the energy from them.
Speaker 2: They felt like.
Speaker 5: They belonged in there, which was out of pocket because
Speaker 5: this was pretty much their whole, entire team's first go
Speaker 5: in the playoffs, and the Dallas Cowboys didn't make them
Speaker 5: feel like they don't belong Like they knew from the
Speaker 5: jump we belong here. We're gonna win the coin toss,
Speaker 5: take the ball, go against one of the strengths of
Speaker 5: good team, which is the defense. We're gonna march it
Speaker 5: all the way down the field. Very first drive eight minutes,
Speaker 5: score with a touchdown at it, or score touchdown at
Speaker 5: the end of the drive. Like that right there set
Speaker 5: the tone for the rest of the game. And as
Speaker 5: we saw Dak Prescott, you know, kind of reverted back
Speaker 5: to that Prescott we've seen in years past.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5: But the playhoffs, it's just he gets back into that
Speaker 5: mindset where I'm not looking. I'm just gonna throw the
Speaker 5: ball where I think it needs to go. I mean,
Speaker 5: we'll break everything down with the interceptions and all that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, this this this was just out playing and
Speaker 5: out coaching by the Dallas.
Speaker 2: Called was in the Green pay package. Gutless effort, gutless
Speaker 2: you should appear.
Speaker 3: Look at the drive chart Green Bay drive chart, touchdown
Speaker 3: and start the game punt, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, punt,
Speaker 3: punt in the game.
Speaker 2: Baby, that's not playoff football.
Speaker 4: Only because they when the competitive phase was again, okay,
Speaker 4: six of seven drives the first six to seven touchdown
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 2: Let's look at four games for.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys and shit, and just the second core loone Arizona,
Speaker 3: they found themselves down twenty one to ten, San Francisco
Speaker 3: second quarter, they found themselves down twenty one to seven.
Speaker 3: Buffalo second quarter, they found themselves down twenty one, two three,
Speaker 3: Green Bay. They were down twenty seven to nothing in
Speaker 3: the second quarter. Then they scored touchdown before to a half.
Speaker 3: There's a problem here, guys, there's a problem. These were
Speaker 3: good football teams in Arizona. We could say they want
Speaker 3: a good football team, but you look at their reck
Speaker 3: They fought people this year, right, they fought them and
Speaker 3: they shouldn't have put it to you.
Speaker 2: There is a problem.
Speaker 3: And when you talk about the mental toughness, that is
Speaker 3: something that has to start to come into question with
Speaker 3: this team to perform like this at four games, to
Speaker 3: be outclassed, and then you get to the playoffs where
Speaker 3: you know you're supposed to have it.
Speaker 2: When I said failure is not option, you just didn't fail.
Speaker 2: Laid down.
Speaker 4: So I get home from the game, I'm sitting in
Speaker 4: my lazy boy ahead, still got the TV on channel five,
Speaker 4: and who comes on late night?
Speaker 2: Nobody knew. Crug comes home and uh he.
Speaker 4: Was on fire, right, he was on fire about the loss,
Speaker 4: and he put it I mean sort of the same
Speaker 4: thing that you're saying right now. It's hard to fathom
Speaker 4: a team that will come into your home playoff situation
Speaker 4: than they score on six of their first seven drives.
Speaker 4: Now you gotta watch a lot of football to see
Speaker 4: that happen. I mean, this is SEC versus some pretty
Speaker 4: inferior conferences.
Speaker 2: That you that you get.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 2: What it is.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, you gotta watch football for a very
Speaker 4: long time. I know you guys watch a lot of
Speaker 4: football to know is. As we were communicated with each
Speaker 4: other during the game, like what the hell is going
Speaker 4: on right now? At some point, at some point guys
Speaker 4: that you you guys know as defensive players, you have
Speaker 4: a base that you if this ain't working. We got
Speaker 4: our base to go back to if all things fail, defense,
Speaker 4: go back to that.
Speaker 2: What's ours?
Speaker 4: I mean, because you're in that dime, You're in a dime, nick,
Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it, and guys are running
Speaker 4: open as I want to put it to words that
Speaker 4: I asked you, but are you watching this because guys
Speaker 4: are running wide open and they never adjusted to that. Well,
Speaker 4: this is the problem when you run a defense that
Speaker 4: way and you have guys out there who are not
Speaker 4: used to playing when you don't get pressure.
Speaker 2: Those two big dig.
Speaker 4: Routes were in zone coverage, no pressure, and it was
Speaker 4: the same thing Calvin Johnson did this when he had
Speaker 4: three hundred yards. You don't get any pressure, You allow
Speaker 4: a receiver to get down there twenty yards and ben
Speaker 4: then it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a catch every time.
Speaker 4: So it's like if they're running open, but it's because
Speaker 4: you're not getting enough pressure to get back there. They
Speaker 4: shouldn't even have that much time because this is a
Speaker 4: staple of your defense to say, hey, man, if we
Speaker 4: rush four and we play zone covers behind it, we
Speaker 4: expect Michael Parsons, d Law whoever, to be able to
Speaker 4: put some pressure on this young quarterback and not allow
Speaker 4: him the time to make that pass. And they allowed
Speaker 4: it to times and I watched it, and then the
Speaker 4: next one you man to man. Right, So like I'm
Speaker 4: not believing, I'm not absolving Dan Quinn of anything. All right,
Speaker 4: you went and fought with bell in there and it
Speaker 4: didn't work out for it is probably the worst game
Speaker 4: that I seen him have. But if I'm calling man
Speaker 4: the man as a defensive coordinator, I expect my guys
Speaker 4: to be able to play man to man. This is
Speaker 4: a veteran defense for the most part, especially in the secondary,
Speaker 4: and you can't find a way to cover your guys
Speaker 4: man to man. All this was getting a tight bunch
Speaker 4: for masons and then run crosses and we act like
Speaker 4: we couldn't get through traffic or anything. This is like
Speaker 4: day one stuff that we had been doing throughout the year,
Speaker 4: which is why I'm saying I don't understand what happened.
Speaker 4: It's like you went out there and you forgot how
Speaker 4: to do the basics and it didn't work out for you. Listen,
Speaker 4: bless Marky's bell, Okay, because he did go out there
Speaker 4: and he tried his hardest, but run gap coverage and
Speaker 4: being sound and my man not even lining up in
Speaker 4: the gap pre snap now right, he supposed to be
Speaker 4: in the A gap he way over here and not
Speaker 4: he and he's getting caught every time.
Speaker 2: And some of that is he hasn't played that position,
Speaker 2: so he doesn't really know how to do it.
Speaker 4: But we we ate nineteen wait nineteen, you know, so
Speaker 4: you know at some point you got to be able
Speaker 4: to figure stuff out. Uh, And Aaron Jones came out
Speaker 4: and they said, we're gonna run the ball against this team,
Speaker 4: and that's what they did. And that's been our Achilles
Speaker 4: Hill now for but three straight years, three straight years we.
Speaker 5: Have been we haven't I'm saying it for weeks now
Speaker 5: that when you at this second level is with those
Speaker 5: guys being undersized, you'll get away with it when you
Speaker 5: go against these finess teams the Chargers of the world.
Speaker 5: You'll get away with it, and it'll look amazing when
Speaker 5: you go out there, because oh man, he's able to
Speaker 5: stop these running backs out of the backfield, catching the ball,
Speaker 5: covering tight ends.
Speaker 2: It will look amazing.
Speaker 5: But when you go against a team that's like, all right,
Speaker 5: we're gonna hand this ball off and go between the tackles,
Speaker 5: there's so much. There's only so much a two hundred
Speaker 5: and fifteen pound, two hundred ten pound guy can do
Speaker 5: against a three hundred line round line.
Speaker 2: Well, my mother, and that to that sense.
Speaker 4: My point is, hey man, if you two fifteen, you
Speaker 4: gotta be gaps. He catching every like I'm talking about,
Speaker 4: he three four yards behind, like catching every block, and
Speaker 4: then he's out of his gap, so he's easily getting hooked.
Speaker 2: And it's not just him. This is everybody got.
Speaker 4: But as you watch the film from from Sunday's game,
Speaker 4: you say, oh wait again, no, not again, like get
Speaker 4: in Like you just see little stuff like that where
Speaker 4: it's like, hey man, you lost before the ball was
Speaker 4: even snapped, because you know, not just him, but not
Speaker 4: just him, but also DeMont Clark as well. I think
Speaker 4: the read and react portion of the defense like you said,
Speaker 4: they were catching a lot. And when you're already undersized
Speaker 4: and you're trying to catch a three hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: pound man, he's gonna he's gonna roll you and look
Speaker 4: defensively obviously out of sorts. And I was wondering about
Speaker 4: them playing zone because I'm saying to myself, Okay, they're
Speaker 4: sprinkling in the zone because maybe they.
Speaker 2: Believe that Love is a mobile quarterback.
Speaker 4: Maybe they believe that, you know, they need all hats
Speaker 4: to the ball, especially with at the running back. But
Speaker 4: when I say our base, our bas is, man, when
Speaker 4: we get back to and when that failed, when we
Speaker 4: were getting baptized, and.
Speaker 2: Then I'm like, oh oh brother.
Speaker 5: And it wasn't just study stopping, and it wasn't just
Speaker 5: like they was doing some craziness to get off of
Speaker 5: this name.
Speaker 2: Man. It's like you said, coaching kind of went out
Speaker 2: the window. Like we've seen.
Speaker 5: I was watching that would play with Dobbs. I believe
Speaker 5: that's his last name. Eighty seven for the for the
Speaker 5: yeah Romeo dots. He ran that sail route, all right,
Speaker 5: sale route for y'all. Don't know, it's over once you
Speaker 5: get to that hash mark you put your foot in
Speaker 5: the ground, you go back out towards that far apart
Speaker 5: uh Billy the eyes. You're a man the man coverage.
Speaker 5: You gotta keep your eyes on your luggage. I know
Speaker 5: it's a deep over route, and he tried to do
Speaker 5: what Bland did earlier in the season by undercutting the
Speaker 5: over route, and as soon as he looked up, Bland
Speaker 5: put that dogs put that foot in the ground. With
Speaker 5: Dobson direction, He's wide open, He's Scott free. It was
Speaker 5: just things like that were from a veteran player and
Speaker 5: from the defense overall, that.
Speaker 2: We didn't see all season long.
Speaker 5: We didn't see that all season long, and it was
Speaker 5: just it was an embarrassing effect.
Speaker 4: Let me mention this as well, because I don't want
Speaker 4: to put too much on the linebackers, them too interior
Speaker 4: defensive line where they at. I'm talking about what Hankins
Speaker 4: and my washed. They were getting washed out of the frame.
Speaker 4: So you're playing with guys who are light at the
Speaker 4: linebacker spot, and then your defensive lineman can't hold a
Speaker 4: double team and they getting washed out of the way
Speaker 4: and you somebody else, right, So you asking d Law
Speaker 4: and Michael Parsons to make every player there, but you can't.
Speaker 4: And we all said that, hey man, the reason why
Speaker 4: the green Bay Packers didn't look the way they look
Speaker 4: Sunday during the season is because Aaron Jones had been
Speaker 4: hurt for most of the year, like he hadn't been healthy.
Speaker 4: Now he came back fresh legs, ready to go. And
Speaker 4: that's what you're going to see from the Green Bay
Speaker 4: Packers moving forward. But we already know that though. We
Speaker 4: know that when teams come in here, they're going to
Speaker 4: try to run the ball. And we said this, Detroit
Speaker 4: let us off the hook because they start running them.
Speaker 4: The teams that we were like, oh man, why did
Speaker 4: y'all stop running? Because we haven't stopped it yet for
Speaker 4: some reason. And and and green Bay was not letting
Speaker 4: us off. They didn't change it. They didn't change a thing.
Speaker 2: Hey j.
Speaker 4: Dylan didn't play No. Thirty one having a day. They're
Speaker 4: gonna switch it up. Guys were taking turns on us,
Speaker 4: and it was it was And the thing about and
Speaker 4: think about I'm watching Mazie. I got to the point
Speaker 4: when watching Mozzie and you're getting blocks so bad, so
Speaker 4: not only you turn sideways, you turn all the way around.
Speaker 2: And now you're throwing your hands up. What what do.
Speaker 4: You think all they gonna do is just shove you
Speaker 4: completely out of the plane.
Speaker 2: How much? Wait did he lose? He no, it's no, Joe,
Speaker 2: he looked light.
Speaker 3: McCarthy would not tell us when he looks light. He
Speaker 3: was asking, and he did. McCarthy didn't want to say
Speaker 3: he looked. I'm just but he acknowledged that there was
Speaker 3: a weight loss.
Speaker 4: Listen, he looked like and that's what's listening. And that's okay.
Speaker 4: But I mean across the board, we didn't play. We
Speaker 4: needed Michael Parsons to show up and get more pressure
Speaker 4: on Jordan.
Speaker 2: Look, we needed that. That's a needed.
Speaker 4: That's another conversation that has to be saying that my
Speaker 4: fear where we say last week, I feel like Jordan
Speaker 4: Love can have that Geno Smith style game, and that's
Speaker 4: exactly what he went out there and did.
Speaker 2: He went out there and used not to use his legs.
Speaker 5: As far as running down the football field, but the
Speaker 5: by time for his weapons on the outside to get loose.
Speaker 2: I mean to make the first guys, it's exactly that first.
Speaker 5: Pressure was there, let me dip to the outside by time,
Speaker 5: and he has that cannon it's been an Achilles hill
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys all season long.
Speaker 2: Big athletic quarterbacks down. I don't know how y'all.
Speaker 4: Feel about Green Bay in this next matchup, but my
Speaker 4: feeling is is that green Bay is gonna go up
Speaker 4: there and they gonna get put to him because San
Speaker 4: Francisco's gonna stop the runfeats him, and then Jordan Love's
Speaker 4: gonna have to really be an exquisite quarterback, like you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to make those throws under a lot more
Speaker 4: pressure to rest without your running game working.
Speaker 2: But I disagree, okay, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Not surprised, but I'm saying, Lafleur, if I wasn't, if
Speaker 4: I wasn't sure of his game before, I am now
Speaker 4: because that one play to the tight end on the
Speaker 4: on the side, I swear to you, I thought he
Speaker 4: just came off the sideline.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, that's our side. O. You
Speaker 2: know what, go back to the time he was over there.
Speaker 4: By hisself, middle of the field to the hash by
Speaker 4: south and that's it. That's impossible, especially when it's not
Speaker 4: a busted defense. Everybody has an assignment. You have to
Speaker 4: account for that guy. How the hell did you not
Speaker 4: account for him that. Listen, there's a couple of players
Speaker 4: on there, and I know we just picking through it,
Speaker 4: just you know, going all over the place. I'm watching
Speaker 4: guys cover grass. We ain't cover two. They ran over
Speaker 4: us all the way over there. We got a cornerback
Speaker 4: fifteen yards d not like not covering anybody, and then
Speaker 4: don't get the crosser. It looked like we didn't know
Speaker 4: what the heck we was doing out there, which is
Speaker 4: which is unfortunate because like I said, you have veteran
Speaker 4: players out there. You have a defensive Player of the
Speaker 4: Year out there. You got d run Bland out there.
Speaker 4: You got safeties who are veteran guys now all got
Speaker 4: paid like. You have guys out there who should know
Speaker 4: how to run this defense like you were in the
Speaker 4: playoffs at this point. So to me, none of this
Speaker 4: is Excuse me because it don't It doesn't really make sense.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying this, Okay, Michael Parsons is supposed to
Speaker 4: be our guy.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's a hell of a player. You gotta show
Speaker 2: up when.
Speaker 4: When all when all else fails, it ain't nothing working,
Speaker 4: and you need to spark the person that we are
Speaker 4: going to look to deservedly. So it's Michael Parsons to
Speaker 4: be in there and say, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: figure out a way pick six maybe, well, whatever they
Speaker 4: try to.
Speaker 2: Cut me, I'm gonna jump up one of the TJ.
Speaker 4: White plays something like that, like you have to you
Speaker 4: have to be able to make those type of plays.
Speaker 4: And I wan't hear nothing about holding or none of that,
Speaker 4: because we had the whole league over here talking about
Speaker 4: when is Michael Parsons gonna get a holding call.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 4: We need to have guys who canna get out there
Speaker 4: and make those plays when they when it calls for,
Speaker 4: especially in the playoff game, and we just we just
Speaker 4: didn't see it. And that's across the board though. That's
Speaker 4: DAK and that's CD, and that's Brandon Cooks and everybody, everybody, everybody.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was it was actually crazy to watch. You see
Speaker 4: Earl Spencer, I mean Crawford he speak tweeting this looks
Speaker 4: like me and Arrows be.
Speaker 2: Talking about injuries. Later.
Speaker 4: I swear, I swear that's what it looked like. That's
Speaker 4: what it felt like. I was like this, I have
Speaker 4: my hand over the ball.
Speaker 3: They got a lot of smoke on social media. Let's
Speaker 3: get our first break in here eighteen past the hour.
Speaker 2: We're rolling. We're rolling. What does Jerry Jones do now?
Speaker 3: And a word was used about Dak Prescott from a
Speaker 3: Cowboy player that is getting some traction and I just
Speaker 3: wanted to get.
Speaker 2: Everybody's opinion on that. We'll go over that word as well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man out the playoffs. We didn't think we'd
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Speaker 3: first quarter, starting quarterback had thousand yards stare and body
Speaker 3: language of a team that was atrocious. Whether it's high school,
Speaker 3: college pros. The ones that can handle adversity are the
Speaker 3: ones that win championships. Front runners don't win championships. There
Speaker 3: were a lot of people lining up and going after
Speaker 3: the Cowboys on several different levels.
Speaker 2: Them back was catching it, and.
Speaker 3: You should catch it because, with all due respect, this
Speaker 3: is three straight years they had been in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: and this is two wild card games at home where
Speaker 3: the quarterback has not come to play in the game.
Speaker 3: Jane Slater ended up on social media saying she talked
Speaker 3: to someone on the team and the player said, sometimes
Speaker 3: Dak will panic after his first read.
Speaker 2: I want to go around the table.
Speaker 5: Thoughts that one, because that's what's hot.
Speaker 2: You's talking about man panicking out there. But somebody in
Speaker 2: the lock.
Speaker 5: Somebody you know that one? Oh man, it a cat five. Anyways,
Speaker 5: but when you look at it, this is something you know,
Speaker 5: we saw. We thought we were passed. You know, Kellen
Speaker 5: Moore was gone. We thought you know, his offense was predictable,
Speaker 5: and this is why that man, Dak Prescott was throwing
Speaker 5: interceptions because the offense was predictable.
Speaker 2: At least that's what I was told.
Speaker 5: Fast forward to this year in the postseason, the biggest moments,
Speaker 5: what is seeming to happen. The guy get reverts back
Speaker 5: to what we've seen in the past, double clutching out there,
Speaker 5: staring down his reads. It looks like he's not going
Speaker 5: like throughout the entire season, if number one went there,
Speaker 5: number two one there, let me go ahead and tuck
Speaker 5: this thing and run. But when we get to the postseason,
Speaker 5: it's like the whole thing just switches back, or just
Speaker 5: the recess. He hit the reset button on that pick
Speaker 5: to Savage. There's no way that I didn't. I never
Speaker 5: played the quarterback position, but we all understand this. When
Speaker 5: you running those double slants like that, if there's a
Speaker 5: lurker sitting right there, you gotta go to number one,
Speaker 5: and it sounds easier than what it is. Got no,
Speaker 5: the quarterback positions ared, but that interception shouldn't happen. And
Speaker 5: on the first interception to Jyry Alexander, that's when he
Speaker 5: forced in there because the route was lazy. That was
Speaker 5: an extremely lazy route by Cooks. He was just going
Speaker 5: like half speed out there. That was a lazy route.
Speaker 5: But he's still forcing in there. That's something that we
Speaker 5: saw from last year Dack, from maybe rookie year Dack,
Speaker 5: you know, forcing things there because it was covered up
Speaker 5: and I understand it was down. You either use your
Speaker 5: laser or you take this sack and lived another day.
Speaker 5: That's something we've seen all season Law. He was protecting
Speaker 5: the football, but in this game, for some reason, he
Speaker 5: reverted back to the deck we have seen in past
Speaker 5: and was forcing throws out there and making reads that
Speaker 5: he had made all season long.
Speaker 2: So y'all let me know because this is confusing to me.
Speaker 4: It pisses me off to having the anonymous source come
Speaker 4: out of the locker room and say exactly that about him.
Speaker 4: But how many times do you can you deny or
Speaker 4: defend actions like this. You've seen it in the playoffs
Speaker 4: where look, our offense just didn't have the game. This
Speaker 4: is the first time I think that we've come into
Speaker 4: a game where it's like that our defense didn't come
Speaker 4: and we needed that sparks to come from my offense
Speaker 4: and that spark didn't come from my offense either. I
Speaker 4: think Mike Tyson says, the best man. Everybody has a
Speaker 4: plan till they get hit, and this team, when they
Speaker 4: get hit, they don't respond. And you want that leadership
Speaker 4: to come from your quarterback. But when your quarterback has
Speaker 4: a deer in the headlights, look on your quarterback isn't
Speaker 4: the one that seems sure of himself? How do the
Speaker 4: rest to the guys? How are the rest of them
Speaker 4: sure themselves? I mean you can look around. We talk
Speaker 4: about elite quarterbacks all the time, those the Tom Bradys
Speaker 4: of the world, the killers that we talk about. What
Speaker 4: is about those guys in championship moments? They stand up,
Speaker 4: they make it happen. What when you look at our
Speaker 4: guy we don't have He doesn't have a resume that
Speaker 4: says he'll do that when when the pressure is on.
Speaker 4: But for for a player to out him like that,
Speaker 4: that's he didn't get out of it. By the player.
Speaker 4: He's been out. He's been out booda Baker out of
Speaker 4: him a long time ago. And and that that route
Speaker 4: that they picked off and cover two again was just
Speaker 4: so the first time they did it was San Francisco
Speaker 4: and I think CD was running a jerk route from
Speaker 4: number two, went in and got that pick, and then
Speaker 4: now Cooks is running the jerk rout form number one
Speaker 4: and when got that pick, and like you said, double slant,
Speaker 4: they running the second slant to clear out space for
Speaker 4: you to throw the first one. You go to the
Speaker 4: why would you do that? But but but when you're
Speaker 4: having issues, are seemingly having issues, and you're on the
Speaker 4: same page with eighty eight at that time, then you
Speaker 4: got to try to find a way to force it
Speaker 4: in there, to make sure that he knows that it's
Speaker 4: coming to him.
Speaker 2: And then everybody knows it.
Speaker 4: At that point, CD Lamb get eighteen targets, everybody's gonna
Speaker 4: have all their eyes on CD Lamb.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to say about that, because you know,
Speaker 4: once again we were talking about him being the MVP.
Speaker 4: He had a heck of a season, and then it's
Speaker 4: the playoffs. That's why we always say, none of that
Speaker 4: stuff matter. None of the stuff matters that happens in
Speaker 4: the regular season, none of it twelve and five, thirteen
Speaker 4: and three, none of that stuff matter, because because when
Speaker 4: we get to a certain point, which is first round,
Speaker 4: second round, we find a way not to show up.
Speaker 4: So next year, next year, when you go twelve and five,
Speaker 4: how comfortable will you feel about your playoff your playoff hopes?
Speaker 4: Because this is three years in a row where you
Speaker 4: go into it and you say, you know what.
Speaker 2: I feel real good.
Speaker 4: We got an easy, easy path to the end. We
Speaker 4: got the two seed, possibly two home game, possibly three.
Speaker 4: All we got to do is beat the team that's nucky,
Speaker 4: and that's all we gotta do. And they got to
Speaker 4: come here. We undefeated at home glad two years, right,
Speaker 4: So this is the best opportunity you had. So this
Speaker 4: is why everybody's going crazy now because you say, I
Speaker 4: got to sit here and wait through a whole season
Speaker 4: next year, a whole season of if they play well,
Speaker 4: I can't get too excited. They play bad, and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna feel bad like it's nothing. And then just so
Speaker 4: you to wait for the first playoff game, hopefully for
Speaker 4: you to still sit on pins and needles and feel
Speaker 4: that pressure of like, here we go again, because that's
Speaker 4: what happened at the beginning of the game. It was
Speaker 4: here we go.
Speaker 2: Again, there we go again, like it's happening again, and
Speaker 2: the Bruce feilled out.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about just all the way through it and
Speaker 4: the screen came down and everything.
Speaker 2: Oh, here's part two of that.
Speaker 3: You can talk about the season next year, but before
Speaker 3: you hit the regular season, Jerry Jones has to figure
Speaker 3: out what he does moving forward. Dak Prescott and in a
Speaker 3: lot of ways. First Off, anybody talking about in trade,
Speaker 3: Dack's got a no trade close, so you can stop that. Secondly,
Speaker 3: he's got a cap hit a fifty nine million dollars.
Speaker 3: Basically it's gonna be they nine points, So it's basically
Speaker 3: sixty million dollars for those people to say, trade him
Speaker 3: or cut him.
Speaker 2: If you do it, the dead cap.
Speaker 3: Hit is sixty one million dollars, so either way there's
Speaker 3: a huge number. I don't know how they absorb a
Speaker 3: sixty one million dollar cap hit unless you decided next
Speaker 3: year is just going to be a season where we
Speaker 3: don't compete.
Speaker 2: It's just hard to do it.
Speaker 3: Heard people say, well, you know what, the Rams did it,
Speaker 3: and the Eagles did it.
Speaker 2: Them numbers wasn't sixty million. They were half that. And oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, they had replacements.
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts replaced Carson Wentz, Matthew Stafford replaced Jared Golf.
Speaker 3: Don't know how many people are ready for Cooper Rush
Speaker 3: or Trey Lance to go ahead and be that guy
Speaker 3: next year. Just saying so, Jerry's most logical path forward
Speaker 3: is an extension for Dak Prescott to lower his number
Speaker 3: and try to get other players signed, which means you're now.
Speaker 2: In it with Dak for more years.
Speaker 5: Thought, it's a question before we get into that. If
Speaker 5: you extend them, is that cancel out the no trade?
Speaker 5: Is it like a whole new deal or is that
Speaker 5: new trade kind of go to the negotiating you can renegotiat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he kind of has, you know, the organization
Speaker 2: kind of got in a hard place. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he has all the leverage right now, no trade clause,
Speaker 5: the number, the cap hit you got, like you said,
Speaker 5: you've got to find a way to make that a
Speaker 5: smaller number because you're gonna have to bring people in
Speaker 5: to help get this team better, I mean both offensively
Speaker 5: and defensively.
Speaker 2: So they're gonna have to extend my guy. They got to.
Speaker 2: There's no other way around it. It's gotta happen. Heck,
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to extend.
Speaker 4: No, He's he has some boxed then and he's he
Speaker 4: has some box din at the worst time, especially after
Speaker 4: after that performance. I'm sure they're thinking about other outlets
Speaker 4: in other ways because it's it's not a sample size.
Speaker 2: Now, this is what it is. What it is.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think when you when you talk
Speaker 4: about not only him, the head coach, every all decisions
Speaker 4: that will be coming down the pipeline right now. Look, man,
Speaker 4: Jerry can't make any needs you reactions to this whole
Speaker 4: situation because twenty four percent of your cap is gonna
Speaker 4: be hit by a Dack's salary, and you can look
Speaker 4: around the league and look at quarterbacks and you can
Speaker 4: say for who, for what, for why, and all of
Speaker 4: those questions are gonna be right there. Look, you have
Speaker 4: to reload with him. You gotta come back with that.
Speaker 4: It doesn't make any sense to do it any other
Speaker 4: way because of what Nuie just said. But on the
Speaker 4: whole other flip side of that, you can't come back
Speaker 4: with the same philosophy to help your quarterback.
Speaker 2: You can't. Just because you.
Speaker 4: Got a running back and a running game don't mean
Speaker 4: it is productive. If a god tells you he's a
Speaker 4: third down running back, then trust him. Believe him. That's
Speaker 4: what's cost you. It cost you in this game because
Speaker 4: you didn't have a running game.
Speaker 2: There was no other.
Speaker 4: Way out, There was no recourse. What do you do
Speaker 4: when you're getting the doors blown off for you? You
Speaker 4: run the ball man, just slow this thing down. You
Speaker 4: don't have the ability to do that. And we've been
Speaker 4: talking about these wards for the defense on the other side.
Speaker 2: Now we've been dealing with this running game and.
Speaker 4: It's inefficiency all season and we expect for this dude
Speaker 4: to pull a rabbit out of his hat. When I
Speaker 4: don't know if y'all was looking at it, I was
Speaker 4: looking at it, but it seemed like Green Bay was
Speaker 4: in the offensive play call in room like they was
Speaker 4: listening like, oh you're.
Speaker 2: Jerk rop I another double slat, Oh yeah you and
Speaker 2: you got guys that are just sitting on that.
Speaker 4: And my my thing is is, you know what they
Speaker 4: have to do organizationally, they have to resign Dak because
Speaker 4: of all the other moves that they have to make.
Speaker 2: But this doesn't come at a good time.
Speaker 4: Listen, uh, Dak's signed, Dak, All right, say that money
Speaker 4: and go put it all on your defense, Like no,
Speaker 4: like you have to figure out a way to play
Speaker 4: better defense. You have to figure out a way to
Speaker 4: stop the run. You got Trayvon on Digs, you have
Speaker 4: a corner on the opposite side, get the back end straight,
Speaker 4: but you need to get your d line ready to go,
Speaker 4: all right, because you're gonna play with Dak Prescott like,
Speaker 4: but you.
Speaker 2: Need to go free agency.
Speaker 4: Find somebody that you because you've been searching for somebody
Speaker 4: to play that interior defensive linement spot for a long time.
Speaker 4: Go find you somebody that could play that spot, who's
Speaker 4: an impact layer, and start with the defense because you
Speaker 4: gonna have Dak Prescott on your team, but you need
Speaker 4: to play better defense because whatever however bad Dak Prescott played,
Speaker 4: the defense was horrible, which is also I'm gonna save
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott because it was horrible. You said six out
Speaker 4: of seven, yes, six out of seven, you can't win.
Speaker 2: With the first. You can't win with that. Stayed with
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Speaker 2: The season is over. It continues with the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: Is they go to Detroit Round three between the Packers
Speaker 2: and Lions.
Speaker 3: And while you Bullgiving, the Packers went in there on
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving gave it to the Lions. So that's gonna be
Speaker 3: a fun one to watch. Who saw Jordan Love and
Speaker 3: Jared Golf still at it? And who saw uh ba,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sorry, no, it's it's it's Packers, Packers Niners.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry Packers Niners. Uh, it's Baker and Jared Goff
Speaker 3: who saw that one coming.
Speaker 2: But by the.
Speaker 3: Way, uh, you know what Jordan Love against San Francisco.
Speaker 3: It's all house money again, it's it's nothing for true,
Speaker 3: there's nothing nothing for these guys. So whatever they get beat, fine,
Speaker 3: they win. Boy, what a great story for that. Matt
Speaker 3: la Floor came in here, the man who replaced Mike
Speaker 3: McCarthy and just gave it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't familiar with the familiar with it.
Speaker 4: They believe they should be there though they don't believe
Speaker 4: they're playing with house money, which is which is what
Speaker 4: they came in here and showed like they felt the
Speaker 4: disrespect and the like house money.
Speaker 2: We're healthy now asides after the.
Speaker 4: Game, yeah, somebody said to him first when he walked out,
Speaker 4: how about them, cowboy?
Speaker 2: How about them? Besides what does Jerry do now? It
Speaker 2: is disappointed and I've seen anyone.
Speaker 3: Uh, he really thought this opportunity for the Cowboys to
Speaker 3: do something was there two games at home right there
Speaker 3: in front of the Cowboys and Mike McCarthy, for the
Speaker 3: second time in three years, has a home playoff game,
Speaker 3: and they got punched in the mouth from jump. So
Speaker 3: now there's speculation Mike did this to himself, did this
Speaker 3: to himself. You knew what you knew, what the assignment was.
Speaker 3: You failed, So now you've opened up Pandora's box. People
Speaker 3: are talking about Bill Belichick. People are casually mentioning Mike
Speaker 3: Vrabel as a head coach here, what.
Speaker 2: Do you do?
Speaker 5: I don't know what he should do, but it don't
Speaker 5: look too good for Big Mike right now. It don't
Speaker 5: because I know we all saw that that post game
Speaker 5: from from mister Jones out there.
Speaker 2: Y'all saw the reporters on TV.
Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever seen that man look so
Speaker 5: just disappointed, just upset at what happened in this playoffs.
Speaker 5: I've never seen it before, you know, playing with him
Speaker 5: covering the team now, never seen him look that way
Speaker 5: after a game.
Speaker 2: And when you look at it, new it you You pointed.
Speaker 5: It all out, You got you had what you needed
Speaker 5: to make that long playoff front. You had the home
Speaker 5: game here against a team that, yeah they were hot,
Speaker 5: but there are a bunch of youngsters that have never
Speaker 5: experienced playoffs before.
Speaker 2: You had them at home.
Speaker 5: Well, you've been undefeated sixteen in a row. You got
Speaker 5: them at home, you beat them. You go on to
Speaker 5: the next round to play against a team at Detroit
Speaker 5: that you've already beaten at home once again. You had
Speaker 5: the second most All Pros I believe, or Pro Bowls,
Speaker 5: whatever the case may be, in the National Football League
Speaker 5: on your team. You had someone that's possibly going to
Speaker 5: finish second in MVP voting, possibly as your quarterback.
Speaker 2: You had everything lined up for you.
Speaker 5: To go out there and take advantage of it and
Speaker 5: get Jerry Jones in the Dallas Cowboys organization to the
Speaker 5: next level somewhere they haven't been in twenty some years.
Speaker 2: And you went out there and not only was it a.
Speaker 5: Loss, it was possibly the worst playoff loss in Dallas
Speaker 5: Cowboys history. I mean, they almost put fifty points up
Speaker 5: at your spot in at and T Stadium, like, know
Speaker 5: what he should do, but it ain't looking too good.
Speaker 2: For a mask.
Speaker 4: It's indefensible. Uh, the way that this team was prepared
Speaker 4: to go out there and knew he We've we had
Speaker 4: so much back and forth talking about Mike McCarthy in
Speaker 4: his job.
Speaker 2: You've defended him.
Speaker 4: You've had moments where you've been on the fence I
Speaker 4: think everybody it's hard to imagine a guy going twelve
Speaker 4: and five three seasons in a row, and now you're
Speaker 4: talking about replacing him. But then nothing could have prepared
Speaker 4: you for that effort. And that's the only thing that
Speaker 4: I'm saying. You put all of that on the head coach,
Speaker 4: your team coming out flat, some of the miscues that
Speaker 4: you're having now.
Speaker 2: And I know that.
Speaker 4: I feel as though dan Quinn has total autonomy when
Speaker 4: it comes down to play calling. But at any point
Speaker 4: this Mike McCarthy say, hey, let me, y'all hit me,
Speaker 4: put Dan on with me, pass me in, let's zoom
Speaker 4: right quick.
Speaker 2: Hey what we got going on on thatt DQ.
Speaker 4: We need to get we need to get this thing
Speaker 4: on the rest because his everything is on the line
Speaker 4: for him, And again, nothing could have prepared any of
Speaker 4: us for that effort. And so I think that solely
Speaker 4: lies on Mike. And with one year left on his contract,
Speaker 4: it's either coach this one year out or extending and
Speaker 4: I don't see, I don't see how any of that
Speaker 4: is productive here if he does that. Yeah, listen, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure what Jerry should do. I know Jerry wants
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. I believe I've heard him mention talking
Speaker 4: about not having much time. You don't have time for
Speaker 4: rebuilds all that stuff. So I think the issue is
Speaker 4: the twelve and five thing is an issue like this is.
Speaker 4: This is probably the first time where I can say
Speaker 4: a team going twelve and five three years in a raw.
Speaker 2: Hear yourself say it hurts you.
Speaker 4: It hurts you, like you going twelve and five three
Speaker 4: years in a row and ending like this on multiple
Speaker 4: occasions at home, It hurts you because you don't have
Speaker 4: any confidence throughout the entirety of the season. No matter
Speaker 4: how well you play thirteen and three, four to whatever,
Speaker 4: the thirteen and four thirteen whatever, you don't have any
Speaker 4: confidence in that. You don't like you don't have any
Speaker 4: confidence as an owner, as an organization that hey man,
Speaker 4: even though we playing this will when we get to
Speaker 4: the playoffs, this is going to translate from regular season
Speaker 4: ball to playoff football. And until you are able to
Speaker 4: get that figured out, you gotta you.
Speaker 2: Gotta sleep on it. You gotta sleep on that, bro.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know because I like big Mic,
Speaker 2: but it real quick.
Speaker 5: It kind of makes it a little bit more a
Speaker 5: little worse when you're the offensive coordinator as well, because
Speaker 5: if you'd had coaching offenses and that the defensive that.
Speaker 2: What y'all doing over there?
Speaker 5: You the guy, You the guy out there colonies offensive
Speaker 5: plays and trying to make this this offense look productive
Speaker 5: against a defense that no one up here, myself included,
Speaker 5: would have sat there and be like, oh that that
Speaker 5: that team little, that defense is legit, they're gonna shut
Speaker 5: it down.
Speaker 4: Alexander was not even fully'll he was hobbled out there.
Speaker 5: So I just think that makes it look a little
Speaker 5: worse because even though the score was with forty eight
Speaker 5: to thirty two, I mean they didn't you know that,
Speaker 5: we all know what.
Speaker 2: It was has to here.
Speaker 4: But you guys have had you guys have had head
Speaker 4: coaches and that have either been defensive coordinators or offensive coordinators.
Speaker 2: Are neither.
Speaker 4: Have you ever been in a situation like this where look,
Speaker 4: you're calling out this this guy in question, he's the
Speaker 4: head coach, but he's also your offensive coordinator. The biggest
Speaker 4: I mean, how do you separate that If it's a
Speaker 4: bad defensive performance and it's d Q, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: and how do we make these adjustments? And I think
Speaker 4: this that's the pickle.
Speaker 2: So in Philadelphia, Nick s Heireanni.
Speaker 3: By all accounts, they're talking, they're gonna talk about his
Speaker 3: job there.
Speaker 2: I think it's crazier than talking about.
Speaker 3: Talking to to a source today. Up there, they're saying
Speaker 3: Jeff Lourie would talk about Bill Belichick like for him,
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick is something he talked about Arthur Blank and
Speaker 3: the found I've already interviewed Bill Belichick, and we've heard
Speaker 3: about Bill Belichick's name here who sold And Jerry and
Speaker 3: Bill like each other. They like each other. But once again,
Speaker 3: Mike has opened himself up for the conversation. And if
Speaker 3: you're Jerry Jones and you're Stephen Jones, they have to
Speaker 3: have a conversation with each other. If we do something,
Speaker 3: where do we go. I'm going to give you a
Speaker 3: couple of situations that I thought the team who fired
Speaker 3: the coach made a mistake and they ended up being correct.
Speaker 3: My man Dwayne Casey doing when he was here the
Speaker 3: Dallas Matters. That assistant goes up to Toronto Coach of
Speaker 3: the Year, be saw you, Jerry fired him, hired Nick Nurse.
Speaker 2: We saw what happened.
Speaker 4: Next year, they won a championship, They won a Championship.
Speaker 4: Do you have to think about Tony Dungee and Tampa
Speaker 4: in that situation. How Gruten comes in the next year
Speaker 4: and they win Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: I was having the conversation with somebody yesterday that was
Speaker 3: another thing. I was going to bring up Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: and the ownership. The glazier said, you know what, another failure.
Speaker 3: They went and got John Gruden. Gave up picks for
Speaker 3: John Gruten and it turned out in their favor. I
Speaker 3: thought Grady Little was a good manager for the bar
Speaker 3: Bustin Red Sox and make the American League Championship Series,
Speaker 3: almost made the World Series melt down and fighting and
Speaker 3: bringing Terry fran Code. They go win the World Series.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, why would you fire guy? Look at
Speaker 3: all the success. He said, you guys are too young
Speaker 3: to remember this. But Doug Collins was a good coach
Speaker 3: for the Chicago.
Speaker 2: He was great coach.
Speaker 3: And Jerry Krouse came in there and said, you know what, man,
Speaker 3: we're gonna be right. I'm gonna bring in I'm gonna
Speaker 3: bring in his in master off the bench and Phil
Speaker 3: Jackson took over. But I was like, man, they can't
Speaker 3: fire Doug Collins.
Speaker 2: And it worked.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy's now put himself in that position where the
Speaker 3: ownership is going they're going to ask the question, what
Speaker 3: do we do? Because these are colossal failures. It was
Speaker 3: laid out the last three coaches. Wade Phillips number one seed,
Speaker 3: two thousand and seven, you gotta buye week, Romo whitting
Speaker 3: and Bobby Carpenter go to Cabo, Jessica Simpsons coming to
Speaker 3: Texas Stadium. You beat a Giants team by ten and
Speaker 3: eleven points. They beat you, send you home. This was
Speaker 3: a team, to me, of all the teams I have
Speaker 3: covered here, that was the most super Bowl team. I
Speaker 3: thought they had oh seven, oh seven. So then's Jason
Speaker 3: Garret Dak's rookie year. You got another team, number one seed,
Speaker 3: got to bye week. It's McCarthy and company who coming here.
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers converting the third and thirty they win. And
Speaker 3: then you've got now Mike McCarthy here, a number two seed,
Speaker 3: two games at home, potentially facing a number seven seed
Speaker 3: with a quarterback who's never started a playoff game, and
Speaker 3: you got worked twenty seven to nothing, and then it
Speaker 3: was lights out. And then the games we've seen this
Speaker 3: happen here what changes if you're Jerry doesn't start with
Speaker 3: your head coach, because we know Jerry's not firing himself.
Speaker 2: I mean when you put it.
Speaker 4: Like that, I mean, I mean the craziest part about
Speaker 4: it is, I think it's horrible time of a big
Speaker 4: mike with some of the names that are out there,
Speaker 4: like you're looking at you're looking at guys who who
Speaker 4: who are have had success in the league, who they
Speaker 4: look like the new shiny object because you arts of
Speaker 4: the five and you just looking for somebody to be
Speaker 4: able to give you that playoff win in that playoff
Speaker 4: experience because it hasn't worked out here.
Speaker 2: The timing is horrible.
Speaker 4: If one of these guys say they want to come
Speaker 4: to the Dallas Cowboys, I think they have a hard
Speaker 4: time saying, now we're gonna we're gonna stick with what
Speaker 4: we got, Like I think you have a difficult time
Speaker 4: doing that. But we all said this before we before
Speaker 4: the game happened. If you lose this game, especially if
Speaker 4: you lose it horribly, this is this is gonna be
Speaker 4: This is gonna be an issue.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be issue. Nobody got hurt.
Speaker 4: Everybody was healthy, probably the healthiest you've been all season
Speaker 4: and and this happened, So I think I think it's
Speaker 4: horrible timing.
Speaker 2: It's just adding all of those variables that you just had.
Speaker 4: It makes the case even worse for Mike and with
Speaker 4: not only who's there, but the health of your team
Speaker 4: and what you ran up against. And they did not
Speaker 4: respond to you in that moment, and that that can't
Speaker 4: bowl well. And I can't think like Jerry in this
Speaker 4: situation because I'm thinking continuity. I'm also thinking about how
Speaker 4: Dak performed, thinking about this offense, but I'm also thinking
Speaker 4: about that loss, and I'm I don't want to ever
Speaker 4: be in a position like that where I expect the
Speaker 4: result with this leadership and I don't get the game
Speaker 4: that I'm expecting because I honestly think we run away
Speaker 4: with that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not looking good, Like I said, it's not
Speaker 5: looking good, and you want to shake things up, like
Speaker 5: you said, you may want to get a new voice
Speaker 5: in there. You can't do anything with the quarterback as
Speaker 5: a quarterback's he's locked in. He's locked in, so you
Speaker 5: got to go with him further on. And maybe it is,
Speaker 5: you know, an opportunity to get a new voice in there.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't know what they need
Speaker 2: to do with this one. That's a tough one. He
Speaker 2: is the Bill Parkson.
Speaker 3: I mean, Bill Belichick has participated in twenty percent of
Speaker 3: the Super Bowls that have ever been played as an assistant.
Speaker 2: Or as their head coach. He a quarterback and true
Speaker 2: a quarterback. You know Tom Brady ain't walking through that door.
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 3: The last time Bill Belichick won a playoff game with
Speaker 3: a dude named not named Tom Brady was Benny tests
Speaker 3: to thirty in nineteen ninety four. So it's been a minute,
Speaker 3: but I remember when the San Francisco forty nineer said
Speaker 3: no to Tom Brady, we got Jimmy g How'd that
Speaker 3: work out?
Speaker 4: And I want to be fair of Bill Belichick. I'm
Speaker 4: not hyping up the rumors anything, but Dak Prescott is
Speaker 4: better than Cam Newton when he was in New England.
Speaker 4: He's better than Mac Johnes'.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: So when you when you're looking at a guy like
Speaker 4: Bill Belichick and saying what level quarterback does he have
Speaker 4: if he's here, the level quarterback that he has is
Speaker 4: much better than what he's had since Tom Brady has
Speaker 4: left in New England.
Speaker 3: Here's the last thing on Belichick as we close the show,
Speaker 3: if Philadelphia enters the conversation to get him, yes, if
Speaker 3: they do, be interesting because I don't know if Jerry
Speaker 3: wants to you know, he's a competition there. But Bill
Speaker 3: wants to coach next year because he wants to get
Speaker 3: the fifteen wins and he wants to become the all
Speaker 3: time leady coach.
Speaker 2: He's already interviewed with the land so he wants to coach.
Speaker 3: If Jerry wants to entertain this, they're going to have
Speaker 3: to make a decision on Mike McCarthy pretty quick one
Speaker 3: way or the other to.
Speaker 2: Try to have the conversation. Mike.
Speaker 3: I like Mike, but you put yourself here. I don't
Speaker 3: know where they go. I'm not in eighty one year
Speaker 3: old owner who, as we said, doesn't have time to
Speaker 3: have a bad time.
Speaker 2: He did have good time.
Speaker 3: It's a shocker, man, But they're not about to run
Speaker 3: it back with the same old They will be changes.
Speaker 4: Well, you're not gonna have opportunity to have these type
Speaker 4: of these type of head coaches free and available probably
Speaker 4: for what because when you extend find it.
Speaker 2: So I mean Tom Man, Tom.
Speaker 3: Put yourself out there We've seen people make change and
Speaker 3: go back to another one when they fire by boy Bucks,
Speaker 3: Show Walter.
Speaker 2: With the Yankees. I mean he just made the playoffs. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you lost a good team in King Griffith Jr.
Speaker 3: Bringing Joe Tory when when the damn World Series the
Speaker 3: next year in Arizona they put him out, you know
Speaker 3: they did in Arizona next year when the damn World here.
Speaker 4: So you said so, sometimes is the best choice to
Speaker 4: go and fire a guy when you almost get there.
Speaker 2: And then when you think Mark Jackson, you think Jackson.
Speaker 4: You got a lot of examples coming out here. I'm like, respectfully, yeah,
Speaker 4: so that's where that's hey, I like my we'll open
Speaker 4: that door and does Jerry walk through it? If so,
Speaker 4: we'll see.
Speaker 3: We are off the rest of the week, so we
Speaker 3: will reconvene with the players lounge on Monday.
Speaker 4: See, Man, they lost and now not a show cut down.
Speaker 4: You finished the week out your stuff, and yet it
Speaker 4: hurt everybody. Everybody hurts. Everybody hurt.
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