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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI scrugs.
Speaker 1: All right, here we are on a Wednesday. Everybody, two
Speaker 1: days left in the year twenty twenty and then it's
Speaker 1: over on to twenty. Thank you, longtime Cowboys, longtime Cowboys
Speaker 1: reporter with Barry Church, Danny McCray. It's Wednesday, so that
Speaker 1: means we celebrate the birthday of one Lebron James who
Speaker 1: turns thirty six, Tiger Woods who turns thirty five, Sandy Kofe.
Speaker 1: I believe Sandy's eighty one or eighty five years old.
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame picture with the Dodgers. So, uh, big time,
Speaker 1: big time days for these people, man, it is it is.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of goats on this day, a lot
Speaker 1: of goats. Uh. You know, I used to talk about
Speaker 1: Matt Lower being born on this day, but then Matt
Speaker 1: Loward had to go out there and do his thing.
Speaker 1: Um got kicked got hmself kicked off NBC News. Rick
Speaker 1: what a Rick Fox's old girlfriend's birthday today. Elijah Douche Coup,
Speaker 1: the actress. I think she was in that. Cara was
Speaker 1: the one of these w B shows she used to
Speaker 1: be in there. So did you say did you say
Speaker 1: Tiger Yes, Tiger Woods in nineteen seventy five, December thirty,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five. It is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes.
Speaker 1: All right, Church, I'm gonna start with you here. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got going. Man. It was a cliffhanger from yesterday,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go ahead and bring it to you
Speaker 1: to day. I got bad news for you, Okay, got
Speaker 1: bad sucky ducky. It is not that the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: lose to the Giants, because I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: right now, on a Wednesday, for tomorrow's show, our final
Speaker 1: show of the week, I'm going to pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to beat the Giants. Okay, Cowboys are better team, playing
Speaker 1: better football than New York Giants. Right now. The disappointing
Speaker 1: thing I got to tell you because I believe Washington
Speaker 1: will go in too Philadelphia and win the East. I
Speaker 1: really do, no, sir, no sir, no, sir, look man,
Speaker 1: Even if even if Alex Smith is at quarterback. I
Speaker 1: still don't see them taking this win. I mean, look, Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: their offense sputtered a little bit against us, but I
Speaker 1: feel like they'll go out there, They'll be at home.
Speaker 1: They'll be back at home. Jalen Hurts will be back
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And look, Doug Peterson already said there's a
Speaker 1: no hat rule. They're not letting Washington come in here
Speaker 1: and celebrate a division championship on their turf. All right,
Speaker 1: that is not gonna happen. Alex Smith, he's on one
Speaker 1: leg right now, one leg right now. He's already dump
Speaker 1: it down and chuck it down, Charlie. All right. So
Speaker 1: I don't see their offense producing that much. But what
Speaker 1: scares me about Washington, and what's always scared me is
Speaker 1: their front seven. I mean, they're vicious in that front seven.
Speaker 1: And if Philadelphia doesn't score at least seventeen to twenty points,
Speaker 1: you might be onto something. But I'm praying and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that Jalen Hurts comes through with Miles Sanders, Doug
Speaker 1: ep do not give up on the run like you
Speaker 1: did with the Cowboys, because that's saying does he gave
Speaker 1: up the run against the Cowboys? I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. It helped me out, but I
Speaker 1: don't know why he did that. Do not give up
Speaker 1: on the run, all right, I'm telling you now, do
Speaker 1: not give up on the run. Contain this crew and
Speaker 1: you should get a w Do it for me, for anybody,
Speaker 1: Just do it for me. You can't do enough for you. Man.
Speaker 1: After the game, I'm a fan of going and listening
Speaker 1: to certain teams radio stations, you know, just to hear
Speaker 1: what their fans are saying. And then because it's Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Through the years, I've been on NBC Sports Philadelphia so much,
Speaker 1: I know those folks have checked out their things. There's
Speaker 1: a real problem in Philadelphia in terms of not just
Speaker 1: the personnel, because they're like, hey, man, we got street
Speaker 1: free agents out there. Mean, you saw how thirty eight
Speaker 1: was getting beat like a drum against the Cowboys. But
Speaker 1: they don't believe in the coach, that the coach has
Speaker 1: any answers to understand. So what you were saying about, hey,
Speaker 1: why did he give up on the run, Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: was getting drilled up and down because they were sent
Speaker 1: there saying, okay, you went away from what was working
Speaker 1: for you in the first quarterbe what were you doing?
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of faith and what's going on
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And then we don't know about the status
Speaker 1: of fletchri Cox. Okay, we saw what had with Fletchrick Cox.
Speaker 1: Let that lineup, and so I fletchri Cox is in there.
Speaker 1: He can he can, he can change the football game.
Speaker 1: If he's not playing, it's a lot easier for Washington.
Speaker 1: But Doug Peterson may get fired. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: you're talking about now. These guys on this staff may
Speaker 1: get fired. I don't know how many guys are ready
Speaker 1: to go ahead and just say, hey, look, the season's done.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to take it to the house. Mccraig. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a Philadelphia team that is used to playing
Speaker 1: for something. Even last year they played the final game
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys and won the division. You know this
Speaker 1: team is that's one of the the Super Bowls, and three
Speaker 1: years ago these guys got nothing to play for. I
Speaker 1: just wonder how many dudes are gonna come out there
Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday against Washington ready to actually
Speaker 1: get up here and play. And how many of these
Speaker 1: guys they have left are any good? Their offensive line
Speaker 1: is terrible too. They got a lot of issues barried,
Speaker 1: You got a lot of issues, you know, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to kind of push back on that one
Speaker 1: a little bit, just just coming from the perspective of
Speaker 1: guys who don't have guaranteed contracts and aren't for sure
Speaker 1: to come back next year and playing for other teams
Speaker 1: around the league. They have a lot of guys, especially
Speaker 1: in the receiving group, that have to really prove that
Speaker 1: they're able to play so they can be on a
Speaker 1: roster next year. Jalen Hurts has a lot to prove
Speaker 1: so he can show that he needs to be the
Speaker 1: starter next year and continue to hold Carson Wentz either
Speaker 1: on the bench or to another team. Miles Sanders just
Speaker 1: competing for his running backspot because they brought back Howard,
Speaker 1: you had Scott come in and take some carries from him.
Speaker 1: So they have some stuff to prove. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that they can really stand Washington's defense. Who is
Speaker 1: who is really the backbone of their team And they've
Speaker 1: been playing outstanding for the entire year and they continue
Speaker 1: to get better, and I think they'll be able to
Speaker 1: put pressure on Jalen hurtson and confuse them a little
Speaker 1: bit and call some of those that those interceptions that
Speaker 1: you've seen happen when they played US last week. So
Speaker 1: you know, I put it on the defense. Like you said, Church,
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is on one leg. But I think they'll
Speaker 1: have McLaren back. I think Gibson to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more healthy. So I think they'll have just enough
Speaker 1: to beat Philly. But you know, it's football, man, you
Speaker 1: never really know. I just don't see Washington's offense. Man.
Speaker 1: Like I said, their defense, they're legit, they're solid. They
Speaker 1: got Chase Young, Ryan Kerrigan, they got Jonathan Allen and
Speaker 1: those boys. Their front seventh is probably one of the
Speaker 1: better front seventh's International Football League. But their offense is
Speaker 1: what's dragging them down. And I just can't see it.
Speaker 1: I can't see Alex Smith pushing the ball down the
Speaker 1: field and beating this Philadelphia Philadelphia defense. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna make them go throughout the whole draft. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do long sustained drafts and I just don't
Speaker 1: see that happening. And if Alex Smith doesn't play, you
Speaker 1: got Heineke back there. I mean, he looked decent when
Speaker 1: he when he had the Southern for Haskins last week.
Speaker 1: But we've seen that plenty of times where guys come
Speaker 1: in they're not expecting to play against this quarterback and
Speaker 1: he goes out there and plays lights out, and then
Speaker 1: the very next week he goes in there and lays
Speaker 1: an egg. So for me, I just don't see their
Speaker 1: offense being able to go out there and produce big points.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is gonna end up winning this. Y'all not ruining
Speaker 1: this man. Y'all, y'all this guy. Boys are going to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Y're not ruining this for me. Man, listen
Speaker 1: to church Man, the guy who wanted to see double
Speaker 1: G two weeks in the row. Now he's talking about
Speaker 1: Heineken and go out there and look look decent, and
Speaker 1: then the next week he had come out there and
Speaker 1: not look so good because they weren't expecting to play
Speaker 1: against them. They had no take. Listen if if if
Speaker 1: last week, and as an example or vision for anything,
Speaker 1: mcclara will find the mismatch on that Philadelphia Eagle secondary,
Speaker 1: all right, so Alex Smith will be able to push
Speaker 1: it down the field just a little bit. And when
Speaker 1: when they were on that role, their offense was able
Speaker 1: to put up some points even though that Alex Smith
Speaker 1: was just dumping it down. He was maximizing the skills
Speaker 1: of mckissic and and Gibson. And we saw that when
Speaker 1: they when they brought it here to Dallas, they it
Speaker 1: was it was dumb down. But they were making big
Speaker 1: games out of those plays. And that's the way that
Speaker 1: they were. They were winning those games. They were Dinking
Speaker 1: and Duncan, they were moving the ball down the field,
Speaker 1: chewing up the clock, and then they were playing good defense.
Speaker 1: And even without Alex Smith, that good defense and that
Speaker 1: dinking and Duncan with Dwayne Haskins on the field, had
Speaker 1: them in the game versus Carolina. So I think it'll
Speaker 1: be a, you know, a tough match up for Philly. Sure,
Speaker 1: it seems to me like you floating towards like you
Speaker 1: floating towards uh, Phillip plueing this one out, mccraig. How
Speaker 1: from that, No, I said that Giftson is gonna be
Speaker 1: more healthy, mclard's gonna be back, Alex Smith to be
Speaker 1: healthier than than he would have been last week. No,
Speaker 1: No Haskins And they're actually really playing for something, and
Speaker 1: they're going to play for their coach. So I think
Speaker 1: that they have the edge on Philly. We know Phillies
Speaker 1: turning Phillies turning the football over way too much, just
Speaker 1: just way too much in Church. Here's the thing about
Speaker 1: the offense. And I see where you're coming from. But
Speaker 1: you're not happy with that defense. You you know you
Speaker 1: can win this thing with two touchdowns and chicking a
Speaker 1: bunch of field goals. I go back to what Washington
Speaker 1: did to the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day. It was dink
Speaker 1: and dunk City. It was really more of, hey, look,
Speaker 1: we're just not going to be ourselves. We'll play competitive,
Speaker 1: conservative football and allow our defense to keep us in
Speaker 1: this thing. And I think that's basically the same thing
Speaker 1: that I would I expect against Philadelphia. Okay, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna ask Alex Smith to come out here and throw
Speaker 1: the ball like Patrick Mahomes because he can't do it.
Speaker 1: But Kenny throws some swing passes out here to Gibson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can he hit McLaren on a slant route and just hope,
Speaker 1: you know, your defense can can get a sack or
Speaker 1: two and maybe Chase Sham causes a fumble and you
Speaker 1: get the ball to thirty and maybe you're kicking the
Speaker 1: field goal and get it. Tell. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: kind of game that I'm expecting from Washington to play.
Speaker 1: The other side of it is can I Can I
Speaker 1: trust Philadelphia not to turn the football over? Can I
Speaker 1: trust their head coach to run the football? But I
Speaker 1: just I'm telling you I don't trust Philly. And this
Speaker 1: week watching it in person, I was shocked at how
Speaker 1: badly they played after the first quarter. And that's where
Speaker 1: this whole thing comes for me. Man, That's what scares me.
Speaker 1: Dougie p just has to get out of his own way.
Speaker 1: If Peterson's able to get out of his own way
Speaker 1: and we're able to run an offense like they did
Speaker 1: against the Saints, I mean the Saints have a similar
Speaker 1: front seven as Washington. They get after the quarterback group.
Speaker 1: The linebackers are side line of sideline, so they have
Speaker 1: a similar defense when it comes to the front seven,
Speaker 1: is Washington. We gotta take that game plan that we
Speaker 1: had against the Saints and take it to Washington. Good
Speaker 1: option Green, Miles sanders a lot, and I think we
Speaker 1: can pull something out. Church. Where's this we who is wet?
Speaker 1: If they had it would be on it would now fly.
Speaker 1: Eagles fly for a reason, you know. And this is
Speaker 1: the thing we're you know, we're sitting here on this
Speaker 1: podcast talking about, you know, hoping a bad football team
Speaker 1: will do something good, that hey, they'll probably figure it
Speaker 1: out this last week. I mean, that's what That's what
Speaker 1: you're asking for. Church. You're asking for a team that's
Speaker 1: frustrating its own fan base, and then the owners like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm wonner do what I'm doing
Speaker 1: with this coaching staff. I mean, you're asking them that
Speaker 1: they're gonna actually figure it out, get it right in
Speaker 1: a game of that map. Y'all thought the same thing
Speaker 1: when I told y'all to Dallas Cowboys was going to
Speaker 1: turn this around. Y'all told me, oh, man, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about. There's no proof of this. They didn't
Speaker 1: win two games in three years. And now we're on
Speaker 1: the edge of the playoffs. We're on the edge to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so it can happen. It can happen right now.
Speaker 1: It was. It was true, and we keep talking about
Speaker 1: them digging and duncan. I'm just going to remind you,
Speaker 1: guys of what Gibson did when he came in here
Speaker 1: running the ball against the Cowboys. Zeke had a hundre
Speaker 1: yards against Philly last week. I think that was his
Speaker 1: first one hundred yard game and I don't know how long,
Speaker 1: So no, I'm saying, and in a long time. That's
Speaker 1: the first one hund of yard game in a very
Speaker 1: long time. And then now, yeah, so they're going to
Speaker 1: go up against the team who's getting a healthy running back,
Speaker 1: quarterback with explosive guy like Gibson and the kissing. I
Speaker 1: just think they're going to be too much. And I look,
Speaker 1: I'm a Cowboys fan, Barry, all right, So don't let
Speaker 1: the podcast fool you. It's it's it's as much as
Speaker 1: I would like for you to take me to Nick
Speaker 1: and Sam's and pay for my entire meal, I am
Speaker 1: still rooting for the Cowboys, but I have to be realistic,
Speaker 1: like I said, because my feelings were hurt so much
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season that I just got
Speaker 1: to be realistic with this man. Here's my bets to say. Look,
Speaker 1: Philly is probably not going to pull it out against Washington,
Speaker 1: and we're probably going to pull it out against New
Speaker 1: York and that's gonna be heartbreaking for us. But we
Speaker 1: ended a season on a good note. And I'm with
Speaker 1: you mc McCray. I'm sitting here with you. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to win against the Giants. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys will do their part. But as Nate Newton talked
Speaker 1: about on Talking Cowboys, you're now at this point or
Speaker 1: hanging with the boys, You're now at this point in
Speaker 1: time where your fate is in someone else's hands. And
Speaker 1: that's just a really you know, you're gonna fly home,
Speaker 1: uh you know, from from from New York or she say,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. You fly from Jersey and sit around here,
Speaker 1: come back home and turn on the TV and know
Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do. And you're relying on a
Speaker 1: bad football team with a coaching staff that's made some
Speaker 1: you know, interesting decisions here. That that's that's rolling the dice, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's real hard and Church you're now going to say,
Speaker 1: you believe these dudes are gonna muster up something that
Speaker 1: they had against the Saints that things showed us since Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just I think it's possible. You're you're right, you
Speaker 1: are You're completely right. You are completely right. It is tough.
Speaker 1: It is tough, and then the loss of Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: makes it even tougher, and I hope and I pray
Speaker 1: they do not walk number thirty eight out there. He
Speaker 1: doesn't get a name, he just gets number thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Whoever for Philipoli that court, he just gets number. Do
Speaker 1: not march him out there, because if they do, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be going straight at him. They're gonna find Terry
Speaker 1: mcclaure and they're gonna say, hey, wherever thirty eight is,
Speaker 1: just match him McLure. You know it's usually opposite, but
Speaker 1: whatever thirty eight is, they're gonna send McLaurin that way.
Speaker 1: So please, Philly, do not march that guy out there.
Speaker 1: And if you do, do straight double coverage vis them
Speaker 1: like a punt. I mean, just do not let them crazy.
Speaker 1: We need you, Philly, we need Church Church. Do you
Speaker 1: agree that now, when you're playing against the top defense
Speaker 1: that now has three four weeks of film on Jalen Hursts,
Speaker 1: that this would be a different game? Does that? Does
Speaker 1: that make you nervous at all that that New Orleans
Speaker 1: came in they're playing against Jalen Hurts. I think they
Speaker 1: didn't have Michael Thomas, already didn't have Drew Brees, and
Speaker 1: it was the first time that the teams are really
Speaker 1: seeing him, and the same thing happened with Arizona. Now
Speaker 1: you got real tape on this guy, and you've seen
Speaker 1: teams a team be able to stop him and get
Speaker 1: some interceptions off of them and seeing what really can
Speaker 1: confuse him and cause him to make these mistakes. And
Speaker 1: now you're going up against the Washington football team's defense,
Speaker 1: who's been able to create this type of stuff all season.
Speaker 1: I think that also makes nervous, makes Feelly a little
Speaker 1: bit nervous as well. I'm nervous. I ain't gonna lie
Speaker 1: to you. I'm nervous, man, I mean, especially after that
Speaker 1: performance we saw down in an AT and T Stadium
Speaker 1: and we don't have half of the front seven that
Speaker 1: that Washington has. So I'm a little nervous. But hey,
Speaker 1: it's too late to back down. Now we're in this playoffs, man, Philly,
Speaker 1: do your thing. So you said, so, you said, Randy,
Speaker 1: So you said Randy, Randy Gregory and d lawis not
Speaker 1: carrying in and chase up. See, I see what you
Speaker 1: trying to do. I think it's time for a commercial
Speaker 1: break for a commercial brand. That's exactly we're at the
Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen mark. I think, uh, I think we need
Speaker 1: the time for a commercial. I didn't say that. I
Speaker 1: didn't not say that at all. That's mcraig. We get New.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask ask the question, can we get NEWI
Speaker 1: to answer the question at the commercial break that he's
Speaker 1: been ducking for two days. It's not even that hope
Speaker 1: of a question, but I, you know, I just want
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Speaker 1: really simple. It's never hurt nobody. Please do that because
Speaker 1: let's let's let's do that. Let's I'll answer the question.
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Speaker 1: who do you credit for the defensive turnaround? A lot
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Speaker 1: named the twenty twenty Dallas Cowboys Good Guy Award that
Speaker 1: goes to the guys the most successful and the guy
Speaker 1: that has has a really good relationship with the media.
Speaker 1: So Zeke wins that award. Dak Prescott won in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Dak also won in twenty seventeen. Uh, Jeremy Mincy won
Speaker 1: it twice twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Dez Bryant has won
Speaker 1: the award. Des Bryant won it in twenty thirteen. Tara
Speaker 1: Owns has never won that award. So Elliott congratulated my friend.
Speaker 1: Happy for you as well. This happen we did, like
Speaker 1: this Good Guy Awards start. This has always been around,
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, I think it started in about oh
Speaker 1: nine maybe, Um I never heard of that. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of this one. It's been um boy Marcus Marcus
Speaker 1: Spears has won it. Roy Williams, I didn't know. I didn't.
Speaker 1: That's the first time hearing about it. Church. They would
Speaker 1: they were an interview on us like that, So then't Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's what it was. Yeah, you're right, we
Speaker 1: would have never heard about this. You know how you
Speaker 1: might knew he is you might knew he is man.
Speaker 1: You know, he goes those are just special teams. Guys
Speaker 1: over there, let's let's go. That's crazy. That is best
Speaker 1: say this. I'm gonna say that. This is This is
Speaker 1: one thing about Church I get no credit for. Church
Speaker 1: was a rookie. When Church is a rookie. I was
Speaker 1: out there beating the chest where we talked about like guys,
Speaker 1: we thought we're gonna make the team. Guy picked Romo
Speaker 1: because I remember talking to Terence Newman when Romo was
Speaker 1: it's true that day and he knew had played against
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer and Tony Romo at Kansas State. He said,
Speaker 1: Tony Rome is the Carson Palmer small school quarterbacks. All
Speaker 1: that okay, that's guy's gonna make a team Church with
Speaker 1: the undrafted guys I pick and make the team, make team.
Speaker 1: You know that's true, that's true. But hey, but hey,
Speaker 1: that's but you're right. I mean, look right, this award
Speaker 1: is normally going to people who are are are guys.
Speaker 1: You go to a whole lot and and also they
Speaker 1: like that they'll talk a lot. Here's where Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: really stands out. After a game, when you go on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys locker room and they had let you in.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel is right there at his locker, ready to go.
Speaker 1: Almost always, I mean nine out of ten games he's
Speaker 1: right there. And if he's not there, he's coming in
Speaker 1: pretty quick. So he'll answer. He's accessible, which all all
Speaker 1: bad people like. Um, he's accessible. He uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he answers the questions and you know, even if they're
Speaker 1: not always questions, he wants to answer. He answers the questions.
Speaker 1: And I said, biggest thing is the guy is a
Speaker 1: consistent dude, and people have appreciation for that. Dak has
Speaker 1: been that same way. So yes, guys who who are
Speaker 1: in their normal rotation, your quarterbacks, you're running back, those
Speaker 1: guys are definitely gonna be dudes at the media, you know, Selex.
Speaker 1: But like I said, Jeremy Mitzi, you know he was there.
Speaker 1: That's true, Spear, that's true. So um you know, Daz,
Speaker 1: I mean they've got John Kitler won it won you
Speaker 1: you know John won it so um so so, but
Speaker 1: you're right, Danny. We do not seek out special teams guys.
Speaker 1: Very often we do not. We do not, so I
Speaker 1: you know, and when we do seek you out is
Speaker 1: after you know, something happened. Yeah, so what happened here? Guys?
Speaker 1: Your boy your boy her out here missing field goals
Speaker 1: in Chicago. You know, that's what we're gonna get you.
Speaker 1: You know, LP Lattice School, you know. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come get you. And something happened and you're not
Speaker 1: to get two sidetrack, not to get two star. What
Speaker 1: happened to damn Bailey? Man? I mean, I know this
Speaker 1: is way off script, but I'm man. The miss like
Speaker 1: fifteen field goals in the past, like three games man,
Speaker 1: remember that that? Remember that movie Rickie of the Year
Speaker 1: was a dude broke his arm and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he could then he lost. Yea, it's like
Speaker 1: that or space Jam, Like I don't know if somebody
Speaker 1: came and took his kicking poles. I don't know some aliens.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. I mean, I'm mad.
Speaker 1: I ain't even get side tracked. Nick Folk was like that.
Speaker 1: When Nick Folk first got here, um out of Arizona.
Speaker 1: They guy ended up making a Pro Bowl and had
Speaker 1: some good years. Then he got hurt and and then
Speaker 1: you know, it went off track, and then they ended
Speaker 1: up cutting him and then went on to the Jets
Speaker 1: and had a nice career there, and then he fell
Speaker 1: off um New England and brought him back and he
Speaker 1: was kicking up there for a little bit. To me,
Speaker 1: this kicking thing happens in cycles. Man. I was aw
Speaker 1: young Way Coo of Atlanta. He makes the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: They sent him out there for a kick to tie
Speaker 1: it against the Chiefs and he hooks it right. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, and he had a good year. But when
Speaker 1: he first started with the Chargers, dude couldn't make anything.
Speaker 1: So I mean, this kicking thing, is it truly is?
Speaker 1: It goes, it go up, and it's like golf. You're
Speaker 1: here for a bit, you here the runner and then
Speaker 1: you know it humbles you. But and this just maybe
Speaker 1: toward the end for Dan. I'll say, this guy's had
Speaker 1: an incredible career coming out of Oklahoma State. I remember
Speaker 1: the kicking battle he was in over the Alamo Dome
Speaker 1: in San Antonio. Was him, it was Kay or Bath
Speaker 1: and it was another guy and then dude ended up
Speaker 1: winning it and kicked very well for a long time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this this is probably it for him. I
Speaker 1: definitely don't think he'll be back in Minnesota. But that
Speaker 1: kicking game, man, it comes and goes. Bro It's hard,
Speaker 1: It's hard. To see. We've been spoiled. We've been spoiled
Speaker 1: by the adamnitaries of the world. I gotta listen. I
Speaker 1: gotta ask the church just you brought it up, because
Speaker 1: now I can't think of a guy's name. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: drafted a kicker I want to say, was the second
Speaker 1: Florida State and Roberto Aguayo, Roberto Aguayo or the state
Speaker 1: and he couldn't make a kick. He was terrible. And
Speaker 1: this is what I've seen outside of Sebastian Janikowski, who
Speaker 1: went in the first round. What I've seen is when
Speaker 1: they draft these kickers that high, there's just so much
Speaker 1: pressure and you're also I mean, here's the time when
Speaker 1: you're actually for a guy like me. You're at training
Speaker 1: camp focusing on a kicker. Normally we don't even know
Speaker 1: who do due is. We don't pay attention to that
Speaker 1: high were were on you? And then he goes to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. So you already a dude who was a
Speaker 1: legend at Florida State, you're part of a national championship team,
Speaker 1: You're they're playing with Jameis Winston. They take you this
Speaker 1: high and band it's on you, and then the general
Speaker 1: manager Jason Light traded up for the kicker, so there
Speaker 1: was more pressure. Man, who trade up for a kicker? Um?
Speaker 1: And it's crazy. Meanwhile, I look at the punter over
Speaker 1: at Seattle, Michael Dickinson. Here's a guy who was a
Speaker 1: fantastic All American punter at Texas. He was so good
Speaker 1: he left early. I got him going pro. They take
Speaker 1: him in the fifth round. He was everything for Seattle
Speaker 1: that he was in Texas. And because he's a fifth
Speaker 1: round guy, you know, you know, and he came out,
Speaker 1: you know, handling his business from jump, nobody said anything.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a it's a tough thing, man. I
Speaker 1: would definitely not recommend trying to draft a specialist as
Speaker 1: a kicker second round because you just put so much
Speaker 1: pressure on people just talking about it, even a third
Speaker 1: round guy. I've seen some of these punners going to
Speaker 1: third round and it's just it's just a lot of pressure, man.
Speaker 1: So I would not be trying to spend the first, second,
Speaker 1: third round a guy like that, who who did Tampa
Speaker 1: think's gonna pick up that kicker? If nobody? And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lie man as a player as a foo as
Speaker 1: a player, man, I was so mad I'm talking about
Speaker 1: in twenty ten my draft, there was at least four
Speaker 1: or five kickers and punters drafted, and I went under.
Speaker 1: I was so hot, man, I was one of the
Speaker 1: most bad I've ever been in my life. But how's
Speaker 1: a kicker and a punter getting drafted and I'm over
Speaker 1: here sitting on the bench. Man, it was Yeah, that
Speaker 1: worked out for you, bro, Man, it didn't work out
Speaker 1: in the plan. You would have ended up on some team.
Speaker 1: It might have not played out the same for you.
Speaker 1: You know, this is very true. This is very true.
Speaker 1: And I'll say this. You gotta understand on draft day
Speaker 1: there are a lot there are a lot more mistakes
Speaker 1: made than it hits. Okay, there's a lot more missus,
Speaker 1: just a lot more misses on draft day than than hits.
Speaker 1: And and we talk about the hits, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing to talk about, But the amount of missus,
Speaker 1: like Jason Lights training up for a kicker, you know
Speaker 1: that that does. You know that that's the crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: But for him, here's a guy that somehow hooked his
Speaker 1: way into ownership and they continue to buy what he
Speaker 1: does and what he sells. But usually, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of miss I remember when a Doma can
Speaker 1: Sue became a free agent in Detroit and Nick Fairley
Speaker 1: became a free agent the same year. So here are
Speaker 1: two defensive tackles that are going out the window. And
Speaker 1: here's Detroit with an opportunity to take Aaron Donald needing
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle. What is there? Gm Martin May who
Speaker 1: does he drafts tight end Eric Ibrom And I'm shaking up,
Speaker 1: why are you getting the offense? Plus Matt Stafford doesn't
Speaker 1: want to throw to the tight end anyway. This guy's
Speaker 1: always trying to go deep and you pass on it. Donald.
Speaker 1: I mean we see stuff like this all the time.
Speaker 1: Or Doug Whaley. Doug Whaley trades up for Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 1: give us up a number, what to get Sammy Watkins?
Speaker 1: And then who's drafted about three or four picks later,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior. I mean, there's a lot of misses
Speaker 1: that happened in this league, man, a lot. So you know, Church,
Speaker 1: when you talk about, hey, how does this happen? Because
Speaker 1: people don't do a lot of good work. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people missing, just straight missing. It's hard
Speaker 1: and you know, and also I don't want to beat
Speaker 1: up people too much. It's hard. It's hard to pick players. Man,
Speaker 1: it's hard to hit. It is hard to hit. It's
Speaker 1: easy to miss. It hard to hit. And then also
Speaker 1: what's to fit? How many guys church in mccrad? How
Speaker 1: many guys do you know? And if you've been around,
Speaker 1: you're like, man, this guy's in the wrong scheme here.
Speaker 1: Ain't working for him. This they're asking this player to
Speaker 1: do something they can't not do. A lot happens a lot.
Speaker 1: This is true watching it. I'm watching it this year. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Then what happened? And so when you see that,
Speaker 1: what happens? We look at the player, We blame the player.
Speaker 1: We say the player ain't no good. This is I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what we do. I'm sitting around here looking at
Speaker 1: Laton vanderst this year and I'm saying, I don't think
Speaker 1: this guy's a middle linebackers. That's not what you drafted
Speaker 1: him to do. You turn on his tape and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: what did you like about this guy? When he plays
Speaker 1: best football? It wasn't a middle linebacker. It makes you
Speaker 1: shake your head and it can be detrimental. Marcus Spears
Speaker 1: is a guy that I love. I mean, I love
Speaker 1: swagg Man. Swaggo is my guy. The biggest disservice ever
Speaker 1: happened to him was being drafted by Dallas Cowboys, because
Speaker 1: he went from being a defensive end at LSU that
Speaker 1: was rushing the pass. Was a heck of a good
Speaker 1: football player, National champion. He comes here and Bill Parcells
Speaker 1: wants him taking all blocks. He's not able to do
Speaker 1: what he does, and so his career, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: by playing a three to four never put him in
Speaker 1: a position to do the things that we just saw
Speaker 1: him do at LSU. Not that he had a bad career,
Speaker 1: I just don't believe. I just believe had he been
Speaker 1: in a four three system and they put him out
Speaker 1: there on the edge, man Swago could have had a
Speaker 1: lot more Saxon and been a Pro Bowl play. That's
Speaker 1: what happened. You know, you know, I'm gonna hop on
Speaker 1: the LSU guys man. Same thing happened to Glenn Dorsey,
Speaker 1: Same thing happened to Tyson Jackson. Indeed, I say the
Speaker 1: same thing happened to Morris Clayborne. He came here as
Speaker 1: a man, the man guy, and Church was in the
Speaker 1: in the locker room and watched this happened where you
Speaker 1: didn't have to think about anything except guarding the person
Speaker 1: in front of you. Then they started throwing cover two,
Speaker 1: covered three, swaps, you know, all type of crazy stuff
Speaker 1: in there. And then it was like, what's wrong with him?
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you mean? You watched them in college?
Speaker 1: They told Mota go line up in front of this receiver,
Speaker 1: covering him and make sure he doesn't make any catches.
Speaker 1: And he did that, and then you brought him to
Speaker 1: hear and Rob Ryan had them all doing you know,
Speaker 1: if everybody here, it was spending. So I know Mose
Speaker 1: was as a rookie and that and I think that
Speaker 1: ruined it for him, especially for his rookie year. You're
Speaker 1: right looking at the Sam Darnold now with the Jets,
Speaker 1: here's a guy that was in USC and this guy was,
Speaker 1: this guy could perform. I feel like they've broke in
Speaker 1: with the Giants. So so scheme fits a lot. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean Glenn Dorsey at LS, she was
Speaker 1: them talk about the bad and you know, go to Kansasy,
Speaker 1: all right, man, plug up some holes, like what do
Speaker 1: we do? Well? Remember watching the game Albert Haynesworth a
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars to go plug a tackle? Who gives
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars to a nervous tackle? But this
Speaker 1: is what teams do. Man more people making mistakes than
Speaker 1: they're out here hitting on guys. Let's take a break, um,
Speaker 1: what is the credit? Who do we give credit to
Speaker 1: for the defensive turnaround? And then I'll answer whatever question
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Speaker 1: Danny mccraig. Danny, what question is that you want me
Speaker 1: to answer? Listen? Listen. Two days ago I asked a
Speaker 1: very simple question, right Church made made the assumption and
Speaker 1: a prediction that I thought was wildly absurd. And he said,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys go to the playoffs, then they're going to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And I said, all right, right, if
Speaker 1: that's if you Nostradallas and this stuff really does happen
Speaker 1: because you calling it out, Andy Dalton takes this team
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl? Do you sign Dak Prescott next
Speaker 1: year to a forty plus million dollar deal? Hell nah?
Speaker 1: And that's the question for me, Yes, yes, for you,
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, he's getting watching money. Yeah. And y'all
Speaker 1: just talked about how hard it was to draft people
Speaker 1: and how how big of missus that the GM's in
Speaker 1: the NFL do and y'all want to sink all that money.
Speaker 1: You know, how much pressure is gonna be on Will
Speaker 1: McClay to hit defensively in this draft? Man? Oh man,
Speaker 1: here comes eight and Nate ten and six Church. If
Speaker 1: it's anything that I've seen this year, I mean, first
Speaker 1: of all, you guys, you know, you guys know I'm
Speaker 1: always I've always been a that guy, but I this
Speaker 1: year solidified it even more to me that you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay to get this guy. First off, it's the organization's
Speaker 1: problem and fault for not having this deal done. I
Speaker 1: firmly once they want so Wentz got paid and Golf
Speaker 1: got paid that they just needed to sign sign him
Speaker 1: up to the same check. If you signed up to
Speaker 1: the same check, you'd have done it. But there were
Speaker 1: people at that time. I don't think he's worth thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars. They're trying to sit up and get some
Speaker 1: deal for twenty five or twenty eight. They were wrong.
Speaker 1: Should have signed him too that. So what have we
Speaker 1: seen between Wins and Golf. Those guys aren't even worth
Speaker 1: that money. Okay, they're not even worth that money. I
Speaker 1: was on Twitter yesterday, are not arguing but but debating
Speaker 1: with a lady about Deshaun Watson making the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: because Ryan Tannehill was upset saying he should have made it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, so, so who you're gonna kick off?
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, Patrick Mahomes. No, you know he's gonna stay
Speaker 1: on the team. You know, Deshaun Watson made He wasn't
Speaker 1: on a winning team. But I think we all saw
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson was a one man gang out there offensive
Speaker 1: line South Park. You get rid of DeAndre Hoggins. This
Speaker 1: dude is out here at Black Moses out here. Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy he got part seas trying to get the
Speaker 1: team and making them. Okay, what have we seen when
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott went down? Everything Everything fell apart, bro every
Speaker 1: ear thing, I mean, but first offs. But but we're
Speaker 1: talking about it. If they go to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: like it fell apart. But but we the assumption is
Speaker 1: they make the super Bowl, you have to figure some
Speaker 1: things out. And I just said it. I'm paying Dak
Speaker 1: forty million. Either goes oh no, because you know what,
Speaker 1: because if they if the Cowboys end up making the
Speaker 1: super Bowl with this roster, imagine what happens when I
Speaker 1: put in a difference maker like that. That would be
Speaker 1: like the Nets getting That's when the Nets got Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: This year, were gonna bring in Kevin Durant. Okay, bab,
Speaker 1: you're about to see something happen here. You're about to
Speaker 1: see a difference maker. Dak Prescott is a difference maker
Speaker 1: at a position where not many guys are not difference makers.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that's truly exposed Jared Golf
Speaker 1: this year. This guy's not a difference maker. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: is not a difference maker, and you need a difference maker.
Speaker 1: To me, if you're going to win. And the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: because they tried to be cheap and save some money,
Speaker 1: are now gonna have to pay forty million dollars for
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. That's and they're committee to do it, even
Speaker 1: if you go to Super Bowl. I'm paying Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, which your first take when you
Speaker 1: say it's it's all the organization's fault when they could
Speaker 1: have had just got signed up. I agree. I think
Speaker 1: I think Dak is a phenomenal quarterback. I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's worth taking your whole cap and ruining it.
Speaker 1: I just don't think so. I think you can take
Speaker 1: that money, you can get a quarterback, and I think
Speaker 1: you can take that money and put it towards the defense,
Speaker 1: and I think will be better situated going forward. But
Speaker 1: if we sink all our brand, it's a Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and he, like I said, I think he's a phenomenal quarterback,
Speaker 1: but I just don't think he can carry a team
Speaker 1: by himself like the San Watson can. I just I
Speaker 1: just you know, it's it's it's tough for me, it's
Speaker 1: tough for me to sink all that in there, knowing
Speaker 1: how bad our defense is, and it's all assumes that
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott comes back and he's healthy. And you also
Speaker 1: have to assume that we go to the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: which I don't think it's happening. But you know this,
Speaker 1: this is just one of those one of those fantasy
Speaker 1: type things. So you know, I feel, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think the leverage has lost a little bit if
Speaker 1: if Andy Dalton somehow takes this thing to the super Bowl. Now,
Speaker 1: and keep in mind, I am a Andy fan. Got
Speaker 1: to cover Andy at TCU, so you know a lot
Speaker 1: of ways got to see this this kid grow up.
Speaker 1: I'm an Andy fan. I clearly remember when Andy was signed,
Speaker 1: how many of the Dak Hayters were saying, you know what, man,
Speaker 1: this guy just as good, he could do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of those What did we see
Speaker 1: from Andy Dalkon? We see buried Church out here trying
Speaker 1: to throw the guy out for a dude who was
Speaker 1: playing Hey, I apologize, I apologize, right so, and I
Speaker 1: think Andy Dalton is good. Okay, I think Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: is good. And in Church, you would ask, what about
Speaker 1: Andy Dalt's future? I think Chicago, Indianapolis, San Francisco, New England, Denver, Washington.
Speaker 1: These are places that I expect Andy Dalton to possibly
Speaker 1: be playing next year because these are these are organizations
Speaker 1: that there will probably have some quarterback needs and he
Speaker 1: could fit in there. But Dak Prescott, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: raises the level of other people, and that's what you
Speaker 1: pay a franchise guy for. I thought Ezekiel Elliott was
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do something and show us something
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott being out, Like, okay, hey, put it
Speaker 1: back on twenty one. That's what abody say, it's all
Speaker 1: about twenty one. Well, guess what we saw. It didn't matter.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter. Now it's not all twenty one's fault
Speaker 1: because his offensive line is nowhere near what it needs
Speaker 1: to be. Okay, so I'm not putting up but but
Speaker 1: but there was this assumption, Hey man, we go got
Speaker 1: Andy Dalkon would be just fine and just give it
Speaker 1: to twenty one. And no, Dak Prescott is a difference
Speaker 1: making quarterback and in this league, and you see how
Speaker 1: bad the quarterback play is, that's what it's going to
Speaker 1: cost you, okay, Church, and you can set up and
Speaker 1: say it's gonna wreck your cat. You know what Houston
Speaker 1: find Houston decided we're gonna wreck our cat. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do what we're gonna do. And there's somebody you see
Speaker 1: what's record. But is that what is that the shot off?
Speaker 1: Where would they be without him? I mean yeah, let
Speaker 1: me ask you, do you think do you think that
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott with his bat let's just say our defense
Speaker 1: is just as bad next year? Do you think Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott can carry this team to the playoffs and even
Speaker 1: into the super Bowl. Let's just say that to the
Speaker 1: Super Bow, because anybody's tried, are just going to the playoffs?
Speaker 1: You said you know, you said it yourself. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: is getting up there in age and he wants a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Do you think Dak Prescott can carry a
Speaker 1: team all the way to the super Bowl with a
Speaker 1: defense being historically bad. That's a tough task for any
Speaker 1: That's a tough task for any guy in his league.
Speaker 1: But I'll say it this way. I believe Dak. Signing
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and having him as your quarterback gives you
Speaker 1: your best opportunity to get to a super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: believe it does. I go back to a Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: and I'm reading a book right now by John Fineteine
Speaker 1: called The Quarterback, and just going back to Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: and his evolution and what he's done there. If Flacco,
Speaker 1: I thought I had a pretty good thing. And you
Speaker 1: guys know this is playing in the league. What you
Speaker 1: want to do is get yourself in a position, get
Speaker 1: yourself an opportunity, you know, consistently, make the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: see where you can go. I believe Dak Prescott with
Speaker 1: a consistent run of five or six years, if he's
Speaker 1: there starting quarterback, I believe they can possibly get to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. I got some other management issues about
Speaker 1: how they do things on this football team, but I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about the quarterback. I'll pay the quarterback. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll pay the quarterback. They're also hedging their bets as
Speaker 1: his TV deal is going to go up. I know this.
Speaker 1: TV deals for the NFL rarely ever go down. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones made sure that that's how they moved the NFL
Speaker 1: from CBS to Fox. So signing Dak Prescott the forty
Speaker 1: million dollars is going to be what they have to do.
Speaker 1: I do believe in Dak Prescott. This defense, Yes, it
Speaker 1: has to get fixed. And the biggest thing is right now,
Speaker 1: I gotta get a defensive coordinator in here who can
Speaker 1: at least tell me what can I do with some
Speaker 1: of these personnel Guys? Who do I say and who
Speaker 1: do I get rid of? But you're going to commit
Speaker 1: to the quarterback right now, you're seeing in this league
Speaker 1: what happens when you don't have a guy worth a salt.
Speaker 1: Look at the Eagles, look at the Rams. How about Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Right now, Cleveland used a number one pick on Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: They're going to have to make a choice here in
Speaker 1: about two years or whether they gon pick up this
Speaker 1: fifthyear option. To do they give this guy thirty million
Speaker 1: dollars A here, look at Jimmy Garondbolo in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Jimmy took him to a Super Bowl, and they're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna bring this guy back.
Speaker 1: It's hard to find competent quarterback play. You got competent
Speaker 1: quarterback play, and Dak Prescott pay the note for forty
Speaker 1: million dollars versus going off into the abyss and hoping
Speaker 1: you've got something, you know, your Mitchell Trubisky away from
Speaker 1: trying to say what do we do to ourselves? Look
Speaker 1: at Philadelphia right now, they don't even know what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do next year. I mean, think of what the
Speaker 1: problem Philadelphia has next year that Dallas does not, what
Speaker 1: Washington has in terms of a problem that Dallas is not.
Speaker 1: That the Giants has a problem that Dallas does not
Speaker 1: if they signed Dak Presco. But Dallas got one of
Speaker 1: the biggest problems out of all those teams, and that's
Speaker 1: their defense. Like when we're talking about you know, they
Speaker 1: have all these quarterbacks, but how are we gonna stop
Speaker 1: anybody from scoring? Mc crae, what do you think about this? Mccraige.
Speaker 1: I think this is crazy. I think that y'all are
Speaker 1: like the one the question was, if Andy Dalton takes
Speaker 1: this team to the Super Bowl, what do you think
Speaker 1: about signed in Dak Prescott? And then it's like, then
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's gone. Think about this. Andy Dalton would have
Speaker 1: had to win four games in a row plus maker
Speaker 1: run to the Super Bowl to get there, all right,
Speaker 1: So we just acting like Andy Dalton can't can't be
Speaker 1: a quarterback here? If he, you know, happens to do that.
Speaker 1: That's why I say I think the leverage falls a
Speaker 1: little bit, because, yeah, you can say Andy Dalton might
Speaker 1: go to Chicago and this other place. He could also
Speaker 1: stay another us. If he's your super Bowl, if he's
Speaker 1: your super Bowl guy, if he if he was getting
Speaker 1: super Bowl, if he goes to the super Bowl, he
Speaker 1: gets the Trip Dulford treat. That's what will happened to him.
Speaker 1: They'll say thank you, but we need to approve upon
Speaker 1: this position and trip Dulford got showed in the door
Speaker 1: and they brought it Elvis grback in Baltimore. But but Jerry,
Speaker 1: Jerry's already told you they're bringing it back. Mike McCartney
Speaker 1: said to day talking about Dak Prescott. He's here every day,
Speaker 1: is a big part of our football team. He's a
Speaker 1: big part of our future. So were having these conversations
Speaker 1: about something the organization has already told us they're bringing
Speaker 1: Prescott back. So if they're bringing it back, they're paying
Speaker 1: the forty million dollars. Note NUIs they told you there
Speaker 1: was gonna pay him two years ago. They lay they
Speaker 1: can say whatever they want to about that. They can
Speaker 1: say whatever they want to. They haven't done it. Okay,
Speaker 1: And you also you're also talking about you're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy who was coming off a really, really bad injury.
Speaker 1: So you have to assume a lot of different things. Right,
Speaker 1: Let's let's says he's behind the eight ball. When when
Speaker 1: you get back into training camp, then what do you do?
Speaker 1: You don't have any Doughton any before you go out
Speaker 1: with double G. Okay, yes, great quick. I love that
Speaker 1: because I asked a friend of mine who's an agent
Speaker 1: and who signed big deals in this league and worked
Speaker 1: with a lot of quarterbacks. I asked him about that,
Speaker 1: and he told me, he said, look, this league is
Speaker 1: so starved that he'll get If the Cowboys don't want
Speaker 1: to pay that money, he'll get it on the free
Speaker 1: agent market because other people want that guy so much.
Speaker 1: And then he pointed back his head, Lekadur Bricks. Here's
Speaker 1: a guy that had a bad shoulder, that flunked, flunked
Speaker 1: the test in Miami and New Orleans still went out
Speaker 1: there and wrote a checkpool. He said, Dak Prescott should
Speaker 1: get paid. He said, he said, that's just how desperate
Speaker 1: people in this league are. And he said, look, how
Speaker 1: much money Kirk Cousins, he's getting And he said, who's
Speaker 1: a better quarterback, Dak Prescott Kirk Cousins. He said, what
Speaker 1: would you who would you want to get money too?
Speaker 1: You said, would you rather pay money to a hurt
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott or a healthy Kirk Cousins like you know Kurt.
Speaker 1: So so he's going k did not get paid in Washington.
Speaker 1: Though Kurt didn't get paid in Washington, they let him
Speaker 1: move on and go to Minnesota. All right, So so
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott will he will get his bread, he will
Speaker 1: get his bread. I'm just I'm just saying that this
Speaker 1: hypothetical day we have with the Super Bowl, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure to be here. Oh I'm glad you said that
Speaker 1: about about Kirk Cousins. And once again and reading the
Speaker 1: book Quarterback by John Fines, and he just went over
Speaker 1: this um this part in the book where Daniel Snyder
Speaker 1: and especially Bruce Allen, they didn't believe in Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: He was never a guy. They were sold on the
Speaker 1: cowboys here are singing a different tune. And Stephen Jones
Speaker 1: talked about the number of years Dak wants four, they
Speaker 1: want five, so that that in itself puts him in
Speaker 1: a different position than kirk Cousins. They never made him
Speaker 1: a real offer. They never made him a real offer.
Speaker 1: And Washington, they've made an offer here and it's come
Speaker 1: down to the years. So there in lies, there in
Speaker 1: lies a difference there about about the situation. They franchised
Speaker 1: them two years in the row they sacrifice, they capped
Speaker 1: twice for kirk Cousins and then and then let him
Speaker 1: get out of there. So I mean it's different. But
Speaker 1: like I said, Dallas has been singing this soon for
Speaker 1: two years and they still haven't gotten this man paid.
Speaker 1: They know what, they know how many years he want.
Speaker 1: So if he still wants four years next year, you're
Speaker 1: still gonna do the same thing. Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Here's what we do know. They're running out of chances.
Speaker 1: I mean, they running out of chance. They they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to really literally sign a contractor get off the
Speaker 1: pot because they're running out of chances. You know, this
Speaker 1: is where they're at. So we'll know here, we'll know
Speaker 1: here one or two years what they you know, they'll
Speaker 1: have to really back it up here in the next
Speaker 1: one or two years for sure. All Right, we're running
Speaker 1: late here we're running late. We'll get well, we'll say
Speaker 1: the defensive topic for tomorrow. Okay, who do we really
Speaker 1: credit for the Stephen? So also make our predictions. New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve is our last show, um that we'll do
Speaker 1: this week. Um Big boss Man Doc Team Derek Eagleton says,
Speaker 1: we're taking Friday New Year's Day off, which is okay
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna run out to the Rose Bowl. I
Speaker 1: want to check out, check out Alabama do that thing.
Speaker 1: And the AP Defensive Player of the Year DeVante Smith,
Speaker 1: want to see him get off and do his things.
Speaker 1: So we'll do one last show. Have our predictions already said.
Speaker 1: Giants are gonna win, but we'll get the official predictions
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