WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Playoffs Scenarios 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:18.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.520 level broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:29.160 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and NEWI scrugs. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.000 All right, here we are on a Wednesday. Everybody, two 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.920 days left in the year twenty twenty and then it's 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:47.600 over on to twenty. Thank you, longtime Cowboys, longtime Cowboys 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:52.720 reporter with Barry Church, Danny McCray. It's Wednesday, so that 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.160 means we celebrate the birthday of one Lebron James who 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:00.000 turns thirty six, Tiger Woods who turns thirty five, Sandy Kofe. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.240 I believe Sandy's eighty one or eighty five years old. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.520 Hall of Fame picture with the Dodgers. So, uh, big time, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.360 big time days for these people, man, it is it is. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.200 There's a lot of goats on this day, a lot 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.840 of goats. Uh. You know, I used to talk about 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.840 Matt Lower being born on this day, but then Matt 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:19.440 Loward had to go out there and do his thing. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:25.039 Um got kicked got hmself kicked off NBC News. Rick 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.720 what a Rick Fox's old girlfriend's birthday today. Elijah Douche Coup, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.960 the actress. I think she was in that. Cara was 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:34.720 the one of these w B shows she used to 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.040 be in there. So did you say did you say 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:44.840 Tiger Yes, Tiger Woods in nineteen seventy five, December thirty, 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.560 nineteen seventy five. It is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.640 All right, Church, I'm gonna start with you here. Okay, Yeah, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.760 we got going. Man. It was a cliffhanger from yesterday, 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:58.320 so I'm gonna go ahead and bring it to you 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.640 to day. I got bad news for you, Okay, got 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.360 bad sucky ducky. It is not that the Cowboys will 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.520 lose to the Giants, because I'm going to tell you 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.120 right now, on a Wednesday, for tomorrow's show, our final 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.840 show of the week, I'm going to pick the Cowboys 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.360 to beat the Giants. Okay, Cowboys are better team, playing 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.560 better football than New York Giants. Right now. The disappointing 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.280 thing I got to tell you because I believe Washington 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.240 will go in too Philadelphia and win the East. I 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.600 really do, no, sir, no sir, no, sir, look man, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:34.400 Even if even if Alex Smith is at quarterback. I 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:39.240 still don't see them taking this win. I mean, look, Philadelphia, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.520 their offense sputtered a little bit against us, but I 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.239 feel like they'll go out there, They'll be at home. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.280 They'll be back at home. Jalen Hurts will be back 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.040 in Philadelphia. And look, Doug Peterson already said there's a 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.720 no hat rule. They're not letting Washington come in here 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.600 and celebrate a division championship on their turf. All right, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.560 that is not gonna happen. Alex Smith, he's on one 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.280 leg right now, one leg right now. He's already dump 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.400 it down and chuck it down, Charlie. All right. So 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.960 I don't see their offense producing that much. But what 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.840 scares me about Washington, and what's always scared me is 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.000 their front seven. I mean, they're vicious in that front seven. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.840 And if Philadelphia doesn't score at least seventeen to twenty points, 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.799 you might be onto something. But I'm praying and I'm 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.840 hoping that Jalen Hurts comes through with Miles Sanders, Doug 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.960 ep do not give up on the run like you 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.040 did with the Cowboys, because that's saying does he gave 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.399 up the run against the Cowboys? I don't know why. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.040 I don't know why. It helped me out, but I 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.080 don't know why he did that. Do not give up 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.160 on the run, all right, I'm telling you now, do 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.920 not give up on the run. Contain this crew and 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.280 you should get a w Do it for me, for anybody, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.360 Just do it for me. You can't do enough for you. Man. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.360 After the game, I'm a fan of going and listening 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:56.120 to certain teams radio stations, you know, just to hear 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.480 what their fans are saying. And then because it's Philadelphia. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.800 Through the years, I've been on NBC Sports Philadelphia so much, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.560 I know those folks have checked out their things. There's 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.080 a real problem in Philadelphia in terms of not just 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.000 the personnel, because they're like, hey, man, we got street 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.680 free agents out there. Mean, you saw how thirty eight 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.240 was getting beat like a drum against the Cowboys. But 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.400 they don't believe in the coach, that the coach has 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.159 any answers to understand. So what you were saying about, hey, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.880 why did he give up on the run, Doug Peterson 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.760 was getting drilled up and down because they were sent 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.960 there saying, okay, you went away from what was working 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:31.839 for you in the first quarterbe what were you doing? 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.080 There's not a lot of faith and what's going on 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.559 in Philadelphia. And then we don't know about the status 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.720 of fletchri Cox. Okay, we saw what had with Fletchrick Cox. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.240 Let that lineup, and so I fletchri Cox is in there. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.280 He can he can, he can change the football game. 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.880 If he's not playing, it's a lot easier for Washington. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.200 But Doug Peterson may get fired. I mean that's what 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.520 you're talking about now. These guys on this staff may 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.000 get fired. I don't know how many guys are ready 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.880 to go ahead and just say, hey, look, the season's done. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.240 I'm ready to take it to the house. Mccraig. Yeah, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.799 this is a Philadelphia team that is used to playing 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.360 for something. Even last year they played the final game 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.240 against the Cowboys and won the division. You know this 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.040 team is that's one of the the Super Bowls, and three 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.800 years ago these guys got nothing to play for. I 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.880 just wonder how many dudes are gonna come out there 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.920 Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday against Washington ready to actually 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:23.520 get up here and play. And how many of these 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.200 guys they have left are any good? Their offensive line 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.120 is terrible too. They got a lot of issues barried, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.359 You got a lot of issues, you know, you know. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.200 I want to kind of push back on that one 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.440 a little bit, just just coming from the perspective of 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.839 guys who don't have guaranteed contracts and aren't for sure 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.839 to come back next year and playing for other teams 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.200 around the league. They have a lot of guys, especially 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.120 in the receiving group, that have to really prove that 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.200 they're able to play so they can be on a 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.760 roster next year. Jalen Hurts has a lot to prove 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.440 so he can show that he needs to be the 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.159 starter next year and continue to hold Carson Wentz either 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.200 on the bench or to another team. Miles Sanders just 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.599 competing for his running backspot because they brought back Howard, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.440 you had Scott come in and take some carries from him. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.599 So they have some stuff to prove. But I don't 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.800 think that they can really stand Washington's defense. Who is 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.480 who is really the backbone of their team And they've 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.080 been playing outstanding for the entire year and they continue 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.919 to get better, and I think they'll be able to 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.920 put pressure on Jalen hurtson and confuse them a little 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.000 bit and call some of those that those interceptions that 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.800 you've seen happen when they played US last week. So 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.240 you know, I put it on the defense. Like you said, Church, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.239 Alex Smith is on one leg. But I think they'll 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.960 have McLaren back. I think Gibson to be a little 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.800 bit more healthy. So I think they'll have just enough 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.400 to beat Philly. But you know, it's football, man, you 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:47.080 never really know. I just don't see Washington's offense. Man. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.680 Like I said, their defense, they're legit, they're solid. They 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.600 got Chase Young, Ryan Kerrigan, they got Jonathan Allen and 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.120 those boys. Their front seventh is probably one of the 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.960 better front seventh's International Football League. But their offense is 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.600 what's dragging them down. And I just can't see it. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.120 I can't see Alex Smith pushing the ball down the 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.520 field and beating this Philadelphia Philadelphia defense. I think they're 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.880 gonna make them go throughout the whole draft. They're gonna 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.120 have to do long sustained drafts and I just don't 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.600 see that happening. And if Alex Smith doesn't play, you 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.600 got Heineke back there. I mean, he looked decent when 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.800 he when he had the Southern for Haskins last week. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.960 But we've seen that plenty of times where guys come 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.040 in they're not expecting to play against this quarterback and 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:25.880 he goes out there and plays lights out, and then 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.520 the very next week he goes in there and lays 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.640 an egg. So for me, I just don't see their 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.000 offense being able to go out there and produce big points. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.600 Philadelphia is gonna end up winning this. Y'all not ruining 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.040 this man. Y'all, y'all this guy. Boys are going to 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.480 the playoffs. Y're not ruining this for me. Man, listen 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.600 to church Man, the guy who wanted to see double 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.760 G two weeks in the row. Now he's talking about 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.920 Heineken and go out there and look look decent, and 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.360 then the next week he had come out there and 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.320 not look so good because they weren't expecting to play 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.400 against them. They had no take. Listen if if if 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.760 last week, and as an example or vision for anything, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:07.200 mcclara will find the mismatch on that Philadelphia Eagle secondary, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.480 all right, so Alex Smith will be able to push 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.680 it down the field just a little bit. And when 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.960 when they were on that role, their offense was able 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.720 to put up some points even though that Alex Smith 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.520 was just dumping it down. He was maximizing the skills 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.560 of mckissic and and Gibson. And we saw that when 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.400 they when they brought it here to Dallas, they it 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.320 was it was dumb down. But they were making big 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.200 games out of those plays. And that's the way that 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.360 they were. They were winning those games. They were Dinking 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.440 and Duncan, they were moving the ball down the field, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.600 chewing up the clock, and then they were playing good defense. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.960 And even without Alex Smith, that good defense and that 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.840 dinking and Duncan with Dwayne Haskins on the field, had 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.680 them in the game versus Carolina. So I think it'll 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.240 be a, you know, a tough match up for Philly. Sure, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.719 it seems to me like you floating towards like you 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:58.960 floating towards uh, Phillip plueing this one out, mccraig. How 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.920 from that, No, I said that Giftson is gonna be 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.880 more healthy, mclard's gonna be back, Alex Smith to be 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.520 healthier than than he would have been last week. No, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.440 No Haskins And they're actually really playing for something, and 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.240 they're going to play for their coach. So I think 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.560 that they have the edge on Philly. We know Phillies 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.640 turning Phillies turning the football over way too much, just 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.160 just way too much in Church. Here's the thing about 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.720 the offense. And I see where you're coming from. But 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.920 you're not happy with that defense. You you know you 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.559 can win this thing with two touchdowns and chicking a 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.079 bunch of field goals. I go back to what Washington 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.520 did to the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day. It was dink 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.840 and dunk City. It was really more of, hey, look, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.760 we're just not going to be ourselves. We'll play competitive, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.320 conservative football and allow our defense to keep us in 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.680 this thing. And I think that's basically the same thing 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.880 that I would I expect against Philadelphia. Okay, they're not 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.679 gonna ask Alex Smith to come out here and throw 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.800 the ball like Patrick Mahomes because he can't do it. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.160 But Kenny throws some swing passes out here to Gibson. Yeah, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.280 can he hit McLaren on a slant route and just hope, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.319 you know, your defense can can get a sack or 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.160 two and maybe Chase Sham causes a fumble and you 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.120 get the ball to thirty and maybe you're kicking the 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:11.760 field goal and get it. Tell. I mean, that's the 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.800 kind of game that I'm expecting from Washington to play. 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.080 The other side of it is can I Can I 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:21.160 trust Philadelphia not to turn the football over? Can I 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.520 trust their head coach to run the football? But I 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.400 just I'm telling you I don't trust Philly. And this 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.360 week watching it in person, I was shocked at how 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.360 badly they played after the first quarter. And that's where 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.080 this whole thing comes for me. Man, That's what scares me. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.600 Dougie p just has to get out of his own way. 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.840 If Peterson's able to get out of his own way 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.880 and we're able to run an offense like they did 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.040 against the Saints, I mean the Saints have a similar 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.960 front seven as Washington. They get after the quarterback group. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.439 The linebackers are side line of sideline, so they have 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.280 a similar defense when it comes to the front seven, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.840 is Washington. We gotta take that game plan that we 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.840 had against the Saints and take it to Washington. Good 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.640 option Green, Miles sanders a lot, and I think we 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:07.640 can pull something out. Church. Where's this we who is wet? 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:15.199 If they had it would be on it would now fly. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:23.000 Eagles fly for a reason, you know. And this is 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.200 the thing we're you know, we're sitting here on this 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.160 podcast talking about, you know, hoping a bad football team 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.280 will do something good, that hey, they'll probably figure it 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.520 out this last week. I mean, that's what That's what 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.839 you're asking for. Church. You're asking for a team that's 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.840 frustrating its own fan base, and then the owners like, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.320 I don't know, but I'm wonner do what I'm doing 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.160 with this coaching staff. I mean, you're asking them that 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.120 they're gonna actually figure it out, get it right in 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.160 a game of that map. Y'all thought the same thing 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.439 when I told y'all to Dallas Cowboys was going to 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.000 turn this around. Y'all told me, oh, man, what are 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.079 you talking about. There's no proof of this. They didn't 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.319 win two games in three years. And now we're on 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.079 the edge of the playoffs. We're on the edge to 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:06.800 the playoffs, so it can happen. It can happen right now. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.400 It was. It was true, and we keep talking about 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.480 them digging and duncan. I'm just going to remind you, 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.000 guys of what Gibson did when he came in here 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.520 running the ball against the Cowboys. Zeke had a hundre 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.599 yards against Philly last week. I think that was his 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.560 first one hundred yard game and I don't know how long, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:26.319 So no, I'm saying, and in a long time. That's 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.120 the first one hund of yard game in a very 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:32.360 long time. And then now, yeah, so they're going to 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.079 go up against the team who's getting a healthy running back, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.760 quarterback with explosive guy like Gibson and the kissing. I 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.880 just think they're going to be too much. And I look, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.720 I'm a Cowboys fan, Barry, all right, So don't let 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.800 the podcast fool you. It's it's it's as much as 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.120 I would like for you to take me to Nick 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.640 and Sam's and pay for my entire meal, I am 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.920 still rooting for the Cowboys, but I have to be realistic, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.080 like I said, because my feelings were hurt so much 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.880 at the beginning of the season that I just got 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.280 to be realistic with this man. Here's my bets to say. Look, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.080 Philly is probably not going to pull it out against Washington, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.920 and we're probably going to pull it out against New 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.880 York and that's gonna be heartbreaking for us. But we 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.120 ended a season on a good note. And I'm with 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.439 you mc McCray. I'm sitting here with you. I think 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.320 the Cowboys are going to win against the Giants. The 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.080 Cowboys will do their part. But as Nate Newton talked 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.199 about on Talking Cowboys, you're now at this point or 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:25.640 hanging with the boys, You're now at this point in 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.560 time where your fate is in someone else's hands. And 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.080 that's just a really you know, you're gonna fly home, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.840 uh you know, from from from New York or she say, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.280 New Jersey. You fly from Jersey and sit around here, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.720 come back home and turn on the TV and know 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.280 there's nothing you can do. And you're relying on a 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.280 bad football team with a coaching staff that's made some 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.959 you know, interesting decisions here. That that's that's rolling the dice, man, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.520 that's that's real hard and Church you're now going to say, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.120 you believe these dudes are gonna muster up something that 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.840 they had against the Saints that things showed us since Okay, 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.760 that's just I think it's possible. You're you're right, you 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.720 are You're completely right. You are completely right. It is tough. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.880 It is tough, and then the loss of Fletcher Cox 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.000 makes it even tougher, and I hope and I pray 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.240 they do not walk number thirty eight out there. He 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.000 doesn't get a name, he just gets number thirty eight. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.080 Whoever for Philipoli that court, he just gets number. Do 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.600 not march him out there, because if they do, they're 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.880 gonna be going straight at him. They're gonna find Terry 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.920 mcclaure and they're gonna say, hey, wherever thirty eight is, 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.280 just match him McLure. You know it's usually opposite, but 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.480 whatever thirty eight is, they're gonna send McLaurin that way. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.960 So please, Philly, do not march that guy out there. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.400 And if you do, do straight double coverage vis them 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.320 like a punt. I mean, just do not let them crazy. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.560 We need you, Philly, we need Church Church. Do you 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.760 agree that now, when you're playing against the top defense 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.720 that now has three four weeks of film on Jalen Hursts, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.640 that this would be a different game? Does that? Does 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.920 that make you nervous at all that that New Orleans 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.200 came in they're playing against Jalen Hurts. I think they 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.200 didn't have Michael Thomas, already didn't have Drew Brees, and 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.160 it was the first time that the teams are really 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.600 seeing him, and the same thing happened with Arizona. Now 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.120 you got real tape on this guy, and you've seen 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.560 teams a team be able to stop him and get 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.320 some interceptions off of them and seeing what really can 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.040 confuse him and cause him to make these mistakes. And 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.600 now you're going up against the Washington football team's defense, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.280 who's been able to create this type of stuff all season. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.040 I think that also makes nervous, makes Feelly a little 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.960 bit nervous as well. I'm nervous. I ain't gonna lie 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.760 to you. I'm nervous, man, I mean, especially after that 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.840 performance we saw down in an AT and T Stadium 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.200 and we don't have half of the front seven that 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.480 that Washington has. So I'm a little nervous. But hey, 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.960 it's too late to back down. Now we're in this playoffs, man, Philly, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.080 do your thing. So you said, so, you said, Randy, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.640 So you said Randy, Randy Gregory and d lawis not 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.080 carrying in and chase up. See, I see what you 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.720 trying to do. I think it's time for a commercial 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:02.440 break for a commercial brand. That's exactly we're at the 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.320 fifteen fifteen mark. I think, uh, I think we need 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.040 the time for a commercial. I didn't say that. I 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.160 didn't not say that at all. That's mcraig. We get New. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.280 I didn't ask ask the question, can we get NEWI 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.040 to answer the question at the commercial break that he's 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.400 been ducking for two days. It's not even that hope 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.680 of a question, but I, you know, I just want 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.920 him to just give us an answer. It just it's 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.640 really simple. It's never hurt nobody. Please do that because 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.960 let's let's let's do that. 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AT and 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.840 T continues to innovate your ways to connect Cowboys Nation 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.240 with new and exciting game to experiences, including Star Review 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.800 presented by AT and T pig available in stadium and 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.399 for home use. Download the Dallas Cowboys mobile app and 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.520 looked for Starview under the stadium tap. Ezekiel Elliott yesterday 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.919 named the twenty twenty Dallas Cowboys Good Guy Award that 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.640 goes to the guys the most successful and the guy 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.920 that has has a really good relationship with the media. 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.399 So Zeke wins that award. Dak Prescott won in twenty nineteen. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.440 Dak also won in twenty seventeen. Uh, Jeremy Mincy won 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.359 it twice twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen. Dez Bryant has won 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.480 the award. Des Bryant won it in twenty thirteen. Tara 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:48.480 Owns has never won that award. So Elliott congratulated my friend. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:53.159 Happy for you as well. This happen we did, like 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.080 this Good Guy Awards start. This has always been around, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.040 like oh yeah, I think it started in about oh 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.960 nine maybe, Um I never heard of that. I've never 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.800 heard of this one. It's been um boy Marcus Marcus 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:12.040 Spears has won it. Roy Williams, I didn't know. I didn't. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.760 That's the first time hearing about it. Church. They would 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.280 they were an interview on us like that, So then't Yeah, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.720 that's true, that's what it was. Yeah, you're right, we 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.920 would have never heard about this. You know how you 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:23.919 might knew he is you might knew he is man. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:29.920 You know, he goes those are just special teams. Guys 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:35.280 over there, let's let's go. That's crazy. That is best 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.399 say this. I'm gonna say that. This is This is 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.640 one thing about Church I get no credit for. Church 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.119 was a rookie. When Church is a rookie. I was 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.200 out there beating the chest where we talked about like guys, 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.720 we thought we're gonna make the team. Guy picked Romo 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.159 because I remember talking to Terence Newman when Romo was 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.679 it's true that day and he knew had played against 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.920 Carson Palmer and Tony Romo at Kansas State. He said, 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:59.879 Tony Rome is the Carson Palmer small school quarterbacks. All 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:01.760 that okay, that's guy's gonna make a team Church with 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.480 the undrafted guys I pick and make the team, make team. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.280 You know that's true, that's true. But hey, but hey, 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.080 that's but you're right. I mean, look right, this award 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.840 is normally going to people who are are are guys. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.360 You go to a whole lot and and also they 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.080 like that they'll talk a lot. Here's where Ezekiel Elliott 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.560 really stands out. After a game, when you go on 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:27.480 the Cowboys locker room and they had let you in. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.880 Ezekiel is right there at his locker, ready to go. 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.600 Almost always, I mean nine out of ten games he's 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.199 right there. And if he's not there, he's coming in 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.600 pretty quick. So he'll answer. He's accessible, which all all 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:46.520 bad people like. Um, he's accessible. He uh, you know, 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:49.920 he answers the questions and you know, even if they're 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.040 not always questions, he wants to answer. He answers the questions. 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.080 And I said, biggest thing is the guy is a 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:58.640 consistent dude, and people have appreciation for that. Dak has 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.640 been that same way. So yes, guys who who are 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.160 in their normal rotation, your quarterbacks, you're running back, those 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.160 guys are definitely gonna be dudes at the media, you know, Selex. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.720 But like I said, Jeremy Mitzi, you know he was there. 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.160 That's true, Spear, that's true. So um you know, Daz, 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.600 I mean they've got John Kitler won it won you 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.080 you know John won it so um so so, but 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.320 you're right, Danny. We do not seek out special teams guys. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.800 Very often we do not. We do not, so I 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:30.800 you know, and when we do seek you out is 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:41.080 after you know, something happened. Yeah, so what happened here? Guys? 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.560 Your boy your boy her out here missing field goals 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.720 in Chicago. You know, that's what we're gonna get you. 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.280 You know, LP Lattice School, you know. I mean, we're 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:54.199 gonna come get you. And something happened and you're not 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.359 to get two sidetrack, not to get two star. What 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.320 happened to damn Bailey? Man? I mean, I know this 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:02.439 is way off script, but I'm man. The miss like 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:07.000 fifteen field goals in the past, like three games man, 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:09.439 remember that that? Remember that movie Rickie of the Year 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.480 was a dude broke his arm and then all of 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:17.439 a sudden he could then he lost. Yea, it's like 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.720 that or space Jam, Like I don't know if somebody 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:22.880 came and took his kicking poles. I don't know some aliens. 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:25.280 I don't know what's going on. I mean, I'm mad. 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:28.000 I ain't even get side tracked. Nick Folk was like that. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:30.880 When Nick Folk first got here, um out of Arizona. 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.000 They guy ended up making a Pro Bowl and had 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.880 some good years. Then he got hurt and and then 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:38.280 you know, it went off track, and then they ended 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:40.320 up cutting him and then went on to the Jets 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.280 and had a nice career there, and then he fell 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:44.600 off um New England and brought him back and he 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:46.000 was kicking up there for a little bit. To me, 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:48.399 this kicking thing happens in cycles. Man. I was aw 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.600 young Way Coo of Atlanta. He makes the Pro Bowl. 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:55.160 They sent him out there for a kick to tie 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.679 it against the Chiefs and he hooks it right. Uh 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:59.399 you know, and he had a good year. But when 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:01.960 he first started with the Chargers, dude couldn't make anything. 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:05.560 So I mean, this kicking thing, is it truly is? 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:07.680 It goes, it go up, and it's like golf. You're 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:09.479 here for a bit, you here the runner and then 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.040 you know it humbles you. But and this just maybe 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:14.959 toward the end for Dan. I'll say, this guy's had 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:17.439 an incredible career coming out of Oklahoma State. I remember 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:20.720 the kicking battle he was in over the Alamo Dome 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:23.040 in San Antonio. Was him, it was Kay or Bath 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:25.199 and it was another guy and then dude ended up 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:27.400 winning it and kicked very well for a long time. 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:30.000 But yeah, this this is probably it for him. I 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:32.040 definitely don't think he'll be back in Minnesota. But that 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:35.200 kicking game, man, it comes and goes. Bro It's hard, 0:24:35.320 --> 0:24:37.919 It's hard. To see. We've been spoiled. We've been spoiled 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:41.560 by the adamnitaries of the world. I gotta listen. I 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:44.280 gotta ask the church just you brought it up, because 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:46.680 now I can't think of a guy's name. Tampa Bay 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.080 drafted a kicker I want to say, was the second 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:58.520 Florida State and Roberto Aguayo, Roberto Aguayo or the state 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:02.920 and he couldn't make a kick. He was terrible. And 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:07.000 this is what I've seen outside of Sebastian Janikowski, who 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.160 went in the first round. What I've seen is when 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.520 they draft these kickers that high, there's just so much 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:16.040 pressure and you're also I mean, here's the time when 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:19.159 you're actually for a guy like me. You're at training 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:21.760 camp focusing on a kicker. Normally we don't even know 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:23.920 who do due is. We don't pay attention to that 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:27.760 high were were on you? And then he goes to 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:29.760 Tampa Bay. So you already a dude who was a 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.640 legend at Florida State, you're part of a national championship team, 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:34.960 You're they're playing with Jameis Winston. They take you this 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:39.240 high and band it's on you, and then the general 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:42.919 manager Jason Light traded up for the kicker, so there 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:46.280 was more pressure. Man, who trade up for a kicker? Um? 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:49.760 And it's crazy. Meanwhile, I look at the punter over 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:52.680 at Seattle, Michael Dickinson. Here's a guy who was a 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:55.720 fantastic All American punter at Texas. He was so good 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:58.360 he left early. I got him going pro. They take 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.600 him in the fifth round. He was everything for Seattle 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.280 that he was in Texas. And because he's a fifth 0:26:04.320 --> 0:26:06.960 round guy, you know, you know, and he came out, 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:10.000 you know, handling his business from jump, nobody said anything. 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.119 So it's it's a it's a tough thing, man. I 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.960 would definitely not recommend trying to draft a specialist as 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:20.440 a kicker second round because you just put so much 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:22.640 pressure on people just talking about it, even a third 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:24.879 round guy. I've seen some of these punners going to 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:27.840 third round and it's just it's just a lot of pressure, man. 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:29.760 So I would not be trying to spend the first, second, 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:32.760 third round a guy like that, who who did Tampa 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:39.760 think's gonna pick up that kicker? If nobody? And I'm 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:42.119 gonna lie man as a player as a foo as 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:46.400 a player, man, I was so mad I'm talking about 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:48.920 in twenty ten my draft, there was at least four 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:52.600 or five kickers and punters drafted, and I went under. 0:26:52.720 --> 0:26:55.440 I was so hot, man, I was one of the 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:57.240 most bad I've ever been in my life. But how's 0:26:57.280 --> 0:26:59.719 a kicker and a punter getting drafted and I'm over 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:02.720 here sitting on the bench. Man, it was Yeah, that 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:05.280 worked out for you, bro, Man, it didn't work out 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:08.640 in the plan. You would have ended up on some team. 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:10.560 It might have not played out the same for you. 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:12.840 You know, this is very true. This is very true. 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:16.680 And I'll say this. You gotta understand on draft day 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:19.359 there are a lot there are a lot more mistakes 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:23.080 made than it hits. Okay, there's a lot more missus, 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:26.480 just a lot more misses on draft day than than hits. 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.680 And and we talk about the hits, because you know, 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:32.199 that's the thing to talk about, But the amount of missus, 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:35.359 like Jason Lights training up for a kicker, you know 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:37.760 that that does. You know that that's the crazy stuff. 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:41.639 But for him, here's a guy that somehow hooked his 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.480 way into ownership and they continue to buy what he 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.320 does and what he sells. But usually, you know, there's 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:49.840 a lot of miss I remember when a Doma can 0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:53.240 Sue became a free agent in Detroit and Nick Fairley 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:55.399 became a free agent the same year. So here are 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:57.840 two defensive tackles that are going out the window. And 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:01.840 here's Detroit with an opportunity to take Aaron Donald needing 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:04.000 a defensive tackle. What is there? Gm Martin May who 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:07.919 does he drafts tight end Eric Ibrom And I'm shaking up, 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:13.200 why are you getting the offense? Plus Matt Stafford doesn't 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:15.080 want to throw to the tight end anyway. This guy's 0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:17.400 always trying to go deep and you pass on it. Donald. 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:19.400 I mean we see stuff like this all the time. 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:22.840 Or Doug Whaley. Doug Whaley trades up for Sammy Watkins, 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:25.080 give us up a number, what to get Sammy Watkins? 0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:27.120 And then who's drafted about three or four picks later, 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:30.040 Odell Beckham Junior. I mean, there's a lot of misses 0:28:30.119 --> 0:28:32.840 that happened in this league, man, a lot. So you know, Church, 0:28:32.920 --> 0:28:35.080 when you talk about, hey, how does this happen? Because 0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:37.440 people don't do a lot of good work. Okay, there's 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.840 a lot of people missing, just straight missing. It's hard 0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:41.760 and you know, and also I don't want to beat 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.280 up people too much. It's hard. It's hard to pick players. Man, 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:47.400 it's hard to hit. It is hard to hit. It's 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:49.280 easy to miss. It hard to hit. And then also 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:52.200 what's to fit? How many guys church in mccrad? How 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:54.200 many guys do you know? And if you've been around, 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:56.440 you're like, man, this guy's in the wrong scheme here. 0:28:56.880 --> 0:28:59.160 Ain't working for him. This they're asking this player to 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:03.240 do something they can't not do. A lot happens a lot. 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:06.560 This is true watching it. I'm watching it this year. Now, okay, 0:29:06.560 --> 0:29:13.560 go ahead, Then what happened? And so when you see that, 0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:16.200 what happens? We look at the player, We blame the player. 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:17.960 We say the player ain't no good. This is I mean, 0:29:18.040 --> 0:29:20.400 that's what we do. I'm sitting around here looking at 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:22.440 Laton vanderst this year and I'm saying, I don't think 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:24.480 this guy's a middle linebackers. That's not what you drafted 0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:26.280 him to do. You turn on his tape and you say, hey, 0:29:26.360 --> 0:29:27.960 what did you like about this guy? When he plays 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:30.240 best football? It wasn't a middle linebacker. It makes you 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:34.880 shake your head and it can be detrimental. Marcus Spears 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:36.360 is a guy that I love. I mean, I love 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:40.200 swagg Man. Swaggo is my guy. The biggest disservice ever 0:29:40.240 --> 0:29:42.760 happened to him was being drafted by Dallas Cowboys, because 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:45.200 he went from being a defensive end at LSU that 0:29:45.320 --> 0:29:47.280 was rushing the pass. Was a heck of a good 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:50.440 football player, National champion. He comes here and Bill Parcells 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:52.840 wants him taking all blocks. He's not able to do 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:56.080 what he does, and so his career, in my opinion, 0:29:56.640 --> 0:29:58.600 by playing a three to four never put him in 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:01.200 a position to do the things that we just saw 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:03.960 him do at LSU. Not that he had a bad career, 0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:06.360 I just don't believe. I just believe had he been 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:08.600 in a four three system and they put him out 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:10.760 there on the edge, man Swago could have had a 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:13.640 lot more Saxon and been a Pro Bowl play. That's 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:16.760 what happened. You know, you know, I'm gonna hop on 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:19.240 the LSU guys man. Same thing happened to Glenn Dorsey, 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:21.880 Same thing happened to Tyson Jackson. Indeed, I say the 0:30:21.960 --> 0:30:25.760 same thing happened to Morris Clayborne. He came here as 0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:28.160 a man, the man guy, and Church was in the 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:30.600 in the locker room and watched this happened where you 0:30:30.800 --> 0:30:33.320 didn't have to think about anything except guarding the person 0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:35.360 in front of you. Then they started throwing cover two, 0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:38.880 covered three, swaps, you know, all type of crazy stuff 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:40.400 in there. And then it was like, what's wrong with him? 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:43.200 I'm like, what do you mean? You watched them in college? 0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:46.000 They told Mota go line up in front of this receiver, 0:30:46.440 --> 0:30:48.760 covering him and make sure he doesn't make any catches. 0:30:48.800 --> 0:30:50.200 And he did that, and then you brought him to 0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:52.360 hear and Rob Ryan had them all doing you know, 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:54.880 if everybody here, it was spending. So I know Mose 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:56.840 was as a rookie and that and I think that 0:30:57.080 --> 0:31:00.600 ruined it for him, especially for his rookie year. You're 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:02.920 right looking at the Sam Darnold now with the Jets, 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:04.800 here's a guy that was in USC and this guy was, 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:07.360 this guy could perform. I feel like they've broke in 0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:10.560 with the Giants. So so scheme fits a lot. So yeah, 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:12.360 you're right. I mean Glenn Dorsey at LS, she was 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:17.440 them talk about the bad and you know, go to Kansasy, 0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:19.360 all right, man, plug up some holes, like what do 0:31:19.440 --> 0:31:24.200 we do? Well? Remember watching the game Albert Haynesworth a 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:27.440 hundred million dollars to go plug a tackle? Who gives 0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:29.800 a hundred million dollars to a nervous tackle? 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Two days ago I asked a 0:34:37.400 --> 0:34:41.120 very simple question, right Church made made the assumption and 0:34:41.200 --> 0:34:44.799 a prediction that I thought was wildly absurd. And he said, 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:47.960 the Cowboys go to the playoffs, then they're going to 0:34:48.120 --> 0:34:50.440 the super Bowl. And I said, all right, right, if 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:53.319 that's if you Nostradallas and this stuff really does happen 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:56.480 because you calling it out, Andy Dalton takes this team 0:34:56.560 --> 0:35:00.160 to the super Bowl? Do you sign Dak Prescott next 0:35:00.239 --> 0:35:03.359 year to a forty plus million dollar deal? Hell nah? 0:35:04.600 --> 0:35:07.360 And that's the question for me, Yes, yes, for you, 0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:17.000 Oh yes, yes, he's getting watching money. Yeah. And y'all 0:35:17.120 --> 0:35:20.399 just talked about how hard it was to draft people 0:35:20.480 --> 0:35:23.600 and how how big of missus that the GM's in 0:35:23.640 --> 0:35:26.479 the NFL do and y'all want to sink all that money. 0:35:27.160 --> 0:35:28.640 You know, how much pressure is gonna be on Will 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:32.680 McClay to hit defensively in this draft? Man? Oh man, 0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:39.080 here comes eight and Nate ten and six Church. If 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:43.799 it's anything that I've seen this year, I mean, first 0:35:43.800 --> 0:35:45.560 of all, you guys, you know, you guys know I'm 0:35:45.560 --> 0:35:48.480 always I've always been a that guy, but I this 0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:52.399 year solidified it even more to me that you're gonna 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:55.000 pay to get this guy. First off, it's the organization's 0:35:55.120 --> 0:35:58.040 problem and fault for not having this deal done. I 0:35:58.200 --> 0:36:01.479 firmly once they want so Wentz got paid and Golf 0:36:01.520 --> 0:36:03.600 got paid that they just needed to sign sign him 0:36:03.680 --> 0:36:05.759 up to the same check. If you signed up to 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:07.319 the same check, you'd have done it. But there were 0:36:07.320 --> 0:36:09.520 people at that time. I don't think he's worth thirty 0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:11.320 million dollars. They're trying to sit up and get some 0:36:11.400 --> 0:36:13.560 deal for twenty five or twenty eight. They were wrong. 0:36:13.920 --> 0:36:15.880 Should have signed him too that. So what have we 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:19.200 seen between Wins and Golf. Those guys aren't even worth 0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:22.600 that money. Okay, they're not even worth that money. I 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:26.040 was on Twitter yesterday, are not arguing but but debating 0:36:26.080 --> 0:36:28.600 with a lady about Deshaun Watson making the Pro Bowl 0:36:28.600 --> 0:36:30.960 because Ryan Tannehill was upset saying he should have made it. 0:36:31.280 --> 0:36:33.560 And I'm like, okay, so, so who you're gonna kick off? 0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:37.480 Ryan Tannehill, Patrick Mahomes. No, you know he's gonna stay 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:40.080 on the team. You know, Deshaun Watson made He wasn't 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:41.799 on a winning team. But I think we all saw 0:36:42.080 --> 0:36:44.960 Deshaun Watson was a one man gang out there offensive 0:36:45.000 --> 0:36:47.440 line South Park. You get rid of DeAndre Hoggins. This 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:49.839 dude is out here at Black Moses out here. Okay, 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:52.440 this guy he got part seas trying to get the 0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:56.239 team and making them. Okay, what have we seen when 0:36:56.320 --> 0:36:59.799 Dak Prescott went down? Everything Everything fell apart, bro every 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:04.040 ear thing, I mean, but first offs. But but we're 0:37:04.080 --> 0:37:05.600 talking about it. If they go to the super Bowl 0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:08.759 like it fell apart. But but we the assumption is 0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:12.920 they make the super Bowl, you have to figure some 0:37:13.000 --> 0:37:16.160 things out. And I just said it. I'm paying Dak 0:37:16.320 --> 0:37:19.759 forty million. Either goes oh no, because you know what, 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:23.000 because if they if the Cowboys end up making the 0:37:23.080 --> 0:37:25.719 super Bowl with this roster, imagine what happens when I 0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:27.560 put in a difference maker like that. That would be 0:37:27.640 --> 0:37:29.880 like the Nets getting That's when the Nets got Kevin Durant. 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:31.719 This year, were gonna bring in Kevin Durant. Okay, bab, 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:33.600 you're about to see something happen here. You're about to 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:36.680 see a difference maker. Dak Prescott is a difference maker 0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:39.880 at a position where not many guys are not difference makers. 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:42.799 That's one of the things that's truly exposed Jared Golf 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:46.120 this year. This guy's not a difference maker. Carson Wentz 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:50.520 is not a difference maker, and you need a difference maker. 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:53.759 To me, if you're going to win. And the Cowboys, 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:56.000 because they tried to be cheap and save some money, 0:37:56.120 --> 0:37:59.000 are now gonna have to pay forty million dollars for 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:02.560 Dak Prescott. That's and they're committee to do it, even 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:04.320 if you go to Super Bowl. I'm paying Dak Prescott. 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:07.360 I agree with you, which your first take when you 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:09.920 say it's it's all the organization's fault when they could 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:12.040 have had just got signed up. I agree. I think 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:14.759 I think Dak is a phenomenal quarterback. I just don't 0:38:14.840 --> 0:38:18.279 think he's worth taking your whole cap and ruining it. 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:20.200 I just don't think so. I think you can take 0:38:20.320 --> 0:38:22.680 that money, you can get a quarterback, and I think 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:24.880 you can take that money and put it towards the defense, 0:38:25.120 --> 0:38:27.840 and I think will be better situated going forward. But 0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:31.600 if we sink all our brand, it's a Dak Prescott 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:34.320 and he, like I said, I think he's a phenomenal quarterback, 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:36.319 but I just don't think he can carry a team 0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:40.239 by himself like the San Watson can. I just I 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:42.239 just you know, it's it's it's tough for me, it's 0:38:42.280 --> 0:38:44.080 tough for me to sink all that in there, knowing 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:47.080 how bad our defense is, and it's all assumes that 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:50.600 Dak Prescott comes back and he's healthy. And you also 0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:52.279 have to assume that we go to the super Bowl, 0:38:52.280 --> 0:38:54.040 which I don't think it's happening. But you know this, 0:38:54.280 --> 0:38:56.400 this is just one of those one of those fantasy 0:38:56.480 --> 0:38:59.160 type things. So you know, I feel, I don't know, 0:38:59.200 --> 0:39:00.880 I think the leverage has lost a little bit if 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:04.480 if Andy Dalton somehow takes this thing to the super Bowl. Now, 0:39:05.120 --> 0:39:08.560 and keep in mind, I am a Andy fan. Got 0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:10.799 to cover Andy at TCU, so you know a lot 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:12.799 of ways got to see this this kid grow up. 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:17.280 I'm an Andy fan. I clearly remember when Andy was signed, 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:19.920 how many of the Dak Hayters were saying, you know what, man, 0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:21.759 this guy just as good, he could do that. I mean, 0:39:21.800 --> 0:39:24.239 there's a whole lot of those What did we see 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:26.799 from Andy Dalkon? We see buried Church out here trying 0:39:26.800 --> 0:39:28.239 to throw the guy out for a dude who was 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:34.759 playing Hey, I apologize, I apologize, right so, and I 0:39:34.960 --> 0:39:37.919 think Andy Dalton is good. Okay, I think Andy Dalton 0:39:38.040 --> 0:39:40.239 is good. And in Church, you would ask, what about 0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:45.640 Andy Dalt's future? I think Chicago, Indianapolis, San Francisco, New England, Denver, Washington. 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:48.400 These are places that I expect Andy Dalton to possibly 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:51.360 be playing next year because these are these are organizations 0:39:51.440 --> 0:39:53.560 that there will probably have some quarterback needs and he 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:56.680 could fit in there. But Dak Prescott, in my opinion, 0:39:57.520 --> 0:39:59.840 raises the level of other people, and that's what you 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:05.080 pay a franchise guy for. I thought Ezekiel Elliott was 0:40:05.080 --> 0:40:07.360 gonna be able to do something and show us something 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:09.400 with Dak Prescott being out, Like, okay, hey, put it 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:11.319 back on twenty one. That's what abody say, it's all 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:13.719 about twenty one. Well, guess what we saw. It didn't matter. 0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:16.479 It didn't matter. Now it's not all twenty one's fault 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:18.759 because his offensive line is nowhere near what it needs 0:40:18.800 --> 0:40:20.640 to be. Okay, so I'm not putting up but but 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:25.160 but there was this assumption, Hey man, we go got 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.000 Andy Dalkon would be just fine and just give it 0:40:27.040 --> 0:40:32.600 to twenty one. And no, Dak Prescott is a difference 0:40:32.680 --> 0:40:35.520 making quarterback and in this league, and you see how 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:38.840 bad the quarterback play is, that's what it's going to 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:42.000 cost you, okay, Church, and you can set up and 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:43.880 say it's gonna wreck your cat. You know what Houston 0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:46.319 find Houston decided we're gonna wreck our cat. We're gonna 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.319 do what we're gonna do. And there's somebody you see 0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:51.840 what's record. But is that what is that the shot off? 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:56.920 Where would they be without him? I mean yeah, let 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:59.400 me ask you, do you think do you think that 0:40:59.680 --> 0:41:02.480 Dak Prescott with his bat let's just say our defense 0:41:02.600 --> 0:41:04.799 is just as bad next year? Do you think Dak 0:41:04.840 --> 0:41:07.600 Prescott can carry this team to the playoffs and even 0:41:07.880 --> 0:41:09.480 into the super Bowl. Let's just say that to the 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:11.680 Super Bow, because anybody's tried, are just going to the playoffs? 0:41:11.760 --> 0:41:13.520 You said you know, you said it yourself. Jerry Jones 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:15.040 is getting up there in age and he wants a 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:18.759 super Bowl. Do you think Dak Prescott can carry a 0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:20.800 team all the way to the super Bowl with a 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:26.640 defense being historically bad. That's a tough task for any 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:28.800 That's a tough task for any guy in his league. 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:33.160 But I'll say it this way. I believe Dak. Signing 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:36.040 Dak Prescott and having him as your quarterback gives you 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:40.279 your best opportunity to get to a super Bowl. I 0:41:40.400 --> 0:41:43.680 believe it does. I go back to a Joe Flacco 0:41:43.760 --> 0:41:45.840 and I'm reading a book right now by John Fineteine 0:41:45.840 --> 0:41:47.600 called The Quarterback, and just going back to Joe Flacco 0:41:47.640 --> 0:41:51.320 and his evolution and what he's done there. If Flacco, 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:52.600 I thought I had a pretty good thing. And you 0:41:52.640 --> 0:41:54.360 guys know this is playing in the league. What you 0:41:54.440 --> 0:41:55.960 want to do is get yourself in a position, get 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:58.560 yourself an opportunity, you know, consistently, make the playoffs, and 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:00.840 see where you can go. I believe Dak Prescott with 0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:03.279 a consistent run of five or six years, if he's 0:42:03.280 --> 0:42:05.920 there starting quarterback, I believe they can possibly get to 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:08.600 a super Bowl. I got some other management issues about 0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:10.960 how they do things on this football team, but I'm 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:14.439 not worried about the quarterback. I'll pay the quarterback. Okay, 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:17.239 I'll pay the quarterback. They're also hedging their bets as 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:19.440 his TV deal is going to go up. I know this. 0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:22.520 TV deals for the NFL rarely ever go down. Jerry 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:24.879 Jones made sure that that's how they moved the NFL 0:42:24.960 --> 0:42:29.080 from CBS to Fox. So signing Dak Prescott the forty 0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:30.800 million dollars is going to be what they have to do. 0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:34.000 I do believe in Dak Prescott. This defense, Yes, it 0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:36.279 has to get fixed. And the biggest thing is right now, 0:42:36.400 --> 0:42:38.279 I gotta get a defensive coordinator in here who can 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:40.640 at least tell me what can I do with some 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:42.879 of these personnel Guys? Who do I say and who 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:44.920 do I get rid of? But you're going to commit 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:47.399 to the quarterback right now, you're seeing in this league 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:49.960 what happens when you don't have a guy worth a salt. 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:54.320 Look at the Eagles, look at the Rams. How about Cleveland? 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:57.200 Right now, Cleveland used a number one pick on Baker Mayfield. 0:42:57.239 --> 0:42:58.960 They're going to have to make a choice here in 0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:00.600 about two years or whether they gon pick up this 0:43:00.600 --> 0:43:03.200 fifthyear option. To do they give this guy thirty million 0:43:03.239 --> 0:43:06.520 dollars A here, look at Jimmy Garondbolo in San Francisco. 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:08.600 Jimmy took him to a Super Bowl, and they're like, 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:10.279 I don't know if we're gonna bring this guy back. 0:43:10.840 --> 0:43:14.600 It's hard to find competent quarterback play. You got competent 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:17.520 quarterback play, and Dak Prescott pay the note for forty 0:43:17.520 --> 0:43:20.080 million dollars versus going off into the abyss and hoping 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:22.880 you've got something, you know, your Mitchell Trubisky away from 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:24.640 trying to say what do we do to ourselves? Look 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:26.480 at Philadelphia right now, they don't even know what they're 0:43:26.480 --> 0:43:28.880 gonna do next year. I mean, think of what the 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:32.440 problem Philadelphia has next year that Dallas does not, what 0:43:32.640 --> 0:43:35.120 Washington has in terms of a problem that Dallas is not. 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:38.239 That the Giants has a problem that Dallas does not 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:41.320 if they signed Dak Presco. But Dallas got one of 0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:43.480 the biggest problems out of all those teams, and that's 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:46.080 their defense. Like when we're talking about you know, they 0:43:46.160 --> 0:43:48.000 have all these quarterbacks, but how are we gonna stop 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:50.840 anybody from scoring? Mc crae, what do you think about this? Mccraige. 0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:53.480 I think this is crazy. I think that y'all are 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:57.319 like the one the question was, if Andy Dalton takes 0:43:57.400 --> 0:43:59.680 this team to the Super Bowl, what do you think 0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:01.640 about signed in Dak Prescott? And then it's like, then 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:04.719 Andy Dalton's gone. Think about this. Andy Dalton would have 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:08.160 had to win four games in a row plus maker 0:44:08.280 --> 0:44:10.759 run to the Super Bowl to get there, all right, 0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:13.759 So we just acting like Andy Dalton can't can't be 0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:16.640 a quarterback here? If he, you know, happens to do that. 0:44:16.800 --> 0:44:18.719 That's why I say I think the leverage falls a 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:20.680 little bit, because, yeah, you can say Andy Dalton might 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:22.600 go to Chicago and this other place. He could also 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:25.480 stay another us. If he's your super Bowl, if he's 0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:28.399 your super Bowl guy, if he if he was getting 0:44:28.400 --> 0:44:30.040 super Bowl, if he goes to the super Bowl, he 0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:32.080 gets the Trip Dulford treat. That's what will happened to him. 0:44:32.800 --> 0:44:35.319 They'll say thank you, but we need to approve upon 0:44:35.480 --> 0:44:37.560 this position and trip Dulford got showed in the door 0:44:37.640 --> 0:44:41.120 and they brought it Elvis grback in Baltimore. But but Jerry, 0:44:41.320 --> 0:44:44.440 Jerry's already told you they're bringing it back. Mike McCartney 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:47.279 said to day talking about Dak Prescott. He's here every day, 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:48.719 is a big part of our football team. He's a 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:50.920 big part of our future. So were having these conversations 0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:53.239 about something the organization has already told us they're bringing 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:55.520 Prescott back. So if they're bringing it back, they're paying 0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:58.360 the forty million dollars. Note NUIs they told you there 0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:00.600 was gonna pay him two years ago. They lay they 0:45:00.640 --> 0:45:02.799 can say whatever they want to about that. They can 0:45:02.840 --> 0:45:04.800 say whatever they want to. They haven't done it. Okay, 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:08.719 And you also you're also talking about you're talking about 0:45:08.719 --> 0:45:11.720 a guy who was coming off a really, really bad injury. 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.120 So you have to assume a lot of different things. Right, 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:16.759 Let's let's says he's behind the eight ball. When when 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:19.560 you get back into training camp, then what do you do? 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:21.480 You don't have any Doughton any before you go out 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:25.520 with double G. Okay, yes, great quick. I love that 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:28.600 because I asked a friend of mine who's an agent 0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:31.239 and who signed big deals in this league and worked 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.160 with a lot of quarterbacks. I asked him about that, 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:36.680 and he told me, he said, look, this league is 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:40.640 so starved that he'll get If the Cowboys don't want 0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:42.040 to pay that money, he'll get it on the free 0:45:42.040 --> 0:45:44.440 agent market because other people want that guy so much. 0:45:44.680 --> 0:45:46.879 And then he pointed back his head, Lekadur Bricks. Here's 0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:49.560 a guy that had a bad shoulder, that flunked, flunked 0:45:49.960 --> 0:45:52.200 the test in Miami and New Orleans still went out 0:45:52.200 --> 0:45:54.680 there and wrote a checkpool. He said, Dak Prescott should 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.240 get paid. He said, he said, that's just how desperate 0:45:57.280 --> 0:45:58.839 people in this league are. And he said, look, how 0:45:58.920 --> 0:46:01.479 much money Kirk Cousins, he's getting And he said, who's 0:46:01.480 --> 0:46:04.000 a better quarterback, Dak Prescott Kirk Cousins. He said, what 0:46:04.000 --> 0:46:05.879 would you who would you want to get money too? 0:46:06.960 --> 0:46:08.640 You said, would you rather pay money to a hurt 0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:12.399 Dak Prescott or a healthy Kirk Cousins like you know Kurt. 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.760 So so he's going k did not get paid in Washington. 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:17.440 Though Kurt didn't get paid in Washington, they let him 0:46:17.480 --> 0:46:19.600 move on and go to Minnesota. All right, So so 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:22.120 Dak Prescott will he will get his bread, he will 0:46:22.200 --> 0:46:24.040 get his bread. I'm just I'm just saying that this 0:46:24.160 --> 0:46:26.000 hypothetical day we have with the Super Bowl, I'm not 0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:28.360 sure to be here. Oh I'm glad you said that 0:46:28.480 --> 0:46:31.000 about about Kirk Cousins. And once again and reading the 0:46:31.040 --> 0:46:33.719 book Quarterback by John Fines, and he just went over 0:46:33.800 --> 0:46:36.920 this um this part in the book where Daniel Snyder 0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:41.280 and especially Bruce Allen, they didn't believe in Kirk Cousins. 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:44.040 He was never a guy. They were sold on the 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:47.359 cowboys here are singing a different tune. And Stephen Jones 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:50.400 talked about the number of years Dak wants four, they 0:46:50.480 --> 0:46:53.560 want five, so that that in itself puts him in 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:56.719 a different position than kirk Cousins. They never made him 0:46:56.840 --> 0:46:59.640 a real offer. They never made him a real offer. 0:46:59.719 --> 0:47:02.480 And Washington, they've made an offer here and it's come 0:47:02.560 --> 0:47:04.560 down to the years. So there in lies, there in 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:09.239 lies a difference there about about the situation. They franchised 0:47:09.280 --> 0:47:12.520 them two years in the row they sacrifice, they capped 0:47:12.560 --> 0:47:14.920 twice for kirk Cousins and then and then let him 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:16.800 get out of there. So I mean it's different. But 0:47:17.000 --> 0:47:18.680 like I said, Dallas has been singing this soon for 0:47:18.719 --> 0:47:20.520 two years and they still haven't gotten this man paid. 0:47:20.560 --> 0:47:22.120 They know what, they know how many years he want. 0:47:22.280 --> 0:47:24.080 So if he still wants four years next year, you're 0:47:24.080 --> 0:47:26.640 still gonna do the same thing. Well, I'll tell you what. 0:47:26.760 --> 0:47:29.160 Here's what we do know. They're running out of chances. 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.080 I mean, they running out of chance. They they're gonna 0:47:31.120 --> 0:47:33.759 have to really literally sign a contractor get off the 0:47:33.840 --> 0:47:36.160 pot because they're running out of chances. You know, this 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:38.200 is where they're at. So we'll know here, we'll know 0:47:38.320 --> 0:47:40.439 here one or two years what they you know, they'll 0:47:40.480 --> 0:47:41.960 have to really back it up here in the next 0:47:42.040 --> 0:47:44.400 one or two years for sure. All Right, we're running 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:46.799 late here we're running late. We'll get well, we'll say 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:49.000 the defensive topic for tomorrow. Okay, who do we really 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:51.600 credit for the Stephen? So also make our predictions. New 0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:55.360 Year's Eve is our last show, um that we'll do 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:58.759 this week. Um Big boss Man Doc Team Derek Eagleton says, 0:47:58.800 --> 0:48:01.520 we're taking Friday New Year's Day off, which is okay 0:48:01.520 --> 0:48:03.120 because I'm gonna run out to the Rose Bowl. I 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:05.200 want to check out, check out Alabama do that thing. 0:48:05.239 --> 0:48:07.319 And the AP Defensive Player of the Year DeVante Smith, 0:48:07.360 --> 0:48:09.080 want to see him get off and do his things. 0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:12.040 So we'll do one last show. Have our predictions already said. 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:14.000 Giants are gonna win, but we'll get the official predictions 0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:17.600 from Barry and Danny for Chris Bean Danny mccraig, Berry 0:48:17.680 --> 0:48:19.320 Church on NEWI Scripts. Thank you for watching The Players 0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:21.400 Latch brought you by Hotels dot Com or Dallas Cowboys 0:48:21.560 --> 0:48:25.080 dot Com Radio. 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