WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Who's Better Than Zeke? 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:17.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lane, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:22.320 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:27.960 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray and Newe Scrugs. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.959 Happy Friday. All football fans, especially are Cowboys fans. Check 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.519 it out The players LaunchBox to you by Hotels dot Com. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.559 I'm NEWI Scrugs joined by Danny McCray. Mccraig used to 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.680 play for the Dallas Cowboys. Barry Churches taking the day 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.559 all four day working for Nostre Damas, So it's just 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.680 dmc and I ride with you for the next forty 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.040 five minutes getting you ready for Cowboys and Vikings, which 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:01.680 will be Sunday and US Bank Stadium in minip Minnesota. Danny, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.560 if you played up there at that new Minnesota stadium, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.480 I have not. I have not gotten a chance to 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.479 go up there, so you know it looks like I won't. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.840 But seeing it on TV, it looks amazing. I heard 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.880 you talking about it and you said it's like a 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.800 Do you say a many Jerry's World or is it 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.000 comfarable to say that it's Uh, it's on the same 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.720 level as an att stadium. No, not at all, not 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.480 because I mean, first off, the size, and that's a 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.000 lot of things. And I'm sure you've noticed once you 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.319 start going to these other stadiums the size of Jerry 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.920 World so much bigger, and people who were making these 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.000 new stadiums based off Jerry World, they're they're smaller. I mean, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.680 Minnesota just doesn't have that that seating capacity that they 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.120 have up there for for the Cowboys, which seats you know, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.080 ninety thousand and can can increase, you know, do one 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.880 hundred thousand if Jerry wants it too. So the size 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.720 of it right out of the gates, one thing I 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.520 noticed it is like, hey, it's not as big, but 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.640 you know, the models are the same, and the way 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.040 they tried to build it, and of course you know 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.080 they use the same arch check. But it is it 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.880 is a very nice arena. I never got to go 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.120 to um the the old Metrodome, but uh, us US 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.200 Bank Stadium. It's it's a nice place up there in Minnesota. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.919 And actually it was the first year it was open. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.440 The Cowboys played a Thursday night game up there on 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.040 NBC and that was that was when we we went 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.240 up there, we we did some live shots inside on 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.720 a Wednesday night and then we ended up going to 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.840 the game on on Thursday. So it's a good atmosphere 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.640 that got that got good fans up there. Obviously in 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.239 COVID everything is different, but um it is. I would 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.200 put it on your bucket list of places that you 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.280 want to go see a football game when uh, when 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:43.519 when COVID goes away here Danny look, so I will 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.960 say that I probably do. I will create a bucket 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.280 list for places that I want to go, especially like 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.919 football experiences, but most of them will be college stadiums first. Uh, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.480 you know, I want to go to the Big House. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.240 I heard it's crazy there. Um it was at Michigan 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.360 Ohio State. I want to. I want to go compare 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:05.200 Clemson's Death Valley to LSU's Death Valley, just so I can, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.720 you know, satisfy myself and say that ours is better. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.640 But then then maybe I'll throw Minnesota on there. But 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:15.120 I mean it looks great. Um and with these new stadiums, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.920 to me, I just wonder like what's next. So when 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.200 when Jerry first built his it was like, man, that's crazy. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.040 How is anybody gonna gonna wint up this one. And 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.240 then you start seeing these new stadiums go up. And 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.120 then I'm hearing about so Far Stadium, and I heard 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.760 that is the next level, the screen that they have there, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.720 the way it's all set up with the landscaping, green 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.360 erie outside, and and and I heard that as the 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.040 next level or from Jerry. So now I'm wondering, how, how, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.400 how somebody's gonna want up that, and what will we 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.680 be looking at in the next ten to fifteen years 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.520 at these NFL stadiums. That was one thing I hated 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.160 about us not being able to go and travel this 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.920 year because I was headed out to that that that game, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.880 first one of the year, the Rams and Cowboys a 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.080 Sofi Stadium and Jerry Jones, I don't know if you 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.040 ever ever heard the story, but Jerry had said that 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.720 the NFL many years ago came to him to sit 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.520 and said, if you're willing to sell the Cowboys, we 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.200 will give you the La market. We want you to 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.880 be the guy to do LA and Jerry said no. Jerry. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.440 By the way, I was born in Elsa, Gundo got 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.320 the key to the city before the Cowboys ended up 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.080 playing Super Bowl twenty seven and beating the Buffalo bills. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:31.120 So he didn't do it. But Stan Cronky obviously had 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.040 the blessing from Jerry because I don't know if you 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.080 remember or not, but Cronkey was trying to move to 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:41.360 LA from Saint Louis and then you had Dean Spanos 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.279 and Mark Davis working together on a Carson project in 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.320 Los Angeles. So it was it was two competing stadiums 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.400 trying to get to LA, and Jerry maneuvered it so 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.640 Stan Cronky could get it. And Cronky also got the 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.360 RAM I mean got not only can to get the 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.400 rams from from St. Louis to LA, but he also 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.000 Jerry helped engineered to the charge went up to Sofi 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.160 Stadium and then he helped the Raiders get over to 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.880 the Las Vegas. So Jerry truly is a deal you know, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.560 a deal maker, and Cronky, you know, obviously looked at 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.560 what Jerry World was and built at next level. And 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.640 Jerry has been very adamant saying that that's what he wanted. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.280 That LA needed to be big, it needed to be great, um, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.960 it needed to be a show stopping stadium. And obviously 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.599 you know it is because they're gonna have the Olympics 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.600 in Los Angeles and they're gonna have this Sofi Stadium 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.800 and everything that Jerry Ruld has got they're gonna have 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.080 over there Sofi Stadium. So um, that's that is now 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.120 the bar, Danny Sofi Stadium is the bar. And I 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.960 don't know who's gonna topic because Stan Cronky built that 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.000 with private funds. There was no funding from from California. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.480 Californians don't build stadiums like they do in other places 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.240 like Texas, like cd Rticton. Hey, here's a half billion dollars. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.760 They don't do that in Los Angeles, man, they don't. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.720 The Staples that was built with private money. It's it's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.800 it's a lot of it's a lot of money out there. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:57.800 There's a lot of big players out there that are 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.159 looking to get into the NFL, and I'm sure they 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.920 can find some private funding to try to go next level. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.039 I'm not sure what city it will be in, but 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.679 I can guarantee you that there's somebody out there looking 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.719 right now saying you know, I'm looking to buy an 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.080 NFL team. They're getting the group together and they're looking 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.080 at so far stadium and saying, hey, this is the 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.480 bar and we want to do us next. We want 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.760 to be known as the guys or the group who 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.360 created the best NFL stadium. So I'm sure it's coming. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.320 Not sure how many years from now it's going to be, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.040 but you know, ten to fifteen years from now, we'll 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.279 be saying so far stadium was its second tier and 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.200 somebody will be creating something that we never could imagine before. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.120 What I wonder is will that be somewhere internationally? Could 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.040 somebody do something, you know over in Europe where they 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.560 go and do something we've never seen before, and then 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.080 that becomes something that we copy, and maybe it's based 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.280 off soccer that they come up with some type of 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.279 incredible way to do a stadium. Now, Mark Cuban talk 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.440 to me one time about building another stadium and that 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.520 he wanted to have the stadium on top of a building, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.840 like I had this huge building and then out on 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.120 top of it there's you know, there's the arena. So 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.160 maybe that's maybe maybe it's something like that, But you're right, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.360 there's gonna be a new innovation somewhere. It's just a 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.360 matter of who does it. But um, that's that's why 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.120 Jerry is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Um, 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.320 what he did in terms of innovating in the National 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.520 Football League and also making making people money. He taught 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:28.960 other NFL owners how to make money, and they're all 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.400 in the stadium game. Uh, that's that was what Jerry 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.360 did differently than everyone else. People forget that when Jerry 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.400 bought the Cowboys, he also had to buy a Texas stadium, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:39.920 and people thought he was dumb to do that. They 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.240 were like, you don't want to be in the stadium game. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.640 You just want to run a football team. And now 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.720 every owner wants to own the stadium. They don't want 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.200 the city to own it and just lease it from 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:48.800 the city. They want to own the stadium and put 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.600 events there. And you're seeing what the Texas Rangers did. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.840 Texas Rangers, they had a rodeo last week. Well, who's 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.840 gonna get ready to have a rodeo? Jerry's get ready 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.200 to have rodeo. Everybody's copying what he what Jerry's doing, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.840 and that's that's what makes him a Hall of Famer 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.880 in terms of he changed the way we look at 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.000 professional football, the way we see professional football. That's what 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.200 Jerry helped do. Yeah, he's definitely a game changer man, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.960 and he putting his stamp on it and just listening 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.440 to you know, he has legends for the giants up 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.680 there in New York, he has connections in LA he 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.560 has connections all over the place. And if you want 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.920 to get something done, I think most guys and most 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.520 teams know that Jerry is the ear that you that 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.000 you need to be getting into because he had he 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.679 has the key to a lot of places. And if 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.120 he doesn't, he knows somebody that does. And he has 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.680 an idea that can make your make your stadium, your team, 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.160 or your pocketbook go to the next level. So he's 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.760 that guy man. He has that title. He earned it 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.800 and he deserves it. Here's my last thing on that um. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.400 As you know, I used to work in Cleveland and 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.560 and Art Modell was the owner of the Browns, and 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.520 I was there also when they left and when they 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.400 went to Baltimore ended up firing Bill Belichick. Out a 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.800 fantastic conversation once with mister Modell, and he was great 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.200 to me. Art was great to me. Art did not 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.160 like Jerry at all. He thought that Jerry was too 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.280 big for his bridges and that Jerry only cared about 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.000 himself and didn't care about the league because Art was 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.800 a very old school owner and he thought of Jerry 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:19.960 as a new school owner. And Art had to end 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.760 up selling his team. He couldn't afford it. He could 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.960 not afford it, which is crazy when you think about 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.720 it today. What what NFL owners is going in debt 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.040 that he has to sell a team. Had Art Modell 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.360 embraced Jerry Jones, he probably would have never had to 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.280 leave Cleveland and he would have been in the Pro 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.760 Football Hall of Fame. But his resistance to Jerry and 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.920 the way Jerry was trying to do business in new 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.160 business in the National Football League ended up being a 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.760 part of his demise where he left Cleveland, hated in Cleveland, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.160 went to Baltimore, did end up winning a Super Bowl, 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.199 but had to sell it to Steve b. Shotti because 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.640 he simply couldn't afford it anymore, and he ended up 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.199 passing away. And he'll ever get in the Pro Football 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.280 Hall of Fame. That that that's kind That's my story 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.080 of Art Modell not listening to Jerry. So Art Modell 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.600 is Blockbuster and Jerry Jones is Netflix. In that in 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.199 that scenario, Hull, I'm gonna trying to teach you to, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.520 you know, to to elevate your game and and go 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.719 with the new wave, and you kind of just want 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.040 to stay in the old way. And then all of 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.480 a sudden, you know, you no longer existing as far 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.480 as being in a having a team and being an 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.360 NFL owner. That's tough, man, because a lot of people 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.480 can't see that vision and it's no fault of their own. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.160 They're just not able to see things, uh, the way 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.440 that some other people are. And when you bring somebody 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.320 an idea like that, if your mind is stuck where 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.760 it is, then you know you don't have a capacity 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.040 to see the same vision and innovative idea that somebody 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.319 like Jerry Jones will bring along, and you just don't 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.320 think it's possible. And then sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.680 In this case, he was very wrong, And that's just 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.720 how it goes sometimes. Yeah, And in the shame of it, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.480 I mean that Danny the sham Art Modell is a 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.200 good guy. I mean, he was a good guy who 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:59.960 loved pro football. But I was a fan of Art 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.040 and I know a lot of people hate to hear that, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:06.800 especially those those in the Cleveland Northeast Ohio area. He 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.080 had a good heart, but this was one where he 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.920 did not want to listen to the new ideas and 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.360 was holding to the old guard ways. And you have 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.920 to change the world that you have to adapt, you 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:19.679 have to adapt, and he didn't do it, and by 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.280 the time he did, it was too late. He couldn't 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.439 get his stadium built and he left. And anyway, it 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.760 was just it was for me. I thought it was 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.680 sad because he could have had a better ending for himself. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.800 Speaking of Jerry Jones, he has his radio show on 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.880 Fridays as well, ten thirty on one oh five three 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.000 The Fan and Danny was an interesting thing where he 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.800 came out and said that, and this about Zeke Elliott quote, 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.640 he's our best football player, He's our best one. Do 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.040 you agree Zeke Elliott the best player on the Dallas 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:53.800 copitols I do. I've never lost faith in Zeke. I 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.120 know that some of the circumstances around the team right 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.559 now may make his performance look subpar, but I mean, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.360 the guy fumble right, and some of the holes aren't 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.640 open like they used to be. I also said that 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.920 he looked a little quicker in his last game. I mean, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.400 I take into account everything Zeke has done previously, lead 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.680 the league in Russian, you know, being out when he 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.480 was facing suspension, coming back every week, not knowing if 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:19.640 he was going to be able to play or not, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.920 and still going out there and being able to perform. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.760 And then you come into this year and all of 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.960 a sudden, it starts off a little shaky, as the 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.920 entire team has started off a little shaky, and people 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.400 start to get off a Zeke a little bit, and 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.600 that's just not me. I think he's still the best player. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.120 I think if you if you use him the way 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.559 that he is supposed to be used, run the ball 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.640 with him, focus the game around him, and then you know, 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.160 get him involved in the past the game just a 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.360 little bit, don't try to do all that extra stuff 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.880 using him like Kamar and having him run all these 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.240 special routes, do what he's great at, and and he 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.640 can change the game, you know, for us in a 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.240 positive way. And then nineteen is number two right now 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.600 because that is out. But yeah, Zeke is our guy, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.640 and I think that the game should revolve around him, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.079 and I think that's our best chance they're winning any 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.360 games this season. If especially, if you want to do 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.920 what Church said, and you know we'll go six and 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.559 ten and lead the division to make the playoffs. If 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.120 you're not gonna do it on Zeke's back, you're not 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.440 gonna do it at all. So Ezekiel right now is 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.559 eleventh in the National Football League and rushing, he's averaging 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.679 a career low three point eight. He's got five touchdowns 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.040 on one hundred and fifty attemphs. And it's interesting that 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.400 we bring up Zeke Elliott because the Cowboys are facing 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.280 Dalvin Cook on Sunday of the Vikings, and Dalvin Cook, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.080 a guy who drafted the second round out of Florida State, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.400 is number one in the league and rushing right now, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.320 and we pull up his numbers right here. Cook nine 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.360 hundred and fifty four yards on one hundred and seventy 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.360 four attempts with twelve touchdowns. He averages five point two 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.560 average in the NFL this year. That's number two when 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:56.080 it comes to average. Here's my thing, and I'm gonna 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.880 piggyback off what you said because you and I are 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.640 in the same thing here. If Ezekiel Elliott was used 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.920 in the fashion of Dalvin Cook, this wouldn't even have 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.920 to be a question because we would already know the answer. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.720 And for me, it's very frustrating to watch Jerry Jones 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.360 commit ninety million dollars to a player that the coaching 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:22.960 staff is underutilizing. This is just crazy. I've seen teams 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.560 that were bad and their old lines suspect, but had 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.800 great running backs who could turn their seasons around. Ladamian 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.800 Tomlinson was that guy with the Chargers. Remember when Drew 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.560 Brees and LT got there. The Charges were struggling, give 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.000 it to give it to LT, and next thing you know, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.160 the Charger has become a very good football team. And 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.880 Emmett was the same way. And Nate Newton openly talks 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.840 about that. He said, hey man, I was just an 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.040 okay player that Emmett came. Next thing you know, I'm 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:55.480 a Pro Bowl guard. Zeke's special And it's frustrating to 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.080 me to see a guy not be used when he's 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.200 special and and you decided to pay them. It makes 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.120 zero sense to me of why this guy is got 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.320 just one hundred and fifty carries and a guy like 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.680 Cook is sitting up here with a buck seventy four 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.440 and the Vikings as they went through their losing streak. Okay, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.360 how do we change it around? Well, dog on it. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.760 We talked about it yesterday. And the last three games 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.400 all right, Chicago thirty three rushing attempts, thirty six passes, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.720 Detroit thirty four rushing attempts, twenty passes, against Green Bay 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.800 thirty four rushing attempts, fourteen passes. So in their past 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.840 three games that they've won, one hundred and one attempts 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.360 rushing the ball seventy passing. They've decided we're gonna we're 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.840 going to win behind Dalvin Cook, and we're going to 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.200 play defense. And you and I've talked about this too, Danny, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.240 you got a bad defense. How do you help out 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.600 your bad defense? Run the ball, chew up the clock? 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.640 Why is it? Why is it? Why did they make 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.920 it harder than it needs to be. I don't listen. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.600 And this is why I've been on killing more so 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.960 so so bad this season. I don't understand how you 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.400 can have a guy like Zeke. And Kellen mool was 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.800 here when Zeke was able to get some of this 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.560 stuff done. He was watching Zeke performing the way that 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.560 he did. And then you get into the season and 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.560 you look at this guy twenty one who everybody at 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.000 one point was like, hey, if Zeke is not on 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.960 the field, then we might not have a chance to 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.240 win it. But as soon as Zeke comes back, then 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.520 we have a chance to do everything that we set 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.160 our mind to, as far as being division champs, super 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.760 Bowl champs, making deep runs, doing all that. Kelly Moore 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.200 was here to see that. He was here when Jason Garrett, 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.240 he was here watching all this stuff, and then all 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.960 of a sudden, Jason Garrett leaves and then you forget 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.560 that you have this guy here. I don't understand how 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.560 Jerry has let them forget, especially since he did write 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.040 the ninety million dollars check. And this goes to show 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.160 you know, this is like permeate through the whole team. Right, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:45.760 Like I said, you have a one hundred million dollars 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.440 receiver who we feel the same about. Now you have 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.720 a ninety million dollars running back who we feel the 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.840 same about. That's one hundred and ninety million dollars that's 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.960 being underutilized. And I'm the owner. I'm going in there 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.640 and saying, hey, man, especially where we're at as a team. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.440 Now we need to be focusing our game plan around 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.040 one hundred and million dollars. Check that out wrote these 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.720 two guys, and we know that they can still perform. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.920 You've seen it when of Mark Cooper has the ball 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.000 in his hands, he's he's called touchdowns. He's still you know, 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.840 he's not the bottom of the league. Even though that 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.679 we have some of these some of our quarterback and 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.080 old line issues, He's still able to make these plays 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.159 and you can see the flashes of that when he 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.960 catches the ball. Same with Ze. Yes, he's fumbled, running 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.200 backs fumbled before this, he hasn't been a fumbling guy. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.680 Still focus on him and give him a shot because 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.159 he's carried you for so many years. Give him that 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.919 same respect that you gave him last in the previous season, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.760 and I guarantee you he'll show you that he still 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.679 has it. But for some reason, we may be you know, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.600 you know, all success in the draft may be holding 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.840 us back, you know, with too many weapons, with the 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.560 CD Lamb and the Michael Gallup and trying to focus 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.000 on polar and do do too many things. 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