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Speaker 1: dmc and I ride with you for the next forty
Speaker 1: five minutes getting you ready for Cowboys and Vikings, which
Speaker 1: will be Sunday and US Bank Stadium in minip Minnesota. Danny,
Speaker 1: if you played up there at that new Minnesota stadium,
Speaker 1: I have not. I have not gotten a chance to
Speaker 1: go up there, so you know it looks like I won't.
Speaker 1: But seeing it on TV, it looks amazing. I heard
Speaker 1: you talking about it and you said it's like a
Speaker 1: Do you say a many Jerry's World or is it
Speaker 1: comfarable to say that it's Uh, it's on the same
Speaker 1: level as an att stadium. No, not at all, not
Speaker 1: because I mean, first off, the size, and that's a
Speaker 1: lot of things. And I'm sure you've noticed once you
Speaker 1: start going to these other stadiums the size of Jerry
Speaker 1: World so much bigger, and people who were making these
Speaker 1: new stadiums based off Jerry World, they're they're smaller. I mean,
Speaker 1: Minnesota just doesn't have that that seating capacity that they
Speaker 1: have up there for for the Cowboys, which seats you know,
Speaker 1: ninety thousand and can can increase, you know, do one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand if Jerry wants it too. So the size
Speaker 1: of it right out of the gates, one thing I
Speaker 1: noticed it is like, hey, it's not as big, but
Speaker 1: you know, the models are the same, and the way
Speaker 1: they tried to build it, and of course you know
Speaker 1: they use the same arch check. But it is it
Speaker 1: is a very nice arena. I never got to go
Speaker 1: to um the the old Metrodome, but uh, us US
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. It's it's a nice place up there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And actually it was the first year it was open.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys played a Thursday night game up there on
Speaker 1: NBC and that was that was when we we went
Speaker 1: up there, we we did some live shots inside on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night and then we ended up going to
Speaker 1: the game on on Thursday. So it's a good atmosphere
Speaker 1: that got that got good fans up there. Obviously in
Speaker 1: COVID everything is different, but um it is. I would
Speaker 1: put it on your bucket list of places that you
Speaker 1: want to go see a football game when uh, when
Speaker 1: when COVID goes away here Danny look, so I will
Speaker 1: say that I probably do. I will create a bucket
Speaker 1: list for places that I want to go, especially like
Speaker 1: football experiences, but most of them will be college stadiums first. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to go to the Big House.
Speaker 1: I heard it's crazy there. Um it was at Michigan
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I want to. I want to go compare
Speaker 1: Clemson's Death Valley to LSU's Death Valley, just so I can,
Speaker 1: you know, satisfy myself and say that ours is better.
Speaker 1: But then then maybe I'll throw Minnesota on there. But
Speaker 1: I mean it looks great. Um and with these new stadiums,
Speaker 1: to me, I just wonder like what's next. So when
Speaker 1: when Jerry first built his it was like, man, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: How is anybody gonna gonna wint up this one. And
Speaker 1: then you start seeing these new stadiums go up. And
Speaker 1: then I'm hearing about so Far Stadium, and I heard
Speaker 1: that is the next level, the screen that they have there,
Speaker 1: the way it's all set up with the landscaping, green
Speaker 1: erie outside, and and and I heard that as the
Speaker 1: next level or from Jerry. So now I'm wondering, how, how,
Speaker 1: how somebody's gonna want up that, and what will we
Speaker 1: be looking at in the next ten to fifteen years
Speaker 1: at these NFL stadiums. That was one thing I hated
Speaker 1: about us not being able to go and travel this
Speaker 1: year because I was headed out to that that that game,
Speaker 1: first one of the year, the Rams and Cowboys a
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium and Jerry Jones, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: ever ever heard the story, but Jerry had said that
Speaker 1: the NFL many years ago came to him to sit
Speaker 1: and said, if you're willing to sell the Cowboys, we
Speaker 1: will give you the La market. We want you to
Speaker 1: be the guy to do LA and Jerry said no. Jerry.
Speaker 1: By the way, I was born in Elsa, Gundo got
Speaker 1: the key to the city before the Cowboys ended up
Speaker 1: playing Super Bowl twenty seven and beating the Buffalo bills.
Speaker 1: So he didn't do it. But Stan Cronky obviously had
Speaker 1: the blessing from Jerry because I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember or not, but Cronkey was trying to move to
Speaker 1: LA from Saint Louis and then you had Dean Spanos
Speaker 1: and Mark Davis working together on a Carson project in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So it was it was two competing stadiums
Speaker 1: trying to get to LA, and Jerry maneuvered it so
Speaker 1: Stan Cronky could get it. And Cronky also got the
Speaker 1: RAM I mean got not only can to get the
Speaker 1: rams from from St. Louis to LA, but he also
Speaker 1: Jerry helped engineered to the charge went up to Sofi
Speaker 1: Stadium and then he helped the Raiders get over to
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas. So Jerry truly is a deal you know,
Speaker 1: a deal maker, and Cronky, you know, obviously looked at
Speaker 1: what Jerry World was and built at next level. And
Speaker 1: Jerry has been very adamant saying that that's what he wanted.
Speaker 1: That LA needed to be big, it needed to be great, um,
Speaker 1: it needed to be a show stopping stadium. And obviously
Speaker 1: you know it is because they're gonna have the Olympics
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and they're gonna have this Sofi Stadium
Speaker 1: and everything that Jerry Ruld has got they're gonna have
Speaker 1: over there Sofi Stadium. So um, that's that is now
Speaker 1: the bar, Danny Sofi Stadium is the bar. And I
Speaker 1: don't know who's gonna topic because Stan Cronky built that
Speaker 1: with private funds. There was no funding from from California.
Speaker 1: Californians don't build stadiums like they do in other places
Speaker 1: like Texas, like cd Rticton. Hey, here's a half billion dollars.
Speaker 1: They don't do that in Los Angeles, man, they don't.
Speaker 1: The Staples that was built with private money. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it's a lot of money out there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of big players out there that are
Speaker 1: looking to get into the NFL, and I'm sure they
Speaker 1: can find some private funding to try to go next level.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what city it will be in, but
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that there's somebody out there looking
Speaker 1: right now saying you know, I'm looking to buy an
Speaker 1: NFL team. They're getting the group together and they're looking
Speaker 1: at so far stadium and saying, hey, this is the
Speaker 1: bar and we want to do us next. We want
Speaker 1: to be known as the guys or the group who
Speaker 1: created the best NFL stadium. So I'm sure it's coming.
Speaker 1: Not sure how many years from now it's going to be,
Speaker 1: but you know, ten to fifteen years from now, we'll
Speaker 1: be saying so far stadium was its second tier and
Speaker 1: somebody will be creating something that we never could imagine before.
Speaker 1: What I wonder is will that be somewhere internationally? Could
Speaker 1: somebody do something, you know over in Europe where they
Speaker 1: go and do something we've never seen before, and then
Speaker 1: that becomes something that we copy, and maybe it's based
Speaker 1: off soccer that they come up with some type of
Speaker 1: incredible way to do a stadium. Now, Mark Cuban talk
Speaker 1: to me one time about building another stadium and that
Speaker 1: he wanted to have the stadium on top of a building,
Speaker 1: like I had this huge building and then out on
Speaker 1: top of it there's you know, there's the arena. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's maybe maybe it's something like that, But you're right,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a new innovation somewhere. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of who does it. But um, that's that's why
Speaker 1: Jerry is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Um,
Speaker 1: what he did in terms of innovating in the National
Speaker 1: Football League and also making making people money. He taught
Speaker 1: other NFL owners how to make money, and they're all
Speaker 1: in the stadium game. Uh, that's that was what Jerry
Speaker 1: did differently than everyone else. People forget that when Jerry
Speaker 1: bought the Cowboys, he also had to buy a Texas stadium,
Speaker 1: and people thought he was dumb to do that. They
Speaker 1: were like, you don't want to be in the stadium game.
Speaker 1: You just want to run a football team. And now
Speaker 1: every owner wants to own the stadium. They don't want
Speaker 1: the city to own it and just lease it from
Speaker 1: the city. They want to own the stadium and put
Speaker 1: events there. And you're seeing what the Texas Rangers did.
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, they had a rodeo last week. Well, who's
Speaker 1: gonna get ready to have a rodeo? Jerry's get ready
Speaker 1: to have rodeo. Everybody's copying what he what Jerry's doing,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what makes him a Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: in terms of he changed the way we look at
Speaker 1: professional football, the way we see professional football. That's what
Speaker 1: Jerry helped do. Yeah, he's definitely a game changer man,
Speaker 1: and he putting his stamp on it and just listening
Speaker 1: to you know, he has legends for the giants up
Speaker 1: there in New York, he has connections in LA he
Speaker 1: has connections all over the place. And if you want
Speaker 1: to get something done, I think most guys and most
Speaker 1: teams know that Jerry is the ear that you that
Speaker 1: you need to be getting into because he had he
Speaker 1: has the key to a lot of places. And if
Speaker 1: he doesn't, he knows somebody that does. And he has
Speaker 1: an idea that can make your make your stadium, your team,
Speaker 1: or your pocketbook go to the next level. So he's
Speaker 1: that guy man. He has that title. He earned it
Speaker 1: and he deserves it. Here's my last thing on that um.
Speaker 1: As you know, I used to work in Cleveland and
Speaker 1: and Art Modell was the owner of the Browns, and
Speaker 1: I was there also when they left and when they
Speaker 1: went to Baltimore ended up firing Bill Belichick. Out a
Speaker 1: fantastic conversation once with mister Modell, and he was great
Speaker 1: to me. Art was great to me. Art did not
Speaker 1: like Jerry at all. He thought that Jerry was too
Speaker 1: big for his bridges and that Jerry only cared about
Speaker 1: himself and didn't care about the league because Art was
Speaker 1: a very old school owner and he thought of Jerry
Speaker 1: as a new school owner. And Art had to end
Speaker 1: up selling his team. He couldn't afford it. He could
Speaker 1: not afford it, which is crazy when you think about
Speaker 1: it today. What what NFL owners is going in debt
Speaker 1: that he has to sell a team. Had Art Modell
Speaker 1: embraced Jerry Jones, he probably would have never had to
Speaker 1: leave Cleveland and he would have been in the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. But his resistance to Jerry and
Speaker 1: the way Jerry was trying to do business in new
Speaker 1: business in the National Football League ended up being a
Speaker 1: part of his demise where he left Cleveland, hated in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: went to Baltimore, did end up winning a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but had to sell it to Steve b. Shotti because
Speaker 1: he simply couldn't afford it anymore, and he ended up
Speaker 1: passing away. And he'll ever get in the Pro Football
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. That that that's kind That's my story
Speaker 1: of Art Modell not listening to Jerry. So Art Modell
Speaker 1: is Blockbuster and Jerry Jones is Netflix. In that in
Speaker 1: that scenario, Hull, I'm gonna trying to teach you to,
Speaker 1: you know, to to elevate your game and and go
Speaker 1: with the new wave, and you kind of just want
Speaker 1: to stay in the old way. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, you no longer existing as far
Speaker 1: as being in a having a team and being an
Speaker 1: NFL owner. That's tough, man, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: can't see that vision and it's no fault of their own.
Speaker 1: They're just not able to see things, uh, the way
Speaker 1: that some other people are. And when you bring somebody
Speaker 1: an idea like that, if your mind is stuck where
Speaker 1: it is, then you know you don't have a capacity
Speaker 1: to see the same vision and innovative idea that somebody
Speaker 1: like Jerry Jones will bring along, and you just don't
Speaker 1: think it's possible. And then sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong.
Speaker 1: In this case, he was very wrong, And that's just
Speaker 1: how it goes sometimes. Yeah, And in the shame of it,
Speaker 1: I mean that Danny the sham Art Modell is a
Speaker 1: good guy. I mean, he was a good guy who
Speaker 1: loved pro football. But I was a fan of Art
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people hate to hear that,
Speaker 1: especially those those in the Cleveland Northeast Ohio area. He
Speaker 1: had a good heart, but this was one where he
Speaker 1: did not want to listen to the new ideas and
Speaker 1: was holding to the old guard ways. And you have
Speaker 1: to change the world that you have to adapt, you
Speaker 1: have to adapt, and he didn't do it, and by
Speaker 1: the time he did, it was too late. He couldn't
Speaker 1: get his stadium built and he left. And anyway, it
Speaker 1: was just it was for me. I thought it was
Speaker 1: sad because he could have had a better ending for himself.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Jerry Jones, he has his radio show on
Speaker 1: Fridays as well, ten thirty on one oh five three
Speaker 1: The Fan and Danny was an interesting thing where he
Speaker 1: came out and said that, and this about Zeke Elliott quote,
Speaker 1: he's our best football player, He's our best one. Do
Speaker 1: you agree Zeke Elliott the best player on the Dallas
Speaker 1: copitols I do. I've never lost faith in Zeke. I
Speaker 1: know that some of the circumstances around the team right
Speaker 1: now may make his performance look subpar, but I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy fumble right, and some of the holes aren't
Speaker 1: open like they used to be. I also said that
Speaker 1: he looked a little quicker in his last game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I take into account everything Zeke has done previously, lead
Speaker 1: the league in Russian, you know, being out when he
Speaker 1: was facing suspension, coming back every week, not knowing if
Speaker 1: he was going to be able to play or not,
Speaker 1: and still going out there and being able to perform.
Speaker 1: And then you come into this year and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it starts off a little shaky, as the
Speaker 1: entire team has started off a little shaky, and people
Speaker 1: start to get off a Zeke a little bit, and
Speaker 1: that's just not me. I think he's still the best player.
Speaker 1: I think if you if you use him the way
Speaker 1: that he is supposed to be used, run the ball
Speaker 1: with him, focus the game around him, and then you know,
Speaker 1: get him involved in the past the game just a
Speaker 1: little bit, don't try to do all that extra stuff
Speaker 1: using him like Kamar and having him run all these
Speaker 1: special routes, do what he's great at, and and he
Speaker 1: can change the game, you know, for us in a
Speaker 1: positive way. And then nineteen is number two right now
Speaker 1: because that is out. But yeah, Zeke is our guy,
Speaker 1: and I think that the game should revolve around him,
Speaker 1: and I think that's our best chance they're winning any
Speaker 1: games this season. If especially, if you want to do
Speaker 1: what Church said, and you know we'll go six and
Speaker 1: ten and lead the division to make the playoffs. If
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do it on Zeke's back, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it at all. So Ezekiel right now is
Speaker 1: eleventh in the National Football League and rushing, he's averaging
Speaker 1: a career low three point eight. He's got five touchdowns
Speaker 1: on one hundred and fifty attemphs. And it's interesting that
Speaker 1: we bring up Zeke Elliott because the Cowboys are facing
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook on Sunday of the Vikings, and Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: a guy who drafted the second round out of Florida State,
Speaker 1: is number one in the league and rushing right now,
Speaker 1: and we pull up his numbers right here. Cook nine
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four yards on one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: four attempts with twelve touchdowns. He averages five point two
Speaker 1: average in the NFL this year. That's number two when
Speaker 1: it comes to average. Here's my thing, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: piggyback off what you said because you and I are
Speaker 1: in the same thing here. If Ezekiel Elliott was used
Speaker 1: in the fashion of Dalvin Cook, this wouldn't even have
Speaker 1: to be a question because we would already know the answer.
Speaker 1: And for me, it's very frustrating to watch Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: commit ninety million dollars to a player that the coaching
Speaker 1: staff is underutilizing. This is just crazy. I've seen teams
Speaker 1: that were bad and their old lines suspect, but had
Speaker 1: great running backs who could turn their seasons around. Ladamian
Speaker 1: Tomlinson was that guy with the Chargers. Remember when Drew
Speaker 1: Brees and LT got there. The Charges were struggling, give
Speaker 1: it to give it to LT, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: the Charger has become a very good football team. And
Speaker 1: Emmett was the same way. And Nate Newton openly talks
Speaker 1: about that. He said, hey man, I was just an
Speaker 1: okay player that Emmett came. Next thing you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl guard. Zeke's special And it's frustrating to
Speaker 1: me to see a guy not be used when he's
Speaker 1: special and and you decided to pay them. It makes
Speaker 1: zero sense to me of why this guy is got
Speaker 1: just one hundred and fifty carries and a guy like
Speaker 1: Cook is sitting up here with a buck seventy four
Speaker 1: and the Vikings as they went through their losing streak. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do we change it around? Well, dog on it.
Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday. And the last three games
Speaker 1: all right, Chicago thirty three rushing attempts, thirty six passes,
Speaker 1: Detroit thirty four rushing attempts, twenty passes, against Green Bay
Speaker 1: thirty four rushing attempts, fourteen passes. So in their past
Speaker 1: three games that they've won, one hundred and one attempts
Speaker 1: rushing the ball seventy passing. They've decided we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: going to win behind Dalvin Cook, and we're going to
Speaker 1: play defense. And you and I've talked about this too, Danny,
Speaker 1: you got a bad defense. How do you help out
Speaker 1: your bad defense? Run the ball, chew up the clock?
Speaker 1: Why is it? Why is it? Why did they make
Speaker 1: it harder than it needs to be. I don't listen.
Speaker 1: And this is why I've been on killing more so
Speaker 1: so so bad this season. I don't understand how you
Speaker 1: can have a guy like Zeke. And Kellen mool was
Speaker 1: here when Zeke was able to get some of this
Speaker 1: stuff done. He was watching Zeke performing the way that
Speaker 1: he did. And then you get into the season and
Speaker 1: you look at this guy twenty one who everybody at
Speaker 1: one point was like, hey, if Zeke is not on
Speaker 1: the field, then we might not have a chance to
Speaker 1: win it. But as soon as Zeke comes back, then
Speaker 1: we have a chance to do everything that we set
Speaker 1: our mind to, as far as being division champs, super
Speaker 1: Bowl champs, making deep runs, doing all that. Kelly Moore
Speaker 1: was here to see that. He was here when Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: he was here watching all this stuff, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Jason Garrett leaves and then you forget
Speaker 1: that you have this guy here. I don't understand how
Speaker 1: Jerry has let them forget, especially since he did write
Speaker 1: the ninety million dollars check. And this goes to show
Speaker 1: you know, this is like permeate through the whole team. Right,
Speaker 1: Like I said, you have a one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: receiver who we feel the same about. Now you have
Speaker 1: a ninety million dollars running back who we feel the
Speaker 1: same about. That's one hundred and ninety million dollars that's
Speaker 1: being underutilized. And I'm the owner. I'm going in there
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, man, especially where we're at as a team.
Speaker 1: Now we need to be focusing our game plan around
Speaker 1: one hundred and million dollars. Check that out wrote these
Speaker 1: two guys, and we know that they can still perform.
Speaker 1: You've seen it when of Mark Cooper has the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands, he's he's called touchdowns. He's still you know,
Speaker 1: he's not the bottom of the league. Even though that
Speaker 1: we have some of these some of our quarterback and
Speaker 1: old line issues, He's still able to make these plays
Speaker 1: and you can see the flashes of that when he
Speaker 1: catches the ball. Same with Ze. Yes, he's fumbled, running
Speaker 1: backs fumbled before this, he hasn't been a fumbling guy.
Speaker 1: Still focus on him and give him a shot because
Speaker 1: he's carried you for so many years. Give him that
Speaker 1: same respect that you gave him last in the previous season,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you he'll show you that he still
Speaker 1: has it. But for some reason, we may be you know,
Speaker 1: you know, all success in the draft may be holding
Speaker 1: us back, you know, with too many weapons, with the
Speaker 1: CD Lamb and the Michael Gallup and trying to focus
Speaker 1: on polar and do do too many things. I think
Speaker 1: we've lost track of what we should be trying to do.
Speaker 1: The win, which is focused on twenty one and nineteen
Speaker 1: when we come back. So we got to take a
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys player Danny mccraig. Mccraige, you grew up in Houston,
Speaker 1: so you're Oilers fan. Listen Honestly, man, I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: was not in the football when I was younger. I
Speaker 1: started playing just because my friends were playing. I was
Speaker 1: into wrestling, uh you know, Stone Call and the Rock
Speaker 1: and all that. So I wasn't really watching a lot
Speaker 1: of football. So I won't even say that I knew
Speaker 1: who the olders were until maybe middle school and they
Speaker 1: were leaving. And they were even leaving or gone at
Speaker 1: that time. Okay, that's my next question. Were they even
Speaker 1: around because they had left and there was that hole
Speaker 1: of football for a while. Because I grew up as
Speaker 1: a huge Dallas Cowboy fan because my dad was stationed
Speaker 1: at Fort Hood and so when we moved there, that's
Speaker 1: when I first heard about the Cowboys. And so my
Speaker 1: whole life and my whole wardrobe was about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So when Christmas time came, you know, all right, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to buy me some clothes for Christmas,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be some cowboy clothes. I was that
Speaker 1: guy who had the blue cowboy jersey because everybody had
Speaker 1: the white one. Everybody had the white twelve and the
Speaker 1: white thirty three. I wanted the blue thirty three because
Speaker 1: that way I showed you I was a real cowboy fan,
Speaker 1: because I had the blue doorset thirty three. And that
Speaker 1: was back when they used to have the blue jerseys
Speaker 1: they seemingly could never win in So that that was
Speaker 1: my thing. Man, the cowboy lunchbox, had the cowboy backpack,
Speaker 1: had the cowboy raincoat. I mean, that was my whole thing, man, Cowboys, Cowboys.
Speaker 1: For reading that, that pro shot AV just made me
Speaker 1: kind of reminisced about itself. It's funny that you say that,
Speaker 1: because as much as I don't remember about being involved
Speaker 1: in football and liking football that much to where I
Speaker 1: watched the NFL somebody in my family did, because I
Speaker 1: want to say, two or three months ago, my mom
Speaker 1: sitting me a picture with the Dion Sanders blue Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys jersey on and I'm gonna send it to you
Speaker 1: once we get off the show. And I looked at it,
Speaker 1: I was like, I have no recollection of that, no
Speaker 1: recollection of liking the Cowboys having a favorite player on
Speaker 1: the team. So I'm assuming that my dad and one
Speaker 1: of my uncle's got to be dressed in that and
Speaker 1: tried to get me involved in it, but that blue one,
Speaker 1: I had one as well. There you go, there you go. Okay.
Speaker 1: So here's my belief on why Sunday's Cowboys Vikings game
Speaker 1: should be the quickest game the Cowboys played this year.
Speaker 1: Both teams have quarterbacks with question marks and Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: and Andy Dalton. We know Minnesota wants to run the football.
Speaker 1: Kelln Moore should be trying to run the football as
Speaker 1: well for the Dallas Cowboys. So if both teams are
Speaker 1: running the football, then the clock should be running and
Speaker 1: that should make this a quick football game. Danny, because
Speaker 1: to me, this is the way for the cow If
Speaker 1: they want to win, the way is through twenty one.
Speaker 1: Get twenty one going, make teams, especially a defense like Minnesota,
Speaker 1: make them commit to putting people in the box and
Speaker 1: then try to go hit nineteen, then try to hit
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop on a deep ball. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the formula that has won many a game for them.
Speaker 1: Go back to that thing, Jerry Jones said on his
Speaker 1: radio show today. They're improving, dog on it. Get that
Speaker 1: run game going, and let's see what the Cowboys can do. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: and to that extent, I can guarantee you from the
Speaker 1: start of the game, no matter how we line up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have eight in the box, all right. They're
Speaker 1: going to force our quarterback, whoever's playing quarterback at whatever time,
Speaker 1: to try to beat us with their arm. The thing
Speaker 1: in the past, and I'm gonna keep harping on this
Speaker 1: is when Jason Garrett was here, and when we were
Speaker 1: focused on running the ball to some points, it didn't
Speaker 1: matter how many guys you had in the box. They
Speaker 1: knew that when they lined up against us, they could
Speaker 1: put eight in the boxes, nine in the box. We
Speaker 1: were going to run power, we were going to run stretch,
Speaker 1: we were going to run draw, we were gonna run trap,
Speaker 1: We're gonna run it at you and you were gonna
Speaker 1: have to stop it. And guess who was the leading
Speaker 1: Russia in the league Ezekiel Elliott. So now I don't
Speaker 1: want us to get away from saying hey, just because
Speaker 1: they put eight nine guys in the box, that automatically
Speaker 1: forces us to have to throw the ball, because that
Speaker 1: is the plan as it is now. As an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator in the league in twenty twenty, you have to
Speaker 1: figure out creative ways to find those those numbers that
Speaker 1: are working in your favor for you to run it
Speaker 1: to the left of the right. Don't get scared because
Speaker 1: nine guys in the box. Give it to the ninety
Speaker 1: million dollar guy, and if he gets two yards on first,
Speaker 1: two yards on second, do not abandon the runs. Stick
Speaker 1: to it, stick throughout the whole game. And I think
Speaker 1: that we still have a chance. And like you said,
Speaker 1: if we do that, it'll be a short game. Although
Speaker 1: that Washington game was very short. I remember it being
Speaker 1: over before three o'clock. So if it isn't any faster
Speaker 1: than that, I hope it's in our favor. Now, the
Speaker 1: folks who enjoy analytics. They'll all tell you, you know,
Speaker 1: you guys runs throwing league and you need to pass
Speaker 1: the balls. It's all about passing football. I go back
Speaker 1: and look at and you can say, oh, you're just
Speaker 1: being an old school, old head guy. But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have won five championships. And if you look at those
Speaker 1: five championships, they did two things, Danny. They ran the
Speaker 1: football the first one two POL six with Duwayne Thomas,
Speaker 1: Super twelve, you had Robert Newhouse, and you had Tony Dorset,
Speaker 1: and then in the nineties it was Emmitt Smith. But
Speaker 1: they ran the football and they played outstanding defense. There's
Speaker 1: no reason why you can't win with that strategy. In
Speaker 1: today's football, you can still throw the football, but dog
Speaker 1: gone it, get out here and start running it. Minnesota
Speaker 1: has turned their season around by doing that. Cleveland this year.
Speaker 1: Cleveland no longer looks like the Browns because they run
Speaker 1: the football. And this is with them using a number
Speaker 1: one pick overall on Baker Mayfield. And I think they've
Speaker 1: been smart enough to realize while Baker may have been
Speaker 1: the number one pick, he's not an elite quarterback. But
Speaker 1: if they run the football and play sound defense, you
Speaker 1: can be in a lot of football games. It was
Speaker 1: a Bill Parcels recipe. Man, it was a recipe for
Speaker 1: Bill Parcells, and this guy's in the Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. I'm not saying you can't ever throw the ball,
Speaker 1: but dog gone it running it is still effective in
Speaker 1: this league. Look, look, all you gotta do is look
Speaker 1: at the eye to just watch a game. If you
Speaker 1: watch the game last night, Seattle was able to win
Speaker 1: that game because all of a sudden, Carlos High was
Speaker 1: able to start breaking off some big runs. He took
Speaker 1: a little pressure off of Russell Wilson. If you look
Speaker 1: at when Church was in Jacksonville, their quarterback play was
Speaker 1: not outstanding. They've won games by playing defense and running
Speaker 1: the football with Leonard Fournette. This is a thing that
Speaker 1: you could do to win. Nobody is going to go
Speaker 1: out and say that Jacksonville that year was going to
Speaker 1: be a top nice team with Blake Borders as the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But once you watch them play, you said, these guys
Speaker 1: are playing defense, they're focusing on the run, and they're
Speaker 1: not putting their defense in bad situations. They're playing the
Speaker 1: field position game. And they went to the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: it is, you can do it. The teams that focus
Speaker 1: on the run, especially in the winter months in December,
Speaker 1: because the running game usually travels and it helps you
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The teams that are able to do that,
Speaker 1: those are the teams that win. Which is why you
Speaker 1: see the Super Bowl champions go out and draft the
Speaker 1: running back in the first round because they know that
Speaker 1: they need a running game. It is not dead. You
Speaker 1: still needed to win these games. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what we meet. The focus on you made me go
Speaker 1: and immediately just look up the highlights in the statistics
Speaker 1: of last night. So the Seahawks ended up rushing the
Speaker 1: ball thirty one times for one hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: yards average five point three yards of rush. They attempted
Speaker 1: twenty eight passes in that football game, and they come
Speaker 1: away twenty one winners, and more importantly, they came away
Speaker 1: in first place in the division right now. So I'm
Speaker 1: a believer that it works. But I also I go
Speaker 1: back this with Pete Carroll. You know, Pete Carroll's the
Speaker 1: guy who's always believed in running the football. When he
Speaker 1: had Marshaw Lynch when he was at USC as great
Speaker 1: as they had with Harte Heisman Trophy winners Matt Leiner
Speaker 1: and Carson Carson Palmer. They always ran the football there
Speaker 1: at USC and had a Highsman Trophy winning Reggie Bush
Speaker 1: had Lindell White. I mean they ran the ball. You
Speaker 1: can accomplish both. You can still pass it and run it.
Speaker 1: But dog on it. Dallas Cowboys. Give me some runs
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That's what I want to runs. If you're
Speaker 1: not listening, listen, you're right, and I'm glad that you
Speaker 1: use Pete Carroll as an example. A guy that always
Speaker 1: focused on running and his teams won games by running
Speaker 1: the ball. His one failure was the one time when
Speaker 1: he decided he was going to pass the ball instead
Speaker 1: of running. This. This is this should be an example
Speaker 1: for us. Run the ball. You're going to fill. When
Speaker 1: you don't, that's why you sit in last place in
Speaker 1: the division because you haven't. You haven't been able to
Speaker 1: focus on running the ball. He Carroll's example. He's a
Speaker 1: running guy. He should focus on running the ball. Take
Speaker 1: the ball out of quarterback hands and you get two
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. Instead, you throw it, they pick it, you lose. Now,
Speaker 1: let me let me ask this question, especially since you
Speaker 1: played and you played for a couple of differ franchises.
Speaker 1: Is this, you know, the people who want to run
Speaker 1: the football. Is this mainly a defensive type of mindset here?
Speaker 1: Because Pete Carroll's background is d defense. We mentioned Bill
Speaker 1: Parcel's his background is defense, Bill Belichick. You know, even
Speaker 1: though they've had Tom Brady, they've always complimented the run
Speaker 1: there very well. In New England. He's a defensive He's
Speaker 1: a defensive guy. That is that, you know, you know
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer, Okay, Zim's that he's a defensive guy here.
Speaker 1: So is that Is that a part of it here
Speaker 1: in your mind? I think to some extent. But I
Speaker 1: remember when the Eagles had Chip Kelly and everybody thought
Speaker 1: that that the up Temple offense was just focused on
Speaker 1: all passes. They ran the ball very well. You know,
Speaker 1: they focused on running the ball, even though that they
Speaker 1: tried to speed the game up. And and Andy Reid
Speaker 1: I told you they went in drafted they running back
Speaker 1: in the first round because they know that they needed
Speaker 1: to improve their running game. Even though that they're able
Speaker 1: to throw it all over the place, the running game
Speaker 1: is still a focal point and they know that there'll
Speaker 1: be a better team if they're able to do that.
Speaker 1: So I think to some extent, yeah, because you know,
Speaker 1: I guess when you run the ball and you're able
Speaker 1: to protect them and play that field position game, you
Speaker 1: you always give your team a chance by playing good defense.
Speaker 1: But this should be something that's around the league to
Speaker 1: where you focus on running. You hear every commentator come
Speaker 1: on and say, if a team is able to run
Speaker 1: the ball, then they're able to control it and they
Speaker 1: always have a chance to win the game. And all
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators know that. Sometimes I think they just lose
Speaker 1: it a little bit trying to get too creative and
Speaker 1: you know, and use all the weapons that they have,
Speaker 1: and they lose lose track of what they really should
Speaker 1: be doing, which is controlling the clock and keep me
Speaker 1: a defense off the field and keeping their offense off
Speaker 1: the field as well. Now I'll bring up three offensive
Speaker 1: guys who have shown through the years they will run
Speaker 1: the football, and running the football is a major part
Speaker 1: of what they do. You look at John Gruden with
Speaker 1: the Raiders, m Kyle Shannahan with the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: and Sean McVay with the Rams. These guys all run
Speaker 1: the football. I mean when Todd Gurley was at his best. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you saw Jerry Golf and the Rams really at their best.
Speaker 1: And we saw what I was able to do last
Speaker 1: year with the running game almost. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: think about it, go back to what you said. You said,
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll loss the Super Bowls, try to pass. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan had lost two Super Bowls trying to pass
Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers last year with the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons instead of running the football. Um so, so there
Speaker 1: is there is still room that you can do both.
Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just a big proponent of the
Speaker 1: run game. I've been hammering at home here today on
Speaker 1: the players lounging, and I don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: apologize for it. We got to take another break here.
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Speaker 1: you for the For you McCrae, it was it was crazy, man,
Speaker 1: because it's one of those things where it's a tradition,
Speaker 1: so the team takes it, takes it very serious. And
Speaker 1: we also usually get to wear a different color jersey.
Speaker 1: It's not like the only time of the year usually
Speaker 1: to where we will wear a blue jersey or some
Speaker 1: type of special color rus type type of things. So
Speaker 1: that always made it made it great. And then you're
Speaker 1: able to have your whole family come down watch the
Speaker 1: game and then go eat Thanksgiving dinner with them after.
Speaker 1: So so for the Cowboys, the tradition of being able
Speaker 1: to play on Thanksgiving is huge. I will tell you
Speaker 1: that I played on Thanksgiving when I went to Chicago.
Speaker 1: I think we played against the Lions, and although it
Speaker 1: was still the tradition, it was very different than how
Speaker 1: it was treated when when you're hear in Dallas, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a very big thing here. You see, we
Speaker 1: got a special halftime show every year for the Thingsgiving game,
Speaker 1: there's always some special production going on because it really
Speaker 1: means a lot to the to the Dallas Cowboys organization.
Speaker 1: So it was always great to play on Thanksgiven here.
Speaker 1: So how different was it when you're playing for the
Speaker 1: Bears because that game's up there at Ford Field for Detroits.
Speaker 1: Detroit has the first game every year, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: the second game. It starts so early up there in Detroit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what the thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: when when I was with the Bears, I learned I
Speaker 1: learned that lesson very quickly that uh, you know, those
Speaker 1: problem time games don't come as much as they do
Speaker 1: when you're with the Cowboys. So by that time I
Speaker 1: had gotten used to playing at twelve, like I said,
Speaker 1: And it was different. We had to play on the
Speaker 1: road with the Cowboys. We always were able to play
Speaker 1: at home. We always got the special treatment, you know,
Speaker 1: if we had away game and we got we got
Speaker 1: to play late. So it was it was it was
Speaker 1: very different to get home, you know, at five pm,
Speaker 1: and then not have any family there and the production
Speaker 1: not be as big as it was. So it just
Speaker 1: it just didn't feel as special as it felt when
Speaker 1: when I was in Dallas. All Right Players Lounge brought
Speaker 1: to him Monday through Friday two thirty Newly Scrugs along
Speaker 1: with Danny McCray. Barry Church is all. Barry Church likes
Speaker 1: to call himself No stre Damas because he says he
Speaker 1: makes really good picks. So for the Thursday night we
Speaker 1: rolled out our picks. So I got it here. McCray,
Speaker 1: you went with Seattle to win thirty five thirty one.
Speaker 1: I went with Seattle to win twenty eight twenty five.
Speaker 1: Nostre Damas went Arizona twenty seven twenty one, and Seattle
Speaker 1: won the game twenty eight twenty one. So another l
Speaker 1: another l for I sit here now. I watched these
Speaker 1: games and I'm actively rooting. Did watch Barry get me?
Speaker 1: I've actually rooted, and I had Christian Kirk on my
Speaker 1: fantasy team. I'm like, hey, man kept some passes but lose,
Speaker 1: just because I wanted to be able to just rub
Speaker 1: this in churches bas again, even though he's not here.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how he's making these picks,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what's going on with his noster
Speaker 1: domins powers, but he's off. He's been off all season,
Speaker 1: and I think he's just he's picking, making these picks
Speaker 1: based on the emotion. He's not really using the full
Speaker 1: power of nostre domins, or he's a fraud. I don't understand.
Speaker 1: When he gets back on the show, he's going to
Speaker 1: have to explain the process, what voice he's hearing, or
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to give me something to legitimize, you know,
Speaker 1: his reason and for making some of these picks, because
Speaker 1: they don't make any sense. Arizona going into Seattle yesterday,
Speaker 1: it was it was right for the for the easy
Speaker 1: pick of Seattle being able to get that win, especially
Speaker 1: coming off a loss, like it just made all the
Speaker 1: sense for them to go out there and win that game.
Speaker 1: And he's somehow had them losing by seven only score
Speaker 1: seventeen points. Like, I don't understand what Church has going on.
Speaker 1: His picks makes no sense. And that's why I don't
Speaker 1: think we're going to win the NFC East because he
Speaker 1: picked us to win the NFC East. And if I'm
Speaker 1: if I'm a batman, I'm going again what Barry Church says,
Speaker 1: All right, so let's let's dive into this and make
Speaker 1: our Cowboys Vikings prediction for Sunday. Vikings are seven and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. Barry came in and he gave
Speaker 1: us his before he left, so he's got Dallas winning
Speaker 1: seventeen to thirteen. By the way, owner Jerry Jones said
Speaker 1: on one O five three The Fan Today on this
Speaker 1: Friday radio show that the Cowboys are getting better. He
Speaker 1: says they are a better football team right now. They're
Speaker 1: coming off a bye week and before the bye day
Speaker 1: they fought the Steelers down to the final second. I
Speaker 1: am going to say Minnesota wins this twenty three to thirteen.
Speaker 1: And I'm simply picking the Vikings because they run the football.
Speaker 1: They're fifth in the league and rushing. Dalvin Cooker is
Speaker 1: number one in the league and rushing, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to show me that they can stop
Speaker 1: the run. Cowboys are thirty first against the run, so
Speaker 1: they gotta show me they can stop the run. And
Speaker 1: even when you do that, Kirk Cousins is going to
Speaker 1: have that ability to hit that rookie Justin Jefferson or
Speaker 1: his favorite target, Adam Feeling. And we know the Cowboys
Speaker 1: secondary still has some issues. Trayvon Diggs. The rookies out Cheetah,
Speaker 1: Wuzier's in Cheetoh's missed a whole lot of time. So
Speaker 1: that's why I'm picking Minnesota to defend the home turf
Speaker 1: and beat the Cowboys for a second straight season. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm with you on that one. I'm going twenty
Speaker 1: seven and nineteen. I think that Greg de leg is
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of work this game. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be kicking a lot of field goals and
Speaker 1: somehow it'll come down to a last possession where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to score in this case also will get
Speaker 1: a two point conversion and we'll get stopped. I don't
Speaker 1: think we'll be able to stop that wn Cook for
Speaker 1: the whole game, and I you know, and like we
Speaker 1: saw against the Steelers, if we are able to stop
Speaker 1: the run, then it's going to expose our secondary and
Speaker 1: you'll see Justine Jefferson and Alan Feeland get involved and
Speaker 1: somehow be able to come up with some big players,
Speaker 1: especially with Cheeto coming off and it's being his first
Speaker 1: game and Diggs being out, and you know, the way
Speaker 1: that the defense is played previously in the season, we
Speaker 1: know that they're wrong and giving up some big plays
Speaker 1: and some passing touchdowns, So you know what all that
Speaker 1: being said, I see them putting up twenty at twenty
Speaker 1: seven and us trying to come back and score at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. But I picked up Greg
Speaker 1: the leg on my fantasy team, so I need him
Speaker 1: to kick a lot of field goals fifty yards, you
Speaker 1: know what would be best for me. Some other targets
Speaker 1: that I could see being sneaky for for Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: Um Tighten, Kyle Rudolph, IRV Smith if he ends up
Speaker 1: back not sure about his status he missed the last game.
Speaker 1: And then of course BC Johnson. So you've got a
Speaker 1: couple of targets that Minnesota has that if you know
Speaker 1: that they're you know, did the Cowboys if they're not
Speaker 1: checking them, Um could be a problem here. And I'm
Speaker 1: no doctor, but I do have a concern about guys
Speaker 1: who get COVID and some of the performances that they've
Speaker 1: had this year. Cam Newton came back from COVID and
Speaker 1: Cam Newton does not look like Cam Newton at all,
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I want to say put it
Speaker 1: all on COVID. Obviously he's in a Newton offense with
Speaker 1: New England. They don't have that. They don't have good weapons.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an issue there in New England. They've
Speaker 1: got some offensive line issues as well there. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna see Andy Dalton make his first appearance coming back
Speaker 1: from a nasty concussion and COVID nineteen. I think that
Speaker 1: if Andy struggles a little bit, to me, that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprising, because he's coming back from some stuff here, man,
Speaker 1: you know, not just being just your timing is all,
Speaker 1: but you're coming back from a concussion and Lord knows
Speaker 1: what COVID has done to him. We still don't know
Speaker 1: the after effects for guys who were dealing with COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: So I would just have a little bit of grace
Speaker 1: about how Andy Dalton performs in this moneth. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know the effects of COVID, but I do
Speaker 1: expect him to be rusty one because he didn't get
Speaker 1: much time before he ended up getting hurt. So now
Speaker 1: he's still coming in with not much time and starting
Speaker 1: the game against Minnesota. So it's not like he's had
Speaker 1: a whole offseason to get this thing number this belt.
Speaker 1: He's still pretty fresh coming coming off the bitch filling
Speaker 1: there for that, so I expect them to build a
Speaker 1: little rusty and then you add the COVID on there,
Speaker 1: and then you know that at certain times Minnesota can
Speaker 1: play some defense. So I do expect this to be
Speaker 1: a little shaky at least at the beginning, which is
Speaker 1: why we should focus on having twenty one run the ball.
Speaker 1: And you watch Minnesota, That's all I want to say.
Speaker 1: You watch Minnesota play the differently. Like you named all
Speaker 1: those other weapons that they may have, and I look
Speaker 1: at it as being the same as us. We have
Speaker 1: other weapons that we may be able to use, but
Speaker 1: they focus on feeling first. I mean cook Cook first,
Speaker 1: feeling second, and then Jefferson third. They are able to
Speaker 1: focus on those guys and we should We should do that.
Speaker 1: We should focus on twenty one first and then nineteen
Speaker 1: and then move on to see thee lamb or gallop.
Speaker 1: And we're able to do that. I think that you
Speaker 1: will see a different game from us. But until we
Speaker 1: do that, man, we're gonna be in trouble. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see NBA free Ac is
Speaker 1: getting ready to roll today. And did you see Gordon
Speaker 1: Hayward decided he did not want the thirty four million
Speaker 1: dollars from the Boston Celtics. And I just wonder what's
Speaker 1: being said in NFL locker rooms if they know they're
Speaker 1: doing their Friday practices and getting ready to play that
Speaker 1: hey man doing in Boston who's been an old KA
Speaker 1: player since his injuries, decided he didn't want the guarantee
Speaker 1: thirty four million dollars from the Celtics and he's going
Speaker 1: to become a free agent. It's a little listen, I
Speaker 1: guarantee you it's a little jealousy going on in there's
Speaker 1: some guys saying, look, I played the wrong sport. And
Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of these NFL players and they
Speaker 1: and they say it jokingly. I'm going to have my
Speaker 1: son pick up a baseball, a tennis racket, a soccer
Speaker 1: ball and getting into some of these sports where these
Speaker 1: guys are getting paid a lot more to risk their
Speaker 1: bodies a lot less. And you should start believing that
Speaker 1: these guys will be doing that. You'll see a lot
Speaker 1: of these NFL guys and their sons will not be
Speaker 1: playing football, they'll be playing baseball, they'll be running track,
Speaker 1: they'll be doing everything outside of this to where they
Speaker 1: can make some money without putting their body at risk
Speaker 1: and have it be a little bit more worth it.
Speaker 1: So let me ask this. We just saw Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: last night, and Kyler Murray since coming into the National
Speaker 1: Football League has been outstanding number one overall pick. But
Speaker 1: before the draft, Kyler was taking tenth overall by the
Speaker 1: Oakland A's and giving a significant contract, and he agreed
Speaker 1: to it, but then decided to give the money back
Speaker 1: and go play football. I'm one of those has always
Speaker 1: just said it's wow. The amount of money that you
Speaker 1: can make in baseball is so much. I mean it's
Speaker 1: not even close. You know, right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: they're guaranteed contracts. You know, Mookie Betts the richest contract
Speaker 1: in baseball the Dodgers recently signed this year. It's well
Speaker 1: over three hundred million dollars. You know, you're not seeing
Speaker 1: any NFL players like a three hundred million dollars contract.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's great and as much money as quarterbacks get.
Speaker 1: You know, Aaron Rodgers din't get a three hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars contract. I mean, I just think of that all
Speaker 1: day along, Like Kyler, you could have been paid for life.
Speaker 1: It's still been good. I mean he's he's an outstanding athlete.
Speaker 1: He could have been a fantastic baseball player as well. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. If you look at that, it's
Speaker 1: usually the quarterbacks who are passing up on those on
Speaker 1: those MLB deals. It's not it's not guys that's playing
Speaker 1: safety and cornerback and all those other positions. Because those
Speaker 1: quarterbacks know usually they're going in the first round. Saidy're
Speaker 1: getting twenty at thirty there, they're getting some more endorsements
Speaker 1: somewhere to give him, get him maybe another twenty and
Speaker 1: thirty and then that second contract for Kyler. If he's
Speaker 1: looking at it correctly, he could say, look, Pat ma
Speaker 1: Owns got five hundred, so you know, if I do
Speaker 1: what I need to do, I can make some of
Speaker 1: that baseball money. But that is a quarterback type of thing.
Speaker 1: The people that are playing other positions, they're not looking
Speaker 1: at it the same way. And I think you'll see
Speaker 1: see a receiver or defensive back going out there and
Speaker 1: taking that money from the MLB and saying good bout
Speaker 1: in the football field. I'll give you another guy, Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: He was drafted by the Texas Rangers. Jamie's pitched at
Speaker 1: Florida State, he was a relief pitcher and James this year.
Speaker 1: I believe he's making one point five million dollars with Seattle.
Speaker 1: I mean at Seattle, but with the Saints he's their
Speaker 1: third quarterback. They just announced that Taysom Hill's going to
Speaker 1: start against Atlanta this week, not Jameis Winston, who came
Speaker 1: in off the bench and fielding for Drew Brees. So
Speaker 1: Jamis is making basically for quarterback money peanuts. Do you
Speaker 1: know relievers are making four five million dollars in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball? You know, I'll talk about you know, hey,
Speaker 1: Man may come in on the seventh and seventh is
Speaker 1: you're inning, Jamie. Jamie's gonna have that kind of career.
Speaker 1: It spent fifteen years, sixteen years man not getting an ect.
Speaker 1: He could have had a long career. Doesn't work out.
Speaker 1: But as an athlete, I'm sure Jamis is a little uset.
Speaker 1: But that Saint's offense is going to look a lot
Speaker 1: like the Florida offense with Tim Tebow going forward until
Speaker 1: Drew gets back. Yes, yes, you are correct. All right, Hey,
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