WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Who's Sleeping on the Texans? 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:13.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This ship is 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:18.480 the Player's laud broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.960 at the Star. Now your hosts Darry Church, Danny mccraig, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:33.680 HECKM Harrison, and NEWI scrugs. Plays out Friday. Let's right, yeah, yeah, baby, 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:39.000 going into another Dallas Cowboys football weekend. As the Governor's 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.919 Cup is up, fighting for it, scratching cloth for that cup. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.559 One ain't to get that cup. As the Cowboys take 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.800 on the hoasty Texans. There we go, who then tags? 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.400 All right? Can we talking about them away? You know 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.120 what I'm saying. We sleep on the Texas, at least 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.240 the teammates sleeping the number we passed out on because 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.040 because let me tell you something else, I know, I 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.840 know some people would sleep on the rams yesterday because 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.679 Baker Mayfield was coming in there with no practice, no nothing, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.120 and we all said, you know what, that spread ain't enough, man. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.600 I check that skull last night. Boy took him on 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.040 the ninety eight yard drive to close things out, LONGUS 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.840 drive in the last two minutes of a game, and 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.200 I think NFL history. Baker Mayfield eight minutes, I mean 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.399 ninety eight yards in two minutes. Couldn't name one of us, Well, 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.040 go ahead to us now, I couldn't name one of 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.280 his receivers, Alan Robinson, he was out there. I just 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.600 that's you, all right, that some guy names Chronic was 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.560 out there. Ben Jefferson, Yeah, he got the tub. He 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:47.000 caught the tub. The man believes Skirk Skirk something. Chronic, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.800 white guy, Yeah, big tall, white dude. He was. He 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.000 was balling though. That something. I'm just saying. So that's 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.080 why you can't go to sleep on squads, bro, I'm 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.680 just telling you can't go to You cannot sleep on anybody. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.520 So I agree with you there by the way. Players, Now, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.400 I will follow up what you said with this and 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.480 that HBO special Belichick and Sabing when they talk about 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:20.160 Belichick says you cannot overcome bad coaching. And his disciple 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.480 is a bad coach named Josh McDaniels. He's a bad coach. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.600 This man has lost the Jeff Saturday, three days after 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.680 he got the job. He lost the banker Mayfield, who 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.959 who maybe knew the playbook. They say forty eight hours 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.520 that when did he get it. Did he probably got 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.239 the last thirty six thirty seven hours. Yeah, that's bad coaching. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.160 Let me tell you something. You got coach, You got 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.959 DeVante Adams, and you got a car Josh Jacobs and 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.480 Josh Jacobs. I don't care about no bad coaching. You 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.640 should be able to overcome something that scored more than 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.160 sixteen points. Yeah, that's ugly. Now DeVante had three catches 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.359 for like seventy three yards. One of them was in 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.840 the first quarter for like thirty seven. That bomb, like, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.880 you gotta find you gotta find a way to score 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.000 twenty You gotta you gotta find a way as players, coaching. 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.120 Coaching is bad. I agree with you on that. At 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.079 twenty point leadings here was on the losses ship. Yeah. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.080 I know, I'm just saying coaching is bad. I agree. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.640 But you got Baker Mayfield coming in here forty eight hours, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.040 forty eight hours, got dropped off from Cleveland, got dropped 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.480 off of Carolina. Now I got dropped off over here, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.320 uh in La and he come out here and go 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.120 on a ninety eight yard go ahead touchdown drive with 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.400 two minutes left in the game. I actually enjoy watching 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:34.800 this for this simple reason. Mark Davis had a guy 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.240 in the building, Rich, who took a messy situation last 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.320 year from John Gruten, took the team to the playoffs, 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.800 put your boys out the playoffs. He did, He took 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:51.200 him out, almost won the playoff game. Then you decide, no, no, no, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.119 I gotta get this boatload of money to Josh McDaniels 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.840 and didn't let him bring in his other guy from 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.440 New England to be a gem. So you're gonna bring 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.080 in this whole brain trust. You didn't pay the last 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.560 brain trust and John Gruten and Mike Mayack that didn't 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.200 get you nothing. But no, no, no, I'm gonna go 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.520 back to the well, I'm gonna go do it again. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.360 At least the last guy had a Super Bowl. We 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.040 could sit around here and say how he got it, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.560 but he at least had the credentials. You're bringing this 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.960 guy all everything he's gotten is based off what somebody 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.680 else did, height all balotcheck work. How many times we 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.480 gotta keep seeing if unless you bring balot check off 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.560 the staff, you may not want to bring the dude 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.640 from that staff. But hey, you didn't want Rich beside you. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.440 Now you got yourself a pure mess. No Church on 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.360 my side because it sounds like he dissolving all the 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.560 onus off of the players of no, no, no, you 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.160 gotta you gotta come with something like no, man, you 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.920 know there's gotta be some personal problem. I mean, look, look, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.440 I just believe overall, I'm not I've not been sold 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.640 on Josh McDaniels. I've just not been sold on Josh McDaniels. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.920 And I just don't I don't know why there's this 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:07.160 this charge down. Nah, not that guy? So who you so? 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.160 So right now, it sounds like you're taking because we 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.920 had this discussion yesterday, you're taking Dan Campbell over Josh 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.400 mcdanis Lisa's players fight? I know we're talking about because 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.080 because yesterday you said these guys were fighting for a 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.960 chance to go to the playoffs. Yesterday the Raiders, who 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.800 you said had a better chance of getting there, and 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.720 this is what they came in and showed with the 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.440 playoff life on the line. And that's coaching to and 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.040 that's your coach. But on the opposite side, you got 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.560 the Lions who will see play and see what'll see 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.480 what happens. But I can almost guarantee you one thing, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.680 They're gonna fight yeah, it ain't gonna look like what 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.559 the Raiders look like last night. Agreed, So I agree 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.320 with you. So you know, I feel like the Lions 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.760 got a better shot of getting that playoff stolding for 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.240 the Raiders when you put it in that stance, right, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.240 very yeah, Danny, Danny right, he ain't nothing mean. We 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.800 can't argue with you on now. So that's not you know, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.560 you're good, yes, Dan Campbell and what he's doing. Yeah, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.240 but I'm just looking at the season long thing of 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.920 this is, Josh McDaniels. You got a team that went 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.240 to the playoffs, so not like you got poo poo. Okay, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.560 you know, give you get a team like Dan Campbell 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.279 had a team last year and didn't make the playoffs. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.120 You still working with the group, You're still trying to 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.560 get them here. This thing was, this thing was here. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.840 If anything, Fredo Davis, who was supposed to bring in 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.120 this guy, all right, he gonna put his little New 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.240 England ju juice stamp on here and we're gonna be 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.160 the next level. No, it's not. It's like when Matt 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.120 Patricia took over Jim Cardwell, oh we need ninety seven 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.720 to be good. Matt Patricia. Okay, well, brother, you can't, right, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.880 you can't find eight wins. You can't find seven wins, 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.400 and so you keep hiring these guys and you keep going. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.200 You know, they keep trying to sell you all about 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.000 the dude. No, they're not Belichick unless you got the 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.279 dude who has the hood on. Don't take nobody from there. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.280 Don't do it, do not do not. How much do 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.440 we have to keep seeing? That's what I understand. I 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.279 thought Joe Judge would have would have sealed it for everybody. 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.400 That's the same with mcvay's little tree too. Right, if 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.600 you if you get close to McVeagh, you had a 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.960 couple of conversations with McVay. No good jobs, right, Okay, yes, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.200 but but but what we can see this. Okay, as 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.720 much as I am not a fan of the Cincinnati coach, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.680 the dude did get to Super Bowl. He did. I 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:34.239 did not borach, true, I'm not. I was not sold 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.160 on Kevin O'Connell. But I did pick Minnesota to win 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.600 the division this year, and they they're about to win 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.560 the division and go to the playoffs. I mean, I've 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.679 at least seen something, but we've seen failure after failure 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:50.200 in New England, I mean failing badly. Look at the 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.760 office now run by Patrician in New England. Boys scratched. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.520 Well you see Mac you see Mac Jones over there. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.320 I mean they got to you know now, I mean 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.520 somebody's got to tell him. Man, you know what they 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.080 can read lit? Right? Oh? Yeah, they got professional lit readers. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.040 Didn't going everything he said this? Yes, it needed to 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.280 be heard from Mac Jones though, I mean, you know 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.640 he trying to ruin mac Jon's little career. But but 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:18.239 so Matt Patricia was terrible. Uh. Eric Mangini had two shots, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.640 not good at anyone of Romeo Cronell had multiple shots, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.000 not good at good at any of them. Charlie White 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.800 stole money from how many universities out here in America? 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.560 But O'Brian still out here doing Bill O'Brien. Look at 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.319 Alabama bad? Now? Why Alabama bad? Bill O'Brian is in 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.240 the house nicking on Nick. Stop this, pull the plug 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.440 on this guy, Jo Judge. I mean it just keeps 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:47.000 going on. What you keep signing these bad dudes? Bad 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.599 ball bad bad? I mean with Dave Ball, I'm like 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:56.880 I'm like torn, like do my credit saving walking. Where 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.920 do I gotta get you gotta gave a little bit 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.040 good job over there, Mike Braber, where do you go? 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.320 Do you credit urb? I fired you credit Bill Cower? 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.240 You cared how much? I mean, because it's clear he 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.360 had to get some lessons to other play because they 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.680 was went straight up the Bill tree, the Belichick tree, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.640 Belichick getting no credit. Belicheck I saved, he got saved. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.679 He said, when you now you're talking about giving credit 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.400 to save Belichick? Is Belichick? I saved it? And like 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.400 I said, I'm just, I'm just I'm trying to figure out, well, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 where do I like? Okay? If you know, it's like 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.839 your boy Joe Burrow when when Ohio State was trying 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:35.599 to claim with somebody, He's like, nah, you know, you 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.840 know you get some success everybody. You know, that's how God, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.080 That's how God. So you know, so for day ball, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:41.920 you know, what what tree do I? Where do I 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.440 say he's from? Mike Fraber? Where do I say he's from? 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.240 You know, these are questions you have to answer and now. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.760 And I said all of this to bring it back 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.839 from a Cowboys standpoint of when Chris Crean and Kenny 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.160 was talking about um, if Mike McCarthy's one and done, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.920 he's gonna get fired. And I said, it's all a 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.719 about context, Chris, and Chris is like, no, no, no, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.840 there's more bad coaches in this league than you can 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.200 shake this stickex. So if you want to fire Mike McCarthy, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.920 please tell me where you're gonna go next, and how 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.000 are you gonna go get it done? Because you can 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.680 get bad real fad, you can make the wrong turn 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.360 and being a the Detroit Lines are still digging out 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.599 from that bad movie that they allow Bob Quinn to 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.120 make and firing call. So would you be opposed to this? Though? 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.040 Now now I was I'm gonna say, I was gonna 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:35.360 know they man go get shot pay And I've backed 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.520 off that because Sean Payton requires draft picks that you 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.600 gotta give it to the Saints and control and control, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.160 and you're gonna have to give a significant dollars. And 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.960 I said, you know, while you were going, I beat 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.199 the drum one more. I mean, I've told people and 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.160 I've done these radio shows, dan Quinn would be the 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.679 coach before Sean Payton based on how they operate. But 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.280 with everything that Mike McCarthy keeps doing. They can win 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.480 their tenth game this year, first time they won ten 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.880 games since Barry Switcher back in the nineties. Back to 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.199 back seasons, right back to back seasons. This is not 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.599 something they know how to do around here, and this 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.240 man is about to do that. I would I would 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.760 be very hesitant to just say, go off your head. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.040 So if they're one and done, let's just say they're 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.360 one and done, they lose in a wild card close game, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.440 and you have an opportunity to go ahead and let 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:27.280 Mike McCarthy walk and then supplant him with with Dan quinn. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.040 Would you would you be okay with that? I know 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.120 you say contact matters, but one and done is one 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:37.240 and done. I ain't a lot to change up. I 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.080 don't know you said close game? Who are we playing? 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.839 I mean once again, like like just talked about with TCU, Hey, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.600 if they lose a close game, you know that they'll 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.400 probably still got to play. They lost in overtime to 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.199 Kansas State. So if he goes to overtime in Tampa 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.120 Bay and they lose, lose to to the Bucks and ot, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.120 do you bring him back under that context? I'm saying 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.599 like like do Romo dropped the snap? You know what 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.679 I'm saying, Like, how how how do they go out? 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.679 They lost by touchdown? Let's say you know they were 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.440 playing good goes the lad down the field the last 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.880 you know, minute and thirty second score touchdown the Cowboys 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.599 losing the wild card at home at home? No, I 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.920 wouldn't be at home. It would be at Tampaka. Do 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.040 you think he would still his seat wouldn't be hot 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.720 at all after that. I think it would be hot, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.000 But I don't think he'd be I don't think you 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.000 think he'll still be able to. I think he'll have 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.199 another shot at it. Um. Like you said, back to 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.600 back ten win seasons, like being able to weather the storm. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.959 But what happened with Dak earlier the season streets, I 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:37.640 mean you got Tyren Smith out again. Now you got 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.120 out and shows being able to weather the storm and 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.360 being resilient in that and from that aspect, you had 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.679 to actually play boss man fat. Yeah, you know what 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.920 I'm saying right now, Listen, if they now we still 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.520 got some games left, you go out here, you stumbled 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.000 into the playoffs and didn't lose. Yeah, I think you 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.920 might have a rash. But Yeah, if you continue the strong, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.400 the strongly strong performancist, leading on the run, game playing defense, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.439 showing that your team is fighting for you, and that 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.439 you go into the playoffs and you lose a heartbreaker, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.000 you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you go out there 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.679 and lose like you lost in San Francisco. I don't know. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.040 You you go up to get out man, and you know, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.720 and punished like that because that game was closed. Looked 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.120 like they got beat down the whole game. That look, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.280 there's that's why. That's why I told when I said 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.880 to Kennt, it's about the context. But watching Josh McDaniels 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.520 last night and then he's look at Carolina where they 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.280 game at Rulola is all his juice and he messed 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.280 that thing up and then they had success when he 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.280 It's hard to find good coaches, and so you know, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.800 before you just jump off the bridge or with somebody, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.920 you may have to ask the question, Okay, what do 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.640 we do? I mean Andy Reid had a bunch of 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.360 playoff losses and NFC Championship game losses at home in Philadelphia, 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.839 and that's also he got to the NFC Championship. And 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.600 I'm saying and you know, eventually, you know, they got 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.760 to Super Bowl and they just they're tired of Andy Reid. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.199 But known even back then there were super people. Well, no, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.760 we don't know. Um, I guess I'm more and more 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.160 inclined to say, let me look at the whole thing 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:12.559 before I just hit the up. Lost the playoffs first round, 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.360 you're out that that's that's a lot. That's a lot 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.280 of reaction because if if Mike goes and you bring 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.280 in Dan, um, is Dan going to be able to 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.320 choose his own staff? Can he tell gillen More to 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:26.720 go if he wants to tell him to come in? 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.520 What are you going to do? What does it look 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.600 like the player development under Mike McCarthy, in my opinion, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.480 especially the last two years, I think it's pretty significant. Oh, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.080 I would agree, I would agree able to do. No, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.160 he's he's been a part of this. He's the guy 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.280 that brought in in Dan Quinn. I believe there's and 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.200 you guys played in the room. So you you speak 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.640 to this morning, it seems that those there's a good 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:53.880 culture about the team that's been developed under this head coach. Yeah, listen, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.600 I like Mike McAuley's I don't want to take anything 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.240 away from him because he's the head guy and it 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.720 starts with him. Um. But like we I saw last year, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.040 the guy who was this true catalyst for this was 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.880 dan Quinn. Right, there's a guy like a Risch Besachia 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.160 who's on your team, on your coaching staff, who players 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.720 then come to relate to, they listen to, they follow, right, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.000 whoever was on the coach and staff, and Rich Besanchia 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.640 was here. Rich Besachia was still the guy that everybody 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.000 looked at the guy and was like, I respect this guy. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.000 If Rich says it, then we need to do it 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.400 because they know that he was doing it for the 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.600 betterment of the team and for them. And I think 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.280 dan Quinn is that guy. Mike McCarthy did bring him in, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.360 but I think when you walk around in that locker room, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.840 the guys who are shaking hands, giving the dad but 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.600 doing all that, it's gonna be dan Quinn with the 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.320 hat backwards. Now, Mike McCarthy brought him in, so yeah, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.440 it's him. But the personality of the team I think 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.040 is more following a dan Quinn personality than it is 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.360 a Mike McCarthy personality, especially on the defensive side of 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:51.800 the football. I feel like, you know, all those guys 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.360 even a better and leadership, you know, starts at dan Quinn, 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.040 goes down to de Marcus, Lawrence, Michael Parsons, all those guys, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.360 and they relay the message, you know, to everybody else 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.480 out there. To me, it's just, man, it's tough. It's 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.720 tough when you talk about McCarthy because he's I'm such 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.960 a great job. I'm changing the culture around here. What 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.720 do we talk about? You know, when j G was 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.200 the guy, even though that's my guy, it was always 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:13.800 you know, hey, they're not ready to play. You know, 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.040 they're starting slow out there. You know, it seemed not 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.640 to be able to get up for the each opponent, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.640 only the special games. And we're here with MacArthur. You see, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.080 there's rarely a moment in any game this season where 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.080 the Cowboys started out sluggish. You know, there's rarely a moment, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.800 prime time, twelve o'clock, it doesn't matter. They get up 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.560 for each and every game. And we saw that. We 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.160 saw that, so we saw evidence of Michaelcarthy's able to 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.120 bring to this team. It's just we all know what's 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.960 gonna happen, Like if he goes out in the playoffs, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.680 you know the uproar that's gonna happen around here. And 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.840 I understand that's just part of being with the Star, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.920 but it's I mean, it's it's a tough scenario, it's 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.000 a tough situation. Let's speak to something you said about 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.520 about the defense, because this is a defensive football team, 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.080 and while you were on assignment, McCarthy spoke about how, Hey, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.760 I let it be know, this is a defensive football team. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.560 We're going to be about this def and we need 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.560 to we need to be running the ball, playing, we 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:07.760 need to protect the defense. And I think he could 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.399 have been supersensitive about it. Um. There there are times 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.840 where I remember Buddy Ryan's teams in some of Steve 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.760 Spurrier's teams, and he was in Washington. It was just 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.960 kind of like, hey, it's about this particular side of 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.640 the ball and this book, this particular side has the advantages, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.640 and the coach caters to them. It feels as though 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.000 this is a team and that people on the team recognize, Yeah, man, 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.440 defense is the ballers here. They're doing their thing, um, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.480 and that there's I feel like there's equal respect. But 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.080 we also know who the kid of the jungle is here. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:44.640 Um I feel to me, I think that that those 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.000 are the things if you make changes, can you keep 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.720 some of that? Can you keep that going? What seemingly 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.119 a very good room? And I don't feel like that. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.160 I see a bunch of jealousies. I feel like people 0:17:58.240 --> 0:17:59.879 can't mean like the way Zeke is going about his 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.320 job with Tony Poard and Mike Mike McCarthy talked about 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.320 it today, I think they've done a really good job 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.840 of Okay, yeah, we're putting Tony Pollard in better positions here, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.679 but we're still praise and Zeke, we're still making him, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.920 We're still appreciating his contributions. I think there's a an 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.800 art of skill of getting people to all buy in, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.600 do their things, and then still keep rolling the boat forward. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.520 So I just think I'm more impressed each week Danny 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.800 by the job he's done. And I have not always 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.760 been that way. After year one and so watching Josh 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.879 McDaniels last night, watching Your Boy and Chargers mess up 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:38.000 each week, it's hard to go find good people who 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.320 can do this. This is not it is. It is 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.840 not easy. And then when you see the foolishness that 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.600 the Giants were dealing with Joe Judge and you just 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.399 see him one year what Brian dave All does with 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.679 just some legitimate coaching or that mess back in Jacksonville 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.840 with Urban Meyer and you see Doug Peterson. When you 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.440 get some legitimate people in here who have a clue, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.880 it does matter. And then right to decisions being made. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.520 I still want to know one day how Ron Rivera 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.680 thought that giving up two draft picks and twenty eight 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.080 million dollars a Carson Wentz made any kind of sense. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.560 And you had the dude in the building who everybody 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.080 seemingly liked to bring in a guy that don't nobody like, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.119 I don't get it. I don't get it. But Mike 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.160 McCarthy for two years now has been doing the right things. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.200 And we're about to see this organization do something we 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:31.800 haven't done since where were you at ninety six? Hey? Okay? 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:40.359 So two yeah, right Saturday morning, car so so so 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.200 let that sink in here as we go to brain. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.359 The Cowboys are about to win their tenth game because 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.760 they're faired about seventeen over the Houston, Texas. The text 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:50.200 and say I'll do it. See you see how you 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:55.480 speaking about it. Speaking in two exists a tenth win. Okay, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.879 a tenth win something that has not happened since you 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:03.840 are eight years old, sir, eight years old. Yeah, shout 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.800 out the big mic man. I said, I got all 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.639 respect for Big Mike. I'm just saying, well, I'm a 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.159 defensive guy, so I see it a little differently than 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.080 than other guys, the same way you may have. Like 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.399 I understand what was going on in the locker room. 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.240 We were there, right, I understand when Rob Royan was there, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.600 like who I was listening to. I understand when Jody 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.680 was there, who I was listening to. Rich, I know 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.480 who the other guys in the locker room had much 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.200 respect for. And if they told you to go do something, 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.159 then you was gonna go do it, like I like 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.439 for us the offensive guys, that just wasn't the same. 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:34.520 But yeah, shout out to you, Big Mic. Have a 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.960 job when we come back. Let's end this. Okay, this 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.920 this the circus needs to end. Can somebody please say 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.520 it's over, because I know I'm personally I'm just saying 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.960