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Speaker 1: the Star. No. Your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and
Speaker 1: new He scrugs, all right, it's Friday. That means it's
Speaker 1: time for the players Lodge and the Boys are back together.
Speaker 1: Week number two day. Mccraig here, he is, baby here,
Speaker 1: he is back to back weeks. Listen, Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: believe it. I know, man, you're nervous, you're sweating. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about the studio, But
Speaker 1: as soon as I get up in here, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know, the beads start, you know, swelling up on
Speaker 1: top of my head. I feel some drips coming down
Speaker 1: in the studio. This man camera action. I guess home studio.
Speaker 1: It ain't like this home studio. It ain't like, oh
Speaker 1: we know you got a really really nice home. Here.
Speaker 1: Church out here sweating like some of these veterans are
Speaker 1: like me, oho, what you said? The oddsworld on my man,
Speaker 1: Big Mike, you got that sweat on the two oh
Speaker 1: oh oh yeah, yeah, we'll die, we will die into
Speaker 1: to Mike McCarthy and, uh, the hot seat there, this
Speaker 1: is the player's lounge job. Danny McCrae back for a
Speaker 1: second week in a row. Here, former Dallas Cowboys saying
Speaker 1: number forty there's buried church. Number forty two, Dallas Cowboys safety.
Speaker 1: I've new we scruggs merely a reporter for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: Emmy Award. When for a minute or two minute, two, Um,
Speaker 1: I was reading Matthew McConaughey's book Green Lights. Actually I
Speaker 1: wasn't reading it. He read it. So the audio book
Speaker 1: is really good. And the Cowboys used to train in Austin.
Speaker 1: That's when I first over the team, Jimmy's last year,
Speaker 1: and there was a black club on sixth Street called
Speaker 1: um Cafier Station. And a couple of years later, maybe
Speaker 1: a year or two that I remember, the white guy
Speaker 1: was a waiter at the Cafis station. Okay, come to
Speaker 1: find out it was Matthew McConaughey, and I did not
Speaker 1: know it. He said, it's an audio book. It was
Speaker 1: in the audi book. He say, yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: jab a Caafi station. My best friend worked on six
Speaker 1: Street two about five or six clubs down called Whiteley's,
Speaker 1: And I said, was that McConaughey, the white guy waiter.
Speaker 1: He's like, yep, so he was. So it sounds like
Speaker 1: he was the only hit. Okay, yeah, black It was
Speaker 1: a black again. It was all black club. He was.
Speaker 1: He was the only white guy grew up in. So
Speaker 1: he's invited to the cookoun Oh yeah, yeah, okay, but
Speaker 1: check out his audio book. Check out his audio book.
Speaker 1: But those were fun days. But I remember one time
Speaker 1: running the Emmin and Michael Irvin and Kafier station out
Speaker 1: there end during training camp. That'd be a dangerous spot
Speaker 1: to have can six Street right there, I mean, you
Speaker 1: know an ox Now we way off in the cut
Speaker 1: somewhere when the podcast is over, it is over. There
Speaker 1: was one bar called the Copper Tank on sixth Street.
Speaker 1: And I tell people all the time, this was when
Speaker 1: the media member and me lived off the Cowboy. You
Speaker 1: went the team a little bit, do you know, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do, I know, I know, yeah, yeah said of
Speaker 1: course he walked through out here his microphone in his
Speaker 1: pocket to get the club. Hey, you didn't have to,
Speaker 1: you just walked in with you walked in with the
Speaker 1: right Yes, I see didn't come back, but we had
Speaker 1: the medium pass back then. Yes this is who I am. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I leached off. That was twenty three years old, living
Speaker 1: off the county man, living right out the cowboy. Because
Speaker 1: after a while, you know, they couldn't get to them.
Speaker 1: So you know you was next up there. You got
Speaker 1: no single I was a single man. I was a bachelor.
Speaker 1: I did bachelor thing. The walls can talk, yes on
Speaker 1: the wall. So Las Vegas came out with odds this
Speaker 1: week that have Mike McCarthy as the first head coach
Speaker 1: to lose his job seven to one odds. You know,
Speaker 1: they got bets on everything, you know, bets on everything
Speaker 1: now and so yeah, yeah, they got Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 1: the number one guy. Oh man, I don't see it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you see his hot, his seat
Speaker 1: being not hot right now. I don't think when Jerry's
Speaker 1: reaching almost eighty years old, I don't think we can do.
Speaker 1: Anything is possible. Yeah, he wants to win. Now, we
Speaker 1: know Jerry wants it right and anything right, so anything
Speaker 1: is possible. I don't think. I mean, I did not
Speaker 1: foresee this defense becoming making as many wholesale changes they did.
Speaker 1: We knew that bey changes. I didn't think there'd be
Speaker 1: this many. But this is Jerry saying okay. I mean
Speaker 1: Jerry finally said Jason, I love you, but I can't
Speaker 1: do this anymore. So I don't know what if he's
Speaker 1: disappointed again, I don't know what he'll do. I will
Speaker 1: never forget the two looks on this man's face when
Speaker 1: they lost at New England and they had Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Belichick against him the game they should have won
Speaker 1: lost on special teams, the anger and disappointment, and then
Speaker 1: the tears he had after Buffalo beat them on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day and cold beans they got carried off the feet.
Speaker 1: I mean they made the man cry. So I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here looking at this. This is as he's getting older.
Speaker 1: You take this stuff more and more personally, and if
Speaker 1: you look at it, he's in a win now mode.
Speaker 1: I mean they feel like they got they got their leader,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. He's under contract. He's ready to roll their offense.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it could be a top five offense,
Speaker 1: especially with that receiving corps. You got a health the
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith like l Collins coming back, so they can
Speaker 1: run the ball a little bit and Uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just to me, I think he thinks this offense
Speaker 1: is geared to go. It's geared to go. We got
Speaker 1: to make some changes on defense, Like you said, we
Speaker 1: got a wholesale change. But he's ready to win now.
Speaker 1: And he's like, look, McCarthy out to let you bring
Speaker 1: your boy Nolling in. Now you're bringing in Dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: Something's got to work. If this don't work, I'll let
Speaker 1: you bring in all your guys. I'll let you get
Speaker 1: the tools that Dan and Quinn needs to get this
Speaker 1: defense going. If we don't get this thing rolling in
Speaker 1: the right direction, somebody got to go. I'm not taking it,
Speaker 1: So somebody got to go. I'm gonna tell you why
Speaker 1: this man seat is hot, all right, and it's it's
Speaker 1: not because of the record that they had last season.
Speaker 1: It's because of the performance and the lack of buying
Speaker 1: from the players, all right. They have not come out
Speaker 1: and looked that way. And I don't know how many years.
Speaker 1: I mean, at least when JJ was here, we was
Speaker 1: losing it. We was going eight and eight. Competitive balled
Speaker 1: in and we were losing team. You never had that question,
Speaker 1: and then last season it was so obvious where everybody
Speaker 1: saw it and everybody called it out. You had players
Speaker 1: coming then talking about they're not running to the ball. Uh,
Speaker 1: the guys talking about watch the film and the film
Speaker 1: was horrible. Like you had all these bad things going on,
Speaker 1: you know, inside the team and in the locker room
Speaker 1: with Jerry's like, nah, if we see that again, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have that same issue. Do you think mccraid, do
Speaker 1: you think that a lot of that, you know, turmoil
Speaker 1: and all that, you know inside the locker room, all
Speaker 1: that stuff. You think that had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with their leaders not being in there. You know, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott being out. You know, a lot of young guys
Speaker 1: trying to take that leadership role to the next level,
Speaker 1: but they weren't able to do that. You think they
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with, you know, the turmoil
Speaker 1: inside the locker room and just the at odds it
Speaker 1: seemed like the coaches and the players were at Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think it had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with the leaders, But I also think it had a
Speaker 1: lot to do with the staff. I don't think the
Speaker 1: staff came in and and figured out a way to
Speaker 1: get these guys to buy into what they were selling.
Speaker 1: Um and that's from the Waite staff. You know we
Speaker 1: got voice uh he left some they had a new
Speaker 1: Waite staff, they had a new guy come in. They
Speaker 1: had to buy in for that. The dB coaches, we
Speaker 1: obviously know that nobody was buying into. And then we
Speaker 1: had no idea what's going on offense. We talked about
Speaker 1: it on the show all the time. What is the
Speaker 1: identity of the offense. So you got players on the
Speaker 1: offense who have no idea what the identity is and
Speaker 1: what they should expect for the upcoming game. And the
Speaker 1: defense was atrocious. So I mean it all on all
Speaker 1: levels it was. It was bad. So if you have
Speaker 1: another season of that, those odds are right. In the
Speaker 1: only movie, well Prince made two movies, but the only
Speaker 1: movie that was a hitting Purple Rain, the club owner,
Speaker 1: Billy says the Prince because he ain't calling the kids kid,
Speaker 1: I got three acts, I ain't got room for four.
Speaker 1: But it kicked them kicked, but themorrow not ell. So
Speaker 1: homeboy picks up, picks up that guitar, goes to the
Speaker 1: stage and busts out Purple rained. Big Mike. Better, I
Speaker 1: could have had a crowd waving like that. Better happening
Speaker 1: tears and then come out with following up with baby
Speaker 1: I'm a Star. I mean he's gonna have to perform
Speaker 1: like that because Mary Jones does not have time to waste,
Speaker 1: he does not have years to spend. He's giving you
Speaker 1: the money and the resource. I mean, you guys have
Speaker 1: been to different teams. You in Chicago, you were up
Speaker 1: there in Jacksonville. What else could you ask for? You
Speaker 1: can't when you talk about facilities, finances for the team,
Speaker 1: I mean everything is here. You've got a tremendous practice facility,
Speaker 1: You've got a tremendous stadium. There's no excuses. You got
Speaker 1: it all right there. And as a player, I mean,
Speaker 1: what else do you want from the Cowboys? I mean
Speaker 1: off the field, you make so much money. I mean
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous with that star on your helmet. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you got all the practice facilities, all the best equipment,
Speaker 1: you got the top end at everything you can have.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, we haven't been able to translate
Speaker 1: that into w's So I think we gotta get this.
Speaker 1: Like you said, mccraige, he has to put his imprint
Speaker 1: on this team. He has to get this philosophy going
Speaker 1: in the direction that he wants it to go or
Speaker 1: he's gonna go down with the ship. Like he said,
Speaker 1: I mean, we gotta win now. Jerry's in the win
Speaker 1: now mode. And if Quinn and do that, I mean
Speaker 1: we've seen it done. You gonna have to ships. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm Quinn top ten this season, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this top ten this season. That's so
Speaker 1: I'm not even worried about that. I'm worried about did
Speaker 1: you go to your tail practice? You know I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I did not go to ok First of all, that
Speaker 1: don't matter, all right. You gotta get out there and
Speaker 1: put your ham on on somebody. That's when we'll know
Speaker 1: if these guys really came to play, you know, like
Speaker 1: I know, Ota practices none padded practices, that's what they are.
Speaker 1: They are none the football as a contact sports. So
Speaker 1: you never really know. I run out there and tag
Speaker 1: somebody off right now, that don't mean enough. Going to
Speaker 1: get out there in week one, don't try to strike
Speaker 1: strike when the tackle it's not. It's not the same.
Speaker 1: So they can look as good as they want to.
Speaker 1: We can have the twenty eleven Tyron Smith and that
Speaker 1: coming out here saying he got the best, the most
Speaker 1: in shape, tackles all they want to, But until you
Speaker 1: get out there in between those lines and put that
Speaker 1: helmet on somebody, you have no idea. What do you
Speaker 1: think these OTAs, these that's all in this mini camp
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have, do you think it'll prove dividends?
Speaker 1: I mean because last year we didn't have it. We
Speaker 1: didn't have OTAs, we didn't have none of that, and
Speaker 1: you know the proof was in the pudding as what
Speaker 1: we saw for the regular season. So do you think
Speaker 1: they can improve what these OTA's going on right? I
Speaker 1: think I think absolutely. I think them going back to
Speaker 1: a four to three, things that they are are familiar with,
Speaker 1: and then being able to put dan Quinn's little touch
Speaker 1: on it, I think that'll help a lot. I think
Speaker 1: the biggest part of last year was they switched the
Speaker 1: entire scheme around. These guys had not done this in
Speaker 1: their football careers, and then we asked them to do
Speaker 1: it with no OTA's a really really light training camp
Speaker 1: and then going to Week one against some pretty pretty
Speaker 1: good offenses and and and try to produce and it
Speaker 1: didn't work out. So getting back to a four to three,
Speaker 1: getting back to the basics getting out here and Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn like being able to put his imprint so they
Speaker 1: understand what he wants. He wants them to hustle. He's
Speaker 1: going to get out there on the front line and
Speaker 1: show this is what I want from you and if
Speaker 1: you can't do it, then you won't be on this team.
Speaker 1: So get it that and getting that attitude out on
Speaker 1: this defense. I think it's gonna help top ten and
Speaker 1: knew it. This is why the Players Lounge is. It's
Speaker 1: just a different podcast than the other ones because if
Speaker 1: you listen to the break and just their thoughts on
Speaker 1: the OTAs, there's a whole lot of positives and you
Speaker 1: just came right out there. You just pour coal. How
Speaker 1: many times have you, like seen somebody say bro Ota
Speaker 1: was bad, like they went on on analysts came out
Speaker 1: or whatever. And at the end of OTA, it was like,
Speaker 1: we had a horrible OTAs. I just was gonna actually
Speaker 1: mention one guy from the OTA talk about we're talking
Speaker 1: about had no Demante CAZy. Okay, that's your that's your boy,
Speaker 1: and that's your boy. I'm gonna necessarily say it's my boy.
Speaker 1: As much as I had stressed it, I thought Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn needed to be able to bring in his own
Speaker 1: coaches and some players who understood this skame and coming
Speaker 1: off an achilles, he looked like, Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: guy who's going to be able to play this fault
Speaker 1: and help this team, because we were wanting is he
Speaker 1: gonna make a club? To make the club? I know
Speaker 1: it's an OTA, but he was out there and he
Speaker 1: was very active, and I just said to myself, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a player who might be able to help them.
Speaker 1: And Demante Kazy when when he was healthy, was a
Speaker 1: playmaker for the Atlanta Falcons. They need to playmakers here.
Speaker 1: So that to me, what I took away from the
Speaker 1: OTA was, Hey, look for a guy coming off in achilles,
Speaker 1: I think, you know so far better than I thought.
Speaker 1: This could be good. And that's a hell of a
Speaker 1: sign that he's even participating in this early part of
Speaker 1: OTA's where it's kind of just you know, you got
Speaker 1: individual drills, you got a couple of team drills here
Speaker 1: and there, But for him to even be out there
Speaker 1: with them, that's a huge sign because I would have thought,
Speaker 1: you know, he would have been on the sidelines with
Speaker 1: Britt doing those band works and just getting accumated. I'm
Speaker 1: all over right now to getting back onto the field.
Speaker 1: But like you said, he's out there, he's doing his
Speaker 1: drills and he looks good. So for me, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a sign for this defense because
Speaker 1: the one thing I preached sense the offseason was they
Speaker 1: needed a guy back there, and you as well knew
Speaker 1: that they needed a guy back there that can control
Speaker 1: this defense, that can be the quarterback there in the secondary,
Speaker 1: has a linebacker crew in that front seven. You got
Speaker 1: veterans down there, Jalen Smith, Lve that can control that,
Speaker 1: get those d linemen and everybody moved in the right direction.
Speaker 1: But you didn't have that at the safety. So they
Speaker 1: brought in Casey. He knows the system, and for him
Speaker 1: being out there this early in OTAs, that's a heck
Speaker 1: of a sign because he knows it. And if he's
Speaker 1: healthy enough to get back even even three fourths of
Speaker 1: what he was a ball hockey safety back there, that'll
Speaker 1: prove dividends for this defense and hopefully he'll be able
Speaker 1: to improve out there. So it sounds like you're a
Speaker 1: preaching for the top ten. To me. You got veteran linebackers,
Speaker 1: you got the first round. You was I just last
Speaker 1: season saying Diggs he's gonna prove and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the top eight cornerback and all of sudden getting them.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying, he got Tank Launch, you got
Speaker 1: Randy Gregor who came on at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you put together everything that we never
Speaker 1: gallop more than the New the New show Stoppers. So
Speaker 1: if you put together all this stuff that we have
Speaker 1: been talking about collectively on the players, now this sounds
Speaker 1: like a pretty good defense coming up this season. Who wa,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm putting putting it all together. I really
Speaker 1: brought up a positive that I saw from and I
Speaker 1: wanted to point that out while you were poo pooing everything. No, no, no, see,
Speaker 1: ain't gonnew he'd like to do that. I was not
Speaker 1: poo pooing OTAs I said, I will not watch your
Speaker 1: ota and then say, you know what, We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a hell of a team based off what I've seen.
Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm saying. And I'm not even say
Speaker 1: I just really wanted to. I saw a player that
Speaker 1: I was not expecting to see out there a lot,
Speaker 1: so and I said Okay, this to me is a
Speaker 1: good time because we've spoken before. Hey, look, you know
Speaker 1: the guys contracts not guaranteed. Here what you know, what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Dave Hellman Dallas Cowboys dot Com and read
Speaker 1: his work. He spoke with him, and um, he said
Speaker 1: he kind of wasn't expecting you out there. He says,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people weren't. And he also
Speaker 1: spoke about how he was thankful to find a team
Speaker 1: and just you know that whole NFL life. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is what happens. You know, you free agent year, get hurt,
Speaker 1: and you know where folks at, where the offers. So's
Speaker 1: he's here, and it sounds as though he wants to
Speaker 1: prove something on a one year contract. Old Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame man and baseball major Sparky Anderson said if he
Speaker 1: had twenty three guys or twenty five man ross of
Speaker 1: one year dudes on a contract, he said he went
Speaker 1: the World Series every year because everybody be out there
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that he was out there to
Speaker 1: get a new deal. So if Kazy is here, he
Speaker 1: understands his defense and he's got something to prove. Looking
Speaker 1: at his tracker head, in the past on the upside
Speaker 1: of the flip side this, this could be good. So
Speaker 1: many times we've seen these signings that just have not
Speaker 1: worked out around here. Don Terry Pole last year, Gerald McCoy,
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin. You just look, he's got a man this
Speaker 1: one year. And I'm just really saying, as I look
Speaker 1: at the OTA, I can say, all right, so far
Speaker 1: one practice in, this guy's doing more than I thought
Speaker 1: he would be doing. And maybe this could be a
Speaker 1: signing that helps his football team. Lord knows, dan Quinn
Speaker 1: need somebody who can't understand he did. He definitely needs.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like he got kind of a chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder. I mean, and you like that. I
Speaker 1: like that about him because it sounds like when he
Speaker 1: came in there Helm and was tacle to him, He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I got doubters. I know y'all
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna go out there and go out
Speaker 1: there and be able to prove something. A lot of cats,
Speaker 1: including myself, thinks, hey, he might not even make the take.
Speaker 1: But for him to go out there and he's not
Speaker 1: doing a lot of you know, Ron, Ron, I'm back,
Speaker 1: I'm here. He just you know, a being humble. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm thankful for the opportunity to the Cowboys gave me,
Speaker 1: and now I'm out here and I got to prove
Speaker 1: my word. And you love that. You love leaders like that,
Speaker 1: and I hope he brings that to the whole defense.
Speaker 1: That just that's just that leading, that camaraderie, getting them
Speaker 1: all boys together, getting them fired up. And hopefully he
Speaker 1: can do that but remain healthy as well, because we're
Speaker 1: gonna need a free safety back there. Old only. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna, you know, reverse and go back to something
Speaker 1: that you said. It sounds like you listen, Jeral McCoy
Speaker 1: and Terry Poe, those are two very very different things
Speaker 1: that happened to those guys. Okay, as far as didn't
Speaker 1: work out, Jermy Kog got hurt when we talked about done.
Speaker 1: Terry Poe, it was it was bad. My man wasn't
Speaker 1: out there, one of those those guys who wasn't buying in,
Speaker 1: wasn't hustling, and you could see it, see it noticeably
Speaker 1: on film. I've been out for a while, so where's
Speaker 1: Gerald at this time? He's still on the marketing right,
Speaker 1: so you know, I know we had discussed them possibly
Speaker 1: coming back and all this stuff. You never know. I
Speaker 1: just know there was some stories earlier, back earlier, and
Speaker 1: where you know, hey, you know McCoy might want to
Speaker 1: come back, but you knew where I was. I missed
Speaker 1: my brother Stephen. Stephen had done a radio interview and
Speaker 1: and and somebody asked him about it. And you know,
Speaker 1: Stephen just being the open minded personnel guys, Oh you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could be. And and you know they had been
Speaker 1: in communication. But once we saw what happened in the
Speaker 1: drafting where they went, No, I go back to what
Speaker 1: Bill parcels us to talk about about progress stoppers. Bill
Speaker 1: was big on that. He's like, you know, we don't
Speaker 1: need progress stoppers. If you've got some of these younger guys,
Speaker 1: the best that's the way they're gonna get better is
Speaker 1: letting them play. Gerald McCoy's an injured player. Hurt players
Speaker 1: at that age ten to stay hurt. He came here.
Speaker 1: They had a contract, I mean thinking about they had
Speaker 1: a clause that contract. Hey man, you hurt that quality,
Speaker 1: we get go ahead and get you on out of here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll sign it. It It happened hurt the quad and got
Speaker 1: him on that and didn't cost him anything, So why
Speaker 1: are we bringing him back? I'm just Tyron Smith. Huh,
Speaker 1: Tyre Smith. Geral McCoy, you were talking about players. You
Speaker 1: know that we got a lot of players that age.
Speaker 1: When they get hurt, you just stay hurt. And that
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding that. That was not good right there.
Speaker 1: Your your honor, Gerald McCoy is an older player than
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith, and your honor, Tyron Smith is an all
Speaker 1: decade player. Gerald McCoy's not your honor. Tampa Bay rolled
Speaker 1: out Gerald McCoy and despite his years of service to
Speaker 1: the organization, gladly gave his number two in Dominican Sue
Speaker 1: and they moved forward without him. Meanwhile, Gerald went to Carolina,
Speaker 1: you still get in life. I don't care what you know.
Speaker 1: Carolina said, we don't need you out there, saying, uh, yeah, no.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys was a bad, bad bad man. He shout
Speaker 1: out the time. Man, I hope the other great seasons. Tope.
Speaker 1: He's a twenty eleven guy. He was at the the OTA.
Speaker 1: Know they had him doing some seven on seven drill work.
Speaker 1: He in Collins, he love Collins. Both went out there
Speaker 1: just some seven one. Now it was against air. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, because if you give it the church last
Speaker 1: week after and I see this contest, and that hurt
Speaker 1: you because he said he wasn't doing anything and the
Speaker 1: story last half he jumped a snap. You know, it's
Speaker 1: different anything between them, Lyne. They're taking costion with four
Speaker 1: and keeping him on the low. So they did some
Speaker 1: work with bread on the side, and then they ended
Speaker 1: up leaving for a while. Then they came back and
Speaker 1: they put him out there on the seven on seven
Speaker 1: drill when nobody was touching them, and and and so
Speaker 1: so that was fine. You're saying, Dak, you know, making
Speaker 1: sure nobody was around touching Dak either Dak um Dak
Speaker 1: was making the progress you wanted to see. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I think if you were a football fan out
Speaker 1: there and you saw Dak the way we saw Dak, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, it's coming along, it's come still not it's
Speaker 1: still not you know Dak, you know, and is he
Speaker 1: is he? Is he springing off there? Or can you
Speaker 1: he rolled out? You know? Did he rolled out on
Speaker 1: his own? Throw through a bomb to a We got
Speaker 1: video right here, so the video or Dak right there?
Speaker 1: So he ended up rolling out through a through a
Speaker 1: deep pass to um ceedee lamb. It got picked off
Speaker 1: by Burton. But you know that that to me was
Speaker 1: a positive that you can say, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: hey look you know he can go out here and
Speaker 1: he can move okay. And Dak said, hey, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a fool goal. But you know, is he ready
Speaker 1: to come out here and play football game? I don't.
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Speaker 1: see progress? And what I saw from him, I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I see some progress. That's true. You still got you know,
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Speaker 1: gonna say. I ain't gonna say, Devin White, I ain't
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Speaker 1: telling you, are we hoping that our first round pick
Speaker 1: Mica can be as good as Devin White? Are you
Speaker 1: seeing that type of talent from this guy? I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you a comparison someone gave about Micah Parsons
Speaker 1: and um the Dallas Cowboys dot comtract magazine that people
Speaker 1: forgotten the BATA. Let's take a break, come back and
Speaker 1: talk about number eleven and also someone who made a
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Speaker 1: that's running you on that red eye. Yet the flat
Speaker 1: guy canceled. I love you, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 1: What happened to me? All right? So let's get into
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, the Cowboys rookie number eleven. So I went
Speaker 1: back and was looking at the Star magazine and it
Speaker 1: was Doug Ferrar follow him on Twitter covers the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and he spoke about how good he thought
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons could be. And he said, think of everything
Speaker 1: you love about Jamal Adams and now envisioned that in
Speaker 1: a linebacker. That's Michael Parsons. Okay, because he can get
Speaker 1: away with that, because Jamal Adams is definitely I think
Speaker 1: one of the premier box in the box linebacker or safety.
Speaker 1: I think he could. He's one of the premier just
Speaker 1: run defenders in the box, playmaker type guys. I could
Speaker 1: see that at the Parsons because I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna ask Parsons to go out there and lock tight
Speaker 1: ends up like they ask. You know, Jamal Adams too,
Speaker 1: and he gets worked. He's a liability and coverage so
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna ask that of Parsons. I
Speaker 1: think he might have to guard maybe some running backs
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. I know Washington got a couple
Speaker 1: of good ones, but overall, I think he can be
Speaker 1: that type of defender where Jamal Adams in the box
Speaker 1: he's elite, you know, maybe outside of the box in
Speaker 1: space he's not, but in the box he's elite. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what they're gonna ask Michael Parsons to do.
Speaker 1: And I think if he's able to come with it,
Speaker 1: I think he can be a he can be an
Speaker 1: elite box defender. Man. That's a that's an interesting take
Speaker 1: because now I gotta ask you, if you are starting
Speaker 1: your defense, who are you picking? Then, Devin White? Are
Speaker 1: you picking Jamal ad Him and Jamal Adams? Because I'm
Speaker 1: going Devin White. I mean, I'm sorry, I meant them,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And here's what I come back with what
Speaker 1: you just said. They're blue chip players. Absolutely give me
Speaker 1: a blue chip player. This defense does not have a
Speaker 1: blue chip player in my opinion right now. And so
Speaker 1: if Michael Parsons can can get up here, we're talking
Speaker 1: about him in a conversation of a Devin White and
Speaker 1: a Jamal Adams. If you're the fairy Dallas Cowboys fan,
Speaker 1: you should be as absolutely yeah, And that's what I'm
Speaker 1: looking for. Do you do you have a blue chip player?
Speaker 1: And it seems from looking at him on his film
Speaker 1: and then just talking to different folks around here about them,
Speaker 1: they're excited about what the football player can be, so
Speaker 1: we'll see what's the drop off of not playing a year.
Speaker 1: But they think this is a blue chip football player,
Speaker 1: and I think we can all agree. We thought they
Speaker 1: needed to get some help, some blue chip help on defense.
Speaker 1: I thought it may be the corner. That's what the
Speaker 1: church now waiting on. Didn't happen. But Michael Parsons, if
Speaker 1: you're telling me this guy could be a linebacker version
Speaker 1: of Jamal Adams Signia, I mean, look what they asked
Speaker 1: Devin White to do don near in Tampa. I mean
Speaker 1: they ask them to, you know, be sadline the sideline. Basically,
Speaker 1: he's rolling everywhere. He got so much speed he can
Speaker 1: roll everywhere. And they ask him to rush the pastor
Speaker 1: as well, because I believe he had I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was this year or last ye had like
Speaker 1: eight sacks eight and half sacks. So they asked him
Speaker 1: to be that box defender. And then they ask um
Speaker 1: Lavonte David to be that cover guy, to be, you know,
Speaker 1: to cover the Travis Kelce. He's the cover the guys
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. So I think for sure Parsons
Speaker 1: can do that. He can run sideline the sideline if
Speaker 1: he just uses his instincts and he just focuses on
Speaker 1: what he gotta be doing. I think he can be
Speaker 1: an elite box defender. You gotta ask him the wise
Speaker 1: running backs here and there. But I think he can
Speaker 1: rush the pastor. I mean, if you look at this
Speaker 1: tape out of Penn State, he had about eight sacks
Speaker 1: that year. Last year he played at Penn State. So
Speaker 1: he can come off the edge, you can rush the pastor.
Speaker 1: He can be that sideline, the sideline just go get him,
Speaker 1: tackler guy. So I think he could. He could. He
Speaker 1: can make an impact in that box. I just want
Speaker 1: to see what he can do in space. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know he has to the athleticism, he has to speed, explosiveness,
Speaker 1: but he can he translate that to the field in
Speaker 1: space because that's where the NFL is going out. It's
Speaker 1: a space game NFL. The offenses are gonna put you
Speaker 1: out in the eleven personnel, they're gonna empty out the backfield,
Speaker 1: They're gonna make you cover guys in space. Can he
Speaker 1: do that? If he can, he can be elite. I
Speaker 1: think I think that's the biggest part. I think when
Speaker 1: you talk about linebackers like Devin White, um and what
Speaker 1: they're able to do. It's in space, right you see
Speaker 1: him covering running play side out of sideline. But when
Speaker 1: you see somebody catch a bubble screen or the running
Speaker 1: back catch a swing pass, the guy is out there.
Speaker 1: He's making those tackles in space. He's rushing up the middle,
Speaker 1: he's rushing off the edge. He's able to do all that.
Speaker 1: So you're not able to say this guy can only
Speaker 1: do one thing. If he's lined up here, then he
Speaker 1: has to be covering somebody. If he's lined up here,
Speaker 1: has to be rushing. So having that versatility at the
Speaker 1: linebacker position is big. So I want to see Michael
Speaker 1: He's a first round draft pick, so I want to
Speaker 1: see him be able to do do that. Just in
Speaker 1: what you guys spoke about here in terms of linebacker
Speaker 1: play and and and being in coverage. You think about
Speaker 1: some of the the players that they're going to face
Speaker 1: you on the schedule. You've got, you know, just the
Speaker 1: tightest Rob Gronkowski right up right out the bat over
Speaker 1: there at Tampa Bay. Um Hunter Henry's left Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: But it heats what New England now, I believe Smith Okay,
Speaker 1: So so they're on the schedule there, so you've got
Speaker 1: you know, Philadelphia has got Dallas Goddard, Um, the Giants have,
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram said. Then you got to you got Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry john Smith over there in New England. Denver's got
Speaker 1: um what's the kid funt? Noah funt, no fan no Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts and hay You got Las Vegas Darren Waller
Speaker 1: out there all right, look at look at this, Look
Speaker 1: at Okay, let me just go through. You don't even
Speaker 1: you didn't even list the running backs yet. Okay, you
Speaker 1: about Washington and and then you got you got some.
Speaker 1: You got Sanders just starting November seven. Okay, November seven.
Speaker 1: Just from a tight end standpoint, you've got You've got
Speaker 1: no fun no a fan of Denver. Then it's Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So you got Pitts in Hayton Hurst. Then you got
Speaker 1: the next game is Travis Kelsey. Then after that you
Speaker 1: got Darren wall caller of Vegas. Mmmm. I mean it's
Speaker 1: stacked up right now. You got got Washington for two games.
Speaker 1: They got the big kid Jordan damage to us last year.
Speaker 1: So if you're linebacker, like your linebackers, like I said,
Speaker 1: they have to be able to do all things. You
Speaker 1: gotta be able to cover tackle in Russian. If you
Speaker 1: can't do that, you will get exposals. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you a question, if you if if we're asking Parsons
Speaker 1: to be the the Devin White of the of the
Speaker 1: linebacking corps, who who's gonna be lave Monte David, Like,
Speaker 1: Who's because that's the guy who's covering these titis Lvee.
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith possibly who had a lot of He had
Speaker 1: a lot of run with uh at training camp, I mean,
Speaker 1: but at the OTA as well. This is this is
Speaker 1: the great challenge for dan Quinn. How does he figure
Speaker 1: out how to get all this done. I'll say this
Speaker 1: for Jalen Smith and for Layton Banderash, they know you
Speaker 1: gonna have to prove it this year. Yeah, Vanderesh's contractors up.
Speaker 1: They declined the fifty year deal, so he's playing for
Speaker 1: a new deal. Jalen Smith, you have to understand and
Speaker 1: know they drafted a guy your spot. So if anything,
Speaker 1: one or two things will happen. Either these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be really good because they're playing for their playoff lodge,
Speaker 1: or they'll be bad enough. The Cowboys could just say,
Speaker 1: you know what, thank you very much. We got a
Speaker 1: young gut buying them right. What's from? Uh, what's the
Speaker 1: young linebacker name? I know you're talking about fifty seven? Luke?
Speaker 1: Is it Luke? How the young guys behind LV and
Speaker 1: Jalen not excluding Michael Parsons. I think it's too early
Speaker 1: to tell you. We'll see, but I still go back
Speaker 1: the un Neil is going to get some play and
Speaker 1: we'll see it's it's gonna be active. The beauty is
Speaker 1: from what I could tell is, hey, look there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some competition, and let's see what happens in these
Speaker 1: preseason games. And I'm looking forward to it. And plus
Speaker 1: we talk about all these games right here. You know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be people gonna get hurt. We know this.
Speaker 1: It's a National Football League, so there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: opportunities here. Just be ready for your opportunity when it
Speaker 1: comes your way. And we thought, we thought last year
Speaker 1: there was term boil in the locker room, you know,
Speaker 1: players talking about coaches can't talk or coaches can't coach
Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. Imagine one of these VET
Speaker 1: dudes lose the job, get get benched. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: what type of team or what type of players are
Speaker 1: are they gonna be? Because that's that's a lot of
Speaker 1: termoil to take when you get your job taken as
Speaker 1: a as a as a starter. You're in the Vetnus
Speaker 1: League and you were suppose he was the man last
Speaker 1: year and then somebody else came in, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: some turmoil in there. Now, what type of players do
Speaker 1: we have? Do we have the type that you know
Speaker 1: what I you know, he took my spot. Let me
Speaker 1: help this guy learn, Let me help this guy be
Speaker 1: the best player he can be so he can help
Speaker 1: our team in the end. Or is he just gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a bunch of powders and they're just like, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I can it's dude starting over me.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that. I'll tell you this um the
Speaker 1: fact that the defense was so bad last year and
Speaker 1: then put everybody on notice that this may possibly happen
Speaker 1: to him. I think it's gonna sting, But I don't
Speaker 1: think it'd be that big of a surprise for some
Speaker 1: of these guys, right, I don't think it's many guys
Speaker 1: on the defense they can say I was the man
Speaker 1: last year. And sacred and really feel that way, I think,
Speaker 1: And then we keep talking about like covering the tight
Speaker 1: ends and the running backs. One thing we know about
Speaker 1: dan Quinn's defense is it's gonna be a lot to
Speaker 1: get to your spot, get your eyes at the quarterback break,
Speaker 1: and make those tackles. So you're gonna have to have
Speaker 1: guys who know the zone coverage, the drops, the weaknesses,
Speaker 1: and they have to be able to come and tackle
Speaker 1: in space. Those are the type of guys you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have starting out there on your defense. So
Speaker 1: if it's Jalen, if it's Lve, if it's Jabril Cox,
Speaker 1: they're gonna find the right people to get out there.
Speaker 1: And then when they go man on man, I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna bring those safeties in and find out who
Speaker 1: can cover those tight ends and who has the bigger
Speaker 1: advantage of getting out there on that defense. Talking about
Speaker 1: the safeties, we saw jay Ron Curse out there running
Speaker 1: with some ones. That's a bigger safety. He was out there.
Speaker 1: So there. Look, they had a lot of folks going
Speaker 1: in out. It was dan Quinn's put people. It was
Speaker 1: it was good. You saw folks go and now a
Speaker 1: lots of practice boom ba boom. You your turn here.
Speaker 1: I know it's just one ota, but when you look
Speaker 1: at what you saw last year and you look at this,
Speaker 1: there's a difference. Listen. That's why I gotta get new yet,
Speaker 1: So listen because I gotta keep breaking down. When I
Speaker 1: say OTA and you don't really know nothing. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about them being able to know the defense and
Speaker 1: learn the scheme. I'm talking about who's gonna hit, who's
Speaker 1: gonna tackle the stuff that we're talking about. When you
Speaker 1: gotta plan breaking drive is no longer tagging off like.
Speaker 1: You gotta get out there and you gotta be able
Speaker 1: to punish those guys and hit them and turn their
Speaker 1: pass backwards. So I think the OT is gonna be
Speaker 1: great for them being able to learn dan Quinn system
Speaker 1: and getting those right spots. And that's that's where I'm at, right, Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: to that point. Yeah, that's yeah, absolutely, O. Tas are
Speaker 1: great for that versus last year. But Church has seeing
Speaker 1: some stuff to where you too, where guys look great
Speaker 1: out there when you don't have to tackle everybody. Look, yeah,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you start forgetting stuff because
Speaker 1: you're worried about who coming up here to shake you
Speaker 1: or who's gonna juke you? And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you look like you never did any OTAs because you
Speaker 1: don't have that pressure getting out there and have to
Speaker 1: make those doubts. Well, it was so bad last year.
Speaker 1: This is this is where I'm celebrating. Okay, but the
Speaker 1: defense was just so bad lasting I'm sitting around to celebrate. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: you know you calling top ten. I just got some
Speaker 1: loyal spectations that could just be better than last I'm
Speaker 1: saying top ten, and I'm still hard on them, So
Speaker 1: I'm just just McCray and McCray. You notice for a fact,
Speaker 1: well we're gonna have to see is when these safeties
Speaker 1: are in the buzz hook situation. When I say buzz hook,
Speaker 1: you buzz into the numbers and your responsibility is the
Speaker 1: curl or you're getting underneath the curl or the seven
Speaker 1: route and the flat. Now when you got a guy
Speaker 1: running the seven route behind you, but you see execue
Speaker 1: Elliott coming out on the little one of the little
Speaker 1: bubble one of the little bubble uh bubble screen that
Speaker 1: bubble screen old flat routs, a little flat route by
Speaker 1: the running back, and you gotta make your choice, do
Speaker 1: you let him catch it with all that space no
Speaker 1: one had the high elusive and how big he is,
Speaker 1: you got to tackle him one on one or you
Speaker 1: go hug up on him to make sure he ain't
Speaker 1: got that room to take the catch and you give
Speaker 1: up the big bond behind you. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: different factors when you get pads on because you know
Speaker 1: what out past, I'm gonna just run up there. But
Speaker 1: when you see that big boy with them paga, I
Speaker 1: don't want to get up on him quick ye meet
Speaker 1: him in the whole one time man laid it hurt
Speaker 1: and then you'd be like, you know what I gotta
Speaker 1: I started. I gotta start getting a head start. And
Speaker 1: to that, to that, I mean we could get on
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Eller. That's why you think. I think that they
Speaker 1: have to run them early because that stuff hurts when
Speaker 1: they When Ezekiel Eller is able to punish guys in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, so when you get to the third
Speaker 1: and fourth quarter, nobody want to tackle this dude. That's
Speaker 1: why you start seeing those four or five six yard
Speaker 1: runs because they've been getting punished since the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game. Now, when you get five carries in the
Speaker 1: first half. Everybody worried about that agreed, So that's offensive.
Speaker 1: Defense goes goes the same. So we'll see, man, you
Speaker 1: get some Let's all right, let's get get another break
Speaker 1: in here. We haven't talked about the other big number switch.
Speaker 1: There were two switches that I noticed on the field,
Speaker 1: so but one got a little bit more publicity than
Speaker 1: the other at the ot A. Let's dive into that
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Speaker 1: Mortgage studios here at the Star Jaylen Smith spaying a
Speaker 1: half million dollars to switch from number fifty four? How
Speaker 1: much is that? How much? How much? People in the
Speaker 1: back almost five hundred thousand clear eyed view. Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Let me read this from Jalen Smith. The number nine
Speaker 1: is more than a number to me. It is a
Speaker 1: part of me, always has been. I was nine years old.
Speaker 1: This number has helped me learn how to handle hardship
Speaker 1: with grace, and understanding the true meaning and symbolism behind
Speaker 1: the number nine awakened my spirit and has guided me
Speaker 1: throughout my whole life warn this number through Peewee Middle school,
Speaker 1: high school, and college. It's been represented in all facets
Speaker 1: of my life, even with the five plus four equals nine,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to be wearing it now with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful, humbled, and motivated more than ever, locked in
Speaker 1: and ready for the twenty twenty one season. As always,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for the opportunity and I'll do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes for us to dominate this year. On defense, you've
Speaker 1: got my word blessings, hashtag nine on me, hashtag clear
Speaker 1: eye view. What you think this is? This is this
Speaker 1: the type of stuff that happens, and players put this
Speaker 1: type of pressure on themselves and then if it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out, you see him, you know, go a little crazy.
Speaker 1: They have no idea what to do. They don't understand
Speaker 1: the media going after him and all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that my man has a great season. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you got to go back to the basics and figure
Speaker 1: out something to lean on, and I think that's what
Speaker 1: he did. He actually realized that last season was the
Speaker 1: season that he had hoped to have, so he's just
Speaker 1: trying to find any way to get him motivated to
Speaker 1: play like he used to play. So if it works
Speaker 1: for him, great, But I wouldn't have done it. I
Speaker 1: definitely wouldn't pay five hundred thousand dollars for it. But
Speaker 1: I also don't have its money as Jalen, So I
Speaker 1: can't speak on that man's five dances, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it would have been smart for me. I hope
Speaker 1: he has a great season, but as of right now,
Speaker 1: based off the film that we saw last year, he said,
Speaker 1: have stayed in that fifty four and made a new
Speaker 1: name for us. So yeah, to me, I'm right there
Speaker 1: with you, man, I mean I'm right there with you. Five.
Speaker 1: First of all, I mean I'm not in the same
Speaker 1: tax bracket as Jayles Smith. So I mean he gave
Speaker 1: five hundred bands. If my name, if my last name
Speaker 1: is in Gates, Musk Jones, something like that, you ain't
Speaker 1: get buffet, buffet, You ain't getting five hundred bands from me.
Speaker 1: I mean, the NFL already takes everything. If you tie
Speaker 1: your shoelaces wrong, they're trying to get they're trying to
Speaker 1: find you for some money. Your socks is too high.
Speaker 1: They trying to find you for some money. So I'll
Speaker 1: be damned if I'm ever giving any type of money
Speaker 1: back to the NFL or back to the Cowboys after
Speaker 1: they gave me my bread. And then you gotta think
Speaker 1: about you giving them five hundred thousand dollars to take
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about this other day. You've given
Speaker 1: them five hundred thousand dollars to take this, to take
Speaker 1: all the fifty fours away. Then they're gonna turn around
Speaker 1: and make more money, Jersey. So you just you're just
Speaker 1: stacking it up, all stacking it up. So to me,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done it, not only because of the
Speaker 1: financial stuff, but because he had his best statistical season,
Speaker 1: I think his best season as a pro in that
Speaker 1: number fifty four. I mean, yes, this this last year.
Speaker 1: I mean it was a it was a down year
Speaker 1: for him, but he can come back with that. And
Speaker 1: I'm a very superstitious dude, So you know I switched
Speaker 1: up that that number. It's like, oh man, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know about that. I tied my
Speaker 1: shoelaces the same, make sure everything's right. So you're switching
Speaker 1: up that number. You're putting a lot of pressure on yourself,
Speaker 1: Like you said mcgraire, You're putting a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: because if things start going wrong that first game he's
Speaker 1: out there, if he misses a couple of tackles or
Speaker 1: gets done in in the open field, the media is
Speaker 1: gonna be all Overma. He's switching that number nine. You
Speaker 1: ain't represent the number nine right, and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know, I see the other side of it though,
Speaker 1: because they acted like this number nine. Romo was a
Speaker 1: great que he was a good quarterback, but I mean
Speaker 1: he didn't do things Danny White went further in the
Speaker 1: in the playoffs that Romo did. He got everybody Nam
Speaker 1: wearing the leven out here. So for me, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have did it financial reasons. And then I'm superstitious like that.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe he can change his new
Speaker 1: thing and make number nine, you know, a defensive number.
Speaker 1: But you know, we'll see what does he do if
Speaker 1: this year doesn't go well? Does he go back? He
Speaker 1: can't get back now. Now he can't go back. Now
Speaker 1: what is this new team? Because he will be on
Speaker 1: a new team. He does not play with you go
Speaker 1: snatch the number nine at the new team or is
Speaker 1: it the start off a bread new like? These are
Speaker 1: the things that you have to think about. If you
Speaker 1: have ultimate confidence in yourself, that's fine, better on yourself,
Speaker 1: uh Todd France. But but but if but if you
Speaker 1: don't know, and you've been struggling in a while and
Speaker 1: you're really trying to get get back on the right, right,
Speaker 1: right track, man, just put your fifty four on. Go
Speaker 1: out there, and you know what I'm saying, be quiet
Speaker 1: and ball out. You know, you gotta do the clariff
Speaker 1: you think because you got your bread bread, you have
Speaker 1: to make your money. But I mean, just focus on
Speaker 1: the focus on the game, focus on covering the time,
Speaker 1: focus on planning and break and try your hardest to
Speaker 1: do that. I understand. You gotta do what you gotta
Speaker 1: do to make yourself feel a little better. If it
Speaker 1: works for him, congratulations, But if not, it's gonna be sure,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be a hell of off seasons.
Speaker 1: You two dudes, why started that hashtag? Stop Jalen hate,
Speaker 1: Stop Jalen hate. Number one? Okay, first thing I'd have done,
Speaker 1: and this is a question I would like that, asked
Speaker 1: Jail and privately, did you call you CPA? Can this
Speaker 1: be a tax break? Can you somehow write this off
Speaker 1: as a business expense for you with fifty four? Because somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, and I'm sure you know Jayling's one of
Speaker 1: these guys, he's hold in the business. Maybe he has
Speaker 1: a business the clear ride of year dot dot dot,
Speaker 1: because I know you know, so that's my first thing,
Speaker 1: So maybe we maybe speak of what we know, right so,
Speaker 1: but I'm just thinking in my head that's the first
Speaker 1: thing I would say, Hey, how can I figure out
Speaker 1: a way to write this thing down? Number two? He
Speaker 1: wasn't good last year, but we also understand this was
Speaker 1: anybody really put in a proper position last year? It
Speaker 1: got me up to me, one of the most mind
Speaker 1: boggling things I saw about the defense last year was
Speaker 1: whn't they switched the two linebackers from the two positions
Speaker 1: that they had success at and had made Pro Bowls ads?
Speaker 1: And why are we switching them? They put these guys
Speaker 1: to me, you put them, You put the two linebackers
Speaker 1: in places that they didn't need to be any hurt them.
Speaker 1: So I would like to say, let's see I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: And this goes back into h Charms human resource. Everybody
Speaker 1: deserves a chance to fail, Like you're so fine, you
Speaker 1: get a chance to fail. And I feel like they're
Speaker 1: gonna give jayl and a chance. Hey man, here's your
Speaker 1: new defense. We're gonna put you right over here. Let's
Speaker 1: see what you do. Hold on, he knows he's up
Speaker 1: against it. Hold on, man, Listen that that would all
Speaker 1: be valid, right if there were eleven people on the
Speaker 1: defense who believed that they had bad seasons. All right,
Speaker 1: there's one person on that defense who watched that film
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, I went to damn bad
Speaker 1: watch the table. So yeah, I don't I don't that
Speaker 1: that discounts exactly what you said. This guys, what you
Speaker 1: said at the end. I don't know what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: but I'm not talking about so like every everybody played bad?
Speaker 1: What that man don't think he played bad. I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about So we just gotta just so, CB just
Speaker 1: hit me with this, CB, Chris being my producer. What
Speaker 1: if Jabril Cox comes in, takes the number fifty four,
Speaker 1: it's open, takes umber fifty four, goes out there and
Speaker 1: he's balling out he's but he takes over. He's balling
Speaker 1: out in the fifty four does does does? Does? That?
Speaker 1: Put even more pressure on him. The press is gone
Speaker 1: out there. Listencause this is what we talked about. So
Speaker 1: dan Quinn, he listen. He's on the line as well.
Speaker 1: The last dude came in here and got fired after
Speaker 1: a season, all right, So dan Quinn not gonna come
Speaker 1: in here and assume that if he come and have
Speaker 1: elct lust a year, that he's gonna be guaranteed to
Speaker 1: be here to the season after right, So with his
Speaker 1: job on the line as well, because he might be
Speaker 1: tied to McArthur, who has the highest odds of being
Speaker 1: fired uh this season the first coach out of there.
Speaker 1: They all know that their jobs on the line and
Speaker 1: they have to perform great. So I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna lean on Jalen h if he's not performing well.
Speaker 1: If you have a guy behind him who's a ball
Speaker 1: hawking guy who's proven to be able to go get
Speaker 1: those interceptions and cause those fumbles. If he's balling, he's
Speaker 1: gonna play. But this is but this is also what
Speaker 1: you want. You want competition. You want you want the competition.
Speaker 1: He comes from Seattle, where Pete Carroll's whole book is
Speaker 1: called Compete every Day. So that's fine. I look, I
Speaker 1: don't have any issues with these guys going out here.
Speaker 1: Also understanding, look, no more sager cows here. You know
Speaker 1: too many years people have walked around knew and they
Speaker 1: had a job and if they messed up, you heard
Speaker 1: an excuse to be a may I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: I'm all for it all day long. Another topic we
Speaker 1: need to get to here on the players. Luck to
Speaker 1: Jalen too, by the way, good luck now, yeah, good
Speaker 1: luck to you. Wow? Right there, No listens, listen. That's
Speaker 1: as a former player. As a former player, I want
Speaker 1: all these dudes to get up there, play well, make
Speaker 1: their money and don't have to deal with no hate,
Speaker 1: no hatunds like but sound. But when when you go
Speaker 1: out here and you made these type of decisions, you
Speaker 1: have to be ready for some criticism and then that
Speaker 1: should put that chip on your shoulder to make you
Speaker 1: go out there improve that the move that you made
Speaker 1: was rick, I want him to ball out, OK, but
Speaker 1: I watched the tape, so I wanted to play better
Speaker 1: than he played last year. Speaking of moves back, m
Speaker 1: offensive consultants new former former New York Giants tach coach
Speaker 1: is the last man to take the Giants to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and he's coming down to Gas. He's a consultant. He
Speaker 1: was with your Jacks last year. He was He was
Speaker 1: with the Jags wanting they won the first game, won
Speaker 1: the first game and lost. The consulting about what are
Speaker 1: you consulting on? It reminds me a lot of kiffing.
Speaker 1: This gives me a lot of kiffing bags. Remember Kiffer
Speaker 1: came in here as as the defensive consultant. I man
Speaker 1: Kiffin couldn't even remember the play that he called. By
Speaker 1: time that we got into church, remembers we used to
Speaker 1: be in that mean Roally should be like this dude
Speaker 1: just lost all track of what the hell he's talking about.
Speaker 1: He was talking to the d M and then he'd
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you gotta dropping the third place? Wait,
Speaker 1: what about you need? The same kid was older, you know,
Speaker 1: he was a little older. Movie. I wouldn't what specifically
Speaker 1: well mcind was consulting on. Yeah, he's got killing Moore
Speaker 1: right there he went. You know, he was a tight
Speaker 1: ends coach for for Big Minke and Green Bay. Then
Speaker 1: he ended up moving to coach quarterbacks, and so he
Speaker 1: coached the quarterbacks with Aaron Rodgers in twenty twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: That helped him get the Giants offensive coordinator job, and
Speaker 1: then he ended up becoming the head coach when they
Speaker 1: ran off Tom Coughlin. So consultant is a whole lot
Speaker 1: of things. I mean, we saw Jason brought his brother
Speaker 1: over to be offensive quality assistant and not consultant quality assists. Different.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. The three positions that you
Speaker 1: just named, we don't need no consultants on all right,
Speaker 1: and tighten our starting tighteny end went down the second
Speaker 1: straight tighty and came down and ball can I actually,
Speaker 1: I'll defend it from this one standpoint, okay. And the
Speaker 1: Nick Saban course of is nobody's nobody gathers more consultants
Speaker 1: than Nick Saban. That's all he's doing. This guy, you know,
Speaker 1: your career goes to Smithreens, you go on Nick and
Speaker 1: he's your consultants or whatever until you get to the
Speaker 1: next thing. Brett Bielema became a consultant for Alabama and
Speaker 1: then next thing you know, he was got a position
Speaker 1: coach with New England. I had a head coach hub
Speaker 1: for Eleanor I believe, and in the Big ten and
Speaker 1: Butch Jones, who had got fired at Tennessee ended up
Speaker 1: as a consultant and now he's a head coach of
Speaker 1: the Arkansas State Charlie Strong with there. So maybe this
Speaker 1: is Mike's thing. And you know, all these coaches we
Speaker 1: take care of each other. You know, you just be
Speaker 1: a consultant and I'll tell you to look at whatever whatever.
Speaker 1: But this is boys taking care of all That's all
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, that's you didn't learn your lesson with
Speaker 1: Nolan And then usually you talking about Nick Saban. Nick
Speaker 1: Saban is also a winner the whole bunch of national championships.
Speaker 1: So what happens when you go to Knick Sabman people
Speaker 1: assuming that you've learned something? All right? Now, So you
Speaker 1: come consult over here after going seven to nine and
Speaker 1: having one of the most atrocious efforts that we've seen
Speaker 1: from a team, and talk about you know, this is
Speaker 1: who you're gonna consult for. Yeah, you're not getting me much.
Speaker 1: Let me defend what you just said from this standpoint.
Speaker 1: You brought up Mike Noel, you made him your defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Back of dudes, gonna be a coordinator. He's a consultant,
Speaker 1: so he's behind the scenes. You're a problem in hire, Mike. No,
Speaker 1: you gave this man real responsibility and then you your
Speaker 1: offensive guy. You clearly you turned your back and was
Speaker 1: over here with Kellen and and didn't pay attention to
Speaker 1: everything he was going on behind you, and and that
Speaker 1: was a problem. So I just asked, he's just consulting.
Speaker 1: So is it a thumbs up or thumbs down from me? Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it. Let me finish with it, because
Speaker 1: Big Mike is known to give everybody free rein all right,
Speaker 1: So we don't know what the hell macad gonna be
Speaker 1: back there doing because we had the special see coach
Speaker 1: out there calling all type of face my man Nolan.
Speaker 1: Nolan won't given no like when they was having their
Speaker 1: coaches me that man Nolan was putting up no game plan.
Speaker 1: He was like, I'm gonna take care of this. I show,
Speaker 1: I show you on Sunday. So we don't know what
Speaker 1: Macadu got going on. But listen, if he can help
Speaker 1: thumbs up, thumbs up, we can get a question if
Speaker 1: the if the ship starts going down, Big Mike gonna
Speaker 1: take over the reins calling plays. The last year it
Speaker 1: was just going down here, Mike. Mike was like, you
Speaker 1: got this killer, you got head, gonna give me one
Speaker 1: more year, one more year. Mac blamaback, you made a
Speaker 1: couple bad. Okay, are you guys beating up on mcado.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't. I don't think we needed
Speaker 1: anything on offense. And you think you're gonna bring in
Speaker 1: the consultant console on defense console in the secondary console
Speaker 1: the linebacker position, not the D line position because the
Speaker 1: dan Quinn is the guy. But we got we got
Speaker 1: dan Quinn. Yeah, baby stop, baby Edwards a defensive consulting
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, it's just true. But but the last
Speaker 1: time I saw George Edwards out there, that rookie can't
Speaker 1: he was coaching the linebackers. He was, he was coaching,
Speaker 1: you know, and Kelly Keller watch out come over total.
Speaker 1: You need Kelly, Kelly, go over there, lord. This is
Speaker 1: what this is what Aaron Rodgers was doing you if
Speaker 1: you want to, if you want to, if you want
Speaker 1: to learn from somebody who coached the best, you come
Speaker 1: to me. And killing he ain't really coaching the bock
Speaker 1: you know. They fighting like like Dack out coached Super
Speaker 1: Bowl MVPs and and elin Man, it comes and come
Speaker 1: and come highlight. But if you want to listen to chilling,
Speaker 1: keep listening to going ahead. I start sitting on the
Speaker 1: ground MC dinner. How good that you know? Back back
Speaker 1: back after practice, Let's get it, let's get it right.
Speaker 1: Head pointing my head at one point right here, Dack
Speaker 1: and back chill, Keller looking out the window and the
Speaker 1: top room. We're acting off Keller Man, Keller, Kelly gonna
Speaker 1: be a good man. I'm just saying, what Mcca doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Because you just said George it
Speaker 1: was he's coaching now and it seems to be like
Speaker 1: Backerd's a strong personality type of guy. It's his last name.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna take over the rule. You know,
Speaker 1: consult theyin't gonna last below. How did you feel about
Speaker 1: Julio Jones? Julio, listen, my man been injured. They've talked
Speaker 1: about giving the first round picks for the cat and
Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, he's been on my fantasy team for
Speaker 1: two years. Why you could I know? Ain't that somebody
Speaker 1: don't give him a first round of too? And you
Speaker 1: will be a gonna give for who I'm telling the
Speaker 1: man I got bad hands? Would you say? Players dad
Speaker 1: age injured? He's pulling it to man, My man got bad. Julio,
Speaker 1: he got bad twenty eleven, Tyn Smith twenty eleven. Julio
Speaker 1: he coming back and then he's not even doing He
Speaker 1: probably need to do an ota so he not ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be in real shit, that's true. A first round
Speaker 1: of somebody won't give it to him. Somebody's gonna give
Speaker 1: it to him. Yeah, they have remorse Jayla Rams. He
Speaker 1: was out there pushing forward and come to the Rams.
Speaker 1: So but I heard somebody saying, you at least got
Speaker 1: to give up like some de hop stuff. I say what,
Speaker 1: they didn't give up much for second round. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: if you can find a way to swindle that, yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead. But given the first round is nah, that
Speaker 1: might have been just homeboy screw in Houston was right.
Speaker 1: Might have been let me. I just believe anybody that
Speaker 1: spends a first round pick on Julio Jones is foolish
Speaker 1: because you're you're you're trying to buy a guy a
Speaker 1: vision of a guy who used to be great. He's
Speaker 1: a good player when healthy, but the problem is he's
Speaker 1: just not that healthy and to pay that kind of
Speaker 1: money and give up a first round pick and we
Speaker 1: what we know, um next year in terms of the
Speaker 1: salary cap, they're not expecting it to still gonna be,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of kind of tight because of COVID.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be doing that if you felt like
Speaker 1: you were one player way. But I don't think Julio's.
Speaker 1: The teams i'm hearing are not one player way. I
Speaker 1: have heard that New England may be in there, but
Speaker 1: we know New England's not giving up a one. That's
Speaker 1: just not what they do that. That's just not what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do for it seems like with New England
Speaker 1: they got the two tight ends that they're trying to
Speaker 1: go back to that old um what does that shoot?
Speaker 1: A reading run running when they had Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: got a receiver too though they spent a lot of
Speaker 1: money on. And keep in mind, okay, we know how
Speaker 1: this this media thing works. The falcons will set up
Speaker 1: here and tell somebody, yeah, we got somebody. Somebody want
Speaker 1: the one. So that's what you say to put it
Speaker 1: out there. That's true. I mean, that's that that benefits
Speaker 1: them to go tell some some reporter, we got a one.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna offers someone. Well, if that was the case,
Speaker 1: why you deal? Yeah? Why do you take that? Okay? Right?
Speaker 1: If you offer me and what sure? Soul? Soul soul?
Speaker 1: The first though you can make an agreement. It's like
Speaker 1: three days, Okay, but you can. I mean, what hold?
Speaker 1: The whole golf deal wasn't official until whatever, but they
Speaker 1: still made the deal. What does is a rod standing
Speaker 1: Green Bay? Well, he'd be a pack in there, I do.
Speaker 1: I do think so as well. I think Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: will not be traded this year. Goodings might be fired,
Speaker 1: but I don't think a Rod going anywhere. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is not going to be traded this year. Do you
Speaker 1: think he's saying not? At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they they were for the last two years since they
Speaker 1: decided that Mike McCarthy was the wrong guy. They've gone
Speaker 1: twenty six and six and they have been to the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship Game twice. They are trying to use Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers to make a Super Bowl this year and league
Speaker 1: MVP after this season. When I was listening to Andrew Brandt,
Speaker 1: who used to be the money man for the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, and they thought he had a great take
Speaker 1: on Serious XM radio. And he's got his own podcast.
Speaker 1: He said. Oh, by the way, I've been here, boys
Speaker 1: been here. It's with far and Rogers, he said. But
Speaker 1: they're going to keep him this year and then after
Speaker 1: this year they'll be done and they're gonna give the
Speaker 1: give it to George Love. Can't give to George Love
Speaker 1: right that, because you haven't seen him do anything. He
Speaker 1: didn't have he didn't have an opportunity for OTA's mini
Speaker 1: camps preseason games. So, um, while Aaron is away right now,
Speaker 1: Geordan Loved, you're gonna get your opportunity to show what
Speaker 1: you can do. And one of the things do what
Speaker 1: you do job and Nicki Saint Brown. So they're going
Speaker 1: to use this opportunity for Jordan Love to show them
Speaker 1: what they can do. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: Andrew Brand spoke about is while Brett Farr was was
Speaker 1: staying away, Aaron Rodgers showed them that he could command
Speaker 1: the offense and understood what he was doing. So that
Speaker 1: was his time. So let's see if Jordan Love is
Speaker 1: smart enough to take advantage of his opportunities. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they're going to trade him. You're talking about
Speaker 1: the cost of trading him, and they're trying to win.
Speaker 1: You were in a wind now window. So and I
Speaker 1: don't think Jordan loves that good. I mean, they've had
Speaker 1: to see him do reps out there. I mean he's
Speaker 1: had to practice at least on the scout team at least,
Speaker 1: you know, something like that some regard and I don't
Speaker 1: think they got a lot of faith in them. That's
Speaker 1: why they keep hyping up a run because he's talking
Speaker 1: crazy about him. He's talking crazy about the factors, and
Speaker 1: they just, oh, that's our guy. They deserve all them
Speaker 1: as they talk. Because we was all sitting there looking like,
Speaker 1: did they draft the quarterback in the He made started it?
Speaker 1: They definitely started up in the draft draft, and he
Speaker 1: made all those receivers better than what we thought they
Speaker 1: would be. He's playing with Alan's army. Outside of Adams,
Speaker 1: you got tight end Aaron Rodgers League MVP MVP. So
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he can talk all that, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I just I see Aaron playing. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think this will be the last year there. So, by
Speaker 1: the way, Friday Night, baby, you think it's going three
Speaker 1: three old? They can't stop Luca, come, I think it's
Speaker 1: what you think, playoff P. They're gonna get him. He
Speaker 1: put stress on. He put pressure on himself, like how
Speaker 1: Jaylen switched her number. I'm playoff. Ain't nobody give you
Speaker 1: that nickname. I'm playoff put what he said to the
Speaker 1: guess y'all hadn't seen playoff P. You're Barkin said, they
Speaker 1: don't call me championship chucks. The most damning thing and
Speaker 1: you can see it on YouTube. But the most damning
Speaker 1: thing is when they asked Russell Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony
Speaker 1: because they all went to the point of the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City and they asked about Playoff P, like what And
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa Russell laugh He's like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: what he call him up, playoff And Carmelo's smirking, and
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm gonna let you answer that he's playoff
Speaker 1: He laughing, and Russell's laugh like your own guys, your
Speaker 1: own dudes are laughing at you calling yourself playoff P.
Speaker 1: The Clippers have now lost five straight playoff games going
Speaker 1: in the last year, and so if you're down three, oh,
Speaker 1: it's truly a rap. But if I'm tylu I write
Speaker 1: on the clipboard what Pat Riley wrote in Game three
Speaker 1: of the two thousand and six NBA Finals, and the
Speaker 1: Mavericks were up two oh and they were thirteen points
Speaker 1: or six minutes to go, he wrote on a clipboard,
Speaker 1: just held it up, said season, wrote clipboards, you look
Speaker 1: do season, Tyler, you need to do that. He need
Speaker 1: to read that, and he better make show Pat Beverley
Speaker 1: to not guard Luca. That's what he need to do,
Speaker 1: says two six. He probably known for defense. I'm fired
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers over defense. Steve Bamber fired Doc because he
Speaker 1: didn't like what he was doing on defense with the
Speaker 1: big man um and and decided that, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta go. And I'm look at Philly. You see that, yes,
Speaker 1: but you see that Jeff that they have on Twitter
Speaker 1: when said when Pat Man guards Luca Lucas reaction, he said,
Speaker 1: I know that. Who aren't think it is so the season?
Speaker 1: I mean, really, this is this is the whole Tonight
Speaker 1: is the season. And if I'm Rick Carlisle, I write
Speaker 1: the same thing on my on a black board. Season, guys,
Speaker 1: we can make our season tonight by going out here
Speaker 1: and sticking it to these guys go ahead, fit. These
Speaker 1: dudes want to be finished, finished them, but tonight go
Speaker 1: up three oh finished these games. But you said they
Speaker 1: fired dark rules because of the defense you see at
Speaker 1: watching that Dallas game. They are switching. They are letting
Speaker 1: this man switch and get Pat Beverly on him every
Speaker 1: single time. Don't try They're trying to make sense of it.
Speaker 1: But this is what happens when the owners get in
Speaker 1: bom Steve Steve Bomber is out here killing my dog.
Speaker 1: Steve Steve Bomber sat up here and place the blame.
Speaker 1: And I mean, and I go back to also when
Speaker 1: they lost. You know, go in the press conference, you
Speaker 1: got Morris, and you got Kawhi talking about how you
Speaker 1: know this was supposed to be that year, and then
Speaker 1: you got playoff piece in nah, we didn't think it
Speaker 1: was gonna be that. He was transition year. So you
Speaker 1: got guys on different pages. Woods, you got Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith saying Kawhi is out, Kawhi's going to Miami because
Speaker 1: that means they're just gonna be left with playoff pe
Speaker 1: and that bad contract. And then they gave him all
Speaker 1: that money because they gave up all those picks to
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City to go get him, and it's it's Clipperland
Speaker 1: gonna be messed up because Kawai. Why would Kahi come back?
Speaker 1: I mean, personally, the Mavericks and a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: folks when Kawhi opts out need to be on the phone.
Speaker 1: What's gonna take especially the man bring him on down here.
Speaker 1: They're gonna punish the night though, But I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to scene real quick before before we get probably like
Speaker 1: what he's going on with these real quick? Who won
Speaker 1: Kawami Brown or everybody else? Who you who you got?
Speaker 1: Let me tell yourself. I don't know about everybody else,
Speaker 1: but I watched a little the video to Stephen they
Speaker 1: put when he had the highlight was a lottle light.
Speaker 1: Yea Kwami that was shocked in the food version, Yeah
Speaker 1: it was. It was pretty bad, But I haven't seen
Speaker 1: all Kwami stiff. But Stephen. They went on Stephen. They
Speaker 1: even responded like he the first responded. But personally, I mean,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what they said about
Speaker 1: him as a player was true. Yeah, this guy was
Speaker 1: a bad number one pick. He was not a good player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he went personal with folks. But what they were
Speaker 1: saying about him as a player. That wasn't Those weren't
Speaker 1: cheap shot. Those were facts. But what I don't like
Speaker 1: about what he keeps saying is, yeah, you can't tell
Speaker 1: another black man down like that said. Their job is
Speaker 1: to critique and do and analyze what's going on on
Speaker 1: the basketball court. That don't have nothing to do with
Speaker 1: them trying to take care of you as a black man.
Speaker 1: They people to just talk good about everybody even though
Speaker 1: they're doing playing like garbage. Like stop, I'm gonna like
Speaker 1: stop bringing that everybody at your career was a failure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything ain't that bro okay. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: Kwami Brown's career as an NBA basketball player was a bust.
Speaker 1: That is not a cheap shot. That is just merely
Speaker 1: pure fact. Steven A. Smith put the videos out there,
Speaker 1: and you just saw you play for seven different teams
Speaker 1: and you just were not a good basketball player. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what Mike willball On, Stephen A. Smith, Mark Spears,
Speaker 1: or anybody else over at ESPN is supposed to say
Speaker 1: about you as a player. I'm sorry, you weren't good.
Speaker 1: You weren't even Javelle McGee at least JaVale McGee was
Speaker 1: a part of a couple of championship teams. It was
Speaker 1: you tried to help some folks out, and you know,
Speaker 1: but you you weren't that. And I can definitely say
Speaker 1: this because I've been around a lot of those guys.
Speaker 1: They've done a lot to help black men and black
Speaker 1: athletes and black coaches. They've done that. Those aren't the
Speaker 1: people to say that they haven't. You can disagree at
Speaker 1: times with their take on things, but to sit around
Speaker 1: here act like those guys haven't helped people, you can't
Speaker 1: say that at all. You really cannot say that at all.
Speaker 1: Or picked up the banner and just raised awareness for
Speaker 1: things that are going on. I hate to see that
Speaker 1: they've got it into this type of level where we're
Speaker 1: just sitting around here, you blasting each other in this
Speaker 1: form and fashion. But he wasn't a good player, and
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan drafted him, and these are the kinds of things.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm a Mike guy. That's my guys
Speaker 1: dog team, but I can't defend these kinds of decisions
Speaker 1: that Michael's made through the drafted Kwammy Brown. You drafted
Speaker 1: uh Adam Morrison. I mean, you drafted some dudes, and
Speaker 1: you're just bad and just what are you doing? You
Speaker 1: drafted he might have found one with uh no, misch
Speaker 1: cup Chack found they drafted Malik Monk and didn't take Spider,
Speaker 1: who's like killing it up there. And you taught me
Speaker 1: that they you talked about missus man and he missed
Speaker 1: it on Brandon Away. Michael's teams have missed bad and
Speaker 1: and that's part of he chose Kwammy Brown and messed up.
Speaker 1: But that is that. Hey, look all right, we were
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