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Speaker 1: Here we are on a victory Monday. Everybody, Welcome to
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Speaker 1: a long time Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys safeties, Danny McCray and Bury Church. Gentlemen, Cowboys get
Speaker 1: it done thirty to seven over Cincinnati. So are you
Speaker 1: happy with the win? Or do you fall in line
Speaker 1: with the old Adam Jones line? And you guys weren't
Speaker 1: playing for the Cowboys one year when the Saint Louis
Speaker 1: Rams were really really bad and the Cowboys if you're
Speaker 1: getting ready to play m pat Man. Jones dismissed the
Speaker 1: Rams by saying to the media, Hey, it's the Rams, dude.
Speaker 1: Cowboys probably with the Saint Louis lost of the Rams.
Speaker 1: So is it just the Bengals dude? Or are you
Speaker 1: happy and you feel like the thirty to seven win
Speaker 1: was a good thing? Church Look, look, i'm gonna say this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy they got the dub. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'm saying that they needed it. It was a long
Speaker 1: long way to do for them to get a dub.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm happy. I'm happy for my boy
Speaker 1: the Red Pistol to go up back up to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and do his little pier and pier on up there
Speaker 1: and get a dub. Man. I'm happy for him and
Speaker 1: the defense. The defense played a little bit better. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll break all of this down because there's some
Speaker 1: things that concern me about this defense. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that can scern me about this defense,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's something that hasn't been fixed. So overall, Look,
Speaker 1: i'm gonna say I'm happy for him. You know, it
Speaker 1: was against the Bengals, so it ain't too crazy, so
Speaker 1: so you're taking both, so you're happy. But it was
Speaker 1: just the Bengals, right, because that's that's why i'm at.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure me and you're on the
Speaker 1: same page with us. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just the Bengals. Yeah, it was it was just
Speaker 1: the Bengals. And as we watched the game, I was
Speaker 1: sitting there and I was like, I'm waiting to figure
Speaker 1: out when I'm a text church and when I'm a
Speaker 1: text Newy, because I was like, man, we are going
Speaker 1: to shoot ourselves in the foot eventually in the game.
Speaker 1: I thought that was us, but it turned out that
Speaker 1: the Bengals were that team who just could not get
Speaker 1: out of their own way, and they gave us a
Speaker 1: dove and I will take it a wins and win.
Speaker 1: It don't matter what record you have. If you could
Speaker 1: pull off a win, everybody's happy in that locker room afterwards.
Speaker 1: Now moving forward, yes, it was just the Bengals, all right.
Speaker 1: We still got the same problems that we had the
Speaker 1: week before. Our defense can't stop the run, we give
Speaker 1: up big players in the passing game. We weren't able
Speaker 1: to run the ball this week, and we still haven't
Speaker 1: found a way to continue to feed the Mark Cooper
Speaker 1: in the passing game, although he did have the five
Speaker 1: catches in the touchdown. So we still have the same issues.
Speaker 1: But you know, we were playing the Bengal, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't that big of a deal to me. It's almost
Speaker 1: reminiscent when you play to the LSU Danny, when you
Speaker 1: played those non conference games against those FBS teams like Toledo.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be Toledo if you beat Toledo. But
Speaker 1: it's what you're supposed to do, right shout shots early
Speaker 1: in the sex. I know you're not. I know you're
Speaker 1: not in the rendezous, so you can't see my outfit
Speaker 1: that I got on. But I'm draped in purple and
Speaker 1: goal because there was a team who came out and
Speaker 1: got a big and got a big win this week
Speaker 1: thirty seven to thirty four, and that was the LSU
Speaker 1: Fighting Tigers against those Florida Gators. So I'm happy. I'm ecstatic.
Speaker 1: Both of my teams got the doub but LSU got
Speaker 1: the bigger dub this week. So yes, you are right.
Speaker 1: We are supposed to beat those nonconfor teams. But every
Speaker 1: once in a while, knew it. You know, Appalachia State
Speaker 1: can sneak up on you and get you a win
Speaker 1: up in the big House of the Michigan So you
Speaker 1: just you just never know. Apati State wasn't the only
Speaker 1: one to get a dub in the Big House, because
Speaker 1: Toledo got one as well, and I was there. I
Speaker 1: was witness to that. I thirteen to ten. We shut
Speaker 1: them down and shut them out. I think that was
Speaker 1: one of the last games for the coach at before
Speaker 1: Hallbag got there. I forget his name, but we sent
Speaker 1: him packing man, So don't sleep on Toledo. By the way,
Speaker 1: LSU the LSU quarterback with a Dallas Cowboys connection. That's
Speaker 1: Bratt Johnson's son leading LSU at quarterback for the victory,
Speaker 1: and it was nice to see him getting to hug
Speaker 1: after the game. Brad Johnson finished his career with the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, So I thought that was a great moment.
Speaker 1: And I got to give a lot of credit to
Speaker 1: coach ed Ogeron for having his team ready to go.
Speaker 1: And I also look at Dan Mullin. I just really
Speaker 1: would love to ask him, what was your man thinking
Speaker 1: throwing the shoot after? I mean, you know, and I guys,
Speaker 1: that dude needed to go into the locker room after
Speaker 1: the game. I mean I would if I were him,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even shower. Just go ahead, put your clothes
Speaker 1: on and head on out, man, Just get on out
Speaker 1: in the building. Because that was one of the dumbest
Speaker 1: plays I've ever seen in a college football game, in
Speaker 1: which the Florida Gators had hopes of playing for the
Speaker 1: college football Playoffs trying to get in. You know that
Speaker 1: they could win this game and go beat Alabama. Then
Speaker 1: you got a heck of a case. You just eliminated
Speaker 1: that because Hopeboy wanted to throw a shoot. Wow. I
Speaker 1: just don't I don't understand the thought process behind that,
Speaker 1: Like why would you grab why would you grab another
Speaker 1: man shoe and throw it down? Like, Oh, I'm hard
Speaker 1: for doing this. I'm gonna get props for this. You
Speaker 1: just cost your team a chance at the college football playoffs.
Speaker 1: If he was in the pros, I mean, they couldn't
Speaker 1: cut them fast enough. I mean just the thought process
Speaker 1: of these kids. Man, it's it's outrageous. Now Church and
Speaker 1: knew Church and knew it. Y'all got to keep it real.
Speaker 1: Florida has no chance going to no SEC championship and
Speaker 1: being the Alabama Crimson Tide. All right, So let's get
Speaker 1: that out of He didn't cost him a chance at
Speaker 1: the college football playoffs, but he did, you know, the
Speaker 1: suspense of it, He did take that away from him.
Speaker 1: But they not. They not sniffing Alabama in the SEC Championship.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't know, but but I'll
Speaker 1: just say this, you just made sure that there was
Speaker 1: no chance. Okay, your chance was slimming none. It was
Speaker 1: slimming none. You just took all that away because you
Speaker 1: wanted to throw someone shoot. I mean, good luck and
Speaker 1: you guys playing college football. I would just you know,
Speaker 1: I would love to know how does he face his
Speaker 1: teammates after doing something that dumb because it allowed LSU
Speaker 1: to keep the football and go ahead and win football game.
Speaker 1: Not saying that they would have won it, but you
Speaker 1: made sure you were going to lose it. And that
Speaker 1: was at home, no less, But that was just that
Speaker 1: was just dumb. All right, Let's dive back here into
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and something bigger than the Cowboys getting their
Speaker 1: fourth victory of the year. It's been a topic of
Speaker 1: discussion amongst some people. Not a big topic here on
Speaker 1: the players lines with us, but Mike McCarthy's job status. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are not going to win the NFC East.
Speaker 1: It's been a bad year, been issues. I've had issues
Speaker 1: in times of what I've heard from Mike McCarthy. But
Speaker 1: this is what Steven Jones, the Cowboys CEO, the owner
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones Son had to say out his weekly radio
Speaker 1: hit on one oh five three the Fan on the
Speaker 1: k and see masterpiece about Mike McCarthy in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one taken listen, No help, Absolutely no change with coach McCarthy.
Speaker 1: And I am surprised, h you know that someone would
Speaker 1: question Mike these unprecedented situation that everybody's been in. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, you know, no one's making excuses,
Speaker 1: but we have had some real challenges telling the injury
Speaker 1: category and uh, you know, if you look at his
Speaker 1: track record in his pedigree, you know, he's consistently one
Speaker 1: year in and year out, and we have the utmost
Speaker 1: confidence that this ship is going to be righted quickly.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Mike's going to be the leader,
Speaker 1: leader of this group. And uh, he's certainly a great
Speaker 1: head coach, and I think you know we're gonna see that,
Speaker 1: you know, from going forward. You know, he's a great
Speaker 1: head coach in this league. He's accomplished a lot and
Speaker 1: he's gonna accomplish a lot more before it's all said
Speaker 1: and done. Okay, that is Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones on
Speaker 1: what don't five three the Fan with the KNC masterpiece
Speaker 1: saying that the job status of by McCarthy. Don't even
Speaker 1: talk about it. McCarthy is coming back, Danny mccraye. Your
Speaker 1: reaction to what's just her? Listen, I think his job
Speaker 1: status is going to change. I'm sure he's coming back,
Speaker 1: but I think he's gonna have to take over the
Speaker 1: play calling duty and he's going to have to be
Speaker 1: more of a voice in the defensive room and the
Speaker 1: special team's room, because right now it seems like we
Speaker 1: have three different coaches running three different things. So his
Speaker 1: status will change and become more of a leader in
Speaker 1: the play caller, I believe. But yeah, I have no
Speaker 1: doubt that he's coming back. Now, you know his coordinators,
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure about those guys. Yeah, I mean, look, guys,
Speaker 1: I mean it should be no surprise to anybody up
Speaker 1: here that that Big Mike's gonna come back. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he just had has too many built in excuses. Not
Speaker 1: saying they're right or they're wrong, but I'm just saying
Speaker 1: he has too many built in excuses. I mean, no OTAs,
Speaker 1: no mini camp, no training camp, no preseason, and he
Speaker 1: has to implement a new scheme. No, I understand there's
Speaker 1: other coaches that did the same thing, but to him,
Speaker 1: he just has too many built in excuses. They gotta
Speaker 1: give him another run back. They gotta give him another shot.
Speaker 1: With the injuries that have happened in this team, losing
Speaker 1: QB one, losing your all pro tackles, and losing your
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame guard. I mean that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of an impact. And look, I know he hasn't performed
Speaker 1: or made the decisions that we would like him to
Speaker 1: make during this during this season, but overall, I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys gotta let him run it back one more
Speaker 1: year just to see what they have in him. But
Speaker 1: like Danny said, with his coordinators, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1: If it was up to me, both of them boys
Speaker 1: will be gone and we get some new OC and
Speaker 1: a new DC in here. But hey, they don't pay
Speaker 1: me the type of bucks to make those decisions, So
Speaker 1: we'll see what Big Mike has in store next year.
Speaker 1: You are onto something, Church. I do believe that it's okay.
Speaker 1: Since Mike MC he's coming back, which all of us
Speaker 1: have expected on this show, there's going to be a scapegoat.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have been around long en up
Speaker 1: as players and you've seen how this works. Okay, after
Speaker 1: a bad year like that, there are people who are
Speaker 1: going to get got Mike Nolan, defensive coordinator. I've said
Speaker 1: it for weeks now, and last you guys kind of
Speaker 1: thought pushed back against me last week. Mike Nolan is gone. Okay,
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan is not coming back. You even just talked
Speaker 1: about it with the Cincinnati game. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: sitting up at getting yards. They were shooting themselves in
Speaker 1: the foot, but they were getting yards. Mike Nolan cannot
Speaker 1: come back at all. And let me start with something
Speaker 1: that I already said he can't come back, but just
Speaker 1: really made me shake my head. And I was talking
Speaker 1: to somebody at the start about do you know Tank
Speaker 1: Lawrence didn't start yesterday? He did not start the game
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati, and he was asked about it. This is
Speaker 1: what tanks him. They called base defense. I wasn't in
Speaker 1: on base, so I had to run off. Dorance Armstrong
Speaker 1: was in on base. Come on, man, come on, man,
Speaker 1: come on man, what kind of defense you run? But
Speaker 1: dude making twenty million dollars ain't in base? What defense?
Speaker 1: Could you imagine Bill Belichick and Bill Parcells having the
Speaker 1: base defense and Lawrence Taylor, what did it you know?
Speaker 1: Could you imagine us? You know, the forty the bags,
Speaker 1: forty six defense. Hey man, we got base deepen my sickle,
Speaker 1: tear you out. You're not in on this, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, come on, come on, I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: don't understand this. Listen, and I'm gonna I'm gonna piggyback
Speaker 1: on the back to the offense. But come on, man,
Speaker 1: one hundredion dollars not starting don't make no sense. You're
Speaker 1: talking about a waste of funds. Makes it absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: You know what knew? He knew he in church. That
Speaker 1: would be very similar to like looking out there on
Speaker 1: offense and base package or let a person they're not
Speaker 1: seeing the Mark Coop out there, it would look very
Speaker 1: similar to that all looking out there on fourth and
Speaker 1: instance and not seeing z. It would be the same.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, on this squad that's acceptable. But
Speaker 1: you talking about one hundred and ninety million dollars, you know,
Speaker 1: not not not getting the playtime that they need. And
Speaker 1: and this is the league, you don't this is something
Speaker 1: you should not have to worry about. Marcus Lawyer should
Speaker 1: be starting in every package. No matter. If you're running
Speaker 1: all dbs on the field, he should to be one
Speaker 1: of the dbs. I mean, I'll tell you what, go
Speaker 1: go ahead and go ahead. Literally, this is a firable offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, we've hired you, we're paying
Speaker 1: this dude one hundred million dollars, and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: put him out here. I mean this is firable, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is you know, this is
Speaker 1: Houston running a game, ending playing telling James Harden down. Man,
Speaker 1: you're on the bench, we're running base. You ain't on
Speaker 1: this from James. I mean, this is the guy. This
Speaker 1: is the guy. How does how does Mike Nolan go
Speaker 1: into Jerry Jones and explaining, hey, man, you know we
Speaker 1: got this baby. He just doesn't fit. Hey, we just
Speaker 1: gotta add it to the list. Man. Because Mike Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's made a list of just head scratching decisions.
Speaker 1: And now it all makes sense to me. It all
Speaker 1: makes sense why the Marcus Lawrence came out there with
Speaker 1: so much juice, and why that defensive line came out
Speaker 1: there with so much juice. The guy wasn't even starting.
Speaker 1: It seemed like the first play he came in. He
Speaker 1: went out there and forced to fumble, just strictly out
Speaker 1: of anger of not being out there and starting. I mean,
Speaker 1: it all makes sense now. There was an infused juice
Speaker 1: out there. Maybe that's what Nolan was doing. Maybe he
Speaker 1: had This was all part of his master plan. Let
Speaker 1: me get the Marcus Lawrence upsetting mad and get the
Speaker 1: best out of him on the field by benching him.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was probably one of the dumbest decisions
Speaker 1: made by coach, but hey, it might have worked out
Speaker 1: the long haul. But a man like you said doing
Speaker 1: that might work, Mike gotta go. That didn't work. That
Speaker 1: didn't work, That didn't work. Don't don't. Don't you give
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan no credit for that church But now, man, no,
Speaker 1: so read there's listen, there's a guy who's writing a
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars check that should be looking down
Speaker 1: at that field, like what is going on. I need
Speaker 1: to figure this out. Me and Mike Nolan need to
Speaker 1: sit up in the room together and figure out. I
Speaker 1: need to hear the reasoning behind this. Make make me
Speaker 1: understand what's going on, make me please make me this thing,
Speaker 1: because I'm not accepting it. I'm not except it's week twelve,
Speaker 1: week thirteen fourteen. You're sitting out here and you don't
Speaker 1: put out your bett's you know what the markets longs
Speaker 1: for coming out and responding a way that you should
Speaker 1: have responded when when something like that happened. But you
Speaker 1: should have never been on the bench. And so this happens.
Speaker 1: And this is where I kind of this is where
Speaker 1: for me, I go back to the head coach. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is your buddy. Okay, you hired this guy.
Speaker 1: I would be on him real quick. Hey man, you
Speaker 1: trying to get me got I mean, this can't happen.
Speaker 1: You can't do this, okay. I mean there's certain things
Speaker 1: that can't happen. You don't start a game with Tank
Speaker 1: on the bench and he's healthy. You don't start a
Speaker 1: game with Zeke on the bench and he's healthy. You
Speaker 1: don't start a game with a Marty Cooper on the
Speaker 1: busy game. We're paying too much money, you know, that's
Speaker 1: the church. You're correct. You don't write these kind of
Speaker 1: checks and then say we don't need these guys. No,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You simply can't do that. It's
Speaker 1: just bad. It's just bad. I just don't I don't
Speaker 1: understand how this got pasted. Mike McCarthy though, like the
Speaker 1: whole week leading up to this, I'm sure they had
Speaker 1: base on one of those days, McCray. You notice on
Speaker 1: Wednesdays and some of the Thursdays it's all first and
Speaker 1: second down, and I'm short, there's based packages out there.
Speaker 1: So how to just get past McCarthy that d Law,
Speaker 1: your best defensive player, the highest paid defensive player in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history, was not on the field during this. And
Speaker 1: then when we got to the game and Sunday, somebody
Speaker 1: okay it, somebody, okay, that's a hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: Dawn sch Armstrong. We've seen him in coverage. We've seen
Speaker 1: him have that versatility. Maybe he's a little bit better
Speaker 1: than d Law. Let's start him today. Somebody okay, did?
Speaker 1: And I gotta go with Big Mike on this one. Man.
Speaker 1: If you okay, did, Big Mike, that's a mistake. That's
Speaker 1: a mistake. You know what. In church, as I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about it and and I'm talking listen, I remember we used
Speaker 1: to be out there on the field and Jerry would
Speaker 1: be out there, Stephen would be out there, Will mcclear
Speaker 1: would be out there watching all the practice, all right.
Speaker 1: So it's no way, as I think about it, you
Speaker 1: can tell me that DeMarcus Lawrence was told that he
Speaker 1: was not starting this game for some strange reason. One
Speaker 1: that he didn't go talk to somebody and say, nah,
Speaker 1: that ain't happening too. That the owner, general manager, CEO,
Speaker 1: and director of scout had no idea that the Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence was not starting. I don't think that was a
Speaker 1: surprise when they all got out there. So something else
Speaker 1: is going on. But you know, from my experience of
Speaker 1: being out there at practice and knowing how involved the
Speaker 1: owner and general manager is, I just I can't believe
Speaker 1: that he had no idea that his top guy on
Speaker 1: defense was not starting this game. All right, So Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy is coming back. I am steadfast in my opinion
Speaker 1: that defensive coordinator Mike Nolan is coaching his last days.
Speaker 1: We've seen a whole plethora of defensive coordinators get got,
Speaker 1: Paul gun through, Oh the Raiders got got yesterday. And
Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli. Rod Marnelly is taking his big rod out
Speaker 1: there in Vegas. Rod Marnelli let go by the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and BOYD, I sure miss Rod Marinelli right now, and
Speaker 1: he raised my head. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was wrong. I drank that kool aid. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I believe Mike McCarthy and the staff. I think you're
Speaker 1: getting no worse. It's gotten worse. It is just horrible.
Speaker 1: And the person that's gotten to pay for starts with
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan. Now when we come back, Okay, we gotta
Speaker 1: take break. I want to defend Ezekiel Elliot. All right,
Speaker 1: m one of my favorite, one of my favorites here
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys Podcast Network question whether or not
Speaker 1: Zeke was living up to his ninety million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: I want to defend that. I'll do that next right
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Speaker 1: Elliott and questioning if Zeke was living up to the
Speaker 1: ninety million dollar contract. And I'm like, whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey, look.
Speaker 1: I understand Zeke is not having a good season and
Speaker 1: the fumbles that he's put on the ground no unacceptable,
Speaker 1: but let me make sure we all remember and all
Speaker 1: understand it is about opportunities when you are running back
Speaker 1: in this league. And when I look at Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: when he came here and what then the usage rate
Speaker 1: that he's getting now to the man simply does not
Speaker 1: touch the football enough. And that's something we've talked about
Speaker 1: here on the players now. So I wanted to go
Speaker 1: back and check out just first off the season, and
Speaker 1: then I went into yesterday. So Derrick Henry right now
Speaker 1: is leading the league in rushing with fifteen hundred thirty
Speaker 1: two yards fourteen touchdowns at thirteen games. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to go look at the attempts that Derrick Henry head.
Speaker 1: He's had two hundred and ninety seven rushing attempts that's
Speaker 1: eighty six more than Ezekiel Elliott, which breaks down at
Speaker 1: six point six more carries per game, where the Titans
Speaker 1: are saying, hey, Derek told the Rod. Then I went
Speaker 1: over and looked at Dalvin Cook in the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: In twelve games, he's had two hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: attempts rushing to football. That's sixty two more than Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: And he's got one thousand, three hundred and fifty two
Speaker 1: yards and fourteen touchdowns. See's got two hundred eleven yards
Speaker 1: this year for eight hundred and thirty two yards five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And of course we all understand what's happened to that
Speaker 1: cowboy's offensive line and at the quarterback position. So then
Speaker 1: yesterday I wanted to go also just looking, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: just see what guys did yesterday. Just some of the
Speaker 1: top backs. Alvin Kamara, one of my favorites, Alvin Kamara third,
Speaker 1: had eleven rushes for the Saints and they're loss to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Was targeted eight times, caught seven passes, so twenty one
Speaker 1: touches for Alvin Kamara in the Saints game. Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: and I win twenty six Rushes and was two receptions
Speaker 1: on two targets, so twenty eight touches for Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. In a loss to Tampa twenty two, Rushes
Speaker 1: had four targets, caught two passes, so twenty four total
Speaker 1: touches for him. Ezekiel Elliot yesterday twelve rushes, two catches
Speaker 1: on three targets, fifteen fifteen total touches for him. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, once again, I go back to what we
Speaker 1: were talking about. What tanking, Lawrence, You are we using
Speaker 1: the guys you're paying fellas. Do you believe Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: is being used properly? Absolutely not. But you know, you
Speaker 1: know when when McCarthy first got in here and they
Speaker 1: started talking about Zeke working on running more routes, we
Speaker 1: knew this was gonna be a problem. And once they
Speaker 1: drafted cdee Lamb, we everybody's figuring out, trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how many persons, how many people are going to
Speaker 1: catch how many balls this year? I'm having three one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers and we're like, man, they don't have
Speaker 1: enough to go around, and uh and it's and it's
Speaker 1: showing and you can't and the thing is you can't
Speaker 1: use that excusive. We have too many weapons, because if
Speaker 1: you look at Minnesota, they have Feeling, they have Jefferson,
Speaker 1: and they have cooked all right, and all of them
Speaker 1: get get a fair share of balls thrown to them.
Speaker 1: They call same thing. In Tennessee they got I saw
Speaker 1: a j. Brown making crazy catches just today, and nobody's
Speaker 1: been living behind because Derrick Henry is getting thirty thirty touches.
Speaker 1: So you can still you can still get these running
Speaker 1: backs involved in the game without taking away from some
Speaker 1: of your other weapons. We for some reason just just
Speaker 1: not have not found a way to get that done.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunately because you would think if Zeke's not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of touches, then it would have to
Speaker 1: be going all Mark Cooper. But we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to get either one of them enough touches. So it's
Speaker 1: confused to me. And that's something that Kella Moe would
Speaker 1: have to figure out as he goes into next season
Speaker 1: if he's still here. Look, is it fair to say that,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not lived up to his contract. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's fair because I mean, look look at
Speaker 1: the look at the offensive line he's running behind right
Speaker 1: now it's decimated. And yes, they're doing a better job
Speaker 1: as a season is going along and pass protecting, but
Speaker 1: their run blocking has taking a hit, and it's taking
Speaker 1: a hit to ezekiellex production. Now, I will say this,
Speaker 1: with the carries that we have given him, is he
Speaker 1: doing much with the rock? I don't think he's doing
Speaker 1: as much as if Derrick Henry were to get those
Speaker 1: ten totes or if Dalvin Cook were to get those
Speaker 1: ten totes. It just doesn't seem to me like he's
Speaker 1: as explosive and he's as a dynamic runner as those
Speaker 1: other two. Now will it change when we get that
Speaker 1: offensive line back and we get that reconstructed. It could
Speaker 1: be he could bounce back to his old self, But
Speaker 1: right now, it just doesn't seem like he's that guy.
Speaker 1: He's running sluggish, he's running in sand, and he's not
Speaker 1: making anyone miss. So to me, is it fair to
Speaker 1: judge his ninety million dollars deal? No, it's not fair
Speaker 1: to judge. I at least let him get his offensive
Speaker 1: line back in front of him before we start making
Speaker 1: that judgment. But when the guy has getting the ability,
Speaker 1: when the guy has gotten his attempts, he's gotten his toes.
Speaker 1: He just hasn't done much. He's more of a three
Speaker 1: or four yards and a cloud of dust running back
Speaker 1: right now. And that's just what the Cowboys have in
Speaker 1: front of him. So to me, I think we need
Speaker 1: to give him at least another year to get that
Speaker 1: offensive line in front of him. Then we can start
Speaker 1: questioning whether or not that ninety meal was worth it
Speaker 1: or not. Now a lot of people had issues with
Speaker 1: the ninety mills, saying, you don't pay running back that,
Speaker 1: and do we do? You guys have to remember who
Speaker 1: blew past that deal that who got paid more than
Speaker 1: his ze broke the record? Yes? How many games does
Speaker 1: he played? Yes? How many games has he played in? Now? Three? Three? Three?
Speaker 1: Played in three games? And he's making sixteen million dollars
Speaker 1: when he's signed that four year, sixty four million dollar
Speaker 1: contract extension and Loup look at him backup out there,
Speaker 1: balling making it look like anybody can do it up.
Speaker 1: Mike Davis twenty six Fantasy points yesterday. So yes, so,
Speaker 1: so you know, and I just and for me, here's
Speaker 1: what's frustrating for me. Okay, I see Ezekiel Elliot getting
Speaker 1: beat up by the fan base and here's a guy
Speaker 1: that clearly it's an opportunity problem. I have an issue
Speaker 1: with the way they have been using it. They don't
Speaker 1: use him the way they used to use it. You
Speaker 1: paid ninety million dollars for a guy you don't really
Speaker 1: want to get in the ball. I mean, at least
Speaker 1: Tennessee had the right idea, Okay, we're gonna pay Derreck
Speaker 1: Henry and we're gonna keep feeding Derreck Henry. They don't
Speaker 1: want to do that here. So this is where I
Speaker 1: got to come to it. Mike McCarthy why I asked
Speaker 1: him at the initial press conference, how do you plan
Speaker 1: to use Ezekiel Elliott and running the football? This is
Speaker 1: not what Mike did in Green Bay. They threw the
Speaker 1: ball a lot. You didn't see them out here trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, go after it with the power run. It's
Speaker 1: not what they did. So you may have a new
Speaker 1: head coach and this scheme. Maybe this scheme doesn't fit them,
Speaker 1: but Mike told us it was gonna be scheme. I
Speaker 1: mean players over scheme, and right now I don't feel
Speaker 1: that's the case. So that's why I say beating up
Speaker 1: on Ezekiel Elliott. I mean people going out to Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott like he Carson went stealing money. I mean, Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz is dealing money right now. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: dude getting paid thirty two million dollars and he can't
Speaker 1: do nothing for you, nothing for you. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's my problem. It's like I feel like he's getting
Speaker 1: that kind of treatment like Nina. I ain't like the
Speaker 1: Phillies got a quarterback problem. Okay, they won yesterday with
Speaker 1: Jayale Hursts. We got thirty two million dollars dude sitting
Speaker 1: on the bench and we don't know where we gon
Speaker 1: unleash him. We may have to put this dude on mothballs.
Speaker 1: And then they're like, yeah, man, we gave this guy
Speaker 1: all this money. He wasn't even the guy who won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I mean, you talk about bad money spent,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is bad money spent. That's how I feel
Speaker 1: people treating Ezekiel Elliott around here, that this was bad
Speaker 1: money spent. I don't think it was bad money spent.
Speaker 1: I think this is this is a bad use of
Speaker 1: the player that that, to me, is truly the issue.
Speaker 1: I will agree with you on that point. I think
Speaker 1: it's definitely a bad use of the player. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of circumstances going around with that, but I definitely
Speaker 1: agree with you on that that's a bast dance. But
Speaker 1: where I will defend McCarthy on on one thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, at the beginning of the year when you
Speaker 1: did ask those questions, I don't think McCarthy thought that
Speaker 1: his defense would be this terrible, and that the defense
Speaker 1: and he would always be having to fight his way
Speaker 1: back and claw his way back to get into games.
Speaker 1: This defense is downright terrible, and I don't think he
Speaker 1: thought that going into the game is or going into
Speaker 1: the season, especially with the pieces that he's had. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had a vander Esche coming back, he had a
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith coming off a Pro Bowl. So he thought
Speaker 1: he had a defense that can hold it down and
Speaker 1: we can just feed Zeke and keep it going. Little
Speaker 1: did he know we would be getting blown out in
Speaker 1: these games and Dak would have to throw us back
Speaker 1: into it, or and he don't have to throw us
Speaker 1: back into it. I don't know. I don't know about
Speaker 1: that one, because even when Dak was in there, we
Speaker 1: were still talking about Zeke not getting enough touches in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. So I think they were
Speaker 1: two and thirty. Okay, but let's go back to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: were down twenty something something. Church. Stay with me on
Speaker 1: the Atlanta game because I remember Stut was very much
Speaker 1: into this. In that Atlanta game, in the second half,
Speaker 1: they got back into it because they kept running the ball.
Speaker 1: He had ten carries in the second half. It was
Speaker 1: one of the few games where he had twenty rushes.
Speaker 1: And that was a part of them getting back into it.
Speaker 1: Was just keep They kept with the run and kept
Speaker 1: mixing it up. They just didn't go, Hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: just step here and just throw the ball. They kept
Speaker 1: mixing it up, kept Atlanta off bounce, and we're able
Speaker 1: to get back into that football game. Look, I'm coming
Speaker 1: in the first place. Who put him in that? Look
Speaker 1: in the first place. Look, he was part of the problem. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was the problem. But I'm just saying. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying using the guy getting away from the run. You know,
Speaker 1: when they decided not to they had some they had
Speaker 1: some benefit. I'll tell you who can't use the heck
Speaker 1: out of Ezekie. Ellie. You put that guy in San
Speaker 1: Francisco with Kyle Shanahan. Let Kyle Shanahan, let's show they
Speaker 1: get ahold of running back. Everybody in San Francisco. Were
Speaker 1: sending everybody in San Francisco, Shoot, you can get John
Speaker 1: Ring this kind of running back. Man. There's coaches in
Speaker 1: the league that will use them far more than what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys want. That's just just do the right thing,
Speaker 1: you listen, Just do the right thing. You paid to
Speaker 1: do ninety million dollars. Go back and look at the
Speaker 1: film of things that that made him successful, Schemes that
Speaker 1: you ran when he was successful, powers, traps, counters, look
Speaker 1: at those things and then implement him into the office
Speaker 1: that you're running now. And I can almost guarantee you
Speaker 1: that he will have more production than he currently has.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna go out there and be
Speaker 1: the o Z this year with so many injuries and
Speaker 1: all that, but I think that he could be more
Speaker 1: productive if you taylor the game to things that that
Speaker 1: help that worked for him when he was having his
Speaker 1: most success. Now you got to go back and rosch
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett Field to get that done and some of that.
Speaker 1: But but you can implement that Kellen Moore was here
Speaker 1: when when JG. Was here and Zeke was having since success.
Speaker 1: So he knows what to do and what can help z.
Speaker 1: He just needs to implement it. Yes, okay, we got
Speaker 1: to take another break here. Barry Church has some words
Speaker 1: about this Cowboys secondary and what happened there. Let's get
Speaker 1: our Monday night football prediction. Got to get that out
Speaker 1: the way, and we have it. There's a guy who
Speaker 1: popped up off the milk carton. I gotta give this
Speaker 1: man some credit, at least a little bit of credit.
Speaker 1: May be garbage. Do that. We're gonna do it next
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Speaker 1: In the thirty to seven win, somebody got off the
Speaker 1: milk cart in folks, it was Tyrone Crawford getting two
Speaker 1: garbage time sacks. Tyrone, making almost ten million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: got his first two sacks of the year. That's five
Speaker 1: million percent. Went over to the sideline. Everybody was slapping
Speaker 1: him up, like, hey, still got it. He got it,
Speaker 1: He got off the milk cart, got the shot. We're thirteen.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's the Bengals, Tyrone. Crawford got
Speaker 1: them two sacks. Baby got it up. Dell it up. Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta get my boy a little credit, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: we dogg him on this show, and rightfully so. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been doing much all year, but you right knew it.
Speaker 1: He got off the milk carton a little bit. My
Speaker 1: boy fell into two sacks, and like like you said,
Speaker 1: the funniest part was when he got to the sidelines
Speaker 1: and all the veteran cowboy players is over there just
Speaker 1: gassing him up. You still got it, man, you still
Speaker 1: got the juice. Come on, man, come on, church, Come
Speaker 1: come on church, Church, and knew he Listen. I love Crawford.
Speaker 1: I you know, we used to hang out back when
Speaker 1: I played and all that. I think. I think that
Speaker 1: he is an amazing guy. And I think that he's
Speaker 1: just getting a little older, so he's starting to slow
Speaker 1: down a little bit. So it's production is down, But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this. There is no getting off the
Speaker 1: milk carton against the Bengels, all right. There is like
Speaker 1: that that that that option is not available when you're
Speaker 1: playing the Cincinnati Bengals, especially with all that they're missing,
Speaker 1: including their starting quarterback. Who was who was the rookie
Speaker 1: who would have gave us all we can have them
Speaker 1: if he would have been out there in the AJ
Speaker 1: Green who can no longer do what he used to do.
Speaker 1: So no, ain't no getting off the milk carton against
Speaker 1: the Bengals. He made some plays, congratulations from him, But
Speaker 1: the milk carton. Yeah, all those players they still on
Speaker 1: there to get right game. It's to get right game. Okay,
Speaker 1: to get right game. Tyron got right, baby got right finally.
Speaker 1: Quarterback man, you know it ran on in two him
Speaker 1: twice two times. No, I ain't no milk carts. Ain't no,
Speaker 1: ain't no getting off the milk carton. Man, it's the Bengals,
Speaker 1: we said, it's the getting the show. It's the Bagels,
Speaker 1: all right. Max. So what you're saying is his name
Speaker 1: is engraved in the in the milk carton. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying? No, no, no, no, no, no no
Speaker 1: no no no no Listen, he got he's he's going
Speaker 1: to have a good chance to play against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: who has a new quarterback now, so it's a new
Speaker 1: dynamic added to the to their team, and so we'll
Speaker 1: be seeing something totally different. And he don't have a
Speaker 1: chance to do that against the football team. So listen,
Speaker 1: I'm already team's done. No, no, no, no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: We got swept. I'm sorry, we got we got swept.
Speaker 1: My bad bad the last time. This is the first
Speaker 1: time we got swept by them in a long time. Man,
Speaker 1: you got Danny Domes. Not bad. He got Danny Domes,
Speaker 1: So he'll have two real chances. I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: count this one against the forty knowledge because who's their
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks and mothers boys and bullets was bad, so
Speaker 1: they may go the best that I don't know who.
Speaker 1: I don't know who they sot. Dude, you ain't getting
Speaker 1: off the mel card against the forty niners either, all right,
Speaker 1: so you can count this one. That option is not
Speaker 1: available for this game, Danny. This is this dude's final.
Speaker 1: This is the guy's final three games in the cowboy uniform. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it for him. Man, they're gonna let him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got, he got, he got, he got two games,
Speaker 1: he got two games, he got, he got two division games.
Speaker 1: He has the Eagles and he had the Giants. He
Speaker 1: can get off the mil Carter. That's all right. Church,
Speaker 1: you wanted to He is a tough critic. Church you
Speaker 1: wanted to get into the Cowboys DBS and in the effort,
Speaker 1: they gave him the thirty to seven wins. Yeah. Man, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this man. Look, the secondary that we
Speaker 1: had out there yesterday was depleted. I mean there was
Speaker 1: no Woozier, there was no table on days as he's
Speaker 1: been he's been out for the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had we had Lewis out there in
Speaker 1: the slide, and then we had Sabian Smith that corner,
Speaker 1: and we had Robinson. Now both of those guys missed
Speaker 1: some time. So we're out there with guys that I
Speaker 1: don't even know their names. I just know their numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a guy number thirty three out there,
Speaker 1: at number thirty one out there who I have never
Speaker 1: seen in my life. And they were actually out there,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I gotta give props to the
Speaker 1: secondary because they didn't let anything over the top. I mean,
Speaker 1: throughout this whole season, that's all we've seen guys getting
Speaker 1: burked in covered three busted coverages, guys wide open, there's nobody.
Speaker 1: There's not a defender within ten yards of receivers most
Speaker 1: of the time. But this time those guys were They fought,
Speaker 1: they were rappy out there. Aj Green had a couple
Speaker 1: of catches and he was routing those guys up a
Speaker 1: little bit, but nothing was over the top. I feel
Speaker 1: like they had to earn everything they got from this secondary,
Speaker 1: and like I said before, there was no busted coverage,
Speaker 1: so the secondary was communicating as a whole. And look,
Speaker 1: as much as I dogged these boys each and every
Speaker 1: week for not performing to the best of their abilities
Speaker 1: today or yesterday, I think they did that. They were scrappy,
Speaker 1: they were clawed, and they showed some juice out there
Speaker 1: and they got the w Yeah, listen, they felt hard
Speaker 1: and I had a vision of I think it was
Speaker 1: Thompson came down and caused that phone ball. You talk
Speaker 1: about running the alley. The dude was playing hard man,
Speaker 1: and they and they and they did do a good
Speaker 1: job yesterday against against the Bengels, but they did do
Speaker 1: a good job. So you know, like I said, it's
Speaker 1: it's difficult that, like everybody in the NFL gets paid.
Speaker 1: All right, So no matter who's out there, lined up
Speaker 1: like a kid and joked a lot of the I'm
Speaker 1: a critic on them kind of hard. But nobody who's
Speaker 1: lined up out there. All those guys have talent and
Speaker 1: all those guys can beat you on again in a day.
Speaker 1: So they went out there and they fought hard, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, propsing them and hope they carry carrying on
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. All Right, We've got
Speaker 1: Monday night football. It is a critical football game here.
Speaker 1: You've got the Ravens at the Browns. The Ravens are
Speaker 1: three point favorites in this game. D mac who you got?
Speaker 1: Oh that's This is a tough one because the Ravens
Speaker 1: are really playing for everything. Cleveland is kind of rolling.
Speaker 1: But I think that desperate team is gonna get the
Speaker 1: dumb I think the Ravens find a way to pull
Speaker 1: it out and they cover. I see him win them
Speaker 1: by six. Uh to me, you know, look, I got
Speaker 1: Baltimore in this one. I got Baltimore in this one,
Speaker 1: and it's because I feel like the Browns are just
Speaker 1: like Baltimore's little brother. Like, no matter how good Cleveland is,
Speaker 1: Baltimore just has their number. It's similar to Ohio State Michigan.
Speaker 1: Michigan could be undefeated all year. Once ohiose Ohio State
Speaker 1: steps on the door, it's like everybody kind of cowards
Speaker 1: and kind of it's Ohio State. They end up losing
Speaker 1: those games. So to me, I just think Baltimore has
Speaker 1: their number. They're a big brother. They're gonna take care
Speaker 1: of business tonight on Monday Night football. Okay, Nostrada was
Speaker 1: on my side. Okay, all right, yeah, right today with
Speaker 1: the Steelers losing two games, if you're Baltimore right now,
Speaker 1: this is where you've got to go ahead and make
Speaker 1: your run. Finish up December strong. Here, give me the
Speaker 1: Ravens to win this one, twenty six, twenty one, even
Speaker 1: as they are in the dog pound. So, gentlemen, obviously
Speaker 1: my fantasy football trophy behind me, I'm going to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how did you guys do yesterday? Since you're both in
Speaker 1: your own respective listen, I got the number two seats,
Speaker 1: so I had a bye week, so you just you
Speaker 1: can speak to church about you can speak to church
Speaker 1: about those guys who had to play in the in
Speaker 1: the wild car around. Yeah. Man, I had to play
Speaker 1: in the wild car. You know. I had to scrap
Speaker 1: and claude to getting my way into the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody kind of counting me out at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season started like one in five or something like that.
Speaker 1: I ain't accounted myself out. I almost gave up on
Speaker 1: the but then I realized, then I really hold on, dude,
Speaker 1: did I realize? You know what? I So guess what?
Speaker 1: I put seventy five points this past week, the woe
Speaker 1: where I was playing against. I'm going into the next round.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm going into. I think I got
Speaker 1: Danny next. I knew it in fact, so hey, it's
Speaker 1: going down no one, No listen, listen. I think the
Speaker 1: guy that you played next week. You know how many
Speaker 1: points he scored this week? He was whold two? All right?
Speaker 1: So you you so you would so you would have lost.
Speaker 1: Listen who I'm in the next round? Yeah, you played
Speaker 1: you played the number one team next week because you
Speaker 1: had the six seed. All right, so good luck, good
Speaker 1: luck with that if you if you played me, it
Speaker 1: won't be into the championship looking forward to it, and
Speaker 1: knew I knew it. I said, you still keep it,
Speaker 1: counting your consolation breaking over there time about somebody putting
Speaker 1: up twenty six points. You're still playing you still, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I decided that I would not be that person to
Speaker 1: to just you know, roll over and die and uh
Speaker 1: yeah yeah and and still got beat still too. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you know I don't even feel you know, I don't
Speaker 1: feel right to pile law man because you know I've
Speaker 1: been in that, so I can't pile law My guy, man,
Speaker 1: he just took it at It's bad. It's a big guy.
Speaker 1: It was a close game. And then so we go
Speaker 1: into to the Sunday night game and this is basically it.
Speaker 1: I had James Connor and Eric E. Broun, he had
Speaker 1: step On Dicks. Oh yeah, that they decided to just
Speaker 1: step on. It's like Mike Nolan was calling the defense
Speaker 1: for the Steel They just dude running on running free.
Speaker 1: It was like, wow, what was this? What was this?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, there we go. I want to make
Speaker 1: sure we touch and give Andy Dalton his props go
Speaker 1: back to Cincinnati two touchdowns to get to win team
Speaker 1: that drafted him in twenty eleven. He played there until
Speaker 1: last season. What does it mean for guys to go
Speaker 1: back to their former NFL homes and win? What does
Speaker 1: that mean that these guys I mean to him? It
Speaker 1: probably means the world. I mean, as you saw he
Speaker 1: was going up there, you know he gave his little
Speaker 1: salute to his wife. I mean, he just saw it
Speaker 1: in his face and his demeanor. He was excited about
Speaker 1: the game, he was ready, and he just didn't let
Speaker 1: the emotions of going back to the place kind of
Speaker 1: overwhelm him. See me, I'm the wrong person to ask
Speaker 1: about that because I know nothing about going back to
Speaker 1: your former place and winning. When I came back to Dallas,
Speaker 1: it's like they just picked on me, like they like
Speaker 1: they had the game playing, like, look, there's four two
Speaker 1: right there, we're gonna get after this dude. And they
Speaker 1: ended up beating the brakes off of the jag off
Speaker 1: of us and the Jaguars that day. So, hey, hats
Speaker 1: goes off to Eddy Dalton. Man, he went up there
Speaker 1: and showed out for the for the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a bad question, man. We should have talked about
Speaker 1: this before we before we came out of the break
Speaker 1: because I got to say, feeling that Church had all right,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to Chicago Dallas came on up there.
Speaker 1: We was all heightened, and they ran the ball down
Speaker 1: our throat. You know, we had Jay Cutlott thus starting.
Speaker 1: So you know how that went. So I'm not really
Speaker 1: sure how it feels. But if you felt slighted when
Speaker 1: you left that team and you felt like you still
Speaker 1: had more to give and they kind of did you wrong,
Speaker 1: then I can imagine that you felt real good going
Speaker 1: up there and beating that team. You mean questions, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Cole Beaji went ham on or everybody, you know what
Speaker 1: speak speaking to Cole Beachley a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring this up. You talking about letting
Speaker 1: the guy go. That dude has been balling, talking about
Speaker 1: like a top slot receiver, and we let him get
Speaker 1: up out here for what like seventeen meal. Goodness that
Speaker 1: that dude is really become a big time player out
Speaker 1: there in Buffalo. He's making some serious plays as small
Speaker 1: as he is. You see him out there two touch
Speaker 1: down one hundred and seven yards toil catches. He's out
Speaker 1: there rounding up everybody the same thing that we all
Speaker 1: saw when we you were here, so shout out to
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. But that goes back to usage. Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: spoke about how Jason Garrett Scott Lanahan's system did not
Speaker 1: use him, and here we still are with a different
Speaker 1: regime talking about players not being used correctly. I mean, so,
Speaker 1: you know so at some point in time, you know,
Speaker 1: as so many people went after Cole Beasley, the Cowboy
Speaker 1: Nation went after him on Twitter. Cole Beasley told the truth.
Speaker 1: You didn't like the truth, but he told the truth.
Speaker 1: And for the people to think, hey man, you guys
Speaker 1: on the players lives are too negative. We're telling you
Speaker 1: the twenty one and nineteen are not being used enough.
Speaker 1: We're not just sitting up here lying to you. We're
Speaker 1: telling you the truth. And I truly believe this. If
Speaker 1: you let those two guys get away and they ended
Speaker 1: up going in some systems and in some places where
Speaker 1: they want to use them, you'd sit up here and
Speaker 1: be saying the same thing about about Zeke and Cooper
Speaker 1: that we're talking about here with cold Bess, like, oh
Speaker 1: look at that guy. What we let him get away
Speaker 1: here for? Didn't use him right. Absolutely, Okay, that is
Speaker 1: our time for today. Producer Chris being We appreciate you
Speaker 1: getting that sound of Stephen Jones saying that Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was coming back. It was heard on one oh five
Speaker 1: three The Fan Burried Church. Danny mccraig always fun to
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