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Speaker 3: All right, everybody here, we are Players Lounge. My apologies
Speaker 3: for us being late today. Just left the locker room.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The crew is Danny McCrae, heck Ma Harrison, Barry Church
Speaker 3: has returned, yes and dating.
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Speaker 3: Drugs as we get ready for the Cowboys taking on
Speaker 3: Bay Packers.
Speaker 5: Mm h, Danny, how are we doing today?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good, Man, I'm doing good. I'm doing Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm ready for this weekend. There's gonna be some good
Speaker 2: football on this weekend, all right. Well, you know we
Speaker 2: had all the all the all the somber news last
Speaker 2: yesterday and Queen possibly Pete Carroll, Nick Say the Great
Speaker 2: Knicksaban retired.
Speaker 4: But today it's a new day, all right, It's Thursday.
Speaker 4: Today is a new day. Is Thursday.
Speaker 2: We're moving on into the weekend and we're ready for
Speaker 2: some football. So playoff football.
Speaker 4: Yesterday knew he all but escorted him out the building.
Speaker 2: He said he left it better than he found.
Speaker 4: They had boxing everything. He get his deposit back.
Speaker 5: I was all right, bro, I was looking at the church.
Speaker 3: I was looking at the odds last night because they
Speaker 3: send us to send it my work email. He number one,
Speaker 3: number one on the next nextel coaches him, Dude, I
Speaker 3: can see it though, can't you. Does it make sense
Speaker 3: it do?
Speaker 2: We all agreed that it made sense. But at the
Speaker 2: end of his statement he said he said that like
Speaker 2: not here, he don't have a game on Sunday.
Speaker 4: The coach. You know what, man? We all we all
Speaker 4: agreed that it was. It was. It's a perfect fitting
Speaker 4: going there.
Speaker 5: Hey, church, my last ride. You know, let's go out.
Speaker 5: Let's finish the thing.
Speaker 4: Ride together. That's what you said the trigger Mike.
Speaker 3: Michael, come on, let's finish the thing out right. Finish
Speaker 3: it out right, you know, send me out right.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, really taking with them?
Speaker 4: Curse this guy our hair? Yeah, chieve our guys.
Speaker 5: How's Mike's guy? How's Mike?
Speaker 4: That was my What about Joe?
Speaker 5: You know what to me?
Speaker 3: If I'm Jerry Jones, I called Joe and said, hey,
Speaker 3: I got come on, stay so dirty alone.
Speaker 4: Take the players. I'm just take the players and coaches that.
Speaker 5: That's that's that's that's the Q guy. But Joe wit Is.
Speaker 3: Sources have told me that Joe would be very open
Speaker 3: to to moving updated tax.
Speaker 2: We said, we moved on from this. Okay, stop trying
Speaker 2: to get the coaches away.
Speaker 4: We are right. Okay. So about the Packers.
Speaker 2: I talked to Sam, Sam, what do you got to
Speaker 2: talk about it?
Speaker 3: I did see, so what makes this different? This run different?
Speaker 3: You know, you've been around here for a not of these.
Speaker 3: And he just said he feels like they have an.
Speaker 5: Overall team that can do it.
Speaker 3: And then one of the things I said to him is, look,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go to the two San Francisco loss the
Speaker 3: last few years. The offense can't get three touchdowns? How
Speaker 3: do you get that? How do you get that thing over?
Speaker 3: Because the defense has given you enough to win the game.
Speaker 3: And he said, we just got to be ourselves and
Speaker 3: we can do that. So he's confident. Tank Lawrence was
Speaker 3: the last person I was in that that group with him.
Speaker 3: He also has been here for enough of these these
Speaker 3: tough losses. He just feels like they just need to
Speaker 3: take advantage of their opportunity, so they're saying the right things.
Speaker 3: I asked Hankins about the green Bay run, and is
Speaker 3: there pressure on you because you know you're favored at home,
Speaker 3: You're you're at home where you have not lost, and
Speaker 3: he said he didn't feel like it was pressure, that
Speaker 3: they just need to go out and play their games.
Speaker 5: So what I'm hearing so far is good.
Speaker 3: And the question I didn't ask, which is, in my mind,
Speaker 3: do you feel like you're playing for your coaches job
Speaker 3: because somebody left their job today?
Speaker 5: That the rumors out there that Cowboys could be a connection.
Speaker 3: But I didn't ask no question because I thought that
Speaker 3: would be a little inappropriate.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to answer that.
Speaker 6: We when we talk about pressure, you right, I mean all
Speaker 6: the pressure is to me on the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: For this game.
Speaker 2: I mean when you look at green Bay, young quarterback,
Speaker 2: first time going around, first start, the first time in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, nobody thought that green Bay was going to
Speaker 2: get to this point, especially how they started the season,
Speaker 2: like nobody thought that was going to happen.
Speaker 6: Correct, he's playing with house money right now. So the
Speaker 6: pressure is all on Dallas. They got the like you
Speaker 6: just said, they got the home field advantage for at
Speaker 6: least two games if they do everything right, maybe even
Speaker 6: three if somebody knocked you know, the guys off at
Speaker 6: the time. So they got all the pressure on them.
Speaker 6: And Mike McCarthey understands this is the best team he's
Speaker 6: been around. Everybody just telling you, the players you just
Speaker 6: talked to, saying, this is the best chance that we've
Speaker 6: had in a long time to get to the point
Speaker 6: where we need to get to. So the pressure is
Speaker 6: all on Dallas and this to me, they got to
Speaker 6: make my guy uncomfortable. And when we talk about I'm
Speaker 6: tking about Ordan Love, they got to make him Uncomfortableause
Speaker 6: right now he's on the wave.
Speaker 4: He's riding that confidence way.
Speaker 6: Eighteen touchdowns to one pick in the last what six
Speaker 6: to seven games.
Speaker 4: I believe the man's riding strong.
Speaker 5: So to me, the pressure is on Dallas.
Speaker 2: But I think they got the head coach in the
Speaker 2: quarterback to to step up to that challenge.
Speaker 4: Every look at it.
Speaker 2: We said the exact same thing yesterday, and I want
Speaker 2: to hear your rebuttal to this.
Speaker 4: We said the.
Speaker 2: Exact same thing. Nobody told me nothing. We call the fire,
Speaker 2: So I'm just waiting. I'm waiting here, so I guess
Speaker 2: my my question is is how do you know when
Speaker 2: you know that you that team? I mean, as you
Speaker 2: go through the teams that have won Super Bowls, that
Speaker 2: have made a run in the Super Bowl, when do
Speaker 2: you know that you qualify as the upper echelona teams
Speaker 2: in the NFL. I don't think anybody is thinking right
Speaker 2: now that San Francisco has any pressure on them because
Speaker 2: you look at them.
Speaker 4: As that upper echelon team. The same with the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: I would say the Buffalo Bills, even with the way
Speaker 2: that they got in, there's no pressure on them in
Speaker 2: a home game against the Stellers because it's just the Stealers, right.
Speaker 2: But the Dallas Cowboys, who have been plugging away and
Speaker 2: have a same twelve and five as the rest of
Speaker 2: these so called elite teams, all the pressure is on them.
Speaker 2: They're at home with a fifteen game win streak and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we don't expect for them to
Speaker 2: come through the tunnel, swaggered up, ready to go, ready
Speaker 2: to get kick this thing off. It hadn't looked like
Speaker 2: this in a number of years, with the kind of
Speaker 2: opponents that you have in front of it, and it
Speaker 2: us smirks and all that don't matter. What matters is
Speaker 2: is that we're gonna get it done and the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: and the Cowboys finally having opportunity with the number one
Speaker 2: quarterback in the league and also an elite wide receiver,
Speaker 2: also an elite pass rusher.
Speaker 4: You got all these.
Speaker 2: Great things happening on your team, but you the ones
Speaker 2: you got pressure on you. But man, you're the show
Speaker 2: boys though you don't think if the Bills go up
Speaker 2: these to the stealers like Rudolph Okay, I mean, let's
Speaker 2: pressure on off those teams. That's pressure doing what we do.
Speaker 2: All right, that's pressure doing that's pressure doing what we do.
Speaker 2: But when you talk about a team that has made
Speaker 2: this season, they're twelve and five, they gotta They're facing
Speaker 2: a team that snuck into the playoffs, all you got
Speaker 2: on your plate is that, Like like Tyron said, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go out there and be us play our game.
Speaker 2: Can I can I say what we do? Can I
Speaker 2: say something about the teams that you like? When we
Speaker 2: talked about this a little yesterday, But I just want
Speaker 2: to make sure that we all on the same page
Speaker 2: of you got the pressure on it because you should
Speaker 2: win the game. That's like, you should beat this team.
Speaker 2: We all agree that we should beat the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: The pressure is more than that, though. It comes from
Speaker 2: you not being able to get over the hump for
Speaker 2: a certain amount of years. The teams that you named
Speaker 2: have all either been to the Super Bowl or their
Speaker 2: conference championship game within the last five or six years, right, Like,
Speaker 2: so you.
Speaker 4: Haven't been to a chap whenever it was.
Speaker 2: They've been further than us, where the hump that they're
Speaker 2: trying to get over is different than ours. Okay, right,
Speaker 2: ray Lewison don't want the Super Bowl, so I mean,
Speaker 2: like I'm saying, but they've been there. So when we
Speaker 2: talk about us as the Cowboys, the pressure is we
Speaker 2: haven't been able to get to the NFC championship game
Speaker 2: and I don't know how many years. So that is
Speaker 2: why the pressure it continues to build because right if
Speaker 2: you say, this is the best team you've had in
Speaker 2: a while, Dak Prescott, best quarterback in the league, right
Speaker 2: now you have all these things, So yes, now the
Speaker 2: expectation is you should be able to get over that
Speaker 2: hump and get at least in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm saying the pressures come from. Do
Speaker 2: I believe that Green Bay can beat us?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Do I believe they will if we come out and
Speaker 2: do what we're supposed to do. Absolutely not. I guess
Speaker 2: My question is this, I guess, all right, pressure, You
Speaker 2: got pressure. There's a certain amount of pressure on in
Speaker 2: everything that you do. But for these guys, it's a
Speaker 2: win or go home. So that's pressure in it in itself.
Speaker 2: But when do you get up in the morning and say, man,
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to the stadium and beat their ass
Speaker 2: like that's what that's what they may have the same,
Speaker 2: they may have same out look, Green Bay is coming
Speaker 2: to play a football game, But when are you you
Speaker 2: know what you don't what you what you have in
Speaker 2: your team, and you feel like if we go out
Speaker 2: there and we play our best version of football, they.
Speaker 4: Can't rock with it. We do feel that way, and
Speaker 4: that's all I'm and that's all I'm saying. No, we
Speaker 4: do feel that.
Speaker 2: Take all the pressure off. If I'm gonna go out there,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pay because they can't deal with that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But then you have to go out there and be
Speaker 2: able to play your best whenever that is. And that's
Speaker 2: the issue of like, Okay, we know if the Cowboys
Speaker 2: are playing their best that they are in the game
Speaker 2: when anybody in the league.
Speaker 4: The thing is, it hasn't been that way.
Speaker 2: You can go in there with the number one off
Speaker 2: in the league for the entire season and then not
Speaker 2: be able to put up three touchdowns in the game.
Speaker 2: So we have seen them be able to go out well,
Speaker 2: we've seen them go out there and not be able
Speaker 2: to play their best game, which is whether pressure comes.
Speaker 2: The pressure is on you to go out there and
Speaker 2: play your best football in the biggest moments.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy was hired to take this team further than
Speaker 3: Jason Garrett.
Speaker 5: He has not done that yet.
Speaker 3: After the game, when asked about the head coach of status,
Speaker 3: what the owner go out there and do game by game?
Speaker 3: That right, there is pressure starting from the man up top.
Speaker 3: That's pressure if they don't win two games here. Can
Speaker 3: we all say we're confident that Mike is gonna come back,
Speaker 3: even though I just advocated Mike coming back.
Speaker 5: Can we all say do gonna be back?
Speaker 4: Seeing stranger things?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm just thinking what they don't win, they'll
Speaker 2: find a way to win one. The percent is higher.
Speaker 2: It is higher for me of not being able to
Speaker 2: come back to the scene.
Speaker 3: So if this team doesn't win one to two games here,
Speaker 3: you want to tell me, ain't no consequences. He gonna
Speaker 3: just say everybody go running running on back. There is
Speaker 3: pressure here. It's pressure because the owner has consistently said
Speaker 3: he thinks this is a super Bowl team. They have
Speaker 3: not gotten past the divisional round. You got two games
Speaker 3: at home. You had lost at home all year long. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's pressure here. They mess around here, be ten seven
Speaker 3: like they were last week. You know that building to
Speaker 3: gonna be tight and sudden they gonna be tight because
Speaker 3: they haven't gone as.
Speaker 5: Far as people have thought they could with the talent
Speaker 5: that they have here.
Speaker 4: So they have pressure on seven. So there is pressure here.
Speaker 4: Was that pressure in.
Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen, But when y'all had to buy it and
Speaker 2: just said y'all felt like y'all had the team in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, it was it.
Speaker 4: I mean, what did you say.
Speaker 2: We ended up going out there and it didn't perform, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: So that's what the pressure is. You're like, okay, because
Speaker 2: you haven't been there so long, and then you start
Speaker 2: to look at the way the team is performing during
Speaker 2: the regular season. Then the pressure goes Hey man, it's
Speaker 2: been a long time, this is the team, this is
Speaker 2: the one. And then and then you don't get it.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, I think we can all agree.
Speaker 2: I know we're gonna do our picks tomorrow, that we
Speaker 2: expect us to go out there and perform my best
Speaker 2: at home and beat the Green Bay Packers. Right, Yes,
Speaker 2: we expect them because I don't want it to seem
Speaker 2: like that's where it's like. I expect us to go
Speaker 2: out there and win.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm not impervious to the word pressure. I get it.
Speaker 2: I understand that at this level everyone is trying to
Speaker 2: get the same thing at the Lombardi Trophy. But I
Speaker 2: think the Cowboys should have that confidence. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if if I can have pressure on me, if
Speaker 2: I'm confident in what I have, I'm going on the
Speaker 2: field with bet I come in.
Speaker 4: I'm in here.
Speaker 2: With Danny Krag, I'm in here with Battery Church, I'm
Speaker 2: in here with new It ain't no pressure, dog, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do my thing. I got my brothers with me,
Speaker 2: what part of pressure is that when we better than
Speaker 2: the guys were going against.
Speaker 4: Ain't no pressure in that.
Speaker 2: Now if you tell me three weeks from now, we're
Speaker 2: going against San Francisco, Hey, this is pressure.
Speaker 4: Packets the NFC Championship. You're going on the road.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, that's pressure because you're going up against a
Speaker 2: team that's beat you three times in a row. You
Speaker 2: haven't seen yourself beat them. But these guys may go dominate.
Speaker 6: That's that to me, that's a mindset, like what you're
Speaker 6: talking about, right, that's a mindset, and you got to
Speaker 6: make sure all fifty three players on that roster have
Speaker 6: that same mindset that we're gonna go out there and dominate.
Speaker 4: And we've seen in instances this.
Speaker 6: Year or in the playoffs last year, that all those
Speaker 6: guys have that same mindset, Like there's opportunities.
Speaker 4: We've seen it last year.
Speaker 2: Defense came out there, we're gonna shut down this San
Speaker 2: Francisco team. We got that swag about us, and that's
Speaker 2: what they were able to do. They shut down you know,
Speaker 2: party and those guys. But offensively, a couple turnovers here
Speaker 2: and there and the next thing you all went downhill.
Speaker 6: So I think that pressure starts to build when things
Speaker 6: aren't going your way basically, and I believe that if
Speaker 6: this team, you know, starts to struggle a little bit,
Speaker 6: they have those guys in place to where that pressure
Speaker 6: shouldn't you know, shouldn't like you just said, it shouldn't
Speaker 6: mount to anything because you have Dak at the quarterback,
Speaker 6: you have McCarthy at the coaching position. So when you
Speaker 6: say pressure, I believe, yes, there is some pressure on them,
Speaker 6: but they have the keys there to make sure that
Speaker 6: pressure doesn't overcome and knew either.
Speaker 2: Lastly, I just want to say, and the other thing
Speaker 2: that the Cowboys have in their favors, they have thirty
Speaker 2: five guys on their roster that have playoff experience.
Speaker 4: So I mean, with that.
Speaker 2: Experience also says to me that that takes some of
Speaker 2: the pressure off of.
Speaker 4: You because we've been here before.
Speaker 2: I mean, only one guy on the roster has a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl ring, I believe, but that I'm Gilly.
Speaker 4: Gilly is only guy.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying as far as playoff experience, you have
Speaker 2: thirty five guys on your team that's been here yep,
Speaker 2: and the coach that's been.
Speaker 3: To the top, which is where the expectation comes in
Speaker 3: and if with what has been built and the expectation
Speaker 3: from the owner, if this does not result in a win,
Speaker 3: people will not be happy next week. You win this
Speaker 3: week and you play next week. If that does not
Speaker 3: result in a win, people around here will not be
Speaker 3: happy because you all believe, all of us who've watched
Speaker 3: this team this year and seen what they built, because
Speaker 3: you guys are like man got it at home.
Speaker 5: If they don't win two games, what are we gonna say?
Speaker 4: We disappointment?
Speaker 3: The owner came out and said, I'm taking on the
Speaker 3: head coach. Will be game by game basis. Well, brother,
Speaker 3: you didn't throw the goblet down. You're to tell me
Speaker 3: you too young? Remember this, But you remember when Billy
Speaker 3: sat down there and told the kid that he had
Speaker 3: when when they was bringing out Afalodia six, I got
Speaker 3: three groups. I ain't got room for fault, but the
Speaker 3: kick ass them all, not else. That's basically what he
Speaker 3: told him. You got two games here, but the kick
Speaker 3: ass and go else.
Speaker 4: You just do a purple rain.
Speaker 2: Don't know, but I'm gonna say that if y'all, if
Speaker 2: you find.
Speaker 5: Yourself is a late minit, I know that.
Speaker 4: Phil the mind and listen. I'll say this.
Speaker 2: If you if you don't believe that up there in Buffalo,
Speaker 2: that there is pressure on Josh Allen in them to
Speaker 2: go out there and.
Speaker 4: Perform well against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: The lowly Pittsburgh with out tj Wie Mason Rudolph is
Speaker 2: your quarterback, Like, I think they are fake. All the
Speaker 2: good teams that are expected to make it a certain
Speaker 2: distance in the playoffs are facing pressure in the first round,
Speaker 2: especially if you're playing the team that you know you
Speaker 2: should be playing, that's playing without that they don't even
Speaker 2: decid they shouldn't even be here. They snuck in. But
Speaker 2: that puts more pressure on Josh Allen than them to
Speaker 2: go out there and perform how they should Because a
Speaker 2: letdown against Pittsburgh, it's gonna be the same conversations that
Speaker 2: we're talking about.
Speaker 4: Now. Can they do it? Can they make it over humped?
Speaker 2: Look at the season, they got a new they fired
Speaker 2: your office coordinator in the middle of season, got a
Speaker 2: new guy. Now you rolling and you go out there
Speaker 2: and you stinking up against Pittsburgh. No, no, like, so
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 5: Let's get break in here. I feel you, I feel you.
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Speaker 3: writer Rob Demoski on X says Matt Lafleur, said JayR
Speaker 3: Alexander had quote kind of a freak deal. Yesterday someone
Speaker 3: stepped on someone's foot, enrolled an ankle.
Speaker 5: End quote, yesterday was a jog through the floor.
Speaker 3: Said, Alexander's considered day to day and they thought it
Speaker 3: was best if he did not go today.
Speaker 5: No word, if they're gonna make him a captain or not,
Speaker 5: I'm going on the field.
Speaker 2: That's a big injury though, That's a big time injured
Speaker 2: because that's the one guy in that secondary that I
Speaker 2: thought maybe had a chance to not shut seed lamb down,
Speaker 2: you know, by no such an imagination. But at least
Speaker 2: you don't make things hard for him out there because
Speaker 2: he's a good corner.
Speaker 6: He's a good corner in his own right. But with him,
Speaker 6: if he's not able to go, or even if he goes,
Speaker 6: you know, seventy five percent of what he is, I mean,
Speaker 6: that's that's a huge injury because now you may be
Speaker 6: forced to play zone strictly against his team, and we
Speaker 6: all know Dak Prescott he basically destroyed his zones out there,
Speaker 6: you know, especially with this offense that they're running. So
Speaker 6: that's a big time injury with Jaiir if he's not
Speaker 6: able to go, or even if he's.
Speaker 2: Able to go, you know, half half percent. It's not
Speaker 2: good news for Green Bay. But because they already have
Speaker 2: a problem in Ceedee Lamb, you know, like seventeen forty
Speaker 2: nine this year just put him all the way through
Speaker 2: the roof. As far as all the questions you had
Speaker 2: about CD, and Green Bay already had enough problems. So
Speaker 2: we talked about it yesterday. Are they gonna I feel
Speaker 2: like BC, they gonna double team. You have to too, You're right,
Speaker 2: and so I feel like they are not gonna die
Speaker 2: that death.
Speaker 4: They're not gonna.
Speaker 2: Look, you're gonna target him seventeen times and we're gonna
Speaker 2: leave Jayir out there on the island with them.
Speaker 4: Come on, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: So now that we get this news that he's hurt,
Speaker 2: I hope he's healthy and ready to go.
Speaker 4: I want the best, jaire ale them here.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear nothing, all right, But I'm
Speaker 2: just saying that this guy, Ceedee Lamb, this is this
Speaker 2: is his opportunity real quick.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask you a question, everybody, the same question.
Speaker 2: Why would you when you're trying to double team CD
Speaker 2: Lamb and he's lining up in the slot outside, wherever
Speaker 2: the case may be.
Speaker 6: Why do these teams try to double team them with
Speaker 6: a linebacker.
Speaker 2: Like you see him, Like, go have the corner right
Speaker 2: there pressing or playing off it, don't have like a
Speaker 2: linebacker trying to buzz underneath it.
Speaker 5: I just that makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2: If that guy's that skilled, you gotta put a corner
Speaker 2: in a like how they used to do Megatron back
Speaker 2: back when I play corner, the jam him play underneath, and.
Speaker 5: The safety right over top. Man this stuff, when you're.
Speaker 6: Trying to get linebackers underneath CD, it's just it's not
Speaker 6: gonna work.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna I think the way McCarthy moves him
Speaker 2: around actually like makes it a lot more difficult for
Speaker 2: them to get like to double them how they really
Speaker 2: want to. Because an ideal world, that's what you want.
Speaker 2: You want nickel and a corner or safety in the
Speaker 2: corner right. But then if he's motioning here or you
Speaker 2: think he's gonna line up over there and you got
Speaker 2: to defend the run. I think Mike McCarthy's done a
Speaker 2: really good job of being able to move him around
Speaker 2: and not allow you to then double him that way.
Speaker 2: Now sometimes earlier in the season, we saw him. They
Speaker 2: were catching him like that. You're like they taking them away.
Speaker 2: But I think I think now it's a little different.
Speaker 2: I think listen, I hope he's hopple. You know me,
Speaker 2: I'm the path of least resistance, okay, and nobody going
Speaker 2: back in the in the newspaper and seeing you know
Speaker 2: who was hurt when they played Hey man, hop alone
Speaker 2: out there all right and barbecue chicken all day, all right,
Speaker 2: pointing him. That's who I want because he not healthy.
Speaker 2: That's who I'm going. I mean, they do this, man,
Speaker 2: this is the league.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: If you go out there and you not one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: that's on you, right And and the quarterbacks and the
Speaker 2: coaches and the officer coordinators, they ain't gonna take it
Speaker 2: easier on you. They gonna say that guy ain't right.
Speaker 2: We going to him until they get it figured out
Speaker 2: so you.
Speaker 5: Don't have dig.
Speaker 2: Yeah now, yeah, so listen, Path the least Resistance. If
Speaker 2: San Francisco don't have to be on the schedule for
Speaker 2: us to play, I'll take that and go straight to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 2: But that's a big loss for if it happens, that's
Speaker 2: a big loss for Green Bay.
Speaker 4: But you bring up a.
Speaker 2: Great point of how Mike has u CD this year
Speaker 2: and putting him in the slot and the way that
Speaker 2: CD has broken some of those you see Michael Irvans
Speaker 2: numbers go down. Nobody's kind of mentioned the fact that
Speaker 2: Mike was a true X, like he was outside, he
Speaker 2: was on a line of scrimmage. He didn't go in motion,
Speaker 2: he was You knew where he was going to be,
Speaker 2: and so it was easier to double team a guy
Speaker 2: like that. Jared Rice the same thing. Out of the
Speaker 2: ex Ceedee. Lamb has a special capability which sometimes I
Speaker 2: think last ten years ago, it would have been frowned
Speaker 2: on to be in the slot because most guys consider
Speaker 2: the number one receiver as an X. But the way
Speaker 2: that they move him around, and like you just said,
Speaker 2: he's a matchup nightmare because teams don't have they don't
Speaker 2: have the kind of personnel that we have that could
Speaker 2: go out there and play in the X and play
Speaker 2: down in the slot. So you have to at least
Speaker 2: bring a linebacker down. And you got to talk about
Speaker 2: how hard it is to take a cornerback and put
Speaker 2: him on the line of scrimmage like that. So I
Speaker 2: think he's a he's a nightmare as far as the matchups,
Speaker 2: the way that you see that their best guy is
Speaker 2: lining up inside and the one thing you don't want
Speaker 2: to do is allowed allowed to give him that much
Speaker 2: real estate.
Speaker 4: As a coordinator.
Speaker 6: We're going against Dallas, you understand this guy's get twenty
Speaker 6: some targets a game.
Speaker 4: Like, how do you not there's points to end the
Speaker 4: game last week?
Speaker 5: Even against Detroit where this guy is just.
Speaker 4: Butt nagging out there?
Speaker 5: Why open?
Speaker 4: Like if you're going you.
Speaker 2: What if you're going against this, if you're going against
Speaker 2: the squad, wouldn't you put all your resources on on
Speaker 2: on eighty eight?
Speaker 4: Ye, of course I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it. You gotta make cooks. You gotta
Speaker 2: make Tobert Paulard trying to defeat you. Right, it's just
Speaker 2: but you just don't see it.
Speaker 4: It's just this.
Speaker 2: I think we talked about it yesterday too, Like why
Speaker 2: these teams who run the ball really well, then they
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 4: From the running the game like you like you averaging
Speaker 4: eight yard to carry and.
Speaker 2: Then you come out on the next drive and you
Speaker 2: throw about three times or you get eight yards on
Speaker 2: first down, and you throw it those second and third
Speaker 2: and then you you allow the team to get off
Speaker 2: the hook because you went away from what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Networks and teams do that to us all the time,
Speaker 2: and they we were talking about the National Championship, where
Speaker 2: shouldn't look like they were about to do that in
Speaker 2: the second and third quarter?
Speaker 4: Like, bro, you average nineteen yarlds.
Speaker 2: To carry throwing the ball, right, And I think that's
Speaker 2: the same thing of like, hey man, you already know
Speaker 2: this is the strength and this is working, and for
Speaker 2: some reason.
Speaker 4: Why do you go away?
Speaker 2: You go away from it and it doesn't work. You're
Speaker 2: running the ball.
Speaker 5: Book of killing.
Speaker 2: But this across the league though, like you see it
Speaker 2: all the time. You're like, get too great, it's too bored.
Speaker 5: You know, fourth and seventh, we're going for it, kicking
Speaker 5: the field goals.
Speaker 4: I thought Jayalen Ramsey was gonna play him like that.
Speaker 2: I was. I was shocked that that Jaylen you know travel,
Speaker 2: You know that he could travel. He could play it
Speaker 2: in the slide as well, but just a lot of
Speaker 2: teams don't have the personnel that can do that.
Speaker 6: He's not what he used to be coming back from injury.
Speaker 2: I thought it was gonna be Peters is playing safety.
Speaker 2: Buys get old. You know, he knew what he went
Speaker 2: to safety before. He Yeah, man, that's like it's the
Speaker 2: name bro. Yeah you did it so Jaylon Young he
Speaker 2: was out there with church now.
Speaker 3: You know so yeah yeah, but he's just I when
Speaker 3: I saw him, this this is not He's not that
Speaker 3: same guy as.
Speaker 4: Long as he gonna be looking like Richard Sherman Wood
Speaker 4: when he was out there.
Speaker 2: No, he came to color Tempah.
Speaker 4: They were busting the man. That was rough.
Speaker 2: You forget those years old stuff like Jerry and the Seahawks,
Speaker 2: Jersey braids, chicken a learned.
Speaker 4: Straight added the hare.
Speaker 2: Hey hey, hey, hey, we don't talk about those kind
Speaker 2: of things.
Speaker 4: Forget about hey. He like, hey, stopping about to go
Speaker 4: to water bottle, tried to latch all the time for
Speaker 4: one moment he couldn't couldn't keep up. That man was
Speaker 4: out there struggling up. That was tough. Damn. Jerry was
Speaker 4: like a while.
Speaker 2: Hang time and everything with men.
Speaker 4: Old school, come on, we don't know when to give up.
Speaker 4: Fore head back here.
Speaker 5: He's cleaned it up. Now he's cleaned it up.
Speaker 3: The great thing is, you know when you go see
Speaker 3: Jerry in the sidelines of again. Jerry talked to you.
Speaker 4: He will talk you don't talk.
Speaker 5: Come up to you.
Speaker 4: He's great. Come on talking about something. Mean to get
Speaker 4: some stuff on my.
Speaker 2: Newly struct perfect person that st foind out everybody. He's
Speaker 2: standing over to buy himself for a reason.
Speaker 4: Oh no, don't know, Jerry. Jame's a great player.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all right, we gotta take it a breaking head.
Speaker 5: Get ready for you read I knew.
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Speaker 3: Get plenty of tostedos this weekend as Dallas Cowboys hosts
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Speaker 5: Danni Y Barry Church return. I'm new he Scruggs.
Speaker 3: So the Cowboys have thirty five players, as you said,
Speaker 3: heck on this active roster with postseason experience, and thirty
Speaker 3: two of those players were on Dallas's playoff roster in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. Dante Fowler, DeMarcus Lawrence, Zach Martin, and
Speaker 3: Tyron Smith.
Speaker 5: Have the most postseason games with eight.
Speaker 3: This is a team that when they walk out there,
Speaker 3: they've been here.
Speaker 5: They have been here. So you got Green Bay on
Speaker 5: the other side, it's a lot of youngsters. They got
Speaker 5: a lot of.
Speaker 3: Youngsters over there. So this is going to be a
Speaker 3: contrast and a veteran team versus a young team here
Speaker 3: and a quarterback that cannot emphasize this enough, who's making
Speaker 3: his first play off start.
Speaker 5: And I said yesterday, I'll say it again. I picked
Speaker 5: the Cowboys to win. I gota do.
Speaker 3: The Dallas Morning News picks. I picked it and Win
Speaker 3: picked in the cover. There there there is no there
Speaker 3: is no option. It was Apollow thirteen. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you to watch that.
Speaker 2: To watch movie, you got to get some two thousands earlier.
Speaker 2: I've seen Apollo thirteen, but I was very young when
Speaker 2: it came with stay out of Space on the rocket ship.
Speaker 4: Trying to get home. Something with that.
Speaker 5: And they flowing away when you found it.
Speaker 4: I don't think Hollywood is trying to make that movie.
Speaker 4: You know they don't. Hero Tom Noah, I got you good.
Speaker 3: Anyway, They floating out there trying to get them home
Speaker 3: and they basically give up to make this contraption of
Speaker 3: stuff and like, you know, guys, we got to make
Speaker 3: this spin into that. And the dude said, failure is
Speaker 3: not an option, And to me, I feel like with
Speaker 3: this Cowboys team, you talk about all this experience I had,
Speaker 3: You're at home, You've been great at home this year,
Speaker 3: failure is not an option period.
Speaker 2: Hidden Figures that I heard of it I haven't seen,
Speaker 2: but that is a new movie. It is.
Speaker 4: I was just trying to have good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're trying to trying to fail like some
Speaker 2: hope fix.
Speaker 4: You know something like some hope fixing something like that,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Mister So, mister Wolf goes into the cowboys locker room,
Speaker 3: pretty please, pretty please.
Speaker 5: Clean up and win again?
Speaker 4: There go the wolves are You're sitting on the wolf.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 2: You had, something.
Speaker 5: To pack us up, like a royal which.
Speaker 2: Common ground the metric system, you smarty.
Speaker 4: That's what That's what we got going on. That's what
Speaker 4: we got going on.
Speaker 2: Thank you goodness, Grace Apollo thirteen Prince.
Speaker 4: We know this.
Speaker 5: Is Academy Award nominated.
Speaker 4: And that's okay.
Speaker 2: We don't know what you're trying to Dusty baking me
Speaker 2: earlier now he talking about priends.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what you're talking about. Damn dus
Speaker 4: shout up.
Speaker 5: You got to see Players Club?
Speaker 4: You got another reference for Players Club.
Speaker 5: I'm just asking. I'm trying to make sure something to
Speaker 5: make me happy.
Speaker 11: But you know, I come up like if I find something,
Speaker 11: if I say Players Club, Come on, God.
Speaker 5: The best thing about life was a soundtrack. Heck of
Speaker 5: a soundtracks.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: You can't you can't wait to see that Baby Hills
Speaker 2: new movie. The movie is coming on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm against.
Speaker 5: I'm against remakes. House Party to scarred.
Speaker 4: Me for life?
Speaker 2: Won't you give me? I don't know why you went
Speaker 2: to So you're talking about the new when they came out.
Speaker 3: I know now I'm not gonna watch you any damn
Speaker 3: fifty years old from these movies.
Speaker 5: I'm not watching They had a whole new cast. They
Speaker 5: still there though.
Speaker 2: The whole new cat was Lebron was in the DC
Speaker 2: to change it was the remix They changed it though.
Speaker 5: No, I'm good. I'm just not a big remake guy.
Speaker 3: It's hard to do remakes because usually, and this is
Speaker 3: why I found about, usually the writers are changed. And
Speaker 3: so like House Party, the people who wrote this thing
Speaker 3: were not the people that came up with the second one.
Speaker 3: So understanding the magic and the chemistry and what worked.
Speaker 3: Now we got new people in here trying to add
Speaker 3: their little thing, and they a lot of times it
Speaker 3: ends back.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You just can't walk out locker room.
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't work like a plane.
Speaker 4: When they get off the plane, they already gonna be
Speaker 4: down to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, off the plane, tasty kick coming, baby.
Speaker 4: Somebody wrote plane. Write down in your notebook.
Speaker 2: Get a notebook wherever you want.
Speaker 5: It's got Chris Ban he got my notebook twelve.
Speaker 4: Trust Chris either Man.
Speaker 2: He made the copy and brought that stuff in here,
Speaker 2: so he knew we tied to go out there and
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 4: Say, Chris Bean means all that doubt and everything you got.
Speaker 3: I was there, man, I was two times, two time.
Speaker 2: You just went through that whole list talking about thirty
Speaker 2: five flays with playoff experience and all this.
Speaker 4: We know so much win situation man.
Speaker 2: So you know we talked mind state, confidence, whatever you
Speaker 2: want to call it. That's I'm just not going for
Speaker 2: that scary energy, not going for it.
Speaker 4: The person's not scary. Some people embraced pressure.
Speaker 2: That does Yeah, you know, he don't put that shirt
Speaker 2: on because he knows, he knows what the goal is
Speaker 2: and it ain't it ain't this and that's a failure
Speaker 2: if you go out there and lose this game.
Speaker 3: He talked about being a privilege, which you know, and
Speaker 3: that's that's not a pressure is not a bad thing.
Speaker 3: And Nick Saban talked about it all the time when
Speaker 3: he was coaching, just like he wanted guys to feel
Speaker 3: uncomfortable in me standing.
Speaker 5: And he won lot one lot there. So I don't
Speaker 5: I don't think that's a problem. I don't think the
Speaker 5: pressure is a problem at all.
Speaker 3: I just went the owner, come out here, throw it
Speaker 3: on it. That's when I just don't understand it. It's
Speaker 3: like game, that's enough out there. Why he's throwing a
Speaker 3: log on the fire.
Speaker 2: So I need to get a thought from you on
Speaker 2: your guy, Okay, because you've been roll tied ever since
Speaker 2: I mentioned roll tide, this road tide that one.
Speaker 4: Are you still roll tiede? Okay?
Speaker 3: The only time I wasn't roll tiede is when they
Speaker 3: hired Mike Shuler and refused to hire Sylvester Krum because
Speaker 3: ad won it.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you roll tied? Nick Saban is done? Yes?
Speaker 2: Whatever? Oh yes he done? Not going to know you
Speaker 2: ain't done? Yeah? Just what coaching? Not football though you
Speaker 2: think he'll be a consultant on the staff or something
Speaker 2: like that. Great media guy he has been working on
Speaker 2: the college game. They think he had come on there.
Speaker 2: He actually he does really well. It's a great and
Speaker 2: great personality and sense of humor. He's just he's just
Speaker 2: viewed as a guy that doesn't have a sense of humor.
Speaker 2: But he's We should have known he was about to
Speaker 2: be done when he started doing commercials with them, we
Speaker 2: should have known it because you didn't see Nick Saban
Speaker 2: as that type of guy to be on to be
Speaker 2: funny on the commercial and doing all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And you know there is at some point in time
Speaker 3: college football has to change and just admit to their
Speaker 3: business and they need to have that commissioner. And I
Speaker 3: think Nick Saban would be an excellent commissioner, somebody who
Speaker 3: could understand what coaches and administrators need to try and
Speaker 3: make college football what it has to become. In my opinion,
Speaker 3: it has to break away from the NCAA. They got
Speaker 3: to set this thing up differently and and pair this
Speaker 3: thing down a little bit and just say, hey, these
Speaker 3: other teams are going to be competing, and figure out
Speaker 3: how they distribute money and and basically pay the players
Speaker 3: and whatever union or whatever they want to set up
Speaker 3: to make it like basically a mini National Football League
Speaker 3: because pro sports is this is what college football is now.
Speaker 3: And so I think if you were going to have
Speaker 3: someone that people would trust, I think Nick Saban could
Speaker 3: be that guy.
Speaker 5: But they need somebody to run it.
Speaker 3: Because what they have right now, they clearly it's the
Speaker 3: Wild West and everybody's mad about it. So to me,
Speaker 3: I think Nick Saban can stay in college football in
Speaker 3: some some form or fashion.
Speaker 4: That way.
Speaker 2: You were talking about Mike McDaniel's yesterday and talking about
Speaker 2: him as a coach, and it's so weird how we
Speaker 2: lose Belichick and Saban in the same day. And those
Speaker 2: are two coaches that kind of come from the same
Speaker 2: guard coach together. You know, they have the same DNA
Speaker 2: and the responses that they've been able to get from
Speaker 2: their teams in college and in pros I think it
Speaker 2: speaks vogumes about who they are as coaches. But man,
Speaker 2: I think the times has passed them. I think Nick
Speaker 2: saw that even though he had a successful year, Man
Speaker 2: went to the playoffs and it's just I think I
Speaker 2: think the nil I think a lot of things just
Speaker 2: started to happen, and I think Nick was like, man,
Speaker 2: I don't have the same money that Texas got Texas
Speaker 2: and they coming to the SEC and I know what's
Speaker 2: about to happen.
Speaker 4: Let me get my stuff and get up out of here.
Speaker 3: It just came out today and just said the day
Speaker 3: to day grinders is too much for him now.
Speaker 5: And that comes back to we talking about the business aspect.
Speaker 4: Of it.
Speaker 3: I mean you now have to have a general manager
Speaker 3: who oversee, Okay, who's got the nil? Do I deal
Speaker 3: with the collective? What are these guys getting here? Who's
Speaker 3: in the portal? Figure who's in the portal, who's going in,
Speaker 3: who's coming out?
Speaker 5: Who do we take?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a lot. And then you got
Speaker 3: the two signing periods. I mean, when you guys came.
Speaker 4: Out, it was one day.
Speaker 5: It was February.
Speaker 3: Now when we got December, we got February, and so
Speaker 3: it's changed. And now I mean what the conferences jent
Speaker 3: the PAC twelve blew up all.
Speaker 4: It's just crazy.
Speaker 5: It's a whole different kind of game.
Speaker 2: And we got noce no divisions anymore in the SEC.
Speaker 6: Just be Power five like Mac and all those you know,
Speaker 6: the kind of subdivision.
Speaker 2: If you do that, you're gonna find a team that's
Speaker 2: gonna disrupt all of that as soon as they as
Speaker 2: soon as they put one of those together, you have
Speaker 2: a Cincinnati. You'll have You'll just have a team that'll
Speaker 2: come through and be disruptive to everything.
Speaker 5: But yes, I mean, I.
Speaker 3: As a guy who grew up when Bear Bryant was
Speaker 3: coaching and all the times that we spent in Alabama
Speaker 3: because my parents were from Birmingham, so Tom Landry and
Speaker 3: Bear Bryant, those were the coaches I knew for college
Speaker 3: and pro. And when they left as a fan, you
Speaker 3: were just, man, if they could just win one in
Speaker 3: my lifetime, I'd be cool. So Jeene Stallings wins that
Speaker 3: game against Alabama, win national championship, like okay, and then
Speaker 3: they wandered the desert after that, messing up, just messing
Speaker 3: it up. Saban got there and I didn't know at
Speaker 3: the time, but I got to cover Nick his last
Speaker 3: year of Cleveland before went to Michigan State, and they
Speaker 3: brought him.
Speaker 5: I was like, hey, man, if he could win one
Speaker 5: like he did LSU, that'd be great.
Speaker 3: You never expected anything like this, And I feel sorry
Speaker 3: for whoever takes hope for because these folks gonna be
Speaker 3: crazy the way you see. L A fans were crazy
Speaker 3: when John wouldn't it won ten national championships, seven in
Speaker 3: a row, and the dude who took over for the
Speaker 3: final four that year, like, do you lost?
Speaker 4: Come on the back rue jumping right now? Crazy.
Speaker 3: You saw she was saying this when that dow on Twitter.
Speaker 3: Check you how many scholarships. You guys had.
Speaker 2: They shipping guys out bringing them up as we speak,
Speaker 2: Louis okay, don't have his day. Were trying to go
Speaker 2: to the soul boat next year. I know one thing,
Speaker 2: l U L s U. We were shout out the nicksagble.
Speaker 2: But that's one guy we ain't got to worry about
Speaker 2: seeing again. And I'm not upset about it.
Speaker 4: A different motive, you got a different money.
Speaker 2: He was like, I'm two and two, I'm twos out
Speaker 2: of the bell.
Speaker 5: Is he in the L. S U Hall fame?
Speaker 4: I ain't seen him up there, but he will be.
Speaker 4: He will be for.
Speaker 3: Sure, because I mean, for me, when I think of
Speaker 3: what he did there, just growing up, it was it
Speaker 3: was two schools in the SEC. He always kind of
Speaker 3: said heself, if they figure it out, it's trouble.
Speaker 5: For Alabama, Florida and L.
Speaker 4: S U.
Speaker 5: They couldn't get it right for a long time. And
Speaker 5: when Saban got there, shut it because L.
Speaker 3: S U at that time, I was you see Marshall
Speaker 3: fall from New Orleans gone, Peyton Man from New Orleans,
Speaker 3: Nick kme Man.
Speaker 5: They put a fence up there. We're gonna keep everybody
Speaker 5: in state and and you.
Speaker 3: Know we're gonna play them quarterbacks that y'all unnecessarily think
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 5: Changed it and set the set the program up to.
Speaker 3: The less Miles and Ed o'jeron were able to win
Speaker 3: national championships. So I didn't wonder was he was he
Speaker 3: there because just what he did was unlocked what so
Speaker 3: many people had always felt could be done in L
Speaker 3: s U. And now it's now it's there, there's the
Speaker 3: belief and they know there's that expect like we could
Speaker 3: win national championship.
Speaker 4: When did he start winning Natties?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like when I was in college, it
Speaker 2: was Florida, you know, with t V three water spears
Speaker 2: with Alabama nine because they were remember Alabama being like
Speaker 2: that until when I was in college. He wasn't the
Speaker 2: head coach there until two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: Seven seven, I want to say seven, because they wanted
Speaker 3: O nine. They beat Texas for a second one, I
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 2: Say, So my first year he wasn't there, so maybe
Speaker 2: my last year year because it was Florida, it was
Speaker 2: US and then it was Florida. Then we got in
Speaker 2: there for one year and then Florida and then uh
Speaker 2: they beat the Arbor one of them because Cameron was
Speaker 2: there too.
Speaker 3: The second one there and then and then Texas. So
Speaker 3: you know that, you know the saving the Texas story, right.
Speaker 5: So the story was.
Speaker 3: Tom Hicks, who used to own the Rangers and the Stars,
Speaker 3: had got Terry Saban and was convincing her bring Nick here.
Speaker 5: She went out. They went to Austin, got Nick ready
Speaker 5: to go.
Speaker 3: They ready to take Nick from from Alabama to Texas
Speaker 3: because they felt like man and they didn't appreciate us
Speaker 3: anohing now showing us to love. And so it was, hey, Mac,
Speaker 3: you go ahead call it a day, retire, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna bring saving in it.
Speaker 5: That was that was there. Chip Brown wrote about.
Speaker 3: It recently on on on Orange Bloods Doctor wherever he's at.
Speaker 3: And then Mat wouldn't go along with it, and then
Speaker 3: he got us lawyer Joe Jamail, and they were like, nah,
Speaker 3: were shutting this all down. But this thing could have
Speaker 3: been Nick Saban at Texas and sound.
Speaker 5: And well, I mean, could you easy the Big Twelve
Speaker 5: would have been.
Speaker 2: Sounds better that they gave us a lot of more,
Speaker 2: a lot better matchups with Florida and Georgia, and but could.
Speaker 5: Have, but the Texas tried.
Speaker 3: They tried to go get Nick Saban and they thought
Speaker 3: they had it lined up, and then it didn't work,
Speaker 3: and then saving it went out and signed the extension
Speaker 3: and Mack Brown got to stay a couple more years,
Speaker 3: and and then that thing right right down in the gutter.
Speaker 4: But you don't have meeting master today, do you.
Speaker 5: Go do media mash coming up next, So you're.
Speaker 4: Trying to make it. We're gonna stay until media manag
Speaker 4: We're done.
Speaker 5: We've done very very much.
Speaker 4: Had to dance, guys, burn searchs over the air. You knew.
Speaker 5: New scrugs.
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