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Speaker 1: can go wrong today, beautiful day. All right, okay, nothing
Speaker 1: nothing can go wrong? All right, nostrada Okay, I feel you.
Speaker 1: It's a good day for me too. Man. We made
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about today because I know the church
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to be so with some crazy rational now.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for today, Hey, December sixteenth, which means
Speaker 1: we're getting closer and closer to the end of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and I think we'll all be good if we can
Speaker 1: get ahead and get to twenty twenty one. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: will face the forty nine Ers on Sunday. That game
Speaker 1: was supposed to be on NBC's Sunday Night Football, but
Speaker 1: it got flexed out, so it is a noon football.
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers are favorite by three points. In this game.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys could get some reinforcements back, Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the problems for the Cowboys has been that
Speaker 1: defensive backfield whole year long. The man who leads the
Speaker 1: team and interceptions, rookie Travad Digs could be back. Cheeto
Speaker 1: Woozier's off COVID nineteen, so I expect Cheeto to play,
Speaker 1: and Donovan Wilson, the safety he's back in practice, we
Speaker 1: expect him to play. So Barry Church, your thoughts on
Speaker 1: some reinforcements coming in here to deal with Brandon I
Speaker 1: Youth and those forty nine receivers. Man, you know what, hey,
Speaker 1: we need all the help we can get. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I was proud of what the secondary did last week
Speaker 1: against the Bengals, but like we all said, man, it
Speaker 1: was the Bengals and they were down to Brandon Island
Speaker 1: out there. But the secondary did fight and they scratched
Speaker 1: and they showed some competitives out there. So I definitely
Speaker 1: it was happy what I saw from them last week,
Speaker 1: But we need the reinforcements now. If we get to
Speaker 1: the individual players. If I'm Trayvon Day's personally, if I'm
Speaker 1: Trayvon this, I'm not coming back. I'm saying, look, man,
Speaker 1: this season is over with right now. I didn't put
Speaker 1: good tape on there. Yes, I had some ups and downs.
Speaker 1: I got beat but it's my rookie year and all
Speaker 1: people keep talking about it just fighting his ability out there.
Speaker 1: He leads the team interceptions. I think he's still leads
Speaker 1: a team in pass deflections like four or five. So
Speaker 1: if I'm him, I'm like, look, man, I had I
Speaker 1: had a solid rookie season. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: rest up and get back and get ready for this
Speaker 1: for this next upcoming season. Now, cheto Woozy. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, he gotta come back. He has got to
Speaker 1: come back, and he has got to put good tape
Speaker 1: out there, because right now he's entering free agency with
Speaker 1: some of the worst tape out of scene at a
Speaker 1: corner position. When he came back from from his hamstring
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back, he looked like he was
Speaker 1: running in sand. Out there. Everybody and their mom was
Speaker 1: running past this kid, and he put on bad tape. Now,
Speaker 1: going into free agency, that's the one thing you do
Speaker 1: not want to do at all. You don't want to
Speaker 1: put any other bad doubt and any other franchise out
Speaker 1: there that hey, this kid might not be able to
Speaker 1: cover or he's too slow to be out there and covering.
Speaker 1: So for me, if I'm Cheeto, I had to come
Speaker 1: out in these last three games, I gotta put good
Speaker 1: tape out there or else, man, he might be looking
Speaker 1: like a minimum contract type. Dude. Listen, listen. From the
Speaker 1: player's perspective, sounds amazing, But from a coaching the perspective,
Speaker 1: dig's gotta be out there. I would I probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: put Cheeto out there. But you just pay Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: so you're pretty sure he's gonna be on the roster
Speaker 1: next season. You need to see what your what your
Speaker 1: defensive backfield looks like, what type of potential they have,
Speaker 1: See if they've been able to learn anything, and see
Speaker 1: if they can learn anything over these next three games.
Speaker 1: You have to you have to you have to see
Speaker 1: that to know like what you have going into the
Speaker 1: next year. Cheeto, you know he's most likely out of here.
Speaker 1: But me me as a GM and as a head coach,
Speaker 1: I want to know what I have when I want
Speaker 1: to see these guys make a little progression over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks against some live actions. So these guys
Speaker 1: need to be out there plan. Let me ask this question.
Speaker 1: I'll start with you mcraye. If you're digs, do you
Speaker 1: want to go against some other rookie receiver see Brandon
Speaker 1: I first round wide receiver next week, Jalen rag or
Speaker 1: the Eagles comes into town. It does it become a
Speaker 1: personal thing where you know, you seeing the guy in
Speaker 1: your rookie class and you want to prove something to him.
Speaker 1: And I asked that because I read the book Three
Speaker 1: Ring Circus, and whenever there was somebody in Kobe Bryant's
Speaker 1: rookie class, he always wanted to prove a point to them.
Speaker 1: So I'm just asking that question. Does that go through
Speaker 1: Dbe's minds at all? Well, listen, listen. Kobe is one
Speaker 1: of a kind guys. So I won't go into too
Speaker 1: Digs's mind and you know, and say who he really
Speaker 1: wants to compete against. I'll tell you this, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that he wants to continue to get better as
Speaker 1: we saw him do as the season progressed. Right, So,
Speaker 1: we saw him fighting, then we saw him getting beat
Speaker 1: a couple of times when we were impressed with how
Speaker 1: he never gave up, and he made some hustle plays
Speaker 1: and then they'll start turning into interceptions. So in his mind,
Speaker 1: he's like, I was just starting to get better. I
Speaker 1: was just starting to get rolling. I want to get
Speaker 1: out there and finish this all, you know, and show
Speaker 1: these guys what I can really do, hopefully finish the
Speaker 1: season off with a few more interceptions in big plays.
Speaker 1: So in his mind, I think, I think that's what
Speaker 1: he's thinking. He's getting better and he wants to continue
Speaker 1: to show that and lead leave off on a season
Speaker 1: on a good note. Yeah, I guess I'm old, and
Speaker 1: I guess you know I'm the vetting the in here
Speaker 1: because I would have been if if I'm Tafon Days,
Speaker 1: my thought press us would have been like, well, just
Speaker 1: like what I told y'all earlier, hold on, man, I
Speaker 1: had a solid I had a solid rookie campaign. Everybody's
Speaker 1: kind of putting me on this pedal stores one of
Speaker 1: the guys that can that can be a future star
Speaker 1: out there. I'm not risking it by going out there
Speaker 1: and putting any bad tape out there so y'all can
Speaker 1: have me labeled like cho Woozier out here. There's just
Speaker 1: no way that I would go out there and do that.
Speaker 1: I would just rest into that next twenty twenty one year.
Speaker 1: But hey, hey, that's just me. But I wouldn't as
Speaker 1: a coach though. As a coach, get yeah, if I'm
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan, I'm like, Yo, you gotta get out there.
Speaker 1: I need you out there. I need everybody. I need
Speaker 1: everybody on deck. I'm trying to save my job. I
Speaker 1: need everybody on deck. So if I'm Mike Nolan, I'm
Speaker 1: for sure telling him, hey, you gotta get out there.
Speaker 1: But if I'm Diggs, nah Man, I'm chilling. I did
Speaker 1: what I could these first these first couple of games,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and relax. But to the point
Speaker 1: that Nui talked about as far as DBS, I'm going
Speaker 1: out there against rookies. My mindset when I was out
Speaker 1: there as a safety, I was more I got to
Speaker 1: outplay the other safety out there. So if we're going
Speaker 1: against you know, the Seattle Seahawks when they had Earl
Speaker 1: and Cam Chancellor or another good safety out there, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't focus myself on, you know, being able
Speaker 1: to outplay the offense. They would be. Let me go
Speaker 1: out there and I'll play those all their safeties and
Speaker 1: let them know, hey, I'm in the same realm a y'all.
Speaker 1: Did I make just as much as an impact as
Speaker 1: y'all did. So that was just my thought press us
Speaker 1: going into the game against other safeties with timent. Well,
Speaker 1: this rookie receiver, Brandon Ayu is the real deal. He's
Speaker 1: a very good wide receiver with bad quarterback play, which
Speaker 1: also is impressive to me because Nick Mullins and c. J.
Speaker 1: Bath struggled, and even Jimmy Garoppolo when he's been out
Speaker 1: there this year, he struggled. And so I look at
Speaker 1: that young man. I just say, wow, what could he
Speaker 1: do if he had somebody that could actually get him
Speaker 1: to football on a regular basis. He could have some
Speaker 1: more chemistry with this rookie receiving class here has been
Speaker 1: very impressive. And I feel bad for Jalen reagor kid
Speaker 1: over at the Philadelphia because the media and the fans
Speaker 1: are on him because they're like, why do we take you?
Speaker 1: Like we could have had to we had Brandon Ay.
Speaker 1: I mean, Philadelphia folks are cold, man. Look at everybody
Speaker 1: else that came after you, but we're stuck. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: I mean, it wouldn't have helped the way Carson Winson
Speaker 1: is playing. It don't matter who out there receiver, they're
Speaker 1: not getting the ball to none of them. Dude. He
Speaker 1: got he got some serviceable guys out there who could
Speaker 1: make some plays. But the way we've seen Carson Wentz play,
Speaker 1: he lost his job last two weeks ago and he's
Speaker 1: still not going to be starting this week. So he
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to get anything done. With some
Speaker 1: of those type receivers, they would have been wasted their
Speaker 1: first year. So I'm glad my boy, Justin Jefferson did
Speaker 1: not end up in phillyd a tremendous campaign with the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings and how well did that work out. Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs is in Buffalo. He's helped Josh Allen their NFC.
Speaker 1: She said, AFC East champions. They're going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Minnesota unloaded the contract, got themselves a number one pick,
Speaker 1: and then get they get George Jefferson, who looks like
Speaker 1: he can do everything Diggs is done and does it
Speaker 1: as a cheaper into That's one of the few times
Speaker 1: when you look at the team and just say, man,
Speaker 1: that was a really good move, because a lot of
Speaker 1: times when you lose a guy like that do you
Speaker 1: never get close to replacing himself. Minnesota ended up doing. Okay, there, Church,
Speaker 1: you asked a question when we were bouncing our topics here, Um,
Speaker 1: who are some defensive players? If you're the Cowboys, you
Speaker 1: don't bring back who are free agents? So I'll let
Speaker 1: you go first on this unless you want me to,
Speaker 1: because I've got a name of a guy I would
Speaker 1: bring back. Okay, an upcoming defense worth keeping, a guy
Speaker 1: would bring the go ahead? Now he got it, Okay,
Speaker 1: here it is Aldon Smith at thirty one years old.
Speaker 1: He is second on the team in splash plays behind
Speaker 1: Tank Lords with twenty four He's played six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty two snaps. Um for a guy who hadn't played
Speaker 1: in five years, I thought he looked well and I'd
Speaker 1: like to see what he could do next year coming
Speaker 1: off this year, especially having a whole all season getting
Speaker 1: his body ready. Um, but I start to look at
Speaker 1: the numbers here. Okay, let's look at the money. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have twenty four million dollars get off the cap.
Speaker 1: Tyron Crawford's nine millions gone, Sean Lee's four point five
Speaker 1: million is gone, Everson Griffins six million is gone, and
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy's four point five million dollars gonna said, twenty
Speaker 1: four million dollars out the duel. If you give him
Speaker 1: a two two three year contract maybe two, and you're
Speaker 1: paying him Tyron Crawford's money nine million a year or
Speaker 1: eight million a year, I have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: Being on the other side of Tank Lawrens, especially not
Speaker 1: knowing because the draft is in April. I got to
Speaker 1: get this thing done, most likely in March. I would
Speaker 1: like to keep someone in the building at defensive end,
Speaker 1: and we could say Randy Gregory. But I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to trust Randy Gregory one hundred percent there just yet.
Speaker 1: So I would bring Alden Smith back. That's the free
Speaker 1: agent defensive player I bring back. I got a couple
Speaker 1: of questions on that. On that one one, you said
Speaker 1: he has twenty four splash plays. What are we considering
Speaker 1: splash plays here? That's a great question. I just ready
Speaker 1: to stay frank it all day. That's good. I was
Speaker 1: I was hoping you would ask that because I was
Speaker 1: writing down about But but it looks good. It looks
Speaker 1: like it's like I will rush win, right, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks good. It looks good, and he's number two
Speaker 1: behind tanks. Oh bad a little overall if we get look,
Speaker 1: I'm with bringing analytics Smith back. Analytics who who wait? Oh,
Speaker 1: pro Football Focus is run back Collinsworth, right, he is
Speaker 1: a part. But this I'm not sure that this came
Speaker 1: for Pro Football Focus. So so I'm not sure. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Well I'll say this. I'm with bringing Alden
Speaker 1: Smith back on on a on a very teen friendly deal.
Speaker 1: And I don't consider you know, tying Crawford's nine meal.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's very team friendly, especially when
Speaker 1: you got, like you said, Randy Gregory right there in
Speaker 1: the wings, who these past couple of weeks has come
Speaker 1: along and he's come along and he's starting to get
Speaker 1: things rolling. And like you said, with Alden Smith getting
Speaker 1: a full offseason, maybe he would become better. I'm sure
Speaker 1: what Randy Gregory as well. If he get a full
Speaker 1: I'll see him under his belt without anything going on.
Speaker 1: I think he would be better as well. And I
Speaker 1: think he would be that complimentary piece um to DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence that we would need. So overall, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just the price would have to be right for me
Speaker 1: to be able to bring back Aldon Smith. It had
Speaker 1: to be extreme. Give me an I would say around
Speaker 1: I was, I would say around four or five five
Speaker 1: being the tops. I pay five a year for Aldon Smith.
Speaker 1: Right now, he just has besides that scooping score, he
Speaker 1: just he just doesn't hasn't done anything since the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And okay, now let's just put it
Speaker 1: out here. You're saying give him Sean Lee money, and yes,
Speaker 1: and look at okay, and Sean Lee this year as
Speaker 1: a linebacker is barely played. I'm sorry if I'm Alden Smith.
Speaker 1: I'll go to the market before I take four or five.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a pass running he should. And that's
Speaker 1: what I think he'll end up doing. I think he'll
Speaker 1: hit the market, and I think somebody will pay him
Speaker 1: probably up upwards of ten million to go out there
Speaker 1: and b a d N for them. I just don't
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit too expensive for a
Speaker 1: guy like that, who I feel is probably a rotational
Speaker 1: piece in a down cap. I mean, remember the CAP's
Speaker 1: going down. Do you think he's gonna get ten millions
Speaker 1: cap goes down? It somebo guy who's who's had his
Speaker 1: past issues, who's had his past issue. Yea. I was
Speaker 1: going to say, both of y'all, both of y'all allow
Speaker 1: here acting like Randy Gregory and all the Smith have
Speaker 1: really proved to y'all that for the next few years
Speaker 1: they're going to be on a straight, narrow No, I'm
Speaker 1: not giving all the Smith no three year deal for
Speaker 1: the nine million dollars because he made it through one
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen season where we was on lockdown the entire time. No,
Speaker 1: you can't just push them something to the side. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a good thing that he hasn't
Speaker 1: that he hasn't gotten into any trouble this year, but
Speaker 1: that is still a big thing hanging over him and
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory's head. Are they able to be out there
Speaker 1: on the field? Can you depend on these guys to
Speaker 1: stay available? Same thing I said about Tyren Smith. It's
Speaker 1: nothing against how they play the game, but are they
Speaker 1: going to be available? Do you trust all the Smith
Speaker 1: enough to give him a three year deal and depend
Speaker 1: on him to be your right defensive endor? Danny? I
Speaker 1: can I give you a retort to that? Absolutely? Isn't
Speaker 1: this isn't this the organization that is out here giving
Speaker 1: out second, third, four chances. I mean, if you're talking
Speaker 1: about organ, who's gonna trust him? Jerry, Who's gonna roll
Speaker 1: the dome? On who that worked out for? I think
Speaker 1: the last the last guy we tried that went was
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory, and then before that it was Greg Hardy.
Speaker 1: I mean how many times we're gonna try to say
Speaker 1: and it's the same position, like this is last chance you? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying this last chance you man? Lando McClain, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you mean Alonzo Spellman, I mean, I go,
Speaker 1: I go down the list. But I'm just saying this
Speaker 1: is chance. So when you say who's gonna do it,
Speaker 1: the cowboys are gonna know. I'm just saying you, you
Speaker 1: as a GM, is that something that you are doing.
Speaker 1: You trust what you've seen from Altar Smith so much
Speaker 1: on the field that sure that you're able to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, he played well enough for me to say,
Speaker 1: even if he does fall off just a little bit
Speaker 1: or get into some trouble, it's worth the risk, and
Speaker 1: I'll give him three years, not with nine million dollars
Speaker 1: year twenty seven million dollars. Now, now, can I let
Speaker 1: me Now, let me just throw this out here with
Speaker 1: the caveat of what I suggested. Your contract is going
Speaker 1: to be set up in a way almost just like
Speaker 1: Greg's Erlin's contract. Okay, I'm gonna set it up in
Speaker 1: this way in which I can get out of it.
Speaker 1: And that's something that I believe is more than fair
Speaker 1: for the team and the player is, hey, look we'll
Speaker 1: pay you, but because of what's happened in the past,
Speaker 1: we have to have some insurance and protection for ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the general mccoi contract. Now they put
Speaker 1: some things in because he had that knee issue or
Speaker 1: whatever the leg issue he had. They put some insurance
Speaker 1: in me. Hey, if you heard it, then did we
Speaker 1: get out of it? And they were able to get
Speaker 1: out of the contract. So Danny, you're right. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here saying, hey, it's a guaranteed contract.
Speaker 1: But but what I am going to do is pay you.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm going to pay you
Speaker 1: with protect actions um for myself because of the past. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm looking. I'm looking at the defensive end, the edge
Speaker 1: rusher list here for upcoming free agents, and I'm seeing
Speaker 1: names like Olivier Vernon. I'm seeing Trent Murphy, I'm seeing
Speaker 1: Pronell McPhee, I'm seeing Matthew june On. I'm seeing all
Speaker 1: these names, and I'm going to make a run at
Speaker 1: some of these guys before before I think about picking
Speaker 1: up all the smith Somebody on that list is looking
Speaker 1: for a one year, team friendly deal so they can
Speaker 1: play it out. Somebody on that list is looking for
Speaker 1: one of those, and I think we can get one. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: let me let me ask this. Okay, we just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna push you a little bit more than if you
Speaker 1: are trying to sign Dak Prescott, can you afford to
Speaker 1: pay the price tag it may cost you to get
Speaker 1: one of these free agent defensive ends because they're not
Speaker 1: going to be cheap. I'm we need to go with
Speaker 1: my approach. That's why we need to go with my
Speaker 1: when it comes to that. I've been trying to tell y'all, man,
Speaker 1: this this is listen. This is the same thing, all right.
Speaker 1: It's somebody like like Jadavian Clowney set out there and
Speaker 1: he ended up getting lucky. It's one of these guys
Speaker 1: on this list. It's going to be sitting out there
Speaker 1: because teams aren't going to be willing to pay whatever
Speaker 1: price tag. They think they're all work and you can
Speaker 1: scoop in and pay them a team friendly deal. The
Speaker 1: list is long. It's I see about thirty forty dudes
Speaker 1: on this list. All right, somebody is going to be
Speaker 1: available for you to go bring in, have a conversation
Speaker 1: with and see if it really fits. Not like you
Speaker 1: did every since Griffin, have a real conversation with the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinated and see if this really fits with something
Speaker 1: that you want to do. I would take that look
Speaker 1: first before I thought about giving an Order Smith a
Speaker 1: three year deal. Nothing against him, but I just haven't
Speaker 1: forgotten about the pass the same way I haven't forgot
Speaker 1: about the pass with Randy Gregor. Okay, so Danny, who
Speaker 1: would you have? So who would you pick? Who would
Speaker 1: you pick? D Mac not bad? Now he might bad?
Speaker 1: I need to cut you off my back. No, no, no, man,
Speaker 1: that you know what. It's really tough. I would really
Speaker 1: have to go watch some film monic because I don't
Speaker 1: want to pick them just off the name. But I
Speaker 1: know that these guys have been able to make some
Speaker 1: serious plays and they're proven players and they haven't been
Speaker 1: they haven't had any off the field issues. They are
Speaker 1: available for you for sixteen games throughout the season. Well,
Speaker 1: then the issue is with these guys, and if their
Speaker 1: agents are smart, they're gonna be pushing to get these
Speaker 1: guys signed in March. With a guy like Everson Griffin,
Speaker 1: Look how long you waited. So if you want to
Speaker 1: play that waiting game, sit out free agency, you know,
Speaker 1: go through the draft and then hope, you know, come
Speaker 1: training cantime that you can get a deal on some guys.
Speaker 1: Then they could do that. That's something they could do.
Speaker 1: It'll be very interesting to see how the Cowboys approaching
Speaker 1: because they want to rebuild this defense. Are they willing
Speaker 1: to wait to try and get that part? Hey, let's
Speaker 1: take a break here. We've got a whole list of
Speaker 1: topics we still need to get to. Back to back
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys safeties. Cowboys getting ready to face San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty nine ers this week. The Cowboys have not had
Speaker 1: back to back wins this season at all. I did
Speaker 1: a little digging and I sent you guys this note.
Speaker 1: I wanted to look at Mike McCarthy since he's a
Speaker 1: head coach right here, no back to back wins? I said,
Speaker 1: when's the last time McCarthy had back to back wins
Speaker 1: as a head coach? Remember he sat out all of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. In twenty eighteen, he did not have a
Speaker 1: back to back win, and he was fired after going
Speaker 1: four set having in one, so twelve games gone. So
Speaker 1: then I went back to twenty seventeen, and he did
Speaker 1: have back to back wins. He had two of them.
Speaker 1: It was December tenth, a win over Cleveland, and December third,
Speaker 1: a win over Tampa Bay. Both of those wins were
Speaker 1: in overtime. That Cleveland team with oh and sixteen. That
Speaker 1: Bucks team went five and eleven. Gentlemen, let me who
Speaker 1: was his quarterback? Who's this quarterback during that time? It's
Speaker 1: a good question, hunt I don't Huntley was that the guy?
Speaker 1: So wait, wait, wait for that whole time, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: was not his quarterback. Oh no, he was in there.
Speaker 1: He slid in there. Okay, Okay, I'm just so yeah,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers get back. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: yah and so and so the question I would I
Speaker 1: would ask you, guys, is consistently people will say, hey,
Speaker 1: a player has lost a step or a player doesn't
Speaker 1: have what they used to. Could we say the same
Speaker 1: thing about coaches, that coaches can cannot be as good
Speaker 1: as you? Because I remember, and you guys are too
Speaker 1: young for this. I remember in nineteen eighty eight when
Speaker 1: Tom Landry with three thirteen people said game passed to
Speaker 1: buy Remember what Chuck nod? Towards the end, people say,
Speaker 1: you know what, Chuck No, can't do it anymore. They
Speaker 1: said things about Don Shula. We're looking at Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: here at his last three games. Man, here, it's a
Speaker 1: losing record. Can this guy be losing it a little bit?
Speaker 1: And that's despite the fact Jerry said he's coming back.
Speaker 1: That's fun. But I'm just wondering. I'm just asking the question.
Speaker 1: Because we say it about players all the time, can
Speaker 1: we say the same thing about coaches? Church? Church Listen,
Speaker 1: you gonna understand this. While I'm laughing so hard when
Speaker 1: knew he brought this question up, I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: this name, and I'm gonna see if y'all get a
Speaker 1: little chuckle out of you. Monty Kiffin does do your
Speaker 1: loser stuff? Do you loser stuff? Can the game pass
Speaker 1: you by? Absolutely? You write about that, bro? Yes, man,
Speaker 1: that the game evolved, It continues to evolve. Man. We
Speaker 1: got we got different type of quarterbacks playing, We got
Speaker 1: a different type of defense needs to be run. We
Speaker 1: got different type of special teams stuffing going on. Yes,
Speaker 1: the game eVols. You can lose a step, but if
Speaker 1: you go sitting in the bar and you and you
Speaker 1: do analytics, then then you shouldn't lose a step. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know at this point is what it is.
Speaker 1: We'll just see. Hey, man, I ain't gonna let y'all
Speaker 1: sit here and pile up on my boy Big Mike
Speaker 1: like that. Man. Look, he had an off year. Man,
Speaker 1: he lost his QB one, he lost all his offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: and his boy, his best friend, one of one of
Speaker 1: his boys, Mike Nolan, who he thought was gonna come
Speaker 1: in here and improve the defense, ended up not doing
Speaker 1: anything as far as being a part of this defense.
Speaker 1: So look, I gotta give him a pass for this
Speaker 1: one year. Is it possible that the game can pass
Speaker 1: you back? One course it is. We saw we saw it.
Speaker 1: We saw it with Kiffin, We saw with if even
Speaker 1: the coaches in the same room with kiffing her like, man,
Speaker 1: this dude doesn't know what he's talking about. So the
Speaker 1: game can pass you by. But I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: say that yet about Mike. Man. I can't do Big
Speaker 1: Mike like that, know it? No? It did you just
Speaker 1: read off something all the way goes all the way
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen, Church and talked about one off
Speaker 1: here yea twenty what was his record? But what was
Speaker 1: his record that that year? Though I understand he's four
Speaker 1: seven one, four seventy one. They got the bhurt he
Speaker 1: was in twenty eighteen, he was four seventy one. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking here at that last season okay, by
Speaker 1: the way for four seventy one, and they fired him
Speaker 1: after they got beat at home by the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen, who was quarterbacked by Josh Rosen that day.
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen was eleven to twenty six for one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine yards. David Johnson was a leading rusher
Speaker 1: for twenty carries in sixty nine yards. So listen, let
Speaker 1: me let me break this down for Church, right, let
Speaker 1: me break this down for Church, because I don't want
Speaker 1: Church to feel like I don't want to feel like that.
Speaker 1: For me. It's like me going in on Big Mike.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to you like this, Church, So
Speaker 1: what do you think, you know, how you watch Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks and all those TV shows to where they go,
Speaker 1: you know, back into the to the meeting rooms and
Speaker 1: you listen to the coaches talk about the players, and
Speaker 1: you had always been one of those guys who say, man,
Speaker 1: I wonder what they'd be saying about us. And in
Speaker 1: the back of that room back there, right when guys
Speaker 1: were starting to get cut, guys are starting to get released.
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you these conversations that we are having
Speaker 1: right now, they are being had about players in the
Speaker 1: locker room around every around every team in the league.
Speaker 1: So the coaches can get the same stuff too. It
Speaker 1: ain't nothing against Mike. We're just going we just went
Speaker 1: back against his record saying he ain't want to back
Speaker 1: to back games this twenty seventeen he got to the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and we do have all these issues. But right now
Speaker 1: we're sitting there four wins, and even when Dak was playing,
Speaker 1: we was sitting that to it three. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, something's got to give. He is having a
Speaker 1: rough year. He's going to give another shot at it,
Speaker 1: but for this year. I'm just talking about this year.
Speaker 1: This is this is what I see from him and
Speaker 1: when he got to the Cowboys. But we go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and they go ahead. When we talk about analytics,
Speaker 1: they start to take together, Hey what have you done here?
Speaker 1: Here here? And they started putting it together to spit
Speaker 1: out a number and and that, and I first Babe Laufenberg,
Speaker 1: who's the analyst for Cowboys Radio Dallas Cowboys Radio. He's
Speaker 1: the first person that brought together like, hey, this is
Speaker 1: what Mike. Mike's record is, you know, over the past
Speaker 1: two or three years, and and every you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's tough. And you start going back and you look,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just tough. So when we go back
Speaker 1: to back to back, wins Bury, we got to go
Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen and it was against a team they
Speaker 1: went oh and sixteen, coached by Hugh Jackson got fired.
Speaker 1: And then it was against a five and eleven Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay team coached by Dirt Cotter, who's since been fired.
Speaker 1: Just saying I mean, I understand it. But but if
Speaker 1: we look at all the other first year coaches with
Speaker 1: their new team this year, I mean, he he hasn't
Speaker 1: done that bad. I mean, yeah, it's not where the
Speaker 1: expectations were where we thought coming into the year. We
Speaker 1: thought this was a playoff caliber team, could be a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl caliboy team. It just hasn't panned out that way.
Speaker 1: But when you put him against all the other teams
Speaker 1: that have, you know, new coaches for their first year,
Speaker 1: he hasn't done that bad. I think he deserves another
Speaker 1: year ago at least another goal. Oh, let's go all right,
Speaker 1: he hasn't done that bad. His record is not that bad.
Speaker 1: Cleveland's first year head coach Kevin Stefanski is nine and four.
Speaker 1: He came into AT and T Stadium and beat the
Speaker 1: breaks off the Cowboys and rushed for three hundred and
Speaker 1: seven yards with a second and third string running back. Okay,
Speaker 1: uh you first year The other first year head coach,
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera, he's got cancer. His team is six and
Speaker 1: seven and they beat the Cowboys twice. Other first year
Speaker 1: head coach Joe jug five and eight. Mike McCarthy did
Speaker 1: beat him. But the Giants right now have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win the division and they yeah for first year
Speaker 1: head coach and he fired. He fired Mark Colombo during
Speaker 1: the year and they got better. Mark Colombo making a difference.
Speaker 1: Listen here, listen, knew it, knew it. Listen, don't let
Speaker 1: Church fool you. It ain't about the records, bro, It's
Speaker 1: about what you watch when no, listen, it's about what
Speaker 1: you head coach. There we go, there you go, they
Speaker 1: go to me. It's about what you see when you
Speaker 1: when you watch the team, what's around the team. You
Speaker 1: think about the issues that we've talked about around this
Speaker 1: team since Mike McCarthy has got here. Outside of the record,
Speaker 1: the fact that we are last in the division, all right,
Speaker 1: outside of that, we are last Indie, worst division in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, we last, all right. Outside of that,
Speaker 1: we sit on this show and talked about anonymous were
Speaker 1: sitting on this show and talked about players coming out here,
Speaker 1: talking about you don't got to hostle the whole game.
Speaker 1: They are here smashing watermellons from mo Eva. They out here,
Speaker 1: like we talked about the were talked about it, and
Speaker 1: that game won that game. Listen, we talked about we listen.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just listening. We've talked about a special
Speaker 1: team's coach possibly calling his own players and not letting
Speaker 1: the head coach. No. We talked about We've talked about
Speaker 1: a head coach who brought in a defensive coordinator who
Speaker 1: hasn't produced at all, and and and possibly continuing to
Speaker 1: have this guy as his defensive coordinator moving forward, and
Speaker 1: when you look at the decisions that are being made
Speaker 1: from the top coming down, that that is what plays
Speaker 1: the bigger part in it for me. All Right, everything
Speaker 1: else happened. We lasted the division, but how did we
Speaker 1: look going into last place? It has been so many
Speaker 1: issues from from day one. I mean there's a lot
Speaker 1: of issues. You guys are there's a lot of issues.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this whole thing is it's strawberries
Speaker 1: and cherries and everything's going great. It's not. But I
Speaker 1: think this guy deserves one more goal around mentioning it
Speaker 1: and overall us and overreacha if if if you're looking
Speaker 1: at records right now, first year head coaches overall, I
Speaker 1: mean he's only two games back. It's two games back there,
Speaker 1: that's it, only two six and seven besides the Browns,
Speaker 1: because I mean it looks the Fancy's got an amazing
Speaker 1: job over there and they're balling right now. So besides
Speaker 1: the Browns, I mean, he's right there with all the
Speaker 1: first head year head coaches. He's right there. Eight four
Speaker 1: and nine, four and nine. Don't let don't don't don't
Speaker 1: let Church out of Twitter. People trying to get on
Speaker 1: us talking about what we said Mike McCarthy shouldn't come
Speaker 1: back next year. That ain't what we said. Year record
Speaker 1: trying as bad as everyone else's. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Those other those other three head coaches, two of the
Speaker 1: three go be in the playoffs, Okay, two or three
Speaker 1: go being the playoffs, and the other one will just
Speaker 1: four forgot my rule because Matt rules for my bat
Speaker 1: Matt Rule, Oh, Matt Rule. Okay, and you know what
Speaker 1: that rules team, Matt Rules team has performed a lot better.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I tell you what give me
Speaker 1: Matt Rule. Matt Rule has done a better head coaching
Speaker 1: job than Mike McCarthy has. Okay, the same record. That
Speaker 1: ain't all about the record. Say it ain't about the record.
Speaker 1: That's all You've been suspected to be one of the
Speaker 1: worst teams in league. Carolina supeosed to be one of
Speaker 1: the worst teams in the league. Okay, one of the worst.
Speaker 1: They beat Arizona. They beat the breaks off Arizona. Arizona came,
Speaker 1: beat the breaks off the stop stop it, we gotta
Speaker 1: take a break here. So they beat Arizona. So that
Speaker 1: means he's doing a better job than McCarthy. He is
Speaker 1: got the same record. They got the same church. Church, Church,
Speaker 1: you take Church. They had their quarterback whin, they got
Speaker 1: their offensive line. What whatever, you're taking this break, Church,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take your break, so you have to stop
Speaker 1: taking these als. Okay, I'm gonna take this breaks. I
Speaker 1: just don't believe y'all. Matt rules McCarthy. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: saying it. That's blasphem, that ain't it. Let's just talking crazy.
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Speaker 1: it's a rough season for the Dallas Cowboys. It's been
Speaker 1: a rough year for Barry Church, who made a bet
Speaker 1: with Danny McCray about the Cowboys if you went in
Speaker 1: the NFCC now owes hidding Nick and Sam's because the
Speaker 1: slim chance of that happening. Darren Woodson, who won three
Speaker 1: Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, recently said this about
Speaker 1: the team, and I want to get your take on this.
Speaker 1: I'll start with you, mccraig. Here's what Darren had to say.
Speaker 1: The way they play it makes the competitor in you cringe.
Speaker 1: It was my job to hit people, to punish quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: to have my teammates back. But these guys, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They're helping up runners, giving love taps on helmets after
Speaker 1: the game. Sure, it's a brotherhood, but between the lines,
Speaker 1: where's the animosity. We just don't see anger in this
Speaker 1: defense is veins. We see tackling like they're playing flag football.
Speaker 1: That's why all season they have been gashed. He goes
Speaker 1: on to say, our old special teams coach Joe Avazano
Speaker 1: ud say, sometimes you eat the bears. Sometimes the Bear
Speaker 1: eats you at safety. You might not always win the
Speaker 1: physical battle, but make no mistake, isn't a physical football.
Speaker 1: This isn't the football physical football team. If you're out man,
Speaker 1: you have to win the mental battles. You don't do
Speaker 1: either of those. You get run over on one play,
Speaker 1: that blowing a signent the next. That's where the bear
Speaker 1: gets you. With this team, there's just too many mental errors,
Speaker 1: just too much hero ball. Mccraig your thoughts. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep this on short. I talked about this earlier when
Speaker 1: I told you about how they looked against the Rams
Speaker 1: when they were trying to defend the run they were
Speaker 1: taking on all the blocks five yards deep. You've seen
Speaker 1: them taking the run of the blow and that continue
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. And I have I
Speaker 1: have my guests for the two guys to hear talking.
Speaker 1: He's talking about it in those first two statements of
Speaker 1: playing flag football and helping guys up and pattering him
Speaker 1: on the helmet. I'm going with number twenty five and
Speaker 1: I'm going with Jayles Smith. I gotta I have to
Speaker 1: have it in my mind that he watched those games
Speaker 1: and he's seen that stuff happen and he's really talking
Speaker 1: to them, but he just didn't want to say their
Speaker 1: names because he's still going be around him. But those
Speaker 1: are the two guys I think that he's talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to agree one hundred percent with my
Speaker 1: boy Woody out here. I mean, when it comes to
Speaker 1: this defense, he hit the head. He hit the nail
Speaker 1: right on the head with this one. I mean, I
Speaker 1: agree with him when he says they're playing too much
Speaker 1: hero ball. And we saw that the instant, specially as
Speaker 1: I can't even speak right now, but we saw that
Speaker 1: when they played Cincinnati, when Jalen hopped out of that
Speaker 1: hole to try to go fill some other hole in
Speaker 1: the running back ran right through where he was supposed
Speaker 1: to be. That's called hero ball. That's not taking your
Speaker 1: responsibility serious. And you're over there trying to do someone
Speaker 1: else's job, trying to make every play, and you can't
Speaker 1: do that. You gotta hold everyone accountable and you gotta
Speaker 1: trust that your other team out out there is going
Speaker 1: to do his job. When you spin out of holes
Speaker 1: and you hop out of holes trying to make other
Speaker 1: plays and trying to be instinctful like that, you're just
Speaker 1: creating more problems for your defense, and we've seen too
Speaker 1: many instances of that so far this season. So I
Speaker 1: gotta agree with Woody on this one when he says
Speaker 1: they're they're just playing hero ball and they're playing flag
Speaker 1: football out there, and that's just not a winning formula
Speaker 1: when you want this where you want this defense to be.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that spin move. I forgot about to spend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do, but I remember the hero ball that got
Speaker 1: us in trouble against Baltimore where l V going the
Speaker 1: wrong way as well. He knew his assignment and he
Speaker 1: still try to go track down something that wasn't his job.
Speaker 1: So I mean, like I said, Darren Wilson was watching
Speaker 1: the same game we're watching, and he's been critical of
Speaker 1: these guys. And you know, if anybody deserves to be
Speaker 1: critical of the Cowboys defense is him because he's he
Speaker 1: stood out there, He's earned it. He's a three times
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion, So if it's coming from him, it's
Speaker 1: something to it, all right. Church raised another question here
Speaker 1: that that we need to get into here on the
Speaker 1: players line, and that is should the Cowboys bring Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton back next year as a quarterback with this team.
Speaker 1: I'll let you go ahead into that church. Since you raised,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let y'all already know where I stand on this.
Speaker 1: Exactly where I stand on this, So go ahead, ba y'all, y'all,
Speaker 1: that's exactly where I stand on this. I know you you.
Speaker 1: They should let him go, and then they should have
Speaker 1: double G come back in here and be the second quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then the Ducie should still be third. All right,
Speaker 1: So if you're talking, I should be the third three quarterback.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna bring in Justin Fields? You? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Justin Justin Fields will be a thirteen quarterback. No all seriousness,
Speaker 1: and in all seriousness, I think they should bring Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton back next year so they can have a serviceable
Speaker 1: guy one because as we sit here and as we
Speaker 1: talk about each week, we have no idea what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen with Dak Prescott. So you are going to need
Speaker 1: a veteran guy out there. You do not want to
Speaker 1: go into the off season with just Gilbert being your
Speaker 1: quarter of Gilbert and the duty being the quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: your roster. So bring Andy Dalton back. Make sure you
Speaker 1: have a guy that's serviceable because you'll be fixing your
Speaker 1: offensive line and hopefully next year they'll be able to
Speaker 1: do something more. But yes, Andy Dalton should be back
Speaker 1: next year. Well one, go ahead, go ahead and do
Speaker 1: go ahead, I'll finish it up. I don't personally, I
Speaker 1: don't see Andy Dalton back here because I think there
Speaker 1: will be jobs starting jobs that Andy Dalton can possibly
Speaker 1: compete with four across this league. Just looking at teams
Speaker 1: that could be in need of a quarterback or have
Speaker 1: some quarterback job competitions next year in New England, San Francisco, Jacksonville, Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Sampa Bay. Just a few teams that could
Speaker 1: and if i'm Andy Dalton that come back here. They
Speaker 1: signed Dak Prescott to a long term deal. I know
Speaker 1: what I'm at. I'm sitting here as a guy who's
Speaker 1: just holding a clipboard. Also, it costs you three million
Speaker 1: dollars this year to sign Andy Dalton. He's about to
Speaker 1: hit some incentives that could take him up to four
Speaker 1: to five million dollars. If you signed Dak Prescott to
Speaker 1: this deal. If the Cowboys go out and make the
Speaker 1: kind of changes that we believe they will to fix
Speaker 1: their defense, I don't know if you can invest three
Speaker 1: million dollars and a guy who may not play in
Speaker 1: terms of your backup. That's where I think that Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert and Ben de Nucci are going to come and
Speaker 1: to play here. Dak Prescott's deal here because Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: got forty million, I'm asking for forty million minimum. If
Speaker 1: I'm Dak Prescott's agent, Todd France. It's just not gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of money left around. So I just
Speaker 1: don't think they gonna have the luxury to pay the
Speaker 1: quarterback the way they have it passed. Go ahead, Church, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're completely right about that. That's why I
Speaker 1: think Andy Dalton won't be back next year is because
Speaker 1: you know, I think he'll be looking to have a
Speaker 1: job to start somewhere. I think his initial thing coming
Speaker 1: down here was, you know, I'm gonna take a year off,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get my body right, and I'll just be
Speaker 1: this backup quarterback. And it didn't happen that way. He
Speaker 1: ended up getting thrust into the fire and he's played
Speaker 1: okay throughout this season. But I think he's gonna look
Speaker 1: for an opportunity to either get a starting job or
Speaker 1: at least compete for a starting job. And another reason
Speaker 1: you said is because you know the pay to pay.
Speaker 1: It will be just a little bit too much to
Speaker 1: pay a backup quarterback the money that I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna want this off season. But I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and let d mac disrespect DOUBLEG like that. All right, serviceable?
Speaker 1: We saw what happened when DOUBLEG was able to come
Speaker 1: in here against Pittsburgh, one of the best defenses in
Speaker 1: the National Football LAG. He was more than serviceable. He
Speaker 1: took them all the way down to the wire. And now, look,
Speaker 1: I think DOUBLEG will be a lot cheaper, and I
Speaker 1: think he'd be the better. She has a backup going
Speaker 1: up next year, whether it be a backup to Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott or whether it be a backup to one of
Speaker 1: these young quarterbacks in the draft. Either way, I think
Speaker 1: we should bring Double G back as a backup. Let
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton go ahead and do what he does. Hello,
Speaker 1: So so you based us off Pittsburgh. Now have you
Speaker 1: watched Pittsburgh the last few weeks. That's the only opted game,
Speaker 1: the only opportunity they gave him, the opportunity they gave say,
Speaker 1: I know, ys, the second you're talking before that Dallas game,
Speaker 1: That's all I heard was Pittsburgh defense been to do this,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is about to do that. Now we're talking about
Speaker 1: all did you see? Now? Listen, listen, we thought Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: was something that they're not and they've been short for
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. And like I'm I'm not saying
Speaker 1: two weeks don't take away the whole season. No, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not listening. I'm not saying that double double G
Speaker 1: is bad. I think he went out there and he
Speaker 1: did a good job in one game. And I say
Speaker 1: this about Andy Dalton, Andy dont they started for nobody
Speaker 1: next year? Y'all can say what y'all want to, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't listen. If you are a GM and you're
Speaker 1: looking for a starting quarterback and you end up with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, you have made a mistake. He should be
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback. That is what he should be, and
Speaker 1: he should be here and being a backup quarterback. How
Speaker 1: much you pay shop how much you play Sean leaders
Speaker 1: year to not play? All right, Well, you can pay
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton three You can find a way to pay
Speaker 1: Andy dump three million dollars to be the backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: And who knows? We thought Andy Daltons gonna get no
Speaker 1: pt this year. He's starting. Dak Prescott has been out
Speaker 1: since the beginning of the season, so you never know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. The game of football is one of
Speaker 1: those sports to where you have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 1: And they are lucky to have Andy Dalton as a
Speaker 1: back of quarterback this year, even though Church thinks double
Speaker 1: G would be better. Lucky Jackson Jacksonville tried to get
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in this past offseason with COVID. Andy said
Speaker 1: he didn't want to make the move with his family.
Speaker 1: Jay Gruten's just former coordinator Cincinnati. They had Mike Glennon
Speaker 1: out there starting Gardner Gardner Mint you bench, and I
Speaker 1: believe they're gonna go for a quarterback as well. So this,
Speaker 1: you know, does Jacksonville want to invest in Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: pay him? You know, let's say they want to pay
Speaker 1: him starter money of you know, twelve fifteen million for
Speaker 1: one season and knowing that, you know they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: in someone else. If you're Andy Dalton, you've got an
Speaker 1: opportunity to make that kind of cash. And you got
Speaker 1: to coordinated whose offense. You know, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to think about it. You know, if Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, that was another team that was linked
Speaker 1: to him, if they come and offer this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: ten plus million dollars, and even if you don't guarantee
Speaker 1: the starting job, I think you got to think about that.
Speaker 1: If you're Andy Dalton versus sitting around here with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and't trying to take around here in three, four
Speaker 1: or five million bucks. I do believe in this quarterback
Speaker 1: star of league that this guy can get paid this
Speaker 1: kind of money. I mean, remember the Bears game. Mike
Speaker 1: Glennon eighteen million dollars wouldn't either. So it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be crazy to say Andy Dalton is not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to go get a job the GM. Still there
Speaker 1: is that GM still working for the Bears. Yes, he'll
Speaker 1: be fired right, still, right, let's ryan past got there
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty fifteen when I came back to the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you he's on his last strike, all right,
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see and listen. Another bet, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton will not be starting for nobody next year. He
Speaker 1: will not be starting for the Patriots. He would not
Speaker 1: be starting for the Jacksonville Jaguars and I'm willing to
Speaker 1: put something on it. You are you willing to go
Speaker 1: for another bet? Neuis are you talking about five rifle?
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