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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and new He scrugs,
Speaker 1: all right here we are Players Lounge here on a
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. Knew, he scrugs, longtime Cowboys? Would he joined
Speaker 1: by number forty two, buried Church, number forty Danny McCray
Speaker 1: with the with the day off here, So um, you
Speaker 1: would be fine if you still play for Jacksonville. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you rot in here, chrisp went Berry rolling here at
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. Yeah yeah, n yard dads. But you made it.
Speaker 1: I made it. You made it. Tom Cofflin got me
Speaker 1: for about twenty thousand, right there? Is that what he
Speaker 1: me it was about. I think if you're late to meetings,
Speaker 1: which is meetings started at nine, but you're not there
Speaker 1: by eight fifty five, it's gonna run you about five grand.
Speaker 1: And he's not gonna know if answer butts about it
Speaker 1: like you're coming out of that money. It's correct. And
Speaker 1: so so here's my question on explain to just our
Speaker 1: the folks who check our show out. How does that work?
Speaker 1: Do you have to write him a check? Do they
Speaker 1: deduct that from your check? I mean, how does that?
Speaker 1: But that's just coming straight about the check. Like when
Speaker 1: you get your your weekly you know, whatever team you're with.
Speaker 1: You know, some teams go every two weeks. Some teams
Speaker 1: go every week. The Jacksonville was every week. So if
Speaker 1: you're late for that meeting, however many times you gotta
Speaker 1: fine that week, that following Tuesday, you'll get that check
Speaker 1: and you'll just see deductions minus minus minus minus that
Speaker 1: you can go talk to him about it, like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up with this? But I promise you ten out
Speaker 1: of ten times Coughlin was gonna hit you with the
Speaker 1: hey man, it's just just how we do things here,
Speaker 1: go about your way. So then what did they do
Speaker 1: with that? And that was the messed up part. So
Speaker 1: all these fine accumulate over the over the season. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about at least a couple hundred thousand and fines
Speaker 1: accumulate over the and magically it all went to the
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin fund. Stop it. It went to his like
Speaker 1: charity charity. Yeah, he has it every year, and it
Speaker 1: would all just magically go towards that like, and people
Speaker 1: started to ask. That's why it came up because I
Speaker 1: was like, where's all this fine money going. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't know. You know, the next thing we know
Speaker 1: at the Players, at the Players Championship Golf loutle outing,
Speaker 1: they have all those funds. This hole brought to you
Speaker 1: by Barry Church. I'm telling that sponsored at least two
Speaker 1: or three of those holes. Sponsored at least two or
Speaker 1: three of them. Okay, so how do rookies figure it out?
Speaker 1: Because okay, you're fine, You're fine. Then you see it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a whole different thing when you see
Speaker 1: it minus from the check. Yeah, So how did rookies
Speaker 1: deal with it? When they the rookies, they were just
Speaker 1: I mean it would call off guard because you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, on the least, I make a little
Speaker 1: bit of money, and you know those deductions, you know
Speaker 1: they're big deductions. But you're like, man, all right, whatever
Speaker 1: you kind of ethos. But as a rookie, you're coming
Speaker 1: in that week, you might only make you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: grand and if he's taking five and this is before taxes,
Speaker 1: so it's like you ain't he's taking all that out
Speaker 1: of there, and as a rookie, You're like, man, what
Speaker 1: in the what am I supposed to do with this?
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to go about it? But they
Speaker 1: learned quick. They learned quick. They better be at fifty
Speaker 1: five fifty Okay, So here Tom Coughlin wasn't even the
Speaker 1: head coach. That was next thing I was about. That
Speaker 1: was the next thing. I was just as well have
Speaker 1: been the heck, this dude was done, he say. He
Speaker 1: was on the practice field literally with his notepad. He
Speaker 1: ain't doing too good. He would tap Dug go do that,
Speaker 1: Go do that. This guy was basically the head coach.
Speaker 1: I mean he ran pretty much everything practice wise. He
Speaker 1: would come in. You know how we do morning meetings
Speaker 1: and the coach is supposed to address the team and
Speaker 1: all that. He would come in and address the team,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where's dug Ron at this? I signed
Speaker 1: here to play man, but I don't, you know, It's
Speaker 1: like I guess confidence I head coaches. But that didn't
Speaker 1: last too long. As we saw. He was gone, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't operate like you can't. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: operate that. He lost the locker room. I mean from
Speaker 1: the from the jump he lost the locker room. If
Speaker 1: we weren't if we weren't good that first year, I mean,
Speaker 1: there would have been a mutinity right there. But we
Speaker 1: were winning games, so winning pretty much resolves everything. But
Speaker 1: when we started losing, you saw all types of reports
Speaker 1: coming out of me. Ramsey ain't happy, this guy wants
Speaker 1: to leave. It was crazy. It was crazy. So let's
Speaker 1: let's dive into the Cowboys. And last night you and
Speaker 1: I were both here at the four Centers. They held
Speaker 1: an open practice for the fans. Fans with their opportunity
Speaker 1: to come in and check out the Cowboys because last
Speaker 1: year couldn't do that because because of the pandemic. Show
Speaker 1: fans are out there this year. Uh. These two little
Speaker 1: girls were were sitting next to me. I gave them
Speaker 1: my seats as I left after doing my six PMTV show,
Speaker 1: and they wanted to see Dak Prescott. So we kind
Speaker 1: of broke it down to him. He'll be out here,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to practice fully, but you'll see
Speaker 1: him make some throws, yea. And before the practice started,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy comes out and says, all right, look, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be cautious with Dak Prescott. He will not play
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville in the final preseason game, because Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: feels that that's that's basically the scouts game, the kids game.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy's trying to make the team, young
Speaker 1: guys game. So no significant starter is gonna play in
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville game. And he said, yeah, I won't be
Speaker 1: bothered if he doesn't play against Houston. That to me
Speaker 1: sounds the the hey, he's not playing. Yeah, but you've
Speaker 1: been in the locker rooms before, you understand the coach
Speaker 1: speak exactly. Is that what he's saying, he's playing? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, I'm with you one out a hunter,
Speaker 1: but I'll be shocked if he trots out there for
Speaker 1: that Houston game. What I would love to see him
Speaker 1: get maybe a series or two, Yes, but I think
Speaker 1: that shoulder injury maybe a little bit, a little bit
Speaker 1: uh worse than than than than they're putting on. But
Speaker 1: I want to see him because you want you want
Speaker 1: to see this guy go out there and his first
Speaker 1: significant reps after eight months off or whatever, how lover
Speaker 1: how long it was with that ankle injury. Do you
Speaker 1: want to see him go out there against Shaq Barrett
Speaker 1: JPP the Dominican sue. That defense that basically haunted Drew
Speaker 1: Brees Mahomes. That defense can fly around and they can
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback. Do we want to see his
Speaker 1: first meaningful reps against that Tampa Bay defense? To me,
Speaker 1: I don't but that injury, it's just not worth risking
Speaker 1: it in the preseason. So I understand what they coming
Speaker 1: from where I'm not playing them at all, but I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure I want him being that rusty going
Speaker 1: out there against that type of defense. All right, Barry
Speaker 1: Church right here on the Players Last brought to you
Speaker 1: by Hotels dot Com, I will play Devil's advocate. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see what you got. You're Mike McCarthy, You roll
Speaker 1: out DAC for a series and somehow this guy gets hurt.
Speaker 1: How do you go explain this to Jerry Jones? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's over there. Yeah, he takes a sack, something happen,
Speaker 1: mean whatever, anything, Yeah, he comes up with a third like, oh, mcgrowing,
Speaker 1: I mean so, so I look at it from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of just self preservation. If you're Mike McCarthy, you
Speaker 1: tried out for in a game that means nothing against
Speaker 1: the Houston team and you don't know. You can't control
Speaker 1: how they come after him. That's true. That's true. Um,
Speaker 1: there you go. Tony Romo Seattle, how dad got hit?
Speaker 1: Did to play? This is true? This is didn't really
Speaker 1: seem like much. And he said, I'm a good I
Speaker 1: was there asking Tony the questions with the other men.
Speaker 1: I'm fine, don't worry about it. That was determined to
Speaker 1: be a lie. So what what happened for Jason Garrett?
Speaker 1: There were people questioning him. I didn't question Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: about that because you know what, Tony needed to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he played. This is what happened. So when I look
Speaker 1: at Mike McCarthy's in he's not gonna play, you know
Speaker 1: that he most likely won't play against Houston. And Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones bakes like, hey, I won't have any issues if
Speaker 1: he doesn't play against Houston. Your boss is saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we're cool. Then yeah. The first snaps will be on
Speaker 1: Thursday night football against the world champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: which comes back into something that you and I spoke
Speaker 1: about along with our other colleague Danny mccraige. There needs
Speaker 1: to be a whole lot of twenty one oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about down the throats. He's looked great in him.
Speaker 1: I will say this, he's looked great, he's slimmed down.
Speaker 1: I can no longer say he's a fool back. I
Speaker 1: could just go by the old twenty ones that he
Speaker 1: looks good, he looks explosive and past this first game,
Speaker 1: I think we need to feed this man the rock.
Speaker 1: I think we need to just pile it up. I
Speaker 1: mean when he gets tired, but toy pilot in there
Speaker 1: for a little bit. But we need to feed this
Speaker 1: man the rock. If we go back in time twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: when he had arguably one of his best seasons, and
Speaker 1: as a whole, we had one of our best season,
Speaker 1: that was the formula we were running the rock, preserving
Speaker 1: our defense. Throw that out. You got to throw it out.
Speaker 1: Here's why you throw it out because it's a different
Speaker 1: coaching staff. That's true. So you're asking, you're asking a
Speaker 1: guy whose track record has been to throw, throw, throw,
Speaker 1: to adopt what Jason Garrett was doing here. I don't
Speaker 1: see that happening. Kellen wore as well. I don't see
Speaker 1: them doing that necessarily to say, hey, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: back to the twenty sixteen blueprint. But I do feel
Speaker 1: that whether he's catching it on those screen passes if
Speaker 1: we've seen them really put together some nice screen passes
Speaker 1: here at these training camp practices, But figure out a
Speaker 1: way to get him touches, you know, more so than carries.
Speaker 1: My word I'm gonna use with Zeke Ellis touches. How
Speaker 1: many touches can you get this guy? I don't care
Speaker 1: if you just throw them a pass, swing pass right
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, or you do it screens. What
Speaker 1: just get this man touches? And add Tony Pollard in
Speaker 1: there as well. So if you're not gonna play that Prescott,
Speaker 1: my immediate thought process is you got to figure out
Speaker 1: how to win the line of scrimmage with your offensive
Speaker 1: line and run this football. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: keep Tom Brady and that offense off the field, because
Speaker 1: you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna have a long,
Speaker 1: sustained drive and they're gonna wear that defense out. So
Speaker 1: if we go back on that field as an offense
Speaker 1: and we go immediately three and out, let's just say
Speaker 1: we maybe run once we throw throw and we go
Speaker 1: out there and go three and out, They're going to
Speaker 1: wear our defense down and out, and this is not
Speaker 1: going to be a game in the second half. So
Speaker 1: I think, like you said, I like what we're get
Speaker 1: into touches with Zeke. I would just love for them
Speaker 1: to just go ahead and pound it. And I notice
Speaker 1: is not there. Their formulatus is not you know, the
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy treat This is not what he comes from.
Speaker 1: But we need something because if we go back to
Speaker 1: what we did last year, playing mad and throwing the
Speaker 1: ball all over the yard, you know, forty or fifty times,
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll be successful. Now, you know that's
Speaker 1: just me thinking that, but you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: we'll be successful going about that way, at least until
Speaker 1: Dak is fully acclimated back into the season. Then maybe
Speaker 1: we start throwing them a little bit more. But I
Speaker 1: just think we gotta get established on this run game. Zeke.
Speaker 1: I think Zeke he's prime, he's prime, and I think
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. Tyren Smith met with the media afterwards.
Speaker 1: It looks good, okay, Tyrn Smith looks good. So how
Speaker 1: you feeling health wise? Good to go? So he's because
Speaker 1: because yesterday they was kind of they was kind of
Speaker 1: getting after tiring a little bit, Dorn Armstrong and beat
Speaker 1: him a couple of times. One of them young cats
Speaker 1: I saw beat him off the edge a little bit.
Speaker 1: So do you think that's lack of reps during training
Speaker 1: camp or you just think that he you know, every
Speaker 1: now and then, you know, the greats have a bad day.
Speaker 1: Let's just be honest. Defense be beating the offense every
Speaker 1: day pretty much they have. You've seen it. They got
Speaker 1: more juice on that side for sure. Did you just
Speaker 1: pile up this whole training camp here, who's been better?
Speaker 1: It's defense and it it's not even a question and
Speaker 1: you can say, well, you know Dak's not there. Even
Speaker 1: when Dak was in through three picks the last time
Speaker 1: he practiced, they got after him. So the defenses look
Speaker 1: better as far as Tyre Smith goes. First off, let's
Speaker 1: let's give Doran's armstrongs credit. Here what we saw against
Speaker 1: Arizona coming into a contract. Here, he's got silent right now,
Speaker 1: He's like he's letting his work do the talking. You know,
Speaker 1: this is the kind of pressure that you wanted to see. Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, you know what seeing for yourself from my man,
Speaker 1: go out here and go get it. Done and he's
Speaker 1: been bawling. I mean you saw him two sacks, pass,
Speaker 1: break up the man silently doing his work out there.
Speaker 1: In a contract year, Randy Gregory has improved mastly. I
Speaker 1: mean not even on the even on the physical side,
Speaker 1: mental side. I mean he's putting it together. He's putting it.
Speaker 1: Then you match that with hopefully a healthy d Law
Speaker 1: coming back into the season. Sure, are you gonna double?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna let go? So I come back and
Speaker 1: ask it this way, Could they both be good in
Speaker 1: a semblance of what we saw from DeMarcus Ware and
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith when they would go at it? Can we
Speaker 1: have guys that are playing at a high level and
Speaker 1: getting the best out of each other, that are Dooran's
Speaker 1: Armstrong is sitting here at I'm going after seventy seven?
Speaker 1: Can we get it? After all decade here? Let me
Speaker 1: see what I can go get done here, and that
Speaker 1: he's playing at a high level. So, but I don't
Speaker 1: if Tyrn tells me he's healthy, I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: Tyranya until I have to, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: the track eventually, at some point, yeah, the track record
Speaker 1: shows you know, Okay, he's gonna miss some games, but
Speaker 1: right now, well, when he's playing and he's been healthy,
Speaker 1: ready to go, he's been cool. Yeah, he's good health.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best. So so I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: going to just take his word for it. He's not
Speaker 1: been a guy in the past who has told you
Speaker 1: something just to get you to go away. He's Joe.
Speaker 1: He's been very truthful of this is true. He also
Speaker 1: just said from a physical standpoint, he looks good. Had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk to also, a diggy woos him
Speaker 1: who is running with the ones and big man. That's
Speaker 1: a big man, not as big as Neville Galimar, not
Speaker 1: as big as Neville Galimar. And that when I saw
Speaker 1: that in the preseason game Friday against Arizona. And you
Speaker 1: you've played, so you know what it's like when guys
Speaker 1: are out there on the field. You've seen it just
Speaker 1: watching from a television standpoint, the way he was laying
Speaker 1: there and thriving and pain like, this is bad, I
Speaker 1: thought as soon as I saw it, and you could
Speaker 1: he could. He could see the screams he's holding on.
Speaker 1: He's ratling back and forth like, oh, this ain't good
Speaker 1: because usually you get hurt as a football player. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna just bite your live kind of just like
Speaker 1: kind of just give you one of those. But he
Speaker 1: was riding riding in pain over there, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this ain't good. This ain't good. So it's got the elbow,
Speaker 1: you know, you know he's gonna miss. He's gonna miss
Speaker 1: some time. Yeah, he's gonna miss at least what the
Speaker 1: first first three games maybe. And that's and that's tough
Speaker 1: because as our defense, if you look at our defense,
Speaker 1: the edges, they're coming alive. Randy Gregory tank, you got
Speaker 1: armstrong second level. We see what Parsons can do. We've
Speaker 1: seen Kean O'Neil lv's in there. And then in the
Speaker 1: back end, I think they're getting even better with this
Speaker 1: competition between Hooker, k Z, you got Wilson, you got Digs.
Speaker 1: Everything seems to be coming together. But what hurt us
Speaker 1: last year and what is gonna hurt us if we
Speaker 1: don't do something about it, is that interior part of
Speaker 1: the defense, back the heart of the defense. That's what
Speaker 1: the teams literally gutted us last year. Going straight. They
Speaker 1: didn't want to deal with the edges, they didn't want
Speaker 1: to deal with our speed on the edges. So they
Speaker 1: literally gutted us up the middle and right now without
Speaker 1: Nevil Gallimore being in there, who I thought was gonna
Speaker 1: take the leap, and he, I mean he was on
Speaker 1: his way. We need some of the cats to step up.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure what a Tristan Hill is
Speaker 1: gonna do. I'm not gonna sure what OCI's gonna do,
Speaker 1: but we need some guys to step up. Well, don't
Speaker 1: look for Tristan Hill a week one. Yeah, he don't
Speaker 1: wanna meet right so to him. Look for him against
Speaker 1: Tampa and probably won't look for him against the Charges
Speaker 1: the first two games. So we're away away from even
Speaker 1: trying to put him in a conversation because he had practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't pased the physical yet. So it's
Speaker 1: right now and you're looking at the rookie uh Oscia Digazoa, um,
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins. You need Bohan and your other rookie to
Speaker 1: step up. I mean you're needing guys here, which is
Speaker 1: and Brent Urban. So this is where I gotta give
Speaker 1: dan Quinnson read it. Throughout training camp, he kept rotating guys.
Speaker 1: You just saw a lot of different guys getting out
Speaker 1: there now, Gallimo was the dude running with the ones,
Speaker 1: but he was consistently putting different people out there. So uh,
Speaker 1: And then talking to a diggie, was he yesterday? He
Speaker 1: said there were some things he could have done better.
Speaker 1: He's his brother played in the NFL, so he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of real useful tips from from a guy
Speaker 1: who knows what it is like to go through the
Speaker 1: league and how to get yourself prepared and what you
Speaker 1: need to do to improve. So he's got his head
Speaker 1: on straight in terms of just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what he's got to do. And he's not getting too
Speaker 1: high too low. And I said, what did dan Quinn say?
Speaker 1: You know, how does he feel about how you're progressing?
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, kind of what we've talked about him before.
Speaker 1: So smart guy too, ucla cat, smart guy. He's just
Speaker 1: still a rookie man. Yeah, And they got and they
Speaker 1: got it. These interior guys being young. That's where I
Speaker 1: like to see a urban maybe getting more playing time
Speaker 1: is they got to realize that everything is let me
Speaker 1: go in here, getting my happen. You rushed the passer
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta hold up these offensive linemen. So they
Speaker 1: don't get to the second level. So you can let
Speaker 1: parsons Kean O'Neil lvi, Jalen Smith. Those guys do what
Speaker 1: they do, run side line of sideline, and those are
Speaker 1: the things you learn over experience and over time. And
Speaker 1: hopefully those tips from his older brother let them know that,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna need those linebackers flying. All right. Players
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Speaker 1: as the Cowboys came out here to practice and Jerry
Speaker 1: came out spoke to the fans. They enjoyed that. I
Speaker 1: saw you walking up to the broadcast booth, and I
Speaker 1: hadn't seen Isaiah Sandbacks's twenty nineteen. Yeah, yeah in person,
Speaker 1: in person, my boy looking like hercules out here, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately you were standing next to him. Yes, and I'm
Speaker 1: not a small dude, like I'm not, you know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say I'm a little guy by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. But that man made me look like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never like I was a hooper my whole life,
Speaker 1: like I just ran. I was, I was a marathon runner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, get out, get away from me, man,
Speaker 1: Like go stand over there somewhere. He made you look
Speaker 1: like a golfer. It's exactly like like like a black
Speaker 1: Brooks kept you know exactly, you know exactly. And the
Speaker 1: guy cut nice but his arm, Man, he's jacked. Isaiah's
Speaker 1: stand back. You played quarterback. Shout out to Steadfast Jim.
Speaker 1: If I've ever been go to Louisville. That's was gym.
Speaker 1: But that man is huge. Man. Do you can he
Speaker 1: can he still he can still play well. I asked him,
Speaker 1: he got some wraps when you you what you're going
Speaker 1: down there. I don't know how to speed looks. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to speed looks. But the physical looking Google, Look,
Speaker 1: Gang Google, look getting good gang Google. I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to see him in the alley. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Oh heck no, that's all I'm saying. Oh no, you
Speaker 1: want to make friends with Isaiah says my boy. He's cut,
Speaker 1: he's cut, he looks he's looking good. He's definitely looking good.
Speaker 1: And then did a good job during the broadcast. Believe
Speaker 1: yeah he did him and think it was him Babe
Speaker 1: and Bill. I believe that called the Arizona game. I
Speaker 1: think they did a great job. Um they fed off
Speaker 1: each other great And I think that's a I think
Speaker 1: he has a calling. He has a calling on his way.
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Speaker 1: Five five five sinkle uh, Brian and can go punter? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, and we got a nice one. I mean,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. So so I just think if
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Joe, I think what's the easiest place to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the punter, he's about it. Okay, so you know you
Speaker 1: can give you can give this wander these next two
Speaker 1: games and so get them warmed up ready, right, so
Speaker 1: you can go there. Number forty nine tight end Artavius Lynn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have to say he's on he could be.
Speaker 1: I would have to say he's on his way out.
Speaker 1: He could be, even though I believe his name is mckewen. Yes,
Speaker 1: mwan is dealing with with the high ankle sprain. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't Shoultz is in there. But you still got
Speaker 1: you Banks. Yeah, he still got you Banks in there.
Speaker 1: Who was the Michigan kids? So yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think he's on his way out. I could see Lynn
Speaker 1: being a guy that may not make it. Um this
Speaker 1: cut Brendan Eagles, the Rady three wide receiver, Brandon Smith
Speaker 1: number eighty wide receiver. That's a deep room, I mean
Speaker 1: right now, I mean we know the top somebody got
Speaker 1: top four. You're gonna pull somebody out there. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody somebody's gonna buy, has got to go
Speaker 1: which and I'll say this too it Barry, you can
Speaker 1: address this if you're in a room like this and
Speaker 1: you really see it, it's stacked against you. Basically, it
Speaker 1: looks like the last spot will be between Malik Turner
Speaker 1: and send me for wholek the draft pick. Wouldn't you
Speaker 1: want to be cut? Yeah, so you can move on
Speaker 1: if you're if you're Brendan Eagles, yeah, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I would you what you want to do right now?
Speaker 1: I mean you're just literally wasting your time right now.
Speaker 1: I mean I could see if they were giving you
Speaker 1: tons of opportunities as far as playing, then you're getting
Speaker 1: your resume out there for all these other thirty one teo.
Speaker 1: But if you're not really playing like that and you're
Speaker 1: just sunk that low on the depth chart, you would
Speaker 1: want to think to yourself, Hey, you know, let me
Speaker 1: go ahead and try myself somewhere else. But as an
Speaker 1: undrafted guy, you have that option after the draft, you
Speaker 1: get to pick where you want to go. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why a lot of these undrafted receivers, well
Speaker 1: maybe this was their only option, but well, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: come Dallas. I mean, you're stacked that RESI You're not
Speaker 1: You're not going to crack the lineup. But at the
Speaker 1: top three and I mean, you might, you know, you
Speaker 1: might get a little fourth wide receiver action. But to me,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have come to the Cowboys knowing that they're
Speaker 1: that stacked at wide receiver being undrafted. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was their only option is to come here,
Speaker 1: but to me, I don't think it was a good
Speaker 1: option to come here, especially at the wide receivers. It's
Speaker 1: a deep room. You're not gonna crack the lineup. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's an undrafted pree agent. Tell me what is
Speaker 1: the cell? Well, when they get you on the phone
Speaker 1: and they're trying to get tell me, what's the cell
Speaker 1: like to me, the cell was Joe dcmillis, who at
Speaker 1: the time was our special teams coach. Now I got
Speaker 1: calls from other teams. It was their dB coach talking about,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we need you here, we need you. And
Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm thinking you're lying to me because
Speaker 1: you I know who's on your roster. You don't need
Speaker 1: me there at that safety position. But the Cowboys at
Speaker 1: the time, Brett Maxie was a safety coach and he
Speaker 1: didn't even call me. It was Joe d. Camillis who
Speaker 1: called me. It was like, look, man, I loved your tape.
Speaker 1: I think because I played special teams at college. And
Speaker 1: he was like, I loved your tape. I think you
Speaker 1: can really contribute to us special teams wise. And then
Speaker 1: I talked to my age and he was like, look, man,
Speaker 1: that's how undrafted dudes make it. You gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: getta put your hard working on a teams. So I
Speaker 1: knew from the jump if this special team's co need
Speaker 1: to call me and was like, hey, I want you
Speaker 1: on my teams. I want I want to give you
Speaker 1: a shot. And I was like, hey, I gotta go
Speaker 1: here and do what I gotta do. And I was,
Speaker 1: you know dickon Milliss's me and me and McCrae, if
Speaker 1: he was here here to tell you we were his
Speaker 1: best friends. I mean we did anything with him. You know,
Speaker 1: you need punt return, kick return, whatever you need, we
Speaker 1: got you. And that's how I ended up making a team.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these undrafted guys need to realize that,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me let me take my When
Speaker 1: I said Artavius Helen, let me take him back. Because
Speaker 1: McEwen was on some special teams units, especially the you
Speaker 1: gotta be as a third tight end yeah. So, and
Speaker 1: that's something I'll admit I did not pay attention to
Speaker 1: um because I didn't go back to California. Yea for
Speaker 1: camp who's been filling in for him? That's true. That's
Speaker 1: something we need to look at. It was Sprinkled doing it,
Speaker 1: you know, who's been filling in for Sean mckewan at
Speaker 1: the third tight end and in that wide receiver room,
Speaker 1: Malik Turner was playing that personal protector of the punt team.
Speaker 1: And that's the most as special teams coordinator that they'll
Speaker 1: tell you, that's their cat another if they're if you're
Speaker 1: a captain of special teams, you're playing personal protector. That's
Speaker 1: the most trusted special teams role you can do. And
Speaker 1: as Malik Turner was playing that, I think, oh, he's
Speaker 1: a lock, he's a lot, he's gonna make it. But
Speaker 1: then he got hurt. So I gotta see if maybe
Speaker 1: Semi for Hoku or one of these other wide receivers
Speaker 1: gonna fill in that role. Yes, and then we'll see
Speaker 1: if and then and then they'll may become a lock.
Speaker 1: But it just sucks that all those injuries happened in
Speaker 1: that Arizona game because those are some promising guys coming
Speaker 1: up that ended up taking an injury in that game.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys must cut down five today. I'm solid
Speaker 1: in my cut. Brian Anger, the punter, Yeah, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that you can get. I think that's so that's full.
Speaker 1: That's money in the bank. Right, So there's four. That's four.
Speaker 1: That's there's four guys. You gotta go out here and
Speaker 1: and and eventually get done and see how you how
Speaker 1: you get to cut down today. Jacksonville Jaguars wave Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow number eighty five Tebow. That tape from the preseason
Speaker 1: game against Fingles did not help him at all, just
Speaker 1: did not help. He just looked very unathletic. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to block it just I mean, just didn't look like
Speaker 1: it fit him naturally. Now we all knew going into
Speaker 1: this season that you know, he's not a tight end.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna make a team legitimately as a tight end.
Speaker 1: I was surprised that he got cut this early. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought for sure Urban would keep him around, maybe
Speaker 1: to the last cut. After seeing that tape. Yeah, that's true,
Speaker 1: that's true. And that the fact that he wasn't doing
Speaker 1: any interviews, so you couldn't really get that tebow Mania
Speaker 1: going and you know, have all that stuff going. So
Speaker 1: I think they played it well. I think they gave
Speaker 1: him a shot. He proved that he, you know, wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough to play in this league as a tight end.
Speaker 1: So they did right, They did right down because I
Speaker 1: guarantee you if he would have made the team, I
Speaker 1: think Urban might have lost that locker room because because
Speaker 1: Cats would have been did you see the table, how's
Speaker 1: this guy on the team? That Cats would have lost
Speaker 1: their mind out there. So I think he did the
Speaker 1: right thing about releasing them this early. Tim did himself
Speaker 1: no favors because this was a move he was asked
Speaker 1: to make but almost ten years ago. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, no time us. And that was
Speaker 1: the next thing I was going to point to Logan
Speaker 1: Thomas said, Okay, all right, I'll do it. That was
Speaker 1: a quarterback in Virginia Tech and now he's a productive
Speaker 1: tight end the National Football So you you have to
Speaker 1: at some point that Terrelle Pryor exactly made the switch
Speaker 1: quarterback who ended up switching. This is not uncommon in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, especially for black quarterbacks. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, look, they would have turned Lamarins
Speaker 1: so wide receiver if they could have. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: yes's something you got to make an adjustment. Burnam Manuel,
Speaker 1: you know it's a quarterback at Rice, and you know
Speaker 1: made switch hines Ward. People forget Hinchward quarterback. It's a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Was the other one answe random. So, I mean there's
Speaker 1: been some success, you know, switching from a quarterback, but
Speaker 1: you gotta do it early on. You can't wait till
Speaker 1: you in your thirties. You know, right, hey, it's almost
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I think I'm gonna do it now. No, No,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. No, you can't. You can't do that.
Speaker 1: And there's also that learning process that goes with it.
Speaker 1: And so Hattie ain't the switch when when teams were
Speaker 1: asking him to, he would have had a grace period
Speaker 1: and a learning courage. The people, Okay, he's trying to
Speaker 1: do it, but no, you quit football, you go play baseball,
Speaker 1: you're ru on TV, you're doing all these things. And
Speaker 1: then when you come back and your former head coach
Speaker 1: at Florida is the head coach giving you the shot.
Speaker 1: A lot it rubbed. It rubbed a lot of folks
Speaker 1: who do it on the grind on a daily basis
Speaker 1: the wrong way, and a lot of people didn't like
Speaker 1: the favoritism of it. Yeah, I can understand it because
Speaker 1: if you're looking at it, this is a guy who,
Speaker 1: all right, you know, they don't want me to play
Speaker 1: they don't let me to play quarterback, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go play baseball. All right, I'm not that good at baseball,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm coming back to professional football. How
Speaker 1: many guys can say they have that opportunity, like I mean,
Speaker 1: once you get once you're done with the league, you're
Speaker 1: literally done. Usually you don't get to just come back
Speaker 1: whenever you want to. And he was able to come
Speaker 1: back and have that opportunity, So I can understee what.
Speaker 1: I cann't see why it rubbed some people wrong because
Speaker 1: there's guys that played tight end their whole career who's
Speaker 1: never had an opportunity to play in the league. So
Speaker 1: for him to be able to get that opportunity, I mean,
Speaker 1: ain't not a lot of people can do it. I
Speaker 1: just saw it as something that you know you should
Speaker 1: have done in a while back, and when you didn't
Speaker 1: do it, then you hurt, your opportunity hurt. And so
Speaker 1: uh didn't see it working. He wasn't playing teams. He
Speaker 1: wasn't playing those special teams. Come on, man, come on, really,
Speaker 1: my man wasn't on the teams. Man, you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: have hi mona kickoff, kickoff, maybe a little personal protector something.
Speaker 1: He ain't doing it. I'm Tim Tebow. Okay. We at
Speaker 1: least Irvan went ahead, got him up out of there,
Speaker 1: so so yeah, good on him. Yes, uh, the Giants separate.
Speaker 1: Least running back Alfred Morris, who was with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: for a few years with Jason here and Jason offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator up there and New York and Alfred Morris was
Speaker 1: the guy if people were looking to when Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: was holding out for a contract and last year I
Speaker 1: think he I think he played halfway decent last year
Speaker 1: and filling in for Sae Kwon Berkley, him and Wayne
Speaker 1: Gallman over there, they had a little one two punch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I so he did, I you know, so so
Speaker 1: he's gotten so this across the league. We're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to see names. And Chris Beam is just checking right
Speaker 1: now to see if the Cowboys release anybody, if any
Speaker 1: if this happens during the show, will bring you some
Speaker 1: of the names here, but I go, I go back
Speaker 1: to what you were saying here. So who's playing special teams?
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. Who's gonna be out
Speaker 1: there on kickoff? Who's gonna be those cores? But there's
Speaker 1: usually between five and seven core special teamers, and that's
Speaker 1: what we need to figure out. Who on this roster
Speaker 1: is going to be those core special teamers. I mean,
Speaker 1: we know we got one a long snapper, but you know,
Speaker 1: other than that, who oh and C J. Goodwin, Who's
Speaker 1: Who's who's the special team's demon out there? But other
Speaker 1: than that, we gotta figure out who's going to be
Speaker 1: these core special teamers and who's going to provide that
Speaker 1: pot for us that we need. All Right, I can't
Speaker 1: have you on here and not dive into the safety's
Speaker 1: Barry Church. So we see Malik Hooker get out there practice,
Speaker 1: get to picks, get to pick six, and we saw
Speaker 1: um a guy, Jayron Curse get beat for a touchdown
Speaker 1: and they had him running with the ones to start
Speaker 1: camp here, So how do you see this battle going?
Speaker 1: We we got to talk to Demante Kaz asked him, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you feel about the competition. You
Speaker 1: know what, He's like, I don't have to feel any
Speaker 1: kind of way. This is not up to me. I
Speaker 1: just had to go out and perform as a hell
Speaker 1: of an attitude. So because you can only control what
Speaker 1: you can control and the way, and he already sees that, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get stressed out about coaches maybe
Speaker 1: putting this guy in a little bit more, giving them
Speaker 1: a little bit more reps here and there, because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it is their decision on
Speaker 1: who gets on the field. So his mindset is already
Speaker 1: in the right way. But no question is without a
Speaker 1: He's making it Tad. It's literally a two man race
Speaker 1: for that starting free safety job. In my opinion, Um,
Speaker 1: Curse I think will end up being maybe one of
Speaker 1: those core special team guys like he was up in Detroit. Um.
Speaker 1: But as far as the free safety because I think
Speaker 1: Wilson got that on Lock. I feel like Wilson got
Speaker 1: that strong safety spot on Lock. He had a good
Speaker 1: end of the season last year, He's had a good
Speaker 1: you know, offseason training camp under his belt, so I
Speaker 1: think he has that own lock. It comes down to Kate.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it comes down to Kazy and he
Speaker 1: and Malik Hooker. As far as who's gonna start for
Speaker 1: that free safety job, I mean, both of these guys
Speaker 1: went healthy. They can play that job. They can play
Speaker 1: the safety role at an elite level. I mean we've
Speaker 1: seen Kazy get ten interceptions in one year. Malik Hooker
Speaker 1: has always been a ball guy. He just has dealt
Speaker 1: with a lot of injuries going forward. But for these
Speaker 1: two guys, I think they make the team better. Which
Speaker 1: everyone gets the starting opportunity right now. I gotta say
Speaker 1: Kazy may have the leg up just because he's been
Speaker 1: with the team longer. He has an understanding of what
Speaker 1: dan Quinn's defense is and what dan Quinn expects of
Speaker 1: that whole safety, So I give him a little bit
Speaker 1: of a leg up. But Malik Cooker is a baller man.
Speaker 1: He's a baller and he just seems to be around
Speaker 1: the ball as we were yesterday. Okay, do you keep
Speaker 1: four safeties? Because just from what you're telling me right now,
Speaker 1: if I'm looking at the roster here, you got eighteen
Speaker 1: defensive backs. You keep four safety Wilson Hooker curse Casey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you go at that position and the secondary
Speaker 1: as a whole. I think they're gonna go at least
Speaker 1: ten or eleven if you add corners in there, so
Speaker 1: that gives you six corners. Yeah, I think they're gonna go.
Speaker 1: You gotta go heavy at corners. You gotta go. That's why.
Speaker 1: So that's so your force safeties at this point in time,
Speaker 1: Wilson curse Kazy Hooker. I think you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Kazy and Hooker were making big money,
Speaker 1: then you'd have to decide between the two. But since
Speaker 1: they're both on relatively team friendly deals, I think you
Speaker 1: can keep both of those guys. It's just the only thing,
Speaker 1: the only thing that kind of wears me about that
Speaker 1: is is the starter going to always be looking over
Speaker 1: his shoulder? Is he always gonna be like, man if
Speaker 1: I make one mistake here, Hooker or Kazy has an
Speaker 1: opportunity to go ahead and jump in that free safety role,
Speaker 1: and you don't want you don't want your guy back
Speaker 1: there filling handicap like man if I make one mistake,
Speaker 1: odds over, I don't know, you kind of want him
Speaker 1: to play free with no worries back there. But you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you gotta keep BOTHO
Speaker 1: you gotta keep both so so so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: through numbers with you here, I numbers got so we've
Speaker 1: got we've got our four safeties. Yeah, now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: count off six corners. That's gonna be doing. That's Elvin
Speaker 1: Joseph all right, yes, yes, that's a right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's second. Yes, Uh, Jordan Lewis, you paid him, you
Speaker 1: did what you got four point five guaranteed. You don't
Speaker 1: want to eat that. Trayvon Diggs, Yes, that's three. That's
Speaker 1: three right there. C J. Goodwin, he got that. And
Speaker 1: he's a court special teamers, so you know they're gonna
Speaker 1: get us four. That's four. Anthony Brown is his guarantees
Speaker 1: up this year or is it still guaranteed? That's the
Speaker 1: only thing that's like kind of wavering me right now
Speaker 1: because if he's still guaranteed, you don't want to eat
Speaker 1: that by cutting them. And I think he's guarantee like
Speaker 1: five or something like that. Maurice Cannaday a Jerry favorite,
Speaker 1: he is, and I will say yes strictly on his
Speaker 1: play that's six. So so based on that six, Oh,
Speaker 1: where's right that you ain't putting right in there? Okay?
Speaker 1: I said, right, Reggie Robinson's not all he's he's okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm just right there. So so now
Speaker 1: you're talking about and here here is the question. We
Speaker 1: counted c J. Goodwin. Do you just kind of put
Speaker 1: him in a different category. I think they'll say, okay,
Speaker 1: so so your six is right with Goodwin kind of
Speaker 1: being a a exception. Yeah, because that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: how kind of they did kind of Danny that way
Speaker 1: when they were making the rosters, like we would keep
Speaker 1: all like I think we kept like five safeties, but
Speaker 1: we didn't really include Danny as that like fifth safety.
Speaker 1: We gonna have four. But then Danny, because we knew
Speaker 1: he was all he's gonna be course special team. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the team regardless. So we kind of
Speaker 1: did it that way. And I think they're gonna do
Speaker 1: CJ the same type of way. But it's get interesting
Speaker 1: you don't though, So so that's and I think that's
Speaker 1: what you have to do. You just kind of have
Speaker 1: to all right, position wid it didn't matter whether you
Speaker 1: know it's this, whether he was a linebacker with his
Speaker 1: Special Corps, special teams guys a boom, you put him
Speaker 1: in that that that that like they do Slater up
Speaker 1: there in New England without a doubt. You know he's
Speaker 1: a receiver, but we know his value. Okay, So so
Speaker 1: we're gonna put C. J. Goodwin in his own corner.
Speaker 1: So our six, our six corners that you and I
Speaker 1: have come up with Kelvin Joseph, Jordan Lewis, Trayvon Diggs,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, Maurice candidate Nation Right, Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think that's a solid core right there. I mean you
Speaker 1: got three with our four safeties, that's ten that's ten
Speaker 1: ms and you got two legitis actually, so so basically
Speaker 1: eleven dbs all together, you do. But my thing is,
Speaker 1: do we that outside corner? Are we gonna put We're
Speaker 1: gonna put Kelvin Joseph out there? I don't know, because
Speaker 1: I you know, you know, don't disrespect, but I don't
Speaker 1: like what I've seen from Anthony Brown at the outside corner. Um.
Speaker 1: I think he's a you know, he's a good player.
Speaker 1: I think he's more suitable for that nickel role. But
Speaker 1: outside I just don't think he and I don't think
Speaker 1: he can handle it. So let me simply ask you
Speaker 1: this question, who would you be more comfortable throwing out
Speaker 1: there against Tom Brady, Evans, Godwin and uh, definitely not right.
Speaker 1: I mean he has the length and he's long enough.
Speaker 1: But I want to do right right. We need you to,
Speaker 1: you know, you get a little special teams and but
Speaker 1: I'm not putting dig is gonna be on one side.
Speaker 1: I would rather see Jordan Lewis or candidate in the
Speaker 1: nickel position because that's what they're more suited for. But
Speaker 1: on the outside, if you're not putting out right, I
Speaker 1: don't want to see Calvin Joseph out there. I think
Speaker 1: he's too young out there right now to be dealing
Speaker 1: with you know, Evans or god Went out there, or
Speaker 1: Anthony or Aunt Anthony Brown, Antonio Brown out there. So
Speaker 1: if you gotta put Anthony Brown out there, and I
Speaker 1: do not like the matchup, those are huge receivers. I
Speaker 1: hate the matchup. I hear what you're saying. But when
Speaker 1: we just walk down this, Okay, what are the options,
Speaker 1: He's the best of the options. Okay, what are the options?
Speaker 1: They're not ideal. That's that's jump ball city. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at it out. They're gonna throw Mike
Speaker 1: Evans a bunch of jump balls god Win. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not a good matchup for us on
Speaker 1: the outside. This is where your safeties are. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be you know, red line. We're gonna kazy,
Speaker 1: gonna have to show us that red lineability. He's gonna
Speaker 1: kazy and hookers, you know, somebody, somebody, somebody dig up
Speaker 1: into the past or unless you say, Digs, you know what,
Speaker 1: we think you're that good. We're gonna put you over
Speaker 1: here and we're not gonna give you a lot of
Speaker 1: safety help. Then that way you can you know, lean
Speaker 1: towards you know the other corners that Nick on the
Speaker 1: other corner out there, to help them out, because I
Speaker 1: think they'll need more help than the Diggs on that Now. Look,
Speaker 1: and this is something that we don't talk about enough
Speaker 1: because Ceedee Lamb has gotten so much deserved praise for
Speaker 1: how he's played at camp, but Diggs's basically gone up
Speaker 1: against him a whole lot during this camp and he
Speaker 1: has won some battles. Okay, he has won some battles
Speaker 1: as well. So to me, if you want to find
Speaker 1: some comfort, it is your guy has spent his entire
Speaker 1: training camp against somebody who is looking as though they're
Speaker 1: going to be a number one receiver in this league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is true. This is true. And digs and like
Speaker 1: you said, iron sharpens iron. So they're they're going at
Speaker 1: it in camp, battling, they're making each other better. So
Speaker 1: I'm not to me, I'm not worried about that said now,
Speaker 1: And let me say this, man, people forget this all
Speaker 1: the time. He's gone up against Lamb. Dude, went up
Speaker 1: against Henry Ruggs at Alabama. Yea guy went up against
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy at Alabama. Guy went up against Vante Smith
Speaker 1: at Alabama. So he's not some guy who's been practicing
Speaker 1: against some subgestus. I mean who he went against the
Speaker 1: first six games last year. He came Mecca, Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Colin Ridley. I mean he's gone again, some
Speaker 1: competition out. So I have a confidence in Diggs and
Speaker 1: from what he's been able to do. And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, he gets to hang out with his brother
Speaker 1: and train with his brother, who's telling them who's one
Speaker 1: of the best receivers in the league. So I have
Speaker 1: a confidence in Diggs and what he can do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm right there with you. And do you think.
Speaker 1: I mean, in your opinion, do you think he's at
Speaker 1: the level to where we can say days go lock
Speaker 1: up Rochet and everything away from you. I could see
Speaker 1: it being an option in the game plan. I could
Speaker 1: see it being option. Okay, I can see that as well,
Speaker 1: because he look, he's had his ups and downs last year,
Speaker 1: but the guy battled and he fought, and he has
Speaker 1: a short term memory, and that's what you love to
Speaker 1: have in your corner. Like, he might get beat, but
Speaker 1: he's also gonna make some plays and I can live.
Speaker 1: I can live with a guy like that. I can
Speaker 1: go in the foxhold with a guy like that. And
Speaker 1: let's be honest, isn't this the same issue everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: have when they face the Buccaneers without a doubt? I
Speaker 1: mean this everybody. He was a defensive coordinators. Okay, well, okay,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be I mean that, that's that's everyone. I mean,
Speaker 1: they got three receivers and you're getting Ojhi about to say,
Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about their core Darkowski, oj Howard.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, so there's a whole lot of you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of stuff going on out there
Speaker 1: for any defensive coordinator Trump, where do we go and
Speaker 1: what is my what kind of personnel do I have
Speaker 1: to match up against these guys? I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 1: to know you. I would love to see that package
Speaker 1: that we trotted out, the first team defense that we
Speaker 1: trotted out in Arizona. I would love to see what
Speaker 1: that package could do, because they had I think they
Speaker 1: went and got jian Nard Bernard or whatever his name
Speaker 1: is from Cincinnat. They went and got him. And you
Speaker 1: know how Tom Brady is with receiving backs. He loves that,
Speaker 1: So I would love to see what they did. They
Speaker 1: had Parsons and Kean O'Neil out there, two guys who
Speaker 1: can cover in space, and they looked pretty good out there.
Speaker 1: I would love to see them try that needed out
Speaker 1: there as far as a linebacker rather than LV and
Speaker 1: um Jay, because we've seen the liabilities that can be
Speaker 1: in coverage. So I would like to them see that,
Speaker 1: to see them try that that unit out there. But
Speaker 1: we'll see, We'll see what happens. Game one. Well, let's
Speaker 1: let's have a conversation about number nine and number fifty
Speaker 1: five and Jaalen Smith was trending yesterday and it wasn't
Speaker 1: in a nice way for Cowboy fans. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to defend him. Okay, I will defend him.
Speaker 1: There was a tweet I put out yesterday, and I
Speaker 1: will defend Jalen Smith next right here on the players line.
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Speaker 1: old forty new forty two. Look good. You're looking good
Speaker 1: out there. Okay, he's got the blessing, he's got the buzzing.
Speaker 1: At first, I was hating. I was hating that first,
Speaker 1: but now you got my blessings. My man, he's out
Speaker 1: there looking good. Man, Okay, Chris being our producers and
Speaker 1: for me the Brian Anger not getting cut. He says,
Speaker 1: bones Fossil likes himself. Yeah and uh yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: and from the from the conference, he you know, Fossil says,
Speaker 1: you know, nice Wander is a developmental guy, and it's like,
Speaker 1: that's not what you want to hear if you're a
Speaker 1: nice Wander. Right now, I'm just a development I thought
Speaker 1: I was the guy. But that's something you don't want
Speaker 1: to hear from your special team's coach if you're a
Speaker 1: nice Wonder. But if you're angry, hey, he might be
Speaker 1: in that team. As they say, look, now we only
Speaker 1: got three. We got three people that we're gonna cut.
Speaker 1: We still got to find the other two. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bones is uh, Bones is interesting. Bones got the juice.
Speaker 1: Bones is interesting. He got the power. He's interesting. This
Speaker 1: whole field goal kicking thing that's been going on, Chris Beam,
Speaker 1: Am I wrong that that? You know that? This field
Speaker 1: goal it's it's been interesting and and Chris and I
Speaker 1: have seen a lot of field goal deals with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I remember that vander Jack deal. That was if he
Speaker 1: and then when they tried to do the Dave Bheler
Speaker 1: deal for a while, that was cat off specialist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was special. Yeah, he was Deeler was that he
Speaker 1: was a kickoff special Your boy Dick Camillas ended up
Speaker 1: wanting to run off Nick Folk, and that was bad
Speaker 1: because Folk ended up going to the Jets and having
Speaker 1: you know, you know it. Just so I've seen this
Speaker 1: kicker thing through the years. And then of course that
Speaker 1: that uh, that stuff with the last cat um Mama Heart.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, that Chicago game where he was out
Speaker 1: there shanking stuff left and right about he was he doing?
Speaker 1: Just find him shank that as soon as that was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't asking a question like, you know, dud, dude, dude,
Speaker 1: you're killing the teams. But so I've seen some stuff.
Speaker 1: So Fossils like, hey, man, Zerlines, our guy. You know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be good to go. So they're gonna act
Speaker 1: like field goals don't exist. Field goals. We ain't faking
Speaker 1: puns and doing nothing that we as long a we
Speaker 1: are doing that no more, I'll be this wander made
Speaker 1: some field goals against season, so we'll see. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, just just I'm not I don't get all
Speaker 1: of it, but I'm not the professional, right is true.
Speaker 1: He's the professional. He's paid to do it. So I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna you know what, cut you know, you'll cut
Speaker 1: lp lot of swords. One of the most consistent guys
Speaker 1: to ever mister perfections profess perfection, so you can go
Speaker 1: bring in your boy Jake Mcwait so, mister Snapp, I said, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, you're the professional. That's what he
Speaker 1: kind of hitting with. But I just you know, I
Speaker 1: don't be the cause of a loss. Special teams better
Speaker 1: not be the issue Thursday September eight against or nice
Speaker 1: against the damn Tampa Bay. Okay, better not be Okay,
Speaker 1: it better not be You're they better be tight. If
Speaker 1: it's like that New England game. Remember that New England
Speaker 1: game a couple of years back. Special teams really cost man,
Speaker 1: it was it lost the game, It lost the gamest
Speaker 1: the game. So that's what I'm saying, man at this
Speaker 1: point time, Alright, bones, you have an idea what it
Speaker 1: is you want to do. You got your mojo special
Speaker 1: teams moments. Fine, I'm with them, you know, with them? Okay,
Speaker 1: gonna let it back fire. Just be right, yeah, better
Speaker 1: be right, be right, Okay, just be right, okay, because
Speaker 1: right now I'm just siding I'm not comfortable. But okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what he gat. Snap. Better be good kicking
Speaker 1: hen make feel go. I mean, I need. Okay, make
Speaker 1: sure that that uh, make sure that line is going good.
Speaker 1: That snaps to the kicker, snaps a holder the kick,
Speaker 1: it better be good. Who is the turk now that
Speaker 1: Bruce Mays is gone? Who's the guy that comes and
Speaker 1: get a reaper? Right? Who comes and gets the players?
Speaker 1: Who's coming to get the five guys today? When they cut?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I know they had Adam doing it
Speaker 1: for a while. He's a shorter ball gentleman. I think
Speaker 1: he was doing a contract and stuff, but he also
Speaker 1: did the cutting for a while. But Bruce Mays was
Speaker 1: the ultimate grim reaper as far as you didn't want
Speaker 1: to even make eye contact with this man, like coming
Speaker 1: into the coming into the Valley ranch back in those days.
Speaker 1: You even on the non cut day, you don't even
Speaker 1: want to look at Bruce Man. He would say hi.
Speaker 1: You keep your head down like he never existed, because
Speaker 1: if he came and tapped you on that shoulder, just
Speaker 1: had to tap had ready. Just so let me just
Speaker 1: explain everyone, there is one person who comes and cuts you. Hey,
Speaker 1: coach wants to see it. Bring that iPad with you.
Speaker 1: So there's there's one perce. So everyone knows who that
Speaker 1: dude is and Bruce May's. He looked like the grim Reaper. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bruce looked like bad news. He was guy in the Nightmare.
Speaker 1: Never smiled. Just hey, that shoulder tap. I remember walking
Speaker 1: in my rookie year to cut year or cut cut
Speaker 1: day where we got down to fifty three, me, Danny
Speaker 1: and our boy lan Ye Miller walking in the valley ranch.
Speaker 1: We got our heads low. Please don't say nothing to
Speaker 1: it's Bruce May's waiting at the door, waiting at the door.
Speaker 1: We're seeing cats getting hit before we even walked in.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, here we go, Here we go. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm the first one to pass through. Good morning, turn up,
Speaker 1: just hitting with it and kept going about my way.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm straight. The same thing with d mac Man.
Speaker 1: Our boy lan Ye tried to follow right behind us.
Speaker 1: All you all you heard at the tap at that
Speaker 1: tap on my shoulder just looked down like dang, and
Speaker 1: then me and Danny turned around like just kept moving man,
Speaker 1: like I see. You have to practice hard knocks nowadays. Man.
Speaker 1: It's it's all like they give him a call in
Speaker 1: the building. Many coming upstairs visually just gonna send you
Speaker 1: a tech X. Now bring that appad and looking at
Speaker 1: on Twitter? Would you rather have the text cut or
Speaker 1: the tap on the shoulder Bruce May's cut? I don't know,
Speaker 1: so they just in the building. Yeah, deactivate your iPad.
Speaker 1: I wonder if I wonder if someone never showed up
Speaker 1: into coaching just see you it just never showed up,
Speaker 1: like I not working yet. Sorry I'm laughing, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it's definitely to be. If you get that
Speaker 1: tap on your shoulder, man, your heart drops, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be so so the guy I would think, now, who
Speaker 1: could fit the role perfect as Cable? Cable? You have
Speaker 1: to beat Cable. Have yet to meet Cable? Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: show you. You know who he is? You know who
Speaker 1: Cable is? Cable or Todd William seemed like the kind
Speaker 1: of guys I would go. Tod Wins for sure. I
Speaker 1: think he would be. Now, he'd be a good grim reaper.
Speaker 1: Now Cable would work. When I go and show you, like,
Speaker 1: oh that's Cable, Um, you'll know exactly actually who he
Speaker 1: is because he's around all the time. Because like Bruce
Speaker 1: makes he said, he's in all these areas with the player. Okay,
Speaker 1: and so that's what kind of what you need when
Speaker 1: you're when you're when you're trying to play that role,
Speaker 1: or you're getting a guy who can can cut cut
Speaker 1: some folks. Man, um, and Cable fits. He just fits
Speaker 1: the description fits it, man, I mean he is, he's
Speaker 1: you know, he's also a nice dude. Everybody knows him. Um.
Speaker 1: The other day when when Gallimore got hurt, you know,
Speaker 1: Cable's one of the guys's out there, you know, helping
Speaker 1: him get off the field. So boom, that's Cable. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah that's yeah, that's my bad cave with.
Speaker 1: If you're watching the show, I'm sorry because I do
Speaker 1: know you and we definitely chopping up plenty of times.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Cable. If you're watching, you listen and I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I feel like you Bruce Mays was the ultimate
Speaker 1: Grim Reaper because that's Cable. I mean, yeah, I definitely
Speaker 1: know Cable. So Bruce Mays was the ultimate because he
Speaker 1: was never nice to nobody, so he it was like, man,
Speaker 1: no friend, Yeah, he was no friend. This is my job,
Speaker 1: is what I'm here to do. Cable. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: cool with everybody, so I feel like then it'd be
Speaker 1: tougher for him to just go up there and be like, man, look,
Speaker 1: coach needs to see you. Gotta bring your iPad. It's
Speaker 1: that time. Like, that's a tough job. Yes, I bet
Speaker 1: chating out. Who's gonna be? Who you think it's gonna be? CB?
Speaker 1: Do you think it's me? Rob Davis. It's a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: head coach, nice friendly brother. Yeah, it's a positive assistant
Speaker 1: head coach. Hey, Hey, the head coach wants to see you. Hey,
Speaker 1: why can I want to chat with you real quick? Kid?
Speaker 1: About your future, about your life, talk to you about
Speaker 1: your life. So it's gotta be a tough thing to do. Yes,
Speaker 1: ending a dream, it's gotta bee, it's gotta do some
Speaker 1: of the toughest things to do. And Rob played in
Speaker 1: the league too, right, kind of have an understanding about
Speaker 1: how it works. So let me dive into the linebacker situation.
Speaker 1: Let's Jayla Smith was trending on Twitter yesterday and not
Speaker 1: in a good direction. Greg Rosenthal tweeted out, no team
Speaker 1: has more self scouting errors than the Cowboys. This goes
Speaker 1: back decades, not just giving Jaylo Smith the contract, but
Speaker 1: guaranteeing it, guaranteeing his money. In March, and I did
Speaker 1: a tweet response, and I just said the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: no clue in late March that they would be that
Speaker 1: they would be able to bring in three linebackers Parsons
Speaker 1: Cox Neil. That would make the linebacker room better. Neil
Speaker 1: answered a lot of questions at camp in Oxnard. And
Speaker 1: you know that I'm gonna delete this too. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tread it to you. I'm gonna delete it as well, um,
Speaker 1: because I will sit around here and give give too
Speaker 1: much more credence to what he said, which is in March,
Speaker 1: you had two dudes that you had starting. I mean
Speaker 1: the guy led the league. I mean he led your
Speaker 1: team and tackles. They picked up the option because they
Speaker 1: didn't have much else. They had signed that Neil, I
Speaker 1: want to say maybe three days before. But this is
Speaker 1: a guy coming off an injury, and you signed it
Speaker 1: to a one year deal. So it wasn't like you
Speaker 1: sit up here, hey man, we we got this guy.
Speaker 1: We about decided it's a real cash because we believe
Speaker 1: what he could do. You didn't pick up your fifth
Speaker 1: year option on Laton vanderst And that wasn't just something
Speaker 1: they all of a sudden decided to do. They knew
Speaker 1: well in advance where they were going to go. And
Speaker 1: let's be honest, if Denver does what they should have
Speaker 1: done and drafted justin fields, we'd be sitting there with
Speaker 1: Sartain right now, you'd be sitting with Patage ten and
Speaker 1: you would not have Michael Parsons. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you think Denver WI should they take just the field?
Speaker 1: Right about now? Hello? What was I tried to tellcats
Speaker 1: from from from day one? Just tried to tellcat But hey,
Speaker 1: they they didn't want to do it. Listen, they don't
Speaker 1: want to go. They didn't want to go get a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. So you end up with him there. You
Speaker 1: didn't know about um. You know, you didn't know that
Speaker 1: jabrelle Cox would be there. Yeah, that's true. So and
Speaker 1: then of course you didn't know how they would react
Speaker 1: at camp, go through k You didn't know these things.
Speaker 1: So now you're looking at it and people like beating
Speaker 1: up jail. Oh he's he's your fourth linebacker. Cut him
Speaker 1: to No, it's a seventeen game season for long one. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a long s. You're not gonna cut the guy.
Speaker 1: It's at this point in time, it's sunken costs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I started business school TCU. So it's one of
Speaker 1: the things we learned in the Manager of the Accounty.
Speaker 1: It's called sunking costs. He's a thing, it's money, it's here,
Speaker 1: You're not getting it back. That's what. Well, you could
Speaker 1: trade him, would you trade him and try to pay
Speaker 1: half of the salary? Pacer? Why trade the guy? He's here.
Speaker 1: He's here. And like you said, this season is long.
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of people realize that, oh
Speaker 1: it's just one extra game. This season is a long
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be You're gonna deal with injuries. We've
Speaker 1: seen it the past couple of years with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: People are gonna get hurt. Last year we had a
Speaker 1: slew of injuries. If we had the depth we have now,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you would have made
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but we would have been, you know, in
Speaker 1: a better shape than we were last year. So I
Speaker 1: think you have to keep all of them because you
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen. If Parsons goes down and
Speaker 1: you're just gonna be stuck with LV Cox and if
Speaker 1: we get rid of Jalen Smith. So I mean, like
Speaker 1: I think they've done a good thing by having all
Speaker 1: this depth at the linebacker position. What do we see
Speaker 1: with the offensive line room last year where you you're good?
Speaker 1: Guess what you worked good? Guys kept falling down again
Speaker 1: and again and again. Already we've seen with Nevin Neville Gallimore.
Speaker 1: Okay right here defensive tackle spot. Imagine how who don't
Speaker 1: get that turn your turn your MinC back on here.
Speaker 1: I go back to what what Mike McCarthy had addressed
Speaker 1: in Hard Knocks, and he mentioned, was it seventy seven
Speaker 1: or seventy three guys that he needed that year the
Speaker 1: Packers won the Super Bowl? Even in that Super Bowl
Speaker 1: game or Charles Woodson went out Donald they're running back.
Speaker 1: I mean it had a lot of yes, yes, but
Speaker 1: that was in the Super Bowl game. You have Driver
Speaker 1: and Woodson go down in the game. So it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: Trying to win is hard, and you're going to need
Speaker 1: a lot of bodies along the way. So when I
Speaker 1: just sit up here and I see this in August
Speaker 1: to fans and get rid of him, cut him, no,
Speaker 1: and you're not going to save you No, by the way,
Speaker 1: you're not. You're not going to get any significant savings
Speaker 1: on this because you've already guaranteed the money and getting
Speaker 1: rid of him. What is that? How's that helping us
Speaker 1: right now? Like that's the thing like we're talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, getting rid of them, you know, cutting costs.
Speaker 1: How does that help us win more games by getting
Speaker 1: rid of this guy? I mean he might not be
Speaker 1: our top two lines, he might not be the top
Speaker 1: you know, linebacker that we want him to be, but
Speaker 1: he at least knows the defense and can provide depth
Speaker 1: for this linebacking corp. And and I don't think people
Speaker 1: realize that seventeen game season, you're gonna need depth and
Speaker 1: we got it right now the linebacker position and in
Speaker 1: the secondary. Let me put a maybe a a different
Speaker 1: way to look at for Cowboy fans. What if dan
Speaker 1: Quinn actually puts him in the right positions he needs
Speaker 1: to be that you're not having him play as many
Speaker 1: snaps that he is in certain packages that you can
Speaker 1: actually take advantage of what the player can really give
Speaker 1: you versus Mike Nolan rolling the dude out here playing
Speaker 1: will No, he ain't got Vanderesh the middle like no.
Speaker 1: I think that would be a hell of an idea,
Speaker 1: just to get him in certain packages but I certainly
Speaker 1: do not believe that he would go for that, and
Speaker 1: I think it would cause a lot of drama. And
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, it would cause a lot of
Speaker 1: turmoil in that locker room. You know what you do? Heymen,
Speaker 1: hey man, you get a check, right, okay, because it's true,
Speaker 1: you get a check. This is true. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: don't wish you were easier, wish you were better? This
Speaker 1: is true. And what have we consistently seen? This is
Speaker 1: now we're talking with seventeen games, Chris being real quick,
Speaker 1: what is it eight or nine weeks in a row?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are playing without a break here during the
Speaker 1: regular season. Let me look over and so there you're
Speaker 1: going to need guy. And one of the things, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I keep talking about the quarterback chain, your boy, double
Speaker 1: G the quarterback backup quarterback is not on this roster
Speaker 1: and throughout this league. Of a seventeen game season this year,
Speaker 1: you're going to see number two quarterbacks get used. We're
Speaker 1: already seeing it was sixteen games sketches with four quarterback
Speaker 1: lash four okay four. So if you're talking about teams
Speaker 1: going through multiple quarterbacks, you think that you're not gonna
Speaker 1: need more than three linebackers. Guy has that bang each
Speaker 1: and every player. You're gonna need it. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: nicks and bruises here and there. Guys might not miss,
Speaker 1: you know, lengthy stretches of time, but they might miss
Speaker 1: a game or two here, they might miss a couple
Speaker 1: of series within the game. And you're gonna need a
Speaker 1: valuable guy that can go in there. And I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna says he's gonna be in the Pro Ball, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be All Pro. But like I said, he knows
Speaker 1: the defense and he can at least go in there
Speaker 1: and give you some type of substance if even if
Speaker 1: he's not starting and being this all Pro guy, he
Speaker 1: can give you something out there to help this defense. Right,
Speaker 1: he may. You know, I'm not looking for him to
Speaker 1: be the Pro Bowl alternate that he was two years ago.
Speaker 1: I'm not asking for that when I look at Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: when I'm asking for can the guy contribute to the
Speaker 1: football team. Yes, But I will say this, he needs
Speaker 1: to play better. He definitely needs to play better. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't and I don't know. It's tough because physically
Speaker 1: he just doesn't look like he's sidelined. The sideline right now.
Speaker 1: To me, he looks heavy and he kind of looks
Speaker 1: like he's running his sand a little bit. He looked
Speaker 1: like a backup. Yeah, okay, he looks like a third
Speaker 1: or four and right now, what does he look like
Speaker 1: he's on pace to be a backup? Especially with that
Speaker 1: rotation we saw the Arizona that was shocking. We saw yesterday,
Speaker 1: we saw yesterday. Is that bad? No, No, it's not.
Speaker 1: Is that probably where he should be? Yes? Yeah? The
Speaker 1: only thing is is he gonna be? Is he gonna stand?
Speaker 1: Or is he gonna end up being like, you know,
Speaker 1: detrimental to the locker room? Like if he if that,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what type of I don't
Speaker 1: know what the clear idea will be on that. I
Speaker 1: don't know the clear idea will be on that. But
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here to myself just saying, as hey,
Speaker 1: this is what Parcels would do without a doubt. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you where you need to be for
Speaker 1: what I need from my football team. I remember Scott Shaning,
Speaker 1: Scott Fuga, these guys couldn't get run here. They ended
Speaker 1: up being starters on a Saint Super Bowl championship team,
Speaker 1: Mankay starters, so fit in where you get in. But
Speaker 1: I'm just not one of these people that says cut
Speaker 1: this guy at some point in time or seventeen games season,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need some help, Chris. Did you get the
Speaker 1: number of how many they're playing in a row here? Eleven? Wow?
Speaker 1: So so it's your bye week's week seven, six, and
Speaker 1: then you had to buy and then eleven stripe to
Speaker 1: finish the season eleven straight. That's that's that's a chunky
Speaker 1: piece right here. So so you're now okay, and this
Speaker 1: is this is where not trying to beat up on fans,
Speaker 1: but sometimes fans don't get it. You're asking rookies. Parses
Speaker 1: hasn't even played in a year, thank you. You're asking
Speaker 1: rookies who've never played a seventeen game season. Now you're
Speaker 1: talking about tell play eleven in a row. You know
Speaker 1: there's no you know there's no McNee stays on the
Speaker 1: schedule here man, you know little Sun Belt conferences and
Speaker 1: are you about to sit up and go playing Patriot
Speaker 1: League teams. You're gonna get eleven week in a row.
Speaker 1: So you're asking Parson, You're just thinking Parsons and Cocks
Speaker 1: you're gonna to be good for seventeen straight weeks, eleven
Speaker 1: in a row. That's asking a lot. And this guys
Speaker 1: get hurt, you know. And Barry I tell people this
Speaker 1: all the time, and he'd be shocked at how many
Speaker 1: people don't realize. Everybody hurt. Everybody's hurt. At the Bottle
Speaker 1: end of the season, you told about eleven weeks straight,
Speaker 1: everybody got some type of ding, some type of bruise.
Speaker 1: I'm limping here, I'm living there. Everybody's hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody's one hundred percent healthy by that time in the season.
Speaker 1: So you gotta have depth out there, you It's a
Speaker 1: it's a must. And I like what they've done defensively
Speaker 1: as far as depth in the in the D line,
Speaker 1: linebackers and in the secondary. All right, So that's that's
Speaker 1: why she feeling that. All right, we're four minutes past
Speaker 1: the hour. Mike McCarthy is slated to talk at ten thirty.
Speaker 1: He probably looks like he's running a little bit late
Speaker 1: because if he was on time, Dave and throwing us off.
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