WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Who Really Won The Deal? 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.040 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:16.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:22.160 label broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:27.760 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and new He Scrugs. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.960 Here we are Friday in March twelfth with a whole 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.000 ton of topics. Can get to right here on the 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.280 play lines brought to you by Hotels dot Com w 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.120 new He Scrugs, a long time Cowboys reported joined by 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:46.800 former Dallas Cowboys safety our guy Barry Church or other safety. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.559 Danny mccray's got work duties to do over at the 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.080 Dallas Cowboys. He works for the team. So it's Church 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.760 and I right with you here on a Friday. All right, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.360 forty two? How are you doing? Man? I'm doing amazing 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.600 NEWI it's a little cloudy in the Metroplex. But like 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.280 I said, man row on players Lounge on a Friday, 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.880 eleven thirty. Where else would you rather be? Where else 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.040 would you rather be? Let's get to a big dog. 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.720 All right, man, I've been I've been waiting, chomping at 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.800 the bit since going to that Prescott press conference which 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.759 was well over hour at the Star. I'm so glad 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.200 I went because you needed to be there to see 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.280 the reactions to the questions, just the way things were 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.200 bouncing and going. So to see Stephen Jones, Jerry Jones, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.160 and Dak Prescott, they're all giving their takes on this deal. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.440 So initially I wanted to get your thoughts on the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:40.480 contract and the press conference. Well, originally the contract. I'm 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.560 here to say I was dead wrong, along with a 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.160 lot of America out there. I was dead wrong. I thought, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.480 for Shirton for certain that he would not get this 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.680 deal done by by the deadline. I thought he would 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.280 be franchise tag and I was even going out there 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.080 saying that he wouldn't get a deal done by July fifteenth. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.520 But the Cowboys, they were able to work their magic. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.560 You know, Jerry has always said, and I'll never doubt 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.320 Jerry again when it comes to this, because we heard 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.440 it for two years. I'd never let anybody out want 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.360 walk out of me. I'll walk off of this team. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.400 I keep who I want. And yeah, we heard the 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.600 talk and we just all thought it was talk. But 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.200 Jerry got the deal done with Dak. So to me, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.080 I gotta give hats off to Jerry and his representatives 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.040 and Dak and his representatives as well, because even though 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.400 they got this deal done, I thought for sure, I 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.440 thought for sure that they would have no cap space 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.800 and it was going to be Dak versus the world 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.040 out there seeing how bad this defense was. But hats 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.240 goes off to Jerry and Todd Franz because they were 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.519 able to work something out to where Dak was able 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.079 to get the money he wanted, the guaranteed money, the 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.640 forty meal per year. He was able to get that. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.000 But also Jerry on the other sideay and year one 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.160 let that that cap friendly, that team deal kind of 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.120 work its magic. They ended up creating more cap space 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.560 by paying this man this money. And I thought it 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.560 was I thought it was blasphemous. I didn't think there's 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.880 no way that they're going to be able to get 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.280 this man this money and still have cat space. But 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.320 they were able to work it around, and I believe 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.119 they freed up maybe even fifteen to seventeen meal right now. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.600 And to me that that's a win win on both cases. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.120 You have your franchise quarterback who's going to be there 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.640 for the foreseeable future. The leader, the unquestioned leader of 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.560 this team there for the foreseeable future end, and you 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.200 have enough cap space to address a little bit of 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.280 the needs on this defense, because we know there's a 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.600 lot of needs on this defense. So for me, I 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.040 gotta get my hats off to both sides. They played 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.560 it remarkably and hopefully you know it pays off for 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.400 the Dallas Cowboys as in Super Bowls or something like that, 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.760 because we need it here in the Metroplex. But hats 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.640 goes off to both sides getting this deal done and 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.640 creating enough cat space to address that horrendous defense that 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.640 they had last year. Let's hope it all works out. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.120 So I like when you spoke about just the parameters 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.040 of the deal, and one of the questions, and one 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.520 of thinks Steve and Jones had brought up was every 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.080 time there was something that Steve was looking for that 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:05.080 could help the team, he said. Todd France said yes, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.600 because I believe I was number seven at the press 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.640 conference today. They had us all lined up and I 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.600 was number seven to ask the question. So I asked 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.960 a question that Dak and the second question I asked 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.440 was about the pie, Like, okay, you guys talked to 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.279 all camp about you. There will be no pie for 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.840 anybody else here. So is there pie left to fix 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.000 this bad defense you had? And that's when Steven referenced 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.600 that Todd France was working with him and they understood 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.479 the importance that, Okay, yeah, we want our quarterback, we 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.080 want our guy to get his cash, but there has 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.080 to be something left for some other people. So that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.119 was something I thought that was unique there. Jerry said 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:47.159 I overpaid. Everybody out there, says Jerry overpaid, because he's 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.840 now Dak Prescott's the second highest paid quarterback in the game. Okay, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.760 second highest paid players Patrick Mahomes, then it is Dak Prescott, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.560 followed by Sean Watson. But we all knew how these 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.040 deals go. The next guy tops the next guy. And 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.600 when this, you know, when this TV deal is officially done, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.720 somebody's gonna top Dak Prescott. I mean this is how, 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.559 this is how these things go. Four years, one hundred 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.560 and sixty million dollars, sixty six million dollars up front, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.680 one hundred and twenty six million dollars and guarantees overall. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.920 So this is this is where it's gone. Dak Prescott. Uh, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.800 and Todd France. They played this perfectly. They did not 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.000 sign a deal. As Jerry spoke in the press conference. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.520 I think Jerry let it out a little bit that 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.600 he thought that they could wear Dak out, that the 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.200 Dak would just be like, nah, I gotta take this deal, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.960 you know, after taking so little for so long, that 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.520 he would jump at the chance. And he didn't do it. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:46.880 They didn't do it, didn't which ads goes off the dead. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.880 they played it right. I mean he stayed still and 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.200 all of this. And I buddy of mine wrote a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.520 book called Stillness is the Key Ryan Holiday, and it's 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.600 just that ability that while things around you are a 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.880 little bit chaotic, how how still and calm can you be, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.640 which is a great for a quarterback, which is what 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.680 he did, is while things were going around. But you 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.919 should sign it. You should do that. You're not worth 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.720 thirty million. The guy just stayed where he was, ended 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.400 up getting hurt and just still stayed still, kept working 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.720 out of the facility, and it worked out well for 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.000 him that he won the deal. Okay, Jared can talk 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.720 all day long about how this is good, but Dack 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.080 on this deal he did he wanted by landslide in 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.200 my opinion, But it's gotta be a hard and that's 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.880 why I say it's hats off to that, because it's 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.960 gotta be hard. I mean, you're getting bombarded by the media. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.560 You got guys like myself over here talking about, oh, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.760 he's got if he takes a deal, we're never gonna 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.000 have a defense, and he can't carry this team without 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.719 a defense, So why would we pay him that much? 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.800 And then you got fans coming from all over the 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.599 Metroplex all he's greedy. Why don't you take that? You know, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.880 there's guys that are, you know, getting paid way less 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.359 than do more important jobs. So you're getting all this 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.040 barking in your ears from every different direction, guys pulling 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.799 on you. And like you said, man, he remained still. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.920 He remained confident in that he was able him in 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:59.760 toide of France, We're gonna be able to work out 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.159 a deal in his favor as well as the team. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.479 And hats goes off because I know myself now, I 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.880 know if people were chirping and pulling at me from 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.640 all I don't know how, I don't know. And then 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.640 you got thirty five meal dangling in front of your 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.120 face per year. That's a hard thing to stay still 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.200 on and had those offs of those guys because because 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.880 they were able to do it and ended up working 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.480 out in the benefit both the Cowboys and Dak Prescott. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.960 So that was the question I asked to Dak. That 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.760 was the first when I got because we got two 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.760 questions to ask at the press conference, and that was 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.440 a question I asked Dad. And for two years you 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.560 had to deal with people questioning you about the contract, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.560 people questioning what you were worth, and people saying what 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.920 you weren't worth, that you weren't worth thirty million dollars. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.320 How did you deal with it? The other people around you? 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.800 And Dak he went back to one of his cliches, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.880 which is, hey, I just control what I can control. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.400 But Church, you've been a player and you've been in 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.560 this situation too where your contract was up and people 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.800 are asking you about your future. Here, I don't care 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.320 how much you want to ignore it. You can't ignore it. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.200 This is your life. You can't ignore it at all. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.040 And he's been in the line last since his rookie year, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.560 so he's had people since his rookie year telling them 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.760 how great he is. And then when the time comes 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.480 to get paid what he wants, people turned quick as 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.680 they oh, now you're not worth thirty million, you're gonna 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.160 wreckguard team and rep guard cap and man, he remained 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.560 still and I'm just like that to me, just shows 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.120 just shows that the type of just poise and confidence 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.600 that that man has in himself to where everybody in 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.800 the Metroplex, not even a metro player, I'm talking about 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.080 the whole sports world ESPN. I mean all those talk 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.839 shows in the beginning of the orders, all those talk 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.439 shows in the morning, that's all they do is talk 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.760 Dallas Cowboys football. We know that. And at the head 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.640 of the Cowboys football is Dak Prescott. And you got 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.280 na should wide news people coming at you, you got 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.480 local media coming at you, fans coming at you. And man, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.000 that boy stood his ground. And it's a tough thing 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.760 to do because as a player, you want to please 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:52.800 your fans. You don't never want to be the hated 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.080 guy out there. You know, this isn't wrestling where the 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.040 villains are. You know, there's villains and there's heroes. You 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.320 don't want to be hated by by your fan base 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.560 out there. And he was able to, you know, keep 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.839 that fan base happy as well as get his money 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.920 and get the Cowboys organization as one. And you know, hey, now, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.360 like I said before, hats goes off those remarkable negotiation 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.560 and contract. You are checking out the players, LOUDS, we NRSWBC, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.120 mortgage and virtual home studios. I knew, he scrugs. Joined 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.199 by Barry Church Danny mccraie with the Day Off here 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:26.880 recapping this Dak Prescott historic contract, largest contract in Cowboys history. 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.640 So he gets it done, and here's the aftermath. Thump. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.319 People starting to say well, and one of those people 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.440 is Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson, who won two 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.560 Super Bowls as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.600 and left enough talent for a third. And Jimmy told 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.120 Colin Cowherd the Fox Sports that he does not think 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.760 Dak Prescott can carry a football team. I've heard this 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.080 several times from different people. The Dak good quarterback, not 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.959 the guy that can carry a team. Barry, you've played 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.360 this league. You've seen guys who can carry teams. How 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.920 do you feel about dat? Man? This one's tough, right here, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.200 This one's tough because, like you said, I've played on 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.600 teams the Jacksonville Jaguars who had Blake boardles and arguably 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.920 he was maybe thirty first out of thirty second quarterbacks 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.160 when we were together there, and we were able to 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.600 get to the AFC Championship despite him, just because we 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.720 had an amazing defense. Now we don't have that type 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.679 of defense here with the Dallas Cowboys. We don't have 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.120 any type of resemblance of that defense. But what we 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.440 do have is an explosive offense, and we have a 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.480 great I would say we have a good quarterback with 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.280 the possibility of being great as he develops, but we 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.840 have that on offense. So to me, we now have 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.160 the cap space. We have a little bit of room 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.400 to go ahead. And maybe we might not get a 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.080 Mark Key free agent in the defense. The defensive side 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.720 of the ball, we might not get an the Dominican 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.880 suit or Anthony Harris as far as the safeties are concerned, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.679 because those guys might demand a little bit more coin 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.360 than we're willing to give up. But with the money 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.560 that we do have in that cap space, I feel 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.560 like we can address this defense. I feel like we 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.800 can put a veteran's free safety back there well maybe 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.760 make you know, three to four million dollars nothing to 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.320 break the bank. But there's a lot of options out 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.560 there at safety. Veteran safety with a great skill set, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.360 who can play that middle of the field defender, who 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.760 could be that Earl Thomas type safety for this defense. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.080 I mean, there's Tayshaw Gibson out there who last year 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.080 I think he played for the Bears for two point 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.560 five or maybe three million. There's Trey Boston out there 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.520 who won't even demand that much in the free agent market. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.720 So I think there's options out there. And you still 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.080 can address that defensive line. Like I said, you might 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.280 not get in the Dominican suit, but you can get 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.520 that Call Lawson from Cincinnati. You can get some of 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.080 these lower tier defensive tackles that are better than what 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.880 you have right now, and you compare them with Neville 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.880 Gallimore out there and see what can happen. But we 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.960 have the cap space to address this defense, something that 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.839 I thought we didn't have, or we wouldn't have once 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.880 we paid Dak and I thought for sure, there's no 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.280 way Dad can carry this team with the defense that's 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.880 constructed right now. But if we can address this defense 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.320 with that little bit of cap room that we have. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.800 I think he has the capabilities of taking his team 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.400 far and to me that he's a good quarterback, he 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.760 might be great overtime. But if we can't address this 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.840 defense a little bit, I think we have the solution 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.480 to maybe reaching those heights that we want to see. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.920 All right, Church, So in your opinion, when Jimmy says 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.800 a guy a quarterback who can carry a team, doesn't 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.640 believe Dak, is that guy? Give me three quarterbacks in 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.760 your opinion in the NFL who do carry their teams, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.480 who do carry their team, I would have to say 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:29.439 Patrick Mahomes. Put Patrick Mahomes on there. You know I 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.920 would put I'm hesitant, but I think he can have 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.760 the capabilities of carrying the team. And that's Russell Wilson. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.880 He hasn't done much since the Legion of Boom left, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.080 but he's kind of always kept that team in playoff contention. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.840 So I say, if he has a little bit more 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.280 help here and there, he's one of those guys that 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.720 can carry a team. And he's young right now, so 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.040 I have to put him. I gotta put him in 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.440 there because he's young right now, and he had an 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.200 amazing season last year. Even though they didn't the record 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.880 didn't show, he still played well. And I think if 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.839 you add maybe one or two pieces, he can carry 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.280 a team with a terrible defense. And that's the Shaun Watson. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.960 Outside of those three quarterbacks, you know, Brady's up there 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.960 in age and what he had around him in Tampa Bay, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.880 most quarterbacks would be able to win with. So I 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.360 can't put Brady in there. Oh there's one more. I 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.400 gotta put Aaron Rodgers in there. I gotta put Rodgers 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.520 in there. His remarkable arm talent. I mean, he eat that, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.560 He's seen pretty much every defense out there. So I 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.440 gotta put Rodgers in there. But outside of those four quarterbacks, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.079 I'm not sure there's anyone left in the NFL I 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.319 can carry a team by themselves. But outside of those 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:31.040 four quarterbacks, and see, to me, I'm gonna stop it 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.920 at just Mahomes, Rogers and Brady. I mean, put those 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.640 three right over here, and I'm looking at these guys. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.840 These are Super Bowl winners, These are are MVPs. Put 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.480 them over there and everyone else. I mean, look, I 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.280 love DeShawn Watson. And what are the fun things about 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.280 playing fantasy football? And you have a quarterback as you 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.480 follow him every week, you watch all them snaps and 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.360 I had Watson last year. Watson is a fantastic player. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.880 But even you saw what was their record? Yeah? What hap? 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.800 Yeah it was a four to twelve. I think you know, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.720 he kind of reminds me of the Watson kind of 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.319 reminds me of the Russell Westbrook, who you know, he 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.800 could put up all these phenomenal he could average a 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:13.559 triple double. Oh no, I'm sorry. You guys still got me? Hello? Yeah, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.520 I got you hello, Okay if I thought I was off. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.880 But the sign he kind of reminds me of the 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.480 Russell Westbrook of the NFL, Like he can average a 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.600 triple double, put up all these stats, win MVPs. But 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.080 at the end of the day, is he gonna bring 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.000 you that hardware? Is he gonna make this team a 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.440 competitive team in the playoffs? I'm not quite sure. I 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.600 lean to put him in there just because he's still 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.880 so young, but overall, you gotta put a little bit 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.600 of talent around him to see the fruits of his production. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.600 But yeah, I would agree with you on that one. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.080 And so my thing with with Russell. When you put 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.840 in Russell Wilson that category and Deshaun Watson. And to me, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.480 most quarterbacks are like that. They're they're only about you know, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.240 the three guys I named who consider up here, put 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.480 a team on their shoulders and go Lamar Jackson's won 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.240 an MVP in this league, and I have a lot 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.640 of respect for his ability. Josh Allen's is shown us 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.280 he's a really good football player. But they're still needing 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.840 some help here. So we got three guys in this 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.960 league right now that you can say, put that dude 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.840 out there, that guy will go win you the game. 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.040 And to me, everybody else is gonna have some warts 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.080 and some flaws. And that's where Dak Prescott fits in. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.040 And so when Jimmy talks about, you know, him making 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.720 this kind of money and paying him and he's gonna 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.360 limit your cap every year, we keep seeing that happened. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.080 Andrew Luck got paid and unfortunately injuries hurt him. But 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.280 you know what, even he was not that guy who 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.280 you know, he did well with the Colts, but you know, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.880 once he needed help. So this is the nature of 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.480 the game. Dad got his money in four years, somebody's 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.800 gonna go go blow past the money. So dat knows 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.520 now that the bull's eyes on him. And I want 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.680 to bring up another point of former Dallas cowboy had 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.640 to say, and that's Darryl moose Johnston. Actually know I'll 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.080 bring up that. I'll bring that up later on, bring 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.640 it up later on. Here. Want to touch in here 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.480 on another DAK reaction, and that's Jerry Jones. Jerry Joe 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:59.640 said he overpaid and he was glad to Oh, how 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:06.160 you feel well? Actually, how did you feel? It was okay? 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.320 This is why you had to be there, and being 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.760 there and hearing it are two different things. Because when 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.360 he at first he said anything that I ever bought 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:21.080 a value I overpaid for. He said I overpaid for 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.240 the Dallas Cowboys. Everybody told me how dumb I was 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.000 and it was a bad deal. Even Donald Trump back 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.520 in the nineties said, hey, I could have bought the Cowboys, 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.360 but it was so much money as a bad it 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.480 was a bad investment. And then he said I overpaid 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.520 for DAK. And then so it was a hey, yeah, overpaid, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.520 But you know what, you overpaid for good things. And 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.480 if you underpaid for something, what are you gonna get? 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.400 You're gonna get something that's not that valuable. So he 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.360 put Dak in that category. So when you say, how 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.640 did you feel the way he said it, it made 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.840 Dak feel like, okay, yeah, you know what, you got 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.680 the best of me. And he even said, if I 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.120 had to pay a single human being, I don't mind 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.520 paying the guy to my right. So he was very 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.240 complimentary in what he did. But he did over He 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.680 overpaid because you and I know they could have got 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.440 it for thirty two. You know, oh yeah, two years 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.960 ago they probably probably could have got him for thirty right, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.960 so they messed it up. Yeah, so there's no doubt 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:19.159 he overpaid because hey, you did it. But this is 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.040 been and we've talked about it right here on the 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.720 players side. So this has been the Jerry Jones m 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.840 He overpaid on Tank. Lawrence could have got Tank at 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.720 a cheaper price. Overpaid on Himari Cooper should have got 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.960 the Cooper deal done when they made the trade for him, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.399 didn't do it. Overpaid on Ezekiel Elliott made him the 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.080 tops heay running back in the game. He overpaid there. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.639 This is what he's done consistently, and you knew you 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.919 were gonna have to overpay for the quarterback. But but 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.639 that's a great thing about what you brought up. Was like, 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.480 that's what you took from it when he said he 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.280 was overpaid, But being there and hearing him say and 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.320 how he was trying to convey it, it's like, yeah, man, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.480 I overpaid, but you know what, everything overpaid for was 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.480 worth it. This guy's worth it. So so I gotta 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.800 ask you this, how was the enter when you were 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.680 in there, Like was it like everybody was kind of 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.639 sitting on pins and needles or was there like a 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.399 lot of tension, Like how was the energy because on 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.679 the TV it seemed like, you know, everybody was just 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.119 like all giddy and just I can't believe this is 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.240 what it is. So I just wanted to like being 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.959 there in person, was there a lot of tension or 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:17.800 was it just like everybody was just happy that it 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.879 finally got done and we can move forward with this. Yeah. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:28.280 So this was the first team press conference the NFL's 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.120 had for a team. The last time the NFL had 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.200 just a press conference all year long with the media 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:34.720 and the people there the same thing, you know, in 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.919 the same room, that was the Super Bowl. So no 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.119 other NFL team has done what the Cowboys did, and 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.680 bringing out Dak Presscott. Let's do it in person. Everything's 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.920 been virtual since last March. So this was the first 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:52.560 time Jerry was happy to be into the building seeing people. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.919 He really loved it. He missed being in the arena 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:57.760 of dealing with the media in the back and forth. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.000