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Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys players. They were safeties and their times
Speaker 1: here in the Silver and Blue. Talking about Danny McCray
Speaker 1: and Barry Church. We have one full week of NFL
Speaker 1: football played in this COVID pandemic, so congratulations to the
Speaker 1: league forgetting it done. We had two games wrap up
Speaker 1: yesterday from Monday Night Football. The Steelers take out the
Speaker 1: New York Giants in game one, and then the second game,
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos hosted the Tennessee Titans, with the Titans
Speaker 1: ending up winning that game sixteen fourteen. All right, very
Speaker 1: week one. What do you think and what you think
Speaker 1: about the Monday Night games? Last game? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start out with this New York, this New
Speaker 1: York game that they had out there. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought our offensive line looked bad a little bit during
Speaker 1: that Week one loss against the Rams, But I mean
Speaker 1: we're nowhere near as treacherous as that New York or
Speaker 1: New York Giants offensive line. Look. I mean, eleven out
Speaker 1: of sixteen carries for Tae Kwon Barkley, he was hit
Speaker 1: in the backfield. He didn't even get a chance to
Speaker 1: get to the line of scrimmage to see what he
Speaker 1: can do. I mean, so that just gives me a
Speaker 1: more positive light towards this Dallas officive line because New
Speaker 1: York looked horrendous. And Danny Dimes, I mean, he had
Speaker 1: his flashing moments. I feel like Jason Garrett called a
Speaker 1: pretty good game. He kept to steal his off balance.
Speaker 1: For the most part, it was just the mistakes made
Speaker 1: by Danny Dimes towards you know they were They had
Speaker 1: a nineteen play drive and then they got down to
Speaker 1: the red zone. All he had to do was throw
Speaker 1: the ball away. There was no one open. Yet. He
Speaker 1: made a rookie mistake in his second year, and probably
Speaker 1: that was a turning point of the game. So if
Speaker 1: I'm in my outlook of that first game, it just
Speaker 1: it goes down to the offensive line play again in
Speaker 1: the trenches. It just looked horrendous. Yeah, same here, uh
Speaker 1: from last night. I'll tell you this, Pittsburgh is on
Speaker 1: our schedule and their defense ain't nothing to play with.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you're not ready to play and
Speaker 1: you haven't schemed up ways to slow this defensive line
Speaker 1: down this front seventh, they will eat you alive. So
Speaker 1: we learned a little bit from them. Um, Like you said,
Speaker 1: Danny Downs made a huge mistake at at that nineteen
Speaker 1: play drive which was which was it just killed? Um?
Speaker 1: I honestly thought it was a good game. I feel
Speaker 1: bad for sake one because if they don't block this season,
Speaker 1: he won't have many good stats. His games will look
Speaker 1: very similar to those. He'll be lining up at the
Speaker 1: ex receiver soon just so they can so they can
Speaker 1: get them some getting the ball in his hands because
Speaker 1: the offensive line is not blocking on the run. Um.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was a good game. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Big Band for coming back, uh, you know, showing
Speaker 1: showing that he still can do it, and Juju showing
Speaker 1: that if he if he has a quarterback, then he
Speaker 1: can still make plays. He doesn't need Ab. So it
Speaker 1: was good to see see those two connect and big
Speaker 1: being get out there and make some play. Hey, and
Speaker 1: I know I don't say this much, but man, man
Speaker 1: shout out to Toledo. Man. You see the young cat
Speaker 1: out there, I say, Johnson, the wide receiver out there.
Speaker 1: I mean he looked like a young ab out there,
Speaker 1: quick as lightning. So they shout out to Toledo man.
Speaker 1: They produced sakes and wide receivers. You know. Just I was.
Speaker 1: I was nervous for him, man, because he started off
Speaker 1: run though. Church. He started off, He started off real rough.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, here we go again. He ended
Speaker 1: up he ended up pulling it out. Though he ended
Speaker 1: it up pulling it out all right. For those of
Speaker 1: you who don't know, Bury Church played football for the
Speaker 1: Toledo Rockets. He doesn't ever talk about his Alba Art
Speaker 1: love admiration that Danny does for LSU or I do
Speaker 1: for USC Pembroke. So why is that Church? You never
Speaker 1: you never really broke it down. Pullos man. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: break it down, you know, for the listeners man, because Toledo.
Speaker 1: You know, like I went there. I played safety, strictly
Speaker 1: safety my first two years. Man, I was a freshman
Speaker 1: All American, all the first team, All MAC, all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. And then my junior year they decide to
Speaker 1: move me to this hybrid linebacker position. It just blew
Speaker 1: my mind. I mean, I felt like I was playing
Speaker 1: great as safety and then they moved me to this
Speaker 1: hybrid linebacker position. For my last two years, still made
Speaker 1: all MAC and all that stuff, but it was just frustrating, man,
Speaker 1: Just just frustrating situation there. But you know, shout out
Speaker 1: to Toledo, man, they do want to hide out there.
Speaker 1: So so you've made at the coaching staff, not the university. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm mad that coaches that, and the coaches have not
Speaker 1: there anymore. So I gotta started showing some more love
Speaker 1: to Toledo. But yeah, they didn't be dirty, man, they
Speaker 1: didn't me wrong. You know what, Church, I look at
Speaker 1: it this way, despite the adversity, look at what you've
Speaker 1: done out of it. I mean, maybe it I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's a good case, but maybe if it was different,
Speaker 1: who knows how it would have worked out for you.
Speaker 1: Because you came to a situation with the Cowboys where
Speaker 1: you were able to make the team as an undrafted
Speaker 1: free agent. You ended up becoming a starter, and then
Speaker 1: you got that big time, that big time deal out
Speaker 1: of Jacksonville. So if you're drafted, maybe you don't you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it got you. I don't know, man, just it
Speaker 1: just it just worked out, right, just worked out. This
Speaker 1: is true. This is very true. I mean ended up
Speaker 1: working out in my favor. So I guess I can't
Speaker 1: be too mad. I just know at the time I
Speaker 1: was pretty hot, and I figured that's the reason I
Speaker 1: didn't get drafted. So but it ended up ended up
Speaker 1: working out, like you said, you know, I just it
Speaker 1: just took me a while to get over it. That's
Speaker 1: all all right. That Tennessee Denver game, the once brilliance
Speaker 1: of Stephen Gatskovski is gone. And it makes me think
Speaker 1: one more time to how Bill Belichick truly understands how
Speaker 1: to get rid of a football player a year two early.
Speaker 1: Because the miss kicks almost cost the Titans the football game,
Speaker 1: but they end up winning it sixteen to fourteen. That
Speaker 1: that's what my big takeaway out of watching that as
Speaker 1: a Tennessee's got to get themselves a kicker if they
Speaker 1: want to go as far as they did last year,
Speaker 1: and they were one game away from the super Bowl
Speaker 1: last season, losing they actually championship game to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Danny, your thoughts on that man? That game
Speaker 1: came on so late. I forgot that it was yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was. It was tough man
Speaker 1: to see that guy missed those kicks. But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, the coach still put it on him at
Speaker 1: the end and showed him that he had confidence in
Speaker 1: him to win the game. And he came out there
Speaker 1: and he made the field goal. I tell Derek, Henry
Speaker 1: is still a monster. He's going to be a problem
Speaker 1: for the whole NFL and especially in that division. So
Speaker 1: as long as they have him, they still have a
Speaker 1: chance to win that division and be a contender in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah. I can feel for Gustkowski right there.
Speaker 1: I mean you could just see the frustration in his eyes,
Speaker 1: his body language after those miss kicks. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was able to go out there and redeem itself for
Speaker 1: the game winner. But you just gotta feel for a
Speaker 1: guy like that. And I'm with you Knui on this point.
Speaker 1: I mean, it goes to show you the genius of
Speaker 1: Bill Bill Belichick, because right now he's looking really smart.
Speaker 1: I mean, he got rid of Gustkowski, he went out
Speaker 1: there and Shanka Potamus everything. Then he got rid of
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, who he had a decent game, but he
Speaker 1: didn't look like the Tom Brady of old. And then
Speaker 1: he went and got on a flyer with Cam Newton
Speaker 1: for you know, Vet minimum. And he looks like a
Speaker 1: genius the way he's out there doing it right now.
Speaker 1: So kudos to Bill Belichick on that one. Hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Here we
Speaker 1: go with Bill Belichick. Okay, would you rather would you
Speaker 1: rather have? I listen, and though we take out they
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl last year and all this,
Speaker 1: would you rather have Cam Newton or Jimmy G on
Speaker 1: your team? Right now? Cam Newton? Because they definitely because
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick definitely wanted Jimmy G. That was the air apparent,
Speaker 1: right so you know, he could have been stuck with
Speaker 1: Jimmy G and Cam Newton could have been somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So as much as he does know, I think this
Speaker 1: worked out for him. In that case, it's still worth doubt.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see that bottom lines, It still worked out.
Speaker 1: And for Bill Belichick. You think about nine too Boll
Speaker 1: appearances and six six Super Bowl wins, it has worked
Speaker 1: out for very much in his favor. So, um, you
Speaker 1: got to get Bill the benefit of the doubt. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you look at these things, are you gonna miss on something? Sure,
Speaker 1: everybody misses, but he's clearly hit on more than anyone
Speaker 1: that I've seen in my years of covering football. And
Speaker 1: I covered Bill Belichick when I was in Cleveland before
Speaker 1: when the Browns ended up leaving town here. So you
Speaker 1: could have never told me he would have the kind
Speaker 1: of success that he's had and that he's going to
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame at that time, and
Speaker 1: they had a really good staff and we can all
Speaker 1: look look back now of how many great players and
Speaker 1: coaches were there with the Cleveland Browns during that era.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing, and I definitely was with
Speaker 1: him most of the time. Here's one thing that I
Speaker 1: took away, especially if you're Cowboy fans. All right, listen up, Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody on the players line right now, listen up. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys face the NFC West, and they faced the AFC
Speaker 1: North this year. Those teams and those divisions right now
Speaker 1: look really good. Obviously, we saw what the Rams have. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Rams brought that running game back and if they
Speaker 1: can run, that's gonna help make Jared Golf a lot better.
Speaker 1: Seattle ended up taking Atlanta to the woodshed that that
Speaker 1: score could have been worse than what it was. Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson Thorne four touchdown passes there. Then you look over
Speaker 1: the AFC North and then the Cowboys got to go
Speaker 1: to Baltimore. They get Pittsburgh at home. We saw roethlisbergers,
Speaker 1: the three touchdown passes, the dominant defense they had in
Speaker 1: Baltimore just took Cleveland apart in that football game. So
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a couple of teams right there
Speaker 1: on the schedule for the Cowboys that they got to
Speaker 1: really pay attention to because it's not going to be
Speaker 1: easy trying to get to the ten wins. And I said,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna get to so a lot of
Speaker 1: work when you look at those divisions there. But it's
Speaker 1: still weak one. Okay, it's still week one. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: are like a whole lot of half the league. Okay,
Speaker 1: taking an l and despite as bad as we felt,
Speaker 1: they looked at times. They still lost by three points,
Speaker 1: So that's the bright side of things. Let's dive into
Speaker 1: the injuries here, gentlemen. Jerry Jones on one or five
Speaker 1: three the fans saying that the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 1: address their injuries within house. So cam Irvin was Gotamaniscu's
Speaker 1: gonna miss two to four weeks, got Lake Vanderesh with
Speaker 1: a collarbone injury, broke collarbone, he's gonna miss probably six
Speaker 1: to eight weeks. Then he got tight at Blake jar
Speaker 1: went out for the year. Danny, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about Jerry saying, Hey, we're gonna look in house and
Speaker 1: try and fill these positions, not gonna go look outside first.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I mean it's smart because the
Speaker 1: guys you know in house have been guys who've been
Speaker 1: through the system, and they're familiar with the coaches and
Speaker 1: the plays and the schemes, and you know, did the
Speaker 1: weeks go by fast? Right? We're coming up on Wednesday
Speaker 1: where you're already inputting stuff, so it is more difficult
Speaker 1: to go outside and look for a guy who can
Speaker 1: step up and play this week. But I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the people who are filling
Speaker 1: in for the long term in this season, which for
Speaker 1: the LV'ST position, I think it'll be a season long thing.
Speaker 1: I think they will have to go outside and find
Speaker 1: somebody to fill that position outside of you know what
Speaker 1: they have now, because I don't see his season long
Speaker 1: replacement in the locker room currently. Yeah, for me, it
Speaker 1: makes me extremely nervous that he's talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: just bringing in the in house guys to help replace
Speaker 1: these dis unit. Now, if there was a healthy Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: then I would say, okay, you know, the linebacker positions
Speaker 1: should be just fine. But with Lve going down, do
Speaker 1: they assume I assume that they're gonna put Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: in there. And nothing against Joe Thomas. I think he's explosive,
Speaker 1: he's fast, and he can run sideline the sideline, But
Speaker 1: I just don't see him as an every day or
Speaker 1: every down backer just banging in there in the trenches.
Speaker 1: I see him more as maybe at nickel or dime
Speaker 1: type backer or a cover situations. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: goes on in that situation. And as far as the
Speaker 1: tight end goes with Blake Jarwin going down, Dalton Schultz, Yes,
Speaker 1: they say he had a pretty impressive camp out there.
Speaker 1: But the way he performed in Week one, dropping those passes,
Speaker 1: I just don't think he's the answer at tight end,
Speaker 1: so we have to who have to usk keep looking
Speaker 1: for that one. But and as far as right tackle,
Speaker 1: I mean Brandon or Still who was in there for
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins. We know Lyle's gonna come back, maybe any
Speaker 1: these next couple of weeks, But still he grated out
Speaker 1: as I believe one of the worst, if not the worst,
Speaker 1: offensive are starting offensive linemen this week a Biro football focus.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we can go in house and
Speaker 1: find these solutions, but we're gonna have to try this
Speaker 1: Week two's coming around soon. Well, listen to my bad
Speaker 1: say bringing up the pro football focus. I think Zach
Speaker 1: Martin was on that list too, for Yeah, for people
Speaker 1: who didn't perform very well. So listen, they can hold out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying for a few weeks and
Speaker 1: get LC back and with the tight end, I know
Speaker 1: I would listen, it's Tuesday. I was hard on Monday,
Speaker 1: you know, on the defense and the old line and
Speaker 1: tight end. I think that what happened with Schultz is
Speaker 1: he was thrust into a position and he didn't think
Speaker 1: he was gonna have to be in right, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the lights may have been too bright for him.
Speaker 1: But I think this week he'll settle down and he'll
Speaker 1: show us why they said he has such a great
Speaker 1: training camp. So I'm gonna give him another chance this week.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm an lightening up and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: try to feel, you know, a little bit more positive
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys going forward. Yesterday was just super frustrating. Danny,
Speaker 1: stay with me right here, because this is where you
Speaker 1: guys come in and help our help the folks who
Speaker 1: tune into the players lunch. How do the Cowboys coaching staff?
Speaker 1: How does the coaching staff and even the teammates, how
Speaker 1: do they get steal In Shultz to raise this game up?
Speaker 1: Because you need these guys this week, So how do
Speaker 1: you get them better? Well? What Church can tell you that?
Speaker 1: You know? So I give you from my experience. Right So,
Speaker 1: when the year that we keep going back to, when
Speaker 1: everybody got hurt, when me and Church were playing, I
Speaker 1: was stressed into a position of you know, having to
Speaker 1: go play starting safety. Well, you know we're not able
Speaker 1: to be on the field as long. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: with the new CBA. So what happens is when you
Speaker 1: go out there and you're practice, the ones get most
Speaker 1: of the important reps. Then the twos get a couple
Speaker 1: of reps, and if you're three, you really don't get
Speaker 1: any game reps, right, so most of your stuff comes
Speaker 1: from film. So a lot of times when when guys
Speaker 1: go down and then you put a guy who's second
Speaker 1: string into that position where he hadn't got as many
Speaker 1: reps as the starters got, so some of the stuff
Speaker 1: may look a little new to him and he didn't
Speaker 1: get that experience. And you see that happened with don't shows.
Speaker 1: I know it happened to me, right, So I think
Speaker 1: this week it'll just be a little bit different. I
Speaker 1: think he'll he'll he'll get a little bit more focused,
Speaker 1: a little bit more attention from the coaches, and I
Speaker 1: think he'll be able to pick up his play. But
Speaker 1: it's it's tough, you know, being in being a second
Speaker 1: team or third team and coming in and having to
Speaker 1: fill that starting role when you hadn't really got as
Speaker 1: many reps as the starters. Yeah, and for me, I think, um,
Speaker 1: I think the situation with still is I just think
Speaker 1: the coaches have to instill that confidence in him. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like you know when they watched him, when
Speaker 1: they break down the film, Yes, he's made some mistakes
Speaker 1: and he gave up a sack towards the end. But
Speaker 1: I I think as a coach, you should just go
Speaker 1: in there and just be raided him and just kind
Speaker 1: of push him down, like, man, you gotta play better
Speaker 1: than this. You gotta step your game up. Because he
Speaker 1: is a young player, he's a rookie and he's trying
Speaker 1: to figure out the game as he goes as a starter.
Speaker 1: He didn't think he was gonna have to be thrust
Speaker 1: into this lineup this early in the season. So I
Speaker 1: just think the coaching staff can just instill that confidence
Speaker 1: in them. Let them let him know that, Hey, we
Speaker 1: know what you can do out there. There's a reason
Speaker 1: you're you're thrust into this position right now, and you're
Speaker 1: a starter. We believe in you, we trusting you. Just
Speaker 1: get that confidence going in him, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: be able to play a lot better and awfully also
Speaker 1: if you just let him know that, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: send help your way. We're gonna have people chipping, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have the running backs chipping. For you on the
Speaker 1: way up for their their patterns or whatever. I just
Speaker 1: think that the coaching staffs needs to just get this
Speaker 1: confidence going in this young man, and I think he'll
Speaker 1: perform a lot better. They're gonna they're gonna send us
Speaker 1: some help. Hopefully the rest of the old line is
Speaker 1: getting killed. If the rest of the old line getting
Speaker 1: is playing like that, there's no way help coming for
Speaker 1: him because they need to show up the inside. So
Speaker 1: hopefully the rest of the old line can perform up
Speaker 1: up up to par and then they can send that
Speaker 1: help over that tune, because like we talked about last week,
Speaker 1: make him tell you that heat unneath the help start
Speaker 1: the game over by helping him. And we didn't do that.
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Speaker 1: safety with the Cowboys. I'm just merely a reporter who
Speaker 1: talks about them, all right, Late Layton vander esh he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss six to eight weeks with a colic bown
Speaker 1: injury and his rookie Erisensational, ended up making the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl last year, missed seven games dealing with a subinal injury,
Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones was asked on his weekly radio show
Speaker 1: on one oh five three The Fan his thoughts on
Speaker 1: the possibility that Laton Vanderesh is injury is injury that
Speaker 1: he had a year and a half year ago, nowhere,
Speaker 1: a year ago that was not an injury prone type injury. Now,
Speaker 1: he plays what I call a space collision position. Those
Speaker 1: are linebackers, safety's, tight ends, fullbacks. Those guys collide in space.
Speaker 1: You have injury at those positions of that nature. But
Speaker 1: still it was so rare or so specific to the
Speaker 1: position he was in when he did it. And I
Speaker 1: don't add that talking about his initial neck injury. I
Speaker 1: don't add that to anything. And I don't think any
Speaker 1: more vulnerable one way or the other. The idea of
Speaker 1: having the injury that he's got right now is just
Speaker 1: mad luck. We've seen it and you do see it
Speaker 1: in football. I think he'll come back from it. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's injury prone. I think he plays
Speaker 1: a tough physical position and he's going to have injury
Speaker 1: that he deals with, all right. That is Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: on one or five three, the fan of Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: flagship radio station, Danny mccraig. Is it just bad luck? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think this makes some injury prone. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that he plays the position where you need
Speaker 1: really you know, your neck in your shoulders, and he
Speaker 1: just had bad luck to me last year and when
Speaker 1: when he injured his neck the first time. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's just going to be a lingering issue
Speaker 1: for for for him and um in his body parts
Speaker 1: that are above the shoulders, right, so his neck and
Speaker 1: all that stuff that he uses to shock and uh
Speaker 1: and control people who are trying to come block him.
Speaker 1: I think that that's going to hold him back for
Speaker 1: the remainder of his career. So I think that that
Speaker 1: six to eight week thing maybe for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, unfortunately, because like we said previously, you don't
Speaker 1: want to play with neck injuries and you don't want
Speaker 1: to come back too soon because they could end your career.
Speaker 1: And we had a guy, Davante Holloman who experienced that.
Speaker 1: So you know, I just hope they take their time
Speaker 1: with him and let him really get healthy before he
Speaker 1: comes back. Yeah, for me, that's a it's a tough question.
Speaker 1: I don't see him as being injury prone just because
Speaker 1: of the injuries that he has to saying that neck
Speaker 1: and that collarbone. I mean, he plays a very demanding
Speaker 1: position where you're constantly banging against you know, three hundred
Speaker 1: pound offensive linemen and trying to shed them off you
Speaker 1: and hitting two hundred and thirty pound running backs coming
Speaker 1: through the through the whole full steam. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say he's injury prone, but I will say he just
Speaker 1: lacks door ability. Maybe maybe that's a better way to
Speaker 1: put it. Because if you're playing that position, that linebacker,
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta be thirty. I mean you're gonna
Speaker 1: be banging pretty much every single place. So to have
Speaker 1: those soft tissue injuries and that collarbone and the neck,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's just not a good sign. Those
Speaker 1: are injuries, like mccrai said, that can linger along. And
Speaker 1: if you're a linebacker in this National Football League, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be banging every single place. So to have a
Speaker 1: neck issue or to have a collarbone issue, yeah, it
Speaker 1: might heal up in a couple of weeks. But all
Speaker 1: you're gonna do is get right back on those field
Speaker 1: and bang and bang and bang some more. It ain't
Speaker 1: like you're a corner or a safety where you might
Speaker 1: hit you know, every once every five plays. I mean,
Speaker 1: if a linebacker're hitting every place, So I just think
Speaker 1: I don't think he's injury prone. I just think he
Speaker 1: has to maybe do some more work on the soft
Speaker 1: tissue injuries, get more adorable because going out there in
Speaker 1: this Mike Nolan system, he's going to be pretty much
Speaker 1: banging every play. So he just gotta get more adorable
Speaker 1: to last dro off the season. So, so how does
Speaker 1: a player get more durable? With Sean Lee, who's already
Speaker 1: on injured reserve from it's the first three games for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. This is the story of Sean Lee's whole
Speaker 1: career is not being available and having a deal with injuries.
Speaker 1: So if Lake Vanders, she's not injury prone and it's
Speaker 1: bad luck, what will we call Sean Lee and what
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys have gone and dealt with with him?
Speaker 1: When he plays, he's good. He doesn't play a lot
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, And I think I think Vander
Speaker 1: has just kind of falling into that same type of
Speaker 1: type of mole. When they're on the field, when they're healthy,
Speaker 1: they're top five linebackers out there. It's just when they
Speaker 1: don't play, I mean, they just don't enough, you know,
Speaker 1: like we said. But I'm with Vanders as far as
Speaker 1: his durability and that soft tissue injuries. For me, I'm
Speaker 1: not a professional or anything like that, but I just
Speaker 1: think it has to do with flexibility. Man, if you're
Speaker 1: if you're out there stiff, really stiff, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: gonna pull more things. You're gonna have more soft tissue injuries.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's a fact that he has to work
Speaker 1: more on his flexibility than going out there and working
Speaker 1: on trying to strengthen things up. Just trying to work
Speaker 1: on your flexibility and at me, I'll help you last
Speaker 1: a little bit longer. Well, I'm gonna go, I'll say that.
Speaker 1: So I kind of categorize these two is is pretty different,
Speaker 1: just because Sean Lee hasn't really had those like an
Speaker 1: injury like l Vee has, Right, I think the neck
Speaker 1: and the college like breaking bones and messing up your
Speaker 1: spinal card is a little different than you know, pull
Speaker 1: pulling a hamstring repeatedly or messing up your acl especially
Speaker 1: playing a linebacker position. I just think it's really different. Now.
Speaker 1: I think it's unfortunate that his first real injury for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys happened to be a neck injury. You you
Speaker 1: would rather see something in the lower body with a
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to see any But if
Speaker 1: it's hamstring or acl or something like that, I think
Speaker 1: that's just the outlook for that as a little better.
Speaker 1: But a neck injury for a linebacker, especially a mike,
Speaker 1: a guy who's coming and taking on blocks almost every play,
Speaker 1: is it's just tough to overcome. And uh, you know it.
Speaker 1: You can't really help like a broken colibone, right, you
Speaker 1: can't train it during the off season to make your
Speaker 1: calibone stronger. So it's it's just difficult form. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: let's dive into the other linebacker spot. Because when we
Speaker 1: were talking about guys that we needed to, you know,
Speaker 1: have big twenty twenties, I said it was the linebackers.
Speaker 1: I included in both Layton Vanderesh and Jalen Smith. Sol
Speaker 1: Lake Vanderesh one game into this is already gonna miss
Speaker 1: some significant time for the Cowboys, and Jalen Smith is
Speaker 1: a guy that I felt like, for some reason, I've
Speaker 1: seen a couple of folks, Charles Robinson of Y'allhoo Sports
Speaker 1: and then Michael Gelkin of the Dallas Were News. They
Speaker 1: really piled on high on Jalen Smith, and then they
Speaker 1: talked about the Pro Football Focus Great, which gave him
Speaker 1: a grade of twenty nine point five. Mike Nolan, defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: was asked yesterday by the media to assess Jalen Smith's play.
Speaker 1: Here's Mike Milan ten tackles, and I wouldn't. I would
Speaker 1: say this. I thought Jalen played well. I thought he
Speaker 1: played with great energy. He had some plays in the games,
Speaker 1: as many of us did last night. There were plays
Speaker 1: we'd like to have back, But all in all, I
Speaker 1: thought he did a good job. He had to step
Speaker 1: back into the play caller role that he hadn't done
Speaker 1: this training camp, but that's not a hard thing for him.
Speaker 1: He's a natural leader as it is anyway. But I
Speaker 1: thought that a couple of the plays caught him, as
Speaker 1: you know, might I would say this, the screen maybe
Speaker 1: caught him a time or two. They had a play
Speaker 1: designed specifically for the position he was at. I don't
Speaker 1: know that it was for Jalen, but the position that
Speaker 1: was going to occupy that position, It was going to
Speaker 1: cover the running back. They had a little screen where
Speaker 1: they they sent the center out real fast to go
Speaker 1: block the guy. Um and uh, you know, he happened
Speaker 1: to be the one covering the player at the time. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't know that that was intended
Speaker 1: for Jayleen because anyone that was out there was going
Speaker 1: to have a blocker on h himself to cover the
Speaker 1: running back. But all in all, I thought he played
Speaker 1: played a good game. Mike McCarthy, the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, also said he thought Jaylen Smith played well.
Speaker 1: So Barry Church, Danny mccraig, defensive players that you are
Speaker 1: you assessed number fifty four on Sunday night. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: with my assessment on well, first, I just think Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan is you know, he's just being a coach. I
Speaker 1: think he was downplaying it. I mean we've we've seen
Speaker 1: the media pretty much piled on Jalen Smith, so I
Speaker 1: just think the coach was just, you know, downplaying and naked.
Speaker 1: So he's not because he needed he know he need
Speaker 1: He knows he needs Jayleen Smith out there to step
Speaker 1: it up, especially with Elvie down and and Sean Lee out,
Speaker 1: he needs him to step it up. So he didn't
Speaker 1: want to keep piling it on saying how bad he played.
Speaker 1: But do I think he put do? I think jay
Speaker 1: and Smith played a good game. The other night. No,
Speaker 1: not at all. I mean, as we've seen it many times,
Speaker 1: there was miss tackles out there in coverage, he seemed
Speaker 1: pretty much lost. And when they were play action and
Speaker 1: doing those bootlegs, I mean he was all over the field.
Speaker 1: He was in the wrong sense of the way. So
Speaker 1: I didn't think he played very well at all. He
Speaker 1: needs to step his game up a little bit because
Speaker 1: with them, like I said, with the missing of Sean
Speaker 1: Lee and Lve, they're gonna need him to step up,
Speaker 1: especially against that run game. So hopefully Jealen Smith can
Speaker 1: can step his game up this next week against Atlanta. Uh. Yes,
Speaker 1: the same here, But I mean for me, it was
Speaker 1: the entire defense, so it really it really isn't say much.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to be great in coverage, but
Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to be running side out of
Speaker 1: the sideline and then making big hits. I did see
Speaker 1: him make a big a few big collisions, but no
Speaker 1: real real standout plays like like like I expected Um
Speaker 1: and Louis. As as we talk about this, I started thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, what's up with us in linebackers? Right?
Speaker 1: So if you think about this, we drafted Seawan Lee
Speaker 1: h when I was there, and he already had injury problems.
Speaker 1: We drafted Bruce Carter, who already had injury problems. We
Speaker 1: drafted Jaylen Smith, and we already had who already had
Speaker 1: injury problems. And now we have lv who has a
Speaker 1: neck problem. We just hadn't been hidden on linebackers for
Speaker 1: a while. I'll say this, um, we we have seen
Speaker 1: the weaknesses of Jayleen Smith. Okay, we've seen it, despite
Speaker 1: the fact that he made the Pro Bowl. And while
Speaker 1: that's a great order for Jalen and anyone makes it,
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl is not what it used to be.
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, the defensive line did him no favors.
Speaker 1: The defensive line was getting blown back. I mean, what
Speaker 1: you were hoping to have this year was a defensive
Speaker 1: lineman could occupy some blockers so Layton vander esh, Sean
Speaker 1: Lee and and Jayleen Smith could roam and get to
Speaker 1: the football. But when the offensive lind Is for the
Speaker 1: Ams has taken apart the Cowboys d line, that just
Speaker 1: already put you behind the eight ball. With Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: I'm not making any excuses of them at all, but
Speaker 1: these are reasons of why the Cowboys look so bad.
Speaker 1: They've got to fix this again, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: They've got to fix this. And how they do this,
Speaker 1: I don't know where they go to Luke Gifford and
Speaker 1: put Louke Gifford out there. You're gonna roll more with
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas me. I don't know what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: in terms of trying to make this thing work until
Speaker 1: you can hopefully get Sean Lee back. But Jalen was
Speaker 1: one of many guys on Sunday defensively that you that
Speaker 1: you you would put on the milk cart and say, hey,
Speaker 1: where are you? You know, Tank Lawrence missing, where are you?
Speaker 1: So I just felt for some reason there were people
Speaker 1: in the media who just wanted to put it all
Speaker 1: on Jalen Smith to say, like, hey man, you lost
Speaker 1: the game. No. Fifty four was not alone out there
Speaker 1: and not having his best defensive performance. The Cowboys got
Speaker 1: beat up on the defensive line and it just went
Speaker 1: on from there in my opinion, and how that thing went, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was topped the bottom. That was that was coaching,
Speaker 1: and that was that was the players. It definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: just on fifty four, you know, like you said, the
Speaker 1: d line was getting getting pushed back, and they had
Speaker 1: linemen in their face, so linebackers were making contact with
Speaker 1: the running back four yards passed the line of scrimmage already,
Speaker 1: so they really didn't have a chance. I wouldn't blame
Speaker 1: this on the linebackers at all. I just think it
Speaker 1: was top down. You know our scheme. We got out
Speaker 1: schemed and we got outplayed. We have Jerry Jones with
Speaker 1: comments about Don Terry Poe, the first Dallas Cowboy to
Speaker 1: ever kneel during the national anthem, and also some breaking
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Speaker 1: for the national anthem at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
Speaker 1: There was a first. A Dallas Cowboy has never taken
Speaker 1: a knee during the national anthem. While over a half
Speaker 1: dozen players for the Rams decided to take a knee,
Speaker 1: there was just one Cowboy who did it. That was
Speaker 1: Don Terry Poe. Here is Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who
Speaker 1: in the past had said he would kick off any
Speaker 1: player off his team who did not respect the flag,
Speaker 1: but said before this season he was show grace. Here's
Speaker 1: Jerry on Don Terry Poe. Neely. I thought they are players.
Speaker 1: I thought they gave it the sensitivity. Uh, they showed
Speaker 1: respect to pose decision uh there and uh I think
Speaker 1: they certainly did as close. I hope it was apparent
Speaker 1: to everybody air fans they did show a sensitivity to
Speaker 1: our fans as a team. Uh. But also as I
Speaker 1: hope to ask in a very sensitive way, uh, that
Speaker 1: the situation have help that we hope comes. All in all,
Speaker 1: I thought our team was a very real, very januine
Speaker 1: and the way it approached him, all right, that's Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on Don Terry Poe taking
Speaker 1: a knee. Now, Don Terry po and so many players
Speaker 1: who took a knee are out there lead picking up
Speaker 1: where Colin Kaepernick who originally took a knee with the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers, and he first out on
Speaker 1: the bench and then he was convinced by former Green
Speaker 1: Beret Nate Boyer to take a knee. And Colin Kaepernick's
Speaker 1: whole message was there were too many people who were
Speaker 1: African American dying at the hands of police, that there
Speaker 1: was injustice going on. And one of the names that
Speaker 1: people have spoken about many times is Brianna Taylor. Well
Speaker 1: today in Louisville, Kentucky, breaking news, there was a press
Speaker 1: conference held by Mayor Greg Fisher announcing that Brianna Taylor's
Speaker 1: family will receive a twelve million dollars settlement. In addition,
Speaker 1: significant police reforms will be implemented in the city of Louisville.
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor died in March after police officers executed a
Speaker 1: no knock warrant in her apartment and they shot her
Speaker 1: eight times. Other things is coming out of this news
Speaker 1: conference is commanding officers must approve search warrants, incentives for
Speaker 1: police officers who live in a city, improve relationships with
Speaker 1: the community and social workers to help with mental health calls.
Speaker 1: And also the mayor said that the twelve million dollars
Speaker 1: settlement does not acknowledge wrongdoing or fault in Brianna Taylor's death.
Speaker 1: And Ben Crump, the attorney for the for the family,
Speaker 1: says that the twelve million dollars is the largest wrongful
Speaker 1: death settlement ever paid for a black woman killed by
Speaker 1: police in America. So that is the latest on that situation.
Speaker 1: So many times when we watched the NBA Games, the
Speaker 1: w NBA Games, Brianna Taylor has been very adamant on
Speaker 1: T shirts. I thought I think Sean Payton of the
Speaker 1: Saints had it on the face mask he wore at
Speaker 1: the Superdome over the weekend. So twelve million dollars does
Speaker 1: not bring back Brianna Taylor to her family, But I
Speaker 1: did want to at least bring that news out there
Speaker 1: because this has been um. Something has linked sports um
Speaker 1: with social injustice. Here with Brianna Taylor, gentlemen, I'll see
Speaker 1: at the floor to you go ahead, d mac Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so twelve million and no wrong doing, huh uh. Listen,
Speaker 1: the price tag on life is is very steep, and
Speaker 1: twelve million the uncovered. I'm sure the family is still
Speaker 1: looking for justice for the daughter, the sister, you know,
Speaker 1: the niece, and I really hope they get it right.
Speaker 1: And they said it in the presson meeting that this
Speaker 1: is only the beginning. It's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, they have to be held accountable.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad that, you know, people were able to
Speaker 1: bring attention to this enough to where they were able
Speaker 1: to get a settlement of that amount. But I hope,
Speaker 1: you know, they keep pushing for justice, and I hope
Speaker 1: that they reach it and they get it. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, twelve I'm sure that family
Speaker 1: would give all twelve million dollars back just to have her,
Speaker 1: you know, back with their family. But um, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just unfortunate, even when they say, you know,
Speaker 1: no wrongdoing, I mean, she's just shot eight times. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's very unfortunate. And I mean, I hope the
Speaker 1: family still is looking for justice from those police officers.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's hard to even put words into describe,
Speaker 1: you know, how frustrating it is. But um, hopefully it's
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. And with these police
Speaker 1: performs and teaching these these officers, you know, hopefully they
Speaker 1: just make it to where you just can't come up
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I just want to be a police officer.
Speaker 1: I want to just I want to do the training
Speaker 1: and get in there now. I think that hopefully they
Speaker 1: make it to where you have to be experienced or
Speaker 1: you have to have some type of long term training
Speaker 1: before you become a police officer because you give power
Speaker 1: and with a gun to the wrong person. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen what it happened countless time. So hopefully justice
Speaker 1: is just I don't know, it's it's it's tough. That's
Speaker 1: a tough decision. Naomi Osaka, who won the US Women's
Speaker 1: opening tennis she had also wore a mask with Brianna
Speaker 1: Taylor's name on it. So million does not bring her back,
Speaker 1: but it's a part of helping the family get some
Speaker 1: closure and get some justice. So when people criticize the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and a player like Don Terry Poe, this is
Speaker 1: why a guy like Don Terry Poe is legally to
Speaker 1: bring awareness to this issue. To say that Brianna Taylor
Speaker 1: at her home was shot eight times by police. This
Speaker 1: is not right and this has to be fixed in
Speaker 1: America because so many times we are looking at these
Speaker 1: things happening to black people. That's what the players are
Speaker 1: trying to address in several sports. So I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure we got that. That's the latest that
Speaker 1: has just happened within the hour, the news of Brianna
Speaker 1: Taylor's family getting a twelve million dollars settlement from the
Speaker 1: city of Louisville, Kentucky. They have not admitted any wrongdoing
Speaker 1: or fault for her loss of life. I want to
Speaker 1: get back here, Yes, what did so the Cowboys do
Speaker 1: any demonstrations before the game or was it you know
Speaker 1: done Terry Poe a coomi and then you know they
Speaker 1: saw the national anthem and then we kicked off. I
Speaker 1: wasn't able to see the pregame. That's what I saw.
Speaker 1: What's interesting that And I asked Clarence Hill because there
Speaker 1: was a phone call, I should say, a media conference
Speaker 1: call before the season where they had Tyrone Crawford and
Speaker 1: Clarence Hill. The Star Telegram was asking questions about, you know,
Speaker 1: social justice and what Basically he was saying, what are
Speaker 1: the Cowboys going to do? Because we'd seen several teams
Speaker 1: starting to do some things, and Tyrone got a little
Speaker 1: test you with Clarence. He said, yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you offline, you know, he said, I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you because he felt like Clarence was
Speaker 1: really kind of going hard on the Cowboys. But Tyrone
Speaker 1: Crawford said that they were going to do something and
Speaker 1: it was going to be powerful. So we did not
Speaker 1: see any week one. I am wondering does this happen
Speaker 1: at at and T Stadium against the Atlanta Falcons. I
Speaker 1: do wonder because the only person we saw who did
Speaker 1: anything was done Terry Poe. Jacques Taylor wrote a column
Speaker 1: about it over at The Undefeated on ESPN dot com,
Speaker 1: so check that out if you have not seen that
Speaker 1: at all, about how Don Terry Poe was basically out
Speaker 1: there by himself, and certain teammates had even told Don
Speaker 1: Terry for we didn't want you to be out there
Speaker 1: all along. But Poe, who said during training camp he
Speaker 1: was going to take a knee er in the national anthem,
Speaker 1: ended up doing it. Danny, but he see it in
Speaker 1: flip flop like Baker Mayfield wants to go and got tough.
Speaker 1: Uh that that that that was, you know and they lost.
Speaker 1: Shout whatever the Baker Mayfield. I thought it was very
Speaker 1: interesting because a lot of teams did a lot of
Speaker 1: different things and as powerful as they wanted to make it,
Speaker 1: or Soto as they wanted to make it, they went
Speaker 1: out there and they did something to note. It was.
Speaker 1: I think it was a Seahawks versus the Falcons who
Speaker 1: before for the first kickoff that both teams took a
Speaker 1: knee and they kicked the ball through the end zone.
Speaker 1: You know, they came up with something. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do nothing, that's fine. But I believe
Speaker 1: we heard them say that they were and they didn't.
Speaker 1: A shout out to Poe for sticking to his word
Speaker 1: and standing up or taking a knee of what he
Speaker 1: believes in. We'll see, we'll see if they do on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's that's because I chat with players yesterday and I
Speaker 1: asked him, I said, did you have a conversation with
Speaker 1: Tyron Crawford And he said no, they had not, So
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye out on Jason Locke and
Speaker 1: Ford writes for CBS Sports, and he did a pretty
Speaker 1: interesting column talking about Dak Prescott's deal and how things
Speaker 1: fell apart. I just read some of this here and
Speaker 1: get you guys reaction. So they had an agreement, basically,
Speaker 1: they came to an agreement Dak Prescott's agent, Todd France,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys. It was five years for thirty five
Speaker 1: million years, so totally one seventy five. But the sticking point,
Speaker 1: according to Locke and Ford's reporting is Dak side said
Speaker 1: no franchise tag at the end of the deal. Which
Speaker 1: you can do that, okay, where you can simply say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: I'll sign this deal, but you have to agree that
Speaker 1: you will not you do not have the ability to
Speaker 1: put the franchise tag on me at the end. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys refused to do that and that ended up scuttlebutting
Speaker 1: the deal here for the Cowboys. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: since they didn't get that deal done for Dak at
Speaker 1: thirty five, see Patrick Mahomes got his contract done, DESHAUNP.
Speaker 1: Watson just got his deal done for forty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year, and the Baltimore Ravens very soon are gonna
Speaker 1: have to go ahead and take care of Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: They probably will do that this offseason. So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: basically falling further and further behind the eight ball when
Speaker 1: it comes to having any type of negotiation or any
Speaker 1: leverage with Dak Prescott. Next year, Dak's gonna get thirty
Speaker 1: eight million dollars on the franchise tag here. So the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: according to several different sources that were unnamed in this
Speaker 1: Jason Locke and story said, Jerry Jones and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: messed this thing up by not signing Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: they misread the quarterback market. Ferry Church your thoughts that
Speaker 1: you just heard about that, Yeah, I agree with this article.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, they had the agreement in place.
Speaker 1: I mean, he agreed to the five years. All he
Speaker 1: didn't want was a franchise at the end of that
Speaker 1: five years, and I mean, who knows what's going to
Speaker 1: happen throughout those five years. I mean, you know, hope
Speaker 1: he would have stayed healthy, but who knows if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys even wanted to franch would even want the franchise
Speaker 1: him after five years. I think they should have just
Speaker 1: got that deal done. Had him on the books and
Speaker 1: it's a done deal, but they didn't. And now the
Speaker 1: franchise was at thirty one point seven this year, I believe,
Speaker 1: and then next year, if he has another good season,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be at thirty eight. So that'll be around
Speaker 1: forty million guaranteed for seventy million guaranteed through the first
Speaker 1: two years. When Patrick Mahomes, I believe, if the article
Speaker 1: was right, it was only going to get sixty three
Speaker 1: million for his first three years. So I mean the
Speaker 1: guaranteed money for dag first and two franchises is already
Speaker 1: over the Mahomes deal. So I think they made a
Speaker 1: mistake here. And like you said, Deshaun Washton got his
Speaker 1: for a roughly forty million dollars a year. I think
Speaker 1: if they do do a long term deal in the future,
Speaker 1: it's going to cost him between forty two and forty
Speaker 1: three million dollars a year. And that's an extra what
Speaker 1: eight million dollars right there that they could have signed,
Speaker 1: you know, a backup dude or somebody like that in
Speaker 1: another position that's not as pricey as a quarterback. So
Speaker 1: I think they made a mistake, but I think they'll
Speaker 1: get him done long term eventually whole week because I'm
Speaker 1: definitely opposite. This is to me, this is all going
Speaker 1: downhill for Dak being a Cowboy. I'm starting to see
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, this could end up working out
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. And this is only based off what
Speaker 1: happened Week one. If this continues for the entire season,
Speaker 1: I am not paying this dude forty million dollars on
Speaker 1: the franchise tax for next year. You could possibly see
Speaker 1: Dak out of here and us going to make a
Speaker 1: move for somebody like a Rod or something. I told
Speaker 1: you that this is and I'm going to stick with it.
Speaker 1: This is a played out year for Dak, and I
Speaker 1: think they see it that way. If he doesn't, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't produce with all these weapons around him and
Speaker 1: get them to where they believe they should be, then
Speaker 1: we could see a quarter of Dallas Cowboys team without
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott on the next season. You think a Rod's
Speaker 1: gonna come and join McCarthy again, Well, yeah, I listen,
Speaker 1: I say, I say, I say a raw, but I
Speaker 1: really mean they could just go in a different direction
Speaker 1: at quarterback. But I say just because he's probably up
Speaker 1: there upset because they drafted his backup already, Danny, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shock you. Okay, I'm gonna shock you. Danny. I'm
Speaker 1: starting to believe you, man, I really am, because because
Speaker 1: if if you're, if you're okay, you read this article
Speaker 1: and you start talking about the kind of numbers. First off,
Speaker 1: Todd Franz was already going hard on him, and they
Speaker 1: spoke about how this thing got personal. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: to that point in time. If you're the Cowboys, you
Speaker 1: start to look at where this cap is and you
Speaker 1: simply say, if we have all these weapons, and if
Speaker 1: he's not taking us to thirteen wins and we're going
Speaker 1: deep in the playoffs, they may decide, look, we can
Speaker 1: win with Andy Dalton. We can go get some coy.
Speaker 1: Look how many quarterbacks didn't have jobs this offseason who
Speaker 1: were starters, Andy Dalton, Jameis Winston. They could decide to
Speaker 1: go in a different direction. This still is America's team.
Speaker 1: And if you're a free agent quarterback right now, and
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and company say to you, look, there's a
Speaker 1: Ze Elliot, he's Ceedee Lamb, here's a Marii Cooper, here's
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. We'll go try and get you a tight
Speaker 1: end and hopefully Blake Jarber can come back here. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be some people who say, you know, I'll take
Speaker 1: some of that here. So while Todd France may want
Speaker 1: to break the bank here, if you're the cowboys, as
Speaker 1: this thing keeps going further and further, man, as days
Speaker 1: go by, what Danny's saying here is real. They paid
Speaker 1: Tony Romo a nice chunk of money before Tony Romo
Speaker 1: was the guy, but they had faith in him, and
Speaker 1: then they re uped him again. They didn't do that here,
Speaker 1: and at some point in time they're gonna simply say,
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll go somewhere else. Because I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 1: I hate to admit it. Danny's making more and more sense.
Speaker 1: And along the way here, you know who's been right
Speaker 1: about this stuff, Danny, Thank you, so y'all telling me so,
Speaker 1: y'all telling me. After one week, y'all gonna sit there
Speaker 1: and say, hey, you know, there's Jamis Winston's out there
Speaker 1: thirty interceptions, and you're the Jamis Winston's take us out there,
Speaker 1: and then and then knew you said, Andy, don't I mean,
Speaker 1: who else are y'all gonna get That's why I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're talking about going to get these free agents? What
Speaker 1: free agents? What do we yea? Yeah, go ahead, go ahead?
Speaker 1: So so you so if the Cowboys going eight and eight,
Speaker 1: you're paying that thirty amlia next year, what else is
Speaker 1: out there? It'll be something less than thirty eight Andy
Speaker 1: Dawling Jamis win from some rookie in college. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna have a hyper to get one of the fields
Speaker 1: or Lawrence. You go out, you go, you go at
Speaker 1: eight eight. Anyway, why would you pay thirty a million
Speaker 1: dollars for a quarterback? You're not gonna win. It's already problem.
Speaker 1: I don't know where else you're gonna go. I just
Speaker 1: don't know where else you're gonna go. Church, Church. First off,
Speaker 1: when I was at camp and I saw Andy with
Speaker 1: these weapons in this offense, Andy looked fun. When Andy
Speaker 1: had weapons in Cincinnati, they were going to the playoffs now,
Speaker 1: and they do when they got there the same thing
Speaker 1: we did. He wanted to get he run a playoff. Here, Church,
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying here. I'm not telling you that
Speaker 1: I believe Andy is better than that. What I'm simply
Speaker 1: saying here is as these numbers are going to wear
Speaker 1: this article that Jason Locke and for a row. If
Speaker 1: this is where Todd France is that Todd France is
Speaker 1: going to want more than Deshaun Watson a forty million
Speaker 1: if you're talking about having to give him a forty
Speaker 1: two million dollars a year contract. The Cowboys, I believe
Speaker 1: they're going to get to that point where they say,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll go ahead and look at the other option.
Speaker 1: Even though Andy Dalton is not as good as Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: he does know our system, our guys have worked with him.
Speaker 1: We can get Andy on a one year deal. They
Speaker 1: can do that and then draft somebody. I'm just telling you, man,
Speaker 1: the more this thing keeps going further and not getting done,
Speaker 1: you have to start to introduce the fact that they
Speaker 1: can start to say, let's look at play and B
Speaker 1: because it's going to save us a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot of money here. That's like you're saying, well, all
Speaker 1: this talent we have on this roster, all this built
Speaker 1: up talent, you're gonna tell me you'd rather go with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton U and draft somebody to rebuild with all
Speaker 1: this talent you got around them, And they just signed
Speaker 1: Doc Prescott, is that what you're saying what I'm saying, Okay, Danny,
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know where the agent is trying to go with
Speaker 1: this thing where the agent is gonna sit up here
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, I think my guys better than Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: If Watson got forty, I want forty one, I want
Speaker 1: forty two, and Jerry says, no, I don't want to
Speaker 1: pay that, and then you're talk about on a four
Speaker 1: year deal and no, by the way, don't franchise tag me.
Speaker 1: I don't see the Cowboys going for If they didn't
Speaker 1: go for this, I don't know how they're gonna sit
Speaker 1: up here keep going to forty and forty two. Because
Speaker 1: when you read when you read the column, Locking for
Speaker 1: a wrote, he says, the Cowboys have continually missed the
Speaker 1: mark on this, that they have messed up along the way,
Speaker 1: and at some point in time, how long do you
Speaker 1: keep digging this hole? And you just say, you know what,
Speaker 1: that we love you, but we're not going to pay
Speaker 1: this price. We'll take a quarterback who's not as good
Speaker 1: as you, but it's not going to cost us the same.
Speaker 1: We still feel like we have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: talent around here and we'll go there. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: what Danny is saying is starting to make more and
Speaker 1: more sense to me. Despite what the fact that Stephen
Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones say we want to sign that we
Speaker 1: loved they told us at all offseason and they didn't
Speaker 1: get a deal done. This thing has become personal. It
Speaker 1: was personal last September, according to several reports that they
Speaker 1: Jerry thought he had to deal done with Todd Franz
Speaker 1: and it didn't work out. So when Danny says, hey,
Speaker 1: if this team is just a five hundred team or
Speaker 1: just a little bit above five hundred, is it worth
Speaker 1: it to you to pay forty forty two million dollars
Speaker 1: and not be able to go out here and fill
Speaker 1: out the rest of your roster because they missed the
Speaker 1: boat on this church. That's not crazy at all to
Speaker 1: say they could decide we'll go with an and adult. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's why I don't think. I mean, I said my piece,
Speaker 1: So I think you just stuck on the Andy Dalton Park.
Speaker 1: It'll be somebody else out there. It'll be a deal
Speaker 1: to be made for a different quarterback, even if it's
Speaker 1: not Andy Dalton. Like, once the season's over, a lot
Speaker 1: of things have changed, and I think some guys will be,
Speaker 1: uh will come available for them to get if if
Speaker 1: if we have to go down that road, and this
Speaker 1: is all predicated if they if they go eight and
Speaker 1: eight or nine and seven, this all predicated is they
Speaker 1: don't go to at least at least win the playoff game. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: you know Cam Newton can be available. I mean there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some guys now. And okay, this also comes
Speaker 1: into the fact you've got a quarterback guy who's worked
Speaker 1: with two good quarterbacks are gonna go a Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame one day, and Mike McCarthy. So this is where
Speaker 1: you go back and you put it on your head coach,
Speaker 1: hey man, make this guy better. The same way you
Speaker 1: go to a John Gruten, you go to Sean McBain,
Speaker 1: and you said, hey, look, you're supposed to be the
Speaker 1: quarterback guru. Guy, go go ahead and make a guy better.
Speaker 1: But as this goes along, Church, I'm no longer just
Speaker 1: gonna sit up here and say, hey, Jones family said
Speaker 1: they're gonna get it done. They're gonna get it done.
Speaker 1: They haven't gotten it done. And in the past I
Speaker 1: could always rely upon and say, hey, they always get
Speaker 1: their person. Well, guess what, that's not the case anymore.
Speaker 1: So it would be crazy to not talk about play
Speaker 1: at B, which is will allow Dak Prescott to go
Speaker 1: and find someone else. Now here's one question, Church, and
Speaker 1: you got to answer this for me. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott is a franchise quarterback? When I talk
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, I'm talking Aaron Rodgers, I'm talking Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: Do you feel he's in that category? I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's a little much to say he's you know, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers or Drew Brees right now, but quarterback? Oh okay, yes,
Speaker 1: without a question. So we talk about Lark Jackson, Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Deshaan Watson, you feel he's in that class without a question.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at look at their Look what they've
Speaker 1: done so far in the league. I mean they both
Speaker 1: won the division, I believe two times. They're both one
Speaker 1: and two in the playoffs. It's not like DeShawn Watson
Speaker 1: is just hands and feet above Dak Prescott. I mean
Speaker 1: they've done pretty much the same thing throughout their beginnings.
Speaker 1: Of their career. I mean, so with all the question,
Speaker 1: I'm putting Dak Prescott up there with Watson. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: and I agree with you. Now, guess what the price
Speaker 1: tag for that is going to be? Over forty million
Speaker 1: dollars now, because that's what the agent's gonna be looking for.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be looking for over forty million dollars. He's
Speaker 1: gonna want more than what Deshaun Watson is getting paid here.
Speaker 1: So are you cowboys? Okay, if you're the cowboys, are
Speaker 1: you ready to pay that amount? They weren't ready to
Speaker 1: do it at thirty five mill right now. They couldn't
Speaker 1: get a deal done there. So now the price tags
Speaker 1: going up. So that's where church or church Church, That's
Speaker 1: where McCray is trying to tell you. As the price
Speaker 1: head goes up, they may decide to say, you know, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna cast the chips in. We'll let
Speaker 1: it go. Don't sit around here think that's not an option.
Speaker 1: I think it's what I'm saying. I understand what he's saying.
Speaker 1: I understand what he's saying. I'm just saying it would
Speaker 1: be a mistake for the Cowboys to do that. That's
Speaker 1: what my opinion is on that it would be a
Speaker 1: mistake for them to pass up on Dak to go
Speaker 1: look somewhere else. I just I just think that would
Speaker 1: be a mistake. All Right, this is going to be
Speaker 1: a decision. They have to get into uh and and look,
Speaker 1: if he ends up balling out crazy, then yeah you
Speaker 1: write the check. But if it doesn't happen that way,
Speaker 1: you definitely have to have the conversation. So so we
Speaker 1: say ball out crazy, but what is like, what is
Speaker 1: not balling out crazy? Like do we consider him just
Speaker 1: he has to he has to win a playoff game
Speaker 1: for him to get that check, or doesn't matter what,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the playoffs. If he balls regular season,
Speaker 1: he'll get that check. Like what are we saying is
Speaker 1: the determining factors for him to get into getting last
Speaker 1: year doesn't cut it? Last year last year's performance does
Speaker 1: not cut it, even though he was not statistically no, okay,
Speaker 1: no stat stats are included. That stats are you can't
Speaker 1: play like trash in your defense carrier, which won't happen
Speaker 1: this season, But but you gotta put up something and
Speaker 1: you gotta lead your team to a playoff run. You
Speaker 1: got everything around you. They can't. They can't give you anymore. Okay.
Speaker 1: So two thousand two, eighteen twenty eighteen, Dac when he
Speaker 1: went to the player I had decent numbers, went to
Speaker 1: the won the division, they won the wild card game,
Speaker 1: they lost the divisional. Would that be enough to get
Speaker 1: in paid. I still don't know about that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's I'm telling you man, it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: because when you talk about paying this kind of money,
Speaker 1: you're going to lose a player to who you cannot
Speaker 1: afford to sign. And when you make this kind of money,
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame writer Rick Gods someone has told me this.
Speaker 1: He said, when we meaning a team, when we pay
Speaker 1: you this money, this means you have to carry a
Speaker 1: whole lot of the load. So you may not get
Speaker 1: that extra receiver, you may not have that extra d
Speaker 1: lum because we're putting it on you to carry the load.
Speaker 1: And that's why Rick always talks about a guy like
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Aaron can carry the team, that Mahomes can
Speaker 1: carry the team. And that question. I can tell you
Speaker 1: some people, some people at the Star wonder if Dak
Speaker 1: is that guy. They're they're question marks about it. So
Speaker 1: if you're Dak Prescott this year, you need to answer
Speaker 1: some more of those questions, knowing your agent is coming
Speaker 1: not just for the bag, He's coming for the big bag.
Speaker 1: He's coming for the bigger than the Shan Watson bag.
Speaker 1: And if you're Jerry, as you keep messing this thing
Speaker 1: up and not paying the guy, the prices go up
Speaker 1: more and more. At some point in time, Jerry's got
Speaker 1: to ask himself, as any businessman does, what about the
Speaker 1: return on investment? What about the ROI? And that's going
Speaker 1: to be the question that the cowboys have to answer.
Speaker 1: So far, they've told us they're not sold on him.
Speaker 1: All I go by is what I see is what
Speaker 1: Bill Parcells used to say, and what I see, and
Speaker 1: Danny is convincing me more and more. What we see
Speaker 1: is they're not sold to the point that they're ready
Speaker 1: to write that chet. They were sold on Tony Romo
Speaker 1: twice and giving him contracts. They're not sold on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: So you said it, but you just said it. The ROI.
Speaker 1: They already got the r They're good, they got over
Speaker 1: the four Brown, they got everything they needed out of day.
Speaker 1: You're talking about return on the investment, they were an
Speaker 1: investment is astronomical, all right, So so you're gonna jump
Speaker 1: back in and and and pay more fun. I used
Speaker 1: to go get out of the same man I made.
Speaker 1: I made my bread off him. M m yeah. We
Speaker 1: all along, my bad. Yeah, we late, we late, My bad,
Speaker 1: We're late. We're going along. We were taking up Chris,
Speaker 1: Chris Beam's time. You got something else to do now,
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