WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Cowboys For Life? 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:17.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lounge, 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:23.040 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star No. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:30.080 Your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and New He scrugs, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.000 Welcome to March, gentlemen. Welcome to Mars, the best month 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.640 of the year. Yeah, I say second, but you know, huh, 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.919 it's all good. Mar March tenth is the best day, 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.560 best day, the best day of the year. Is that 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.720 your Birthday's When I getting younger, it's like, I'm glad 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.000 you told me. Always. It's always pretty break every time somebody, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.239 especially growing up, it was like my birthday call everybody else. See. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.800 Had I known that, I would have waited and got you, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.440 we could have done your paint the bet on that. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.520 But I took care of it. I took care of me, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.400 all right. You're the Player's launch. Barry Church for Dallas 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.160 Cowboys safety Danny mcraig, m Dallas Cowboys safety demon. I 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.480 am knew, he scrugs, a long time Medium member here 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:22.560 covering the team consecutive weeks. Yes, Yes, three, it's done 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.720 back in it though, yes we are. Let's just dive 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.840 and go go ahead heavy and get right on at all. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:33.760 Byron Jones, my guy, Byron Jones, free agent to be 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:40.039 Jerry Jones said Indianapolis, we probably can't afford him. We 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.920 talked to his people, but we know we probably can't 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.600 afford him. So I called someone in the know around 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.400 around here, and I said, give me the word you 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.840 would use to describe Byron Jones. Because I was listening 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.600 to the draft show that we do here Dallas Cowboys 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.440 dot Com and and one of the guys on the 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.160 said by and Jones is a great corner. And so 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.400 I asked this person in the building, what's the word 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.440 you use. He said, he's not great. He says productive. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.000 I said, okay, and he said, here's what also makes 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.639 him productive. He says he's really good. And pressed, he says, 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.440 if he goes to a team where where they're gonna 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:18.840 have to play more his zone, he said, that's not 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.280 what they need to do. He says, look at Josh Norman. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.440 Josh Norman playing zone in Carolina. Suppose when they had 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.480 that good front up there, he got Kicklee and Thomas Davis. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.960 All right, he looked good. All of a sudden they 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.560 go to Washington. They want this man to sit up 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.639 here in places man and pressing who whoa. He was 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:37.240 not good. So that was his word on Byron and 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.519 for me because the Draft show said, hey, he's a 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.120 top ten quarter. Jeff Caepino, I was here saying he 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:45.440 was a top ten quarter. And I love everything Byron 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.400 Jones is as a man. Okay, he's a tremendous teammate. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.320 But now you're talking about writing a check. And we've 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.400 said it before here, I'll say it again. I can't 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.839 write that check for a guy that doesn't get interception. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.200 At the end of the day, if I'm paying for 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.960 a corner and paying that kind of money, I need 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.400 Rivera's type production. That's not what it gives you. Somebody's 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.200 going to pay him a lot of money and they're 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.280 gonna they're going to be happy. But he's not a 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.200 great corner. That's what I got. It's your turn. I 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.000 don't know. I think it changed the scenery is it's 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.600 probably good for Byron. I really can't remember the last 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.840 corner that we had that just had a tremendous amount 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.640 of success. As far as going to get the ball 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.880 like that, Right, So it's not like it's something that 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.760 that happens here all the time. But then some people 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.160 leave and go other places and they play better and 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.160 they get different opportunities because in a different scheme. I 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.040 think Byron has the ability to go be a ball haulk, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.000 but I also think he's a great corner because he's 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:50.040 specifically an eracer. Right. It is you would play top 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.720 dollar to be to have an eracer on your team. Right. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:55.440 If you have a guy that you're going against like 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.119 Odell or you're going against a DeAndre Hopkins or something 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:00.960 like that, Man, you have somebody that you can put 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.320 on him and you say, hey, man, you don't have 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.640 to get no interception, just limit him to three catches 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.440 for fifty yards. Can't we good? You pay top dollar 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.160 for that minus picks. Yeah, that's something you want on 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.120 your team because those guys give you headaches as defensive coordinators, like, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.440 what are we gonna do with this guy? Do we 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.160 have to double them? We're gonna in and all of them? 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:19.600 Do we have to put somebody over the top. If 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.040 you get a corner back who can just take them 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.839 away one on one, that's worth top dollar. To me, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.919 that is worth fifteen million because the guy on the 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.560 other side of the guy that he's shutting out is 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:36.760 getting fifteen mil. Okay, is good. Fifteen plus fifteen plus 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.960 all right, Church, I was the biggest proprietor of buying Jones. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.320 I think you know, he's like you said, it's a 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.479 great corner. He excels in press man and man coverage. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:46.960 Like you said, he's kind of in a race for 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.640 like that half of the field. You can kind of say, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.440 maybe we'll just have to post safety. We don't need 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.400 a full safety over the top of Andy's versatile. He 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.080 can play in the slot outside, he can play safety 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.080 a little bit. But then you start talking about this number. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.400 Fifteen mills, teen meal, seventeen mil. That's a lot of 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.240 money to write a check for a guy that just 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.599 doesn't get thee doesn't get the ball. He does. He 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.120 has two career in exception with five years too. In 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.719 five years, I mean, he isn't a racer. I've seen 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.120 people get a couple of catches on him, but he 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.679 does kind of shut down a half of the field. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.159 But for me, if I'm writing a check to a 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.760 guy for fifteen sixteen seventeen, mil I need him to 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.360 be able to set up my office a little bit 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.599 better by taking the ball away in the other person's 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.920 territorial or making a game changing, momentum changing type play 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.720 for me that fifteen sixteen. You're like you said, there's 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.480 gotta be a revers type or I wouldn't even say 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.479 Sherman because he's not a great press corner, but he 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.920 gets the ball. Stephan Gilmer, that's the type of guy. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.120 And he's getting like sixteen millions. That's number one. That's 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.520 number one corner. There maybe a rams. You can also 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.120 go for mark speakers, and he can get all the 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.120 I want. I would never get he's too much of 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.400 the gamble. Everything on picks. It's a lot of guys 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.400 who are gamblers, and you see them do squatting on 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.679 routes and getting them special and they got great corners. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.720 But yeah they turned the ball. They turned the ball over, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.440 but they still get told like people are going at 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.280 them for that number. I'm thinking more of Gilmore, Patrick Peterson, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.520 those type of guys who can excel at press, but 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.040 as well they're like receivers when the balls in the air. Yeah, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:16.200 I think those dudes, and so what you just to me, Okay, 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:21.720 you just named great corners, and great corners get great paydays. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.159 And to me this falls not as much but a 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.320 little bit into the DeMarco Murray peal where DeMarco was 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.000 here my thing. I said, look, DeMarco had a great season, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.640 that's why his NFL officer player. But he wasn't a 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.960 great player, but he wanted a great contract, which Philadelphia 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.840 gave him. In Philadelphia ended up being unhappy. Then he 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 went to Tennessee. And it's always interesting when you lower 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.640 expectations on a guy. Then he was Okay, It's like 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.680 Brandon car Brandon Carr was a good player. He got 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.360 fifty millions, but you gave a guy who was a 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.719 number two corner in Kansas City fifty million and said 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.560 go be a one, which he wasn't. He's gone to 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.279 Baltimore and he's excelled. And I just feel like for 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.560 Byron Jones, somebody's gonna pay that note and they're gonna say, well, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.000 where's this great corner, and you're gonna realize he's a 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.720 productive guy, but he can also go excel. I just 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.600 I'm just looking back and I'm thinking that like cornerbacks 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.560 that we've had in our systems who've been able to 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:17.120 go create those turnovers, and we haven't had that here specifically, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.480 So could it be? Could it be us? You see 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.960 the way that we play, Like if you look at 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.200 like even Tyran Matthew and Pat Peterson, all those guys, 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.240 the thing that they have about them is the coordinator 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.280 has this this belief in them and they let them 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.280 go out there and play any way they want to. Hey, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.280 you want to play off, you want to play press 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.600 this time? And those guys are out there and they 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.120 and they perfect their cramps so much that they're able 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.920 to trick guys into runing certain rounds, to trick quarterbacks 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.480 into throwing certain stuff that they shouldn't be throwing. Us 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.600 is hey, Byron, go out there and press. So if 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.880 he goes to another guy in the right defensive coordinat 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.440 that gets his hands on him, he's like, hey, this 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.440 this is this is what you do, right, We're gonna 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.720 maximize your skills this way, and you can see this 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:59.120 and then go out there and get picks, and all 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.800 you saying like this guy's productive now, So all three 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.440 of us agree, he's gonna get fifteen mil at least, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.600 So this in turn starts to become another reason why, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.080 ultimately why he's going to go. You have to pay 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.680 Dak top dollar. You have to pay Amari Cooper top dollar. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.160 You gotta pay Byron Jones. You really don't have, at 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.960 least listening to the Cowboys, the ability to sign all 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.560 three guys to these types of deal going on to you. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.560 You've already paid, You're running back top dollar. You've paid 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.360 your center top dollars, you paid your guard top back, 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.360 You've paid, You've paid your defensive in the richest contracts 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.640 in Cowboys history. Somewhere along the way, some dudes got 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.679 to come in here on these t J Maxteas contract 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.280 talking about well, well, we said on a couple of 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.000 players lounges back. But you know, I felt I gotta 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.520 go ahead and take care of the guy up front. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.200 I gotta take care of the guy in front to 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.240 take care of the guy in the back. And this 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.600 is also for me. I feel like I can get 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.199 someone at seventeen in the draft at corner and I'm 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.719 gonna this is why I'm gonna go to my coach, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.120 Mike go. I need I need you to work to Matt, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.720 you and Al Harris need you guys, works some magic, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.160 because this is gonna be where you start to take 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.959 this team if you execute the contracts that you say 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.920 you want to for Cooper and Prescott, You've got to 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.240 start to figure out, how do we draft guys, especially 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.160 your guys in the first three rounds? How do we 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.400 draft these guys, develop these guys and have these guys 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.480 here for four and five years UM at a low cost. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.199 It's gonna be tough. So do you think we have 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.880 the depth here? I was gonna say so. So our 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.240 top two corners right now, they who are not service 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.880 so we can. But he's a free agent. I'm saying 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.360 that they can also choose to pay him, Like, is 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.640 this just out of the question. We have to go 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.680 get a corner if we lose Byron and then we 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.079 leave on us side because I think Jordan, I don't 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:02.560 know if Jordan can consistently plan on he's I don't think. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.800 I think, Well, his price tag may go down because 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.360 of the injury. Yeah, so price tag may go down. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.320 And I look at drafting a corner from this standpoint 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.680 with a Woozier and Lewis becoming free agents. After the season, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.719 you've got to start to rebuild it. But then I 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.719 have someone tell me who's covered the team a long time. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.160 He said, well, after you let Byron Jones go, if 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.640 you blow up your whole DBS back there, he says, 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.719 are you losing anything? He said, what have they? What 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.079 have they truly accomplished and done? That's true, you know 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:40.480 this ain't the legion Steves back here. So so from 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.559 that stage, and and you think about how Belichick and 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.800 I know we're always talking with the outlier, but Belichick 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.520 a Pete Carroll, guys who've gone out, who have specialties 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.199 and secondaries and decided to, hey, let's go change some 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.400 pieces and add some things here and there. But at 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.400 some point in time, that's what you have to do 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.760 as a team. You're going to have some warts. You're 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.839 gonna how do we fill it in here? How do 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.920 we go find some value guys? How do we find 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.320 guys that fit? And that'll be the interesting thing about 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.800 Mike Nolan and what Mike Nolan and Will McClay and 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.000 how they get into a room and figure out how 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.400 do we go about finding guys who fit exactly what 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.480 it is we do. Tell me do you think Mike 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.079 Nolan is pushing it all for Byron Jones to be here? No, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.599 not at all. The and this this is great you 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.199 say this, and I don't have the exact quote, but 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.840 it was somewhere along the lines of, Hey, I fear 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:32.920 the guy who can or you know, give me the 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.080 guy who can take it back sits something something Yet, yes, 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:37.720 it's not afraid to throw it that somebody who can 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.000 bat the ball down or something like that. Yeah, don't, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.280 don't bring Peter's back here. It'll be upset people in 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.440 me here from from New York's the Squad on everything 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:55.400 you're talking about, Jack Rabbit. He go ahead, listen, go 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.520 out there and just focus on interceptions if you want to, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.079 you'd be giving up a lot of yard balls. That 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.400 is true. I specifically see Michael Thomas running down the 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:10.360 field of Marcus Peters twenty eighth. Yeah, go over. So 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.480 I think that Byron Jones is going to find a 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.040 great contract, but he's a productive player. And this is 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.080 something that happens a lot of times in the NFL 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.280 where free agents because teams are desperate, they're gonna pay 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.920 a high note because that's what they've got to do 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.360 to get a guy. I mean, and you go ahead 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.920 and you do, or you got teams that know, all right, 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.120 we're not great. So in order for us to get you, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.680 we gotta rack you a great check. So so you say, mamma, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.240 look at these numbers. They're not any good. Mamma, look 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.360 at these numbers. You'll get out of bed in. Your 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.920 agent says, I know they're not any good, but look 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.720 at these numb numbers. Look at these numbers, and that's 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.240 that's what you're gonna have to have to do. But 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.160 along the way, if the Calgoies are going to execute 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:50.880 these deals that they want you, they're going to have 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.320 to find guys that they that they pay a little 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.360 bit less money to develop. And you go from there. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.559 You cannot sign everyone. That's that's that thing. In a way, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.920 Byron was done in by not being a But if 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.680 let's say he was free at you last year, probably 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.560 is a deal done. Yeah, the whole timing, I mean, 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.840 you're standing in line right here, and it's tough because 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.839 Amari Cooper. In my opinion, this is where we'll differ. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.400 I believe Cooper is more valuable than Jones. If you 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.480 were going to go out here and give Dak Prescott 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.920 a big time contract, which the owner says he's going 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.480 to do. You must bring and you must keep the 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.079 number one receiver. Mike McCarthy, your new head coach has 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.920 come here and he's already said, I want Cooper and 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.840 I want Cop back. Cop played for him in Green Bay. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.520 So if the head coach is new and he's coming 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.319 in here telling you this is what he wants to do, 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.360 and he wants the quarterback and he thinks the quarterback 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.079 as super Bowl, you gotta bring Cooper back. You've put 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.360 yourself in this position that you now have to write 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.320 the chip. Just don't take Cooper on the road. Now, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:14:00.880 let's good, good, Let's hear from it to night. Let's 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.080 hear for the four time Pro bowler on one oh 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:11.520 five three the fan. Yeah, I mean listen, I love 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:16.120 being a Dallas Cowboy. Um. I love everything about it. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.320 I was just thinking about that today. I think about 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.600 it almost every day really, you know, just primetime games 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.360 because we play it seems like more nine games than 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.880 anybody and that always feels good to a football player. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.440 You know everything, the facility. I love it here, Crystal, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.520 I said, Now, mister, all of being a Dallas Cowboy. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.200 I mean, you can't beat it. So I want to 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.560 be a Dallas cow wars for a lot. So that 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.000 is Amari Cooper on one h five three the Fan. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.160 Here is my take and what you know? I want 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.040 you guys to give me your how you translated, Amari Cooper. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.960 I used to play at Alabama. We were on TV 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.360 every week. It was a brand, and people loved the 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.320 brand of Alabama. I would to the Raiders. I got vanished. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.760 It was a really bad facility I played in and 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.760 the organization was kind of I come back here to Dallas. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.800 Now I'm on TV every week. I might be able 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.280 to line up some endorsements. Amasis especially when I see 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.360 Jalen Smith is getting some stuff, so I can get 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.440 some of that too. I get me a little taste. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.640 I want to be where the brand is. I want 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.240 to be in at the Cowboys and the quarterback and 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.920 I we get along, and the quarterback is going to 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.400 be here. I want to be next to the guy 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.000 that guy. That's how I took that comment. All right, 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.880 Barry Church and go first, had you take it? I 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:34.880 agree with you one hundred percent on that. I mean, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.200 I feel like you know in Alabama, he was he 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:38.480 was a part of a brand. He was a part 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.800 of this you know, Big Time. We're Saturday nights, We're 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.440 Saturday evenings, whatever. And when he came here, they gain 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.680 you know, night games, like he said, Monday night primetime, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.760 Thursday night primetime. And if you listen to the interview, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.000 this is the first interview I've heard from him where 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.400 he actually seemed excited, like he seemed like there was 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.040 some upbeat to him. Like those other interviews he sold 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.120 just just melancholy, just you know, level, just yeah, you know, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.960 this is how I do. But this one, he asked, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.040 he seemed like he had some excitement about it. Just 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.480 love being talking about dogs, love being in Dallas. So 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.800 I think it's all about the brand for him, expanding 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.440 his own brand, and the best player to do that 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.960 is with this organization. No poke holes in it, Danny. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:16.960 You know, I think that as well. But also think 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.440 that that grass ain't green. On the other side. Oh 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.760 that's also that's also becoming something that said at the 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.720 front of his mind, I was in I was in Oakland, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.840 and the facilities were bad. They probably did training camp 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.920 someone when he didn't like no, it wasn't well, it 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.680 was the set up like it was a residence here. Yes, okay, 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.240 I'll take that one. I'll take that one anyway. So 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.080 it wasn't as good. So he comes here. He's in Frisco, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.560 up and coming city. They got training camp out there, 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.280 back in California. Whether's nights. He got his own room 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.760 at the residences, dorm rooms. It's all love here. Everything 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.160 is first class. They riding trains to back and when 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.120 it was there San Diego like everything that Jerry does 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.880 his first class. So he walks from Oakland to here 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.880 and it's like, where where else would I get this? Nowhere? 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:10.880 I know what a matter of fact, let me show 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.560 some excitement because because because the other options could be 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.600 horrible for me, and no holes, and it's the brand. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.000 The brand's also it's comfortable in the south of where 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.040 he's you know, Alabama's in the south. We're in the 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.159 south over here. Yeah, he just likes this. Maybe just 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.560 not not very comfortable living out of here. You got 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.520 he got you walking? Yeah, boy, what's up? You know? 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.800 Access a lot of pros right to being here with 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.080 the cowbit, and I feel like those things will weigh 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.920 into that and they will get something done. It's just 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.159 a matter of how they do it. You also, and 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.880 this is where tech Tram and the Cowboys had really 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.840 were so smart by being in the NFC East. You 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.479 get in New York, number one TV market out there, 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.919 you're Washington, You're out there on the East coast, Nation's capital, Philadelphia, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.440 you know top you know, top six, top six TV market, 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.159 I mean right out there. I mean, and and you 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.320 play in the Eastern time zone, so people see your games. 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.160 When you were with the Raiders, you're playing the late 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.639 games there, and so you contrast those markets versus when 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.600 you were with the Raiders playing playing the Chargers, playing 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.120 Kansas City, playing Denver. I mean, you're just not going 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:17.920 to get the kind of juice. And as you talked 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.639 about with the Cowboys, NBC's maximum a team can be 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.200 on Sunday Night Football is three. Cowboys get three games 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.760 every year, three and usually they're on the first two 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.480 weeks of the season. So they try to get Cowboys 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.360 in as quick as they can. So you got three 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.879 NBC games. They're always on Monday Night Football. That's four 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.800 national games. You're on Thanksgiving Day the holding three three o'clock. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.440 No competition that's five. Then now they played the other 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.680 Thursday night game. That's six games right there. If you're 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.000 really good, they're gonna flex the game, probably in a 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.080 NBC CBS is gonna get you for at least one prize. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.720 I remember the Jets game this year, the Jets, that 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:59.520 was really good. It just has to be. It would 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:04.480 be put the Cowboy. The Cowboys and the Jets were 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.280 there Prime Time Romo and Nance, and I said myself, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.800 wait a minute, they've been the Jets have been getting 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.639 killed and Donald's been out a month. How is this 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.640 a game of the week because it's the Cowboys. Yeah, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.280 it was, though it was someone weble to talk about. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.960 Oh man, we came out and played talking about right, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.119 and so so that's the ability to me. If you 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.880 were if you can get your number and you stay 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.480 with the Cowboys, you do it. You were in the 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.320 position you couldn't get your number, so you had to 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.040 go to go. But if you could have got your 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.200 nums staying here, even if it was a meal short, 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.200 I would have probably stayed here five hundred thousand last week. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.040 He said, no, now you're talking about a million. Yes. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:43.800 In front of his mind too. He was driving through 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.240 the day. He was like, you know what now of 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.400 that experience elsewhere? I'm like, I can go back, man, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.360 I'll tell you what I think was like, where am 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:57.600 I what I said? It's a beach. What were we doing? No, 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.440 capitin't know? No man, you know woman, let me back 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:06.480 to dollars first light back still to come. Here on 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:11.359 the Players Club, we will dive into Dak clubs. Yes, 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:19.920 this is not, this is not I want to be blue, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.479 blue Blue. All you do is all you do if 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:28.480 I raise up your blues trouble trouble. Yes, Players Club 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:30.800