WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: 08-05-24 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:03.080 The following. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.080 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.600 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:09.720 Cowboys. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:16.720 This is the Player's Lounge broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:22.240 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.840 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison and New he Scruggs. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.520 Yo. Here we are players Lounge. No players involved today, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.760 it's just heck Ma Harrison me New Scrugs. So Barry 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:40.120 Church out doing church things, yes, and now swinging swinging 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.880 the clubs doing the thing in his last but a 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.360 summer in before the kids head back to school. Danny 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.880 McCrae on assignment. So it is Heckman and I talking 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.879 Cowboys with you right here for the SWBC podcast studio 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.920 at the Star in Frisco, California. Cowboys training camp still 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.080 going on Oxnard, California. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Rams 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.400 will take on the Cowboys and we'll start to see 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.960 exactly what guys are doing there. One thing to talk 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.959 about Oxar, California right now, Hackma Harrison, is the fact 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:11.040 that the fans have not been coming out. Let's be honest, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:16.560 fans upset fans upset Two things. One the playoff loss, okay, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:21.480 another disappointment, and two Jerry Jones set all in. The 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.800 owner and general manager set all in. It's not been 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.520 all in. And you know how people vote, they vote 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:33.280 with their pocketbook. True, they vote with their pocketbook. And 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.600 while there have been some days where it's been nice 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.880 out there, you know, but there's a noticeable drop off 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:45.400 and a part of it is the excitement. So we 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.320 know Jerry cares about this. Jerry cares about it, and 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.680 he brought up the whole season ticket sales and yes, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.800 the cowboys, so they are the cowboys. Okay, they are 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.960 the cowboys. But when fans start saying, you know, I've 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.279 got something else to do this summer in seventy degree 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.320 weather in ox Star, California, I have gone to camp 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.600 where you literally see the cars lined up down the 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.200 street because we were lucky, we got that little media 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.160 access so we could just go on past mean slingshot 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.480 to the left and you see all the cars to 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.800 the right. People are not coming. And that to me 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:16.760 is a message that they're sending to the owner and 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.679 general manager and the players. You know what, man, that hope, 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.720 you man, some people got off that narcotic. They're not. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.399 They're not one of those shows. What is your take 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.640 as you you read it and you start to see it. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.040 You know, look, the optics are not indicative of what 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.720 you've seen in the past, and I think you point 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.200 that out and it's It's true. In the past there 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.240 has been the line around the block to get into 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.799 ox Nar, right, but you know, you hit the nail 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.680 on the head. I think there's not a lot to 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.880 get excited about it. And it goes down to what 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.880 you did and what you didn't do in the off season. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.840 And I think everyone could see. You could see you 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.560 didn't make the moves that all in said that you 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.560 were going to make okay, and you hadn't signed your stars. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.639 So there's so much influx right now that I think 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.000 that if you inject chaos right here, this is the 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:10.400 byproduct of that. And the fans may be speaking right now. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.680 I don't know how much of that if you go 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.800 in the time lapse of all the years that they've 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.720 been at Oxnard, if you go back and say, all right, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.160 we're probably thirty forty percent. Man, I saw practice the 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.640 other day and I was like, that's gotta be bad. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.240 That's not a good look when you have just a 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.600 handful of people out out at an open practice. And 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.280 please keep in mind that the Cowboys practices are free, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.880 so it's not as though you're paying the inner the 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.480 end to the training camp. So look, it's not a 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:42.760 good look for the Cowboys at all. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:52.200 Man, So no splash hurts. No splashing free agency. Dak 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.960 Prescott CD lamb unsigned. Your first round draft pick was 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.400 an offensive lineman that most people did not know who 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:04.280 he was. So that to me, those are the things 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.680 that fans look at and like frustrated. And heckm you 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.480 walk around town, your friends know you work on the 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.840 Players Lounge podcast. They come up and ask you things. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.599 They ask me what's going on? And I'm sure you're 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.880 doing exactly what I'm doing. Man, I'm not gonna lie 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:20.840 to you. I don't know. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.680 Yeah, And even with that being said, I think if 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.680 you look at this, which two things can be true 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.440 at the same time, And I do believe that fans 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.920 are kind of exhausted with all the conjecture and wordplay. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.000 They want to see action. They want to see players 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.280 come in here and at least make it look like 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.679 you're making a push towards the Super Bowl. But still, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.000 even with that being said, if you're honest with yourself, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.960 this is still one of the more talented rosters in 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.080 the NFL right now. There's no denying that. And so 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.480 with those actions that you're talking about, even when you 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.800 do the comparison to even other teams in the NFC, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.480 in the NFC East, what does Philadelphia do. They go 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.479 out and they get Saquon Barkley, Splash, splash. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:08.400 Right off the bat. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.440 The Commanders not only do they make splashes with the 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.839 head coach going out and drafting a quarterback in the 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.040 first round and bringing in other players. The more you 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.080 look at it, you say, all right, man, you guys 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.320 are behind the eight ball as this thing continues to 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.760 go down the road, because it looks as though other 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.680 teams in the NFC East are getting better. The Giants 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.240 would be the only team that I could point to. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.080 It doesn't look like they're trying to get any better. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.560 But other teams in the NFC have made those acquisitions 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.960 that would give the impression. And again, I can only 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.640 go back to what I know about the Dallas Cowboys 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.360 roster as I compare it to the rest of those teams, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.560 and we still compare when you look at the pro 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:50.640 bowlers and all pros. 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:55.240 So what you said leads me back into who Jerry 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.520 Jones is. Jerry Jones is an optimist and he'll tell 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.479 you all day long back to me to live in optimism. 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.200 Jerry sells hopes and dreams. From the time he bought 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.520 this team in nineteen eighty nine. Jerry's been selling you 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:14.599 hopes and dreams. Right now, there's lack of hope. We 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.280 talk about the actions. What are we seeing? And that's 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.680 so different because Jerry's always been the guy selling hopes 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.360 and dreams. And what did he sell. Hell, he sold ambiguity. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:28.360 Ambiguity. I like that word, ambiguity. He wore it out, Okay, 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.760 So so Hecker. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.719 If I'm trying to sell you something, all right, If 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.920 I'm trying to sell heck my hairshoner suit. Yeah, I'm 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.280 coming with hopes and dreams. I'm not coming some ambiguity now, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.160 you know. Heck. I mean I think this black on 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.240 you with the slate is going to look good being 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.960 it's like ambiguity here, that's not selling. And for a 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.120 man who sold so many hopes and dreams to people 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.480 now I look at that and I say, man, this 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.240 is this is a byproduct when I think about the 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.840 stands and I just think about overall of the team 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.679 and what is it you're selling right now? It's hard. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.919 The last three seasons you sold hopes and dreams of 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.120 a super Bowl, you sold super Bowl roster. You're not 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.080 selling that. This year you were able to sell Dan 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:16.120 Quinn defense. What got Mike McCarthy now taking over? Kelly Moore? 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.560 You were selling me? What are you selling right now? 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.560 What's the hopes and dreams? It's none. Jerry talked about ambiguity, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.720 and he's right, I mean honest, he's being honest. Yes, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:28.880 it is a lot of like I don't know, and 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.520 when I talk to people, heckman, I know, I tell 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.960 me I don't know. We'll have to see. I've got questions, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.880 I've got thoughts that I'm like, I don't know. I 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.840 don't know. But I think what we're seeing in Aux 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.680 Art is indicative of what I expect to see locally 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.760 here as well back home when they come back here 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.840 for training camp. People are gonna come because it's the Cowboys, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.600 But what's the intensity level? What are you expecting considering 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.200 the Texas Rangers won the World Series. Last year, the 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.080 Dallas Maverick back in June played in the NBA Finals. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.680 The Dallas Stars, for the second straight year, played in 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.040 the Western Conference Finals. You're starting to look around here 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:13.320 and say, Okay, what are you doing, Cowboys? Besides building 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.320 me up? Let me down? Jerry? How do you fix this? 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:17.000 Where do you go next? 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:17.160 Low? 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.880 Jerry? Ambiguity? That's that's to me for a man who 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.920 lived on selling hopes and dream Remember the old Obama 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:30.320 posted hope. He putting that up right now, keep hope alive. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:30.920 None of that. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.280 But let me say this. This is a gentleman by 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.079 the name of mil De grass Tyson. I don't know, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.480 if you look, one of the smartest people I've ever 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.120 seen are heard before. I mean, this guy is a 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.160 bio molecular, he's a he's a rocket scientist, basically is 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.760 what he is. He uses a lot of words in terms. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.520 He's part of my algorithm right now is the reason 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.240 why I bring him up. And he's talking about stuff 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.720 that I don't understand. And he could talk for a 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.400 whole hour, and I don't think I pick up on 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.480 anything that he's putting down. I get that feeling a 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.679 lot of times when I'm listening to our owner, because 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.200 we know that Jerry's a genius. Business wise, he is. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.720 He is a genius, one of the best minds in 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.440 the game. But when it comes down to building a 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.800 team as of late, you kind of have to stand 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.679 back from it and then say, Okay, look what team 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.439 in the NFL wouldn't want over the last three years 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.319 of thirty six and fifteen record, that's pretty much all 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:26.120 of them. Okay, that would tell you that you're close 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.280 to reaching the pinnacle of what your goals are, which 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.800 is winning a Super Bowl. What do you need and 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.520 so all in when you look at teams like you 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.400 look at teams like San Francisco, all right, a team 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.920 that will bring in a Trent Williams, a team that 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.240 will bring in the running back from North Carolina from 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.720 the Carolina Panthers, Christian mccack Jeniffery, Christian McCaffrey, a guy 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.400 that you know can get you over the hump. You're 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.160 not making those kinds of moves. And I think in contrast, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.040 and when you start to look at that of the 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.880 representation of what you're getting on the Cowboys, that may 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.680 be the lack of enthusiasm that you see from a 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.000 fan base because they don't see that. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:05.120 But what if. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.640 Jerry already believes that you have that on your team, 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:13.160 not Christian McCaffrey, but a Trent Williams type and Tyler 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.679 Smith the number seventy three, because look, this is a 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.760 young guy that is giving you everything his talent. You 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.440 know that this guy sky's the limit for a player 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.960 like him. You got Zach Martin at the end of 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.160 his career, still one of the studs in the NFL. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.840 Excuse me, Terrence Steele, a guy that has come on 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.319 that you've made be who he is right now as 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.720 you're a right tackle. And oh, by the way, you 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.360 have a guy in Austin Richards that you drafted last season, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.960 but also Tyler Giden. You have a lot of talent 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.480 on this team, and maybe the fan base just isn't 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:47.040 seeing that. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.400 Wade and see is definitely a position I think a 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.959 fan should take right now. And you know what I've 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.480 said the past a lot of episodes, let it play out, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.280 but right now, before we let it play out, you 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.400 can look at this and have a sense of apathy. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.240 They let me down again. I'm frustrated. I don't know 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.160 where it's going. And I get it. We have people 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:10.720 who come up and talk to us all the time, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.320 you know, and I'm on it. So I said, I 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.280 don't know. We have to let this play out. It 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.200 doesn't look good. We'll have to see will Jerry's thought 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.840 process to make people sing for their supper? Will that work? 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:28.840 We'll see how else can I heck, how else do 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:29.480 you explain it? 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.120 I mean, that's that's a that's a cool way to 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.200 put it, but that's you know, if you're in the 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.160 last year of a contract, that's kind of how you 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.680 feel because it's it sets the mood for let me 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.000 see more, and I need to see more. And right 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.000 now you're getting that feel for the leader of your team, 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.000 not only your head coach and the leader. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.720 Of your team. You're leader of the team. Was second 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.600 in the MVP voting. Remember when we were doing this 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:01.760 podcast last summer, it was a Dak Prescott leading the 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.280 league in interceptions and he didn't even play a full season. Okay, 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:10.200 Dak was taking a beating, pure beating. So he bounces 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.080 back in a new offense and leads the league in 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.079 touchdown passes an he's second to Lamar Jackson the MVP voting. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.360 They win the division. Yeah, but yet I'm watching Trevor 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.760 Lawrence get fifty five million dollars average a year, watching 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.080 Tour get paid. Make it make sense? Yeah? 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.760 And Steven comes out, I believe a couple of days 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.559 ago in camp and says that they've already made an 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.480 offer to Dak and the ball is now in his court. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.160 We don't know what said offer is, but ball is 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.160 in Dak's court. And Dak comes right back and says, well, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.200 I owe it to the rest of the league to 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.480 take my time and get the best offer of that's 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.120 out there. And I'm in prefacing what he said, but 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.520 basically he's basically saying, Look, it's my duty to make 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.520 sure that I set the market for the younger guys 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.640 that's coming behind me. And so look, man, this this 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.199 was gonna get messy one way or another. It was 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:01.000 gonna get messy. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:01.480 Uh. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.560 It got messy for Dak two years ago when he 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.400 threw the most interceptions in the NFL, and really the 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.199 front office, a lot of them, a lot of people 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.199 around here didn't come to Dak's defense. 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:11.000 Uh. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.160 And then either Mike McCarthy in his first year as 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.880 the offensive coordinator. You've seen how much Dak has like 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.440 his game just kind of like it's the Dak, the 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.640 version of Dak that you've always wanted. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.840 Getting rid of Kellen Moore was something I was on 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:31.840 board with. In fact, I never understood why you bring 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.040 in Mike McCarthy and you don't have him calling plays 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.880 from the jump. It's the equivalent of you hiring Sean 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.640 Payton and telling Sean Payton to take someone else. Why 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.160 are you hiring Sean Payton? Sean Payton has called plays 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.520 and won a Super Bowl? Why are you hiring Mike McCarthy. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.720 Mike McCarthy has called plays and won a Super Bowl. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.360 So I think after a while it got real clear. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.920 Mike McCarthy's said, Okay, now give this to me, and 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.720 if my job is going to be on the line, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.080 let me do this. He was really good at it. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:58.760 And then going back into Dak and will dive into 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.800 Mike next segment here going back to Dak Prescott, here's 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.920 a guy that's hitting his thirties in a new offense, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.120 connecting like before the first four games, a lot of run. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.840 Then they get drilled against San Francisco. Then it's okay, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.760 let's start throwing this thing. And they made a couple 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.080 changes in the offense which pushed Ceedee Lamb way out there, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.720 and we saw Ceedee Lamb go to another level. Your 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:28.520 quarterback right now gets it. He gets it. For dan 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.640 Orlowski to come up with his top ten quarterbacks and 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.600 not have Dak Prescott there is laughable. It's absolutely laughable. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.480 But you cannot deny that Dak Prescott is a top 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.120 ten quarterback in this league. He gets what he's doing. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.440 He's about to go in year two of this offense. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.080 You lock that up. He's a young guy, where now 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.280 we see dudes playing into the forties. So technically, if 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.520 I really break this down, Dak's got seven good years 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.760 left if healthy, that's seven good years years. Why would 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.480 you not want to do everything you can to go 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.920 and get that thing locked up now to put your 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.440 quarterback at ease, and oh, by the way, to send 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.640 a message to everybody else on your team this is 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:18.240 the guy ye That That for me is mind boggling 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.960 the way the league works when I see so many 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:26.080 other guys getting paid without producing. But for some reason, 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.040 heckma and you've seen this, and I've seen this. There's 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.800 a certain amount of people, the fan base, it says, 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.080 we'll let him win a super Bowl, let him take 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.120 us to the super Bowl, and then we will pay it. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.160 That is not how this league works. No, I keep 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.080 pointing to Trevor law Lawrence, I keep pointing to Kyler Murray, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.680 justin Herbert. What have they done? What have they done? 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:55.280 And I'll say this about Herbert. People talk about the 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.880 arm strength, all those that natural ability as a quarterback. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.920 But when I go and I look at Trevor Lawrence 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.200 a number one pick. I look at Kyler Murray being 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.360 a number one pick and everything that you put in there, 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.720 what you were expecting. And then I look at what 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.320 Dak Prescott has been able to do, what he's done. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.880 The resume to watch, because remember Kyler got forty six 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.000 when Dak got the forty, so Kyler jumped him. Trevor 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.280 Lawns has jumped Dak Prescott. And I look at these 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.320 two players and I just say, number one overall picks, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.080 guys that the league said, that's it. All this guy's 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.240 put there, They put the sheets up there. That's the guy. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.840 The truth is, I mean Dak is a polarizing figure, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.520 you know, this for being a guy in the media, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:38.040 you know, and because he's the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.000 The scrutiny is going to be just as high. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.680 Tony Romo faced the same thing and countless other quarterbacks 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.200 for the Dallas Cowboys. When you go over his career 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.080 from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty three, you see a 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.360 guy that's built upon his win percentage QBR all of that. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.000 What people point to the most about Dak is just 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.800 one thing, playoffsoff playoffs. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:01.240 And he's given it. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.400 And the thing is he's offered that up to them, 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.640 and there's no way that he can live it down 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.960 until he actually gets to an NFC championship or he 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.639 gets to a super Bowl. And I think that's where 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.520 you get the Dan Orlowski's of the world that come 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.160 from behind the desk and oh, he's not even top 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.880 ten in the NFL, knowing that that's a lie. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.359 And so for me, the frush for me, the part 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.800 that I don't understand is you want to couch it 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:34.640 amongst we need to see playoffs success. That's not how 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:39.479 paydays work. So it's you want this you want this 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.040 bar that's over here, but it doesn't. That's not how 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.200 people are paid. Yeah, you know you're not paying TJ. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.320 Watt based on playoff and that's not how you're paying 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.000 a guy. No, this is the market. You're the player. Boom, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.080 you fit me in the slot. Trevor Lawrence? What was 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.240 it a twenty one point lead they had in the 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.639 playoffs two years ago? Yes, last year I penciled in 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.680 Jacksonville to the super Bowl, super Bowl. Yeah you did. Yeah, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.399 they couldn't even win the division. Yeah, okay, they couldn't 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.639 win the division. Houston went right past him. They've regressed 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.320 Trevor Lawrence as a quarterback regressed. And what was his reward? 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.639 Fifty five million dollars a year, got a new contract. 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.720 And that's my thing. Heckma, you can't talk to me. Well, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.400 I need to see playoffs success. That's not how this 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.560 thing works in the league. What else do you judge? 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.840 What else can you judge dac on at this point 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.640 other than playoff success? And look, I'm just saying, look 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.439 at the big picture for him, as far as his 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.480 money needs to get paid, he needs to be plaid 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:43.119 amongst the. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:44.800 Top in the league. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.760 But what else do you judge him on when you 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.119 can even go back sample size last three years, it's 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.240 won thirty six games. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.600 Let me tell you right after the break, Okay, because 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.600 I've got I've gotten that. You asked a very good question. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.280 I've got an answer. This is a player's brought to 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.840 you by Aristocrat Gaming. He is Heck Maharson new he scrugs. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.120 This is Dallas Cowboys Dotcom Radio. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.280 Are you the twenty twenty four Dallas Cowboys Fan of 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:15.199 the Year. 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