WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Lead By Example 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.719 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:13.680 Cowboys. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:20.439 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:25.960 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.160 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and Newie Strugs. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:36.800 Cowboy Nation. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.840 Hello and welcome to the Players Lounge sponsored by Tositos, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.000 the official chip in Dip of the Dallas Cowboys, and 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.040 you are now rocking with the best. I'm Chmaharrison and 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.680 as always, we can't form votron because one Newie Shrugs 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.920 is in Oxnar. But this is as close as they get. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.200 I got two former Cowboys safeties, Very Church, Danny McCrae 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.680 is at the desk, and man, we have a great 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.760 show playing today. The fellas you know what I do. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.880 I'm gonna check on it's been alone. It's been a 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.800 long time since I seen you there. I mean it's 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.280 been in a couple of days, by the way, man, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:12.240 it's been about a week. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.399 But to answer your question, heck how you My mentals 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:17.759 are great. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:18.640 Mentals are great, man. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.080 I went to my first Rangers game yesterday for the 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:22.759 first time ever. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:23.440 The indoor. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:23.679 Man. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.600 It was a lovely experience, something to take the family too. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.800 So it was cool. It was cool all the way 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:29.120 up there. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:33.760 I was up there. I think I was like one 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.840 twenty two or something that game. But it was a 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:36.640 good vantage point. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.680 You got to see everything. Knew it. Don't believe that 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.360 it's okay. Nobody knew. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.600 He gave him the he gave him the tickets. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.520 Danny, how are you, brother? I'm good man, I'm good man. Listen. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.480 I'm having a great time, you know, being a dad life, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.480 you know, and I'm and I'm seeing you take care 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:53.880 of yourself. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.360 Man, So apple day, keep it, keep it out though 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:56.800 way man. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.520 I have my apple, had my yoga, trying to do 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.000 trying to get like newie man, trying to get like 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.640 newie newie. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.040 How is ox Star treating you? Brother? 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.079 From come on, I'll ask. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:13.600 You how you do? 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:18.000 Hey? This is loved. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.079 I couldn't hear Frouds for a second. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.640 All these all the all these folks who come around here, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.280 these these signals have interrupted me. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:25.600 I'm fine, guys, I'm fine. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.119 I'm doing better than Tristan Viscay, you know, because I'm here. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.200 Well, this is the players lounge, and we're gonna keep 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:40.959 it playing since we know, since we since we checked mentals, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.560 and we see that Newie's mentals are right. They need 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.519 to be. Hey, give us the news and notes. They're 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.440 an Oxnar Newie. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:52.840 All right. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.320 So Saturday was an abysmal performance by the kickers. Okay, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.120 it was bad between Tristan Viscay you know, and and 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.400 Brandon Arbors. They ended up cutting this guyino today. So 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.000 Brandon is now the kicker. He's going to be able 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.640 to go into the Jacksonville game and handle all the 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.520 kicking duties. Mike McCarthy, the dead coach, who's asked today 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.440 the press conference, so why not bringing a veteran And 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.160 he's like, well, we want to give we want to 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.400 give Brandon reps and see what he can do. So 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.240 this guy is kicking in the USFL. He's from Plano, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.560 so he's a local kid. He's gonna Basically what I 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.360 got from Mike was he deserves the opportunity to fail. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.799 So come Jacksonville, we'll see what he does all week long. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.560 He's gonna have his opportunity. But when the crowd was 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.040 out here booing these guys and then when they ended 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.080 up did make it a kick? 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.040 They gave him that that New York. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:41.440 Yankee side clap, like, okay, but look, you should be worried. Okay, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.560 if it's right now going into the Giants game, your 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.040 biggest concern is who's gonna make the extra points and 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.360 field goals on Sunday Night football, because. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.200 Right now that answer is not clear at all for 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:51.800 the Cowboys. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.240 If you didn't know, Hodge Vis Kuyino was cut today 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:57.240 and now we know. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:58.280 Now you know. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.320 But also newly the position battles that obviously we're hearing 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.720 about back at home that are playing out down there. Man, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.320 talk about what you're seeing because obviously a lot of 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.720 people are writing about a lot of different positions on 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:14.680 both sides of the ball. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:18.160 All right. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.120 So one of the questions and the only question asked 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.200 Mike McCarthy about today, is how should we view this 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.600 offensive line and what we're seeing? And he said, obviously 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.719 he doesn't have you know his five yet for to 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:30.640 just start the season. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.040 He said, that's still developing. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.159 Says, right now the defense is ahead of the offensive 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.040 line that got a lot of different combinations, and he 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.920 says that's good for development. So he's looking at getting 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.880 guys reps and and look at times and reasons I 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.159 asked the questions. Sometimes it doesn't look real pretty. Sometimes 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.720 you got some defensive players, you know, like Osa and 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.120 and you got Micah back here getting after dudes, and 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.440 so you look at the offensive line and you're like, okay, let's. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.080 See where it goes. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.800 So basically, with a new offensive line coach, let's just 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.680 give it time. By the way, Michael Parsons did say 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.640 that that Tyron. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.880 Smith is really still good. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.839 Okay, I mean he's really he's really good because you know, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.360 people put that video out there. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.679 You know he kind of kind of kind. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.120 Of got by tire just a little bit, just a 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.719 little bit out there, but you know, Tyed, he's sitting there. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.239 Tyre's still a monster. Okay. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.760 So for certain people on this show that are always 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.719 trying to find something negative towards that find usc Trojan, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.040 just understand Mike Carson said, he's still really good. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.880 Boy, I'm trying to find did I post the video? Dah, 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.640 you ain't posted was out there for the rep No, okay, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.400 I'm just asking, okay, have I listen. I'm not I'm 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.479 no longer active in the NFL. Okay, so I don't 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.280 play any games. I'm real close to top Okay, I 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.320 mean out to play the left now, I'm kidding. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:49.200 I'm kidding. Listen. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.599 If Tyron is healthy, as I've always said, he is 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.520 still a top notch player. When he's on the field 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.000 and he's healthy, he's still a top notched player. The 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.720 only issue that I had what iron over the last 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.760 few years, specifically starting with Adrian Clayborne in the Atlanta 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.880 Falcons game when Tyron went out and we saw the 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.160 impact that it had on us, and then continuously year 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.520 after year after year when Tyron goes out, we have 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.440 the same problem. So that's my only issue with with 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.520 that of like the health factor, not his ability to 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.240 play yet what mikel did to him. That happens sometimes, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:24.960 especially since you get a little older. You know, somebody 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.159 get the best of you every once in a while. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.400 But I still think he's a good player. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:30.400 Yeah, I think. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.279 I definitely think you know, Tyren's you know, I'm not 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.240 gonna call him, you know, a top five tackle in 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.159 the game right now, but I'll give him top ten, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.120 you know, when healthy, I still think he has the 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.279 capabilities of being a standout player. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.720 Out there, and let's be honest. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.360 You know, Michael Parsons has done that to a lot 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.520 of offensive tackles International Football League. He's a premier edge 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.920 rusher and he's just showing how great he is as 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.440 a talent. So hopefully, you know, Tyron Smith can stay healthy. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.760 But the question I want to ask you knew he is. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.520 I've heard a lot of reports out of camp about 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.080 Jalen Tobert and he's actually he been stepping up and 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.640 playing halfway decent out there in camp, starting to get 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.159 a little bit of separation. Can you see from the 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.520 sidelines where you're at, can you see him taking that 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.360 next step and maybe even capturing that wide receiver for 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:12.280 position out there. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.240 I'm gonna stand on my soapbox just a little bit here, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.800 just a little bit when I said earlier this year 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.640 that if I'm Jalen Tolbert, I stick next to Dak. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.480 You know, I'm there by four and I'm trying to 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.880 be wherever he is. And apparently that is what's happened. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:40.800 He has stuck by Dak Prescott. Brian Schottenheimer. Also head 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.120 coach Mike McCarthy said there's not a day where that 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.400 young man has not been there in the building, trying 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.720 to work, trying to get better. And one of the 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.120 things I have an appreciation for is he owned last year. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.120 You know, he said I wasn't where I needed to be. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.800 So he has made that jump and people talk about 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.920 it and Danny, you went through it, bar you went through it. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.720 That jumped from your first year to your second year. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.960 He has a better understanding of what he needs to do. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.120 I think maybe some people forgot that he came out 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.560 of South Alabama and might not have been ready for 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.560 what this NFL life entails. So so far, the young 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.720 man is doing his part. I would tell you I 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.559 feel better about his future than I do about let's 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.320 say a Kelvin Joseph number two draft pick they made 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.760 a couple of years ago. And what I think Jalen 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.240 Tobert can be special teams. He's gonna have to show 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.040 us what he can do. Done a little bit there, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.599 some practice, but Saturday night is gonna be huge for 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.719 a guy like Jalen Tolbert's gonna be huge for a 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.120 guy like like Kelvin Joseph to show us what you 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.079 learn is it gonna translate on the football field? 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:45.040 And so so. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.840 Far, they're saying all the right things about about mister Tobert. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.720 What you're seeing. I think he has improved where he 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:52.800 was from last year. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:54.720 Is that good enough? 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:56.840 Is that gonna be better than the kids from South 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.520 Carolina Brooks that they all enjoyed. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.160 I just think Saturday is going to be a big. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.440 Tail for a lot of guys, because I gotta call 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.559 it all Oxnarch. A lot of dudes will look good 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.679 out here at ox start on these practice fields, but 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.000 can you do it when. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.960 The lights are on at at and T Stadium. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.319 That's where you're going to see some guys step up, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.800 and you're going to see some guys that trink. Mike 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.680 McCarthy spoke about how he's not even looking at his FITU. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.720 He's like, I don't have the fifty three man roster 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.120 in my mindset. I don't even go through it, he said, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.640 because I know there's gonna be some guys that go 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:27.840 out here on Saturday. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.600 Night and make you say WHOA. And I think Mike's 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.800 one hundred percent right about that. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.520 I got a question for you, Knui, just because I've 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.079 been I've been reading and hearing that there's been a 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.160 lot of ones versus ones out there training counts all right, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.360 and we all get to see, of course, because the 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.800 media is gonna blow it out of proportion that Dak 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.480 is throwing interceptions, whatever whatever is going on. What are 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.000 you seeing out there when because you get to see 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:52.560 it in its entirety? 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:53.920 What are you seeing from Dak? 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.120 As far as does he look different based on the 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.679 changes that are made with Mike McCarthy calling the plays 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.720 now versus Killen Moore? Is he trying to figure it out? 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.560 Or is he just really smooth? And the and the 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.280 internet is just finding those you know, those practice players 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.440 where the defense gets the best of the offense. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.520 I we all play fantasy football here. I don't know 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.559 about heck, but you know that we play. Go get 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:25.679 him early, Okay, go get him okay because last years, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.400 as much as people pointed the finger at him, outside 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.959 of CD Lamb, it was the Madies. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.520 That's not that case anymore. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.440 Cede Lamb has gotten better, believe it or not, he's 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:36.160 gotten better. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.000 Brandon Cooks, he's just good. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:43.160 I remember talking to uh to Al Harris and we're asking, hey, 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.240 what is Brandon Cooks bring? He's like happen speed man. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.199 He's a really really good football player. And then then 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.959 you got Michael Gallup, who's comfortable out here making one 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.120 hand catches. So just the players around Dak at the 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.760 wide receiver position are better. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.360 Who you know, Gallup could be receiving a lot of 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:04.480 one on one coverage. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.400 If Cook stays healthy, and if Lamb is just the 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.679 guy we've seen out here at camp continuing to get better, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:10.520 you gotta. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.680 Watching Michael Galla. We go watch Jake Ferguson running around. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.520 You know, basically unchecked or just you know, just just 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:16.760 having men on man coverage. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.600 So that's why I said, man, go get go, get yourself. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.839 Dak Prescott last year, Jalen Hurts was a guy went 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.880 and got fantasy. In fact, I got Jalen Hurts the 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.600 last two years Dak Prescott. That and you know watching 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.319 Dak even run run some bootlegs here in the k. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.520 So I'm just gonna tell you, man, anybody worried, if 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.160 you if you worried about Dak Prescott, then you probably 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.920 are watching too much of these these debate shows. This 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.920 this guy looks good out here, and you need help. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.199 Why did Jalen Hurts have the year he had because 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.360 they gave him some help. Why is Tua looking good 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.440 last year because they gave him some dog on help. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.680 Dak didn't have it last year. People like, oh, he's 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:51.559 not this, he's not that. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.000 I'm sorry. How you supposed to win with James Washington. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:59.480 Anybody went with James Washington? No, So, so what you're 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.400 saying is the new play caller. Okay, looks like it's 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:03.200 gonna be a positive. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.760 Hey, man, I hate to tell you Barry Church. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.000 Get buried the way the way the way you sit 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.040 around here and you take this beating from Danny and 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.120 I about Joe Burrow, about your boy or Justin Herbert, 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.360 I think you're gonna be taking that same beating. They're 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.480 gonna take the same beating. Man, gonna be fine. Man, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.640 You're gonna be looking up like, Wow, should have done 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.560 this years ago. Should have listened to Danny years ago. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:35.000 That's what we're doing. Yeah, he on fire right now. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.520 I haven't even bought my new battery yet, but I'm 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.560 gonna switch over to the other side man, because I 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.320 want to talk about this defense, especially say a bad 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.360 word here. Freeze up safety, No, you didn't freeze up 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.240 You're good safeties and you know how it has been 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.160 with safeties around here. But Malik Hooker signed a new contract, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.360 which is which in cowboy Land. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:12:59.800 That's good news. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.280 You backed the second went out, You backed that position 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.120 up with Malik Hooker. You get Donovan Wilson in signing 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.040 his contract as well. What do you guys feel about 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.199 the safeties in the way they solidified their group. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.160 I'm pleasantly surprised. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.560 I mean, to me, this is the first time and 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.520 since I can remember that the Cowboys have put this 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.679 many dollars into the safety unit, and rightfully so. I mean, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.840 you got the three headed monster right now. You got 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.960 Donovan Wilson, who's kind of that tone setter downhill, will 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.880 hit you in the mouth. You got a curse who's 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.480 you know, versatile, can play all types of positions. And 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.199 you got your middle of a field guy who has 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.320 unbelievable range. And Malik Hooker, who a lot of people 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.800 including myself by that man off that for those injuries 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.559 that he sustained. You know at ACL I think he 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.720 had an achilles as well. He was like, I don't 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.680 know if he still got that juice, but you see, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.360 the guy can get off the hash, you can make 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.600 plays in the deep end. And that's what this This 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.360 Cowboys safety unit has been missing for a long time. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.600 So to me, they allocated the dollars into the right people. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.360 Now when you talk about you know that guy Curse, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.360 you know, you got Donald getting paid a lot of ducats, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.040 you got Hooker getting paid a lot of duckets, and 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.040 then you see a guy like Curse, who a lot 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.160 of people's you know, was the defensive captain, was a 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.880 playmaker out there as far as getting everybody orchestrated. You 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.600 gotta start thinking in his mind. Man, So what does 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.800 that leave me? You know, you got guys coming. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:17.600 Up on a hole. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.640 Okay, I'm just kind of the odd man out. So 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.440 to me, Kurse got a lot to think about. But 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.280 where they put those dolls in that Safts unit. They 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.560 needed to do that because those guys are a great players. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.480 Hey, I got audio back here, Church, that's what piggyback 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:33.160 on what you said. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:34.880 Uh, Stephen Jones wasn't here. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.440 He was at cancer with his dad for DeMarcus whereas 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.400 enshrine in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And by 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.240 the way, congratulations, do you wear a beautiful speech? I'm 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:43.560 gonna ask him and see if I can get a 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.680 hold of him after practice, because the thing that I 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.240 like to know was Curse offered a deal and they 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.480 couldn't come to numbers, because I know the first thought 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.360 is like, okay, well what about JK and who dan 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.400 Quinn is going out of his way to praise, who 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.440 played like a warrior last year for the guys. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.040 How come he's not getting the bag. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.640 Did they approach him and then him say well, we 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.400 couldn't agree to numbers or I wanted this, or I 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.720 wanted that, or the team's you know, there's just other 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.960 things that go into it that I'd like to see 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.840 what is happening there, and maybe Steven will give us 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.360 some insight because I just think at times we just 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.760 want to assume that maybe the team doesn't like the player, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:20.880 but the player and the team have to come together 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.000 and say what do I want. I spoke to Malik 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.960 Hooker afterwards with other people, and Hooker said he likes 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.320 living here, didn't want to go to a different system. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.400 And I think this also speaks to the fact that 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.080 what these guys feel about DQ Joett Jr. About what 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.480 they're running and how comfortable they feel they are. So 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.480 you take a little bit of less money, you know, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.440 I mean understand guys who want to go get in 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.640 the bag. But Hooker had an affinity for being here 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.400 and wanted to be here that much I know, so 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.360 he probably took less dollars. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:49.080 Danny. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.360 Let me ask you this, you obviously being a safety 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.000 in the NFL, if you're a jiron curse, being that 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.720 leader on this team, being a green dot guy at 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.280 times on this team, and know the role that you play, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.560 are you okay with seeing other guys obviously get paid 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.680 in front of you, knowing that, hey man, this year 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.480 could be pretty big for you and you could be 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.720 a guy that's in line to get paid big dollars 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.040 next year. Oh yeah, I guess I'll have to put it, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.480 uh in terms of how I would feel if if 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.480 I wasn't offered a deal. Right, So we're just gonna 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.720 assume that he wasn't offered the deal he could have been. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.000 But I'm gonna just go from that assumption. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.640 I'm incentivized at this point one to make you pay 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.520 for not paying me, Right, I'm a ball out this 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.080 season and then find out who wants to really get 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.320 me the bag and I'm I'm and I'm chunking deuces 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.000 on y'all too. I'm hoping DQ get out of here 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.160 next year, and he takes me with him, and I'm like, Okay, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.280 that's all right with d Q Lee's. I know I'm 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.320 the guy, I'm not tied to Dallas, but yeah, I 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.760 might feel a little slighted if I didn't get offered 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.760 the deal and the other two safeties or offer one 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.680 of I'm the green dot guy, I'm the leader on 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.240 the defense, and oh yeah, by the way I've been balling. Yeah, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.640 I'm I feel a little way. But us as athletes, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.160 that's what happens, man, when they say you have a 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:04.800 chip on your shoulder like some like some business decisions 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.840 make you. They put that chip on your shoulders or 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.920 turned it into a boulder, and then maybe you see 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.800 the guy come out and having even better seasons than 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.919 he had previously, and he'd be laughing his way to 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:14.720 the bank next season. But I know Malie Hooker and 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.720 then be seeing them no state taxes, man, that's what up. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.680 To get nothing motivation? You like money. But I got 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:21.679 to ask you this, Nuie. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.719 If you're Zach Martin and you see the Dallas Cowboys 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.680 make these signs. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:27.480 How does that. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.960 Affect you, especially when you holding out for more dollars? 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.000 I think you can, okay, if I'm looking at it 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:39.640 just kind of putting on a hat of both sides. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.480 If I'm looking at the Zach side, you say, hey, man, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.359 you've committed dollars and you've paid other people before. Other 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.200 folks have jumped out of line and you've paid them. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.640 I'm a Hall of Fame football player. You can take 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.000 care of me if you want to. On the flip side, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.200 you're the Cowboys, say hey, we've given you your money. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.919 We paid you at the top, You're first round draft pick. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.320