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Speaker 1: joined by two former Dallas Cowboys players. They both played
Speaker 1: safety for the Cowboys, Danny McCrae and Barry Church. All right, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: this is a draft position game on Sunday in Cincinnati, Ohio,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys taking on the Bengals right now. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have a third overall pick in the draft. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: had the fourth pick in the draft. Whoever wins this?
Speaker 1: Do they really win? Do they really win? In the
Speaker 1: end when we start thinking about twenty one in FL Draft? Gentlemen,
Speaker 1: let's let's start with Jerry Jones today. So Jerry talks
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays and Fridays, the ten thirty Friday Show. I
Speaker 1: used to host that when I was a host at
Speaker 1: What A five through the family, so this is always
Speaker 1: the good time to get Jerry as they head into
Speaker 1: their game. So Jerry says he wished that they didn't
Speaker 1: make so many defensive changes before the season. So Jerry
Speaker 1: has regret about that. Mike McCarthy was talking about how, hey,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of guys who hadn't worked together
Speaker 1: this year. So I wanted to run it by you first,
Speaker 1: Danny McCrae, your thoughts on Jerry saying he wished they
Speaker 1: didn't make so many defensive changes of Mike Nolan's scheme
Speaker 1: this year. Also, I was just about to ask you that.
Speaker 1: So it's specific to Mike Nolan's scheme and not the
Speaker 1: changes that he made as far as coaches correct, this
Speaker 1: is this is about the defensive scheme that oh hey,
Speaker 1: look we try oh listen If that means absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: to me, the scheme part is over with, man, it's
Speaker 1: straight coaching. We've set out. It's it's no it's no
Speaker 1: time when we sit there and we watched them get
Speaker 1: beat for a deep touchdown, these guys being out of
Speaker 1: their gaps to where you said, hey, man, I think
Speaker 1: he's running something that's too complex. Maybe in week one
Speaker 1: or two, but after that, he came out and said,
Speaker 1: we're running stuff that the people run in high school.
Speaker 1: Covered three were getting beat over the top aglar regular
Speaker 1: base defense. We're out of our gaps on that. So
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the stuff that he put in and
Speaker 1: the stuff that that the players may have not been
Speaker 1: able to pick up on. It's literally the coaching that
Speaker 1: is the problem on defense. So I mean, that don't
Speaker 1: mean much to me. Now, if he would have said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have let my man Richard go, and we
Speaker 1: should have kept that kind of scheme because we've seen
Speaker 1: some of our defensive backs becoming better players underneath him,
Speaker 1: and we just needed to make a few changes on
Speaker 1: the defensive line to get this better. I would have
Speaker 1: been all for that. But Mike Nolan's ski. Nah, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's it. But like I said, this makes
Speaker 1: me think that next season, Mike Nolan will still be here.
Speaker 1: M man. Look, I hope not. I hope not, man,
Speaker 1: But I'm not wanting to call for someone's job. But look, man,
Speaker 1: it's the proof is in the Pudding Boys has been
Speaker 1: getting ran by ran through all seasons. I look, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this, I'm gonna stick with what I said yesterday.
Speaker 1: I do still believe it's sixty forty players over the coaches.
Speaker 1: And I say that because, look, man, the mistakes we've
Speaker 1: seen out there, they're elementary. Man. You should know this.
Speaker 1: In high school, man, we've seen guys and Cover three
Speaker 1: getting ran by playing flatfooted and Cover three like, there's
Speaker 1: no there's no explanation for that. You shouldn't. You're a
Speaker 1: better than this league. You shouldn't be able. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to do that. I mean, that's just that's
Speaker 1: just day one ruler. You know that in high school
Speaker 1: and Cover three you got the deep third, don't let
Speaker 1: anybody get behind you. But we've seen that time and
Speaker 1: time again with this Cowboys defense. It's just excuses. And
Speaker 1: to me, it's just another it's just another talking point.
Speaker 1: It's just something that like we talked we talked about
Speaker 1: with Jayalen yesterday, how he's saying, Oh, we need to
Speaker 1: do this, we need to hustle to the ball. It's
Speaker 1: just all talk, man, it's all talking. It's all excuses.
Speaker 1: And until we see some type of something, some type
Speaker 1: of moxie, some type of heart out there on the field,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just go ahead and shove it to the
Speaker 1: side and just say it's all talking, it's all excuses.
Speaker 1: That's this. Listen, what you're just saying is another reason
Speaker 1: why that it's coaching to me. And when I say coaching,
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't mean scheme. I mean the
Speaker 1: man at the head, the man that's in charge of
Speaker 1: getting these players ready, motivating them, holding these guys accountable.
Speaker 1: Chris Rochard is known for running what coverage church cover three?
Speaker 1: Cover three? All right, so last year when Raschard was here,
Speaker 1: we did not see this type of stuff happening. It's basic.
Speaker 1: Two quarters have the dep third and the middle safety
Speaker 1: got the DP third and they played that defense and
Speaker 1: they played they lined up in it, and they played it.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, this year we come out
Speaker 1: and call the same defense with the same guy and
Speaker 1: we can't run it. I mean, look, this is this
Speaker 1: is this is the most clear clear Pencer. But what's
Speaker 1: going on here? Like I said last year, we have
Speaker 1: to say. I will say this though, were we good
Speaker 1: last year? We ran the same type of people, But
Speaker 1: were we good on the defensive side of the ball?
Speaker 1: Last year? Were little better on they were left all
Speaker 1: they were better yeah, it got worse. Church, they were better,
Speaker 1: got worse. So so so yes, listen. So if you
Speaker 1: if you go in there and you say, because remember this,
Speaker 1: if you had Christian Shard here right, and you go
Speaker 1: into the draft thinking the same way that you thought
Speaker 1: this year, because initially it was we're going defensive back
Speaker 1: and thinking defensive first in this draft, if you got
Speaker 1: Christian Shard here and you say, all right, this is
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna give you every piece that
Speaker 1: you need to build a defense that you want, I
Speaker 1: think this would be a different defense versus versus what
Speaker 1: it is. Now. I agree with you, Danny, I agree
Speaker 1: with you on percent. Then so um, let's touch you guys.
Speaker 1: Touched on Jalen Smith and what he had to say.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy had somewhat of response. Okay, Mike McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: he didn't say effort. Okay, wasn't saying effort that He's
Speaker 1: about finish. Okay, So it's about finishing, not effort, not effort, guy,
Speaker 1: it's about finish. I thought it was one of the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you finishing the play, it's effort.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you start out saying if you start
Speaker 1: out going one hundred miles an hour and then you
Speaker 1: just slow down towards the end. You don't finish as effort,
Speaker 1: just like if you go to I mean, it's one
Speaker 1: and the same to me at that quote just doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. But it's one of the micro cars. Another
Speaker 1: head scratcher with this coaching staff. I mean, we've seen
Speaker 1: the calls being head scratchers, and now we're seeing the
Speaker 1: explanations being head scratchers. I don't know what's next, man,
Speaker 1: That's why I'm off the cooler train Church. This will happen.
Speaker 1: So this must be the same thing that's going on
Speaker 1: in those means that you had them with Big Mike.
Speaker 1: He heard one, you heard one thing, but he really
Speaker 1: didn't need to say that he'd been finish. He didn't
Speaker 1: mean effort. Call bro, like you said, it's this same thing.
Speaker 1: You cannot finish or play without having effort. Like these
Speaker 1: two things go together. They're not YouTube like, you can't
Speaker 1: do it, So it doesn't make It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: And the fact that that McCarthy says something inside the meeting,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith comes out and says it in the media
Speaker 1: and then McCarthy has to go back and say it,
Speaker 1: like what is this telephone? Like what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Like go out there and you get in the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: what are you talk So you have to listen to
Speaker 1: everything that every player says and then go respond to
Speaker 1: it in the meeting. Man, go out there and play football,
Speaker 1: bro go coach, go focus on winning your fourth game
Speaker 1: of the season. What is going on? That's about finish? Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's four games left. Guy, let's finish. I mean,
Speaker 1: Mike may want to just break out to Jason Garrett.
Speaker 1: Finished shirts, So let's finish this fight. You know. That's Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: As as a Cowboys head coach, don't you put Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett and Mike McCarthy in the same in the same sentence,
Speaker 1: because right now it's a very different stature than they're on.
Speaker 1: Like Jason Garrett, who has been much better as a
Speaker 1: Cowboys coach that Mike McCarthy has shown his staff in
Speaker 1: these first twelve games. Oh, there's no doubt about I agree,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. Um it has been and
Speaker 1: I was. I was on the phone with someone today
Speaker 1: I said, I was, I've been so let down so
Speaker 1: let down that that. Now I'm starting to wonder, Okay,
Speaker 1: how how much did I get suckered? Did he really
Speaker 1: do anything in the barn like he said when Tom
Speaker 1: Palasoro went there, Peter King was all that really going on?
Speaker 1: But he said he was. They watched every because he
Speaker 1: said it the press conference when they asked, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you said you watched every single snap of every game,
Speaker 1: and he's like, well, you know I wanted the job,
Speaker 1: so right there, he says, no, he didn't do it,
Speaker 1: he didn't watch it, so um, I don't man, I
Speaker 1: was hoodwinked. I was fooled. I was off. I was
Speaker 1: drinking at kool Ai. But unlike Church, I got off
Speaker 1: that bambooze and got off that narcotic quick. That narcotic
Speaker 1: real quick. Man. It's bad for me. They didn't got
Speaker 1: us all man, They didn't blame Booze with us all.
Speaker 1: They had me on that narcotic as well knew he.
Speaker 1: I was on it for about twelve weeks. But you know,
Speaker 1: I went to a I went to AA meetings, and
Speaker 1: now I'm off. I'm off for the kool Ai and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking clearly now and I'm thinking that may we
Speaker 1: might have made a mistake in letting JG lead, But
Speaker 1: that's a point for another day. Now, Mike McCarthy, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarty blinding y'all with the Super Bowl ring. Yes
Speaker 1: this dude, gold Listen, think about what you just said, Louie.
Speaker 1: The man goes out there and says he watches every
Speaker 1: snap of every game, comes here and doesn't call plays.
Speaker 1: So why are you watching the snaps for? Like what
Speaker 1: are you getting out of and like putting into our
Speaker 1: offense and our defense and our team that you saw
Speaker 1: on film. If you don't call players on defense, your
Speaker 1: friend doesn't, so we know you don't have much input there.
Speaker 1: You're getting an all the play calling to killing more
Speaker 1: so you don't have no input there. And your special
Speaker 1: team coaches obviously calling face when you don't even know
Speaker 1: he's calling them. So you've been watching all this stuff,
Speaker 1: have your coaches and have you relayed the message in
Speaker 1: what you've learned to them, because right now I don't
Speaker 1: see it, which and I'll piggyback on what you said.
Speaker 1: It was a really good point when Mike McCarthy once
Speaker 1: again told the media, how, hey, we're dealing with a
Speaker 1: lot of guys who haven't coached together. And Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: is saying the same thing you do. We're dealing with
Speaker 1: guys who have a coach together. I'm sorry. You know,
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera is dealing with guys he hasn't coached with
Speaker 1: in Washington. He's doing okay. Joe Judge never worked with
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett before. Look at what they're doing. Heck, he
Speaker 1: even fired Mark Colombo and they're sitting here getting better.
Speaker 1: They're running the football very well. Cleveland, you know you
Speaker 1: had it, yeah, Stefanski, first time head coach. So I'm
Speaker 1: hearing these excuses, and I'm sorry the fans should not
Speaker 1: buy these excuses. That they just shouldn't because there's other
Speaker 1: people who dealt with the pandemic in the same way.
Speaker 1: What you're telling us is that you did a poor
Speaker 1: job handling the pandemic. Jerry's the one out here raising
Speaker 1: his hand saying I wish we'd have done things differently
Speaker 1: on defense. But then I come back and say, why
Speaker 1: is Jerry taking the fall here as a general manager
Speaker 1: when you brought in a head coach who said he
Speaker 1: had a whole program ready to go, he spent all
Speaker 1: this time he had it down. I'm back next year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but you know he trying to come back. Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan's not coming back. He's not buried. No, I don't know, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened gonna happen. It sounds like
Speaker 1: it newly, all the sounds we get it sounds it
Speaker 1: sounds like like this excuse is being made for Nolan
Speaker 1: to be back next year. These are the excuses and
Speaker 1: the sounds that I'm hearing telling you. Once they mess
Speaker 1: with Jerry's money, no Sunday in that football game, Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan's not coming back. You're not coming back. I mean
Speaker 1: when when I don't know, you guys played the NFL.
Speaker 1: I didn't play. But I'm just sitting here on that
Speaker 1: that fourth or two Lamar Jackson touchdown, Like, why why
Speaker 1: have you putting twenty three up here? The safety in
Speaker 1: the linebacker spot. Here's the team that's gonna run the football?
Speaker 1: Been running the football? Can you put three linebackers just
Speaker 1: simple stuff and you're running nickel defense and they just
Speaker 1: running down your throat, bludgeing and you, I mean you
Speaker 1: look at we didn't even talk about Lamar Jackson's line.
Speaker 1: This is what Lamar Jackson's line was in the game
Speaker 1: twelve or seventeen, one hundred two yards, two touchdowns and interception,
Speaker 1: twelve completions. They got thirty four points. They never made
Speaker 1: him throw. He's coming off COVID. He doesn't have his
Speaker 1: number one receiver and it's tight end. Mark Andrews didn't
Speaker 1: have his number one wide receiver. Willie sneed who's at
Speaker 1: with Covid. Hey, you don't even try to make this
Speaker 1: guy throw. You know they're gonna run, and they just
Speaker 1: run for two hundred and ninety four yards. If you
Speaker 1: had two weeks to get ready, No, you don't get
Speaker 1: to come back. You don't get you don't get to
Speaker 1: blame COVID, don't get to do it. It's not gonna happen,
Speaker 1: not to our defense. I think me and Church said
Speaker 1: this at the beginning of the year. You do not
Speaker 1: learn how to stop the run once the season starts,
Speaker 1: all right, once you begin the season of your team,
Speaker 1: who's not able to stop the run? That goes on
Speaker 1: the entire season. So they I'm sure they sure, I
Speaker 1: think hardest to stop the run, and they did as
Speaker 1: much as they could. But this is a team that
Speaker 1: we are You can't do it, Church, if you if
Speaker 1: you can name the team that you've been on who've
Speaker 1: been sucky? Is stopping the run at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year and at the end of the year you've
Speaker 1: been like, you know what we became? Ain't me better?
Speaker 1: Run stopping team? Let me know for middle for middle
Speaker 1: school to high schools college. Let me know you Church.
Speaker 1: If it's fourth and two and they tell you to
Speaker 1: line up next to LV, what would you think? I
Speaker 1: would think, you know what, as long as I want
Speaker 1: to outside, I'm straight. But I'm gonna tell you what
Speaker 1: Mike Mike Nolan was thinking. He was he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna go into these meetings. He's gonna say, look, man,
Speaker 1: I got these boys lined up in the right position.
Speaker 1: They just didn't read their keys and they didn't execute
Speaker 1: the game plan. Like like if if vander esh would
Speaker 1: have basically read his keys, he would have been writing
Speaker 1: in the middle one on one tackle with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: But he didn't read his keys. He was way over there,
Speaker 1: over in Whuville, over there. I don't know where he
Speaker 1: was doing by Lamar Jackson was running up the middle
Speaker 1: of the field for a touchdown and in the other
Speaker 1: stance when I think it was number eighty ran a
Speaker 1: special across the field. Um Darian Thompson should have been
Speaker 1: writing a position to take him across the field. Everything
Speaker 1: would have been locked up, but it was. It was
Speaker 1: just a brain part, and he ended up letting the
Speaker 1: guy Scott free and ended up getting a touchdown off
Speaker 1: of that. So I don't know. I mean, it could
Speaker 1: work both ways. I mean, but that's why I say
Speaker 1: it's sixty forty on the players, because I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys are going out there and they're just not executing.
Speaker 1: But Mike also isn't putting them in the best situation.
Speaker 1: So I gotta say it's kind of a fifty fifty
Speaker 1: sixty forty grab to me. I just don't know, especially
Speaker 1: when I listened to Stephen Jones earlier this week when
Speaker 1: he talked about, hey, these are some of the same.
Speaker 1: These are guys. A bunch of these guys are in
Speaker 1: this scheme last year, and you know they looked as bad.
Speaker 1: I don't see how he survives. They're thirty second, they're
Speaker 1: giving up more points than the Jets. They are on
Speaker 1: pace to set franchise records that are embarrassing. I don't
Speaker 1: see Mike Nolan coming back. He can't come back. Jerry's
Speaker 1: gonna have a losing season. There's going to be a scapegoat.
Speaker 1: They just can't sit up here and say COVID. COVID
Speaker 1: will save Mike McCarthy, but it will not save his
Speaker 1: friend Mike Nolan. It will not happen. We've got to
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. We do have
Speaker 1: thoughts on the draft and do you go offense or defense?
Speaker 1: Found something here that may help Danny McCray a little bit,
Speaker 1: but we've also got to get predictions for this game.
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Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys players Danny McRae ed Barry Church. We
Speaker 1: are in our SWBC Mortgage Virtual Home Studios Bengals hosting
Speaker 1: the Cowboys right now. When it comes to the draft order,
Speaker 1: it's Jets one, Barry's Jacksonville Jacks two, Cincinnati's three. Dallas
Speaker 1: is number four. The Cowboys are favored by and I
Speaker 1: have some places three and a half points for this game. Look,
Speaker 1: the Bengals defense allows five yards per carry. They're thirtieth
Speaker 1: in the league. Checking out Ezekiel Elliott today, he was
Speaker 1: he is questionable for the game. Okay, he's questionable for
Speaker 1: the game. Worked with resistance bands. Zeke does not have
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown since Dak Prescott left the Cowboys cam
Speaker 1: irving tackle out for the game. Donovan Wilson, the safety
Speaker 1: is he was limited in practice today. He's questionable. Tyler
Speaker 1: be Honest apparently can return from iru. Cheeto Woozy is
Speaker 1: gonna be out with COVID. So gentlemen, if you're the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: if you got Zeke, he's questionable running run run, run,
Speaker 1: run running. And then on the other side for Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: their quarterback Brandon Allen, he got dinged up a little bit.
Speaker 1: But if you can find a way to throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field, throw the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: Because Anthony Brown's also questionable for this game here, so
Speaker 1: they may not have Cheeto, may not have Brown, may
Speaker 1: not have um No, Donovan Wilson, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: since and can find a way to throw it hit
Speaker 1: on a couple of big plays, that's where you go
Speaker 1: and if you the Cowboys trying to run the football, gentleman,
Speaker 1: it's prediction. Yeah. Look and look go ahead church Well
Speaker 1: for the prediction wise. Prediction wise, I'm a you know, look,
Speaker 1: I ain't back on the cool D, but I ain't
Speaker 1: going with the Cowboys on this one. I ain't going
Speaker 1: with especially. No, I ain't on the cool A. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just betting smart with this one because look, man,
Speaker 1: the Bengals, they might be down to their third string quarterback,
Speaker 1: and even their second string quarterback, Brandon Island, who I
Speaker 1: was with down in Jacksonville. He's a scrub man. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put it like that. He's just he doesn't have
Speaker 1: an arm stream and he's not very accurate with the ball.
Speaker 1: So look, I'm gonna go like this, man, I know
Speaker 1: they got talent out there on the wide receivers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said it needs a scrub. Look, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it like this, man. I know they got talent out
Speaker 1: there at receiver. They got te Higgins, they got Boy,
Speaker 1: they got aj Green. But the thing about a receiver,
Speaker 1: I mean their dependent position. They got to get somebody
Speaker 1: to give them the ball out there. And if you're
Speaker 1: going out there with Brandon Island or your third string quarterback,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna You're not gonna do much. You're just
Speaker 1: gonna be wasting talent out there. So I feel like
Speaker 1: if this Cowboys team can do something they haven't done
Speaker 1: all year and just play average to okay run defense
Speaker 1: that's don't even just average run defens not even good,
Speaker 1: not even great, just average run defense, I feel like
Speaker 1: we have a better chance in this game than the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, and I feel like we should get a
Speaker 1: w But hey, the Cowboys don't let me down in
Speaker 1: the past before, so I wouldn't be surprised if Cincinnati
Speaker 1: pool this one album. Give me a score? What you got?
Speaker 1: Do we get a score? Oh? It's uh. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and say twenty seven fourteen Cowboys. M Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, Church, this this will be one time
Speaker 1: where I'm not I'm not listening to you and following
Speaker 1: off the kool aid and all that stuff. I'm picking
Speaker 1: straight off my mind and what I've seen on the
Speaker 1: football field from the Dallas Cowboys and for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to go with the Bengals, I mean,
Speaker 1: with the eight I'm sorry twenty eight, twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty four. I do not think we'll be able to
Speaker 1: stop the run. I do think that Brandon Allen will
Speaker 1: come out here and be able to get some yards
Speaker 1: and possibly throw a couple of touchdowns on us. But
Speaker 1: I think that Andy Dalton returning to Cincinnati gives him
Speaker 1: a little bit more motivation to get some things done
Speaker 1: out there. I think Amari Cooper finally has a good
Speaker 1: game when it doesn't really mean much. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if Ze could be out there, but whoever is. I
Speaker 1: think we'll be able to get some big runs and
Speaker 1: get about one hundred and twenty yards on the ground,
Speaker 1: So I think that's the way the game goes. Our
Speaker 1: defense doesn't really play well, but if they make enough
Speaker 1: stops for us to get a win out there in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: so that's my pick. Mickey Spagnola picked the Cowboys to lose.
Speaker 1: He went twenty three twenty Cincinnati. Mickey's been on this
Speaker 1: thing of hey, I'm not going to pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: until they win two games in a run. Not a
Speaker 1: bad strategy. Not a bad strategy, and he said this
Speaker 1: earlier in the year, and Vegas likes the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: win this game. And I'm thinking a twenty three twenty
Speaker 1: game as well. Checking out my our analysis and their
Speaker 1: breakdown of the game, and they've got it basically the
Speaker 1: same way twenty two to nineteen. I'll just round up
Speaker 1: one and I will say the Cowboys win this game.
Speaker 1: Let's see if Mike McCarthy can get guys to finish,
Speaker 1: not their effort, Okay said it's not about effort, it's
Speaker 1: about fish. So let's see if Mike McCarthy and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff can get guys to finish this week. If
Speaker 1: you can't win this football game, you've got a world
Speaker 1: or hurt. These coaches are really you're running out of excuses. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're running out of excuses, and one of the main
Speaker 1: excuses is, oh, we don't know each other. Okay, I
Speaker 1: personally won't buy it because I remember Bill Parcells when
Speaker 1: he came here to the Cowboys, and Bill Parcells didn't
Speaker 1: know a lot of these guys. He never worked with
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, he never worked in Mike Zimmer. They had
Speaker 1: Quincy Carter as a quarterback, went to the the playoffs one
Speaker 1: ten games, So you can do it. Bill Active spoke
Speaker 1: about having to coach the coaches. His first two years
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, he talked about it. He understood this
Speaker 1: was a part of the job. So when I hear
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy and Mike Nolan using this excuses, I'm like, fellas,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this work year was that? What
Speaker 1: year was that? Nowise still got here? I want to say,
Speaker 1: oh four, because it's twenty twenty now, all right, So
Speaker 1: we got we got a lot of technical technological advances.
Speaker 1: You know, where you can do zoom and you can
Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of stuff from home and get
Speaker 1: some stuff taught up out there, way more than what
Speaker 1: they add in two thousand and four. So that excuse
Speaker 1: that they use it, you know, if they can get
Speaker 1: it done in two thousand and four, you can get
Speaker 1: it done in twenty twenty. But Mike had he had
Speaker 1: the bar. And remember he was at the barn, he lady.
Speaker 1: He was back in the lab like doctor Dre. He
Speaker 1: was putting it all together. Okay, remember that he was
Speaker 1: coming out knew and improved. Hey, I guess the album flopped.
Speaker 1: He was in the lab in the album. He goes
Speaker 1: it flopped, all right, because if we lose this game
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati. I mean, all hell's gonna break loose. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: they they're out Joe Mixon, they're out Joe Burrow. They
Speaker 1: just lost their best offensive lineman in Jonah Williams. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just a train wreck. And if we lose this game,
Speaker 1: he's going to have a big game. Yes, he's going
Speaker 1: to have a big game. Um. And my question to
Speaker 1: you about the excuses? All right, listen, listen, we all
Speaker 1: expect everything to be perfect next season and by time
Speaker 1: OTA's come, everybody to be free and clean. So what
Speaker 1: happens if things get pushed back and somehow, some way
Speaker 1: we still don't have the same type of offseason that
Speaker 1: we normally have. The coaches aren't able to work together
Speaker 1: as much as they are, the players aren't there as much.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to do some more things virtual
Speaker 1: because I mean you gotta look at are you gonna
Speaker 1: force people to take vaccines or not? How many players
Speaker 1: gonna be there, how many coaches? All this stuff. So
Speaker 1: let's say you go in to the same type of
Speaker 1: situation that you are again, do you get to use
Speaker 1: the same excuse? Oh no, I don't think that was
Speaker 1: an excuse to begin with because I mean, it ain't
Speaker 1: like it was an uneven playing field. I mean, everybody
Speaker 1: had the same the same schedule going into the season,
Speaker 1: So I don't see it as being another excuse This
Speaker 1: year coming up as well, Danny, I love that you
Speaker 1: use this and I go back and it was interesting.
Speaker 1: I was reading Urban Meyer's book that he produced after
Speaker 1: they won the national championship, and he talked about when
Speaker 1: he got to Ohio State what he needed to change
Speaker 1: in the program. He said, it was too much BCD blame,
Speaker 1: complain and defend. He said, you got to get that
Speaker 1: out of your program. And when you listen to Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Mike Nolan and Jerry and Steven when they
Speaker 1: talk about all this COVID, so it is a bunch
Speaker 1: of blame, complain and defend, you're not getting it done. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: other people who were in the exact same situation as you, Cleveland, Washington,
Speaker 1: they're thriving and they're doing all right. Okay, They're they're
Speaker 1: doing a okay and Joe Judge with the Giants, I mean,
Speaker 1: think about it. We all said this division is between
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Dallas. Everybody said it was a two team
Speaker 1: raise the two teams that we all thought we're in
Speaker 1: a race, are in a race for the bottom. That's
Speaker 1: how bad this thing is. That's how bad it is.
Speaker 1: And the other two are on top. Yeah, this is bad.
Speaker 1: So no the BCD here that you don't get to
Speaker 1: use it again. You don't get to use it again.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's personally, I just don't even think you
Speaker 1: can get to use it. And you think you compare
Speaker 1: us to all those other teams that you just named,
Speaker 1: In my opinion, we have we had an advantage over
Speaker 1: them because we are one of the teams, the few
Speaker 1: teams in the league who has a true bubble atmosphere.
Speaker 1: We have the hotel connected to Ford Center to where
Speaker 1: everything is close to each other, and versus all these
Speaker 1: other teams where they have to do stuff a little different.
Speaker 1: So if you look at it, we had a little
Speaker 1: bit more of an advantage than than say Philly or Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and look, we say all this, and I go back
Speaker 1: to what Church said, this is the game you can't
Speaker 1: aforth loose if you lose to Cincinnati. What what will
Speaker 1: the excuses be? You still have talented players on the
Speaker 1: football field. Okay, not as many as you had before.
Speaker 1: And you're playing a lot of young guys. But Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: playing a lot of young guys too. Um, they got
Speaker 1: to win this game. They have to. And if you
Speaker 1: can't beat Cincinnati and Cincinnatis not a team that's running
Speaker 1: the ball. Okay, they don't run the ball. Lord knows,
Speaker 1: I know. I was a fool who drafted Joe Mixing
Speaker 1: with his first pick in Fantasy, and I have got
Speaker 1: picked up Giovanni Bernard, which means I'm not in the
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs in my league because my team ain't real good.
Speaker 1: We can't and you ain't even in the playoffs. Hold on, man,
Speaker 1: the boy was talking all years about Church. You and
Speaker 1: you ain't even in the playoffs. Oh, Jim Louis, Oh
Speaker 1: I won last year. I got it back this year
Speaker 1: in the consolation round over there, and delusion racking up. Man,
Speaker 1: I tell you that don't mean nothing. That trophy back
Speaker 1: there told me this is going to the next participant Church.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that. Well, I've then went over there
Speaker 1: and trying to slide that in there. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Oh no, I ain't left that one, right,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna let that one right, man, after you
Speaker 1: didn't grilled me so much about my team. Oh no, man,
Speaker 1: you ain't even in the playoffs. Church, Church, Church. He
Speaker 1: couldn't wait, he couldn't wait. My name is on there
Speaker 1: twice as a champion, Church. I've climbed to the mount
Speaker 1: to the top Church twice, two times, two times. Where
Speaker 1: you at now though, you at the bottom of the mouth,
Speaker 1: So you go ahead and get that trum back. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you where. I'll tell you where I'm at. You
Speaker 1: don't know where I'm at right now. Oh I'm in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, playboy. I'm in there. I'm getting me trophy, man,
Speaker 1: all right, So I'm just let all know where I'm
Speaker 1: at now. You got, first of all the Church. You
Speaker 1: at my league, so you ain't getting no trophy. And newly,
Speaker 1: hold on before you before you take that before you
Speaker 1: take that route. Remember every time I say the LAGU
Speaker 1: was the raiding champions, you give me a hard time, right,
Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear you're talking that same
Speaker 1: stuff that I said talking about I clowd the top
Speaker 1: of the mountain. So I'm still I want to hit that.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. I like just like Lsu I
Speaker 1: celebrated way too much, celebrated the title way too I
Speaker 1: didn't get back. I needed. I needed to have the
Speaker 1: Alabama approach and throw it away and that's what I
Speaker 1: needed to do. So, yes, it was man yourself in
Speaker 1: so much time on the golf course. Church, you ain't
Speaker 1: doing fantasy right, But I can't believe this. Then he
Speaker 1: try to slip that in there. Oh yeah, ain't in
Speaker 1: the playoffs? It is. We just count this yourself imposed
Speaker 1: bowld man, all right, this is your self imposed bowl. Well.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to say that I I too, was
Speaker 1: working with the new staff this year, so we kind
Speaker 1: of didn't know each other. Analytics department. We had a
Speaker 1: couple things go wrong. Our second last by one point.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, it's a couple of operations we've got
Speaker 1: to get fixed. Um, you know, like Jalen says, we
Speaker 1: can be better. We can be better, and I just
Speaker 1: have to bring my after each week and like like Exavie,
Speaker 1: what's it you can't expect You can't expect me to
Speaker 1: be good every year Church? I can't. I can't. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard every week. It's hard to bring it every week.
Speaker 1: Churchis hard to meet every week. So the shots on
Speaker 1: this show, man and disrespect on this show. So you know,
Speaker 1: unlike unlike the president, unlike the president, I will concede
Speaker 1: and I will give that. I will give the title way.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go and have Cord say that I was.
Speaker 1: You know, I cheated these last two weeks, especially when
Speaker 1: I lost my one point. I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. They do stack corrections. We
Speaker 1: want to hear that it's accurate. They do corrections. We know.
Speaker 1: You just make sure you pay for posters on that trophy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's what when you send it back? You see behind me,
Speaker 1: I've got about I got about another. I got about
Speaker 1: another three weeks left with it, and then I gotta
Speaker 1: go drop it off. Yeah, but h hol time man,
Speaker 1: hugging holding tight hold time. You might not see it again.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. Can we take a break out,
Speaker 1: Le's take a break. Yeah, you know, I take a break.
Speaker 1: Let's get back. And they're talking about you know, it's
Speaker 1: not about me, It's not about me. It's about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Talking about the draft. Next. Okay, gentlemen, draft is it?
Speaker 1: Defense is an offense? Let's get into it next, right,
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Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys safeties join me in our last segment.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the draft talk, because this game between
Speaker 1: the Bengals and the Cowboys is about draft position. Right now,
Speaker 1: the Bengals and third Cowboys of four Cowboys are looking
Speaker 1: like they are going to have themselves a top five
Speaker 1: picks games against Cincinnati, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and the Giants
Speaker 1: to close out the season, the final four games of
Speaker 1: the year. All right, Danny, you were talking about offense
Speaker 1: in the first round of Church and I were talking
Speaker 1: about defense in the first round. Here if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: stay at four, okay, are you still about the office?
Speaker 1: Are you still about a left tackle that see listen.
Speaker 1: That all depends. So we ended our conversation yesterday about
Speaker 1: saying that if you if you release Smith, you actually
Speaker 1: save about five million dollars because you don't have to
Speaker 1: pay them the fourteen and it's about I think it's
Speaker 1: like eight million dollars in a dead cap, so you
Speaker 1: end up saving five. It all depends on what you
Speaker 1: do with T Smith. Me. I will move on, get
Speaker 1: me a new left tackle. You already got your new
Speaker 1: right tackle. Sure up the offensive line, and get back
Speaker 1: to the way you were. You were winning games and
Speaker 1: going into those playoff runs by using the offensive line
Speaker 1: and dominating. So I was stinking with offense. I think
Speaker 1: that's that's the way we should go in and then
Speaker 1: follow up with defense in those later rounds. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sell the tackle. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're familiar with them. Pine Suel, offensive tackle for Oregon,
Speaker 1: won the Outland Trophy as a sophomore last year. Dane
Speaker 1: Brugler of The Athletic I respect Dane a lot um.
Speaker 1: Dane hasn't going number three. They're talking about this gentleman
Speaker 1: could be one of the top offensive tackles to come
Speaker 1: in the out of the draft in ten years. So
Speaker 1: if they're able to get to three mccreig, you tell
Speaker 1: me this is the guy to go get. If if
Speaker 1: if you're going to move on from Tyres Smith, if
Speaker 1: you're not moving on, then absolutely not. You gotta go defense.
Speaker 1: But if you if you're gonna make the make the
Speaker 1: change and say, look, we need somebody that's reliable and
Speaker 1: somebody that we're gonna be on depend on for sixteen
Speaker 1: games out of the season, and you move on from T. Smith, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm gonna tackle. I'm sharing up my offensive line.
Speaker 1: That that is a huge question mark. You've got so
Speaker 1: much moral defense to worry about that it might be hard,
Speaker 1: you might take years for you to fix. But right
Speaker 1: now you can fix the officsive line and get this office.
Speaker 1: You can get this offensive offensive line roll right. Another
Speaker 1: another question another follower. If Penney's not there where he's
Speaker 1: gonna force it because he's I've rated this. He said, no, listen, look, listen,
Speaker 1: what will McClaren. I've got to do that, do that
Speaker 1: scouting report. I haven't done the scouting of officsive line.
Speaker 1: If you see a guy that's there, that's there, that's
Speaker 1: worth the pick as offensive lineman, and you have to
Speaker 1: choose between that and defensive line. I'm going offense line. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I think you're making a mistake about to Church.
Speaker 1: I think that's wrong. Yeah, I think he's wrong as well.
Speaker 1: But the only way, the only way I would go
Speaker 1: offense is if we were somehow, some way able to
Speaker 1: creep into that top two. And if we were able
Speaker 1: to creep into that top two, I would leverage it
Speaker 1: against Dak Prescott and say, look, if you all want
Speaker 1: to sign where we got, we're wrong after one of
Speaker 1: these two quarterbacks. And that's the only way I would
Speaker 1: go offense is, like I said, if some way we
Speaker 1: were able to creep in that top two and some
Speaker 1: way we're able to get Lawrence or Field one or two,
Speaker 1: and I would use it as leverage against Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: But other than that, everything remains the same. We stick
Speaker 1: where we're at. I'm going defense. I'm going defense from
Speaker 1: picks one all the way to picks five. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: our defense right now is atrocious. Now. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's scheme, I don't know if it's players, if
Speaker 1: it's a mix of boat, but this team right now,
Speaker 1: defensively is straight trash. So we gotta do whatever we
Speaker 1: can to get our defense better, and I think that
Speaker 1: starts with the defensive line. I think we go in
Speaker 1: there and get a defensive tackle high and early. I
Speaker 1: think we do something at each level of defense. I
Speaker 1: think we do something that linebacker, and I think we
Speaker 1: do something in the secondary, especially in the secondary scene,
Speaker 1: as though we have so many free agents available out there.
Speaker 1: So I gotta go defense from at least one to five.
Speaker 1: If we're not in those top two two, Church, can
Speaker 1: I put this towards you, all right? And I'm just
Speaker 1: going off Dame Bruegler's list of his initial mock draft.
Speaker 1: He's got quarterbacks going one and two, but Justin Fields
Speaker 1: is not at all there. He's got he's got Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence number one. He's got the by U quarterback. Number two,
Speaker 1: he's got the offensive tackle, he's got the offensive tackle,
Speaker 1: Piney Swell. Three, he's got Caleb Farley, the corner from
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Number four to the Cowboys got Patrick's retain
Speaker 1: number five. Justin Fields doesn't come in until pick number six.
Speaker 1: So if you're the Cowboys, Church, if you're the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and this thing comes to where they don't have Fields
Speaker 1: in the top three and you're sitting at four, would
Speaker 1: you be willing to move out at four if somebody
Speaker 1: wants to come get justin fields and you fall back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or do you take fields for yourself? Or do you
Speaker 1: or do you take fields for yourself? Yeah? See, I'm
Speaker 1: more I'm more going on the other route. I would
Speaker 1: go take fields for myself. Um, and I say, look back.
Speaker 1: I mean, I tried to give you what you know.
Speaker 1: I tried to give you what we thought was fair,
Speaker 1: and you didn't want that. So you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: in a different direction. I would leverage that against Dak
Speaker 1: and I would go fields. I mean, I think they're
Speaker 1: both similar players and as far as their ability to
Speaker 1: run and throw on the run, and that seemed to
Speaker 1: be both you know, extreme leaders. I mean I know
Speaker 1: Dak as a leader, but it seems that is that
Speaker 1: same type of characteristic. So if it was me, if
Speaker 1: I was ahead of this and I was making all
Speaker 1: those money as at GM, I would definitely, uh, I
Speaker 1: would go with Fields. I would go with ye and
Speaker 1: Prescott walk man, You're you're a bad dad. You're a
Speaker 1: bad day. Everything we just talked about about defense to
Speaker 1: go get to go get Justin fields? So my so
Speaker 1: my office. I would keep keep Tyren Smith. I would
Speaker 1: keep Tyron Smith in there. I wouldn't get rid of
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith. We would have Zach Martin coming back. We
Speaker 1: got Lel Collins coming back. So I'll think our offensive
Speaker 1: line will be nearly as bad as it was this year.
Speaker 1: And I go and get I go against Justin Field,
Speaker 1: and I would use that money that I was gonna
Speaker 1: spend on that to go get some free agents on defense.
Speaker 1: Tell you both wrong, Okay, both of you are just
Speaker 1: absolutely mad. I cannot what I'm hearing. I literally can't
Speaker 1: believe what I'm here. Okay, here's a team that's in
Speaker 1: dire need of a defensive fix, and you guys are
Speaker 1: still sitting around here thinking about offense when you can
Speaker 1: go get and use I just told you I would
Speaker 1: take that money. I take that money to go get
Speaker 1: a free agent, approving defensive free agent, not somebody in
Speaker 1: the draft like who, Yeah, I don't know who who.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's got to be some top free agent.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I haven't done in the scouting report
Speaker 1: on the free agents yet, but there's got to be
Speaker 1: some top guys out there that we can get bringing
Speaker 1: Anthony David, the Anthony Davis and defense on Lebron and
Speaker 1: it's gonna fix you. I mean, that's that's not all
Speaker 1: I said. We need a superstar, but at least a
Speaker 1: couple of core people that good of all players, I
Speaker 1: think they can make our defensive churches. Know how does
Speaker 1: this make sense that you dumping Dak and you dump
Speaker 1: and tire okay, okay, and in the defense not getting
Speaker 1: NOI how does that make sense? How this defense will
Speaker 1: get fixed? All right? Listen, We've paid one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars to a defensive end. We drafted a cornerback in
Speaker 1: the second round. We paid a linebacker. We drafted a
Speaker 1: linebacker in the first round. We just let go of
Speaker 1: the first round defensive lining. We tried to Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: in the second round. We've tried. All right. If I'm
Speaker 1: taking my chance, I'm going with with offensive line. All
Speaker 1: these guys are hot draft picks on the line. Now
Speaker 1: you talking about listen, we need more, We need more.
Speaker 1: He's the players we need more. We need more. We
Speaker 1: got all these first round picks, second round picks. Dudes,
Speaker 1: we needn't paid one hundred million dollars, seventy million dollars.
Speaker 1: We need more. Come on, man, and don't make sense.
Speaker 1: How much more do you need? You had your McCoy,
Speaker 1: it didn't work out because the injury you can you
Speaker 1: can get you a player on the inter can get
Speaker 1: you a player you didn't have. You didn't have young
Speaker 1: Buck jail from Chris Beam helped me this, Chris, I mean,
Speaker 1: I let me help me. I'm saying that's fine, But
Speaker 1: I mean Sue's still out here playing, playing at the
Speaker 1: top level. He's still making plays. I think that Joe
Speaker 1: McCoy would have would have made a difference. He just
Speaker 1: got injured. But I'm still not picking a defensive lineman
Speaker 1: over offensive lineman. I'm just not doing especially about in
Speaker 1: the first round. Find a way to get you one
Speaker 1: of the second third. So if you go watch Cleveland
Speaker 1: but Love for three hundred again and watch the Ravens
Speaker 1: with two ninety four, Okay, okay, But according to y'all,
Speaker 1: all we got to do is get rid of Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan and these players will get better. No, so like so,
Speaker 1: so if we get rid of Mike Dolan, the players
Speaker 1: get better. This you know, we get some guys in
Speaker 1: free agent saying we're good, right, I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: hitting the y'all all on that level. I'm all on
Speaker 1: that level. Church, I'm still on that. I'm still on that.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of this has to do with
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan. I think you can go get you some
Speaker 1: defensive lineman in free agency, Like you said, you find
Speaker 1: a way to move around some money and go get
Speaker 1: you a defensive tackle. Let me take whatever defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: whatever defensive tackle that you pick in the first round.
Speaker 1: He ain't stopped it Cleveland for running for three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that. I can guarantee you that
Speaker 1: no matter who you plug in there, they still running
Speaker 1: for three hundred on us, save all on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: Jo I gave you all the solution. Come on, if
Speaker 1: we we we get that que Hey, we say Prescott,
Speaker 1: it's been real. It's been real, Prescott. We'll use that
Speaker 1: brand to get some money on defense, and we get
Speaker 1: rid of Mike Nolan. I mean that we won't see.
Speaker 1: I'm not on the Mike know anything. I think I
Speaker 1: think the I think the players are more to blame.
Speaker 1: But according to y'all, we get rid of Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an upgrade on the defense. One we
Speaker 1: won't not just not just Mike Nolan, the defensive back
Speaker 1: coaches too, the defensive back coaches too. They got they
Speaker 1: got to get up out of him because they they
Speaker 1: they have They have stuck up to joint just as
Speaker 1: much as Mike Mike Nolan has. But they are responsible
Speaker 1: for what the play that these guys are putting out
Speaker 1: there on the field. For the most part, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: now the players here right, they're not hustling, they're not
Speaker 1: into the record is horrible all that, But I think
Speaker 1: that they can get I think they can play better
Speaker 1: if they got a better coach, you know, giving them direction.
Speaker 1: Knew he got a superman, a defensive lineman that he
Speaker 1: thinks gonna come here and just all of a sudden
Speaker 1: save us from getting ran through about three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: We got live backers out of gaps. We got live
Speaker 1: backers out of gaps. Safety is not feeling. We got
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on crack, no crack replacing giving up fifteen yards,
Speaker 1: and the d lineman is the one who's gonna save
Speaker 1: us from getting ranned down by three hundred. You don't
Speaker 1: I don't think something. I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: that's somewhere we got. We have to start somewhere. But
Speaker 1: but you know, you guys are making offensive pieces. So
Speaker 1: so if I'm listening to you guys, you're gonna go
Speaker 1: into that Mike McCarthy thought process. We're just gonna put
Speaker 1: up thirty a game and we're just gonna outscore people.
Speaker 1: Our defensive gonna give U supports. We just go outscore people.
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, no, no, no, no no, it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna work that way. Then it'll just be twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: if we go that way, Like I said, I want
Speaker 1: to go for like, the only way I'm saying we
Speaker 1: go offense in the first round is if we can
Speaker 1: get one of them top quarterbacks. If not, I think
Speaker 1: we should go deepense the whole way, or it'll just
Speaker 1: be like twenty nineteen when we're putting up all those
Speaker 1: empty calories and all those yards but taking losses because
Speaker 1: we couldn't stop anything. So church defense all the way,
Speaker 1: Church church. Okay, do you think Jerry Jones Chris Beam
Speaker 1: is Jerry seventy six or seventy seven years old, right man?
Speaker 1: Because I don't see the seventy six year old owner
Speaker 1: wanting you start all over with a quarterback who has
Speaker 1: to have the learning curve that most quarterbacks as rookies
Speaker 1: have to have, and there's no guarantee. And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, Ohio State, he's seventy eight. Oh oh, oh, no,
Speaker 1: they ain't happening. Church ain't had a Church seven eight
Speaker 1: years old. He ain't waiting. Church not happened. And I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not with you on this season. Church. Listen
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Listen with what Newis just said. If Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy can really get an offense, they can go out
Speaker 1: there and dominate the offense and score thirty points, it'll
Speaker 1: looked totally different than twenty nineteen. Twenty nineteen issue was
Speaker 1: we all said Dak was getting those trash yards because
Speaker 1: we could not find a way to start offense enough,
Speaker 1: and we would get down by twenty one and then
Speaker 1: we would have to crawl back into the game in
Speaker 1: the second half. If you get a potent offense that's
Speaker 1: able to score those points consistently from first half, from
Speaker 1: first quarter to full quarter, and then your defense is
Speaker 1: just okay, I think you're all right. Church. You was
Speaker 1: on one of those teams the defense was okay, and
Speaker 1: the and the ball control on the offense was was magnificent.
Speaker 1: And you guys went out there and called turnovers because
Speaker 1: the offense, the other offense had to come out there
Speaker 1: and throw the ball to try to catch up. So
Speaker 1: I'll taking care of the offense and trying to work
Speaker 1: that same philosophy that you guys did. We don't need
Speaker 1: no stars out there on defense. We need offense to score,
Speaker 1: control the clock, and get some playmakers on defense. That's
Speaker 1: what we need. Defensive line. They're not saving us in
Speaker 1: the first one. You get a definitely, Yeah, we need
Speaker 1: we need playmakers. We need playmakers, we need we need playmakers,
Speaker 1: but we don't need we don't need a number five
Speaker 1: pick in defensive tackle. I haven't even seen one to
Speaker 1: see one worth in this player right now. I know this.
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton will not have either you two on the
Speaker 1: Draft Show anytime soon here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
Speaker 1: Just that's it. I can't take anymore. That it for
Speaker 1: Friday Players Lounge. We'll be back on Monday to talk
Speaker 1: about this Draft Bowl game between the Bengals and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: We all have picked the Cowboys to win this football game.
Speaker 1: Let's see if We're correct on Monday for Barry Church,
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