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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and NEWI scrugs.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, it's Monday right here. Oh, the Players Club.
Speaker 1: I actually got some Players Club, the Players Lounge. It's
Speaker 1: been that. I've been all for a minute, man, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of days off relaxing. I forgot the name
Speaker 1: of the show, but it's the Players Loud about the
Speaker 1: Players Club, Crazy hold dollars dollar. A great movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: see we can agree. Okay, so we can agree. We
Speaker 1: like this. Yes we can agree on that. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it was a classic. Yes, one of my favorites. Man,
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. When he tells Jamie Fox and
Speaker 1: Jane Won Raig said, blue all you do, spend, that's
Speaker 1: all you do. May raise up go be trouble, trouble.
Speaker 1: M m m mmm. Yes, sound like my boy, sound
Speaker 1: like my boy. Double g Garrett Gilbert out here man
Speaker 1: when he steps on, when he steps up there, the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage is trouble it's trumble. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he won't. He won't be stepping to the to the
Speaker 1: huddle this week. You will let his time is coming here.
Speaker 1: You haven't seen the last. The double g out here.
Speaker 1: We have not seen the last. Oh lord, I'm very scrugs.
Speaker 1: Come along with Barry Church, Danny mccraig. Church mccraig played
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. I just simply covered the Cowboys. Uh.
Speaker 1: We only did a couple of shows last week, and
Speaker 1: we switched up shows, so we ended we ended up
Speaker 1: we ended the players lives with different people. So I
Speaker 1: was doing the show the last two days last week
Speaker 1: with with Jesse Holly and Everson Walls, two former Cowboys players,
Speaker 1: and so you guys went on different podcasts, so I've
Speaker 1: been eager to hear. How did it go? Well? You know,
Speaker 1: I was on the I was on the break over
Speaker 1: there with Derek and uh Isaiah stand back and we
Speaker 1: had Kurt over there as well. So we had some
Speaker 1: good dialogue, man, and it was very organized. Man. Um,
Speaker 1: it was a cool though. It was a cool cool show,
Speaker 1: cool podcast. I will say, Man, it's nothing like the
Speaker 1: Players Lounge. Um, this is the best show by far.
Speaker 1: But it was a cool show to be on. It
Speaker 1: was something different. Yeah, dere Derek said, Barry and Isaiah
Speaker 1: are heavily drinking to kool like they were passing it
Speaker 1: back and forth about how I wasn't both of them
Speaker 1: yeah go in the east. So I had to say
Speaker 1: I had to pepper them up. I had to pepper
Speaker 1: them up a little bit. At first day. They weren't
Speaker 1: kind of on the on the train. But they're on
Speaker 1: it now. They're on it with me and my boy
Speaker 1: Big Mike Man. So y'all should too because this ncating
Speaker 1: up up. So let me tell you something. Listen, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you have a renewed a batch of kool
Speaker 1: Aid since you went on this Bible week he came back.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're reinvigorated and you're really really standing
Speaker 1: by this. And now it's even more. Let's get Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton out of there and put Gilbert in and that's
Speaker 1: and that's who's gonna carry us to the playoffs. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, whatever whatever you say. Man, We didn't talk
Speaker 1: about that on Hanging with the Boys. We had a
Speaker 1: great time. Nobody was drinking the kool aid on that show,
Speaker 1: so I felt like I fit right in Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I tried to try to talk to him about getting
Speaker 1: us some wingstop. But you know, we had a great time.
Speaker 1: We had some great conversation, no kool aid, So it
Speaker 1: was fine with me these shows, as Chris Being could
Speaker 1: tell you that the players lounge and great. As we
Speaker 1: got into Jesse Holly's New York style croc pot ribs.
Speaker 1: He doesn't use a smoker. Even though he's been in
Speaker 1: Texas now for having a day, he still likes to
Speaker 1: do his ribs via crock pot. And I've come to
Speaker 1: find out that Jesse doesn't like turkey. So for Thanksgiving dinner,
Speaker 1: Jesse serving his famous ribs from the crock pot for
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner. So if you want you want some
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving ribs than Jesse Holly House, I'm with him on that, man.
Speaker 1: I'm with him on that because to me, I mean,
Speaker 1: Turkey's overrated. Man, I don't you know, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big turkey guy. Like you know, I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: I'm I'm you know, it's disgusting or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but you know, you know, Turkey is just it's just
Speaker 1: not my cup of tea. I'll put it, like, have
Speaker 1: you have you had a nice deep fried turkey? No,
Speaker 1: I have not had a deep fried turkey. Well you
Speaker 1: was good, though, I guess I heard it was good.
Speaker 1: I heard it was good. So you right for your life.
Speaker 1: I'm what's up? What it? Don't take nothing like that
Speaker 1: smoking turkey, nothing like it. It's a totally different experience.
Speaker 1: I mean, preach it, Danny. I mean until I got
Speaker 1: to Texas the first time I had a deep fried turkey.
Speaker 1: Once you had that, brother, you don't want to go
Speaker 1: back to anything else. I mean, it's just not the
Speaker 1: same man. It is not the same man. By the way,
Speaker 1: to those of you checking out the players loud thall
Speaker 1: out your turkey, do not put it. Do not do that.
Speaker 1: Though a fire, you can't do that. You can't. You
Speaker 1: can't do it. Because there's a guy. There's a guy
Speaker 1: foot works, famous chef named Tim Love being on Food Network,
Speaker 1: got a bunch of restaurants in Dallas, Fort work Um.
Speaker 1: Tim used to come up to to Channel five and
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, that was like the best day ever to
Speaker 1: go to the TV station. It was the day before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: And so Tim Love will be out there with our
Speaker 1: former reporter Brett Johnson, who passed away. They would be
Speaker 1: doing deep fried turkeys for the four or five, six
Speaker 1: and six o'clock shows. So they're just you know, out there,
Speaker 1: live shot. If you see them in there, you know
Speaker 1: they put the turkey in and then they pull it
Speaker 1: out and they cut it up. And so that was
Speaker 1: my first experience with deep fried turkey. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you what, brother, we were eilabow when people to
Speaker 1: get in line to get that turkey. I mean every
Speaker 1: turkey d a turkey every hour. Man and I would
Speaker 1: be out there. So I never missed the Wednesday before
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving because it was It's unbelievable. So Church, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, you can go find I mean you
Speaker 1: can literally you can just go google it and help
Speaker 1: people people who will sell them to you. But get
Speaker 1: you one of those, man and mccrane go studio along
Speaker 1: on that. I might hook you up. Church, I might
Speaker 1: hook you up. Man. I look, I put Church on
Speaker 1: the Crawfish back in the day, so you know a little.
Speaker 1: If I if I need, if I need to deep
Speaker 1: fried turkey, what I usually do when I'm at home
Speaker 1: in Houston and we have our family, our family thanksgivings,
Speaker 1: I usually deep fried turkey. But if I need to
Speaker 1: put put that ain't gonna fry for you, church, because
Speaker 1: you got some stuff to drop off to me. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we can exchange when you get here. That's a bet.
Speaker 1: That's a bet. I'm because you know what, McCray has
Speaker 1: never steered me wrong when it comes to food. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead, and uh, I'm gonna go ahead.
Speaker 1: Take his word for that one. You have to do
Speaker 1: the crawfish. I've never done the crawfish, so I've done it.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm addicted to them things, man, I'm gonna yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm addicted to them things. Man. Man, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: this and this dude and McCray he doesn't write, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. He doesn't write. So hey, you
Speaker 1: had to go mess with McCrae on that one. Oh
Speaker 1: mc cray, you make it, you make you on crawfish.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, make my own crawfish, crab legs, shrimp,
Speaker 1: you know, corn potatoes, all that. All that we do.
Speaker 1: We do the whole nine. We do the whole nine.
Speaker 1: We get down, we get down. Forrest Gump over here, Bubba.
Speaker 1: That's all I tell hey, listen that you're right you're right,
Speaker 1: that's that's one of my favorite movies. Anyways, I'll take you,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll have to check for Jesse to
Speaker 1: see it. Jesse see it. Jesse does his uh, his
Speaker 1: crawfish and the croc pot, so I check with him
Speaker 1: on that too. No way, no, you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: do crawfits, no croc pot You can't even bowl you
Speaker 1: got you need you need a high you need a
Speaker 1: hot temperature, a rolling boil. You can't do that. No
Speaker 1: croc pile, Jesse. Jesse does. An amazing thing was the
Speaker 1: croc pots? Is Jesse Holley's is, mister croc pote. You're
Speaker 1: gonna make a whole croci book of recipes, you know.
Speaker 1: I gotta check to see if if Jesse put his
Speaker 1: croc pot ribs and the Cowboys cookbook, you know they
Speaker 1: put it out every year. You guys were in it
Speaker 1: that Dallas. But I gotta see what Jesse's recipe was.
Speaker 1: I should have asked him that Chris being fined out,
Speaker 1: did Jesse did Jesse's croc pot ribs? They get into
Speaker 1: that that Dallas Cowboys cookbook that they make every year.
Speaker 1: I would like to know that. I would would like
Speaker 1: to know that. All right, So we're back together here,
Speaker 1: and let's just start off with the NFC East races.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys walked this week, Philadelphia ends up losing to
Speaker 1: the Giants. They got, I mean, they got Philly, Phillies
Speaker 1: in first place three to five and one. They're at
Speaker 1: Cleveland coming up this week. Giants are going to buy
Speaker 1: there three and seven. Second place, Washington is two and
Speaker 1: seven and third place. They host Cincinnati this week, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are last two and seven and they're at Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So all right, mister koola drinker, tell me the path,
Speaker 1: the pathway here. If you see it now, the path
Speaker 1: is still what I said it was gonna be. We're
Speaker 1: gonna sweep the rest of this NFC East. I mean,
Speaker 1: look after what y'all saw from Philadelphia against the Giants
Speaker 1: lad or against the Giants yesterday, no one's believing in them.
Speaker 1: I mean, Carson Wentz, it's like he's jumped off a
Speaker 1: cliff as far as his skills have gone. I mean,
Speaker 1: at one one point in time, this dude was like,
Speaker 1: you know, up for the MVP. He was it was
Speaker 1: going crazy on the league. But we haven't seen that
Speaker 1: same Carson Wentz since Frank took his talents over to
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and became their head coach. So for me, I
Speaker 1: have no trust in Philadelphia. I think they'll drop the
Speaker 1: ball on this one, and that moves me to New York,
Speaker 1: who I think right now, New York overall, I think
Speaker 1: they're playing the best ball offense, defensively, you know, overall,
Speaker 1: I think they're bringing the best type of football out there.
Speaker 1: Do I think Danny Dimes has what it takes to
Speaker 1: lead them to the playoffs? Hack? No, I mean he's
Speaker 1: a walking turnover as it goes, as far as he's
Speaker 1: like the same as Carson Wentz when it comes to turnover.
Speaker 1: So I don't believe in New York overall, and that
Speaker 1: brings me to Washington, who they looked good yesterday when
Speaker 1: they came back against Detroit, but once again, it was
Speaker 1: a little a little bit too late, And you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't believe in them overall either, and that
Speaker 1: brings me to the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, we're sitting
Speaker 1: at two or seven right now. I think we're quite
Speaker 1: a half a game or maybe a full game back
Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Eagles. You know, I would love to
Speaker 1: see lying there. Garrett Gilbert, we're last. I understand that,
Speaker 1: but game or a game back, and I would love
Speaker 1: to see Garrett Gilbert go out there and lead us.
Speaker 1: I think he has what it takes to lead this team. There.
Speaker 1: I know y'all over there sweating because everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody was laughing at me when I said we were
Speaker 1: gonna take this division weeks ago. But now I'm starting
Speaker 1: to come to fruition. All right, it's starting, It's coming
Speaker 1: my way. I can feel it now. I'm giving y'all
Speaker 1: one more chance, one more chance to church on this
Speaker 1: bad wagon. And Big Mike and y'all could be a
Speaker 1: part of this. Y'all could be part of special. What's happening?
Speaker 1: Have we beat Philly? Now we be Philly? This year?
Speaker 1: We lost? We lost the Philly It's because we had
Speaker 1: no back there. That's why. No, no, no, no nod.
Speaker 1: Did we lose to Philly? A right, the same Philly
Speaker 1: team that you're talking about. Okay, so we lost to
Speaker 1: that Philly team. How did we beat uh? This Giants team?
Speaker 1: We had Dak Prescott and and we luckily got a
Speaker 1: special teams uh touchdown call back. That's how we beat
Speaker 1: New York. As you said that, did we beat him? Listen, listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: We got stopped by Washington, all right, and you all
Speaker 1: of us, you all of a sudden, you all of
Speaker 1: a sudden thing that we find to go sweet these guys.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. New York is playing better
Speaker 1: than they played when they played against us. Danny Dames
Speaker 1: looks better than he than he looked when he played
Speaker 1: against us. And now Alex Smith, Alex Smith is gonna
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna catch He's gonna catch you on.
Speaker 1: And he got McLaren back there and Gibson and they
Speaker 1: stopped us without him, and we still gonna have that
Speaker 1: issue because they are playing better as well. I think
Speaker 1: these these these teams are starting to play a little better,
Speaker 1: and I think we have our hands for with them.
Speaker 1: I don't know about this Gilbert thing you've got going on.
Speaker 1: Is just like he had a good game once and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's he's a saving grace. I
Speaker 1: don't understand that. So I would stick with Anti Dalton
Speaker 1: and see where he takes us. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be uh, We're gonna be first in
Speaker 1: the division and making that playoffer and I'm that kool
Speaker 1: aid is not getting sipped over here. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what they put in yours, but it's it's it's
Speaker 1: making you think crazy. Look, I was a fan of
Speaker 1: Dulton for you know, when he first I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what that's gonna be. That's a smart signing.
Speaker 1: Then when he took over for Dak and let us
Speaker 1: back against New York and I was like, man, this
Speaker 1: dude got it. He got the juice. And then we
Speaker 1: came to Washington and then it just fell apart from me,
Speaker 1: and then I realized there's a reason why Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: was available on free agency. There's a reason since Natty
Speaker 1: was able to get Joe Burrow. There was a reason
Speaker 1: why he was able. They were able to get Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow first overall, and there's a reason why we brought
Speaker 1: him here to Dallas to back up. He's not the future.
Speaker 1: The future is Garret Gilbert as our backup quarterback and
Speaker 1: the rest of this season he's gonna lead us to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Man, I'm telling y'all, give me, y'all one
Speaker 1: more shot to drink this. He's he's he's gonna lead.
Speaker 1: He's gonna lead you to pay for my dinner. Nikka SAMs.
Speaker 1: That's where you're gonna lead you to. All right, that's
Speaker 1: that's the only place he lead you to. You are
Speaker 1: you are sadly mistaken if you listen. So how many
Speaker 1: wins we're gonna have at the end of the season again,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be six and ten? Okay? All right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Nicka SAMs. Here I'll come, baby, here, I come, Nikka Sam.
Speaker 1: Hold my seat, hold seat, hold my seat. When the
Speaker 1: COVID over with the vaccine, maybe I'm going right right there,
Speaker 1: give me some food. See see very very in your
Speaker 1: in your thoughts today, your commentary today, you're talking about quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: The first thing I've got to go back to and
Speaker 1: defend Andy Dalton in the Washington game. Uh, that offensive
Speaker 1: line is not good. Okay, that was not a good
Speaker 1: offensive line. And and and so I'm sorry, you can't
Speaker 1: put that all on Andy. When there was no protection
Speaker 1: in that football game and the defense decided that they
Speaker 1: were still trying to figure things out and do Terry
Speaker 1: Poe was still you know, doing what he was doing.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, that
Speaker 1: that's not all on and adults. I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: got c about Arizona decided to watch what about Arizona?
Speaker 1: You know Arizona, same thing. I mean, you saw Zach
Speaker 1: Martin go out in that game. UM, offensive line wasn't
Speaker 1: good against Arizona, and the defense wasn't good either. It's
Speaker 1: this is bigger than just trying to sit up here
Speaker 1: and say hey, and don't we want you to be dad?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, what did what did your ass
Speaker 1: tell you? Knui? What did your ass tell you? You
Speaker 1: know what? My eyes tell me this? The defense still
Speaker 1: got issues now that Trayvon Digs is gone. Now you
Speaker 1: depending on Chad Cheetah Woozier and he's he's been injured
Speaker 1: this year. I still have some question marks about this defense.
Speaker 1: To see, can I buy what we saw the last
Speaker 1: game here or it was in a mirage. They've got
Speaker 1: to go face Dalvin Cook and the Minnesota Viking team.
Speaker 1: You know what they're about to do. They're gonna run, run, run, run, run.
Speaker 1: Can you stop the run? UM? Is the offensive line
Speaker 1: improving and they're a little bit better off this bye
Speaker 1: week because we saw Joe Looney's now back starting the center,
Speaker 1: because because the rookie Tyler Beardish is out with a hamstringing.
Speaker 1: So this is offensive line keeps on changing. Man every week,
Speaker 1: it's a new offensive line. So to put it all
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, um, that's that's that's that's tough. Man.
Speaker 1: That's tough to just put all this on a quarterback. Now,
Speaker 1: And as much as I like Garrett Gilbert, you and
Speaker 1: I know this. You know better than me because you
Speaker 1: played this league. Let him start to get some tape.
Speaker 1: Let folks start to get some tape. You are right
Speaker 1: about that. You are right about that, about getting the tape,
Speaker 1: I understand that. But what you also are right about.
Speaker 1: I mean, look this offensive line, they're starting to play
Speaker 1: a little bit better. This defense we saw the past
Speaker 1: two weeks, they're starting to play a little bit better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we lost Diggs. I understand that could be a big
Speaker 1: loss for us, but we're getting the Woozier back, so
Speaker 1: it ain't like we're just falling off a cliff. As
Speaker 1: the cornerback room, it's concerned. I mean, there is that
Speaker 1: cat over there and uh he was with New York.
Speaker 1: I think his name is what not dumb bar but Baker.
Speaker 1: He was involved in that in that incident earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, and he got put on the list. He's
Speaker 1: out there, he's available. So there's guys out there we
Speaker 1: can get for this cornerback room if we need it.
Speaker 1: I think I think, I think I think we got
Speaker 1: what we need at the quarterback and hold on, hold on, y'all. Listen,
Speaker 1: y'all talking about Diggs and and following off a cliff
Speaker 1: like the secondary was good before he got hurt, like,
Speaker 1: oh your look, clip all right, Digs our secondary was rolling.
Speaker 1: Now Diggs is out. Now we're really in trouble. We
Speaker 1: wasn't rolling before. So let's not act like that's big
Speaker 1: and and recepting. He was guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: He called jeff he called two yesterday. We missed that guy.
Speaker 1: But listen, as as as new he mentioned Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: is coming in here, and if you've watched him over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, you know that we are
Speaker 1: that think that we're gonna get the best shot of
Speaker 1: of trying to stop the run from Minnesota. Two. They
Speaker 1: still got Adam Feeling and Justin Jefferson back there, who
Speaker 1: can still put up numbers against the second there that
Speaker 1: the church is talking about not following off the cliff.
Speaker 1: There's still a big issue here. But the good thing
Speaker 1: about this for Church is he doesn't have us winning
Speaker 1: against Minnesota anyways. We're only gonna win this division games.
Speaker 1: So so so he's off the hook here. That doesn't
Speaker 1: even matter what happens in Minnesota. He's off the hook.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. So he could sip his kool aid
Speaker 1: and talk any way that he wants to because this
Speaker 1: game is irrelevant as far as it goes. It's his
Speaker 1: path to get into the playoffs. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: Hold on, Ain't nobody scared of Dalvin Cook? Ain't nobody
Speaker 1: scared of though feeling. Bring Ken folk cousins in here, whoever,
Speaker 1: whoever y'all want to bring in here, bring them in here.
Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all where we got the momentum right now.
Speaker 1: You ain't on the field. Bring Dalvin Cook in here.
Speaker 1: You ain't on the field. You like one of them dudes,
Speaker 1: you like like like your your friend about to get
Speaker 1: in the fight, and you're sitting on the sideline talking about, yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead and fight him, Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: You got this. You ain't even in there, bro, You
Speaker 1: thought we Ain't nobody scared of diving cook, Ain't nobody
Speaker 1: go get hit just like the rest up man watching
Speaker 1: the night. Ain't nobody scared it. Ain't nobody scared that
Speaker 1: the night watching the Knight? I know you and the
Speaker 1: watching the Knight. Let's Jefferson, Ain't nobody scared of him either.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get in our first break. Let's Bury take
Speaker 1: a time out and go put whatever he's whatever beverage.
Speaker 1: Gotta get a respill on that. What does the staff
Speaker 1: due to me? What kind of second half does the
Speaker 1: staff need to be able to come back in the
Speaker 1: next year? And one of my Super Bowl picks takes
Speaker 1: a huge, huge hit on the injury front. Will dive
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Speaker 1: for these Dallas Cowboys. All right, Um, can a good
Speaker 1: second half save this coaching staff? Go with you McCraw.
Speaker 1: I think it could save a few people. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about the defensive background. They would have to do
Speaker 1: something spectacular, uh in order for them to be saved.
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Speaker 1: not sure how far that one goes. But I think
Speaker 1: Bones and Uh and Kellen can save their jobs if
Speaker 1: they're able to patch together some stuff and help this
Speaker 1: team win some games, go out here and play mistake
Speaker 1: free for for the majority of the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: I think that they can. They can save their jobs,
Speaker 1: but the whole, the team as a whole, would have
Speaker 1: to play better, and they would have to show that
Speaker 1: they had a true effect on a turnaround for this
Speaker 1: team in order for that to happen. Uh. Yeah with me,
Speaker 1: you know, if what I believe is gonna happen, which
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys going on this run and winning the
Speaker 1: NFC East. I think these guys will, at least the
Speaker 1: heavy hitters at least, like the coordinators and the head coach,
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll save their jobs. I do believe
Speaker 1: with like McCray that you know, one of the position
Speaker 1: group position coaches might be hype out of there. Maybe
Speaker 1: the secondary coaches. We've seen too many ride receivers, you know,
Speaker 1: open within ten yards from the defensive back, So I
Speaker 1: think one of the position coaches might change. But overall,
Speaker 1: I think all the heavy hitters, that the coordinators, the
Speaker 1: main guy, Mike, I think he'll stick around. Um if
Speaker 1: what happens, what I think is gonna happen is they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the NFC East. And for that to happen,
Speaker 1: I think the defense is gonna have to step up,
Speaker 1: which they have been doing these past two weeks. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have to get better against the run.
Speaker 1: I mean, interior wise, we saw what Neville Gallimore can
Speaker 1: bring to the table. I think this is a star
Speaker 1: in the making. He was able to pretty much dominate
Speaker 1: Marquis Palency last or yeah, last week, and that's one
Speaker 1: of the better centers in the National Football League. So
Speaker 1: if he can continue doing that, I think you have
Speaker 1: something on the interior side of your your defensive line.
Speaker 1: But overall against the run, we're gonna have to step up.
Speaker 1: Losing digs so I don't know. Outside on that corner
Speaker 1: is huge because you know, he's been the guy that
Speaker 1: kind of challenge that number one receiver on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So hopefully it will can step
Speaker 1: up as well. But for me, the defense is gonna
Speaker 1: have to play better for us to get a turnaround
Speaker 1: going for the rest of the season. Goodness, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, We're real quick, real quick, Newly, I've never
Speaker 1: seen somebody crowns crown guys as up and coming stars
Speaker 1: so fast in my entire life. Neverthe balla or all
Speaker 1: of a sudden is a start in the making because
Speaker 1: you saw him like one game and then and Gilbert
Speaker 1: all of a sudden is starting to making. They're going
Speaker 1: to carry us to the NFC E Championship because you
Speaker 1: saw him perform and one game. This islate the word
Speaker 1: play man, that's what you said. That's I have one
Speaker 1: question for you, though, I think it's mathematically possible for
Speaker 1: the NFC champion to only have four wins. If we
Speaker 1: win the NFC Championship with four wins, is that the
Speaker 1: same to you? It's saving the coaches as it would
Speaker 1: be for us having going six and ten. Yeah, without
Speaker 1: a doubt. I think if they if they win four
Speaker 1: games and go to the playoffs by winning four games,
Speaker 1: I think they get to running back just for the
Speaker 1: simple fact that they made the playoffs with losing all
Speaker 1: these Look how many all pros they lost. They lost
Speaker 1: to kuld be one, they lost both their tackles. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just letting y'all know. And then it hold up
Speaker 1: back to back to this starting. Did you see what
Speaker 1: he was doing to Marquis Pouncy out there. That's one
Speaker 1: of the best centers in the league. I said he
Speaker 1: has the potential to be a star, to make it.
Speaker 1: And don't get me started about my boy double gu
Speaker 1: boy double G out there. He's got the momentum rolling.
Speaker 1: I never said he was going to be a star.
Speaker 1: I said he could be the future backup quarterback. But
Speaker 1: he has that momentum going. I'm going with him over
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. But I mean, you know, if he leaves
Speaker 1: us decisions, if he leaves the team to six and
Speaker 1: ten and makes them and go to the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: it happens to win a game, then that's a start
Speaker 1: to make it. I mean, I mean, that's what you
Speaker 1: hoping for, right. He's not gonna be anybody's back up
Speaker 1: if he if he ends up doing that, Oh, He's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be a backup. He's definitely gonna But I
Speaker 1: think he can't he can ride this wave. Man. Look,
Speaker 1: I gave y'all'all opportunities to jump on board, you know,
Speaker 1: but y'all didn't want to take those. They take that opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's okay, James, don't show up at there, don't show
Speaker 1: up at the parade. Don't show up at the parade.
Speaker 1: All right, let me make sure I get this correct. Church.
Speaker 1: You've got winning the NFC East at six and ten, yep, yes, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: So if the Cowboys finished six and ten, there will
Speaker 1: not be a Mike Nolan running back next year. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen. You don't get you going
Speaker 1: six ten with a defense the worst in the sixty
Speaker 1: year history of the franchise. You don't get to run
Speaker 1: it back. Okay, let me throw this at you though,
Speaker 1: you know they go six and ten, but there's a
Speaker 1: nice running there, Like, what if their defense is just
Speaker 1: this last just last stretch, they're playing lights out ball,
Speaker 1: they get to the playoffs, you don't think he running back.
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan is not going to be back Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: back if if Mike Nolan isn't you know, and here's
Speaker 1: the other thing that comes in it. Not only will
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan go, there's going to be significant changes within
Speaker 1: that defense because if you bring in another guy to
Speaker 1: run the four to three, okay, because because that's what
Speaker 1: they're gonna run, they're going they're built for the four
Speaker 1: to three. They're gonna run the four three. Um, this
Speaker 1: person is going to bring in some some the coaches
Speaker 1: that he wants here. Um. One of the things for me,
Speaker 1: which I would love to sit down if I'm Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones and say, tell me we we we saw Lake
Speaker 1: vander esh his rookie and play go to the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: play the Pro Bowl level on the week side, Why
Speaker 1: do we put him into the middle linebacker spot and
Speaker 1: he's coming off a neck injury in the first game
Speaker 1: out he breaks his colli bo and why are we
Speaker 1: putting Jalen Smith out here in coverage where dudes on
Speaker 1: the other side light up, Oh fit in four, let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just have a hard time unders saying
Speaker 1: of what I've seen from Mike Nolan. Mike Nolan's the
Speaker 1: guy's like, hey, we got to get bigger upfront. He
Speaker 1: signed up on down Terry Poe. He was he was
Speaker 1: good with that, and left him out there forever to day.
Speaker 1: And we saw Nevin Gallimore, who had a good game.
Speaker 1: Nevin Gallimore sitting up here in mothball. It's not even activated.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. The Mike Nolan thing that can't be fixed
Speaker 1: for me. That's that's done. I've seen enough. I don't
Speaker 1: need to see it run back. If you know, he's
Speaker 1: not the only defensive coordinator who had to get his
Speaker 1: football team ready to go in the COVID era. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like he took advantage of the players
Speaker 1: he had. They didn't buy any what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: There was a lack of trust. So I'm sorry, Mike.
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan's got to go. And then whoever they bring
Speaker 1: in to run the four to three, they need to
Speaker 1: bring in some of the guys they're comfortable with. So
Speaker 1: we need to start making a list of four three
Speaker 1: dudes who could be available to come in and take
Speaker 1: over this defense. Because six and ten winning the division,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that didn't get your pass to come back.
Speaker 1: How far are you gonna lorder? How far are you
Speaker 1: gonna loader? Standard? Barry? He loaded him the four ten.
Speaker 1: He said, y'all lowered at the four and ten. I'm
Speaker 1: still going six and ten and we're gonna win a division.
Speaker 1: I said, if we win the division. If we win
Speaker 1: a division at four and ten, is that the same
Speaker 1: for you? It's six and ten. They get the running
Speaker 1: back because they want a division the playoff. Well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: four and twelve. If they win a division at four
Speaker 1: and twelve something the same. I can see that something.
Speaker 1: If you can at four and twelve but still win
Speaker 1: a division, something's got to change. Five. Somebody seen something.
Speaker 1: But that's not gonna happen because we're not going four
Speaker 1: and twelve. We're going six and ten. And I can
Speaker 1: see them making a run. I can see it. But
Speaker 1: do you hear yourself? Six and ten? You say, come
Speaker 1: on back, Mike, No, give me more of this. I
Speaker 1: need some more if we had no we had, we
Speaker 1: had no OTAs, nobody did season games that incorporating a
Speaker 1: whole new system. I gotta give him another shot, at
Speaker 1: least big Nobody, get Big Mike another shot. Gotta give
Speaker 1: him another Church Church who had an also season, Nobody.
Speaker 1: You're right, nobody had off season. But I'm saying with
Speaker 1: with McCarthy, and he lost all his toys. Let me look,
Speaker 1: he lost both his office tackles, his quarterback. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the defense. We're talking about the So now it's
Speaker 1: we're being specific. Now we're not talking about you just
Speaker 1: said Nolan. You're talking about Nolan, You Mike, we're talking
Speaker 1: and be a change. There had to be a chance.
Speaker 1: We're talking about we're talking about the defensive coordinator. If ten,
Speaker 1: if we go six to ten, and we go six
Speaker 1: to ten, Mike Nolan's running it back. Mike Nolan's running
Speaker 1: the back. That's my that's the final ass and is
Speaker 1: running back. And this is because he didn't have an
Speaker 1: all season. Because Carolina didn't have an all season, they
Speaker 1: got a new coaches staff, Washington didn't have a coach
Speaker 1: all season, Cleveland didn't, and none of them look as
Speaker 1: bad as we do. And they had the same circumstances.
Speaker 1: They had injuries as well, they had people missing. They
Speaker 1: did not look as bad as Okay and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys got embarrassed by Washington and Cleveland. Okay, we
Speaker 1: still gonna win a division. Ok if they win the
Speaker 1: division at six and ten, Mike Nolan does not get
Speaker 1: to run it back. He's not been good what you're
Speaker 1: seeing here. First, But then I all, but we also
Speaker 1: say what they make the run? If they get six
Speaker 1: and ten and get to the playoffs and make a run,
Speaker 1: you still think he's gonna be out of here. One
Speaker 1: of the things here's one of the things he violated
Speaker 1: to me as a coach. As a coach, your job
Speaker 1: is to cover up the wards of the team. If
Speaker 1: I come in here, I'm as the coordinated. I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be looking at my guys and say what do
Speaker 1: you do best? And I need to figure out what
Speaker 1: they do best and put them in their best positions.
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan decided, this is my scheme. You guys got
Speaker 1: to fit into my scheme. Despite the head coach coming
Speaker 1: out and telling us all it's players over scheme. The
Speaker 1: head coach said it and the defensive there, it's saying
Speaker 1: a different thing. Their trust issues here. These guys haven't
Speaker 1: been as good as they needed to be. And I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you don't get to come back if you don't have
Speaker 1: that understanding that Hey, it's a pandemic going on. I
Speaker 1: can't throw these guys in my huge playbook. That's not
Speaker 1: coaching and teaching properly. It's not how many times if
Speaker 1: you look back in the backfield you said, man, you
Speaker 1: see these guys looking back in the backfield set of
Speaker 1: covering dudes downfield, even you barry you guys? How many
Speaker 1: times we text during games? Are you go, what are
Speaker 1: these guys doing on defense? Well, they're doing a defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: The coaching has not been man from a defensive standpoint
Speaker 1: in order for these guys to say bring it back.
Speaker 1: And if this dude wants to run his three four concepts,
Speaker 1: I don't think Jerry Jones is gonna run that. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones wants to run his four three defense with the
Speaker 1: guys he has. Jerry sold on these players. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is listen to his interviews. He sold on him, man,
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan and come back, ain't come back, run back,
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. These last two weeks, I think
Speaker 1: is the real Mike Nolan defense. That's what I think
Speaker 1: we should have seen from the beginning is Mike Nolan's
Speaker 1: last two I had to get a couple of these vet,
Speaker 1: these VET guys that didn't believe they were tainting the
Speaker 1: minds of our youth, and we had to get them
Speaker 1: up out of there. And since them boys are getting
Speaker 1: up out of there, our defensive played a little bit better.
Speaker 1: We're getting that wave going, We're getting that momentum going,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna win the NFC's crown next year. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know what's going on. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on next year. I can't predict
Speaker 1: all that, but what I do predicts we're gonna win
Speaker 1: this NFC East. That's what. You're gonna get your feelers hurt.
Speaker 1: You get your feelers hurting for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: You you're gonna be You're gonna have tiered the Jordan face.
Speaker 1: I'm putting the job. I'm gonna put a picture on
Speaker 1: the Jordana get to cry week. Hey, I want my
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Speaker 1: Let's take a break. Let's take a break. Uh. One
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Speaker 1: make the Super Bowls got a hard road to hoe
Speaker 1: after finding out about this injury. Let's do that next, right,
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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Here. One of the teams that I
Speaker 1: picked to make the Super Bowl this year of the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints, and they have a serious quarterback issue here.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Drew Brees has multiple rib fractures on both sides
Speaker 1: of his chess. He's got a collapse lung on the
Speaker 1: right side. They are not sure how long he is
Speaker 1: going to be out, and this over the past two
Speaker 1: weeks he suffered these injuries. He did not play in
Speaker 1: the second half. It was Taysom Hill and Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: leading the Saints to a victory over a depleted San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers team. And guys, not only am
Speaker 1: I thinking the Saints aren't making it to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I think this is it for Drew Brees. I don't
Speaker 1: see Drew Brees playing next year. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a second year in a row where he's missed time
Speaker 1: and he's in his forties, and it might just be
Speaker 1: time for Drew Brees. Take it to the house and
Speaker 1: going over start broadcasting on NBC m pray with listen.
Speaker 1: I'm hurt here because Drew Brees is my starting quarterback
Speaker 1: and my fans in football league, so he might have
Speaker 1: cost me a hill this week. Yeah, it's it's it's tough, man,
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, I'm not gonna count out
Speaker 1: Drew Brees if they give him a time table that
Speaker 1: says he's able to return by time the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: think that Sean Payton will find a way to win
Speaker 1: some games with this team the same way that he
Speaker 1: did with Teddy Bridgewater last year. He'll find a way
Speaker 1: to squeak it out. We know Jameis Winston can play.
Speaker 1: We know he also throws a lot of interceptions, but
Speaker 1: we know that he can also throw touchdown, so I
Speaker 1: think that they can find a way to squeak it
Speaker 1: out and make it to the playoffs. And if so
Speaker 1: and Drew Brees is able to come back, I think
Speaker 1: they're still able to make that run. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I do think this is his final year. Those are
Speaker 1: serious injuries and he's starting to pile these things up.
Speaker 1: So I think he makes this his final run and
Speaker 1: passes the sticks on the Jameis Winston with his good luck,
Speaker 1: good luck new all this next year. Yeah, same thing
Speaker 1: for me, man, I mean, Breeze. I mean, he's getting
Speaker 1: he's getting older, he's getting beat up out there, he's
Speaker 1: getting the ribs, you know, as long as all man,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's some multiple injuries and when you're at age,
Speaker 1: you just don't recover as fast as you used to.
Speaker 1: And I just think it's beating up on him. And
Speaker 1: you could tell on the sidelines when they were doing
Speaker 1: those zoom and shots of him, he just looked like
Speaker 1: like just depleted, just weathered out there, like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: over this man. So hopefully he still has that cushy
Speaker 1: NBC job lined up for him after the season, because
Speaker 1: I definitely think this is it. And look, I mean
Speaker 1: they're gonna pass the torch to young Jbo, Young Winston
Speaker 1: out here, Young eating Ws out here. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this guy, he got the lay six surgery in the
Speaker 1: off season, so there's no more squinting out there. He looked,
Speaker 1: he looked. He looked kind of precise. He looked kind
Speaker 1: of precise out there against you know, a depleted San
Speaker 1: Francisco defense out there. So for me, this is it.
Speaker 1: Drew Brees has been one of my best favorite quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So I hate to say it, but yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think this won't be it in uh j Bos.
Speaker 1: It's time for him to go, all right. Some other
Speaker 1: news in the National Football League, the Cleveland Browns had
Speaker 1: a player test positive for COVID nineteen. They have not
Speaker 1: said who it is, so they shut down their facility
Speaker 1: and Monday night we need a prediction, guys, got Monday
Speaker 1: Night football. Three and five Vikings are at the five
Speaker 1: and four Bears. Minnesota's favorite is somebody three and a half.
Speaker 1: We'll start with you, Burry Church. Who you got for
Speaker 1: this game? We'll by the way, Minnesota's the Cowboys next opponent.
Speaker 1: Minnesota look already got my fantasy my fantasy game. I'm
Speaker 1: in the bag, So you know, I'm not gonna would
Speaker 1: be biased and go with Minnesota because I got Jefferson
Speaker 1: as a receiver, but overroad, I like Nicky Foles in
Speaker 1: this one. I like what you know, Chicago's defense has
Speaker 1: been able to do these past couple of weeks. Nicky
Speaker 1: Foles has been up and down. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think I think it's at home. I think Chicago's home
Speaker 1: and this one, so I'm gonna give him to win.
Speaker 1: Twenty four to seventeen Chicago over Minnesota. Oh man, that's
Speaker 1: you stole my score. But I got the opposite teams though,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Minnesota. Minnesota in that run game, man,
Speaker 1: they are serious. They've been putting, putting on a clinic
Speaker 1: for showing you how to run the ball. Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: has been going absolutely crazy, and we know if they
Speaker 1: stop him somehow, some way, Kirk Cousins may be able
Speaker 1: to find a way to get the ball to Feeling
Speaker 1: and Uh and Jefferson. So I'm going with them specifically
Speaker 1: because of the guy that you picked church, Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't trust that he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to pull us one off. He's he's lost some close ones,
Speaker 1: but you know, and they usually start off slow. So
Speaker 1: I'm going twenty four seventeen Minnesota Vikings. That what's interesting
Speaker 1: about this game is head coach Matt Nagi he's giving
Speaker 1: up the play calling duties. So he's decided that he's
Speaker 1: gonna let his coordinator go ahead and calling. He's giving
Speaker 1: up the play call because that that that's all that's interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: so we'll see there. Let me pull up my picks
Speaker 1: here for the week in the morning News. Okay, I
Speaker 1: went with Minnesota, so I got Minnesota winning and covering here.
Speaker 1: So Minnesota's favored about three and a half, so as usual.
Speaker 1: But Craig, you and I are thinking the same very
Speaker 1: world with some blue pool going against all good. Though
Speaker 1: it's all good. I know my boy Naggie gave up
Speaker 1: them calls though. He's like, look, man, both of these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or playing trash man. I'm not going down for this, man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and flop off the off the
Speaker 1: play call of duties. Man. But you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what they do out there, man, because it's not
Speaker 1: like you can go back to Drubisky, you know, all right,
Speaker 1: Because he was starting at the beginning. You were like,
Speaker 1: you know what, You're just not good enough. We're gonna
Speaker 1: put folds in there. And our folds has been up
Speaker 1: and down a lot. So do you go back to Drubisky?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Chicago's into dilemma right now. Now,
Speaker 1: Chicago's gonna ride it out with Nick Foles. By the way,
Speaker 1: in the NBA, I know it's a football show, but
Speaker 1: we're all basketball fans here. NBA free agency trades can
Speaker 1: go down. Chris Paul's been traded from Oklahoma City to
Speaker 1: a Phoenix Thoughts of prayer to Ricky Rubio and and
Speaker 1: uh the other Kelly U brave gotta go from living
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona to going to live in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: That's a tough comb right there. Man. They give you
Speaker 1: that for them, all the beautiful golf courses in Phoenix
Speaker 1: that rolling on out there at Oklahoma City. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you who the real winners were today. Okay,
Speaker 1: options were due. So a lot of players have these
Speaker 1: options this year where they get to decide what they
Speaker 1: want to do. They'll tell the team, Hey, I want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and opt in this year or opt
Speaker 1: out and let me tell you the smartest dudes in
Speaker 1: the league. Nick bertune opted in for twenty seven point
Speaker 1: one million dollars with Charlotte. Who a Mike Ni Nick
Speaker 1: Bertuneo got the largest contract ever in Charlotte Hornet's history.
Speaker 1: He's he's been absolutely terrible, but he gonna go. Hey,
Speaker 1: tell Michael Jordan, Tell Michael Jordan, give me that twenty
Speaker 1: seven point one million dollars. Have to give it to him.
Speaker 1: Has been terrible as a GM. He has been terrible
Speaker 1: as a GM. As great as a player he's been.
Speaker 1: He sucks as a GM. It's terrible. Who is this
Speaker 1: twenty seven? Oh my god? Mike Conley. Mike Conley, whose
Speaker 1: game has gone down severely though, he told the Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz he's back. He will opt in for thirty four
Speaker 1: point five million dollars with the Jazz. How about them apples?
Speaker 1: Oh but wait, there's more now. DeMar de Rosen has
Speaker 1: told the Spurs he is opting in for his twenty
Speaker 1: seven point seven million dollars this year. Tomar de Rosen,
Speaker 1: get me done mid Ray's game? De Rosen? Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy they traded Toronto and in Toronto immediately brings
Speaker 1: in Kawhi Leonard wins the NBA Championship. DeMar de Roses
Speaker 1: Spurs and Spurs miss the playoffs for the first time
Speaker 1: of twenty years last year with DeMar how Evan Fournyer
Speaker 1: you know you got you guys know Evan Fourny of
Speaker 1: Orlando he's told that he'll be back for his seventeen
Speaker 1: million dollars this year coming up in a short season.
Speaker 1: By the way, they're not playing eighty two games. They're
Speaker 1: not playing eighty two games this year, so but you're
Speaker 1: gonna get your full salary. Otto Porter is opting in
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bulls for twenty eight point four million dollars.
Speaker 1: What Otto Porter? This is how Y Man point four
Speaker 1: just rob no nothing, and the role player, Tony Snell.
Speaker 1: Tony Snell role player is opting in with the Pistons
Speaker 1: for twelve point two million dollars. You're talking about it.
Speaker 1: He's probably playing playing ten to twelve minutes a game,
Speaker 1: and he's play Oh my good dollars dollars a minute.
Speaker 1: Don't drop me, I'm worth a million dollars. Former shocked
Speaker 1: in a fool MVP, JaVale McGee says he's undecided. He's
Speaker 1: not sure what he's gonna do, whether he's gonna opt
Speaker 1: in or opt out. There was one big name player
Speaker 1: who opted out and didn't want to twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: That was Anthony Davis. So the Lakers, who's smart because
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis had to winning a championship will get a
Speaker 1: lot more than twenty seven million dollars. But guys in
Speaker 1: the NBA and their agents are being smart. This is
Speaker 1: the year to take the bird in the hand because
Speaker 1: you don't know what's in that bush. With the NBA
Speaker 1: having lost apparently two hundred million dollars courtesy of Daryl
Speaker 1: Morey at his tweet about China and Hong Kong last
Speaker 1: year's killed the league And that's been amazing. How Daryl
Speaker 1: Morey he resigned from from Houston, so he leaves the
Speaker 1: job in Houston, gets a job in Philadelphia. Make it
Speaker 1: ten million a year. This is a guy who who
Speaker 1: people estimate has cost the league two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: Remember when everybody said that you couldn't touch Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: because Colin Kaepernick was bad for the league. Colin Kaepernick
Speaker 1: game never was caught in the league on a dollars.
Speaker 1: But Darryl Morrey did got another job and getting paid
Speaker 1: ten million dollars a year and got a guarantee five
Speaker 1: year deal. That's crazy, man, It is abso loot lead crazy.
Speaker 1: So I bring that up to tell you guys, um,
Speaker 1: you should have played basketball. Yeah, I think I picked
Speaker 1: up the wrong ball as a kid. I mean, and plus,
Speaker 1: their contracts are what fully guaranteed? I mean, this is
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. Man. Yeah, I don't want have played. I
Speaker 1: would have play basketball with you. You can't be a
Speaker 1: six foot center in the league, so I uh, you
Speaker 1: know it was over. It was over. You're you're correct,
Speaker 1: You're correct. But mccraig, you could have gone to another
Speaker 1: sport where you get that guaranteed money. Places in baseball
Speaker 1: you could have been a six foot center field or
Speaker 1: all day long with that speed. So yeah, baseball. So
Speaker 1: so if you're not doing a basketball the baseball is
Speaker 1: a way they I mean, you look at Mookie Bets.
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets has got a three hundred million dollars contract
Speaker 1: and he's five foot nine, and you know they're giving
Speaker 1: him five foot nine because they can give everybody intes
Speaker 1: in sports, telling them the so's really not five foot
Speaker 1: nine they tell so they tell him five nine, I
Speaker 1: mean these five eight and some change. But he's making
Speaker 1: three hundred million bucks. So yeah, that's that makes what
Speaker 1: makes their unions so much better than ours, Like how
Speaker 1: are they these other sports and other organizations, how they
Speaker 1: able to get fully guaranteed contracts and like basically have
Speaker 1: the players run the league? When NFL the most popular
Speaker 1: sport by far is I mean it has the worst union.
Speaker 1: I mean it's simple. It's crazy to mean simple. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's simple. They missed games. Football players won't
Speaker 1: miss gams. So that that's it. When you've decided to
Speaker 1: all right, guys, we're taking the product away. And as
Speaker 1: a union they did it and other and they made
Speaker 1: other players here, look you better do this or you know,
Speaker 1: and they also had they had the union where they
Speaker 1: set up and you know, they had funds where they
Speaker 1: actually helped each other. And that that's how you do it.
Speaker 1: You have to take the product away. If you don't
Speaker 1: take the product away, then you do not have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to stand your ground and get the things that
Speaker 1: you want because you cannot. Me think about this, one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things in the world, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: to do is hit a baseball. And one of the
Speaker 1: other hardest things in the world to do is to
Speaker 1: throw a baseball accurately and throw a good pitch. It's
Speaker 1: not like you can go, hey, we're gonna go get
Speaker 1: some more guys and replay, you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: recreate this magic. Unfortunately, football players every every year, i
Speaker 1: mean every year comes up in the CBA, they refuse
Speaker 1: to miss games because here's the one thing we all know.
Speaker 1: They cannot go out here and replace a Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: a Dak Prescott. You can't replace it, Aaron Donald. You
Speaker 1: can't go, hey, look there's another Deshaun Watson. Until the
Speaker 1: players are willing to miss games and take their services away,
Speaker 1: they'll continue to get what they get from the owners.
Speaker 1: M very true, very true. Sucks, but it's true. Well
Speaker 1: you also got to look at it. Those guys that
Speaker 1: knew he just named those dudes getting paid dude guaranteed
Speaker 1: to I mean, when we know the last time they
Speaker 1: had a work stoppers, when they had guys like Ken
Speaker 1: Griffith Junior out there playing, you know, you know, he
Speaker 1: just Groger Clintons. They all said, look, we'll stop and
Speaker 1: they said, go back to the whole union. They have
Speaker 1: prepped their guys for years. Fellas, this is going to happen. Fellas,
Speaker 1: save your ducats. Okay, fellas, we have a fund for
Speaker 1: you minor leaguers who need to get through this, but
Speaker 1: we are not going to go out here and play.
Speaker 1: So it's been an organized effort. These guys have been
Speaker 1: willing to sit down here and and say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: we'll miss games. And I go back to what happened
Speaker 1: earlier this year where they had sent minor leaguers home
Speaker 1: and they weren't paying them. David Price, who was making
Speaker 1: over thirty million dollars with the Dodgers, David Price was
Speaker 1: paying minor league guys their salaries out of his own pocket.
Speaker 1: So it's a different kind of thing where these guys,
Speaker 1: they really do get back to each other. Now, I
Speaker 1: tell you what, Barry, do you know what the pension
Speaker 1: is for a guy who's got ten years of major
Speaker 1: league service? Take a guest with the yearly pinsion three
Speaker 1: D three hundred thousand dollars for life if you play
Speaker 1: ten years in mileage service time. Man. Got to get it, baby,
Speaker 1: gotta get game. Man. So remember that when you. You
Speaker 1: know when you when you tell you and you you're
Speaker 1: letting your son pick up a ball, tell him some baseball,
Speaker 1: golf club, tennis rackets in spring league. Man, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start warming up now, catch me in spring league. I'll
Speaker 1: be over there with the range just for a little bit. Man.
Speaker 1: We're five minutes over our time here. We gotta let
Speaker 1: Chris Bean get get rolling here. Our producer. Good to
Speaker 1: be together. Guy's good to be together here. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to throw those basketball numbers out there. I
Speaker 1: gotta figure it be a interesting show. Let's see what
Speaker 1: these vikings do tonight as they take on the Bears
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Speaker 1: on Sunday when they go up to US Bank Stadium
Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fort Barry Church Danny MC create two
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