WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: How Tough Is This Schedule? 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:21.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.520 language broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters. At the start. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:32.080 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newey Scrugs. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.080 All right, everybody is Friday. That means it's time for 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.040 the players lag of knweis Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:48.599 by former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny McCray and Barry Church. Gentleman, 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.240 we got a lot to talk about within this hour. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.560 First off, has everybody doing day, I'll do it better 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.160 at Earl Thomas. Now, I'm doing good, man, I'm doing 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.680 I'm doing I'm doing it. I'm doing it really, I'm 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.400 doing it really well. I'm doing it. I'm doing I'm 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:11.360 doing it really well. Man. Quarantine Wow, just interesting stuff, man. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.040 We got a lot of good stuff to talk about. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.640 Shots thrown early, Shots thrown early. Man, I'm doing good. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.360 By the way, I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing a 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.959 big or crap, not laughing. My bad. I don't know 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:35.800 the man, you know. I will say this, Danny, just 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.759 based on what you just said to start off the show. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.560 They do play the Ravens. This year was to play 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:50.440 the ras I ain't worried about it. We will live 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:57.000 into other topics non Cowboy related throughout this show. All right, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.080 First off, everybody, um, the schedule is the twenty twenty 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.600 schedule is out the National Football League. Chris, go ahead 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.960 and pop up that schedule. Let's look at the first 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.760 quarter of the schedule. The Dallas Cowboys are slated to 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:15.679 start the NFL season in Los Angeles, California, specifically Inglewood 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.800 at the new Sofi Stadium, where the Rams and the 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.480 Chargers are going to share the stadium. The Cowboys, interestingly enough, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.440 are going to go ahead and take on the Chargers 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.480 in a preseason game. So September thirteenth on Sunday Night 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.959 AMBC by Sunday Night Football Rams. Then it's at home 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.400 against Maddie Icy Atlanta Falcons, then up to Washington to 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.880 face the Seattle Seahawks. Then a October fourth game against 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.560 Baker Mayfield the Cleveland Browns. All right, gentlemen, break down 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.600 these first three games. Here, Church, what do you see him? 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.240 I'm kind of conflicted here for these first the first 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.080 four games. Man. Overall, I feel like they have a 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.919 favorable schedule, but these first four and it's only it's 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.440 coming down the one team. For me, it comes down 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.640 to the Atlanta thoughts. I feel like they'll go through 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.839 um at La in that first game. But I feel 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:04.720 like the Atlanta file because they're a tricky team, man, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.240 because I feel like they have a lot of momentum 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.160 coming into this year. I think I finished a year 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.440 pretty well, if I'm not mistaken. Last season, even though 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.880 they didn't make the playoffs, feel like they won the 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.239 last couple of games. But they got mighty ice there. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.079 They got Julio Jones. They got a newly acquired Todd 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.239 Gurley in the backfield, and he's had success in things 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.480 Cowboy defenses in the past. So we shall see. But 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.320 that's a conflicting game for me. I got them winning it, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.400 but I'm not quite sure about it. But the rest 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.520 of them, I feel like they should easily mop up 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.240 those last two games. But the conflicting one. Oh and 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.680 I'm sorry, I'm mistaken. Oh no, no, they will not 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.600 be to Seattle Sehawk. So the first the first that 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.880 got him more, I got him going maybe three and 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:46.120 one or two and two. Yeah, I'm a three and 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:51.160 one you had me confused church, which with the church? 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.680 You had me confused with the with the Seahawks and 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.360 mop them up. I was, I was, I was questioning 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:03.839 your no. I see, I mean I believe they beat 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.040 the Rams. I'm not even sure like what the Rams 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.840 are right now. They don't have cooks, they don't have girly, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.000 they still have golf. So I think we go out 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.880 there and we get get a dub. The Falcons, I 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.880 think we get the win just because they are such 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.479 an iffy team. They have so much talent. They kind 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.240 of remind me of us, the old US. We have 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.680 talent on the roster, but we aren't able to get 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.880 those wins. So I think with the new regime coming in, 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.680 I think we go out there and we beat the 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.640 Falcons the red skin, I mean the Seahawks. I think 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.880 that is kind of up in the air. If it's 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.320 only fifteen or twenty percent capacity allowed in the stadium, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.360 I think we have a better chance of winning because 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.240 that twelve man is a real thing, So that just depends. 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.760 So I'm gonna chalk that up as an l And 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.640 we go out there and we beat LSU North. So 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.839 I got us going three and one. Okay, So three 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.520 and one for Church and mcraig to start the first 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.840 quarter of the schedule. Right, Let's look at the second 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.880 part of the Chris gored and throw that up on 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.800 the screen. There, Chris Bean who helps us out and 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.960 makes this whole podcast go. We appreciate Chris, all right. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.160 So the second part is an October eleventh game against 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.600 the New York Football Giants. Joe Judge is a new 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.640 head coach there, Jason Garrett the offensive coordinator. Mark Columbo's 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.240 the offensive line coach. So it is a game against 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.080 the Giants. Then it's Monday night football as Kyler Murray 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.680 of Alan High School comes back to Jerry World to 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.760 take on the Cowboys. Then it is a game at 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.599 Washington and FedEx Field to take on that at that 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.080 sad outfit. And then it is a Sunday night football 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.280 game at Philadelphia. All right, So Church, start with me here, 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.600 give me the wins and losses for this quarter part 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.440 of the schedule. You guys might think I'm crazy for this, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.200 but for this quarter in the schedule, I'm gonna go too. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.920 And two I'm gonna go when they play New York. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.039 I know New York's coming down here, and I know 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.160 they had all this success against New York, but I 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.479 feel like New York might be a little a little 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.760 name some juice to him. I feel like Garrett going 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.640 up there, coming down to Jerry World for the first 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.520 time with the New York Colors on, I think he's 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:06.960 gonna get a little bit of juice to them, and 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.600 I think they might steal one over in Jerry World. Um, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.400 I feel like they'll easily mop up Arizona. That's a 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.760 that's a younger team. Yeah, they got DeAndre Hopkins, but 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.839 I don't think that jail right there that early in 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.720 the season will will click. So I think they'll get 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.919 rid of them pretty quickly. The Washington Redskins, like like 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.320 Danny's Ethel like they'll they'll mop them up as well. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.800 But the Philadelphia Eagles, that'll be an intriguing matchup right there. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:29.760 I'm not quite sure it was that Home or a 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:37.520 Way is a away game on Sunday night, Okay, that's 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.520 away game. So I feel like Phili will take that 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.520 one away. Um, they got all their their weapons back offensively, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.160 if everybody's healthy, Plus they added some speed on the outside. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.680 Plus they've had the Cowboys number here this last year, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.080 So I feel like Philly will take that one and 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.479 get leaving the Cowboys two and two after the second quarter. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:01.040 All right, McCray, Yeah, I'm I think will beat the Giants. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.760 I do think that it will be one of those, uh, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.880 those offensive games whereas it's scoring whoever's the last person 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.920 to score wins. They scoring fifty fifty five points because 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.400 I think j G has has it on his mind 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.840 that he has Danny Domes and say Quan to work 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.800 with it. He's gonna come out and try to prove 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.040 a point. But I think we still get that the Cardinals. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.600 For me, man like history for me playing against the 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.760 Cardinals when I'm with the Cowboys is it's always super 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.760 tough and we never never know how it's going in. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.280 So just just for that reason, I'm saying that they 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.200 come to town and and we lose that one. We 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.440 lose that one, and then we finish off the two 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.120 division games with the win. So it's another three and 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:49.360 one start for me in the second quarter of the season. Okay, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:53.680 So at the halfway mark, Church, you got the Cowboys 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.000 at five and three. Craig, You've got the Cowboys at 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:01.559 six and two. Let's go to the poor third quarter 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.880 of the schedule here, which starts November eighth against Ben 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.040 Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then it is a game 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.720 on the road against Minnesota. Remember last year it was 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.280 a Sunday night game in which Kirk Cousins and company 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.120 came into Jerry World and ended up getting the win. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.200 That's what table and Austin had the fair catch at 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.520 the end that we all question, which led to the 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.480 demise of Keith though Quinn's special teams coach. Then it's 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.200 a Thanksgiving Day game Washington comes to Arlington. And then 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.040 it's a December third game against MVP Lamar Jackson and 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.600 the Baltimore Ravens and Earl Thomas in Baltimore. So Church 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.720 run it down. How do you see this quadrant? As 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.880 the Cowboys started Pittsburgh, it ended up in Earl Thomas's town. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.559 To me, this is going to be the hardest stretch 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.760 of the season by far from the Cowboys. I mean 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.640 they got a stretch right there which would have teams 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.080 that are experience have made the playoffs. How those Steelers 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.199 missed it last year, but they didn't have Ben Roethlisberger. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.080 He's coming back fully healthy. They have to get you 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.640 just miss smooth Schuster on the rights track because last 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.200 year he kind of dropped off. But I feel like 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.560 they're gonna they're gonna have an impressive defense and they're 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.000 gonna bring an offense that I'm not quite sure our 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.120 defense can handle. So I'm gonna give Pittsburgh to win 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.560 on that one. Ken Folk Cousin, you know Kirk Cousins 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.880 over there in Minnesota, we gotta go up there as well. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.240 I'm not seeing a victory there either. I feel like 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.840 he definitely had our number last year, as he performed 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.640 pretty well when he came down here, So that's going 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.400 up there. I don't see us getting that win at all. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.200 I feel like they're too balanced of a team for us, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.679 So I'll give us an l on that one. Um Washington, Yeah, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.439 I think that'll be a rap. That'll be a deve 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.520 for us. And I believe that last game was that 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:41.480 against Philly. It's Baltimore at Baltimore. On the symbol Baltimore 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.920 at Baltimore. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a Thursday night and 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.960 that Thursday night game, primetime game. You got the former 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.160 m v P Lamar Jackson right there. I just don't 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.679 think our defense can handle him. I think it's kind 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.520 of a that might be kind of a blowout on 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.520 Thursday night. But I'm gonna go Baltimore there as well. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.760 So that's this third quarter. I'm gonna give the Cowboys 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.280 a one in three, all right, Church, And you want 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.320 to make sure I stretched this out, stressed this into 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.480 all of the Cowboys fans right now here on Dallas 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.160 Cowboys dot Com. That Thursday night game against Baltimore is 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.160 a week after the Thursday game against the against UM 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.760 Washington at home, so it's not a short week. So 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.320 it's a full it's a full week. It's Thursday, and 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.920 then they play another Thursday. All right, Church, you go ahead, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.480 give me your your your rundown here for Pittsburgh at 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.760 Minnesota Thanksgiving Day against Washington and then on the road 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:36.920 at you Manuel Thomas's ten. Listen, I'm going to say 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.679 this season that we beat distillers. Distillers are coming in. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.160 All they have is juju. I think we get that. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.680 Dub McCarthy shows that he can be the top tier team. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.199 We lose against the Vikings. Uh, you know the way 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.360 that week we came out last last season. They played 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.000 defense on us, they ran the ball until I see 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.720 something different. I think the Vikings still have the upper 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.200 hand on us. We beat the Redskins, and I mean, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.079 if you're being honest with yourself, playing the Ravens and 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.320 Lamar Jackson, if they anything close to what they were 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.439 last year, we will have a tough time beating them. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:15.920 So I'm gonna give us the l on that one 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:21.959 as well. Okay, So Dan, you gotta win against Pittsburgh 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.160 and what do you have against Minnesota here? Again, I 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.880 gotta I got a loss against Minnesota, and then I 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.720 have a win against the Redskins, and I have a 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:33.000 loss against the Ravens, putting us at two and two. Okay, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.080 two and two? So all right, Chris put up the 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.560 final part of the schedule here. It is a return 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.800 to Cincinnati for Andy Dalton. Then it is a Sunday 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.440 night football game against the San Francisco forty nine ers 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.079 who come to Arlington. Then it is a home game 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.520 against Philadelphia two days after Christmas. And then it is 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:57.280 the season finale January third, in New Jersey against the 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.400 New York Football Giants. All right, Barry Church, give me it. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.200 Give me your take here these last four games, U're 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.240 kind of tricky, but I'm gonna I'm gonna give a 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.320 shot out of a shot at it here real quick. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.079 Um at the Bengals, like you said, December thirteenth, that's 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.520 a Newton game. I think the Cowboys will be ready 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.400 to get up and play there easily. Um. I think 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.560 they take Joe Burrow and the Bengals down pretty quickly. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.280 So I'll give them a win right there. Uh, San Francisco, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:25.920 they don't have to make the trip out west, so 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.280 that's an advantage of San Francisco has to come here. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.520 And it's a night game. It's a night game, and 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.559 I think the Cowboys played well on prime time. So 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.000 I'm gonna give them the dub against San Francisco right there, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.240 um and gets Philly December twenty seven, three twenty five. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.000 That's here in Cowboys Stadium, so earlier I gave Philadelphia 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.480 the win. I feel like they've they've thought they normally 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.280 split the series here and there um during the season, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.079 so I'm gonna give them a split series here and 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.080 I'm gonna give the Cowboys to win. And then that 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.040 last game against New York with them going up to 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.320 New York and going against Garrett and those boys up there. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:57.800 I feel like they'll win that one as well. So 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.480 I got them going undefeated through this last watch these 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:05.000 four games and in the season four and though okay, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:12.200 all right, okay, okay, I'm close. I'm close on that 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.880 one I got. I got us getting to win against 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.640 the Bengals. But I think it'll be a tougher game 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.440 than we expect. They do have some offensive firepower there. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.560 It is a twelve game. I think at this point 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.400 of the season, we're rolling a little bit, so we 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.040 gotta gotta fight that urge to let our let off 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.480 the pedal against a team that we believe is a 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.160 little a little lorder than us. But we still get 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.240 to win. I think we get a win against the 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.839 forty nine US tough game. I don't trust Jimmy g 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.200 so I think we should we should beat them. I 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.600 think it's a tight race at the end of the season. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.480 So that Eagles game is very important for us. So 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.680 we go out there and we handle business and we 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.959 take a game off against we take a game off 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.360 against the Giants, because we got it all wrapped up. 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.079 We got our seat and everything locked in, so we 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.680 rest some of our players so we can get ready 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.560 for the playoffs. So that's ill, but that's you know, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:06.360 only because of the circumstances. So three and one yea, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.640 all right, So gentlemen, looking at what you have, Church, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.079 do you like this record you got? You got a 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.560 tenant six mark for the Cowboys and h Gray, you've 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:25.640 got the Cowboys going eleven in five. Yeah. The schedule, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.160 the schedule says that, man. And of course all this 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.640 is based on what we believe the teams are, how 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.880 they played last year, because we no one can know 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.120 how how they will be this year. But looking at 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:36.880 the schedule and the teams that we have on there 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.640 and how they performed last year, if they just get 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.600 a little bit better, I still think that we have 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:46.120 a chance to run this schedule pretty pretty nice. Yeah. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.040 John Clayton, Hall of Fame, NFL writer, he writes from 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.280 Washington Post. He's written down the teams. The five teams 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.520 have the easy schedules in the NFL, and the Cowboys 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.720 are one of those five teams. So you've got the 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.480 Cowboys eleven and five or Gray Church, you got him 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.440 tenant six. This will get them in the playoffs. Here's 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.280 the question. Does this win the NFC each for the 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.080 Cowboys In your opinion, Dan, Yes, Yes, I don't. I 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.040 really I don't know how good the Eagles are going 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.320 to be. They are a question mark. But I don't 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.480 believe that the Giants and the Redskins are are going 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.360 to be in competition for the division crown. So I 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.800 really think it's just between us and the Eagles and 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.120 we sweep them. So I believe that that we win 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:33.520 a division this year. Church, Yeah, I'm gonna have to 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.080 agree with McCray on this one. I'm gonna have to 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.080 go with the Cowboys winning the division. Usually it's it's 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.160 between Philadelphia and Dallas to win this division. They go 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.640 back and forth. I think Washington they're gonna be a 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.480 little bit better than they were last years, as well 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.280 as the New York Giants, but I just don't think 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.120 they're there yet to compete for this division division titles. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.640 So I think it'll come down to the Philadelphia Eagles 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.280 and the Cowboys. I think they'll put that series. But overall, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.040 the Cowboys have a better record because the Eagles have 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.240 a tougher record, being as they want a division last year, 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.160 so I gotta give it to the Cowboys, and I 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.960 think they'll make the playoffs this year. All right. So 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.400 the Cowboys with five prime time games this year. They 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.840 will play Monday night, that's a that's against Arizona. They 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.240 got three Sunday night football games that They've got, that 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:20.280 Thursday night game in December, December third against the Baltimore Ravens, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.000 and of course we know they got the annual Thanksgiving 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.440 Day games. So a lot of Cowboys on your television screen. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.040 Gerald McCoy has joined the Cowboys son a one year deal, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.760 and Gerald McCoy had an interesting take on opening up 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.440 the season against the Los Angeles Brands his Gerald McCoy 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.960 last night on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Yeah, those divisional 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:44.560 games are huge and what the home or away. You 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.120 always want to do your best to win those divisional games. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.720 And like you said, that's when you get into We're 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.760 getting into those games where you're getting into the meat 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.360 of the schedule and it's around you know, like mister 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.360 Jones said in November December is when people are playing 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.760 the best football. But you really start to figure out 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.240 who you are after week seven. In the week eight, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.520 then you kind of start to see who's really who 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.720 and teams start to develop into who they really are. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.880 You know, you have those first three four weeks where 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.200 people might be like, oh, well this team is going 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.439 directly to the super Bowl, and then as the season 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.840 stretches out, it's like, well, they not really. So when 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.800 we start playing those division games, we'll start getting into 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.800 the point to where people will really start seeing who 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.040 we are and we'll start figuring out who we are. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.640 And there's no better teams to play than your division 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.399 games when you start to get to that point in 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:46.399 the season. Okay, that was some really good stuff because 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.400 you missed it last night On Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.440 Gerald McCoy, Tyrone Crawford, and Hall of Fame with Jerry 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.679 Jones came in to wigh in on the schedule. 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We're gonna 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:37.760 all have a memory, Jarl is all the players are coaches, 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.840 I'm gonna get to have a memory of having played 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:46.919 that first regular season game against the Los Angeles RAYN 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.639 team that stepped out there and they entertainment capital of 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:54.760 the world in that iconic stadium, and your Dallas Cowboys 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.920 are coming out there to show up on center sting. 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:02.639 So I see it. I feel it feels like the 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.000 Cowboys really to get to be out there and be 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:10.560 in that gorgeous new stadium. On a personal basis, I 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.320 was born almost where that stadium sits. I was born 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.520 in Englewood, right off the end of the runway, and 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:21.840 I have a lot of my cousins and second, first, second, 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.920 third cousins out there, and it'd been an exciting time 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.840 to go back out there and take these down as 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.840 Cowboys and put it on those Los Angeles rams. But 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.800 it's a big night. I was having my fingers crossed 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.359 that we'd get a chance to open that stadium against 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:44.840 the win. All right, that is Hall of Fame owner 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:49.320 Jerry Jones was born in El Segundo, California, and Jerry 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.320 was given the key to the city before the Cowboys 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.040 ended up playing Super Bowl twenty seven at the Rose Bowl. 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.639 That was the first Super Bowl won by Jerry Jones 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.959 and Jimmy Johnson. So he gets to take the Cowboys 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.879 to Los Angeles to open up the new stadium that 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.680 he and stand Crunky helped get done. Jerry's very inteable 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:12.280 part of helping get football in Los Angeles and Danny 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:14.800 and Berry not sure if you know this. And Jerry 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.720 said this last year on one or five three the 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.000 fan the Cowboys to put a radio home, that the 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:21.520 NFL came to him and asked him if he would 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.000 be willing to sell the Cowboys and they would give 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.160 Jerry the Los Angeles market and send Jerry on out 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.840 there to just really get LA going. Jerry said no, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.359 but he would be helpful in terms of helping the 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.879 NFL get back to Los Angeles. McCray, what do you 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:38.280 think about that? Jerry could have been the owner of 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:41.560 whatever LA team and running I think old by himself, 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.920 but he decided to stay with the Cowboys. First of all, 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.359 one Jerry loves the Cowboys. It's like one of his children. 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:50.920 He will I don't believe he will ever let it go. 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:53.959 So I mean I know that they I know they 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.119 had to know that they were reaching when they asked, 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.200 and that he would probably say no. But I mean, 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.680 you just gotta give it a shot. So think that 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:04.960 Jerry also knows that when there's something this big going 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:06.680 on in the NFL, the Cowboys are gonna be a 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.200 part of it. When you opening up a stadium in LA. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.639 His fingers were crossed the he but he knew in 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:13.720 the back of his mind that we would be the 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.560 first team up to open up the stadium because you 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.119 want to get as much attention and notoriety on it 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:23.560 as possible. So he's he's accustomed to doing things like this. 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:25.280 Even though he had his fingers crossed. I'm sure he 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.080 already knew that it was it was. It was in 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:32.919 the works. Church your thoughts, Jerry Jones. It could have 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.800 been the owner of an NFL franchise in LA and 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:40.920 would have sold the Cowboys. Yeah, he made the right decision. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:42.760 I mean, I gotta agree with McCray on this one. 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.159 Like he said, he pretty much you know, raised the 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:49.960 Cowboys franchise into this multi billion dollar empire. That's the 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.240 face of the NFL right now. And and like he said, 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:54.920 the Cowboys have their fingers and everything when it comes 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.320 to the NFL. So we pretty much knew that if 0:23:57.359 --> 0:23:59.480 the La Rams were opening up a stadium to get 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:02.280 the if the seats are filled, if we can fill 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:04.359 the seats him with this whole COVID night thing, the 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:07.000 team going thing going around, if they can feel the seats, 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:08.280 the only team that would be able to do that 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.119 would be the Dallas Cowboys. So, like mcrai said, in 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:13.080 the back of his mind, he knew that we were 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.239 gonna be able to in that first opening game. But 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:17.440 like I said, he made the right decision. And the 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:20.800 Cowboys are multi billion dollar empire now. And he's the 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:27.800 main reason that the um they're that beneficial. All right, 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.760 Barry staying right there, And this is something that I 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.840 get from Danny mc craig is Danny. Danny's our big 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:38.320 time realists here. We don't know what's gonna happen right 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:40.760 now with the NFL, and we're putting out the schedule like, hey, 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:42.639 everything is all good. We don't even know if the 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:44.439 Cowboys are gonna be able to go out to auction 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:48.119 our California for training King because right now the governor California, 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:51.600 Gavin Gavin Newsom, has that stayed on lockdown. So who 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.000 knows what's going to happen in terms of the Cowboys 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:57.000 being able to even play in Los Angeles. And if 0:24:57.040 --> 0:24:59.080 they do, maybe it's fun and no fans, but but 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:02.640 who knows right now? Where your thoughts on that? Yeah, 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:04.920 I mean who knows. Like you said, man, I mean, 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:07.720 right now, we're in the time that we don't even 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:10.480 know anything about, and we never experienced such a such 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:13.159 a pandemic like this, and for the NFL to you know, 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:15.760 they're trying to keep give people hope that you know, 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:17.800 the season's gonna start, We're gonna gonna put our fans 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:19.760 in there and all that good stuff. But like you said, 0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:22.560 we just don't know. We don't know how fastest thing 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.320 can spread again if we get masses together, or how 0:25:25.320 --> 0:25:27.600 fast we can get a vaccine for it. So we 0:25:27.640 --> 0:25:29.879 just don't know. And I think it would be it 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:32.560 would be a bad bad news if if there was 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:35.639 no football for the American public throughout the season. I 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:40.880 mean that that would be pretty bad. McCray, Yeah, same here. 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:43.560 I think it would be really bad, especially since that 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:46.440 means that we've gone that long without having any other 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:49.480 sports besides UFC putting on a few fights. I think 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:53.720 people will be going crazy about then bed and fantasy football, 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:58.440 everything that it's around the NFL season not taking place 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:03.960 or have people going a little crazy. Um yeah, honestly, 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:06.720 and then with the with the pandemic going on, I 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.600 just at this point, we don't know. I mean, the 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.479 NFL has to do, you know, business as usual. They 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:14.480 have to to plan like they're still going to be 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:16.440 able to play, so it would be irresponsible for them 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:19.040 not to have a schedule. But I did hear something 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:21.880 about them having a contingency plan with if you don't 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.080 play a game in week one, then you'll play that 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:26.600 game in week eighteen, and then week two, if you 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:28.200 don't have a game, you'll play that game in week 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:31.040 nineteen and so on. So I mean it's it's good 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:33.399 to hear that they have a plan and the season 0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:35.680 will still be able to play out even if it's delayed. 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:39.760 So everybody's fingers across man. But like like Neuis said, 0:26:40.240 --> 0:26:43.040 if you're being real about it until we really see 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:47.159 a drastic change and how this pandemic is affecting us. 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:54.320 My hopes are our modest at best. To me, it's 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:57.360 going to be very interesting to see you, particularly by 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:00.359 the time we get to September. What states are in? 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:03.200 What states aren't. Let me just throw this scenario out here, 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:07.240 and Danny, I'll start with you. What if California is 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:10.119 not going to allow football to happen and other states 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:13.320 are you could you see the NFL going to stand 0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:16.640 crockey and saying, all right, Stan, move your game from 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:20.280 Los Angeles to Dallas to start the season. Your thoughts on, 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:23.360 oh yeah, oh yeah, most definitely. Yeah. I don't think 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:25.399 they will let one state hold them back if you 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:28.199 have another option, right, If you can't play in LA, 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:30.720 then play in Texas. This is football. You say, we 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:33.359 play wherever. They'll let us play. Like Bruce Arians, you 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:36.640 lie them up, put them on the field, and we'll 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.240 play them. It doesn't matter what stadium, what arena we're in, 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.160 We'll play football. So I mean, yeah, if California don't 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:44.160 want to play, bring him to Texas. We know we'll 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:47.680 let them in Church. Let me throw this out here 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:50.520 to you, just looking at the schedule the first three 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:52.880 games for the Cowboys. Okay, so it's at Los Angeles 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:56.560 home against Atlanta, and then it's at Seattle. We've seen 0:27:56.600 --> 0:28:01.199 California and Washington hit hard by COVID nineteen. I remember 0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:04.639 when the Rangers and the Seattle Mariners was supposed to 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:07.359 face each other to start the Major League Baseball season 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:09.480 and their governor ended up she ended up shutting down 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:13.399 all activities in Washington. So what about the possibility that 0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:16.680 the Cowboys first three games, two of which are being 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.480 one in California and one in Washington, one in Washington, 0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:23.080 could be games they don't play if those states do 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:26.840 not open up. Your thoughts, Yeah, if those states do 0:28:26.920 --> 0:28:28.800 not open up, that'll be, like, like mcfrai said, that'll 0:28:28.840 --> 0:28:31.480 be extremely tricky. I mean, like I said, this is 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:34.439 a Marquis franchise that you know, the NFL kind of hair, 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:36.080 has their backs and they want to they want to 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:37.399 see them on the field and want to see their 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:39.800 their product on the field. But if this COVID nineteen 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.360 thing is still going around, with California and with Washington 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:44.440 being hit so hard, I can see them saying, you know, 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:46.480 those games aren't being taken they're not going to be 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:48.880 taken out there, so they might flip them and have 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.200 them and Cowboys starting, you know, three straight home games. 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:53.800 I could see that happening as well. But I just 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:56.480 think there's so much money out there for the NFL 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.320 as as an organization and for these franchises that I 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:01.160 can see them playing games. I just don't know if 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:02.720 it'll be in front of people or if we'll just 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:05.400 have to go all to where states are allowing these 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:08.160 these things. If he played, but that's just a lot 0:29:08.240 --> 0:29:10.920 of money out there to lose. If if this pandemic 0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:14.640 is a continuing I'll tell you what. One positive about 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:18.720 this is that, uh, you know, the NFL stadiums will 0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:20.720 be open, so you won't run into an issue of 0:29:21.520 --> 0:29:23.720 there's a concert plan, so you won't be able to 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:27.520 adjust and have the home team be the away team 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:29.760 or away team be the home team because the venue 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:33.040 is already put these these venues should be open, and 0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:36.240 they should be able to adjust to have a home 0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:39.200 team becoming away team if they need to in order 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:42.520 to play the game. This is the players lounge on 0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:45.240 a Friday. I knew he scrugs on time. Cowboys reporter 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:48.959 Danny mccraigberry Church joined me every Friday the former Dallas 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:53.440 Cowboys defensive backs. Let's talk about quarterback Andy Dalton. So 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:55.640 we did our show on Friday. Andy was not signed. 0:29:55.640 --> 0:29:57.920 The Cowboys end up getting him on a one year deal. 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:01.000 He gets three million dollars up to seven million dollars 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:04.200 based on incentives. I have seen a whole lot of 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:07.440 Andy Dalton. Watch his entire career at TCU, which ended 0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:11.240 with a Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin. He also played 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:15.400 against Kellen Moore twice during his TCU career when Kellen 0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:17.200 was a quarterback in boys and State. They were both 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:20.800 in the Mountain West Conference together. I'm gonna start with you, 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:23.960 Danny mccrage, your thoughts on Andy Dalton coming in here 0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:29.360 as a backup quarter and you know right now, I'm 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:32.240 still I'm still pushing this July fifteen to see if 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:35.400 if he's actually going to be the backup quarterback, is 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:39.840 that gonna show up? And then Jerry and them have 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:42.240 to be looking at this offense and saying, all right, 0:30:42.400 --> 0:30:46.320 Andy Dalton is not Matt Castle a right, He's better 0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:49.320 than that with the weapons that we have around him 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:52.560 on the offense, if we have to put him into play. 0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:55.200 I believe he could still win us some games. So 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:58.240 I mean Andy Dalton as a competitor and a nine 0:30:58.320 --> 0:31:01.400 year starter has to be thinking the same way to 0:31:01.560 --> 0:31:04.120 some extent. Now, him being a backup, I think that's 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:07.440 great because if you if you're starting caliber, you should 0:31:07.440 --> 0:31:09.440 be able to back up a guy when you get 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:11.200 on the field. So I still think it's a great move. 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:14.440 I think it puts a little pressure on this contract 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:20.080 situation with Dak as well. For me, I think it 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:24.000 was an extremely smart move by the Cowboys as as 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:26.400 an organization. I think on both fronts and some smart move. 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:29.280 For one, you haven't experienced quarterback that can go in 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:31.800 there and if anything happens to Dad, you know, he 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:33.560 gets hurt or anything like that, he can step in 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:35.800 there and play. He can help, you know, mold dass 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:38.680 game and show him how he's experienced and pretty much 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:41.080 be that backup quarterback that we needed we never had 0:31:41.120 --> 0:31:43.080 in the past. And on the other front, on the 0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:45.560 contract situation, if you know that's trying to hold out 0:31:45.560 --> 0:31:47.440 and doesn't want to play and we've starting game, we 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:50.040 haven't experienced quarterback back there that with all these weapons 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:52.640 around him, should be able to produce on a fairly 0:31:52.680 --> 0:31:55.280 high level. So I think it's a extremely great move 0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:57.560 on both both behalfs and hopefully it works out for 0:31:57.600 --> 0:32:03.880 the season all right. Andy Dalton has won seventy games 0:32:03.880 --> 0:32:06.320 and nine seasons in the National Football League. He took 0:32:06.360 --> 0:32:09.440 Cincinnati to the playoffs five times. He's a three time 0:32:09.480 --> 0:32:13.560 Pro Bowl. One thing that I know from reading my 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:16.400 social media, there's some Cowboy fans that aren't really familiar 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:19.680 with how the Jones family has dealt with backup quarterbacks 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.160 during their tenures since buying the team in nineteen eighty nine, 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:25.800 They've always had good backup quarterbacks. I go back to 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.320 Steve Burline when Jimmy Johnson was the head coach of 0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:31.920 Steve Burline helped the Cowboys win some games and going 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:34.520 into the playoffs. They ended up winning that Bears game 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:36.840 before they ended up losing to the Lines, and Steve 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:39.880 Burline started those two playoff games for them. Bernie Kosar 0:32:40.040 --> 0:32:43.480 was cut by Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns. Jimmy 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:47.840 picked up Bernie. Bernie came in to the NFC Championship 0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:49.920 game against the forty nine Ers and helped deliver a 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:52.320 victory there as The Cowboys ended up going on to 0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:54.440 win Super Bowl twenty eighth or second win over the 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:58.000 Buffalo Bills. Rodney Pete was a backup quarterback. Detroy Eightman 0:32:58.200 --> 0:33:00.800 random cutting hand was here's a backup back. We saw 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.880 Kyle Orton backing up Tony Romo. We saw John kitting 0:33:03.920 --> 0:33:06.880 A backing up Tony Romo. So Andy Dalton falls in 0:33:07.000 --> 0:33:10.000 line and what the Cowboys have always trying to do 0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:12.920 if they found a capable backup player, a guy who's 0:33:12.960 --> 0:33:15.880 been a starter. It's almost been a pit stop for guys. 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:19.120 Because Berlin ended up leaving the Cowboys and going to 0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:22.280 play again. We saw that with Bernie Kozar, we saw 0:33:22.440 --> 0:33:24.920 we've seen it with other dudes. Andy says, hey, how 0:33:25.120 --> 0:33:27.880 they reevaluate my career here for the season, get some 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:29.920 work with Mike McCarthy, and he hopes to get back 0:33:29.960 --> 0:33:32.239 on the market next year and become a starter. So 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.160 I think the Cowboys have made a pretty good move here, 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:38.160 And I also, Dany I would think this is I 0:33:38.200 --> 0:33:40.640 don't think this is a negotiating issue at all. I 0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:42.840 think this is the Cowboys doing what they've always done. 0:33:42.880 --> 0:33:45.520 I don't feel like this has any type of effect 0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:50.360 on the negotiations with Dak Mussen. Yeah, any type type 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:54.239 of at all. You ain't saying nothing. You don't think 0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:57.560 it has anything to do with the contract situation. This 0:33:57.640 --> 0:34:00.400 is about years. They pretty much have agreed to money. 0:34:00.400 --> 0:34:02.880 By all reports, it's a number of years. Dak wants 0:34:02.960 --> 0:34:06.400 four years, the Cowboys want five, five or six. Now 0:34:06.400 --> 0:34:07.920 think about it. Now, you go back and just look 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:10.160 at the deals they've signed. They got six year deal 0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:13.560 for Zekiel. Basically, the Cowboys aren't doing four year deals 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:16.200 with anybody. Zach Martin signed for more than four years, 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.400 Tak signed for more than four years, Amari Cooper was 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:20.400 a five year deal. The Cowboys don't want to do 0:34:20.440 --> 0:34:22.719 a short deal. That's not how they do business. Dak 0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:24.319 wants to do a short deal se get back on 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:26.600 the market. So it's not about the dollars. This is 0:34:26.640 --> 0:34:31.200 about how long deal looks. But no way that I mean, 0:34:31.239 --> 0:34:36.200 that's but newly that's that's the point. You just said 0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:39.399 that the Cowboys don't do four year deals, and Dak 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.000 is wanting a four year deal. So even though it's 0:34:42.040 --> 0:34:44.360 not about the money, that's still a big part of 0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:47.560 the negotiation. So even though it's not them having to 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:49.480 pay him more money. The guy wants a four year deal. 0:34:49.560 --> 0:34:54.239 So as you explained that, they're far off in negotiations. 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:57.480 So I don't think they made this this move intentionally 0:34:57.840 --> 0:35:00.600 to affect the negotiations, but I think it will have 0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:06.520 an effect on how they move forward with this. I believe, gentlemen, 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:09.800 on July buy because the day the deadline is July fifteen. 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.320 On July fifteenth, there will be a deal done. I 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:15.399 just I just noticed the Cowboys have always gotten their man. 0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:18.839 And if they got the Ezekiel Elliot deal done, because 0:35:18.880 --> 0:35:20.239 to me, that was the one time where I was 0:35:20.320 --> 0:35:23.000 really wondering if Jerry Jones and Stephen We're gonna stick 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:24.920 to their guns where they said we're not going to 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:27.600 reset the market, and they reset the market. Ezekiel still 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:30.160 had years left on his deal. So if Ezekiel Elliot's 0:35:30.200 --> 0:35:33.759 getting done, you better believe Dak Prescott. But but knew it, 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:37.640 but knew it, knew it. Remember, remember they saw what 0:35:37.719 --> 0:35:41.960 the team looked like without Ezekiel Elliott UH the year before, 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:44.000 so they knew they didn't want to go into that. 0:35:44.400 --> 0:35:46.719 They haven't seen that with Dak. I think that this 0:35:47.000 --> 0:35:50.160 situation is just a little different, but you know you're optimistic, 0:35:50.560 --> 0:35:55.399 so July fifteenth will see. Yes, I am optimistic, very 0:35:55.480 --> 0:35:59.200 I'm optimistic. I'm not buying into Danny's Danny's turned down 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:02.080 the Naked brow. I'm going to stay positive and just 0:36:02.200 --> 0:36:05.080 also go. But history, all right, see Bay history shows 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:10.400 that the cowboys get their guys. They always do. I mean, 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:12.920 they always get there. They get the tank Lawrence, you know, 0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:15.640 they got the Crawfords, like you know, Hitch they let 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:17.440 Hitchens walk out the door. I don't know about that, 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:19.879 but I mean you're you're right, they do get their guys. 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:22.759 But I mean, like mccrai said, if if they're a 0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:25.800 year off on negotiations, they're still pretty far off on it. 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:28.719 So we'll see, Like you guys said, we shall see 0:36:28.800 --> 0:36:31.640 July fifteen today. But my question is, if he doesn't 0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:34.359 sign by the fifteen, does he show up to camp. 0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:36.000 Does he have it in them to just be like nah, 0:36:36.000 --> 0:36:39.880 I ain't showing a period that will play. I mean, 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:42.600 keep in mind, you're still going to get thirty one 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:45.600 million dots. Okay. I don't think the truth man, Joe, 0:36:48.239 --> 0:36:51.040 because it keep in mind by the fifteenth that there's 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:53.560 not a deal done, they can't do a long term deal, 0:36:53.880 --> 0:36:55.800 so it has to get done by July fifteen. So 0:36:55.880 --> 0:36:58.680 come July fifteen, if there is no deal that's agree to, 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:01.520 then it is a one your contract for thirty one 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.319 million dollars. So that that that's just how it's going 0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:09.520 to be. And Lord knows, as a quarterback you can't 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:11.879 just sit out, and with all this talent around here, 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:14.080 if he sits out, he's just gonna drive his own 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:17.319 market value down. So I don't see a I don't 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:20.480 see him not reporting at all. Barry he Dak Prescott 0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:23.440 will quarterback the Cowboys in season. It's just the whole 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:25.600 question market is it on a one year deal or 0:37:25.640 --> 0:37:27.600 a long term deal? And I feel like it'll be 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:31.160 on a long term deal. I'm going with a one piece. 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:38.200 I'm going I'm going with the piece. Ye. No, no, 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:41.880 we've been talking about this, but how when we started 0:37:41.960 --> 0:37:45.160 this show were talking about that contract they talking about 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:49.120 they been talking about years ago. We're talking about this. 0:37:50.600 --> 0:37:53.480 You're okay, you're right, You're right now. I'm gonna go 0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:56.000 by history again, okay, because history is a good barometer. 0:37:56.960 --> 0:38:01.640 What happened with Cooper went down to the end didn't man. Yeah, yeah, 0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:03.800 that's not that's not to say Cooper was here for 0:38:03.880 --> 0:38:07.160 Cooper was here for one year. Let let me finish. 0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:09.120 Let me finish now, all right, all right, my man? 0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:12.640 Fa what was zeke? Ellie? What'd that? Dude went down 0:38:12.680 --> 0:38:14.440 to the end, didn't pretty much went down to the end. 0:38:15.040 --> 0:38:17.319 We take Lawrence pretty much went down to the end. 0:38:17.960 --> 0:38:20.680 This is kind of how they do business here. Zack 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:23.600 Martin even held out. Okay, he decided not to show 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:25.560 up to the OTA. I mean, they had to get 0:38:25.600 --> 0:38:28.200 that deal done. So this is kind of in line 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:30.960 with what we've seen here. Luckily, and at the end 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:34.080 of the day, they get the guy they want. When 0:38:34.160 --> 0:38:36.719 they say they want you, they don't let you go. 0:38:37.560 --> 0:38:39.400 I knew he take take take Lawrence out of it 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.080 because he played on the franchise tag, all right, so 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:45.719 he was you gotta take him out. They got him, 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:51.560 but he was franchise tag, so so that don't count them. Yeah, 0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:54.360 Cooper was here for one year and he was about 0:38:54.400 --> 0:38:56.360 to leave. They had to do it because it was 0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:59.200 no it was no franchise tag for him. Oh yeah, 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:03.600 the law took who Yes, it was the second way 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:06.080 he was like said I'm not doing this again. I'm 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:10.200 not doing I mean, you know that's the other way. 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:14.279 My history there is pretty pretty decent um. We got 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:17.080 to take another break here. We My gosh, it's forty 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:19.279 minutes after. We are just chewing up so much time. 0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:21.239 I still have a whole bunch of topics that I 0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:24.440 haven't gotten to yet. There's one signing that the Cowboys 0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:26.640 made that I don't think people are talking about enough, 0:39:26.880 --> 0:39:29.719 that they do enough to help out this defense, and 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:32.959 an issue that all three of us have talked about 0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:34.480 off the year. We want to bring it to the 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:38.040 air and chatted up here. So this is a lot. 0:39:38.680 --> 0:39:41.359 It's a busy Friday. The Cowboys always in the news year. 0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:43.160 I knew he scugs a dandy mc cree, Barry Church. 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:47.560 This is the player's left since eighteen sixty five. 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Here we are 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:54.480 on a Friday, Players Lass, Dallas Cowboys dot com. We 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:57.600 appreciate you giving us some time on your Friday. I'm 0:41:57.640 --> 0:41:59.719 doing we scruggs long time Cowboys reported joined by former 0:41:59.760 --> 0:42:04.040 Dallas Cowboys players Danny McCray and Barry Church. All right, gentlemen, 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:06.960 A signing that I don't think people are talking about enough, 0:42:07.000 --> 0:42:10.160 which I believe is very important. That is Cam Irving 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:12.719 coming on on a one year deal to be the 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.680 swing tackle for the Cowboys. He late with the Chiefs 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.200 last year. Chief says we know won the Super Bowl. 0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:20.960 He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns, had a tenure 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:23.520 there that did not did not live up to the building. 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:26.000 But I believe this is big. Cam Fleming ended up 0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:28.720 leaving to go to the New York Giants. Tyrant Smith 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:33.400 has missed three games the last four seasons, if we 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:35.239 know he's going to miss time, and then last year 0:42:35.239 --> 0:42:37.120 that Jets game, Tyran was out, but we also saw 0:42:37.239 --> 0:42:39.160 Lel Collegs missed that game as well. So to me, 0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:42.399 I think Cam Irving is a signing that matters. Church. 0:42:44.440 --> 0:42:45.840 Oh yeah, I agree with you on that one. I 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:48.760 think this is just as important as the Andy Dalton signing. 0:42:48.800 --> 0:42:50.880 I mean, you got to have a quality backup at 0:42:50.920 --> 0:42:53.600 an important position. And as we've seen, like you said, 0:42:53.680 --> 0:42:56.040 Tyrant Smith, Pie's misstime with his back and injuries like that, 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:58.360 and we've seen Lyle Collins have injuries and throughout this 0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:00.719 throughout the last season. So to have a guy that 0:43:00.800 --> 0:43:03.279 can swing tackle between both a quality pickup of a 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:06.400 veteran guy who's had experience out there's a he's a 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:09.200 solid piece for this offense and you need depth pieces. 0:43:09.239 --> 0:43:11.080 So I think this is a very very solid pickup 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:16.400 of the Cowboys. Yeah. Same here. I mean in the 0:43:16.760 --> 0:43:18.560 over the past, I want to say you know, and 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:29.560 Barry you went through it yourself. Go ahead, then, oh 0:43:30.160 --> 0:43:35.480 go go, go ahead. We moved it all right. I 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:38.600 was to say, here, you guys both you guys have 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:42.120 both made the Dallas Cowboys is undrafted free agents, and 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:44.439 I was looking at the class of kids they bought, 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:47.080 brought in here and signed and looking at the biosh, 0:43:47.120 --> 0:43:50.600 there's some pretty impressive resumes here. Do you guys see 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:54.560 any particular player that you like? As they get ready 0:43:54.600 --> 0:43:56.640 for some of these camp battles, he say, hey, look 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.759 out for that guy. And I ain't going to take 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:02.439 credit on when Barry Church came out of Toledo, I said, 0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:05.440 there's a guy I think from that team, when Romo, 0:44:06.120 --> 0:44:09.040 when Romo came from Eastern Illinois, I had a conversation 0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:11.799 with Terrence Newman. I said, hey, I like this Romo guy. 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:13.680 I know he was the Walter Pig player of the 0:44:13.800 --> 0:44:16.160 year and you played against him. And Terrence told me 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:19.520 he is the Carson Palmer of small school quarterbacks, because 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:21.759 that year Carson Palmer was a number one pick of 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:24.200 the Cincinnati Bengals and Terrence had played for them both. 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:35.920 So so um, go ahead, give me your guy, all right. 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:38.920 So so so I take it. Um. My guy is 0:44:39.000 --> 0:44:44.960 a is a safety from Illinois State, Luther Kirk. He 0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:47.960 was the MVP of the of the Shrine Game. We 0:44:48.160 --> 0:44:51.239 don't have enough safeties on the roster right now. We 0:44:51.360 --> 0:44:54.000 talked about that being something that we addressed in the draft, 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:56.800 but they waited. They waited until after the draft to 0:44:57.120 --> 0:44:59.440 address that. And I think this kid can play U. 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.120 He's not the fastest, you know, he ran around him 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:04.960 in between four or five and four to six. He's explosive, 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:09.239 jumped to thirty nine inch vertical broad jumped ten foot 0:45:09.320 --> 0:45:11.880 six inches. He had some streams seven seventeen reps on 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:14.799 the two twenty five. So I think he's a prototypical 0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:17.120 special teams guy for his first year, and he can 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:19.440 learn from those two guys that are starting ahead of him, 0:45:19.640 --> 0:45:22.200 and he can be one of those developmental guys who 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:24.720 shows up in a year or two in a starting lineup. 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:30.560 That that was a solid pick right there. For myself, 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:33.680 I'm gonna have to go with Francis Bernard, the linebacker 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:35.880 out of Utah. Now, this is a guy who he 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.080 started out as his careers are running back. They went 0:45:38.160 --> 0:45:40.520 to b YU and then took off a year and 0:45:40.600 --> 0:45:43.120 then signed back with Utah and as a senior year, 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:46.320 he led the team in tackles. He's a very quarterback 0:45:46.360 --> 0:45:48.480 of the defense type of linebacker. I mean he's not 0:45:48.560 --> 0:45:50.120 the fastest. He went to the combat. I think he 0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:53.480 ran into four sevens and whatnot, but he's extremely smart. 0:45:53.520 --> 0:45:55.319 He knows how to quarterback of defense and he knows 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:57.120 what he's doing in past coverage. And you can never 0:45:57.239 --> 0:46:00.200 have enough linebackers back in rush the passle or that 0:46:00.239 --> 0:46:02.800 can drop back in pass counters. So we've seen with 0:46:02.880 --> 0:46:04.920 the linebackers in the past with the Cowboys, they had 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:08.520 injury history. We've seen Lake Vandreas out for multiple games. 0:46:08.520 --> 0:46:10.759 We've seen Sean Leo for multiple games. So just to 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:12.879 bring an up the death piece in there, like mccrai said, 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:15.200 that can that can contribute on special teams as well 0:46:15.520 --> 0:46:18.160 as well as being a depth piece for this linebacker corps. 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:20.000 I think he has a great chance of making the team, 0:46:20.080 --> 0:46:21.640 but like you said, you gotta put a work on 0:46:21.680 --> 0:46:27.600 the field first. I'm gonna go with two tight ends 0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:31.160 that I'm gonna watch very much. Charlie Tima payout with 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.680 the Portland State. He's a pass catching tight end and 0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:38.440 then Sean McKeon is a big tight end from Michigan 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:41.120 and he can block. Look for Charlie to see if 0:46:41.160 --> 0:46:43.239 he can work on his blocking. He was an All 0:46:43.239 --> 0:46:46.239 American at the FCS level. I just don't know if 0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:48.680 Dalton Shot, I mean Dalton Schultz is gonna end up 0:46:48.719 --> 0:46:50.839 making his team as a backup tight end. I think 0:46:50.880 --> 0:46:53.359 that we could see one of these rookie tight ends 0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:56.080 sneak in here, But Charlie Timber Payout is gonna be 0:46:56.480 --> 0:47:02.600 a guy like a whole lot here. McCraw, uh yeah, 0:47:02.719 --> 0:47:05.080 I mean we need something to go with Blake Jarwin 0:47:05.200 --> 0:47:08.160 and the tight end position, as we see across the league, 0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:10.279 if you look at the Kittles of the world, is 0:47:10.440 --> 0:47:13.120 a very important position, especially if you come across a 0:47:13.200 --> 0:47:17.640 guy who's athletic enough to block and create a mismatch 0:47:17.719 --> 0:47:20.000 on out on the outside if he's going against a 0:47:20.040 --> 0:47:22.400 cornerback or on the inside when he playing against linebackers 0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:25.240 and tight ends. So I think it's a good position 0:47:25.320 --> 0:47:27.680 to watch him. Hopefully we can strike gold with with 0:47:28.000 --> 0:47:34.480 one of these guys. Church take me back to your 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:36.840 time being an un drafted free agent. Why did you 0:47:36.960 --> 0:47:40.680 pick the Cowboys? Who else? Offered you. And also the 0:47:40.840 --> 0:47:48.160 stress of trying to make an NFL roster. Oh, well, 0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:51.080 for me, yeah, it was. It was super stressful for me, 0:47:51.480 --> 0:47:53.080 you know, because I didn't think it happened that quick 0:47:53.360 --> 0:47:55.080 after the draft. You know, I was heartbroke. I didn't 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:57.239 get drafted or whatnot. But um, as soon as the 0:47:57.320 --> 0:47:58.960 draft was over, my agent said, hey, all right, you 0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:01.640 got basically like ten minutes to pick a team. Um, 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:03.960 these teams that you want to pursue. So I thought, 0:48:03.960 --> 0:48:05.200 you know, I was gonna have a couple of days 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:07.400 or something that pick a team. I wanted to do 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:09.600 research on it, but I had to go pretty quick. 0:48:09.640 --> 0:48:11.279 And my agent told me, he's like, you know, the 0:48:11.360 --> 0:48:14.040 Cowboys special teams reached out to us at the time. 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.560 It was Joe D. Camillus and he was saying he 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:18.680 liked it for your game, and that's the fastest way 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:20.600 to make the team is through special teams, and then 0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:22.320 you might have a chance to play on defense. So 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:24.720 I went with my agents gut feeling, and I decided 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:27.160 to sign with the Cowboys. And I ended up being 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:29.239 in a great situation. I had a great leadership up 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:31.839 there with jeral Cincinmball and our coaches at the time, Brett, 0:48:31.920 --> 0:48:35.399 Maxie and Campbell were great and act accelerating my game 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:38.200 on the field and defensively. So um I ended up 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:41.880 picking a right situation. But it's definitely a stressful, stressful 0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:43.640 pass to take. Man, you know, you gotta make a 0:48:43.719 --> 0:48:50.080 decision extremely fast. Right after the draft, Murcraig, I'm gonna 0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:52.560 be a homer here. But let me also bring up 0:48:52.640 --> 0:48:55.600 running back Darius Anderson had TCU. He has to kick 0:48:55.760 --> 0:48:59.080 returnability here. He also was a tough guy that could 0:48:59.120 --> 0:49:01.680 kind of get between those tackles as well. That's a 0:49:01.840 --> 0:49:04.160 running back and I think about where the Cowboys look 0:49:04.200 --> 0:49:07.399 if they carry for that, I can see him being 0:49:07.480 --> 0:49:10.120 maybe that third tailback kind of guy, but also a 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:12.200 dude who plays special teams. That was how you made 0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:14.759 the Cowboys here. And I just feel like a guy 0:49:14.800 --> 0:49:17.400 who's got experienced already playing special teams in college has 0:49:17.400 --> 0:49:19.719 a little bit of an edge, especially if they do 0:49:19.880 --> 0:49:24.280 not have a full training camp in OTAs. Yeah, definitely, 0:49:24.320 --> 0:49:26.319 because most of the time what you see from these 0:49:26.400 --> 0:49:29.160 guys coming out of college, especially the starters, is that 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:32.080 they hadn't played special teams before. So it takes the 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:34.520 coaches a little bit more time to get these dudes 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:37.399 trained and developed to play these different positions and get 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:40.320 used to these new movements. So with him being a 0:49:40.360 --> 0:49:44.000 guy who's already played special teams and already being labeled 0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:46.360 as tough and a guy who never quits and can 0:49:46.440 --> 0:49:49.560 go out there and play something like that, I think 0:49:49.600 --> 0:49:52.919 it's definitely advantaged for him when he steps on the field. 0:49:55.200 --> 0:50:01.840 Church Cam Newton unsigned, your thoughts, I was, I'm pretty 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:04.680 much surprised right now that he's unsigned. And then I 0:50:04.760 --> 0:50:07.000 think he came out the other day with something some money. 0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:09.600 Doesn't want to be a backup quarterback or something like that. 0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:11.919 He wants to be a starter, and I know it's 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:13.879 just gonna be hard for him to break the break 0:50:13.920 --> 0:50:15.719 any team through with being a startup. Mean, he might 0:50:15.800 --> 0:50:17.320 just have to be that backup for a year. But 0:50:17.400 --> 0:50:19.640 I was pretty surprised that he was not even you know, 0:50:19.760 --> 0:50:22.280 picked up or anything like that. But I feel like Carolina, 0:50:22.440 --> 0:50:25.000 you know, kind of did him a disservice by releasing 0:50:25.040 --> 0:50:27.400 them as late as they did. You know, guys are 0:50:27.400 --> 0:50:30.040 already in situations with their quarterbacks and everything was kind 0:50:30.040 --> 0:50:31.640 of sewed up by the time he hit the market. 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:33.840 So I think they kind of did him a disservice. 0:50:33.920 --> 0:50:35.800 But if he wants to be that starting quarterback, he 0:50:36.000 --> 0:50:38.839 might have to wait out a year before getting back 0:50:38.880 --> 0:50:41.320 into the NFL, because I just don't see him cracking 0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:43.279 the lineup anywhere right now. Guys are kind of sewing 0:50:43.320 --> 0:50:46.120 them into their positions. So we'll see. It's gonna be 0:50:46.200 --> 0:50:47.680 tough if he if he doesn't want to be a backup, 0:50:47.719 --> 0:50:51.440 he might have to be out for a year, all right, Guys, 0:50:51.560 --> 0:50:55.160 We had spent our off air prep talking about the 0:50:55.320 --> 0:50:59.720 death of aman are break down in Brunswick, Georgia and Brunswick, 0:50:59.760 --> 0:51:03.320 George down there in near the Savannah area place I 0:51:03.520 --> 0:51:05.600 used to live. My dad was stationed down there when 0:51:05.640 --> 0:51:09.480 I was younger. The Players Coalition ended up making a 0:51:09.560 --> 0:51:11.640 statement today. I want to read part of what they said. 0:51:11.640 --> 0:51:14.840 Says today, the Players Coalition and Professional Athletes send a 0:51:14.960 --> 0:51:18.920 letter to Attorney General William Barr, FBI Director Christopher Ray, 0:51:19.000 --> 0:51:22.720 and Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric de Bryan, 0:51:23.239 --> 0:51:26.560 requesting an immediate federal investigation into the tragic death of 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:30.000 vermand Auvren. Signers include Ann Kwon Bolden and Malcolm Jenkins, 0:51:30.080 --> 0:51:32.840 co founders of the Players Coalition, and other athletes and 0:51:32.920 --> 0:51:36.279 coaches across teams in leagues, such as Tom Brady and 0:51:36.320 --> 0:51:39.439 the Buccaneers, Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots, Camp 0:51:39.480 --> 0:51:41.360 Georgian of the New Orleans Saints, Mark Ingram of the 0:51:41.400 --> 0:51:44.160 Baltimore Ravens, Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors, and 0:51:44.200 --> 0:51:47.680 stand Band Gundi, former NBA coach and current broadcaster in 0:51:47.760 --> 0:51:50.880 Mini Moore. They requested the FBI and the Department of 0:51:51.000 --> 0:51:54.520 Justice Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division lead the 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:58.920 investigation into this horrible shooting. The Georgia Prosecutor's delay in 0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:01.960 moving forward and arrest and grand jury investigation to move 0:52:02.040 --> 0:52:06.680 spark only a considerable amount of public activism, and the 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:11.240 existence of numerous local conflicts means that a robust, federally 0:52:11.360 --> 0:52:14.399 led investigation is the only way to restore community trust 0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:18.080 that mister Aubrey's death will be fully investigated because on 0:52:18.200 --> 0:52:21.240 February twenty third, two white men, Travis and Greg McMichael, 0:52:21.280 --> 0:52:24.879 tragically gundown mister Aubury while he was on a job. 0:52:25.200 --> 0:52:27.919 They claimed that they were attempting to make a citizens arrest, 0:52:28.000 --> 0:52:31.160 but no credible evidence exist that mister Albury committed any crime. 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:35.480 It wasn't until yesterday, seventy four days after Aubury was killed, 0:52:36.000 --> 0:52:39.279 that police arrested the McMichaels, the prosecutor on the case, 0:52:39.400 --> 0:52:43.239 assigned after the previous two prosecutes, rescued themselves due to 0:52:43.360 --> 0:52:45.880 the conflicts and neglected to send the case to the 0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:49.560 grand jury until after a video of the terrible incident 0:52:49.719 --> 0:52:51.880 was made public. So that's the first part of this 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:56.959 letter for the players coalition. Gentleman, your thoughts go ahead, Okay. 0:52:57.160 --> 0:53:03.160 I think it's amazing and very concerning that it took 0:53:03.239 --> 0:53:06.000 all of that for this to happen, for them to 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:09.680 get arrested. We saw the video, and then the first 0:53:09.719 --> 0:53:11.920 thing that goes into your mind is if if that 0:53:12.120 --> 0:53:15.520 video doesn't come out, these guys they get no attention 0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:20.279 and they possibly get away with this, which is absolutely ludicrous. 0:53:20.760 --> 0:53:23.160 I'm watching this video and this is and for me, 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:26.640 this is probably one of the more clear versions of 0:53:27.719 --> 0:53:29.960 things that we've seen going on in the past. When 0:53:29.960 --> 0:53:32.200 you think about like something happened to Traymon Martin and 0:53:32.280 --> 0:53:35.800 some other people. This video was clear. You see everything 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:38.360 happen on there, and I think that's where the outcry 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:41.400 is coming from and I don't think that like this 0:53:41.520 --> 0:53:44.239 should be necessary for people to start speaking out, but 0:53:44.400 --> 0:53:46.840 I'm glad they did, and I'm glad that we finally 0:53:47.400 --> 0:53:49.799 got a little bit of justice to start from from 0:53:49.880 --> 0:53:55.399 this issue. Yeah, I know, I agree with you on that, Cray. 0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:58.080 I mean that it's it's it's kind of a frightening situation. 0:53:58.160 --> 0:54:00.319 I mean, like you said, Um, the guy was out 0:54:00.440 --> 0:54:03.640 for a job, and I mean, she feels your safest 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:05.160 while you're just taking a job to them, right and 0:54:05.200 --> 0:54:08.480 broad daylight and something like this happens. I mean, it's tragic, 0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:11.560 and like you said, and I'm glad the Players Coalition, 0:54:11.600 --> 0:54:13.920 you know, they spoke out on it and and they're 0:54:13.920 --> 0:54:16.279 trying to get justice for this situation. But like you said, 0:54:16.280 --> 0:54:18.799 it's a it's a very scary and frightening, frightening world 0:54:18.840 --> 0:54:22.400 we live in now, and the situation is evidence of that. 0:54:24.160 --> 0:54:27.120 And I'll just close the letter contained more, but I'll 0:54:27.160 --> 0:54:28.439 just close the end of it here, where he says 0:54:28.680 --> 0:54:32.080 Players Coalition is dedicated to advocating for social justice and 0:54:32.200 --> 0:54:35.719 racial equality and holding those who commit injustice as accountable. 0:54:36.200 --> 0:54:39.680 The letter was sent to Attorney William Barr and signed 0:54:39.719 --> 0:54:42.600 by the following below, and it goes through through numerous 0:54:42.680 --> 0:54:45.840 players that we talked about there. So the Players Coalition 0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:48.000 had worked with NFL owners in the past and so 0:54:48.239 --> 0:54:51.680 they continue their work on this issue here. So it's 0:54:51.719 --> 0:54:54.160 going to be very interesting to see exactly where they 0:54:54.239 --> 0:54:56.840 go forward this. I saw the video as well. This 0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:59.360 is not what America is about. A person on a 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:04.080 jog not be shot down by people. And as I said, 0:55:04.120 --> 0:55:06.160 I will be very interested to see where it goes. 0:55:06.520 --> 0:55:09.279 But at the end of the day, you've got the 0:55:09.440 --> 0:55:12.480 NFL players as well as who all Steve Kerr, the NBA. 0:55:12.560 --> 0:55:15.600 We've got people who are who are saying, look, this 0:55:15.960 --> 0:55:19.000 is not right, and this is players using their position 0:55:19.280 --> 0:55:21.880 to try and bring light. And once again you go 0:55:21.960 --> 0:55:24.760 back to Colin Kaeperty, who is really at the forefront 0:55:25.080 --> 0:55:27.279 of trying to say, look, there are things going wrong 0:55:27.440 --> 0:55:29.920 here and bringing this to justice. So I'll be very 0:55:30.000 --> 0:55:33.560 eager to see exactly where this goes. Joy Nor question 0:55:33.640 --> 0:55:37.000 for you, dude, because because one of the most concerning 0:55:37.080 --> 0:55:39.960 things is even though that these guys have been arrested, 0:55:40.600 --> 0:55:43.200 the thing that worries me the most is I still 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:46.480 have to sit here and think will they be convicted 0:55:46.560 --> 0:55:49.080 or will they go to jail? Or will we see 0:55:49.320 --> 0:55:51.799 an instance where we're watching on TV and they get 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:54.160 that not guilty verdict and they're free to walk the 0:55:54.200 --> 0:55:57.520 streets again. Like, I just don't think that that we 0:55:57.600 --> 0:55:59.239 should have to think that, well, that should even be 0:55:59.280 --> 0:56:02.239 a possibility, especially when you see a video like this 0:56:02.440 --> 0:56:05.600 where everything is evident that they did everything wrong in 0:56:05.680 --> 0:56:09.560 the situation. I'll use a Bill Parcels quote. All I 0:56:09.640 --> 0:56:11.560 can go by is what I see and what we 0:56:11.640 --> 0:56:15.000 have seen with the criminal justice system tells you that 0:56:15.080 --> 0:56:22.040 you should be worried. It just is that an outcome 0:56:23.120 --> 0:56:25.319 that what you saw the video, that you think these 0:56:25.360 --> 0:56:27.560 guys are gonna go to jail and we don't know that. 0:56:28.200 --> 0:56:29.840 We don't know. I mean, that's why we have to 0:56:29.920 --> 0:56:31.920 have the trial. And what do we know? We know 0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:34.960 what we think sometimes is, hey, this is an a 0:56:36.080 --> 0:56:40.800 ab happen equals does not always happen. So I understand 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:43.080 what you're saying, and because of history and the way 0:56:43.120 --> 0:56:46.320 things gone, is one hundred percent accurate in terms of 0:56:46.480 --> 0:56:50.480 your your thought process. All right, let's end this the 0:56:50.560 --> 0:56:54.080 way we started with the Cowboys schedule, Gentlemen, according to 0:56:54.200 --> 0:56:57.400 both of your takes on the Cowboys schedule. Dallas is 0:56:57.440 --> 0:57:01.799 going to the playoffs as NFC championship. Church, you got 0:57:01.880 --> 0:57:04.560 them going ten and six. McCray, you've got them going 0:57:04.719 --> 0:57:09.240 eleven and five under new head coach Mike McCarthy, gentleman. 0:57:09.320 --> 0:57:13.680 That's that's that's pretty ambitious considering right now they don't 0:57:13.719 --> 0:57:17.080 have you know, there's no in person OTAs and these 0:57:17.120 --> 0:57:19.240 guys aren't able to work with them. So you know, 0:57:19.360 --> 0:57:21.360 McCarthy could be under the gun depending on how much 0:57:21.360 --> 0:57:25.160 time he actually has to work with this team. Let 0:57:25.240 --> 0:57:31.240 me tell you this. So also, the Browns don't have virtual. 0:57:31.840 --> 0:57:34.760 The Giants, who have an also a coordinator don't have virtual. 0:57:35.120 --> 0:57:38.320 The Cardinals have a new new star receiver who will 0:57:38.400 --> 0:57:41.600 have will only be on virtual. The Redskins are the Redskins. 0:57:41.720 --> 0:57:44.360 The Eagles didn't have receivers last year, but they drafted 0:57:44.400 --> 0:57:48.000 one who will only be doing virtual workouts. Juju Smith 0:57:48.200 --> 0:57:50.280 Schuster is the only one. With the Steelers, it's a 0:57:50.320 --> 0:57:52.720 lot of opportunities here for us to get dubs on 0:57:52.880 --> 0:57:57.640 people who will will probably have less uh familiar familiarity 0:57:57.720 --> 0:58:00.480 with people on their team than we do. So I 0:58:00.640 --> 0:58:02.720 think that the chance is nice for us to go 0:58:02.840 --> 0:58:07.800 win that division. Okay, Soman Craig here, Mary helped me 0:58:07.880 --> 0:58:11.120 understand Danny's optimism. So Danny has this optimism about that, 0:58:11.360 --> 0:58:13.840 but he doesn't have optimism that Dak Prescott's gonna get 0:58:13.840 --> 0:58:16.280 signed by Jerry Jones, who continually shown you in the 0:58:16.320 --> 0:58:18.439 past that he gets the deal's done with the guys. 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:27.439 He wants good an here one more time doing I said, 0:58:27.800 --> 0:58:31.560 help me understand. Danny has this great optimism that the 0:58:31.680 --> 0:58:35.200 Cowboys are gonna be okay without all season workouts, but 0:58:35.440 --> 0:58:37.640 he has no faith in Jerry Jones Son and Dak 0:58:37.680 --> 0:58:42.960 Prescott to a long term game. I don't I don't 0:58:43.000 --> 0:58:48.000 understand that one as well. You're saying he has that 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:50.440 Dak Prescott don't get his his deal done, but he 0:58:50.480 --> 0:58:52.280 asked faith that the Cowboys will come through and make 0:58:52.320 --> 0:58:57.160 the playoffs. As I was just saying, yeah, yeah, but yeah, 0:58:57.640 --> 0:59:00.800 but you said he's gonna play this year on the 0:59:00.920 --> 0:59:02.600 tag or not, so it's not like we're not gonna 0:59:02.600 --> 0:59:04.680 have that. I'm just saying that we might only have 0:59:04.760 --> 0:59:10.080 them for this year, and if we have them for 0:59:10.120 --> 0:59:16.640 this year, they better making the best year impossible. Danny mccraye. 0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:18.240 I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:20.120 get me the bet, and I'm not getting bet with 0:59:20.200 --> 0:59:22.439 you again. I'm done. I'm done paying off bets because 0:59:22.480 --> 0:59:24.960 I don't like where I have to go pay off 0:59:25.000 --> 0:59:27.200 these bets. I don't like the restaurants, so I'm not 0:59:27.280 --> 0:59:29.480 making the bet. Okay, the fact, the fact that you 0:59:29.560 --> 0:59:31.160 don't want to bet, the fact that you don't want 0:59:31.200 --> 0:59:32.960 to bet, lets me know that you know that there's 0:59:32.960 --> 0:59:38.680 a possibility that I'm right. So I take that. Make 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:43.520 the bet at the restaurant of my choice. At the 0:59:43.640 --> 0:59:46.400 restaurant choice. I ain't gonna lose the bet and pick 0:59:46.480 --> 0:59:54.240 the restaurant because I'm exactly I'm gonna have to pay 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:56.360 for them at least eat somewhere I like, Unlike the 0:59:56.480 --> 0:59:59.240 last time that that's not what a bet is. You' 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:01.560 supposed to do something that you don't like, that's a 1:00:01.680 --> 1:00:08.280 bit and suffer the consequences. Yes, yes see, I'm not 1:00:08.400 --> 1:00:11.320 Michael Jordan. I don't have a competitive problem. I'm not gambling. 1:00:11.400 --> 1:00:14.240 I'm good. I'm good. Okay, I'm good, I'm I'm okay, 1:00:14.320 --> 1:00:17.720 I'm okay. No, listen, I'm gonna tell him not to 1:00:17.800 --> 1:00:19.680 feed you at the at the table when you sit out. 1:00:24.600 --> 1:00:27.000 You go ahead, you go ahead and try that. Good. 1:00:28.080 --> 1:00:37.800 I'll use that Thomas his wife used that hotel. Y'all all, y'all, hey, 1:00:37.880 --> 1:00:41.600 this between this, this is between us now. We don't 1:00:41.600 --> 1:00:51.240 need no questions, bro right man, Hey, fellas, it's one 1:00:51.280 --> 1:00:53.439 hour on the DIT. It's one hour on the DIT. 1:00:53.600 --> 1:00:56.640 This was fun. As always, we appreciate everybody who tunes 1:00:56.680 --> 1:01:00.560 into the Players Line Fridays. We do it eleven eleven 1:01:00.600 --> 1:01:03.280 am Central Time, So thank you so much. We'll do 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:06.439 it again. He's buried Church Dani mc cray. They're both 1:01:06.480 --> 1:01:09.000 former Dallas Cowboys players. 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