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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and Newey Scrugs.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody is Friday. That means it's time for
Speaker 1: the players lag of knweis Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined
Speaker 1: by former Dallas Cowboys players, Danny McCray and Barry Church. Gentleman,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about within this hour.
Speaker 1: First off, has everybody doing day, I'll do it better
Speaker 1: at Earl Thomas. Now, I'm doing good, man, I'm doing
Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm doing it. I'm doing it really, I'm
Speaker 1: doing it really well. I'm doing it. I'm doing I'm
Speaker 1: doing it really well. Man. Quarantine Wow, just interesting stuff, man.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of good stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1: Shots thrown early, Shots thrown early. Man, I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing a
Speaker 1: big or crap, not laughing. My bad. I don't know
Speaker 1: the man, you know. I will say this, Danny, just
Speaker 1: based on what you just said to start off the show.
Speaker 1: They do play the Ravens. This year was to play
Speaker 1: the ras I ain't worried about it. We will live
Speaker 1: into other topics non Cowboy related throughout this show. All right,
Speaker 1: First off, everybody, um, the schedule is the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: schedule is out the National Football League. Chris, go ahead
Speaker 1: and pop up that schedule. Let's look at the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the schedule. The Dallas Cowboys are slated to
Speaker 1: start the NFL season in Los Angeles, California, specifically Inglewood
Speaker 1: at the new Sofi Stadium, where the Rams and the
Speaker 1: Chargers are going to share the stadium. The Cowboys, interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: are going to go ahead and take on the Chargers
Speaker 1: in a preseason game. So September thirteenth on Sunday Night
Speaker 1: AMBC by Sunday Night Football Rams. Then it's at home
Speaker 1: against Maddie Icy Atlanta Falcons, then up to Washington to
Speaker 1: face the Seattle Seahawks. Then a October fourth game against
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield the Cleveland Browns. All right, gentlemen, break down
Speaker 1: these first three games. Here, Church, what do you see him?
Speaker 1: I'm kind of conflicted here for these first the first
Speaker 1: four games. Man. Overall, I feel like they have a
Speaker 1: favorable schedule, but these first four and it's only it's
Speaker 1: coming down the one team. For me, it comes down
Speaker 1: to the Atlanta thoughts. I feel like they'll go through
Speaker 1: um at La in that first game. But I feel
Speaker 1: like the Atlanta file because they're a tricky team, man,
Speaker 1: because I feel like they have a lot of momentum
Speaker 1: coming into this year. I think I finished a year
Speaker 1: pretty well, if I'm not mistaken. Last season, even though
Speaker 1: they didn't make the playoffs, feel like they won the
Speaker 1: last couple of games. But they got mighty ice there.
Speaker 1: They got Julio Jones. They got a newly acquired Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley in the backfield, and he's had success in things
Speaker 1: Cowboy defenses in the past. So we shall see. But
Speaker 1: that's a conflicting game for me. I got them winning it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not quite sure about it. But the rest
Speaker 1: of them, I feel like they should easily mop up
Speaker 1: those last two games. But the conflicting one. Oh and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm mistaken. Oh no, no, they will not
Speaker 1: be to Seattle Sehawk. So the first the first that
Speaker 1: got him more, I got him going maybe three and
Speaker 1: one or two and two. Yeah, I'm a three and
Speaker 1: one you had me confused church, which with the church?
Speaker 1: You had me confused with the with the Seahawks and
Speaker 1: mop them up. I was, I was, I was questioning
Speaker 1: your no. I see, I mean I believe they beat
Speaker 1: the Rams. I'm not even sure like what the Rams
Speaker 1: are right now. They don't have cooks, they don't have girly,
Speaker 1: they still have golf. So I think we go out
Speaker 1: there and we get get a dub. The Falcons, I
Speaker 1: think we get the win just because they are such
Speaker 1: an iffy team. They have so much talent. They kind
Speaker 1: of remind me of us, the old US. We have
Speaker 1: talent on the roster, but we aren't able to get
Speaker 1: those wins. So I think with the new regime coming in,
Speaker 1: I think we go out there and we beat the
Speaker 1: Falcons the red skin, I mean the Seahawks. I think
Speaker 1: that is kind of up in the air. If it's
Speaker 1: only fifteen or twenty percent capacity allowed in the stadium,
Speaker 1: I think we have a better chance of winning because
Speaker 1: that twelve man is a real thing, So that just depends.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna chalk that up as an l And
Speaker 1: we go out there and we beat LSU North. So
Speaker 1: I got us going three and one. Okay, So three
Speaker 1: and one for Church and mcraig to start the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the schedule. Right, Let's look at the second
Speaker 1: part of the Chris gored and throw that up on
Speaker 1: the screen. There, Chris Bean who helps us out and
Speaker 1: makes this whole podcast go. We appreciate Chris, all right.
Speaker 1: So the second part is an October eleventh game against
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. Joe Judge is a new
Speaker 1: head coach there, Jason Garrett the offensive coordinator. Mark Columbo's
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach. So it is a game against
Speaker 1: the Giants. Then it's Monday night football as Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: of Alan High School comes back to Jerry World to
Speaker 1: take on the Cowboys. Then it is a game at
Speaker 1: Washington and FedEx Field to take on that at that
Speaker 1: sad outfit. And then it is a Sunday night football
Speaker 1: game at Philadelphia. All right, So Church, start with me here,
Speaker 1: give me the wins and losses for this quarter part
Speaker 1: of the schedule. You guys might think I'm crazy for this,
Speaker 1: but for this quarter in the schedule, I'm gonna go too.
Speaker 1: And two I'm gonna go when they play New York.
Speaker 1: I know New York's coming down here, and I know
Speaker 1: they had all this success against New York, but I
Speaker 1: feel like New York might be a little a little
Speaker 1: name some juice to him. I feel like Garrett going
Speaker 1: up there, coming down to Jerry World for the first
Speaker 1: time with the New York Colors on, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get a little bit of juice to them, and
Speaker 1: I think they might steal one over in Jerry World. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like they'll easily mop up Arizona. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a younger team. Yeah, they got DeAndre Hopkins, but
Speaker 1: I don't think that jail right there that early in
Speaker 1: the season will will click. So I think they'll get
Speaker 1: rid of them pretty quickly. The Washington Redskins, like like
Speaker 1: Danny's Ethel like they'll they'll mop them up as well.
Speaker 1: But the Philadelphia Eagles, that'll be an intriguing matchup right there.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure it was that Home or a
Speaker 1: Way is a away game on Sunday night, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: away game. So I feel like Phili will take that
Speaker 1: one away. Um, they got all their their weapons back offensively,
Speaker 1: if everybody's healthy, Plus they added some speed on the outside.
Speaker 1: Plus they've had the Cowboys number here this last year,
Speaker 1: So I feel like Philly will take that one and
Speaker 1: get leaving the Cowboys two and two after the second quarter.
Speaker 1: All right, McCray, Yeah, I'm I think will beat the Giants.
Speaker 1: I do think that it will be one of those, uh,
Speaker 1: those offensive games whereas it's scoring whoever's the last person
Speaker 1: to score wins. They scoring fifty fifty five points because
Speaker 1: I think j G has has it on his mind
Speaker 1: that he has Danny Domes and say Quan to work
Speaker 1: with it. He's gonna come out and try to prove
Speaker 1: a point. But I think we still get that the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: For me, man like history for me playing against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals when I'm with the Cowboys is it's always super
Speaker 1: tough and we never never know how it's going in.
Speaker 1: So just just for that reason, I'm saying that they
Speaker 1: come to town and and we lose that one. We
Speaker 1: lose that one, and then we finish off the two
Speaker 1: division games with the win. So it's another three and
Speaker 1: one start for me in the second quarter of the season. Okay,
Speaker 1: So at the halfway mark, Church, you got the Cowboys
Speaker 1: at five and three. Craig, You've got the Cowboys at
Speaker 1: six and two. Let's go to the poor third quarter
Speaker 1: of the schedule here, which starts November eighth against Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then it is a game
Speaker 1: on the road against Minnesota. Remember last year it was
Speaker 1: a Sunday night game in which Kirk Cousins and company
Speaker 1: came into Jerry World and ended up getting the win.
Speaker 1: That's what table and Austin had the fair catch at
Speaker 1: the end that we all question, which led to the
Speaker 1: demise of Keith though Quinn's special teams coach. Then it's
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving Day game Washington comes to Arlington. And then
Speaker 1: it's a December third game against MVP Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens and Earl Thomas in Baltimore. So Church
Speaker 1: run it down. How do you see this quadrant? As
Speaker 1: the Cowboys started Pittsburgh, it ended up in Earl Thomas's town.
Speaker 1: To me, this is going to be the hardest stretch
Speaker 1: of the season by far from the Cowboys. I mean
Speaker 1: they got a stretch right there which would have teams
Speaker 1: that are experience have made the playoffs. How those Steelers
Speaker 1: missed it last year, but they didn't have Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: He's coming back fully healthy. They have to get you
Speaker 1: just miss smooth Schuster on the rights track because last
Speaker 1: year he kind of dropped off. But I feel like
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna have an impressive defense and they're
Speaker 1: gonna bring an offense that I'm not quite sure our
Speaker 1: defense can handle. So I'm gonna give Pittsburgh to win
Speaker 1: on that one. Ken Folk Cousin, you know Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: over there in Minnesota, we gotta go up there as well.
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing a victory there either. I feel like
Speaker 1: he definitely had our number last year, as he performed
Speaker 1: pretty well when he came down here, So that's going
Speaker 1: up there. I don't see us getting that win at all.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're too balanced of a team for us,
Speaker 1: So I'll give us an l on that one. Um Washington, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that'll be a rap. That'll be a deve
Speaker 1: for us. And I believe that last game was that
Speaker 1: against Philly. It's Baltimore at Baltimore. On the symbol Baltimore
Speaker 1: at Baltimore. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a Thursday night and
Speaker 1: that Thursday night game, primetime game. You got the former
Speaker 1: m v P Lamar Jackson right there. I just don't
Speaker 1: think our defense can handle him. I think it's kind
Speaker 1: of a that might be kind of a blowout on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. But I'm gonna go Baltimore there as well.
Speaker 1: So that's this third quarter. I'm gonna give the Cowboys
Speaker 1: a one in three, all right, Church, And you want
Speaker 1: to make sure I stretched this out, stressed this into
Speaker 1: all of the Cowboys fans right now here on Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com. That Thursday night game against Baltimore is
Speaker 1: a week after the Thursday game against the against UM
Speaker 1: Washington at home, so it's not a short week. So
Speaker 1: it's a full it's a full week. It's Thursday, and
Speaker 1: then they play another Thursday. All right, Church, you go ahead,
Speaker 1: give me your your your rundown here for Pittsburgh at
Speaker 1: Minnesota Thanksgiving Day against Washington and then on the road
Speaker 1: at you Manuel Thomas's ten. Listen, I'm going to say
Speaker 1: this season that we beat distillers. Distillers are coming in.
Speaker 1: All they have is juju. I think we get that.
Speaker 1: Dub McCarthy shows that he can be the top tier team.
Speaker 1: We lose against the Vikings. Uh, you know the way
Speaker 1: that week we came out last last season. They played
Speaker 1: defense on us, they ran the ball until I see
Speaker 1: something different. I think the Vikings still have the upper
Speaker 1: hand on us. We beat the Redskins, and I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're being honest with yourself, playing the Ravens and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, if they anything close to what they were
Speaker 1: last year, we will have a tough time beating them.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give us the l on that one
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, So Dan, you gotta win against Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and what do you have against Minnesota here? Again, I
Speaker 1: gotta I got a loss against Minnesota, and then I
Speaker 1: have a win against the Redskins, and I have a
Speaker 1: loss against the Ravens, putting us at two and two. Okay,
Speaker 1: two and two? So all right, Chris put up the
Speaker 1: final part of the schedule here. It is a return
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati for Andy Dalton. Then it is a Sunday
Speaker 1: night football game against the San Francisco forty nine ers
Speaker 1: who come to Arlington. Then it is a home game
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia two days after Christmas. And then it is
Speaker 1: the season finale January third, in New Jersey against the
Speaker 1: New York Football Giants. All right, Barry Church, give me it.
Speaker 1: Give me your take here these last four games, U're
Speaker 1: kind of tricky, but I'm gonna I'm gonna give a
Speaker 1: shot out of a shot at it here real quick.
Speaker 1: Um at the Bengals, like you said, December thirteenth, that's
Speaker 1: a Newton game. I think the Cowboys will be ready
Speaker 1: to get up and play there easily. Um. I think
Speaker 1: they take Joe Burrow and the Bengals down pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: So I'll give them a win right there. Uh, San Francisco,
Speaker 1: they don't have to make the trip out west, so
Speaker 1: that's an advantage of San Francisco has to come here.
Speaker 1: And it's a night game. It's a night game, and
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys played well on prime time. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them the dub against San Francisco right there,
Speaker 1: um and gets Philly December twenty seven, three twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's here in Cowboys Stadium, so earlier I gave Philadelphia
Speaker 1: the win. I feel like they've they've thought they normally
Speaker 1: split the series here and there um during the season,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna give them a split series here and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give the Cowboys to win. And then that
Speaker 1: last game against New York with them going up to
Speaker 1: New York and going against Garrett and those boys up there.
Speaker 1: I feel like they'll win that one as well. So
Speaker 1: I got them going undefeated through this last watch these
Speaker 1: four games and in the season four and though okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, okay, I'm close. I'm close on that
Speaker 1: one I got. I got us getting to win against
Speaker 1: the Bengals. But I think it'll be a tougher game
Speaker 1: than we expect. They do have some offensive firepower there.
Speaker 1: It is a twelve game. I think at this point
Speaker 1: of the season, we're rolling a little bit, so we
Speaker 1: gotta gotta fight that urge to let our let off
Speaker 1: the pedal against a team that we believe is a
Speaker 1: little a little lorder than us. But we still get
Speaker 1: to win. I think we get a win against the
Speaker 1: forty nine US tough game. I don't trust Jimmy g
Speaker 1: so I think we should we should beat them. I
Speaker 1: think it's a tight race at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: So that Eagles game is very important for us. So
Speaker 1: we go out there and we handle business and we
Speaker 1: take a game off against we take a game off
Speaker 1: against the Giants, because we got it all wrapped up.
Speaker 1: We got our seat and everything locked in, so we
Speaker 1: rest some of our players so we can get ready
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. So that's ill, but that's you know,
Speaker 1: only because of the circumstances. So three and one yea,
Speaker 1: all right, So gentlemen, looking at what you have, Church,
Speaker 1: do you like this record you got? You got a
Speaker 1: tenant six mark for the Cowboys and h Gray, you've
Speaker 1: got the Cowboys going eleven in five. Yeah. The schedule,
Speaker 1: the schedule says that, man. And of course all this
Speaker 1: is based on what we believe the teams are, how
Speaker 1: they played last year, because we no one can know
Speaker 1: how how they will be this year. But looking at
Speaker 1: the schedule and the teams that we have on there
Speaker 1: and how they performed last year, if they just get
Speaker 1: a little bit better, I still think that we have
Speaker 1: a chance to run this schedule pretty pretty nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: John Clayton, Hall of Fame, NFL writer, he writes from
Speaker 1: Washington Post. He's written down the teams. The five teams
Speaker 1: have the easy schedules in the NFL, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are one of those five teams. So you've got the
Speaker 1: Cowboys eleven and five or Gray Church, you got him
Speaker 1: tenant six. This will get them in the playoffs. Here's
Speaker 1: the question. Does this win the NFC each for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys In your opinion, Dan, Yes, Yes, I don't. I
Speaker 1: really I don't know how good the Eagles are going
Speaker 1: to be. They are a question mark. But I don't
Speaker 1: believe that the Giants and the Redskins are are going
Speaker 1: to be in competition for the division crown. So I
Speaker 1: really think it's just between us and the Eagles and
Speaker 1: we sweep them. So I believe that that we win
Speaker 1: a division this year. Church, Yeah, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: agree with McCray on this one. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: go with the Cowboys winning the division. Usually it's it's
Speaker 1: between Philadelphia and Dallas to win this division. They go
Speaker 1: back and forth. I think Washington they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit better than they were last years, as well
Speaker 1: as the New York Giants, but I just don't think
Speaker 1: they're there yet to compete for this division division titles.
Speaker 1: So I think it'll come down to the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys. I think they'll put that series. But overall,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a better record because the Eagles have
Speaker 1: a tougher record, being as they want a division last year,
Speaker 1: so I gotta give it to the Cowboys, and I
Speaker 1: think they'll make the playoffs this year. All right. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys with five prime time games this year. They
Speaker 1: will play Monday night, that's a that's against Arizona. They
Speaker 1: got three Sunday night football games that They've got, that
Speaker 1: Thursday night game in December, December third against the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: and of course we know they got the annual Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day games. So a lot of Cowboys on your television screen.
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy has joined the Cowboys son a one year deal,
Speaker 1: and Gerald McCoy had an interesting take on opening up
Speaker 1: the season against the Los Angeles Brands his Gerald McCoy
Speaker 1: last night on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Yeah, those divisional
Speaker 1: games are huge and what the home or away. You
Speaker 1: always want to do your best to win those divisional games.
Speaker 1: And like you said, that's when you get into We're
Speaker 1: getting into those games where you're getting into the meat
Speaker 1: of the schedule and it's around you know, like mister
Speaker 1: Jones said in November December is when people are playing
Speaker 1: the best football. But you really start to figure out
Speaker 1: who you are after week seven. In the week eight,
Speaker 1: then you kind of start to see who's really who
Speaker 1: and teams start to develop into who they really are.
Speaker 1: You know, you have those first three four weeks where
Speaker 1: people might be like, oh, well this team is going
Speaker 1: directly to the super Bowl, and then as the season
Speaker 1: stretches out, it's like, well, they not really. So when
Speaker 1: we start playing those division games, we'll start getting into
Speaker 1: the point to where people will really start seeing who
Speaker 1: we are and we'll start figuring out who we are.
Speaker 1: And there's no better teams to play than your division
Speaker 1: games when you start to get to that point in
Speaker 1: the season. Okay, that was some really good stuff because
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Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy, Tyrone Crawford, and Hall of Fame with Jerry
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Speaker 1: want to take a break right now when we come back.
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Speaker 1: go ahead and channel my inner Danny McCray and ask
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Speaker 1: about with what's going on with the schedule here. Also
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Speaker 1: to the players Love A lot goes with getting to
Speaker 1: be a part of the team, whether it's from a
Speaker 1: player perspective or any member of the team. We're gonna
Speaker 1: all have a memory, Jarl is all the players are coaches,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to have a memory of having played
Speaker 1: that first regular season game against the Los Angeles RAYN
Speaker 1: team that stepped out there and they entertainment capital of
Speaker 1: the world in that iconic stadium, and your Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: are coming out there to show up on center sting.
Speaker 1: So I see it. I feel it feels like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys really to get to be out there and be
Speaker 1: in that gorgeous new stadium. On a personal basis, I
Speaker 1: was born almost where that stadium sits. I was born
Speaker 1: in Englewood, right off the end of the runway, and
Speaker 1: I have a lot of my cousins and second, first, second,
Speaker 1: third cousins out there, and it'd been an exciting time
Speaker 1: to go back out there and take these down as
Speaker 1: Cowboys and put it on those Los Angeles rams. But
Speaker 1: it's a big night. I was having my fingers crossed
Speaker 1: that we'd get a chance to open that stadium against
Speaker 1: the win. All right, that is Hall of Fame owner
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones was born in El Segundo, California, and Jerry
Speaker 1: was given the key to the city before the Cowboys
Speaker 1: ended up playing Super Bowl twenty seven at the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was the first Super Bowl won by Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Johnson. So he gets to take the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles to open up the new stadium that
Speaker 1: he and stand Crunky helped get done. Jerry's very inteable
Speaker 1: part of helping get football in Los Angeles and Danny
Speaker 1: and Berry not sure if you know this. And Jerry
Speaker 1: said this last year on one or five three the
Speaker 1: fan the Cowboys to put a radio home, that the
Speaker 1: NFL came to him and asked him if he would
Speaker 1: be willing to sell the Cowboys and they would give
Speaker 1: Jerry the Los Angeles market and send Jerry on out
Speaker 1: there to just really get LA going. Jerry said no,
Speaker 1: but he would be helpful in terms of helping the
Speaker 1: NFL get back to Los Angeles. McCray, what do you
Speaker 1: think about that? Jerry could have been the owner of
Speaker 1: whatever LA team and running I think old by himself,
Speaker 1: but he decided to stay with the Cowboys. First of all,
Speaker 1: one Jerry loves the Cowboys. It's like one of his children.
Speaker 1: He will I don't believe he will ever let it go.
Speaker 1: So I mean I know that they I know they
Speaker 1: had to know that they were reaching when they asked,
Speaker 1: and that he would probably say no. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you just gotta give it a shot. So think that
Speaker 1: Jerry also knows that when there's something this big going
Speaker 1: on in the NFL, the Cowboys are gonna be a
Speaker 1: part of it. When you opening up a stadium in LA.
Speaker 1: His fingers were crossed the he but he knew in
Speaker 1: the back of his mind that we would be the
Speaker 1: first team up to open up the stadium because you
Speaker 1: want to get as much attention and notoriety on it
Speaker 1: as possible. So he's he's accustomed to doing things like this.
Speaker 1: Even though he had his fingers crossed. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: already knew that it was it was. It was in
Speaker 1: the works. Church your thoughts, Jerry Jones. It could have
Speaker 1: been the owner of an NFL franchise in LA and
Speaker 1: would have sold the Cowboys. Yeah, he made the right decision.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta agree with McCray on this one.
Speaker 1: Like he said, he pretty much you know, raised the
Speaker 1: Cowboys franchise into this multi billion dollar empire. That's the
Speaker 1: face of the NFL right now. And and like he said,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have their fingers and everything when it comes
Speaker 1: to the NFL. So we pretty much knew that if
Speaker 1: the La Rams were opening up a stadium to get
Speaker 1: the if the seats are filled, if we can fill
Speaker 1: the seats him with this whole COVID night thing, the
Speaker 1: team going thing going around, if they can feel the seats,
Speaker 1: the only team that would be able to do that
Speaker 1: would be the Dallas Cowboys. So, like mcrai said, in
Speaker 1: the back of his mind, he knew that we were
Speaker 1: gonna be able to in that first opening game. But
Speaker 1: like I said, he made the right decision. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are multi billion dollar empire now. And he's the
Speaker 1: main reason that the um they're that beneficial. All right,
Speaker 1: Barry staying right there, And this is something that I
Speaker 1: get from Danny mc craig is Danny. Danny's our big
Speaker 1: time realists here. We don't know what's gonna happen right
Speaker 1: now with the NFL, and we're putting out the schedule like, hey,
Speaker 1: everything is all good. We don't even know if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna be able to go out to auction
Speaker 1: our California for training King because right now the governor California,
Speaker 1: Gavin Gavin Newsom, has that stayed on lockdown. So who
Speaker 1: knows what's going to happen in terms of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: being able to even play in Los Angeles. And if
Speaker 1: they do, maybe it's fun and no fans, but but
Speaker 1: who knows right now? Where your thoughts on that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean who knows. Like you said, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: right now, we're in the time that we don't even
Speaker 1: know anything about, and we never experienced such a such
Speaker 1: a pandemic like this, and for the NFL to you know,
Speaker 1: they're trying to keep give people hope that you know,
Speaker 1: the season's gonna start, We're gonna gonna put our fans
Speaker 1: in there and all that good stuff. But like you said,
Speaker 1: we just don't know. We don't know how fastest thing
Speaker 1: can spread again if we get masses together, or how
Speaker 1: fast we can get a vaccine for it. So we
Speaker 1: just don't know. And I think it would be it
Speaker 1: would be a bad bad news if if there was
Speaker 1: no football for the American public throughout the season. I
Speaker 1: mean that that would be pretty bad. McCray, Yeah, same here.
Speaker 1: I think it would be really bad, especially since that
Speaker 1: means that we've gone that long without having any other
Speaker 1: sports besides UFC putting on a few fights. I think
Speaker 1: people will be going crazy about then bed and fantasy football,
Speaker 1: everything that it's around the NFL season not taking place
Speaker 1: or have people going a little crazy. Um yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: and then with the with the pandemic going on, I
Speaker 1: just at this point, we don't know. I mean, the
Speaker 1: NFL has to do, you know, business as usual. They
Speaker 1: have to to plan like they're still going to be
Speaker 1: able to play, so it would be irresponsible for them
Speaker 1: not to have a schedule. But I did hear something
Speaker 1: about them having a contingency plan with if you don't
Speaker 1: play a game in week one, then you'll play that
Speaker 1: game in week eighteen, and then week two, if you
Speaker 1: don't have a game, you'll play that game in week
Speaker 1: nineteen and so on. So I mean it's it's good
Speaker 1: to hear that they have a plan and the season
Speaker 1: will still be able to play out even if it's delayed.
Speaker 1: So everybody's fingers across man. But like like Neuis said,
Speaker 1: if you're being real about it until we really see
Speaker 1: a drastic change and how this pandemic is affecting us.
Speaker 1: My hopes are our modest at best. To me, it's
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting to see you, particularly by
Speaker 1: the time we get to September. What states are in?
Speaker 1: What states aren't. Let me just throw this scenario out here,
Speaker 1: and Danny, I'll start with you. What if California is
Speaker 1: not going to allow football to happen and other states
Speaker 1: are you could you see the NFL going to stand
Speaker 1: crockey and saying, all right, Stan, move your game from
Speaker 1: Los Angeles to Dallas to start the season. Your thoughts on,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah, most definitely. Yeah. I don't think
Speaker 1: they will let one state hold them back if you
Speaker 1: have another option, right, If you can't play in LA,
Speaker 1: then play in Texas. This is football. You say, we
Speaker 1: play wherever. They'll let us play. Like Bruce Arians, you
Speaker 1: lie them up, put them on the field, and we'll
Speaker 1: play them. It doesn't matter what stadium, what arena we're in,
Speaker 1: We'll play football. So I mean, yeah, if California don't
Speaker 1: want to play, bring him to Texas. We know we'll
Speaker 1: let them in Church. Let me throw this out here
Speaker 1: to you, just looking at the schedule the first three
Speaker 1: games for the Cowboys. Okay, so it's at Los Angeles
Speaker 1: home against Atlanta, and then it's at Seattle. We've seen
Speaker 1: California and Washington hit hard by COVID nineteen. I remember
Speaker 1: when the Rangers and the Seattle Mariners was supposed to
Speaker 1: face each other to start the Major League Baseball season
Speaker 1: and their governor ended up she ended up shutting down
Speaker 1: all activities in Washington. So what about the possibility that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys first three games, two of which are being
Speaker 1: one in California and one in Washington, one in Washington,
Speaker 1: could be games they don't play if those states do
Speaker 1: not open up. Your thoughts, Yeah, if those states do
Speaker 1: not open up, that'll be, like, like mcfrai said, that'll
Speaker 1: be extremely tricky. I mean, like I said, this is
Speaker 1: a Marquis franchise that you know, the NFL kind of hair,
Speaker 1: has their backs and they want to they want to
Speaker 1: see them on the field and want to see their
Speaker 1: their product on the field. But if this COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: thing is still going around, with California and with Washington
Speaker 1: being hit so hard, I can see them saying, you know,
Speaker 1: those games aren't being taken they're not going to be
Speaker 1: taken out there, so they might flip them and have
Speaker 1: them and Cowboys starting, you know, three straight home games.
Speaker 1: I could see that happening as well. But I just
Speaker 1: think there's so much money out there for the NFL
Speaker 1: as as an organization and for these franchises that I
Speaker 1: can see them playing games. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: it'll be in front of people or if we'll just
Speaker 1: have to go all to where states are allowing these
Speaker 1: these things. If he played, but that's just a lot
Speaker 1: of money out there to lose. If if this pandemic
Speaker 1: is a continuing I'll tell you what. One positive about
Speaker 1: this is that, uh, you know, the NFL stadiums will
Speaker 1: be open, so you won't run into an issue of
Speaker 1: there's a concert plan, so you won't be able to
Speaker 1: adjust and have the home team be the away team
Speaker 1: or away team be the home team because the venue
Speaker 1: is already put these these venues should be open, and
Speaker 1: they should be able to adjust to have a home
Speaker 1: team becoming away team if they need to in order
Speaker 1: to play the game. This is the players lounge on
Speaker 1: a Friday. I knew he scrugs on time. Cowboys reporter
Speaker 1: Danny mccraigberry Church joined me every Friday the former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys defensive backs. Let's talk about quarterback Andy Dalton. So
Speaker 1: we did our show on Friday. Andy was not signed.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys end up getting him on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: He gets three million dollars up to seven million dollars
Speaker 1: based on incentives. I have seen a whole lot of
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Watch his entire career at TCU, which ended
Speaker 1: with a Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin. He also played
Speaker 1: against Kellen Moore twice during his TCU career when Kellen
Speaker 1: was a quarterback in boys and State. They were both
Speaker 1: in the Mountain West Conference together. I'm gonna start with you,
Speaker 1: Danny mccrage, your thoughts on Andy Dalton coming in here
Speaker 1: as a backup quarter and you know right now, I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still pushing this July fifteen to see if
Speaker 1: if he's actually going to be the backup quarterback, is
Speaker 1: that gonna show up? And then Jerry and them have
Speaker 1: to be looking at this offense and saying, all right,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is not Matt Castle a right, He's better
Speaker 1: than that with the weapons that we have around him
Speaker 1: on the offense, if we have to put him into play.
Speaker 1: I believe he could still win us some games. So
Speaker 1: I mean Andy Dalton as a competitor and a nine
Speaker 1: year starter has to be thinking the same way to
Speaker 1: some extent. Now, him being a backup, I think that's
Speaker 1: great because if you if you're starting caliber, you should
Speaker 1: be able to back up a guy when you get
Speaker 1: on the field. So I still think it's a great move.
Speaker 1: I think it puts a little pressure on this contract
Speaker 1: situation with Dak as well. For me, I think it
Speaker 1: was an extremely smart move by the Cowboys as as
Speaker 1: an organization. I think on both fronts and some smart move.
Speaker 1: For one, you haven't experienced quarterback that can go in
Speaker 1: there and if anything happens to Dad, you know, he
Speaker 1: gets hurt or anything like that, he can step in
Speaker 1: there and play. He can help, you know, mold dass
Speaker 1: game and show him how he's experienced and pretty much
Speaker 1: be that backup quarterback that we needed we never had
Speaker 1: in the past. And on the other front, on the
Speaker 1: contract situation, if you know that's trying to hold out
Speaker 1: and doesn't want to play and we've starting game, we
Speaker 1: haven't experienced quarterback back there that with all these weapons
Speaker 1: around him, should be able to produce on a fairly
Speaker 1: high level. So I think it's a extremely great move
Speaker 1: on both both behalfs and hopefully it works out for
Speaker 1: the season all right. Andy Dalton has won seventy games
Speaker 1: and nine seasons in the National Football League. He took
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to the playoffs five times. He's a three time
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. One thing that I know from reading my
Speaker 1: social media, there's some Cowboy fans that aren't really familiar
Speaker 1: with how the Jones family has dealt with backup quarterbacks
Speaker 1: during their tenures since buying the team in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 1: They've always had good backup quarterbacks. I go back to
Speaker 1: Steve Burline when Jimmy Johnson was the head coach of
Speaker 1: Steve Burline helped the Cowboys win some games and going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. They ended up winning that Bears game
Speaker 1: before they ended up losing to the Lines, and Steve
Speaker 1: Burline started those two playoff games for them. Bernie Kosar
Speaker 1: was cut by Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns. Jimmy
Speaker 1: picked up Bernie. Bernie came in to the NFC Championship
Speaker 1: game against the forty nine Ers and helped deliver a
Speaker 1: victory there as The Cowboys ended up going on to
Speaker 1: win Super Bowl twenty eighth or second win over the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Rodney Pete was a backup quarterback. Detroy Eightman
Speaker 1: random cutting hand was here's a backup back. We saw
Speaker 1: Kyle Orton backing up Tony Romo. We saw John kitting
Speaker 1: A backing up Tony Romo. So Andy Dalton falls in
Speaker 1: line and what the Cowboys have always trying to do
Speaker 1: if they found a capable backup player, a guy who's
Speaker 1: been a starter. It's almost been a pit stop for guys.
Speaker 1: Because Berlin ended up leaving the Cowboys and going to
Speaker 1: play again. We saw that with Bernie Kozar, we saw
Speaker 1: we've seen it with other dudes. Andy says, hey, how
Speaker 1: they reevaluate my career here for the season, get some
Speaker 1: work with Mike McCarthy, and he hopes to get back
Speaker 1: on the market next year and become a starter. So
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have made a pretty good move here,
Speaker 1: And I also, Dany I would think this is I
Speaker 1: don't think this is a negotiating issue at all. I
Speaker 1: think this is the Cowboys doing what they've always done.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like this has any type of effect
Speaker 1: on the negotiations with Dak Mussen. Yeah, any type type
Speaker 1: of at all. You ain't saying nothing. You don't think
Speaker 1: it has anything to do with the contract situation. This
Speaker 1: is about years. They pretty much have agreed to money.
Speaker 1: By all reports, it's a number of years. Dak wants
Speaker 1: four years, the Cowboys want five, five or six. Now
Speaker 1: think about it. Now, you go back and just look
Speaker 1: at the deals they've signed. They got six year deal
Speaker 1: for Zekiel. Basically, the Cowboys aren't doing four year deals
Speaker 1: with anybody. Zach Martin signed for more than four years,
Speaker 1: Tak signed for more than four years, Amari Cooper was
Speaker 1: a five year deal. The Cowboys don't want to do
Speaker 1: a short deal. That's not how they do business. Dak
Speaker 1: wants to do a short deal se get back on
Speaker 1: the market. So it's not about the dollars. This is
Speaker 1: about how long deal looks. But no way that I mean,
Speaker 1: that's but newly that's that's the point. You just said
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys don't do four year deals, and Dak
Speaker 1: is wanting a four year deal. So even though it's
Speaker 1: not about the money, that's still a big part of
Speaker 1: the negotiation. So even though it's not them having to
Speaker 1: pay him more money. The guy wants a four year deal.
Speaker 1: So as you explained that, they're far off in negotiations.
Speaker 1: So I don't think they made this this move intentionally
Speaker 1: to affect the negotiations, but I think it will have
Speaker 1: an effect on how they move forward with this. I believe, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: on July buy because the day the deadline is July fifteen.
Speaker 1: On July fifteenth, there will be a deal done. I
Speaker 1: just I just noticed the Cowboys have always gotten their man.
Speaker 1: And if they got the Ezekiel Elliot deal done, because
Speaker 1: to me, that was the one time where I was
Speaker 1: really wondering if Jerry Jones and Stephen We're gonna stick
Speaker 1: to their guns where they said we're not going to
Speaker 1: reset the market, and they reset the market. Ezekiel still
Speaker 1: had years left on his deal. So if Ezekiel Elliot's
Speaker 1: getting done, you better believe Dak Prescott. But but knew it,
Speaker 1: but knew it, knew it. Remember, remember they saw what
Speaker 1: the team looked like without Ezekiel Elliott UH the year before,
Speaker 1: so they knew they didn't want to go into that.
Speaker 1: They haven't seen that with Dak. I think that this
Speaker 1: situation is just a little different, but you know you're optimistic,
Speaker 1: so July fifteenth will see. Yes, I am optimistic, very
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. I'm not buying into Danny's Danny's turned down
Speaker 1: the Naked brow. I'm going to stay positive and just
Speaker 1: also go. But history, all right, see Bay history shows
Speaker 1: that the cowboys get their guys. They always do. I mean,
Speaker 1: they always get there. They get the tank Lawrence, you know,
Speaker 1: they got the Crawfords, like you know, Hitch they let
Speaker 1: Hitchens walk out the door. I don't know about that,
Speaker 1: but I mean you're you're right, they do get their guys.
Speaker 1: But I mean, like mccrai said, if if they're a
Speaker 1: year off on negotiations, they're still pretty far off on it.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, Like you guys said, we shall see
Speaker 1: July fifteen today. But my question is, if he doesn't
Speaker 1: sign by the fifteen, does he show up to camp.
Speaker 1: Does he have it in them to just be like nah,
Speaker 1: I ain't showing a period that will play. I mean,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, you're still going to get thirty one
Speaker 1: million dots. Okay. I don't think the truth man, Joe,
Speaker 1: because it keep in mind by the fifteenth that there's
Speaker 1: not a deal done, they can't do a long term deal,
Speaker 1: so it has to get done by July fifteen. So
Speaker 1: come July fifteen, if there is no deal that's agree to,
Speaker 1: then it is a one your contract for thirty one
Speaker 1: million dollars. So that that that's just how it's going
Speaker 1: to be. And Lord knows, as a quarterback you can't
Speaker 1: just sit out, and with all this talent around here,
Speaker 1: if he sits out, he's just gonna drive his own
Speaker 1: market value down. So I don't see a I don't
Speaker 1: see him not reporting at all. Barry he Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: will quarterback the Cowboys in season. It's just the whole
Speaker 1: question market is it on a one year deal or
Speaker 1: a long term deal? And I feel like it'll be
Speaker 1: on a long term deal. I'm going with a one piece.
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going with the piece. Ye. No, no,
Speaker 1: we've been talking about this, but how when we started
Speaker 1: this show were talking about that contract they talking about
Speaker 1: they been talking about years ago. We're talking about this.
Speaker 1: You're okay, you're right, You're right now. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: by history again, okay, because history is a good barometer.
Speaker 1: What happened with Cooper went down to the end didn't man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not to say Cooper was here for
Speaker 1: Cooper was here for one year. Let let me finish.
Speaker 1: Let me finish now, all right, all right, my man?
Speaker 1: Fa what was zeke? Ellie? What'd that? Dude went down
Speaker 1: to the end, didn't pretty much went down to the end.
Speaker 1: We take Lawrence pretty much went down to the end.
Speaker 1: This is kind of how they do business here. Zack
Speaker 1: Martin even held out. Okay, he decided not to show
Speaker 1: up to the OTA. I mean, they had to get
Speaker 1: that deal done. So this is kind of in line
Speaker 1: with what we've seen here. Luckily, and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, they get the guy they want. When
Speaker 1: they say they want you, they don't let you go.
Speaker 1: I knew he take take take Lawrence out of it
Speaker 1: because he played on the franchise tag, all right, so
Speaker 1: he was you gotta take him out. They got him,
Speaker 1: but he was franchise tag, so so that don't count them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Cooper was here for one year and he was about
Speaker 1: to leave. They had to do it because it was
Speaker 1: no it was no franchise tag for him. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the law took who Yes, it was the second way
Speaker 1: he was like said I'm not doing this again. I'm
Speaker 1: not doing I mean, you know that's the other way.
Speaker 1: My history there is pretty pretty decent um. We got
Speaker 1: to take another break here. We My gosh, it's forty
Speaker 1: minutes after. We are just chewing up so much time.
Speaker 1: I still have a whole bunch of topics that I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to yet. There's one signing that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: made that I don't think people are talking about enough,
Speaker 1: that they do enough to help out this defense, and
Speaker 1: an issue that all three of us have talked about
Speaker 1: off the year. We want to bring it to the
Speaker 1: air and chatted up here. So this is a lot.
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Speaker 1: doing we scruggs long time Cowboys reported joined by former
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys players Danny McCray and Barry Church. All right, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: A signing that I don't think people are talking about enough,
Speaker 1: which I believe is very important. That is Cam Irving
Speaker 1: coming on on a one year deal to be the
Speaker 1: swing tackle for the Cowboys. He late with the Chiefs
Speaker 1: last year. Chief says we know won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns, had a tenure
Speaker 1: there that did not did not live up to the building.
Speaker 1: But I believe this is big. Cam Fleming ended up
Speaker 1: leaving to go to the New York Giants. Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: has missed three games the last four seasons, if we
Speaker 1: know he's going to miss time, and then last year
Speaker 1: that Jets game, Tyran was out, but we also saw
Speaker 1: Lel Collegs missed that game as well. So to me,
Speaker 1: I think Cam Irving is a signing that matters. Church.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I agree with you on that one. I
Speaker 1: think this is just as important as the Andy Dalton signing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to have a quality backup at
Speaker 1: an important position. And as we've seen, like you said,
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith, Pie's misstime with his back and injuries like that,
Speaker 1: and we've seen Lyle Collins have injuries and throughout this
Speaker 1: throughout the last season. So to have a guy that
Speaker 1: can swing tackle between both a quality pickup of a
Speaker 1: veteran guy who's had experience out there's a he's a
Speaker 1: solid piece for this offense and you need depth pieces.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a very very solid pickup
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. Yeah. Same here. I mean in the
Speaker 1: over the past, I want to say you know, and
Speaker 1: Barry you went through it yourself. Go ahead, then, oh
Speaker 1: go go, go ahead. We moved it all right. I
Speaker 1: was to say, here, you guys both you guys have
Speaker 1: both made the Dallas Cowboys is undrafted free agents, and
Speaker 1: I was looking at the class of kids they bought,
Speaker 1: brought in here and signed and looking at the biosh,
Speaker 1: there's some pretty impressive resumes here. Do you guys see
Speaker 1: any particular player that you like? As they get ready
Speaker 1: for some of these camp battles, he say, hey, look
Speaker 1: out for that guy. And I ain't going to take
Speaker 1: credit on when Barry Church came out of Toledo, I said,
Speaker 1: there's a guy I think from that team, when Romo,
Speaker 1: when Romo came from Eastern Illinois, I had a conversation
Speaker 1: with Terrence Newman. I said, hey, I like this Romo guy.
Speaker 1: I know he was the Walter Pig player of the
Speaker 1: year and you played against him. And Terrence told me
Speaker 1: he is the Carson Palmer of small school quarterbacks, because
Speaker 1: that year Carson Palmer was a number one pick of
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals and Terrence had played for them both.
Speaker 1: So so um, go ahead, give me your guy, all right.
Speaker 1: So so so I take it. Um. My guy is
Speaker 1: a is a safety from Illinois State, Luther Kirk. He
Speaker 1: was the MVP of the of the Shrine Game. We
Speaker 1: don't have enough safeties on the roster right now. We
Speaker 1: talked about that being something that we addressed in the draft,
Speaker 1: but they waited. They waited until after the draft to
Speaker 1: address that. And I think this kid can play U.
Speaker 1: He's not the fastest, you know, he ran around him
Speaker 1: in between four or five and four to six. He's explosive,
Speaker 1: jumped to thirty nine inch vertical broad jumped ten foot
Speaker 1: six inches. He had some streams seven seventeen reps on
Speaker 1: the two twenty five. So I think he's a prototypical
Speaker 1: special teams guy for his first year, and he can
Speaker 1: learn from those two guys that are starting ahead of him,
Speaker 1: and he can be one of those developmental guys who
Speaker 1: shows up in a year or two in a starting lineup.
Speaker 1: That that was a solid pick right there. For myself,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go with Francis Bernard, the linebacker
Speaker 1: out of Utah. Now, this is a guy who he
Speaker 1: started out as his careers are running back. They went
Speaker 1: to b YU and then took off a year and
Speaker 1: then signed back with Utah and as a senior year,
Speaker 1: he led the team in tackles. He's a very quarterback
Speaker 1: of the defense type of linebacker. I mean he's not
Speaker 1: the fastest. He went to the combat. I think he
Speaker 1: ran into four sevens and whatnot, but he's extremely smart.
Speaker 1: He knows how to quarterback of defense and he knows
Speaker 1: what he's doing in past coverage. And you can never
Speaker 1: have enough linebackers back in rush the passle or that
Speaker 1: can drop back in pass counters. So we've seen with
Speaker 1: the linebackers in the past with the Cowboys, they had
Speaker 1: injury history. We've seen Lake Vandreas out for multiple games.
Speaker 1: We've seen Sean Leo for multiple games. So just to
Speaker 1: bring an up the death piece in there, like mccrai said,
Speaker 1: that can that can contribute on special teams as well
Speaker 1: as well as being a depth piece for this linebacker corps.
Speaker 1: I think he has a great chance of making the team,
Speaker 1: but like you said, you gotta put a work on
Speaker 1: the field first. I'm gonna go with two tight ends
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna watch very much. Charlie Tima payout with
Speaker 1: the Portland State. He's a pass catching tight end and
Speaker 1: then Sean McKeon is a big tight end from Michigan
Speaker 1: and he can block. Look for Charlie to see if
Speaker 1: he can work on his blocking. He was an All
Speaker 1: American at the FCS level. I just don't know if
Speaker 1: Dalton Shot, I mean Dalton Schultz is gonna end up
Speaker 1: making his team as a backup tight end. I think
Speaker 1: that we could see one of these rookie tight ends
Speaker 1: sneak in here, But Charlie Timber Payout is gonna be
Speaker 1: a guy like a whole lot here. McCraw, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we need something to go with Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: and the tight end position, as we see across the league,
Speaker 1: if you look at the Kittles of the world, is
Speaker 1: a very important position, especially if you come across a
Speaker 1: guy who's athletic enough to block and create a mismatch
Speaker 1: on out on the outside if he's going against a
Speaker 1: cornerback or on the inside when he playing against linebackers
Speaker 1: and tight ends. So I think it's a good position
Speaker 1: to watch him. Hopefully we can strike gold with with
Speaker 1: one of these guys. Church take me back to your
Speaker 1: time being an un drafted free agent. Why did you
Speaker 1: pick the Cowboys? Who else? Offered you. And also the
Speaker 1: stress of trying to make an NFL roster. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: for me, yeah, it was. It was super stressful for me,
Speaker 1: you know, because I didn't think it happened that quick
Speaker 1: after the draft. You know, I was heartbroke. I didn't
Speaker 1: get drafted or whatnot. But um, as soon as the
Speaker 1: draft was over, my agent said, hey, all right, you
Speaker 1: got basically like ten minutes to pick a team. Um,
Speaker 1: these teams that you want to pursue. So I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, I was gonna have a couple of days
Speaker 1: or something that pick a team. I wanted to do
Speaker 1: research on it, but I had to go pretty quick.
Speaker 1: And my agent told me, he's like, you know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys special teams reached out to us at the time.
Speaker 1: It was Joe D. Camillus and he was saying he
Speaker 1: liked it for your game, and that's the fastest way
Speaker 1: to make the team is through special teams, and then
Speaker 1: you might have a chance to play on defense. So
Speaker 1: I went with my agents gut feeling, and I decided
Speaker 1: to sign with the Cowboys. And I ended up being
Speaker 1: in a great situation. I had a great leadership up
Speaker 1: there with jeral Cincinmball and our coaches at the time, Brett,
Speaker 1: Maxie and Campbell were great and act accelerating my game
Speaker 1: on the field and defensively. So um I ended up
Speaker 1: picking a right situation. But it's definitely a stressful, stressful
Speaker 1: pass to take. Man, you know, you gotta make a
Speaker 1: decision extremely fast. Right after the draft, Murcraig, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be a homer here. But let me also bring up
Speaker 1: running back Darius Anderson had TCU. He has to kick
Speaker 1: returnability here. He also was a tough guy that could
Speaker 1: kind of get between those tackles as well. That's a
Speaker 1: running back and I think about where the Cowboys look
Speaker 1: if they carry for that, I can see him being
Speaker 1: maybe that third tailback kind of guy, but also a
Speaker 1: dude who plays special teams. That was how you made
Speaker 1: the Cowboys here. And I just feel like a guy
Speaker 1: who's got experienced already playing special teams in college has
Speaker 1: a little bit of an edge, especially if they do
Speaker 1: not have a full training camp in OTAs. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: because most of the time what you see from these
Speaker 1: guys coming out of college, especially the starters, is that
Speaker 1: they hadn't played special teams before. So it takes the
Speaker 1: coaches a little bit more time to get these dudes
Speaker 1: trained and developed to play these different positions and get
Speaker 1: used to these new movements. So with him being a
Speaker 1: guy who's already played special teams and already being labeled
Speaker 1: as tough and a guy who never quits and can
Speaker 1: go out there and play something like that, I think
Speaker 1: it's definitely advantaged for him when he steps on the field.
Speaker 1: Church Cam Newton unsigned, your thoughts, I was, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: much surprised right now that he's unsigned. And then I
Speaker 1: think he came out the other day with something some money.
Speaker 1: Doesn't want to be a backup quarterback or something like that.
Speaker 1: He wants to be a starter, and I know it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be hard for him to break the break
Speaker 1: any team through with being a startup. Mean, he might
Speaker 1: just have to be that backup for a year. But
Speaker 1: I was pretty surprised that he was not even you know,
Speaker 1: picked up or anything like that. But I feel like Carolina,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of did him a disservice by releasing
Speaker 1: them as late as they did. You know, guys are
Speaker 1: already in situations with their quarterbacks and everything was kind
Speaker 1: of sewed up by the time he hit the market.
Speaker 1: So I think they kind of did him a disservice.
Speaker 1: But if he wants to be that starting quarterback, he
Speaker 1: might have to wait out a year before getting back
Speaker 1: into the NFL, because I just don't see him cracking
Speaker 1: the lineup anywhere right now. Guys are kind of sewing
Speaker 1: them into their positions. So we'll see. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough if he if he doesn't want to be a backup,
Speaker 1: he might have to be out for a year, all right, Guys,
Speaker 1: We had spent our off air prep talking about the
Speaker 1: death of aman are break down in Brunswick, Georgia and Brunswick,
Speaker 1: George down there in near the Savannah area place I
Speaker 1: used to live. My dad was stationed down there when
Speaker 1: I was younger. The Players Coalition ended up making a
Speaker 1: statement today. I want to read part of what they said.
Speaker 1: Says today, the Players Coalition and Professional Athletes send a
Speaker 1: letter to Attorney General William Barr, FBI Director Christopher Ray,
Speaker 1: and Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric de Bryan,
Speaker 1: requesting an immediate federal investigation into the tragic death of
Speaker 1: vermand Auvren. Signers include Ann Kwon Bolden and Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: co founders of the Players Coalition, and other athletes and
Speaker 1: coaches across teams in leagues, such as Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots, Camp
Speaker 1: Georgian of the New Orleans Saints, Mark Ingram of the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors, and
Speaker 1: stand Band Gundi, former NBA coach and current broadcaster in
Speaker 1: Mini Moore. They requested the FBI and the Department of
Speaker 1: Justice Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division lead the
Speaker 1: investigation into this horrible shooting. The Georgia Prosecutor's delay in
Speaker 1: moving forward and arrest and grand jury investigation to move
Speaker 1: spark only a considerable amount of public activism, and the
Speaker 1: existence of numerous local conflicts means that a robust, federally
Speaker 1: led investigation is the only way to restore community trust
Speaker 1: that mister Aubrey's death will be fully investigated because on
Speaker 1: February twenty third, two white men, Travis and Greg McMichael,
Speaker 1: tragically gundown mister Aubury while he was on a job.
Speaker 1: They claimed that they were attempting to make a citizens arrest,
Speaker 1: but no credible evidence exist that mister Albury committed any crime.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until yesterday, seventy four days after Aubury was killed,
Speaker 1: that police arrested the McMichaels, the prosecutor on the case,
Speaker 1: assigned after the previous two prosecutes, rescued themselves due to
Speaker 1: the conflicts and neglected to send the case to the
Speaker 1: grand jury until after a video of the terrible incident
Speaker 1: was made public. So that's the first part of this
Speaker 1: letter for the players coalition. Gentleman, your thoughts go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 1: I think it's amazing and very concerning that it took
Speaker 1: all of that for this to happen, for them to
Speaker 1: get arrested. We saw the video, and then the first
Speaker 1: thing that goes into your mind is if if that
Speaker 1: video doesn't come out, these guys they get no attention
Speaker 1: and they possibly get away with this, which is absolutely ludicrous.
Speaker 1: I'm watching this video and this is and for me,
Speaker 1: this is probably one of the more clear versions of
Speaker 1: things that we've seen going on in the past. When
Speaker 1: you think about like something happened to Traymon Martin and
Speaker 1: some other people. This video was clear. You see everything
Speaker 1: happen on there, and I think that's where the outcry
Speaker 1: is coming from and I don't think that like this
Speaker 1: should be necessary for people to start speaking out, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad they did, and I'm glad that we finally
Speaker 1: got a little bit of justice to start from from
Speaker 1: this issue. Yeah, I know, I agree with you on that, Cray.
Speaker 1: I mean that it's it's it's kind of a frightening situation.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, Um, the guy was out
Speaker 1: for a job, and I mean, she feels your safest
Speaker 1: while you're just taking a job to them, right and
Speaker 1: broad daylight and something like this happens. I mean, it's tragic,
Speaker 1: and like you said, and I'm glad the Players Coalition,
Speaker 1: you know, they spoke out on it and and they're
Speaker 1: trying to get justice for this situation. But like you said,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a very scary and frightening, frightening world
Speaker 1: we live in now, and the situation is evidence of that.
Speaker 1: And I'll just close the letter contained more, but I'll
Speaker 1: just close the end of it here, where he says
Speaker 1: Players Coalition is dedicated to advocating for social justice and
Speaker 1: racial equality and holding those who commit injustice as accountable.
Speaker 1: The letter was sent to Attorney William Barr and signed
Speaker 1: by the following below, and it goes through through numerous
Speaker 1: players that we talked about there. So the Players Coalition
Speaker 1: had worked with NFL owners in the past and so
Speaker 1: they continue their work on this issue here. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting to see exactly where they
Speaker 1: go forward this. I saw the video as well. This
Speaker 1: is not what America is about. A person on a
Speaker 1: jog not be shot down by people. And as I said,
Speaker 1: I will be very interested to see where it goes.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you've got the
Speaker 1: NFL players as well as who all Steve Kerr, the NBA.
Speaker 1: We've got people who are who are saying, look, this
Speaker 1: is not right, and this is players using their position
Speaker 1: to try and bring light. And once again you go
Speaker 1: back to Colin Kaeperty, who is really at the forefront
Speaker 1: of trying to say, look, there are things going wrong
Speaker 1: here and bringing this to justice. So I'll be very
Speaker 1: eager to see exactly where this goes. Joy Nor question
Speaker 1: for you, dude, because because one of the most concerning
Speaker 1: things is even though that these guys have been arrested,
Speaker 1: the thing that worries me the most is I still
Speaker 1: have to sit here and think will they be convicted
Speaker 1: or will they go to jail? Or will we see
Speaker 1: an instance where we're watching on TV and they get
Speaker 1: that not guilty verdict and they're free to walk the
Speaker 1: streets again. Like, I just don't think that that we
Speaker 1: should have to think that, well, that should even be
Speaker 1: a possibility, especially when you see a video like this
Speaker 1: where everything is evident that they did everything wrong in
Speaker 1: the situation. I'll use a Bill Parcels quote. All I
Speaker 1: can go by is what I see and what we
Speaker 1: have seen with the criminal justice system tells you that
Speaker 1: you should be worried. It just is that an outcome
Speaker 1: that what you saw the video, that you think these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna go to jail and we don't know that.
Speaker 1: We don't know. I mean, that's why we have to
Speaker 1: have the trial. And what do we know? We know
Speaker 1: what we think sometimes is, hey, this is an a
Speaker 1: ab happen equals does not always happen. So I understand
Speaker 1: what you're saying, and because of history and the way
Speaker 1: things gone, is one hundred percent accurate in terms of
Speaker 1: your your thought process. All right, let's end this the
Speaker 1: way we started with the Cowboys schedule, Gentlemen, according to
Speaker 1: both of your takes on the Cowboys schedule. Dallas is
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs as NFC championship. Church, you got
Speaker 1: them going ten and six. McCray, you've got them going
Speaker 1: eleven and five under new head coach Mike McCarthy, gentleman.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's pretty ambitious considering right now they don't
Speaker 1: have you know, there's no in person OTAs and these
Speaker 1: guys aren't able to work with them. So you know,
Speaker 1: McCarthy could be under the gun depending on how much
Speaker 1: time he actually has to work with this team. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you this. So also, the Browns don't have virtual.
Speaker 1: The Giants, who have an also a coordinator don't have virtual.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have a new new star receiver who will
Speaker 1: have will only be on virtual. The Redskins are the Redskins.
Speaker 1: The Eagles didn't have receivers last year, but they drafted
Speaker 1: one who will only be doing virtual workouts. Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster is the only one. With the Steelers, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities here for us to get dubs on
Speaker 1: people who will will probably have less uh familiar familiarity
Speaker 1: with people on their team than we do. So I
Speaker 1: think that the chance is nice for us to go
Speaker 1: win that division. Okay, Soman Craig here, Mary helped me
Speaker 1: understand Danny's optimism. So Danny has this optimism about that,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have optimism that Dak Prescott's gonna get
Speaker 1: signed by Jerry Jones, who continually shown you in the
Speaker 1: past that he gets the deal's done with the guys.
Speaker 1: He wants good an here one more time doing I said,
Speaker 1: help me understand. Danny has this great optimism that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna be okay without all season workouts, but
Speaker 1: he has no faith in Jerry Jones Son and Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott to a long term game. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: understand that one as well. You're saying he has that
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott don't get his his deal done, but he
Speaker 1: asked faith that the Cowboys will come through and make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. As I was just saying, yeah, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but you said he's gonna play this year on the
Speaker 1: tag or not, so it's not like we're not gonna
Speaker 1: have that. I'm just saying that we might only have
Speaker 1: them for this year, and if we have them for
Speaker 1: this year, they better making the best year impossible. Danny mccraye.
Speaker 1: I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get me the bet, and I'm not getting bet with
Speaker 1: you again. I'm done. I'm done paying off bets because
Speaker 1: I don't like where I have to go pay off
Speaker 1: these bets. I don't like the restaurants, so I'm not
Speaker 1: making the bet. Okay, the fact, the fact that you
Speaker 1: don't want to bet, the fact that you don't want
Speaker 1: to bet, lets me know that you know that there's
Speaker 1: a possibility that I'm right. So I take that. Make
Speaker 1: the bet at the restaurant of my choice. At the
Speaker 1: restaurant choice. I ain't gonna lose the bet and pick
Speaker 1: the restaurant because I'm exactly I'm gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: for them at least eat somewhere I like, Unlike the
Speaker 1: last time that that's not what a bet is. You'
Speaker 1: supposed to do something that you don't like, that's a
Speaker 1: bit and suffer the consequences. Yes, yes see, I'm not
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. I don't have a competitive problem. I'm not gambling.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. Okay, I'm good, I'm I'm okay,
Speaker 1: I'm okay. No, listen, I'm gonna tell him not to
Speaker 1: feed you at the at the table when you sit out.
Speaker 1: You go ahead, you go ahead and try that. Good.
Speaker 1: I'll use that Thomas his wife used that hotel. Y'all all, y'all, hey,
Speaker 1: this between this, this is between us now. We don't
Speaker 1: need no questions, bro right man, Hey, fellas, it's one
Speaker 1: hour on the DIT. It's one hour on the DIT.
Speaker 1: This was fun. As always, we appreciate everybody who tunes
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