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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, April nineteenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: April Episode number five. Welcome to another edition of The

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Speaker 1: Break Live the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star

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Speaker 1: And I'm so happy and I know you guys are

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Speaker 1: so happy to have me back on the air talking

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Speaker 1: about Cowboys football. Do you feel like you still belong here? Wow?

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Speaker 1: I thought I was talking about like I come fightsty today?

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Speaker 1: So that did, Junior? Feels kind of weird. How long

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Speaker 1: did it take you to remember whatever stupid episode number

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Speaker 1: that was? Actually it took me like about five minutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had to. You're like, I think one year? What year?

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Speaker 1: Does it say? Twenty eighteen? No? But what season? What? Fourteen?

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Speaker 1: Season fourteen? Yeah? So what were your season six before

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Speaker 1: mister eighty eight got here? Oh? How many years? How

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Speaker 1: many seasons have gone by here. That would be right.

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Speaker 1: He was here eight years, so yeah, that would be right.

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Speaker 1: That was a segue, so we can get into that

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Speaker 1: the news. Thanks Nick, all right, so let's talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Is that news or the olds at this At this point,

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Speaker 1: it's the news because, as if Twitter is any judge,

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Speaker 1: if you say anything on Twitter about Dez Bryant, it

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Speaker 1: lights up, and I think that means it's still relevant.

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Speaker 1: People are still talking about it. It's one of those

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Speaker 1: people still care, but they'll be quick to say, like,

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Speaker 1: why are we still talking about that, but then they'll

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Speaker 1: go on to tweet their opinions about it, right, so,

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Speaker 1: and and to be honest with you, I think this

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Speaker 1: by a team, which we'll get into that a little

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Speaker 1: But I want to start first just kind of with

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Speaker 1: then obviously the news comes down last Friday, and the

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Speaker 1: big question I have for you guys, and it seems

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Speaker 1: like the one that's predominantly predominantly what I see that

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Speaker 1: fans are still kind of wrestling with is what was

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Speaker 1: the reason. Why was it performance? Was it money? Was

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Speaker 1: it his locker room presence? Why is does Brian no

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Speaker 1: long on the Dallas count Clearly wasn't about the money.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying just because Das did say

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Speaker 1: they did offer him. I think his agent and Dez

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Speaker 1: made it perfectly clear that don't come with that mess.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't try this when you look at the other

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Speaker 1: It wasn't very long. We will watch the arrival and departure. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just I think money is

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Speaker 1: And it's very clear that he has a I think

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Speaker 1: Well maybe not Cowboys fans, but I think that's very

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Speaker 1: perceptive on your part. I hate, I hate to plug

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Speaker 1: something that we didn't make, but I highly and and

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Speaker 1: all or nothing that's coming out. I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: very coincidental that the not it's smart, but coincidental that

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Speaker 1: wanted to say, but it's hard sometimes to say it

429
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 1: all too. But anyway, I what I kept getting from

430
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,760
Speaker 1: a lot of fans was that there was just this uh,

431
00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,439
Speaker 1: this narrative that Dez was set up to be the

432
00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,399
Speaker 1: scapegoat here that if you look at Dez and if

433
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 1: you want to say he dropped off, then you have

434
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 1: to say all the receivers dropped off, and Dak isn't

435
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 1: taken enough of the blame, and Jason Witten certainly isn't

436
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:27,359
Speaker 1: the player he used to be, so why is he

437
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,160
Speaker 1: still here? And it's just all these narratives about that

438
00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 1: that really point to the fact that this was so

439
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 1: unfair for Daz and why does versus all of these

440
00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 1: other guys. What do you guys think about that? Do

441
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 1: you think that this was a situation where where there

442
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 1: should have where other guys maybe should have been the

443
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 1: guys that will let go and you keep Daz Or

444
00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 1: do you think that Dez really was kind of the

445
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:53,280
Speaker 1: scapegoat for whatever reason? Yeah, I mean probably, but that's

446
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,640
Speaker 1: that's the way the business works. Two thousand and ten,

447
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys came off a playoff win and they went

448
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 1: one and seven to start the year. Wait Phillips gets fired,

449
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 1: White Wade Phillips only gets fired. He's the head coach,

450
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: He's the scapegoat. Offense wasn't doing well. Defense wasn't stopping anyone.

451
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 1: Somebody gets fired. All those people that you just named,

452
00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 1: they don't make sixteen million dollars or count sixteen on

453
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,959
Speaker 1: the salary cap. That's just the way that it goes.

454
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,920
Speaker 1: And he is the most volatile of him as well.

455
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,679
Speaker 1: And nobody knows what's going on. And don't let a

456
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 1: former player that played in nineteen eighty six and one four.

457
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't know what the locker room is either.

458
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 1: They know locker rooms in their day, but they don't

459
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: know this one. They don't know what Dez was causing.

460
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 1: You know, and this team, you know, this team was

461
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,360
Speaker 1: good to Deaz. Let's don't act like, let's not say

462
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,400
Speaker 1: that they weren't. They were really good to him over

463
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: the years. He had an issue, he went a wall,

464
00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: he cut himself with soup. They they did a nice

465
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,679
Speaker 1: job with him, and so you know, it wasn't the

466
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 1: first time he was cut was Friday. Okay, that's really

467
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 1: I mean that that's a really good point. And I'll

468
00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: be the first to say I think I think they

469
00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,199
Speaker 1: botched the way they did this. I just there's got

470
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: you there's because I don't know, Now do you say

471
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,480
Speaker 1: they botched it. I just we had this argument already,

472
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 1: I think, and I know, I know it's a business.

473
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 1: It's a cutthroat business. I get that, but I just

474
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: think they're there are better ways you can handle guys

475
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 1: who have been the face of your franchise, especially, and

476
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 1: you disagree with me, that's okay. I think the writing

477
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 1: has been on the wall forever that you probably weren't

478
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,160
Speaker 1: going to get anything for Dez. You've been talking about

479
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: cutting him forever. His salaries enormous, He's gonna be thirty

480
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 1: this year, and he's been declining. That's why you're talking

481
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: about getting rid of him in the first place. Who's

482
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 1: gonna give you anything for that? And so rather than

483
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: to hold out for a month hoping that you can

484
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: get a sixth round pick, I just think maybe you

485
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 1: could have done a nicer thing and been like, look,

486
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: your future's not here. Best to I mean, they did

487
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: the same DeMarcus, where's the franchise sack leader? He's gonna

488
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 1: be in the ring of honor one day. They cut

489
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: him right around the start of the league year. I

490
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 1: don't remember if it was before or after, but they

491
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he came in, they had they

492
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: hugged it out. He was in Denver three days later. Dez,

493
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,239
Speaker 1: they like, we haven't met with him, even though they

494
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,120
Speaker 1: talked about they needed to meet with him in January

495
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 1: and February and March. Like, I just I think that's

496
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: a little ridiculous, and I think there's a better way

497
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 1: they could have done it. Having said that, to Nick's point,

498
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:15,119
Speaker 1: this team spent the last ten years helping him grow

499
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: into an adult, because Lord knows he needed to help.

500
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: I mean, even as recently as twenty sixteen, the guy

501
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: disappeared for two days because he was afraid what an

502
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: MRI was going to show on his knee, Like literally

503
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: just bailed on the facility, Like didn't come to work

504
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: because he was afraid of what the doctors were going

505
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 1: to tell him. And that was at twenty eight, let

506
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: alone at twenty twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. So

507
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's there's a little bit of both sides there.

508
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,120
Speaker 1: But what you don't know is what were the things

509
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: happening behind the scenes. Were they looking at let's say,

510
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 1: for example, in this draft, Let's say that they were like,

511
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:48,880
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of think we want to make

512
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: this move, but there were a couple of people saying, hey,

513
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,439
Speaker 1: if we make these move, this move, we really believe

514
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: that we got to feel good about the fact that

515
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: we can get a receiver in this draft that we

516
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 1: think and provide this whatever this is right, whether that's

517
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: in the first round, whether that's in the second round.

518
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying any of this happened. I'm saying

519
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 1: I'm just painting the picture. What you don't know behind

520
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: the scenes is there could have been those kinds of things,

521
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: and until they had guys that they brought in that

522
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: they spend some time with, until they had a chance

523
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: to really fully evaluate the draft class, until they had

524
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe convince some people in this building

525
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: that had to sign off on it as well that

526
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: this was the right way to go. I think there

527
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that could have been happening

528
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: behind the scenes on this, and I don't think that

529
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: they owe it to a player to say we're not

530
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: going to do our due diligence just to let you

531
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,920
Speaker 1: go early. They I think they got to a point

532
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: where on that Monday was when the team was going

533
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: to show up to do workouts, you couldn't have him

534
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: on the team at that point if he was not

535
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: going to be a part of the team going forward.

536
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: And so they gave themselves all that time to kind

537
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 1: of figure out all the things they needed to figure out.

538
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: And then they got to that Friday and we're like,

539
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: we can't wait any longer. We got to go ahead,

540
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: make a decision. Here's what we're gonna do. I went

541
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: to LSU and it is a bad school. Is absolutely bad.

542
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean, we got an awesome football program. I can't

543
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: do basic math. On March twenty third, I said, Alan

544
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: Hearns is here. Now he does this, and he looks

545
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: like that. And Deonte Thompson's here too. He looks a

546
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: lot like Bryce Butler. And now they have seven receivers.

547
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: Something doesn't add up. And sure enough a month later

548
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: I was right, and so was any other dummy who

549
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: can look at the depth charge. Yeah, but if they

550
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: if they draft a receiver in this draft and they

551
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: get the guy that they've been targeting, then what you

552
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: don't know is was that a part of the equation

553
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: And they wouldn't have known. This team they don't pay

554
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: about the fact, so they went through this process. Team

555
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: pays people hundreds of thousands of dollars to go and

556
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: look at these guys all throughout the fall, and then

557
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: they kick it into high gear as soon as the

558
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: season's over. I think they probably had a good idea

559
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: that these guys were available long. That's why it's called

560
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: due diligent. Is because they had a good idea doesn't

561
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: mean that you don't take every opportunity to learn more

562
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: and do all the things you feel you can do.

563
00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: Before they wanted Sammy Watkins, they wanted, and he was

564
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: cut if they got him. Absolutely in their mind, Dez

565
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: was cut. Now I get it that you don't get

566
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: that player. You still you still think, well, maybe we

567
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 1: hold on to him, but not when they get Hearns.

568
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: They get Hearns maybe, but Hearns is not the same caliber.

569
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: I don't think, and I don't think they looked at

570
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: Herns in the same caliber as the way they looked

571
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: at Sammy Watkins. But so getting him, I don't think

572
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: that necessarily immediately said okay, this is our replacement for Dez.

573
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: I think it was more like, okay, well maybe that's

574
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: a piece, maybe that works, Maybe there's some other things

575
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: that we can do. I just don't think that that

576
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: we know everything to be able to make that to

577
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 1: be able to say that they could have cut him earlier.

578
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: You're absolutely met earlier. I mean not because it wasn't

579
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: a negotiation. They were meeting to tell him at some

580
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: point that he was going to be gone. But they

581
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: have to make sure everything was set up the right

582
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: way in order for them to make that final decision.

583
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna go with him. We don't.

584
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,960
Speaker 1: We don't have to agree. And you know, hey, a

585
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: or what do you think? They don't know him anything,

586
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: but they left, They left the Ring of Honor candidate

587
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: twisting in the wind for six weeks that they did that,

588
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: and they don't. They don't owe it to him, not

589
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: too you're right, but then don't throw C. J. Anderson

590
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: at me either, because he's not a Ring of Honor

591
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 1: candidate for the Denver Broncos. That's my only point. But

592
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: either way, Dez is gonna still come back here, is

593
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: still gonna be a ring of onund a guy, still

594
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: gonna have him on that great jacket, and he's still

595
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,719
Speaker 1: gonna you know, he's still gonna go up there and

596
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: wave at the fans and most like things. Because guess

597
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: what when when it's all said and done. Jerry kept

598
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: that relationship in Tech and I'm sure he and Desmit

599
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: still continue to be close like they've always been close.

600
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,479
Speaker 1: You're You're probably right, but it's I mean, I just

601
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: think I think they could have handled it better. But

602
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: it's over now, and they're gonna draft somebody next week

603
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 1: and it'll be a new era of Cowboys receivers and

604
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: it's whatever. And and like I said, I don't I

605
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: don't think this team is screwed without him. But my

606
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: my dumb self has known Dez is probably gonna get

607
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: cut since February. I think we all saw the writing

608
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: on the woods. Zac absolutely so, we all saw the writing.

609
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: But again, we want the ones having to make the decision,

610
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: so we don't know how complex that decision was. The

611
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: vast majority of NFL teams have this stuff figured out

612
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 1: way quicker. That's my only path. I don't know about that.

613
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: There are there are other guys that get cut, and

614
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: during this time of the year, there are guys that

615
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: will get cut. In June, there will be guys that

616
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: get cut going into training camp. There will be veterans

617
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,959
Speaker 1: that get cut. Wing training camp is done, like it happens.

618
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: That's the NFL. That's how it works. I guess these

619
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: aren't guaranteed contracts. I guess we'll just have to agree

620
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: to disagree, Darren, I don't know what else to say.

621
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: All right, let's go on. And actually you kind of

622
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: led into the next question. The next question really is

623
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: about the draft. Do you think that the Cowboys? I

624
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: guess let's look at it both ways. Do you think

625
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will? Do you think the Cowboys should draft

626
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: a wide receiver with one of their first two picks

627
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,239
Speaker 1: this next weekend in the draft. I definitely think that

628
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: they will. I don't know about that if they should,

629
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: I think if if there's some other options there, a

630
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: linebacker or a safety, if that falls into them, maybe

631
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: even guard. But I do think that they will. I

632
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: think they're gonna take a wide receiver in the first

633
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: two picks, and they brought in a bunch in the

634
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: thirty visits, and they've worked some others out, and there's

635
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: a lot of names out there. It's a pretty deep

636
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: class I think, so I do think that they will.

637
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be pick nineteen, but it needs

638
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: to happen. I think they will and they should. And

639
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: like I said, it's not for twenty eighteen, it's for

640
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: the four years beyond that, because if you take a

641
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: look down the depth chart, it's kind of scary to think, like,

642
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: none of those guys really have a concrete future here.

643
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: Hearns is on a two year deal, Thompson's on a

644
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: one year deal, Beasley's in a contract year. What Terrence

645
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: is the guaranteed portion of Terrence's contract is over starting

646
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: after this year, So the last two years of his extension.

647
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to, you could release. Yeah,

648
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: where's witness on his deal? Well, it's like changed, it's something.

649
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: I mean, he's here through twenty twenty three if he

650
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: wants to be or something like that. But so the

651
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps there, there's not much there. And Ryan

652
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: Switzer and Noah Brown, but you could cut them and

653
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: there's no ramifications for doing that. Those are miniscule contracts

654
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of the NFL. So, yeah, they

655
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Speaker 1: need a guy. It doesn't have to be nineteen, but

656
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: ninth Thursday or Friday, pick nineteen, pick fifty, pick eighty one.

657
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: I would bet I feel comfortable betting a substantial amount

658
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: of money that one of those picks will be a receiver,

659
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: all right. I think it depends. I mean, am I

660
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: thinking about the future or am I worrying about this year?

661
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: It depends on what's Garret or Stephen Joe. I don't know.

662
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: If I'm Jason Garrett, I think you always worry about

663
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,479
Speaker 1: this year. I think I think your personnel guy can

664
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: think about the future, but better if you think about

665
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: this year. Because we've seen quick turnarounds, you've also seen

666
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: quick plummets, so things change quickly in the NFL. Well,

667
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: if that's the case, if I'm focused on this year,

668
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: then honestly, wide receiver is not so much of a

669
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Speaker 1: priority to me, at least not for the first and

670
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: second round. You guys seem like you buying large. You

671
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: guys seem like you're pretty okay with what the Cowboys

672
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: have right now. If you think if they lined up tomorrow,

673
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: you feel good about where they are, wives there would

674
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: be positions that are in more trouble than that. Yep. Now,

675
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: does Alan Hearns know the offense like you want to?

676
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: If you, you know, throw that part in there, the

677
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: same it would be with a rookie, with a guy

678
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: you bring in you know, Yeah, so the same story there,

679
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think they're any worse, but they're not

680
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: any better. We haven't seen them play yet, but I

681
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: think right now they're just neither way good. That Well

682
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: said bring yeah, I mean today, And that's the point

683
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: I will, you know me, I run the risk. I

684
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: don't want to sound like a Homer. I'm not. I'm

685
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: not sitting here trying to say Alan Herns is gonna

686
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: put up twelve hundred yards. But the last time you

687
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: saw dis put up twelve hundred point well, and that's

688
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: that's part of it too. I Mean, we spend all

689
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: this time talking about how he's dropped off, so it's

690
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: not crazy. It's not crazy for me to think that

691
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns can have an eight hundred yards season if

692
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: he's healthy for sixteen games, which is what Dez was

693
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: doing in the first place. So I like, yeah, I

694
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: mean the guard spot, the safety spot, the linebacker spot,

695
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: that's where if they're playing a game tomorrow, that's where

696
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out. I'm not. I mean, wide receiver could

697
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: be better, but it's far from being the biggest problem

698
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: spot on this team. I think Dez Bryant was set

699
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: up for failure, but not not by anyone's doing. I

700
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: mean he signed the deal, but the contract he signed

701
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: and the offense that they adapted, and to get this

702
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: line and to get Zeke and to be run oriented

703
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: and have all these options, it wasn't suited for a

704
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: guy that to make sixteen million a year. He's never

705
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: going to justify those number, his numbers with the contract.

706
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: So it's it's not I mean in a setup for failure.

707
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: Sounds kind of harsh, but I'm just the reality of

708
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: it is, he can't get those numbers in this offense.

709
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: When you've got Written, you've got Beasley, you've got Terrence

710
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: on the outside, you're trying to run Zeke to the ground.

711
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just not going to happen. And then

712
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: we saw in two years it didn't happen. It was

713
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: okay when they won thirteen games, it was not okay

714
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: when they won nine. And now he's cut for it.

715
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: It's it's the same thing he wanted, was the same

716
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: thing that almost that pretty much got him cut. I

717
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: said this on the Monday Draft show I did with

718
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: Brian that I mean, when you have Tony Romo, I mean,

719
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: when you know he's capable of making those throws and

720
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: doing those types of things. A receiver makes sense to

721
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: have a seventy million dollars receiver. And we said this

722
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: way back in January. They signed Dez to a seventy

723
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: million dollars contract, thinking him in Romo had at least two,

724
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: if not three or so more years together. They played

725
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: two less than two complete games because Dez got hurt

726
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: in the season opener. They and then they played the

727
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: Miami game together half so give or take three full games.

728
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: They got three games out of that duo. Before you know,

729
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: life changed their situation. And in the narrow where your

730
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: running back cost twenty million dollars, your left tackles one

731
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: hundred million, your right guards about to be seventy million,

732
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: your center's sixty million, and your right tackle is twenty

733
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: million or whatever Lyles contract is, it doesn't make a

734
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: ton of sense to be paying a receiver seventy million dollars.

735
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: It's just it's not the way they decided to construct

736
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: this team. The resources are all invested in the running

737
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: back and offensive. It reminded me of Joey Galloway back

738
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: way back in two thousand. They traded two first round

739
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: picked for him, and like what did they do? And

740
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: I mean, and you think about it now, but they

741
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: traded him to be with Troy Aikman and EMMITTT. Smith,

742
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: and then Galloway got hurt in the first game, and

743
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: then Aikman got hurt after that, and they never really

744
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: played more than one game together, and then it didn't

745
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: look like a good trade, and he's playing with Quincy

746
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: Carter and Chad Hutchinson, and it's like, well, what a

747
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: bad trade. But it wasn't set up that way, So

748
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: you're right they You're right, Romo Dez pretty the twenty

749
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: fifteen Miami game was the only complete game that Dez

750
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: and Tony ever played together after Dez signed his extension.

751
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: It's like I said, Dez got hurt in week one,

752
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: broke his foot, Romo broke his collarbone in week two,

753
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: and then they played Miami together. Romo broke his collarbone

754
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: in the next game and never played again. And there

755
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: was a touchdown pass in that game by Romo to

756
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: Dez that was, if I remember correctly, was Let's had

757
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: two in that game, diddie. I know Terrence had one.

758
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't think Charrens had one. Dez had one, but

759
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: it was one of those plays where it was they

760
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: were kind of on sync again. You know, they were

761
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: about to run the table and get in the playoffs. Yeah,

762
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: that's what somebody would have you believe. All right, looks

763
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Speaker 1: like our let's like our final break. When we come back,

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00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: I do want to ask the question, what do you

765
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: think Dez ends up he wants to be in the

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00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: In my opinion, that's making a kind of an emotional decision.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the best thing for him,

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Speaker 1: Where do you think he ends up? Jerry Cutler cue it.

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00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: Don't care? Oh, I was wondering. I was like, you

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Speaker 1: don't care. Really, I don't believe you. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: You don't you think he's just done. Don't think he's done.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna hurt the Cowboys. Oh no,

835
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Speaker 1: But what happened to care about it? And that what

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00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,920
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00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: great catch. They called it no catch. He lived with it.

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Speaker 1: Twenty fifteen, he goes to Green Bay, what happens. He

839
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: was he was a problem. He dropped passes, he was

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00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: thinking too much, he forceded, he pressed. He does that.

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Speaker 1: And I think if he goes and plays the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: I don't think he would really gonna be so amped

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00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 1: up that. Yeah. I mean he's not. He's not done

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00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: somebody esprecially if he gets a really good quarterback. I

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00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,640
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847
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,520
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848
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,040
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Speaker 1: He's a good quarterback. He's I kinda thinks he's a

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851
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: what at what Dez did well? I think, yes, I think,

852
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: And I think Fla Flacco has flirted with greatness, especially

853
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: in the postseason. There's not many quarterbacks better than him.

854
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: I'm not a Flacco fan. I think I think I

855
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: think Stafford's better than Flac. Okay, I was about to

856
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: ask you that because I was gonna call you crazy

857
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: if you didn't know. I think Flack, but I think

858
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: he's good. He's been only ten years. He knows the offense,

859
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: he knows what they're trying to do in Baltimore, and

860
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: he would be good for him. Um, you don't have

861
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: to have remarkable you don't have to go to play

862
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: with Brady and Rogers. But I just think it would

863
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: help him. I don't. I just don't think he would

864
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: come back to Dalla and just absolutely annihilate them. I

865
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: think he'd be so amped up he'd take an ivy

866
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. I okay, I don't care either

867
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: in the sense that, yeah, I don't think Dez Bryan's

868
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: going to hurt the Cowboys. I just you know, I

869
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: worked with the guy for five years. I want the

870
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: best for him. I'm interested to see what happens next

871
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: in his career all out in the AFC. The I mean,

872
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: this is just purely selfish, but the football fan and

873
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: the native New Orleanian in me, God, that would be

874
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: exciting to see him in New Orleans. Absolutely, it doesn't. Honestly,

875
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: I think that's probably of all the teams I can

876
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: think of in the NFL, I think that's one of

877
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 1: the better fits. It is because of the quarterback. It's

878
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: a great fit for him. I don't think it's a

879
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: very good fit for the Saints. Why because they have

880
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: a younger, better Dez named Michael Thomas. That's true. They

881
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: just got Cam Meredith out of Chicago. Willie sneed's back

882
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: like they have, and Drew Brees doesn't need marquee receivers

883
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: he never has um So I would love to see

884
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: that selfishly because I'm a des fan and I grew

885
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: up a Saints fan. But I don't think it'll happen,

886
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: but it would be cool. I think I think you

887
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: would see that fifty fifty ball completed at a higher

888
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: percentage if you were with a quarter backs and so

889
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: from that, I think he would go right back to

890
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: doing what he was doing with Romo right. And the

891
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: way I think that helps that team particular is the

892
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,879
Speaker 1: last year, what we saw is that team was starting

893
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: to transition into a run heavy team, like they had

894
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: a lot of They had two really good running backs,

895
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: They ran the ball very effectively, offensive line played well.

896
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: This forces teams to respect at least that fifty fifty ball,

897
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: which teams weren't doing last year against the Cowboys, they

898
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: weren't respecting that for whatever reason, whether you want to

899
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: say it was Dak or whether you want to say

900
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: it was dead for whatever reason, they weren't respecting it

901
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,720
Speaker 1: like that, they would be forced, I think, to respect

902
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: it with a better quarterback. I just think Breeze already

903
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: has a back shoulder jump ball monster and Thomas and

904
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: to that guy, you don't need Danna's gross If I

905
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: was putting money on it, Houston just makes too much sense,

906
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: it really does he. I mean, he wouldn't have to

907
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: leave Texas. They have an exciting young quarterback. He wouldn't

908
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 1: even be the focal point of the offense because Hopkins

909
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: is there. I just I mean, if I had to

910
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: handicap it, I think that would be what I would

911
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: look at. I'm just not really sure Houston. I think

912
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: he might have the same issues in Houston that he

913
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: had here with a young quarterback. I just don't know that.

914
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: I don't know that that quarterback is better than Dak

915
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: necessarily as a passer. So I'm not sure that he'd

916
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: be able to take advantage of what does Dez does

917
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: well in the same way that I don't think he

918
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: and Dak could get on the same page to take

919
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: advantage of it. He did say I'll see you guys twice,

920
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: and Houston would be a team that he would you

921
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: would see him twice. He ain't playing in that preseason.

922
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I would hope he's not in

923
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: the PAS. He didn't say, I'll play it twice twice.

924
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: That's good point. What do you think, camer I just think.

925
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys keep talking about having great quarterbacks

926
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: to help him. If you're a veteran eight years, you

927
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: don't need the ball being put right on your hend. Like, yes,

928
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: you need to make good throws, but it depends on

929
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: what kind of receiver you are. Dez has never been

930
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: a guy that just gets a lot of separation. So

931
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,399
Speaker 1: the quarterback has to throw it to him knowing he

932
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: looks covered sometimes and you have to throw the ball

933
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: in a spot where he can make a play on it.

934
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: But how many times did we see Okay forgot the

935
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: bath throws from Dak. Let's focus on the good throws.

936
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: What he did, throw it right at him and he

937
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: still dropped a ball. How many of those did we see?

938
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: It was plenty, I think does and that's I mean,

939
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: nobody is completely blameless. Dak has a lot of stuff

940
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 1: to work on. But yeah, you know, I'll plug all

941
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: or nothing again. I forgot about the Giants game where

942
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: it literally hit him in the face. Mat. I mean,

943
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: there were plenty of balls that were right where they

944
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: needed to be that did not get caught. That a

945
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: receiver that good, making that much money, you know, people

946
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: want you know the one that really I feel like

947
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: that was the one where everybody was like, something's got

948
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: to happen with this dude, which was the Seattle one

949
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: which turned into a pick and people are like, Dak

950
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: threw that too hard and it was behind him. Yep,

951
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: both true. He makes seventy million dollars, make the catch,

952
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: catch the damn ball like that, and you gotta make

953
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: that catch. Absolutely got to make that call. And more

954
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: than anything, I'm just really curious to see how he's

955
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: going to be able to handle these emotions because we

956
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: know that he's a super emotional guy, and we've known

957
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: we've seen that team on the game to the bad

958
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: to the worst, but then we've also seen, for example,

959
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: remember when his dad passed away, the game he had, Yeah,

960
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: I mean he had a pretty good game. Yes, that's

961
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: so I'm trying to see. I'm curious to see how

962
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna filter this emotion, like is he gonna be

963
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: in a good way or is this really going to

964
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: affect him? And that's I mean, don't just go to

965
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: the NFC East so you can try to get revenge

966
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. That's because you're gonna wind up in

967
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: Washington and that's that hasn't worked well for very many

968
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: other former Cowboys. Um, I would hate to see that.

969
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: As somebody who likes Dez, I would hate to see that,

970
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: not just because they would have to play him twice

971
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, that quarterback's not gonna yeah, neither one

972
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: to help him. And I think all of this, I mean,

973
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,720
Speaker 1: he hasn't don't. I haven't even heard about him going somewhere,

974
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, we're a week away from

975
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: the draft. I think at this point teams probably want

976
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: to take a look and see what they can get.

977
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 1: So he could be waiting a little while. But I mean,

978
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: why would Baltimore want to sign him if they love

979
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: Ridley exactly? And Ridley sitting there for him at what

980
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: sixth Yeah, yeah, so I mean it's gonna be kind

981
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: of quiet right now, but somebody's gonna sign him. Training

982
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: camp with somebody if you have a wide receiver need,

983
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: and you can sign Dez on a one year, nine

984
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: million dollar deal, or you can draft DJ Moore for

985
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: five years at eighteen million dollars. What's the better deal?

986
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I was about to say, I

987
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: wish that when the schedule comes out tonight, which we

988
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: haven't really talked about both the schedule comes up, I

989
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,760
Speaker 1: would like to be, Oh, that's where they're gonna play Deaz,

990
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, but we won't really know that. Yeah, unless

991
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, but that'll be an extra piece of content

992
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: for us later when he does sign, and we can

993
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,919
Speaker 1: write the story like, well, stretch this thing out. Yeah No,

994
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just gonna beat this thing in in

995
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: the ground. Get ready Cowboys Nation. Specific to the NFC, still,

996
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: do you think that there's any team that he fits with?

997
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: I mean, he said he keeps mentioning the Giants. Obviously,

998
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: the Eagles just finished paying alshon Jeffrey, So my assumption

999
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: is they're not necessarily in the market to spend more

1000
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 1: money on a receiver. I think he would be great

1001
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: in Philly. I don't think they'd need him. I don't

1002
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: think they would want a great Yeah, So you look

1003
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: at it. From that standpoint, I don't know that he's

1004
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: a great fit in Washington in my opinion, but I

1005
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: guess it could be an option if he wants to

1006
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: be an mcst the Giants. He keeps saying that that's

1007
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: the one he wants to go to, and that's when

1008
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: he would think be most intrigued by. But I look

1009
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: at it as they already have that headache. And what

1010
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean by that they already have that guy who

1011
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: is really good, who's a good wide receiver that's asking

1012
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: for more money, already making a pretty good amount of money,

1013
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: and now you're going to bring in another guy who

1014
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: can be equally as they did that monstrative on the

1015
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: sideline in the locker room whatever, they did that lacrosse

1016
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,320
Speaker 1: combine to raise awareness for the Rattlers who are opening

1017
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: their season here two sundays from now. Yes, um, and

1018
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: one of the lacrosse players was a Giants fan, and

1019
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: they were like, you want Daz on the Giants And

1020
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: he was like, well, you got enough Dred on a

1021
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: receiver already, We're good. I thought that was really funny, man.

1022
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: I don't first of all, you said they got a

1023
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: good receiver who wants more, he's a great He's great, Okay, yeah,

1024
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: what I was meaning, Yes, I should have said a

1025
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: great receiver. I mean probably among the best two in

1026
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: the league. Two A. Yeah, who's one? Just Abe Abe

1027
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: by himself and then him and Julio. Julio and Odell

1028
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: would be two A. In fact that ab doesn't miss

1029
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: gang like he plays and he's as good as he is.

1030
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,720
Speaker 1: I think he's either one of those three. Yeah, honestly,

1031
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: I don't. It's there's not a lot of separation there.

1032
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: And you wonder if Dez wants to go to a place,

1033
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: like ho said, anywhere he would be the second guy.

1034
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: He'd be the second guy with the Giants? Is that

1035
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 1: where he is in his career? I mean, and there's

1036
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that. I mean, those guys get paid too,

1037
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: and they could make plays and make a difference. I

1038
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: just I don't know if does he or does he

1039
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: want to go and where he could be the number

1040
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: one guy. I can't see him being the second guy,

1041
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: like just because of how he I mean, yes he

1042
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: can be, but just because of him and who he is,

1043
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: his personnelity. Go back and want to go back to

1044
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: your point about channeling his emotions, though, I mean, this

1045
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: is is one of the first times Dez Bryant has

1046
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 1: been humbled in a long time. If I had to guess, so,

1047
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: I mean, how he reacts to that is probably going

1048
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: to say a lot. Like if I mean, if he's

1049
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: not willing to be the number two, he's probably going

1050
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: to be in for a rough time. If I had

1051
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: to guess, I mean, I don't think anybody at this

1052
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: point's gonna pay him number one money. No, nor do

1053
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 1: I think any I don't think there's any team out there.

1054
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying no, no, absolutely, But that's he's probably

1055
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: going to need to readjust his ego a little bit

1056
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 1: and maybe he can get that back, you know. But

1057
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: right with Alshan Jeffrey, he took a one year proved deal,

1058
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: he proved it and they paid him good money. Which

1059
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 1: how well he manages this speed bump is probably gonna

1060
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: say a lot about how the second phase of his

1061
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: career goes. Right. So we'll see, let's talk about that

1062
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: NFL schedule it comes out tonight. We'll find out what

1063
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 1: the Cowboys schedule looks like, anything especially interesting that you

1064
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 1: guys are will be looking for when the schedule comes out. Tonight.

1065
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: I do not think. Yes, oh, get in there, see

1066
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: just top. I'm just work New Years. I don't want

1067
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: to in Philly. That's what I'm looking at. Tired of

1068
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: years for New Years. No, not Philly. The rest time.

1069
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: I don't care. Let's just let's just do it. Let's

1070
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: just do it. I don't think they'll the Giants in

1071
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: Week one year, Please God, I just don't. Please God.

1072
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: The Giants were horrible last year. The Cowboys were average.

1073
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: I mean, but there's still great ratings. Okay, Well, if

1074
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: it's the great ratings, I mean, he's it great ratings

1075
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: because it's up there, or is it? I mean, if

1076
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: if the Giants and Cowboys are so great, then they'll

1077
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: be great on October the eight understood. But you always

1078
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: want to open with something that's gonna bring people in

1079
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,439
Speaker 1: the tin. Well, you know what I want, the big

1080
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: game that's gonna bring I'm gonna bring it. I mean,

1081
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: I think they'll be just don't know. I don't want

1082
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 1: to see that again. It's been it has been. I've

1083
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: worked here since twenty thirteen. It's been the Week one

1084
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: game five of those years, or four of those five years,

1085
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Honestly, how both teams were last year,

1086
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: especially the Giants. I mean, now, that doesn't sound like

1087
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: a much exciting game to me, Like, yes, season opener, Yeah,

1088
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: it was bad last year. You were the first one

1089
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 1: to admitute. You guys didn't believe me. That was like no, no, no,

1090
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 1: no no. You said they didn't play well. They beat

1091
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: a team in the NFL by sixteen points. That's all

1092
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: I said. That's a good game. That's a good such

1093
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: thing as Week one guesses I'm gonna I'll start it

1094
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: off because I know I said no the Giants they

1095
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: go to Seattle, right, Yep, I'm gonna say Week one

1096
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football. The Eagles will get the first one.

1097
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: On Thursday. They'll play whoever, Falcons maybe or Vikings. I

1098
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys play at Seattle Week one Sunday Night Football.

1099
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,360
Speaker 1: That would be so great because I could go to

1100
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,439
Speaker 1: a Mariners game. Hope you really think Seattle, because y'all

1101
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: has had a lot of changes too. You really think

1102
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: they didn't make the playoffs either? Yeah? Do you think

1103
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: that brand's big enough for opening weekend Sunday night football?

1104
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: It definitely is. Or maybe it's a Monday night football.

1105
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: But we hadn't played on a Monday to start a

1106
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: year in a long time. Didn't they do that in

1107
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,720
Speaker 1: twenty eleven Jets? I think it was Sunday was Sunday.

1108
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: I don't remember number eleven. I wasn't here. I just

1109
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: know we've we've never opened on the road in the

1110
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: time I've worked here. So I just one of these

1111
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: years they're gonna make us do it. Seems weird have

1112
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: years in a road. We've been home Giants, Niners, Giants, Giants, Giants.

1113
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: It's yeah, So I think I think they opened on

1114
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: the road. Seattle is a good guess, um, Panthers. How

1115
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: about pant Sunday night doesn't look good for Seattle. You're right,

1116
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 1: that would be more of the three o'clock Yeah, I

1117
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: just I don't see that as a Sunday night opener,

1118
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: opening weekend Sunday night. Earl Thomas, now that can always

1119
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: before any of that happened. I mean, he'll be a

1120
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: tough safety for them back there like he always has been.

1121
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:51,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys at Panthers Week one. Okay, I don't, I don't know.

1122
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: I just I feel like they're gonna they got they

1123
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: gotta go on the road. One of these years they

1124
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: have to and then the other I said this to Nick,

1125
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: this is more about us than about the team, but

1126
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: it would be interesting. But I just Christmas. Christmas Day

1127
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: is a Tuesday, so week whatever. That'll be Sunday, the

1128
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: twenty third, we're playing Christmas Eve. Monday night football. We're

1129
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: playing Christmas Eve. I just feel it in my bones.

1130
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: We're at home, all right with that. I don't see

1131
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: it on Christmas Eve. I'm not all right. Not one

1132
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: host Christmas Eve at Houston. I could deal with that.

1133
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: You could deal with I could deal with that now.

1134
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: I could deal with that. In fact, you'd put all

1135
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: your whole family in Houston. You always just do it there. Well,

1136
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: Houston is already going to be a trip where the

1137
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: whole family goes down, so might as well. Yeah, Christmas Eve,

1138
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm okay, Well thanks, I'm out Thanksgiving. Probably an NFC team,

1139
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: but it doesn't have to be. That's we were arguing

1140
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: about that the other day and arguing, no, well, we

1141
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 1: were having a discussion about it the other day because

1142
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: it used to be like, oh, well that'll be it's

1143
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: on CBS, so that'll be an AFC team. But it

1144
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way anymore. So it could be anybody.

1145
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: It's Fox. Could you could you see though? It? Are

1146
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: we going to Jacksonville? Jacksonville coming here? Jacksonville coming here?

1147
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: Could that be a Thanksgiving game? Sure? Any literally, any

1148
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: that could be. That's the kind of game that I

1149
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: think could be kind of interesting for a Thanksgiving game.

1150
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:08,800
Speaker 1: Because of the success of Jacksonville last year. You know,

1151
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 1: I don't know, you certainly wouldn't put him on Opening Night.

1152
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: But when you got a brand as as high up

1153
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: there as far as ratings as the Cowboys, and you

1154
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: got a young, up and coming team that you're trying

1155
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: to get a little bit more than I'm thinking as

1156
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 1: a marketer right now, you're trying to get a little

1157
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: bit more eyeballs on this young, up and coming team

1158
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: and a brand that's consistently been down at the lower

1159
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: half of the of the league. Maybe this is the

1160
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 1: way to kind of put those brands together and lift

1161
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: the one that's that's lower. My favorite, it's funny that

1162
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 1: it's funny that the team that just lost the AFC

1163
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: title game is the low brand and the team that

1164
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 1: didn't make the play yea, but it still is what

1165
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: it is. The sexy Cowboys Thanksgiving games that I can remember,

1166
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: or Division games like the I mean RG three and

1167
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: as going Toto toe in twenty twelve. The Redskins game

1168
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen was phenomenal. That's That's the game where

1169
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: I think I really and truly brought bought into DAK

1170
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,959
Speaker 1: because Cousins was just zipping them up and down the field,

1171
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: and Dak was answering right back, like making all the throws.

1172
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams made that great catch in the corner. Um.

1173
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: I just I think it's fun when division teams play

1174
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. Are you got certain that going back to

1175
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: the opening weekend? Are you certain that the Cowboys, since

1176
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: they've played the Giants so many times, you certain they

1177
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:20,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't put the Cowboys against the Eagles opening weekend. The

1178
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: rumor is that that's gonna be a Minnesota Philly. I

1179
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:26,560
Speaker 1: get it. I'm just saying, are you are you certain

1180
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: that that wouldn't be something that the league would consider.

1181
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: I know they don't often do division games like that,

1182
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: but they've put the Cowboys up against the Giants opening

1183
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,800
Speaker 1: weekend for I'm positive they considered it. But it just

1184
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: seems like there's a lot of smoke about Minnesota being

1185
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: that team and here the schedule day is always kind

1186
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: of annoying for a couple of reasons, just how much

1187
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: they keep it so tight, you know, yeah, um, but

1188
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: also when fans, you know, like, oh man, we got

1189
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: a hard schedule or have an easy schedule, or I mean,

1190
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: just imagine if you were a team last year fast,

1191
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: I mean, rewind a four year and your last four

1192
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: games of the season, Like, who do we end with

1193
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:06,919
Speaker 1: in December? Like, well, we got the Saints at home,

1194
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: we got the Eagles at the Vikings, and the Rams. Yes,

1195
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: that's nice, those fourteen that's yeah, it's four teams that

1196
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: none of them had more than seven wins last year. Yeah,

1197
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: and they all win the division and they're all you know.

1198
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: So my point is is that regardless of who's you

1199
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: know what it looks like forty nine Ers, Cardinal ho mean,

1200
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: whoever Cowboys, We've seen teams jump and teams go one

1201
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: way or the other. I mean, the Giants looked like

1202
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: a really tough, tough matchup and then they weren't last year.

1203
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: So you just never know about about all that stuff.

1204
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: That's why I never get worked up. We look way

1205
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: too much fun to daydream about the possibilities to ignore

1206
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: it them. But the things that we look at, like

1207
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: our whereas Christmas gonna be, Where's New Year's gonna be?

1208
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: You know, like you know, yeah, I liked. I'm like,

1209
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: all right, what Saturdays of LSU games? Am? I gonna

1210
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: have to be traveling? That's what. That's the first thing

1211
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: I look at, Like, if we're flying, we have to

1212
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 1: fly on Bama game day. I'll get my own flight,

1213
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: I really will. I'll fly on Friday night or whatever,

1214
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,280
Speaker 1: and make sure it's just important to be sitting somewhere.

1215
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to be on an airplane having Mickey

1216
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: giving me a score updates. Ill it's thirteen to ten

1217
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: and the third quarter, Thanks Mick. This is my life

1218
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: like it's life or death, I hope. So I don't

1219
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: know it'll be that close in the third quarter. By

1220
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,880
Speaker 1: the fourth it'll be way worse. All right, guys, we

1221
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us. It was a fun show. We'll

1222
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: be back next week on our normal time Wednesday at

1223
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Speaker 1: eleven am. Told then for Nick Even, Dave Helm and

1224
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been the Break

1225
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