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Speaker 1: we are good on that. The Cowboys getting ready for
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football, and it looks more and more Danny
Speaker 1: like rookie quarterback Ben d Nucci is going to get
Speaker 1: the start. Andy Dalton has not practiced, and it's Wednesday,
Speaker 1: this is installed day and Mike McCarthy's press conference that
Speaker 1: they said he you know, maybe if Andy Dalton can
Speaker 1: get something towards the end of the week. But I'm
Speaker 1: just I just keep going back to looking at the hip. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor. All I can do is just
Speaker 1: go by what I see. It just looks so vicious
Speaker 1: that I would be surprised if Andy Dalton is there.
Speaker 1: And then from what they're telling us, the information they're
Speaker 1: giving us, and we know Mike McCarthy is guarding, it
Speaker 1: just sounds more and more to me like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Ben d Nucci show to run on Sunday. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, McCarthy is a little guardss.
Speaker 1: So we never really know. And sometimes the hit can
Speaker 1: look worse than it is, or sometimes that hit can
Speaker 1: be just as bad as it looks. So it's really
Speaker 1: up to the doctors and how Andy Dalton feels. But
Speaker 1: I believe that if he does pass protocol that he
Speaker 1: still will be out there as long as he practices
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I mean, with the state that the team
Speaker 1: is in, I don't see him holding him out if
Speaker 1: he's available to play, just because he wasn't able to install.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran guy, and I think he'll be able
Speaker 1: to pick up some of the stuff that they put
Speaker 1: in and Kellen Moore and be able to adjust on
Speaker 1: the fly if he's able to get in there at
Speaker 1: the last minute. Well, I look at this game for
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, and it's one thing we know Jim Jim
Speaker 1: Schwartz is gonna do. It's gonna bring pressure. And I
Speaker 1: was sitting here looking at sack leaders and just checking
Speaker 1: my notes here. Philadelphia is twenty is number four in
Speaker 1: the league in sacks with twenty four. So Washington was
Speaker 1: getting after the Cowboys and they got six sacks. So
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is gonna bring this heat. And look, I think
Speaker 1: whether it's d Nucci or Andy Dalton, the kitchen sink
Speaker 1: is coming here. Because we also um know that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be another different offensive line combination, because Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: is expecting Zach Martin backhau. This is this is just
Speaker 1: a really, really tough matchup for the Cowboys and they
Speaker 1: simply cannot afford to have any breakdowns and any of
Speaker 1: the mistakes that they've made in the past offensively or
Speaker 1: defensively to try and win this football game. I know
Speaker 1: Phillies two four and one, but their strength goes right
Speaker 1: against some of the Cowboys weaknesses. Yeah right, and Phillies
Speaker 1: two four on one, but they they've had some close
Speaker 1: losses to some to some pretty good teams. I'm glad that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm glad. I'm glad that Zack Martin is coming back.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he can he can give us a little bit
Speaker 1: of a little bit of plug. With the leaks that
Speaker 1: we have on the offensive line, we all know that
Speaker 1: that that we're getting heated up and if the Nucie
Speaker 1: is out, there is going to be a show where
Speaker 1: they are bringing people from the left, the right, the
Speaker 1: middle trying to confuse this guy and get some interceptions.
Speaker 1: So one again, it will be up to Kelly Moore
Speaker 1: to come up with a game plan that fits the
Speaker 1: roster that he currently has. Now, I would expect to
Speaker 1: see a lot of tight end help maybe a tight
Speaker 1: end playing fullback, a lot of Zeke and Polish stand
Speaker 1: in the help block just so they can show up
Speaker 1: this offensive line and give you know, give the news
Speaker 1: Yard Andy Dalton some time back there so they can
Speaker 1: make you know, at least at least a ten or
Speaker 1: fifteen yard through. I know he won't have that much
Speaker 1: time back there, but uh, you know, I expect Kelly
Speaker 1: more to justin be able to help him just a
Speaker 1: little bit. I don't have that much confidence in the
Speaker 1: in the office, I mean in the in the running game,
Speaker 1: just because what I saw last week. Hopefully we can
Speaker 1: get something going. We tried to focus on the last week,
Speaker 1: but it just didn't work for us. So maybe that
Speaker 1: was just the off week and was Zach Barton coming back.
Speaker 1: We'll be able to get that thing on the road,
Speaker 1: but we are really going to need our run game
Speaker 1: this time. It's going to be challenging. And then, uh,
Speaker 1: John Clark works for NBC Sports Philadephia. I've known John
Speaker 1: for for a long time and and he loves to
Speaker 1: send me tweets and copying me on them. And so
Speaker 1: he's hit me a tweet about Darius Slayton and his
Speaker 1: numbers against Amari Cooper, and so he's already he's already
Speaker 1: claiming that that Slayton's out of this football game here.
Speaker 1: And then he posted about how Jalen Raiger, their first
Speaker 1: round draft pick out of TC, you should be ready
Speaker 1: to go, and that you'll see him make his debut
Speaker 1: against his hometown Dallas Cowboys. And of course I can
Speaker 1: tell you this, Jalen Raiger is a fast guy. Think
Speaker 1: of Deshaun Jackson when he was young. That's what Jalen
Speaker 1: Raiger can bring you in terms of an offensive weapon,
Speaker 1: a guy who can run past you. So, Philadelphia, the
Speaker 1: fans are at least with me, the reporters and the
Speaker 1: folks that they're filling their oats and they're giving me
Speaker 1: the business. After we finish the players lounge, I've got
Speaker 1: to go do a interview for NBC Sports Philly, and
Speaker 1: so I'm going to hear the business once again here.
Speaker 1: So Philadephiopole just feeling real confident about Sunday Night football
Speaker 1: as they get ready to host a Dallas count I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, why not you just said that They got
Speaker 1: to think of it this way. They got Rager, who
Speaker 1: has speed, which is a problem of any any receiver.
Speaker 1: Has been a problem for our defense. I see that
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffery is possibly going to be ready, which makes
Speaker 1: it another problem for our defense. Miles Sanders is trying
Speaker 1: as hardest to get back on there so he can
Speaker 1: fight to have a career day, which makes that another
Speaker 1: problem for our defense. And Carson Wentz is playing better,
Speaker 1: you know, better than Actually, you don't really have to
Speaker 1: play that good, you know, to look good against our defense.
Speaker 1: So Carson Wentz come out there and he plays eighty
Speaker 1: percent of his potential. We're gonna have some issues. So hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the changes that we're making that will
Speaker 1: get to uh, you know later in the show will help.
Speaker 1: Or maybe these guys will figure out a way to
Speaker 1: keep their eyes right and and prevent the deep ball
Speaker 1: from coming and things will change. But I don't have
Speaker 1: any confidence in that, So I just think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big day for the Philly offense. I'll say
Speaker 1: this about Miles Sanders. This is a this is a
Speaker 1: game that if I'm the head coach Doug Peterson, I
Speaker 1: don't play him. I mean I literally don't, because he's
Speaker 1: he's all you know, he missed the first game of
Speaker 1: the year already. I mean, he's dealt with issues. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he was the first game, but he's missed.
Speaker 1: He's missed other games earlier in yere But anyway, he's
Speaker 1: dealt all off, I should go back, and then during
Speaker 1: training camp he was dealing with injuries here, so he's
Speaker 1: dealt with some stuff. You know, all season long. This
Speaker 1: is not a game I would play my best running back.
Speaker 1: Because if you're Philadelphia at this point in time, if
Speaker 1: you just look at this division, you're you should win
Speaker 1: this thing right now. Okay, based on the injuries that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have going on, forty percent of their salary
Speaker 1: cap is out, you know this division is theirs. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're going to Vegas right now and you're putting
Speaker 1: some chips on eighteen to win the nfcas it should
Speaker 1: be Philadelphia. And if I'm head coach Doug Peterson, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to save Miles Sanders for other games. And this
Speaker 1: is where I'll let Boston Scott and some other dudes
Speaker 1: roll out here, because, as you said, you can, you
Speaker 1: can win this thing, and if you're getting your receivers back,
Speaker 1: you want to throw on the Cowboys defense all day long,
Speaker 1: and running the football is not going to be hard
Speaker 1: because nobody gives up more yardage than the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They're dead last in the league when it comes to
Speaker 1: giving up the run. They give up one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two yards a per game. So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1: But I tell you I don't expect Sanders to be
Speaker 1: out there. I really don't because this is one of
Speaker 1: those all right, go ahead, Well look listen. I'm hopeful
Speaker 1: because he's my starting running back on my fantasy football team. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that he can also he also sees the
Speaker 1: same thing that we see. Like we talked about yesterday,
Speaker 1: this is the game that you want to play if
Speaker 1: you want to get on track. I know he had
Speaker 1: he had a knee injury, so I'm not sure you
Speaker 1: know how serious it was. I didn't. I didn't really
Speaker 1: get to read up on it. But if it's not
Speaker 1: a hamstring or something, you know, soft tissue injury, I
Speaker 1: think he'll be out there. And uh and I know
Speaker 1: you say that that Philly should should win this thing,
Speaker 1: but I go back to Washington and if ye possibly
Speaker 1: they don't go for two, I think two weeks ago
Speaker 1: they could be sitting there with three and five. So
Speaker 1: I mean I think Washington will we'll be able to
Speaker 1: compete with Philly. You know, if they continue to get better,
Speaker 1: the defense shows up, you know, and they take advantage
Speaker 1: of some of the weaker games on their schedule. I
Speaker 1: think that it'll be between Washington and Philly at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. So I wouldn't I wouldn't speak
Speaker 1: so fast to say that Philly's gonna wrap us on up.
Speaker 1: Washington beat Philly to start the season, so they have
Speaker 1: that in their back pocket. But I just think it's
Speaker 1: Philly starts to get some of their reinforcements back. I
Speaker 1: just think they're a better football team when I look
Speaker 1: at the games against Pittsburgh and Baltimore which they were down.
Speaker 1: They were down double digits in these games, and they
Speaker 1: came back and made these games the contest that went
Speaker 1: down into the final final two minutes of the game.
Speaker 1: So I just I just think overall, they still have
Speaker 1: enough guys over there who've won a championship, and I
Speaker 1: just think that they'll end up being a better football team.
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't think washing Shington is gonna
Speaker 1: have enough. But that's just me and this is why
Speaker 1: we play the games. But but at this point in time,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely, you know, unlike Bury Church, I'm definitely looking
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys and saying I don't see them getting
Speaker 1: it done because they have not been able to fix
Speaker 1: the multitude of issues that they have. You know, they
Speaker 1: have not had a cohesive offensive line. They are jet
Speaker 1: lasts in turning over the football. They have yet to
Speaker 1: do that. They've had a turnover every game since the
Speaker 1: first one against the Rams. There were no turnovers. Since then.
Speaker 1: It's been nothing but downhill. And now you're talking about
Speaker 1: having to play start a third different quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many things going against the Cowboys, and you
Speaker 1: can't stop the run, you can't start the pass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a problem. And I'm gonna stick by what I
Speaker 1: said about Bill. Bill Parcels used to set. All I
Speaker 1: can go by is what I see. And until I
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys beat a team that has a win,
Speaker 1: because the two teams they beat were win lists, you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to pick them. And this game
Speaker 1: is going to be at Philadelphia on Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: and I just think Philadelphia. You know, they're two and four,
Speaker 1: But I see them starting to get a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I see them starting to get that way. And they've
Speaker 1: had as many offensive line issues at the Cowboys. But
Speaker 1: but I'll say this, Danny and I don't know how
Speaker 1: many Philly games you've watched this year. They're doing something
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are not showing us that they've got.
Speaker 1: Will you know this team has not shown us the
Speaker 1: past three games that they've got. Will you know the
Speaker 1: Cleveland game, they didn't show it to us. The Giant game, Okay,
Speaker 1: you came back and you won that, but was a
Speaker 1: winless Giants team. What we saw against Washington, what we
Speaker 1: saw against Arizona, you know, we didn't see the kind
Speaker 1: of will and the kind of guts that you need
Speaker 1: to win. Everson Griffin, you know, let's just dive into him.
Speaker 1: They traded Everson Griffin, the defensive end to the Detroit
Speaker 1: lines for six round draft pick that it's conditional, so
Speaker 1: it could move up to a fifth. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the determining factors are there yet, but that's the
Speaker 1: message now. Mike McCarthy spun it that they're gonna give
Speaker 1: some snaps to Dorian's Armstrong. They've now got Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: back that Randy Gregory needs to play, and I'm fine
Speaker 1: with it. Honestly, I'm fine with Everson Griffin. In my opinion.
Speaker 1: This is why I hate about us not being able
Speaker 1: to be in the locker room this year because of Covid.
Speaker 1: I didn't see the buying. I didn't hear the buy
Speaker 1: in from him about being on this defensive and so
Speaker 1: this season, in my opinion, is lost. This team is
Speaker 1: not going to do what we thought it would do,
Speaker 1: which I said eleven and five and making a deep
Speaker 1: playoff run. That's not going to happen. So you might
Speaker 1: as well go ahead and get some picks, because if
Speaker 1: you are drafting in the top ten in every round,
Speaker 1: you want as many of these picks as you can
Speaker 1: possibly get. My pick listen, I can't imagine how Griffin felt.
Speaker 1: Right he came here, and he felt the same way
Speaker 1: that every analyst, every reporter, every commentator felt about the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you know, being a contender, having all these pass rushers,
Speaker 1: having all these weapons on offense, so giving the pass rushers,
Speaker 1: you know, the time to get back there and rush
Speaker 1: because you assume that we were going to be up
Speaker 1: and running gun offense and teams are going to be trailing.
Speaker 1: And then you get here and it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, you probably left a
Speaker 1: place where you believed in the coaches and you had
Speaker 1: some relationship with those guys and you're trusting in what
Speaker 1: they were doing. And then you got here and you're
Speaker 1: on a young team, and then you get you get
Speaker 1: some coaching that you're like, you're looking at You're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys are teaching. These guys
Speaker 1: don't hustle. This isn't where I left. What am I
Speaker 1: doing here? So, I mean, I can almost understand why
Speaker 1: the buy in didn't work, especially when you see him
Speaker 1: talking about, Man, look, this is different. I'm standing up, rushing,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn this stuff, and this is just
Speaker 1: not what I'm comfortable doing. It just doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: he liked it from the day that he walked in
Speaker 1: the building. So I can imagine that he was ready
Speaker 1: to get up out of here. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: understand that. And Mike McCarthy, he scares me when he
Speaker 1: says what he makes me think when he says, you know,
Speaker 1: he wants to see some younger guys play. I wonder
Speaker 1: if that's throughout the whole team, or is it is
Speaker 1: that just specifically the the line, Because once you hear
Speaker 1: that throughout the whole team, it sounds like you're scrapped
Speaker 1: in the season and you're building for the future. Is
Speaker 1: that a bad thing? I mean, at this point in time,
Speaker 1: if we're just going to sit up here and be
Speaker 1: honest about the type of injuries that you suffered and
Speaker 1: the kind of holes that you have and the reinforcements
Speaker 1: that are not exactly coming back, is that a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and let's dive into that. So
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin has gone, there's two more pinning moves that
Speaker 1: we've heard about. Let's dive into that as the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I absolutely said. I love them
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Speaker 1: Everson Griffin, so so that was step one. And Tom
Speaker 1: Palaceero of NFL Network says that your favorite corner Warley,
Speaker 1: they're Warley, and your favorite tackle don Terry Poe that
Speaker 1: these two guys will be either traded or released. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy asked today will they be at practice? He said
Speaker 1: he didn't want to speak about it. Calvin Watkinson the
Speaker 1: Dallas One News tweeting that Worley and Poe were not
Speaker 1: at practice. Also, Andy Dalton not at practice today. Safety
Speaker 1: Xavier Wood's not at practice today. I would doubt anybody's
Speaker 1: trading for Warley or Poe. I can't see why anyone would.
Speaker 1: But you're talking about three players now that are probably
Speaker 1: going to be gone from the roster by the end
Speaker 1: of the day. Danny, what message does it sit? Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a message that you know, based on your performance,
Speaker 1: you could be next. You know, with the exception of
Speaker 1: you know guys like uh, you know d law and
Speaker 1: and Crawford and those guys who have contracted money and
Speaker 1: they have money tied up in But you young guys,
Speaker 1: are you guys on those one year deals? You know,
Speaker 1: if you don't step your play up, then you probably
Speaker 1: won't be on this team moving forward. Um. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a good sign. I think it's leaning more
Speaker 1: towards what you've said, the players versus the coaches. Which
Speaker 1: one are they gonna are they are they gonna pick
Speaker 1: And it seems like so far we're picking up picking
Speaker 1: the coaches. So if I was, if I'm one of
Speaker 1: those players, I'll probably be worried. And that's including my
Speaker 1: guy Xavier Woods, um, you know, and he's missing practice
Speaker 1: to they But you know, like we talked about this
Speaker 1: off the show, I've seen some clips of this guy
Speaker 1: that that makes me wonder what's really going on with
Speaker 1: him because usually in your contract year, it's usually your
Speaker 1: best year and give you know, you give max effort
Speaker 1: and you stand out on tape, and this is this
Speaker 1: is kind of kind of the opposite for this guy.
Speaker 1: But and then based off last year like he had,
Speaker 1: I thought he had a good season. Last year. I
Speaker 1: thought he played hard, thought he made some tackles. I
Speaker 1: thought he made some plays. He looked like a like
Speaker 1: a like a good safety that that was coming up.
Speaker 1: And and this year just it's just a total opposite.
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of these guys on the
Speaker 1: watch list, I'll be one of the first to admit
Speaker 1: that I was expecting Woods, Jordan Lewis, and cheetah Awoosian
Speaker 1: to have some really good years because they all want
Speaker 1: to get paid I mean, this is how professional football works.
Speaker 1: Your final year, you want to make sure you're balling
Speaker 1: out so you can get paid. I e. By Ron
Speaker 1: Jones last year. I E. Amari Cooper last year. You
Speaker 1: know you want to make it, get Dak Prescott. You
Speaker 1: know you want to make sure when it's money time
Speaker 1: that you were out there. I remember DeMarco Murray and
Speaker 1: and it was interesting in his career he had dealt
Speaker 1: with games where he missed time. And you know, his
Speaker 1: last year even I think he was I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a thumb or hand or it was
Speaker 1: something on. I mean he broke dude, ran out there,
Speaker 1: he was out there and it was the NFL Offensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year, cashed in, got a big deal
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia. I mean you know that last year, man,
Speaker 1: you were out there rolling and to see, um, these
Speaker 1: three cornerbacks, these three at say defensive back not turn
Speaker 1: it up. It's been surprising. It's been surprising. Cheeto Woozia
Speaker 1: is expected to be back this week as they take
Speaker 1: on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday and Night Football. And Cheeto,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think Cheeto leads the team and
Speaker 1: interceptions right with one hadn't playing. Uh, it's listen, listen,
Speaker 1: Like what we were watching and what we were expecting
Speaker 1: from these players. I think we were watching the Christoh
Speaker 1: Shard effect. I think he had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with how they were playing and how they looked when
Speaker 1: they were out there. And I think the same thing
Speaker 1: with Marionetta leaving and how our defensive line looks is
Speaker 1: the same effect that that they We're seeing Christia shar leaving.
Speaker 1: Within this secondary, I think we're seeing a big drop
Speaker 1: off and uh, we're going to need to do something different.
Speaker 1: That That's why I was leaning more forward. They should
Speaker 1: pick the players over the coaches at the end of
Speaker 1: the season, but you know it's early and then making
Speaker 1: examples of guys I believe, so we'll see how it
Speaker 1: really plays out at the end of the season. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones said it on his radio show and Danny, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard it, but but it's worth
Speaker 1: listening to um. When he spoke on one O five
Speaker 1: three the fans, he told you he sold on McCarthy
Speaker 1: and the McCarthy was his kind of guy. He's got
Speaker 1: his he's got his man, and because of everything they're
Speaker 1: going through, he thinks McCarthy is the right guy that
Speaker 1: you want to have in that foxhole. Jerry always talks
Speaker 1: about the foxhole kind of thing. So to me, he
Speaker 1: let it be known it's going to be McCarthy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not talking about him though, and it's not going
Speaker 1: to be these players. So so I think that to me.
Speaker 1: And he spoke on the show too about we're going
Speaker 1: you know, he said we got to stop the run,
Speaker 1: and he to Don Terry Pope being gone, um and
Speaker 1: and so off that show. You trade Everson Griffin, Poe's
Speaker 1: about to go, Warley is about to go here. And
Speaker 1: I just think that at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: they're going to look and they're going to take They're
Speaker 1: going to say goodbye to some players who are already
Speaker 1: going to be free agents, like a Tyrone Crawford. But
Speaker 1: they're gonna go in here and maybe have to take
Speaker 1: I don't know, one or two guys with a big
Speaker 1: contract who aren't buying in, okay, And that's that's the
Speaker 1: tough thing you know right now is who all is
Speaker 1: and is it buying in? And they'll make some moves,
Speaker 1: but they're going to side with the coaches. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this results of Mike Nolan being back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, um, but if he wants to,
Speaker 1: and I'll say this, if you're sold on Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: and this is where Mike McCarthy has to do that
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett thing where remember Jason Garrett kept selling Scott
Speaker 1: Lenahan until he couldn't anymore, but he rode with him
Speaker 1: as long as he could. So if you're like, if
Speaker 1: you're Mike McCarthy, you want to keep riding with Mike Nolan,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna have to convince Jerry, Hey, we need
Speaker 1: to convert two A three four. We need to play
Speaker 1: more of this. We need to get these guys here
Speaker 1: dot dot dot dot dot. And if they can convince
Speaker 1: convince Jerry that it's the players and it's these dudes
Speaker 1: won't buy in, then they got an excellent shot to
Speaker 1: have this thing come back. Now. I do think we'll
Speaker 1: see some defensive assistant get got Like I said, I
Speaker 1: expect one of these secondary coaches, because that's that's usually
Speaker 1: the way it happened. Somebody got to die, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody got to get thrown off the boat. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how it happens in professional sports. Somebody gonna go, um,
Speaker 1: see it was him, you know, listen, it's like it's
Speaker 1: likely to happen. What I believe is like the tone
Speaker 1: I didn't hear Jerry, you know, talk about Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: But I know he's been all in on Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: since he got here. And I don't think they will
Speaker 1: make a one eighty and get rid of them at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, you know, after one season.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I love Mike McCarthy versus I'm
Speaker 1: okay with Mike Nolan. I think that says a lot, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, heading into the end of the season. And
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think it's about buying n Like so
Speaker 1: when you say, like when we talk about going from
Speaker 1: three to four to four three and people, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess they assume that it's something that's easy for
Speaker 1: these players to do, especially the interior alignment that was
Speaker 1: a totally different game. Like I give you example of
Speaker 1: Glenn Dorsey and Tyson Jackson, both top five picks when
Speaker 1: I was at LSU, both coming out of a four
Speaker 1: three defense, and they both got drafted teams that were
Speaker 1: running the three four and then you didn't hear about
Speaker 1: them anymore because it's not the same defense. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's very hard to go from being a four three
Speaker 1: defensive end or three technique in a four to three
Speaker 1: to playing, uh, you know inside, you know if if
Speaker 1: you if you're a defensive vent like they did Tyson Jackson,
Speaker 1: they moved him inside and put an outside line back
Speaker 1: outside him. He had to learn something totally different and
Speaker 1: it didn't really paying out for him, you know how
Speaker 1: we expected him when he was playing at LSU. So
Speaker 1: those things are different. That's why you see Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: and DeMarcus Lawrence. I believe you see some drop off
Speaker 1: in there because it's a totally different game and uh,
Speaker 1: maybe they need to go to a coach that that
Speaker 1: that puts these guys in position, you know, to make
Speaker 1: those plays like they did in the past. I really
Speaker 1: still don't understand why you have DeMarcus Lawrence standing up
Speaker 1: when you know his his best game has come from
Speaker 1: when he has his hand in the ground and he's
Speaker 1: just rushing and and doing games on the defensive line
Speaker 1: like when Mary Nelly was here. I'll say this could
Speaker 1: tank in a in a three four standing up as
Speaker 1: an outside linebacker. Could it help him? Um? Could he?
Speaker 1: Could he make the chance? Yes? He can. I watched
Speaker 1: Greg Ellis do it, and I go back and look
Speaker 1: at the career of Derrek Thomas, fantastic player out of Alabama,
Speaker 1: and Derrek Thomas his numbers when he was standing up
Speaker 1: versus his numbers playing with his hand down. I mean
Speaker 1: they were drastically different. Um, the three four defense can definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: you know if you have pass rushing town which which
Speaker 1: which you know Lawrence has just in Marcus wear, another
Speaker 1: guy who went from hand hand down to hand up
Speaker 1: and you know, extended his career and made him a
Speaker 1: whole lot better. And even he'll tell you, man, give
Speaker 1: me the stand up all day long. So I don't
Speaker 1: think that Tank Lawrence is a guy who cannot adapt
Speaker 1: to tow it. I think that's a different animal. That's
Speaker 1: a different animal. When you talk about when you talk
Speaker 1: about de Marcus wearing Tank Lawred, de Marcuts wear is
Speaker 1: built different de Marcus wearing with six five, you know, slim, muscular,
Speaker 1: you know, he's his explosiveness out of the two point stands.
Speaker 1: If you've ever watched him at practice or work on
Speaker 1: his getoffs, totally different than anybody that we have on
Speaker 1: the team. So him him baking that adjustment to going
Speaker 1: from hand down to hand up is totally different. I
Speaker 1: don't believe. I don't say that that Tak Lawrence can't.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna pay a guy one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars to be productive in a four to three defense,
Speaker 1: when you've seen him make all these plays in that,
Speaker 1: I think it's difficult for you to say, all right, well,
Speaker 1: now go ahead and do the three four and just
Speaker 1: act like it's just that easy for him to change,
Speaker 1: you know. So, so you either give Mike Nolan another year,
Speaker 1: you know, to implement the three to four and think
Speaker 1: that that's gonna change everything, or you bring a guy
Speaker 1: in who has a defense that fits the players that
Speaker 1: are already here stay there. Then maybe that's the conversation
Speaker 1: that you have to have as an organization. Can we
Speaker 1: can you know, do we continue to can we make
Speaker 1: this change in three four and make take a better player?
Speaker 1: Or do we move on? I mean, these are the
Speaker 1: questions you have to ask yourself. Um, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: as I said, I think he can make the change
Speaker 1: you've got to get and obviously your bigger pieces are
Speaker 1: going to be upfront. You know, you got to get
Speaker 1: yourself a legitimate nose tackle and get some bigger guys
Speaker 1: at the defensive tackle spot so you can allow your
Speaker 1: linebackers to get there. But it's a conversation that you've
Speaker 1: got to have if you're going to choose Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: and give him what he wants, you know, because it's
Speaker 1: going clue. It's gonna affect one of your best players.
Speaker 1: But you got to ask yourself, what do you want
Speaker 1: to do. These are the tough decisions you have to
Speaker 1: make as an organization. And and then and then I'll
Speaker 1: tell I'll tell you this too when when we when
Speaker 1: we speak and drop off from the D line in
Speaker 1: different schemes. Uh, if you watch how we played in
Speaker 1: the past room with Marionelli's defense running out of fourty three,
Speaker 1: we probably ran games on seventy percent of the snaps,
Speaker 1: which is et stunts, uh, loops and and and spikes
Speaker 1: and all types of stuff that that de Marcus were.
Speaker 1: I mean that de Marcus Lawrence was great. That he
Speaker 1: would he would started in the in the D gap
Speaker 1: and shoot down to the A gap or you know,
Speaker 1: they would take advantage and stuff like that, and that's
Speaker 1: some stuff that I don't think we're seeing as much
Speaker 1: of now, and I think that is also, you know,
Speaker 1: hindering his production as well, because you know where he's
Speaker 1: gonna line up at most of the time, he's gonna
Speaker 1: line up right there at the left end, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna rush over over the right tackle. There is no, no,
Speaker 1: no complexity to to our rush in our scheme and
Speaker 1: our games, and I think that's where you're seeing the
Speaker 1: big drop off as well. Well, look, now this comes
Speaker 1: back to what McCarthy said and what McCarthy has done.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy sat at press conference and he said many
Speaker 1: times it's players over scheme, but we're not seeing that
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. That's what I said.
Speaker 1: This is the organizational question that these guys got to
Speaker 1: get into a room and figure out. So, hey, Mike
Speaker 1: nolan's it gonna be your scheme or is it gonna
Speaker 1: be the players? And if you choose the players, do
Speaker 1: you have enough of these good players to say we'll
Speaker 1: scrap our scheme and we'll go with those guys. I
Speaker 1: thought Bucky was on it was Bucky Brooks or somebody
Speaker 1: had spoken about how the scheme that they were running
Speaker 1: before was a Marinelli These were Marionelli type of guys.
Speaker 1: These were the guys that he wanted who were fitting
Speaker 1: into what he wanted to do. That's one reason why T. J.
Speaker 1: Watt was not drafting Taco Charlton was taken over him
Speaker 1: because Marinelli wanted guys that fit his scheme. That Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith is more of a Marinelli guys guy, and Tank Lawrence,
Speaker 1: So Danny, this may be unpopular, but they got asked themselves.
Speaker 1: You got two dudes you've given big money to and
Speaker 1: and jay Lew Smith was about sixty three million dollars
Speaker 1: deal he signed. Take Lawrence your largest contracted cowboy history
Speaker 1: that he signed. Or these guys the guys you want
Speaker 1: going forward if you decide that Mike Knowling is is
Speaker 1: going to have his way tough questions. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean not not not only those two, I mean Vandersch
Speaker 1: as well was drafted to play in a four three scheme,
Speaker 1: you know, and not taking anything away from from how
Speaker 1: bad these these safeties have been playing, but they were
Speaker 1: also draft but they were also used to play in
Speaker 1: the four three scheme. And and you know the fans
Speaker 1: would have to go study and see how much different
Speaker 1: it is. But playing one gap defense versus two gap
Speaker 1: defense is a whole different world. Like you have to
Speaker 1: see things different, you have to play them different, you
Speaker 1: have to read pulling guards different, you have to reforce different,
Speaker 1: everything is Differently, I think you're seeing a multitude these mistakes,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of those are based on
Speaker 1: the difference in the scheme. You know, couple with with
Speaker 1: the effort, which I believe Jerry Jones talked about as
Speaker 1: well when your owners talking about effort, that that's a
Speaker 1: big thing. But I think the scheme is this hindering
Speaker 1: these guys a lot as well. Now, look, look let's
Speaker 1: just be let's just straight up here, throw it out here. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not like these guys in the previous scheme. We're
Speaker 1: out here self dominating defense. So it's it's switching the
Speaker 1: scheme and going finding other guys. Is that, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the issue a problem there? You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like the hot boys sat up here and put some
Speaker 1: titles up here for the cowboys. Okay, so these are
Speaker 1: so I'm not opposed to them saying, hey, look we're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and switch this thing and flip it
Speaker 1: and get the guys we wanted here. We'll think about
Speaker 1: it this way, though, what what what scheme was de
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence? And when when he got him self paid?
Speaker 1: What scheme was was Robert Quinn? And last year when
Speaker 1: he got him self paid? When you win, you know,
Speaker 1: huh No, I'm just talking about how they I'm talking
Speaker 1: about I'm talking about how how they their production, their
Speaker 1: production as players. We're talking about now lack of production.
Speaker 1: You said the Hope boys aren't showing up when Jaylen
Speaker 1: Smith and Lvee where if they're best and you thought
Speaker 1: that they were the best duo coming up to be
Speaker 1: the best duo of linebackers. They were in the fourth
Speaker 1: three scheme. They like, these guys were productive in that
Speaker 1: type of scheme, and and and Neui they won more
Speaker 1: than their winning now. All right, So so if we're
Speaker 1: comparing what's going on, the defense still look better previously
Speaker 1: than it did now. But but my point is they
Speaker 1: have been productive in that scheme. And this is when
Speaker 1: they looked like they were all rising stars in a
Speaker 1: in a in the four three scheme, and and and
Speaker 1: the way that Marinelli was coaching the defense, coaching the
Speaker 1: d line, you know, mixing it up, running games and
Speaker 1: doing all that type of stuff, making it interesting and
Speaker 1: making the confusing for the offensive line. When they were
Speaker 1: doing that, they were productive. Albeit they weren't the top,
Speaker 1: you know, the top defense in the league. They played
Speaker 1: better and the players that we were talking about, they
Speaker 1: were more productive than they are. Now. Okay, my question
Speaker 1: for you that I want you to answer after the break,
Speaker 1: then what do you do in twenty twenty? Do you
Speaker 1: run a scheme that goes back to more four to
Speaker 1: three that fits these guys? Or do you give Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan what he wants? I want you know, if you're
Speaker 1: Danny McCrae, what do you do? I want you to
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Speaker 1: Cowboys reporter joined by Dati McCrae um. They played for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, now works for the organization. Um Don
Speaker 1: Terry Poe, according to Ian Rappaport of NFL Media, has
Speaker 1: been cut and quarterback Daryl Worley has been cut. Rappaport
Speaker 1: says they were shopped all day, found no takers, and
Speaker 1: they moved on. So the Cowboys no longer having those
Speaker 1: two players. So we're looking at three players gone in
Speaker 1: basically less than twenty four hours. Danny mccraig, so Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones said they were gonna make some changes. They made
Speaker 1: some changes. I don't know if that's going to result
Speaker 1: in any anything in a double you against Philadelphia, especially
Speaker 1: if any Dalton can't go as a starting quarterback and
Speaker 1: they have to throw out rookie Ben d Nucci. But Jerry, Jerry,
Speaker 1: Jerry at least lived up to this part of it.
Speaker 1: And if you're in the locker room now and you
Speaker 1: don't have a massive contract you look back on, you
Speaker 1: may want to be worried. You better, you know, if
Speaker 1: you have been buying in better buying in now. Listen,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something for sure, almost for sure,
Speaker 1: one half of that those deep balls that had been
Speaker 1: going over our head is gone. Warley had been playing horrible.
Speaker 1: I really thought that he would, he would have been
Speaker 1: released a few weeks ago, but I guess they're waiting
Speaker 1: for Cheeto to come back. He had been playing playing
Speaker 1: you know what way below parts. We saw that coming
Speaker 1: and Pope just was out there just looking like he
Speaker 1: was uninterested in being being on the field at all.
Speaker 1: So those two were really easy. Um, I don't think
Speaker 1: Pope Pope being gone is really going to change that
Speaker 1: much for us. So I think he was one of
Speaker 1: those guys at the at the bottom, at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the defensive tackle Lizabeth. We had three of those
Speaker 1: guys on there, so we still got some guys that
Speaker 1: are underperforming out there. So I don't see that changing
Speaker 1: much as far as our run defense. When it comes
Speaker 1: to free agents for the Cowboys and they brought in
Speaker 1: this off season, it's been very disappointing. Warley Cut. You
Speaker 1: brought him in, Poe, you brought him in. Cut Gerald McCoy,
Speaker 1: who was supposed to be starting defensive tackle. He got
Speaker 1: hurt training camp and then was cut. Then you had
Speaker 1: how Ha Clinton Dix they brought in supposed to be
Speaker 1: a starting safety. He never made it. He never made
Speaker 1: this a regular season. He was cut. This is a
Speaker 1: bad run. Okay, it's a bad run for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And the times comes to bringing guys into your football team,
Speaker 1: I want to stick with this defensive thing, Danny, and
Speaker 1: I asked you a question before the break here. Other
Speaker 1: players aren't brought to you by hotels dot Com. Are
Speaker 1: you going to fit a scheme for the players that
Speaker 1: you have here running a four three? Are you going
Speaker 1: to choose Mike Nolan and letting Mike Nolan implement what
Speaker 1: he wants next year? Uh? Listen, and this is this
Speaker 1: is just me my opinion. And I've always well for
Speaker 1: most of my career college career, all that I played
Speaker 1: in the four to three, and I've seen things that
Speaker 1: that guys can get done. You know how you can
Speaker 1: change the game and allow players to get one on
Speaker 1: ones and do special things with their talents. And I
Speaker 1: believe that we should bring in a guy who runs
Speaker 1: a four three, who runs something similar to Mary Nearly
Speaker 1: but not the same, has his own little touch on it.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe a few more few more zone blitzers, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit more creative with with with how you
Speaker 1: attack defenses, I mean your offenses. But I would break
Speaker 1: a four three guy in letting one hundred million dollars man,
Speaker 1: you know, line up where he wants to and do,
Speaker 1: and do what he's good and put his hand in
Speaker 1: the ground. Let Jalen run around out there and the
Speaker 1: one gap defense give him one. He has one? One
Speaker 1: uh one? Uh I guess one rule? All right? If
Speaker 1: you're in the A gap, run through the A gap.
Speaker 1: If you got to be gap, you got the be gap.
Speaker 1: Don't don't you know, get him out of this, you know,
Speaker 1: confusing stuff because when you have players thinking a lot,
Speaker 1: that's when they slow down. And I think you're seeing
Speaker 1: a difference in that one. So I'm all for four
Speaker 1: three getting Mike Nolan out of here, especially because you
Speaker 1: can't even get these guys to run full speed for
Speaker 1: the entire game and hustle and you're standing with Nolan.
Speaker 1: It sounds like no, no, I know. This is this
Speaker 1: is me thinking like the head coach. The head coach,
Speaker 1: just baty buddy system. You're not on the head coach.
Speaker 1: You gotta go fire his boy. You gotta fire the
Speaker 1: guy that gave him his opportunity as an offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: which resulted in him getting the opportunity to be a
Speaker 1: head coach and winning a Super Bowl. You know how
Speaker 1: these things work. You've been in this league. These dudes
Speaker 1: ride or die. I mean, if it's one thing, we've seen,
Speaker 1: nobody cops for coaches like other coaches. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be real interesting for Mike. Now, Jerry Jones and Steven Jones,
Speaker 1: could he easily make it easy and say, Mike, we're
Speaker 1: not asking, we're telling. This is what we this is
Speaker 1: what has to happen. There's not like they ever done
Speaker 1: it before. All right, they've gotten guys out of here,
Speaker 1: you know, and yeah, but so they should so so,
Speaker 1: but Jerry's come out and said, I got my guy.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm gonna be very interested to see
Speaker 1: is is how how much does Mike Nolan get what
Speaker 1: he wants? So we'll see, we shall see on that. Um,
Speaker 1: this is what happens with that so so so so
Speaker 1: what so, so you you give another year, you've seen
Speaker 1: how to like you see that it's more than just
Speaker 1: the scheme. It's it's buying players not understanding what to do.
Speaker 1: They really saying that the coaches as a whole have
Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. I don't understand how you
Speaker 1: need another chance to say, let me get some guys
Speaker 1: in here that what that believe in me, that the
Speaker 1: will will understand better. And you got a whole locker
Speaker 1: room that's saying that you don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand what would be different next
Speaker 1: year unless you bring in the whole roster of defense
Speaker 1: is different. Let's say Mike Nolan says, look Aldon Smith,
Speaker 1: look at what he's done. I'm not able to put
Speaker 1: in the exact defense where I can take advantage of
Speaker 1: this guy. And the corners here and dbs, these aren't
Speaker 1: the guys that I want. Let me go. Let me
Speaker 1: go get the guys that I want that I can
Speaker 1: go do this. Jerry Jones can be persuaded. Okay, we
Speaker 1: know this. He and Steven can be persuaded. And if
Speaker 1: they're going to ride with Marthy and McCarthy says, I
Speaker 1: must have this guy, then this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fantastic thing. To me, this is gonna be a fantastic
Speaker 1: theater to watch in the off season. Who wins this
Speaker 1: because they gotta fix it. You gotta fix it. And
Speaker 1: that's why I say to me, it is going to
Speaker 1: be one or the other. It is either the players
Speaker 1: or it's it's your coaches. And if Mike McCarthy says,
Speaker 1: I gotta have this guy, who are they to tell
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy he can't have his guy if he's sold
Speaker 1: on him, and they say they're sold on him. And
Speaker 1: Jerry said, hey, there's no guy that can fix this
Speaker 1: thing like McCarthy. You know, Mike McCarthy remer when he
Speaker 1: had to make a change up there in Green Bay. Now,
Speaker 1: it wasn't all him because Ted Thompson had a lot
Speaker 1: to do with things, and so did Mark Murphy. But
Speaker 1: they brought in Don Capers and Caper was able to
Speaker 1: fix their defense and then it helped them win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Donc Campers also ran three. So so I'll
Speaker 1: be interested to see how it goes. Man, I don't listen.
Speaker 1: I don't get it one. You know, how can Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan go get his guys that he wants. We're already
Speaker 1: talking about being and having cap issues and finding ways
Speaker 1: to get money. I can't imagine that he just has
Speaker 1: free agents out there right now that don't cost much
Speaker 1: that he wants to go get to revamp to his defense.
Speaker 1: So he's looking at happen to go get some expense
Speaker 1: some guys that I don't think we have the money
Speaker 1: to go get two. Are you gonna choose the offensive
Speaker 1: line or the defense, because right now we need a
Speaker 1: whole line, and I think a lot of our resources
Speaker 1: are gonna need to go there. I'm gonna say this, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this. I believe we will see some
Speaker 1: amazing bargains out there this offseason for good players because
Speaker 1: they're gonna be teams are really they're gonna be in
Speaker 1: cap hades. The Saints have cap issues next year, Texans
Speaker 1: have cap issues. I mean there are several teams, man,
Speaker 1: and you just go over to over thecap dot Com
Speaker 1: that when you look at what they got going into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, it's a mess. I mean it's truly
Speaker 1: a mess. So I think there's gonna be some nice
Speaker 1: bargains out there, and that's this cap goes down, all
Speaker 1: teams are gonna have to release really good football players.
Speaker 1: So maybe making a good argument for Nolan, you're making
Speaker 1: a good argument for him. Okay, I got you. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's something I'm saying. Maybe that is where you get
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Knowlan. You know these two guys, their buddies.
Speaker 1: They're thinking, again, Hey, this is what we sell Jerry, Jerry,
Speaker 1: I can get these guys here, you know, plug this
Speaker 1: guy here, and we can make it work. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they're gonna have a plan. Okay, no man coaches
Speaker 1: ride with these dudes. And when you got a guy
Speaker 1: who you owe, I mean, think of it this way. Thinking.
Speaker 1: You know, Mike Nolan was Doctor Dre and Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was Eminem not even flipped. Mike McCarthy is gonna give
Speaker 1: He's gonna give doctor Dre a lifeline, man, because he
Speaker 1: gave him the start. The very things that he has
Speaker 1: happened because this dude gave him a shot. I just
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to a lit him to be
Speaker 1: blown out because during a pandemic, when he didn't have
Speaker 1: a full off season to go out there and sell it.
Speaker 1: Jerry's already telling you and giving you all these different
Speaker 1: things of why, hey, this has been disappointing, but you
Speaker 1: couldn't have imagined all the injuries. You couldn't imagine we
Speaker 1: didn't have time to work with these guys. And you
Speaker 1: gotta let the coaching staff jail. They're laying all the
Speaker 1: groundwork to give them what they want. I mean that
Speaker 1: in Dandy. Doing this job as long as I have,
Speaker 1: I've learned to listen to things. And I used to
Speaker 1: tell people all the time Jason Garrett revealed a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. If you listen to what he didn't set.
Speaker 1: You know what Jason would not say about players would
Speaker 1: tell me a lot about what he thought about, Like
Speaker 1: if Jason really liked you, like Zach Martin or Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: he would have man just football playing. Guy cares about
Speaker 1: the game. And if he didn't say it, like what tacos,
Speaker 1: what he didn't say, I'll taco Charlton. Always told me
Speaker 1: what he thought about Taco Charlaton, because you knew Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett kind of got And so as I hear Jerry
Speaker 1: talk and I hear Mike McCarthy talk, these guys are
Speaker 1: laying the groundwork to give themselves a mulligan and to
Speaker 1: say we didn't get what we really wanted and that
Speaker 1: opportunity to do what we wanted to do, to implement
Speaker 1: our system. Let's give it a go. Let's give it
Speaker 1: a go. That's what I'm saying. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: choose Nolan and McCarthy getting what they want and they're
Speaker 1: gonna change our players. That's just my opinion turns away
Speaker 1: in on this tomorrow, Yeah, let them exactly. We'll dive
Speaker 1: in tomorrow. We're gonna be live out at the Plaza
Speaker 1: at the Start Friscoe at the Cowboys headquarters. Come on
Speaker 1: out there if if you bungle on up, we'll be
Speaker 1: there in person. Um. Hopefully Chris Bean will be out
Speaker 1: there too. You know, I want Chris Bean to be
Speaker 1: out there with us, but I'm gonna feel a lot
Speaker 1: better it's right there with it. We can just touch
Speaker 1: and see. Chris being our producers, he handles everything. That's
Speaker 1: the players lounge for today. He's Danny McRae for or
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Safety and no long time Cowboys reporter. Will
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