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Speaker 1: We've been missing him often throughout the twenty twenty season,
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Speaker 1: for the Players Lounge. I'm knew, he scrugs. He is
Speaker 1: Danny mccraie, former Dallas Cowboys. A lot to get to
Speaker 1: here over the hour. Now, look, this show is different. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're going to be more relaxed. We're gonna have some
Speaker 1: more fun, We're gonna give more opinions about what we're thinking.
Speaker 1: I must start with the collective Bargaining Agreement, and fans
Speaker 1: really need to understand. This is where the NFL owners
Speaker 1: and the players get together to say this is the
Speaker 1: contract in which we will have our working conditions and
Speaker 1: we will run the league. So the owners have approved it.
Speaker 1: The owners have gotten together and said, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the deal we will accept. So today the NFL Players
Speaker 1: Association is supposed to get in there, dive into it
Speaker 1: and go to the membership and ask them what it
Speaker 1: is they want. Byron Jones represents the Dallas Cowboys. So Danny,
Speaker 1: as a former player and having gone through this before,
Speaker 1: give our our Cowboy fans a sense of what happens.
Speaker 1: What does Byron do his alternates Joe Looney, how are
Speaker 1: they meeting with the Cowboys players and how did they
Speaker 1: break down? Because it's a lot to get into. How
Speaker 1: did they break it down? So back in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: my rookie year, we went through this process and Jason
Speaker 1: Witten was our was our spokes spokesman for the NFL PA.
Speaker 1: So we had a lot of meetings where we would
Speaker 1: it would be players only we would come in. He
Speaker 1: would get us in the auditorium, he would kind of
Speaker 1: break down the most important parts of the PA and
Speaker 1: what he thought about it. He would give us a
Speaker 1: chance to vote, give people a chance to speak and
Speaker 1: let them know if they liked it or if they didn't,
Speaker 1: and then he would, based on what he the feedback
Speaker 1: that he got from Russell would go back and meet
Speaker 1: with the rest of the other thirty two NFLPA spokespeople
Speaker 1: and they would vote and they would say yes, we
Speaker 1: agree on this, yes we don't, and then they would
Speaker 1: talk to d Smith and if he felt that that
Speaker 1: was right, then he would say yes. If not, he
Speaker 1: say no. And we went through a process where it
Speaker 1: was a lot of nos in twenty eleven. So you
Speaker 1: went through a lot of knows. How did you finally
Speaker 1: get to the yeses? What was that? What was that
Speaker 1: time frame? Man? That I remember that pressure is what?
Speaker 1: Uh what got to the yes is right? I was.
Speaker 1: I would tell you this. I was so surprised as
Speaker 1: a rookie to hear of how many big money guys
Speaker 1: were hurting for cash after one or two months of
Speaker 1: this of the lockout. It was crazy, the stories that
Speaker 1: people would come back. And I remember d Ware. I
Speaker 1: was sitting next to d Wear in the locker room
Speaker 1: and uh, it was it was a point where we
Speaker 1: were getting uh kind of checks that hold us over
Speaker 1: because every month the NFLPA would hold a little bit
Speaker 1: from our check just for these type of situations, and
Speaker 1: we were sitting there and d war It's like, I'm
Speaker 1: sending my check back to give it to these guys
Speaker 1: who are having these issues. And I'm like, how Like,
Speaker 1: I'm a rookie, I'm making rookie minimum and I'm at
Speaker 1: least able to make it two months, and these guys
Speaker 1: aren't being able to make that, make those payments. So
Speaker 1: as it comes to when you're about to miss those
Speaker 1: real checks, those twenty and thirty thousand dollars checks, it
Speaker 1: was like, hey man, the pressure was put on those
Speaker 1: those league guys to say, hey, let's let's hurry up
Speaker 1: and get something done. So once it was kind of
Speaker 1: in that idea we might miss a game or two,
Speaker 1: that's when they got real serious and people started moving,
Speaker 1: making moves. Which is why I say the nfl PA
Speaker 1: will never and has never had the kind of cloud
Speaker 1: that Major League Baseball players Association's ad because those players
Speaker 1: have gone on strike, those players have missed games. If
Speaker 1: you don't miss any games, then you'll never be able
Speaker 1: to fully get everything you want as a player because
Speaker 1: you are the product. Look, the NFL cannot sit around
Speaker 1: here and try and roll out scab players the replacements.
Speaker 1: They can't do that again. I mean, let's just say
Speaker 1: you wanted to go get a bunch of guys from
Speaker 1: the XFL and play them this fall. If we've seen
Speaker 1: what the XFL is in the struggles that they've got
Speaker 1: to just generate points. It is hard. These are the
Speaker 1: best players in the world. But if these players refuse
Speaker 1: to miss games, because that's to me, that's the only
Speaker 1: way you make real You've got to sacrifice something to
Speaker 1: get something, and the NFL players have been unwilling to
Speaker 1: do that in the past, which is why the owners
Speaker 1: continually don't have to hand out guaranteed contracts. That's one
Speaker 1: thing I've always just wondered about from the outside is, Hey,
Speaker 1: if I'm a player, what's one thing I really want.
Speaker 1: I want to see what baseball players and basketball players get,
Speaker 1: which is a guaranteed contract. Think about Christaps Porzingis and
Speaker 1: the Mavericks one hundred and fifty eight million dollars guarantee.
Speaker 1: And think about this Danny he never played one regular
Speaker 1: season game for Dallas before he signed that contract this summer. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's the NBA. I will say this as far as
Speaker 1: getting like getting people to be on board with that.
Speaker 1: We have so many more people in our league, right,
Speaker 1: it's a lot more difficult to get the start of
Speaker 1: ninety and then those fifty three of every team to
Speaker 1: feel that way, right. Yeah, of course Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: those guys making all that money, Yeah, they fine, But
Speaker 1: then you've got another twenty guys at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the roster who making minimum. Who's like, hey, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens with this CBA, I'm still gonna be making minimum.
Speaker 1: Like this, this deal for the NFL, and if these
Speaker 1: players are really for the top five or six guys
Speaker 1: on the roster, right when you go, hey, you guys
Speaker 1: get two more percent of the revenue gap right in
Speaker 1: the bottom half of the roster gets the ninety thousand
Speaker 1: dollars increase. Yeah, the top half of the roster is
Speaker 1: getting another ten fifteen million. This is for them. So
Speaker 1: me sitting at the bottom, when you're trying to get
Speaker 1: all these guys to say, nah, man, hey, let's miss
Speaker 1: a couple of games. It's like I'm making the same
Speaker 1: amount of bread anyway, And if I'm in the middle,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna get released for a younger guy to
Speaker 1: come in because now they can't afford to pay me
Speaker 1: because they're gonna pay the quarterbacks and the receivers all
Speaker 1: this money. So ultimately, in this new CBA that has
Speaker 1: been proposed by the owners, there are no guaranteed contracts,
Speaker 1: so so it's going to basically this will continue to
Speaker 1: go on. Now, I'll say this when I watch NBA
Speaker 1: free agent sign tracks again, I don't want to see
Speaker 1: anymore tweets from NFL players talking about we should be this,
Speaker 1: and I wish I had, I mean, the the the
Speaker 1: enviousness that I've seen these tweets when NBA guys get
Speaker 1: money from NFL players, I want to hear anymore because
Speaker 1: this was the opportunity to try to go to membership
Speaker 1: and say, look, but if you but if you're in
Speaker 1: the minority, and you and you, and you voted for that,
Speaker 1: then you can still got the right to be envious.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could still be upset with the majority
Speaker 1: who voted opposite of you, but you still got the
Speaker 1: right to be envious of not having a guaranteed contrary.
Speaker 1: You know, the Kirk Cousins. However, one guy on ever
Speaker 1: want to hear say that it's Kyler Murray because he
Speaker 1: had money, he had the money in the baseball he
Speaker 1: turned it away. So here a couple of points about
Speaker 1: this CBA. Andrew Brant used to be the legal the
Speaker 1: legal guy for the Green Bay Packers. He's now out
Speaker 1: and he's he's a very popular member in the medium.
Speaker 1: But he talks about the new CBA and the marijuana
Speaker 1: testing in there. That testing windows go from four months
Speaker 1: to two weeks at the start of training camp, reduces
Speaker 1: the number of players tested, reduce penalties for positive tests,
Speaker 1: and raises nanogram threshold for a positive test from thirty
Speaker 1: five to one fifty, which is the World Doping um
Speaker 1: Agency threshold there. So basically, the NFL is putting out
Speaker 1: there that we're really not trying to have guys miss
Speaker 1: games anymore for marijuana. That they're more they're more understanding
Speaker 1: of it. We now know that there are states like California,
Speaker 1: in Colorado and Washington where where miracle where marijuana is legal.
Speaker 1: So they they're they're changing that. And look, I get
Speaker 1: this thing too. I mean the end of the day,
Speaker 1: having guys miss games for marijuana tests is nothing, is
Speaker 1: nothing any of these owners want, they want their best players.
Speaker 1: They want their players, period and Glad you made that point,
Speaker 1: because I was driving in here and listen to radio,
Speaker 1: and I was hearing these guys talk about that when
Speaker 1: you and these negotiation periods and uh, you know, everybody's
Speaker 1: holding strong, and then all of a sudden you start
Speaker 1: seeing things that are given out there that you you
Speaker 1: assume are big, and they really the owners are giving
Speaker 1: it to the players. It doesn't really hurt the owners.
Speaker 1: They don't lose anything about getting it. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, like you said, they actually lose some money
Speaker 1: by having these great players a miss this time off
Speaker 1: the field for felling these tests. Right, So what are
Speaker 1: you really getting out of it? On the players side?
Speaker 1: This is a plus. This is a plus for both.
Speaker 1: Now here's another thing that I thought the players would
Speaker 1: make sure they got, but I don't see there at all.
Speaker 1: Was limiting Roger Goodell's power. Oh yeah, go back to
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Eli. So it was Roger Goodell who had the
Speaker 1: ability to wield out the six game suspension. The players, Okay,
Speaker 1: just make sure people get this. The players Union said, yeah, Roger,
Speaker 1: it's okay. You can go ahead and suspend this at
Speaker 1: will the way you want to. Why would you not
Speaker 1: change that at all. If you're the players Association, is
Speaker 1: that a not in There's that absolutely not changed. Well,
Speaker 1: the owners didn't put it in there, oh when they
Speaker 1: handed over to the players. So maybe I want to
Speaker 1: do Maybe Richard Sherman and somebody's out there saying, we
Speaker 1: gotta add this in, and we gotta add this in,
Speaker 1: we gotta add this in, and we would send them
Speaker 1: back and see if they agree with it or not.
Speaker 1: Because I'm of the opinion Roger Goodell suspending Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady did nothing to help the league. If anything,
Speaker 1: you hurt your product because Tom Brady's not there out
Speaker 1: on the field playing games. It's Jacobe were setting Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo and while the Patriots are able to get by
Speaker 1: without him and go win the Super Bowl. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know what I know as
Speaker 1: a fan, I want to see Tom Brady. You're paying
Speaker 1: to see Tom Brady play, especially when he comes to
Speaker 1: your town, right I know. I mean there are two
Speaker 1: teams right now in the NFL. When they come to
Speaker 1: your town, you're selling the stadium map. It's the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and the Patriots. People want to see Tom Brady play.
Speaker 1: And then when Ezekiel Elliott was suspending, who was that hurting?
Speaker 1: Oh goodness that this wasn't you know? That was hurting
Speaker 1: your league? That was hurting because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, we know what Cowboy ratings are, all right.
Speaker 1: When you start looking at the networks for Fox, CBS, ESPN,
Speaker 1: and NBC, you go look at what's their highest rated game.
Speaker 1: It's a Cowboy game versus someone else, the Cowboys equal ratings.
Speaker 1: You take away ezekielity, you're hurting yourself. And then what
Speaker 1: are now people talking about. They're talking about what was
Speaker 1: going on with Elliott in his situation and what was
Speaker 1: going on with Tom Brady, which doesn't make the league
Speaker 1: look good. So I think if I'm the players Association,
Speaker 1: I go back there and I just say, look, Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell cannot have a limited power to just sit us
Speaker 1: down anyway he wants it. He cannot be the judge,
Speaker 1: jury and execution. So so so what is the alternative
Speaker 1: to to that? Is it a vote between three or
Speaker 1: four people and he has to go talk to somebody
Speaker 1: else first, or like what does he has to talk
Speaker 1: Detroy visit and then arbitrating is first off, I would
Speaker 1: think an independent arbitrator is wasn't needed. That's what I
Speaker 1: would want if i'm players. So if we're going first off,
Speaker 1: you go back and say no, he can't do it.
Speaker 1: So if the owners push back on that, then then
Speaker 1: what will playing B to B? I would tell d Smith, Hey, look,
Speaker 1: let's figure out some way that if Roger Goodell wants
Speaker 1: to say I'm going to suspend Tom Brady four games
Speaker 1: for deflate gate, then we need to go to an arbitrator,
Speaker 1: and we need to put both sides out there. You
Speaker 1: present your case, will present our case, and then let
Speaker 1: the arbitrator decide whether or not this this this can
Speaker 1: be held up. But I just don't think it's right
Speaker 1: to have one person be able to decide whether or
Speaker 1: not because what do we see consistently it's we don't
Speaker 1: see any consistency with the way that they're sitting here
Speaker 1: punishing players. And Lord Miles Garapas would be suspended for
Speaker 1: they said indefinitely, So they so they met the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. It was basically Roger Goodell's decision. So
Speaker 1: it was they suspended and for the rest of the year. Well,
Speaker 1: they said indefinitely. You know, best said you're suspended for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season and suspended to definite, which
Speaker 1: was will decide when you get to come back. Now,
Speaker 1: what are the beauties of listening to what's happened with
Speaker 1: the hut To Astros over Major League Baseball is and
Speaker 1: people say, well, why does it Rob Manford just suspend
Speaker 1: all these guys. The Players Association won't let you do
Speaker 1: it because they've got an iron clad agreement about the
Speaker 1: types of punishments that you can and can't do. So
Speaker 1: basically Rob Manford's hands were tied. I would suspend these guys.
Speaker 1: No you're not, No you're not. Because they talked about
Speaker 1: all right there was they were never given quote unquote notice,
Speaker 1: which meant that Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball needed
Speaker 1: to give notice to all the players. What they did
Speaker 1: was tell the Houston Astros management, the general manager. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Manford told the general manager at all major league
Speaker 1: general managers, and so their job was then to go
Speaker 1: down and tell the players, Hey, you know what, can't
Speaker 1: be cheating anymore. It's all written right here. Lou Now
Speaker 1: never did it, Jeff lu Now, the GM never did it.
Speaker 1: So the Players Associations, I guess what so so so
Speaker 1: the GM, he never, he said, he never went and
Speaker 1: told them how pay said it. We never got The
Speaker 1: players said that. He also said that he didn't say
Speaker 1: it right, and the players soci they were never given notice.
Speaker 1: Y'all didn't tell us to stop cheating, broke being go right.
Speaker 1: So since you never gave me notice, you can't suspend me.
Speaker 1: That's how powerful the Players Association is in Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball that the commissioners I can't even mess with these guys.
Speaker 1: We need to write that down on a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of different other scenarios. And that's why I say, until
Speaker 1: you go out and miss games, until you make a
Speaker 1: sacrifice as a union, you're not going to be able
Speaker 1: to get the power and the things that you want.
Speaker 1: That's why baseball has got what they have. So you've
Speaker 1: got to be able to do it. Um. And from
Speaker 1: what you're telling me, there's so many guys and so
Speaker 1: many people who aren't saving or willing to make the
Speaker 1: sacrifice that it doesn't happen, which is why you don't
Speaker 1: have the guarantee a lot of who they do not.
Speaker 1: You make a very significant amount of money each week
Speaker 1: right during the season. Imagine missing a month of that,
Speaker 1: even even the person making minimum is losing almost one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty hundred and thirty thousand dollars. All right,
Speaker 1: and in that month, let me let me throw this
Speaker 1: out here, just got this from from from our pretty
Speaker 1: sorry player. Discipline for all field violations would be heard
Speaker 1: by neutral arbitrator, but appeals would go to the commissioner,
Speaker 1: and the league would still conduct its own investigations into
Speaker 1: such matters. So when you say heels would go to
Speaker 1: the commission, it still means guess what, well, you got
Speaker 1: some of it. You got the first the first part
Speaker 1: of it, but independent arbitrary. You know, I just would
Speaker 1: want as little possible going to the commission based on
Speaker 1: what we've seen. So so what I'm saying, so it
Speaker 1: will go to the arbitrator. The arbitrator would make the decision,
Speaker 1: and then if you want to appeal that decision, it
Speaker 1: would go to Roger Goodell. So essentially the arbitrator has
Speaker 1: made the decision anyway, so Roger gonna say yes, I
Speaker 1: accept the pills or not. So at least you got
Speaker 1: him out of the He's out of the person one,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, So that's good. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a that's better than what we've seen there. All right,
Speaker 1: there is something in this CBA that's been that the
Speaker 1: owners have accepted that if you're a Dallas Cowboy fan,
Speaker 1: you should be very, very worried about concerning trying to
Speaker 1: keep a couple of free agents a month all no
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Speaker 1: buried church. We consist, the three of us in the
Speaker 1: players lads, burries out, buries out. No, we can hold
Speaker 1: it down for Toledo. Man, we go hold it down
Speaker 1: for Toledo. Is all right, We're used to it, he is,
Speaker 1: He excused. He yes, you that the company. You just
Speaker 1: I just wanted to feel like he's still now. You
Speaker 1: don't want to see No, you don't want to see
Speaker 1: conflin at all. Um does anybody who's down to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I don't even know Doug Marone, the head coach, was
Speaker 1: see him anymore after after everything had happened there. Um
Speaker 1: that was that was that was that was That was
Speaker 1: a bad, bad decision, and how they were trying to
Speaker 1: trying to fix that thing. They're like to me that
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars might be the Sacramento Kings, Like these
Speaker 1: two organizations keep having these issues. Man, But it's crazy
Speaker 1: enough because you thought they were old uncle. The upcome
Speaker 1: after I said, you know, they should have beat the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, they should have was Pittsburgh. It was it
Speaker 1: was the Patriots, and and but and ever since then, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, but they depend on Blake Borders. I'm sorry, yes,
Speaker 1: depend on Blake boards. Put go back to this situation
Speaker 1: where the next year, the thinking they had, well we're
Speaker 1: going to go to the super Bowl, that they thought
Speaker 1: they could just pick up where they left off and
Speaker 1: we were going to be that. And they did all
Speaker 1: this talking, put this big old bulls eye on their chest,
Speaker 1: and and they failed to meet expectations. Didn't show up.
Speaker 1: Blake Borders didn't show up. Look, it is it's hard
Speaker 1: to think. And Steve Young talked about this in his
Speaker 1: book The QB. When you get up there to Mount Everest,
Speaker 1: you have to go all the way back down and
Speaker 1: start the climb again. You know, you don't get to
Speaker 1: Everest in a week. It's it's a long, long, long climb.
Speaker 1: It's really really hard and you have to start again.
Speaker 1: And for many years, when coaches would say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: every team is different, every year is different, I just
Speaker 1: kind of thought it was coach speak. But then once
Speaker 1: you start covering the game and you get around it,
Speaker 1: you start to see, yes, every team is different. Mentalities
Speaker 1: are different. Um that last place schedule that Jacksonville was
Speaker 1: able to utilize to get to the SC championship, Well,
Speaker 1: now I guess what your first place. Now everybody's looking
Speaker 1: at you. Everybody's studying and putting in more time in
Speaker 1: the offseason to check you and what it is you do. Well,
Speaker 1: it's hard when you're the hunting. Well ask Carolina they
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl, got it ain't been the
Speaker 1: same sense. Oh. One of the things that I also
Speaker 1: have noticed, and this just doesn't apply to football, really
Speaker 1: applies to a lot of sports. Losing a championship is
Speaker 1: really hard. It's hard. San Francisco is in trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much outside of Jimmy because that's obviously okay, look
Speaker 1: at the Rams. When I did my preseason prognostications, Danny,
Speaker 1: I did not pick the Rams to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna make playoffs. It's hard to come back
Speaker 1: from that type of disappointment. Then to the way they
Speaker 1: lost as well. Your offense not show up. Jared Goff
Speaker 1: misses that touchdown, that's wide open. I won't say it
Speaker 1: was Cooks that he missed that right there, that was
Speaker 1: essentially the ball game. He needed to make that throw
Speaker 1: if they were going to win that game. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like that Philly Special that they ran against New
Speaker 1: England's Super Bowl. You make that play, then the belief
Speaker 1: factor and everything else you needed was there. The Rams
Speaker 1: didn't get it. It's just hard. It's hard because now
Speaker 1: everybody's also ready for you. They're studying what it is
Speaker 1: you do. Then we saw Todd Gurley was not the
Speaker 1: same guys. So it's just hard to lose like that
Speaker 1: and go back again. Speaking of that Philly special, didn't
Speaker 1: Tom Brady try to run that same play and uh
Speaker 1: fumbled and stumbled and fumbled and and did all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. It's not for everybody, by the way, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not for everybody. I mean, why we're asking a
Speaker 1: forty year old, Well what I'm saying, I'm taking it
Speaker 1: to this point. The Patriots, opposite of that, are the
Speaker 1: one team where you can say every year the expectation
Speaker 1: is that, right, there's the outline. They're outlined. That's the
Speaker 1: thing I consistently try to tell people when they want
Speaker 1: to bring up the Patriots in anything, I said, that's
Speaker 1: your outliers. They have a quarterback who can stumble and
Speaker 1: fumble and drop that pass and look like the most
Speaker 1: unathletic person in the world. You still say, you know what,
Speaker 1: that team right there is gonna win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Let that be dak let that let that be Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers or somebody going out to you like, oh man,
Speaker 1: we're in trouble. This is how our game started. We're
Speaker 1: in trouble. There's outliers that it. Sometimes fans just don't
Speaker 1: appreciate San Antonio Spurs. That's an outlier. Well, let's do
Speaker 1: what the Spurs do. Nah, not quite, that's an outlier.
Speaker 1: That's why we have and we look at certain companies
Speaker 1: and certain teams. They are put them over here because
Speaker 1: they're just that. How many times have we seen people
Speaker 1: try to go and get folks from the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots and implement what they're doing and they're failing. Can
Speaker 1: we look at the Detroit Lions right now? But you're not,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You're just because you got the
Speaker 1: we had no name said. We have the same issue
Speaker 1: with a coach here who you get somebody else's scheme
Speaker 1: not your own, and you don't see it the same
Speaker 1: way they see it, and then you're not able to
Speaker 1: put the same type of players in that position to
Speaker 1: where it creates success. But you do have the scheme.
Speaker 1: I think that Patricia he knows exactly what the Patriots
Speaker 1: do inside the organization and how the coach coaches and
Speaker 1: the expectations and how do you run practicing and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, But he don't see it the same way
Speaker 1: Belichick season. The Lions don't see it the same way
Speaker 1: Craft season. It's not the same just because you go
Speaker 1: get that guy. Rick Goslin, Hall of Fame Pro Football
Speaker 1: Writers said it to me best. You don't have Belichick.
Speaker 1: It's the whole thing. It's it's Belichick. That's the whole
Speaker 1: kid in Caboo. It's him, not not what he does,
Speaker 1: it's how he does it and when he does it
Speaker 1: and how he thinks about it. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Getting it done. You can't just write it on paper
Speaker 1: and then you read the book of how to do
Speaker 1: this for dummies and then you think you're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there be able to do it. It's his I'll
Speaker 1: give you another example that and you slick over at
Speaker 1: college basketball, all these coach k assistants who you know,
Speaker 1: what's your house? Skip at Mark had, Chris Collins over
Speaker 1: at the Northwestern, Jeff Capel over at pitt Now and
Speaker 1: Jeff was over there at Oklahoma. They're not him. Mike
Speaker 1: Braydon Notre Dame does a good job, but they're not
Speaker 1: Coach k And so many people think that way, we'll
Speaker 1: hire from this tree. I'm gonna get this guy here.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, if you don't have the real McCoy,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna get a counterfeit. And in the counterfeits
Speaker 1: is not a lot of times. Sometimes they put that
Speaker 1: mark on there and they find out that it's counterfeiting.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, you're done. They hold it
Speaker 1: up to the light. Did you ever see that special
Speaker 1: I told you was It was a really good special
Speaker 1: about backup singers. It's called two Feet from Stardom or
Speaker 1: five Feet from Stardom. Well, it's a whole series about
Speaker 1: people who were backup singers who try to their field
Speaker 1: become leaders and how hard it really is that. Hey,
Speaker 1: some people are just fantastic backup singers. For instance, Luther
Speaker 1: Vandros was a backup singer for David Bowie. Okay, we
Speaker 1: all know Luther Vrows one of the great R and
Speaker 1: B singers of all time. Why he rest in peace.
Speaker 1: It's hard to make that type of transition. Cheryl Crowe
Speaker 1: was a backup singer, I want to say she was
Speaker 1: a backup singer for Michael Jackson. Richard Marks was a
Speaker 1: backup singer for Lionel Richie so. But it's just really
Speaker 1: hard to go from being this backup person to lead dog.
Speaker 1: Most people don't do it. And it's the same way
Speaker 1: for a lot of coaches. We see a lot of
Speaker 1: assistants who get jobs who just can't do it. And
Speaker 1: that was really so much of what we've seen on
Speaker 1: the Belichick tree. These guys have tried to jump here
Speaker 1: and they could not do it. It's a hard thing
Speaker 1: to do. Man, quick, quick, thirty second off topic, all right,
Speaker 1: we're talking about singers, all right, because we hadn't got
Speaker 1: a chance to touch on the All Star Game, all right.
Speaker 1: So we had Fergie last year doing the national anthem,
Speaker 1: and this year we had good old Shaka Khan go
Speaker 1: out there and do her own rendition of the national anthem.
Speaker 1: And I really want to get your thoughts on what
Speaker 1: is going are they doing this on purpose, okay, or
Speaker 1: it's the NBA booking these people on purpose? Are they
Speaker 1: telling them to do something special on our land this year?
Speaker 1: Because it seems like this is the only sport what
Speaker 1: this is happening in Like the Cowboys, We got the
Speaker 1: saxophone play. He's good. You know, he's good at what
Speaker 1: he does, and we continue to keep him trump This
Speaker 1: is this is the trumpet. This is continuous with the NBA. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's my opinion. The NBA's always going to be a
Speaker 1: little more lax about what they do. They're going to
Speaker 1: do with things just a little bit differently because it's
Speaker 1: the NBA, and that's one reason why they've become very popular.
Speaker 1: Everyone is chasing Marvin Gay. And when Marvin Gay sang
Speaker 1: the national anthem at the Fabulous Forum, you're a little
Speaker 1: young for that, I definitely am, but but check it
Speaker 1: out on YouTube. This is, in my opinion, the standard
Speaker 1: of I'm going to do my own rendition and you're
Speaker 1: all gonna love it. And Marvin Gay is just truly
Speaker 1: one of the greatest soul singers I've ever heard. Marvin Gay,
Speaker 1: Sam Cook, I mean, they're just just beautiful, beautiful. You
Speaker 1: could take these guys acapella and it's, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: she didn't even need any strings or horns or anything
Speaker 1: because they're that good. People are chasing it, and it's
Speaker 1: here's the thing once again we talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to be the real deal. These people are trying
Speaker 1: to counterfeit. They're trying to sit there and copy, and
Speaker 1: they're they're coming up short. And here's that thing, bro
Speaker 1: short when you when you come up short like that,
Speaker 1: you come up real. I used to working up backwards.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? I used to work in LA
Speaker 1: and I would go to a lot of boxing events
Speaker 1: at the forum. I would go to a lot of
Speaker 1: basketball games, and then I would also go to a
Speaker 1: lot of minor league games too, be at minor league
Speaker 1: hockey games, in the minor league basketball. So I've just
Speaker 1: seen a lot of stuff. What would happen in LA.
Speaker 1: All these record companies were trying to introduce groups, and
Speaker 1: so they would send them out there. So forum boxing
Speaker 1: there would always be now newly sacient artists. They would
Speaker 1: have these who would all come out with their America,
Speaker 1: the Beautiful Rendition, or their own version of the National.
Speaker 1: I have truly seen some of the worst national anthems
Speaker 1: that you could ever imagine because in La everyone was
Speaker 1: trying to be this star. Everyone was trying to be this. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it differently. I'll tell you one time,
Speaker 1: this one group sang the national anthem for Shaquille o'deal's Shaktacular.
Speaker 1: It was this event that Shack bring in some inner
Speaker 1: city kids over to Universal Studios and he would have
Speaker 1: kind of like his Olympic Games. Thing was called Shactacular.
Speaker 1: So these guys come out there and this one dude's
Speaker 1: got this curly hair, another guys, these five of white kids,
Speaker 1: and one guy's got these twisties in his hair, and
Speaker 1: they sing the national They don't do it, they just
Speaker 1: do a regular indition. I just look at there, saying
Speaker 1: these guys are terrible, man, and I was, um, they
Speaker 1: were terrible at their normal I just I just I
Speaker 1: just looked at him, look, I looked at him. I
Speaker 1: was like this, look at these guys, man. Because at
Speaker 1: this point in time, Danny, I'm saying, I keep seeing
Speaker 1: these these new artists that people bring in. I'm like,
Speaker 1: Shakuji bring in here. And I talked to this lady
Speaker 1: who worked for this show Love Line with doctor Drew Pinsky.
Speaker 1: I looked, I said, these dudes will never make it
Speaker 1: the name of those five dudes? How wrong were you?
Speaker 1: How wrong were you? But but so they actually sound
Speaker 1: because judged past experience and all is well. I said,
Speaker 1: this is a rip off Backstreet Boys right here, which
Speaker 1: they were, but they ended up being better. But that
Speaker 1: was la. Everybody's coming up with everything different. So you
Speaker 1: get the Fergies, you get the shot of cuss because
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm gonna do something different because I
Speaker 1: want to be remembered. Like Martin, they got their names,
Speaker 1: they already who they are. Shaker count. She has no
Speaker 1: she has no need or to prove anything to us
Speaker 1: by singing a different rendition of the national anthem? What
Speaker 1: are artists? Artists are people that want to take chances
Speaker 1: and try and do different. That's a lot of just
Speaker 1: telling you did she say to somebody first? And then
Speaker 1: then they tell them, hey, yeah, that's the one you're
Speaker 1: gonna kill them with right there. Okay, you bring up
Speaker 1: a very good point because out a friend of mine
Speaker 1: in the speaking business, uh In delatoral McNeil, who said,
Speaker 1: make big mistakes on small stages. So was she singing
Speaker 1: this in some concerts that she'd been going to and
Speaker 1: people told her, boy, we really love this. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The family member told her it was good,
Speaker 1: and then they went right back behind the back and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, they're gonna laugh for all the
Speaker 1: stage because she was leaned up. I heard one on
Speaker 1: four on one on four in the morning they had
Speaker 1: a little remix of the so I know, but it's
Speaker 1: still it's still listen, that's what it's okay. NFL has
Speaker 1: that because it Levado this year. Yes, she killed it.
Speaker 1: Yes she killed it. So good job, good job to us,
Speaker 1: Good job to us, because that was that was shaky.
Speaker 1: Look the NBA, their NBA is going to allow you
Speaker 1: to express yourself a little bit more. So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: You know. The memes was still the fur, the fergie
Speaker 1: fur stuff. So bad? Was we did you see Draymond Green?
Speaker 1: Raymond look at the lips? That was bad? And then
Speaker 1: they're just trying to hold it all in. Yes, even
Speaker 1: if when the players are just like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what is she doing? Where are we now? That was bad.
Speaker 1: But I just tell them I've never seen as many
Speaker 1: bad national anthems as I did during my time in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, as all these new people came in here,
Speaker 1: so that that's what it is. Um, all right? A
Speaker 1: tweet that Ian rapperport NFL dot com put out there. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says if the players approved this deal, two tags
Speaker 1: turned into just one. He said, huge news for the Cowboys, Bucks, Titans,
Speaker 1: and others. Meaning you can't use a franchise tag on
Speaker 1: Dak and a transitional tag on a Mark Cooper. You're
Speaker 1: just gonna have one tag. So if you're Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: you and your agent are sitting at home like, Hey,
Speaker 1: which one of us is getting tagged? That's what? Which?
Speaker 1: Which one of us is getting tagged? That's easy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should This should have been easy to say. This
Speaker 1: should have been easy last year. The quarterback is gonna
Speaker 1: get tagged because who's the one guy you're afraid to
Speaker 1: lose in free agents? Yeah? Most definitely so, So Prescott
Speaker 1: gets tagged and Mark Cooper could be running free So
Speaker 1: I'm sure probably Dak and a margin. Hey, how are
Speaker 1: you doing? This is March tenth? Right, March tenth is
Speaker 1: when you gotta declare the tag writer at that's that's
Speaker 1: sounds about? Yeah? Is free agency March tenth. Uh and
Speaker 1: I noticed because I spoke about it yesterday. My birthday
Speaker 1: is on March tenth. I'll be twenty one years old.
Speaker 1: Good on March tenth. And also we'll find out if
Speaker 1: Dak is getting at or not. And the to me,
Speaker 1: if you're a Cowboys fan, you should be worried about
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper going to the market because Samari Cooper is
Speaker 1: going to get paid, and and and and fans, this
Speaker 1: is where I love about fans. Fans want to start
Speaker 1: getting into who's worth this and what guys deserve. It
Speaker 1: just takes one team who says we'll write this check
Speaker 1: because we want you. It doesn't matter about well he
Speaker 1: ranked here that they're teams out there that are desperate
Speaker 1: for players who are going to write a check. And
Speaker 1: there are a lot of teams that are going to
Speaker 1: overpay a guy. That's what free agency so much is about.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, it's going to be an overpay
Speaker 1: for you to take someone and bring them to your team.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to blow with Amari Cooper away to
Speaker 1: say I don't want to walk away from that. Well.
Speaker 1: I also think that a lot of people who watch
Speaker 1: free agency and then they don't really understand what goes
Speaker 1: into picking a free agent. So for the Raiders or
Speaker 1: for the Eagles or Mary, Cooper might not be as
Speaker 1: good of a fit, but he's a great player who
Speaker 1: they would pay top dollar for. For another team, they
Speaker 1: would pay the most for them because in their scheme
Speaker 1: he is that missing piece. He fits perfectly and as
Speaker 1: far as what routs they wanted to run, what type
Speaker 1: of physicality has, how he thinks as a player on
Speaker 1: the field, and all that stuff, it's just a different fit.
Speaker 1: So yeah, for the Cowboys, yeah he might be worth this,
Speaker 1: But to another team, if he's a perfect fit, yeah
Speaker 1: he might be worth another five, five or six million
Speaker 1: dollars because for their team they feel like that is
Speaker 1: the one piece that they're missing. That's not how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys feel about Cooper. Desperation gets a lot of deals
Speaker 1: done in free agency. And when I say desperation, there
Speaker 1: are general managers and then they're head coaches who know,
Speaker 1: we have to win this year and we don't care
Speaker 1: if we overpay because if we don't win, we're getting fired, right,
Speaker 1: We're gone, and this is something for someone else to
Speaker 1: clean up. That's another thing that fans don't talk about.
Speaker 1: Is that the Browns? Oh? I thought, you're talking about
Speaker 1: the Browns because they okay, because they paid a lot
Speaker 1: for some guys that's been They were just paying them.
Speaker 1: They didn't care if they fit the scheme or not.
Speaker 1: It was just like we got we have a bunch
Speaker 1: of good guys on our squad. I was I was
Speaker 1: in a conversation with someone about Dak Prescott and I
Speaker 1: mentioned Kirk Cousins because they were talking about how how
Speaker 1: in their minds Dak wasn't worth this number. And I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna point out Kirk Cousins to you. If you
Speaker 1: think about a three year, eighty four million dollars, this
Speaker 1: is something we've never seen in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: This guy's not a top twelve, top fifteen quarterback when
Speaker 1: he got it? What had he what had he led
Speaker 1: Washington too? Not a thing. Nothing. There was the playoffs
Speaker 1: ones right, some it was arg they lit the playoffs once. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: until they got they got they got a one time,
Speaker 1: but twenty fifteen. But we look at him overall, I say,
Speaker 1: quart is this in eighty four? Is this guy the answer? No?
Speaker 1: But Minnesota thought this was an upgrade overcase Kingdom. They
Speaker 1: didn't care what they had to do, and they wrote
Speaker 1: the check because they were desperate. They thought they were
Speaker 1: missing one piece and were so for everybody else, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins were not that one piece, but for Minnesota they
Speaker 1: were like, look, man, we just we were one step,
Speaker 1: one step away, and they thought it was Kirt. I
Speaker 1: go to Jimmy Garoppolo, who reset the market based off
Speaker 1: seven games with the San Francisco forty nine, and I
Speaker 1: defended it from this standpoint. Oh you still defending it? Yes, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: And here's why that family on San Francisco. So we
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time out there. Do you know
Speaker 1: on those PSLs that they had at Levi Stadium. They
Speaker 1: had because once the forty nineers had let Harball go
Speaker 1: and they went through Chip Kelly and Jim Thoms, there
Speaker 1: were people who were not paying them. They told you,
Speaker 1: we're gonup paying that, you know, So if you're if
Speaker 1: you're PSL was one hundred and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty bucks or fifteen hundred bucks, they they're
Speaker 1: fans like, yeah, we're not paying it, forget it and
Speaker 1: basically just ripping up. So they were now suing their
Speaker 1: own fans. It was bad. You could see red seats everywhere.
Speaker 1: When Jimmy Garoppolo got in there and he was playing,
Speaker 1: and he was for those seven games, and they were
Speaker 1: winning these games, they started fans started going. He was
Speaker 1: giving them hope, and they saw it and in their minds,
Speaker 1: and and and and and and some people they were
Speaker 1: talking about Joe Montana, like, remind me a little bit
Speaker 1: of Joe. So you know what he's up right in
Speaker 1: the check. You gotta spend the money anyway. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you know, you got to spend some money. They
Speaker 1: decided this is our guy. They wrote him a check
Speaker 1: for twenty eight million dollars and I said, you know
Speaker 1: it good good, good for you. From the standpoint that
Speaker 1: you didn't have any other option, mean they did. They
Speaker 1: didn't want to draft to Sean Watson, you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't want to draft Patrick Mahomesy. They had opportunity to
Speaker 1: go out here, get the quarter. They have options, right,
Speaker 1: so they didn't want to go that route. They got
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. You didn't want him to get to the
Speaker 1: market because you're gonna get in the market two years.
Speaker 1: So they paid him. They said, this is our guy.
Speaker 1: We believe in him. We're gonna pay him. You know what, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: You're you're the man. Fun. I don't have any issues
Speaker 1: when you are You're John Lynch and your Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: You believe this is the guy we can work because
Speaker 1: remember the thought process was they were gonna go get
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Yeah, because Shanahan didn't happen that way. Didn't
Speaker 1: happen that way. I will tell you to tell you
Speaker 1: this hindsight. And then thinking of the history of the league,
Speaker 1: if you can get away with paying that much money
Speaker 1: just to get to the Super Bowl, is worth it.
Speaker 1: And thank you. That's my other thing, because you got Chicago,
Speaker 1: who would pay that much money at any time to
Speaker 1: get back Temples will pay that much money. There's plenty
Speaker 1: of teams out there who would pay that much money
Speaker 1: to go to the Super Bowl one five years because
Speaker 1: that will pay for itself easy raising this year and
Speaker 1: people looking for them for them. It's fine, but player wise,
Speaker 1: and you think about winning games and doing all that
Speaker 1: stuff or whatever. So yes, I have no issues with
Speaker 1: them paying. Jimmy g at the time, I said it
Speaker 1: was good. I was out there in the Bay Are
Speaker 1: because it was the Cowboys Raiders game in December when
Speaker 1: we were out there and Jimmy was doing his winning
Speaker 1: and the Niners had a game that day and they
Speaker 1: had people show up this people showed up empty. There
Speaker 1: was excitement, people were talking about them on the radio. Okay,
Speaker 1: So in my mind, just seeing when you went to apathy,
Speaker 1: that's the worst thing you can have as a as
Speaker 1: a team is people don't care. People cared. People saw
Speaker 1: Jimmy his hope. They were buying into the well, you
Speaker 1: know what he played under Tom Brady. He was our
Speaker 1: part of a team to want. They were there. So
Speaker 1: if you had the fans excited about a quarterback and
Speaker 1: they're thinking he might be their next Montana, write the check.
Speaker 1: Write the check. And right now, twenty million dollars for
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in this league is nothing true because
Speaker 1: it keeps going up, or even to be only on
Speaker 1: thirty eleven Thompson, we need to get into Emmett Smith
Speaker 1: weighing in on Dak Prescott's contract, plus the rest of
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Speaker 1: Yeah week when I still picking up its must have
Speaker 1: to the sea, still picking him up? Good for him,
Speaker 1: good for good for him. My papado still hadn't been
Speaker 1: delivered or the reservation has still not been made. By
Speaker 1: the way, we uh we all must to mark where
Speaker 1: you at next week? Huh were you at next week?
Speaker 1: You know I'm just making Are you in town? I'm
Speaker 1: in town? You're good for dinner next week? Yes, I'm good.
Speaker 1: You let me know what that? Yes all you I
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Speaker 1: go to? Were gonna We're gonna meet up in that great? Fine? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm cool to I could do great man, how about one?
Speaker 1: So meet? We meet there? Great because I have to
Speaker 1: feed you then go back to yeah, yeah, I'm cool.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. Man. We're gonna get this done
Speaker 1: because you waited forty four minutes to go ahead and
Speaker 1: get in there. I didn't think about it till we
Speaker 1: start talking about Joe Burrow. Man, I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to eat. Bro I'm hungry. Good for jo, good
Speaker 1: for Joe Joy Cincinnati, Joe Burrow. Let me just in
Speaker 1: that whole aj Green and Ross. I think that they
Speaker 1: have three good players. AJ Green will be healthy. You know,
Speaker 1: he got a quarterback. I think that'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: And a J. Free. I think that he will be
Speaker 1: just first of all healthy JJ Free. Is he healthy?
Speaker 1: He's gone go on the weather on the well, No,
Speaker 1: I can see a J Green at Philadelphia out have
Speaker 1: them both never because I sure the ain't been healthy
Speaker 1: for two years, y'all season you can have you can
Speaker 1: I see him in Philadelphia. So you said Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: going to Cincinnati with no receivers. It's good. It's a
Speaker 1: good receiver draft, justin Jeffson. That's a good receiver draft,
Speaker 1: is lu But Joe Burrows gonna be a Cincinnati being
Speaker 1: period period. So uh And Dak Prescott will be a
Speaker 1: member of the Dallas Cowboys and he will have a
Speaker 1: new contract. He will have a new contract. Now a
Speaker 1: new country, not a franchise, a new countract, because I
Speaker 1: don't I don't consider those the same. Okay, I mean
Speaker 1: you got to sign it, so it is essentially a
Speaker 1: country but a long term deal. Yes, yes, okay, so
Speaker 1: you you put me down here. On February twenty first
Speaker 1: on the Players Lounge, Dallascowboys dot Com. Dak Prescott will
Speaker 1: have a long term deal and he will be playing
Speaker 1: for the team this fault. Will he miss any any
Speaker 1: OTAs or many can? Will he miss any of that
Speaker 1: time due to this? No, So they're gonna get this
Speaker 1: done or he's just are he gonna show up? He's
Speaker 1: gonna show up. They're gonna get it. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get it done. They will get it done. Um. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna get that tag, and I think that
Speaker 1: he's gonna put that pressure on him and not show
Speaker 1: up to some of these uh voluntary events. You got
Speaker 1: a new head coach who needs to put in his system.
Speaker 1: He needs the quarterback here, Cooper Rush. Putting in the
Speaker 1: system is probably not what Mike McCarthy wants or the
Speaker 1: seventy seven year old owner and Hall of Famer Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones wants. Jerry Jones knows he doesn't have that many
Speaker 1: more opportunities at a championship. Just as we saw Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott get his money he waited, Dak Prescott is going
Speaker 1: to get paid now. Emmett Smith, hall of Fame running
Speaker 1: back for the Cowboys, decided to come out on a
Speaker 1: podcast and say that Dak Prescott should take seven million
Speaker 1: dollars less. When he talked about it, it was when
Speaker 1: you look at he should take twenty eight million, So
Speaker 1: he should one seven million dollars less. Now that is
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo money. Jimmy Garoppolo made twenty eight and when
Speaker 1: Jimmy made it, he set the market off seven games
Speaker 1: place set the market at twenty eight. Emmett is saying
Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott should play for Jimmy g money, not
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz money, not Jared Goff money, his contemporaries. This
Speaker 1: is but go play for that bro our show. Our
Speaker 1: show is on Friday, which is which is difficult. So
Speaker 1: I kind of get a chance to like have to
Speaker 1: listen to everybody take take our take some sayings that
Speaker 1: we usually would have said or that we actually do
Speaker 1: say in the locker room. And I will say that
Speaker 1: I did hear Shannon Sharpe say this, but this is, uh,
Speaker 1: this is this is exactly what it is. Stop pocket watching.
Speaker 1: Are you serious? Stop count this man money. You're not
Speaker 1: even playing, You're not here. It has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with you. Let this man take care of business how
Speaker 1: you want to take care of business and make his
Speaker 1: money just like you did. The hypocrisy is unbelievable that
Speaker 1: that's that. That just stood out to me, It stood
Speaker 1: out to many fans, Danny. I was covering the team
Speaker 1: when Emmett played and that went down. I was there
Speaker 1: at the training campus Saint Edwards in Austin, Texas, because
Speaker 1: I was working there when Emmett missed the two games.
Speaker 1: I covered one of the games that he missed and
Speaker 1: then covered the first game that he got back. So
Speaker 1: I remember it, and I remembered all the scuttle. But
Speaker 1: because at the time they're defending Super Bowl champions, they
Speaker 1: ended up losing one of those games. In the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: they go oh and two, and everyone says, we've never
Speaker 1: seen a Super Bowl champions start the season off at two.
Speaker 1: Charles Haley is so mad he throws his helmet where
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is standing in the locker room, missus Jerry,
Speaker 1: and it's it's stayed. I mean the helmet stayed to
Speaker 1: all they had to go patch the ball. This thing
Speaker 1: was at deaf Con five and guess who got exactly
Speaker 1: what he wanted? It was Emmett Smith was high over
Speaker 1: the highest fade running back and something like that. He
Speaker 1: got paid more, he got he wanted more than Mary Setons.
Speaker 1: That's when he was trying to get that until he
Speaker 1: got and and can I say this deserved his money? Okay?
Speaker 1: I had no issues with Emmett getting what he wanted.
Speaker 1: I just us found it very interesting. And you tell
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I don't remember when Emmett told
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott to save some money so they can sign
Speaker 1: him Mark Cooper that and I don't remember hearing any
Speaker 1: stories about anybody on his team telling him to take
Speaker 1: less money so he can come back and win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They I'm sure they were in there saying, hey, man,
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. We need you back, but
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that you get your bread.
Speaker 1: Nobody was in the tell them to take less money
Speaker 1: or he was saying, forget y'all, I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 1: I have been very frustrated by the social media comments
Speaker 1: that people are trying to say, you can't pay Dak
Speaker 1: all that money and go win. There's not going to
Speaker 1: be anyone to put around Dak. I didn't hear that
Speaker 1: said about Matt Ryan. I didn't hear that said about
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't hear that set about Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: or Jared Golf. We pay Tony a hunt of million,
Speaker 1: and then we pay Tiring a hunt of million. What
Speaker 1: are we talking about here? It's like we even dishing
Speaker 1: out the bread. Like everybody said, it is not Dak's
Speaker 1: job to figure out how to get the pieces around him,
Speaker 1: all right, it's not his job to do that. And
Speaker 1: don't bring it in the outlier of Tom Brady because
Speaker 1: once again now he's looking back and saying, nah, not
Speaker 1: no more. So come on, man, you can't. That's just
Speaker 1: this this fallacy that that somehow that if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: pay Dak Prescott, there's nothing that nobody else is on
Speaker 1: the squad. Meanwhile, Zekiel Eli got his fifteen million per
Speaker 1: nobody can't. I find it amazing, And you know, go
Speaker 1: back to what I used to say when I did
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Radio on a national show. It's amazing on
Speaker 1: who we choose to forgive and who we choose to condemn.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff is making a lot of money with and
Speaker 1: I've got no problem with Jared Goff making a lot
Speaker 1: of money, But is Jared God, did he leave some
Speaker 1: money to pay Aaron Donald. Remember Aaron Donald wuldn't pay
Speaker 1: the time. I'm still trying to get stuff out, every
Speaker 1: piece of money that he wanted. There you go. Did
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz leave any money in Philadelphia? Guess what they're
Speaker 1: gonna figure it. It's not his job. He's not the GM,
Speaker 1: not on the books. Did Drew Breese ever try to
Speaker 1: say if any dollars in New Yorker anybody? The only
Speaker 1: person that has done that is I'm Rady the outline,
Speaker 1: so who also has a very rich wife. Yes, so
Speaker 1: it's not really hurting for cash, which I don't want
Speaker 1: to count their pocket like that. But I gotta figure
Speaker 1: out some type of reason for him to say I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I lead as much money on the table just
Speaker 1: to somebody because I'm good everybody and not like that.
Speaker 1: The Saints are one of those teams always got cap
Speaker 1: issues that are right there with the cap. Drew Brees
Speaker 1: gives no discounts. Guess what he signed and you know
Speaker 1: what they had room to sign Michael Thomas, didn't they
Speaker 1: Your job is just trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: how you do this. We signed Jay, We did all
Speaker 1: this before we signed There now here's something else, And
Speaker 1: I go back to this in the eighties that I
Speaker 1: saw working when sat before the salary cap was even there.
Speaker 1: But the forty nine ers were trying to still watch spending.
Speaker 1: Under Eddie de Barlow, they won so much people decided
Speaker 1: they would take less money to win. My friend Toy
Speaker 1: Cook for years played for the Saints, ended up going
Speaker 1: out to San Francisco, took less money because he wanted
Speaker 1: to be a part of a team that won a championship.
Speaker 1: He got a Super Bowl ring out of it. What
Speaker 1: have we seen consistently with the Patriots that they're getting
Speaker 1: people like Chris Long and Durell Reeves to take less
Speaker 1: market value because they're winning. If the Cowboys get to
Speaker 1: the point time where they're winning super Bowls, you're going
Speaker 1: to have people who decide, I will come and play
Speaker 1: less for you. The great teams have that, the Spurs,
Speaker 1: we see that happen. How about Buggy Cousins going to
Speaker 1: Golden State last year making two million bucks making middle
Speaker 1: because he wanted to be a part of it. So
Speaker 1: that's one reason, in one way the Cowboys can be
Speaker 1: good in terms of trying to get guys to come
Speaker 1: and play the lesser value. But your quarterback that's going
Speaker 1: to come in here and take a Walmart TJ Max contract.
Speaker 1: Matter how many super Bowls, no matter how many super
Speaker 1: Bowls you win, you get a new quarterback coming on
Speaker 1: his team. He not taking less money because he thinks
Speaker 1: that he go win a super bowls him. Who's going
Speaker 1: to win you the super Bowl? This is the position
Speaker 1: is different outlier, Tom Brady, everybody else money, give it
Speaker 1: to me. I have a feeling that Dak Prescott's probably
Speaker 1: not gonna show. But Emmett Smith's gala this year, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know he might. That's a good guy. We also
Speaker 1: touched some good guy you but but now you you
Speaker 1: you went to a place. Yeah, that makes him okay.
Speaker 1: This is the public perception. The public perception for people
Speaker 1: is that Dak is being greedy or Dak is not
Speaker 1: a team player. I watched I watched the clip of
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick, who I enjoyed Dan Patrick's radio show, and
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick is out here to well, you know what,
Speaker 1: if you win a super Bowl there you can you
Speaker 1: can win for so you should take less money and
Speaker 1: you should put people no how about this argument? All right, man,
Speaker 1: you're making so much money off the field on sponsorships,
Speaker 1: that you should take less money because you're gonna make
Speaker 1: it up anyway off the field. What does that have
Speaker 1: to do with anything with Jerry Jones and up and
Speaker 1: uh Dak Prescott. But his play on the field, like
Speaker 1: I told you last night, that will be the equal
Speaker 1: to us doing our regular job here right, and our
Speaker 1: bosses are we are on salary, they paying up some money,
Speaker 1: and we decide nine ten o'clock at night, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go drive Uber to make some extra cash. We get
Speaker 1: back and work the next day, and the boss says,
Speaker 1: you know what, since you have enough time to go
Speaker 1: drive Uber at nine and ten o'clock, we're just gonna
Speaker 1: pay you less and it is still even out to
Speaker 1: what you was making originally. Anyway, That is crazy or
Speaker 1: the other thing that I've seen people beat up guys for, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's so busy out here doing these endorsements and doing
Speaker 1: this other stuff that he's not concentrating on football. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have people beat up Tony Roman and say, oh,
Speaker 1: he's golfing, He's out here doing this thing. He doesn't
Speaker 1: care about football. So it's interesting of this gift and
Speaker 1: the curse and you want to say that I am
Speaker 1: a fan of Kristaps Porzingis of the Mavericks. They don't
Speaker 1: get this guy unless he had the knee entry. Okay,
Speaker 1: because the projection he was on with the Knicks and
Speaker 1: making an All Star team. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: people were thinking was going to be one of the
Speaker 1: next sets of young superstars. But he gets hurt and
Speaker 1: then he tells the Knicks he wants out. The Mavericks
Speaker 1: make the trade for him. Mark Cuban paid him a
Speaker 1: franchise record one hundred and fifty eight million dollars over
Speaker 1: the summer. He had yet to play one regular season game.
Speaker 1: I never heard anybody say Mark Cubans should make Chris
Speaker 1: staus Porzingis go out there and play and prove himself.
Speaker 1: Nobody said Chris stops Porzingis should take less money so
Speaker 1: the Mavericks can go out here sign on them. You
Speaker 1: never heard that. But for some reason, we're beating up Dak.
Speaker 1: We But but there are a bunch of people beating
Speaker 1: up Dak on that level here, And I don't get
Speaker 1: it of how a guy who has performed at a
Speaker 1: high level like Dak Prescott has that has If you
Speaker 1: go and look at all the metrics. This is a
Speaker 1: top ten, top twelve quarterback in the NFL last year.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, and I've said many times before,
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak Prescott had elite coaching when he
Speaker 1: was here. It wasn't no Sean McVay callin plays or
Speaker 1: Sean Payton calling plays around here and running that offense
Speaker 1: as a head coach. Didn't see that there, You didn't
Speaker 1: see it. Mike McCarthy is an elite play call an
Speaker 1: elite head coach. So you put Dak Prescott with a
Speaker 1: guy like McCarthy, I think of what could be. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, let's be honest here. The team
Speaker 1: could have probably got Dak at thirty thirty million dollars
Speaker 1: last year. They didn't do it. It's kind of the
Speaker 1: same thing that happened with Tank Lawrence. You could have
Speaker 1: got these guys at a cheaper rate, but you wanted
Speaker 1: to see them play it out. Well, you also wanted
Speaker 1: to pay LC Collins, and you want to pay Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: You you know, you want to take care of those
Speaker 1: guys who you were talking about. You know, the pie
Speaker 1: how much pies love, Dak won't have to pie all right,
Speaker 1: So you either gonna pay him or you're not. But
Speaker 1: outside of that, if you are an influential person and
Speaker 1: you are a former player, you do not you do
Speaker 1: not speak on this guy taking first. Don't speak gonna
Speaker 1: take a less money, especially not almost a third like
Speaker 1: seven millions, like seven million dollars, there's nothing seven okay,
Speaker 1: So seven million in a year. Let's say he wants
Speaker 1: to do a six year deal. You know, look at that.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you start talking about that, kind of
Speaker 1: you spaceically saying, hey, man, take a year less salary
Speaker 1: of what you could be. The franchise tag might be
Speaker 1: thirty three point for me that I read that on
Speaker 1: Pro football talk dot com. So if the franchise tag
Speaker 1: is that, why are you taking twenty eight? That's the
Speaker 1: other thing, like, right, right, do you understand it's been
Speaker 1: very oh man? And now did you see the two
Speaker 1: tongue of Ioloa interview? Didn't? Okay? So two was talking
Speaker 1: with Steve Wishon said how he was a Cowboy fan
Speaker 1: growing up and then mentioned deal, Oh you know what, man,
Speaker 1: I love to play for Cowboys and he's like and
Speaker 1: then Steve, which is like, you know what, they already
Speaker 1: got a quarter they got da I can back Dack up.
Speaker 1: You know. So I'm listening to people talking about what
Speaker 1: if we go get to and I'm sitting here to
Speaker 1: myself one more time saying, you know, the owner seventy
Speaker 1: seven years old, the owner does not want to go
Speaker 1: get a hurt quarterback and then developing. Okay, a hurt
Speaker 1: quarter You don't even know what he can do for
Speaker 1: you this year, So let's go draft a hurt quarterback,
Speaker 1: wait for him to develop, figure out the game. He's
Speaker 1: not doing that, not when he's got a guy that
Speaker 1: he's liked and he's invested. If Jerry Jones wanted to
Speaker 1: invest the number of years he did in Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: a decade, you think he's gonna go ahead and dunk
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott after four years and he's told us all
Speaker 1: he likes him. I don't know why there are a
Speaker 1: group of fans who just want Dak Prescott gone out
Speaker 1: of here so bad that they're they're there. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're using logic and even understanding what they're saying
Speaker 1: about the quarterback that they have. Well, a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't usual logic when he comes to situation like this,
Speaker 1: especially fans, and you just got to take it with
Speaker 1: a grant. It'saw sometimes because sometimes people just don't understand
Speaker 1: the game in the way that you do, or understand
Speaker 1: the way that the front office works like you do
Speaker 1: because you've been around it. They don't. So they see
Speaker 1: what they see on Twitter, they see what they see
Speaker 1: on Instagram, they see what they hear, what they hear
Speaker 1: on first take and all this other stuff, and it
Speaker 1: just snippets. They don't really unders and you can't be
Speaker 1: mad atenh for that because they just that's not their job.
Speaker 1: All right. So Danny, here's the thing. The consistent person
Speaker 1: who's telling that the Dak's not worth this and get
Speaker 1: rid of DAK is the same fan who tells and
Speaker 1: says to me on social media we need to bring
Speaker 1: dead Man. You know, I just told you I said
Speaker 1: DA's look good over that Bass Scott. I'm white. It's
Speaker 1: no pass or nothing. But as far as him working
Speaker 1: out and looking quick and fast enough to play the game,
Speaker 1: I think he looks good. One thing I want to
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you new before we get off here,
Speaker 1: because I gotta bring my keep my LSU on, all right.
Speaker 1: You know who got his office of coordinator, right, Scott Linahan,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, are we okay? I asked,
Speaker 1: I asked Brian broad Us this, and Brian broad Us
Speaker 1: says he's fine because he won't be calling plays that
Speaker 1: he's an analyst. Since you were talking about Deser wants
Speaker 1: you to know this is happening in Fort Worth today.
Speaker 1: See who does Brian my homeboy? So you said get
Speaker 1: rid of Sammy Watkins and let DA's get on there.
Speaker 1: I'm just he looked good. I'm gonna just call it
Speaker 1: like it is. I don't know. I watched the clips
Speaker 1: that he put up, and of course they are highlights,
Speaker 1: but I mean, he looks healthy, he looks quick, he
Speaker 1: looks fast enough, and he can he can always catch
Speaker 1: the ball. He looks focused. Talk to you and Cowboy Nation.
Speaker 1: When I say this, just Dez Bryant's not walking through
Speaker 1: that door. No, no no, I didn't say anything about him
Speaker 1: coming back to the Cowboy But I'm just but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, they are a group of people out here
Speaker 1: who are adamant and want this to happen in the
Speaker 1: worst way. They really think this is gonna happen if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do what we think they'll do. And bring
Speaker 1: back Amari Cooper and bring back Randall Cobb to go
Speaker 1: with Michael Gallo. There's no place for Dez Bryant. There's
Speaker 1: also the issues that Dez Bryant had with certain members
Speaker 1: of this football team on his way out, and he's
Speaker 1: reiterated on Twitter that would be an issue for him
Speaker 1: to come back. Dez Bryant is not going to wear
Speaker 1: the star again. You're right, but you I mean, but
Speaker 1: you can't be mad at those people because they loved
Speaker 1: this Bryan. They see him do some great things. This
Speaker 1: is this is all emotional for them. This is emotional,
Speaker 1: not business wise. So so, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1: The guy. I believe somebody's gonna call him. I believe
Speaker 1: he's gonna play, and I think he's gonna make a
Speaker 1: difference on somebody's team, somebody's I'm not sure. You know,
Speaker 1: you never know the relationship between the Joneses and dead
Speaker 1: You never know. It's not gonna happen. You never know. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll put no, no, no, I just want my papa
Speaker 1: those first. You can't make another bet until last. I'm
Speaker 1: paying your back. I'm paying your back and that's done,
Speaker 1: new bet. Okay, Look we can so that bead is there. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's non negotiable. It's it's it's done. Okay, you won
Speaker 1: that bet, it will be paid. I'm not doing a
Speaker 1: double enough. But what did you just say about that?
Speaker 1: So we can on somebody's team full season? No, no, no, See,
Speaker 1: he's going to play on someone's team in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: He's going to get a shot. And I think he's
Speaker 1: going to shine. I'll get that. I get that. I
Speaker 1: don't know how it's gonna play out of he you know,
Speaker 1: he's in training camp but doing all that stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But he'll be on somebody's squad. Is that.
Speaker 1: I bet you willing to mate? You can go to
Speaker 1: Papa see those this time because I like Mexican too.
Speaker 1: All the papers give I think you are. I think
Speaker 1: you're correct there. I think I wouldn't make that. You
Speaker 1: want You're want to be going too against me? I no,
Speaker 1: I think because all somebody's got to do is sign
Speaker 1: him in camp and bring him in and then he's
Speaker 1: on a tap. I got the shine part, I said,
Speaker 1: I said, I think he's going to shine as will.
Speaker 1: He's going to shine in the role that he's given Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to debate you on that. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna debate you on that. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: bebate you. My big thing is to stand biased. He's
Speaker 1: not playing here anymore. And there's this group of fans
Speaker 1: who are willing to let Dak Prescott go for Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill or Joe Flacco. I mean, that's some of the
Speaker 1: crazy things. Or let's make a trade up for two
Speaker 1: a tong of iolo. I'm just playing, and people who
Speaker 1: want to then bring in this just playing. Man, it's
Speaker 1: my team, that's what they playing. This is not what
Speaker 1: the organization is working towards. They're working towards a long
Speaker 1: term deal for Dak Prescott. They're working who's trying to
Speaker 1: keep Amari Cooper. They're not working towards bringing back um
Speaker 1: As Brunt and oh, by the way, the head coach
Speaker 1: has these things that he wants to head coach is
Speaker 1: coming here because he's anticipating in the work with number four.
Speaker 1: That's what he's looking to do. Listen, we see, we
Speaker 1: got we got it. It's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a crazy month of March, Yes it is. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be crazy about the march. Yes, yes, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do, and then with one transition tag, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. Well see, it's gonna be tough. But I
Speaker 1: do think that you'll see Dak Prescott with a long
Speaker 1: term deal involved in all the offseason activities with the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. He's dannyven Cray, I'm new, he scrugs. This
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