WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Should Dak Take Less Money? 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:28.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This ship is the 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:33.480 Player's Luge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.239 the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny mccraig, and 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:43.640 new He scrugs, all right, Friday one hour of fun 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.360 minus Berry Church, minus my tears shift for my god Man. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.160 We've been missing him often throughout the twenty twenty season, 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.040 but he has He has great reasons, So I'm not 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.200 gonna be Tom Coughlin started taking things on Church from 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.640 missing activities. But hey, I just know my role. My 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.880 role is to be here at eleven am on Fridays 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.840 for the Players Lounge. I'm knew, he scrugs. He is 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.560 Danny mccraie, former Dallas Cowboys. A lot to get to 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.280 here over the hour. Now, look, this show is different. Okay, 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.480 We're going to be more relaxed. We're gonna have some 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.240 more fun, We're gonna give more opinions about what we're thinking. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.640 I must start with the collective Bargaining Agreement, and fans 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.120 really need to understand. This is where the NFL owners 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.800 and the players get together to say this is the 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.800 contract in which we will have our working conditions and 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.640 we will run the league. So the owners have approved it. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.039 The owners have gotten together and said, Okay, this is 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.319 the deal we will accept. So today the NFL Players 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:49.040 Association is supposed to get in there, dive into it 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.360 and go to the membership and ask them what it 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:56.240 is they want. Byron Jones represents the Dallas Cowboys. So Danny, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.680 as a former player and having gone through this before, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.960 give our our Cowboy fans a sense of what happens. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:07.200 What does Byron do his alternates Joe Looney, how are 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.040 they meeting with the Cowboys players and how did they 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.440 break down? Because it's a lot to get into. How 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.320 did they break it down? So back in twenty ten, 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.040 my rookie year, we went through this process and Jason 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.600 Witten was our was our spokes spokesman for the NFL PA. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.680 So we had a lot of meetings where we would 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.400 it would be players only we would come in. He 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.480 would get us in the auditorium, he would kind of 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.000 break down the most important parts of the PA and 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.800 what he thought about it. He would give us a 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.480 chance to vote, give people a chance to speak and 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.240 let them know if they liked it or if they didn't, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.640 and then he would, based on what he the feedback 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.600 that he got from Russell would go back and meet 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.000 with the rest of the other thirty two NFLPA spokespeople 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.200 and they would vote and they would say yes, we 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:52.760 agree on this, yes we don't, and then they would 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.320 talk to d Smith and if he felt that that 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.320 was right, then he would say yes. If not, he 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.560 say no. And we went through a process where it 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.400 was a lot of nos in twenty eleven. So you 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.760 went through a lot of knows. How did you finally 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.080 get to the yeses? What was that? What was that 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.720 time frame? Man? That I remember that pressure is what? 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.360 Uh what got to the yes is right? I was. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.720 I would tell you this. I was so surprised as 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.200 a rookie to hear of how many big money guys 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.040 were hurting for cash after one or two months of 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.360 this of the lockout. It was crazy, the stories that 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.440 people would come back. And I remember d Ware. I 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:32.959 was sitting next to d Wear in the locker room 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.640 and uh, it was it was a point where we 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.800 were getting uh kind of checks that hold us over 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.360 because every month the NFLPA would hold a little bit 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.560 from our check just for these type of situations, and 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.680 we were sitting there and d war It's like, I'm 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.000 sending my check back to give it to these guys 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.920 who are having these issues. And I'm like, how Like, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.920 I'm a rookie, I'm making rookie minimum and I'm at 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.360 least able to make it two months, and these guys 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.880 aren't being able to make that, make those payments. So 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.240 as it comes to when you're about to miss those 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.080 real checks, those twenty and thirty thousand dollars checks, it 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.440 was like, hey man, the pressure was put on those 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.600 those league guys to say, hey, let's let's hurry up 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.480 and get something done. So once it was kind of 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.280 in that idea we might miss a game or two, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.760 that's when they got real serious and people started moving, 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.680 making moves. Which is why I say the nfl PA 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.200 will never and has never had the kind of cloud 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.919 that Major League Baseball players Association's ad because those players 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.719 have gone on strike, those players have missed games. If 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.800 you don't miss any games, then you'll never be able 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.200 to fully get everything you want as a player because 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.760 you are the product. Look, the NFL cannot sit around 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.560 here and try and roll out scab players the replacements. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.000 They can't do that again. I mean, let's just say 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:49.320 you wanted to go get a bunch of guys from 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.520 the XFL and play them this fall. If we've seen 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.560 what the XFL is in the struggles that they've got 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.800 to just generate points. It is hard. These are the 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.080 best players in the world. But if these players refuse 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.080 to miss games, because that's to me, that's the only 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.479 way you make real You've got to sacrifice something to 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.479 get something, and the NFL players have been unwilling to 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.600 do that in the past, which is why the owners 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.320 continually don't have to hand out guaranteed contracts. That's one 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.520 thing I've always just wondered about from the outside is, Hey, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.920 if I'm a player, what's one thing I really want. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.920 I want to see what baseball players and basketball players get, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.760 which is a guaranteed contract. Think about Christaps Porzingis and 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:30.200 the Mavericks one hundred and fifty eight million dollars guarantee. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:35.480 And think about this Danny he never played one regular 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:40.280 season game for Dallas before he signed that contract this summer. Yeah, man, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.720 that's the NBA. I will say this as far as 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.280 getting like getting people to be on board with that. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.680 We have so many more people in our league, right, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.159 it's a lot more difficult to get the start of 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.760 ninety and then those fifty three of every team to 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.560 feel that way, right. Yeah, of course Tom Brady and 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.000 those guys making all that money, Yeah, they fine, But 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.640 then you've got another twenty guys at the bottom of 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.559 the roster who making minimum. Who's like, hey, no matter 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.120 what happens with this CBA, I'm still gonna be making minimum. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.840 Like this, this deal for the NFL, and if these 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.560 players are really for the top five or six guys 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.000 on the roster, right when you go, hey, you guys 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.320 get two more percent of the revenue gap right in 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.400 the bottom half of the roster gets the ninety thousand 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.440 dollars increase. Yeah, the top half of the roster is 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.560 getting another ten fifteen million. This is for them. So 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.320 me sitting at the bottom, when you're trying to get 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.479 all these guys to say, nah, man, hey, let's miss 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.800 a couple of games. It's like I'm making the same 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.760 amount of bread anyway, And if I'm in the middle, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.000 I'm probably gonna get released for a younger guy to 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.840 come in because now they can't afford to pay me 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.920 because they're gonna pay the quarterbacks and the receivers all 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.320 this money. So ultimately, in this new CBA that has 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.600 been proposed by the owners, there are no guaranteed contracts, 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.960 so so it's going to basically this will continue to 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.880 go on. Now, I'll say this when I watch NBA 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.720 free agent sign tracks again, I don't want to see 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.600 anymore tweets from NFL players talking about we should be this, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.880 and I wish I had, I mean, the the the 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.160 enviousness that I've seen these tweets when NBA guys get 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.520 money from NFL players, I want to hear anymore because 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.080 this was the opportunity to try to go to membership 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.080 and say, look, but if you but if you're in 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.280 the minority, and you and you, and you voted for that, 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.080 then you can still got the right to be envious. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.440 I mean, you could still be upset with the majority 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.320 who voted opposite of you, but you still got the 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.600 right to be envious of not having a guaranteed contrary. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.960 You know, the Kirk Cousins. However, one guy on ever 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:34.880 want to hear say that it's Kyler Murray because he 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.400 had money, he had the money in the baseball he 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.640 turned it away. So here a couple of points about 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:44.000 this CBA. Andrew Brant used to be the legal the 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.280 legal guy for the Green Bay Packers. He's now out 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.440 and he's he's a very popular member in the medium. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.240 But he talks about the new CBA and the marijuana 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.320 testing in there. That testing windows go from four months 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.640 to two weeks at the start of training camp, reduces 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.920 the number of players tested, reduce penalties for positive tests, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.600 and raises nanogram threshold for a positive test from thirty 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:11.120 five to one fifty, which is the World Doping um 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:17.480 Agency threshold there. So basically, the NFL is putting out 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.160 there that we're really not trying to have guys miss 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.000 games anymore for marijuana. That they're more they're more understanding 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.480 of it. We now know that there are states like California, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:32.520 in Colorado and Washington where where miracle where marijuana is legal. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.320 So they they're they're changing that. And look, I get 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.000 this thing too. I mean the end of the day, 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.640 having guys miss games for marijuana tests is nothing, is 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.840 nothing any of these owners want, they want their best players. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.079 They want their players, period and Glad you made that point, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.280 because I was driving in here and listen to radio, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.520 and I was hearing these guys talk about that when 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.560 you and these negotiation periods and uh, you know, everybody's 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.120 holding strong, and then all of a sudden you start 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.880 seeing things that are given out there that you you 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.400 assume are big, and they really the owners are giving 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.760 it to the players. It doesn't really hurt the owners. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.600 They don't lose anything about getting it. As a matter 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.480 of fact, like you said, they actually lose some money 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.640 by having these great players a miss this time off 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.760 the field for felling these tests. Right, So what are 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.800 you really getting out of it? On the players side? 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.920 This is a plus. This is a plus for both. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:26.400 Now here's another thing that I thought the players would 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.079 make sure they got, but I don't see there at all. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:35.880 Was limiting Roger Goodell's power. Oh yeah, go back to 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.640 Ezekiel Eli. So it was Roger Goodell who had the 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.720 ability to wield out the six game suspension. The players, Okay, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.520 just make sure people get this. The players Union said, yeah, Roger, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.040 it's okay. You can go ahead and suspend this at 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.079 will the way you want to. Why would you not 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.120 change that at all. If you're the players Association, is 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.000 that a not in There's that absolutely not changed. Well, 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.320 the owners didn't put it in there, oh when they 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.360 handed over to the players. So maybe I want to 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.160 do Maybe Richard Sherman and somebody's out there saying, we 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.320 gotta add this in, and we gotta add this in, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.080 we gotta add this in, and we would send them 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.400 back and see if they agree with it or not. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:19.040 Because I'm of the opinion Roger Goodell suspending Ezekiel Elliott 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:24.040 and Tom Brady did nothing to help the league. If anything, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.160 you hurt your product because Tom Brady's not there out 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.520 on the field playing games. It's Jacobe were setting Jimmy 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.920 Garoppolo and while the Patriots are able to get by 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.839 without him and go win the Super Bowl. At the 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.120 end of the day, you know what I know as 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.600 a fan, I want to see Tom Brady. You're paying 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.840 to see Tom Brady play, especially when he comes to 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.440 your town, right I know. I mean there are two 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.400 teams right now in the NFL. When they come to 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.800 your town, you're selling the stadium map. It's the Cowboys 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.040 and the Patriots. People want to see Tom Brady play. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.000 And then when Ezekiel Elliott was suspending, who was that hurting? 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.520 Oh goodness that this wasn't you know? That was hurting 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.960 your league? That was hurting because at the end of 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.760 the day, we know what Cowboy ratings are, all right. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.240 When you start looking at the networks for Fox, CBS, ESPN, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.080 and NBC, you go look at what's their highest rated game. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.240 It's a Cowboy game versus someone else, the Cowboys equal ratings. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.160 You take away ezekielity, you're hurting yourself. And then what 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.800 are now people talking about. They're talking about what was 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.959 going on with Elliott in his situation and what was 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.520 going on with Tom Brady, which doesn't make the league 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.640 look good. So I think if I'm the players Association, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.040 I go back there and I just say, look, Roger 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.679 Goodell cannot have a limited power to just sit us 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.800 down anyway he wants it. He cannot be the judge, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.760 jury and execution. So so so what is the alternative 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:47.520 to to that? Is it a vote between three or 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.680 four people and he has to go talk to somebody 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:50.880 else first, or like what does he has to talk 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.560 Detroy visit and then arbitrating is first off, I would 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.320 think an independent arbitrator is wasn't needed. That's what I 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.080 would want if i'm players. So if we're going first off, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.600 you go back and say no, he can't do it. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:05.480 So if the owners push back on that, then then 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.760 what will playing B to B? I would tell d Smith, Hey, look, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.400 let's figure out some way that if Roger Goodell wants 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.880 to say I'm going to suspend Tom Brady four games 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.200 for deflate gate, then we need to go to an arbitrator, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.240 and we need to put both sides out there. You 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.160 present your case, will present our case, and then let 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.079 the arbitrator decide whether or not this this this can 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.920 be held up. But I just don't think it's right 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.560 to have one person be able to decide whether or 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.520 not because what do we see consistently it's we don't 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.400 see any consistency with the way that they're sitting here 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.000 punishing players. And Lord Miles Garapas would be suspended for 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.760 they said indefinitely, So they so they met the rest 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.240 of the season. It was basically Roger Goodell's decision. So 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.240 it was they suspended and for the rest of the year. Well, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.559 they said indefinitely. You know, best said you're suspended for 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.640 the rest of the season and suspended to definite, which 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.760 was will decide when you get to come back. Now, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.599 what are the beauties of listening to what's happened with 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.320 the hut To Astros over Major League Baseball is and 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.559 people say, well, why does it Rob Manford just suspend 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.319 all these guys. The Players Association won't let you do 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.320 it because they've got an iron clad agreement about the 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.080 types of punishments that you can and can't do. So 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.280 basically Rob Manford's hands were tied. I would suspend these guys. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.760 No you're not, No you're not. Because they talked about 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.640 all right there was they were never given quote unquote notice, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.800 which meant that Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball needed 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.800 to give notice to all the players. What they did 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.840 was tell the Houston Astros management, the general manager. Okay, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.560 so Manford told the general manager at all major league 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.320 general managers, and so their job was then to go 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.760 down and tell the players, Hey, you know what, can't 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.480 be cheating anymore. It's all written right here. Lou Now 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.679 never did it, Jeff lu Now, the GM never did it. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.920 So the Players Associations, I guess what so so so 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.960 the GM, he never, he said, he never went and 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.040 told them how pay said it. We never got The 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.480 players said that. He also said that he didn't say 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.880 it right, and the players soci they were never given notice. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.559 Y'all didn't tell us to stop cheating, broke being go right. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.000 So since you never gave me notice, you can't suspend me. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.920 That's how powerful the Players Association is in Major League 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.280 Baseball that the commissioners I can't even mess with these guys. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.440 We need to write that down on a whole bunch 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.480 of different other scenarios. And that's why I say, until 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.320 you go out and miss games, until you make a 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.600 sacrifice as a union, you're not going to be able 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.960 to get the power and the things that you want. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.080 That's why baseball has got what they have. So you've 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:46.560 got to be able to do it. Um. And from 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.720 what you're telling me, there's so many guys and so 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.360 many people who aren't saving or willing to make the 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.280 sacrifice that it doesn't happen, which is why you don't 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.680 have the guarantee a lot of who they do not. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.760 You make a very significant amount of money each week 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.800 right during the season. Imagine missing a month of that, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.680 even even the person making minimum is losing almost one 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.040 hundred and twenty hundred and thirty thousand dollars. All right, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.760 and in that month, let me let me throw this 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.320 out here, just got this from from from our pretty 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.840 sorry player. Discipline for all field violations would be heard 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.960 by neutral arbitrator, but appeals would go to the commissioner, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.960 and the league would still conduct its own investigations into 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.160 such matters. So when you say heels would go to 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.400 the commission, it still means guess what, well, you got 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.200 some of it. You got the first the first part 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.360 of it, but independent arbitrary. You know, I just would 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.600 want as little possible going to the commission based on 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.360 what we've seen. So so what I'm saying, so it 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.640 will go to the arbitrator. The arbitrator would make the decision, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.720 and then if you want to appeal that decision, it 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.640 would go to Roger Goodell. So essentially the arbitrator has 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.600 made the decision anyway, so Roger gonna say yes, I 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.400 accept the pills or not. So at least you got 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.160 him out of the He's out of the person one, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.760 all right, all right, So that's good. That's a that's 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.680 a that's better than what we've seen there. All right, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.760 there is something in this CBA that's been that the 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.000 owners have accepted that if you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.160 you should be very, very worried about concerning trying to 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.800 keep a couple of free agents a month all no 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.280 Cowboys want. We will dive into that next right here 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.720 on the players Land. I'm Jay Novachik, former tight end 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.400 for the Dallas Cowboys. Back in the day. 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Um does anybody who's down to Jacksonville. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.399 I don't even know Doug Marone, the head coach, was 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.400 see him anymore after after everything had happened there. Um 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.520 that was that was that was that was That was 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.840 a bad, bad decision, and how they were trying to 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.560 trying to fix that thing. They're like to me that 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.280 the Jacksonville Jaguars might be the Sacramento Kings, Like these 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.600 two organizations keep having these issues. Man, But it's crazy 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.520 enough because you thought they were old uncle. The upcome 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.440 after I said, you know, they should have beat the Patriots. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.800 I mean, they should have was Pittsburgh. It was it 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.960 was the Patriots, and and but and ever since then, well, 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.680 I mean, but they depend on Blake Borders. I'm sorry, yes, 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:41.879 depend on Blake boards. Put go back to this situation 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.760 where the next year, the thinking they had, well we're 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.400 going to go to the super Bowl, that they thought 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.399 they could just pick up where they left off and 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.240 we were going to be that. And they did all 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.760 this talking, put this big old bulls eye on their chest, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.639 and and they failed to meet expectations. Didn't show up. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.040 Blake Borders didn't show up. Look, it is it's hard 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:07.159 to think. And Steve Young talked about this in his 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.600 book The QB. When you get up there to Mount Everest, 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.320 you have to go all the way back down and 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.600 start the climb again. You know, you don't get to 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.520 Everest in a week. It's it's a long, long, long climb. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.960 It's really really hard and you have to start again. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.000 And for many years, when coaches would say, well, you know, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.240 every team is different, every year is different, I just 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.080 kind of thought it was coach speak. But then once 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:29.920 you start covering the game and you get around it, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.120 you start to see, yes, every team is different. Mentalities 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.080 are different. Um that last place schedule that Jacksonville was 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.359 able to utilize to get to the SC championship, Well, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.840 now I guess what your first place. Now everybody's looking 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.320 at you. Everybody's studying and putting in more time in 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.760 the offseason to check you and what it is you do. Well, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:51.120 it's hard when you're the hunting. Well ask Carolina they 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:55.439 went to the Super Bowl, got it ain't been the 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.520 same sense. Oh. One of the things that I also 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.879 have noticed, and this just doesn't apply to football, really 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.679