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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday, guys. We are here at the Star, rainy
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Speaker 1: looks very confused right now. What's going on with your
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's what's going on here. We have
Speaker 1: some interesting things that we're gonna be talking about today,
Speaker 1: one of them being Jerry Jones that made a comment
Speaker 1: earlier this morning. We'll get into that later in the segment,
Speaker 1: but first let's start off with where we left off
Speaker 1: on yesterday's show. Derek, you we're gonna bring the whole
Speaker 1: ze versus Jalen Ramsey and Miles Jack versus Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: What was your question with that? Well, really, what I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about was right now. This week, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys face a team where there are two players on
Speaker 1: each team that are inextricably linked to players on the
Speaker 1: other team because of where they would drafted. I think
Speaker 1: if you remember back, Jalen Smith and Miles Jack, they
Speaker 1: were the two linebackers that in that draft most people
Speaker 1: thought were the two best linebackers in that draft, but
Speaker 1: for the fact that they were both injured, and then
Speaker 1: there were questions about how injured. Right there was questions
Speaker 1: about Miles Jack was more he could play. I think yes.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Brian. His quote was he could
Speaker 1: play ten games or ten years, Like it was one
Speaker 1: of those things where he can play now, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how long he'll play. With Jayalen Smith, it
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know if you'll ever play well again.
Speaker 1: In both of them are playing now, both of them
Speaker 1: are playing pretty well. Um. So I ask you, guys
Speaker 1: the question with regards to Miles Jack and Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: do you think the Cowboys still made the right decision
Speaker 1: in going with Miles Jack and not going with I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: and going with Jaylen Smith and not going with Miles Jack.
Speaker 1: I take issue with it on a small level, just
Speaker 1: because like, for instance, the Zeke Jalen thing, that is
Speaker 1: an interesting and lively debate because Zeke Zeke up, I
Speaker 1: thought you Jalen Smith. Yeah, I got to get that now. Um,
Speaker 1: we know that it was pretty much down to those two.
Speaker 1: They were going to take one, and they chose Zeke.
Speaker 1: I have never heard anything to suggest that if they
Speaker 1: hadn't taken Jalen Smith, that they were going to take
Speaker 1: Miles Jack. He had his own medical They didn't work
Speaker 1: with him the way that they did the surgery on Jalen.
Speaker 1: They did not have that inside information that made the
Speaker 1: you know, they were so confident in Jaylen because of that.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's as clean of a compare Arrison,
Speaker 1: just because if they hadn't taken Jalen Smith, I don't
Speaker 1: know for sure what they would have done, so it's
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But do you think that that
Speaker 1: was a situation where they took Jalen Smith because of
Speaker 1: the talent, not necessarily because they felt like they needed
Speaker 1: to get a linebacker? Oh? Do you think there was
Speaker 1: another linebacker that they had ahead of Miles Jack that
Speaker 1: they may would that maybe they would have taken I
Speaker 1: I that's I don't know, because Miles Jack was clearly
Speaker 1: the next best linebacker and Kevin Dodd and there was another. Oh,
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Ogba literally went off the board boom boom,
Speaker 1: right in front of him. So like that's and Oga.
Speaker 1: They were supposedly very they were probably going to draft
Speaker 1: Ogba if he hadn't gone to Cleveland two picks before.
Speaker 1: But I can't say it with certainty that they would
Speaker 1: have taken Miles Jack in that spot. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what they would have done. They could have. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were some corners there. I think there was there
Speaker 1: were safeties. I'd have to look at it to be sure.
Speaker 1: But so I don't think it's as easy as saying,
Speaker 1: if Jalen Smith isn't on this team, Miles Jack is.
Speaker 1: But they clearly I mean to talk to any draft analyst,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Smith would have been ranked is one of
Speaker 1: the five best players in that draft if he has overall,
Speaker 1: absolutely if he hadn't been hurt. So we know they
Speaker 1: like to take chances in the second round. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: our doctor gave us a reason to feel good about this,
Speaker 1: and if he can even get close to that talent level,
Speaker 1: this pick will be worth it, and we killed him
Speaker 1: for it, a lot of people did, and it it's
Speaker 1: still early, but it looks like it's paying off. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if they make a good decision, even if he
Speaker 1: just plays at this level, you know, borderline Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: probably still not perfect, but still with his leadership and
Speaker 1: intangibles and everything, I mean, yeah, it looks like it's
Speaker 1: going to be well worth it in the long run. Nick, Um,
Speaker 1: I agree with all that. I think doctor Cooper is
Speaker 1: the is the key there. I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: the information that they got, Um, Yeah, and you're right,
Speaker 1: this is not a clear cut I mean Myles Jack
Speaker 1: I don't even know was on their board. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about that because he's just never his name was
Speaker 1: never being mentioned. He really wasn't being talked about it
Speaker 1: other than Brian. I mean, I don't And that's that's
Speaker 1: my point is, Yeah, I don't know if he's on
Speaker 1: their board either because and it's it's different because Jalen's
Speaker 1: like he's got to do all this recovery, whereas Miles Jack,
Speaker 1: to your points, like he could play today, but we're
Speaker 1: not sure about that knee. So Jalen, though, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that they had just evaluated him so high.
Speaker 1: That was like, you know, we've done this before with
Speaker 1: other guys, with players that are you know, fall into
Speaker 1: this spot. This is what Jerry likes to do, and
Speaker 1: it's worked pretty well. Worked with Shawn Lee, I think
Speaker 1: you could say. I mean, they tried it with Bruce Carter.
Speaker 1: That didn't really work so well. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: there's been some others in the second round that that
Speaker 1: you know, did Lawrence come in with an injury? Um? No, No,
Speaker 1: I thought one of the defensive ends came in. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't remember. You can make Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: was another situation, you know. So it falls for different reasons.
Speaker 1: So they're looking for value in the second round. You
Speaker 1: can't get any better value than that. If he can
Speaker 1: play to that level right now, he's doing it. So
Speaker 1: I think that one's pretty good and the other one.
Speaker 1: The other one's interesting too. Yeah, if you're going there, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you look at Jalen Ramsey and you look
Speaker 1: at Ezekiel Elliot, and like you said, Dave, they were
Speaker 1: going to pick. The conventional wisdom was they were going
Speaker 1: to pick one of those two guys. They chose Zeke
Speaker 1: over Jalen Ramsey, and I think the biggest question around
Speaker 1: that really is about the position, because when you think
Speaker 1: about the way the NFL values a cornerback versus running back,
Speaker 1: it's way harder, it seems like, in today's NFL to
Speaker 1: find a quality cornerback or great cornerback than it is
Speaker 1: to find a great running back. And you can tend
Speaker 1: to find great running backs even later in the draft. So,
Speaker 1: with all that we've seen and all that we've heard
Speaker 1: to this point and how they've both performed there so
Speaker 1: far in their careers, both of them have been really,
Speaker 1: really good players, do you think the Cowboys made the
Speaker 1: right decision in going with the running back over the cornerback. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I wonder if Jacksonville, I don't know, if how
Speaker 1: would have twenty sixteen looked like wouldn't have looked like that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But you know, here's the question, that's
Speaker 1: where other people that would argue on the opposite side
Speaker 1: would say, tell me who the Cowboys would have selected
Speaker 1: in the third or fourth round then, because they may
Speaker 1: have selected a running back that could have turned out
Speaker 1: to be a really good running back in the third
Speaker 1: or fourth round and they've got a shut down corner
Speaker 1: over there on the outside. So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: as easy as just saying, well, if you didn't have
Speaker 1: Zeke in twenty and sixteen, wasn't gonna be. Good running
Speaker 1: backs are in this league very much, you know. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say a diamond doesn't. But you can
Speaker 1: find good running backs in a lot of places in
Speaker 1: this league. That being said, Jalen Ramsey's probably not the
Speaker 1: player that he is there too, because he's not getting
Speaker 1: as much help as up front as he as he
Speaker 1: got in Jacksonville. It would be now though it might
Speaker 1: be now pass rushing now, wouldn't you say? Maybe? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not as good as Jacksonville sixteen.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Statistically they're better than Jacksonville this year?
Speaker 1: Aren't they this year? As a pass rush? Yea? This year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This year. Hey. They asked the best cornerback in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL what he thought of Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1: They played the same position, they went to the same school,
Speaker 1: and he said Dion Sanders said that he looks like
Speaker 1: a safety. Doesn't not sure if he's got the hips
Speaker 1: for it. I was told that by two different people
Speaker 1: that in around the scouting coaching area. They said that
Speaker 1: Dion kind of thought he was more of a safety
Speaker 1: and with the fourth overall pick, they didn't want to
Speaker 1: draft the safety. But he did say on record he
Speaker 1: thought the Cowboys should take him because he thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be a great cornerback. Now that's I
Speaker 1: heard him say that. I know. I heard him say that.
Speaker 1: He did an interview on NFL Network where he went
Speaker 1: out and spent a day or whatever with Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: and then after that they came back and they did
Speaker 1: the debrief there on set, and he said, I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a really good safety in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then I saw him on another program later where
Speaker 1: he said he thought the Cowboys should take him. Now again,
Speaker 1: you know, he could say a lot of things on
Speaker 1: the record that are different than off the record, but
Speaker 1: on the record that's what he was dying. Which one
Speaker 1: is it, did you say he was going to be
Speaker 1: a safety or as a corner? You just said you
Speaker 1: first you said corner, then you said safety. What did
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it was not safety. I'd never heard him
Speaker 1: say safety on the record. I never heard say safety
Speaker 1: on record that's I wrote about that in my column yesterday,
Speaker 1: like that's a forgotten storyline. He might have wound up
Speaker 1: at corner, but there was conventional wisdom said they might
Speaker 1: try him at safety, Like there was no consensus. It
Speaker 1: seems dumb now because he's all pro, but there were
Speaker 1: plenty of teams that thought he would make a better
Speaker 1: safety than a corner. Who knows what the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: have done. That's I wrote. I tried. I tried to
Speaker 1: go as many levels deep as I could with this
Speaker 1: in my column because it's crazy, You're absolutely right, like
Speaker 1: and you know it's you know, people love to say, like, oh,
Speaker 1: they could have gotten Jordan Howard in the fifth round.
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard wasn't on their radar. It probably would have
Speaker 1: been Derrick Henry or Paul Perkins. If I had to guess,
Speaker 1: does Romo get hurt in that scenario or he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys good enough to just completely fuel your
Speaker 1: offense the way Zeke did. Probably not. Your defense is
Speaker 1: a lot better. Do you draft Dak? You might have
Speaker 1: to take Paul Perkins in the fourth round. That's about
Speaker 1: where he wound up. CJ. Prosis is another guy they
Speaker 1: liked you could have had him in the second instead
Speaker 1: of Jalen Smith. It's I mean, the whole thing would change, right,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of difference, So
Speaker 1: it's hard to say, kind of make that a ju
Speaker 1: I mean to make that statement about twenty sixteen. Don't
Speaker 1: know if Jacksonville at that point, And I know they
Speaker 1: took fourn At the next year, right, but at that
Speaker 1: point I think they weren't. They still like, didn't they
Speaker 1: have a guy that they kind of liked. They weren't
Speaker 1: really they had yelled in and um, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they were gonna take Zeke right there. No, in
Speaker 1: fact they did it was it was it still? Um
Speaker 1: was that before DeAngelo Williams? No, No, he was with
Speaker 1: Carolina by somebody else that seemed like an older running
Speaker 1: back that was there before all those guys. As as
Speaker 1: you might imagine, Jacksonville's media has been talking about this too,
Speaker 1: and they were they were aiming to fix their defense
Speaker 1: in that draft, like they were not going to draft Zeek.
Speaker 1: They were it was gonna be Jalen. I think they
Speaker 1: liked Bosa. He went third. Um I took him off
Speaker 1: the board. Was another guy that Cowboys were linked to.
Speaker 1: They loved DeForest Buckner as well, who's been good in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, not on Zeke or Jalen's level, but um yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild to think about the other thing. Well, what
Speaker 1: I was going to say is it's a cop out,
Speaker 1: but you can't answer if it was the right move
Speaker 1: right now, you really can't. Um. I think Zeke's gonna
Speaker 1: be an Adrian Peterson type of, like, you know, generational
Speaker 1: running back. I'm not saying he's going to the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, but he's going to be one of the
Speaker 1: best backs in the league for the period of time
Speaker 1: that he's playing. You know. And there are some people
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville right now, I mean quietly. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're coming out saying it, but but they are a
Speaker 1: little bit you know, down on Fournet and disappointed with
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do and not do. And
Speaker 1: you look at Zeke and there's the risk that's taken
Speaker 1: the running back that high. And Cowboy's had some issues
Speaker 1: off the field with him, but for the most part
Speaker 1: as far as production that you know, when he's there,
Speaker 1: he's there right and people see that. So I would
Speaker 1: guess Jalen Ramsey's going to be able to play. I
Speaker 1: think about Charles Woodson and Adrian Peterson like that. I
Speaker 1: mean they don't they don't play similarly, but I just
Speaker 1: think about their career arcs. Adrian Peterson was the best
Speaker 1: or one of the best in the league for about
Speaker 1: nine years. Charles Woodson played for seventeen. I think it's
Speaker 1: way more likely Jalen Ramsey's gonna play longer Zeke's higher level.
Speaker 1: Zeke is gonna make your offense viable, slash good and
Speaker 1: be a pro bowler for probably eight years, and if
Speaker 1: you win a championship in that window, then it was
Speaker 1: the right pick. Like I mean, if Jalen Ramsey plays
Speaker 1: a decade longer than Zeke, but Zeke helps the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win their six Super Bowl, is anybody gonna just seriously
Speaker 1: quibble about it. But if they don't, and you know,
Speaker 1: if Zeke retires and it never gets better than twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and Jalen Ramsey plays until twenty twenty five, then
Speaker 1: it's a different conversation. And I think the part that
Speaker 1: can't be lost in all this is the whole philosophy.
Speaker 1: You get my twenty thirty five whatever you get my point.
Speaker 1: The whole philosophy that the Cowboys have taken, that they're
Speaker 1: going to go the route of having a run first offense,
Speaker 1: and if that works, then having a guy like Zeke
Speaker 1: makes a bunch of sense. If we find out later
Speaker 1: that that was a bad decision to go with that
Speaker 1: philosophy in today's NFL, where it's geared so much to
Speaker 1: war teams being able to pass efficiently, I mean be
Speaker 1: able to pass and needing to be able to pass
Speaker 1: in order to win, then then it becomes a much
Speaker 1: different conversation because now you're talking about a guy that
Speaker 1: could have defended against the pass verse as a guy
Speaker 1: that is a runner primary, that is a runner, And
Speaker 1: that change is that whole, the whole complexion that debate,
Speaker 1: regardless of how they perform, it changes whether it was
Speaker 1: a good decision or not. But you know, it actually
Speaker 1: worked out better than they thought it would because to
Speaker 1: have Dak start all those games, you needed Zeke. You know,
Speaker 1: if Rammo's gonna probably get hurt either way, Romeo gets
Speaker 1: hurt and you've got Jalen Ramsey, now you've got some
Speaker 1: issues big time at the running back and the whole offense.
Speaker 1: So I mean it probably worked out the way it
Speaker 1: needed to. Right then, all right, well this is a
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones went on the fan this morning and he said,
Speaker 1: that's something that a lot of people are gonna like,
Speaker 1: and uh, can't do we have the audio for it?
Speaker 1: We don't, but it'll be on Dallas Cowboys dot com.
Speaker 1: Ta Okay, so y'all can check that out. But Nick
Speaker 1: twitted it out earlier. This is what Jerry said. Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett's absolutely the real deal. There's no fraud in Jason Garrett.
Speaker 1: Does he have some things he could do better, of course,
Speaker 1: but what I think is that we have an asset
Speaker 1: that will get us to where we want to go,
Speaker 1: which is eight championship. Initial reactions to this comment that
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones made. He's obviously not ready to an insane okay,
Speaker 1: um he's not ready to make a change there. So, um,
Speaker 1: he's gonna, you know, have that approach. He's gonna stick
Speaker 1: by that for sure. And so you know, that's what
Speaker 1: that's what he believes. He believes that he is not
Speaker 1: a fraud. I mean, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the question was there. Um, but you know, just
Speaker 1: to say, yeah, I mean he could do some things better,
Speaker 1: that's fine, has the assets to win a championship. You know,
Speaker 1: fans don't really want to hear it because they because
Speaker 1: they ain't seen it. They don't see anything really close
Speaker 1: to that. There's one playoff win there. So, um, but
Speaker 1: I think why I believe it's just important is the
Speaker 1: last time we really heard him talking about it, he
Speaker 1: said that he questioned the decision that Jason made. And
Speaker 1: that's been a big topic of discussion this week, is
Speaker 1: what should he have punted or not? You know, And
Speaker 1: I just think that it's it's a you know, Garrett's
Speaker 1: making sure that, I mean, Jerry's making sure that he's
Speaker 1: gonna say all the right things when it comes to
Speaker 1: backing his coach when he really didn't do that Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Here's the fact the matter, He had two choices here.
Speaker 1: He could either endorse his head coach or anything else.
Speaker 1: If he no comments, if he says something that's lukewarm,
Speaker 1: if he says, hey, he's got a lot of problems,
Speaker 1: any of that other stuff. And now he's created a
Speaker 1: whole firestor exactly, he's created a whole firestorm, not just
Speaker 1: with the media, but now even in the locker room,
Speaker 1: because in the locker room, players are now saying the
Speaker 1: owner's questioning the owner is doesn't have faith in the
Speaker 1: head coach, why should I. He's created a whole different things.
Speaker 1: So in that scenario, to me, this is one of
Speaker 1: those things where yeah, he's gonna have to take the
Speaker 1: brunt of public backlash on this one because that's the
Speaker 1: nature of it. But based on the two options of
Speaker 1: what he had, this is what the owner is gonna do.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about jar I'm talking any owner.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do this most of the time unless he's
Speaker 1: at a point where he's like, I think we need
Speaker 1: to make a move. Otherwise, the owner is gonna always
Speaker 1: say I backed my head coach, he's the right man
Speaker 1: for the job. He's you know, the owner has to
Speaker 1: sell to the public. This is the guy that we
Speaker 1: need to have faith in. So he's gonna do that
Speaker 1: every single time unless he's at a point where he's
Speaker 1: like gotta go, and that point even when I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: said but no one is buying. I get it, that's
Speaker 1: maybe they shouldn't. But the point is, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: we all have to take a step back here and realize,
Speaker 1: like what else was he gonna say? Yeah, you're making
Speaker 1: a different kind of comment, only creates problem, and you
Speaker 1: need to That's who you have right now, Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: and you need to show him support. Obviously. I'm sure
Speaker 1: behind doors they're not just sitting there drinking coffee or
Speaker 1: whiskey and that laxing not to bring, not to bring
Speaker 1: shop talk to the air, which and I get Nix's point.
Speaker 1: I mean when the owner says something like that it's news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't register with me as like this huge news,
Speaker 1: because what else is he gonna say, Like I defy.
Speaker 1: Somebody find me an example where the owner or whoever,
Speaker 1: before making a move win on the radio or TV
Speaker 1: and was like yeah, no, um, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: really feeling good about Phil Jackson, Like probably we're gonna Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk and maybe he won't be the coach
Speaker 1: on Monday. Like that doesn't happen. Everything's good until it's
Speaker 1: not good. Hey, we'll see what happens after Jackson right,
Speaker 1: no question, even Jerry Jones has a long and deserved
Speaker 1: reputation for saying whatever he wants basically, but like he's
Speaker 1: not gonna say that. Even he wouldn't say that, So
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't register with me because he doesn't
Speaker 1: really have a choice in them. Like, that's what he
Speaker 1: has to say, and that's what he'll keep saying until
Speaker 1: whatever happens, whether it's this week, five years from now, whatever,
Speaker 1: He'll keep saying that until he changes his mind and
Speaker 1: he'll do But public's ready to public right right, right,
Speaker 1: Where do you stand on Jason gart right now? Um
Speaker 1: talk to me at six thirty Sunday Sunday. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine that you would be going crazy on it, like,
Speaker 1: hey man, get a new graphic ready for a new
Speaker 1: head coach. If this quote we're doing, if this, if
Speaker 1: this quote, this public show of support is generating, you know,
Speaker 1: a frenzy on social media. Imagine if he was like,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens against the Jags, and then I'll
Speaker 1: decide like who. So again, I don't want I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody out there to think that this is excuse making,
Speaker 1: because it's not. We're just trying to give you guys
Speaker 1: the real on how this stuff cuts about, because I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of people out there saying, like,
Speaker 1: why would he even say something? I would even think
Speaker 1: something like that. This is why he says something like
Speaker 1: that is because what else is he going to say?
Speaker 1: And this happens a lot, not just with Jerry, it
Speaker 1: happens with players too. You'll hear him make these comments
Speaker 1: sometimes and you're like, really that player thinks that, No,
Speaker 1: not necessarily, but what else is he gonna says? It's
Speaker 1: kind of the best that I can say in this
Speaker 1: moment to diffuse as much as I can. Right. The
Speaker 1: thing about it is is that the guys on the
Speaker 1: radio show don't ask the question. Then they get ridiculed
Speaker 1: for it, right, they have to ask, but they ask
Speaker 1: the question, and it's a dumb question because any anytime
Speaker 1: you get what they people perceive to be as a
Speaker 1: dumb answer, and you know it was probably a dumb question,
Speaker 1: but it was one of those that had to be done.
Speaker 1: So you have to ask, it has to be answered
Speaker 1: this way, and then the reaction is this way. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a weird cycle from the media there, But
Speaker 1: I mean it's really nobody's at fault. I don't fault
Speaker 1: the guys. No, I don't either asking the question, and
Speaker 1: I don't really fault Jerry for answering that way. Now,
Speaker 1: there's levels of over the top, but Jed, but Jerry
Speaker 1: is the eternal optimist, so let's also be real about it,
Speaker 1: like he's gonna go over the top when it comes
Speaker 1: to that, and he's gonna go like, hey, I'm believing
Speaker 1: this guy hit. This guy's like he's a salesman, he's
Speaker 1: selling his guy, and we'll see if that shit change.
Speaker 1: I remember, and Nick, I'm pretty sure this happened at
Speaker 1: some point a couple of week a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: before Wade was fired. Did Jerry not give him a
Speaker 1: kind of an endorsement, Maybe not as strong as this,
Speaker 1: because I think this is really strong, But I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure up until the point that he fired him, Jerry
Speaker 1: was still like, I think Jay Wade's right guy. I
Speaker 1: think Wade's fine. I don't remember him being publicly like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We gotta we gotta get bet, we
Speaker 1: gotta do you know, Yes, before green Bay is what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, before you got to green Bay, before you
Speaker 1: got to Jacksonville, because that was the week before that, right, Um,
Speaker 1: I think so, I think it was Jacksonville. I have
Speaker 1: to go back and see if I can pull up
Speaker 1: some moldy archives. But but remember him being like, but
Speaker 1: Saturday night before the green Bay game, Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: at the bar in Appleton, Wisconsin. That's exactly what. There's
Speaker 1: only one well, no, there's actually a lot. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's a spune, there's a bunch, but there's only one
Speaker 1: called the Bark. And we and Rob, Rob and I
Speaker 1: were there and West Phillips was their offensive assistant. We're
Speaker 1: tight ends coach maybe at the time, and so yes,
Speaker 1: son of White. Yes, And he said, man, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't win this game, Yad's probably getting fired, and
Speaker 1: and Rob and I are kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: you can you know how Rob is like yeah, He's like, Um,
Speaker 1: it's just the way it is. It's not awkward. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just the way this is. If we don't win
Speaker 1: this game, will be one in seven and it's national TV,
Speaker 1: and it's probably not gonna go. Well, that's just the
Speaker 1: way it goes. And so I think the riding was
Speaker 1: on the wall there that didn't expect to lose forty
Speaker 1: five to seven, which you know made it worse. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And and that's what we've always talked about
Speaker 1: with when when you make that when you make those decisions,
Speaker 1: is when you feel like you've lost the team. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, I don't think that's that's
Speaker 1: happening right now. Well, to bring it full circle, that's
Speaker 1: this is a spect like when things are going bad
Speaker 1: with the team, it's the biggest it's the bit. It's
Speaker 1: the thing that aggravates me the most is like and
Speaker 1: and fans are well within their rights. It's like fans
Speaker 1: want what should happen, Like, you know, Jason Garrett should
Speaker 1: be fired, like this is our wreck, blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. I tell you what is happening, and like
Speaker 1: we are vilified for that, you know, And like and
Speaker 1: I'm not excuse making for Jason Garrett. That's a whole
Speaker 1: separate conversation. But like on October, what's today October twelfth,
Speaker 1: yea on October twelfth, one game under five hundred five,
Speaker 1: six weeks into the NFL season. It does not make
Speaker 1: sense to fire your head coach right now like it did.
Speaker 1: It doesn't. Nobody does that like and and you know
Speaker 1: it's built up over years. I get it people are frustrated,
Speaker 1: but like, just remove your your passion and your intensity
Speaker 1: and your love for this team from the equation and
Speaker 1: just think about, like, the season is not lost, even
Speaker 1: if you have no faith that it is going anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's it's not lost. That's going to play. That is
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. And then the conversation changes
Speaker 1: as that changes. If the losses keep piling up, it's
Speaker 1: time to have different conversations. But it's foolish that you
Speaker 1: know your your ideas and opinions about this team built
Speaker 1: up over the years, is going to impact what you're
Speaker 1: doing right now. And I just you know, people think
Speaker 1: I'm defending Jason Garret when I say that. No, that's
Speaker 1: just the reality the situation. Nobody does that. George Steinburner
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. The time for that is January well
Speaker 1: or even no, mean no, what I'm saying, No, if
Speaker 1: you're sitting at home in January, when the playoffs are
Speaker 1: going on and you've had another bad season, that's the
Speaker 1: time I think that. I don't actually think there's any
Speaker 1: good necessarily that comes out of making a change to
Speaker 1: the head coach in the middle of a season. I personally,
Speaker 1: I won't even go that. I mean, the time could
Speaker 1: be was that game in October or November? The Green
Speaker 1: Bay game October? The time could be October. I disagree,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe you disagree with it as well,
Speaker 1: because think about it like this. If you let Wade
Speaker 1: continue to happen like that, then who's the head coach.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is that you got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to see what Jason Garrett was able to do. And
Speaker 1: so maybe there might be a coach on this staff,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody that coaches defensive pacts that you want to
Speaker 1: be a head coach, and I'd like to see four
Speaker 1: or five games. But here's here's where I think. Here's
Speaker 1: where I think that could have backfired on you a
Speaker 1: little bit. If the Cowboys made their decision based upon
Speaker 1: what he did in the final part of that season
Speaker 1: and said he's our guy, that means they probably didn't
Speaker 1: do their due diligence of all the other guys that
Speaker 1: were out there to figure out whether he was better
Speaker 1: than all the other guys out there. That's where I
Speaker 1: have a problem with him. Well, that's another tricky situation
Speaker 1: because Jason Garrett was the head coach in waiting before
Speaker 1: Wade for I get that, but I'm just saying to me,
Speaker 1: I think that I think that if you're going to
Speaker 1: make a change to a head coach at a major
Speaker 1: program I'm talking about college or pro, I think you
Speaker 1: need to take the time to not just look at
Speaker 1: what's in your building, but look outside and see who
Speaker 1: are those young guys out there or old guys I
Speaker 1: don't want to be you know, I don't have agism
Speaker 1: all from yourself. Just go out and find who you
Speaker 1: think are the best guys that, given what you currently
Speaker 1: do and what you how you want to see your
Speaker 1: team formed, has the best credentials to be able to
Speaker 1: take you where you want to go. And don't be
Speaker 1: limited to just the guy that you've kind of had
Speaker 1: pegged in your building that you think is going to
Speaker 1: be the next up and coming guy. Now. I know
Speaker 1: that that probably has influenced a little bit by watching
Speaker 1: guys like Sean Payton walked out of the door and
Speaker 1: then end up winning a Super Bowl. I'm sure that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff kind of makes you say, well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to lose a guy that then go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: But I still think you got to take the time
Speaker 1: and do the due diligence to know that he is
Speaker 1: the best guy. Here. Here's another question. I see a
Speaker 1: lot of people and a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously wanting to fire the head coach, wanting to fire Scotland,
Speaker 1: and him wanting to fire both of them. In reality,
Speaker 1: let's say a few weeks down the road and with
Speaker 1: the season kind of going how it's going right now,
Speaker 1: which one would be the first move to be made
Speaker 1: by Jerry Jones, either the offensive coordinator coach or the
Speaker 1: head coach. Well, I mean, based off what you just said, though,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do anything, because if you
Speaker 1: say how the season is going right now, because how
Speaker 1: the season's going right now is a win here and
Speaker 1: here you win all your home and you lose like okay,
Speaker 1: with the season heading downwards, and where you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we need to make a bigger change. You know, if
Speaker 1: if it starts to kind of get off the road.
Speaker 1: I mean, the wheels are wobbling right now. If it
Speaker 1: starts to get really bad here, then then yeah, I
Speaker 1: get you. If Jerry Jones is making If Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: is making a change, I would assume it's the tip top, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, But I think it's one of those
Speaker 1: things like what are you going to change? Jason? I
Speaker 1: mean I think it's and that happens sometimes. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: know we laughed about it, but I mean, if I
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, I'm not I'm not taking over the play
Speaker 1: calling until like it might be a bye week thing
Speaker 1: after the Jags play smart, well, it also might be
Speaker 1: a bye week, so you have a lot of time
Speaker 1: to kind of get yourself ready for it. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's in fifteen. They you know, they they benched
Speaker 1: weedon and they put McFadden in front of Randall and
Speaker 1: they did that during the bye week. So I think
Speaker 1: he had two more games. The worst you could be
Speaker 1: is what two and two and five? Five? Yeah, two
Speaker 1: and five with a division loss to the wouldn't fire
Speaker 1: Scott Linahan. You just take over the play calling. I
Speaker 1: don't think you'll fire the coordinator in the season, you
Speaker 1: probably just take the play and you don't You may
Speaker 1: not even announce it, like I've seen that happen too.
Speaker 1: They don't even announce it. They just kind of somebody else.
Speaker 1: I'm announcing it. I'm Jason. He could say it in
Speaker 1: the building. He doesn't necessarily have to announce it to
Speaker 1: the world. I need to announce it to the world
Speaker 1: to go to go back to my point, and you know,
Speaker 1: or whatever. People can say, I'm defending all they want.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying the Cowboys are going to get
Speaker 1: it together and have this great season. It's not trending
Speaker 1: that way, but they're too and three like and we've
Speaker 1: seen these trends of like well, not not only that,
Speaker 1: I mean again, and I think I think this is noteworthy.
Speaker 1: Only once in his tenure as head coach has Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett let a season completely get away to the point
Speaker 1: where they're not competitive at the end. And that was
Speaker 1: when he didn't have his quarterback. Like when he's had
Speaker 1: the guys he's supposed to have, They've been there until
Speaker 1: week sixteen, weeks seventeen. I said that on Twitter the
Speaker 1: other day and everybody lost their mind, like, well, we're
Speaker 1: supposed to accept mediocrity. No, that's not what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: I think we would all agree that eight and eight
Speaker 1: and no playoffs is probably not good enough for Jason Garrett.
Speaker 1: I mean we said that before the season, right that
Speaker 1: to your point, that's a conversation for January. But you're
Speaker 1: not You're not going to do this drastic. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're trading wins and losses and you're still in
Speaker 1: the mix in a bad east, who pulls the plug
Speaker 1: on that mid season? Maybe you reevaluate when it's over
Speaker 1: and say we're going to go in a new direction.
Speaker 1: But you are not going to pull the plug on
Speaker 1: a season that has a chance to get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: which right now that is still completely I know, I know,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying again, it's not about what it
Speaker 1: should be, It's about what it is, right, That's what's important. Realism, babe, realism.
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Speaker 1: hit the inactive list and Mike White actually had I
Speaker 1: got mine every yeah, yeah, yes, he actually did not
Speaker 1: practice every Friday. We go to practice when we take
Speaker 1: role and me and some of the other Beat writers
Speaker 1: play the inactive game. It's always fun. But you got
Speaker 1: Mike White, Dalton Schultz, Xavier Suaphilo, Joe Thomas, Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: newly added cornerback CJ. Goodwin, and then they got a
Speaker 1: choice to make at defensive tackle. I assume, and again
Speaker 1: I gotta see it, but I assume David Irving's going
Speaker 1: to be up for this game, which means K means
Speaker 1: either Karan Read or Daniel Ross is probably suthing easy
Speaker 1: to me. It has to be Karan Read, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ross had Ross had a great game last week relative
Speaker 1: to list. Yeah the good He's got a play. I
Speaker 1: didn't say I yeah, I think I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that. I think. Well, Joe Thomas is certainly sitting.
Speaker 1: He's wearing a boot, and I would assume Sean Lee
Speaker 1: sits to is this Luke Casey huh, Daisy No, not
Speaker 1: a cowboy boot, like an orthopedic boot, like a Mallard Chris,
Speaker 1: you got uh Layton vander Esh will be your starting
Speaker 1: Will Jalen Smith, Mike Damien Wilson will be your starting
Speaker 1: Sam and will back up Mike Uh Justin March Lillard
Speaker 1: would be your backup. We will, and I think Covington
Speaker 1: would be your backup Sam Slash. That's a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: though a lot of talent. But I'm just saying that's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not ideal. They're put we raved about this
Speaker 1: depth at linebacker for six months, Well let's be it's
Speaker 1: gonna be put to the test. Sorry, defensive back, who'd
Speaker 1: you put out there? I put? I'm guessing Goodwin is
Speaker 1: down because all your corner if Cheeto can go, which
Speaker 1: I assume he can, all your corners will be healthy
Speaker 1: and new guy Darian Thompson probably needs to play special teams.
Speaker 1: Ibrahim Campbell got cut. So this this question I didn't
Speaker 1: think to ask you early this week when you gave
Speaker 1: us a scattering port on Jacksonville's offense. But do they
Speaker 1: tend to be in base like? Do they tend to
Speaker 1: be in a in a formation? Do they run three
Speaker 1: wide as their base or is this a team that
Speaker 1: because they like to run the ball so much, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys could find themselves in base defense, Which now affects
Speaker 1: your linebackers a lot more as far as the numbers
Speaker 1: than you would typically see from an NFL team. They
Speaker 1: do eleven a lot because they like to have those
Speaker 1: receivers out there. But this is a team that likes
Speaker 1: to like they look a lot more old school than
Speaker 1: what we've seen in the last couple of weeks, Like
Speaker 1: they like to line up in twelve and thirteen and
Speaker 1: run the ball. So yeah, I would guess you're gonna
Speaker 1: see so you're third, You're gonna probably have three linebackers
Speaker 1: out there are a fair amount of time. You're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have some snaps. Yeah. I think that's fair, and
Speaker 1: that that becomes now becomes really interesting because you're right
Speaker 1: now depth is an issue to some degree because you
Speaker 1: got those three guys out there more frequently versus two
Speaker 1: knock on wood, which, well, if they can get through this.
Speaker 1: Based on his workload this week, I feel optimistic Sean
Speaker 1: Lee will be available for the trip to Washington, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be there on Sunday. All right. Well, see,
Speaker 1: Nick has been begging to have a longer segment on
Speaker 1: about game day predictions, so apparently he has some really
Speaker 1: good predictions. I guess, So what do you got for us?
Speaker 1: I mean, can I throw one other inactive thing to
Speaker 1: talk about real quick? Just we didn't talk about this
Speaker 1: on the opposite side, It's kind of happened again. Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey is listed as questionable for this game. So I
Speaker 1: would be big. Yeah. I don't think there's much of
Speaker 1: any way that he does not play in this game, right,
Speaker 1: although he is listen, this questionable something to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on. Cool, that's to keep you wondering about it,
Speaker 1: you know, just go right early, sure, go for testing
Speaker 1: with Deonte Thompson. I think this game is gonna be
Speaker 1: about special teams. I think whoever has a whoever has
Speaker 1: a big play or bad play on special teams, Um,
Speaker 1: that's gonna affect this game. I think the offenses are similar.
Speaker 1: I think the defenses are similar. I do think Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is way better. But I just think that you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to that. It'll be a kicking game.
Speaker 1: Play might be a block punt, it might be a
Speaker 1: you know, a play that's down inside the one yard line,
Speaker 1: something like that. That the special teams is going to
Speaker 1: probably be a difference maker in this one. That's my
Speaker 1: prediction part. That's it. Yeah, um, let's score, we're doing that.
Speaker 1: I think Dallas will win the game. I do. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win twenty to sixteen. I think it's
Speaker 1: not gonna explosion cud. Seriously, it's the NFL. I mean
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that they play that way, but
Speaker 1: it'll it. Whenever you think it's gonna be something, it's
Speaker 1: typically not a good point. And I think you know
Speaker 1: they'll it'll it'll be. It'll be down to the end.
Speaker 1: And I think Blake Bortles is not very good. I
Speaker 1: don't think that offense is very good. And um, I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys defense are gonna have to make some place.
Speaker 1: But they gotta be like Houston. They gotta make some turnovers,
Speaker 1: you know, to do it. I think they will. I
Speaker 1: think it'll be a fun game, and I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win it. I just I think, you know, like
Speaker 1: I've said all along, I'll stick with it. You really,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get to eight and eight if you're
Speaker 1: not three and three. So I think they need to
Speaker 1: get to three and three. Let's do it twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: W It would be the least surprising thing in the
Speaker 1: world if the Cowboys found a way to win this game.
Speaker 1: And surprising thing in the world is going to be
Speaker 1: that guy butchering the defensive tackle's name. Yes, yes, the
Speaker 1: guy that does the PA and the press box will
Speaker 1: not be able to say Yanick. One of these days,
Speaker 1: one of these days, can one of you guys just
Speaker 1: record like what our experience is there? Yeah, bring some
Speaker 1: of that to the end. What's funny? Think it's good
Speaker 1: stuff for the guy next to me? What's his name? Who?
Speaker 1: The guy that the defensive tackle for the Jaguars, Yannick
Speaker 1: and Gogway, he's an end but sorry Yannick and god
Speaker 1: in Godway. Yeah, okay, you got that down just like
Speaker 1: that seconds. What's gonna happen is is like tackle made
Speaker 1: by yeah Yick, not go well. And then the guy
Speaker 1: next to me, Todd Archer, is gonna just he's just
Speaker 1: been typing. He's like, no, no way. Doesn't even know
Speaker 1: how to say. It's like no way. They give you
Speaker 1: a phonetic pronunciation guide on the roster. Yeah yeah, he's
Speaker 1: just he won't get Blake Bortles right, No, he won't. Um,
Speaker 1: it won't be surprising to me if the Cowboys find
Speaker 1: a way to win. They've been better at home. Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles wants to give you the ball, and that's if
Speaker 1: they're going to win. I think they're going to not
Speaker 1: just get take away. They need to score points on defense,
Speaker 1: like they're all Jacksonville is given up seventeen per game.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are scoring sixteen per game. If if if
Speaker 1: conventional wisdom says you need like twenty four twenty seven
Speaker 1: points to win an NFL game, you got to find
Speaker 1: him somewhere, not just a scoop. No, you need the
Speaker 1: score too. Yeah, I need Jim swipe and score. Um.
Speaker 1: I gotta see it, though. I mean, they've been better
Speaker 1: at home, but this is a different beast than what
Speaker 1: they've seen. I mean, Jacksonville's one hundred and ninety one
Speaker 1: passing yards per game against an offense that is averaging
Speaker 1: one seventy six, Like, that's not good. And nah, I
Speaker 1: just I need to see it to believe that it's
Speaker 1: going to happen. I think I think twenty sixteen two,
Speaker 1: but I think Jacksonville finds. I trust them to move
Speaker 1: the ball against Dallas's offense way more than I trust
Speaker 1: the Dallas offense to be able to come up with
Speaker 1: enough points. I agree with you. Here's where I differ.
Speaker 1: I actually think Jacksonville's offense will I'll score Dallas's offense. However,
Speaker 1: I think Dallas's defense does get that pick six or
Speaker 1: that fumble that's returned for a touchdown. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are able to win because of the because the
Speaker 1: only touchdown of the game will be scored by the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. That would get you only touchdowns. I think,
Speaker 1: I think you will be a ten six game. Wow,
Speaker 1: I think the only touchdown scored in this game will
Speaker 1: be by the defense. Not there going. Both of these
Speaker 1: offenses are gonna have a hard time moving the ball
Speaker 1: against those twenty fifteen Tampa Bay style ten six will
Speaker 1: be the final score of im I'm not being sarcastic.
Speaker 1: One of my absolute favorite games that I've covered here,
Speaker 1: just because it was such a s show, Like it
Speaker 1: was just a nightmare? Which which game you're talking about?
Speaker 1: Ten six in Tampa twenty fifteen, like the last game
Speaker 1: before Romo came back? Yeah, nightmare? Yeah the first word. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've had better first words than that. Brian and I
Speaker 1: are hot, We're down there. We're like, they just lost
Speaker 1: that team. It was bad all the way around. What
Speaker 1: do you postgame? What do you got? Oh? No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm out. What do you mean you're out? You know what?
Speaker 1: I start off the week really upset, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm done. I'm done. I'm not picking them
Speaker 1: to win again. And then as the week gets by,
Speaker 1: like we got to Thirsty mich they pulled me back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they pulled me back in I'm like, you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: something something about it, Okay has to happen. So I
Speaker 1: just have very very mixed feelings for this weekend. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be obviously a very tough battle, especially
Speaker 1: between the two defenses, but I think maybe Jacksonville they
Speaker 1: they pull it through. And I don't know, this sucks.
Speaker 1: It sucks broken because my heart wants to go with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys right now, and then my law Jake wants
Speaker 1: to go with the Jags. Trust me, Dave knows it's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to be in that locker room if
Speaker 1: they win. He would like for them to win for
Speaker 1: that reason too. But yep, you know, I just I'm
Speaker 1: going one more time. I'm just gonna go on more.
Speaker 1: I just kind of well, I mean, not one more
Speaker 1: time for the season, but I just feel like I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of convinced that this team is just right
Speaker 1: there at the end. It's close. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: win it. But um, I hope you're right. I'm sorry, Nick, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I've been I've gone back and forth
Speaker 1: all week too. I hope Derek's right that they get
Speaker 1: a defensive touchdown because it's just not something we've seen enough.
Speaker 1: It seems like everybody else gets them more like Byron
Speaker 1: Jones had a pick six in Washington last year, and
Speaker 1: before that it was probably Rulando McClain. But like they
Speaker 1: just got you can get it from Like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think, but I'm gonna necessarily do that against
Speaker 1: some of the other teams. I gotta see it. Though.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dallas will lose a close game. I
Speaker 1: think though they could win a close game. I think
Speaker 1: they win a close game where they get there. You
Speaker 1: know what's really gonna you know what's really gonna upset
Speaker 1: me is You're you're gonna see the our defense get
Speaker 1: an interception, get a takeaway, a turnover, and then they
Speaker 1: give the ball back to Dallas and at the offense
Speaker 1: and the offense doesn't do anything with it, and we
Speaker 1: just see the defense. Ten six Houston when the Brown
Speaker 1: fumble and picked up by Lewis and they got to
Speaker 1: like the fifteen, and I looked over and I was like, cool,
Speaker 1: ten nine, awesome, But they actually did score town, so
Speaker 1: they got to do more of that. They need takeaways.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, this is all the time we have
Speaker 1: for today. Will check us out on Sunday and see
Speaker 1: how this game turns out for the Cowboys. For Derek Eagleton,
Speaker 1: Nick Emman, David Hailman, I'm Ambar Garcia. See you guys
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