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Speaker 3: in Brisco, and I'm a player with the players. Former
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys safety my man BC in the place, there
Speaker 3: by Danny McCrae, former special teams ACE and safety as
Speaker 3: well LSU national champion. And as we're doing the five, Hey,
Speaker 3: he's booked and he's busy. Speaking of booked and busy,
Speaker 3: newest Scrugs, it's getting his all change. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 3: we called. But this is a player Slauds. Your your
Speaker 3: favorite man crushed Monday, move to Thursday. So hey, we're
Speaker 3: here at eleven o'clock. But guys, as I always start
Speaker 3: to show, man, I check mentals right off the back.
Speaker 2: Make sure my fellows just straight. BC. I'll start with you, man,
Speaker 2: how are you? What's on your mind? Was good man?
Speaker 4: Everything's going great, man, had a little little leak in
Speaker 4: the sorry in the little leak in the master bedrooms.
Speaker 4: So underneath the floors there was a little wetness right there,
Speaker 4: dribbling up.
Speaker 2: And it got that all fixed this morning. So everything's
Speaker 2: going great.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: So little man's birthday today turned eight. Man, Man, that's
Speaker 4: all crazy. Gotta love him man eight. They still in
Speaker 4: that cute stage and in the birthday presence. Ain't bad legos,
Speaker 4: that's all he wanted.
Speaker 2: Legos. I'm straight, birthday don't cost you much. It don't
Speaker 2: cost you much.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 2: Let's give me some legos the target and get you.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. You step on them though, man,
Speaker 2: believe that the little helmets.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: The thing is, do you help put them together? At
Speaker 4: first I did this first couple. I helped to help
Speaker 4: them put them together. But now he's so much Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like, I ain't.
Speaker 2: Got He's trying to build a death sto like you
Speaker 2: gotta put the rotation. I'm like, man, I thought it
Speaker 2: was just a wheel on there. I'm out, Man, d
Speaker 2: MA was good with you. Lit'st before you get to me.
Speaker 3: I just want to ask Church, did you did you
Speaker 3: do the construction the renovation yourself.
Speaker 2: Did you go to Lows and get.
Speaker 4: Talking about the floor. Yeah, you know the warranty, you
Speaker 4: know the building. I told him like, hey man, you
Speaker 4: know fixed this lead they came through.
Speaker 3: Come on now that you put your Dickey's over rolls
Speaker 3: on and you run down and loads.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 4: It's trying to fil growing up too much. Manual label
Speaker 4: for me what it is. I ain't messing with it.
Speaker 3: Man, I ain't doing good man, I'm doing outside. You
Speaker 3: know the yard, I pulled a couple of you know,
Speaker 3: that's about too much. I ain't cutting no grass since
Speaker 3: he got with the college. Yeah to twenty ten, twenty ten,
Speaker 3: well you about fourteen years's trying to get back on
Speaker 3: the you freaking canalyized.
Speaker 4: The front shoulder was kind of tight this morning, man,
Speaker 4: shoulder was a little tight.
Speaker 3: Unbelieveful, man, take it all over. Everything good with you.
Speaker 3: Everything's good man, everything's good. Uh.
Speaker 2: We got the kids when they start getting sick.
Speaker 3: I'm still three, So they still go to school, get
Speaker 3: the sickness and bring it on, and.
Speaker 2: The whole house is just stuffy. It's surcessful. Yeah great,
Speaker 2: they gotta wipe them down.
Speaker 3: How much hand sanitized. They play in the hands. Sometimes
Speaker 3: they spread all over their face and everything. Still come home,
Speaker 3: see sniff, That's all I said.
Speaker 2: You've got a call. You know the sight. You know
Speaker 2: it's coming. You know it's if you see kids play together.
Speaker 3: You already know that this is the germs are gonna
Speaker 3: be everywhere.
Speaker 2: The way that they play.
Speaker 3: When you drop them off at the front door and
Speaker 3: then you see one of the other little kids come
Speaker 3: through and you see a little running you, Hey, come
Speaker 3: on back home.
Speaker 2: Chris Bean knows two a thing or two about that. Man.
Speaker 3: You guys see all the trailers out there. The Country
Speaker 3: Music Awards are tonight. Uh you wanted the guest presenters.
Speaker 3: I know your country music. You can have it on
Speaker 3: the tube though, right, I'll be at home though.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'm good if you if anyone wants
Speaker 2: to know you jump straight.
Speaker 3: Into man, put it on right, you know how I do, Man,
Speaker 3: I'm good, Man.
Speaker 2: Spring My son is in spring ball right now.
Speaker 3: Man, So you know that's we were full well like
Speaker 3: full steam ahead with spring ball right now. So that's
Speaker 3: the videos you'll be posted to jail. It's junior, junior, sophomore.
Speaker 3: So so we still got a ways to go. But hey, yesterday,
Speaker 3: were you guys paying attention to the schedule release for
Speaker 3: the time?
Speaker 2: Boy?
Speaker 5: You got to?
Speaker 2: You got to. Man, I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 3: I mean this is this has become like they're raising
Speaker 3: the bar each and every year for these schedule releases.
Speaker 3: If you look around the NFL and all the teams,
Speaker 3: the media departments that get involved to do, like, it's
Speaker 3: very creative the process that they're going to. But the
Speaker 3: Cowboys media department.
Speaker 2: Is just spanking, man, that's what they do. That's like
Speaker 2: everybody right now.
Speaker 3: And man, I don't know, Like I went through it
Speaker 3: the whole thing a couple of times. Man, it just
Speaker 3: gets funnier and funnier every time. Man, what was your
Speaker 3: reaction guys from the just the schedule release from the
Speaker 3: media department.
Speaker 4: When I'm looking at it first, the videos were funny
Speaker 4: for the release and things, it was funny.
Speaker 2: But when you're looking at.
Speaker 4: The schedule, I think it's tough. I think it is
Speaker 4: a tough schedule. And look, this is a first place schedule,
Speaker 4: so you're going against all.
Speaker 2: The first place teams and all the other divisions.
Speaker 4: So I believe this team has their work cutout for
Speaker 4: I mean, we'll go through what stretch we think is
Speaker 4: hard and all that good stuff. It wrong, But just
Speaker 4: a first glance at it, I mean, when you look
Speaker 4: at it, Cleveland, you.
Speaker 2: Know what they love to do, run it.
Speaker 4: Chubb's coming back, what's the what's the what's the he's
Speaker 4: coming back off of.
Speaker 2: But he has done it before, He's had a crazy injury.
Speaker 2: It came back even.
Speaker 4: Stronger before you got Chubb, you got Cleveland coming at you,
Speaker 4: I mean Baltimore those.
Speaker 3: First three weeks, it's not easy.
Speaker 4: You're going to get some defenses and you're going to
Speaker 4: get some teams that love to run the football. So
Speaker 4: I believe early on in this schedule it will be
Speaker 4: a great test to see how Zimmer can get this
Speaker 4: defense going in the right direction. Has he fixed those
Speaker 4: problems when we talk about the run defense. But I
Speaker 4: believe overall, it's an extremely tough schedule and that first chunk.
Speaker 2: Of it should be a little difficult for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Danny, Yeah, listen, first, just to start off with the video, listen,
Speaker 3: I watched it and as I was watching it, I
Speaker 3: was like, I'm kind of out of the loop on
Speaker 3: like who these like celebrities and people are. So I
Speaker 3: watched it knowing that I probably should know who they are,
Speaker 3: and knowing that they are probably famous, saying, oh, that's
Speaker 3: that's a pretty good catch, even though who half of
Speaker 3: the people are. So it was very creative how they
Speaker 3: did it. I can't imagine Jerry like sitting there as
Speaker 3: I opened up my FaceTime with Jerry and Mike, I
Speaker 3: could imagine.
Speaker 2: I thought that was really cool. I thought that was yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then they always do.
Speaker 3: I mean even when they did it with Steve and
Speaker 3: a they did a post malone like, they always find
Speaker 3: a really creative way. And then also they always include Jerry.
Speaker 2: Harry is always in there.
Speaker 3: So that's why he's, you know, one of the best owners,
Speaker 3: and the Cowboys always going to be so big because
Speaker 3: he knows how to do it. Media department, Derrek Eagleton,
Speaker 3: all of them. They did a really great job. I
Speaker 3: agree with you on that one. My only thing is
Speaker 3: you just know how the NFL is to where there
Speaker 3: are teams that you expect to be really good based
Speaker 3: off what.
Speaker 2: They did the prior years.
Speaker 3: And then they come out here and you like, hold on,
Speaker 3: that's man, that's not them. I thought they were gonna
Speaker 3: be really good and then they just so happened not
Speaker 3: to play as well as they did the previous year.
Speaker 3: And to me, I think that's probably the only thing
Speaker 3: that may save us here because based off what you
Speaker 3: just said with Cleveland, we know how they looked last year.
Speaker 3: Another defense, Chubb, it's coming off of injury, so we
Speaker 3: don't know how good it'll be, especially with that being
Speaker 3: the first the first game of the season. The Saints,
Speaker 3: you know, they don't have anything, so they're gonna run it.
Speaker 3: They're gonna try to run it. You got the Baltimore
Speaker 3: Ravens with Derrick Henry. You know he's gonna try to
Speaker 3: run it. So we're gonna be tested really quick, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna know, hey, did we fix the things that
Speaker 3: we haven't been able to fix over the last few years.
Speaker 3: We're being able to stop the run. With Mazzie Smith
Speaker 3: in there saying he's gaining a little weight or or
Speaker 3: is it some of the same old same boat. Hey man,
Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna beat depending on Dak Dak Prescott
Speaker 3: and Brandon Kills and Ceedee Lamb to get out there
Speaker 3: and just put up a bunch of yards because we're
Speaker 3: not able to stop stop the run. So we're gonna
Speaker 3: learn a lot in those first three weeks. We'll learn
Speaker 3: a lot. So when I saw the schedule, that's the
Speaker 3: first thing I thought. BC was like, Man, we're gonna
Speaker 3: figure out what Mike Zimmer got going on these first
Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks gonna be a test of
Speaker 3: the season, will be a test. And I really loved Uh.
Speaker 3: I believe it was Patrick Walker that did the interview
Speaker 3: with Mike Zimmer just talking about his play style and
Speaker 3: in his scheme and how it's gonna scheme it up
Speaker 3: and how it's gonna be much different from Dan Quinn.
Speaker 3: And I think when you talk about him as a
Speaker 3: legendary as a coach basically, Uh, one of the things
Speaker 3: that I thought was very unique about what he said
Speaker 3: was when he's come into situations as a head coach
Speaker 3: or even as a coordinator, it's been because the defense
Speaker 3: is horrible. In this situation, I'm coming in on the
Speaker 3: defense that already has you know, has some success. How
Speaker 3: do you build on that? But it's not gonna be
Speaker 3: the same scheme. But even when you look at these
Speaker 3: first couple of weeks and you talk about a Cleveland,
Speaker 3: even the New Orleans States and a Baltimore Ravens. Boy,
Speaker 3: those are that's like that's that button up your chin strap.
Speaker 3: You already know what they're gonna come with. Especially when
Speaker 3: I got down to Baltimore. Yeah, you know, you already know,
Speaker 3: you already know that unless they do that Baltimore that
Speaker 3: showed up in the playoff.
Speaker 2: Game, I mean.
Speaker 3: That would be like trading play is identity crisis for
Speaker 3: Baltimore if they did that. But I think for me,
Speaker 3: like going and obviously we're not gonna pick anything without
Speaker 3: you know, without We're not.
Speaker 2: Gonna let him get off.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna let Bernie made off with penwhipless you
Speaker 3: know how extra set of books.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: But but also you go to this book, I want
Speaker 3: to bring out the you know he got to After that,
Speaker 3: you get Detroit. You get Detroit, and then you get
Speaker 3: a buy and then right after that San Francisco right behind.
Speaker 4: If you look at that all the way up until
Speaker 4: San Francisco, all those squads outside of New York, then
Speaker 4: they're gonna try to run that rock New York and
Speaker 4: maybe the same they're gonna run they got Pittsburgh. You
Speaker 4: at Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, all these teams exactly. All these
Speaker 4: teams are like, look, we ain't got the quarterback option
Speaker 4: outside of outside of Baltimore. So we're gonna run the rock,
Speaker 4: We're gonna run the right and we're gonna see exactly
Speaker 4: what Zimmer and this defense can do. Can Mozzie Smith
Speaker 4: have that bounce back here?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Do we have the three tech and the one tech
Speaker 4: in there to solve these problems? Are linebackers gonna be
Speaker 4: able to work like we think they're going to be
Speaker 4: able to work? It's gonna be a great test these
Speaker 4: first come And that's why I'm and that's why I'm
Speaker 4: going with my question for you because I think even
Speaker 4: before the draft, your your concern was linebackers. And post draft,
Speaker 4: do you feel like you know the linebacker they got
Speaker 4: from Notre Dame bringing in Kendricks and company and already
Speaker 4: what we already have. Now that you look at the schedule,
Speaker 4: you know what you're going to be coming up against,
Speaker 4: especially that first quarter of the season. Did we get
Speaker 4: better at linebacker to be able to take on some
Speaker 4: of your concerns?
Speaker 2: So you got better? You got better because you got
Speaker 2: some guys.
Speaker 3: I think last year, depth was a huge problems when
Speaker 3: you have Marquise Bell stepping in to play the linebacker position.
Speaker 3: So we got some guys, we have a veteran guy
Speaker 3: and Kendricks that that you know can probably get those
Speaker 3: guys lined up and ready to go. And you got
Speaker 3: some young guys in there. But I think I think
Speaker 3: you're you're better at the position. What words me still
Speaker 3: is the defensive line. And I heard the defensive the
Speaker 3: new defensive line coach say that Monzie Smith playing last
Speaker 3: year was a lot of get up feel and he's
Speaker 3: going to play more to the stress of being able
Speaker 3: to read blocks and play in the blocks. I gotta
Speaker 3: see that. I have to see it. But the thing
Speaker 3: is we won't see it because he's not gonna be
Speaker 3: there until training camp. So he's like, he's not going
Speaker 3: to be able to work on any of that stuff,
Speaker 3: and we're not going to see if he's better at
Speaker 3: doing that than what dan Quinn had him doing, if
Speaker 3: there was really truly a difference.
Speaker 2: So where y'all like, were you confused.
Speaker 3: At all about that about the Minsie Smith getting up
Speaker 3: the field talk excited?
Speaker 4: I didn't so what he was So from what I
Speaker 4: just I got from it was he was more focused
Speaker 4: on getting that early penetration through the defense or through
Speaker 4: the offensive line and getting after the quarterback, which a
Speaker 4: lot of the defensive line in Quinn system, that was
Speaker 4: their first mentality, that gotta get up to the quarterback.
Speaker 4: And that's what to me. You didn't have enough guys
Speaker 4: that were anchored that were like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, if the quarterback comes my way out, be
Speaker 4: all right, but I'm gonna sit in this gap and
Speaker 4: makes round get moved. I don't think there was enough
Speaker 4: of that on the defensive line. I think it was
Speaker 4: always we gotta get up field, we gotta get up field.
Speaker 4: And as you see throughout the season, guys were playing,
Speaker 4: we're running counters on us. Let these guys get up field.
Speaker 4: Were gonna let them get right past us. And here
Speaker 4: comes a running back right at that hole where they've
Speaker 4: just left. So I think, you know, hopefully the you
Speaker 4: know that hope them again hopefully you know, the scheme
Speaker 4: this year with the defensive line, especially the interior guys,
Speaker 4: is more get those concrete blocks that we talked about
Speaker 4: all this foot and just just sit there, let them run. Linebackers,
Speaker 4: let those guys run all over the field and chase
Speaker 4: down bloss Just make sure you don't get moved out
Speaker 4: of your out of your block, or out of your gap.
Speaker 2: But you know, a lot easier said than that. I
Speaker 2: think that's that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Like it's the Jecko and how the kind of good
Speaker 3: and the bad that goes with the defense that that
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn Quinn runs where you're trying to get these
Speaker 3: guys in one on one, especially guys like Michael Parsons.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the linebackers to where you have to run these
Speaker 3: stunts with the defensive line and these ets so often
Speaker 3: and these other stunts that you see so that the
Speaker 3: linebackers can play off of it, and it doesn't sometimes
Speaker 3: it doesn't give the defensive line interior one technique knows
Speaker 3: technique the opportunity to really, hey man, this is where
Speaker 3: I'm locked in that I'm playing the double here and
Speaker 3: this is and this is this is just my one
Speaker 3: job versus wait. I read his step and he has
Speaker 3: to do this, and I got Michael Parsons coming behind me,
Speaker 3: So now I gotta figure out how to make these
Speaker 3: things work. I think this is gonna be one of
Speaker 3: those Hey man, we're playing base defense, you line up
Speaker 3: here at the nose, you line up here at the three,
Speaker 3: and if there's a double team, you playing to them,
Speaker 3: and everybody else is gonna have to play off of
Speaker 3: y'all versus the opposite. So I think you'll see a
Speaker 3: lot less of probably the et stunts and the spikes
Speaker 3: into the b gap. I think you see a lot
Speaker 3: less of that and more of, hey man, we hold
Speaker 3: a point. We need guys who can whole point and
Speaker 3: make sure that those those linemen stay off our linebackers.
Speaker 4: It reminds me a lot of that that Marinelli system,
Speaker 4: you know, when I was playing coming up with because
Speaker 4: we didn't know, we didn't have a great names or
Speaker 4: anything like that, but we had guys that were like, look,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sit this a gap. I'm gonna sit in
Speaker 4: this big gap, and we're gonna be good against the run.
Speaker 4: And we were through those stretches with Maryonelli. We're good
Speaker 4: against the run. Granted, you know, we had on the
Speaker 4: other side of the bar offensively a prime ezeque El
Speaker 4: Elliott taking all the time of possession. We had the
Speaker 4: Marco Murray taking all the time of possession. So teams
Speaker 4: really couldn't get into that that run system. But I
Speaker 4: believe if you have a you know, a group of
Speaker 4: guys understanding their role, not playing hero ball, sit in
Speaker 4: that gap, let those other guys do what they gotta.
Speaker 2: Do, that I think you have a better defense overall.
Speaker 3: Now, integrity wise, when you have the difference between what
Speaker 3: Quinn is doing and what Zimmer is doing, because historically
Speaker 3: Zimmer is one of those guys that believes in gap responsibility, alignment, assignment.
Speaker 3: Where you were just talking about those stunts. Now, does
Speaker 3: that take away from what you have on the outside
Speaker 3: with Michael Parsons. Does that take away from the DeMarcus
Speaker 3: Lawrences to be able to do what they do best?
Speaker 3: I think less so on DeMarcus Lawrence and more so
Speaker 3: on Michael Parsons just based off what we've seen them
Speaker 3: be successful. Let with Dan Quinn. Can't Michael Parsons line
Speaker 3: up at defensive end and continue to make plays. I
Speaker 3: believe that he can, Like I believe he can get
Speaker 3: that done. We will have to see him probably do
Speaker 3: it more times now this season. We've had to see
Speaker 3: him do it in the previous seasons. Especially if you're
Speaker 3: playing that hey man one technique, knows technique and the
Speaker 3: three or whatever that is interior and they're gonna stay
Speaker 3: there and just do that. Then yeah, you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to see Michael Parsons be probably more stationary than you've
Speaker 3: seen them in the past.
Speaker 2: What hurts me, or what got me a little bit
Speaker 2: a little nervous, is that.
Speaker 4: That you know that all that you know early penetration
Speaker 4: et stunts and all those great blizzes Quinn was running.
Speaker 4: You know, against the running might not have been that great,
Speaker 4: but against the past, they were getting after the quarterback
Speaker 4: and that helped that secondary in the back end tremendously.
Speaker 4: When you talk about being able to take the football away,
Speaker 4: sitting all routes, intercepting things, not having to cover that
Speaker 4: long because you knew that pass rus was gonna get
Speaker 4: there with this Zimmerar system and you know, I still
Speaker 4: don't know all the ins and outs of it, but
Speaker 4: if you're playing that base where it's like, all right,
Speaker 4: we're gonna be hunkered down right here, that secondary they're
Speaker 4: gonna have to cover, They're gonna have You're gonna have
Speaker 4: to You're gonna be covering a lot longer than you
Speaker 4: were in years past. So that makes me slightly nervous.
Speaker 4: But you got two great corners on the outside and
Speaker 4: blanding digs. You got safeties, reliable safeties back there. So
Speaker 4: as long as they can, you know, work off of
Speaker 4: each other, I think they'll be good. But that makes
Speaker 4: me a little nervous when talking about the past coverage. Man,
Speaker 4: we're getting off to a hot start. We're gonna take
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Speaker 4: BC watches golf. He's playing double.
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Speaker 3: in action here on the Players Lounge minus my man knew,
Speaker 3: he scrugs he'ld be back next Monday. In here with
Speaker 3: my Man BC and d Mack, and we were talking
Speaker 3: about the schedule, but more importantly talking about how things
Speaker 3: areligned up front on this defensive line, and how you're
Speaker 3: gonna get pressure, and one of the most important things
Speaker 3: of the off season. One of the things is happening
Speaker 3: right now in the off season is Mozzie Smith. Mozzie Smith,
Speaker 3: as you know, guy's lost a ton of weight going
Speaker 3: the opposite direction on the scale where we would like
Speaker 3: for our one techniques, got under under three hundred under
Speaker 3: three hundred pounds during the season. So now it's rumored
Speaker 3: that he's getting his weight back up after the shoulder surgery.
Speaker 2: But I think the more.
Speaker 3: Troubling thing for Cowboy fans is the fact that he's
Speaker 3: not in the building and you know, there's some other
Speaker 3: things that's going on. I mean, we'll tread lightly around that,
Speaker 3: but at the same time, you have to have he
Speaker 3: I mean, he has to have a great second year
Speaker 3: and it's not starting off good for us in the
Speaker 3: off season. Danny, what are you making of all of
Speaker 3: this rumor around our number one draft pick last year?
Speaker 3: I want to say first, I want to purpose it
Speaker 3: by saying this. I know the guy wants to be
Speaker 3: a really good player. Like nobody comes in and they're
Speaker 3: like like, nah, I'm all right, you came in as
Speaker 3: a first round pick. I'm sure he did his much
Speaker 3: as he possibly could. That he thought was the best
Speaker 3: thing for him to be really good. It just didn't
Speaker 3: work out. Now the surer showed the surgery. He can't
Speaker 3: help that. He can't help that. Now he has to
Speaker 3: get that in order to be healthy for the season.
Speaker 3: With all that being said, that is a very tough
Speaker 3: thing to do to come off a season like you
Speaker 3: had last.
Speaker 2: Year where you lost weight. You are underweight.
Speaker 3: Now you're trying to gain weight the right way, but
Speaker 3: then you're not able to work out like everybody else
Speaker 3: is working out. So one we got to find out
Speaker 3: that's even true weight. Once you get out of that
Speaker 3: training camp, all of a sudden, you can drop another
Speaker 3: twenty because you haven't been doing the things that other
Speaker 3: people have been doing. I exaggerated with the twenty out,
Speaker 3: but you dropped. You figure out that that's not what
Speaker 3: you really thought it was.
Speaker 2: Too.
Speaker 3: You got a new defensive line coach, you have a
Speaker 3: new defensive coordinator. Who are they already have come out
Speaker 3: and said they're going to teach you to do new
Speaker 3: things or take you back to what you did good
Speaker 3: at Michigan that got you to be a first round pick,
Speaker 3: and you're not able to really get out there and
Speaker 3: do it. Like you can do as much footwork as
Speaker 3: you can, but if you're not getting your hands on
Speaker 3: guys and being able to really find out what that
Speaker 3: positioning and your leverage and getting back into that that
Speaker 3: groove and that habit of doing that stuff, and it's
Speaker 3: gonna be hard for you to get out there. You know,
Speaker 3: in the first week and you're going to see h
Speaker 3: Nick Chubb and then the next week you go see Alvakamar.
Speaker 3: The next week you go see uh King Henry Henry,
Speaker 3: you know, and like that's that's when you knocking the
Speaker 3: rust off. Like it's gonna be a really quick catch
Speaker 3: up for him in order to really be successful if
Speaker 3: we wanted to be the season now that words me.
Speaker 2: But can he be great? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's the first round picked for a reason, that's true.
Speaker 4: And now I echo everything you just said when it
Speaker 4: comes to MASI, I mean, you know, he's gonna, you know,
Speaker 4: try as hard as to get to where he wants
Speaker 4: to be when the season comes up.
Speaker 2: The one thing I will say about it is.
Speaker 4: When you when you're a young guy, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's your first real off season as a team and
Speaker 4: all that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Y'all have been to other.
Speaker 4: Places, but with the Cowboys, they love all their players
Speaker 4: to be here and working out, and I understand that
Speaker 4: that's not gonna be everybody. Everybody's not gonna be here
Speaker 4: working out at the same time and all that good
Speaker 4: which is volunteer, which is volunteer. It's one of those,
Speaker 4: you know, with the question mark, especially if you're a
Speaker 4: young guy.
Speaker 2: Especially if you're a young guy.
Speaker 4: Now I could see you know, Dak and you know
Speaker 4: Zeke and Ceedee Lamb and those guys, they might want
Speaker 4: to go work on their own, but they're they're proven
Speaker 4: commodities in the National Football League, you know, all pros,
Speaker 4: Pro Bowls, they've they've done it all. So they've kind of,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to say earn the right,
Speaker 4: but they they've gotten to that point where they if
Speaker 4: they want to go work out somewhere else and come
Speaker 4: back for captains workouts, then they could do.
Speaker 10: So.
Speaker 4: When you're a young guy like Miles Smith was, you
Speaker 4: were drafted by basically the Dan Quinn regime and they,
Speaker 4: you know, they first round picked you weren't drafted by
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: The Zimmer regime. So you want to make sure, especially
Speaker 2: coming off an injury.
Speaker 4: I could see if he you know, Pro Bowl All
Speaker 4: Rookie Team or something like that, coming off as rookie year,
Speaker 4: even if he played and we saw flashes like man,
Speaker 4: he got it, he got something in the tank, we didn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't see any of that. So when you're coming.
Speaker 4: Back off your second year injury, going into a new system,
Speaker 4: you want to make sure you're around everybody. You want
Speaker 4: to make sure the coaches are seeing your face each
Speaker 4: and every day that you can be down here in Dallas,
Speaker 4: not to me, only that, not only that you got possibly,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, the best training staff International Football League
Speaker 4: with Britt Mauer and Jim or Jimer, Britt Brown and
Speaker 4: g Money and those guys.
Speaker 2: They'll get you right. So there's no really real reasons
Speaker 2: to go anywhere else to do your rehab. If that's
Speaker 2: the case that's going on right now.
Speaker 4: So for me, you know, if I'm Mozzie Smith, I
Speaker 4: want to be in the building each and every day
Speaker 4: learning the new stuff that the new defensive coordinator wants
Speaker 4: me to do, keeping my face around, letting these guys
Speaker 4: understand that, hey, I'm here and I want to get better.
Speaker 4: Just from my own experience, That's how it was. We
Speaker 4: had the new defensive coordinator almost every year here in Dallas,
Speaker 4: and I'm telling you, if I wasn't here working out
Speaker 4: or making sure my face was shown, they were trying
Speaker 4: to replace me regardless of every single year. So I
Speaker 4: just had to make sure I was here in attendance.
Speaker 4: And maybe if you're a first round pick is different,
Speaker 4: but to me, I want to be showing my face
Speaker 4: as much as possible.
Speaker 2: I think they're interesting.
Speaker 3: Well, the question I have for you guys, because you
Speaker 3: are former Cowboys, you know the pressure. I mean, speak
Speaker 3: to the pressure that possibly Mozzie Smith is under. Because
Speaker 3: no one's full out and came out and said use
Speaker 3: the word like this bus.
Speaker 2: You know or anything like that.
Speaker 3: But there are in you windows and people saying, you know,
Speaker 3: little things about his first year, but it seems like
Speaker 3: he's a young man under a tremendous amount of pressure
Speaker 3: being the former first round twenty six pick taking in
Speaker 3: the draft. What is that pressure like for a young
Speaker 3: guy like that to come into this building every day
Speaker 3: knowing the expectation that's placed on you. I think it's
Speaker 3: tough one because you already have the big pressure of
Speaker 3: being the Dallas Cowboys and we haven't won the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl in this long and we got all the play
Speaker 3: because you always here. They got all the talent, they
Speaker 3: got all this and they just can't figure out how
Speaker 3: to get it done. And then you say, you he knows,
Speaker 3: a man, Cowboys haven't been able to stop the run
Speaker 3: for the last few years. They drafted God in the
Speaker 3: first round, coming from Michigan who was successful in college,
Speaker 3: and they say this is going to be the missing piece,
Speaker 3: and then it doesn't happen that way to where what
Speaker 3: do you play like six naps? Maybe in the last game,
Speaker 3: he couldn't be like like he didn't really play much
Speaker 3: in that last one. Right, So now he knows and
Speaker 3: he feels the fact that, hey, man, I'm a first
Speaker 3: round pick and I have to play better. One of
Speaker 3: the pressure is that too, is everybody's trying to get paid, right,
Speaker 3: so at some point you have to be able to
Speaker 3: show man put I can put it on tape to
Speaker 3: where the ownership looks at me and says, one, I
Speaker 3: earned this first round selection and two I'm trying to
Speaker 3: get the bag moving moving on in my career. His
Speaker 3: third one is now he's hurt. So now you got
Speaker 3: all that pressure, and now you have the pressure one
Speaker 3: to be healthy enough when the season starts to really
Speaker 3: get out there and make a difference.
Speaker 2: And then hey, man, now.
Speaker 3: I gotta worry if I'm one of those guys who
Speaker 3: are always injured, right, because now you got that on
Speaker 3: you of like, well, listen, he's a really great player, but.
Speaker 2: He's just not healthy. Right.
Speaker 3: So all guys who go out there and they get hurt,
Speaker 3: what happens is when they first get back on the
Speaker 3: one thing in their mind is they don't want that
Speaker 3: to happen again. When you don't want to be labeled
Speaker 3: as a hurt guy, and you also don't want to
Speaker 3: miss that time again. So I think he has an
Speaker 3: imiss amount of pressure on him. Hopefully he gets back
Speaker 3: and then he gets his mind right and he can
Speaker 3: overcome that. But right now, it's a lot. You think
Speaker 3: he can handle it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do think he has the capabilities of handling
Speaker 4: the pressure.
Speaker 2: It's a lot though. There's a lot of pressure on it.
Speaker 4: Just like what Daddy just said, being that first round pick,
Speaker 4: understanding that the one achilles heel for this defense over
Speaker 4: the past couple of years has been the run, and
Speaker 4: you right, you know, fair or not, you were the
Speaker 4: guy that's gonna be.
Speaker 2: Drafted to fix that problem.
Speaker 4: So you got drafted, you didn't really show up your
Speaker 4: rookie season for whatever the case may be. Now the
Speaker 4: pressure is even announcing even more because when you look
Speaker 4: at all the first round draft picks before him, I
Speaker 4: think there was maybe maybe one that didn't pan out
Speaker 4: and we talked to Taco. Other than that, you got
Speaker 4: all pros, Pro Bowlers, all decade players as first round
Speaker 4: picks for the Dallas Cowboys and then so it kind
Speaker 4: of like just kind of cascade. It might not be fair,
Speaker 4: but that's just the way it is. They're gonna put
Speaker 4: that pressure on you to be able to stop the run.
Speaker 4: It's a team effort, but you're the first round pick.
Speaker 4: You're in the trenches. We want you to stop the run.
Speaker 4: That's how it's gonna look like. I keep saying that
Speaker 4: it's not fair, but that's just the way the game goes.
Speaker 4: So there's a mint pressure on Mazie Smith going forward
Speaker 4: to to kind of be that guy, not saying he
Speaker 4: has to be Aaron Donald. Not saying he gotta be
Speaker 4: you know, Chris Jones or anything like that, but if
Speaker 4: he can just hold the paint in there and we
Speaker 4: can go from being, you know, one of the worst
Speaker 4: run defenses in the league too, I would even say
Speaker 4: above average.
Speaker 2: You know, you ain't even.
Speaker 4: Gotta be great, just above average. Now I think he'll
Speaker 4: he'll have done his job. But man, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of pressure going on Mazie right now.
Speaker 3: Look that that Dak Prescott Montra pressure is the privilege
Speaker 3: doesn't apply to.
Speaker 2: Everybody, a lot of everybody.
Speaker 3: But speaking of first round draft picks, we all got
Speaker 3: an opportunity to see Tyler guiden Uh in the building,
Speaker 3: our first round draft pick, and big young man that's
Speaker 3: coming into.
Speaker 2: Hats his work cut out for him as well.
Speaker 3: He is replacing what could be a first ballot Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer and Tyron Smith switching gears over to the
Speaker 3: offensive line. I know there's a lot of expectation, a
Speaker 3: lot of question marks placed on that offensive line. And look,
Speaker 3: it's the underwear Olympics. We're not gonna know how these guys,
Speaker 3: especially at the defensive and offensive line. You don't get
Speaker 3: a chance to see exactly what these guys can do.
Speaker 3: But a guy like Tyler Guidon stepping into going from
Speaker 3: the right side to down to the left side and
Speaker 3: expected to come in and be a staple and an
Speaker 3: anchor on this on this offensive line, what are your
Speaker 3: expectations from him coming in and Barry go ahead.
Speaker 2: To me, my expectations.
Speaker 4: You got to go in there and you gotta be
Speaker 4: a day one starter, you know, you gotta be a
Speaker 4: day one starter, and you gotta be able to contribute,
Speaker 4: you know, for this team a sap because to me,
Speaker 4: it seems like they're gonna keep Tyler Tyler Smith at
Speaker 4: that left guard position, which you know they all proed.
Speaker 4: I mean, the guy's amazing, got the left guard spot.
Speaker 4: So they're gonna put you know, the first round draft
Speaker 4: trick guiding out there on that left tackle situation. And
Speaker 4: to me, we've heard, you know, through through through great
Speaker 4: founding reports that he's a project, that this guy, you know,
Speaker 4: he has all this ability, but he's kind of wrong.
Speaker 2: He's a raw project.
Speaker 4: But we heard the same thing about Tyler coming out. Man,
Speaker 4: he's got get a lot of penalties. You know, he
Speaker 4: has all the talent in the world, he's just not
Speaker 4: refined just yet, and look at he came out and
Speaker 4: was able to do his rookie season. So if he
Speaker 4: can be even a third or half of what Tyler
Speaker 4: Smith was his rookie season, I think we'll have made
Speaker 4: leaps and bounds and his officive line is gonna go forward.
Speaker 10: Great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, And we talked about that pressure, and I
Speaker 3: think the pressure is on him to get out there
Speaker 3: and be a day one starter and be successful because
Speaker 3: we go back to Massie. He said, hey man, we
Speaker 3: got a first round pick who didn't really wasn't really
Speaker 3: impactful for us the year before. We're really counting on you.
Speaker 3: And I think, to me, it makes sense to move
Speaker 3: him out to the left one because Tyler Smith has been
Speaker 3: really good and now he's in the middle of now
Speaker 3: a rookie center and then in a rookie left tackle,
Speaker 3: so he's gonna be he's gonna be like that, hey man,
Speaker 3: we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Lean on you, though. We're gonna lean on you.
Speaker 3: You the veteran guy, and he's just outstanding at left guard,
Speaker 3: so I think it makes sense for him to be there.
Speaker 3: But I actually have faith in the offensive line. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's rookie here, rookie there. But just based off
Speaker 3: what they were able to do with Tyler Smith and
Speaker 3: if he really needed to move out the left tackle
Speaker 3: they could have. I think they're gonna do everything they
Speaker 3: have to do to get Gutting ready, and I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna be okay. Now, he's gonna have a rough
Speaker 3: start on I mean, that's what I'm going with this,
Speaker 3: but I'm not gonna judge it. I'm not gonna judge
Speaker 3: it because he's he's a rookie. I'm not gonna judge
Speaker 3: it based off those first three against like, that's not
Speaker 3: fair to him to be to say, listen, he go
Speaker 3: out there and he struggled against everybody, some of those guys,
Speaker 3: then he's just not gonna be a great player.
Speaker 2: He's gonna struggle a little bit.
Speaker 3: But I think as the season goes on, I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna catch the same thing that happened with Tommas Smith.
Speaker 3: He did start off with some penalties, so it wasn't
Speaker 3: all great in his first year, but I think he's
Speaker 3: gonna have an opportunity, especially once you get into the Giants.
Speaker 2: I think he doesn't get that's nothing easy on here.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be bye week twentieth.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have an opportunity to take a breath and
Speaker 3: see what he did wrong and come on back. And
Speaker 3: I gotta fake them like I'm actually I'm I'm happy
Speaker 3: with the offensive line until.
Speaker 2: I and I see him feel I think.
Speaker 3: I think they did what they needed to do, especially
Speaker 3: knowing how your defense performed in the run game. They
Speaker 3: knowing you're gonna have to go out there and throw
Speaker 3: the ball and score some points of offense.
Speaker 2: They did. They did the best they could.
Speaker 3: Guys, I'm not gonna lie I'm nervous. No, No, I appreciate,
Speaker 3: I really do, and I and I think where where
Speaker 3: my greatest concern comes from is that he is moving
Speaker 3: from right tackle in college to left tackle in the pros.
Speaker 3: And I mean, you guys, being two former veterans in
Speaker 3: the NFL, y'all know the speed difference is completely different
Speaker 3: than still when hello, that was during the season. That's true.
Speaker 2: I think the difference in those This man.
Speaker 3: Is gonna have a whole off season and extra work
Speaker 3: to play left tackle. They were moving guys from right
Speaker 3: to left mid season, Yeah, which did.
Speaker 2: Tyrans trying to play right?
Speaker 3: Did tyrns play yes, like like those are like he's
Speaker 3: been doing this for his entire career, playing left. So
Speaker 3: I think that that is a that that's a slight
Speaker 3: difference in like what what's going on with g versus
Speaker 3: what we've seen previously. And I was here saying, a man,
Speaker 3: it's not the same and Nate knew what to tell you,
Speaker 3: the same thing. But when you got a whole off
Speaker 3: season o t as Ricky Minnie camp, training camp, and
Speaker 3: then going to the season learning that position, that I
Speaker 3: think is a little it's a little different.
Speaker 2: Words like raw, like.
Speaker 3: That'll take you a little bit. And I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like Rock, he still has work to do, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: I think that I think that worries me. I think
Speaker 3: words me and and you know, Nick Nick Harris had
Speaker 3: an article about Tyler guy and this is Coaches Corner
Speaker 3: if you got to check it out. Those articles that
Speaker 3: he's writing where he's getting an opportunity to interview some
Speaker 3: of the coaches from my draft picks. He talked got
Speaker 3: an opportunity to talk to Tyler Guid's offensive line coach,
Speaker 3: and those are some of the things that he said,
Speaker 3: Like the mature factor from the jump that he made
Speaker 3: his first year in at Oha because it's transferred from
Speaker 3: TCU to Oklahoma. But still just saying that, you know,
Speaker 3: he was more of a project because of Look, he's
Speaker 3: he's big, strong, long arms, is quick feet, but he's
Speaker 3: not as heavy handed as you would like for for
Speaker 3: a guy to be.
Speaker 2: So that's all. That's my only thing.
Speaker 3: And you keep bringing this up over and over again,
Speaker 3: and I look at this schedule and I'm saying, this
Speaker 3: kid's confidence could be shot, especially knowing that he's going
Speaker 3: to be going up against one a couple of the
Speaker 3: best pass ruptures in the league. Yeah, he gonna get them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you look at it.
Speaker 2: Let's see right now. Man, you got Miles Gear. I mean,
Speaker 2: you got the Baltimore Raate's. They got two guys coming
Speaker 2: off there, t J. Watt. You got what's the guy
Speaker 2: from New York, Tip Iteau.
Speaker 3: You got Detroit, Detroit, Yeah, in the Zimber Bowl, you know,
Speaker 3: not him, him and his officeive coordinator gonna he's a rookie. Okay,
Speaker 3: you're talking about confidence. You gotta you have to find
Speaker 3: a way to get the ball out of the dak
Speaker 3: Hans quick You're gonna have to figure out a way
Speaker 3: to me. The one the thing that can always fix
Speaker 3: a worry like that is figure out a way to
Speaker 3: run the ball. Absolutely, offensive lineman and that situation want
Speaker 3: to maul you. They want to They want to get
Speaker 3: their confidence up by moving you off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: And then you know, then they feel a little bit
Speaker 3: more comfortable with that. If you get him out there
Speaker 3: and you're throwing forty passes in the first game against
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns, that's where your confidence might get shook
Speaker 3: because now you've got opportunity, forty opportunities. You got forty
Speaker 3: opportunities to get out there and get some sex.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: So now I think I think us establishing the run game,
Speaker 3: which I know is total opposite of McCarthy, and it's
Speaker 3: and how he and how he rolls. But I think
Speaker 3: you just last year he did start off trying to
Speaker 3: run the football. So hopefully this year he follows up
Speaker 3: and he tries to run the football at the beginning
Speaker 3: of the seeon, so are we going, and we start
Speaker 3: looking at this the start and five right now we
Speaker 3: are saying Tyler Guiding at the left tackle, Tyler Smith
Speaker 3: at the left guard, and there's gonna be a battle
Speaker 3: for the center center position between Brock Hoffman and Cooper BB.
Speaker 3: Zach Martin's a lock, and ter Steele is a lot
Speaker 3: at the center center position. Any interest in that battle
Speaker 3: between Hoffman and BB.
Speaker 4: That's gonna be a good battle because Hoffman when he
Speaker 4: came in that that commander's game.
Speaker 2: I mean, he shows some nastiness like he was he
Speaker 2: was finishing.
Speaker 4: His blocks, and I mean he's been in the system,
Speaker 4: so he knows how to communicate through the offensive line.
Speaker 4: So but you got BB as a high draft pick,
Speaker 4: So that's gonna be an interesting battle.
Speaker 3: Right there here for either one of those centers. I'm
Speaker 3: looking and that's why they got to sit up this way.
Speaker 3: I believe I'm looking to my right now, I'm looking
Speaker 3: at a uh at Zach Martin left. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: a Tyler Smith, and I'm feeling more comfortable because that's
Speaker 3: who I got there. And I feel like when they
Speaker 3: got to make those calls and those switches and stuff,
Speaker 3: you're looking at a Tyler Smith who's been there, who's
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl guy. You're looking at at a Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame guy. And Zach Martin, you said I feel more
Speaker 3: comfortable here than if I had guiding anybody else right
Speaker 3: there in no spots, So yeah, I think I think
Speaker 3: it's okay, man, I think it's all right.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll take our last break, man.
Speaker 3: But before we take this break, it was a quarterback
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Speaker 3: Back for the last segment of the Players Lounge, I
Speaker 3: said NEWI Scruggs is out today. He will be back
Speaker 3: on Monday. But I teased before I left on the
Speaker 3: second break that there was a quarterback in detail that
Speaker 3: got paid. And I'm talking about Jared Golf. Jared Golf
Speaker 3: got he got what he deserves. As facts, he got
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Speaker 3: Jared Golf got broke off. Jared Golf is now the
Speaker 3: second highest paid quarterback in the NFL, behind Joe Burrow,
Speaker 3: who is at fifty five fifty five million a year.
Speaker 3: Behind that is your guy Justin Justin Herbert. Behind Herbert
Speaker 3: is Lamar Jackson, and your guy Jalen Hurts is after
Speaker 3: that at fifty one.
Speaker 2: That man, I'll be like that anyway. I mean he
Speaker 2: a Texas guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you go play for a little you know,
Speaker 3: he's gonna be a Texas guy speaking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so go so keep won't.
Speaker 3: Now I'm doing the very podcast. It's like, sorry, guys, players, player,
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Speaker 3: in your opinion, deserves to be paid more than Lamar
Speaker 3: Jackson at this point in his career. Who went who
Speaker 3: went further in the playoffs twice?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What what what Jared Golf has done since he's gotten
Speaker 3: gotten got to Detroit, earned him that fifty because Matthew
Speaker 3: Stafford wasn't doing it. Matthew Stafford was making a hundred
Speaker 3: meon you're talking about what he did last year. No,
Speaker 3: what he know since he's gotten there, since he's gotten
Speaker 3: that team when he got there, had won. I don't
Speaker 3: even know how many games it was. It was bad,
Speaker 3: maybe five six, and they went from there from from
Speaker 3: how he was playing till last year. They were good
Speaker 3: because of him as well. Like it wasn't like he
Speaker 3: was just you know, being a bus driver. There were
Speaker 3: games where Jared Golf go out there and he got
Speaker 3: three hundred off Rots Down Saint Brown got paid like
Speaker 3: tight end tight ends balling. These guys are balling because
Speaker 3: Jared Goff is getting them the football and they were
Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship and they should have, like they coach.
Speaker 2: Is the reason they weren't in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: And that's including the game they played against US and
Speaker 3: then also the game that they lost up there against
Speaker 3: San France. So to no fault of Jared Golf. So
Speaker 3: you're looking at the guy and you say, you what
Speaker 3: is a franchise quarterback, a guy that we can depend
Speaker 3: on to take the NC championship, a guy that we
Speaker 3: can say, hey, man, we really need you to get
Speaker 3: down there and get us a field goal at the
Speaker 3: end of the game or touchdown, which he did all
Speaker 3: those things last season in the playoffs multiple times.
Speaker 2: Seen it drops. So yeah.
Speaker 3: So I mean, if anybody deserves it, I mean, give
Speaker 3: me the reason why he does it.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not look, I'm look.
Speaker 3: What I don't like doing is taking away from one
Speaker 3: person to big up another question.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3: But what I guess my question is is that coming
Speaker 3: into this season, I hadn't heard either one of you
Speaker 3: guys when we started talking having a quarterback conversation mentioned
Speaker 3: Jared Goff as far as a top ten quarterback in
Speaker 3: the NFL, even with the success that he's had in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I don't know, am I wrong? I mean, I think
Speaker 3: you are a little wrong because we talked multiple times
Speaker 3: about Detroit being the top five team because of how
Speaker 3: they run the ball and how Jared But it's always
Speaker 3: been because of how they run the ball and how
Speaker 3: they play defense, not so much that Jared Goff is
Speaker 3: gonna get them there do you.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on now, don't tell me that you had.
Speaker 3: We never picked up Detrot's defense, bro, I never said
Speaker 3: that said Detroit defense is and reason today because Aaron
Speaker 3: Glenn that was struggling last year, okay, tend to keep
Speaker 3: them going. It was because they could run the ball
Speaker 3: if Jared Golf was not turning it over. But he
Speaker 3: also had say Brown, and they picked up the tight
Speaker 3: end and he was making those guys better. Jared Golf
Speaker 3: just based off how he played the previous year and
Speaker 3: this year earned that money and that's and that's how
Speaker 3: it goes.
Speaker 2: I would take it one good year.
Speaker 3: But for you to say, hey man, it's time for
Speaker 3: you to pay me because I got us here, let
Speaker 3: me turn there, let me pivot out of this time
Speaker 3: because if that goes n NC Championship, he should get sixty.
Speaker 2: And that's what he's gonna say.
Speaker 3: Okay, what because I feel like you have to get
Speaker 3: DA's deal done before the season. Am I only one
Speaker 3: that feels like you have ton you right, you got
Speaker 3: to get him and then feel like you gotta get
Speaker 3: them done.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're doing now. I'm just so
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 3: So as far as the conversation when you saw Jared
Speaker 3: Goff get his money, the first thing you say to yourself,
Speaker 3: all right, the clock is ticking. Now this number is
Speaker 3: gone from fifty three.
Speaker 4: To it's going it's gonna five at least, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: come back, Beau. They're gonna be like, look at the
Speaker 4: highest paid guy is Joe Burrow, fifty five, been in
Speaker 4: the super Bowl. There is you know, what have you done?
Speaker 4: And that's gonna be the you know that's gonna it's
Speaker 4: my time, Like that's how it works. So it's gonna
Speaker 4: be it's gonna be a interesting battle, gonna be in
Speaker 4: the battle, but he gonna get paid regard me, he
Speaker 4: gonna get his bread.
Speaker 3: So as far as quarterbacks and just doing the comparison
Speaker 3: annalysis between those two quarterbacks, I mean, who do you
Speaker 3: give the nine to?
Speaker 2: Jared Goff for DAK regular.
Speaker 3: Season the Cold to Prescott playoffs just the last, Like
Speaker 3: I'm just going off who has had more success.
Speaker 2: In the playoffs, even it's running last, It has been
Speaker 2: Jared Goff.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing, the only thing that's holding DAK
Speaker 3: Prescott back from being one like one of the perennial
Speaker 3: top two top three guys, is how he performs in
Speaker 3: the playoffs, or let's say this, how his team's perform
Speaker 3: war in the playoffs, because it always falls on the quarterback.
Speaker 2: We've seen that.
Speaker 3: It just it hadn't been up to par to where
Speaker 3: you say, you finished second in the m v MVP voting,
Speaker 3: but then you get knocked out in the first round
Speaker 3: of the playoffs, and partially is your fault. And I
Speaker 3: could see if like we went to these playoff matchups
Speaker 3: and he had like a hurts in the super Bowl
Speaker 3: where he outplayed my homes but they still lost.
Speaker 4: We look at these last two playoff performances. Now, I
Speaker 4: mean that's five interceptions, you know, so I think two
Speaker 4: got taken back for touchdown. It's like he's been I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna give him the majority of it, but he's
Speaker 4: he has his fair share in the l's taking in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. So I think you got to put that
Speaker 4: in there as well. But I think he'll still get me.
Speaker 3: Barry you drug Robbie Blake portals to the championship.
Speaker 2: This what's hurting you get so upset the vote and
Speaker 2: then they paid them, So who did you take? So
Speaker 2: you got that?
Speaker 3: You got that, and you got damn, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: golf on this. I got to you just got to
Speaker 3: go by the factuals. Two different teams, and you deck
Speaker 3: all the way.
Speaker 2: You know it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the numbers too, But I understand you.
Speaker 3: We're going we're separated. It's not that you're moving the
Speaker 3: goal post. You're basically saying, look, there's regular season and
Speaker 3: this postseason, and you're you're giving the postseason to Jared
Speaker 3: Goff because of the success. And I can't argue with
Speaker 3: that because we always say, man, you're gonna go twelve
Speaker 3: and five and then and no one cares after that.
Speaker 3: Like if you go to and five this year, get
Speaker 3: nobody cares about that twelve and five. They only care
Speaker 3: about what then happens in round one, round two, round three. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I got twelve and five right here too. Anyway, that's
Speaker 3: the end of lads. We'll be back on Monday, Newly
Speaker 3: Struggs will be back with us. Man hand your business
Speaker 3: new way.
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