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Speaker 1: former Cowboys defensive back, and Danny mccraig, former Cowboys defensive back.
Speaker 1: We're also getting you set for Cowboys Rams Week one
Speaker 1: at the New Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: it's here, Kansas City, Houston, Kansas City, the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champions here. Um. I don't know about you, guys, but
Speaker 1: I am going to get in front of the TV.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to be bought Church, what about you?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be bothered at all. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go into my little man cave, got my whole football
Speaker 1: set up. The situation going on. There, no kids coming in,
Speaker 1: the wife coming in, a man. It's solely football. It's
Speaker 1: finally back, man. I just I just can't wait. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. Yeah, look ay, church, Church, I like it
Speaker 1: to dress for the weather. The cool friend that came in, Man,
Speaker 1: I see you. You're like what I got. You're like,
Speaker 1: You're like what I got going on over here? Man? Listen, yeah, listen.
Speaker 1: I'm a little torn. Man. I'm excited for football, and
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna be tuned in, but I gotta watch
Speaker 1: Serena and I gotta watch Lebron. I'll be looking between shambles. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm every commercial break, I'm switching from a different sport.
Speaker 1: We're about to Serena with the best ticket player ever
Speaker 1: to live. We got Lebron, one of the greatest, and
Speaker 1: then we got football on. So I gotta pack schedule
Speaker 1: from my TV today. Hold on Netflix. No Netflix, No,
Speaker 1: no Netflix. You're just gonna forget about the Dallas Stars.
Speaker 1: Just like that. Dallas Stars taking on the Vegas Golden
Speaker 1: Knights Game three, Pivotal Game three tonight in Edmonton on
Speaker 1: NBCs N. I'll be tuned into that too. You know. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm from Houston. We don't have a professional hockey team,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really grow up on that. The shout
Speaker 1: out to the Stars. But that's not nothing that I'm watch.
Speaker 1: I'm a hockey team. Was like one of those semi pros,
Speaker 1: and I don't even think your your hockey team down
Speaker 1: there was the Houston Arrows, so that was your team there.
Speaker 1: But okay, Star, the Stars had Dak Prescott Zeke Elliott
Speaker 1: speak to the team last year. So the Stars are
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans here, and look, let's let's let's just keep
Speaker 1: it real right now. We haven't had a team in
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth. Go this far the major pro sports here,
Speaker 1: Top four, go this far in eoch Tire. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Western Conference final. So the Stars are three
Speaker 1: wins away from playing for the Stanley Cup. So I'm
Speaker 1: into it. I know you, Danny, you say you're not there,
Speaker 1: but go ahead and lets we jump on board Stars
Speaker 1: taking everybody who wants to roll with them. Okay, jump
Speaker 1: on board Church. I know you're a Pittsburgh guy. You
Speaker 1: know about those Penguins, so you understand this. But really,
Speaker 1: I mean to get to the Western confersation. Imagine what
Speaker 1: this city would be right now if the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: in the NFC championship game. I mean, that's where the
Speaker 1: Stars are at right now. They're right there, three wins
Speaker 1: away from playing for the Stanley Cup to win at all,
Speaker 1: and tonight's game three Pivotle. Because it's the Stars win,
Speaker 1: they can go up two to one. So yes, I
Speaker 1: hyped about football, But obviously you know my job working
Speaker 1: over as the main sports guy at NBC five here Dallas.
Speaker 1: I'm excited because if the Stars do win, um Man,
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cups go beyond our station. Unfortunately, I can't know.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'll put you on the spot. Can you
Speaker 1: give us a rank for like which one is most important?
Speaker 1: For what you all tonight? Oh? You know, I could
Speaker 1: go ahead and we'll see. Here's a great thing. I
Speaker 1: don't have to do the six o'clock TV show to do,
Speaker 1: so I can sit up here setting this bad boy
Speaker 1: up and watch a both. Now. I'm into the Houston
Speaker 1: game because I've got Deshaun Watson. That's my quarterback, so
Speaker 1: so I got to watch that. That's that's my quarterback, man.
Speaker 1: And obviously you see behind me, I got the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Trophy. So the defense starts tonight, so I will
Speaker 1: be watching Deshaun Watson heavily and also watch the Stars
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Golden night's game, so I can multitask. I've
Speaker 1: done this job, you know, since you guys we're in diapers.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this job so so I know how
Speaker 1: to multitask and get both things in there. So, but
Speaker 1: I will not be watching Lebron, so I won't be
Speaker 1: watching that. Uh um, Serena I can catch on my phone,
Speaker 1: so I got so No, I'm I'm balancing both. You know,
Speaker 1: I love Serena. This is another great opportunity for her.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, she didn't have that many chances to
Speaker 1: go ahead get these major championship in, so you got
Speaker 1: to get him in while you can. And and you know, glass,
Speaker 1: Serena won't to do something as dumb as Novak Djokovic
Speaker 1: did when he got himself kicked out of the US
Speaker 1: Open by hitting that hitting that lines person with a balling.
Speaker 1: I thought it was yes, yes, right, yeah, go by
Speaker 1: by and the crazy thing for him. And I know
Speaker 1: some of you cowboy fans are tennis fans, but but
Speaker 1: I am a tennis fan. This this road was basically
Speaker 1: a give me major because the doll And feeder decided
Speaker 1: they didn't want to play the dollars like man, I
Speaker 1: want to do with this COVID so so those three
Speaker 1: are basically the guys win in the Major. So no
Speaker 1: vak Jokovic had had a clear, clear opportunity to win it.
Speaker 1: But oh well, go out there and do stupid things,
Speaker 1: which which kind of is interesting because I think about
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy said yesterday in his press conference where
Speaker 1: he said, hey, these first games, more teams are beating
Speaker 1: themselves and actually losing them in week one. Um, your
Speaker 1: thoughts on what Mike McCarthy said about that is, Hey, look, folas,
Speaker 1: let's not go out here and beat ourselves Sunday night
Speaker 1: against the Ransom Gray. This is this is this is true.
Speaker 1: I like that he said that. This is what I
Speaker 1: was trying to say of our special teams. Go out here,
Speaker 1: do what you're supposed to do, right, and if you
Speaker 1: get beat, get beat because the other team was better
Speaker 1: than you, or the game plan of something was better
Speaker 1: than yours. Don't come out here thrower interceptions, fumbling, getting
Speaker 1: the game away on silly mistakes. All right, So just
Speaker 1: focus on what you have to do, take care of
Speaker 1: the easy things in the game to take care of yourself,
Speaker 1: and then you can get in there and review the
Speaker 1: film you know, for next weekend and fix something right.
Speaker 1: But don't go out here and just have turnovers and
Speaker 1: silly mistakes below coverages and out here looking like a
Speaker 1: ravity team. Man. Just come out here and be focused
Speaker 1: and ready to play. Yeah. I could get with him
Speaker 1: on this statement right here, because I mean we've seen
Speaker 1: it time and time again early on the seasons with
Speaker 1: sloppy play. I mean, penalties going on here and there
Speaker 1: and tackles, a lot of that being happening. That I
Speaker 1: do feel like these first couple of weeks will be sloppy.
Speaker 1: I mean there wasn't an OTA's, there wasn't a mini
Speaker 1: camp that the training camp was abbreviated, and then with
Speaker 1: training camp you didn't get to go against other competition.
Speaker 1: I mean when I was playing, we had, you know,
Speaker 1: the Rams used to come down for a couple of
Speaker 1: practices before we played them in this preseason game. So
Speaker 1: I feel as though there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: sloppy play for these first couple of weeks. But I
Speaker 1: can get behind him with that saying that we gotta
Speaker 1: just we can't beat ourselves because too many times last year,
Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys started out slow. I mean there's
Speaker 1: so many. There's countless games we can name where they
Speaker 1: Calivats started out slow and the butt in the end.
Speaker 1: So definitely could get behind what he said right there
Speaker 1: as far as not hurting ourselves. The good thing is
Speaker 1: the advantages to the offense. The defense has not been
Speaker 1: able to tackle, be physical, do any of that for
Speaker 1: almost a full year, so they advantages to the offense.
Speaker 1: There will be a lot of broken tackles, people getting
Speaker 1: run over trying to get their feet underneath them for
Speaker 1: the first game because they just hadn't really been able
Speaker 1: to do it. So those slow starts should be fixed
Speaker 1: at least at the get out a season. All right,
Speaker 1: let me let me ask both of you guys this
Speaker 1: question here, because I don't think we've talked about it enough.
Speaker 1: Is the fact that not only are the Cowboys coming
Speaker 1: in with a new defensive coordinator, the Rams are too.
Speaker 1: The Rams ended up running off Wade Phillips, who took
Speaker 1: them to a Super Bowl two years ago, and in fact,
Speaker 1: I thought had an amazing game play limited New England
Speaker 1: had just thirteen points, and I put that off that
Speaker 1: loss on Sean McVeigh and his offense in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl because Wade gave you. Yet your defense get just
Speaker 1: thirteen points of Tom Brady company, you're supposed to go
Speaker 1: ahead and win that football game. So what about the
Speaker 1: fact we got two different defenses to two defenses with
Speaker 1: new coordinators? Then Bury what you talked about here, there's
Speaker 1: been no tackling here and now we got guys trying
Speaker 1: to learn learn new systems. Your thoughts on what we
Speaker 1: could see defensively for both teams. Well, defensively, like I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, I think it's going to be extremely sloppy,
Speaker 1: at least for the first you know, half, maybe the
Speaker 1: first three quarters, until people get their feet underneath them.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, or mcraiz said, when there
Speaker 1: was no mini camp, no ota, nothing like that, those
Speaker 1: are the times where you get to actually no kind
Speaker 1: of thud up and do contact that way and kind
Speaker 1: of bring people down to the turf. But without those opportunities,
Speaker 1: I mean, training camp was limited, and even with training camp,
Speaker 1: there was very few contact practices. So I feel as
Speaker 1: though they started these games will be extremely sloppy, But
Speaker 1: it's going to be the team who's more disciplined in
Speaker 1: my opinion, that's going to walk away with the w
Speaker 1: But with both of these schemes being new, it's going
Speaker 1: to be pretty difficult for not only rookies but veterans.
Speaker 1: I mean, they haven't had that much time to go
Speaker 1: out there and really practice these new schemes. So I'm
Speaker 1: intertioned to see what these defenses can accomplish tonight or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry on Sunday, Yeah, same same year. Secondary to me,
Speaker 1: I think as a disadvantage, I think the D line
Speaker 1: should roll just like they normally doing. That should able
Speaker 1: to still get a pass rush and hopefully stop the room.
Speaker 1: But I think the big, the big question mark will
Speaker 1: be on the secondaries. But at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: just because like you said, hadn't been able to overfill tackle,
Speaker 1: they hadn't really been able to playballs against top receivers
Speaker 1: because you don't want to get your receivers hurt going
Speaker 1: one one hundred miles per hour trying to defend passes.
Speaker 1: So this will be a quick, a big wake up
Speaker 1: calling for those rookies. They hadn't played this fast before,
Speaker 1: so this will be something for them to catch up too,
Speaker 1: So you know, it'll be a learning curve, But I
Speaker 1: think by week three or four they'll be called up
Speaker 1: and they'll be okay, you are checking out the players
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Speaker 1: Let's jump on to the other side with the Rams. Now,
Speaker 1: we all know about Jalen Ramsey and his excellences. He's
Speaker 1: been in the National Football League, he got his big contract.
Speaker 1: But the guy, if I'm Dak Prescott I'm looking at
Speaker 1: is a gentleman named Troy Hill there left quarter, and
Speaker 1: I checked out his stats from last year. He had
Speaker 1: just two interceptions. But you know I can't sit around
Speaker 1: him to sniffer two interceptions only nine starts and this
Speaker 1: is his fifth season in the league. So to me,
Speaker 1: if I'm Dak Prescott, whoever, Jalen Ramsy's got jaal Rams
Speaker 1: gonna be over there with that guy. I'm looking over
Speaker 1: here and checking out left corner Troy Hill. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on that Church, Yeah, I'm agreed with you on that one.
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm Dak Prescott, when I break the huddle,
Speaker 1: I'm looking where twenty is at at all times. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's on the right side versus Amory, on the
Speaker 1: left side versus Gallup, I'm pretty much shying away from him,
Speaker 1: especially after he got all that money. He's feeling pretty
Speaker 1: confident right now. But I'm interested about the guy you
Speaker 1: brought up, Troy Hill I think his name was. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of starts. It doesn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of starts because you know, they recommend or they
Speaker 1: say starts or you know, base packages or whatever. But
Speaker 1: he has had a lot of burn at that nickel
Speaker 1: slot position, so he's an experienced player. But last year
Speaker 1: he was known to give up a lot of big plays,
Speaker 1: a lot of double moves, and a lot of streaks
Speaker 1: down the sideline, So he is a player. I feel
Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott can attack when it comes to this
Speaker 1: ram secondary, but I mean he's the only one. I
Speaker 1: pretty much feel like that because they're two safeties. You
Speaker 1: have the young kid, Tyler Rappe his name is, and
Speaker 1: then you also had number forty three Johnson out there.
Speaker 1: They're both kind of a ballhawk safeties. They're interchangeable, So
Speaker 1: those are guys that you kind of want to stay
Speaker 1: away from as well. But Troy Hill. I definitely think
Speaker 1: that Prescott should be putting him on his target list.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, man, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: We better not be trying to stay away from nobody.
Speaker 1: All right, we've been tapping up this offense, but entire
Speaker 1: si we got three one thousand yard receivers. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hit. Nothing about staying away from Jailer n
Speaker 1: He got a hundred million, Coop got a hundred million.
Speaker 1: Thank god he was at practice practicing fool yesterday. So
Speaker 1: that should be a battle. And you can't go You
Speaker 1: can't pay a guy one hundred million and then say
Speaker 1: we're not gonna throw to him just because he has
Speaker 1: a top corner on No way, if that's how you're
Speaker 1: gonna go through out to see you should have never
Speaker 1: paid him. Say you what happened when the Cowboys were stubborn?
Speaker 1: You saw when they left Chad's Green out there, stubborn
Speaker 1: not gonna help me? Who we don't listen to that?
Speaker 1: Go ahead and try Jailer. Yeah, I'm just saying, listen,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that Chad Chad Green ain't get played
Speaker 1: one hundred millions. If that's if that's if that's the
Speaker 1: way that you have to treat your top receiver who
Speaker 1: you paid one hundred billion dollars. You paid the wrong guy.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do that to DeAndre Hops. They don't get
Speaker 1: that to the other top receivers out there. They're gonna
Speaker 1: get they burned. And they're gonna battle Juliill Jones and
Speaker 1: see Patrick Peterson, Jalen Ramsey, all those guys. He's still
Speaker 1: is going to get thrown at, like he's still going
Speaker 1: to get thrown at. We can if a Mark Cooper
Speaker 1: come out of here and they throw the ball in
Speaker 1: him two times, that is an epic film and you
Speaker 1: can expect to see for the entire season every time.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, so so you say that, but
Speaker 1: but we've got okay here, we got Troy Hill, all right.
Speaker 1: The backups. The backups are Darius Williams who's been in
Speaker 1: the league two years, zero interceptions, no stars, and then
Speaker 1: David Long Junior is your other quarter three years, two interceptions,
Speaker 1: only three stars. So you're telling me that if you're
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, you want to sit up here and let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go at Ramsey when you've got other goals that
Speaker 1: you can go ahead. No, no, no, no, No, I
Speaker 1: promise you I'm not saying that. I'm saying Church is
Speaker 1: like you know, I wouldn't even look over there at
Speaker 1: twenty and I'm like you better at sometime. Right, you're
Speaker 1: just gonna throw the ball a gallup the CD the
Speaker 1: whole game. Like Amari Cooper still has to show up.
Speaker 1: He is your playmaker, right. You can't just say like
Speaker 1: he can't be neutralized in the game plan the defensive corner.
Speaker 1: They can't say every time we put our best corner
Speaker 1: on a little they top notch, they're not gonna throw
Speaker 1: this way, so we can scheme my defense to go
Speaker 1: look at the other guys like you shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, you know, don't go ahead. Hell,
Speaker 1: they should focus on they should they should focus on, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, taking advantage of that mismatch. But Coop should
Speaker 1: not disappear in this game plan just because Ramsey is
Speaker 1: on and it's on my fantasy team. So I hope
Speaker 1: it so I hope it doesn't happen. I don't know
Speaker 1: on your fantasy team. So I remember it many years ago.
Speaker 1: But if you guys were, you know, it was Sunday
Speaker 1: night football. Cowboys opened up against the Jets, and it
Speaker 1: was it was up there and in the end, you know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had the ball and romo through it through
Speaker 1: it read this, read a silent Reeves picked it off,
Speaker 1: and I just immediately said to myself, why go with Reeves? Man?
Speaker 1: You know, just just here's one of the best around here.
Speaker 1: Why do it? And I know that, okay, you go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. That was bad, all right? He listen, listen
Speaker 1: to church. You remember that, because I just I think
Speaker 1: I just closed. The fumble just got was a fumbles
Speaker 1: He was was playing two man on das two man
Speaker 1: and and roll on through a seven rouble. They turned
Speaker 1: kind of into a thing. It was a it's a
Speaker 1: bad throw, it's a bad decision. He just throwing that.
Speaker 1: The whole game playing for the viewers, explained to the
Speaker 1: viewers what two man is, so just so they know
Speaker 1: so so some said that essentially, essentially two man is
Speaker 1: a double team. So you have a corner black cornerback
Speaker 1: who was Reeves, who was the best corner at the time,
Speaker 1: playing underneath. He didn't even have to stay on top
Speaker 1: of desk, and he could just break on all the
Speaker 1: underneath routs with the safety over the top. So essentially,
Speaker 1: Tony Romo threw that into a into double coverage and
Speaker 1: they got picked off and we end up losing that game,
Speaker 1: which we should have won. But but listen, he would
Speaker 1: he was still he was still throwing that there, soough.
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't just go away from the rivers.
Speaker 1: Was all the read. There's still made some plays. So
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper, don't disappear. Please, I need you to get
Speaker 1: some points from a fantasy team. Please. I'm praying for everybody.
Speaker 1: I praying. Okay, I think I'm being in the New
Speaker 1: England night. See that's not good. I'm gonna start out receivers. Man,
Speaker 1: it's not good. Knew you knew, you knew it. You
Speaker 1: cannot second this. You can tell me that you don't
Speaker 1: expect a Marion Cooper to catch passes and uh and
Speaker 1: made some plays on Jaman Ramsey. It just sounds like
Speaker 1: it's so down, like Jay Jaylon Ramsey almost a whole
Speaker 1: throw to him. It just sounds so bad. I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting here saying that if I see Cooper Ramsey and
Speaker 1: and I'm looking over here at Troy Hill or or
Speaker 1: Darius Williams or David Long Junior, well I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: up here and check what's Gallup got if he'll probably
Speaker 1: one on one coach for Gallup. I'm sitting over here
Speaker 1: looking at CD left Jarwin. I mean, I'm just thinking,
Speaker 1: you've you're going to have some It is about going
Speaker 1: to the mismatch. No, No, you should I'm saying he
Speaker 1: should not. You should not just go away from him.
Speaker 1: The entire game is what I'm saying. Yes, you should
Speaker 1: look to exploit mismatches. Glad rookies, go ahead, guys, and
Speaker 1: ain't that much playing time. But he should not. It
Speaker 1: should not be a guilboard game. Okay, all right. All
Speaker 1: I know is I'm expecting Michael Gallup to have a
Speaker 1: huge Get Michael Gallup and Blake Jarwin. I expect these
Speaker 1: two to have real good games. If I if I
Speaker 1: if I'm doing right, if I'm doing a fantasy lineup
Speaker 1: for help anybody out there, I would tell you you
Speaker 1: should play Gallup and you should play Jarwin and Zeke
Speaker 1: because I think those are gonna be the three guys
Speaker 1: that they eat. Those three guys I think are really
Speaker 1: gonna eat. So there. Yeah, if you oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because hers terrible last year. If you expected three month
Speaker 1: thousand year received that you should be expected a lot
Speaker 1: from everybody in this fantasy line. I never said I
Speaker 1: never said that. Hey, look I never said that three
Speaker 1: one thousand yard receivers. I've never said that. And I
Speaker 1: actually saw Michael Irvin, our boy Michael last night on
Speaker 1: NFL Network saved that the Cowboys would have three one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers and then Zeke would have um a
Speaker 1: thousand yards and then even said somebody would have fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Uh, it was three footballs out there or
Speaker 1: something right right, I'm like, Michael, what are you talking
Speaker 1: about it? What kind of math are you doing where
Speaker 1: you're gonna say three and one thousand yard receivers and
Speaker 1: you got one thousand yard running back possibly fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: yards from from one of the three here I hear.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't get it. But the
Speaker 1: way y'all talking about he's not gonna sniff a thousand,
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. We all say all that he's
Speaker 1: got other know we've seen it. We've seen the tape
Speaker 1: of the away games. I mean it's proven facts. New York,
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. I mean, this goes on. You gotta
Speaker 1: do it. We know, okay, we know Cooper is going
Speaker 1: to have three games where you say, m this's gonna
Speaker 1: be a pretty good tough matchup for this one against
Speaker 1: the Rams and Jalen Ramsey and the two that he's
Speaker 1: got against Darius Slay with the Eagles. Now, those are
Speaker 1: three games I'm looking at and I'm saying, okay, hmmm mmm.
Speaker 1: So but you know, it is what it is. This
Speaker 1: is why we do this show. I like this show
Speaker 1: because we have different opinions here. Um, for mccraig, it's
Speaker 1: just so obvious he's so biased because it's all about
Speaker 1: his fantasy team for fantasy listen. None, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, we paid on one hundred millions that
Speaker 1: he should produce against top the top quarterbacks. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm saying that that's what we don't. That's legitimate, that's
Speaker 1: a legitimate concern. But I'm also saying the five Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting around here trying to find the easier matchups
Speaker 1: which I can explode down the field. We got to
Speaker 1: take a break, our first break right here, all the
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Speaker 1: definitely checking that game out here. I'm know we scrugs
Speaker 1: cover to Cowboys long time, long long time. I want
Speaker 1: to start dating myself, but I go back to Jimmy
Speaker 1: was coaching the team and the Cowboys were training down
Speaker 1: at Austin at Saint Edge University, and we got two
Speaker 1: former Cowboys cornerbacks here, defensive backs Danny McCray and Barry Church.
Speaker 1: Has to say, safety's not corners, So we have cornerback
Speaker 1: that I was said quart because I'm leading into this
Speaker 1: quarterback Jordan Lewis showed up at practice today. He's missed
Speaker 1: three weeks of high ecle spring. He is your best
Speaker 1: slot corner. The Rams roll out Cooper Cup who likes
Speaker 1: to operate in that slot there. So, gentlemen, do you
Speaker 1: expect to see Jordan Lewis out there on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Rams for Game one? Absolutely, like I said, like
Speaker 1: we said yesterday. As long as he's able to be
Speaker 1: out there for practice during the passing periods, which usually
Speaker 1: happened on Thursday and Friday, he can get some feel
Speaker 1: for what's coming at him on Sunday, he should be
Speaker 1: good to go. And I actually think this is a
Speaker 1: really good matchup for one because I don't see Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup as being one of those super quick and shifty receivers.
Speaker 1: He's just real, real crafty and learning how to get
Speaker 1: open and exploit holes in the coverage. So I think
Speaker 1: if they put him in man to man on Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: I think he has the advantage on that one because
Speaker 1: he's he's quicker and more shifty, and he can make
Speaker 1: players on the ball. So as long as no belong
Speaker 1: coverage has come, I think he'll be able to handle
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. Okay, yeah, I think I think this was
Speaker 1: huge for him to come in on Thursday one. It
Speaker 1: just shows that he's in for the game plan and
Speaker 1: that he could end up playing on Sunday because Thursdays,
Speaker 1: like mccrai said, are all about secondaries, you know, extra
Speaker 1: two minute drill, extra team pass drills. So for him
Speaker 1: to go out there and practice a little bit shows
Speaker 1: that he's probably on the right way to playing on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But he definitely is gonna beat me all his health
Speaker 1: when he goes against Cooper Cup. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a guy, like mccrai said, he's not very fast, he's
Speaker 1: not very quick like Cole Beasley, but he's extremely just saddy.
Speaker 1: He knows how to kind of push off slightly with
Speaker 1: that elbow or kind of create space because he's not
Speaker 1: that fast against the slot defenders. So he's definitely gonna
Speaker 1: need all his health to be able to stick with
Speaker 1: a Cooper Cup out there. But the Dallas defense, to me,
Speaker 1: I think they need him. I mean he might be
Speaker 1: the most Yeah, I wouldn't say the most value piece,
Speaker 1: but definitely definitely in the secondary opinion, he's one of
Speaker 1: the most value get voluble guys, even with the addition
Speaker 1: of tape O Dicks. I mean, it's a guy, like
Speaker 1: I've said before, I've said all offseason, he's great against
Speaker 1: the run. He can blitz, and he can cover you know, slot.
Speaker 1: You know, he can cover those slot receivers, which is
Speaker 1: not an easy task. So hopefully he'll be able to
Speaker 1: get back in there because the Cowboys defense will definitely
Speaker 1: need him on Sunday. You guys are former players, so
Speaker 1: so let fans know about what a contract year means
Speaker 1: for a player. This is Jordan Lewis's last year under contract.
Speaker 1: He's not one hundred percent. So when you're not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, you're in that contract year, how much do
Speaker 1: you push it? How much. Is a guy like Lewis
Speaker 1: push it out there or do they need to possibly
Speaker 1: push put him on a pitch count here? Um, take
Speaker 1: me through that, guys, McCrae, listen. I think it's a
Speaker 1: little different than in all sports. But I don't think
Speaker 1: there's a true pitch count. And in football, like once
Speaker 1: you get out there on the field, those injuries that
Speaker 1: you had and all that stuff, none of that, none
Speaker 1: of that really matters, right. So I think he's going
Speaker 1: to push it to the limit just just because, like
Speaker 1: you said, he needs to perform. And when you play nickel,
Speaker 1: the the opportunity sometimes may be limited limited, so he
Speaker 1: might not have as many opportunities as as as the
Speaker 1: starting corners. So he's gonna go out there and he's
Speaker 1: gonna play as much as he can. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: with all that time off, he feels like he can
Speaker 1: go out there and make plays against anybody. So I
Speaker 1: expect to see him out there as much as he
Speaker 1: can possibly play. Uh. Yeah, for me, I think it's
Speaker 1: it depends who you are. Um. I think if you're
Speaker 1: like a if you're like an AJ greenum, he can
Speaker 1: miss all this year. And if if he was in
Speaker 1: a contract year, he can miss all this year and
Speaker 1: then next year somebody would still pay him top dollar
Speaker 1: to perform. But if you're in a situation like for example,
Speaker 1: myself going into twenty sixteen, I was my contract year
Speaker 1: and I broke my form. Now I could have, you know,
Speaker 1: had the surgery and sat out the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: but you know, I felt like coming into the offseason,
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna get paid what I did, so I
Speaker 1: ended up, you know, putting one of those big old
Speaker 1: casts on my forum and you know, try to make
Speaker 1: it work for these last couple of games, because you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to hit free agency with good tape under
Speaker 1: my system or good tape under my belt to end
Speaker 1: up getting paid. So I just think it comes down
Speaker 1: to who you are and what position you're in. And
Speaker 1: if I'm George Lewis, I'm thinking he's gonna probably go,
Speaker 1: you know, all out this season so he can get
Speaker 1: a max page when his contract is up. How much
Speaker 1: do you believe Jordan Lewis is excited to play from
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan Because we know Chris Richard wanted and liked
Speaker 1: taller quarterbacks. I just felt that while he wasn't six
Speaker 1: foot six one. This kid. Just when they put him
Speaker 1: out there, I thought Lewis performed well as a defensive
Speaker 1: back Church. I think I think he should be extremely excited.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he if he knows anything about Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan's defenses, he knows that they have you know, multiple
Speaker 1: looks to him, and he'll send anybody from anywhere. I mean,
Speaker 1: he might send a field corner, which is you know
Speaker 1: when we say field and boundary corners, those are where
Speaker 1: the corners that's into the boundaries on a short side
Speaker 1: of the field, and the field corner obviously has most
Speaker 1: of the field over there. So Mike Nolan, he'll send
Speaker 1: guys from every different direction. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis's great abilities is for him to blit. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, this guy last year, christ Rah Shard
Speaker 1: like the taller corners and he was shorter, but he
Speaker 1: was a ball magget out there and he seemed to
Speaker 1: always be around the ball and always making plays. So
Speaker 1: if I'm him, I'm super excited going into this opportunity
Speaker 1: with Coach Nolan. Yeah, same thought here. And then playing
Speaker 1: in the slot, you really don't have to be as tall,
Speaker 1: so I mean that's a little different for him this year.
Speaker 1: I don't really know much about Christira Shard, but I
Speaker 1: know I know that he wanted to put guys out
Speaker 1: there who were gonna make plays, especially the position that
Speaker 1: they were in at the end of the year where
Speaker 1: turnovers were a must, and they were they weren't coming
Speaker 1: as much as they as they hope. They were going
Speaker 1: to put anybody out there who could make some plays.
Speaker 1: So they saw that in Jordan and he was able
Speaker 1: to carry that over into this next coaching staff. So
Speaker 1: he's going to get out there, he's gonna start, and
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be that same ball hawking guy,
Speaker 1: blitzing off the edge, sack force fumbles. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna make plays everywhere, and this will be a big
Speaker 1: year for him in a contract here, all right. We
Speaker 1: spoke about this a little bit yesterday terms of guys
Speaker 1: we were most excited to see and guys who needed
Speaker 1: to break out twenty twenty seasons. We did not mention
Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence there at all. But what are the expectations
Speaker 1: for the highest paid cowboy in history to come back
Speaker 1: off a season in which he had five sacks and now,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, has two guys that are better should
Speaker 1: be better collectively on the other side of him in
Speaker 1: Olden Smith and Everson Griffin, Robert Quinn last year really
Speaker 1: good eleven and a half sacks, got a nice contract
Speaker 1: from the Chicago Bears to leave town here. But I
Speaker 1: really like the fact of what's on the other side
Speaker 1: for Tank Lawrence. So you guys, give me your opinion
Speaker 1: on what you expect from Tank Lawrence this year. McCray,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you. I might be a little barased
Speaker 1: because I'm a big fan and you know I like Tanks.
Speaker 1: So I'm going with nothing less than fourteen sacks from
Speaker 1: him this season, just because I think he's really really
Speaker 1: hungry and he's been hearing all the noise about what
Speaker 1: he he was, what happened to him last year. We're
Speaker 1: just putting up five sacks, even though I say that
Speaker 1: that was a lot on the defense and not being
Speaker 1: able to stop the run and getting those situations that
Speaker 1: allowed him to really get into the pass rush. With
Speaker 1: the change this year, i think we'll be able to
Speaker 1: cover long enough for him to make all the players
Speaker 1: that he made that actually got him paid. So I'm
Speaker 1: expecting big things from Tank this season, especially with the
Speaker 1: help that he has on the other side, So nothing
Speaker 1: less than fourteen. I'm gonna go a little bit less.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go a little bit less. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: he's working with the round. You know, eleven eleven and
Speaker 1: a half sacks for the season, which is still to
Speaker 1: me a great number out there. I think he'll do
Speaker 1: most of his damage with helping other people get off,
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, the optive lines will all
Speaker 1: be focused on him, as they should. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: He's a perennial Pro Bowl type guy, and I think
Speaker 1: the opertive lines will be forced to go towards him,
Speaker 1: which will open things up for the Alden Smiths, the
Speaker 1: Don Terry Poles, the Tyrone Crawford's out there. So I
Speaker 1: think he'll make his presence known in the backfield as
Speaker 1: far as you know, sacking the court back maybe eleven
Speaker 1: to eleven a half times. But I think he'll be
Speaker 1: more of a destructor dop back there in the backfield
Speaker 1: and also open things up for his fellow teammates. But
Speaker 1: let me piggy back off what Church that said, just
Speaker 1: so I can clear it up, because I saw new
Speaker 1: his face when I said fourteen. I see it. I
Speaker 1: see that we have a bunch of guys out here
Speaker 1: that can rush the passion. Like Church said, the offenses,
Speaker 1: the offensive line probably will be turning toward tank. But
Speaker 1: I think with the guys that we have and Nolan
Speaker 1: being creative as he plans to be with this season,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you will see two defensive ends
Speaker 1: on the same side to free up some one on
Speaker 1: ones for tanking whoever lines up and possibly the three
Speaker 1: or inside right, So you won't always see defensive tackles
Speaker 1: defensive vents lined up on the end. You will see
Speaker 1: them lined up on the inside as well, so they
Speaker 1: can create those mismatches and one on once you know what,
Speaker 1: you're ready for this? You're ready for this? McCrae, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you. I'm gonna give you my tank sack number.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for Are you ready? Go ahead? Man,
Speaker 1: because because because the noise I was talking about what's
Speaker 1: coming from you last year. But go ahead, let me here,
Speaker 1: let's get the drum roll. Well, I'm gonna I had
Speaker 1: a real good conversation with DeMarcus Ware and his new
Speaker 1: Gym three vol and he told me that he had
Speaker 1: helped Tank in his contract negotiations with Jerry Jones. He
Speaker 1: said he ended up telling him, he said, look, you
Speaker 1: need to go to Jerry to go get this thing done.
Speaker 1: And he knew that Tank wasn't going to have a
Speaker 1: big season last year because of the shoulder. And DeMarcus said,
Speaker 1: I know because I went through it twice. He said,
Speaker 1: you couldn't really have that kind of injury and be
Speaker 1: the kind of pass rusher you want to be to
Speaker 1: get your moves off and execute. So he knew DeMarcus
Speaker 1: was going to have a down year, and so he says,
Speaker 1: now he's healthy and he expects him to get back
Speaker 1: to it. So if this guy is gonna be left
Speaker 1: one on one, I mean, if Smith plays the way
Speaker 1: we think and Griffin is playing the way he thinks,
Speaker 1: my goodness, gracious, you know there's gonna be some one
Speaker 1: on one opportunities. And if Tank Lawds is healthy the
Speaker 1: way we believe he is gonna be Oh, he can
Speaker 1: get twelve because you're picking poison right now. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they're gonna start have to pick poison.
Speaker 1: And if okay, if this Cowboys offense can put up
Speaker 1: thirty a game, and Mike McCarthy is spoken about it. Well,
Speaker 1: he hopes that, hey, look, our offense is putting up
Speaker 1: the numbers and that we're getting you're getting a fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and then the Cowboys are, you know, just getting
Speaker 1: off and trying to get to that gets to the
Speaker 1: quarterback because that other team has a thrower to get
Speaker 1: back in. That's how you start to pick up you know,
Speaker 1: your your two three extra sacks a game as a unit,
Speaker 1: and then it's just a matter of who gets Smith
Speaker 1: gets one at the end is at Griffin getting one
Speaker 1: at the end is a tank. So I think twelve
Speaker 1: sacks for tank lawds in this defense because it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be as predictable as it was last year. I
Speaker 1: don't think that is out of range right here. So
Speaker 1: there you go, McCray. How about that now? Shocking you up?
Speaker 1: It's shocking you. You did? You did? You did, because listen,
Speaker 1: I thought you was going Lord in church and I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm sitting at fourteen. I'm glad you missed.
Speaker 1: I'm wear in the middle of that. That's good. Wait,
Speaker 1: wait to play defense. Well, look, I'm just talking to
Speaker 1: a guy who's going to the Hall of Fame, all right,
Speaker 1: who's done it in this league. So when DeMarcus where
Speaker 1: is talking to me about guys getting back to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and what he expects that I'm gonna buy it
Speaker 1: because he absolutely understands it. And I look at the
Speaker 1: work he did with Von Miller and helping Von Miller
Speaker 1: unleash you know that Super Bowl season which Van won
Speaker 1: one of the MVP of Super Bowl fifty. So, men,
Speaker 1: we talk about a guy that understands what it is
Speaker 1: and the fact that he knew he knew Tank wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna have the year he was gonna have last year
Speaker 1: because of the shoulder injury, and he's back healthy. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna buy what DeMarcus is selling because
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Ware understands the position. So I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: put down twelve. And I love the fact that there's
Speaker 1: help on the other side, so that right there should
Speaker 1: help the Cowboys and that the Cowboys can get their
Speaker 1: sack numbers up. To me, that's one of the biggest issue.
Speaker 1: To me, two big issues for this team has been
Speaker 1: the fact that they don't get enough sacks and interceptions
Speaker 1: so they can create some turnovers to get to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Then the Cowboys will have opportunity to meet the expectations
Speaker 1: that so many people have for this football team. And
Speaker 1: to me, the biggest expectation is just win your division.
Speaker 1: Win your division, and then you start, you know, you're
Speaker 1: able to start, you know, taking yourself and going where
Speaker 1: you want to go. But it starts to trying to
Speaker 1: win the East. And I think the defensive front here
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys are going to be much improved from
Speaker 1: what we've seen in the past few seasons. So there
Speaker 1: there you go. Everybody happy with that? You're good with that?
Speaker 1: Superhaven I love it all? Right? Football tonight, Kansas City
Speaker 1: against Houston. What are some matchups you guys are looking
Speaker 1: forward to when these two teams meet on NBC tonight. Church.
Speaker 1: For me, I mean, I gotta I gotta look at
Speaker 1: the one hundred and sixty million dollars man back there.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know how spectacular he is on
Speaker 1: the field. I mean this guy, I mean, we've seen
Speaker 1: it in the playoffs versus the Bills when he when
Speaker 1: he magically I don't know how he pulled that Houdini
Speaker 1: tricky did, but he got out of the sack, got
Speaker 1: the first down, he ended up getting the victory. So
Speaker 1: for me, it's all about the sign Watson. Tonight. He's
Speaker 1: going against the defending Super Bowl champions. I mean, on
Speaker 1: the biggest stage, Thursday night football. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: pretty much expect anything else but a big time game.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that he comes through and provides w
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans because I do not need my
Speaker 1: homes doing big numbers. I need Houston to just shut
Speaker 1: them down. And so I'm looking forward to Watson doing
Speaker 1: big things. What about you, mccraig, Yeah, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I would say the Battle of the quarterbacks, but I
Speaker 1: really don't think that it's even because I think the
Speaker 1: chief just have so much more firepower than than the
Speaker 1: Texans do. So for me, it's an eye test. It's
Speaker 1: it's an eye thing just to see what an expensive
Speaker 1: quarterback looks like. What does the play of that of
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars hundred and sixty million dollars, five
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar guy, what does it look like? Right?
Speaker 1: What type of players? What type of decisions do they
Speaker 1: make coming out in Game one? And I'm really looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing David Johnson. I want to see if
Speaker 1: he can, uh, you know, if he can make some
Speaker 1: things happen in this in this new team and new
Speaker 1: systems that he's in, right, because he was he was
Speaker 1: a bawler up there in Arizona, then he went through
Speaker 1: some injuries, then he got traded. So I want to
Speaker 1: see if he can rejuvenate his career here in Houston.
Speaker 1: Because other than that, I don't think that Shawon Watson
Speaker 1: has must have played with on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. I like what you said about David Johnson.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be looking at there as well. David Johnson
Speaker 1: had a good camp talk to come up Houston people
Speaker 1: out of the the city's been looking good at camp
Speaker 1: and Johnson is saying, hey, look I can be what
Speaker 1: I was a few years ago. But how many times
Speaker 1: have we heard guys in all professional athletics wanting to
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, hey, I could be as good
Speaker 1: as I was a particularly great season two three, four
Speaker 1: years ago. So let's see what he can do. But
Speaker 1: we know with this he'll have the opportunity because they're
Speaker 1: going to feed him. They're going to feed him the football.
Speaker 1: So what does David Johnson do in the run game,
Speaker 1: which will help out Deshaun Watson. And then from another
Speaker 1: Houston standpoint, what does our old friend Randon Cobb, Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb do Because Randall Cobb, in my opinion, can be
Speaker 1: a safety blake because he's That's one thing that Watson
Speaker 1: had with DeAndre Hopp because he had the safety blanket.
Speaker 1: So I'm interested as he can. Randall Cobb hals of
Speaker 1: chemistry with Deshaun Watson and kind of be that that
Speaker 1: that safety guy for him. So if the pocket breaks
Speaker 1: down a little bit, boom, Deshaun can just go out
Speaker 1: there and find Cop because I think that we could
Speaker 1: see some chemistry there. Because I thought Randall cop last
Speaker 1: year was good for the Cowboys. He had at least
Speaker 1: three touchdowns called back last year, so I had a
Speaker 1: very good season for the Cowboys. I like the professionalism
Speaker 1: of the player. And then on the other side for
Speaker 1: Kansas City rookie Clyde Edwards Hilaire, I know Church, you
Speaker 1: know this very well. He was sensational of lsu uh
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and the GM Brett Veacher saying a lot
Speaker 1: of good things about the young running back. But for me,
Speaker 1: I want to see how he does in past protection here,
Speaker 1: because you cannot have your your, your five hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars quarterback not being protected. So that's what I'm going
Speaker 1: to interest it te is how much how much run
Speaker 1: they get the rookie tonight and how does he do
Speaker 1: and pass tection because if he can't protect Pat, that
Speaker 1: means you're gonna have to put in Darryl Williams because
Speaker 1: you cannot afford to have my homes get hurt at all.
Speaker 1: So that's my take on what I'm looking at tonight.
Speaker 1: My ls. You guys will protect the passer, he will
Speaker 1: catch passes, and he will make plays in the running game.
Speaker 1: All right, this is what we DONI you watched it,
Speaker 1: You've seen him play. There's no issue here. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do whatever they ask him to do.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they will not put him in any
Speaker 1: crazy situations to where he's trying to block a defensive
Speaker 1: end because they slid the line of the wrong way.
Speaker 1: That will not be on him. So I expect to
Speaker 1: see big things from Clyde tonight. Well we didn't make
Speaker 1: a good point. You're gonna go ahead, now he go ahead? No, No, Church,
Speaker 1: let me hear, let me hear you. And I was
Speaker 1: just saying, basically, I thought you didn't make a great
Speaker 1: point about Randall car I forgot he had went down
Speaker 1: there to Houston, to be honest with you, But he's
Speaker 1: an extremely smart quarterback, friendly player, so I can see
Speaker 1: him doing a lot of big things out there today.
Speaker 1: I might actually see it. Did anybody pick him up
Speaker 1: on our fantasy? Yeah, he's gone. I think I think
Speaker 1: it's a free engent. He's a freeg the free agent
Speaker 1: that make that mistake based off players to go out
Speaker 1: there and get and get scumped. Well, keep in mind too,
Speaker 1: Brandon Brandon Cooks was on the injury report with a hamstring,
Speaker 1: So I don't even know if Brandon Cooks is gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get out here and do his thing.
Speaker 1: So if Cooks isn't able to go, that obviously is
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have Kenny Stills out there, You'll
Speaker 1: have cob Um, you got Will Fuller, who's a speedster,
Speaker 1: and if Will Fuller's healthy, I mean, here's a difference maker.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if this commit, if this committee can
Speaker 1: help help Houston and also the linebackers. Who's gonna pick
Speaker 1: up Clyde Edwards a layer out of the backfield. I mean,
Speaker 1: the mismatch in Kansas City can throw people. Man, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be a fun thing to watch
Speaker 1: it that. Hopefully, Hopefully it's a whole lot of points
Speaker 1: score between both teams. Hopefully. Listen, the honey Badger will
Speaker 1: be taking care of Clyde and was Hilayer right, Especially
Speaker 1: if you see the linebackers take an advantage of they'll
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Speaker 1: him about that time O J. Simpson was trying to
Speaker 1: get a hold of him during the Orange Bowl. So
Speaker 1: it is uh, it was pretty cool. The description alone
Speaker 1: got me, got me? You say, O J. Simpson? O J.
Speaker 1: Simpson looking for you? Hold on? Yeah, this is bad
Speaker 1: was working. Yeah, OJ was working for NBC at NBC
Speaker 1: had the Orange Bowl and Notre Dame was playing the
Speaker 1: National Championship game against West Virginia and you know Rocket
Speaker 1: was Rocket was was the biggest thing in college football,
Speaker 1: the most exciting player in the sport, and so but
Speaker 1: Rock didn't really like doing a lot of interviews, and
Speaker 1: so O J. Simpson was trying to track him down
Speaker 1: so he could could get an interview. So I think
Speaker 1: something along like say, you know, hey, it's the juice.
Speaker 1: That's how I referred to himself, the juice. You try
Speaker 1: to tell me the baby called him a man. Look,
Speaker 1: it's the juice. You sound like that day Chapelle. Joe's
Speaker 1: the first time I met O J. Yeah. Now it's
Speaker 1: not as good as it's not as good as the
Speaker 1: Charlie Murphy's stories with Rick James. Now's not that good.
Speaker 1: It's not that good, but but it is. It is good. Though.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what Me and Danny got a got
Speaker 1: a story about the actor who who played it television story.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you off the We'll tell you off the
Speaker 1: air though. Okay, we know why he's in trouble now,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. See, there was when I looked in la
Speaker 1: I used to live in the valley, and there was
Speaker 1: a little Mexican restaurant down VN tour about probably Brown
Speaker 1: Encino area that he used to be at all the time.
Speaker 1: So uh, yeah, I know what's talking about. I know what.
Speaker 1: So go old ride till well show me too. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Man of Honor, Man, he fooled me. He had me
Speaker 1: food all the way food. Oh you know that was
Speaker 1: that wasn't one of his better movies that, I mean,
Speaker 1: Man of Honor. I see qus about it. It was
Speaker 1: all right, it was all right. I like is that
Speaker 1: the one where he was in there too? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what the neural went. He was trying to be a
Speaker 1: navy seal. Uh okay. And now he's been in some
Speaker 1: he's been Now did you know he was in a
Speaker 1: few Good Men? I did not know that. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: in a few good Man. The list of films that
Speaker 1: he has been in it's pretty good, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was in he was in a Few
Speaker 1: good Men. A lot of people forget that he was
Speaker 1: in Boys in the Hood. I mean that that's one
Speaker 1: of those that people miss all the time. Tree and
Speaker 1: card Dough. Let me out the card Dough. And then
Speaker 1: he won the Oscar Best Supporting Actor for Rod Tidwell
Speaker 1: and Jerry McGuire. So um, that was that was an
Speaker 1: interesting uh victory for for Cuba. Gooding junior years. So um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's had some films in his career, so yeah,
Speaker 1: but but but just ask Rocket to give you the
Speaker 1: whole O. J. Simpson story when OJ was trying to
Speaker 1: try to track him down because Rock didn't really want
Speaker 1: to do any interviews, and so the juice the juice called.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was wearing those old Dingo
Speaker 1: boots or anything that he had up. By the way,
Speaker 1: Forbes has come out with its annual list of the
Speaker 1: most valuable ranchise to the National Football League, and for
Speaker 1: the fourteenth year in a row, the Dallas Cowboys are
Speaker 1: number one, valued at five point seven billion. Would it
Speaker 1: be five point seven billion dollars for Jerry Jones? Wow?
Speaker 1: By the ultimate business man. I mean when he bought
Speaker 1: the franchise for back when he had first got it,
Speaker 1: I want to say maybe one hundred because five point
Speaker 1: five billion he just didn't buy the Cowboys. He had
Speaker 1: to also buy Texas Stadium, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: at the time said Jerry was a fool to buy
Speaker 1: a stadium that you didn't want to be in the
Speaker 1: stadium game. A lot of teams at that time were
Speaker 1: renting their stadium, so they pay a buck, like for instance,
Speaker 1: veteran staving in Philadelphia, so you know the city owned it,
Speaker 1: you didn't have to worry about it. So Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: not only had to run his football team, he had
Speaker 1: to figure out, how do I take Texas Stadium and
Speaker 1: make this thing a moneymaker? Because when he bought the
Speaker 1: clubs losing a lot of money. So somebody either one
Speaker 1: hundred eighty nine, one hundred and ninety eight million dollars
Speaker 1: highest price for a pro sports franchise back in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine, and Jerry Jones really added a whole lot
Speaker 1: of suits. I mean, that was a big thing that
Speaker 1: changed the National Football League and where Jerry taught a
Speaker 1: lot of his owners how to make money own your
Speaker 1: own stadium because then you get to pay yourself, you
Speaker 1: get to keep all the parking, all the concessions, and
Speaker 1: then he added more suits there. They shared the ticket revenue,
Speaker 1: but the sweet money a team was able to keep
Speaker 1: for themselves. And so that was the whole thing that
Speaker 1: not only did you see in football, you see it
Speaker 1: in basketball, every in hockey. Everybody wants to add sweets.
Speaker 1: That was Jerry Jones going overdrive over there and Jerry
Speaker 1: really and when you talk about why he's in the
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor, Jerry taught
Speaker 1: his owners, fellow owners how to make money. One are
Speaker 1: the things that are that made a guy like the
Speaker 1: late art model who I got to cover and talk
Speaker 1: to in Cleveland, arn't not like Jerry. But Jerry brought
Speaker 1: pepsi as the end as the initial soft drink of
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium. So other owners were mad because at the time,
Speaker 1: Coke was the official dream. But Jerry's like, wait, wait, wait, fine,
Speaker 1: Coke's the official drink. But this is my stadium. As
Speaker 1: a stadium, I get to cut my own deal. And
Speaker 1: so what you see all across the league, now what
Speaker 1: Jerry talk people is that you could double dip. So
Speaker 1: there's an official beer the NFL. Then there's the official
Speaker 1: beer for the stadium and for the team. And so
Speaker 1: look how many times you look up there you see
Speaker 1: you know, the official car of the Dallas Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: official truck, the official phone provided me all these different things.
Speaker 1: Jerry was the guy who brought that to all the
Speaker 1: fellow owners. And now you see everybody's training campus sponsor
Speaker 1: by so by that was Jerry Jones doing that, and
Speaker 1: so he really turned this investment into you know, something
Speaker 1: we have never really seen before. And now I mean, Barry,
Speaker 1: the team you want to play for, the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: That franchise is worth over a billion dollars here, and
Speaker 1: I believe the price tag for that team. I want
Speaker 1: to say it was one hundred and thirty two million
Speaker 1: dollars for that team when they when they when they
Speaker 1: got rolling back in the in the late nineties. So
Speaker 1: the NFL is big business, but nobody's making bigger businesses
Speaker 1: Jerry because he's got AT and T Stadium. You see
Speaker 1: what he's doing in Frisco with the headquarters. Everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to get into that game too. He's also got the
Speaker 1: real estate, so he's truly changed American sports and even
Speaker 1: sports worldwide. Where they're going to on Sunday, SOFI Stadium,
Speaker 1: that's Jerry. Jerry helped stand Cronky get out of Saint
Speaker 1: Louis built this thing. And I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys remembered or not, but he had the Charges and
Speaker 1: the Raiders who were looking at a site in Carson
Speaker 1: to build a stadium together. Jerry went ahead scrapped that
Speaker 1: whole thing and ended up having the Chargers go in
Speaker 1: with Stan Cronky, and then Jerry helps leverage the deal
Speaker 1: to help the Raiders get his stadium out in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Because Mark Davis was supposed to be working with Sheldon Adelson,
Speaker 1: the big casino guy out there, that deal blew up,
Speaker 1: so bam, Jerry goes and make some moves. Bank of
Speaker 1: America comes in and there's a new stadium with Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jerry is the most powerful owner in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and some people think he has more
Speaker 1: power and more juice than Commissioner Roger Goodell. But there
Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, yeah, I know a lot about
Speaker 1: Jerry very well said. I mean that was very well said.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, you're talking, you talking about
Speaker 1: that juice. I just remember how mad Jerry Wills when
Speaker 1: he thought that Roger Goodell wouldn't go suspend zeke Goodness graciou.
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be a fight blows over there.
Speaker 1: And Jerry's trying to hold out that hold up that
Speaker 1: extension too. I mean, Jerry was not happy, not happy
Speaker 1: about it. And when you go when you kind of
Speaker 1: look at how they have done their their quote unquote justice. Uh,
Speaker 1: they did Zeke dirty because they make it the best.
Speaker 1: They go um six games. You even had the person
Speaker 1: who investigated and said that you know, they didn't think
Speaker 1: that it was worthy of suspension. So how they did
Speaker 1: Zeke was was not that that was dirty. Then the
Speaker 1: lady who ended up but to give him the suspension,
Speaker 1: she's the Giants fan. So that was always one of
Speaker 1: those shady things that I looked at Jerry and I say,
Speaker 1: you know what, man, I get the understanding on that,
Speaker 1: but that's something else in the NFL. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: the NFL has got to be smarter than that. You're
Speaker 1: out here to spending Tom Brady games for deflating footballs
Speaker 1: and Zeke Elliott, I mean for I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: one like Zeke ended up getting jail or even arrested
Speaker 1: on this. I mean, why are you taking away the
Speaker 1: guys that people tune in to see each week? You
Speaker 1: people want to see Tom Brady, they want to see
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliot. You can't be out here just suspending guys
Speaker 1: on some with this random goofy stuff that has disputable
Speaker 1: evidence there. I mean, you gotta have these guys out
Speaker 1: here on the football field, which is also, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: one reason why we've seen them really relax the standards
Speaker 1: on marijuana use. You know, why do you want to
Speaker 1: sit up here to spend your players and they're not
Speaker 1: there on Sundays when you're out here trying to get ratings,
Speaker 1: trying to get yourself a new TV deal. You want
Speaker 1: your guys here. And many states allow guys and I
Speaker 1: just got allow their citizens to smoke marijuana because the
Speaker 1: citizens have passed the law there. So the NFL is
Speaker 1: getting a little bit better about these suspensions here, and
Speaker 1: that's uh that that's a good thing. But Jerry's been
Speaker 1: at the forefront of that as well with his displeasure,
Speaker 1: and he's also wanted to have the rules relaxed about
Speaker 1: marijuana because hey, look, we all know there's plenty guys
Speaker 1: in this league that that you know, that that smoked marijuana,
Speaker 1: and so why are you why are you gonna go
Speaker 1: out here. It's just spending guys where it's legal, and
Speaker 1: so many states it's just goofy to me about how
Speaker 1: they've been operating it. I mean, I remember that Seattle
Speaker 1: game when when when Ezekiel Ellie there's video. I don't
Speaker 1: know it was teams without that. He went to his
Speaker 1: dispensing and I became big news. It's like, ah, so
Speaker 1: I had to the next day, but my TV boss
Speaker 1: had me do a story on it. I was like, really,
Speaker 1: I got the story on this. So we had to
Speaker 1: go down to the dispensery place, talked to the older
Speaker 1: and the owner ended up you know, he tells, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was here, and the owner was cool about it.
Speaker 1: But I just sat and Zeke said, you know, I
Speaker 1: was just with a friend tagging along, and I just thought,
Speaker 1: this is what it's come to. We're really worried about
Speaker 1: what guys are doing here, and that's a story Like
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, so so that that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's what it was though. All right, fellas, give
Speaker 1: me a winner for tonight. By the way, as we
Speaker 1: get ready to head out the door here Church Houston,
Speaker 1: Texans thirty one to seventeen. Whoa, I got the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs forty one to twenty one, and they'll blowout
Speaker 1: forty one twenty one Kansas City Chiefs. Uh. Make sure
Speaker 1: y'all tune in and watch the national Anthem of the night.
Speaker 1: It will be a little different and also be different
Speaker 1: to see the stadium without as many fans. All right,
Speaker 1: give me a forty to twenty eight victory for the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs or nine and a half point favorites
Speaker 1: with Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes putting up some numbers
Speaker 1: here on these two defenses. So I'm looking forward. I
Speaker 1: think these offenses are gonna be good tonight. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited football is back. So make sure we're watching that.
Speaker 1: And Danny, go ahead and throwing a little Dallas Stars
Speaker 1: while you're out there, Man, go ahead, slip on over here, Tea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll see if I can fit it in. Man, I
Speaker 1: got I gotta. I gott about Serena and Lebruno. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're mixing it all in, and we're gonna mix it
Speaker 1: all in right there. Hey, that is the players Lives.
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