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Speaker 1: are new to the Players Lounge, that Dame mc Cray,
Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys undrafted free agent safety, made is third
Speaker 1: episode debut on Survivor, the TV show CBS one of
Speaker 1: the most popular TV shows up all time. It is
Speaker 1: a TV show phenomenon. And you have survived again. So
Speaker 1: your team wins another challenge, and not surprisingly, one of
Speaker 1: your one of your teammates is is worried about you.
Speaker 1: People get jealous out there real quick. Man. Everybody wants
Speaker 1: to be the alpha, uh, you know, so sometimes they
Speaker 1: just throw your name out there just because. And I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that's what's going on with this. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't understand why the man is talking about me like that,
Speaker 1: but I guess that's something would have to see in
Speaker 1: the in the episode is moving forward. Well, when I
Speaker 1: saw what he did, I immediately got it. He's going
Speaker 1: for the He's going for the lion. That's what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do. He knows he's a weak link. You're
Speaker 1: a strong link, so he's trying to take you out
Speaker 1: at the gate. Even though you have been cooperative with
Speaker 1: your teammates, nobody has any issues with you. You've helped
Speaker 1: them win the challenges. You're you are a strong rock
Speaker 1: here and when I saw it. I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: I get it. He's a weak individual and he's worried
Speaker 1: about himself. So there you go, which to me was dumb.
Speaker 1: He didn't know. We had to know that that that
Speaker 1: I was gonna get told. He had to know, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess you're never really knowing that on Survival. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: and I come back. This is this. This reminds me
Speaker 1: so much of its humanity. A lot of people that
Speaker 1: aren't smart and lack self awareness. But that's what fear does.
Speaker 1: He's fearful of you and what in your power. Within
Speaker 1: the team show, there you go. I look at how
Speaker 1: Brad got voted off on the other team, and I'm
Speaker 1: shaking my head. But then I'm not shaking my Brad
Speaker 1: was a good player. Brad had too much. He had
Speaker 1: too much, and he also a lot of people knew
Speaker 1: about that, and he just like, I don't understand. Listen,
Speaker 1: before I went on the show, I said, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: know how to keep certain secrets to myself, right, You
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta know when you could tell somebody something
Speaker 1: and when you need to keep something to yourself. All Right,
Speaker 1: So we saw last night Brad go tell everybody everything, right,
Speaker 1: because he thinks everybody is just number one. And then
Speaker 1: you see a guy who tried to do what I said,
Speaker 1: keep a secret, put it super sloppy, and he comes back,
Speaker 1: comes back, has its advantage in his shorts, right, and uh,
Speaker 1: and he get caught doing it that way. Right. So
Speaker 1: you're just seeing a lot of a lot of different
Speaker 1: type of ways of playing the game. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: brads didn't work, and we'll see if if Jad's works.
Speaker 1: God buried his right like he buried it but then
Speaker 1: told everybody, told everybody. Yeah, okay, so this is just
Speaker 1: the third only third time I've ever seen the show.
Speaker 1: So and you sound like you know a lot about it.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to understand. Why would you tell anyone
Speaker 1: what you had. I'm sure what's the advantage. Did he
Speaker 1: think that because he had a lot, then therefore he
Speaker 1: could determine votes kind of like you do in the Senate,
Speaker 1: where you can go ahead and just sit around here
Speaker 1: and just round up votes. Hey, do this, this and
Speaker 1: this versus if you're playing survivor, I'm thinking, what they
Speaker 1: don't know. It's good for you because you're the one
Speaker 1: sitting here with power that they all don't know about it.
Speaker 1: You tell me how happen. A lot of times in
Speaker 1: past seasons and probably this season, there's only usually one
Speaker 1: currency on the show of Survivor, and that is information, right,
Speaker 1: So a lot of people will give information about themselves
Speaker 1: or something that they have to gain trust from an ally. Right.
Speaker 1: So as Brad is telling these people, I'm assuming he's saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: now they know they can really trust me because I can'
Speaker 1: to him and I told them everything that I had, right,
Speaker 1: And you think that that's going to get you further
Speaker 1: in the game, And then the opposite happens. JD gets
Speaker 1: caught line and all of a sudden, he gets trusted
Speaker 1: more than Brad. It's trusted, and Brad goes home. It's
Speaker 1: just the game is different. That's why it's it's so
Speaker 1: great because there's so many different people from different walks
Speaker 1: of life. Like Shan tells a story about why it's
Speaker 1: so hard for her to be able to have to
Speaker 1: pick between the two, right, because something that happened to
Speaker 1: her in the past. Right, if that's somebody else they're
Speaker 1: Brad It told, they might not even have that issue.
Speaker 1: It might just be all, yeah, I trust Brad. Let's
Speaker 1: let's vote out JD. Okay, so this is just me
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm crazy. The way I read it
Speaker 1: was Brad was pretty good with everyone. To me, that's
Speaker 1: what it seemed like. And then he started telling everybody
Speaker 1: what he had and then they're like, ooh, he's you know,
Speaker 1: like like Chris Beam just said he's got this power.
Speaker 1: Seems to me like had he just kept his mouth
Speaker 1: shut and kept playing the game, he would have been okay,
Speaker 1: and somebody else j D would have got got But
Speaker 1: that's the game. He didn't know that at that time.
Speaker 1: At that time, he thought he was doing something good.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know what, I'm going to tell my ally, right,
Speaker 1: so they know that they trust me, so we move
Speaker 1: forward in the game. They're gonna vote with me, believing
Speaker 1: then we can use all this stuff together. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing with Brad. So sorry, guys, I didn't understand
Speaker 1: when he went had to go get on the boat
Speaker 1: secretly or whatever made himself look like you was sleeping
Speaker 1: or whatever. Okay, so he goes over there and they said, well,
Speaker 1: we'll give you a tarp or you get like an
Speaker 1: extra vote or whatever. Well, he didn't have a vote anyways.
Speaker 1: So if you bring back a tarp to your team,
Speaker 1: you look like you're doing something for your team, and
Speaker 1: maybe they'll trust you more even though you already have
Speaker 1: two more idols or whatever. Right, it doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: to me that he was just trying to get as
Speaker 1: much as he could. Yeah, now I lost it all.
Speaker 1: And that's how it is, right. Some people go out
Speaker 1: there to play super hard. You saw me on episode one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, look at it ain't worth it. It's
Speaker 1: not worth it to me. But that's just how like
Speaker 1: you think about going into the game, and you might
Speaker 1: think about playing the game your entire life and what
Speaker 1: you would do in that situation. And he probably thought
Speaker 1: about that for his entire time leading up to the show.
Speaker 1: If I get a chance to take an advantage, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take it. So he couldn't turn away from that
Speaker 1: at that point. He said he came out there to
Speaker 1: play the game that way and that and he lived
Speaker 1: by the sword and and not by it. It's a
Speaker 1: great show. It's a great show. Look, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: agree with it. I am this is the first year
Speaker 1: I've watched it, and I'm hooked now. So So I
Speaker 1: got up this morning and went to the gym, took
Speaker 1: a little Trusty iPad, got on the treadmill, watch the show,
Speaker 1: and just just knocked it on out. And I will
Speaker 1: tell you I am very I have. I continued to
Speaker 1: be surprised on who gets voted off. I did not
Speaker 1: think Brad would go. I thought it would be JD.
Speaker 1: And just look at it, we thought because Barry Barry Church,
Speaker 1: our other co hosts, he thought the other hey man,
Speaker 1: this guy's got to go. And it seemed as though,
Speaker 1: like this, this guy sneaky, he thinks a lot of himself.
Speaker 1: You're the next guy to go. And then they take
Speaker 1: out Brad, who, in my opinion from what I'm watching,
Speaker 1: this is a good teammate. Any good worker can help
Speaker 1: you in challenges. Yeah, so I thought was a good
Speaker 1: work and then they busted him too. And so I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this thing, the weaker link, the Tiffany's of
Speaker 1: the world. How are they surviving? How do they keep living?
Speaker 1: But if you watched it like see because this is
Speaker 1: y'all's first season, if you've watched it from season one
Speaker 1: up to season forty one, you would see that there
Speaker 1: was the weak links have seen twenty seasons before this
Speaker 1: of the strong people teaming up and taking out the
Speaker 1: weak links. So so when they come in, they say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not letting that happen to me
Speaker 1: because I'm considered to be a week link. You think
Speaker 1: Tiffany thought she was gonna be able to outperform all
Speaker 1: those people. Her game is I'm going to win the
Speaker 1: social game because I'm not built to be able to
Speaker 1: do some of that stuff, right, So accredit to them
Speaker 1: to being able to do it and not just being
Speaker 1: being that person to say, all right, if we lose,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep voting out the weak people. Okay.
Speaker 1: So and this is just another me being an ovice
Speaker 1: to show when you lose the challenge, you go to
Speaker 1: tribal and somebody gets gets voted off, correct, right, So
Speaker 1: to me, wouldn't you try to have as stronger team
Speaker 1: as you can to keep winning so you don't get there?
Speaker 1: That's what the strong people think, But why would do
Speaker 1: we people do that? The people are to perceived to
Speaker 1: be weak? Okay, Right, if you if you only got
Speaker 1: six people on the trial, right, and you have three
Speaker 1: week lads who have taken over the game, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna start voting theirself out right, They're gonna keep voting
Speaker 1: out the strong players. Like, man, we lose, we still
Speaker 1: got two more chances to lose. We got two more
Speaker 1: people to vote out, all right, all right, So survivor,
Speaker 1: check it out now if you have it. What I
Speaker 1: did was go to CBS dot com on the website
Speaker 1: is right there, easy to at, easy to watch. So
Speaker 1: went to the gym this morning. Check it all out
Speaker 1: because I didn't get to see live last night. So
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Speaker 1: Survivor Speaking of surviving, Jalen Smith has a job, said
Speaker 1: he wants to go to a contender. Yes, that was
Speaker 1: one of his what one of his people told me.
Speaker 1: He's like, that's what he wants to do. Ends up
Speaker 1: going to the Green Bay Packers. And you think about
Speaker 1: the Packers record the last three years. They are twenty
Speaker 1: nine and seven the last three seasons combined. Think about
Speaker 1: their division. You got Minnesota, you got the easy hit,
Speaker 1: the easy Bay tho you got shot down. I mean
Speaker 1: if you want to go take the easiest route possible
Speaker 1: to at least make the playoffs and possibly win. The
Speaker 1: NFC's Green Bay got Aaron Rodgers, he got Davante Adams. Uh,
Speaker 1: and you're in probably one of the weakest divisions. Everybody
Speaker 1: always says like the NFC East is the Seaton North
Speaker 1: this year, I mean, there's no doubt that's a bad division.
Speaker 1: And you ended up going to having got another top
Speaker 1: five quarterback that you're out there with, So it's a
Speaker 1: quarterback league. Aaron Rodgers is a walking Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur was that Notre Dame when Jalen Kurt, when
Speaker 1: Jalen was there, and so boom he's there. So so
Speaker 1: good for Jalen Smith to get himself in a way position.
Speaker 1: And I'm reading a Ian rapper. Seven and seventy thousand
Speaker 1: is what he's getting. So the Cowboy's gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay him off his seven million bucks and then the
Speaker 1: Packers are gonna pay him the seven, seven hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy thousand bucks. So Jalen Smith is going to be
Speaker 1: a free agent after the season, and we'll see what
Speaker 1: else happens in his career. A testament to the type
Speaker 1: of guy that Jalen is and the type of type
Speaker 1: of teammate he was is. I'm reading that he left
Speaker 1: a note yes to be read to the defense all positive.
Speaker 1: Let him know y'all got something special here. Make sure
Speaker 1: y'all keep fighting so y'all can achieve everything that y'all
Speaker 1: need to achieve. Right, that doesn't happen. Usually people when
Speaker 1: they get released, they're leaving out of the door, kicking
Speaker 1: and screaming. They're upset, they're mad, they can't believe that
Speaker 1: it was them. This guy is thinking about his teammates
Speaker 1: as he gets pushed out of the door, which which
Speaker 1: is a testament to the type of character that the
Speaker 1: guy has. I was going to bring that up and
Speaker 1: ask you, so, what is the common occurrence of something
Speaker 1: like that happening? And you said you usually don't. First
Speaker 1: of all, I've seen dudes get released and don't even
Speaker 1: say bye to the teammates. They you know, they grabbed
Speaker 1: their bag, you know, put the stuff in their locker,
Speaker 1: They walk out the door, And if you weren't friends
Speaker 1: with that guy or able to call or text, you
Speaker 1: never hear from that person again, never hear from again.
Speaker 1: And you won't hear anything positive. Everything that you hear
Speaker 1: about them being released is you know, I was playing good.
Speaker 1: They probably they messed over me. They picked somebody else
Speaker 1: over me. As politics in the game, every excuse succept
Speaker 1: I didn't play well enough to stay on the team.
Speaker 1: So what Jalen did is really that's an anomaly. So
Speaker 1: we did our show and afterwards the players were talking.
Speaker 1: Layton vander Esh spoke to the media and Layton was
Speaker 1: pretty chapped because he saw how many Cowboy fans were
Speaker 1: reveling in Jalen being released, and he just thought it
Speaker 1: was wrong and had some had some tough words. If
Speaker 1: you had checked it out and just go to Twitter
Speaker 1: h or Dallas Cowboys dot com and look at what
Speaker 1: he had to say. He was pretty upset. And I
Speaker 1: thought that said a lot about Jalen Smith. Here's the
Speaker 1: guy you're in competition with, because we've seen what the
Speaker 1: impact of Michael Parsons and Keane O'Neill, so Laton Vanderesh
Speaker 1: and Jalen Swithard basically out there fighting for those those
Speaker 1: those snaps, and he got a teammates back who he
Speaker 1: didn't have to anymore because he was gone. He didn't
Speaker 1: like what was being said, and that also echoed what
Speaker 1: you and Barry had to say. Hey, this is a
Speaker 1: tough day. Nobody's nobody's joyous in the locker room when
Speaker 1: something like this happens. And that was very interesting because
Speaker 1: you guys said it. Then an hour a half later,
Speaker 1: here's Laton Vanderesh basically echoing just what you guys. He
Speaker 1: would Barry Church said, Yeah, it's a tough day. You're
Speaker 1: like usually, you know, you go through training camp and
Speaker 1: then you get to cut down day, which is probably
Speaker 1: the toughest day because it's not one guy, it's about
Speaker 1: twenty guys, right, who've seen their last days of being
Speaker 1: able to play football. These guys have been playing football
Speaker 1: probably since third grade. And then you get up to
Speaker 1: being twenty one or however old you are, and then
Speaker 1: you see your last day of playing that game gone
Speaker 1: all right. And then now you get Jalen who's been here,
Speaker 1: he's been the leader in the locker room. Him and
Speaker 1: Layton are really good friends. They were two of the
Speaker 1: top linebackers a few years ago, looking to increase their
Speaker 1: production and probably be the top linebacking corps in the league.
Speaker 1: And then he sees his guy get released. It's tough
Speaker 1: on him emotionally because that's his friend. And you have
Speaker 1: to realize that now that Jalen's and greens Bay Green Bay,
Speaker 1: they're not going to see each other as much as
Speaker 1: they as much as they had the workouts, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do together, the phone calls, all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Whatever they went to a bar together, all
Speaker 1: that stuff is gone. So it's emotional for Jalen, but
Speaker 1: it's also emotional for the connections and the friendships that
Speaker 1: he made while he was here. Chap now a member
Speaker 1: of the Green Bay PA. Let's take our first break
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Speaker 1: on the player's Lounge, Chris Bean has that Layton Banderash
Speaker 1: SoundBite about Jalen Smith being released. Here's Layton Bandaresh yesterday
Speaker 1: at the Star. What bugs me most about it is
Speaker 1: when people that are on the outside fans whatever it
Speaker 1: may be, they want to say, oh, like someone deserves
Speaker 1: this or someone deserves that everything. They don't realize that
Speaker 1: this is literally like our livelihoods. We literally could get
Speaker 1: up in traded the next morning, like the next day,
Speaker 1: we could be in fifty different freaking states. So people
Speaker 1: need to realize that. People need to realize that what
Speaker 1: they're saying is literally just like nonsense. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a big problem in the world today. And then
Speaker 1: you'd cut that out because I mean, we're literally talking
Speaker 1: about like we don't go talking about someone else's job,
Speaker 1: so why are they talking about our jobs. It's super frustrating,
Speaker 1: it's annoying. I think it's classless. I got a lot
Speaker 1: of strong words for it, because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of guys are on the league deal with it. We
Speaker 1: got families. We might be in one area. You got
Speaker 1: dudes that have been playing for a team for eight years,
Speaker 1: they get traded. They got family, they got kids that
Speaker 1: have been there for that long. Think about that before
Speaker 1: you say something like, oh, this guy deserves this, but
Speaker 1: this guy deserves that. We don't go saying oh, we
Speaker 1: aren't in your business, like how much you guys are
Speaker 1: getting paid, or or what's your boss saying, or this
Speaker 1: and that and about anybody else's jobs. We aren't doing that.
Speaker 1: This is our livelia, this is our job. We get
Speaker 1: traded tomorrow, we get caught tomorrow. Yeah. So people need
Speaker 1: to realize what they're saying on social media because I
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous. So that's late Vanderest talking about James
Speaker 1: Smith being cut in certain fans reveling in the fact
Speaker 1: that he's gone. I love the passion. We asked the question,
Speaker 1: he gave the answer. I got a couple thoughts on
Speaker 1: about I want to start with you first, any McRae,
Speaker 1: would you think listen. I can't understand the frustration I
Speaker 1: remember back in I want to say, I think it
Speaker 1: was twenty eleven. I became the starter because because some injuries,
Speaker 1: had a few bad plays or whatever, and I will
Speaker 1: be one of those guys that go look on Twitter
Speaker 1: after to see what people were saying. And I learned
Speaker 1: quickly to stay my ass off of that because one
Speaker 1: who cares about them people? Right, some of them got
Speaker 1: two followers. None of them know you personally, and none
Speaker 1: of them really care about you as a person. Right.
Speaker 1: They don't care. They just talking. They can't do what
Speaker 1: you do, so it doesn't really matter. So I learned
Speaker 1: it early, and I really think it's unfortunate when people
Speaker 1: haven't been able to get that lesson of Like some
Speaker 1: people don't know James Smith, they have no idea who
Speaker 1: you are. They don't care about you, really, they just
Speaker 1: want something to talk about. They just want to get
Speaker 1: on social media and have some type of release. In
Speaker 1: their opinion, really doesn't matter. So I can understand it
Speaker 1: being mad, But I mean, if it's not your friends
Speaker 1: or your family or somebody close to y'all this over
Speaker 1: there saying something crazy like that, then I really wouldn't
Speaker 1: put too much angst into it. I'll push back on
Speaker 1: what Layton said in terms of say, hey, we don't
Speaker 1: talk about your job. This is what you signed up for.
Speaker 1: You play professional football. It's the most popular sport in America.
Speaker 1: People are gonna say things, Okay, this this comes with
Speaker 1: the meal. As Jason Garrett used to say, this comes
Speaker 1: with it, and you have to understand and know what
Speaker 1: to take in and what to throw out of your ears.
Speaker 1: You have to do it that. That just comes with it,
Speaker 1: and it's never fun going through that process. Just like
Speaker 1: you said, going through the process of understanding and learning. Okay,
Speaker 1: these things are going to be said. These people know,
Speaker 1: these people don't know. You have to You just gotta
Speaker 1: take it, man. And then you also have to tell
Speaker 1: your family, Hey, a couple of things. One, don't tell me.
Speaker 1: It's the first thing. Don't don't. Don't feed this to me.
Speaker 1: Don't feed it to me. And also the families have
Speaker 1: to understand. So many people think they know, but they
Speaker 1: don't know. And even me, I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: I know sometimes listen to people, but I truly don't know.
Speaker 1: Guys in the room, No worry about the guys in
Speaker 1: the room. Worried about the she's in the room. And
Speaker 1: you just have to just know that at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. And it's hard when you it's hard
Speaker 1: when you see thousands and thousands of people saying something crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's easy, all right. The process was.
Speaker 1: It was a very very hard thing to learn. My
Speaker 1: wife had to learn it as well, because she's one
Speaker 1: of the people who wants to go on and respond
Speaker 1: to all of them, and it's it's hard to do. Man.
Speaker 1: So I'm not believe me. I'm not saying that it's easy.
Speaker 1: He should have been able to do that. Now. It's
Speaker 1: just I get it too, man, I get it too.
Speaker 1: I get lit up on social media. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get it. It's never fun. But along the way you're
Speaker 1: you do have to. I can't remember who said this.
Speaker 1: I wish I could give them the proper credit. It's
Speaker 1: not what they call you, it's what you respond to.
Speaker 1: Danny sucked, Okay, Am I gonna respond to it because
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of people who are gonna get
Speaker 1: after you. I used to come in after games. Is
Speaker 1: see does Bryant Cole Beasley on their self phones after games?
Speaker 1: Jason we needs to hate that? And man, Cole would
Speaker 1: respond and then Cole's wife would responded, Das would respond,
Speaker 1: and you will eat yourself alive if you're going to
Speaker 1: try and think that your validation is coming from people
Speaker 1: on social media. And the thing is you you like,
Speaker 1: you got on there really to see what they're saying
Speaker 1: to defend yourself, right, because as you learn then you say,
Speaker 1: all right, listen, my friend Jaylen got cut yesterday. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm probably not gonna get on social media and click
Speaker 1: on anything that says Jaylen Smith for the next week,
Speaker 1: because what we know about the world is that'll be
Speaker 1: moved that. Like, everybody's gonna move on from that two
Speaker 1: or three days from now. You won't even see it
Speaker 1: Dayles Smith got picked up yesterday whenever it was to
Speaker 1: go to Green Bay, and you probably won't even read
Speaker 1: anything about Jaylen Smith being a Dallas cowboy again until
Speaker 1: who knows, right, So this is yourself from it for
Speaker 1: a while. But you know, he got on there to
Speaker 1: see what people were saying about Jay. Somebody was like, man,
Speaker 1: you see what they're doing to your boy, ja whatever,
Speaker 1: And then you get on there to see it and
Speaker 1: it's like, don't do it? Who? Who is they? Who
Speaker 1: is they? And why? Why does their opinion matter? I
Speaker 1: would say it again, it ain't easy because I'm a
Speaker 1: surviving I'm still on Twitter, like I wonder what they saying.
Speaker 1: I look like, you know, it's not easy to do.
Speaker 1: But if you're not able to process it and be like,
Speaker 1: they really don't matter, I'm just looking at this for entertainment,
Speaker 1: then you should probably step away from Terence Newman had
Speaker 1: a really good perspective on it because towards his end
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, he was dealing with some issues and
Speaker 1: he can tell people, and he was getting he was
Speaker 1: he was getting cooked out there a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I asked him one day we were we weren't. I
Speaker 1: don't know where I ran into a map, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't in the facility. It wasn't back at Valley Ranch.
Speaker 1: And I said, you hurt? Yeah, And he told me
Speaker 1: always going through and said, why don't you say something?
Speaker 1: So No, not gonna use it. Don't wanted to be
Speaker 1: an excuse guys in the room. No, I said, but
Speaker 1: if I don't know one of my left all I
Speaker 1: can go by is what I see. You lost it
Speaker 1: going on here? And he just didn't want to use that.
Speaker 1: And I talked to DeMarcus ware towards his time here,
Speaker 1: he was dealing with injuries, and he also said the
Speaker 1: same thing. He didn't want to say anything. He didn't
Speaker 1: want to use excuses. Guys in the room. No, but
Speaker 1: they built like that though, right, it's their pride, but
Speaker 1: it's something that made them who they are. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna make any excuse for anything. What I took
Speaker 1: the chance to go out there, I put it on
Speaker 1: the line, and whatever the result is in my play,
Speaker 1: I gotta deal with that. And that's you know, so
Speaker 1: they won't tell you because it's like I made a
Speaker 1: decision to go out there and I knew that I
Speaker 1: wasn't one hundred percent, but I was okay with the
Speaker 1: fact that I felt like I can still beat whoever
Speaker 1: even if I wasn't one hundred percent, and if I can't,
Speaker 1: then that's something I got to do with. And then
Speaker 1: they decided that they would take the criticisms and not
Speaker 1: fight back and they went from there. Which what's that.
Speaker 1: That's that kind of maturity process. You start to understand
Speaker 1: this is what you go this is what you're gonna
Speaker 1: go through, and this is kind of what you signed
Speaker 1: up for. And so late in Banderesh. I love the passion.
Speaker 1: We asked the question, and I'm not criticizing him for
Speaker 1: the answer, but this is a part of it, and
Speaker 1: that you're going to have a whole lot of people
Speaker 1: who've got opinions on it, and in its own way,
Speaker 1: it's what makes it so popular. It's what also drives
Speaker 1: social media. There's more people that want to get on there.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say something negative, They're gonna say something positive.
Speaker 1: As soon as they saw the hashtag Jaylen Smith. You know,
Speaker 1: first of all, it probably had a thousand tweets, and
Speaker 1: then as soon as they saw it was trending, people
Speaker 1: just got on there and just start piling off just because,
Speaker 1: like you said, they are looking for something to do
Speaker 1: and ultimately for Jayalen Smith. Despite people who were reveling
Speaker 1: in it and thought that guy shouldn't be here, he
Speaker 1: had a fan who's the head coach of the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, who went to the general manager, Brian Gooda
Speaker 1: Komes and said, bring him in. Guess what, Jalen's in
Speaker 1: a good position. Now forget that Jaylen got paid, Yeah, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: He's going to play football again. His goal in life
Speaker 1: when he was trying to get to the NFL was
Speaker 1: to change his life, in his family's life. Jaylen accomplished
Speaker 1: that goal, right, So on top of you, now he
Speaker 1: gets just played because he wants to play, right, because
Speaker 1: like a lot of us grew up with that with
Speaker 1: that thing, right, it's that thing on our shoulders, that
Speaker 1: thing on that mind that says, hey, man, I have
Speaker 1: to make it for my family. Right, he made it
Speaker 1: for his family. Now he gets to play for himself,
Speaker 1: which is probably one of the most liberating feelings in
Speaker 1: the world. So, like I said, nothing but positives for him.
Speaker 1: Shout out to him. I'm glad that somebody like like
Speaker 1: Lating is on his side, so he does feel that
Speaker 1: emotion when somebody's attacking this boy. I just don't want
Speaker 1: him to take it too personal. Yeah, I still contended, man,
Speaker 1: I thought Jale was gonna be here, but they've moved on.
Speaker 1: They were gonna have some roster spots that they've got
Speaker 1: to feel here. I'm happy Jalen is going to be
Speaker 1: in a position to make the playoffs, get that extra
Speaker 1: check in the playoffs, and maybe even end up playing
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl in Los Angeles. So is he
Speaker 1: swiping in green Bay. You know, like, look all positive,
Speaker 1: but it's still the players nouns. Is he swiping in
Speaker 1: Green Bay? Let me tell you something. First play that
Speaker 1: he makes, he may hurt his arm because it's going
Speaker 1: to be an emotional It's going to be an emotional
Speaker 1: like that. I guess what. I'm still living. You didn't
Speaker 1: kill me. I'm still standing. Of course he's going to.
Speaker 1: He's going to How could you not? On one more?
Speaker 1: How could you not? Is he wearing number nine? I
Speaker 1: don't know who wears a baby? I don't know. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who who There is
Speaker 1: no nine on the acts of roster right now in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. There is a nine on the squad. Practice
Speaker 1: squad got to get it. Practice squad had to get
Speaker 1: that nine up. If you're on the actor, you probably
Speaker 1: much get it. So I am wishing him well and
Speaker 1: I will say this one more time on the players lounge.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget all the positive things in the community
Speaker 1: that Jalen Smith was doing and trying to empower other people.
Speaker 1: I do not want that forgotten. Um. That needs to
Speaker 1: be said again because so many times we're the first
Speaker 1: to jump on a player who does something wrong. Let's
Speaker 1: remember the play players who did something good. He did
Speaker 1: try to come into the community and leave it better
Speaker 1: than he found it and used the little bit of
Speaker 1: celebrity that he had to make it better. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: shout out to him last year's Dallas Cowboys Walter Payton
Speaker 1: Man of the Year nominee. So so Jaylen Smith, good
Speaker 1: luck to you all right. I was wanting to get
Speaker 1: to Trade Diggs here. Trey Diggs is really playing at
Speaker 1: a high level. Where do we start to take this
Speaker 1: in terms of going forward? Because he got another honor here?
Speaker 1: How do we start to look at trade Diggs after
Speaker 1: a very small sample size to see a lot of
Speaker 1: football games to go. Let's dive into that next. He
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Speaker 1: NFC Defensive Player of the Month, five picks, one touchdown.
Speaker 1: It's a three and one football team right now with
Speaker 1: the Giants coming in here. And Daniel Jones is known
Speaker 1: to uh throw some picks. Lately he has been you know,
Speaker 1: he's been protecting the ball. So what was said it?
Speaker 1: But he's oh yeah, he's oh Eli, what we know
Speaker 1: about Eli when he when we played, we knew that
Speaker 1: he was coming. I got me a pick on Eli,
Speaker 1: and probably I dropped one too, So I mean Eli
Speaker 1: was coming to those the inoception, You'll sling it right
Speaker 1: to you, he will sing somebody. So, Danny, you understand
Speaker 1: the marathon of the National Football League and the fact
Speaker 1: that now this is on tape. Jason Garrett is sitting
Speaker 1: here with Daniel Jones and they're going over the offense.
Speaker 1: You know, they're looking at Trey Diggs and some things
Speaker 1: that they see, um, some things that can we take
Speaker 1: advantage of from here? Is this where we want to
Speaker 1: stay away. What happens when you start to play well
Speaker 1: and other teams are dissecting what you're doing. Listen, it
Speaker 1: can go one of two ways. It can be really
Speaker 1: good or it can be really bad. Because if it's
Speaker 1: really good for you, you'll start seeing quarterbacks go away
Speaker 1: from you, right, You get no action on your side,
Speaker 1: you get the Jalen Ramsey treatment. Right, So you're just
Speaker 1: over there. And sometimes that's helpful because now you know
Speaker 1: that the quarterback's not coming to your side, so you
Speaker 1: can come off your man sometimes kind of like Tray
Speaker 1: Undigs did last game and seek underneath an overall or
Speaker 1: sink underneath whatever, because you're you're you're playing like ed
Speaker 1: read is what Rob Ryan used to call it. You
Speaker 1: just ed reading. You're just founding the ball. Now when
Speaker 1: they dissect you, and if you watch some of Tray
Speaker 1: Undiggs interceptions, you see him playing flat footed on some
Speaker 1: of those routes, not backpedaling, just waiting for the receiver
Speaker 1: to run like a five yard hitch and then he
Speaker 1: just breaks on it. Now, if they see him doing
Speaker 1: that consistently and and they say, you know this guy
Speaker 1: is susceptible to double moves, then you're gonna start seeing
Speaker 1: stuff to counter what you've been doing to get those interceptions. Right,
Speaker 1: so they see you jump a slant, next time, you
Speaker 1: might get a slant goal, and you better be ready
Speaker 1: to play it because if you don't, now you're in
Speaker 1: trouble because now they're in your head. Now you're not
Speaker 1: gonna Now you're gonna be hesitant on breaking on the slant,
Speaker 1: and you might get beat on the goal as well.
Speaker 1: So now you all over the place. So as they
Speaker 1: start dissect in his game hopefully is well rounded and
Speaker 1: he could play the deep ball and also continue to
Speaker 1: make those plays on those on those short routes. And
Speaker 1: I'm bringing to something. I'm not trying to throw a
Speaker 1: wet blanket at all on Travillon Dixon traiser talk on
Speaker 1: having a good football season so far, But that's just
Speaker 1: kind of that thing I immediately go to is and
Speaker 1: I'm just the NFL. It's in every professional sport. They
Speaker 1: start getting this tape and they just try to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: how do we deal with that player who's playing at
Speaker 1: a different level. And if you don't, you're dumb. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: If Jason Garrett Daniel Jones are not sitting there watching
Speaker 1: tape on Trade Dix, they're they're doing it all wrong.
Speaker 1: They better be watching the table with our Harris. They
Speaker 1: better be finding out what he's being taught. Because I'm
Speaker 1: going to continue to say it. I think the coaching
Speaker 1: staff that they have that has gotten their hands on
Speaker 1: these players and help them become better players, I think
Speaker 1: that they are going to have them prepared for what
Speaker 1: we're talking about now. They know that that other teams
Speaker 1: are watching what there are being successful as breaking up
Speaker 1: those short route passes, getting their head around covering some
Speaker 1: of those back shoulder phase or some of those deep balls,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to find out how they can take
Speaker 1: advantage of their aggressive play right. And I think they
Speaker 1: have some coaches who have some experience with that same stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think they're gonna be prepared for whatever comes
Speaker 1: at them next. I just hope that they're ready to
Speaker 1: maximize that that opportunity. So he brought up Al Harris,
Speaker 1: Joe Joe, Joe, Vitte, Joett. These guys are coaching the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys defensive backs, and it's been years since we've
Speaker 1: seen not only this type of production, but this type
Speaker 1: of confidence back there. This has been you know, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. I mean last year was bombs away. So
Speaker 1: to see the improvement that's gone on there has been fantastic.
Speaker 1: And for Diggs, who we saw some we saw things
Speaker 1: we liked last year in a bad defense, there were
Speaker 1: things that you liked. He had a really good camp.
Speaker 1: You saw him doing it at camp against Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: You saw him doing it against Cooper. You saw him fighting.
Speaker 1: You saw Dak and Diggs going back at each other,
Speaker 1: and people talk about one in competition all the time.
Speaker 1: It's where I gotta get Mike Mike McCarthy credit. He's
Speaker 1: talked about competition. Wow, what that has done for this
Speaker 1: young man four games into this football season with five interceptions,
Speaker 1: It's been very impressive. And I'll be very anxious to
Speaker 1: see exactly what happens here against the Giants and then
Speaker 1: the next week against the New England Patriots against a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in mac Jones. Is it fair to say
Speaker 1: that the most confident group on the defense, out of linebackers,
Speaker 1: defensive line in DBS, that the most confident group, the
Speaker 1: group that's playing with the most confidence is the secondary. Yes.
Speaker 1: And I'll go further with you on this. Sparky Anderson's
Speaker 1: a former baseball manager, and he said, give me twenty
Speaker 1: five guys on one year deals. Oh, win the World
Speaker 1: Series every year. Got a lot of guys who got
Speaker 1: to eat on the provens on improvens. So within the room,
Speaker 1: you're trying to compete because one you're a football playing
Speaker 1: you're competitive, But two you're trying to get that next jack.
Speaker 1: If you don't perform well, you need next check. And
Speaker 1: there's been so many, so much competition in there. You
Speaker 1: can't get the check if you're not on the field
Speaker 1: performing well, and there's another guy up. So you're seeing
Speaker 1: Kazy get it done, You're seeing Hooker get it done,
Speaker 1: You're seeing Curse get it done. They're playing good football
Speaker 1: here and I think dan Quinn, just as you talked
Speaker 1: about earlier, has brought in a whole lot of enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, you get guys who are playing for money,
Speaker 1: and you got Donovin Wilson, who sees, all right, they're
Speaker 1: bringing other people here. I want I want to keep
Speaker 1: my role, I want to keep my check. So it's
Speaker 1: a good mix they've got going on. We keep hearing
Speaker 1: about the team chemistry, but there's definitely something there with
Speaker 1: these guys. But I do believe that improved deals, man,
Speaker 1: when it's when you got to sing for your supper, confident,
Speaker 1: they confident in the ability to prove it too. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what a lot of those guys on
Speaker 1: those proven deals are making some money for next year. Now,
Speaker 1: let's also go into this. Take Hazy and Hooker. If
Speaker 1: you look at them in their histories when healthy, this
Speaker 1: is what they do. They make plays. The issue has
Speaker 1: been health. So right now the Cowboys are on a
Speaker 1: good role with these guys that they're healthy and they're
Speaker 1: able to help contribute and play. But in the case
Speaker 1: he talked about that when he was a training camp.
Speaker 1: When I'm healthy, look at the numbers. Hooker basically said
Speaker 1: the same thing. Yeah, I know I've had some issues,
Speaker 1: but look at the production. When I'm there, it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of being there. I remember Bob Sanders when
Speaker 1: he was with the Man, the safety out of Iowa,
Speaker 1: former defensive player of the year. When Bob played, it's
Speaker 1: really good he was. He was hurt often to him,
Speaker 1: he played really hard. For his size, the type of
Speaker 1: stuff that he was doing. He wasn't gonna be able
Speaker 1: to last doing that. But but but he was, like
Speaker 1: you said, when he's healthy, he was a top safety
Speaker 1: in the league. Sean Lee the same thing with Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: When he was healthy out here playing, he was a
Speaker 1: difference maker on the football field. There's no everyone knows that.
Speaker 1: So but that's that hard, tricky part. But right now
Speaker 1: you got guys in the defensive backfield getting it done.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy for I'm happy for those guys. Cowboys
Speaker 1: three and one getting ready to face the Giants on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Giants touchdown underdog in this one. Church isn't here all right,
Speaker 1: I'm out tomorrow. So Barry wanted to send in his
Speaker 1: pick for the game. He's got thirty five seventeen Cowboys
Speaker 1: winning at Jerry one. He's trying to take the page
Speaker 1: out of my book. Man. I've been saying this all week,
Speaker 1: all right. I think that this is going to be
Speaker 1: one of the closer games, just because of the familiar
Speaker 1: for me a little bit, Jason Garrett knowing comment about it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it familiarity. But Jason Garrett knowing us right,
Speaker 1: Usually when he comes back here, he has something to prove,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna come in. He's gonna be in his
Speaker 1: bag with his play calls with Daniel Jones. And I
Speaker 1: said it earlier. Also, Daniel Jones has actually been protecting
Speaker 1: the ball much better than he has been doing in
Speaker 1: the past. All Right, they're coming off of win. This
Speaker 1: team is trying to get some momentum, and we're coming
Speaker 1: off of this this win streak of three games and
Speaker 1: we're trying to hold on to it. Right, So I
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be that game where it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like that tug of war. So I'm seeing us
Speaker 1: win a close game of thirty one, twenty eight. I
Speaker 1: see my guy Greg the lad coming in and making
Speaker 1: one of those kicks to send us over the top,
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott leading us down the field at the
Speaker 1: end of the game like Tom Brady did against us
Speaker 1: in week one. Okay, so you have the Giants covering,
Speaker 1: give me the Cowboys to win. Twenty nine twenty one.
Speaker 1: I think that the Giants in their last three games
Speaker 1: have played well. They had Washington beat first round pick.
Speaker 1: The ref said jumped offside, so the missfield goal didn't count.
Speaker 1: Dustin Hopkins lines up again, kicks it through. Washington wins.
Speaker 1: They're in Atlanta fourteen fourteen game, Matt Ryan gets down field,
Speaker 1: Young Way Coop kicks and field goal at the end.
Speaker 1: They win. And then last week they go to New
Speaker 1: Orleans and they get themselves a victory in overtime. Who's healthy.
Speaker 1: Se Quon Barklay is healthy. That's that's the key. But
Speaker 1: I go back into what when we dived into the numbers.
Speaker 1: New Orleans statistically much better than the Giants in the game.
Speaker 1: But you talked about the big plays. You gave up
Speaker 1: big plays and you got beat that way. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have at times given up some big plays too. Oh,
Speaker 1: and to run in the past. Now now you know,
Speaker 1: so we're twenty six, you're right, twenty six. So that's
Speaker 1: an issue, which is why I've got a twenty nine
Speaker 1: twenty one game. And I'm with you. This is this
Speaker 1: is where to me, fans sometimes just don't get it.
Speaker 1: And it's not just in professional football. You going to college,
Speaker 1: when you face a common opponent and you know them,
Speaker 1: it's not a whole lot of you're not You're not
Speaker 1: You're not able to hide a whole lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: There no secrets. That's that's probably there's no secrets. The
Speaker 1: giants know what you want to do. You know what
Speaker 1: the giants are gonna do. These games are hard. Division
Speaker 1: games are tough, and don't forget Conference games are tough.
Speaker 1: Don't forget. We have been over the last few weeks
Speaker 1: fall to the sleep in the second half and letting
Speaker 1: these teams get back in the game when we should
Speaker 1: be putting our foot on their throat and closing them out.
Speaker 1: All right, And until we get that fixed, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue to be in those games that are close
Speaker 1: at the end when we should have been blowing these
Speaker 1: teams out. And I think this would be another one
Speaker 1: of those weeks where where that happens and then we
Speaker 1: have to put our footback on the gas to get
Speaker 1: to win. I expected to be a competitive football game,
Speaker 1: like you do. But I think the Cowboys at the
Speaker 1: end end up pulling away and getting it done twenty
Speaker 1: nine twenty one. I just think they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: little too much firepower. But I do believe it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a competitive football a game because Joe Judge's teams
Speaker 1: do that. People are looking at the records, but I
Speaker 1: was saying, Scott contact, looking at what the Giants have
Speaker 1: done outside of Denver, which they did not play the
Speaker 1: first game well, and sae Quon Barkley was on a
Speaker 1: pitch count. You're now seeing sae Quon get into the groove.
Speaker 1: They're using it more, they're gaining confidence. If you don't,
Speaker 1: if you've never been to the Superdome, you don't understand
Speaker 1: how impressive a win that was. First game backs, it's
Speaker 1: the hurricane, that building is jumping, it's a great cat crowd.
Speaker 1: That's a tough place to play. They got the win.
Speaker 1: To me, you gotta be on point this week and
Speaker 1: understand it's gonna be another battle, Joe. Judges' teams don't
Speaker 1: always win them, but they fight you. They will fight you,
Speaker 1: all right, Danny, good stuff man. I'm back on Monday. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm back on Monday. Church is back on Monday as well.
Speaker 1: Long Vay cases Man, goodness, grace. Hopefully, hopefully Church gets
Speaker 1: a little bit of Dolphin this time. So that's players,
Speaker 1: lads here for a Thursday. Mick Shots is coming up here,
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