WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: How Will The Defense Respond? 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:17.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players Lounge, 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:22.560 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. No. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.560 Your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and New he scrugs. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.159 Here we are on a Thursday, Players One, brought to 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.120 you by Hotels dot Com. I'm knew, he scrugs. He 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:40.680 is the ultimate survivor. He is Danny McCray. I love 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.199 the sound effects. I love the sound effects being our producer. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.479 And look who got him a shirt? Yeah, New he 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.360 isn't the team Danny club Man. New he isn't the 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.559 team Danny club Man. 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So 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:41.800 your team wins another challenge, and not surprisingly, one of 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.720 your one of your teammates is is worried about you. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.520 People get jealous out there real quick. Man. Everybody wants 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.320 to be the alpha, uh, you know, so sometimes they 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.400 just throw your name out there just because. And I'm 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.360 assuming that's what's going on with this. I don't I 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.600 don't understand why the man is talking about me like that, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.840 but I guess that's something would have to see in 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.280 the in the episode is moving forward. Well, when I 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.000 saw what he did, I immediately got it. He's going 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.320 for the He's going for the lion. That's what he's 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.400 trying to do. He knows he's a weak link. You're 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.280 a strong link, so he's trying to take you out 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.280 at the gate. Even though you have been cooperative with 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.080 your teammates, nobody has any issues with you. You've helped 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.320 them win the challenges. You're you are a strong rock 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.359 here and when I saw it. I was like, ah, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.400 I get it. He's a weak individual and he's worried 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.959 about himself. So there you go, which to me was dumb. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.799 He didn't know. We had to know that that that 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.040 I was gonna get told. He had to know, right, Oh, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.720 you know, I guess you're never really knowing that on Survival. Well, okay, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.639 and I come back. This is this. This reminds me 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.880 so much of its humanity. A lot of people that 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:55.240 aren't smart and lack self awareness. But that's what fear does. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.960 He's fearful of you and what in your power. Within 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.440 the team show, there you go. I look at how 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.480 Brad got voted off on the other team, and I'm 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.600 shaking my head. But then I'm not shaking my Brad 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.160 was a good player. Brad had too much. He had 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.839 too much, and he also a lot of people knew 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.080 about that, and he just like, I don't understand. Listen, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.480 before I went on the show, I said, I wouldn't 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.040 know how to keep certain secrets to myself, right, You 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.400 gotta you gotta know when you could tell somebody something 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.280 and when you need to keep something to yourself. All Right, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.160 So we saw last night Brad go tell everybody everything, right, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.560 because he thinks everybody is just number one. And then 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.800 you see a guy who tried to do what I said, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.560 keep a secret, put it super sloppy, and he comes back, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:46.120 comes back, has its advantage in his shorts, right, and uh, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:47.960 and he get caught doing it that way. Right. So 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.280 you're just seeing a lot of a lot of different 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.480 type of ways of playing the game. And uh, you know, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.680 brads didn't work, and we'll see if if Jad's works. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.200 God buried his right like he buried it but then 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.440 told everybody, told everybody. Yeah, okay, so this is just 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.520 the third only third time I've ever seen the show. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.720 So and you sound like you know a lot about it. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:12.320 I'm just trying to understand. Why would you tell anyone 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:17.000 what you had. I'm sure what's the advantage. Did he 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.240 think that because he had a lot, then therefore he 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.039 could determine votes kind of like you do in the Senate, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.560 where you can go ahead and just sit around here 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.440 and just round up votes. Hey, do this, this and 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.720 this versus if you're playing survivor, I'm thinking, what they 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.280 don't know. It's good for you because you're the one 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.320 sitting here with power that they all don't know about it. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.760 You tell me how happen. A lot of times in 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.760 past seasons and probably this season, there's only usually one 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.239 currency on the show of Survivor, and that is information, right, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.200 So a lot of people will give information about themselves 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.960 or something that they have to gain trust from an ally. Right. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.240 So as Brad is telling these people, I'm assuming he's saying, Okay, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.880 now they know they can really trust me because I can' 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.599 to him and I told them everything that I had, right, 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.320 And you think that that's going to get you further 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.000 in the game, And then the opposite happens. JD gets 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.080 caught line and all of a sudden, he gets trusted 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.680 more than Brad. It's trusted, and Brad goes home. It's 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.880 just the game is different. That's why it's it's so 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.839 great because there's so many different people from different walks 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.680 of life. Like Shan tells a story about why it's 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.839 so hard for her to be able to have to 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.880 pick between the two, right, because something that happened to 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.280 her in the past. Right, if that's somebody else they're 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.119 Brad It told, they might not even have that issue. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.839 It might just be all, yeah, I trust Brad. Let's 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.520 let's vote out JD. Okay, so this is just me 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.279 tell me if I'm crazy. The way I read it 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:45.120 was Brad was pretty good with everyone. To me, that's 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.800 what it seemed like. And then he started telling everybody 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.680 what he had and then they're like, ooh, he's you know, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.680 like like Chris Beam just said he's got this power. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.599 Seems to me like had he just kept his mouth 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.760 shut and kept playing the game, he would have been okay, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.359 and somebody else j D would have got got But 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.440 that's the game. He didn't know that at that time. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.159 At that time, he thought he was doing something good. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.320 He's like, you know what, I'm going to tell my ally, right, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.040 so they know that they trust me, so we move 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.599 forward in the game. They're gonna vote with me, believing 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.839 then we can use all this stuff together. But here's 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.200 the thing with Brad. So sorry, guys, I didn't understand 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.320 when he went had to go get on the boat 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.120 secretly or whatever made himself look like you was sleeping 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.760 or whatever. Okay, so he goes over there and they said, well, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.279 we'll give you a tarp or you get like an 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.080 extra vote or whatever. Well, he didn't have a vote anyways. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.800 So if you bring back a tarp to your team, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.120 you look like you're doing something for your team, and 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.240 maybe they'll trust you more even though you already have 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.120 two more idols or whatever. Right, it doesn't make sense 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.400 to me that he was just trying to get as 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.560 much as he could. Yeah, now I lost it all. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.320 And that's how it is, right. Some people go out 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.440 there to play super hard. You saw me on episode one. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.880 I'm like, man, look at it ain't worth it. It's 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.960 not worth it to me. But that's just how like 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.800 you think about going into the game, and you might 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.560 think about playing the game your entire life and what 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.680 you would do in that situation. And he probably thought 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.720 about that for his entire time leading up to the show. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.560 If I get a chance to take an advantage, I'm 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.560 gonna take it. So he couldn't turn away from that 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.400 at that point. He said he came out there to 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.240 play the game that way and that and he lived 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.280 by the sword and and not by it. It's a 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.520 great show. It's a great show. Look, there's no doubt 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.320 agree with it. I am this is the first year 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.280 I've watched it, and I'm hooked now. So So I 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.720 got up this morning and went to the gym, took 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.840 a little Trusty iPad, got on the treadmill, watch the show, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.920 and just just knocked it on out. And I will 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.000 tell you I am very I have. I continued to 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.960 be surprised on who gets voted off. I did not 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.520 think Brad would go. I thought it would be JD. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.320 And just look at it, we thought because Barry Barry Church, 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.240 our other co hosts, he thought the other hey man, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.000 this guy's got to go. And it seemed as though, 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.360 like this, this guy sneaky, he thinks a lot of himself. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.040 You're the next guy to go. And then they take 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.120 out Brad, who, in my opinion from what I'm watching, 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.280 this is a good teammate. Any good worker can help 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:08.600 you in challenges. Yeah, so I thought was a good 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.760 work and then they busted him too. And so I'm 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.320 looking at this thing, the weaker link, the Tiffany's of 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.360 the world. How are they surviving? How do they keep living? 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.480 But if you watched it like see because this is 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.760 y'all's first season, if you've watched it from season one 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.120 up to season forty one, you would see that there 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.480 was the weak links have seen twenty seasons before this 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.240 of the strong people teaming up and taking out the 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.840 weak links. So so when they come in, they say, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.360 you know what, I'm not letting that happen to me 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.319 because I'm considered to be a week link. You think 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.000 Tiffany thought she was gonna be able to outperform all 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.840 those people. Her game is I'm going to win the 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.640 social game because I'm not built to be able to 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.000 do some of that stuff, right, So accredit to them 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.880 to being able to do it and not just being 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.960 being that person to say, all right, if we lose, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.760 we're just gonna keep voting out the weak people. Okay. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.800 So and this is just another me being an ovice 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.200 to show when you lose the challenge, you go to 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.440 tribal and somebody gets gets voted off, correct, right, So 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.640 to me, wouldn't you try to have as stronger team 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.600 as you can to keep winning so you don't get there? 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.120 That's what the strong people think, But why would do 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.320 we people do that? The people are to perceived to 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.240 be weak? Okay, Right, if you if you only got 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.320 six people on the trial, right, and you have three 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.640 week lads who have taken over the game, they're not 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.520 gonna start voting theirself out right, They're gonna keep voting 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.240 out the strong players. Like, man, we lose, we still 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.120 got two more chances to lose. We got two more 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.280 people to vote out, all right, all right, So survivor, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.320 check it out now if you have it. What I 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.280 did was go to CBS dot com on the website 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.960 is right there, easy to at, easy to watch. So 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.000 went to the gym this morning. Check it all out 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.760 because I didn't get to see live last night. So 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.160 check it out. So CBS dot com right there. You 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:52.800 can watch all three episodes if you missed it. So 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.959 there's your opportunity. See our man. Danny McCrae on a 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:02.800 Survivor Speaking of surviving, Jalen Smith has a job, said 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.240 he wants to go to a contender. Yes, that was 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.000 one of his what one of his people told me. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.800 He's like, that's what he wants to do. Ends up 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.920 going to the Green Bay Packers. And you think about 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.439 the Packers record the last three years. They are twenty 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.480 nine and seven the last three seasons combined. Think about 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:24.440 their division. You got Minnesota, you got the easy hit, 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.480 the easy Bay tho you got shot down. I mean 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.560 if you want to go take the easiest route possible 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.120 to at least make the playoffs and possibly win. The 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:37.000 NFC's Green Bay got Aaron Rodgers, he got Davante Adams. Uh, 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.680 and you're in probably one of the weakest divisions. Everybody 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.440 always says like the NFC East is the Seaton North 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.240 this year, I mean, there's no doubt that's a bad division. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:52.080 And you ended up going to having got another top 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.959 five quarterback that you're out there with, So it's a 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.920 quarterback league. Aaron Rodgers is a walking Hall of Famer. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.720 Matt Lafleur was that Notre Dame when Jalen Kurt, when 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.280 Jalen was there, and so boom he's there. So so 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.199 good for Jalen Smith to get himself in a way position. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.240 And I'm reading a Ian rapper. Seven and seventy thousand 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.319 is what he's getting. So the Cowboy's gonna have to 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.160 pay him off his seven million bucks and then the 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.520 Packers are gonna pay him the seven, seven hundred and 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.640 seventy thousand bucks. So Jalen Smith is going to be 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.679 a free agent after the season, and we'll see what 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.319 else happens in his career. A testament to the type 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.880 of guy that Jalen is and the type of type 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.760 of teammate he was is. I'm reading that he left 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.680 a note yes to be read to the defense all positive. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.240 Let him know y'all got something special here. Make sure 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.640 y'all keep fighting so y'all can achieve everything that y'all 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:49.160 need to achieve. Right, that doesn't happen. Usually people when 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.360 they get released, they're leaving out of the door, kicking 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.920 and screaming. They're upset, they're mad, they can't believe that 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.600 it was them. This guy is thinking about his teammates 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.720 as he gets pushed out of the door, which which 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.400 is a testament to the type of character that the 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.080 guy has. I was going to bring that up and 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.040 ask you, so, what is the common occurrence of something 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.760 like that happening? And you said you usually don't. First 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.000 of all, I've seen dudes get released and don't even 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.400 say bye to the teammates. They you know, they grabbed 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.640 their bag, you know, put the stuff in their locker, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.839 They walk out the door, And if you weren't friends 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:20.880 with that guy or able to call or text, you 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.760 never hear from that person again, never hear from again. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.199 And you won't hear anything positive. Everything that you hear 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.680 about them being released is you know, I was playing good. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.640 They probably they messed over me. They picked somebody else 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.600 over me. As politics in the game, every excuse succept 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.040 I didn't play well enough to stay on the team. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.960 So what Jalen did is really that's an anomaly. So 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:48.520 we did our show and afterwards the players were talking. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.319 Layton vander Esh spoke to the media and Layton was 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:56.000 pretty chapped because he saw how many Cowboy fans were 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:01.240 reveling in Jalen being released, and he just thought it 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.960 was wrong and had some had some tough words. If 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.440 you had checked it out and just go to Twitter 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.200 h or Dallas Cowboys dot com and look at what 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:14.120 he had to say. He was pretty upset. And I 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.880 thought that said a lot about Jalen Smith. Here's the 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.560 guy you're in competition with, because we've seen what the 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.480 impact of Michael Parsons and Keane O'Neill, so Laton Vanderesh 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.240 and Jalen Swithard basically out there fighting for those those 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:34.280 those snaps, and he got a teammates back who he 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.360 didn't have to anymore because he was gone. He didn't 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.680 like what was being said, and that also echoed what 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.560 you and Barry had to say. Hey, this is a 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.199 tough day. Nobody's nobody's joyous in the locker room when 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.959 something like this happens. And that was very interesting because 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.040 you guys said it. Then an hour a half later, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.439 here's Laton Vanderesh basically echoing just what you guys. He 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.439 would Barry Church said, Yeah, it's a tough day. You're 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.880 like usually, you know, you go through training camp and 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.040 then you get to cut down day, which is probably 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.280 the toughest day because it's not one guy, it's about 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.840 twenty guys, right, who've seen their last days of being 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.520 able to play football. These guys have been playing football 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.840 probably since third grade. And then you get up to 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.040 being twenty one or however old you are, and then 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.480 you see your last day of playing that game gone 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.000 all right. And then now you get Jalen who's been here, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.040 he's been the leader in the locker room. Him and 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.440 Layton are really good friends. They were two of the 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.600 top linebackers a few years ago, looking to increase their 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.680 production and probably be the top linebacking corps in the league. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.160 And then he sees his guy get released. It's tough 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.720 on him emotionally because that's his friend. And you have 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.400 to realize that now that Jalen's and greens Bay Green Bay, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.040 they're not going to see each other as much as 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.080 they as much as they had the workouts, they're not 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.840 gonna be able to do together, the phone calls, all 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.760 that stuff. Whatever they went to a bar together, all 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.760 that stuff is gone. So it's emotional for Jalen, but 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.600 it's also emotional for the connections and the friendships that 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.480 he made while he was here. 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If I got to make 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.760 another order, I make it, but you better get them quick. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.840 Marketing people take three times, do it three times a 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.840 day because you never know when people are gonna catch 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.680 it that check it out, so h excellent producer. Here 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.400 on the player's Lounge, Chris Bean has that Layton Banderash 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:01.200 SoundBite about Jalen Smith being released. Here's Layton Bandaresh yesterday 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.720 at the Star. What bugs me most about it is 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.480 when people that are on the outside fans whatever it 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.400 may be, they want to say, oh, like someone deserves 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.080 this or someone deserves that everything. They don't realize that 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.680 this is literally like our livelihoods. We literally could get 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.680 up in traded the next morning, like the next day, 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.640 we could be in fifty different freaking states. So people 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.240 need to realize that. People need to realize that what 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.879 they're saying is literally just like nonsense. And I think 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:29.600 that's a big problem in the world today. And then 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.960 you'd cut that out because I mean, we're literally talking 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.239 about like we don't go talking about someone else's job, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.760 so why are they talking about our jobs. It's super frustrating, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:43.720 it's annoying. I think it's classless. I got a lot 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.959 of strong words for it, because I know a lot 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:47.240 of guys are on the league deal with it. We 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.239 got families. We might be in one area. You got 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.160 dudes that have been playing for a team for eight years, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.399 they get traded. They got family, they got kids that 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.200 have been there for that long. Think about that before 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.280 you say something like, oh, this guy deserves this, but 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:03.520 this guy deserves that. We don't go saying oh, we 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:05.240 aren't in your business, like how much you guys are 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.960 getting paid, or or what's your boss saying, or this 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.639 and that and about anybody else's jobs. We aren't doing that. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.760 This is our livelia, this is our job. We get 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:20.719 traded tomorrow, we get caught tomorrow. Yeah. So people need 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.280 to realize what they're saying on social media because I 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.960 think it's ridiculous. So that's late Vanderest talking about James 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.280 Smith being cut in certain fans reveling in the fact 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.280 that he's gone. I love the passion. We asked the question, 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.199 he gave the answer. I got a couple thoughts on 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:36.680 about I want to start with you first, any McRae, 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:41.040 would you think listen. I can't understand the frustration I 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.439 remember back in I want to say, I think it 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.360 was twenty eleven. I became the starter because because some injuries, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.360 had a few bad plays or whatever, and I will 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:53.480 be one of those guys that go look on Twitter 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.120 after to see what people were saying. And I learned 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.280 quickly to stay my ass off of that because one 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.280 who cares about them people? Right, some of them got 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.240 two followers. None of them know you personally, and none 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.800 of them really care about you as a person. Right. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.119 They don't care. They just talking. They can't do what 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.119 you do, so it doesn't really matter. So I learned 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.840 it early, and I really think it's unfortunate when people 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.000 haven't been able to get that lesson of Like some 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.400 people don't know James Smith, they have no idea who 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:28.280 you are. They don't care about you, really, they just 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.000 want something to talk about. They just want to get 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.040 on social media and have some type of release. In 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:38.000 their opinion, really doesn't matter. So I can understand it 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.280 being mad, But I mean, if it's not your friends 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.440 or your family or somebody close to y'all this over 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.959 there saying something crazy like that, then I really wouldn't 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:51.080 put too much angst into it. I'll push back on 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:54.920 what Layton said in terms of say, hey, we don't 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.520 talk about your job. This is what you signed up for. 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:02.280 You play professional football. It's the most popular sport in America. 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.000 People are gonna say things, Okay, this this comes with 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:06.800 the meal. As Jason Garrett used to say, this comes 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:13.240 with it, and you have to understand and know what 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:17.679 to take in and what to throw out of your ears. 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.320 You have to do it that. That just comes with it, 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.199 and it's never fun going through that process. Just like 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.119 you said, going through the process of understanding and learning. Okay, 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.600 these things are going to be said. These people know, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.800 these people don't know. You have to You just gotta 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.600 take it, man. And then you also have to tell 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:40.240 your family, Hey, a couple of things. One, don't tell me. 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.360 It's the first thing. Don't don't. Don't feed this to me. 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:48.000 Don't feed it to me. And also the families have 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:51.879 to understand. So many people think they know, but they 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.360 don't know. And even me, I don't know. I think 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:56.840 I know sometimes listen to people, but I truly don't know. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.080 Guys in the room, No worry about the guys in 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.560 the room. Worried about the she's in the room. And 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.159 you just have to just know that at the end 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:09.040 of the day. And it's hard when you it's hard 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.359 when you see thousands and thousands of people saying something crazy. 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.159 I'm not saying it's easy, all right. The process was. 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:19.119 It was a very very hard thing to learn. My 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:21.199 wife had to learn it as well, because she's one 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:23.120 of the people who wants to go on and respond 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.640 to all of them, and it's it's hard to do. Man. 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:28.760 So I'm not believe me. I'm not saying that it's easy. 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:30.640 He should have been able to do that. Now. It's 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.520 just I get it too, man, I get it too. 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.280 I get lit up on social media. I mean, I 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:40.600 get it. It's never fun. But along the way you're 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:45.320 you do have to. I can't remember who said this. 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:46.919 I wish I could give them the proper credit. It's 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:48.919 not what they call you, it's what you respond to. 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.919 Danny sucked, Okay, Am I gonna respond to it because 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:54.639 there's a whole bunch of people who are gonna get 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:57.000 after you. I used to come in after games. Is 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:01.159 see does Bryant Cole Beasley on their self phones after games? 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:04.960 Jason we needs to hate that? And man, Cole would 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:08.080 respond and then Cole's wife would responded, Das would respond, 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:14.040 and you will eat yourself alive if you're going to 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:17.040 try and think that your validation is coming from people 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:19.280 on social media. And the thing is you you like, 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:21.840 you got on there really to see what they're saying 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:25.920 to defend yourself, right, because as you learn then you say, 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:29.239 all right, listen, my friend Jaylen got cut yesterday. All right, 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:31.840 I'm probably not gonna get on social media and click 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.160 on anything that says Jaylen Smith for the next week, 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:36.600 because what we know about the world is that'll be 0:24:36.640 --> 0:24:38.880 moved that. Like, everybody's gonna move on from that two 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:40.679 or three days from now. You won't even see it 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:44.840 Dayles Smith got picked up yesterday whenever it was to 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:46.760 go to Green Bay, and you probably won't even read 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.040 anything about Jaylen Smith being a Dallas cowboy again until 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:53.800 who knows, right, So this is yourself from it for 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:56.159 a while. But you know, he got on there to 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:58.720 see what people were saying about Jay. Somebody was like, man, 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:00.680 you see what they're doing to your boy, ja whatever, 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:01.800 And then you get on there to see it and 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:04.560 it's like, don't do it? Who? Who is they? Who 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:08.679 is they? And why? Why does their opinion matter? I 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:11.119 would say it again, it ain't easy because I'm a 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:13.520 surviving I'm still on Twitter, like I wonder what they saying. 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.760 I look like, you know, it's not easy to do. 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:17.800 But if you're not able to process it and be like, 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:20.320 they really don't matter, I'm just looking at this for entertainment, 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:24.520 then you should probably step away from Terence Newman had 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:28.480 a really good perspective on it because towards his end 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:30.280 with the Cowboys, he was dealing with some issues and 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.320 he can tell people, and he was getting he was 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:34.840 he was getting cooked out there a little bit. And 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:38.199 I asked him one day we were we weren't. I 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:39.719 don't know where I ran into a map, but it 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:41.680 wasn't in the facility. It wasn't back at Valley Ranch. 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:46.439 And I said, you hurt? Yeah, And he told me 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.359 always going through and said, why don't you say something? 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:52.080 So No, not gonna use it. Don't wanted to be 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.760 an excuse guys in the room. No, I said, but 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:57.760 if I don't know one of my left all I 0:25:57.800 --> 0:25:59.679 can go by is what I see. You lost it 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:03.000 going on here? And he just didn't want to use that. 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.679 And I talked to DeMarcus ware towards his time here, 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:07.399 he was dealing with injuries, and he also said the 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:08.920 same thing. He didn't want to say anything. He didn't 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:12.159 want to use excuses. Guys in the room. No, but 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:15.520 they built like that though, right, it's their pride, but 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.520 it's something that made them who they are. Right, I'm 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:22.400 not gonna make any excuse for anything. What I took 0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:24.199 the chance to go out there, I put it on 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:26.480 the line, and whatever the result is in my play, 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:28.879 I gotta deal with that. And that's you know, so 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:31.600 they won't tell you because it's like I made a 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:34.119 decision to go out there and I knew that I 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:36.800 wasn't one hundred percent, but I was okay with the 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:39.080 fact that I felt like I can still beat whoever 0:26:39.520 --> 0:26:41.679 even if I wasn't one hundred percent, and if I can't, 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:43.720 then that's something I got to do with. And then 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:46.399 they decided that they would take the criticisms and not 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:48.320 fight back and they went from there. Which what's that. 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:50.600 That's that kind of maturity process. You start to understand 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:51.920 this is what you go this is what you're gonna 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:53.960 go through, and this is kind of what you signed 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:56.639 up for. And so late in Banderesh. I love the passion. 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:58.399 We asked the question, and I'm not criticizing him for 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:01.639 the answer, but this is a part of it, and 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:03.320 that you're going to have a whole lot of people 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:05.320 who've got opinions on it, and in its own way, 0:27:05.359 --> 0:27:08.840 it's what makes it so popular. It's what also drives 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:11.040 social media. There's more people that want to get on there. 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:13.280 They're gonna say something negative, They're gonna say something positive. 0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:15.439 As soon as they saw the hashtag Jaylen Smith. You know, 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:17.960 first of all, it probably had a thousand tweets, and 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:19.800 then as soon as they saw it was trending, people 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:22.320 just got on there and just start piling off just because, 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:24.480 like you said, they are looking for something to do 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:30.000 and ultimately for Jayalen Smith. Despite people who were reveling 0:27:30.000 --> 0:27:34.480 in it and thought that guy shouldn't be here, he 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:37.800 had a fan who's the head coach of the Green 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:40.480 Bay Packers, who went to the general manager, Brian Gooda 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:43.600 Komes and said, bring him in. Guess what, Jalen's in 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:48.240 a good position. Now forget that Jaylen got paid, Yeah, okay, whatever, 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.520 He's going to play football again. His goal in life 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:53.439 when he was trying to get to the NFL was 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:57.159 to change his life, in his family's life. Jaylen accomplished 0:27:57.160 --> 0:27:59.639 that goal, right, So on top of you, now he 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:02.400 gets just played because he wants to play, right, because 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:04.240 like a lot of us grew up with that with 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:06.520 that thing, right, it's that thing on our shoulders, that 0:28:06.560 --> 0:28:08.639 thing on that mind that says, hey, man, I have 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:11.600 to make it for my family. Right, he made it 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:14.200 for his family. Now he gets to play for himself, 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:16.919 which is probably one of the most liberating feelings in 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:20.119 the world. So, like I said, nothing but positives for him. 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:22.119 Shout out to him. I'm glad that somebody like like 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:24.919 Lating is on his side, so he does feel that 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:27.840 emotion when somebody's attacking this boy. I just don't want 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:33.199 him to take it too personal. Yeah, I still contended, man, 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.159 I thought Jale was gonna be here, but they've moved on. 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:36.920 They were gonna have some roster spots that they've got 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:39.719 to feel here. I'm happy Jalen is going to be 0:28:40.000 --> 0:28:42.280 in a position to make the playoffs, get that extra 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:44.840 check in the playoffs, and maybe even end up playing 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:46.520 in the Super Bowl in Los Angeles. So is he 0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:51.760 swiping in green Bay. You know, like, look all positive, 0:28:51.800 --> 0:28:54.320 but it's still the players nouns. Is he swiping in 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:58.560 Green Bay? Let me tell you something. First play that 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:03.240 he makes, he may hurt his arm because it's going 0:29:03.240 --> 0:29:06.640 to be an emotional It's going to be an emotional 0:29:07.760 --> 0:29:11.000 like that. I guess what. I'm still living. You didn't 0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:13.520 kill me. I'm still standing. Of course he's going to. 0:29:13.640 --> 0:29:16.800 He's going to How could you not? On one more? 0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:19.240 How could you not? Is he wearing number nine? I 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:21.240 don't know who wears a baby? I don't know. Okay, 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:23.280 I don't know. I don't know who who There is 0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:25.440 no nine on the acts of roster right now in 0:29:25.480 --> 0:29:28.520 Green Bay. There is a nine on the squad. Practice 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:31.040 squad got to get it. Practice squad had to get 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:33.600 that nine up. If you're on the actor, you probably 0:29:33.680 --> 0:29:38.800 much get it. So I am wishing him well and 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:40.960 I will say this one more time on the players lounge. 0:29:41.200 --> 0:29:44.160 Let's not forget all the positive things in the community 0:29:44.200 --> 0:29:47.200 that Jalen Smith was doing and trying to empower other people. 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:51.840 I do not want that forgotten. Um. That needs to 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:55.600 be said again because so many times we're the first 0:29:55.640 --> 0:29:59.280 to jump on a player who does something wrong. Let's 0:29:59.280 --> 0:30:02.600 remember the play players who did something good. He did 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:04.960 try to come into the community and leave it better 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:06.960 than he found it and used the little bit of 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:09.800 celebrity that he had to make it better. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:13.719 shout out to him last year's Dallas Cowboys Walter Payton 0:30:13.880 --> 0:30:17.520 Man of the Year nominee. So so Jaylen Smith, good 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:20.320 luck to you all right. I was wanting to get 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:24.840 to Trade Diggs here. Trey Diggs is really playing at 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:27.719 a high level. Where do we start to take this 0:30:27.920 --> 0:30:32.520 in terms of going forward? Because he got another honor here? 0:30:32.640 --> 0:30:35.120 How do we start to look at trade Diggs after 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:38.040 a very small sample size to see a lot of 0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:39.840 football games to go. Let's dive into that next. He 0:30:39.880 --> 0:30:42.080 is Danny mcrahm scruggs. 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They used 0:33:54.880 --> 0:33:57.320 to have events in there before. Yeah, when j G 0:33:57.440 --> 0:34:00.840 was s here. I don't know about McCarthy now, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:02.280 I mean that was when when Jerry had talked about 0:34:02.320 --> 0:34:03.640 like he wanted to get a lot of return on 0:34:03.680 --> 0:34:06.280 his investment. I talked to myself, now, how cool is that? 0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:08.600 All right? We got a company retreat everybody's got to go. 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:10.520 It's at the Stars, gonna be the Didaskyboys team meeting 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:14.600 room with that big old screen. It's if you've never 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:16.400 been in there, it's really impressive. Well, first you got 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:17.839 to walk through the building, so you get to walk 0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:19.600 through the training table. You know, you have to see 0:34:19.600 --> 0:34:21.279 the locker room, in the weight room as you as 0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:23.520 you go went in hallway. You get to see pretty 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:27.239 much the entire thing from the player's perspective. And then 0:34:27.239 --> 0:34:29.000 you get to have a meeting in the in the 0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:31.120 team meeting room. It's pretty sweet, man, that's pretty sweet, gig. 0:34:31.120 --> 0:34:32.319 But I did not know that you could book the 0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:34.239 dollas Cokyboys Cheerley. He's learn something new every day. That's 0:34:34.280 --> 0:34:36.200 why we do The Players Lounge brought you by Hotels 0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:39.439 dot Com. Trade ex NFC Defensive Player of the Week, 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:43.520 NFC Defensive Player of the Month, five picks, one touchdown. 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:46.400 It's a three and one football team right now with 0:34:46.480 --> 0:34:49.239 the Giants coming in here. And Daniel Jones is known 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:54.640 to uh throw some picks. Lately he has been you know, 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:56.880 he's been protecting the ball. So what was said it? 0:34:57.000 --> 0:35:00.520 But he's oh yeah, he's oh Eli, what we know 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.200 about Eli when he when we played, we knew that 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:05.480 he was coming. I got me a pick on Eli, 0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:07.960 and probably I dropped one too, So I mean Eli 0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:11.879 was coming to those the inoception, You'll sling it right 0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:20.000 to you, he will sing somebody. So, Danny, you understand 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:23.840 the marathon of the National Football League and the fact 0:35:23.880 --> 0:35:27.719 that now this is on tape. Jason Garrett is sitting 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:29.600 here with Daniel Jones and they're going over the offense. 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:31.759 You know, they're looking at Trey Diggs and some things 0:35:31.760 --> 0:35:34.560 that they see, um, some things that can we take 0:35:34.560 --> 0:35:36.600 advantage of from here? Is this where we want to 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:40.360 stay away. What happens when you start to play well 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:44.840 and other teams are dissecting what you're doing. Listen, it 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:46.880 can go one of two ways. It can be really 0:35:46.920 --> 0:35:50.520 good or it can be really bad. Because if it's 0:35:50.520 --> 0:35:53.680 really good for you, you'll start seeing quarterbacks go away 0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:55.560 from you, right, You get no action on your side, 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:57.840 you get the Jalen Ramsey treatment. Right, So you're just 0:35:57.920 --> 0:36:01.680 over there. And sometimes that's helpful because now you know 0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:03.920 that the quarterback's not coming to your side, so you 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:05.960 can come off your man sometimes kind of like Tray 0:36:06.120 --> 0:36:09.840 Undigs did last game and seek underneath an overall or 0:36:09.880 --> 0:36:13.200 sink underneath whatever, because you're you're you're playing like ed 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:15.239 read is what Rob Ryan used to call it. You 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:18.200 just ed reading. You're just founding the ball. Now when 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:20.759 they dissect you, and if you watch some of Tray 0:36:20.920 --> 0:36:23.920 Undiggs interceptions, you see him playing flat footed on some 0:36:23.960 --> 0:36:27.400 of those routes, not backpedaling, just waiting for the receiver 0:36:27.480 --> 0:36:30.080 to run like a five yard hitch and then he 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:32.560 just breaks on it. Now, if they see him doing 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:35.560 that consistently and and they say, you know this guy 0:36:35.640 --> 0:36:38.720 is susceptible to double moves, then you're gonna start seeing 0:36:38.760 --> 0:36:42.200 stuff to counter what you've been doing to get those interceptions. Right, 0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:45.880 so they see you jump a slant, next time, you 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:48.040 might get a slant goal, and you better be ready 0:36:48.080 --> 0:36:50.560 to play it because if you don't, now you're in 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:52.680 trouble because now they're in your head. Now you're not 0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:54.920 gonna Now you're gonna be hesitant on breaking on the slant, 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:57.160 and you might get beat on the goal as well. 0:36:57.200 --> 0:36:59.120 So now you all over the place. So as they 0:36:59.160 --> 0:37:02.920 start dissect in his game hopefully is well rounded and 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.400 he could play the deep ball and also continue to 0:37:05.400 --> 0:37:08.040 make those plays on those on those short routes. And 0:37:08.080 --> 0:37:09.759 I'm bringing to something. I'm not trying to throw a 0:37:09.800 --> 0:37:13.480 wet blanket at all on Travillon Dixon traiser talk on 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.160 having a good football season so far, But that's just 0:37:17.280 --> 0:37:20.960 kind of that thing I immediately go to is and 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:24.000 I'm just the NFL. It's in every professional sport. They 0:37:24.000 --> 0:37:25.960 start getting this tape and they just try to figure out, Okay, 0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:28.360 how do we deal with that player who's playing at 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:31.160 a different level. And if you don't, you're dumb. Okay, Okay, 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:34.200 If Jason Garrett Daniel Jones are not sitting there watching 0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:36.560 tape on Trade Dix, they're they're doing it all wrong. 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:39.080 They better be watching the table with our Harris. They 0:37:39.160 --> 0:37:43.120 better be finding out what he's being taught. Because I'm 0:37:43.160 --> 0:37:44.880 going to continue to say it. I think the coaching 0:37:44.960 --> 0:37:47.640 staff that they have that has gotten their hands on 0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:51.120 these players and help them become better players, I think 0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:53.120 that they are going to have them prepared for what 0:37:53.120 --> 0:37:57.480 we're talking about now. They know that that other teams 0:37:57.480 --> 0:38:01.640 are watching what there are being successful as breaking up 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:05.400 those short route passes, getting their head around covering some 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:07.960 of those back shoulder phase or some of those deep balls, 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:10.120 and they're trying to find out how they can take 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:13.400 advantage of their aggressive play right. And I think they 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:16.680 have some coaches who have some experience with that same stuff. 0:38:16.680 --> 0:38:19.000 So I think they're gonna be prepared for whatever comes 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:21.319 at them next. I just hope that they're ready to 0:38:21.360 --> 0:38:25.240 maximize that that opportunity. So he brought up Al Harris, 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:29.080 Joe Joe, Joe, Vitte, Joett. These guys are coaching the 0:38:29.120 --> 0:38:35.200 Dallas Cowboys defensive backs, and it's been years since we've 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:37.600 seen not only this type of production, but this type 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:39.480 of confidence back there. This has been you know, oh 0:38:39.520 --> 0:38:41.839 my gosh. I mean last year was bombs away. So 0:38:41.880 --> 0:38:44.480 to see the improvement that's gone on there has been fantastic. 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:47.680 And for Diggs, who we saw some we saw things 0:38:47.719 --> 0:38:50.440 we liked last year in a bad defense, there were 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:52.959 things that you liked. He had a really good camp. 0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:56.000 You saw him doing it at camp against Ceedee Lamb. 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:58.000 You saw him doing it against Cooper. You saw him fighting. 0:38:58.000 --> 0:39:00.680 You saw Dak and Diggs going back at each other, 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:04.120 and people talk about one in competition all the time. 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:05.960 It's where I gotta get Mike Mike McCarthy credit. He's 0:39:05.960 --> 0:39:09.200 talked about competition. Wow, what that has done for this 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:12.879 young man four games into this football season with five interceptions, 0:39:13.040 --> 0:39:15.320 It's been very impressive. And I'll be very anxious to 0:39:15.320 --> 0:39:17.719 see exactly what happens here against the Giants and then 0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:20.239 the next week against the New England Patriots against a 0:39:20.320 --> 0:39:24.040 rookie quarterback in mac Jones. Is it fair to say 0:39:24.080 --> 0:39:27.440 that the most confident group on the defense, out of linebackers, 0:39:28.400 --> 0:39:31.319 defensive line in DBS, that the most confident group, the 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:36.000 group that's playing with the most confidence is the secondary. Yes. 0:39:36.080 --> 0:39:40.360 And I'll go further with you on this. Sparky Anderson's 0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:42.320 a former baseball manager, and he said, give me twenty 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:44.480 five guys on one year deals. Oh, win the World 0:39:44.480 --> 0:39:47.360 Series every year. Got a lot of guys who got 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:52.520 to eat on the provens on improvens. So within the room, 0:39:52.840 --> 0:39:54.919 you're trying to compete because one you're a football playing 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:58.040 you're competitive, But two you're trying to get that next jack. 0:39:58.480 --> 0:40:00.480 If you don't perform well, you need next check. And 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:03.080 there's been so many, so much competition in there. You 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:04.960 can't get the check if you're not on the field 0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:07.560 performing well, and there's another guy up. So you're seeing 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:09.879 Kazy get it done, You're seeing Hooker get it done, 0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:12.600 You're seeing Curse get it done. They're playing good football 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:16.759 here and I think dan Quinn, just as you talked 0:40:16.760 --> 0:40:19.719 about earlier, has brought in a whole lot of enthusiasm. 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.359 But yeah, man, you get guys who are playing for money, 0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:24.200 and you got Donovin Wilson, who sees, all right, they're 0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:26.640 bringing other people here. I want I want to keep 0:40:26.680 --> 0:40:28.719 my role, I want to keep my check. So it's 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:30.600 a good mix they've got going on. We keep hearing 0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:35.040 about the team chemistry, but there's definitely something there with 0:40:35.080 --> 0:40:38.920 these guys. But I do believe that improved deals, man, 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:43.320 when it's when you got to sing for your supper, confident, 0:40:43.480 --> 0:40:45.960 they confident in the ability to prove it too. And 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:47.960 I'll tell you what a lot of those guys on 0:40:48.000 --> 0:40:51.520 those proven deals are making some money for next year. Now, 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:56.040 let's also go into this. Take Hazy and Hooker. If 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:59.399 you look at them in their histories when healthy, this 0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:02.200 is what they do. They make plays. The issue has 0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:06.480 been health. So right now the Cowboys are on a 0:41:06.480 --> 0:41:08.480 good role with these guys that they're healthy and they're 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:10.399 able to help contribute and play. But in the case 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:12.239 he talked about that when he was a training camp. 0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:15.200 When I'm healthy, look at the numbers. Hooker basically said 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:18.840 the same thing. Yeah, I know I've had some issues, 0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:20.920 but look at the production. When I'm there, it's just 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:23.080 a matter of being there. I remember Bob Sanders when 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:25.600 he was with the Man, the safety out of Iowa, 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:28.359 former defensive player of the year. When Bob played, it's 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:32.600 really good he was. He was hurt often to him, 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:37.440 he played really hard. For his size, the type of 0:41:37.480 --> 0:41:40.480 stuff that he was doing. He wasn't gonna be able 0:41:40.520 --> 0:41:43.480 to last doing that. But but but he was, like 0:41:43.520 --> 0:41:45.480 you said, when he's healthy, he was a top safety 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:47.160 in the league. Sean Lee the same thing with Sean Lee. 0:41:47.280 --> 0:41:48.880 When he was healthy out here playing, he was a 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:51.480 difference maker on the football field. There's no everyone knows that. 0:41:51.600 --> 0:41:54.440 So but that's that hard, tricky part. But right now 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:58.319 you got guys in the defensive backfield getting it done. 0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:01.200 So I'm happy for I'm happy for those guys. Cowboys 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.680 three and one getting ready to face the Giants on Sunday. 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:07.960 Giants touchdown underdog in this one. Church isn't here all right, 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:10.680 I'm out tomorrow. So Barry wanted to send in his 0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:13.840 pick for the game. He's got thirty five seventeen Cowboys 0:42:13.840 --> 0:42:17.480 winning at Jerry one. He's trying to take the page 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:20.120 out of my book. Man. I've been saying this all week, 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.200 all right. I think that this is going to be 0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:26.719 one of the closer games, just because of the familiar 0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:30.520 for me a little bit, Jason Garrett knowing comment about it. 0:42:31.640 --> 0:42:36.480 I'm gonna get it familiarity. But Jason Garrett knowing us right, 0:42:36.840 --> 0:42:38.960 Usually when he comes back here, he has something to prove, 0:42:39.360 --> 0:42:41.600 and he's gonna come in. He's gonna be in his 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:44.160 bag with his play calls with Daniel Jones. And I 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:46.960 said it earlier. Also, Daniel Jones has actually been protecting 0:42:47.000 --> 0:42:49.239 the ball much better than he has been doing in 0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:51.799 the past. All Right, they're coming off of win. This 0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:55.040 team is trying to get some momentum, and we're coming 0:42:55.080 --> 0:42:58.279 off of this this win streak of three games and 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:00.200 we're trying to hold on to it. Right, So I 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:01.919 think this is gonna be that game where it's gonna 0:43:01.960 --> 0:43:04.000 be like that tug of war. So I'm seeing us 0:43:04.040 --> 0:43:07.719 win a close game of thirty one, twenty eight. I 0:43:07.840 --> 0:43:11.040 see my guy Greg the lad coming in and making 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:13.319 one of those kicks to send us over the top, 0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:15.759 with Dak Prescott leading us down the field at the 0:43:15.840 --> 0:43:17.880 end of the game like Tom Brady did against us 0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:22.480 in week one. Okay, so you have the Giants covering, 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:27.480 give me the Cowboys to win. Twenty nine twenty one. 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:33.760 I think that the Giants in their last three games 0:43:33.760 --> 0:43:39.279 have played well. They had Washington beat first round pick. 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:43.640 The ref said jumped offside, so the missfield goal didn't count. 0:43:44.560 --> 0:43:47.880 Dustin Hopkins lines up again, kicks it through. Washington wins. 0:43:48.040 --> 0:43:51.840 They're in Atlanta fourteen fourteen game, Matt Ryan gets down field, 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:55.440 Young Way Coop kicks and field goal at the end. 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:58.279 They win. And then last week they go to New 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:01.720 Orleans and they get themselves a victory in overtime. Who's healthy. 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:04.680 Se Quon Barklay is healthy. That's that's the key. But 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:08.160 I go back into what when we dived into the numbers. 0:44:08.840 --> 0:44:13.560 New Orleans statistically much better than the Giants in the game. 0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:16.200 But you talked about the big plays. You gave up 0:44:16.239 --> 0:44:18.759 big plays and you got beat that way. And the 0:44:18.760 --> 0:44:20.880 Cowboys have at times given up some big plays too. Oh, 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:23.640 and to run in the past. Now now you know, 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:28.040 so we're twenty six, you're right, twenty six. So that's 0:44:28.040 --> 0:44:29.640 an issue, which is why I've got a twenty nine 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:33.840 twenty one game. And I'm with you. This is this 0:44:34.040 --> 0:44:37.839 is where to me, fans sometimes just don't get it. 0:44:38.360 --> 0:44:40.920 And it's not just in professional football. You going to college, 0:44:41.520 --> 0:44:44.719 when you face a common opponent and you know them, 0:44:44.840 --> 0:44:48.319 it's not a whole lot of you're not You're not 0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:49.959 You're not able to hide a whole lot of stuff. 0:44:49.960 --> 0:44:53.120 There no secrets. That's that's probably there's no secrets. The 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:54.640 giants know what you want to do. You know what 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:57.520 the giants are gonna do. These games are hard. Division 0:44:57.719 --> 0:45:00.839 games are tough, and don't forget Conference games are tough. 0:45:00.920 --> 0:45:04.040 Don't forget. We have been over the last few weeks 0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:07.879 fall to the sleep in the second half and letting 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:09.759 these teams get back in the game when we should 0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:12.040 be putting our foot on their throat and closing them out. 0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:15.120 All right, And until we get that fixed, we're going 0:45:15.160 --> 0:45:17.200 to continue to be in those games that are close 0:45:17.280 --> 0:45:18.960 at the end when we should have been blowing these 0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:20.560 teams out. And I think this would be another one 0:45:20.560 --> 0:45:22.839 of those weeks where where that happens and then we 0:45:22.840 --> 0:45:24.960 have to put our footback on the gas to get 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:28.200 to win. I expected to be a competitive football game, 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:29.719 like you do. But I think the Cowboys at the 0:45:29.840 --> 0:45:32.480 end end up pulling away and getting it done twenty 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:34.040 nine twenty one. I just think they're gonna have a 0:45:34.080 --> 0:45:36.200 little too much firepower. But I do believe it's gonna 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:38.400 be a competitive football a game because Joe Judge's teams 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:40.520 do that. People are looking at the records, but I 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:42.840 was saying, Scott contact, looking at what the Giants have 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.160 done outside of Denver, which they did not play the 0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:48.160 first game well, and sae Quon Barkley was on a 0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:51.359 pitch count. You're now seeing sae Quon get into the groove. 0:45:51.440 --> 0:45:55.320 They're using it more, they're gaining confidence. If you don't, 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:58.200 if you've never been to the Superdome, you don't understand 0:45:58.200 --> 0:46:01.480 how impressive a win that was. First game backs, it's 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:04.560 the hurricane, that building is jumping, it's a great cat crowd. 0:46:04.640 --> 0:46:07.719 That's a tough place to play. They got the win. 0:46:08.200 --> 0:46:09.960 To me, you gotta be on point this week and 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:12.839 understand it's gonna be another battle, Joe. Judges' teams don't 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:16.120 always win them, but they fight you. They will fight you, 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:20.200 all right, Danny, good stuff man. I'm back on Monday. Okay, 0:46:20.239 --> 0:46:23.759 I'm back on Monday. Church is back on Monday as well. 0:46:23.920 --> 0:46:27.759 Long Vay cases Man, goodness, grace. Hopefully, hopefully Church gets 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:30.160 a little bit of Dolphin this time. 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