WEBVTT - Players Lounge: Can’t Live it Down 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:09.959 Cowboys. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:17.000 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.480 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.480 HECMA Harrison, and Newie Scrugs. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.320 Play Lounge, come on in. Here's that time. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.240 Humh Derry hechmc Harrison is here for my Cowboys safety. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:45.720 Barry Church is here. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:53.600 Where he's mavericks hacked. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Are you 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.000 excited about that NBA Cup? 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:55.720 No? 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.160 I don't, you know, not get what they're going with it. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.080 You know, I get it, But I haven't been an 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.080 NBA guy until the you know, the latter part of 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.720 the season, till the playoffs start. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.440 That's when I start tuning in. That's how you do 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:08.240 baseball too. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.399 World Series. I might flick out. World Series is on, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:12.840 there we go. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.800 Of course, the same thing with college basketball. You know 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.919 it's starting until marsh Madness comes around. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.880 You know. So that's just bandwaggony. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.760 That's what I do, bandwaggony outside of football football, you know, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:27.240 that's that. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.360 That's what I love. Man, all levels with that. You 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.520 are like most Americans man, most Americans. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.600 But now I'm gonna check a game out like in person. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.679 I'll go, you know, regular season, go check one out. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.920 But I'm not sitting there just checking it out. Less 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:44.840 It's TNT with Charles and the crew. I'm watching the 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.520 pre game. I might not even watch the game. I 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.040 might just watch the pregame and then post game just 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.000 to be entertained. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.400 Entertainment right there. That is that long level entertaining right there, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.680 top level. It is good stuff, man, it's good stuff. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:57.320 All right. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.080 Lots of ways we can go here with the show. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.960 But I thought Dak Prescott had a pretty interesting comment. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.320 Jory Epstein or you should be Dallas Morning News and 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.960 the Yahoo Sports. So Jory's about with Dak Prescott. Dak 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.920 Prescott came out in favor of Mike McCarthy being back 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:17.080 as the head coach. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.920 Fresh Batch delivered, how do we see it? 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:23.760 Man? 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.560 Man, Well, obviously, Prescott's you know, input on this is 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.160 gonna be huge, you know, easier quarterback for the foreseeable future. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.040 So his input or input on who's going to coach 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.200 his team, and you gotta take it, you know, you 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:43.720 gotta take that input from him. But to me, it's tough, man, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.160 because just a couple of weeks ago, you know, before 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.720 this mini win streak was going on, you had players 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.400 talking about the head coach, talking about the work he 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.480 puts in. Yeah, your head defensive player, maybe the best 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.400 player on your team, was talking about the work ethic 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.200 of a one Mike McCarthy. Then you go on the 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.720 offensive side of the football, your best player so far 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.200 the season on the offensive side of the football, a 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.360 least the skilled position wise, City Lamb talking about your 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.720 creativity and how does you know this offense seeming stagnant. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.160 So you had two of your best players out there 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.280 talking about the head coach, and then you go on 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.720 a mini win streak and then everything is all good again, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.840 and you know, we want the guy back. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.720 And I understand, you know, Dak got love for the. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.480 Head coach and if he wants them to stay, that's 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.000 a big that's a big time endorsement. But I don't know, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.880 as soon as you're losing another game, is somebody else 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.200 gonna come out and say something about Mike. Yeah, and 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.600 then and then we back to square one. So that's 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.760 a huge endorsement from your from your quarterbacks. He's the 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.320 leader of this team, and he's gonna be there for 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.080 the foreseeable future. But I think you gotta, you know, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.640 put all things into account before you go ahead and 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.000 sign Big Mike back. 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.080 No y'all want to hear what you got to say? 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.440 Yeah, spot, I think that Dak Prescott has always been 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.200 a very good person at playing the playing the game 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.880 from a political standpoint, and so whatever you say, it's 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.920 used against you, right, which said can he use against you? 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.520 So you come out, first off, Mike helped you get 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.119 a sixty million dollar year contry. He did not come 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.280 out and say something positive about the man. He did 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.480 do that, Okay, So so you owe him that a 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.160 little bit of gratitude. But if you have any questions 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.120 about hey man, maybe he's change to do that, that's 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.200 not something you take public because he's got the back 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.359 line of Jerry. So to me, you've got to do 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.679 what he did. I'm not saying I would believe him, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.520 but that's what you're supposed to do as the leader 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.640 of the team. You don't need to be creating anyways. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.120 Whatever Jerry does. You know, Jerry gonna call you anyway. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.159 Jerry's not going to Jerry's not going to hire anybody 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.560 who does not believe in number four getting at a job, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.599 you simply cannot have a job. So what I heard 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.080 him say yesterday was what I expected Dak Prescott to say. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.760 I like Mike McCarthy, I want Mike McCarthy back. That's 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.520 what I expect him to say. I'm not saying I 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.640 don't believe him, but that who is, That is who 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.760 he is. Dak is not a guy like Aaron Rodger's 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.080 gonna sit up and say some that's not him. He's 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.479 not about to rock the boat. It's not your boy. 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.800 Justin Fields last year was calling out the Bears coaches. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.240 Not that kind of guy. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.839 So when I heard him, like, that's on brand for 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:16.239 Dak Prescott and whatever Dak has to say, that's anything 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.919 other than just the right thing is, He's going to 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.080 go ahead and take it to Jerry. Look, Troy Aikman 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.719 did not like Chang Gayla. But you didn't hear troyan 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.760 shooting a blasting Chan Gailey out front. He never said it. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.640 He said it behind the scenes. All players have certain issues. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.040 And by the way, what you said about Michael Parsons, Mike, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.520 he tried to clean it up and he said, Man, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.520 I didn't speak properly about Mike McCarthy. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.000 But he's just emotional. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.720 But he said, I was emotional, But I but I 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.640 do take Mike at his word as he had time 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.400 to sit about his broadcast and then when he's talking 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.320 to the media guys and there, I didn't meet it 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.040 in that fast because I'm a player's guy, because I 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.240 believe in the players, and it's about the players and 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.320 not coach players. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:57.440 I'm talking about the players. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.680 Could he have said, you know, it's above my pay grade, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.040 that's not mine. I don't know that he could have 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.240 said that. He could have, but I guess what you 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:07.719 just said. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.480 Do you believe that what Dak is saying lacks sincerity 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.880 from his point of view as a quarterback, or you 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.560 think that he's towing the line as the company man 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.920 face of the franchise. That's what he's supposed to say. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.960 It's on brand with what Dak says when he does 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:20.640 that number one. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:21.040 On brand. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.760 But dude, I mean, heckman, if you were my coach 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.880 and you helped me get get me sixty million dollars, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.240 I'm gonna sit up here and cut for you. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.240 Okay, But in the same breath to say that you 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.960 say that, can it be a working relationship between them 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.479 two and Dak saying basically, this offense works for me 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.440 because this last season we can go all we can 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.560 go off of is what happened last season to get 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.359 you in position to get that contract. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.880 So I guess we're the mixed messages. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:47.120 For me. 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.080 Kind of confusing is when Dak says something to endorse, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.839 Mike is like, Oh, that's that's just Dak. That's just Dak. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.320 Dak says all the right things, but he can't just 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.680 come out and say that's my man, Like, let's let's 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.320 give him more to be successful with. When everybody at 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.080 the beginning of the season was talking about the talent 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.920 of this roster and feeling like Mike was being set 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.279 up to fail. But you don't feel like that anymore 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.920 because it's like, we just move on to do something different. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.440 The disrespect of Mike McCarthy from the beginning of the 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.400 season to where we are right now is epic for 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.320 the people, for the people that won't step out of 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.480 line and say, have you ever seen a guy be 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.400 stripped down? 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.400 You know what's worrying about. Have you ever seen a. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.760 Guy be stripped down the way that he was from 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.960 talent on this roster that might go into the front office. No, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.000 go into Jerry's office and say, hey Jerry, we need Sakwan. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.480 Hey hey Jered, I need to get Derrick Henry. Now 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:46.760 we're gonna get your Zeke. Right. Don't come on, I 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:49.000 don't mean it like that. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.840 I don't mean it like that. I don't mean it 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.880 like that. I don't mean it like that. I don't 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.240 mean it like that, guys, because what I'm talking about, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:04.679 NA what I'm saying. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.400 Because what I'm saying those things were feel there for Mike, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.560 just like when he got the John Kellen Moore was 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.520 a part of the furniture. When he got there, he 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.400 didn't pick his own oc and look, and jokingly, I say, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.360 Mike McCarthy is the perfect middle man, the perfect middle 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.840 man because of what he was groomed to be in 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.200 Green Bay. He didn't pick his own groceries in Green Bay. 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.360 He had to deal with what he had at Green Bay. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:27.480 Would tell for Ted. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.240 Thompson that was the same book that was written for 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:30.680 him there. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.559 So look, my thing is this when Dak comes out 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.760 and says that this is my guy and he endorses him. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.719 I think he's talking from like he's being sincere, he's 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.040 being serious when he says that that that's my guy. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.920 I would like to hit for him to get the 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.840 opportunity to stack the coupboard, to make some picks, you know, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.000 maybe bring in some coaches, do something different with this 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.360 roster that wasn't presented to him when he started. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.920 Now to further to what you said, he's always been 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.840 consistent about Mike McCarthy. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.160 Okay, he's always been consistent. I like Mike. That's Mike. 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:04.560 He's always been consistent there. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.360 But I'm just when asked the question, I just truly 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.760 there's no there's no other lane to go down. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.320 So I'm not saying I don't believe him. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.679 But at the same time, Dak Prescott, that's the only 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.680 lane you can go down right now, the only and 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.280 you do, in my opinion, you do. Oh that man 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.680 the cut for him. From the standpoint we you went 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.640 from being a dude who led league and picks to 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.120 a dude who led league and touchdown passes, made second 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.199 team ball Pro, and you got to contract me the 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.200 highest dude around. I would like to think that you 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.679 no matter how you felt, hey, man, let me, let 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:37.360 me try to. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.080 Help you get your bag. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.920 He's got very little juice in terms of what Jerry's 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.760 gonna do. Jerry's gonna do what Jerry wants to do 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.600 because he's the owner in the general manager. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.120 He always does. Dak has, Yeah, Dak has Jared, Jerry'll 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.200 take his opinion. Hey what did you say that? What? 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.520 Jerry's always taking opinions. But at the end of the day, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.120 Jerry's gonna do He's gonna do. And as we've kind 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.480 of talked about on this show, if you bring Mike 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.160 McCarthy back, it's going to. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.400 Be for multiple years. Yes, it will. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.640 That dude's not coming back on a one year two 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.679 years like like some franchise tad. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:09.520 We're gonna franchise and. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:14.360 Coach running back and that that is how we how 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.120 the Cowboys in the season. I've said this consistently people 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.120 and all of us have had our friends say what 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:23.280 do you think will happen? I said, how the season 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.240 ends will determine what Jerry does. Either way, whether your 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.440 last two games are against Philadelphia Washington, how do you 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.559 end the year, It's gonna be dictated on what he does. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.280 Wow, so I mean, you're still like, there's still more 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.240 runway for Mike Ford imminently for a decision to be 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.160 made as to whether he's retained. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.959 Both ways, really both of Jerry's emotional. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.800 So we get this emotional because we wouldn't even entertain 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.079 this conversation, like you were just saying, two weeks ago, 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.640 it wasn't even a conversation to be entertained. But now 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.320 all of a sudden, you listen to prescottin hear what 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.360 he's saying. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah, you know. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.760 It was funny because Clarence Clarence when we're talking to 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.960 meet him, but she said if they went Monday night, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.800 he said, Jerry gonna come out there proud of the peacock. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.719 You all you all wrote a song you are I mean, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.000 And that's that's Jerry. He can ama. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.560 As many times as I thought Jason Garrett was gonna 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.880 get walked to the gallows, he kept coming back. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.240 This dude like resputing and Jerry kept saving it, and 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.800 I thought, hey, hey, what what's that? 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.000 But what is this again? 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:35.240 So could he do that same Jason Garrett Thattrick Drake 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:41.199 and make it it was really you? 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:46.080 That's a hell of a s you you you said, Zeke, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.199 we ended up w Rico. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:54.679 Cooper Rush one three game wish. I mean, dude, there's 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:55.559 a way. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.719 That there is a way that I could conceivably see Mike, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.640 because you heard Jerry's the rails with super Bowl winning coach. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.959 I can see him that whole He even he shoot 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.760 himself for Jared, Get Jerry, get Hie's own product too. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.360 Now the pack here you on his own product too? 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.760 Oh my god, what Biggie said? So heck, that's why 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:15.960 I say. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:16.360 I've told. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.439 Are they losing an embarrassing fashion towards the end? Then 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:21.960 that could be that could be like, hey, man, I 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.559 can't do it, and then the fan like I ain't 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:24.280 buying it no more. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.000 Or if they go at the end, I see see. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.559 Man, they're gonna play against the Philly team, rest in 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:34.199 the starters and then. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.200 Who knows what the commanders and who knows who knows? 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.320 I just wow, they gonna run it back another four. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.120 Now you need to beat Joe Burrow on Monday, which 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:45.720 you need to do that. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:47.880 Vegas got your six point dog. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:52.080 But Jerry, Jerry, Jerry is an emotional guy, man, I'm 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.640 telling you dude, I'd have bet twice. I'd have bet. 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.240 I'd have bet big money. Gone Like, do you know 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.280 how they do? Those? Those those you can bet on 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.959 the odds as we get odds on the man, I 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.240 don't bet, but why the stacks on it? But he can't, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.360 he can't say eight and eight again, you're no there 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:09.960 he is backprint t shirts. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:11.880 This is wow. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.000 That crazy thing about it is two weeks ago. I 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.360 thought it was a far gone conclusion and nobody was 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.480 even even when you want to entertain it, have a 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:19.920 conversation about it. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.520 Now not gonna happen. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.800 And and most of the time in this in this arena, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.959 when somebody's dug in media wise on the subject, it's 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.840 because they have first head knowledge. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.560 They got first head knowledge. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.960 So you can waste your time with that all you 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.360 want to, because we know now everybody's back to square 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.280 one on this, whether you bring him back or not. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.440 And I'm I'm shocked, confused, I'm shocked because that's. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.800 Okay, So here it is. Now here comes Michael Parson's back. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.080 Oh okay, you see Michael making a different Cooks catches 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.240 a touchdown. Bland is back playing good your beat. Washington 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.840 those kind of when you're an emotional guy like Jerry, who, by. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.560 The way, doesn't like change. Jason Garrett proved it didn't 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.839 like change man, and. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.880 Then the way he flipped it here got on that 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.160 wind streak he got. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.760 So you get on the wind streak because you get 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.480 guys back healthy your team, you have guys coming back 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:18.800 to certa. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.800 I mean, look at what Deron Bland. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.200 Has done since he's been back, even in the Washington game, 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.960 if he didn't have a pick or any of that, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.480 the way that he impacked that game, they didn't even 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.160 throw over there. This last game against the Giants, the 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.480 same thing. What the Bengals are gonna do? I think 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.560 I'm very curious to know, because I know Joe Burrow 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.120 is gonna test him. He gonna go at him because 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.720 he doesn't duck anybody. But if he goes over there 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.320 and he gets picked off, he ain't going back. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.040 So he ain't going back. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.840 But you've gotten guys back healthy and your team looks different. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.640 You've allowed for Zach Martin to go and get health 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.680 and oh, by the way, the piece that you brought 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.640 in is actually contributing to your offensive line. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.920 To stay there hacking if you are Mike McCarthy and 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.480 it's you and Jerry that office up there, maybe I'm 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.200 bringing all that up there. Hey, you saw what happened 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.240 when I got my people back a little bit. I 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.040 deserve another shot, Jerry, if you're honest with yourself, did 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:13.800 you really help me on another floor? 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:18.080 Did you help You sold me on Zeke you sold it. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:19.080 I need it. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.000 I needed Derek hen, I need a I mean you 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.440 just if you get in there and you catch your 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.760 mighty everybody can be twisted. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:28.200 Everybody. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.320 Jason Garrett made it, made a tradition like no other. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.680 I just how many, how many, how many? Remember how 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.880 many assistant coaches Jason went through, kept. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.640 Going through that. That means you was up there with Jerry. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.720 You was spinning, he was resputing, and you look at 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.360 that magic trick. It was it was him, you know, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.040 I just man. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.720 You know so so could that happen? It could. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.640 We got to see how December goes. But don't be 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:55.640 shot because he's. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.120 On the radio. He's already laying the groundwork. If he 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.480 wanted to bring it back, he could. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.400 May want to say that Jerry says, don't believe nothing 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:03.160 that I said. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:05.520 Just as I said, it doesn't. 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.760 Just go back to something you had said back in 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.800 like I don't know March or whatever when you were talking. 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:13.880 I believe it was Todd Archer. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.080 He told you the reason McCarthy was brought in here 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.520 was to get past what Jason Carrey couldn't do, which 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.680 was get pasted at the divisional round. Yes, and the 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.960 man has plenty of opportunities. He had his players all pros, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.440 the most all pros on any team. I believe it 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.040 was like the past two years or something like that, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.360 and he hasn't been able to get past that level. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.760 And now it's just wild to me that he could 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.200 go out there and maybe don't go eight nine or 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.760 finish above five hundred. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.080 Yeah, I missed the place. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.280 Wow, you know what in the contract get you know 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.960 the hardest thing to do is to put your pet down? 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.840 Oh yeah, what the hardest thing to put your pet down? 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:56.560 That's wow. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.720 Jerry becomes close with these coaches, man, and in my 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.080 time of covering, it's hard. It's hard for Jerry to 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.399 go ahead and old Jason out. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:16.080 There the gallows. What an analogy. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.840 He's still crying about Wavefields. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.439 I wish I wanted to say to the gallows. I 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:28.640 still regret that man. This man still tell you how 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.800 he died. I made a mistake. I was I had 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.600 have done it. Then he crying up there, all staying 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.960 about Jimmy. I don't know why up. I mean, that's 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.280 so so I'm telling you, man, Jerry showing you man, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.520 he can't put that dog down. That's Marry. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.280 You feel like you honestly feel like we're for you. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.680 When you look at the landscape of NFL coaches, you're 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:47.760 saying change is imminent. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.280 I would have assumed, okay, But the way around, that's true. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.280 They did switch him up, like the trumped the switch 0:17:59.359 --> 0:17:59.960 him up quick. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.360 When the AFC champions, that man was fired. 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.280 I mean, but none of those other things, None of 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.840 those twelve and five seasons mean anything to you. None 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.439 of the injuries at any point does that mean? But 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:11.920 then I go back to what knew. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.199 He was telling me. Yeah, like that's why you were 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:14.520 bought in. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.639 Yeah, like regular season cool. You were brought here to 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.320 take this team to the next level. Get past the 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.240 division I ain't even talking about super Bowl. Just get 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.720 past the divisional that's what you were brought here to do. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.239 I mean, that's what he was brought and he has 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.080 yet to be able to do that. I understand this 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.720 year a lot of injuries, but the previous three twelve 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.280 and five, twelve and five twelve and five. What happens 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.960 in the playoffs? So and it ain't like the playoffs 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.320 close win here and there and last and last January 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.119