Speaker 1: From Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. No. Your
Speaker 1: host's Ferry Church, Danny McCray and Knew He scrugs. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the final players Lounge of twenty twenty How knew
Speaker 1: he scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter Join by Ford, Dallas Cowboys Players,
Speaker 1: Barry Church and Danny McCray. All right, gentlemen, it's New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve. What you're looking forward to as we end
Speaker 1: this twenty twenty Hey, I'm just looking forward to getting
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty one. I mean, look, twenty twenty has
Speaker 1: been a it's been a roller coaster of a ride.
Speaker 1: I mean, ups and downs, pandemics. We've lost too many
Speaker 1: people far too early. So for me, I'm just looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting into twenty twenty one as fast as
Speaker 1: I can. I might be sleep by nine pm tonight. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to something new. I have a little
Speaker 1: conscious of reaching into twenty twenty one, just because the
Speaker 1: first half of the year it is supposed to be,
Speaker 1: you know, even worse than than what it is now,
Speaker 1: as far as COVID and all that good stuff. So
Speaker 1: I'm a little caustious, but listen, it can't be worse pleased.
Speaker 1: It can't be worse. So I'm just looking for something
Speaker 1: better than we had at twenty twenty with the one
Speaker 1: hundred percent here. I just can't believe what twenty twenty
Speaker 1: did to this Dallas Cowboys team. Um. I think I
Speaker 1: was at eleven and five when I picked for this
Speaker 1: team this year, and you I could have never imagined
Speaker 1: seeing this many injuries. And I go back to, you know,
Speaker 1: my first year getting to cover the Cowboys when they
Speaker 1: were Super Bowl twenty seven champions, were training down and
Speaker 1: then Austin, and you know, I'd never seen anything with
Speaker 1: this organization where this many injuries to so many key
Speaker 1: players have have happened. This is just it's been a
Speaker 1: wrecked season. And here are the Cowboys with an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win the NFC East at seven and nine, with
Speaker 1: a whole lot of help that they will need. So
Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, real quick, real quick for the
Speaker 1: fans out there, real quick, if you don't mind, if
Speaker 1: you don't mind, who predicted the seven and nine and playoffs.
Speaker 1: I don't know who it could be. I don't know
Speaker 1: who it could be, But if you don't mind just
Speaker 1: telling the fans out there who predicted that but it
Speaker 1: just lost my it lost my mind for a second. Okay,
Speaker 1: hold hold on, let me going back here, because I
Speaker 1: got I've got our redo. We did a redo, the
Speaker 1: last redo, by the way, the last one with the
Speaker 1: red the redo. I ain't talking about the redo you
Speaker 1: did after it felt comfortable. Come on up in there,
Speaker 1: like I'm looking for it, right, I'm looking for it
Speaker 1: right there? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one that locked you in. That's that's it. That's it,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Danny. What's the one that locked you into?
Speaker 1: The whole? Nick and Sam's debate? Did deal? It was
Speaker 1: six second ten and then what was the last part
Speaker 1: of that six and ten? And okay, okay, I just
Speaker 1: make sure I make sure I had predicted that weeks ago,
Speaker 1: to make sure that's it. You're still feeling that way
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty It might, it might, it might lead
Speaker 1: you over to that same type of stuff in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. So be careful, all right, be careful. You
Speaker 1: know what this years. That's it. That's it. Everyone on
Speaker 1: this show's emotionals, all right, So be careful with feeling
Speaker 1: so so high mighty about that. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: thank you very much because here we are November six. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was November six when we did the readjust d
Speaker 1: Mac four and twelve, Church six and ten Nui two
Speaker 1: and fourteen. Then I went three. That's what we were
Speaker 1: so so the church. I don't know about this whole
Speaker 1: Saturday night that, but there you are. So hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I made my bad. I gotta lay in it. You know,
Speaker 1: weeks ago look like a grade. Now it's looking like
Speaker 1: a sleep number. So hey, you know, I just gotta
Speaker 1: layd what I predict, you know, yeah, man, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just just hey, look man, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good today. So I'm not gonna sit up
Speaker 1: here and uh it beat you down on, beat you
Speaker 1: down on. I appreciate that. I appreciate that, you know,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for that. New I was a
Speaker 1: little disappointed Lebron James and Tiger Woods didn't call me
Speaker 1: last night. You know, I was born on this day
Speaker 1: before them young fellas came here and they can't get
Speaker 1: a respect for them for the older guy here. But
Speaker 1: you know, um, but it was, Yeah, I expect a
Speaker 1: gift from you guys either. Yeah I didn't but hello, wait, hello,
Speaker 1: wait did you. Did you say it was your birthday yesterday? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't. No, I didn't. There was no Yeah, there
Speaker 1: was none of that. I was but happy belated birthday,
Speaker 1: by the way, Yes, belated birthday, bro. You just you
Speaker 1: just do all that birthday talk yesterday and that's a
Speaker 1: word about it. Getting your birthday. You turned thirty too,
Speaker 1: knew you. I remember when you look good, brother, brother.
Speaker 1: You know, here's what happened. Why I used to be
Speaker 1: the king up there. Now. Ain't gonna lie, I gonna lie.
Speaker 1: The boy Clarence Hill was. You know, we said a
Speaker 1: little crew now back in the day. I wanna name
Speaker 1: some of the players, but you know we said a
Speaker 1: little crew up there back in the day. I can
Speaker 1: believe it, man, I told you, I told you being
Speaker 1: very so. We used to see Clarence and somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw Jop all the time. All the time. As
Speaker 1: I said, if you wanted to get to know the
Speaker 1: players back in the day, those was a great ways
Speaker 1: to get to know the player. That's where trust was built.
Speaker 1: I think we met him. I think we met We
Speaker 1: saw him the same day we saw Cuban Gooding Junior
Speaker 1: out there. De MC. I don't know that that's not
Speaker 1: surprised that person. Rod Tidwell, you mean rod Tidwell Radio.
Speaker 1: You know, all right, we're getting off the rails. Were
Speaker 1: so we're so inside, We're way too inside football right now.
Speaker 1: We were we brought something up yesterday. So let me
Speaker 1: get back to it about the defense. Who and where
Speaker 1: do we give credit credit for the defensive turnaround. I've
Speaker 1: got an depending on it, but I'll start with you
Speaker 1: Church on this. For me. Look, I can't put it
Speaker 1: on one specific player, because you know, inside the twenties,
Speaker 1: from the twenty to the twenty they're still getting destroyed.
Speaker 1: I mean teams were doing whatever whatever they want inside
Speaker 1: the twenties to this Dallas Cowboys team. So I can't
Speaker 1: point at one specific player or give credit to Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan all like that. But to me, I think what's
Speaker 1: changed would turn this defense around was their red zone defense,
Speaker 1: especially these last three games. I mean, during the regular season,
Speaker 1: they were giving up over sixty percent touchdown percentages to
Speaker 1: the teams going into their red zone. The last three
Speaker 1: games that went all the way down to thirty three
Speaker 1: point three percent, so they almost cut that thing all
Speaker 1: the way in half. And I think that has a
Speaker 1: lot to do with with the defense. They're playing in
Speaker 1: the red zone. They're being send you, they're playing this
Speaker 1: bend but don't break type style, and it's working for them.
Speaker 1: I mean, teams are driving the ball, putting up monster yards,
Speaker 1: but they're not putting points together with that, I mean
Speaker 1: they're settling for field goals instead of touchdowns. And when
Speaker 1: you copulate that with taking the ball away from the
Speaker 1: opposing teams, I think you got a winning formula there.
Speaker 1: So for me, the biggest difference in this defense from
Speaker 1: the first what eleven games to now has to be
Speaker 1: their red zone defense. They improved massively and then showing
Speaker 1: in their record. Yeah, I agree with you on their improvements,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go here. I have two I would
Speaker 1: say people who I think are responsible for the improvements
Speaker 1: on his defense. Number one, it's whoever decided to UH
Speaker 1: to start firing guys and getting Downe Terry co out
Speaker 1: of here and Warley and lighting the fire under the
Speaker 1: rest of the team, letting them know that they still
Speaker 1: need business no matter what the record is. And you've
Speaker 1: seen the different type of hustle and effort every since then.
Speaker 1: So whoever made that decision, you did an amazing job.
Speaker 1: And then to whoever it's up there, you know, beagling
Speaker 1: these streams against them for our opponents and putting us
Speaker 1: against these the Jalen hurts and they're putting us in
Speaker 1: San Francisco and they lose the top two running back.
Speaker 1: Whoever it's doing that, they are responsible for it, right,
Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, like you said, Church, they are.
Speaker 1: They have been able to stop giving up as many
Speaker 1: big plays as they had as they had been giving
Speaker 1: for touchdowns and making teams have a complete nine and
Speaker 1: ten play drives and making them make those mistakes. As
Speaker 1: long as they keep continuing to do that, then they
Speaker 1: have a chance to win game. But when you're giving
Speaker 1: up sixty and seventy yards boss for touchdowns and not
Speaker 1: making the office have to work and the office of
Speaker 1: coordinator have to put together the methodical drives, then you
Speaker 1: know that's a recipe for disaster. I'll go with turnovers
Speaker 1: and the schedule maker. And that's so much of that
Speaker 1: has been as you talked about there, d Matt, the
Speaker 1: schedule played in their favor. You get Brandon Allen for Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: you get Nick Mullins who got benched. You know, the
Speaker 1: next game because he played so bad. And then you
Speaker 1: get a rookie and Jalen Hurts and and I know
Speaker 1: some Catholicans are all you just being negative here, but
Speaker 1: they've beating bad teams, and that's what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: you know, beat bad teams, and yes, their defenses. In
Speaker 1: some ways, I feel like Mike Nolan finally started, you know,
Speaker 1: playing defense that you know suits and you know fits
Speaker 1: these guys and who he has here. But they have
Speaker 1: played some bad teams and they get to play other
Speaker 1: bad team this weekend. I mean, the Giants are a
Speaker 1: bad football club. Jason Garrett's offense doesn't score points. They
Speaker 1: lost Saint Quon Barkley. When you lost Saint Quon Barkley,
Speaker 1: I mean that you basically lost the team because Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones is not a quarterback that's gonna go out here
Speaker 1: when you're some football games. So um, huh, okay put
Speaker 1: up yeah yeah, and and okay, um, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I don't think that football team is I think they
Speaker 1: were playing better than than they are now that this
Speaker 1: football team has been struggling here, especially with Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: being injured. So it's uh, it's it's it's been a
Speaker 1: rough one for this team, and they just let's clear
Speaker 1: let's clear up the bad team thing, right, because let
Speaker 1: you do it. Sometimes it does sound like you being
Speaker 1: we're not. We continue to say that it's hard to
Speaker 1: win games and the NFL, no matter who you're playing. Right,
Speaker 1: take a look at Los Angeles rum legets, take a
Speaker 1: look at the Cleveland round losing to the Jets, Like,
Speaker 1: you can go out there and get beaten no matter
Speaker 1: who you're playing, because everybody in the NFL is getting
Speaker 1: paid and they have the ability to beat you as
Speaker 1: long as they don't end up beating themselves making mistakes.
Speaker 1: So you still have to go out there, strap up
Speaker 1: the shoulder, pattern the helmet, and go out there and
Speaker 1: beat these teams. So it's still all credits to account
Speaker 1: mush will beating the people that are out there in
Speaker 1: front of them. We're just saying that, you know, they
Speaker 1: were of lesser talent and they did what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, especially from the expectations that we had for
Speaker 1: them from the beginning of the year. Well, and once
Speaker 1: again let me go back to the schedule now, and
Speaker 1: this is not being negative, This is just you know,
Speaker 1: this is just the absolute truth. All right, look at
Speaker 1: the schedule maker for a while when you had to
Speaker 1: sit up here and face you know, you had the Steelers. Now,
Speaker 1: so you had the Eagles. Let me think about you
Speaker 1: face the Eagles, we be a fourth string quarterback. You
Speaker 1: go Eagles, then you go Pittsburgh. Though they played well
Speaker 1: with your man double g um. Yes, Minnesota, they ended
Speaker 1: up ended up winning that game. But the schedule, you know,
Speaker 1: the schedule here was you know, it was you face
Speaker 1: some tougher teams here, and it got you. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought that that Cleveland would be
Speaker 1: an easy win this year. But you know, you look
Speaker 1: at that schedule when you hit the Seattle Seahawks, you
Speaker 1: hit Cleveland, and then next thing, you know, with the
Speaker 1: Giant game, which the Cowboys won, and then he had Arizona.
Speaker 1: You know, does a stretching games right there with those teams,
Speaker 1: and you look at it. You know, Seattle's in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Cleveland's in the playoffs. The Giants won't be well, actually,
Speaker 1: the Giants have a shot to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They got a shot. Cowboys if they don't beat him
Speaker 1: into Washington loses. The Giants are gonna win the division,
Speaker 1: and then he got Arizona, who's got a shot, and
Speaker 1: then he got Washington the game after that. So you're
Speaker 1: sitting here the schedule, does you know, you get some
Speaker 1: tough you get some tough stretches, you get some easy
Speaker 1: stretches here. But that has played a part into it.
Speaker 1: And for me, I'll tell you my end game. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the schedule is I hope that Jerry and
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones factor that into how this season ends and
Speaker 1: why they need to make a change in the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinated position. Okay, now you win seven, you know, you
Speaker 1: go seventy nine, win four in a row here. I
Speaker 1: don't want them to think that. Okay, but Mike Nolan's
Speaker 1: gotta figure this guy's good. I don't think Mike Nolan's good.
Speaker 1: I think they need to go on different directions here. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you beat some teams to cut some fool's gold here.
Speaker 1: So that's that's that's my thing on that church go ahead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. They can't sit here and say, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we went on a little stretch. We got you know,
Speaker 1: ten or eleven takeaways these pastory games. Maybe they figured
Speaker 1: out Mike Nolan's defense and maybe we got our guy.
Speaker 1: I hope and I pray that they don't they don't
Speaker 1: find that as reality as we see when I talked
Speaker 1: about in between the twenties, I think I think the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles went over four hundred yards in total offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they would have stuck to the run,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be having it and I wouldn't be having
Speaker 1: this conversation right now, and I wouldn't be sipping on
Speaker 1: kool ai right now because we would have probably lost
Speaker 1: that game. So for me, I just hope that they
Speaker 1: don't realize that, or they do realize that Mike Nolan's
Speaker 1: defense is not the answer to us right now. We
Speaker 1: can't go up there and give up four hundred yards
Speaker 1: and just pray that we take the ball away from
Speaker 1: a team and expect to be a successful defense or
Speaker 1: a successful team going forward. We have got to make
Speaker 1: sure our defense overall is a lot better next year
Speaker 1: than it is this year. And I think getting rid
Speaker 1: of Mike Nolan will help that defense. Is cause I'm
Speaker 1: I'm with you one hundred percent, and the Cowboys um
Speaker 1: are going to get a couple of good things out
Speaker 1: of this season here, you're gonna be able to see
Speaker 1: some younger players. You know, having Terence still on your
Speaker 1: team next year is going to be a good thing.
Speaker 1: Having Brandy Night on your team's gonna be a good thing.
Speaker 1: Connor mcgovernor, Um, you know, there's that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: I think that they really need to take a look.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it before. With the way Connor mc
Speaker 1: governor's played, I think Connor could be a starting guard.
Speaker 1: Feed Why not start Connor mcgovernor at left at left guard,
Speaker 1: and then to take about putting Connor Williams your current
Speaker 1: left guard. I mean, you you know your current guard.
Speaker 1: Maybe you make him to swing tackle me. They've started
Speaker 1: to me it was playing some of these younger guys,
Speaker 1: especially on offense. I think they're gonna have options. Dalton
Speaker 1: Shelton now comes back, and you know, here's a great thing.
Speaker 1: Do we pencil Blake jar with it as the guy
Speaker 1: or is this more of a competition or do you
Speaker 1: run some two tight insights? I mean, I think there's
Speaker 1: some really think good that you're getting out of what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are doing here at the end. You're seeing
Speaker 1: some stuff happen and maybe they could keep the turnovers
Speaker 1: going in and next year and the next coordinator can
Speaker 1: fix some things and add some more defensive line help.
Speaker 1: And you gotta get a Tristan Hill back here. I
Speaker 1: think they got to add one or two more guys
Speaker 1: on that at the defensive tackle spot here. So there's
Speaker 1: some positives to it. But I just don't want the
Speaker 1: Cowboys management to get too full and say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know, look at how we won these games, and
Speaker 1: we won four in a row. But you know who
Speaker 1: were you beating along the way. I think you have
Speaker 1: to factor that in, and you got to be able
Speaker 1: to look at the glass and say it's half empty,
Speaker 1: as much as you want to say that it's half full.
Speaker 1: It's that delicate balance that you gotta have as you're
Speaker 1: looking at your football team. But I give Mike McCarthy credit,
Speaker 1: And this is why I want to share. I didn't
Speaker 1: say I want to give Mike McCarthy credit for making
Speaker 1: sure that guys just decide to go mail it in
Speaker 1: and quit that That to me, says a whole lot
Speaker 1: about him as a head coach. And I'll let me
Speaker 1: give Jason Garrett credit. I remember when they were three
Speaker 1: and five, a couple of years ago, and I thought,
Speaker 1: and this, this guy's lost this team, and you know
Speaker 1: they ended up turning around and had a fantastic year,
Speaker 1: made playoffs. Um. I think that says something about being
Speaker 1: able to lead is the keep guys um involved and
Speaker 1: when it looks like it's going downhill. So, uh, let's
Speaker 1: take a break. We still have our predictions to do.
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Speaker 1: seeing whoop upon Notre Dame. Um. So we'll have our
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Speaker 1: the stadium tab. Speaking at and T Stadium, they held
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl last night, Florida got whooped upon the
Speaker 1: by Oklahoma, and tomorrow AT and T Stadium will host
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. Game moved out of Passing in the
Speaker 1: California for COVID reasons, so it is going to be
Speaker 1: Alabama against Note Tre Dame. And I remember the last
Speaker 1: time Notre Dame came up here to at and T Stadium,
Speaker 1: who was against Clipson and the college Football playoff and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and company dusted them up. So we'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. M And by the way, shame on
Speaker 1: you Florida fans getting on these kids who opted out
Speaker 1: talking about they needed to show loyalty to the school
Speaker 1: that was those players would have got hurt. If those
Speaker 1: players would have got hurt and lost millions in draft stock,
Speaker 1: I mean, people would have just looked other directionally. It's
Speaker 1: for that kid man tough, break like man. They did
Speaker 1: the right thing by opting up. Listen and listen, what
Speaker 1: is my man from Knowing Dame talking about talking about
Speaker 1: they got nothing to prove. They've been getting smacked up
Speaker 1: in bowl games since I was in college, right, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's talking about. They don't have nothing. Yes,
Speaker 1: they need to come in and show that they deserve
Speaker 1: to be voted into these championship tournaments because if they
Speaker 1: not and they go herein't get embarrassed again. Who cares
Speaker 1: what they do in the regular season, because we know
Speaker 1: exactly what's going to happen to them once they get
Speaker 1: in the tournament. And I'm tired of these Big twelve
Speaker 1: schools beating the SEC school in the bowl game and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden talking about their back and
Speaker 1: all this other crazy stuff. And then I saw a man,
Speaker 1: Darren going there talking about the SEC only play this
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah, and I was like, hey, come on, man,
Speaker 1: look I remember when there was I think it was
Speaker 1: a stretch of like five or six years where four
Speaker 1: to five different SEC teams had won the national championship.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about Auburn, You're talking about Florida, you
Speaker 1: talked about Ellis, you talking about Alabama. This was all
Speaker 1: back to back, So listen, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: anything about it being top heavy not competitive. We have
Speaker 1: the most draft picks in there, so now I don't
Speaker 1: want to know about the Big twelve. Two of y'all
Speaker 1: schools left y'all so they can come join ours, and
Speaker 1: now y'all expecting us to claim them. Now they still y'alls. Anywin.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on the big chairs. It's um, it's interesting,
Speaker 1: and look, people people get mad when you say it,
Speaker 1: but it's been. It's true. You have found these Big
Speaker 1: twelve teams who come play these SEC games and bowl
Speaker 1: games are all about want too. You got these SEC
Speaker 1: teams like when Georgia went and play played Texas and
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl. Georgia thought they should have been in order
Speaker 1: dame spot the Cotton Bowl against Clemson. Them dudes weren't
Speaker 1: ready to play. I remember one time in Utah and
Speaker 1: then also Oklahoma tore Alabama and the Sugar Bowl. Alabama
Speaker 1: had been playing for now championships. They ended up losing
Speaker 1: in the SEC championship game. You know, they went out
Speaker 1: to the Sugar Bowl and they gave a half half
Speaker 1: blank effort and guess what, Oklahoma and you tall where
Speaker 1: they're to go win and whoop up on him and
Speaker 1: they got whooped the ball. Florida is without guys, and
Speaker 1: you know, all right, they played like they didn't have
Speaker 1: those guys, those guys who who decided to skip out
Speaker 1: and blame them. Um, you know these are difference makers.
Speaker 1: But come on now to act like the all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Big twelveicers a better league or something
Speaker 1: like that. No, you know, I'm a Big twelve fan,
Speaker 1: but I'm a realist. Okay, I'm a realist. The big
Speaker 1: twelve officers right down the street. No plenty of people
Speaker 1: who work over there. It ain't the same, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: it's two different There's two different leagues, two different brands
Speaker 1: of football. And you know, enjoy enjoy your dug, you know,
Speaker 1: enjoy your dub. But I am watching to watching Alabama
Speaker 1: play and Notre Dame is gonna end up being like
Speaker 1: Michigan State and being like Oklahoma. It seems like every
Speaker 1: year there's one team there's in it and shouldn't belong
Speaker 1: because guess what, there's not that. We rarely ever have
Speaker 1: four outstanding teams. You can get three. Usually it's just two.
Speaker 1: But I expect a boat race for note from you
Speaker 1: know by Alabama tomorrow. All right, Giants Cowboys at the
Speaker 1: meadow Lands in New Jersey, Z. Both teams need to
Speaker 1: win if they want to become NFC's champs. So the
Speaker 1: winner then has to wait on the Washington Philadelphia NBC
Speaker 1: Sunday night game to see if they win. Because if
Speaker 1: Philadelphia ends up beating Washington, then whoever wins the Cowboys
Speaker 1: Giants game, they would be the NFC's champ. Soul from
Speaker 1: a defensive standpoint. When we're talking about the defense here, mccraig,
Speaker 1: what do you think is a key to a Cowboy win? Listen,
Speaker 1: we all know what Jason Garrett wants to do. He
Speaker 1: wants to run the rock, all right. So if you're
Speaker 1: the old plan on getting there, getting there, stopping the run,
Speaker 1: minimizing those those games to three three point three yards,
Speaker 1: and not giving up those big chunks, then you don't
Speaker 1: have a chance at winning. You need to strap up
Speaker 1: your pass, strap up your helmet, and get ready to
Speaker 1: go in there and take on blocks, take on pulling guards,
Speaker 1: and make some tackles, because if you don't stop the run,
Speaker 1: we lose. If you forced Daniel Jones to go out
Speaker 1: there and make plays with his arm and throw the
Speaker 1: ball from the pocket, then you got a great chance
Speaker 1: at winning. So stop the run. I know we haven't
Speaker 1: been able to do it all season, but this is
Speaker 1: that one game where you just have to put everything
Speaker 1: on the line and changed the way that you played
Speaker 1: played off season and try to get to the playoffs
Speaker 1: by stopping the run and making Daniel Jones try to
Speaker 1: beat you with his arm. Yeah, like mccrai said, Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett he lives and dies by the run and play action.
Speaker 1: I mean that those are his that is, that's his
Speaker 1: goal to I mean he loves to set up the
Speaker 1: play action by running the ball. And now look, they
Speaker 1: got Wayne Wayne Goldman, I think his last name is
Speaker 1: Wayne Goldman. There they got, they got, they got offered Morris.
Speaker 1: Those two, I mean they've been playing, they've been playing
Speaker 1: all hide these past couple of games. But we have
Speaker 1: got to stop those two guys if we want any
Speaker 1: opportunity to go ahead and get after Colt McCoy or
Speaker 1: get after Daniel Jones, whoever's back there. We have gap
Speaker 1: to stop those two from from running the ball down
Speaker 1: our throats. If we're able to do that, and we
Speaker 1: forced Daniel Jones or Colt McCoy whoever's playing in there,
Speaker 1: and we forced them to try to beat us with
Speaker 1: their arm, we have an amazing chance of winning because
Speaker 1: we can get pressured with just four defensive linemen, leaving
Speaker 1: the rest of those guys out there in coverage, and
Speaker 1: it gives us an opportunity to take the ball away
Speaker 1: from a Daniel Jones or a Cult mccour. So we
Speaker 1: have gap to stop the run. And we know They're
Speaker 1: gonna feature Evan Ingram. He is they're tight end, but
Speaker 1: he's basically their number one receiving option. He's a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl tight end. So look, if we go out there
Speaker 1: and we neutralize him and we stop this run, that'll
Speaker 1: give us our defensive line the ability to pin their
Speaker 1: ears back and get after these quarterbacks. And we all
Speaker 1: know Daniel Jones as a turnover waiting to happen. So
Speaker 1: if we stop that run, kind kind of slow down
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram over there, we should be able to pin
Speaker 1: our ears back and get after this team. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about the New York Giants, and I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about him at all. I know j G comes
Speaker 1: in here and he got at he got some wrinkles
Speaker 1: that he will develop in there in his first fifteen
Speaker 1: play script. It might be amazing. It might be amazing
Speaker 1: because it usually is. But after that, I see it
Speaker 1: going all downhill. Cowboys gonna win this one. It comes
Speaker 1: down to Washington in Philly, and that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Put Put it in the air there, you go, put
Speaker 1: it out in the atmosphere, church, put it out there.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. It is. We don't believe it,
Speaker 1: but put it out there in the atmosphere. Man convened.
Speaker 1: Convince yourself, man affirmation. I like it. I like the
Speaker 1: way that you're going into twenty twenty one. Man, you
Speaker 1: gotta have it. Speak positivity into the situation. I've been
Speaker 1: saying it with his chest. Dude, I'm not worried. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about the Giants. Okay, not worried. I'm not worried.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's cold raining, I ain't worried.
Speaker 1: So if this is Kellen Moore's finale with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: how should he run his offense against the New York Giants?
Speaker 1: Is that for me or mccraig, Yeah, go ahead, church
Speaker 1: for me, I say, Kellen Moore. Look, Jerry already said
Speaker 1: we got to slow this guy down because we want
Speaker 1: to save our defensive legs. Well, look, let let unleash killing.
Speaker 1: Unleash kelling on the New York Giants. All right. If
Speaker 1: he's as powerful as a play caller, and he's as
Speaker 1: great as a play caller as mister Jones thinks, unleash
Speaker 1: it all. I want this game done by halftime, all right.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to click over Twitter the
Speaker 1: games it's going on, get this thing done by halftime.
Speaker 1: And to do that, to get this done by halftime,
Speaker 1: I think we gotta I think we gotta feature these receivers.
Speaker 1: Look New York Jazz. The strength of their defense is
Speaker 1: their defensive line and their linebackers. They got Blake Martinez there,
Speaker 1: Golden who has who's had a pretty good season. Their
Speaker 1: strength is in that front seven. Their back seven struggles.
Speaker 1: They struggle immensely outside of James Bradbrey, who's had a
Speaker 1: great season that corner. But other than that, they struggle.
Speaker 1: So I think we featured these three receivers Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, Cooper. They've already got this Wade link with
Speaker 1: the red rifle going on these past three games. So
Speaker 1: keep it up a leash, Kellen. Let these receivers go
Speaker 1: ham feature Zeke every now and then, and we should
Speaker 1: be over by halftime, and let's get focused on the
Speaker 1: playoff victory. He's still on it, man, he got it
Speaker 1: going out there to the offense. Let's let's speak realistically
Speaker 1: here now, Okay, Andy Dalton, all right, he's been he's
Speaker 1: been playing well. All right, he's been playing well. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him that you need to play him the
Speaker 1: same way you've been doing it all right. Don't try
Speaker 1: to do too much. Run the ball and get the
Speaker 1: ball to the receivers when you have a shot. Do
Speaker 1: I try to force anything, then I try to force
Speaker 1: big plays. Make sure your scheme is trying to trick
Speaker 1: the trick the defense you know, catch him off guard.
Speaker 1: Do not have any dunk going out here throwing the
Speaker 1: ball fifty times because you're trying to run something, and
Speaker 1: show him what you're doing up there trying to do
Speaker 1: at boys the state. Do not do that. That is
Speaker 1: a recipe for disaster. What he should do is focus
Speaker 1: on number twenty one, that fullback that Barry talked about.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get him twenty cars. Make sure you
Speaker 1: make sure you get him over one hundred yards. Make
Speaker 1: sure you let him set the tempo for that for
Speaker 1: that offense. And then you can feature I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say Mark Cooper because I've been screaming it all year
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna happen. So you can feature whatever
Speaker 1: receiver you want. Two besides of Mark Cooper, and Church
Speaker 1: knows that the guy you know sometimes away games are
Speaker 1: playing outside, he kind of disappears, So focus on whoever
Speaker 1: is gonna help you. Hope you make those big plays.
Speaker 1: But twenty one, twenty one is the key to winning
Speaker 1: this game. By the way, Um, you guys heard for
Speaker 1: your boy Mark Colombo since Joe Judge and no words,
Speaker 1: no words from Mark Man. Okay, just keep we're keeping
Speaker 1: it real. Goals wrong, Mark Colombo, But get to get
Speaker 1: into a fight with the head coach and cursing Malcolm
Speaker 1: a couple of names, and next thing you know, gone gone.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's when you got money. That's that when
Speaker 1: you already got money. Man, you can take that risk.
Speaker 1: You go out there and cuss out of the head
Speaker 1: coach when you are, when you are, when your pockets
Speaker 1: are already loaded. That is that's a That is a
Speaker 1: strange story, man, Just how that all went down. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: but if you know Columbo, it ain't it ain't it
Speaker 1: ain't too strange against you say, it's really not. It's
Speaker 1: really not. That's just who he is. But you know,
Speaker 1: you know, and it just didn't go over well Joe.
Speaker 1: Clearly Joe Judge didn't. He wasn't buying it. So and
Speaker 1: you know, Joe Judge wanted to bring in his guy.
Speaker 1: Jason brought in his guy. So that's another portion of
Speaker 1: this thing here. So all right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: will make predictions. And I've got a question for Danny
Speaker 1: McCrae and I I think I know where this is
Speaker 1: going since he hadn't said anything about it. We'll do
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Speaker 1: twenty Appreciate that, Um mccraig, did you win the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Championship? You didn't say whatever, You left me hanging.
Speaker 1: You didn't kind of feel like I know where it's going,
Speaker 1: kind of feel like I know where it's going. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: Let's give me one minute, all right, So I lost. Okay,
Speaker 1: I lost, and it's all it's all my fault. It's
Speaker 1: all my fault, all right. I started Drew Brees because
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger had a bad game the previous week, and
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger played much better than Drew Brees did. And
Speaker 1: then I took out zir Line because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to depend on the Cowboys too much. Those two players
Speaker 1: cost me to lose by point three points. Those two
Speaker 1: players point three. If I if I start Big Big
Speaker 1: and I start zer Line, I win the Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Championship by point three Instead, I lose Drew Brees. Go
Speaker 1: out there for a couple of picks. Kamara somehow has
Speaker 1: they scored fifty points and Drew Brees don't throw one
Speaker 1: touchdown because Kamara runs for six of them and takes
Speaker 1: the hill runs for another one. Makes absolutely no sense
Speaker 1: to me. But yeah, I'm salty about it. But I
Speaker 1: take my second place, and next year I'll be ready
Speaker 1: to compete Steak right there. I don't know nothing about
Speaker 1: that church. I don't know nothing about no pots. You're
Speaker 1: talking about that, okay, but all of it about I
Speaker 1: don't know what he going on, all right, Okay, I
Speaker 1: said I kind of I kind of thought that you.
Speaker 1: You didn't say anything so as the silence was sound,
Speaker 1: But you played the right guy. I'm sorry you had
Speaker 1: to play. You had to. That was the right play.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are the odds that they score fifty
Speaker 1: points and Drew Brees is not throwing at least two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in it? I mean, it's just you had to
Speaker 1: do it, man, you had to do it. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I done. I don't feel bad about it. I don't
Speaker 1: feel bad about who I had to get ship all right,
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about who I had in the game.
Speaker 1: I just feel bad that I had a chance with
Speaker 1: the people that were all my roster. Got you, gotcha?
Speaker 1: All right? Yeah? Man, let's go ahead predict this game?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead. Uh, I already know where
Speaker 1: you're going, Church, but just give me your final score. Dallas,
Speaker 1: what Giants? Dallas beat the Giants? You know what's the school?
Speaker 1: Dallas twenty seven, Giants fourteen onto the wild card again
Speaker 1: and then then Washington Lewis. Okay, I got you. So
Speaker 1: you're already predicting all this, I'm going I'm going on
Speaker 1: actually a very highly competitive game that comes down to
Speaker 1: the last drive with the red rifle making some amazing
Speaker 1: plays and who's going to be a star or swing
Speaker 1: route to my man, Ezekiel Elliott to shut up all
Speaker 1: the haters, the ones that's saying that he's not worth what,
Speaker 1: he's not playing up to his contract, and he scores
Speaker 1: the game, win a touchdown, and my final score is
Speaker 1: thirty one Dallas twenty four New York Giants. And who
Speaker 1: do you have winn in Washington? Filling? I still got
Speaker 1: Washington winning that game. If listen, just like last week,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that Alex Smith and McLaren are playing in
Speaker 1: this game. If somehow, you know, you know, one of
Speaker 1: them is a plan, then then Philly, Philly has a
Speaker 1: very good chance of winning. That mistakes are being made.
Speaker 1: What you got new It twenty three twenty Cowboys win.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, d Mac. I think that we're going
Speaker 1: to see a competitive football game. The Giants did look
Speaker 1: they're playing for division championship too, So I expect this
Speaker 1: to be a good football game in the Northeast here
Speaker 1: just to start twenty twenty one, and I believe that
Speaker 1: Washington will end up winning. I think that Scott Turner
Speaker 1: and is going to just be a very a very
Speaker 1: conservative game plan and they're just gonna allow their defense
Speaker 1: to win the football game. I just don't think Philadelphia
Speaker 1: has got enough guys, um you know who can go
Speaker 1: out here and get this thing done. I just don't
Speaker 1: see it at the end. So um, Cowboys and get
Speaker 1: up seven, they'll end up seventy nine. Churchill look good
Speaker 1: because he was right and they went four in a row.
Speaker 1: But I just think Washington ends up getting this thing done.
Speaker 1: And uh, and there you go. What makes you guys
Speaker 1: think this game is even gonna be competitive? I just
Speaker 1: I just want to know that. What makes y'all think
Speaker 1: I just said it gonna put something out there just
Speaker 1: because they got a playoff chance like the hopes and dreams. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let me think about it. What you've just said
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys, you can say the exact same thing
Speaker 1: for the Giants. They're sitting up here playing for opportunity
Speaker 1: to win. They have to win this game. If you
Speaker 1: want to have a chance to win the division, you
Speaker 1: gotta win the game. So you don't think that they're
Speaker 1: not gonna come in and try and lay it down
Speaker 1: and play as hard as they can't at home and
Speaker 1: not get swept by the Cowboys. And also, by the way,
Speaker 1: the back of their minds, they feel like they probably
Speaker 1: should have won against the Cowboys earlier in the year. So, man,
Speaker 1: I expect this team to come out here and fight.
Speaker 1: I mean, they can play hard, But do y'all think
Speaker 1: this is seriously gonna be competitive? That's like it one
Speaker 1: competitive the first game. You know, if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: one specialty's mistake that they made with an illegal formation,
Speaker 1: we lose that game. So I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: it's not like we're head over Hills butter and we
Speaker 1: had Dak Prescott that game that it was it was
Speaker 1: and and don't forget they won the roll before Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones got hurt. They had to look the same. Since
Speaker 1: he got back, the defense was playing well. You know
Speaker 1: that this would be his second week back. I think. So,
Speaker 1: I think that they'll be ready for this game, and
Speaker 1: I still think they'll lose, but I think it'll be
Speaker 1: highly competitive. Rivalry game they're playing for, I mean division rivals,
Speaker 1: they're playing for a chance to go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Last game of the season, everything is on the line.
Speaker 1: I just I just don't see them coming out and
Speaker 1: laying the egg. They have something to play for, and
Speaker 1: that's it. S Church's the interesting thing here. You're you're
Speaker 1: betting on Philadelphia, who's got nothing to play for, to
Speaker 1: actually come out here and go beat Washington. But you
Speaker 1: but you say the Giant aren't going to give you
Speaker 1: any problem at all. That's an interesting take. That's that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So I even talk about the later now Philly and
Speaker 1: Wash that that that scares me. That game is gonna
Speaker 1: be competitive, That thing is gonna that that's scary. Not
Speaker 1: but but new York, this this this New York. I
Speaker 1: ain't worried about New York. Man. This game will it
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense? Absolutely done it You'll be so. So
Speaker 1: I was. I was talking to to a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who played the league like you guys, a veteran,
Speaker 1: and I said, how afraid or guys of getting hurt
Speaker 1: in the final game of the season and possibly have
Speaker 1: to spend your offseason, you know, having some type of
Speaker 1: rehab or surgery. And this guy who the four player, said, uh,
Speaker 1: very much. So it's like, you know, wanting to go
Speaker 1: out here and play. He's like, man, if something is nagging,
Speaker 1: now it's cool. Now you can't go. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has got nothing to play for. Um, if you're
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cocks and I don't know what his status is,
Speaker 1: but okay, you are you going out of here? You playing?
Speaker 1: He's just stressing for what so so? Church, You're asking
Speaker 1: a football team that's already playing a bunch of hurt
Speaker 1: dudes and street free agents. You think they're gonna rise
Speaker 1: up and beat a team who's We talked about this,
Speaker 1: I think yesterday or the day before. There's plenty for
Speaker 1: Philadelphia to play for. Jalen Hurts. He's trying to get
Speaker 1: that starting job next year. He fold them. There's so
Speaker 1: many guys on that roster right now, beat up who
Speaker 1: are trying to get contracts next year, who are trying
Speaker 1: to show that they don't need to be a part
Speaker 1: of this dumpster fire once they explode this whole team.
Speaker 1: So there's plenty of incentives for those young guys to
Speaker 1: go out there and play hard and get a victory.
Speaker 1: Plus it's in Philadelphia and they don't want nobody celebrating
Speaker 1: on their turf. I'm with the Eagles on this one.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come out hard. But you need all this
Speaker 1: to happen so we got you when you need all
Speaker 1: this to happen. So he needs it. We all need it.
Speaker 1: I need he's saying all this. I know he's saying.
Speaker 1: He's saying all this like they're not going out there
Speaker 1: and playing one of the top defenses in the league
Speaker 1: like full gl full gl needs it. You know, he
Speaker 1: needs it, like like he's not going out there playing
Speaker 1: against washing like this offensive lot needs it. Like they
Speaker 1: ain't going to gainst care getting change on. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: needed to, they too needed to. They play for extra checks.
Speaker 1: They Hey, I don't McCray, I'm not understanding how he's
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, Hey, Philly's gonna come out here because
Speaker 1: they got something to play for. And then yeah, but
Speaker 1: the Giants are gonna come out here and lay it
Speaker 1: down and way hard. But that doesn't matter. They can
Speaker 1: play as hard as they want to. They just don't
Speaker 1: have what it takes to compete against the Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: I truly believe that. So I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: done by halftime. No different since the player, what's that?
Speaker 1: What's different from the first time? Good? What's from the
Speaker 1: first time we played? As far as because you know,
Speaker 1: like that it sounds like they can't. They can't different,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot different. This is a lot different
Speaker 1: team from back then when we played them. Okay, are
Speaker 1: you right? No, we're taking the ball away. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're playing better Reds on defense, and he don't's board fishing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's there's a lot of things different than
Speaker 1: the Dollar. Wasn't out there. It was Dak Prescott, all right, Listen,
Speaker 1: it was he was out there. He was he didn't play.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you both. It's a question for
Speaker 1: both both of you guys haven't played the league. How
Speaker 1: hard is it to sweep a team during the season
Speaker 1: in your division and take that sweep in your own building,
Speaker 1: on your home stadium. How tough is that? Uh? Listen, honestly,
Speaker 1: like that stuff. To me, I didn't really play into it.
Speaker 1: Like when I'm out there on the field, I don't
Speaker 1: be thinking about home field advantage, thinking about the crowd.
Speaker 1: I think about going out there trying to win the game.
Speaker 1: To me, that's that's all extra. Maybe you have an
Speaker 1: extra incentive before the game, and you could talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit after, but when you're out on the field,
Speaker 1: you're just giving a trying to win. Is it hard?
Speaker 1: Because teams may give you a little bit of extra
Speaker 1: because they don't want to get swept. Maybe, But I
Speaker 1: mean I think teams are gonna go out there and
Speaker 1: play just as hard. Don't matter if they're getting swept
Speaker 1: or they're playing for whatever they play for. They just
Speaker 1: going out there and trying to focus on being the
Speaker 1: best as they can. So I don't see it as
Speaker 1: a big deal. Yeah, and to me, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think the only thing is the team that's getting swept.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the only motivation they had. If that's
Speaker 1: their coaches are saying, a little man, we lost the
Speaker 1: first game. We don't want to go out here and
Speaker 1: get swept throughout the whole year from this division opponent,
Speaker 1: So we gotta go out here and get this W.
Speaker 1: But the the opponent that already got the victory against them,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're really thinking too much about sweeping them.
Speaker 1: They're just thinking about getting that W and h closing
Speaker 1: things out. Oh wait, wait, wait, my bad Church. You
Speaker 1: are correct. That's the game that Dad got hurt. Andy
Speaker 1: Donton came in and won the game for us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Red Rifle the Powers. So he's the guy that's
Speaker 1: what's different about the team. He's he's leading to him
Speaker 1: for the whole game. So that's why we're gonna win.
Speaker 1: I got you. I gave you two other examples. I
Speaker 1: gave you examples of playing better red zone, examples of
Speaker 1: taking away ten times in three and three games where
Speaker 1: we had no no chance of taking the ball away
Speaker 1: early in the season. This defense, the biggest defense difference
Speaker 1: to me is this defense and kind of the wave link.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton got us with his receivers right now, He's
Speaker 1: hitting them on all cylinders. I like it. I'm talking
Speaker 1: up and talking up, got got us peaks positive into
Speaker 1: these things. Man. So mccraig, mccraig, how do you like
Speaker 1: your steak cooked? Hey, I wouldn't answer that list. I
Speaker 1: wist let's got you into this predictave bit now. No,
Speaker 1: no matter, no matter what happens, I would be eating
Speaker 1: the stake. So I like my steak medium, rare medium,
Speaker 1: you know what at with a little Bernad sauce. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what you like? It was well done? I like well
Speaker 1: done steak. Eat like a little I got all the
Speaker 1: little pink in this man, like a little pink in me.
Speaker 1: I want to know what you give you some bread
Speaker 1: and some cheese and some lettuce and tomato and put that.
Speaker 1: Put that well the stake between that some fry and
Speaker 1: eat it that way, all right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, mister.
Speaker 1: You know I put cram meat on that. Get some
Speaker 1: get some mashed potatoes, and I'm gonna get that just
Speaker 1: because you, my boy d Mac. I'm gonna get a
Speaker 1: half a half of lots of nah. Listen, listen, new
Speaker 1: he owed me a meal, so I'm gonna just transfer
Speaker 1: that meal over to the church. You know. The difference,
Speaker 1: Nigga says. The difference in this whole conversation is I
Speaker 1: old Danny, you know, some food from a nice little,
Speaker 1: nice little cajun's mom and pop spot. Okay, you guys
Speaker 1: have been betting, Nicka says, and boogie stuff a whole
Speaker 1: another level. I can't even in the conversation, man, the conversation.
Speaker 1: I didn't make it back because I can't even afford
Speaker 1: nothing like that. So my little payoff to you, mccraig. Fine,
Speaker 1: we didn't get over the two sisters. All good, all good.
Speaker 1: I can afford that. I can't can't deal with butterflies
Speaker 1: and crab sauce. I ain't all that. I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: call new y'all man, but I've seen his whip. I
Speaker 1: know where he stayed. Listen. I know what type of stuff.
Speaker 1: Knew he'd be trying to listen. He was trying to
Speaker 1: play it down a lot. I got you, man, I
Speaker 1: understand you already say you used to tat out of
Speaker 1: his highway. It ain't cheat to be over there. It
Speaker 1: ain't we understand our singles. I was single, I was singing.
Speaker 1: I was single. It as they say the movie Unforgiven.
Speaker 1: I ain't like that no more. I can't afford that lifestyle,
Speaker 1: no more cash. You get three daughters like you can't
Speaker 1: afford anything like that? You know he cry your mind?
Speaker 1: So Mike, I couldn't even I couldn't even drive there.
Speaker 1: My memory won't even work there like that? No more, man,
Speaker 1: So I used I used to I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1: I used to have money. Then I got married and
Speaker 1: I had three daughters. I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 1: money no more. I ain't listening to that MC. Look
Speaker 1: look at his backdrop. You see his backdrop. Me. I
Speaker 1: just got a wall with back, got the whole shelf
Speaker 1: back there, got books lined up, man, I ain't believe
Speaker 1: in none of that newly Man, I ain't not fooling.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up, because, all right, my
Speaker 1: wife's an interior designers, so she got a massive discount
Speaker 1: off this. As far as the books go, because I'm
Speaker 1: a sportscaster, they send me a lot of free books.
Speaker 1: So I got a lot of books right here, and
Speaker 1: I've never had a for it are pretty good. So
Speaker 1: nice you ask. I got reasons, baby, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: tell you. Man, you know, illusions are good, all right,
Speaker 1: that bens I have. I didn't buy that. I didn't
Speaker 1: buy that new that was I was new. It don't matter,
Speaker 1: you got it. It's yours. It's yours. That's all that matter.
Speaker 1: We don't care it took he's driving foreign, he driving
Speaker 1: West German. I was born in West German. It's not really,
Speaker 1: it's not really forign. You were in America. That's in
Speaker 1: America that I got support support my people's man, Me
Speaker 1: and Dirk supporting the people people. UM don't get don't
Speaker 1: don't get too wild tonight, you know, don't get too
Speaker 1: wild tonight. You know, you guys can do your own
Speaker 1: version of Nick and Sam's before you actually go there.
Speaker 1: Good luck to you Church. I'll see you Monday either way,
Speaker 1: because you go you that stand up kind of guy.
Speaker 1: You know you're gonna be that kind of guy. Stand up.
Speaker 1: We'll see you on Monday, right right, yep, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be. I might have a whole Notion Dramas outfit
Speaker 1: on for y'all who know we're gonna see. We're gonna
Speaker 1: now you're gonna go from Notre Domas to Negro Dommas. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run late if you Okay, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it if you run Domas, and we're gonna have fun.
Speaker 1: As I sit around here, I want pictures. I want
Speaker 1: I want pictures of McCrae eating misteak h. If you
Speaker 1: lose this thing, so tell us. Oh, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty was rocky, but it's been fun to do
Speaker 1: this show with you guys. Chris be our producer. Man,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much you you make sure
Speaker 1: this thing is on the rails and working all the time,
Speaker 1: and the stresses we put you through. Man, we appreciate you.
Speaker 1: So Happy New Year to you and your family, To
Speaker 1: everyone who's checked us out through the year and told
Speaker 1: a friend about us who's tweeted at us, UM, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. This is a this is a fun show
Speaker 1: to do, and UM said, I can't wait for TWE
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one because it just it has to get better.
Speaker 1: Lord Willing, it does get better. So dmc church be well,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. And hey, we all got the Cowboys winning
Speaker 1: this game here over the New York Football Giants, and
Speaker 1: we'll watch Sunday Night football and see exactly what happens
Speaker 1: between Philadelphia and Washington. I knew, he scrugs. The players
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