WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Super Bowl Exceptions? 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:17.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players Lounge, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.680 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:28.320 Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey scrugs. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.440 All right, it's Friday. You know what time it is. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.239 It's time for the Players Lounge. We're still at our 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.440 homes doing the show from our respective spots. I'm new 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.960 He scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by two former players 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.240 of the Cowboys, Danny McCray and Barry Church. Church. You 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.720 know you haven't told Danny and I if you've gone 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.520 back to Oklahoma anytime sooner. You've just been camping out 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.600 here in Texas. Man. Yeah, I'm sad to say I 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.480 have not been back to Oklahoma. You know, broken Boat. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:04.600 It was a great experience while we were out there. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.319 I just says, heat, man is. Heat is just getting 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.720 to me. Man, It's making me want to stay in 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.440 this act and chat with y'all all day. So, I mean, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.080 I haven't been able to travel as much as I 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.680 like to. All Right, all right, So McCrae, my man, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:23.120 I love people who want to talk about the Super 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.080 Bowl because the reason I love it is because when 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:26.760 they bring it up, when they talk about the Cowboys, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.000 I always shooting down because I'm like, hey, look it's 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.880 been a minute. It's been a minute, okay. And I'm 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.360 one of those Danny that believes just go out win 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.399 your division and just keep on winning games, and then 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.399 you know, if you end up there, you end up there. Well, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.119 Mike McCarthy was asked about that at his press conference today. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.440 I want you to take a listen to what Mike 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.120 had to say about the Super Bowl. Danny. I want 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:49.760 to hear you comment on it, and Barry, I want 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.640 to get your thought to next. So let's hear from 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:57.880 new Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy. I think conversation like that, frankly, respectfully, 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.160 is nonsense. If you're not trying to win the Super Bowl, 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.320 I don't know what to what you're even doing in 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.440 this business. I think that's what every team UM starts 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.040 their off season with. UM. The ones that don't want 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.840 to talk about it, they're you know, they're you know, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.520 they're just probably trying to you know, what's under promise, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.960 under promise, over overachieved but from the capital. I've always 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.640 been very upfront about it. Every team I've ever coached. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.280 You know, we're in this to win a championship, make 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.680 no bones about it. Uh, the schedule is is what 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.919 it is. I'm a big fanas statement, but we're all 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:43.400 in a pandemic, all right. So that's Mike McCarthy. He 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.880 doesn't mind talking about Super Bowl expectations because he believes 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.799 that's why you're here. You're in the building to win 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.400 a championship. So Danny your thoughts. Yeah, I think that 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.160 was it was a good answer. I mean, he didn't 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:56.880 he didn't push all the chips in and say that 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.640 that make any guarantees and say that we're definitely going 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.480 to win the championship. But he knows why why he's here. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.440 He was sitting on the sidelines figuring out ways to 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.480 come up with a better offense and a better scheme 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.520 so he can win another Super Bowl. And Jared saw that, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.840 and Jared said, Hey, I'm bringing you in here specifically 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.160 for this reason. I told everyone that I will pay 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.640 anything for a Super Bowl. So when you come in here, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.680 I want you to let everybody know this is the goal. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.320 So I think it was a perfect answer, and that's 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:29.839 what we're all expecting out of the Cowboys. I mean, look, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.120 we all know, we all know when you you know, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.880 you come coach for America's team and the Dallas Cowboys, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.800 what the expectation is. The expectation is to get to 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.000 the super Bowl, make super Bowl runs, plural super Bowl runs, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.080 and I get to the playoffs at win divisions. But 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.480 we've all seen what happens when you count your chips 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.440 or you count you count your wins before you actually 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.000 went out there and got him. I mean the past 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.680 three four years, we've all been super Bowl champions on 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.640 paper and we've seen that come to folition none at all. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.640 So I think you can get in a little bit 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.680 of trouble when you're already talking about you had the 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.120 goal to win a championship, and he should have started off. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:03.800 I said, you know, the goals to win games, win 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.720 the division, win some playoffs, and then they you get 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.520 to the super Bowl. Because we all know what the 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.960 expectation is when you come here is to win super Bowls. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.440 But you can't put all your eggs in the basket 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.640 at once. I mean, this team is just getting together 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.400 for the first time all year, and so I just think, 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.120 you know, talking about Super Bowl this early in the season. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.320 I mean, it's gotten in trouble in the past before. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.680 As don't see want us to repeat what happened again 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.520 last year. Church. I want to stay with you because 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.000 in Jacksonville, you're playing on a team that went to 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.920 the AFC Championship game. How to lead in the second 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.599 half against the Patriots. You don't win that game, and 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.359 then the next year there are a lot of people saying, 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.719 this year Jacksonville steps through, they go win the Super Bowl. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.360 It did not happen, in fact, that jacks fell apart. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.360 So you tell me what is that like from the 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.520 standpoint of having everyone talk about it to kind of 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.720 sneak it up on some folks. Well, I mean, like 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.800 you said, I mean I've witnessed it and I've been 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.839 a part of it firsthand. I mean, like you said, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.840 winning in twenty seventeen year we went to the a 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.400 FC Championship, we had the number one defense in the NFL. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.719 I mean, we were all coming back that next year, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.159 so we felt like we already had it in the bag. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.520 I mean we felt like we can destroy this division 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.560 and we'll end up meeting the Patriots to get into 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.760 playoffs and they got lucky and we'll destroy them. So 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:16.880 we already kind of thought, you know, we had this 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.160 season in the bag, and we started out pretty well. 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.640 I think we went, you know, three and one in 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.560 the first and then we met the Cowboys. I think 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.160 we were three and three at the time, and they 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:25.840 blew the hinges off of us, and we never were 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.960 able to kind of kind of get back to what 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.359 we wanted to be that season. So the expectations for 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.200 us were high, and I felt like we were kind 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.039 of feeling ourselves going into that season, and it wrecked 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.839 our season. I mean, and it started at the top 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.640 the leadership, myself, you know, Calais, all those guys at 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.359 the time, we kind of you know, felt ourselves. We 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.120 felt like, you know, we had a great defense and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.440 we could take over this league like we did last year. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.880 And you gotta change each and you gotta evolve each 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.200 and every year. So hopefully the Cowboys were able to 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.320 do that. They're able to evolve from that from what 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.320 they did last year and make some little quick, tweak 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.680 changes to the offense and defense because people were gonna 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.680 pick up on what they did last year. Especially these 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.760 defense and offensive coordinators, they watch film like everybody else, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.919 so they'll be able to pick apart what the strength 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.600 of weaknesses are. So you just gotta change up a 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.920 little bit. But I'm you know, I'm excited to see 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.960 what McCarthy has in store for us this year. All right, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.000 let's go from super Bowl talk here on the players 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.320 lounge talking about the one thing that you have to 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:19.839 have if you're going to be a super Bowl team, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.960 and that's some defense. Here. The Cowboys have won five championships, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.000 and when you look at the five championship teams, defense 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.400 has been a big part of why they were able 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:33.160 to get there. I was excited about Gerald McCoy being 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.480 a part of the Cowboys defensive line, of defensive tackle 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.839 getting bigger. Gerald McCoy this week ends up tearing his quad. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.159 They cut him. He's not on the team anymore. So 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.320 just that whole trying to fill it. Danny, you start 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:54.200 with this here, what's your concern? My concern is the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.839 same as it's ben for for all the teams and 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.200 especially us without having a true season and having to 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.600 worry about guys going down like this. I've seen the 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.760 video of it, and it was just a you know, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.960 just a normal play of normal drill that they were 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.320 going through and he goes down and you're you know, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.080 and you and your first thought is this is what 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.040 we're talking about, right, those soft tissue injuries for guys 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.760 who haven't been able to get into that real football shape. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.320 These things that happened. So for us, I just think 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.000 that we need to make sure that we have some depth. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.680 So good thing we have Poe, we have Crawford, but 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.120 I don't think we can sustain many more of these injuries. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:33.480 So we just need to make sure that we're able 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.960 to stay healthy because we expect the big things out 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.239 of McCoy and now he is a big hold of fields. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.080 So some of those young guys like Tristan Hill they said, 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.160 are having good practices. He's gonna have to step up 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:48.040 in real game time and make some big time play. Yeah. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.119 I believe that McCoy injury was hurt to the depth 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.280 more than anything. With the Cowboys, we know defensively, offensively 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.840 as well, they're talented and mentally across the board. So 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.640 when you lose a guy like McCoy, that hurts your death. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:02.880 Because he was supposed to be out to go out 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.480 there and be a starter, and not only a starter, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.760 but a leader out there for this defense. Um, there's 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.680 a lot of young parts to this defense and just 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.239 having a guy like that that can lead your defense 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.320 into valliation every Sunday would have been amazing. M So 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.720 for him going down that way, it's just gonna have 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.040 to force, like McCray said, it's gonna have to force 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.360 younger guys like Tristan Hill to step up. And last year, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.840 we know he was in the doghouse. Mary Ellie didn't 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.080 really want to play him that much. But hopefully he's able, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.880 he's able to mature a little bit more and grow 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.000 a little bit more in this offseason and he'll be 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.439 able to step up in McCoy's absence because the Cowboys 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.160 are gonna need that. I mean, they're gonna need him 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.160 to step up hopefully. I mean, the reports of all 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.079 the smith out there are off the charts, so hopefully 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.000 he can step up as well. But if you if 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.800 you can generate a great pass rush and you can 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.520 stop the run with that front four, I mean, it 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.719 makes a job so much easier for the secondary and 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.920 the rest of the defense. So we're gonna have to 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.400 have someone step up in the place for McCoy, and 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.120 I believe that's gonna have to be Tristan Hill, so 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.720 hopefully he's up for the task. Okay, let's this is 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.560 why you two guys. I love having you on the show. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.280 I love to because you've been in the locker room. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.839 You understand exactly what has to happen. So I don't 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.240 start with you on this one. Danny who gets to 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.480 Tristan Hill to talk to him about how he is 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.200 needed that. You know the reports last year he fell 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.000 asleep when they had guest speaker Isaiah Thomas come around 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.240 that he was in that dog house with Rod Marinelli, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.280 that he wasn't taking football as seriously as they needed 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.560 him to be. Who's the person in the room or 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.240 persons who talk to him and let him know, Hey, man, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.640 you gotta grow up. We need you now. I'll tell 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.760 you this, man, I'm I'm gonna give I'm gonna give 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.640 him a little slack for last year because he went 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.320 through some of those normal rookie things that I've seen 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.320 a lot of rookie guys go through. In that first year. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.679 It's a whole different playing field. You got a lot 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.720 of money. There's a lot of stuff on. Uh. You know, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.880 you finally reach celebrity status right in the town like Dallas, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.280 so it's easy to get lost in that. I think 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.120 he was able to refocus himself and the things I'm 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.200 hearing about him so far have been great. And I 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.320 think having Tyron Crawford in there in that in that 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.160 room is a big thing because I think they missed 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.480 his leadership last year when he was hurt, and I 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.120 think he's bringing that to Tristan Hill this year, and 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.080 I think you'll see a great improvement from him just 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.880 by having Crawford around. Yeah, they're gonna need a great 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.200 improvement from Tristan Hill. I mean, like you said, last year, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:18.920 he was going through those you know, rookie struggles a 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.079 little bit here and there. But guys like Crawford, guys 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.920 like Sean Lee, guys like you know, DeMarcus Lawrence, they're 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.400 gonna have to get in this guy's ear and they're 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.640 gonna have to show him how to be a professional. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.880 I mean falling asleep in meetings, like mccraie said, We've 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.240 seen that in the past. But it's it's your turn 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.080 to step up and be that focal point or that 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.920 be that you know kind of focal point. Like I said, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.440 on the defensive line, you're gonna have to generate pressure 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.600 and production that was lost from McCoy. So hopefully those 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.880 veteran guys in the locker room can get with him, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:47.880 show him how to break down tape, show him how 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.120 to be more professional when it comes to playing in 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.280 this league, because if not, you'll be out of this 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.320 league quick. I mean, you know it stands for NFL, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.840 not for long. So hopefully those guys can you know, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.160 get in his ear, get him going in the right direction. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.800 And so far this camp, we've heard some good reports 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.480 about what he's been able to do. So hopefully that 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.720 can keep going. And because they're not gonna need him, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.000 they're gonna need that depth piece for this defensive line. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.600 And look at it. I'll tell you this, the reports 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.240 coming out about him are much better than reports that 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.559 that came out about Taco. So I got some faith. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.719 I got some faith in Tristan to making them prove 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.679 it this year because that they not for the longest 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.200 true man church. They got him about his send him 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.760 to Miami Man. They got him quick first round first 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.640 rounder as well, if you if you don't produce what 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.719 a new coach is there, yeah, you're not safe. So 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.400 I think I think he's woke, and I think he's 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.320 gonna be able to get some stuff done because he 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.600 has a perfect example of what happened if he doesn't. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.960 And then Miami got rid of Taco Charlton. He's now 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.560 out there in Kansas City. And for me, when I 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:51.240 look at Tristan Hill, I think of just here's an opportunity. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.199 I mean, this is a job that you can have 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.480 and be a part of a defense here that if 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.080 Everson Griffin and Olden Smith and Tank Lords are the 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.319 players we think they can be and have the kind 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.320 of seasons we do, Triston Hill's gonna have an excellent 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.480 opportunity to make a name for himself. And you guys know, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.040 if you can get in this league, if you can 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.880 put some pressure on the quarterback, they'll write you a really, really, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.720 really big check. So hopefully he can see that working 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.040 with Jim tom Sula, maybe that'll change will be better 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.680 for him. He's still gonna be working with Leon Let, 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.920 but there's an opportunity for this young man can make 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.839 some good money in the National Football League. So it's 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.360 a great opportunity. I mean, like you said, with all 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.280 those guys on the defensive line, I'm pretty I'm ninety 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.240 percent confident that teams aren't going to be out there 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.640 trying to double Triston Hill. So if he's able to 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.520 go out there and defeat one on one blocks consistently, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.280 like you said, he can make a name for himself 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.160 in this game. But he's gonna have to put the 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.199 work in and hopefully he's been doing it this offseason 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:49.920 and so far this camp, it sounds like he's been 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:55.319 doing him all right. Danny wanted to get into this 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.000 one with you being because you guys are both dbs. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.680 But but Cheeto Awosier spoke about that Cowboys scheme now 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.200 under Mike Nolan, and the thing that I keep getting 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.720 from players like Cheeto is man, this is a welcome 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:15.959 change and we're not going to be predictable. Yeah, it's 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.240 it's it's it's huge. Like we talked about last week, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.320 just to put this into perspective, if you're playing a 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.000 guy like Tom Brady and you line up in the 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.440 Cover two shell and then you play Cover two, it's 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.720 an issue. If you line up in the cover two 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.560 shell and you just always drop down to cover three. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.840 He knows that it's an issue. He's going to find 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.160 a weakness. So you have to be able to disguise 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.080 presnap and post snap. So with Nolan being able to 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.240 do that, these guys are feel more confident that the quarterback, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.400 especially the smart ones in the veteran was they don't 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.520 already know what defense you're in and know where they 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.320 should go with the ball, right, they want to make 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.559 them think that the extra extra half a second longer 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.800 so that defensive line to have a chance to get 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.319 there and make that sack so they can get those 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.320 tips and overthrows. So I think it's huge and it's 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.240 gonna give the dv is a lot of confidence because 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.079 they know that that that that pass rush will have 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.240 a little bit more time to get there just based 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:10.000 off their pre and posting that disguises. Yeah, disguise will 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.720 be huge coming up for this season. I mean, no 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.600 no disrespect or anything to coach Marinelli in his system, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.920 but I believe it was kind of vanilla when it 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.320 comes when it came to disguising. I mean everything was 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.040 pretty much out of that two shell. Now it can 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.040 work against you know, younger quarterbacks and quarterbacks who haven't 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.000 really seen that much defense. But when you're going against 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.400 the you know, the Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady's of 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.760 the world will pretty much dissect that defense because they 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.720 know pretty much one of the safeties are gonna come 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.640 down into the box. So, UM, disguising your defenses um 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.680 pre snap can basically that you're you're winning half of 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.640 the battle if you can get your quarterback to not 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.640 know what defense is in pre snap. So Chito was 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.640 right about that having multiple looks and multiple schemes will 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.320 help this defensive lot and the prayer. You were also 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.400 right when it comes to the defensive line. If if 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.080 they're not producing and be one on one blocks like 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.600 we think they will be able to this season. Um, 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.240 this guy that defense and having that quarterback just hold 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.080 the ball of extra tick, just hold the ball at 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.960 extra second, make him pat and make him look around 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.480 through all his reads. Giving that defensive line extra time 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.600 to come in there and create havoc, which we know 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.640 they can will be huge for this defense. So going forward, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.640 if they can keep this disguise, going to keep this 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.480 multiple defensive looks going to confuse quarterbacks giving their secondary 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.560 more time back there, or giving their defensive line more 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.760 time to get to the backfield. It will be immensely 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.040 huged for this defense, and we'll see what happens when 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.760 the season creates around Barry. It's no disrespect to Rob Merriley. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.440 This is just the truth. Guys knew what was coming. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.600 And the Jet game, to me, was the biggest indictment 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.480 on why this defense needed to change, because Sam Darnold 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.440 had been out a month with Mono and the Jets 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.280 were just going in different quarterbacks and they had problems. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.760 They here comes Sam one month out and steps onto 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:58.000 the field that MetLife Stadium against the Cowboys and had 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.280 a fantastic game. And then after said, well it's the Cowboys. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.200 We kind of know what they do, which in his 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.920 way was dude, it wasn't hard. We figured it out. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.920 And then we saw Mitchell Trubisky on that Thursday night 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.960 with Chicago and he looked like a real quarterback. I mean, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.480 we just so songs, but I just said, man, this 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.160 thing has to change, and I'm just happy to see 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.120 that they got Mike Nolan here and they're going to 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.280 make some changes. And you clearly hear the players who 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.040 respect rod Man because that's the thing. Everybody respects him. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.120 But your stuff can't get old, and his stuff had 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.360 gotten old and they needed to change here. And to me, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.400 I'll be interested to see is Cheeto a better player 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.480 now under this scheme here? Because look, here's a kid 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.360 in his last year, Barry, who took a whole lot 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.160 of hits throughout his career. What if he turns out 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.000 and becomes a better player. We have seen players leave 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:52.760 and go to different schemes and coaches who utilize him better. Yeah, 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.160 we've definitely seen that. I mean case in point with 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.600 Malcolm Jenkins with the Saints. He was rated as one 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.400 of the worst, say he's coming out a free agency 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.000 when he was with the Saints, but then when he 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.960 got to the Eagles, he pretty much turned his whole 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.919 career around. And we've seen he's still in the NFL 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.800 playing at a high level. So there's been examples of 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.760 this in the past where corners, you know, have struggled 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.040 in one system but then turn around the turn around 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.040 their whole career in another system. Patrick Chunk, that's another 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:19.919 one of the guys who went to Philadelphia and was 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.280 terrible and then went to New England and played awesome. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.840 So it's definitely possible for Cheeta to turn his season 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.720 around like he did. You know, last year was kind 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.199 of a rough season for him, so it's it's an 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.280 ability to make this season a lot better by changing 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.399 these multiple looks and have him out there doing what 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.480 he can do. So hopefully he's able to turn around 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.520 this year and become a better corner and we'll see 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:45.399 if that scheme helps in Church, you know, like I 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.000 don't know that. You know, like up in Seattle, they 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:53.040 had guys who could who were superstars, Hall of Fame players, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:54.720 and they could line up and cover through the cover 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.560 too and play that defense and still make plays. When 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.200 you try to bring that to the team and as 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.080 young guys and have that those caliber of players, it's 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.480 a totally different thing, right. So you got Cam Chancellor, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.080 you got Earl Thomas, you got Richard Sherman. Those guys 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.800 can make plays in any scheme. They're lined up and 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.679 show you what they're in and they can get out 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.720 there and go make plays. When you try to bring 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.040 that defense to a whole different team with new guys 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.680 and young guys and guys that don't have that type 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.800 of talent or that type of experience. That's where you 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.879 get in trouble. Like maryon Elli and Christian Shard. Did 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.520 you try to line up and act like you got 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.399 those guys that you had in Seattle and it just 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.000 you don't get the same result. Yeah, Earl Thomas did 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.000 not walk through that door at all, So it was 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.199 definitely an issue. We need to take a prank. But 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.840 still to come here on the players lands, let's dive 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.480 a little bit into hard knocks because the Rams and 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.920 the Chargers are there. 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See More, 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:14.760 Do More to the players loud, Hey everybody, it's Friday. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.639 That means it's play as Lands time and we always 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.840 enjoy you taking your time to listen to our our 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.120 takes on the Cowboys and what we will expect for 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.119 this twenty twenty season which is still on pace to 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:31.240 just go forward. Here. I was watching Hard Knocks, and 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.080 I enjoy the show whenever it's not the Cowboys. When 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.040 they come here twice, I've hated every minute of it 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.320 because NFL Films they get all this carte blunt stuff 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.679 that we in the local media don't get. So this 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.080 year it's the Rams and it's the Chargers. They've combined 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.200 them both. And so one cool thing about watching the 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:50.840 Charges is Anthony lenn former coach here with the Dallas 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.280 Cowboys under Bill Parcel's getting his opportunity. And then um, 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.719 one reason why I'm very interesting the Rams is that's 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.560 the cowboys first opponent. And Barry, your former teammate in Jacksonville, 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.840 Jalen Ramsey is with He's with the Rams. Now I 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.639 got himself trade it there says he loves la. He 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.840 went house hunting, and he went house hunting on a place. 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.480 It was about thirty plus acres of whatever. I mean 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.000 this It was a mansion, Okay, it was a mansion 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:20.119 on top of a hill all by itself. Your thoughts 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.119 on that crib he was looking at And do you 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:26.080 know if he bought it? Did you text him? No? 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.040 I'm not sure if he bought the house or not. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.040 But I mean, Looyd, it was it was a palatial 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.880 estate sitting on top of I mean it was a nice, 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.000 very very beautiful home. But I mean knowing Ramsey the 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.320 way I do. Um, you know, he loves, he liked 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:42.000 to find the things in life, and um, you know 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:43.960 he's worked his butt off to try to get those things. 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.240 So in his mind he's thinking, hey, I gotta pay 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.080 They coming here soon. If all I gotta do is 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.440 stay healthy and play productive like I have been these 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:52.560 past couple of seasons, and I can be able to 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:54.840 afford to get something like this. But I can see 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.560 him definitely grabbing that mansion. He's definitely and he's a 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:01.359 he's a LA guy when it comes to that. The 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:04.119 perfect team he could have went to. He's kind of Hollywood, 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.520 but that's just his character. He's genuine and I can 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:07.920 see him living in that house. I mean it was 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:11.040 a palatial estate up there. Man who was that real 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:13.600 estate agent? Man, they did some research on the dude. 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:17.120 They had everything that he ever thought of it. They 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:21.520 had everything he needed. I mean the pictures of his kid, 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:23.600 this picture of his kids there. I mean that was 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.720 you know that probably just looking at it, that probably 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:33.800 cost twelve hundred bucks to stage all of that specifically 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:36.000 for him. The way they had that thing lined up 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:40.879 and which and it made me think of how much money, 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:43.800 how much of a commission. Is this real estate agent 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:46.320 possibly going to get off this home if you're spending 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.640 that kind of the stage of that hole. I mean, 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.240 they did their research, they had their kids pictures in there. 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.560 I mean, they're trying to get this sold as soon 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.040 as possible. I mean, they did all their research on them. 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:58.399 And again I mean he's like I guess, he's a 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:01.959 high profile client. So they spent the money to hopefully 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:03.920 get the money. You know what I'm saying, Well, look 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:05.720 they do. This is going to be on TV two, 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.679 so they got they got some free pub on HBO 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.280 for that. This is true. This is true. Now for me, 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.800 the big thing I wanted to know is, Okay, where 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:19.680 was the home in proximity to where they practice, where 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:23.240 the practice facility is going to be, because you guys 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.800 know just right here, you know, living in Dallas, for words, 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:27.840 when you played for the Cowboys, where are you guys 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.800 live by the practice facility. They don't live by the stadium. 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.880 The stadium is over by Lax in the Englewood area. 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:36.399 But the practice facility and plusting because the Rams have 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.359 been building it and working on it, because the stadium 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:39.920 is not done. So that to me, it's going to 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:43.520 be the interesting thing, because LA traffic is no joke. 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:47.160 I mean, it is a challenge of it. Here here's 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.280 how much of a challenge of it is. Kobe Bryant, 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:51.679 who lived in Orange County, took a helicopter to go 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:54.439 to games. I mean, you got to make sure you 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:56.720 live in an area that's close by, or you could 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:58.520 be looking at a a two to two and a 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.800 half hour commute just to get work. I mean, and 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:03.880 that was the mistake I made. Well, not really, because 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:05.719 you know how I first played for the Cowboys. They 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.440 were in Valley Ranch, so I lived in Los Clenas. 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:10.800 But then that last year they decided to move over 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:13.480 to Frisco and to the Star. So my commute in 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:15.439 the morning was it was a good forty minutes, and 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:17.000 you know, I liked my sleep, so I had to 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:19.840 get up extremely early. And so that's one of the things, 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:22.159 you know, a mistake I made. Make sure you live 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:25.360 near the facility, because yeah, you might find nicer houses elsewhere, 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:27.399 but that commute in the morning, when you're tired and 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:29.159 you know you got to go to a full padded practice, 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:33.840 it's just not it. It's not worth it. Add that 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:35.879 in there because I know a lot of coaches who 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:38.199 used to live in the South Lake area. Guys like 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:42.520 Sean Payton lived over there, Brian Stewart lived over there, 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:45.600 Todd lived over there. So a bunch of guys lived 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:48.520 in that area. And now no one lives in that 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:51.040 area because of what you spoke about the Star over 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:54.359 in Frisco, guys, guys gonna live by the headquarters. So 0:25:54.400 --> 0:25:57.080 now guys they live over in Frisco and McKinney they 0:25:57.119 --> 0:25:59.480 live Oh that's they live in College County. Nobody lives 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.760 over in Tarrant County anymore. Um, it's just a big 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:05.560 difference in that. Jason Witten had struggled with that because 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.080 he lives out He lived out over in that area 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:09.879 and it was a challenge to get there to the 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:11.520 Star of Frisco, and then you got to pay all 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:15.240 those tolls. So, um, it matters, so so so it's 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:19.160 something you definitely have to look out for. Mccraig. When 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:21.760 you're looking at hard knocks, do you try to what 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.280 do you try to pick up on as you think 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:26.320 there could be some clues for the Cowboys as they 0:26:26.400 --> 0:26:29.760 get ready to face these rams on the first game 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:32.040 of the year. They're not these episodes, the first two episodes, 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.679 they're not hitting at all. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:37.159 to you know. He like when when I used when 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:40.919 I used to watch it, would I would potentially like 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:43.520 trying to look for some stuff that maybe they would run. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:47.840 But HBL doesn't show much of schemes and in terminology 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.239 and talking and showing you, like what what they may 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:53.680 be running. When the season comes, you could get a 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:55.560 look at some players, but most of the time they're 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:57.840 showing star players are they're showing rookies who are the 0:26:57.840 --> 0:26:59.800 bubble trying to make the team. So you really just 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:02.800 don't get much out of out of the HBO Hard 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.520 Knock Show from a from a scouting perspective, But I 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:08.120 think it's always interesting to see how the stars live 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:11.040 their lives and then how how you can tell how 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:13.000 different that is from guys who are trying to make 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:15.560 the team. As rookies are our second year of players 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:19.040 who are fighting for a roster spot. Aaron Donald looks good. 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:22.200 Gott admit that man, that guy looks really good. He 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:26.200 does not look he does not look like a defensive lineman. No, 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:29.879 he does not not at all. How do you guys 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:31.760 think the Rams are gonna be when you consider the 0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:33.560 fact that, you know, they got rid of Todd Gurry, 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:36.520 they got rid of Brandon Cooks. Um, the offensive line 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:39.159 still has some question marks here. This is not the 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:41.440 team that went to the Super Bowl two years ago. 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.200 It's a totally different football team. And the last time 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:46.639 we all saw the Rams, they came to at and 0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:50.199 t staking and the Cowboys laid it on. Yeah. I 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:52.879 think I think his Rams team's gonna gonna struggle a 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:55.000 little bit this year. Um, Like you said, they lost 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:58.120 Todd Gurley. Um, you know they lost Brandon Cooks, who 0:27:58.119 --> 0:27:59.760 was a deep threat. Yeah, he missed a lot of games, 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:01.919 but he was able to take the top off a defense. 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:03.800 So a second day was always going to have to 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:05.400 kind of key on him to make sure they didn't 0:28:05.440 --> 0:28:08.439 get past them. Yeah, they got Robert Woods over there 0:28:08.440 --> 0:28:10.200 and Cooper Cup, but those are kind of the They're 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:13.880 more intermediate route runners, possession type receivers. I don't see 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:17.160 them going over the top as much. Defensively, I feel 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:19.240 like they have a pretty solid defense over there and 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:22.159 that can present some problems for teams. But offensively, I 0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:24.199 just don't think they have any juice this year, and 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.040 I think that first game coming up to the season, 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:27.240 I think the college are gonna put it on a 0:28:27.280 --> 0:28:31.359 pretty well yeah, I got I got the rounds fighting 0:28:31.400 --> 0:28:35.080 for fighting really hard for third place in the division. 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:39.800 With Arizona Jared Golfing still in the quarterback they lost 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:41.560 a deep third even though he was hurt last year. 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:43.400 He was a guy who could stretch the field, so 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:45.880 they don't really have that. They depended on Robert Woods 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:48.920 but the back half of the season, and you know, 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:52.040 he's a jet sweet guy, like like Church said, and 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:54.280 Cup is a guy who can make some explosive plays, 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:57.320 but not as consistent as its stretching the field as 0:28:57.320 --> 0:28:59.640 a Brandon Cook. So with golfers and quarterback, you don't 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.720 have the same running back and now you're down down 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:05.040 your deep thread at receiver. I just think they're gonna struggle. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:07.960 And then you got teams like Arizona coming up in 0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:10.760 Seattle is always who they are, and then San Francisco 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:13.320 just came up a Super Bowl run, So I think 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:16.120 they're going to be fighting for for third uh in 0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:19.320 that division. So so you say golf the way you 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:22.200 said golf twice, you didn't go all the way, which 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:25.280 is you're not impressed with him, You're you're not sold 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:29.200 on impressed sold I told you he was on my 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:31.880 fast football team lecture. I lost all hope that Jared Goff. 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:35.360 He's bounding right now with Kylin Murray. He's battling with 0:29:35.440 --> 0:29:38.240 Kylin Murray. And I think Kylin Murray is the federal player. 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:40.440 I just didn't want to give give them all that, 0:29:40.680 --> 0:29:43.560 you know before the season started. But I honestly see 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:46.760 Jared Goff then the fourth best quarterback in that division. Okay, 0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:49.800 so so let me go with you. There is Jared 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:53.240 Golf a system quarterback in your opinion, And when you 0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:56.200 say system quarterback, your your mindset thinks of kind of 0:29:56.200 --> 0:29:58.560 like Texas Tech through the years, where it's you got 0:29:58.560 --> 0:30:00.640 to have all these other pieces around. If it's really 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:05.760 something something you could put on the quarterback, I wouldn't 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:08.840 say I wouldn't say system. I would say he's a 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:11.640 front running quarterback. Right. So he was bawling when they 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:13.560 had tied Gurley and all those guys who could make 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:15.800 those plays around them. But the running game was crazy, right. 0:30:15.800 --> 0:30:19.040 He was getting crazy yards on screens from Fid Gurley, 0:30:19.040 --> 0:30:21.280 Tire Gurley run up the middle for ten yards, tied 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:23.520 Gurley green screen for four of yards, and that opened 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:25.080 up a lot of stuff. So I don't think it 0:30:25.120 --> 0:30:27.240 was necessarily him just having a whole bunch of pieces 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:29.880 around him. He had tied Gurley to help him out 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:34.720 and say for me, oh, go ahead, go ahead, and 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:36.440 now he go ahead. I'm sorry, no, no no, no, no, no, Church. 0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:39.400 I want to hear what you have to say for me. Yeah, 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:42.480 without a question, I think he's a system quarterback. I 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:44.680 don't think it's you know, he's terrible or anything like that. 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:47.800 I just think he's a bona fire system quarterback. I 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:51.120 think he needs places around him, you know, receiver, is 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:53.160 a good officive, line, and running back to get the 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:56.000 most potential. Put it this way, I feel like he 0:30:56.640 --> 0:30:59.080 can't elevate the rest of his teammates. I feel like 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:01.920 if he has subpark As on the outside and a 0:31:02.000 --> 0:31:04.640 decent running game, I think he'll just be a decent quarterback. 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:07.360 But he needs other pieces around him to elevate his game. 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:09.760 I don't think he's able to elevate those around him 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:13.120 like a Tom Brady would be able to. I go 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:15.960 back and I look at the last two super Bowls 0:31:15.960 --> 0:31:18.840 in which you had NFC teams from the west of 0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:21.920 the forty nine Ers and the Rams, and the question 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.920 mark you had about both quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo and Jared 0:31:24.960 --> 0:31:28.160 Goff got exposed in that Super Bowl, which is can 0:31:28.280 --> 0:31:31.280 your guy make a play when you need it? We 0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:34.760 saw Jared Goff missing open Brandon Cooks in the end 0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:38.360 zone in a close football game against the Patriots. That 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:40.720 was the deciding factor for them. And then we saw 0:31:40.800 --> 0:31:44.480 Garoppolo who had a wide open Emmanuel Sanders running free. 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.760 If he hits Sanders, they probably win the Super Bowl. 0:31:48.000 --> 0:31:50.280 And when your guys don't answer the bell when they 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:52.480 have that, you know, when they have a strong running 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:54.240 game and they're asking you, hey, we just need you 0:31:54.280 --> 0:31:57.440 to make that throw. He couldn't make it. And for me, 0:31:57.520 --> 0:31:59.480 I look at a guy like Troy Aitman who was 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:02.880 always is able to make that throw and win three 0:32:02.920 --> 0:32:05.360 Super Bowls. That's what you're needing from your quarterback. And 0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:08.680 to me, until those questions are answered, I do have 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:12.400 to wonder are they system quarterbacks then? Because I believe 0:32:12.400 --> 0:32:16.760 Sean mcvayh and Kyle Sanahan can go find another guy comparable. 0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:20.600 Ala Kirk cousins and put up numbers and win with 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:23.720 those kind of guys because both guys are relying upon 0:32:23.880 --> 0:32:33.120 run games. When you see them have their success. Yeah, 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:35.520 you got in search, you gotta go ahead, Then you 0:32:35.520 --> 0:32:42.160 go ahead. Yeah, I'm just not so there's nothing that 0:32:42.200 --> 0:32:46.880 you can tell me about that. Look, look, I agree 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:48.880 with I agree with you. I agree with you. I 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:51.680 think that. Look, okay, can we just I'm just just 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:55.200 straight up being honest here. I think they overpay golf. 0:32:55.320 --> 0:32:58.120 I think they overpay cooks. And as much as I 0:32:58.160 --> 0:33:00.280 love Todd Gurley the player, I would not have given 0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:03.040 a guy who had that type of injury a second 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:06.040 contract like they did. Had they all waited, had they 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:09.600 waited just one year, okay, just one year on all 0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:11.200 those guys because they didn't have to pay him when 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:13.360 they did. Had they waited one more year, they would 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:15.880 have never paid those guys. So the players should be 0:33:15.920 --> 0:33:19.520 thinking their agents if they got those deals. The only 0:33:19.520 --> 0:33:21.640 guy that I would have waited to pay, And you 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:24.360 know a hindsight is twenty twenty. It's golf like I 0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:26.360 didn't believe in when we saw him in the Super Bowl. 0:33:26.400 --> 0:33:28.719 You didn't believe in golf, Like, Yeah, everything was clicking 0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:30.600 that year. But like I said, it was all based 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:32.680 on Tied Gurley, so I could see a reason for them, 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.840 you know, paying Tied Gurley, you know, with the injury, 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:38.240 but you just assumed that that it wouldn't it wouldn't 0:33:38.240 --> 0:33:40.840 haggle him for the rest of his career. But Jared Golf, no, 0:33:41.240 --> 0:33:43.400 and Brandon Cooks had just come over from another team, 0:33:43.440 --> 0:33:45.280 so yeah, you could wait on him as well. But 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:46.960 Jared Golf should have been third on that list. The 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:49.320 should they should have took the Cowboys route and paying 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:52.560 the quarterback less and Golf had I think he had 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:55.080 two more years left on his deal when he got 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:57.800 that extension, So it's like, you know, I like, like 0:33:57.800 --> 0:33:59.840 you got should I just I'm you know, I'm confused. 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:01.920 Would have just waited one more year, they would have 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:03.600 not you know, paid him. They would have sawd the 0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:05.400 type of production he is, and like I said, I 0:34:05.400 --> 0:34:07.800 believe he's a system quarterback, so they would have used 0:34:07.840 --> 0:34:10.640 that money to put better pieces around him. But you know, 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:12.719 they pulled the trigger fast, and a lot of those 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:14.719 contracts that they pulled the trigger fast on and have 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:16.319 not worked out for him. I believe the only one 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:18.839 was you know Aaron Donald, So, um, you know they 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:20.479 they gotta look at themselves and say, hey, we gotta 0:34:20.520 --> 0:34:22.439 we gotta figure this thing out or or we're gonna 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:24.640 be rebuilding this team from the start all over again. 0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:29.680 They don't have any first round picks exactly. Chucked it 0:34:29.800 --> 0:34:32.879 up exactly, so they're out of a lot of picks. 0:34:32.920 --> 0:34:37.120 And see to me, I think for instance, and it 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:39.120 won't happen because they've got Golf on the contract and 0:34:39.239 --> 0:34:41.359 you can't take that hit. But you could have let 0:34:41.360 --> 0:34:44.360 Golf run out of that contract and then given a 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:47.040 guy like Sean McBay Andy Dalton, and Sean McBay would 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:48.520 have still been able to do all the things he 0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:51.960 wants to in his system. Um. I just think that 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:54.560 Sean is able and Kyle as well. They're able to 0:34:54.600 --> 0:34:57.000 win with different types of players. They'll put things around him. 0:34:57.040 --> 0:34:59.600 And you've seen Kyle has success with Matt Ryan. I mean, 0:34:59.640 --> 0:35:01.879 he's he knows how to scheme. He's an elite coach. 0:35:02.160 --> 0:35:04.640 They got an elite coach play caller. They can scheme 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:08.200 some things up for their quarterback. There what a touch 0:35:08.239 --> 0:35:10.680 on a former Ram who's now a Dallas cowboy and 0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:14.200 that is kicker Greg Zerline. John Fossil, the Cowboys new 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:16.520 special teams coach who was with him for a lot 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:19.520 of years with the Rams in Saint Louis and in 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:23.640 Los Angeles. He told the media this week that Zerline 0:35:23.719 --> 0:35:27.000 dealt with a groin injury basically most of the season 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:29.200 last year, and all three of us play fantasy football, 0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:31.000 and Greg Zurline was not a dude you want it 0:35:31.080 --> 0:35:34.359 last year and now we know why. And Fossil said 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:38.040 one reason why they he played injury was he was 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:40.000 in a contract year, so he didn't want to go 0:35:40.040 --> 0:35:42.239 on ir. I get that he still got a great 0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:46.640 contract from the Cowboys, but he said that Zerline is 0:35:46.680 --> 0:35:50.800 going to have a good year. So when fantasy football 0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:53.279 drafts mine come around here next month, I might I 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:55.320 might go ahead and pull the trigger on Greg the 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:57.319 leg here because he's gonna be kicking a lot of 0:35:57.320 --> 0:36:00.719 balls indoors over here at a ten team stadium. So 0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:04.040 I'm looking forward to have a big year. Yeah, I'm 0:36:04.200 --> 0:36:06.200 looking for him as well to have all go ahead. Damn, 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:09.040 So I keep cutting you off now, you're good saying listen, 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:12.640 mind is short. If the office plays how everybody expects 0:36:12.680 --> 0:36:15.480 them to blame. We're scoring all these touchdowns. Gregg's areline 0:36:15.480 --> 0:36:17.520 will only be kicking extra points, so he won't be 0:36:17.520 --> 0:36:21.720 getting picked on my fantasy team. You know what, I'm 0:36:21.160 --> 0:36:24.560 a I'm good towards Neui and I'm gonna go ahead 0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:26.840 and pick up Greg as well once we do our draft, 0:36:26.880 --> 0:36:29.040 because I mean, from all the reports from camp, I mean, 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:31.759 he's nailing stuff from all over the field. And we've 0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:33.799 seen the Cowboys in the past sometimes, you know, when 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:35.520 it comes to the red zone, you know, we don't 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:37.719 necessarily knock it in all the time. So to have 0:36:37.760 --> 0:36:40.600 a consistent kicker like that, and like we did towards 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:42.399 the end of the season last year, really helped us out. 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:45.040 But to have him consistently kicking good throughout the whole year, 0:36:45.200 --> 0:36:47.160 I think it'll be a plus for the Cowboys and 0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:52.520 definitely a plus for my fantasy team. Listen to me, So, 0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:56.120 soft tissue injuries are a big deal this year, right, 0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:59.880 and this guy was struggling with a soft tissue injury 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:03.000 all of last year, So we pick him up. He 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:07.160 hasn't been doing nothing for the entire summer, and now 0:37:07.200 --> 0:37:09.520 all of a sudden, it's growing. That's what I'm making 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:11.480 on He's growing is all of a sudden fixing. It's 0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:13.719 gonna hold up for the for the remainder of the year. 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:16.520 He is not getting picked on my fantasy team. Church, 0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:19.000 What place you come in last year? Church? See you 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:21.960 see now you're breaking up old news and old history. Man, 0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:23.680 We don't we don't even know about all that. You know. 0:37:23.719 --> 0:37:26.400 I got my new GM status now, so you know 0:37:26.440 --> 0:37:30.200 I'm I'm ready to roll this year. So we'll see. 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.400 Now we know you won, We know you one, We 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:35.080 know you one, all right, we know you won the 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:42.840 first place. Yes, yes, and Church wants something. Church, listen 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:46.200 to me. Okay, Church, listen to me on this. Your 0:37:46.360 --> 0:37:49.839 idea is absolutely correct. Last year I took will Us 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:51.719 and I took will Us because I said, you know what, 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:54.160 I want a guy who's a part of a high 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:56.480 scoring offense. So I went with him because he was 0:37:56.520 --> 0:37:59.520 with the Saints and he kicked indoors and hey, look 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:02.280 it's ball. You're not gonna get in touch on every possession, 0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:04.960 but will you be in range for some long field goals? 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:07.600 And my man was knocking in those forties and fifty yards. 0:38:07.680 --> 0:38:10.600 So Legatron is going to be on an offensive. We 0:38:10.719 --> 0:38:14.479 export expect to score thirty points a game, and he's 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:16.920 a guy who because he was hurt last year, you 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:19.799 could possibly wait till almost the last pick in your 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:23.000 draft and get the guy while everybody else is trying 0:38:23.000 --> 0:38:25.480 to go get Will Lutts and other dudes who scored 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:28.440 high points early. So go ahead and be smart and 0:38:28.480 --> 0:38:31.120 be like me and start looking at Legatron. Okay, you 0:38:31.239 --> 0:38:35.239 listen to me and wait to say when did I 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:37.759 must be missing? So when did Legatron? Is that? Is 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:43.279 that his nickname for me? Leg T? I never heard 0:38:43.320 --> 0:38:45.640 that one. I never heard that one. Maybe maybe knew 0:38:45.680 --> 0:38:50.480 he made that love it. Uh No, he has been 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:52.400 called Legatron. It was it was him and it was 0:38:52.440 --> 0:38:56.480 the guy in Minnesota. Um yeah, Gregg the leg Legatron. 0:38:56.600 --> 0:38:58.279 So they've they've thrown it out there, but look the 0:38:58.320 --> 0:39:01.400 guys the guy the guy could kick and ultimately Danny. 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:03.160 I'm trying to help. I mean, I'm trying to help 0:39:03.200 --> 0:39:05.799 Barry not repeat last year because the way you're running 0:39:05.920 --> 0:39:09.799 man down about his fantasy team last year, it's like 0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:13.760 watching Michael Jordan when he was rasing Scott Barrell during 0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:17.120 during the last day something. No, let me play something 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:21.080 before let's get the let's get some war context to this. No, 0:39:21.239 --> 0:39:23.480 I was auto picked. I didn't get to pick my 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:26.120 own my own draft, so I was auto picked out there. 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:28.840 So I was already behind the eight ball when I 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:30.680 was dowing the season started, you know what I'm saying. 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:32.760 So and in the in the guys and the moves 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:34.719 I made, they were they were playing well in the 0:39:34.719 --> 0:39:36.200 beginning of the season, but as soon as I drafted 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:38.600 them on my team, they just they stunk it up. So, 0:39:38.640 --> 0:39:39.920 I mean, you know, I was behind the eight ball 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:43.120 from the beginning. But no excuses, no excuses. Okay, first 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:44.839 of all, you made this, you made excuse that say, 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:47.279 no excuse new last day. Tell me this, if Jerry 0:39:47.360 --> 0:39:51.120 Jones miss miss draft day, would there be a reason 0:39:51.200 --> 0:39:53.120 for us not being able to make the Super Bowl? 0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:54.560 And he just like, oh man, I was on the 0:39:54.640 --> 0:39:57.920 yacht meet me and Steven and Will. We couldn't make it. 0:39:57.960 --> 0:39:59.920 So we just we just called in and told the 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.239 told everybody to pick up we had on the board. 0:40:02.440 --> 0:40:06.160 No excuse, we don't, we don't want to that. No, no, 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:08.880 no excuses, man, noo, there's too many moves you couldn't 0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:11.319 make during the year Okay, there's no days off on 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:14.719 your fantasy football team. Okay, there's no days off, all right. 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:16.880 I mean, yes, you'd like to have a solid draft, 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:18.479 but but at the end of the day, you gotta 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.520 be maneuvering your roster and keep on improving it. I mean, 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:23.359 there's too many dudes who got good in the second 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:26.239 half of the year. A J. Brown, uh, Ryan Tanner Hills. 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:30.400 There too many Tyler Higbee got good, Joe Mixon started performing. 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:32.200 You gotta be on the way of roster man. You 0:40:32.280 --> 0:40:34.399 gotta be serious about this business man. It's not a game. 0:40:34.960 --> 0:40:37.000 Fantasy footballs out a game. It's a lie. It's a 0:40:37.080 --> 0:40:41.560 way of life. Switch it up. I'm gonna switch it 0:40:41.640 --> 0:40:46.600 up so to being the best GM possible for teamMy Glaciers, 0:40:46.880 --> 0:40:49.879 and we'll see what happens. 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Dak Prescott was asked about 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:31.279 facing him and he said he damn sho doesn't look 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:34.040 like a guy who's missed five years of football here, 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:37.000 so he is impressive at camp. He feels good. He 0:43:37.080 --> 0:43:39.040 says that being back in the locker room was the 0:43:39.080 --> 0:43:42.040 thing he missed most. So, Danny McCrae, you were one 0:43:42.080 --> 0:43:45.480 of the vocal guys who was questioning Alden Smith. We 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:48.640 haven't played a game yet, but so far he is 0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:51.520 giving the Cowboys more than what they thought they were getting, 0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:58.080 So I'm gonna stick with what I said. This is 0:43:58.120 --> 0:44:00.880 the beginning of training camp. I think it may have 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:04.320 been in past for like two days and then LC's 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:08.919 not practicing. I think Tyring is out with injured as well, 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:11.200 so I'm not sure who all the Smith's going against, 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:13.520 but I'm glad that he's getting back into the groove 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:15.600 of things, and I think it'll take him a game 0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:18.760 or two before he gets back to filling or looking 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:21.600 anything similar to how he looked previously. I think, like 0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:24.800 I said last week, the COVID and him not having 0:44:24.840 --> 0:44:26.520 to be out and be in the city and having 0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:31.319 those temptations helped him tremendously. So I'm proud that the 0:44:31.360 --> 0:44:33.320 start is good, but I'm just I'm still not sold 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:38.160 on it yet. Okay, Danny's Danny's negative, Nelly here great 0:44:38.200 --> 0:44:43.360 where to go. I'm proud, but just like just like 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.120 with coach McCarthy, just like with everything else in my life, Man, 0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:49.000 look when I see it, I believe it. And then 0:44:49.080 --> 0:44:50.719 you know that's what I said at the beginning. So 0:44:50.760 --> 0:44:53.200 I'm not gonna hop off, hop off my opinion. Yet 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:56.160 he got to show me something in game time, in 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:58.720 real game time. We're not even gonna see a preseason 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:03.640 I got to see real game time explosive this Barry, 0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:07.680 you're drinking poole. I'm gonna take you. I'm gonna tell 0:45:07.680 --> 0:45:09.360 you this. I'm gonna have a sit just to you know, 0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:11.359 I'm gonna have a sipping washing around a little bit 0:45:11.960 --> 0:45:14.920 to see how it really tastes. But you know, from 0:45:14.920 --> 0:45:18.040 the reports we're getting from Camp, I mean, everything sounds amazing. 0:45:18.080 --> 0:45:21.040 I mean, he looks explosive out there. He's turning the corner. 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:24.399 His bend is unbelievable. And like you said, you've seen guy. 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:26.319 Guys are saying, it doesn't look like he's taking, you know, 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:29.719 five years off from being a defensive end. But um, 0:45:30.640 --> 0:45:32.719 like Joe sins, somebody used to always tell me, man, 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:35.560 everybody looks good in shorts when you put those pads on. 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:37.759 And yeah, they had a pad of practice here and there. 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:39.800 But like he said, he's not going against lyle Cons. 0:45:39.800 --> 0:45:41.839 He ain't going up against Tyren Smith right now. So 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:45.760 I gotta see in an actual game, when the lights 0:45:45.760 --> 0:45:48.400 are on, pressure is on, the defense needs him to 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:50.560 step it up. I want to see what he can 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:52.600 do then before I go ahead and drink the full 0:45:52.719 --> 0:45:55.440 cup of tea right there. But um, and also, I mean, 0:45:55.480 --> 0:45:57.720 we gotta see when, like what if he starts having success, 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:00.319 And like Danny said, the temptations start coming around. So 0:46:00.640 --> 0:46:02.919 hopefully he's able to get all those you know, pass 0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:05.239 demons out of this, out of this psyche, and he's 0:46:05.280 --> 0:46:07.800 able to go into this season fully focused and fully 0:46:07.840 --> 0:46:10.560 prepared because from the sounds, from the sounds of it 0:46:10.600 --> 0:46:13.560 from camp, he seems like he's having an explosive, explosive 0:46:13.600 --> 0:46:15.480 beginning to the camp. Let's just hope it carries over 0:46:15.480 --> 0:46:20.520 to the regular season. Here's so much of the positives 0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:23.280 that I've gotten out of Olden Smith is for years 0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:27.160 that hope people have had with Randy Gregory and they 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:29.960 didn't really get to see it that Olden Smith could 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:33.279 actually do what were you were hoping Randy Gregory could do, 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:36.680 which is get yourself back here, be in a frame 0:46:36.719 --> 0:46:39.480 of mind. And the one thing he has it Randy doesn't. 0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:42.440 He's got a lot of experience in the National Football League, 0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:44.640 and he didn't go against tying on some reps, and 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:47.280 and he's made some plays and he had one tipped 0:46:47.280 --> 0:46:50.920 pass of a Dak Prescott to throw that he almost intercepted. 0:46:51.000 --> 0:46:53.640 So so far it's almost like Cede Lamb in terms 0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:56.720 of what you were hoping for, so far you're getting. 0:46:57.000 --> 0:46:59.680 And while Danny can be negative Nelly on it, I 0:46:59.719 --> 0:47:01.879 think I'm with you, Barry with might as well. Let's 0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:04.439 take a little ship, let's enjoy it and let's see 0:47:04.440 --> 0:47:07.359 where it goes. Hold on, wait, what so how come 0:47:07.400 --> 0:47:09.919 I gotta be negative just because I didn't buy until 0:47:09.920 --> 0:47:13.520 he's gonna be like this the guy that he was before. 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:15.920 He you know, had this issue as it was off 0:47:15.920 --> 0:47:18.600 the field. That don't make me negative. I'm just being realistic. 0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:21.520 I'll played the game and you know, five five years 0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:23.680 off and going into going into a practice and knocking 0:47:23.719 --> 0:47:26.400 down the ball or beat somebody on the past. Rush's 0:47:26.440 --> 0:47:29.439 not equate into who you were before, which was a 0:47:29.440 --> 0:47:34.080 complete monster on the field. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna let 0:47:34.120 --> 0:47:37.200 you have that, man, you feel good, Feel Goodna, let 0:47:37.200 --> 0:47:40.400 you have that. Listen. I'm praying for him, man, Listen, listen. 0:47:40.440 --> 0:47:42.120 I want him to fight these things. I'm praying for him, 0:47:42.120 --> 0:47:43.640 just like I pray for Johns Gordon. Man. I want 0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:45.520 those guys to come back and be the comeback stories 0:47:45.560 --> 0:47:47.880 to make and write a book and have America's i 0:47:47.920 --> 0:47:50.640 mean a New York bestseller. I want him to win. 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:54.799 But I'm realistic and he has not done anything yet, 0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:57.120 Like we were not into real football yet, so I'll 0:47:57.160 --> 0:48:01.080 just waiting. Okay, you're going with the old Bill Parcel's line, 0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:02.600 and he used to say it here when he coached 0:48:02.600 --> 0:48:05.120 the Cowboys. All I can go by is what I see, 0:48:05.200 --> 0:48:07.640 So you need to see more. Okay, that's that's fair. 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:12.760 That's fair. Everson Griffin, on the other hand, who signed 0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:15.560 with the Cowboys, we have seen him last year. We 0:48:15.600 --> 0:48:18.480 saw a coach on Sunday Night Football in that Vikings 0:48:18.480 --> 0:48:21.720 Cowboys game. I was surprised when I read he turned 0:48:21.760 --> 0:48:24.120 out forty three million dollars. He had that due to 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:26.799 him and he opted out of the contract. That I 0:48:26.840 --> 0:48:29.960 don't understand, but hey, he's with the Cowboys on a 0:48:30.000 --> 0:48:33.440 one year, six million dollars deal. When guys are playing 0:48:33.480 --> 0:48:36.560 for money like that, could we expect, maybe you that 0:48:36.840 --> 0:48:40.320 the Cowboys get a Robert Quinn like performance from Everson Griffin, 0:48:40.400 --> 0:48:42.920 who's trying to, you know, get on the market next year, 0:48:43.040 --> 0:48:45.600 and if Tank Lawrence bounces back to what he was 0:48:45.840 --> 0:48:48.520 two years ago before last year's five sack performance, that 0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:50.640 maybe he has a Robert Quinn like year and could 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:56.520 put up double digit sacks. Danny, Yeah, I think you know, 0:48:56.719 --> 0:48:58.600 when guys come in and they're playing hunger and they're 0:48:58.600 --> 0:49:01.000 planning to get into free agency and get that big payday, 0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:05.560 I think they usually played better. That passing up forty 0:49:05.600 --> 0:49:08.080 three million is a little concerning to me because now 0:49:08.080 --> 0:49:10.680 I'm like, is he really playing for money? Or is 0:49:10.719 --> 0:49:12.279 he just like you know, I don't really need it. 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:13.640 I'm just playing for the love of the game. I'm 0:49:13.640 --> 0:49:17.439 a little confused, but I think that him and seeing 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:20.120 him as a player over the past few years, I 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:22.399 think he's going to be that same guy money or not, 0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:24.840 He's just he's just one hell of a player. He 0:49:25.200 --> 0:49:27.680 has a high motor and he can get to the quarterback. 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:30.200 I don't think him wanting to get paid or not 0:49:30.239 --> 0:49:31.920 being able to get paid it's going to change any 0:49:31.920 --> 0:49:33.560 of that. I think he's going to be a great 0:49:33.560 --> 0:49:35.640 football player like he's been for the last few years 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:41.400 in Minnesota. Chert, Well, I'll tell you this, The Cowboys 0:49:41.480 --> 0:49:45.000 better hope that he comes with the production that Robert 0:49:45.080 --> 0:49:47.480 Quinn had last year. I mean, Robert Quinn had eleven 0:49:47.480 --> 0:49:49.960 sacks last year. I mean he was able to consistently 0:49:50.080 --> 0:49:53.439 beat one on one blocks out there, which was able 0:49:53.440 --> 0:49:55.400 to open up things for other people. Now, I didn't 0:49:55.400 --> 0:49:57.919 come to fruition with those others getting sacks as well, 0:49:57.960 --> 0:50:00.600 but hopefully everything Griffin is able to come in here 0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:03.200 and have that same level of production or even better 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:05.839 production than Robert Quinn had, and hopefully that will open 0:50:05.920 --> 0:50:08.200 up things for the Tyrone Crawfords in the middle of 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:10.360 the all the Smiths on the other edge, where the 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:12.520 DeMarcus Lawrence is on the other edge. So hopefully he 0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:15.040 can come and get that consistent pressure that we had 0:50:15.040 --> 0:50:17.399 from Robert Quinn, because if he's able to do that, 0:50:17.480 --> 0:50:20.080 then this defense can become, in my opinion of top 0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:22.839 five because once that defensive line starts rolling, like I said, 0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:25.040 it makes it a lot easier for the secondary and 0:50:25.120 --> 0:50:26.920 max it out easier for the linebackers to do what 0:50:26.960 --> 0:50:29.480 they do, and in turn that turns into victories. So 0:50:29.760 --> 0:50:32.840 hopefully he's able to get that production that Robert Quinny was, 0:50:32.920 --> 0:50:34.560 and I know the Colbos are praying that they do 0:50:34.680 --> 0:50:38.239 because they need it. They really do. Tell me this 0:50:38.600 --> 0:50:41.480 Millie and church Solis. Did you know the deal that 0:50:41.600 --> 0:50:43.359 he passed up? Like how many years it was for 0:50:43.360 --> 0:50:47.000 forty three, I don't know, but it was already it was. 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:49.080 It was opted I mean he opted out of it. 0:50:49.160 --> 0:50:50.440 I mean that was the thing. It was. It was 0:50:50.480 --> 0:50:52.880 all the books for forty three and I don't know 0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:55.000 if it was for three or four more years, but 0:50:55.080 --> 0:50:58.480 he opted out of that deal to test free agency. 0:50:58.480 --> 0:51:00.520 And I guess he thought he was gonna gonna get 0:51:00.560 --> 0:51:04.879 a monster contract. Um. I'd also read one place where 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:07.000 they said, well maybe the Vikings were gonna cut him 0:51:07.160 --> 0:51:09.520 and and and try, you know, but I don't know. 0:51:09.960 --> 0:51:12.359 All I know is man, forty three mil, ten million 0:51:12.440 --> 0:51:16.280 year in this league. You know that's that's uh you 0:51:16.280 --> 0:51:18.720 you know, and your thirty plus. Okay, you're thirty plus. 0:51:18.719 --> 0:51:20.960 It's not like you're twenty eight years old or twenty nine. 0:51:21.040 --> 0:51:23.719 But maybe he thought, hey, look man, um, he saw 0:51:24.080 --> 0:51:25.880 get twenty mill and thought he could opt out and 0:51:25.920 --> 0:51:28.320 then somebody's gonna give him bag. But you think about 0:51:28.400 --> 0:51:32.640 him and Jadeveon Clowney both making really bad decisions, um, 0:51:32.960 --> 0:51:36.400 and gambling on themselves here because I know, we know 0:51:36.760 --> 0:51:39.400 this was a league that normally pays you know, pass rushers, 0:51:39.400 --> 0:51:41.400 but they decided that they weren't. No nobody in the 0:51:41.480 --> 0:51:44.399 league paid him his number, and Clowney is still out 0:51:44.440 --> 0:51:46.479 there right now trying to trying to get a job 0:51:47.800 --> 0:51:51.400 at his numbers. His number. Yes, it's super confusing on 0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:53.440 the efforts in Griffin part because like I said, I 0:51:53.440 --> 0:51:55.080 mean forty they're gonna have to cut meat. Like if 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:57.800 you got forty three million, it's already on the books, 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:00.640 like I'm not. I'm not searching for the agency trying 0:52:00.640 --> 0:52:02.200 to get more. I'm like, man, you're gonna have to 0:52:02.200 --> 0:52:04.120 cut me or something like that, because I'm gonna take 0:52:04.120 --> 0:52:06.719 all this forty three. So maybe he, like you said, 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.200 maybe he was in like a clowney situation where he thought, man, 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:11.000 you know, if I if I get out of here, 0:52:11.080 --> 0:52:13.200 so I might be able to hit a three year 0:52:13.440 --> 0:52:15.560 you know, something crazy like three year fifty mill or 0:52:15.600 --> 0:52:17.560 something like that to get you know, to get his 0:52:17.760 --> 0:52:19.319 or sixteen mile or something like that, to get that 0:52:19.320 --> 0:52:21.520 twenty per year. And that's the only way I can 0:52:21.520 --> 0:52:23.279 take a passion of forty three. And I just think 0:52:23.280 --> 0:52:25.279 he made the wrong move. But you know, hopefully he's 0:52:25.280 --> 0:52:27.319 able to produce for our cowboys and we can get 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:30.600 some victories out of it. In a pandemic, that's your thing. 0:52:30.680 --> 0:52:32.920 You you opted out of a deal in a pandemic. 0:52:33.800 --> 0:52:36.560 Um the salary kept going down next year, okay, you 0:52:36.560 --> 0:52:40.040 know they've already told it's going down prices. It's gonna 0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:42.520 be like that little Walmart yellow sticker, the roll back. 0:52:42.719 --> 0:52:44.839 The league has told all the players and ages there 0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:50.520 it's gonna be a rollback. So even if Everson Griffin, right, 0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:52.680 if Everson Griffin has a really good year of double 0:52:52.719 --> 0:52:56.040 digit sack, who knows, you know, truly what kind of 0:52:56.040 --> 0:52:59.680 money is out there, So you know it's a gamble 0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:03.000 and he's in it now. But if I'm Everson Griffin, man, 0:53:03.040 --> 0:53:07.240 I'm hoping that Olden Smith and Tank Lawrence are unblockable 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:09.359 and that I can get some one on ones and 0:53:09.440 --> 0:53:12.399 get to some of these quarterbacks here, because in order 0:53:12.400 --> 0:53:15.120 to get a massive payday, he's got to have numbers. 0:53:15.160 --> 0:53:17.720 And I'll give Robert quinn um, you know, his dude, 0:53:17.840 --> 0:53:20.360 he had that year and the Bears were desperate and 0:53:20.400 --> 0:53:23.600 so they paid the freight. So we'll see. But I'm 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:26.400 with you, man, it's it's hard to opt out of deals, 0:53:26.480 --> 0:53:28.719 especially when you're talking about you know, we're in a 0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:31.279 pandemic right now and trying to opt out of deals here. 0:53:31.440 --> 0:53:34.040 So so we'll see. But through the Cowboys, hey, good 0:53:34.040 --> 0:53:36.360 for you, you know, good for you that Everson Griffin 0:53:36.360 --> 0:53:39.040 decided to go ahead and do what he did. And 0:53:39.560 --> 0:53:43.640 somebody out there may get lucky with Jaevan Clowney, but 0:53:43.719 --> 0:53:46.279 I think Griffinson's I think Griffin's a better fit for 0:53:46.320 --> 0:53:48.080 the Cowboys than Clowney. I know a lot of people 0:53:48.200 --> 0:53:51.600 were talking about and wanted Jendeveon Clowney, but I just 0:53:51.920 --> 0:53:54.840 Clowny only had three sacks. I think this is a 0:53:54.880 --> 0:53:56.480 better situation for a Griffin who said he grew up 0:53:56.480 --> 0:53:59.520 a Cowboy fan and was named after Everson Walls. So 0:53:59.520 --> 0:54:00.799 I thought that it was a pretty cool thing that 0:54:00.800 --> 0:54:03.200 he told the media this week as well. Everson Walls, who, 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:05.359 by the way, should be in the Pro Football Hall 0:54:05.400 --> 0:54:08.919 of Fame. And let me give out shout to my boy, 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:13.400 Drew Pearson, the original eighty eight, who is the senior 0:54:13.560 --> 0:54:17.360 finalist for a player for induction for the Pro Football 0:54:17.360 --> 0:54:19.879 Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty, which means he's 0:54:19.920 --> 0:54:23.040 basically rubber stamp. They're not going to not put Drew 0:54:23.080 --> 0:54:26.080 Pearson in. He's the only member of the nineteen seventies 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:29.879 All Decade Team First Team not in only receiver from 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:32.920 the All First Team All Decade Team in the fifty sixty, seventies, eighties, 0:54:32.920 --> 0:54:34.960 and nineties not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:54:35.080 --> 0:54:38.080 Drew Pearson is getting in in February, and I'm pretty 0:54:38.080 --> 0:54:39.960 excited about that. For the Class of twenty twenty, one, 0:54:40.000 --> 0:54:46.200 a undrafted free agent congress to Drew Man, well deserved, NUIs, 0:54:46.280 --> 0:54:48.319 I saw you. I saw you shed a tier form 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:50.200 when y'all are on the phone. Man, that's that's a 0:54:50.200 --> 0:54:51.920 big time. I'm really happy for the guy. He's a 0:54:51.960 --> 0:54:55.080 great guy. Mid him a couple of times, and great energy, 0:54:55.360 --> 0:54:58.839 and I can't wait to hear his speech. He said 0:54:58.840 --> 0:55:01.839 it was gonna be the next level. Yep, like lad 0:55:01.920 --> 0:55:03.759 like like mcraie had met him a couple of times 0:55:03.760 --> 0:55:06.279 and he's always had that great energy about him, so 0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:08.000 I can assume that's how he was as a player. 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:09.800 Let's just take It's a shame that it took this 0:55:09.920 --> 0:55:11.920 long for him to get in, but I'm glad that 0:55:12.160 --> 0:55:14.279 he'll finally be able to get in and put that 0:55:14.480 --> 0:55:17.239 jacket on him and as much deserve him. I was 0:55:17.280 --> 0:55:19.520 at his house in January. He had too many people over. 0:55:19.560 --> 0:55:22.000 He had champagne that was chilling. He expected to pop 0:55:22.080 --> 0:55:24.520 that bottle and get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:55:24.560 --> 0:55:27.680 And when Harold Carmichael got in, Harold Carmichael was second 0:55:27.719 --> 0:55:30.680 team All nineteen seventies. Harold Carmichael played in only one 0:55:30.719 --> 0:55:33.920 Super Bowl. Drew Pearson played in three Drew one his 0:55:34.040 --> 0:55:38.439 Harold did not. It was hard man. He went into 0:55:38.440 --> 0:55:41.000 the he left, he went into his office. He was cursing. 0:55:41.239 --> 0:55:44.440 I mean he was upset, and he teared up and cried. 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:46.719 And so he and I we worked together for thirteen years. 0:55:47.960 --> 0:55:50.400 I just gave him a hug and I said, you know, 0:55:51.640 --> 0:55:56.400 you're a Hall of Famer. I said, God's God's delaying it, 0:55:56.440 --> 0:55:59.000 but he won't deny it. And so it was definitely 0:55:59.000 --> 0:56:01.920 emotional for me because I spent thirteen years, you know, 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:04.440 talking back like Drew, you are you are? He was, 0:56:04.560 --> 0:56:06.560 you know, he didn't think that he would ever get it, 0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:09.120 and the the politics were against him, and for that to 0:56:09.200 --> 0:56:12.239 happen was really special. And we're not talking about a 0:56:12.280 --> 0:56:15.440 guy who didn't earn it. Fellas. I go back to 0:56:15.520 --> 0:56:18.160 watching The Last Dance, when Isaiah Thomason talked about the 0:56:18.200 --> 0:56:20.400 Dream Team, he says, I don't know what the process 0:56:20.560 --> 0:56:22.600 was for picking that team, but I know I met 0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:25.759 the criteria. And that was Drew Pearson's career. When you 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:29.520 talk about the process that goes into selecting Hall of Famers, 0:56:29.719 --> 0:56:33.520 Drew met the criteria of it. And to watch a 0:56:33.520 --> 0:56:36.480 couple of guys get in over him and during his time, 0:56:36.480 --> 0:56:39.520 like Harold Carmichael and John Stalwarth, those were hard pills 0:56:39.520 --> 0:56:42.520 to swallow. I had guys like mel Blunt, who might 0:56:42.560 --> 0:56:44.879 be the best quarterback to ever play in this league. 0:56:44.880 --> 0:56:47.080 They changed rules because mel Blunt was so good. Mel 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:51.520 Blunt told me, he said, Neui, if I can help 0:56:51.640 --> 0:56:54.080 Drew get in, I will because he is a Hall 0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:56.120 of Famer. And that's pretty cool. Man. When a guy 0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:58.920 like mel Blunt says Joe Green the greatest Pittsburgh Steel 0:56:58.920 --> 0:57:01.600 of all time, you know, Joe Green said that guy 0:57:01.680 --> 0:57:04.040 was a Hall of Famer. When you have legends on 0:57:04.080 --> 0:57:06.040 a team like the Seelers who have four Super Bowl 0:57:06.120 --> 0:57:08.080 rings and they can look across and tell you that 0:57:08.120 --> 0:57:10.560 guy was a Hall of Famer, that's pretty that's pretty cool. 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:12.560 And the fact that he's just now one step away 0:57:12.560 --> 0:57:18.440 from going there, I'm really happy for him. YEP. I 0:57:18.480 --> 0:57:20.400 want to ask you this before before we get off, 0:57:20.400 --> 0:57:23.160 because we've been speaking about this for a few weeks, 0:57:23.640 --> 0:57:26.600 these these injuries that we're having. We got Sean Lee, 0:57:26.600 --> 0:57:30.160 we got LC, we got LT we got guys going down, 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:31.760 and then a round the league as well, you got 0:57:31.800 --> 0:57:34.520 guys going down with ACLS and achilles and all these 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:37.360 different injuries that us off tissue. How concerning is this 0:57:37.520 --> 0:57:41.760 for for us, especially with our old line. It's where 0:57:41.760 --> 0:57:44.080 everybody across the league. I mean, I'll tell you this. 0:57:44.160 --> 0:57:46.200 You know, we talk about our fantasy football teams and 0:57:46.280 --> 0:57:49.280 my league, I said, we need to have a injury roster. 0:57:49.520 --> 0:57:51.560 We had the IR and a COVID. So we got 0:57:51.560 --> 0:57:55.640 two things, IR and COVID. Because it's gonna be a problem. 0:57:55.880 --> 0:57:59.280 Make sure you draft a lot of guys here. Well, 0:57:59.360 --> 0:58:05.000 you stop, bar I gotta finish this. Okay, we're almost 0:58:05.000 --> 0:58:08.120 Then give me two minutes. I'll let you out. Two 0:58:08.160 --> 0:58:19.040 minutes to chill out over there. Man, I give her credit. 0:58:19.040 --> 0:58:22.320 She was good. She was good. For thank you. My 0:58:22.440 --> 0:58:24.560 child just came and got the dog guy, So tell 0:58:24.600 --> 0:58:27.200 me when my children just can't come down. I'm playing 0:58:27.240 --> 0:58:30.800 home school dad, trying to do a podcast, trying to 0:58:30.800 --> 0:58:32.640 take care of the dog. My wife went out to 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:34.600 go do some work today. So I'm trying to juggle 0:58:34.600 --> 0:58:37.800 a whole lot of things here and prepare for my 0:58:37.800 --> 0:58:39.920 fantasy football draft. So I got a lot of things 0:58:39.960 --> 0:58:48.280 I'm doing life. Yes, yes, I gotta wash the dishes. 0:58:48.320 --> 0:58:50.280 I already put a load of laundry in so yeah, 0:58:50.440 --> 0:58:53.680 I'm I'm that guy. Man, I'm Versa told me. I 0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:55.600 tell my wife, I said, your next husband's not gonna 0:58:55.600 --> 0:59:03.640 do all this, You do it. She's not going to nowhere. 0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:10.280 You're going all that fellas. This was fun as always. 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:14.040 I look forward to next Friday, and Mike McCarthy talked 0:59:14.080 --> 0:59:16.560 about as they're gonna ramp things up in the next 0:59:16.600 --> 0:59:19.040 two weeks as they start to get closer to um 0:59:20.040 --> 0:59:23.080 that first game against the Rams. But I'm excited because 0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:25.720 I see the guys, the players when they talk to us, 0:59:25.880 --> 0:59:28.760 they're really enjoying the fact that it's new, it's fresh, 0:59:28.960 --> 0:59:31.800 and they believe in what they're being taught. And that's 0:59:31.840 --> 0:59:33.880 so much what football is. As a coach, you got 0:59:33.880 --> 0:59:35.480 to get these guys to buy into what you say 0:59:35.520 --> 0:59:37.640 because you can't be asked the players man and Danny. 0:59:37.640 --> 0:59:39.920 I really feel like Mike McCarthy and his staff are 0:59:39.920 --> 0:59:41.160 going to be able to take these guys and put 0:59:41.240 --> 0:59:46.680 them in the best position. Yeah, that's cool. You still 0:59:46.680 --> 0:59:48.720 own Mike McCarthy, and I feel like he's gonna do 0:59:49.000 --> 0:59:52.600 a decent job. I got come on, Danny, Danny, drink 0:59:52.640 --> 0:59:56.000 it with me. Drink. I'll say this because I know 0:59:56.040 --> 0:59:58.840 we're gonna postpone drink having to come up with this bet, 0:59:58.840 --> 1:00:01.320 this bet that you ready was all right, all right, 1:00:01.320 --> 1:00:02.959 So I know you're not ready to put the chips 1:00:03.000 --> 1:00:04.960 in on McCarthy yet. So I give you another seven 1:00:05.000 --> 1:00:06.680 days to come up with what you want to what 1:00:06.800 --> 1:00:08.280 you want to bet, so you can go on and 1:00:08.360 --> 1:00:13.680 three against what with bets against me. I believe the coach, Mike. 1:00:13.840 --> 1:00:16.720 I believe in a Super Bowl winner. Okay, as Rick 1:00:16.760 --> 1:00:19.960 Flair once said, you don't lose faith in winners. Okay, 1:00:20.440 --> 1:00:22.400 you don't lose faith in win I'm good with I'm good. 1:00:22.440 --> 1:00:27.840 I believe in Harvey, Dan Batman. We shall see, we 1:00:27.880 --> 1:00:34.800 shall see, all right. He's Danny mccraig. He's buried church. 1:00:34.920 --> 1:00:38.880 Two former Cowboy players. I'm knew he scrugs. Longtime Cowboy reporter. 1:00:39.160 --> 1:00:42.120 We appreciate you checking out the players lives. We'll talk 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:44.640 to you next Friday at eleven am Central. Right here 1:00:44.640 --> 1:00:48.440 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 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