WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: No Excuses 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.160 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:08.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:11.880 Cowboys. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:18.880 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:24.360 World Headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.280 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and new he scrugs. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:39.160 Here we go play, Let's go. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.440 Let's go, man four Amigo, negros are here for you 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.920 for forty five minutes of conversation. Danny mccraye is here, 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.559 heck Ma Harrison is here, Barry Church is here in 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.239 the flesh maybe building in. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.480 Perfect Yeah, that's how we made. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.840 How we're doing weekly. That's where yah, I've been here 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:02.840 this week. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:10.480 You like Heranda shows were talking about fellas. That's why 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.240 I don't give you no doubt. That's all you know. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.880 It's something crazy coming out there or something. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:25.000 Many work I wish. I'm glad. I'm glad you maybe 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.600 that fur. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.360 I know how dirty you are, just you just saved 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.600 it off of us, Like tell me he was nice. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.360 All them they like because I tell the truth. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.240 That's why they already know yourself the truth. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.039 Let's can we start, McCarthy, Let's do the. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.640 Cowboys head coaches having appardected me today and uh so 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.800 he's out. Dan Quinn ran a press conference, he uh, 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.680 they're telling us he's gonna coach on Sunday against the Eagles, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.920 and like cars coaching cart is gonna coach on Sunday, 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.360 And then dan Quinn said, you think the irishman's gonna 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:02.080 miss this one? 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.000 So meaning Mike. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:09.480 McCarthy, irishman from Pittsburgh, he's gonna play. He's gonna be 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.720 there in pain. I mean, I just hope the man 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.680 can stand and do whatever you gotta do. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.959 Man. I think I just we were just out there. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.040 I think I just told y'all this story back in 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.080 twenty Back at twenty fifteen, Chicago Bear season. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:22.280 Was over with. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.080 I was waiting to get picked up on the roster. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.160 I was in contact with the Cowboys. Hey man, we're 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:28.680 gonna still be trying to figure it out, but we're 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.639 gonna make it happen. And I'm like, okay. So I'm 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.080 working out and my stomach and my back just start 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.960 hurting like crazy, and I'm like, man, I don't know 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.200 what's going on. I'm trying to be cool. I'm taking 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:39.840 thumbs and stuff. My wife was like I need to 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.320 take you to the hospital, right So I finally get 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.040 to the hospital, fall out before I get in there 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.720 and they put me in on the bed and they're like, 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.639 hey man, we gotta take you into surgery right now. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.679 Your appendix is about the burst, so we need to 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.240 heard me get this thing out of there. So I 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.680 know exactly what Big Mike is going through, and that 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.960 is some painful stuff. But he's gonna be okay to 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.720 coach on Sunday because he don't got to like run 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.680 around and do all that stuff. And Big Mike seemed 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.200 like a really tough guy, but I can tell you this, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.000 it is painful as hell. Your pendans don't even do 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:08.800 nothing like what you got it from. It's just there. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.760 They're the cause problem. They're the call. Probably had to 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:23.720 flush your mouth. I'm telling you right here right got 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:29.079 the worst. Can't you feel sorry for I'm healthy, Big 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.720 Mic the one to see he's gonna be all right. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.480 So my next question, since you've been there, sir, what 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.360 was the recovery like for you and just bikes going 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.120 in today that he's gonna be able to coach on Sunday. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.200 So what is that recovery? What are they what do 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.360 they have you doing? Die? And everything? It was what 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:45.960 goes into this? 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.480 Yeah, so I mean it's a quick, quick, little surgery. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.960 I was out the next morning. I went that night, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.480 and then when you get home, it's really the issue 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.280 is the surgery is here kind of. I had mine 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.600 through my my naval area, so it's in your stomach. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.680 So what you eat, it's it's tough for it to 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.880 come out, so it's not necessarily like what you can eat. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.560 It's just knowing a you're probably going to be stopped 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.640 up for a few maybe a week or two at 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.480 this point, so that is kind of the thing that 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.040 bothers you the most. But I think, like I said, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:16.599 he's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.080 That Smoothie King like that I thought. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.760 I thought I was Smoothie King to you know what 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.160 I'm saying right there? 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.840 Will that be all right? Versus eating like I said, you. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.480 Know, yeah, I was normal because I didn't believe them, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:34.760 and then my stomach was like this. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.320 I was like, oh, you're instructions. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:45.480 I don't care about superheroes when you're playing ball. Thought 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.080 it for a year, but my back and stomach was 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.120 hurting for a full year while I was in Chicago, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.240 and I just thought it was because football pay. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.160 And it was like, tell me, okay, I will do that. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:55.640 Take no chance. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.040 I want to smell them cookies and you'll be like man. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:12.920 Next to you smacking on you got me? 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.640 Okay? All right? Hekma. When you heard the news, what 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.279 was your thoughts? 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.800 We don't have time for this, Mic. We don't have 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:20.920 time right now. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:22.200 I don't. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.880 I don't have time for this. You know, I don't care. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.080 I don't care about ju Ju opens solid. It's Wednesday. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.880 Mic. We don't need this, Mike. We just don't. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.640 And uh, that's tough, man, you know, Like like I 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.920 heard from Dan Quinn, it's it'll be tough to keep 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.520 him off the sideline. That's my whole thing is when 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.520 you talk about the pain portion of it, how what's 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.200 his goal it's going to be his pain threshold? 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:43.720 Is he going to be on the sideline? Is he 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.560 going to be in? You know? Where is he going 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.200 to be? Did you just pull a tasty cake out 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:47.680 of your pocket? 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:47.800 Bro? 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:05.440 The over there? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I had a 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.880 flash you got it there? I had a flash back. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:19.080 Doubled up, man, I got to do another podcast down man. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.960 Man, We'll have time for it, but you know, need 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.200 Mike to be well for Sunday night. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.320 Yeah, you know, you know, first of all, you know 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.560 hopefully has a sexile recovery and all that good stuff. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.000 But yeah, when you talk about it, if it was 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.280 any other maybe coaching staff or team out there, you 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:34.880 might be like, I don't know, you know, a full 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.120 week without the head coach being there, how's that going 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.240 to affect the team. But when you look at it, 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.040 you got a former head coach who led his team 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.680 to the Super Bowl, and Dan Quinn, you know who's 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.080 who's definitely capable of taking over duties for the week 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.640 or whatever the case may be. And you got guys 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.799 on this team who their experience and they have great leadership. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.000 When you talk about Dak Prescott offensively, when you talk 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.800 about a d law on the defensive side of the ball, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.920 so to me, you know, it's like a well oiled machine. Now, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.640 these guys have been through it. They with the work 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.120 on Dak Prescott's been in this offense. He's excelling in 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.080 this offense. So to me, you know, it'll be as 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:07.479 long as big mics on that field on Sunday. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:08.440 They'll be out on Sunday. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.880 Yeah, Sunday they Mike with that kool aid man ends 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.120 up cooking like he needs to be out there. This 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:16.560 is a big time game for him and not like 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.640 I said, I believe that by Sunday he'll be able 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:20.920 to be on the sideline. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.280 Everything goes right, all right. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.320 So Church, let me hit you with this. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.760 Having been a former player, is this where the guys 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.840 in the room handle their business in a different fashion 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.040 or just more so going I mean, you know, more 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.960 so going along with you. Everybody knows a big game. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.200 Nobody know it's coming to town this week. Coaches inside 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.640 is sideline here for to day for a little bit. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.040 What's what? What does the room do? 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:45.760 So the room? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.600 That's why you know when I talked about a little 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.880 bit earlier, those leadership positions in each group, are they 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.960 going to behot. You got the Dak Prescott over the 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.320 quarterback room, the offense. He got d Law on one side. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.760 You got to experienced team. So I don't see this. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.600 You know this this team as a whole just kind 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.720 of saying right, and we're going to get leadership where 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:02.400 we're going to go with it. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:02.600 Now. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.400 I feel as though these guys in the room will 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:05.840 be able to get the young guys going in the 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.480 right direction, whatever the case may be, and they want it. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.280 They understand what this matchup is going to bring it 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.960 to the table. They understand that this could be, you know, 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.160 the difference between winning a division and not and having 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.120 home field or not. So they understand what this is. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.640 And you know, I don't expect any laps in these guys. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.480 They'll be ready to play when it comes Sunday because 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:22.679 they got the leadership in place. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.520 Yeah, I agree. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:25.840 If you look at the team and you look at 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.680 each level and the leaders that you have on each level, 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.360 office of line, Tyren Smith, Zach Martin, you go to receivers, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.120 you got Brandon cous coming there, Ceee Lamb, same thing 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.960 across the defense of d Law and Stephan Gilmore like. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.480 You got guys everywhere who can make sure that they 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.080 have these guys ready to go. Dan Quinn al like 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.840 you got around this team, there's a lot of guys 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.320 who are going to make sure that these guys are 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.400 doing what they need to do to be ready for Sunday. Man, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.560 this sa'ts your average week this says your average week 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.560 of football. Bro. If you you you need something to 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.440 self start in this week by something wrong with you. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.199 So this Philly week, you don't need no excuses. Man, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.720 you don't no excuse. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.440 So we're screaming Philly week now. You don't need no. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.000 Green whatever whatever it is. You know, hey, man, you 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.880 know who coming and we made fun of. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.520 Absolutely you do you got shirts made up again? I 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:22.200 don't know. I don't know. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:23.840 He don't need want already. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.000 I'll check see if we got shirts made up this week? 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.120 All right, speaking of Nick Sirianni, let's dive into this 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:32.600 coaching matchup. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.920 Pleasant We're going head coaches hirts. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.840 That's what we look at. Who got totaling. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.240 Mike and I'm going if I'm going Big Mike and 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:51.120 Syrianni and I'm going now this year, this year, I'm 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:51.719 going big Mic. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:53.200 This year. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.360 I'm going big Mic handling all the injuries that he's handled, 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.440 figuring out the way to adapter offense based off how 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.960 you started. And then now Dak Prescott, who he's working 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.280 with a nice calling plays and being able to elevate 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.840 this office to another level. I'm seeing Big Mike do 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.640 some stuff that he said that he was in the 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.640 lab figuring out a couple years ago. Now that he 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.240 has the opportunity to do it, you're seeing the fruits 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.240 of that labor that he put in in the lab. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.600 And I think what you've seen this team do over 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.040 the last four to five weeks is he has his 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:21.920 handprints all over. 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:23.800 I'm giving most. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.440 Of it to Big Mike, so I'm seeing him elevating 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.839 at this moment. So Sirianni still good coach, went to 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.440 Super Bowl last year, but right now I'm Dallas Cowboys. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.560 So I'm giving this Big mic man. I'm gonna give 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.480 credit where credit is due. This guy, Nick Sirianni. When 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.400 he came into the league, I did not like him 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.160 at all, but he's shown that he's a coach that 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.319 can make adjustments. I've seen him time and time and 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.520 gave me down at halftime, go way to half. Whatever 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:50.120 he's doing, he's making the adjustments. But the disrespect if 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.160 you think he's a better coach than Mike McCarthy. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.679 Mike McCarthy has all of the accolades. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.000 He all the skins on the wall, He's won a 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.720 Super Bowl at six times in the NFC North, He's 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.040 one been to four or doing this year though I understand, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.079 but I'm but we can't get we can't talk about 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.960 coaches without giving their accolades, and I'm saying that the 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.880 coaching job that he Let's just break it down to 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:14.280 this year taking over offensive coordinator duties started off slow, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.880 but over the last six game like ballin do you 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.920 look at dak into his play and where he is 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.960 in the MVP race, It's because Mike has streamlined and 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.280 he understands the guy that he has. The one thing 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.920 about leadership is understanding personnel. How do I bring out 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.600 the best that I have and the guys that I have? 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.840 And I see Mike being able to do that. On 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.800 the flip side with Sirianni, they have an offense that's 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.880 Taylor made for Jalen Hurst. Jalen Hurst is successful and 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.480 it's because of the system that they. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.920 Have for I'm a go I'm gonna go Sirianni on 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.440 this one. I'm gonna go Sirianni. If we're talking about 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.440 this year, I believe when you look at it, one 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.200 they have with the best record in the National Football League. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.200 Right they got the best record in the National Football 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.800 League by one game. But also you look at it 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.439 the head to head, you know who won had to head. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:01.440 I understand right now. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.079 The Dallas Cowboys, they're flying on all cylinders. You look 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.839 at these past five games, Dak Prescott, MVP. I get 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.959 all that, But when you also look at it head 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.520 to head, they lost to the Eagles, to Syrianni. And 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.440 when you look at who they've beaten, because you got 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.880 to bring that into the category as well, they've beaten one. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.720 Team with a winning record. We're talking about Seattle. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.719 You look at Philadelphia, they ran the Gauntlet, they beat 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.360 Kansas City. You know, they beat Miami, they beat Buffalo. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.200 I forget though, they beat Dallas. So like when you 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.680 look at who they've played against, the competition, what their 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.040 record is overall, and the head to head. If we're 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.760 going by this year, I gotta say Syrianne has been better. Now, 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.319 if we go throughout the ladder of the season, Dallas 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.520 gets this win against Philly and then they go right 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.440 ale off beating Miami, beating Detroit, beating those teams. Then 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:42.520 at the end of the season we can have this 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.560 discussion again. But right now, I mean, if we're just 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.080 going about right now, body of work you gotta. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.040 Lean towards Sirianni on this one. I'm when you church 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:50.439 on that. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.680 And I also want to make sure that I give 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.320 this part to Sirianni. In terms of God lost two coordinators. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.360 I thought they were gonna fall off. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:12:59.160 I did. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.720 I thought they were gonna fall I got better record 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.320 they did last year this time. So and Jalen Hurts 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.800 is not he right now? And we saw last week 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.440 get exposed. I think two weeks ago he was there. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.080 They keep finding ways when I'm like and I don't 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:16.840 like that dude like that man went finds a player 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.800 to find a way to go on the sideline. But 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.839 I don't like him. And I'll say this in Mike's 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.040 and Mike's for Mike, I don't think we could talk 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.360 about enough of how good he has been as a 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:28.480 coordinator and to. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:29.240 Do both jobs. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.800 Tony, you know, Nixie around does not call plays. Mike 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.000 does call play. So to be able to call plays 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.840 make the decisions as that's true, that's true. That is 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.120 a lot to handle there. But I got to give 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.280 it to Sirianni for for this year right now. But 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.360 I tell you what, let my man come off the 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.440 hospital bed and win game on Sunday, Mike. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.480 You know this is Mike. I mean, it's like this 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.720 is this is too good. This is too good. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.960 It's like a boxing gatch right now, You're not gonna 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.000 say nothing to do. That's okay, that's all right. That's 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.520 like I'm sticking with Big Mike. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.680 And you know, you know, you know I feel about 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.400 Big Night, but then got to win this one got 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.280 to he got and I need to see the penalties 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.880 cut down. I need to see the penalties cut down, man, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:10.400 I need to. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.520 I need you. So maybe the team is going, you know, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:13.679 rally around. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.960 And when one for win one for for mister Pittsburgh 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.000 Big Mic and the Irishman win one for the Irishman. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.920 The ins big Big, Big Mic is doinge the hell 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.920 of a yall. And I can't understand y'all's argument. I'm 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.800 just you know, I'm a big MIC's side right now. Man, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.520 I'm a big Mic side. You lose Trayvon Diggs, Travishman 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.720 being in and out the lineup, you're trying to figure 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.880 out which the line you lose. L v Overshun is 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.000 out a guy who you thought and you are able 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.040 to because defensive coordinators have been able to find the 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.960 run playing all that, but it all still falls on 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.920 big Mic of him coaching these guys and having them 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.120 in the right position, and he's been able to adjust 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.480 this entire season offense. Don't look right. We figured out 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.640 were missing this officeive Lineman figured out. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.720 So let me ask this question. 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Appreciate Danny McCray, Heck Maherrison, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:51.560 Barry church. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:52.800 All joining me on New we Scruggs. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:58.840 Okay, going back into the coaching matchup right now, what 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.280 is our take on Mike mc carty's head coach. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.119 In this league? Is he elited? Now? 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.800 So many times people ask about Dak Prescele, is you 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.120 an elite quarterback? People love to do that. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.000 It's Mike McCarthy an elite head coach. Damn. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:11.960 And I need a list of the elite guys. Like, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.560 what's the qualification for being elite? Do we consider Mike 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:15.400 Tomlin an elite? 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.560 Yes? Yeah, Well, I mean how many Super Bowls he got? 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.080 All right, Well, I'm gonna give michaelmcarthy the not on 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.320 being an elite coach for coming in here and twelve 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.359 games back to back, because when he first got here, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.640 I'm sitting there looking at this Noland defense and how 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.840 the team that responded with the COVID year and all 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.440 that stuff, and I'm like, I don't know about this guy. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.160 I don't know, but I do remember big mic back 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.879 in Green Bay, having multiple years and he was consistent 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.560 with being able to get his team and where they 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:42.080 needed to be. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.040 He has a super Bowl win. Oh yeah. 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:45.800 By the way, since he's been here, outside of that 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.560 first year, we've been in contention and everybody's been saying 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:50.359 that we are one of those competitive teams. We've been 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.040 in the playoffs, just haven't been able to make it 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.280 over that hump. But when you're looking at coaches around 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.480 the league, I think it is hard to get a 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.159 guy in your building who has you in position to 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.760 go into the playoffs. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.200 Each year with a fighting chance. So I'm leaning more 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:06.040 toward elite. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.440 Okay, I mean everything that you just said, Man, it's 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.560 spot on, especially when you say about the adjustments that 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.359 he had to make after his first year with a 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.480 historically bad defense and then bringing in Dan Quinn. That's 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.119 a man not having any ego and basically saying, look, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.760 I gotta make some changes. He makes those changes two 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.919 back to back twelve and five seasons, and this is 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.040 going to be a third straight winning season here in Dallas. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:32.480 I think the one thing that they are going to 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.920 tie in to Mike right now is playoff wins. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:35.440 And losses. 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.800 They want to see him win playoff games, get to 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:39.960 an NFC championships. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:41.440 He's going to be judged by that. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.120 The regular season, he's already shown you he can master that, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.440 he can put the game plan together, the personnel together 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.719 to win in the regular season. What is he going 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:50.800 to do in the playoffs And that's what he's going 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:51.479 to be judged by. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.560 Yeah, I'm with you, guys. I'm saying he's elite. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.600 You know, for all the reasons you guys. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.440 Named the twelve win back to backs, about to be 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.919 the third possibly and you know, getting the playoffs and 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.080 like you said, taking over offensively, you know, and doing 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:03.920 what he's doing out there. 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.360 So I gotta say, you. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:05.919 Know, he's elite. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.680 He's a super Bowl winning you know, coordinator, and he's 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:09.800 won in multiple spots. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:10.040 You know. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.159 It's not just like you know, he dominated in the 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:13.879 Packers and he came here and was just like a 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.119 roller coaster ride. Now it's always been a you know, 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.840 an uphill climb and he's been ascending that climb. So 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.600 to me, I gotta says elite. If we're gonna consider 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:22.720 Tomlin and you know. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:23.359 Maybe Peyton. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.600 Some people say Peyton's an elite coach. I gotta throw 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.760 Tomlin in the mix because he's bringing his system with it. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.240 It's not like, you know, he's coming over here just 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.320 to be the overwatch or whatever for the rest of 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.399 the offensive coordinator and a defense coordinator to do their thing. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:36.080 He's coming in here. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.120 He's bringing his system in here, and we see now 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.400 that that system has has worked. I mean, I guess 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.600 he's done with you know, elite quarterbacks. He's at Brett 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.960 fav he's at Aaron Rodgers, he's gotten now Dak Prescott. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.960 But to me, you know, he's helping these guys get 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:49.879 to where the position they are right now. So I 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:50.600 gotta say the lead. 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:52.080 I want to bring the note up too of last 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.439 year with Cooper Rush. When you go through that and 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.800 you're like, okay, I like the season might be over 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.280 with right everybody's looking at this team and saying, well, you, 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:01.400 Dak Prescott's out. 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.359 We saw what happened when he when it's late, well 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:04.240 we already saw this. 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.200 And they go out and find a way to win 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.600 those games to still get twelve to twelve wins on 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:12.840 the season. Yeah, that's that's an elite coaching it just 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:14.399 doesn't happen around the league. You see a lot of 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.760 teams now struggling with backup quarterbacks getting in the game, 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.359 and you like, why are we even fighting? 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.560 So I had this conversation with somebody over the week, 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.680 and who's bashing McCarthy, And I just said. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:27.520 He's an elite coach. 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.720 He's an elite coach, And just look at the other 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.120 coaches in this league. I said, you don't realize how 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.359 good he is, you know, obviously you just look at 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.800 just who's got wins right now currently coaching Belichick number 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:41.959 one right, three hundred wins. We all know Bills going 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:43.560 to Hall of Fame, and he's got the record for 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.959 most Super bowls Andy Reid two hundred and fifty five wins. 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:50.399 He's number two, going to the Hall of Fame, got 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.439 two championships. Mike Tomlin is number three currently coaching right now, 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.959 by the way, currently coaching one hundred seventy wins won 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:58.560 Super Bowl. Pete Carroll one hundred and sixty seven wins. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.920 Who the Pete Carroll lose to last week, Mike McCarthy. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.040 And then after Pete Carroll is Mike McCarthy one hundred 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.439 and sixty four wins. He's just three behind Pete Carroll. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.280 Both of them have one Super Bowl. Then behind McCarthy 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.440 is Sean Payton with one hundred and fifty eight wins, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.280 has got a Super Bowl. John Harbor one hundred fifty 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:15.960 six wins, He's got a Super Bowl as well. This 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.560 man's name is up here with and right now, if 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.840 you ask me, on this list, bella Chick is in 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.240 the Hall of Fame my opinion, Andy Reeve's going to 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.159 the Hall of Fame. In my opinion, Pete Carroll and 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.240 Mike Tomlin, in my opinion, the Hall of Fame coaches. 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.280 Mike McCarthy is right here with these guys. He is 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:32.840 right here. 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.439 And as much as people want to say, well he 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.320 had Brett Faarr, he had Aaron Rodgers. Anybody remember Harro 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.359 Rodgers first year, look a whole lot like Jordan Love. 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.760 It was like, I don't know about this guy. And 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:48.879 Aaron Rodgers is going to the Hall of Fame, and 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:50.879 they won a Super Bowl over at Jerry World together. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:52.919 Mike McCarthy is an elite head coach, and for some 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:54.560 reason a lot of people don't want to give that 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.359 to him. And what he's done in Dallas. They're sitting 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.520 at nine wins. When we all say they go win ten, 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:02.560 we all go say, okay, when's the last time we 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:04.439 seen three ten win seasons round this joint. 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.320 There's been a minute two back to back twelve win seasons. 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:09.720 We haven't seen us since Verry Switzerland's coaching when he 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:11.280 had all that all of Jimmy's town. 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.760 We haven't seen that around here. And for fans to 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:17.440 so flippidly act like this man can't coach. I don't 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:19.399 like decisions into this and do that. I'm like, did 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:19.720 they win? 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.399 The damn came against Seattle and it had one? Lady, 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:24.320 I didn't like the margin. I said, oh you think 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.119 this college football? Do you at the committee? 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.080 Right? Right? I'm sorry, they're supposed to be Seattle. 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:31.760 I with the nine and a half the Vegas they 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:34.400 won the game, right, I'm like, I don't know what 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:36.120 you guys are expecting here. 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:39.000 And then I asked her, said, look at Philadelphia. 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:43.240 You know they barely be Washington, right, you know didn't 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:46.560 beat New England comfortably. I said, so these teams, this 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:48.879 guy does all this. You ain't questioning here, but you 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:50.919 want to run Mike McCarthy up and down the I'm like, 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.520 I don't get it, guys, I really don't as good 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:54.320 as Andy Reid is. 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.360 Anybody seen that offense in the second half last three 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:57.760 games ain't been no offense. 0:23:57.960 --> 0:23:59.600 But I've said it time and time again. It's an 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:03.200 image problem with Mike and they he continued to to 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:06.600 figure out ways how to disrespect. It's just like I've 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:10.080 always said it, man, people that are easily disrespected, I 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:12.119 have to ask myself, like why why why are you 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:15.040 disrespecting this person that's shown you time and time again 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:16.760 that they can do the job, They can get it done, 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:20.800 they won championships, but yet you always disregard them anytime 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.680 you start talking about coaches. Man two years ago was 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:26.960 putting Sean Payton in his seat while he was out 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:30.720 there coaching, Like the announcers are talking about Sean Payton, 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.920 showing this man, why lens him on the sideline talking 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:36.800 about another coach in the game. 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:44.160 The owner did that, and we had a press conference 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:49.720 in training camp asking about it. So you know, exactly 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:51.240 help us here coach out on that. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:56.800 Let me doubting here and ain't gonna talk about it. 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.760 I ain't putting no fire on him. I didn't like 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:02.400 that I heard. I said, Oh, that's that's that's the thing, 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:09.280 to be your own people. People, I mean, my goodness, 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:10.400 gratious Jerry. 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.960 Mike is doing. Mike is doing a phenophenomenal job. He's 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.000 a phenomenal job. He will be judged by the playoffs, 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:19.879 as y'all say, like okay, twelve where the people are 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.399 tired of the twelve win seasons. They want to see 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:24.399 that you are competitive in the playoff. That does not 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:26.840 take away from how good Mike McCarthy has been coaching. 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.760 We as a podcast want to see, Hey, when you 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:31.919 come up against Philly in the playoffs or San Francis 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:34.560 going to playoffs, that is what we want to see, 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:36.080 and we want to see you be able to be 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:37.760 successful against those teams. 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:41.159 He's so so bad, he's he's paying for the sins 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:42.080 of past coaches. 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:47.800 This is really the truth. 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:56.760 And how do we get here about winning the playoffs? 0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:59.640 You're talking about winning and the playoffs what we're talking about. 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:09.760 Find somebody from from Chan Gaily, Okay Campbell, Uncle Wade jg. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:12.680 All of it comes into where you're sitting up here 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.600 with fans, are frustrated people are mad. So it's not 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:18.639 just Jason, it's the whole thing of what's happened before. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:22.520 And while Jerry gets it, the head coach is the 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:23.879 one who has to pay. 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:27.399 For it every time. Yeah, I believe, so, I know 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:27.840 what I'm saying. 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:29.840 Every So every new coach that coming here in the 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:31.679 previous guy doesn't win a super Bowl to get you 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.440 to that position, then it's so if Mike MacArthur don't 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:36.120 do it to heal, but the next guy be paying 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:38.400 for the sins of a list of people that then 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:40.159 includes Big. 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:42.520 Mic because we've never seen a drought like this in 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:48.119 Cowboy history, and Gaboy fans mad. They want somebody to 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:52.280 blame and we and you know, Jerry's not going anywhere. 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:55.000 So who's that next person who's gonna catch it? It's 0:26:55.000 --> 0:26:57.200 gonna be the head coach always. 0:26:57.520 --> 0:27:01.920 But if things stay the same right now, if Philadelphia 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:04.800 wins this division again and the Cowboys are a wildcard, 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:07.800 the Cowboys could conceivably have to go down the exact 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.640 same road they did last year, a wildcard team NFC 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:13.639 South game on the road, and then you could be 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:20.120 right there, potentially having to face San Francisco or Philadelphia and. 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:21.480 In the divisional round. 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.120 And if you don't win that, then people go say, oh, fire, 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:28.080 And I'd say simply and do what where are you 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:32.560 gonna go? Because Lord knows, we see more folks go 0:27:32.640 --> 0:27:35.679 down the firing road and not have answers. It is 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:39.760 a hard thing to do to say we're getting rid 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:40.480 of this guy. 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:42.760 Look at Atlanta and we don't. Dan Quinn, we. 0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:47.320 Don't, okay, not even looking sense, been a rough road, 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:50.160 Lovey Smith in Chicago, we don't what you love? 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:51.080 You won ten games? 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:53.200 Fire, We'll look at him that. They's talking about another 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.720 coaching change. Old boy up there in Detroit, Bob Quinn, 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:58.480 A nine and seven is not what we expect with 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:02.159 the Detroit line. Jim cardwell, you know, took him, took 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.159 him till Dan till Dan Dan Campbell, you got to 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:07.440 uproot your franchise and go over the river through the woods. 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:09.719 So for cowboy fans one to say, you know what 0:28:09.920 --> 0:28:12.000 Mike McCarthy doesn't. If he don't get an sc Cherviys 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.040 Shop game, he's gone, where do you go there? 0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:16.560 Well, Jerry's done a good job of getting guys that 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:19.200 can at some point get your twelve wins thirteen wins 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:21.000 and get you to the playoffs. He's found no way. 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:22.880 And I think that is the most frustrating part about 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:25.280 it is people start to have that belief because you 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:27.880 watch the team during the season and you say, oh, yeah, yeah, 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:30.360 this the one, this the one, and then you get 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:34.000 to that same brick wall last two years, the same 0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:36.760 exact team, and then you're not able to pull it off. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.000 And I think that is that's probably the most frustrating 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.400 part about watching it. It's like, hey man, we know 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:43.280 the teams that we need to beat. And that's the 0:28:43.280 --> 0:28:45.800 frustrating part about this season of like, okay, well San 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.200 Francisco two years in a row. You go into the season, 0:28:48.240 --> 0:28:49.720 you say, okay, yeah, we get to do it in 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:51.560 the regular season this time, and we get to show 0:28:51.640 --> 0:28:53.720 them that we that we belong. And then you don't 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:55.200 go out there and do what you're supposed to do. 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:57.400 And oh, by the way, what you just spoke about. 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.120 Hey man, you can look back at that era his 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:02.720 only game right when you're looking at winning the division 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:06.800 and all this stuff and the best record, and you say, man, we. 0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:09.600 So it's interesting because I heard this on Talking Cowboys. 0:29:09.600 --> 0:29:11.840 It was a great Nick Nick Harris had a great 0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:14.280 trivia question. Can he named the five starting offensive. 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:18.680 Line in that cowboy was on the game? The Cowboys started, Yeah, 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:23.800 like a long time ago. Martin Steele, theodist didn't start. 0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:25.640 Oh Man, Martin didn't play either. 0:29:25.720 --> 0:29:30.120 Mark it was like number seventy one. 0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:31.000 Where did he start? 0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:32.200 Left tackle? 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:32.560 Yeah? 0:29:33.240 --> 0:29:33.600 Was guard? 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:36.560 I think? Yeah? But who was the center? Was it 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:41.360 Brett Hoffman? I was t J Bass? You start right? 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:44.760 Your point the point being is we go back to 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:47.160 McCarthy in terms of coaching, and look that that was. 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:48.360 That was a winner. 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:50.080 That was a game we thought they'd win, but it 0:29:50.160 --> 0:29:53.120 was also a game where they didn't have their offensive line, 0:29:53.200 --> 0:29:57.000 and it clearly showed Jonathan Gannon, who came from Philadelphia, 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.440 had exactly all the right answers against the Cowboys. 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:02.600 They didn't get it done. Too many mistakes in the game. 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:04.880 Defense had had a rough go with. 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:05.720 Yeah, it was not good. 0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:07.719 Josh Jobs out here cutting them up like he did 0:30:07.720 --> 0:30:10.240 against Tennessee. Wasn't a good game. But that was not 0:30:11.480 --> 0:30:14.680 That was not the Cowboys that we've seen here recently, 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:16.880 and that was here it is you guys are still 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:19.600 learning this new offense. You got three three new offensive 0:30:19.600 --> 0:30:22.440 line starters out there. I mean, this is a recipe 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:24.760 of being able to have a bad upset game like 0:30:24.800 --> 0:30:25.560 that was there. 0:30:26.640 --> 0:30:30.400 Nobody's gonna give us excuse for that. We got talking 0:30:30.400 --> 0:30:33.240 about why you lost. We said they win that game. 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:35.000 When you look at the end of the c if 0:30:35.040 --> 0:30:36.920 you lose, but like that is the opposite. I don't 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:41.560 care no matter why off playing well. I gave defense 0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:45.800 to go out there and win the game. Look at Pittsburgh. Okay, 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:48.800 what you're running out there on offense, Okay, your offensive trails. 0:30:48.840 --> 0:30:50.560 Our defense has to figure out the way in that 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:53.160 at that in that game, especially with the Josh Dos 0:30:53.160 --> 0:30:54.920 playing a quarterback, you gotta figure out a way to 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:56.960 go out there and win that game. No offensive line 0:30:57.000 --> 0:30:58.360 is start. You got to figure out a way not 0:30:58.400 --> 0:31:00.600 to allow two hundred yards of rushing like you got 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:01.680 to figure out a way to do that. 0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:06.160 All right, second break here, Should the Eagles sit down? 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:15.120 H Jalen hurt Yes. NFL network says says, yes, yeah, 0:31:15.200 --> 0:31:16.760 they right. 0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:21.800 What do you want I on open Day one to 0:31:21.880 --> 0:31:23.600 right now? I can't wait till you come back from break. 0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:25.120 I can't wait to do that. 0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:28.560 I take everything I said it back about it a couple. 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:31.640 We gotta got a good good final segment coming up 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:33.760 right here, all the players and uh. 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Janny mccrane 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:27.719 in the house soccer all right? 0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:32.239 DoD David Carr, former number one overall pick of the 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:36.360 Houston Texans who won the first ever Houston Texans inaugural 0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:37.720 game against the Dallas Capital. 0:34:37.800 --> 0:34:40.040 Houston historian Yes come. 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:43.040 Out on NFL Network and said that the Eagles need 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:45.800 to go ahead and sit Jalen Hurts down, said, Jalen 0:34:45.840 --> 0:34:50.360 Hurts can't read defenses, that they be starting Marcus Mariota 0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:56.200 over over Hurts despite Jalen being what the twenty seventy 0:34:56.280 --> 0:35:00.640 three Yeah, but he says, man, get him healthying that 0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:03.759 that quote, Mariota would be better and more productive right 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:06.440 now for the Eagles and Jalen Hurts in quote. 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:09.799 That's a bad take. That's a that's a bad take. 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.680 And and you know, if if he's making that, if 0:35:12.719 --> 0:35:15.399 he's making that assumption or saying that because he thinks 0:35:15.480 --> 0:35:18.000 Jalen Hurst is hurting, or he has some inside information 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:20.480 and saying like he's not making these throws, he can't 0:35:20.560 --> 0:35:22.880 make this throw because he has showed the problem or 0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:25.160 his knee is on the cusple blowing up on him. 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:27.160 Then I understand how you make that. But to say 0:35:27.239 --> 0:35:29.719 Jalen can't read defenses as dumb, Yeah, that's crazy. 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:35.240 That's almost as bad as my you know, most improved. 0:35:35.880 --> 0:35:39.680 That's you're gonna put Maryota in there. 0:35:40.040 --> 0:35:43.000 Over Hurt that's a that's a horrible take. 0:35:44.200 --> 0:35:47.160 What's Marioda gonna give you out there? Man? What he 0:35:47.200 --> 0:35:50.680 gave me I got people fired. 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:52.200 It's a rat man. 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:54.200 I don't want to that's that's a bad. 0:35:54.080 --> 0:35:55.759 People say whatever bit so we can read it and 0:35:55.800 --> 0:35:59.520 then you know, they realize how dumb it sound. 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:00.399 End up in the game. 0:36:00.680 --> 0:36:03.280 Last thirty starts. Jalen Hurts is twenty four and six 0:36:04.400 --> 0:36:06.160 Last thirty starts for Marcus Mariota. 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:09.640 He's thirteen and seventeen. Dude, I just say now didn't 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:11.560 make any sense. I mean, I understand it's a lot 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:23.799 of people hate on Jalen Hurts exactly. Hear it all 0:36:23.800 --> 0:36:25.839 the time. We hear it all the time. 0:36:25.960 --> 0:36:32.719 He said, you know what, because he knew I was 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:38.200 about to be People say, they said, they said. 0:36:40.520 --> 0:36:45.879 The car watching the players plays write dock down. 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:54.080 Heckma said what he ready? 0:36:57.120 --> 0:37:01.239 The thing about everything David Are said, he really could 0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:03.600 have just put instead of saying Jayalen hrs. He could 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:04.680 have put his brother down. 0:37:04.520 --> 0:37:07.440 There because can't look to me. 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:09.840 You got you got Michael Thomas getting out on Twitter 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:10.600 talking about it. 0:37:12.520 --> 0:37:16.560 You know, he has issues. He's not good, He's not 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:20.000 he's not healthy. Mister slant, mister slan out there, you 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:21.680 can't throw the ball down the field. I mean his 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:23.120 brothers not good Saints. 0:37:23.400 --> 0:37:25.960 When the Saints fans booing in that, that's a kind 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:27.120 fan base, you know. 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:31.160 They on and they got weapons, they have they got 0:37:31.280 --> 0:37:34.120 they have weapons on all these there's no reason for 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:36.359 you not to be able to make some something happen. 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:38.879 Jameis Winston gonna go out there, probably win more games. 0:37:38.920 --> 0:37:40.760 To Derek Car, he'll throw it down the field. 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:47.200 They got to what's old and Winston magic is all 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:48.920 thirty for thirty. 0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:49.520 But dog. 0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:52.840 Car part of the third best quarterback on the on 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:57.200 their team. He is taste some presents another channel. That's 0:37:57.280 --> 0:37:58.319 that's what I'm trying to figure out. 0:37:58.320 --> 0:37:59.040 What to tas him. 0:37:59.080 --> 0:37:59.440 He'll do? 0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:02.480 Who is he married to to keep getting these opportunities 0:38:02.560 --> 0:38:05.440 like this, because I mean, they continue to go to 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:08.600 this guy that's not providing any production for him. And 0:38:08.760 --> 0:38:11.200 I mean cars should have never ended up in New 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:14.080 Orleans anyway. But man to just I mean that's that 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:20.040 sinkers is sinking fast does provide Payton got him paid 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:26.360 because he was he was using them the right way. 0:38:27.560 --> 0:38:31.480 I understand. Twelve push operator. 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:35.719 Point a week each week, score touchdown last week, man 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:39.440 taste some more than car Car out there missing folks 0:38:39.520 --> 0:38:41.400 left and right on throw the ball down the field. 0:38:41.400 --> 0:38:43.400 Michael Thomas can't get a kill him fist. 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:46.040 But yeah, I said, David should have been talking about 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:48.360 his brother instead of sitting up here talking about Jalen Hurts. 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:51.120 And and I go back to last year. We saw 0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:53.279 Patrick Mahomes was hurt, especially in the Super Bowl. 0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:56.040 Guy wasn't right. This is what guys do. Guys playing 0:38:56.080 --> 0:38:57.959 this league. They're not a healthy not one hundred percent. 0:38:59.000 --> 0:39:02.120 So the center appearing, Hey Jayalen, you guys are playing 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.040 your number one seed trying to get back to the. 0:39:04.000 --> 0:39:08.120 Super Bowl set down from Marcus Mario. That makes no sense. 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:08.840 That's what I'm like. 0:39:09.120 --> 0:39:11.400 You're not even bringing in a quality guy. You got 0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:12.840 a dude who can't beat that Desmond d. 0:39:13.200 --> 0:39:16.560 Did you play hurt last year? Jalen Hurts? We played 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:18.040 her last year, everybody. 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:21.279 Because Minshew came in versus the Cowboys. I think the 0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:24.359 second game yea, yeah. 0:39:23.280 --> 0:39:25.239 And I mean I think I think the number one 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:28.880 thing should be the showdown between these two great quarterbacks. 0:39:28.960 --> 0:39:30.879 But a guy like David car should be talking about 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:32.799 that now, the fact that this man can't read that, 0:39:32.840 --> 0:39:33.719 and that's you. 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:35.920 He mad that Stroud playing good over there. 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:39.399 You remember his dayton I was there, the reason why 0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:47.040 I went to Texas. But in fairness, when he was 0:39:47.040 --> 0:39:53.399 in Houston, he was getting his head, he was getting up, 0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:55.640 so he might not be alright, and then they got 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:57.640 rid of him, and then well I forgot who the 0:39:58.440 --> 0:40:04.640 quarterback was to championship against the Patriots as soon as 0:40:04.520 --> 0:40:06.239 he's been mad ever since he was. 0:40:06.760 --> 0:40:08.799 Why couldn't why couldn't it be like that. 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:09.160 When I was? 0:40:09.840 --> 0:40:13.240 So you have Dak Prescott right now, corn in Vegas, 0:40:13.360 --> 0:40:16.719 co leader for the MVP Award with brock perty and 0:40:16.719 --> 0:40:18.560 then you got Jalen Hurts, who's in that top three 0:40:18.640 --> 0:40:21.680 right there. So yes, we are on NBC Sunday that 0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:24.080 football going to be treated to two guys who are 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:26.359 right up there for the m v P who need 0:40:26.440 --> 0:40:28.880 to close the show. Well in December, I think all 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:32.359 three of those quarterbacks, I think the quarterback who ends 0:40:32.440 --> 0:40:36.400 up having the better December between Purdy, Hurts and Prescott 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:39.080 will most likely be the m v P. Here, So 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:42.000 great opportunity for both of these guys to go ahead 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:44.520 and pull ahead in the race, and you've got all 0:40:44.560 --> 0:40:47.520 the eyeballs in the world. This game is going to 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:50.680 set a record, another NBC record, probably be the most 0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:52.520 watched game this year. If not, it's gonna be a 0:40:52.520 --> 0:40:54.279 top three because people gonna be out there white shit. 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:57.600 Ge no, no, no, no. I'm saying this is crazy. Like 0:40:57.880 --> 0:41:00.200 the Cowboys got all these brown time football get might 0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:05.240 have double next year. They're gonna be fighting for extra 0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:08.759 y'all flex the Patriots. We want to flex the Cowboys back. 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:11.520 They're gonna try to find a way to rewrite whatever 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:13.800 so they can make sure when you're breaking all these records, 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:16.080 somebody sitting there saying, man, look, I don't want nobody. 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:17.879 Else on my on the team making too much in 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:18.200 his mind. 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:20.200 I want somebody else, Jerry, y'all figure out a way 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:22.320 to bring body these contracts, because I want the Cowboys 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:23.200 on there every time. 0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:28.640 The only flex available is going to be the final game. 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:34.000 Looks like, man, because the Yeah, because CBS protected the 0:41:34.520 --> 0:41:40.400 Bills game, the Miami game is a protected game. And 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:44.240 I don't know about Detroit, but I'm imagining they probably 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:47.319 go ahead protect that one as well, just because that's 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:49.560 what the you know, so Fox and CBS makes me 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:52.640 because you get to protect the game and Lord knows, man, 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:54.520 they know where, they know where to go, even when 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:56.880 the Cowboys, even the Cowboy play the bum teams. I mean, 0:41:56.880 --> 0:41:58.640 you like the Patriots, how's that game of the week? 0:41:59.239 --> 0:42:00.919 They want it because they know go get numbers ahead. 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:03.520 This is like, I'm just going back to Dak and 0:42:03.560 --> 0:42:04.879 the m v P and I don't I don't care 0:42:04.880 --> 0:42:06.279 if he gets in. One of the things I know 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:07.960 Dak knows that he has to do is get to 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:11.520 the NFC championship period, not the end. Obviously an MVP 0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:13.720 would bode well for him and ringing up and getting 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:17.000 his money. But at the same time he's playing at 0:42:17.000 --> 0:42:20.920 that level. If he hasn't, he has the greatest opportunity 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:23.239 to take that step and be the front runner of 0:42:23.280 --> 0:42:27.080 the MVP race. With the Eagles, the Bills, the Dolphins, 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:29.480 and the Lions coming up the next four games, you 0:42:29.520 --> 0:42:33.520 pull those those games out, how do you how do 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:35.920 you argue with his numbers up until this point and 0:42:36.120 --> 0:42:39.360 also solving the riddle of the interception. 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:42.480 I think you should care because if they have any 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:47.400 shot at you know, winning the East he's got to 0:42:47.400 --> 0:42:49.759 be that dude for the rest of this month. 0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:50.640 Oh absolutely. 0:42:50.880 --> 0:42:57.319 And if we're honest, you see, guys, have everybody in 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:00.160 there ever you looked at anybody's you know, statist to 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:02.239 go car you got one career year. This may be 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:04.560 that career year, and the career year to go ahead 0:43:04.560 --> 0:43:09.160 and get that MVP may not present itself again. I 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:15.040 think this is, man, and it's just my thought, this 0:43:15.120 --> 0:43:17.640 is your best opportunity, probably your best opportunity of your career. 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:21.440 Go get it, Go get this thing because these magical, 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:23.440 because you need some magic to go in there to 0:43:23.480 --> 0:43:26.480 win these things here and this may be your best shot, man. 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:27.080 And this is the best. 0:43:27.200 --> 0:43:28.320 Like you said, this is the best year to do it, 0:43:28.360 --> 0:43:30.719 because when you look at it, there's not a guy 0:43:30.800 --> 0:43:33.719 that's out there that's just having this unbelievable statistical year. 0:43:33.800 --> 0:43:34.760 Like you look in the past. 0:43:34.800 --> 0:43:37.560 You know Mahomes throwing fifty touchdowns, you know Tom Brady 0:43:37.560 --> 0:43:38.840 throwing fifty Paight Manning, those. 0:43:38.680 --> 0:43:41.520 Guys are going off the rack and Tyreek Hills having 0:43:41.520 --> 0:43:42.120 one of those years. 0:43:42.120 --> 0:43:45.120 But we all understand that if he's as a quarterback, 0:43:45.120 --> 0:43:47.320 it's a quarterback of quarterback. We all understand that he 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:48.960 hopefully he gets opposite Player of the Year or something, 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:50.960 because he's going nuts right now. But when you look 0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:53.000 at it, this is the best opportunity for him to 0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:54.919 get it because he can have, you know, thirty five 0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:55.839 touchdowns out there. 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:58.520 Keep the picks low, and I might win it this year, 0:43:58.640 --> 0:44:00.480 which is out. 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:02.040 So Peter King, I don't know if you read did 0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:03.960 you just comment all this week, but he came. He 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:05.640 talked about the m v P race, and heck he 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:09.759 showed where basically you have to be the one or 0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:12.840 two seed to win the award. When they've kind of 0:44:12.840 --> 0:44:15.759 looked back at that's that, that's what it takes. That's 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:16.680 who they're giving it to. 0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:19.279 The I care, I care. 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.600 I'm back in the car, Like if if the Eagles 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:25.319 got the number one seed, you think that. 0:44:25.560 --> 0:44:27.919 Yeah, they probably give it the two, one or two, 0:44:27.960 --> 0:44:29.080 so you probably give it to San. 0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:34.600 It's it's Matt Ryan won it the two seed and 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:35.960 the Cowboys with one seed. 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:39.600 I don't bring that one. I know m v P 0:44:39.800 --> 0:44:42.279 for that would go a long way, all right. 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:45.120 That's because you know, Lamar, they start getting that leeway 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:47.239 right when you get into the next season. A five 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:48.600 season down the road, you'd be like, yeah, but he 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:50.320 was the league MVP, all right. 0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:50.520 That. 0:44:52.080 --> 0:44:53.480 Needs some of that and and I want to see 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:55.480 him with a Walter play Man of the Year last year, 0:44:55.760 --> 0:44:57.879 followed up with the League m v P this year, 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:01.200 Like that's that's that's a big time stuff for a player. 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:03.560 So hopefully, hopefully it pans out for to have that 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:06.880 conversation one day in Canton, Ohio. 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:10.440 As a quarterback, you need that that I mean, it's 0:45:11.120 --> 0:45:11.680 it's rare. 0:45:12.040 --> 0:45:14.240 Troutman never won an MVP. 0:45:14.760 --> 0:45:17.920 The offense was never designed for him to mostly ever 0:45:17.960 --> 0:45:20.080 threw in terms of touchdown passes and the seasons twenty 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:22.400 three he got in because he was the winningest quarterback 0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:25.080 of the nineties and he had three Super Bowls titles. But 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:28.600 otherwise you're looking at trying to win one of these 0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:30.799 things to get yourself in the conversation for the room, 0:45:30.960 --> 0:45:35.400 and it's either MVPs or you need super Bowl rings? 0:45:35.480 --> 0:45:38.439 Which one do you think Troy would trade? He damn 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:41.799 sure he would trade a super Bowl for MVP. And 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:44.000 that's what Dak. Dak needs an MVP to go with 0:45:44.080 --> 0:45:45.759 those numbers, to go with the contract. 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:47.319 That's I mean, this is what this. 0:45:47.520 --> 0:45:50.080 We were just talking about Mike McCarthy and him and 0:45:50.120 --> 0:45:53.120 his record and what he's meant for Dallas, and it's 0:45:53.160 --> 0:45:55.360 all come down to the playoffs. What he does in 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:58.080 the playoffs. They string a playoff run together to get 0:45:58.080 --> 0:45:59.920 them to the super Bowl and win the Lombardy. 0:46:00.400 --> 0:46:03.200 Man, why not be you know we could do both. 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:05.920 I was gonna say, Matt had an m v P 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:07.920 year and took Atlanta to the Super Bowl. 0:46:08.000 --> 0:46:11.560 Man, I thought you. 0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:14.960 Then Brian Schottenheimer, not Brian Shoheimer. Kyle Shanahan called him 0:46:15.000 --> 0:46:16.640 right out the game, called him. 0:46:16.560 --> 0:46:17.120 Right out that game. 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:20.960 Surprising, still surprising that he's the coach that he is 0:46:21.040 --> 0:46:22.879 right now, surprising that he coached in that game. 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:25.560 He was coaching. It was that guy. 0:46:25.800 --> 0:46:28.160 Surprised when the head coaches in San Francisco did the 0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:32.040 same thing again ten point yeah, yeah, yeah, because he 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.120 he couldn't figure out that. You know, it wasn't time 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:35.640 to be aggressive, was time to use the clock. But 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:37.520 you want to ask Jimmy g to go win. 0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:40.320 Your Super Bowl instead of your run game. 0:46:40.200 --> 0:46:43.840 That's on three eleven passes complete. 0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:47.479 Still like. 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:53.040 Double would have hit that post, that would have hit 0:46:53.080 --> 0:46:58.000 that double, would have been what you would have gotten 0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:00.839 to double. You would have got it to you a drop, right, 0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:07.640 So that was you over there, Joe. Oh yeah, all. 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:08.359 Right, great show. 0:47:08.560 --> 0:47:09.279 Appreciate it. 0:47:09.320 --> 0:47:15.399 Thank you, Barry Church here, thank you, Danny Craig, Chris Bean, 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:18.279 thank you, Jazz, Will, Josh, everybody part the show. 0:47:18.480 --> 0:47:20.760 Mike McCarthy, get well, We'll see you Sunday. 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:23.279 Uh. We will talk to you tomorrow right here on 0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:25.280 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:28.880 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:47:29.040 --> 0:47:31.920 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.