WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: How Do You Respond? 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:10.720 Boys. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.759 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:23.280 world headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.160 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and new He Scrugs. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.720 Here we are everybody. It's a Monday Players Lounge. Come 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.800 on in here with us. Yes, yes, yes, here we 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.640 are broadcasting from the Star, headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.760 Crew is all here today. Danny McCrae, whats up? 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:43.159 What's up? 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.760 Heck Ma Harrison is here, Barry Church is here. I 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.360 am new he Scruggs. Home of a bunch of playoff 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.559 teams in Dallas, Fort Worth, Mavericks get it done over 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:52.000 the weekend. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.319 Barry, you got the hat on and go to the game. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:04.200 So I'm not even gonna He's invested in everything. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:09.400 Michael Parsons was there, tray Von Diggs was there. I 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.360 went there and and what to come back by them 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.319 Dallas Stars. They get it done on Friday. So the 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.280 Western Conference Finals for both teams are going to be 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.280 the American Airlines Center. You think a by the Rangers 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.360 won the World Series. Actually, Cowboys made the playoffs. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:28.680 Are you going? Are you going next week? 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.640 We good so knowing what you're saying is there's gonna 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.200 be no one left to trauma bond with the Cowboys. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.280 Cowboys in the playoffs. You did say that. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.679 Look me thinking about three three straight years with the Cowboys, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.640 twelve win seasons. But the problem, obviously, we know people 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:52.160 are looking at the playoffs, but we do know trying 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.640 to get there is hard and and in this day 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.320 and age, the league is designed for you to be 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.520 able to make it. Did not make it, and we 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.040 see so many teams go from first a lot. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:02.560 It's hard. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.240 Winning is hard. I think for me, my appreciation for 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.880 Mike McCarthy is to keep on winning here. And you know, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.239 you like to break through one day and get passed, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.320 get further. But I can't complain because I still remember 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.120 the Campo era here for the three, five and eleven 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.280 seasons when there was no quarterback. You know, I still 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.800 have an admiration for that. But I get the fans 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.040 and want more. I get it, But at the same time, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.120 I'm not crazy, which leads us into the first question. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.200 We talked about him before the show. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.440 Who has the most pressure to succeed this year, and 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:38.400 these were the nominees. Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, defensive tackle 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.720 Missie Smith, quarterback Dak Prescott, head coach Mike McCarthy. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.440 Let's start with you here, Barry Church. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.920 All Right, So if we're talking individual success, like just 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:53.280 individual career success going forward, I'm gonna say Massie's under 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.520 the most pressure. Oh, if we're talking about individual success 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.960 about a career going forward, Let's look at the other 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.480 nominees here. Jack Prescott already one of the highest paid 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.960 guys in the National Football League, second team All Pro 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.000 MVP vote. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.680 He's gonna get his bread regardless. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:08.880 It ain't like, you know, if he has a bad 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.399 year this year, he ain't gonna play in the league 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:10.760 no more. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.600 All right, He's gonna have his bread. McCarthy. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.760 He has already been to the pinnacle, taking a team 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.120 to the super Bowl, taking multiple teams to the playoffs. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.799 You just got done talking about three twelve win seasons. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.320 If he doesn't succeed here about going to the playoffs 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.160 and losing in the first round, I don't think it'll 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.440 be his last time ever coaching in the National Football League. Zimmer, 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.840 you know he's the second place right now. You know, 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.400 he went from a head coach now he's in DC. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.960 If he doesn't succeed as a DC, it's gonna be tough. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.040 But I'm sure he'll get another gig out there, Mizi 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.000 Smith right now. To me, this is kind of like 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.280 a make or break year for him. He doesn't want 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.280 to go down as being one of the few first 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.120 round busts that the Cowboys have had in the past decade. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.240 I mean, if you look at it from twenty ten 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.040 to now, there's only been really one that we consider 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:56.680 a bus and that was Taco Charlton. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.720 You don't want to go down that road. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.480 And then if you don't succeed this year, he don't 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.320 put good tape out there, Who's gonna pick you up? 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.080 So he's fighting for in my opinion, he's fighting for 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.800 individually his football career. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:10.400 Now. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.240 I'm sure he'll get another chance if he doesn't work 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.760 out here, But will he be that guy, I'm not 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.039 so sure. So to me, there's a lot of pressure 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.960 on Manzi to go out there and succeed. Now, if 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.919 we're talking about you know, team success and all that, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.800 of course is gonna be Dak Prescott because he's gonna 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.599 have the ball in order for this team to be successful. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.839 But individually, I'm leaning towards Monz Smith on this one. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.279 He pulled to you right there, he pulled you. He 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.800 took all the points off the tape right he took 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:33.520 all the points out. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:44.840 He was a couple, you know. I mean, I'm in 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:45.560 agreement with you. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.480 But I think when it comes down to Mazie, because 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.679 he was a rookie last season, he still has years 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.760 to develop into that. I mean, and look, you know, hey, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.159 that first year is unforgiving and people are gonna start 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.920 if you have another one you follow that up, they're 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.440 just gonna go ahead and put you in your little 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.960 bubble and they gonna call you what you are. Right 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.200 to me, it's Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy. I think last 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.080 season when the playoffs, that team just did not respond 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.320 at all. And that's on him. And he's in his 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.520 last season under contract, and I think that that pressure. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.520 You know, if the Cowboys get off to we were 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.600 already talking about the schedule, and if the Cowboys get 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.480 off to a rough start, man the rumors and it's 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.280 gonna start dinging immediately, So the. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:25.960 Pressure is right there. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.080 I think when you talk about Dak, you're right, we 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.320 lose a draw, he's gonna end up on his feet 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.760 because he's already one of the highest paid quarterbacks. But 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.360 what does that do for his legacy. I don't know 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.640 what what you guys think about that, but for me, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.400 it's Mike McCarthy because I think he's in a situation where, look, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.160 even if he starts off hot, finish twelve and five again. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.800 All right, finish twelve and five again, and you get 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.680 destroyed in the playoffs set it's a wrap. You know, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.400 he can't afford to have the same type of season. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.320 Matter of fact, he's gonna have to push this team 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.960 even further. And that's why I feel like the pressure 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.520 on him to succeed is even more because he can't 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.320 just do first round of the playoffs. He has to 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.440 push this team further in the playoffs. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.200 Yeah. I don't agree with either one of y'alls. Okay, 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.360 I'm going back to COLDA Prescott. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.280 I think I think at this point, we're sitting here 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.760 waiting for Dak to get paid. Right for the second time, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.840 it seems like you're going through this process of a man, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.279 prove it to us and let us know if you 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.359 can really get us there, like we believe in you, 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.160 We're gonna keep telling people we believe in you. We 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.600 really got all that, but we haven't seen you get 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.120 us to where we want to go. You've gotten us 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.800 pretty much to wear every other quarterback well, Tony. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.640 Romo and all like you've gotten us there. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.120 I think the pressure is on you now to show 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.400 us that you are really that quarterback who can get 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.000 us out of the out of the first round. And 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.560 we can put it on Mike McCarthy as much as 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.440 we want to. Dak Prescott has had a few different 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.200 head coaches now and he still hasn't gotten to that 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.119 point to where we say, in the NFC Championship headed 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.800 to the super Bowl. But we've had rosters with Dak 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.560 Prescott on there where you say you want of the 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.200 highest paid guys MVP types seas and then you look 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.320 in the playoffs and you see that that production doesn't 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.200 translate from the regular season into the playoffs. So I'm 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.719 looking at what I'm saying, ay Man, they paid the 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.160 guys around you say we got Zeke around you, Tony 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.240 Poula last year brought in Brandon Cooks, Ceedee Lamb there 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.640 drafted guy in the first round, Like you brought all 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.880 these weapons in and we still haven't gotten it done. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:25.040 So at one point it's like, hey man, it's on you. Now. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:25.720 We're going to take a night. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.480 Said now you have to do more with a little 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.840 less than you than you had before, and we need 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.120 you to show us that you can do that. I 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.160 think the pressure is on Dak Prescott, not that he 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.160 won't land on his feet, but as far as his 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.280 tenure here in Dallas and then moving forward, the legacy 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.640 that you would have as one of the Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.320 Will it be that same thing that they talk about 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.520 Rombo of Like, yeah, Romo's a great quarterback, But I 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.880 mean Dak Prescott is headed for that if he doesn't 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:48.920 figure out a way to get it done. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.720 On the player, what did he win? If they look 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:52.520 at Romo and what if you wanted. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.200 I hear your initial thought, because to me, I would say, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.680 if we asked this question last year, the player with 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.800 the most pressure to succeed was going to be Dak 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.920 Prescott because he led the league in interceptions with the whole 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.800 lot of people like Hey, what is this guy? He 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.360 goes on to lead the league in touchdown passes for 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.480 the second team All Pro. Whether Jerry brings him backward not, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.239 Dak Prescott is going to be a highly paid quarterback 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.080 and somebody's going to want him in this league. With 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.000 all due respect to Jared Golf, you couldn't have told 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.040 me when the Rams moved off him won a Super 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.920 Bowl that he would be in a position to where 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.280 he was making a kind of money that he just 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:28.800 got today. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.440 Absolutely so for quarterbacks. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.800 Man in this league where they're starved, Dak Prescott is 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.800 going to his agent and Dak should rest easy. They're 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.079 going to get their money, whether it's here or somewhere else. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.280 A bag is coming. He's got another three, four or 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.160 five years left to play in this league. Mazie Smith 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.720 is fine because he's a second year player. They're not 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.640 going to cut him even if he has a bad year. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.640 They made the investment. They go stick with it. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:53.720 Off injury too. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.079 Tom Landry had a great line and Bill Parcell's echoed. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.120 He says, you know what, by year three, we got 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.440 to see something. But Monsie Smith is going to get 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.320 at least three years with the Cowboys to show he 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.920 can do something before they just move off of him. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.760 Mike Zimmer one year deal right now for just being honest. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.040 The carpenter's tools are not what he's used to. So 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.959 if it goes good for Mike, grade if it doesn't, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.400 I don't think we can look at him and say, man, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.160 you booty, you're not good McCarthy. I look at Mike 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.040 and I just say, you're in a kind of tough position, 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.839 you know. Did they go all in like they said? 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.679 No? But you gonna get the blame no matter what. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.760 It's what I watched with Jason Kidd all first part 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.920 of season with the beverage when they lost. It's him 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.520 rotation is the bad. This is that they won Game six. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.440 You know, ain't nobody credited him. They got nothing, got nothing. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:47.360 I just laughed at that. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.480 I'm like, wait a minute, This Man's eight team came 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.360 seventeen down the guts everything. Nobody ain't got nothing to say. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.840 Luca Kyrie and the players do it. But Mike is 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.920 in that situation that, hey man, you gonna walk the 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.560 plank if it isn't your fault. I do agree with 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.840 what you said, because he's won a super Bowl because 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.920 of what he's done here, a smart NFL team should 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.319 pick him up. But then again, we just watch a 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.840 dude who won six Super Bowls go through a whole 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.400 off season cycle where people ran his name down. So 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.120 Mike could even be in that situation. If this team 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.600 wins us say ten games, and they don't make the playoffs, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:21.800 people are gonna look at him. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.080 Oh, this, this, that and the other. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.960 This league can be unkind to coaches. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:25.400 Man. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.040 So to me, when I think who's got the most 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.680 pressure is Mike because some of this stuff is so 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.600 out of your control, some of the stuff that you'd 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.280 like to see him do. I mean, like, think about 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.720 your quarterback who in the first year the system you're 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.440 running as the offensive coordinator is second team all pro 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.600 ceed lamb best, I mean best year he's ever had. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.200 Tony Pollard didn't have the year you thought he did, 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.480 but I think, wait, fit seventh or eighth in rushing exactly. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.319 And they sitting around here, hey man, you you are 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:52.320 you on a hot seaton. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:58.000 He was on the hot seat last season for those reasons. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.360 That's why the same way did y'all feel about that 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.440 getting another job after this, Like he gonna be fine. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.160 I'm looking at Mike McCarthy saying, listen, his is the 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.960 same way three twelve and five seasons, and you just 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.600 said that everybody else. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.079 I'm from the outside know its just like. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.280 We know all in, didn't me all in like like, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.559 you know, we thought it was gonna be so, I 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:16.800 don't know. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.680 I think Mike macarthy'll be okay, you can think I 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:20.200 think he will. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.640 You could have told me Belichick, wi' gonn get a job, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.240 especially when I thought the couple of interviews he haveing 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.280 Atlanta about that. I don't know, man, I thought Quinn. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.400 I mean, you know me, I thought Quinn was gonna 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:32.160 be gone a couple of. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.360 You know, I was. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:43.600 I thought he's. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.000 The success that he was having. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.560 Would have would have told you that he was going 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.720 to get a DC job, a head coaching jobs somewhere early. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.200 These these owners are these owners are different, man. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.559 I don't know. I don't know why these owners, man. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.520 So I look at Mike and I just you know, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.840 somebody's gonna look at all the success and we want 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.600 the new hot coordinator whatever. And this was Mike last 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.480 year calling the plays, getting back to doing what he's doing, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.559 and they were sensational and what's the owner saying that 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.480 play it out, play your contract. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.720 Play it out play. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.760 If you think about it's kind of wild to think about. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.400 So that's why for me, I think he's got that 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:24.120 most pressure because so much of this is not in your. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.000 Grasp but what y'all extended him. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.800 Though at the end of the season we sound totally different. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.880 It's not wild to me because at the end of 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.000 the season, we say, hey, man, next year, going into it, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.240 they go twelve or five, only thing that's gonna matter 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:39.280 is what they did in the playoffs. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.800 Right at the end of the season, we're like, all right, 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:41.760 they went twelve and five. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.680 And what So for us, like, I don't I don't 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.800 think it's that crazy for him to be having to 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.520 play it out to figure out if you go twelve 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.360 o five, is there any opportunity for success in the playoffs. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.960 So I say that from the standpoint, and I go 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:02.240 back to like Dak anywhere else, they're they're they're grateful 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.719 for what the coach did. Boom, here's another cut. You're 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.559 grateful for what your quarterback did, and you go ahead 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.040 and you take care of it. And here it's like, yeah, 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.520 that's to me, that's wild because I mean think like 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:17.079 Jared god ninth season not better than das. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:28.480 Here you go big check, take it, play it it 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:28.840 comes out. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.000 Are you getting paid for regular season or you getting 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.520 paid for your postseason success. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.760 So Dak Prescott, we all under stay. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.319 He had an amazing regular. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.120 Season second in m v P. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.800 But if you look at his past two past postseasons, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.079 the past two what is it combined? Five interceptions? You know, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.679 it's not like he's the reason they're losing, but he 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.800 is a part of part. And you look on another 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.679 end with golf, he had some success in the regular season, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.319 but when the postseason came around, I. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.200 Mean he was hitting on all cylinders. They should have 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.600 won that game. They should have won that coaches and passes. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.319 That's that's what it came down to me. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.360 So but even when he was in LA, I mean 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:05.640 when he was in l A, he had one of 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.400 the best running back he had him in his prime, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:08.200 he had one of the best. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.280 Come on, man, he had girl. Now listen, let's go back. 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:12.839 You're right. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.520 No, no, no, you're right, you're right what I'm saying. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.320 But they went to a super Bowl with that, and 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.640 they had a defense. They had a defense that was 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.440 we're good, one of the one of the best defensive 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.560 line in the play in the game. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:25.280 So come on, let's go. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.240 No, hold on, okay, because Week five, historic defense came 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:29.920 out of your mouth. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.840 Did I say, did I say said? Did I say 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.520 his story? You said history? I don't think. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.720 I don't think historic was the No, no, no, I 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.280 don't think I used the word history. You said, I 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.400 know you're gonna go back. I don't think using the 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:51.280 word I know I said was historic? Out is how many? 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.440 How many if you take all it for all the 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.360 teams in the NFL, how many of them would like 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.360 to have three twelve and five seasons? That's you, that's everybody, right, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.160 And so if we're gonna judge Mike McCarthy and Dak 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.760 together based off of their playoff performances over the last 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.000 couple of years, you're not satisfied with that. And so 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.440 either way it goes this season, it's not gonna be 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.800 just getting to the playoffs with Mike McCarthy or DAK 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.600 And I understand that regardless if it's historic, defense, offense, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.520 whatever it is, you're gonna have to get to the 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.280 NFC Championship. You're gonna have to get to the super Bowl. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.320 If you're DA we talking about legacy and all the Dak, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.680 you gotta go win it. At this point, nobody wants 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.920 to hear, Oh, it's twelve and five, you got to 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:28.800 you got an MVP vote, You're all pro. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.840 That's just business as usual around here. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.200 If you don't win it, If Dak Prescott gets to 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.680 the NFC Championship, he's good. Like they're like, all the 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.840 noise is gone. So that's I think that's what we're 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.000 talking about with Jered Golfer. Jared Golf had uh Todd 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.080 Gurley who was Cooper Cup at that time. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.920 I so like they were running a good offense. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:54.480 They had Brandon Cook, Brandon Cook and so top running 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.040 back Dak Prescott has had an opportunity to have top 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.720 running back, top receiver CD Lamb. So when you're looking 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.120 at it as far as what we're doing in the playoffs, 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.840 Jared Golf has had more success, especially when you look 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.560 at why he got paid in the team in a 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.280 city like Detroit, where who the hell were the Lions 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.560 three years ago and they brought Jared Golf in and 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.480 everybody was like, oh, it's over for them. It's Jared 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.960 Golf and all he all he did was prove that 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.600 he is a top nice quarterback, went to the NC Championship. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:22.280 Read us here. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:24.240 I don't know if I generation that's what I said. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.120 Generational defense. Oh yeah, I find it, So. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:28.680 Let me go back. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.160 Then they want to hit your point that bar what 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.160 Detroit has done. One they built an offensive line because 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.640 we know that in the past, what's the way to 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.640 get Jared Goff put pressure up the mill. He doesn't 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.520 like to get hit, so they've given him a tremendous 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.480 offensive line. And then they said we are going to 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.400 be a running football team. They're running football team. You 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.800 got a really good weapon of sat proud. So they 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.320 have made sure, hey, how do we compliment our quarterback. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.280 We're not asking our quarterback to go win the game 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.760 the way McVeigh didn't feel he could. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:58.840 So we brought in Stafford. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.120 Your point on terms of what do you pay a 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.680 guy for regular season or playoffs? In a lot of ways, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.960 it's both, but you got to have the regular season 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.920 to sit up here and say it's worthy. Lamar Jackson's 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.080 two and four in the playoffs, dak is two and five. 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.400 Both of these guys have got some type of thing 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.400 going on here in the playoffs where you're like, hey, bro, 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.080 this isn't what we're doing. Peyton Manning was I was 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:21.960 ohero and five or ohen six his first couple of 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.480 times in the playoffs, but you saw he was winning 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.720 thirteen games a year and the culture making the playoffs. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.760 So this other thing about can you figure this thing out? 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.600 You want to Barry Bonds went through it, Alex Rodriguez 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.960 went through We've seen some players, high level players, hall 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.440 of famers, who struggled a little bit to get it done. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.920 Peyton maint eventually got there, and even his last Super 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.600 Bowl run, it wasn't because of him. That's the Denver 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.360 defense where everybody else saw he helped out a little bit, 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.240 but this was not the shareff frunt of things. So 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.400 I say that to go back to you, I'm going 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.200 to pay a guy based off the regular season about 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.879