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Speaker 2: Crew is all here today. Danny McCrae, whats up?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 2: Heck Ma Harrison is here, Barry Church is here. I
Speaker 2: am new he Scruggs. Home of a bunch of playoff
Speaker 2: teams in Dallas, Fort Worth, Mavericks get it done over
Speaker 2: the weekend.
Speaker 3: Barry, you got the hat on and go to the game.
Speaker 4: So I'm not even gonna He's invested in everything.
Speaker 2: Michael Parsons was there, tray Von Diggs was there. I
Speaker 2: went there and and what to come back by them
Speaker 2: Dallas Stars. They get it done on Friday. So the
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals for both teams are going to be
Speaker 2: the American Airlines Center. You think a by the Rangers
Speaker 2: won the World Series. Actually, Cowboys made the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Are you going? Are you going next week?
Speaker 4: We good so knowing what you're saying is there's gonna
Speaker 4: be no one left to trauma bond with the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Cowboys in the playoffs. You did say that.
Speaker 2: Look me thinking about three three straight years with the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: twelve win seasons. But the problem, obviously, we know people
Speaker 2: are looking at the playoffs, but we do know trying
Speaker 2: to get there is hard and and in this day
Speaker 2: and age, the league is designed for you to be
Speaker 2: able to make it. Did not make it, and we
Speaker 2: see so many teams go from first a lot.
Speaker 3: It's hard.
Speaker 2: Winning is hard. I think for me, my appreciation for
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy is to keep on winning here. And you know,
Speaker 2: you like to break through one day and get passed,
Speaker 2: get further. But I can't complain because I still remember
Speaker 2: the Campo era here for the three, five and eleven
Speaker 2: seasons when there was no quarterback. You know, I still
Speaker 2: have an admiration for that. But I get the fans
Speaker 2: and want more. I get it, But at the same time,
Speaker 2: I'm not crazy, which leads us into the first question.
Speaker 3: We talked about him before the show.
Speaker 2: Who has the most pressure to succeed this year, and
Speaker 2: these were the nominees. Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, defensive tackle
Speaker 2: Missie Smith, quarterback Dak Prescott, head coach Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Let's start with you here, Barry Church.
Speaker 5: All Right, So if we're talking individual success, like just
Speaker 5: individual career success going forward, I'm gonna say Massie's under
Speaker 5: the most pressure. Oh, if we're talking about individual success
Speaker 5: about a career going forward, Let's look at the other
Speaker 5: nominees here. Jack Prescott already one of the highest paid
Speaker 5: guys in the National Football League, second team All Pro
Speaker 5: MVP vote.
Speaker 3: He's gonna get his bread regardless.
Speaker 5: It ain't like, you know, if he has a bad
Speaker 5: year this year, he ain't gonna play in the league
Speaker 5: no more.
Speaker 3: All right, He's gonna have his bread. McCarthy.
Speaker 5: He has already been to the pinnacle, taking a team
Speaker 5: to the super Bowl, taking multiple teams to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: You just got done talking about three twelve win seasons.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't succeed here about going to the playoffs
Speaker 5: and losing in the first round, I don't think it'll
Speaker 5: be his last time ever coaching in the National Football League. Zimmer,
Speaker 5: you know he's the second place right now. You know,
Speaker 5: he went from a head coach now he's in DC.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't succeed as a DC, it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure he'll get another gig out there, Mizi
Speaker 5: Smith right now. To me, this is kind of like
Speaker 5: a make or break year for him. He doesn't want
Speaker 5: to go down as being one of the few first
Speaker 5: round busts that the Cowboys have had in the past decade.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you look at it from twenty ten
Speaker 5: to now, there's only been really one that we consider
Speaker 5: a bus and that was Taco Charlton.
Speaker 3: You don't want to go down that road.
Speaker 5: And then if you don't succeed this year, he don't
Speaker 5: put good tape out there, Who's gonna pick you up?
Speaker 5: So he's fighting for in my opinion, he's fighting for
Speaker 5: individually his football career.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: I'm sure he'll get another chance if he doesn't work
Speaker 5: out here, But will he be that guy, I'm not
Speaker 5: so sure. So to me, there's a lot of pressure
Speaker 5: on Manzi to go out there and succeed. Now, if
Speaker 5: we're talking about you know, team success and all that,
Speaker 5: of course is gonna be Dak Prescott because he's gonna
Speaker 5: have the ball in order for this team to be successful.
Speaker 5: But individually, I'm leaning towards Monz Smith on this one.
Speaker 4: He pulled to you right there, he pulled you. He
Speaker 4: took all the points off the tape right he took
Speaker 4: all the points out.
Speaker 3: He was a couple, you know. I mean, I'm in
Speaker 3: agreement with you.
Speaker 4: But I think when it comes down to Mazie, because
Speaker 4: he was a rookie last season, he still has years
Speaker 4: to develop into that. I mean, and look, you know, hey,
Speaker 4: that first year is unforgiving and people are gonna start
Speaker 4: if you have another one you follow that up, they're
Speaker 4: just gonna go ahead and put you in your little
Speaker 4: bubble and they gonna call you what you are. Right
Speaker 4: to me, it's Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy. I think last
Speaker 4: season when the playoffs, that team just did not respond
Speaker 4: at all. And that's on him. And he's in his
Speaker 4: last season under contract, and I think that that pressure.
Speaker 4: You know, if the Cowboys get off to we were
Speaker 4: already talking about the schedule, and if the Cowboys get
Speaker 4: off to a rough start, man the rumors and it's
Speaker 4: gonna start dinging immediately, So the.
Speaker 3: Pressure is right there.
Speaker 4: I think when you talk about Dak, you're right, we
Speaker 4: lose a draw, he's gonna end up on his feet
Speaker 4: because he's already one of the highest paid quarterbacks. But
Speaker 4: what does that do for his legacy. I don't know
Speaker 4: what what you guys think about that, but for me,
Speaker 4: it's Mike McCarthy because I think he's in a situation where, look,
Speaker 4: even if he starts off hot, finish twelve and five again.
Speaker 4: All right, finish twelve and five again, and you get
Speaker 4: destroyed in the playoffs set it's a wrap. You know,
Speaker 4: he can't afford to have the same type of season.
Speaker 4: Matter of fact, he's gonna have to push this team
Speaker 4: even further. And that's why I feel like the pressure
Speaker 4: on him to succeed is even more because he can't
Speaker 4: just do first round of the playoffs. He has to
Speaker 4: push this team further in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't agree with either one of y'alls. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm going back to COLDA Prescott.
Speaker 4: I think I think at this point, we're sitting here
Speaker 4: waiting for Dak to get paid. Right for the second time,
Speaker 4: it seems like you're going through this process of a man,
Speaker 4: prove it to us and let us know if you
Speaker 4: can really get us there, like we believe in you,
Speaker 4: We're gonna keep telling people we believe in you. We
Speaker 4: really got all that, but we haven't seen you get
Speaker 4: us to where we want to go. You've gotten us
Speaker 4: pretty much to wear every other quarterback well, Tony.
Speaker 3: Romo and all like you've gotten us there.
Speaker 4: I think the pressure is on you now to show
Speaker 4: us that you are really that quarterback who can get
Speaker 4: us out of the out of the first round. And
Speaker 4: we can put it on Mike McCarthy as much as
Speaker 4: we want to. Dak Prescott has had a few different
Speaker 4: head coaches now and he still hasn't gotten to that
Speaker 4: point to where we say, in the NFC Championship headed
Speaker 4: to the super Bowl. But we've had rosters with Dak
Speaker 4: Prescott on there where you say you want of the
Speaker 4: highest paid guys MVP types seas and then you look
Speaker 4: in the playoffs and you see that that production doesn't
Speaker 4: translate from the regular season into the playoffs. So I'm
Speaker 4: looking at what I'm saying, ay Man, they paid the
Speaker 4: guys around you say we got Zeke around you, Tony
Speaker 4: Poula last year brought in Brandon Cooks, Ceedee Lamb there
Speaker 4: drafted guy in the first round, Like you brought all
Speaker 4: these weapons in and we still haven't gotten it done.
Speaker 3: So at one point it's like, hey man, it's on you. Now.
Speaker 3: We're going to take a night.
Speaker 4: Said now you have to do more with a little
Speaker 4: less than you than you had before, and we need
Speaker 4: you to show us that you can do that. I
Speaker 4: think the pressure is on Dak Prescott, not that he
Speaker 4: won't land on his feet, but as far as his
Speaker 4: tenure here in Dallas and then moving forward, the legacy
Speaker 4: that you would have as one of the Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Will it be that same thing that they talk about
Speaker 4: Rombo of Like, yeah, Romo's a great quarterback, But I
Speaker 4: mean Dak Prescott is headed for that if he doesn't
Speaker 4: figure out a way to get it done.
Speaker 3: On the player, what did he win? If they look
Speaker 3: at Romo and what if you wanted.
Speaker 2: I hear your initial thought, because to me, I would say,
Speaker 2: if we asked this question last year, the player with
Speaker 2: the most pressure to succeed was going to be Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott because he led the league in interceptions with the whole
Speaker 2: lot of people like Hey, what is this guy? He
Speaker 2: goes on to lead the league in touchdown passes for
Speaker 2: the second team All Pro. Whether Jerry brings him backward not,
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott is going to be a highly paid quarterback
Speaker 2: and somebody's going to want him in this league. With
Speaker 2: all due respect to Jared Golf, you couldn't have told
Speaker 2: me when the Rams moved off him won a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl that he would be in a position to where
Speaker 2: he was making a kind of money that he just
Speaker 2: got today.
Speaker 3: Absolutely so for quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Man in this league where they're starved, Dak Prescott is
Speaker 2: going to his agent and Dak should rest easy. They're
Speaker 2: going to get their money, whether it's here or somewhere else.
Speaker 2: A bag is coming. He's got another three, four or
Speaker 2: five years left to play in this league. Mazie Smith
Speaker 2: is fine because he's a second year player. They're not
Speaker 2: going to cut him even if he has a bad year.
Speaker 2: They made the investment. They go stick with it.
Speaker 3: Off injury too.
Speaker 2: Tom Landry had a great line and Bill Parcell's echoed.
Speaker 2: He says, you know what, by year three, we got
Speaker 2: to see something. But Monsie Smith is going to get
Speaker 2: at least three years with the Cowboys to show he
Speaker 2: can do something before they just move off of him.
Speaker 2: Mike Zimmer one year deal right now for just being honest.
Speaker 2: The carpenter's tools are not what he's used to. So
Speaker 2: if it goes good for Mike, grade if it doesn't,
Speaker 2: I don't think we can look at him and say, man,
Speaker 2: you booty, you're not good McCarthy. I look at Mike
Speaker 2: and I just say, you're in a kind of tough position,
Speaker 2: you know. Did they go all in like they said?
Speaker 3: No? But you gonna get the blame no matter what.
Speaker 2: It's what I watched with Jason Kidd all first part
Speaker 2: of season with the beverage when they lost. It's him
Speaker 2: rotation is the bad. This is that they won Game six.
Speaker 2: You know, ain't nobody credited him. They got nothing, got nothing.
Speaker 3: I just laughed at that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a minute, This Man's eight team came
Speaker 2: seventeen down the guts everything. Nobody ain't got nothing to say.
Speaker 2: Luca Kyrie and the players do it. But Mike is
Speaker 2: in that situation that, hey man, you gonna walk the
Speaker 2: plank if it isn't your fault. I do agree with
Speaker 2: what you said, because he's won a super Bowl because
Speaker 2: of what he's done here, a smart NFL team should
Speaker 2: pick him up. But then again, we just watch a
Speaker 2: dude who won six Super Bowls go through a whole
Speaker 2: off season cycle where people ran his name down. So
Speaker 2: Mike could even be in that situation. If this team
Speaker 2: wins us say ten games, and they don't make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: people are gonna look at him.
Speaker 3: Oh, this, this, that and the other.
Speaker 2: This league can be unkind to coaches.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: So to me, when I think who's got the most
Speaker 2: pressure is Mike because some of this stuff is so
Speaker 2: out of your control, some of the stuff that you'd
Speaker 2: like to see him do. I mean, like, think about
Speaker 2: your quarterback who in the first year the system you're
Speaker 2: running as the offensive coordinator is second team all pro
Speaker 2: ceed lamb best, I mean best year he's ever had.
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard didn't have the year you thought he did,
Speaker 2: but I think, wait, fit seventh or eighth in rushing exactly.
Speaker 2: And they sitting around here, hey man, you you are
Speaker 2: you on a hot seaton.
Speaker 3: He was on the hot seat last season for those reasons.
Speaker 4: That's why the same way did y'all feel about that
Speaker 4: getting another job after this, Like he gonna be fine.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Mike McCarthy saying, listen, his is the
Speaker 4: same way three twelve and five seasons, and you just
Speaker 4: said that everybody else.
Speaker 3: I'm from the outside know its just like.
Speaker 4: We know all in, didn't me all in like like,
Speaker 4: you know, we thought it was gonna be so, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 3: I think Mike macarthy'll be okay, you can think I
Speaker 3: think he will.
Speaker 2: You could have told me Belichick, wi' gonn get a job,
Speaker 2: especially when I thought the couple of interviews he haveing
Speaker 2: Atlanta about that. I don't know, man, I thought Quinn.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know me, I thought Quinn was gonna
Speaker 2: be gone a couple of.
Speaker 3: You know, I was.
Speaker 4: I thought he's.
Speaker 3: The success that he was having.
Speaker 4: Would have would have told you that he was going
Speaker 4: to get a DC job, a head coaching jobs somewhere early.
Speaker 2: These these owners are these owners are different, man.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know why these owners, man.
Speaker 2: So I look at Mike and I just you know,
Speaker 2: somebody's gonna look at all the success and we want
Speaker 2: the new hot coordinator whatever. And this was Mike last
Speaker 2: year calling the plays, getting back to doing what he's doing,
Speaker 2: and they were sensational and what's the owner saying that
Speaker 2: play it out, play your contract.
Speaker 3: Play it out play.
Speaker 2: If you think about it's kind of wild to think about.
Speaker 2: So that's why for me, I think he's got that
Speaker 2: most pressure because so much of this is not in your.
Speaker 3: Grasp but what y'all extended him.
Speaker 4: Though at the end of the season we sound totally different.
Speaker 4: It's not wild to me because at the end of
Speaker 4: the season, we say, hey, man, next year, going into it,
Speaker 4: they go twelve or five, only thing that's gonna matter
Speaker 4: is what they did in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Right at the end of the season, we're like, all right,
Speaker 3: they went twelve and five.
Speaker 4: And what So for us, like, I don't I don't
Speaker 4: think it's that crazy for him to be having to
Speaker 4: play it out to figure out if you go twelve
Speaker 4: o five, is there any opportunity for success in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So I say that from the standpoint, and I go
Speaker 2: back to like Dak anywhere else, they're they're they're grateful
Speaker 2: for what the coach did. Boom, here's another cut. You're
Speaker 2: grateful for what your quarterback did, and you go ahead
Speaker 2: and you take care of it. And here it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's to me, that's wild because I mean think like
Speaker 2: Jared god ninth season not better than das.
Speaker 3: Here you go big check, take it, play it it
Speaker 3: comes out.
Speaker 5: Are you getting paid for regular season or you getting
Speaker 5: paid for your postseason success.
Speaker 3: So Dak Prescott, we all under stay.
Speaker 2: He had an amazing regular.
Speaker 3: Season second in m v P.
Speaker 5: But if you look at his past two past postseasons,
Speaker 5: the past two what is it combined? Five interceptions? You know,
Speaker 5: it's not like he's the reason they're losing, but he
Speaker 5: is a part of part. And you look on another
Speaker 5: end with golf, he had some success in the regular season,
Speaker 5: but when the postseason came around, I.
Speaker 3: Mean he was hitting on all cylinders. They should have
Speaker 3: won that game. They should have won that coaches and passes.
Speaker 3: That's that's what it came down to me.
Speaker 4: So but even when he was in LA, I mean
Speaker 4: when he was in l A, he had one of
Speaker 4: the best running back he had him in his prime,
Speaker 4: he had one of the best.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, he had girl. Now listen, let's go back.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, you're right, you're right what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But they went to a super Bowl with that, and
Speaker 4: they had a defense. They had a defense that was
Speaker 4: we're good, one of the one of the best defensive
Speaker 4: line in the play in the game.
Speaker 3: So come on, let's go.
Speaker 4: No, hold on, okay, because Week five, historic defense came
Speaker 4: out of your mouth.
Speaker 3: Did I say, did I say said? Did I say
Speaker 3: his story? You said history? I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think historic was the No, no, no, I
Speaker 4: don't think I used the word history. You said, I
Speaker 4: know you're gonna go back. I don't think using the
Speaker 4: word I know I said was historic? Out is how many?
Speaker 4: How many if you take all it for all the
Speaker 4: teams in the NFL, how many of them would like
Speaker 4: to have three twelve and five seasons? That's you, that's everybody, right,
Speaker 4: And so if we're gonna judge Mike McCarthy and Dak
Speaker 4: together based off of their playoff performances over the last
Speaker 4: couple of years, you're not satisfied with that. And so
Speaker 4: either way it goes this season, it's not gonna be
Speaker 4: just getting to the playoffs with Mike McCarthy or DAK
Speaker 4: And I understand that regardless if it's historic, defense, offense,
Speaker 4: whatever it is, you're gonna have to get to the
Speaker 4: NFC Championship. You're gonna have to get to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: If you're DA we talking about legacy and all the Dak,
Speaker 4: you gotta go win it. At this point, nobody wants
Speaker 4: to hear, Oh, it's twelve and five, you got to
Speaker 4: you got an MVP vote, You're all pro.
Speaker 3: That's just business as usual around here.
Speaker 4: If you don't win it, If Dak Prescott gets to
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship, he's good. Like they're like, all the
Speaker 4: noise is gone. So that's I think that's what we're
Speaker 4: talking about with Jered Golfer. Jared Golf had uh Todd
Speaker 4: Gurley who was Cooper Cup at that time.
Speaker 3: I so like they were running a good offense.
Speaker 4: They had Brandon Cook, Brandon Cook and so top running
Speaker 4: back Dak Prescott has had an opportunity to have top
Speaker 4: running back, top receiver CD Lamb. So when you're looking
Speaker 4: at it as far as what we're doing in the playoffs,
Speaker 4: Jared Golf has had more success, especially when you look
Speaker 4: at why he got paid in the team in a
Speaker 4: city like Detroit, where who the hell were the Lions
Speaker 4: three years ago and they brought Jared Golf in and
Speaker 4: everybody was like, oh, it's over for them. It's Jared
Speaker 4: Golf and all he all he did was prove that
Speaker 4: he is a top nice quarterback, went to the NC Championship.
Speaker 3: Read us here.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I generation that's what I said.
Speaker 4: Generational defense. Oh yeah, I find it, So.
Speaker 3: Let me go back.
Speaker 2: Then they want to hit your point that bar what
Speaker 2: Detroit has done. One they built an offensive line because
Speaker 2: we know that in the past, what's the way to
Speaker 2: get Jared Goff put pressure up the mill. He doesn't
Speaker 2: like to get hit, so they've given him a tremendous
Speaker 2: offensive line. And then they said we are going to
Speaker 2: be a running football team. They're running football team. You
Speaker 2: got a really good weapon of sat proud. So they
Speaker 2: have made sure, hey, how do we compliment our quarterback.
Speaker 2: We're not asking our quarterback to go win the game
Speaker 2: the way McVeigh didn't feel he could.
Speaker 3: So we brought in Stafford.
Speaker 2: Your point on terms of what do you pay a
Speaker 2: guy for regular season or playoffs? In a lot of ways,
Speaker 2: it's both, but you got to have the regular season
Speaker 2: to sit up here and say it's worthy. Lamar Jackson's
Speaker 2: two and four in the playoffs, dak is two and five.
Speaker 2: Both of these guys have got some type of thing
Speaker 2: going on here in the playoffs where you're like, hey, bro,
Speaker 2: this isn't what we're doing. Peyton Manning was I was
Speaker 2: ohero and five or ohen six his first couple of
Speaker 2: times in the playoffs, but you saw he was winning
Speaker 2: thirteen games a year and the culture making the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So this other thing about can you figure this thing out?
Speaker 2: You want to Barry Bonds went through it, Alex Rodriguez
Speaker 2: went through We've seen some players, high level players, hall
Speaker 2: of famers, who struggled a little bit to get it done.
Speaker 2: Peyton maint eventually got there, and even his last Super
Speaker 2: Bowl run, it wasn't because of him. That's the Denver
Speaker 2: defense where everybody else saw he helped out a little bit,
Speaker 2: but this was not the shareff frunt of things. So
Speaker 2: I say that to go back to you, I'm going
Speaker 2: to pay a guy based off the regular season about
Speaker 2: you know, and then the playoffs. You hope, you hope,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't matter because in the age of quarterbacks
Speaker 2: right now, we know it's all Beverly Hills and the
Speaker 2: prices don't go down. It is what it is, and
Speaker 2: the guy to me. You look back at last year
Speaker 2: Man League in exceptions, Man, you shakey, what's going on
Speaker 2: the dude in the first offense, first year offense when
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy did his job. So I'm going to pay
Speaker 2: him based on that. But I do think with golf,
Speaker 2: he's done a nice job. But please let's remember they've
Speaker 2: added stuff around him and he's done his part. And
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, man, the dude performed, he performed. But
Speaker 2: it's still the same dude that Sean McVay said, Man,
Speaker 2: get off my boat.
Speaker 4: Like we didn't have things around around deck like we
Speaker 4: added like he had Zach Martin there, Tyler Smith, Tyron Smith.
Speaker 4: Terror still when everybody was like, you gotta pay Terry,
Speaker 4: like they say, hey man, we're gonna make sure that
Speaker 4: we give you everything you need to be a good quarterback.
Speaker 2: Because to me, they're the same guy. I put them
Speaker 2: in that same box of player. I put that, you know,
Speaker 2: here's the Mahomes and a whole separate category with this dude.
Speaker 3: He out here winning would do that? Really?
Speaker 2: That got mean you throw Tyreek Hill off the boat.
Speaker 2: He's still out here getting an elite guy, an elite guy.
Speaker 2: And Rick Godsley. He's talking about that. He's like, hey, look,
Speaker 2: can can the quarterback keep winning no matter what you
Speaker 2: got around him? Because he's that good and he makes
Speaker 2: other people better. And that next tier of guy is,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, a golf it is. It is a
Speaker 2: dack where hey man, we got to help him out.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be the guy that we're asking it.
Speaker 2: Hey man, go through this thing forty times or we're
Speaker 2: down ten in the fourth quarter, come on and bring
Speaker 2: us back like a Tom Brady's doing. And that's not
Speaker 2: a slam on anybody. Elite is elite, and there ain't
Speaker 2: many elites in anything, but they can they win you games.
Speaker 2: They can win you games. And I think Jordan Love,
Speaker 2: we're seeing another guy like that. Man who who's going
Speaker 2: to be coming along here. It's a challenge, but it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter because the agents are coming here saying this
Speaker 2: quarterback has this numbers, he's that pay by guy, and
Speaker 2: teams don't want to let him go. Justin Herbert Joe Burrow,
Speaker 2: You're looking at these guys and brother the way, I
Speaker 2: think Burrow is the same kind of guy, an elite player.
Speaker 2: I think he's an the league player seen them, and
Speaker 2: you take the Bengals of too Bowling, you got a
Speaker 2: chance to win on the final drive lines, that terrible
Speaker 2: offensive lines. You know, nobody even tried to hold Aaron
Speaker 2: Donald something, rank grab something, let her just run by.
Speaker 2: There's not many of those elite guys. But but if
Speaker 2: you're Jerry, we've seen what happened. If you don't even
Speaker 2: have a guy like like a dack Man, you could
Speaker 2: be up there with with Chad Hutchinson.
Speaker 3: When's the carter and wandering we were there that year.
Speaker 3: We ain't have a Q. Last, like I want to say, golf.
Speaker 4: The last thing I want to say about golf before
Speaker 4: he starts saying that's my boy. Last I want to
Speaker 4: say probably was the last drive of the San Francisco game.
Speaker 4: They put it in Golf's hands and they say, we
Speaker 4: need you to go down there and get us some points.
Speaker 4: And Jared Golf the opposite of what you would expect
Speaker 4: them to be is, hey man, it's on me. Went
Speaker 4: down there and made every player they need to play,
Speaker 4: and then it was on the coach, and the coach
Speaker 4: messed up. So when we talk about, hey man, how
Speaker 4: do you perform in those playoff games? Can you go
Speaker 4: win the game for us, not as the leaders. Uh
Speaker 4: Patrick mahomes place when you say, hey man, it's it's
Speaker 4: on you.
Speaker 3: We need you to go win against us. Yes, yes
Speaker 3: he did. He did part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, his part was that, hey man, it's on you.
Speaker 4: That was his part, not just go run the ball.
Speaker 4: It was hey, Jared, goff is on you.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, I mean, let us remember
Speaker 2: this guy was the first overall picking the draft coming
Speaker 2: out of cat coach.
Speaker 6: So we're not talking about something. This is some beauty pool.
Speaker 6: It's like it's like at the beginning of this But
Speaker 6: that's what he He got kicked off that boat. He
Speaker 6: got keck your man, that's your man. He did mean,
Speaker 6: but his own head coach kicked him off. Not only
Speaker 6: kick him up. Hey man, were about to pay this
Speaker 6: big old note. We know we up the creak and paying.
Speaker 6: We got to get this guy out of here. How
Speaker 6: many quarterbacks and they won a Super Bowl without him?
Speaker 3: How many elitue quarterbacks get traded in their prime?
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Speaker 2: the player is. How do I help continuate to play?
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Speaker 2: new he scruggs. Okay, So that was a fun conversation.
Speaker 2: Who has the most pressure to succeed and just taking
Speaker 2: that in there. June first, that is when a lot
Speaker 2: of cuts are going to happen. People already know what's
Speaker 2: coming down there? The question was asked, any moves to.
Speaker 4: Make, It's always a move to make for us. I
Speaker 4: think maybe all in is post June June. First, Why did.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys always like.
Speaker 2: Money money? If you don't have the money.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't even know. We probably can't mention your names. Uh,
Speaker 4: but I think the smart thing for us to do
Speaker 4: is case you still got to be out.
Speaker 3: There looking for three technique or a nose guard.
Speaker 4: You have to because as much as we hear that
Speaker 4: they said, and they putting all this on Misie Smith
Speaker 4: and how last year was a different year with a
Speaker 4: different scheme and he'll be better this year. He's not
Speaker 4: going to be at ot as he may not be
Speaker 4: fully ready for training camp. So you're looking at a
Speaker 4: guy coming off the season that he had last year,
Speaker 4: possibly putting on a lot of weight, going out there,
Speaker 4: having to get in shape and then also test that
Speaker 4: shoulder out as well, and you want him to be
Speaker 4: an impact player for you. You have to get some
Speaker 4: more depth at the interior line. But you need you
Speaker 4: need a difference maker there.
Speaker 3: You need one.
Speaker 4: And I know Zimmer is looking in there and talking
Speaker 4: to Will McLean and all him saying, hey, man, listen,
Speaker 4: I may not get all my pieces all right, but
Speaker 4: I like to play big guys up front. I like
Speaker 4: my linebackers to really be impactful on my defense. So
Speaker 4: I need y'all to figure out how we can get
Speaker 4: beef upside, I mean beef inside on the interior line.
Speaker 3: That's a pause.
Speaker 4: Oh you too, alright, where's the being so Wendy, you
Speaker 4: know my thing is, Yeah, I'm on the same page
Speaker 4: with Jew and it's gonna come like for me. I
Speaker 4: know we're waiting on what cuts and all of that,
Speaker 4: but I'm still on the back train and what we're
Speaker 4: gonna do with this with this contract you know, after
Speaker 4: that what because again I think everything is predicated on
Speaker 4: what you do with that contract. Because he's pac manning
Speaker 4: your salary cap right now, and to be able to
Speaker 4: bring in someone that is gonna have some impact or
Speaker 4: influence on your defensive line. We're missing more than just
Speaker 4: that one. God think about it. Dawn Armstrong also left.
Speaker 4: So those are the rotational pieces that you're used to
Speaker 4: having on that front line that Mike Zimmer's not gonna
Speaker 4: have that. So, I mean, right now, as it stands,
Speaker 4: you got Carll Davis Junior, a bunch of other names
Speaker 4: that are rookies and guys that you don't you don't
Speaker 4: know what they're gonna bring to the table. So I mean,
Speaker 4: with all of the exodus of the players that we lost,
Speaker 4: I'm still right there. June First, I'm saying, look, we
Speaker 4: got to bring in some guys up.
Speaker 5: Front, no doubt, And I agree with all when you're
Speaker 5: talking about the front, defensive line getting that together, But
Speaker 5: we talk about all the holes misses. That's why I
Speaker 5: said it's gonna be the rebuild. That's why I said
Speaker 5: it from the beginning. This is gonna be the rebuild.
Speaker 5: But when you talk about adding pieces on there, which
Speaker 5: I want to dline. But for me also, I'm looking
Speaker 5: at receiver too because to me, Cooks he's a good piece,
Speaker 5: but he's getting up there in age and we see
Speaker 5: they don't really use him as that speed demon take
Speaker 5: off the top that we thought he was gonna come
Speaker 5: in here and be you're looking at a guy Tolbert.
Speaker 3: I believe no, can he take that jump? Can he
Speaker 3: beat that guy?
Speaker 5: Because right now you got Ferguson and you got CD Lammage,
Speaker 5: you're proven weapons on the outside Ferguson. I believe it's
Speaker 5: a top ten tight end the guys. He's a beast
Speaker 5: after the catch, all that good stuff. But if you
Speaker 5: got a defense, that's like, look, we're taking CD away.
Speaker 3: We doubled it.
Speaker 5: We're putting all the resources on CD. You think, you
Speaker 5: know outside of these other guys can continuously beat those
Speaker 5: one on ones. They haven't proven it yet, and we
Speaker 5: already know about this run game, you know. So it's
Speaker 5: gonna cut down to Dak in his arm and his
Speaker 5: ability to stretch the field, and with the weapons they
Speaker 5: have right now, man, I just don't see it being
Speaker 5: a productive passing unit out there unless you have great balance,
Speaker 5: and we've seen this. This team does not really believe
Speaker 5: in that balance, especially when it comes late in the year.
Speaker 2: I go back to Mike Zimmer and where we've talked
Speaker 2: about before. The carpenter needs its tools. So they've got
Speaker 2: to go bargain basement shopping here and try to find
Speaker 2: some guys who look at themselves post I need a
Speaker 2: job and this defense can help me get, you know
Speaker 2: what I need. So I look at that, and then
Speaker 2: as far as the receiver goes, I thought Jay Jones
Speaker 2: could have fit exactly.
Speaker 3: He did not. Oh he was here, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Happen to year which worked out for us. Linebacker came
Speaker 4: through here and then went to Philly. Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: That's true. They balling on it.
Speaker 2: So that's that thing there. Just what what pieces can
Speaker 2: you find here? And maybe they can get one contract
Speaker 2: locked up here soon and and be able to find
Speaker 2: to more money other places.
Speaker 3: But clearly that's what they got to do.
Speaker 2: They're going to go uh bargain shopping and try to
Speaker 2: find some pieces that make them work. It's not crazy
Speaker 2: in terms of being able to go find some pieces.
Speaker 2: I thought they did that a couple of times when
Speaker 2: Dan Quinn was here, found a couple Dante Fowlers, the
Speaker 2: world players that fit what they needed to do. And
Speaker 2: one thing we know there are other teams in this
Speaker 2: league who are going to have to trims from fat
Speaker 2: they guts, some contracts are going to let go, so
Speaker 2: there'll be some good players out there. It's just a
Speaker 2: matter of how they talk to the players, what they
Speaker 2: what kind of contract they can set up here.
Speaker 3: But I do think the Cowboys should.
Speaker 2: Be busy after June first and trying to find some
Speaker 2: guys that fit, especially for Zimmer's defense number one, and
Speaker 2: then you know, maybe a couple of editions and.
Speaker 5: I could be way off with distance, So tell me
Speaker 5: if I'm wrong. But you know what is the philosophy
Speaker 5: behind you know, waiting to pay your guys that you
Speaker 5: know are gonna you know, most like when I kick
Speaker 5: the can down the road.
Speaker 3: And now we're in a situation where you gotta pay that.
Speaker 5: You got CD coming up, you got Parsons, and you
Speaker 5: don't have the space to go out there and get
Speaker 5: some guys early on in free agency, which leads you to, hey,
Speaker 5: I got to.
Speaker 3: Hit these bars. I mean, when's the B car?
Speaker 5: Maybe was the last time they went out there and grabbed,
Speaker 5: you know, a top top free agent guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this a it's been coming to be one of
Speaker 4: those things where you can't even you don't even pander
Speaker 4: to the fan base on it. Everybody went off of
Speaker 4: all in to think that free agency you were gonna
Speaker 4: go out there and go after the top notch free agents,
Speaker 4: and then once that ended, everybody's like.
Speaker 3: Well, what what are we doing?
Speaker 4: We're not even signing the guys that we need to
Speaker 4: sign in order to show up and get sign a
Speaker 4: CD lamb that contract is if you're kicking that one
Speaker 4: down down the road, he has another successful season, both
Speaker 4: of those contracts are gonna be hot. And then you
Speaker 4: have Michael Parsons coming behind that. So look, there's a
Speaker 4: litany of problems that are coming for the for the Cowboys,
Speaker 4: and you're just asking yourself what is the philosophy of
Speaker 4: the front office and how is this going to pay
Speaker 4: off in the end if because you can't. I don't
Speaker 4: think the TV rights deal is going to be that
Speaker 4: high where you can have five or six guys on
Speaker 4: your team being paid max and you know, altering the
Speaker 4: salary cap. So I'm looking this is gonna be this
Speaker 4: is gonna be interesting, and I think June first has
Speaker 4: a lot to do with Man, do you get that?
Speaker 4: When can you get Daxdale done? Because you can't do
Speaker 4: anything else after I think until you get that done.
Speaker 3: Church question for you on that one.
Speaker 4: If if Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys last playoffs
Speaker 4: had won a couple of playoff games, maybe went to
Speaker 4: the NFC Championship, is Dak Prescott paid already?
Speaker 3: I believe so? You think so? Yeah?
Speaker 4: So so is the hold up based on the performance
Speaker 4: of last year. So then you have to say, okay,
Speaker 4: are you sure, because just because they're saying amen, we
Speaker 4: like this is number one priority.
Speaker 3: We got to get this done.
Speaker 4: Well, if you believe that it would have been done
Speaker 4: and he had success last year, then how can it
Speaker 4: actually be the number one priority because if it was,
Speaker 4: you would have just done anyways, that wouldn't even be
Speaker 4: the question. So are you thinking, hey, maybe, because if
Speaker 4: they don't uh you know, end up panel and he
Speaker 4: has to play this year out, then that really then
Speaker 4: they gives you your answer for.
Speaker 3: Pretty much everything. I'm like, all right, well, how do
Speaker 3: you approach that? Though? How do you approach that?
Speaker 4: If they don't do it before June first or whenever
Speaker 4: they have the timeline to do it and he has to.
Speaker 3: Play it out, then he walks and you get nothing,
Speaker 3: getting nothing in return. You get nothing in return.
Speaker 4: And what's listen, we've been watching the team, especially in
Speaker 4: the last couple of years. They've been to take it.
Speaker 4: They just giving it away. So I don't know, man,
Speaker 4: it's confusing. So that's why we got to sit here
Speaker 4: and speculate.
Speaker 2: But exactly it is confusing. Let's get our final break
Speaker 2: in here. Let's dive into the schedule a little bit.
Speaker 2: I've got some thoughts about the first six games that
Speaker 2: the Cowboys are gonna play. Do that next to Barry
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Speaker 2: You think about the quarterbacks on the regular season schedule.
Speaker 2: Here Derek Carr, former Pro bowler coming in with the Saints,
Speaker 2: two time MVP, Lamar Jackson coming in with the Ravens.
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Speaker 2: Harrison Danny krab newye scrugs for me. I look at
Speaker 2: the first six games, and I say they're tough because
Speaker 2: they're four playoff teams. Only one team is going to
Speaker 2: be in the NFC East to start this thing. So
Speaker 2: you're at Cleveland home against the Saints, home against the Ravens.
Speaker 2: So that Ravens game Sunday the twenty second.
Speaker 3: Then you got a.
Speaker 2: Thursday game that you got to go to Jersey to
Speaker 2: face the Giants on. Then you're at Pittsburgh October sixth.
Speaker 2: Then it's a October thirteenth game at home against the
Speaker 2: Detroit Lion. So at least you got a lot of
Speaker 2: days after the Giant game to get ready to go
Speaker 2: face the Steelers in Pittsburgh. But I look at these
Speaker 2: games here, the first six, and I just say, okay man,
Speaker 2: this is this is a challenge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to you want to put something on that. No, no,
Speaker 4: I'm just you you want to put your numbers on there?
Speaker 4: Just early No, No I'm not, I'm just you got
Speaker 4: a pan over it. Oh you don't have your pencil.
Speaker 4: That's why you know, that's the first that the first
Speaker 4: set of books. That's the first set of books, right, there,
Speaker 4: you had a six, got.
Speaker 3: To put white out on it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I just trying to bring a discussion. I
Speaker 2: gotta get I got a pistols bad. But no, I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to do that. I'm just merely giving an
Speaker 2: opinion about these first six games that I think will
Speaker 2: be tough because you got four playoff teams, only one
Speaker 2: of them is in the division. And when you get
Speaker 2: that team, you get him after the Ravens, and we
Speaker 2: know the Ravens are a physical football team, and just
Speaker 2: how do you respond that next week, especially short week
Speaker 2: after you you go through a potential battle with the
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 4: Like that I would like to do this here and
Speaker 4: say I'm not sure about the Cleveland Browns. Like I
Speaker 4: know it's on paper, it's supposed to be a tough matchup.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure about Nick Chubb, we Deshaun Watson again. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: all right, because Joe Flacco is the one who came
Speaker 4: in and got them dudes Roland last year.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 4: Cleveland looking at it, and they still trying to figure
Speaker 4: some things out. So I think we'll both be trying
Speaker 4: to figure stuff out up there at Cleveland. I know
Speaker 4: Dereck Carr is you know dere Carr, But I mean
Speaker 4: we watched the Saints play last season, didn't it didn't
Speaker 4: really look good at it. I don't know what big
Speaker 4: time moves they made, you know, in the off season.
Speaker 4: But Derek Cars still the quarterbacks. So I think once
Speaker 4: you get to the Ravens, that's when you start who
Speaker 4: we you know, because they're gonna test us in the
Speaker 4: run game, the Giants or the Giants we know Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: is gonna be a tough matchup.
Speaker 3: And then the line.
Speaker 4: So I think that Ravens game, that Stealers game, and
Speaker 4: that uh Detroit Lions game, I think that's those are
Speaker 4: those those are three where you like so much of
Speaker 4: those six games. To me, I think exposes who you
Speaker 4: are in your front, your defense and offensive front. You're
Speaker 4: gonna find out about your left tackle right off the back,
Speaker 4: you know, you're gonna find out about a bunch of
Speaker 4: right off the back, you know, insane when you go
Speaker 4: over the New Orleans, but specifically Baltimore and Detroit. I mean,
Speaker 4: those six games again, it's gonna it can go. It
Speaker 4: can go a different ways. You could You could start
Speaker 4: off two and four, which at that point, obviously some
Speaker 4: of the things that we already talked about who's under pressure,
Speaker 4: those things are starting to raise their head. And you
Speaker 4: got to see that right after the bat right before
Speaker 4: the bye week anyway, and you have the San Francisco
Speaker 4: forty nine ers right behind that. Yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 4: of pressure. And I think what you talked about last
Speaker 4: show as far as the defensive line, the running games
Speaker 4: of these six teams, it's crazy. You know, you gotta
Speaker 4: you gotta running. You got a running game for these
Speaker 4: six teams. So what has been our Achilles Hill throughout
Speaker 4: the season? It's been the running game. And if you
Speaker 4: are exposed in that way with their first year defensive coordinator,
Speaker 4: I think, man, that is those are just sowreds. That's
Speaker 4: gonna continue to open itself up over the season and
Speaker 4: there's gonna be nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you mentioned, heck, I mean you left tackle.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have either great.
Speaker 5: Confidence for the rest of the season because he played,
Speaker 5: you know, good against a T. J. Watt and you
Speaker 5: know Miles Garrett. He's either gonna have great confidence or
Speaker 5: they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have to bring him up because Giants, Yeah, they got
Speaker 3: some tip of o those guys.
Speaker 5: So he's either gonna be confidence low or really high
Speaker 5: right after the value San Francisco.
Speaker 3: So I mean, who agent exactly he's gonna have a test.
Speaker 2: Cleveland is going to run on that. Whether it's Nick
Speaker 2: Chubb or somebody else, he's going to run. And then
Speaker 2: you talk about the other side of it. Can you
Speaker 2: what is your offensive line like? And yes, we talked
Speaker 2: about the left tackle, but go back into potentially gonna
Speaker 2: have a rookie center, So.
Speaker 3: It's going to be Cleveland is uh.
Speaker 2: You know, this is a tough match up here, and
Speaker 2: I would I would say right now just based on
Speaker 2: what we know before there are more additions made and
Speaker 2: then of course you know everything happens about what happens,
Speaker 2: come training, campus, health team ready to go. But right
Speaker 2: now I would say Cleveland should be favored.
Speaker 3: In that football game. I agree with you that they
Speaker 3: should be favored in that football game.
Speaker 2: Not that the Cowboys can't win it, but just based
Speaker 2: on what we know right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's gonna be a tough one. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be tough.
Speaker 2: So those these first six games, I mean when you
Speaker 2: talk about you talk about you mentioned it all run game,
Speaker 2: your left tackle. There's there's question marks here and that's
Speaker 2: why I look at these first six and just say, man,
Speaker 2: it's it's gonna be a challenge to see exactly what
Speaker 2: they do. And this this comes in about how good
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy and coach Solari is with the with the
Speaker 2: offensive line, how he could get these guys roller can
Speaker 2: Zimmer get enough of the pieces that he needs to
Speaker 2: get this thing going. So there's just still question marks
Speaker 2: out here, which is why I didn't really write anything
Speaker 2: down because I'm like, man, let me see what you have,
Speaker 2: because that so much of that to me is going
Speaker 2: to be, hey, man, who can you get off this
Speaker 2: these you know, cheaper free agents? Who can you plug
Speaker 2: in and and see not that it can't happen. So
Speaker 2: I don't want to be negative and just say it
Speaker 2: can't happen. We just know there's some work to do.
Speaker 2: And Will McLay has traditionally been able to find one
Speaker 2: or two guys and you say, oh, man, I didn't
Speaker 2: know that guy could help him do this.
Speaker 3: They gotta go find some dudes.
Speaker 4: And that's why Dak and CD have to hit the
Speaker 4: ground running, and him not being in campus is so
Speaker 4: important as well. If he doesn't show up for you know,
Speaker 4: to the first week of the season, how much of
Speaker 4: an impact is that going to have on the synergy
Speaker 4: between those two guys and going through those tough games
Speaker 4: where you know the defense is gonna be all over them.
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to feel a little bit better.
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I'm not lie.
Speaker 4: It's just I say about the running back room. I
Speaker 4: just feel like, look, you're gonna have to have I
Speaker 4: ain't gonna pull out to the people. You know, You're
Speaker 4: gonna have to have your running game going to just
Speaker 4: to impact those six games have a chance.
Speaker 3: I was about to lie DC. I had to stop.
Speaker 2: End it there, bro, let's just end it ended right there.
Speaker 2: We go down this road, Lymph, Mary Church, thank you,
Speaker 2: heck Ma Harrison. That was fun.
Speaker 3: Danny Craig, appreciate your scrutched.
Speaker 2: For Chrispine, Josh. Everybody helps make this happen, Joey scrutch players.
Speaker 3: Lange will chat with you next Monday. Right here, it
Speaker 3: was Monday, Memorial Day. Next Monday, Yeah, probably nothing.
Speaker 2: I'll try to get something later on. All right, that's
Speaker 2: players brought to you by us. See who us before
Speaker 2: everybody good bye.
Speaker 3: Come on.
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