Breaking News Podcast: Coaching Update

supposed to just do one podcast a week. But yeah, if stuff happens on Friday, you know it's January and your football season's not one hundred percent over until you get all this staff stuff settled. Head on a swivel all the time. And so this morning, Jerry Jones gotten on the radio and did some talking and he was in utter mood that he was last Friday. I think last Friday was probably the reason why we were We had all this to talk about this. This was not

a scheduled appearance, was it? He called into the fan because he had some stuff to say. Yeah. He he didn't even just call it like he told them ahead of time. He was like, hey, I'm calling it ten. We got some stuff that we need to talk about. So and every reporter in town is so excited about that. Um, they obviously want their chance to interview Jerry. And and you know there's that's and that's been going on for

the last couple of years with with COVID. I mean you usually Jerry has made a lot more appearances, uh, just after a game or a training camp or whatever. But you know, it's kind of been one oh five three the fan that's that's done. I would say the majority of Jerry talks so and you well with players post yeah, yeah, you've had I've had something, yeah, but but Jerry, but it comes to Jerry though, the guy that's saying stuff. Yeah, I mean it definitely. Um, you

know it's resorting to the radio. So let let's get to that. Let's say, well, what do he talked about? What was and I'll start with you what was the number one thing that he said this morning that kind of caught your attention? Well, I mean dan Quinn. We're here for breaking news about dan Quinn that he's staying and that Jerry termed it as for some years to

come as the defensive coordinator. We'll see what happens a year from now, depending on how the team goes, how the defense performs, maybe there's more opportunities for dan quinn going forward. But he put to rust any speculation about Mike McCarthy's job for twenty twenty two, and that's what

everybody's been wondering for the last week. And I think that was that you could qualify as breaking news in itself, even though he told not the guys on the fan who did a good job asking the questions like I didn't create this, you know, this is speculation about Mike's job and I never said that his job was in question. Yeah, I mean that's my big takeaways Just what just the quintessential Cowboys news cycle is what we just went through, not dull, but never dull, the way that it can

just kind of materialize at a thin air. Because whether he did it on purpose or not, Jerry did start this. He might not have meant to, but his lack of commentary on Mike's job security and the question was specific question was is Mike you're coach in twenty twenty two and he just was like, I don't want to talk about anybody on our staff. I'm not doing that. All the guys I want under contractor under contract, which so he did sort of say it, but he didn't say, hell, yeah,

Mike's our guy. And so then the biggest, most visible franchise in the league that everybody in media, for better or for worse, nos generates conversation and attention, kind of starts taking that and running with it. I also don't think, I do not think it would have become what it was if Sean Payton hadn't coincidentally retired on Tuesday, which

had nothing to do with this. Although I'm you're going to get to that, I assume, well, yeah, I mean, well before we get to that, because you know, when Jerry talks about it, talks about Sean Payton and stuff like that. That's stuff that we report on. We don't, you know, typically talk about other teams players or coaches. He's not another coach right now for another team. I mean he is, He's out there. I guess, like it's kind of weird. He I mean, the Saints still hold.

So I mean, I do think you're still at the end of the day talking about, yeah, somebody else's employee. Because for better and it's not just the Cowboys, like any team that wanted to acquire him would they would have to compensate the sense like you don't just call him and say, hey, come over here. Yeah, and Jerry Jerry was asked to direct questions about him and and there they're friends, they have a relationship going forward. I think that was he was complimentary of his career as

a coach. It wasn't really in the perspective of speculation about next year and what Sean would do and all of that, which is a whole another layer to this McCarthy stuff that his job is safe and all of that.

But again, I think I just think that through ga lean on the fire and obvious out regardless of whether he meant to do it or not, like Jerry Jones recognized that this is something he needs to kind of put the kabash on, because again he called unscheduled and was like, let's Mike is not twisting in the wind. Mike helped me get Dan back here all week and he actually so I wrote the story about this. He did make an interesting comment that slipped past me um

when it was live. He was like, he's like Mike told y'all at his press conference that we had talked and he was good and just nobody listened to him like nobody cared that he said that that did happen? Well, I know, but did Mike say specifically, yes, I was, and I'm and I'm going full steam ahead and the way he put it, and so read into that how you want, Mike. But Mike Fisher also was like, so this it's a non issue for you, and Mike was

Mike McCarthy was like, yeah, I mean it's again. Maybe he wasn't just like, yeah, Jerry told me I'm the I for five more years, but semantics it was. It seemed pretty clear coming from McCarthy that he wasn't really concerned about it. Jerry strikes again though again here we are Friday before the conference championship games. Yeah, and it's what happens Dallas Cowboys's good for us. We got a website to fill. Dave said in late January, I'm gonna

be I'm a lot not playing anymore. I'm a lot less stressed, like do we have enough content to get us through the next you know, next week or not weekend or not playing anymore. But got a huge victory. He did say that quote huge victory. Let's talk about Dan a little bit more there that deserves to be the storyline, like more so than the stuff with Mike. Like it, it's pretty remarkable that they managed to keep him.

I mean, when you think about all the jobs he was interviewing for and so then and then without Dan talking, now, it's just a lot of speculation. Maybe he didn't want a quarterback, Maybe he didn't like the quarterback situation in other places, Maybe he wants to coach here, whatever it is. I just I don't know if y'all got this feeling. I kind of got it about a week ago that just like, this is not and I said, was it's not a slam dunk, but he's gone. Didn't know for

sure that he was going to stay. I just got this feeling that it was not just that I'm out the door. I'm getting a job somewhere. And and you know, I wonder how much Michael Parsons plays into this. You know, how much do you really want to coach this guy? Um? And you know, maybe he'll carry him, you know, they'll carry each other. Two greater things. I just I thought

it was a slam dunk. I just I'm just doing the mental math, like, Okay, six of these eight openings have asked to talk to him, and he's a finalist for two of them, and Denver in Chicago. Those those on paper, I'm not intimately familiar with them, but those look like good situations to me. I mean, Denver's got some great players in the secondary that you can work with Simmons and Certanu obviously, I mean Cago working with Khalil Mack and Roquan Smith sounds fun to me. Plus

the whatever you've got in justin field. So I thought he was gone. I definitely thought he was gone, and credit credit to Jerry that he's not. I guess I thought there was a chance that he could come back one because we kind of heard those rumblings in two. There's a couple of reasons. One Jerry. When Jerry wants to keep somebody, whether it's or sign somebody, whether it's a free agent, Jerry finds a way to get it done.

It doesn't always work with coaches, but he referenced a couple of different situations in the last fifteen years, one of them being Sean Payton. After the fourth season, Sean was the assistant head coach quarterbacks coach, and the Raiders wanted him and they bumped his salary up pretty nice to stay with with Bill Parcels. And then it was Jason Garrett after the seven season when they won thirteen games,

staying on as THEOC. So when Jerry wants something done like this, he can find a way to get it done. Whether he didn't he didn't. He didn't specifically talk about salary with Dan, but I think it's been reported there was. There was an extent there he did. And again something I missed, he did say the word extend, so like they extended Dan, he did say extend. He said, yeah,

he did. The other side of it too, is you mentioned some of those good players on those other teams and justin fields like I believe, I think he's going to turn out to be a really good starter in the league. But in terms of like the job openings that were out there, how many like true franchise quarterbacks are there. And if there's one thing I took away from the playoff weekend last week, is you got to have one of those guys, and especially if you're going

to coach in the AFC West moving forward. And I think that that Dan probably looked I don't know if he looked at it. That way. But he's got enough clout and enough accomplishments as opposed to a first year coordinator, a guy that's just starting out to say I could probably run this back and still have opportunities. The writing is absolutely on the wall that I mean, we'll be going through this again next year, just in terms of

like Dan being a coordinator to know. As far as job openings, well, you know, if the Cowboys don't make it to the divisional round or to play out, you know whatever, I don't know if we're gonna be talking about it the same way. I mean I don't. It just depends on what it looks like, right, I mean, if the defense looks like it did this year and it is pretty clearly not the reason why they're at home, yeah, I don't. I don't think it'll change anything for him. Well, no,

I don't think it'll change anything for him. I think it'll change something for Mike McCarthy. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, which would maybe change something for Dan Quinn. If it's the same type of situation where you know, the games that the Cowboys lost, you know they lost in the Kansas City, couldn't score touchdown, I think dan Quinn did

a pretty good job with that defense against Mahomes. And then you know, like if it's losses like that where they're losing they scored seventeen points and didn't win, then then yeah, I think I think there's a way to do that. But I've always said this about assistance that might take over. It's like, as long as they're not the reason why the coach is getting fired, which I always thought was weird about Jason Garrett and Wade Phillips, like how's this going to happen? You know, So it's

always tricky. It's it's always a risk too for a coach to he may never be this hot as an assistant coming off of this seat, like six teams plus wanting to talk to you. But like I said, the guys wanted Super Bowl as a DC. He really should have a Super Bowl as a head coach. The way that thing ended, I know he doesn't, but he had his team in position to do that biggest comeback in Super Bowl history. I mean, it's it's unfathomable what happened

there against New England. But to your point about Mica, like, yeah, I'm sure he looks at it like I've got two of maybe the top five best young defensive players in the league. Now, all three levels of this defense could look different though, in terms of the free agents and the guys they got to try to keep and to draft and all that stuff. Defense. We talk about it

all the time. We've talked about it on our show, like it's harder to sustain top tier success on defense than it is on offense, especially when you think about everything that could be in flux. I mean, two of the five best playmakers on this defense or headed for free agency right now. Yeah, so I mean, yeah, you got I'll keep all that stuff. Here's the thing about about having dan Quinn back that I think is so exciting is that now And we didn't see it last

year because we didn't know what to expect. But I'm just gonna make up a random player. I don't even I don't even just making up a guy like on Madden Mode. Okay, there's a linebacker named Chris Robinson and he's a fourth year guy, and he played for the Colts and the Jets or whatever, and he's a special teams guy and he's had a lot of he started twelve games one year, but a mainly special teams guy, but he's really tall and long and whatever. And he signs here on a two year deal and you're like,

who's this guy? Just like we said about who's jay Ron Curse. But the difference is is that dan Quinn has vision for these guys. He had one for Curse, he had one for for you know, a lot of those draft picks he brought in. So now when we now on free agency, when he signed some guy that just because you hadn't heard of, You're like, well, I'm gonna hold the whole judgment on this because Jalon Kurst should have been in the Pro Bowl and still might

be depending on alternatives. Yeah, so the expectations on a million dollars signing in March are gonna be different this time around. I would get and be like, Okay, well you know he, oh he coached a MI in Atlanta. It's like, well, he coached Kazy in Atlanta two and he was pretty good, you know, not Cam O'Neil. Thing didn't really work out like I thought it would, And yeah, I thought he'd be better than that. But you know, it's funny you talked about vision though, because I think

Mike is the best example of that, like Mica Micah Parsons. Yeah, like it is. Would previous regimes have been as creative or willing to jump him into situations like they did last year Week two. You lose Randy and DeMarcus for that Week two game against the Charge. Say no, he's a defensive end. He's a pass rusher for fifty snaps and he can do it. And to trust him to

do that. I mean that the point about you made about putting guys in position, like, he's the best example of finding all It's like having a great trainer in boxing, Like that's what Quinn is to Michael Parsons and to me, having Quinn back to help mikea grow is as big as what you talk about having an OC and keep the structure in place for a quarterback. To me, that's the same type of thing on defense. Well, that makes sense. That's a great segue. We can get into keeping the

same structure on offense with an offensive coordinator. I thought one of the most interesting things that Jerry said was as when it was being reported again that Kellen Moore is interviewing for the second time with the Dolphins, and Jerry said, yes, I might get the sense that he will be back, So I guess he's predicting how the interview will go, or maybe he's hearing what Miami's really looking for. Yeah, I don't know. I thought that was kind of interesting. Yeah, I got a guy for a

second interview. I'm kind of like, who you know, who's got his locker, who's taking over his office? I mean, that's kind of what you're thinking. Absolutely, And I think Kellen's scheduled to go talk to them on like Monday or early next week was the report. But yeah, I mean Jerry made it sound like he's gonna be back, and honestly that I don't think that should be surprising, just with the way the season ended. The offense couldn't really find a groove for the second half of the season.

I mean, I know people listening to this. I think I said this in the office yesterday. Like the attitude from the fan base right now is either like, if Kellen comes back, it's either yeah, I guess that's fine, or oh God, no, please God not Kellen Moore. Like nobody's like actively campaigning quite a shift, dude, October. I'm gonna remember this. I'm gonna remember this season for a

long time, for a lot of reasons. But I just in October, like we were just buried in emails and questions and tweets about like what what are we going to have to do to Like I can't watch Kellen coaching the Dolphins next year. I just can't do it. What are we gonna do? Jerry do something, Jerry, Jerry Jerry, And now he's like public enemy number one. And I'm not like he deserves criticism, like the offense lost its mojo, but I still think it's funny how quickly things flipped

for him. I'm glad you said that, though, because because I think there's fans that are still so pissed about this loss that you know, Jerry's calling this a huge victory getting Dan Quinn, and I think he's absolutely right because of what Dan. I think Dan contributed to, not just the defense, but I think he helped change culture

around here too, just with his presence. But it doesn't change the fact that they didn't do what they needed to do or wanted to do, and there are still problems that have to be fixed going forward, and the offense is one of them. I mean, the offense is It's such a hard position to evaluate because number one, the stats, all those things, the rankings, but like the eye tests shows they weren't the same group down the stretch, especially against the better defenses that they faced, and that's

something they've got to fix. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, you know, anyway you slice the numbers, he is just the number one offense. And I know that in yards that ranked that way. They're not ranked that way in other categories. And I think, and I think really, like you said, against against the better teams, a better competition, they didn't do that. And my biggest issue with Kellen Moore is just the slow starts. And I think that

does start with preparation. It starts with the coordinator for whatever the reason. They seem to do a good job of adjusting figuring it out later, but it's too late. It's been. It was too late against Arizona. It was definitely too late against San Francisco. I mean, they go now. It wasn't too late against the Giants. Early in the year Carolina, there were some games where they kind of slowed had New England, they had some slow start to New Orleans, and they were able to figure it out.

But against the better teams, you start like that, you get punched in the mouth. You're pretty much in the

ropes and staggered. In retrospect, I think, and you can go back and find the quotes about stuff like this, like I think that early success and overcoming some of that early adversity gave him a false sense of confidence or they leaned, they leaned too much on it at any respect, and that it was so frustrating, like week after week it was like, we know we can do it, we've done it, we'll turn it on and it's like, okay, well but why just why why did you do it now?

Why why don't you just do it now? A great example of that is the game that kind of turned everything it seemed like, is the Denver game, especially offensively, even though even though Denver's game plan wasn't the exact

copycat thing that every team tried. And then the following week they put up forty three and probably that was the most dominant game that they played against Atlanta, and so even I know, I was like, oh blueprint, huh okay, yeah no, because we've seen for half a season what this offense can do, and so you weren't really worried about it. They weren't really worried about it. You know.

It's what's funny about the Denver game is not funny, But like every other loss, the Arizona, San Francisco, the Tampa Bay game, Oh Oakland Sorry Raiders, and maybe not the Chiefs, but those four losses. If they Cowboys had like three more minutes on the clock, they probably would have won the sixty minute game. But you know, three four more minutes probably win that game. You could have had two more hours against Denver win in that game.

I mean the league. Turner is not going to keep catching touchdowns, and that's one of those things like you have you ever been, I know you have, like you've been on the other side of a beat down and you get aggravated, you start playing prevent and you're like, we, like I wanted to win this game. Thirty to three, thirty to sixteen does not reflect what we did. That's how I feel about the Denver game. Like Dallas didn't even good for malage Turner for putting those stats up,

but like Dallas didn't deserve to save face. Yeah in the fourth quarter, you know, like that's how badly they got destroyed in that game. Yeah, and kind of to that point, Jerry said after the game against the forty nine ers that the score wasn't necessarily reflective of the way that game went. And it was. I think it was twenty three seven at one point, and it just wasn't close until the very end. And I got a little frustrated. The day after we're talking about the last play,

and look, you know it, that is frustrating. They didn't get that last heave to the end zone, but like enough wasn't done early to put you in position to probably win that football game. I don't I don't ever want to talk about the draw again. I mean, I know we're going to, but that's yeah, I agree. It's the drive with two forty one and all your timeouts that stands out in my mind more so than what

they called in a borderline hopeless situation. All right, another segue, because the guy that didn't get it done that his name is Dak Prescott. He's the quarterback. And they didn't make some all the throws and they didn't get the snap off and all that good stuff. Well, Jerry, that's

another thing that Jerry mentioned today. I mean, like that's to me when he pushes you know, all of the chips in because he already has literally pushed his chips in on deck with paying him, and he's going to continue to do that, which the only the only thing that I look at then, as I say, well, if he's willing to do that about Dak, you could have done that again with McCarthy last Friday, Like you could have done that because you do it with other things

like you do it with Dak. He's like his excitement level for this year it starts with Dak. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's his reason. He said. He was like, I didn't want to talk about any of our coaches because we were trying to negotiate to keep Dan here. And I was like, what is guaranteeing McCarthy's future have to do with whether or not you can keep Quinn? Like I don't, that doesn't really. Yeah, he just kind of threw it all in one umbrella. I'm not talking about the staff

at all. Yeah, which, and I think knowing Jerry, we've all listened to him talk a lot, Like I guess I get it in the sense of like once he starts going, sometimes you don't know where it's going to end. So if he starts talking about McCarthy, maybe I guess I can see it. But interesting, Yeah, well, and at this point, you know, he says his excitement starts with Dakan, so does this payroll? I mean, like when you look at everything average per year, total condra, everything starts with Dak.

So there's really can't be another answer, right, I mean, there can't be any other. I mean, the Giants are saying they're going to build around Daniel Jones. I mean, that's what you do, that's what you say, So yeah that I mean it has to be that way, but I do I do think that they'd be very naive

to not think that. You know, if you want him to get back to twenty sixteen Dak and that guy, or at least that success, then the running game has to be there again, and the offensive line has to be better, and your center has to be I mean, he has to have to be at all pro but he certainly needs to be better than what they have. I mean, I just think there's a lot of issues around Dak that that's got to be fixed. It's hard

to do. It's beating up forty million, it's the number one thing for me, the old line slash running game, in addition to Dak himself, and Dak has said I got I gotta be better. I think one reason why Jerry is so confident, Like you said, he's not going anywhere, he's paying forty million a year to him, but he knows how Dak works. I think we know how Dak works. I think we know Dak's gonna put himself in position

to be better. I think a year removed from that injury will help him maybe be willing, more mobile than he was, and maybe he will see more of that aspect of Dak's game next year. But he's got to be better. He knows it, and I think I think the scheme has to be better. I think Mike McCarthy spoke to that after the season. We've got to tweak some things, even though it's going to be the same foundation of the scheme, whether Kellen's back or not, whether

Kellen leaves for a job or not. And we can sit here and say it, but also when Hall of Fame quarterbacks say it, like Kurt Warner who watches tape third party wise or Troy Aikman says it, and why aren't the top receivers getting the ball. There are things they can do schematically to help Dak Prescott as well. Yeah. Absolutely, I think everything y' all just said is fair. But I don't know. I think it's it's easy to overreact to the negatives. I mean, talking about getting back to

twenty sixteen, I don't want that. I just need him to get back to September of twenty twenty one. I mean, they were doing all that stuff. They were averaging one sixty on the ground, like Dak was not a mirage that happened. Dak was in the MVP conversation at about week ten of the season and he had done it again. I mean, yeah, they beat up on some bad teams,

but he had done it against some good teams. I mean, they set the NFL record for yards against the Belichick defense, and I mean a pretty damn good defense that wound up going to the playoffs. Played one of the I bring it up all the time they lost the game. I get that he played amazing against the reigning division or reigning Super Bowl champions. I mean that success was there as recently as October. So I don't think you have to reinvent the wheel to get back to it.

The running games gotta get better. The offensive line has to get better. Think Kellen Moore could do a better job of highlighting his playmakers. The regularity with which different receivers disappear from the game plan is ridiculous and shouldn't happen. But I don't think it takes drastic changes to get back to being successful. Go back and look at his passer ratings. When they run the ball, Oh it is,

it is when they play so much more efficient. They were playing on god mode from the first week until Dak got hurt. Maybe that's a coincidence, maybe it's not. But what I just but they were running the hell out of the ball, right, Well, I mean that is important. I don't want to get it twisted like I don't want Dak throwing fifty balls a game. All right, Well, then rank these things as as the reason for the drop off, because there there obviously was. You said god mode.

It certainly didn't finish that way, So let's let's let's rank it because I think you can you want to add a fifth win in here, but I think the four things you can say of why did it turn um in no particular order the competition got better. Did they get figured out on defense? Like blueprint? Does Zeke's injury really help? And and how about a hurt? And how about Dak's injury? Yeah, of those four things, and it's a combination of all because sometimes when you're taking tests,

I mean, all of the above is the answer. No one likes that, but it is the you know, what do you think though, is the biggest factor of those You mentioned a line earlier. I would throw in that, like Mike told us in the off season last year, that wins are it equates to wins when you've got the same five all year long. How many combinations have they had over the last two years? And like even even even the start to the season was good, but they could not seem to figure out the five they

wanted until the irony. It was self inflicted. This year. They did it to themselves this year. They I mean try and look, they tried Connor McGovern. We're going up to Arrowhead, who had never started it, left guard before I could be able to hear. And you're going up against Chris Jones. We'll see how you do. They like they definitely benched Connor Williams, they Suedo benched Lyle Collins.

I mean, whatever the hell that was? Tyron's in out of lineup again, and they just decided to play tackle by committee one week when Tyron wasn't invader, just like, yeah, like, you'll do this in passing situations, and you'll do this in running situations. We know no coach has ever said that that's a winning strategy, but we're just gonna give it a try. Ironically, I think they won that game. And what they didn't do was they didn't have any

kind of veteran competition for Tyler Beotish. Ever, they never did. You've been saying that since summer Tony they could have paid Joe Looney in the offseason something, and it's almost like they didn't want him to be a progress stopper. But I just don't know how much progress they had.

And I think the combination Tyler Beiottish would have been fine if you've got a you know, Zach Martin Ron Leary thing going on at guard or I think Connor Williams would have been fine with the Travis Frederick there at center. But the combination of both, I think it's easy. You know, we hear Bucky Brooks say all the time about where's Waldo and you're on defense and looking at what where you gonna attack, You're gonna go right there. I'm not gonna miss. With Zach Martin, I'm gonna miss.

I'm gonna go right here and just try to figure something out. To your question, I think the injury to Zeke and whatever the hell happened with the offensive line, something something went awry there that wasn't good enough to just dominate on the ground to the degree to make life really easy on Dak And he insisted he was healthy.

I guess I have to take him at his word, but he either wasn't fully healthy, or if he was, he just mentally wasn't in a trusting place where he's just gonna let it rip and not be worried about his injury. Something there prevented him from playing at a level where he could make up for that. And Yeah, I mean that's that's pretty much it as far as

I'm concerned. Yeah, that's to your point. When he came back from the injury, it was the Denver game, the famous Denver game, and he talked about how his footwork and his fundamentals weren't where they needed to be. It seemed like maybe that wasn't he never really got back in the rhythm that he that in that regard too, that he probably wanted to bust out those red, white and blue helmets again or yes, yes, yeah they look they look badass. I don't care that they played like crap.

Wear them again. Yeah, just keep doing it until you win. You beat somebody with them. All right? Uh, real quick, what what are we looking at here? In the next couple of weeks? What's what's I You've Senior Bowl for you? Yeah, I mean Senior Bowl takes on a new significance now because we we pretty like we know the staff. I don't know if they're going, but I can get my eyes on some dan Quinn guys. You see a six

three corner or somewhere or something, You're like, okay, I'm watching. No, there's a there's a six four corner on the roster, and I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna keep an eye on you. Um, what's going on? It's on your plate here changing diapers. And besides besides that, um, you know Mike McCarthy that you know they did the exit interviews with the players last week. This week, they're going through this process of

evaluating what the coaching staff did this year. So we know, obviously we knew Mike was coming back regardless, Uh, Dan's back, Kellen very well, maybe back. Any other changes on the staff like that's still yet to be determined. And I think most most of the staff is under contract, but we'll see what may happen there. Way, it had some interviews, yeah, I think yeah, And there's like one coach that's out

of contract. I think there's there's that, and uh, you know, there's Pro Bowl and there's guys up for awards coming up. We'll see if Michael Parsons gets any hardware coming up. And by the way, I just wanted a little bit of extra breaking news. Pro Football Writers of America have put out their awards and stuff. Joe Burrow got Comeback Player of the Year, not Dak. But we'll see what the NFL award is here in a couple of weeks. I mean, same voters right, with lots and lots of

due respect to Dak. I mean I think people at large are gonna it's it's not about how he starts, how you finish and Joe Burrow is one of the stories of the season right now. Maybe it's because we were there, but I just thought it was a no brainer that Dak would get that award because I mean, you know, we saw it. I completely agree. I said in October on our show that like, just give Dak comeback Player of the Year right now, just give it to him. I think I said it after they beat

the Giants on the anniversary of his injury. It just looked like a more serious injury than Joe's. I'm convinced people could change their votes. I mean, if you can. If you can, you know, elect the president in one day, which you know sometimes we don't, but for the most part, you can. I think you can. You can do stuff like this in a week or two. So I do think some guy turns in Dak Prescott and then sees Burrow win in the playoffs and say, guys, I'm changing that.

Change my vote please, even if it happens, I don't know if voting is still open in the playoffs, but even if it isn't like Burrow and I'm nobody's gonna Obviously people think I'm compromised because of what I think about Joe Burrow, but he tore like all the ligaments in his knee. Was back, and that happened in December, by the way, it happened like the last of the season.

He was back healthy and ready for the opener, and the Bengals just caught fire like they I mean, they picked fifth overall in in April and one one of the toughest divisions in football, and are in the AFC title game. Like I said, I don't know when voting stops, but he's definitely worthy. I mean, he's definitely could easily win it. You could also say for what Dak did, Dak is incredibly deserved the contract to set cowboy records

to win twelve games. Yeah, both of them. So, I mean, yeah, they both you know, and you know I have my point. I'll comeback play of the Year. I don't even think it should be one of those guys. I think it should be other guys. You know, I'd vote Randy Gregory over both of them personally, but um, that's it's a different type of comeback. And you know it. Narratives. Yeah,

it's all built on narratives. If you go back to fourteen, I mean, rom Romo played like the MVP of the league from Thanksgiving on or you know, right around there, like second half of the season. But by that point, all of that stuff's kind of been written and it's Rogers and it's Wad and it's like, we don't have time to consider a new guy in December, right, But man, he played like it for at least like seven weeks

of that season. Yeah, and then I would imagine here in the next few days, you'll probably hear some more Cowboys going to the Pro Bowl, for sure, CD Lamb. I mean, we were pretty much know that that's going to happen. There's these two receivers on either team of the NFC gonna both go to the Super One is going to the Super Bowl. That's going to open up a spot. I'm pretty sure Cede Lamb will be one of them. Are you trying to say that it's never

quiet around here? It's never quiet. That's fine though, because I'm hopefully people are listening, and well, you know, I'm not saying we'll do this every Friday, but you know, you know, well, if if things pop up and Chris beam back there is you know, not on the golf course, then we'll Chris lives here. What are we talking. That's true. He's got a sleeping bag in there. Yeah. I do

all right. Well for Chris being back there running, running the board and David Hellman, Rob Phillips, I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see you next time on the Breaking News Friday podcast whatever that happens, but definitely next week though with the with the shows, this has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.