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boarding former. Yeah. I trying to fire myself. Yeah, and I'm still trying to hang it here and do this thing. All right, Fellas, you guys are players, so you give me your opinions on this right away. Slayter NFL Network comes out with a report. It says players are not happy with the coaching staff, saying to un prepare Sam, they don't know what they're doing. Mike McCarthy came out with a quote in the afternoon says it's important for us to have those conversations as men, one on one,

as a group. He went further than that, but that was the biggest bulk of what he said. So mccraig, you start your thoughts on this, I think that they're losing it. You know, we all we already knew this about the about the coaching staff, and and I won't even I'll take it the farthest to say that. I think that some of the players have spoken up about this already to some of the coaches, and they just

probably fell on deaf ears. And now they just went on ahead and said, all right, you know, forget it, since since the ship is going down, I'm gonna let him know. It ain't just the players. It's some of the stuff that we learned, and these guys don't know what the heck they're talking about. So you know, if I'm going down, I'm taking them down with me. That that's where I think of that. I think it was.

I think it was. It was it's a little cowardly just to not put your name on it if you're gonna say something like that, because there's a lot of men in a locker room, and then when you don't put your name on it, everybody has to kind of like play detective and figure out who it was. So I think that sucked about it. But we knew this stuff was coming. You know, it's early in the season and they played horrible, so it'll be a lot more of this stuff coming out later. Yeah, McCray, I mean, look, man,

the hinges are coming off. Man, the ship is going down, you know what it is hitting the fan right now. I mean, look, we knew this was gonna come around when they started having those player only meetings, the meetings that never resolve anything. Man, Me and Danny been a part of plenty of those. They don't resolve nothing. All you're gonna get is arguments, and then then you'll get to this point where it's like, now it's got to be the coach's fault. It can't be our fault. So

we knew this was coming all along. And I gotta agree with Danny and McCarthy on this one. If you're gonna say something like that, if you're gonna put that out there, you gotta attach your name to it. I mean, you can't be scared and say, oh wait, wait, make sure this is anonymous. Hey, this is off the record, right and now, if you're gonna say something that big, just attach your name to it. It does seem kind of cowardly, but for me, we knew this was coming.

They're falling off the hinges. And if it were one of these players, you know that had already went to the coaches and they didn't and it fell on death years, then then then dinner in a lot more trouble than I thought. Because if they're going to these coaches and these coaches are just like I, you know, go somewhere with all that I don't want to hear any of this, then they're in a lot more a lot more damage than that we anticipated. But for me, it was kind

of cowardly to not put your name on there. But it's something that I guess needed to be said. I mean, we see these players, they've been they've been saying early, little little chips here and there, early in the in the season about how the play call and it's difficult or the playbook is difficult, and now it progressed to a player's only meeting and now just progressed fully to just going to the media and just throwing all the

coaches under the bus. So for me, like I said, it was a little bit cowardly, but if you got to do it to perform better, you gotta do what you gotta do. Listen and I think it's funny how this started. Right. This started off so great, man, this is this defense is better, the communication between the coaches and the players, everything is so much better than it

was before. Blah bla blah blah blah. And we six weeks in and all of a sudden, none of that stuff is none of that stuff is actarly like everything is wrong six weeks after that, like it started off with, Man, this defense is this is gonna be disguising and blah blah blah and all this. And you know, I like the way McCarthy and this Office of Stats open up and you know, and we we got open communications. So everybody's on the same page and they are the exact

opposite of that. I've never seen something so opposite from what you say then what you put on the field, and then now it's the coach's fault. So players, you got you got some of this too, because because you you were hyping this up and you was on the kool aid you at the beginning of the season as well. And look, if i'm McCarthy, man, I'm taking these reins for play calling. Man, like I'm not. I'm not going down without swinging like yeah, y'all, I ain't even to

just bury me under the bus. And I haven't even had a chance to go out there and show y'all what I can do. So for me, if i'm McCarthy, I'm snatching that playbook. I'm saying, look, Kelly, you just weren't performing to what you were doing. You can you can still be here. I ain't gonna throw you out like that. But as far as your play calling duties, man, that's that's that's a rap. You're basically gonna be conformed

to a quarterback coach. Because if I'm going down like this, like the way this ship is going down, I gotta be swinging. I gotta be throwing my own plays out there. So mccarthur, you better take that script, my boy. So mccraig, your initial comments, it just made me go right to the court scene when Nino Brown is on the stand in New Jack City and he jumps up and he says, I'm taking a whole lot of people with me. I

gotta listen to name. It just feels his boat. You have players should say, man, look before I get before I had to take a pay cut for this, And he said, well, my production is down. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you these guys aren't ready. These guys aren't preparing you no good. I mean it is just I mean the house is burning, man and and and while so, so you know your guys, you guys used to play with when your former teammate Sean Lee came

out to that. So Sean Lee spoke and Sean Lee said that, you know it's anonymous, nobody put their name on it. It's cowardice. And he said that you know, these guys had to stick together. He said, there's no finger pointing going going on. That was from Sean Lee Elliot and that's a bad I might be one of the go ahead, go ahead, the back ahead, listen, listen before you get to what Zeke said, because because that's more relevant than this. This is this is a problem

that I see here. Why are they asking and hearing from somebody who has not played the entire season, is not on the field. It does not make any sense that this is the guy that you're leaning on to say this. You know we're sticking together. You ain't even played all year. This is from this stuff should be coming from Jalen. These are the only people that that we really should be hearing from on issues like this because Sean Lee ain't on the field. He hasn't been

in there running none of these plays. He hasn't been you know, in the fire yet you know, no offense to him. He just has not been healthy enough to get out there. So him speaking on it to me is irrelevant. Now when you when you move on to Zeke, that makes more sense to me. But the fact that the defense and the player, it's a leaning on somebody who hasn't even been on the field yet, it doesn't

make sense. And that's a huge issue. What does Zeke saying? Okay, well, actually actually let me let let me if I get to Zeke, let me just read you the whole Sean Lee comment. Okay, Sean Lee says, quote, first thing I think with anonymous sources, you you never really can take them serious. First, they don't put their name on it. Second, you don't know if the person is in the room or not in the room. Maybe they were, maybe they

are not. Now sometimes you don't know if it's through a secondhand source, maybe it's a player, maybe the players, or maybe it's coming from the player's anation. You just can't speculate, so you have to just say listen, the consensus in our locker room with our defense right now is that we all need to work hard, we all need to improve. There's no pointing fingers. The only way out of this is to keep faith in each other, and we have that faith. So, like I said, anything anonymous,

we're not going to worry about that. Somebody won't put their name on it so big, but we know the group, we're sticking together. We know we need to improve, and we're going to continue to stick together and do that. That's from sean we we we we we we ain't that something that sounds like listen, if somebody slapped me, I'm not giving them no excuse. All right, listen, you slapped me now. I don't know why he slapped me. I don't know who told him to. If he did

it on his own accord, none of that. Bro. Somebody said something we know James Slay or nothing. No, she's not no idiot. Somebody in there, one of the players said this, and it goes and it ties into everything that everybody is seeing outside looking in. So this all fits, it all comes together. So this is no you know somebody agent saying it, or somebody outside the room saying this. Ain't that. Somebody in the locker room said that he

knows it and he ain't playing. So they need to go in there and figure out who it was and let them know this ain't how we do stuff. Find you a leader on the team and let them address that. I mean, he's saying all the right things, though he's saying basically a little somebody did say this because he said that. You know, look whoever did say it, it was anonymous, and you know it was cowardice for them not to put their name behind it. So look, I

mean he's saying all the right stuff. He's saying they need to stick together. There can't be any pointing fingers, which I know poor a fact is is just a lot talk about there's no point, but there's definitely pointing going on. You can see it on the field when people are looking like, man, what is this guy? You're supposed to have my help? So you if they're pointing on the field, you know they're pointing in the locker room.

But I'll give Sewan this man, he is up on the fane leader and you know, once he gets back on the field. You know, he'll probably have more you know, credit to to his words out here saying what he's saying, and hopefully he can get on this field and help this team. But for me, I mean, he's saying all the right stuff, but until we see it on the field, man, it's just gonna go on death ears. Absolutely, they need him on the field. They need a leader. He's their leader.

The only thing that's difficult about that is you're not on the field at the time, so and we've been in a lot of room with that, you know, with stuff like that, like hey man, you're just not you're not out here to see what's really going on, like you seeing it from the sideline. You hearing people complain about it. You've got a different perspective than what we have when we on the field. And what makes this

worse is it's a double winding. Your coaches are apparently are not good and your players aren't playing hard like, so it's both in them. So they can point all the fingers that they want to. They have something in this as well, and all of it ain't coaching. So this is just a dumpster fire right now. All right, Yeah, understand, So you know Sean Lee reference. If it's one person, Mike McCarthy talked about one person, it's James Slater. Did not quote one player. She quoted several. Okay, so it's

at least two. At least two. I know this because I talked to her. So it's not just one person that came forward and said, hey, this is a problem. There's several players who have problems right now. So it's not just one guy. It's a few dudes in the locker room that have issues with this coaching staff right now. Now. Let me ask you, Okay, go ahead, Dan, I said, you listen. The truth is, we can say whatever we want to. You can't not have a problem at this

point in the season. So it's just I think it's crazy with somebody they say that, you know, we don't know who it is or it's not a play. All of them should have a problem, and somebody says something they just didn't put their name on. I just want to put that there. I know I wouldn't in the locker room listening, but I'm willing to bet my house that it's somebody that's currently in the locker room that said this. Some people, a group of people, and I

guarantee you, and I guarantee you. The reason they ain't put their name behind it is because they probably wanted to cats out there playing just as bad, talking about they can't they can't coach nothing. Man if I had a good coach, i'd be more productive. No, no, man, it ain't. If I had to get all that, I tell that right now. If I had to guess, it's the secondary because they all played the worst, never saying the second. If if it's I hope it ain't Daryll Warley,

I'll tell you right now. I hope it's not him, because look, I looked at that play one more tack because it would just made me so like mad just looking at it. And they're in cover three. Why are you two yards in front of the guy who's the hook curled defender and the guy that's catching the balls a smooth ten in front of you. It just blows my mind. He's like a seven year vet. So I mean, no, don't get me started on Daryl Worley and it's Terry Poe.

This will happened when you don't put your name on that. That's why this is why I'm so cowardly to do it because everybody on the outside has to go and try to guess and figure it out. And maybe it's this person, baby as that person. So you as a teammate have put your your team, your other teammates in a position to where some people can't even trust if

it's them or not. Like you look looking at people sideways like, I don't know if he said we know he played like trash, yes, Solay, so maybe it was him. We heard him getting the argument was so and so, like you just don't know, and that's what makes it such a big issue within the locker room because you just have no idea who it is, so you don't know who you can trust in there. And then now when you're going on the field, if you're going on the field, somebody messes up and makes a bad play

and you see him all frustrated it. Oh, he was probably the one that did it. Was pointing at the fingers. I mean, it's a slippery slope you're going down right now. Sean Lee did say that Mike McCarthy spoke to the team and then he told the team if anybody has some concern something they want to talk about, to come see him. So Mike McCarthy did address it with his football.

That's what That's what I'm talking about. Many saying with your chest, tell them boys, hey look man, if y'all got a problem with me saying with your chest, man, and I assume nobody said nothing. No, everybody just went quiet and start looking down like Man, I didn't say that. I didn't say it. Man, Yeah, that ain't that was That was kind of coward, me, Man, that was coward. Now I did a little cold around, got a little got some got some folks get back to me a

little bit here. And I heard that they are trying to find out who is it? Who are the people? No, that is, they're trying to smoke out who who in the heck gave so so now some worry. There's a worry around the Star. I don't know if mister Jones is out here trying to get it, but they're trying to find out who is it? Who is it? The way to say, we ain't worried about so now we ain't worried about the Washington football team this week coming up.

We're worried about who's snitches. See we all over the place. Now, Man, if we go out there and lois against Washington. We ain't got to worry about who's snitching. The whole team about to get blown up. So y'all but focus on if you're smart and you in that locker room, you will stay the hicc away from James Slayer. You wouldn't even make it look like you got any type of relationship with her, and you don't want nobody to know it with you because anybody that she talked to is

now a suspect. Well but here and now here's the thing on that, Danny. Remember you can't get near the player, so there's no locker room access, so nobody's seen somebody's reaching out your reporters, right, So so this can be done right now. I mean you you know you're not gonna see anybody talking quote unquote talking to Jane. I mean, this is right now, is just done electronically. You said, a text to the phone calling, So so you know that's why I said, they're trying to smoke out who

it is. And there's some folks around the worry. But how do you do don't that's why you don't give your personal info out to reporters who come to the locker rooms. I mean when they they they want to hit you up for one thing, they want to hit you up for a story. I mean that that's that's it. And when you give your personal info out, that's how stuff gets leaked. Man. You never get your info out to the medium. Man. Well, m well, Church, you knew

we wouldn't. You weren't giving us nothing back in the day. I got nothing out of you. I got nothing for you. I wasn't important enough. Man. He was treating me like I was like I was a special team. You remember how he did with them special teams. How I ain't. I ain't gonna believe me. I know, I knew. He just looked at me like I was crazy. Man, ain't worth my time? That's crazy. It's time for you know

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Mortgage Virtual Home Studios. All right, Church, So I figured that you know we've we've you know, we've been playing with you a little bit about Nostre Thomas, and so I figured, man, I got a way that I can help you out here. I'm gonna help you out because I make NFL picks every week in the Dallas Warning News with several other people. Soul, what I'm gonna do. What I'm gonna do this week is I'm gonna let you you pick my game. Tell you I appreciate you

having faith in your boy. Man. Won't let you down. Man, I won't show you down. Man, all right, So we'll do it right now because I got to turn it in there all me about that. We need your picks? Do we need your pick? Soul. I gotta pick against the spread, and I gotta pick it straight. So let's start with the Cowboys, and Cowboys are three and a half point favorite to Washington. Who are you going with cowboys? Favorite? With the Cowboys? I'm going with the Cowboys and no

cover to spread? They will, Okay, they will, they will twenty eight seventeen. You heard it here. First, man, my hat, right head, I got my hat right ready, okay, so um the Giants at Philadelphia Philly by three and a half. I'm I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Philly. I'm gonna go, Carson Wentz. But they will cover the spread. Yeah, they won't cover the spread. Twenty to seventeen Philly, all right. Detroit is at Atlanta. Falcon's favored by three. They're at

Atlanta or at they're in Detroit. They're at Atlanta at Atlanta. What's the spread again? On that bad boy? Three? Atlanta covers the spread twenty eight twenty four, Okay, got the atl getting it done? All right. Buffalo is a twelve and a half point favorite at the New York Jets are winners. Oh yeah, this shmackenham. I got Buffalo. It'll cover the spread. I'm going thirty one to seven, all right. Cleveland is a three and a half favorite. Cleveland at Cincinnati.

Brown's favorite boy, three a half? What you got? I got Cincinnati with the upset twenty one seventeen. Green Bay, coming off that loss at Tampa, Bay is traveling to Houston, and the Packers are a three and a half point favorite going to Houstons hot. Houston looked I mean offensively, they look pretty decent. I'm going Houston with the upset thirty five twenty eight. All right, Kansas City is at Denver, and Kansas City's favored by nine and a half points.

What you got? Oh this is easy? I mean and Drew Luckingham boys out there. They ain't they ain't doing nothing offensively. Um, you know they're Their defense over there is decent and over in Denver, but they can't do nothing with my homes and company. So it's actually if they got that ground game going. So I'm going Chiefs thirty one, Denver seventeen low cast a lot of points on the road up there in my high Jacksonville okay, oh oh, Jacksonville's in Los Angeles and the Chargers are

favored by eight points. Oh the Chune Okay, Well, I did get Justin Herbert in fantasy, so I'm gonna needed him to have a big day. Jacksonville's defense hasn't been the same since seventeen, So for me, I'm gonna go Chargers twenty four Jacksonville fourteen. Soon Jacksonville about to start, They're about to start taking they get Lawrence in a second.

They might end the season three and thirteen. I don't know if that'll be enough, but you know, I've never I'll never skip an opportunity to throw a jab at the Jacksonville Jack. I's gonna throw that. I'm just gonna throw that out there. New England took a loss to Denver last week, So now New England is a two and a half point favorite, two and a half point

favorite against the San Francisco forty nine ers. What you got, see, This one's tough, man, This one's tough because, I mean, Cam Newton just got back from COVID and you know what I'm saying, they were going through going through some things over in Denver. Oh, this one's tough, man, This one's tough. But I'm gonna give it to I'm gonna give it to New England. I'm gonna give it to New England. And they covered the spread twenty one seventeen.

All Right, the Carolina Panthers, who were playing good football. I mean they're discipline, they get out there, they fight hard. I mean, first year head coach Matt Rules got this team playing decent. But they're New Orleans in there, a seven and a half point dog. What you got They're at New Orleans. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm going. I'm going. Mister slant and New Orleans slant by they'll cover the spread. You said the spread was only four, right, No, the

spread seven and a half. Man, oh, the spread seven and a half. So they won't cover the spread. But mister slant and New Orleans slants they'll they'll get it together. So I'm gonna give him twenty four twenty one Saints. Okay, Pittsburgh is a two point favorite at Tennessee. M this one, this one's gonna be tough. I mean, you got two

offenses that are clicking right now. I haven't seen a team yet fully stopped Derrick Henry, but this you know, this Pittsburgh team, they play defense and they take the ball away. Chase Claypool's been showing up. You know what, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go. It's at Tennessee. Yes, sir, I'm gonna go ahead and go Tennessee twenty four twenty one. All right, so you're going Tennessee See protectives whole turf, all right? Right here? See, you got three more to

pick here, three more to picks up. Seattle is four. Seattle is a four point favorite at Arizona. Man after what I saw from Cala Murray when he came down to Jerry World, I don't see Seattle stopping anything with this guy, and there's no one in the open field that can hang with him. But he was a little aread as far as his passes were going early in the first half. So for me, I'm gonna go Seattle and Russell Wilson pools this one out. They come back

from the bye, Chris Carson gets things rolling. I'm gonna go Seattle with a big victory thirty one to seventeen. Okay, Tampa Bay is a three point favorite on the road at Las Vegas. On the road, Vegas is coming off a huge victory and against Kansas City. My boy Jeff Heath had a pick, So you know what, I'm gonna go Vegas twenty seven, twenty four. All right, Vegas defending the home turf. And my final pick here, Chicago is at the La Rams and the Rams are a five

and a half point favorite against the Bearers. Ah, there's no way they're gonna cover the spread. You know what, I got Nicky Foles and the Chicago Bears. They get this momentum Roll in his defense, is playing great right now. I got Nicky Foles and the Bears with a twenty one to fourteen victory, actually not twenty one to seventeen victory over the Rams. Okay, all right, so Church, I will put these in and they'll probably be out tomorrow.

They'll probably be out tomorrow or even later tonight, so they're in the Dallas Morning News, and all the picks will be under my name. So all right, make sure you get your boys. Make sure you get your boy a shout out too over there with NBA NBC sports man. Make sure you shout me out and say, hey, this is be Church. This either his picks. So you know what I'm saying. Make sure you shout your boy out. Trust me. Trust me. I'm gonna let everybody know I'm

gonna put it. It comes out like this week's picks were made by Barry Church. A ka nostre damas. So I go, and you see, I'm gonna tell you right out of the gate, I would not pick the Cowboys over Washington, but that's what you're doing. So so I'm gonna do I'm gonna do it, so you got you cow have faith you don't have faith in no, they said, they said, the coaches, I'm prepared. It comes to the way and talking about O man, the Cowboys, he got you got Tom Brady losing the Derek car with the

top defense out there in all the way. I don't know, Listen, you might want to go back into retirement. Now. We talked to you out of retirement. And then he soon as soon as he called you, you came in. You came in drunk at the beginning, like we're just gonna blow out Washington. I'm like, what what game are you watching? If you've been looking at Okay, that churtually paid better after the players call their coaches out, Man, what's up? What's up? Church? I'm gonna give you an opportunity in

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three and a half point favorites over Washington. This game will be in Washington. Left tackle Brandon Knight is going to miss the game, all right. Brandon Knight had knee surgery. He's going to expected to miss some weeks. Cam Irving, according to the the head coach Mike McCarthy, was expected to practice today, so we're still waiting to hear about that. And Greg Senate and practice player Jordan Mills are the other tackles on the squad. Sill got more offensive line problems,

and Zack Martin is still in concussion and protocol. And remember it's a short week and you gotta you gotta I think you have to practice me he was talking about on his show that you gotta practice for I think maybe two days and just show some improvement here. And we're talking about a Washington defensive line is full of first round draft picks. You got that kid, Chase Young, their first round pick was taking a second overall, you got Ryan Carrigan, who just became the all time sack

leader in Washington history. Um, yeah, you got the other big boy from Alabama, Jonathan Allen. So I'm going to just give you the opportunity again as three and a half over Washington. What do you want to stay where you are before? What you what you want to do? Don't let new It, don't let Newly talk you into this church, all right, stick with your officsive line. The offensive line is not the reason that we've been getting loose, that we've been getting blown out and losing these games.

All right, that is not the reason. But if you want to just base it on the officive line, to go ahead, you are no stre Domas. I just figured I just look my two cents in. Look, they do call me no stre Domas for a reason. You know, the streets. The streets name me that. You know, I didn't just give myself that. That's not just self, of course, you know, the streets gave me his name. But I'm sticking with it, man, I'm sticking with the boys, even

though Brandon Knights. How hopefully Zach Martin can get out of concussion protocol. What's going on with these injuries? Man? This is wow. I don't think we've ever seen an injury bug hit like this, it's ridiculous Church Church. I'm okay, that's fine, you can stick. But once again, it's say three and a half point sprint, so four basically four points.

You sure you don't want to go ahead and maybe say it's a two point game, a real close game here, because yeah, you still think in twenty eight seventeen, I do not believe in Kyle or Kyle what's his name, Kyle Allen. I don't believe in him. Um, you know what I'm saying. If you know, Alex Smith is a great feel good story, but you know, hey, I don't believe in him either. And we all know what they got in Dwayne Haskin. So for me, I got to the boys, man, I gotta stick with them. Okay, you

gotta win their first roll game of the year. I don't know. They got Gibson, they got McLaren, they got they got to receive and running back, and those are the two things that killed us all seasons. So I'm just I'm just a little worried. But my PICKU come Friday, go ahead? My bad, no balance, my bad, okay, An, I'm just trying to give you a little bit of help here because because the offensive line is definitely so

once again, okay, throw out here. Once again, you're talking about a strong point for Washington and then you're looking at a weak point for Dallas that it is about to get weaker. We haven't seen Cam Irving play all year, so yeah, maybe Cam does go out there left tackle. I thought Mickey brought up a real good point. No matter who they put out of left tackle, they better roll out. Blake Bell are tight end to go out there and help them, because this is going to be

a challenge. This is going to be a challenge trying to face Chase Young and Ryan Carrigan. And we saw Andy Don't running for wars life last week against Arizona, and I'm sorry, nobody in this Arizona d line is gonna end up in a name to the Pro Bowl. They're not gonna play the game this year, but they are gonna come with the Pro Bowl list. But it's it's that kind of it's that kind of thing that's going off for the Cowboys right now. But hey, Vegas

says they're favorite boy three and a half. You got confidence in him. That's fine. I just want to make sure right through that out there that it's more offensive line issues for the Cowboys when it comes to injuries and where this team is going to. Andy Dualt certainly did not look comfortable against the against Arizona. You got

Jack del Rio, who's the defensive coordinator for Washington. Of course, they're head coach or a Ron rivera long time you know, a long time defensive mind who played on the eighty five Bears. So I'm thinking they're gonna be sitting in the house all game long at the Cowboys. So I expect so well, I expect a close game. I expect a close football game because you got two two offenses that haven't to struggling. But I expect a close, close football game. But hey, I got Terry McLaurin, got Terry

McLaurin this weekend. I put them in the starting like them based off what Christian Kirk did for me last week. So we'll go ahead and go right there. Now. I did talk earlier about Zeke Elliott and then let me make sure I understand put in what he had to say about the players anonymously calling out coaches. Zeke said, cool, we not We need to try to keep that kind of stuff in the house. Everyone look in the mirror,

see what's going on. Fix that will be better. So that's from Zekiel Elliott about guys who are unhappy with the coaches. I think it's gotta be one of these. I think it's gotta be one of the one of the premier players that I think dropped this. Dropped this tidbit to James Later because look, I mean, like you said, you can't see the players or anything like that, so this gotta be you know, through a text or through

some type of communication like that. And to be honest, I don't see you know, James Later just hitting up you know, my boy c J. Goodwin or something like that to get facts about the team. So I think it's somebody the premier leaked this out to the media. But it's gonna be ugly when you do find out who it was. Hold on, don't see. C J is one of our premier players, all right, We've said for the last couple of weeks, So don't don't don't downplay him like that. CJ is one of my bad players.

He is top. He's one of the top players on the squad. So maybe James Slatter did, but you know, us supposed to people. We don't do that type of stuff. We keeping in house. So I apologize, j So Church, it could be somebody who has a lesser contract and a small contract. It gotta be Oh, he gotta, That's what I thought. He said. Now listen, he he he hasn't been active long enough. Man. He only he only, he only has to deal with this for two games.

The dumpster fire hasn't really sent him on fire year. So it's not him. It's not him, all right. You think it's somebody on a defense, absolutely, I absolutely think it's somebody to be. I think it's somebody. I think it's somebody in the second They are literally playing the worst. If you think about who looks the most confused out there and is making the most mistakes, it is the secondary. So when you talking about not being not being prepared, I know the dbs look bad, but to me, the

defensive line looks just as bad. I mean, we we saw Kenyan Drake, who had a pedestrian year, come in here, roll up one hundred and sixty four yards. There was two hundred and sixty one yards gained by Arizona. Cleveland ran for three or seven. We don't see college teams run for three h seven anymore. Man, I mean this d is just terrible bold. No, but I'm gonna I'm gonna base off what was said, though, confused they're getting outplayed,

making more investments. Yeah, you're making more adjustins in the back end than you would in the in the front end side. Yeah all right, but now now let's let's make sure we get distracted that. Who else was complaining earlier in the year about you know, ever Griffin talking about he wanted to be he didn't like, he didn't like playing standing up take lords, talking about how he was getting sold with me. You know you got that

right there too. That's not confusing. It's not confusing you standing up at the two point and get into three point. It's not confusing on defense or nothing to do it

confusing or preparation. When you can't pass out man and man bus routes, and when you can't play covering three and keep your eyes out of the backfielding and decide who's supposed to be deep and who supposed to be short, those are confusing things on defense when people say they unprepared and they're not really teaching the technique, right, whatever, Griffin said, you know when you said thirty thirty snacks one time, that there's nothing confusing about that, nothing at all.

Put your hand in the ground and rush the pass or stop the run, either one. So let me ask wash Let me ask this question here is when you get ready to wrap up the show to both of you. Gonna start with you, mccraig, do you have faith Mike McCarthy can squash these issues and write this ship with this locker room mccraig, go, hold on, hold on before you go, before you go New Year. You're gonna answer this question as well. Yes, if you want me too, sure, Yes, yes,

we were. We were liking answer this question. So I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna make it quick. The only way that Bike winccard. They can't get this straight is if somebody gets fired, and I'm talking about on the coaching staff. You have to find out what is going on, and you have to be man enough to say, look, we made a mistake in X Y Z area and

we're gonna fire this guy. And I'm letting you I'm letting you players know that I'm with you guys, because if you side with the coaches over the players that you have a very very big issue, and you know the coaching. It's not like you're gonna be missing anohing if you fire a guy anyway that they're already not playing worth nothing, and they're confused and not hustling. So fire somebody. I think he can get it back on there. Snatched the play calling from Keller Moore, he'll be all right.

Sounds about right to me. Man. I think he can write the ship because I'm picking him to pick Washing or beat Washington, so I think they can write the ship. Plus this division is down right garbage, so I think they can do it. But like mcrais said, he got to snatch that play calling sheet. If he's gonna go down, go down swinging with your own calls and your own plays, and hopefully he can write this ship. Man, But I think he. I think he'll be able to. So let

me let me just throw this out here. When you talk about snatching the play sheet, Now, if you snatch the play sheet the way you're Mike McCarthy and and you don't see any results, and you don't see something better, that doesn't make you look good. So do I Okay, I'm just thinking from a purely selfish standpoint. So if I take this play sheet, I'm losing left tackle Brandon Knight, who and I'm gonna put out somebody and left tackle who hadn't played it all year long. I don't have

Dak Prescott. Do I really want to snatch play calling? And I've got this, I'm so shorthanded, I'm so sure I just go ahead and let Kendell More handle that whole thing. No, man, I see what you're just saying. You're trying to switch this cambo around that you're not gonna go this one man. As the question, do you think he can write this ship? No? All right, you say so. He can't. He can't get the locker room intact, whatever it is now, it's just gonna it's gonna stay

the same one. It's gonna get worse. He can't get this stuff under control. And from your own mouth, if you was him, you wouldn't because we look so bad right now. You don't want to take any credit for how how much worse we could look if you can't turn this thing around. First, Okay, if I'm taking the play calls, that means I think I can do a better job. Can you do a better job with what

you have. Yes, the carpenter still needs tools. I don't know if you can with the way this offensive line goes I don't see it as far as it's lots of stuff goes on. Let me see. Here's why I don't see it getting fixed because clearly Mike Nolan and what he's doing, it's not working. Mike Nolan is his guy. Mike Nolan hired him as his offensive coordinator when he was a head coach of San Franco. So they're sitting up here replaying, you know, paying a favorite back. Jerry

Jones said, I got no problem with Mike. Mike's okay with me, And McCarthy is sitting up here saying he's good with Nolan as well. So if your players are down on this defensive coordinator and you're gonna stand by it, that means you're basically telling the players they're all crazy. They need to go ahead and figure it out. So it's not gonna get fixed in my opinion that I find it. Let me tell you, let me let me

get you just one example. For a while, mccarthur just snatched the play sheet and take responsibility for what's going on offense. All right, if you watch I think it was the Cleveland game when Umari Cooper scored his touchdown and Andrew Sendejo should have picked that ball and took it back and took it back the other way. We are all looking like, man, that could have been a pick. If you watched the play that Buddha Baker made and he made the interception, it is the exact same play.

So if you couple that with defenses being able to know exactly what you're gonna do and when you're gonna do it, and then you're also from the outside looking at me, you're not running the ball, you're not featuring your top players. They have a serious problem here, and I think that Mike McCarthy he can't do any worse. And him, as the head coach and the guy that you hired to change this thing around, you should have to take that responsibility no matter no matter what happens

with it. That is your job. You are the head coach. All right, Well, gentlemen, it's fifteen after that is our show tomorrow. Let's dive into some matchups here in this Washington and Dallas contest. By the way, in Washington they call it Dallas Week, the whole Big Olds Dallas Week. Here nobody calls it that, but that just tells you how much it means to the folks up there in DC. He's Danny mccraig, Barry Church, their former safeties with the

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