Player's Lounge: Offseason Priorities

at his Barry Church and Danny McCray. Our show is now in the offseason, which means we only go one day a week Fridays Friday's at eleven thirty. So lock it in, tell your friends, lock it in, subscribe and we would appreciate it. All right, guys, the Cowboys now all right six and ten football team officially with the tenth overall pick in the draft. It is you. What is your off season priority? Number one? Danny mccram start with you. Now you already know my top off season priority,

especially if we're talking about draft picks. I am going straight finding a way to get me a left tackle, to sure up my offensive line and get these guys back to playing the football that got us to those playoff runs and got us almost to the to the championship. You know, Bez did catch it. They changed the rule, but that's when we were really really making some moves and we were able to run the ball and people

were really fearing our offensive line. So I'm doing whatever I can to share that up, and then for the rest of the draft, I'll focus on defense and free agency. I get us some defensive picks to re up this defensive backfield and a defensive line, but I'm going offensive line first. Wow, Okay, all right, Look mean, there's so many different scenarios here, because y'all know how I feel about the whole quarterback position. And if my guy falls back to ten, you know, you know how I feel

about that. So let's just say that scenarios out the gate. Let's just say he's gone before he gets to ten. So we're not We're not even going to open that cookie shell. But for me, there's two positions that we need to make a priority this offseason, and I think it has to do with the drafting. We're talking specifically draft the two positions I think we need to make a number one priority for us is one the defensive tackle position, the interior position, and in the cornerback position

with a de tackle position. I mean, we got, we got. I don't think Crawford is going to be back. I sincerely doubt that Crawford is going to be back. And I know that Tristan Hill, he's shown that he's on the come, that he's on the way up there and he can be considered a starting defensive tackle, but he's coming off an ACL injury and we don't know how he's going to respond to that going into the season.

So for me, I think we need to pair somebody up there with Neville Gallimore who can make plays in the backfield as well as hold up the offensive line. I mean, what we've seen so far this year, well not so far. What we've seen this year was that there was too many times where the offensive line was able to get to that second level and affect our linebackers and affect Jalen Smith and Vander ash back there.

So if we get a defensive tackle in there who cannot only make plays, but can hold his own against offensive lineman, forcing them to take care of him and letting our linebackers go side to side, I think that will help improve our defense a ton. Now, the second option I think we need to go for in this draft is the cornerback position. I would have said safety, but to me, I think we have a playmaker back there in Wilson, and we need a veteran guy to

pair with him back there. Not somebody like a Simmons, not somebody in free agencies that's gonna cause a million bucks and three hundred and fifty million bucks. We need somebody that's back there, who's reasonably priced, who can be a team friendly deal and get these guys lined up. So I'm not going to go safety as far as a draft, but as far as a draft, I want to go corner. We need somebody to pair with Diggs. I love Diggs on the outside. Anthony Brown has a

team friendly deal. He can be that third cornerback. I'm I'm not sold on a b but he can be that nickel guy. He can be a solid starter at that nickel position for us, and I think we need to go get a corner on the outside because I'm not sold on the Woozier and I'm definitely not sold on Jordan Lewis. So for me, my priorities would be defensive tackle and corner going into this drafty, hey, listen, Church,

I heard you say that you love Digs. Okay, so now you love Digs on the outside and you want to pair him up with another rookie in the drift. That makes me nervous. But you know, if you hit on the guy and you find a guy like Jalen Ramsey or Patrick Peterson to somebody, if you find one of those type of guys and you strike gold, then I got you. But that that does make me a little nervous. I think it is risky or work to do.

But before I say, I love what he's doing out there, but I do see the potential, but I don't think he's at the level of hey, yeah, he's he's the definite guy for the future. Like they knew, he wants

to give him that fifty million dollars contract already. So let me let me stop you right there, Danny, and ask this question, what if Patrick Peterson becomes available, because that has been talked about and he may not have a future in Arizona and with you know, and I'm not exactly sure of their salary cap situation, but if

Peterson's available. Your thoughts that, I think that depends on who you have a defensive coordinator, what type of defense do you plan on plan, because like we talked about I believe it was last week, if you get a guy here that wants to play his own defense, then you don't need a Patrick Peterson. If you want a guy that can come out here and be a leader in there and play man and man coverage so you can blitz and do these exotic type of schemes, then

yeah you can. You can look at a guy like Pat and if he's not going to break the bank for you able to still sign that and get him at a reasonable price, then I will entertain that that option. But you know, if the defensive coordinated defensive scheme doesn't fit, then I wouldn't waste my money on getting a guy like that. All right, let me give you my offseason priority which is totally different than what you guys laid out to me. When I say top top offseason priorities

to quarterback. This whole league runs off quarterbacks. You're whole salary cap structure is going to be based off your quarterback because in most situations, when you have a guy on a second contract as your quarterback. He's going to be the highest paid guy. So to me, Jerry Jones and his staff have to get this Dak Prescott contract taking care of as quickly as possible. You'd like it

done before free agency starts in March. If you have to put a franchise tag on Dak Prescott, that's thirty eight million dollars and it's going to prohibit you from getting some free agents and it can change obviously a little bit of what you do in the draft. So to me, the Joneses need to decide what are they going to do. Are they going to go out here and get a deal done like they say they've been

doing or what. But I gotta figure that whole thing out because so much revolves around what they do with Dak. When you talk about trying to get some veterans possibly up here, veteran on the d line or a veteran in the secondary, some of that money, you know, will it be available to you a free agency here and could dictate the kind of player you get, the tier player get. So to me, it's got to start with

the quarterback. It's got to start there. And yeah, Mike McCarthy going on radio in San Antonio saying he's looking forward to working with Dak Prescott, so he's assuming he's going to have the player. How do we have the players? The question if you're the Cowboy fan base as a four five year contract or is it a one year deal? Guys? But that to me is the top thing they got

to figure out. They better they better hope that they get this man for a long term, because I guarantee if they hit him with another franchise tag, they're going to be right in the same boat the following year where it's gonna be like, all right, man, where do we spend this money? Yet we got to give all this money allocated to Dak. We're in that same position

again next year if they franchise him again. They better hope they get this deal done or this could be a possibility to sick in this franchise for more more than just a year or two. When you think about it, that will that will technically be the third year that they have so much money tied up indact that they have to worry about the Cavs space. And you are correct that the number one priority is the quarterback. My must stay I was assuming I went straight to the draft.

You know how I feel they need to go ahead and sign this man. They should have signed him two years ago, They should have signed him last year. Now you got a guy who's injured. You're not sure when he's really gonna be back, So now you still have to wait, Hey, do we pay him this money while his injured or not? Really be sure? Then you got Church saying, you know, maybe we should give a quarterback in the draft. All these options wouldn't even be on

the table if you had already paid this guy. So make sure you get that taken care of, and then go get you a left tackle to shure up the offensive a line so you can protect them. The question I think you got to ask yourself is is Dak one of those quarterbacks that can lead a franchise to the Super Bowl by himself? Can he do it strictly

by him no matter how bad the defense is. Do we see him as a Patrick Mahomes or Peyton Manny Tom Brady, those type of guys that can lead an offense and lead a team to the Super Bowl without any help at all. That's the question I think they got to ask themselves. And if the Cowboys feels though he's that quarterback, he's that elite guy, then there should be there should be no reason not to pay him. But if there's questions about it, he is he need this?

Does he need that? Then that's where I think we're at. That's where I think we're at right now. Well, what do you what do you mean about no here? No help? Do you mean like from the defense from like butt from the defensive side of the ball? Yeah? Okay, got you?

Got you? Yeah, okay, all right. I think if he if he was starting and everybody was healthy this year, I think that they would have had a real chance, even even with how they played at the beginning of the season, they would have had a real chance to wrap up the division and make some noise in the

playoffs if they were healthy this season. So, so, A Church, here's my question, because I hear that a lot, and I've got a friend of mine who's a Hall of Fame voter who speaks about that very thing all the time. So let me ask you this, how many guys in the NFL right now fit exactly what you're saying that our quarterback probably guys which how many? How many because because I don't know, you tell me maybe maybe two or three in the league that can that can do that.

In my opinion, I think Russell Wilson can lead a team without a good defense. I think Pat McCombs can, and maybe maybe a Josh Shallotte I don't know about that for sure, but maybe a Joshallotte. Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot about Aaron Rodgers. Other than that, I don't know, man, I just don't see any any other quarterback out there that can do it without any help from their defense. That's all. Those teams had a pretty good defenses. Yeah, that's what I mean. Definitely definitely

better than ours. You know what we what we ran out Yeah, man, that's not saying much though that I don't I don't. I don't know who could really get you to a super Bowl with what we ran out there this year. The teams that you're like, when Russell Wilson won the Super Bowl, you know they had the Leasion, Doom, Legion, the boom. Yeah. Uh yes, Kansas City actually started playing well on defense. Uh last year when they won a

Super Bowl. You had Matthew out there making plays. The d line was getting sacks, Aaron Rodgers was out there. They their defense played a better last year, So I think you have to have at least formidable defense if you're really serious and talking about going to make a Super Bowl run. Uh. I would actually throw Deshaun Watson in there as well, even though he didn't win a

lot of games. I mean, if you throw Deshaun Watson on our team, I think they at least get to the playoffs and they didn't, like to say, I think they at least make some damage out there. And do we think that is that is that? Does that? Do we think Dak is on that level? I do? I believe Okay, I thought, well, what we saw, what we saw in just a limited amount that we saw that he played last year, we saw him being that guy that he was, the guy that was able to go.

He's elevated his game every year, Barry, and so I'm not worried about him. And I put him right there in terms of Deshaun Watson, where you're looking at this guy like he's making things happen. And for all the criticism people have thrown at it out there about Ezekiel Elliott's game going down, while Ezekiel's getting well. People may feel Zeke's game is going down, You've got to say Dak's game is going up. And Barry. You gotta also remember, and I thought Dandy hit, you've got to play at

least complimentary defense if you're going to win. I look at the Green Bay Packers right now and Aaron Rodgers on offense. To me, yes, he is carrying the load, but they are playing some complimentary, some decent defense in Green Band. It ain't the world's greatest, but you gotta sit up here and do something. I go ahead and look at BN Roethlisberger and the defense, and they've gotten Pittsburgh.

You know, the Pittsburgh defense suffered some injuries, but you know it's the greatest Big Big Ben's career has been. This year. They tried to throw the ball and down a stretcher. He showed you he can't do it. I think Dak Prescott has a better opportunity as a quarterback in his offense and what I saw from Roethlisberger, and Roethlisberger got some weapons now, especially on the outside, they can't run it worth the stink. But I think Dak Prescott has shown you as you look around this league.

He's a guy that you invest in. And that's what this is really about, Barry, more so than can you win me a Super Bowl? Is if I invest these dollars in you, can you potentially get me there? Because that's all you're looking for. You know, we usk about a guy like Josh Allen, you know, Canny get you there. It's looking like he can. You know, the money that they put in Joe Flacco it ended up paying off. They paid Russell Wilson before he showed you that he

was a quarterback who quote unquote could carry you. You're gonna have to be a defense. Those teams they did, they did see they all defense. Yeah, you're you're you're right, and so guess what the Cowboys need to do is get themselves of defense. But I think you've got the quarterback. I mean, that's to answer your question just unequivocally, Danny, and I believe Barry you have the quarterback. I'm not

worried about four. I'm worried about your defense. And I want to see a bounce back from the offensive line and a bounceback from twenty one. And I want to see twenty one. But I ain't worried about four And oh, you know, I think for as a phenomenal player. I think that is a phenomenal player. But do you think he can lead distant because if we pay him what they what people are saying we're gonna end up paying him, We're not gonna have any cast space to improve his defense.

Do you think he can go out there and take this team with the with the lack luxurre defense he has, can he take them to the next level? That's that's the only question I have. I don't think he is a bad quarterback at all. I think he's a great quarterback. But I think he needs help on the defensive side of the ball. And if we pay him what we want to book people are saying we should pay him that defense. If we don't hit in the draft, it's

gonna be lackluster. And we talk here. When we just sat here and talk about all those quarterbacks that I mentioned, they all had a decent defense that had ended up a comparable defense that ended up leading them to the super Bowl. So for me, I don't think he can do it by himself. I think he needs more help

on the defensive side of the ball. But it's going to be extremely hard to do that when we pay him this astronomical amount, and when we're left with draft picks, we're gonna have to hit on every single one of those draft picks to get a better defense. And it's gonna be hard. It's gonna be a lot of pressure. All right. You go back to the game they play with see it. Let me put the rest of this postle together for you, Church, so you can see where I'm coming from. So I believe that Dak has worked

that much money one because he has the talent. We've seen him do it on the field. When he was off the field, we've seen one of the biggest lacks of leadership that we've seen in the NFL period. We've seen what that can do to an entire locker room, an entire organization. The guy is a natural born leader, and he changes the dynamic of the entire team. When you go out there and you're gonna look for a

guy in the draft, you're not gonna get that. You're gonna be missing out on what that is able to do in the field, what you've already seen him prove in the NFL, and what you've seen him be able to do in the locker room. And two on the defense. This is where me and you kind of differ a little bit because you sixty forty players and I'm sixty forty coaches, Like I really believe that Mike Nolan is

the biggest issue here. I think some of these guys can still really play, and if you get them in the right scheme with the right coach, and I think they'll play a little better to make this defense be formidable. They did play better at the end of the season once they started picking up on some stuff. So I think if you get them in there with a full offseason and a true defensive coach that can get these guys get the most out of them, I think you have a formidable defense and then you just add a

couple of pieces. I don't I mean from what from what you guys told me on that winning streak, and we're in the winning streak happened when we said the defense started playing a little bit better, And what you guys told me when they played a little bit better was who are they going against? We went against Cincinnati with Brandon Allen. We went against who's the San Francisco with u who was number four back there bettered or whatever his name, Nick Mullins. I mean, we went against

Daniel Jones. We ended up losing that game. And then I forget who who our third victory was, and that little that little spiel we had there. Who was Cincinnati San Francisco And we had one more that we took a victory from. Anyways, those all they who are we playing against? I don't seek the defense Philadelphia. I don't Philadelphia. And we played against a rookie quarterback and Jalen Hursts and that defense. So when we sit there and say, hey,

we got the pieces, we just need better coaching. At the end of the day, who do we play against? We played against the good teams. Where was our defense? Then, you know, so I don't know, I don't know. No, No, we still we still need we still need more pieces. We still need to fill in the pieces that you

spoke about. I'm saying, Okay, we saw saw some guys that originally when we started the season, they were on the up trend, and we've seen a guy who was on the downtrend last year, and we automatically assumed that, hey, he had a bad year in the previous year. You get him in the right situation, he's going to be able to come back. Speaking about Tank, and it's true, we didn't see we didn't and we didn't see that happen. So when you think about you having tanked, you having

a Randy Gregory, you have an emergent Neville Gallimore. You have a Tristan Hill who was who was playing a little bit better. He could be coming off a cl But you have talents. You have draft picks, and you got Jalon Smith and Venders. You have guys on the defense to where I believe if you get the correct coaching and get them doing doing a scheme, but they understand and they can maximize their ability in I think

that you have the pieces to start. Like you said, you add a cornerback, you add a safety, and I think that's your rolling Church. Here's one thing I want to go back to because I mean, I love Russell Wilson. I mean I'm a huge Russell Wilson fan, and I also felt that throughout Russell's years and you know, they never gave a guy enough credit. It was kind of like, hey, they won in spiding you, but you know he was limited.

They they chose a certain rud of how much they wanted to give him in the guy improved, I mean Russell improved and got better, and I feel that Dak Prescott is continuing to get better along the same lines we saw Russell Wilson. But let's remember now January nineteen, the Cowboys are facing the Seahawks and they're going into

the fourth quarter down fourteen to ten. Cowboys going at nine place, sixty seven yard drive that ends up with Ezekiel Eli touchdown, take the lead seventeen fourteen, and then um Dak Prescott takes him on eleven play drive sixty three yards, he scores on a one yard run to make a twenty four or fourteen. Cowboys end up winning twenty four twenty two in the playoffs. And then you look at a game this year where they went to

Seattle and the Cowboys were that wretched defense. That was the game that the Cowboys were in their right till the end, and the Seahawks won at thirty eight thirty one. But Dak Prescott in that game four hundred and seventy two yards, three touchdowns, two picks, Russell Wilson three fifteen five touchdowns, you know, gets that bad Cowboy defense and then Seattle unlike the Cowboys, decided that they will go

run the football in that game. So when you look at what he's done up against the guy like Russell Wilson, he's right there. Go back to that game against Aaron Rodgers when the Cowboys were thirteen and three his rookie year. You look at the statistics, Dak Prescott went, told, it told with Aaron Rodgers. It ain't his fault. He couldn't that he ain't playing defense. As they convert was a third and twenty one and end up winning the football game.

Dak Prescott to me, continues, every time you ask him to meet the bar and get better, He's done it, Mary, He's done it. So this is true. But but in this but in that Packers game though, in that Packers game, though, we talk about how we talk about how you know, you know, all these these empty calories and all these empty stats, And that's what I think if we don't have a defense going into next year, that's what I think our team will look like. It'll be a lot

of blowouts. Here comes Dak Prescott leading us back into the game. It'll end up being a close game, but we'll end up taking that L. I think we need a defense to help Dak Prescott get to that next level. I'm not saying he's terrible, he can't beat the leader of our team or anything like that. I'm just saying it, without a good defense, we'll have a lot of those packer games where it's all empty calories. It might be

a thirty eight to seven at the beginning. Oh he's leading us back and the score was thirty eight thirty four? What a game? Did you see that? But we ended up taking the L. So I just think he needs that comparable defense. But that's no, it's not on him at all. Can't control that. That's that's where he can't control that. That's why I think he needs he exactly. That's why I think he needs to get the We need to get that money on the defensive side of the ball. I think we need more help on the

defensis something. We don't have that but obviously, and I'm okay with that, and I'm okay with that's all right with that. To me, I think the key to winning. To me, I think you have to be on you have to be on the defensive side of the ball. I think the key to winning championship is on it. I could be wrong, I could be completely wrong, but I think the key is on the defensive side of the ball. If you said that, if you said that, Barry, Barry, if you truly believe that, you'd be wearing a Super

Bowl ring. This is true. But we both but we at but we had a less than a less than average quarterback. Like we didn't need to have an average quarterback. We had a less than average quarter backs. What happened when you go cheap, when you go to dollar in general and you get it? What has happened with all the defense the past four years? We went cheap on defense the past four years, and where have we gone? Nowhere? So if you have to have that middle blot, you

have to be both. We have to have both sides. You gotta have both. Hello, Hello, Solo. So we had the whole discussion. I thought, Church, I thought you was gonna say that we need that needed a defense. You said the Cowboys need a defense. Not that No that that ain't not ain't not ain't what was said. I said, this is what I'm said. All all right, we'll take a break and we'll come back to this after the break. Figure out. Figure out your game playing here, Church, figure

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our last segment here. Lets you feel that the Cowboys, sure I'm here and is right, they need to take this offseason and invest heavily in defense and even if it costs you Dak Prescott as your quarterback, because you feel instead of paying him forty mi million dollars or more, that you could get a bus driver type quarterback and win a championship? Am I hearing that correct? What I'm

saying is logan. I think Dak is phenomenal at the quarterback, I just don't think he's worth forty two million dollars and wrecking your defense and You're basically going to bring the same defense you did last year, and that's what it would cost us a lot of these games because we weren't able to stop an knee by d So if Dak was going for thirty eight, maybe even thirty nine, we're giving him the same contract that the Shaun Watson had,

which was basically thirty nine a year. I'm okay with that, But when you get into the forty two, forty threes, maybe even forty five millions, I'm not so sure. I'm pulling a trigger on that. And I would allow allocate those funds to the defensive side of the ball. That's all I'm saying. Okay, So let me follow this question up here. Based on what you said, what team is doing it the right way in terms of defensive allocation and what they pay their quarterback? Who's doing it the

right way? A man I would say, I would say New England, But they ain't spending money on anybody. So for me, I gotta do some research on that one. I gotta do some research on that one because it's not at the top of my head right now. But yeah, I get me back to me on that one. Get me about five minutes. I get back to you on that one. Okay, Okay, I mean I'll just go ahead, go ahead, Dan, Now i's gonna say. Now, I don't think and you write Church on to one too. I

agree with you on one. I don't think that is getting served up forty five million dollars. That is, that is grossly overpaying, especially for the situation that we're in forty five million. I think he should be righting around what Deshaun Watson is. I see them as equal. So, yeah, you're getting up to forty five, you know, somewhere and there. I think that's I think that's a little bit too much for Dak Prescott, especially to have some other pieces around the team. So as far as price, I could

definitely see where you're coming from. So let me ask this question. Do you think the Sinks do it correctly in terms of the defense and quarterback allocation to Drew Brees? What did he just signed a two two for fifth? Yes, so Drew Brees right now he's making twenty five a year. Yeah, Drew Brees has a cap hit of cap hit of twenty three point six million bucks. So right now he's taking up eleven point nine percent of the Saints salary cap in twenty twenty. That ain't fair. That ain't that.

But I'm saying I'm saying, I'm saying the compared. I don't think the comparison is fair because Tom Brady has signed these team friendly deals when they forty years old. This is not they first they first go around to getting a big contract, something comparable to what quarterbacks were getting paid when Drew Brees first got paid, which like now,

were to be less. But you got to look at like what quarterbacks were getting paid around that around that time, and then compared, and I believe that it would be at the top of the top of whatever everybody else was getting right now. I don't think that's fair because you have Drew Brees on his way out, so yeah, he's taking twenty five. He already made so much money. So they're taking these really deal so they can so they can let the rest of the team have those

pieces that Church are talking about. And you're not gonna talk back into doing that that first of all, that that would be disrespectful for you to ask Dack to do that. You got him in the fourth round. You've been saying he's gonna pay him for years and then now you got him on the franchise tag and he don't have a large long term deal. I don't ask him to take a Tom Brady or Drew Brees deal. Team friendly, Okay, we all cat how far is the cap gonna go down? Like that's the other thing we've

got to think. How far is that cap gonna go down heading into this year? It doesn't because here's why it doesn't matter Barry, because once they put him on the franchise tag, the next year tag was already kicked in because I can't remember it's thirty percent anyway, it's a certain number that kicks in if you want to

do another franchise tag again. SOT thirty one million bucks this year, and then the next tag according to the number that the CBA was signed and the owners and the players agreed to, DAK was gonna get it kicked into thirty eight million bucks. And then I think the next one is a crazy number. Um you know, you know, almost you know, almost in the in the maybe forty or fifty million, doctor. I mean, it just it just

increases a lot. So the cow no matter what the cap was, the Cowboys are gonna be locked into this deal, so and it's made to be that way. So it gives you the team an incentive to get the contract done.

So this is the Cowboys fault. So to me, from what from what Danny you're telling me now I'm hearing you, is Dak Prescott is going to get a contract comparable to his peers, peers being Jared Golf, Carson Wentz who were in his same draft, Deshaun Watson, m Patrick Mahomes who came in later drafts, guys around him who signed extensions. Is that what I'm hearing. Absolutely not. So that's a fifty,

not fifty. I'm just saying specifically Deshaun I think he gets Deshaun Watson money because he get above with Shahn Watson. So we're telling forty one forty two, it's going to be forty. It's going to mean it's going to be forty million dollars because his cap number that she's basically gonna be thirty eight million bucks. So they're gonna look at the Sean Way and say, look at the value of a Deshaun Watson. We think our players this type of value to your team, um, and they're gonna want

forty million bucks. So I mean and once again we we we talked about, hey, the players not worth this. So this is what this is what happened. This is what managers mess up. It was kind of like the Tank. You could have got Tank at sixteen million bucks, but they decided they wanted to make him play out the tag, and then the tag the next year was eighteen million dollars, and then they were starting to say, hey, we'll get

you eighteen, and Tank said no, twenty. So if Tank got him at twenty and his and the franchise numbers eighteen, Dack's gonna do the same thing with his age. He's a quarterback. So if it's thirty eight, they're gonna get forty. And you're just gonna have to and you're gonna eat the frog because this is what they always do. They always eat the frog. They ate it with Cooper, they ate it with Zeke, they ate it with Tag, with Tank, they ate it with with Tyrant Smith, they ate it

with Zach Martin, they ate it with Travis. They're gonna do it. This is what they do. They are They're gonna eat it. And at the end of the day, I think we can all agree like that. The Cowboys put themselves in this situation, like you said, knew it. This could have been rectified two years ago when when Golf and them boys got their job. They could have threw whatever they wanted at deck and I'm sure he would have signed it. We wouldn't have been in this

predicament we are right now. But they decided to wait, and now it's I mean, they're up against a rock in the hard place. I mean, do you do you pay the quarterback in and hope you hit on these drafts or do you go defensive route. I mean, at the end of the day, they put themselves in this situation, and hey, they're gonna have to deal with it. Stop stop digging. I mean, you're in a hole. Just stop digging. I mean, seriously, that's what it is at this point

in time. Now you kept digging this hole the quarterback and digging and digging. Just drop the shovel. Pay the man, because this is something we all know. If the Cowboys don't pay him the forty, somebody else will. They're going to be easy. They're going to do it so and so you might as well just go ahead and do it, because you know you know, let's say he signs forty million with the Bears and next to you know, they win some games. I mean, you're gonna you're gonna catch

They're gonna catch it. They're gonna catch it. They don't want to catch it. And McCarthy wants to coaching. McCarthy wants to coaching. Our man Jerry Jones is itching towards eighty years old. He doesn't want to start over. So just write check and do it as quickly as you can write to chat. Just let strike the chat. All right, let's squeeze another break exactly, let's squeeze in his break. I want to get to Mike Nolan and what defensive

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to say about his hand chosen defensive coordinator. He said, with asked about his status, he said, quote, that's what we're working on. That's what this process is all about. That's the short version. So Mike McCarthy not committing that Mike Nolan will be his diffensive coordinator next year, but saying that they're going through a process, that they're looking at things, which I personally I take that as Hey,

I'm trying to save my guy. I gotta sit around here for show Jerry and Stevens some ways where we improved and try to keep them back. But I don't see, I personally don't see any way they can keep Mike Nolan as their defensive coordinator. McCarthy's just gonna had to understand when you go six and ten in Jerry world, people have to pay, Okay, you just don't get to come back every everybody just don't get to come on back. You got to pay, And so that's the thing he's

got to understand. Realheady Mack, Yeah, I don't think he knows. I think that's that's one of those situations to where he wasn't in the room when they were talking about Earl Thomas, Like I have heard youthing about that. I think I think Jerry, Jerry and Stephen are trying to figure it out, trying to find out who's available and who they want to get, and hopefully they find it

out soon. So this doesn't linger on too much because, like I said, it's something in me that believes that Mike Nolan has a real strong possibility of coming back just because all the stuff that they faced this season or no off season in COVID. But I don't think that that that he should survive this and I think that he should be out and they find another guy who's able to maximize the potential of the players that we currently have on the roster. Yeah, to me, I

don't understand what the process is all about. Man, I think he should have been gone on Black Friday with the rest of those coaches that were dismissed. But to me, I just don't understand. I just don't. He was a part of one of the historically worst defenses in the National Football League this year. I mean, teams were able to run the ball up and down the field on our defense, and it wasn't until the last four games of the year that we started taking the ball away

with any type of regularity. So for me, I think he was a part of the problem. He was probably the main problem, and I think he needs to go ahead and go. But you're right, new you. I'm not sure if if McCarthy's trying to save you know, his boy, his boy's job, or if he's trying to save his friendship with Noland. You know what I'm saying, I don't want to He's wanting to Nolan saying, hey, man, look I tried to fight for you. I tried to fight

for you. I went in there, I went to bat for you and me it just didn't work out that way. Knowing all the way on the back of his mind, he's like, man, look, we need to get this guy up out of here. Man, But you know, he's my boy, and I don't want to do him like that, So let me get his best opportunity to speak to Jerry and see if we can prolong this thing a little bit. But in the back of his mind he probably already

knows Mike's Mike is on his way out. When I see Mike McCarthy talk like that, I kind of laughed because he goes vague like that. One of the things being a reporter is I've started to learn to listen to what people don't say. That was how I used to read Jason Garrett. Listen to what he didn't say about a player. You know, if he talked about a Dak Prescott or Zach Whar, He's like, this is a guy does everything the right way, really loves football. I

mean he would throw a fusive praise on it. Then when he talked about Taco Charlton never heard any of that. That was how I could decode how Jason felt about a guy. And I go back to this to say, when Steven Jones and you listen to Steven's radio interviews, when Steven Jones came out and said, hey, there's some guys who were on that defense last year who really played better and they're not playing well this year, and I took that as him saying, hey, it's not that

our guys far players stink. It's not that we don't know personnel at all. Our personnel is not any good. These were guys last year we are getting it done in the defense. We didn't think it was good enough. Now all of a sudden they stink. I'm not buying that, And that, to me is where a guy like Mike Nolan is gonna end up having to fall on the sword because you don't have a guy like Steven Jones who's in your corner. And we all know Stephen Jones

has major say in this organization. But I don't know how they can sit around here and just try to go off these last four games and say, hey, look we're a better football team. I thought the Giant game was just one more reason why Mike Nolan should go. You had something to play for. You're playing against a team that was challenged offensively to score twenty points the last ten weeks of the season, and they scored twenty.

They put up twenty points in the first half. He's just not the guy as if you're Mike mccarthur, you can simply say this man, you're my friend. And I tried I gave you a shot. I let you run this thing. I ran over here with Kellen. I was sitting here deal with offense. I let you had a whole lab to yourself, and this is what you did. You blew up the lab, so you got to go. You're still my boy. I still got love for y'all.

Call around and maybe get a position coach somewhere, because you guys know, dudes like Mike Nolan stick around forever. Somebody will hire him as a position coach, so he'll go there, but he can't coordinate this defense. And if you're going to get the best years out of Dak Prescott and get your return on investment in Ezekiel Elliott and Tyrn Smith and all these guys, then you got to start with a defensive change. This is not a

man who needs to come back here. And personally, I don't know if the Joneses are sold on just trying to go to a three four defense because in the past, and I've been here in the past, and they've talked about how there were too many changes in personnel that they had to make and that it took you basically almost two years in their opinion, to flip the defense around. So I don't see them doing this three four deal. I believe it's going to be a four three. They'll

bring in somebody, you know, it could be George Edwards. Okay, George Edwards is already in the building seeing what these guys can do. He worked with Mike Zimmer. They love Mike Zimmer. Okay, the Jones family loves Mike Zimmer. George was right there with him, and until this season when George was gone, the Vikings defense was pretty good. It

was pretty good under Mike Zimmer. So to me, you already have a guy who's in the building, understands a personnel can possibly make the right changes that you need to and you go on from there. That's right now, that's the easiest solution, in my opinion, a proving guy in the league. Georgia, hold on, hold on now, because listen, old uncle Wade, I said your tweet. Uncle Wade said, if you want to change from four to three two

three four, he can get it done, all right. And he puts some some stats down there and he lets you know that. He changes the Texas and the Rams and the Broncos, and they all changed from losing teams to winning teams. He got that stuff done, so it can be done. Let me tell you this about Mike Nolan, all right, because we want to talk about personnel and uh, you know how, and he may have this different person there and bring some more guys in and all this

other stuff. The truth of the matter is, in all likelihood, it's about two positions on the defense that he's going to be able to upgrade at the position the safety and possibly the corner. You got two draft picks, a defensive tackle. You got Randy Gregory, you got Take Lawrence. On the other side, you have your two linebackers who are going to be here next year. You got Lvee and you got Jayala Smith. So it's not like you're going to go in and be able to revamp everything.

He's going to be playing with essentially eighty to eighty five percent of the same guys that he had this year. So the personnel change and all that stuff, and this is what's gonna fix fix Mike Nolan and all that that's not flying. The likelihood is you bring somebody else in here that can work with the talent that you already have and then upgrade what they can do based off what you're able to pick up in the drafting free agency. Mike Nolan cannot get it done. I'm not

going to argue with you on that at all. I'm not going to argue with that at all. I just think that you tried it and you gotta go ahead and move on, move on from it. I mean, when you talk about the linebackers, Mike Nolan was the guy who said put Laton Vanderesh in the middle and throw Jalen Spent to the outside. I don't think any of us on this show like that move. I think they should flip flop that as soon as possible. I mean, when we saw Banderesh making plays, it was on the outside.

That's what I want to see. Um, he's just gotta go. I mean, that's about Botoline question you gotta go? Yeah, quick question was no is the secondaries coach and like those those assistant coach of those guys that are under Nolan or McCarthy brought those guys in as well. I think it's a combination where you know, I don't think that McCarthy brought in anybody Nolan wasn't comfortable with. But

that's that's my thing too. It's whoever to me, whoever the coordinator is is it should have the right to try to bring in some position of guys that he wants who understand what he wants to do. If if they all talked about and Mike McCarthy had no problems talking about this all the time as the defenses, Hey, it was coaching with dudes he had coach with before.

So if you let's say you bring in George Edwards, if you bring in George Edwards, should George Jetwards be allowed to bring in a dB coach and a D line coach, a linebacker coach to people that he has some familiarity with who can help him implement the defense the way he wants. So I think that it's gonna be to me. I think it's sweeping changes on the defensive side of the football. It's not just Mike Nolan, Jim Thompson. Look at get got dB coach, linebacker coach.

I mean, all these people can get gout and I wouldn't have any issues with it at all. Jerry's going to write a check for it, but but I don't have any issues with them rolling through these dudes. I mean, this is the price of business people have to pack six and ten. I told you six and ten. Everybody doesn't get to come back, okay, you know everybody can't be like Kellen Moore, get a contract at Sension and live on. I mean, some people want to go ahead

and die. You know, some people are gonna have to die for six and ten and that's just just the way it is. One of the things I want to talk about here on the players lounges is the offensive line and m cray, I heard you talk about wanting a left tackle at ten. First off, the best left tackle is probably going to be gone at three or four, the kid from Oregon. So I'm not sure who's left

at left tackle at ten. But to me, when I look at the kind of money they've invested in Tyring and invested in Lel Collins at the tackle positions, those guys are going to be there, but we do know they'll miss games. If I'm starting my offensive line next fall, my sinner is Tyler Bias, second year man from Wisconsin. I'm hoping Tyre Sin's my left tackle. I'm going to put Connor McGovern at left guard, replacing Connor Williams. I'm going to put Zack Martin at right tackle. I'm going

to put Lyle Collins. I mean, put Zack Martin at right guard and put Collins at right tackle, and Connor Williams is going to become my swing tackle because I'm going to be He's gonna be in the he'll be in the final year of his deal. Too many times I feel like Connor Williams has gotten overmatched to guard. I don't think he's a guard. I think he's tackle. The National Football League. I want to see him there, and I'm gonna spend that last year with Carter Williams

out there now. And you talk about drafting the tackle later on in the draft. I'm all four. I don't have any issue with it. I don't. But at ten I cannot. I cannot take a tackle at ten who possibly doesn't start. I need a walk in starter at ten in the first round, and that's got a most and that's got to be a defensive player. In my opinion, that's just me, but that's my take. The offensive line

listen minus is virtually the same. I got my Governor left guard, YadA center, Martin, right guard, Collins, right tackle. I do not listen. I do not believe that Connor Williams has enough anchor to play guard our tackle. Like I've never actually looked at the offensive line play as much as I have this year since we started talking about it on the show, and I'm talking about repeated league. If you have a guy with any strength and any

type of bull rush, Connor Williams cannot handle it. And I don't think he wants to be out there at tackle facing guys who knows one hundred percent that they can just push him back into the quarterback. I don't trust them being out there at left tackle. And like you said, Tyren Smith's going him this time. So Connor Williams is going to be starting a few games, and you don't want to be out there word about how many how many guys are focusing on Connor Williams getting

bull rushing into Dak Prescott throughout the game. So that's why I want to focus on the left tackle. Now. If a left tackle that you believe in it's sitting there at number ten, then I believe that you gotta take them. That's just that's just where I go with it. You have some guys on defense that we said are ascending as far as being able to show some some potential.

So I'm still stuck at protecting Dak Prescott. Say, if you're gonna sign him to a four or five year deal, make sure that he has the offensive line and uh,

and get you a left tackle. Wait, so you're gonna you're gonna sign back to that big deal and then and then take your first rounder on somebody who might not be able to be in there there to stop I'm put no, no, no, no no. That's why I said, if you have somebody that you would leave in that sitting at number ten, since we already missed up our draft order, Like if they would have done with me and now he said a long time ago, you would have been up there picking earlier, and you possibly had

a guy that you could depend on being a starter on day one, Like just like cde loumb fell to you last season and you had to pick them. If your left tackle falls to you at number ten in the draft, I believe that you have to take them. You invest all this money in Dak Prescott, so you need to protect them and have some guys that are dependable out there and go back to that game plan

that you had previously. Control the clock, make people figure your offensive line and control the line of scrimmage, and then play defense fifteen minutes out of the game and take the ball away because everybody's playing from behind. I think that's a recipe for us for winning. For what we have currently on the roster. You think that defense when we got currently on the on the roster right now, I can do that. No, listen, you're just trying to

win the shootouts. You're trying to win shoot out to that. No, no, no, listen, listen. Already I already spoke to this. The guys that we have on the defense, most of them are still going to be here on the roster next year, and we talked about changing out some guys in the secondary. We talked about changing out essentially two guys, the safety and one of the corners. We still got a b and we got digs who are going to be starting as the number two, a number three corner on the roster.

Were talked about going to get the safety. Our linebackers are already putting much Centenstone and our defensive line. For the most part, besides one day y'all talking about drafting in the first round, it's pretty much senten Stone, we got the two outside guys. We got another Gallimore who we drafted, and you got Tristan Hill. I'm sure I'm not here. He ain't going nowhere. Sure, watch the film,

Watch the take. Wat's the take? Listen. Sorry, I can't sit around here and look at this Cowboys defense and think that with a potential tenth overall pick in the draft to use it on offense and somebody that's not in a walking starter, I can't. I can't see it. It doesn't make sense. And also, I go back to what we've talked about before. If you signed Dak Prescott, what do you need you need to start to bring in cost certainty on players you use a defensive selection.

That's five years you have with a player versus getting them at four years in every other round. So that to me makes it even more imperative than I need a defensive guy who I can have here for five years, and I need to try to hit on a blue chip defensive player versus a offensive lineman who's going to potentially sit on the bench. That doesn't make sense. Guys in a financial, a salary cap world, that just doesn't make sense. What we're talking about sitting on the bench. Well,

first of all, and don't forget about Taco. Charleston already talking about five years. All right, So let's not act like just because you draft a defensive player in the first round, are they gonna be here that long? And I'm pass when you pass on the better player. Yeah, I mean yeah, but but but but we did and

and Taco was not here for five years. But remember I'm speaking of, is if we do not have Tyren Smith on the roster, this is my position, not draft a guy to be behind Tyrann Smith and sit on the bench. I'm speaking of we don't have Tyren Smith on the roster, and our and our left tackle is the guy who is going to come replace him. That is what I was talking about during the season, and that's what I'm talking about now, not a guy. Yeah, We're not gonna draft a gud number ten to come

sit behind Tyren Smith. That would make no sense. Yeah, you got Tyre Smith on the roster, go defense. So all right, So I'll give you a name that I've seen at ten by certain people, Rashawn Slater off to tackle Northwestern. So if you take Slater at ten, where are you putting him at to start the season. It's Tyren Smith on the roster, Yes, well you don't take

you don't take him at ten. My whole, my whole game plan was not to remember we had this discussion during the season who should be on the roster who shouldn't. I was adamant about Tyren Smith is not going to be able to be dependable. If you can move him or release him, get rid of especially if it could save you some money and get you a new offensive tackle who's going to be dependable out there, not Carnel Williams.

That is what I said. And if you're able to do that, I still believe that if Tyre Smith is on the roster, knew your church, we ain't taking the tackle at number ten. We're going defense like, yeah, you're not going to stack him the position if Tyren Smith is still out there. So just to clarify, just to clarify things, if you were the GM, in your opinion, you would either release or try to find a trade

partner for iron Smith. Absolutely, if I can find something that worked, if I could, if I could find something that worked for me, absolutely, and listen, bad back, bad neck, bad knees is next he has, he ain't been able to play out there. There's not nothing against the guy, how hard he works or how good he is at the position. We're talking about straight health, some stuff that

he can't even control. He can lift as much as he wants to, he could do as much rehab as he wants to, and he's still not been able to be available. And that's just that. That's the fact. You can go back and see. And when he's not out there, our offensive line is in limbo. You have major major issues when Tyron Smith is not playing in the game. Okay, so I'll just throw your dead cap money out here. Okay, the dead cap hit for Tyron Smith in twenty twenty

one is eight point eight million dollars. So that's that's the that's the dead cap hit. His overall cap hit is fourteen million bucks, so too much, um so that that's it. If he if he plays for you, it's fourteen million bucks for to pay the thirty year old. If you want to move on from him, it's gonna cost you eight point eight million bucks, which means you're gonna basically split it up. But a post June June one cut pay four million. This year and then pay

four million against your cap next year. That's what it's going to be. How much how much of a customer this year? How much a customers year? When he was on the field. His salary cap hit this year was six point four million dollars because they restructured five point three the Cowboys came. How many games that deals? Thank you? How many games that he plays six so so so so so. The point is, the point is, if he's not able to be on the field, why are we

talking about cap hits. You're paying the guy not to even be out there, and you have to worry about him not being out there for the foreseeable future because he's been subject to injury for the last few years. So you can say, hey, eight million dollars cap hit, but a dude sitting on the sideline get paid fourteen million dollars. You're losing. It's a loss just because you're trying to say some cape. Okay, what I will Okay, fine, I'll go back into what I've seen from the Jones

family and how they operated for years. Flozell Adams was a guy who had issues, and they kept rolling with the issues until finally Flozell couldn't go anymore, and they ended up bringing drafting Tyrant Smith at number nine. If you were going to move off from Tyrn Smith, I think it'll be in the twenty after twenty twenty one, in twenty twenty two. It's a lot more manageable for you to go ahead and do it. But I don't see the Jones is moving off from Tyrn Smith. I

just don't. That's that's just And I understand, Danny, You're right, backs do not get better. Is it something you look at it ten? Is it something you look at it ten? With the kid from Northwestern? Which lot? I mean, there are certain people who are saying do this, Danny. You're not alone, Okay, make sure to say, Danny, Danny mccraie is not crazy here. There are a lot of people. This is what should be done here. Okay. So so it's not some crazy idea. I've saw the great Ozzy

Newsom do this. In Baltimore, where he selected Jonathan Ogden number four overall, he still had big Zeus Orlando Brown out there at left tackle. He put John to Ogden at guard and eventually the next season pushed him out to left tackle. He had a Hall of Fame career. So Danny, what you're saying is not something that hasn't

been done. But at the same time, Ozzy didn't have a horrible defense like the Dallas Cowboys, and the Cowboys have a horrible, horrible defense here that at this point in time, if you commit these dollars to the left tackle, you're saying, McCarthy, I need you to score thirty eight a game, and then we're just gonna try and win these games. Thirty eight thirty six. I don't know that that's kind of much. One. My math is just a little different. Pay you pay him fourteen. If he on

the roster, you lose eight if he's not. If you're not on the roster, you're saving six. You're picking the dude in the draft, and you're going to spend that money somewhere else for a guy who might not even be on the field for the entire season. If I'm doing my math right, I'm not paying a D fourteen when I can get rid of them for eight and put that other six somewhere. If I can't depend on him to be on the field for the entire season. That that's that's just the way my math is working out,

you know, and uh, we'll see how it happens. But you're right, I'm not the Jones because I would have also paid that two years ago, so you know, we'll see how this goes. I mean that's when I used to work. But I used to do sports radio. I used to talk about how this these are the things. There's thoughts on what we would do, but then it's what the what the Jones family will do? You know, I would have you know, there are so many different things out well I would have done this, but but

I'm not the Joneses. And that's you know, where they're comfortable at. I mean, personally, one of the big problems that that I have is the restructuring, consistent restructuring they do, because the more you reach tructure these contracts means you push it down the line, and you keep pushing it down the line, and then you're just like, well, we'll pay it here at some point in time. So when they cut Dez Bryant, all that money hit right there. When they had to cut Tony Room, all that money hit.

You know, if you stop doing a restructure and just all right, boom, we're gonna lock in here, We're just gonna pay this money, and so when it comes down to let the guy go, you can say, hey, look we've paid all the bonus money. We're good. We can let the guy go. We don't have a major cap hit. These are issues. They still got to pay off the Travis Frederick money on this year's salary cap because they broke it up over two years. So it does make

it harder to say goodbye to people. And look, what's the one thing we've constantly seen with Jerry Jones as an owner. He likes to keep guys around. And you can say guys have stayed here probably a year or two years longer than they needed to be. I can say it about Flozell, I can say it about Jason Witten. I can say it right now about Sean Lee. Sean Lee. They're guys who end up you're like, oh this Tyrone Crawford.

I mean, they're guys here when you look at it and say, man, should dude have been going about a year ago and two years in New England, Bill Belichick would have got rid of them. Here, they get to stay around, and they stay around one or two years too long. So Danny, this may be a case with Tyren Smith ends up being one of those guys that you end up keeping them maybe a year too long. And you could be right at the end of the seat that the twenty twenty one season, we could be said.

You know what, Danny, you were right. You tried to tell us I couldn't be wrong, so I couldn't be wrong. He plays the entire season, I was wrong. If he plays the whole season, I'm wrong. I'm just going based off what happened in the last two years. I just have born, Yeahyborn in Atlanta Founder's game. I'm still seeing it.

I'm still seeing Clay Born in Atlanti Founder's game. I'm seeing I'm seeing the destruction that was called when Tyren Smith wasn't able to play, and I'm seeing the destruction of the offensive line this year when we missed ELC and Tyren Smith again this season. Now, based on what you said, and this is me, Okay, if you want to go offensive line, then you need to sign Dak Prescott so you have available money and free agency and you can start to meet some of these defensive meets

and you're making a different the coordinator change. I mean, all of this happened. I mean so much, because I mean, you know, you just can't sit up here and say, hey, we're gonna draft this left tackle and we we only go do a one year franchise deal with Dak and then Dak going I mean this, you know if this church right what I'm here right now, Manna Prescott, forty two mill We're gonna use our first round pick on

the offensive tackle? What what we acted like we got the eighty five Bears or the two thousand Ravens over there on the defensive side of the ball. Whenever, because he saved six some church save sixty. You saved six million dollars Church Church talking about by releasing Church, by releasing by releasing Tyres Smith, who you was gonna pay eight or fourteen, you're saying six because now your dead cap is eight, so you got six million dollars. You're

picking the tackle in the first round. So then you go, you're saving some money right there, like he wanted to to get you somebody on defense versus pandi du fourteen million dollars and not having no money because you're still gonna pay Dad. I'm just saying, you saved me bread. You're talking about you want some we ain't paying back forty two, y'all, saint forty y'all putting a lot of pressure on Will pressure. That's not me, y'all, that's not me.

If that's him, this this tackle that we draft is gonna be he might. What if he's a bust? Then what all the fan? Man? That's all I'm to come home Church. At the beginning of the show, you said, you said, we can go out there with Andy Donalton at the beginning of the show and fix up the defense. So I don't know he has he's calling the pistol. The last week of the season. You're saying you want to take us nickname you said, you can't believe you call him for. We gotta get out of here. We

gotta get out of here. So let's let's end this with these picks here, Okay, So let we go run through these pics real quick, because it got a bunch of games to get to Alabama eight point for against Ohio State the National Championship game. D mack who you got Alabama's school, Alabama and they don't cover. They went

by by four. So I'm gonna go something like thirty five, thirty five, thirty one Ohio State, Ohio State thirty five, Ohio State thirty five, Alabama twenty eight, alright, fighting justin Fields, Baby, give me h Alabama forty one, Ohio State thirty one. All right, Uh, Indie Buffalo, Buffalo six point favorite. D MAC. I got Buffalo covering. I'm going thirty one twenty one. M I got a old man, Philip Rivers. I got

old man Rivers is pulling an upset. I got Indie thirty one, Buffalo twenty four, thirty one, twenty four, give me Buffalo thirty two seventeen, all right, Rams three point dog against Seattle. It's in Seattle, d Mac. I got Seattle covering. I don't have any faith in Jared Golf, so I'm going to go thirty one to seventeen. Yeah,

I gotta I got Seattle on this one. Twenty four, fourteen, twenty four fourteen Seattle four church, all right, give me Seattle winning this bad boy here thirty four thirteen, all right, Tampa Bay eight point favorite at Washington, d Mac easy, Tom Brady terrific Tom, and I got him winning by a close margin, though, because that defense is gonna show up. I got him winning twenty seven I mean twenty one seventeen. Nah, not be man. I got Uncle Tom and the Boys

winning thirty eight fourteen. I think it's gonna be a blowout. Thirty eight fourteen. All right, we're all going to Tampa Bay here. Give me Tampa Bay to win it. Twenty four two sixteen, all right. Baltimore at Tennessee. Baltimore three point favorites. Yes, Lamar Jackson finally gets that dub and they're going to win forty five to thirty eight, high score game. Derrick Henry still going for two hundred good time. Ain't no defense in that game. Okay. I got I

got I got, I got Lamar getting the monkey office back. Man, he finally beat in Tennessee. I got him. I got him twenty four, I got a twenty four to seventeen. All right, give me Baltimore to win a twenty seven twenty one game. Chicago ten point dog at New Orleans d mac yep, New Orleans covers. I'm going thirty one to ten, Yeah, Drew. Drew's a little bit too much for Chicago, I think. And it's not And it's not in Chicago, it's in New Orleans. So I'm going thirty

five seventeen, New Orleans. All right, give me Saints win this one. Forty one thirteen Cleveland Pittsburgh. Cleveland's head coach Kevin Stefanski not coaching in this game because of COVID Brown's had practice this week. Baker Mayfield said, won't have any differences. It won't make a difference at all this football game. D mat, Yeah, I got Pittsburgh twenty four twenty one. Yeah, No, No, Stefanski on the sidelines. I don't I just don't see it. I mean, they made it.

The Steelers made it close with Mason Rudolph in there last week. So for me, I think the Stellers go ahead and get this one done. I'm saying thirty one seventeen, there we go. Yeah, give me Pittsburgh to win this one. Uh, I'm gonna go twenty seven to twenty seven fourteen and actually you know I'm gonna make us twenty seven twenty one, twenty seven twenty one Steelers ended up getting this one.

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