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want to say welcome Jeffrey to the lounge. Switch up the name. We can't begs. No, no, no, We'll figure something. We got time, We got time, We got time. But the players line is about these two guys, Barry Church, Danny McCray. They both played for the Dallas cop Was. Both were safeties, both undrafted guys. We Scrugs just merely a reporter who covered the team. And Britt John to Now I'm a player, you said, let the people know. So Big Chief Derek Eagleton Dartine decided that we needed

to have more flavor and show. So Britt is here to bring her perspectives and um, you are from Californialla, people about yourself. Yes, I am from California originally. I went to Fresno State for college. Go Bulldogs. Even though we suck at everything pretty much, we did. We did win the National Bowling Championship when I was there. That is a plus, no problem. So she's like church no prile, actually an Ohio State fan. I'm a Buckeye fan. But basketball you and see, Well, Okay, my um mom, I'm

sid of the families from Ohio. So my grandma's like the biggest Buckeye fan. So that's how I'm a Buckey. It's a small town. Okay, yeah, hello, So you see for basketball, how did that happened? Um? When I was in our college, my boyfriend played basketball un and Michael Jordan. I'm I'm one of those people. Jordan's the go don't debate me, so okay, okay, we'll get a lot of that. I'm sitting on the right side of the time. I'm just saying it sounds biased to me. He's not gonna

even get to do the chance. Lebron still playing the game. He's still playing, so I'm not gonna count him out yet. Jordan's great, He's done, he's done. Who's your boyfriend? UM, oh my gosh, I'll tell you we are a reporter. This is true. Emmy Award. She brought it up, so I didn't you know it's true. I got some of you to report on. That's something you'd report. Are you ready? Yeah? You ready? Hey? Hey CB, CB can you can you put that that? That's what we're doing. So that's what

we se just so everybody knows. Church lost the bed. That's what we do. First lost the bed back in we guaranteed us that the Dallas Cowboys are gonna make the playoffs last year. CB. You was behind this too. That's what we do. Have the check were bringing seats to show check. That's the check in your eyes closed said, wow, okay this means war. Okay, I see how we're doing this. CP. Of all people, does that look like you know, when you get the rookie check when you like, I was solid?

Did the bill look like a rookie check though it was? Yea? I mean, well yeah, I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this brick. Be careful, okay, because bets they do get made on this show. He has already lost two. I don't lose. I literally like I I only bet when I know, and I just have this feeling. I feel like I'm a little bit psychic. So I don't really lose bets. I've won so many things, like many TVs dinners whatever she would her friends. No state, I

don't lose, Okaya one, Okay, I love it. I love it. I got my degree. I love it. See b I got you know. We're gonna have some words after this. I can't believe you said it with my cray on this spot. Clay used to be b su or something like that. Can they switched it up, you know, because the b who got you know, to paint the pastry spot. So they was about to get sued, so they switched up. Anyways, spot man was checking out some time. All right, two sisters,

you let me know when you want to roll. Oh yea' gonna have your photo too. Bro, don't don't worry because now that I paid, you got to come through. Now we can't to come through now. All he's got to do is call. That's all you got. I'm making time. I'm making my rounds. Don't worry and britch you next. But it's cool up, okay because I know, you know, because we're gonna have to test that psychic ability. What are you gonna say, uh players, lunch boy Hotels dot com?

Um we you know in your midst to break the news here you cut off, mister. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Her story last time. I was excited. I was excited her love of Ohio State and Carolina basketball, So please continue. That's yes. So I went to College President State. After I worked for the Clippers for a little bit, and then I moved to Atlanta for a couple of years

to Louisiana. Was a weekend sports anchor, so I covered a lot of LSU raging Cajuns, mostly a little bit of Saints, but I was mostly in Baton Rouge and m Lafayette, so I did a lot of college stuff. It was it was baseball season at the time, and you know, got to cover them both going to the College World Series and stuff like that. And came back to LA. I did a digital YouTube channel for about

five years. Grew the channel from one hundred thousand subscribers to one point five million, so I got a little following. So shout out if you guys are watching or listening, my old little fan group. But yeah, so that's basically what I've done. I've been a Cowboys fan since birth, I said on the break the other day, because they kind of introduced me a little last five minutes of the show my Grandma's actually because it was cousins with Bob Hayes. So like our whole family grew up Cowboys fans.

I ran a little track too. I was fast. I was fast a little bit, a little bit even. I did the one hundred, two hundred and four by one and I was the anchor, so yeah, I could. I could run. I can't anymore. I actually did a video once. I'll have to show you guys later. I did with

a former NFL player. We did all the combined drills because iast have a show called Press Pass with Britt Johnson, so it's like me hanging out with athletes doing stuff that's like not their sport or something different or whatever. But he had me do all the combine stuff, and I think I ran like a like a five eight or something, or like a six eight flat. It was terrible, but I had just broken my tailbone before that, so

I want to blame that in no conditioning. I probably run like a five two right now, yeah, saying I'm probably around there around So what do you think about your carry coming in last? Where was your thought when you saw that? Um? I think people should not talk as much until they've already had stuff accomplished. So I think that that's what that's what happens when you are on camera or you know, on social media saying stuff before you have even got to a place. So miss Richardson,

she should have spent more time training. I think I don't think she did that. You had the sixth fastest time in the world. She was, she was saying, But I thought, did you at the time though? Like that's it was? It was fun, it was it was fun while lasted, I personally found the humor in it. As people on Twitter um decided that they were going to light her up, and she did it to herself that she did run rant. She went behind her last. You do ye like the currents to you came in last.

You didn't even make it. She wasn't even on a thing. It was like one through eight and then eight through and then she's she's not even from making was struggle. You you in high school. You see the people who were in it just the run and she was like

one of the folks like their parents don't go on. Yeah, I honestly feel like her hair could have like held her back because she had a lot of hair on that Jase, and I feel like, yeah, like that's adding like that's you know, take the weight off now like you should have. She should have swept like like dead with their natural hair and they just already we have we have a question, okay for you, I have the front. It is from Jesse Holly, who's a part of the

Dallas Capital Jesse. I met Jesse and Jesse Jesse Holly. Jesse says, as a tar heel myself who played basketball, I need to know who her boyfriend. Streets are talking, the streets are looking early. I've never had anyone text me during the players like he needs to know who got me sweating up looking like me out here Like I've never swept early that the older y'all got, where is that? So? Um So I'm just just letting you know, Yeah, maybe we'll start some kind of This could be the

first thing, the first betting thing that we start. See if anybody guesses it right? Um do that I need to pay off my beat today the first, by the way, Deep Blue Tonight with Jesse Holly. The Jesse Holly story is going to uh going to be airing, so check us on check it out on the dallascotboys dot com platforms. Would you you move it on the squad with me?

When he scored or he almost scored in San Francisco and he got hawked you, he didn'tet hawks on the side like you see me in the side I'm filming it. We got hawk at the one. I don't want to shoot no slugs. But I remember somebody getting tea bag but Philip rivers. But that's what you know what all bets are off now. I see we'll be going out here. I see what we're doing because I also remember boy doing a split when my man hit him with a cutback. But I ain't gonna say who it was. How you

scored the top down? Yeah, I get the trip. I ain't gonna say that we were talking about getting hawk down. Okay. I see I'm over here trying to chill, and then the slug just keep coming out. So hey, I had to come out the host of a one. It was okay, move on, move on, all right? What about what about football? Yeah? Can we talking about quarterbacks? Absolutely? Okay, So Church, another slug. I'm sorry, I told you your boy Double G was in trouble, double gone. He's officially gone now. Didn't they

re sign him on the practice No? No, he got signed with the Patriots, didnity. So just to take you back in it and believe that Danny and I have been on a whole different side of the church. Church believe that Garrett Gilbert was really going to be the guy to win the backup spot, and we were like no, no, no, no no, And he called him double G. I was this guy. He's referring back to the Pittsburgh game last year where Garrett play a nice football game that they lost.

They've been lost lost. He was bawling enough, Okay, like I said, they lost any talking about the school. We talking about what he did. So the Cowboys tried to gift him the job. Dad gets the shoulders training that it's all you get the preseason Double gk making. So Will Grier is now the guy. But we I had been saying since training camp, when you guys have me, I said, told the backup quarterback not on this roster right now? And they're going to basically, you know, go

bring someone in. The cuts happen and Gilbert gets cut and I told you Danny the Russia is gonna get the job. So Rush is the backup. They go pull Will Grier off the offwa Carolina let him go and understanding the situation for Greer, he was brought in by a different regime. Carolina got a new head coach and Matt Rule. They got Sam Darling and he's also got the one, the kid PJJ PJ Walker who Rule had a temple, so he was their quarterback in two so

he's got his two guys. Greer's out. You bring Greer here. He's got a relationship with Doug Nusser Florida righta. He was his offensive coordinator. Ye Doug was down there, so they know each other, which that goes back into the whole thing we talked about with Cooper Rush and bringing in a backup somebody who has an understanding of the system. Um, that's a question I'd love to ask, well, how much of what the Cowboys are running or things that you know?

But clearly nuss Meyer has a belief in Will Greer and they're bringing them in here. So with COVID going on here, you're gonna need three quarterbacks throughout the year on the active roster in my opinion. So yeah, Dak Press, Scott Cooper Rush, and then you got Will Greer. And for some reason, Mike McCarthy keeps letting Ben d Nucci is that Pittsburgh connection, mister bird connection has got to be you know, I'm scratching ahead at that one. Wow.

But you know, the Nucci, they must see some of them, his athletic ability. They obviously think that he's better than Gilbert, which is you know, beyond me. See, I think that's a different situation. I think that you this this last guy, you wanted to be a developmental guy, and at Garrett's age, you know, you kind of are what you are. So I can see them wanting to, you know, develop a D. Nucci. But I'm thinking the Nucci's a jet. He's just a guy.

You can go finding the Ducie out there. It had to be some people they were scouting and you know the last two years and say, you know that guy's free, let's bring him in here, versus been the Nucci. I don't get it. I don't I just don't get the nuci Britt, You think we made the right move as far as exactly bringing him, bringing him go Greer and putting the nucie on the practice wad um as far

as all Greer. No, just because he did play in two games his rookie season and he is oh for four or he had zero touchdowns, four interceptions, four interceptions. And I actually wrote down some numbers because I wanted to make sure I didn't, you know, talk him down. I wanted to be as as accurate as possible. He's had a total of two hundred and twenty eight yards. He had a QBR of two point eight twenty eight

completions on fifty two attempts. So at what point does do we look at that and say, maybe that's not our guy? Like, why would you want a guy that has not thrown a touchdown at all at all? Like what? I just don't understand where the like logic comes with that. It makes no sense to me. I think that that was a bad decision to make. And yes, everybody's talking about the whole Cam Newton stuff, and obviously we know it's just because he hasn't been vaccinated, because at least

the man is thrown a touchdown? Would you rather have Cam on you? Yes, I would absolutely Like he's thrown touchdown. We know he can run a little bit still, like we know that he I mean, he's a former NFL MVP. I would take that over a guy that literally still he's I mean, twenty six is not young in the league. It's not old, but it's not young. He's still been in the league for like a decent amount of time, like to know or to have some experience towards like, Okay,

he hasn't thrown. He played two games cold against the Cold Saints, all interception. So thumbs down from Brent and Will Grier. Well, listen what I know about Will Grier and his offensive coordinators back in twenty fifteen when they were at Florida, LSU beat them thirty five twenty eight. That's all I need to know about Grier, all right, That's all I need to know about the dude. We

should have went to go get somebody else. I hope we don't have to see him play in the game because if we get that far down, so you can count us as out of the playoff picture and no Super Bowl for twenty twenty thumbs down from you, church Will Greer thumbs up that. Look, I'm a thumbs in the middle guy of guy right now, like I'm right here with it. I'm you know, I'm gonna give him a chance to see if him and nus Man got a little connection or something like that. I don't expect

this guy to go out and play at all. I mean, if, like you said, if we go from that to right now, Cooper rush and we're all we get down to Wheal Greer, the season's loss anyway, So I don't expect this guy to get any playtime. I see him as a more developmental project than Denucci. I'd rather have him out there, you know, getting the development, getting the reps in de Nucci. But I'm overall, I'm you know, I'm gonna give him

a chance, Lenn, give him a chance. See if Maybehim ughs Maeric can get a little connection going in like hopefully we don't have to see him at all, but we'll see she said two point eight QBR Yeah, yeah, that's but let's let's go back a couple of years when Dak was not Dak. Dak was a third string quarterback. Everybody gets hurt and then Dak has to come we end up having he has this amazing, like record breaking

rookie like quarterback season. So it's like, when I look at that, I'm like, no, we should at the third person have somebody that's a decent quarterback that could come in like Dak you know, fourth round pick, yes, and we never expected to utilize him, but he came in and did something even before Tony Romo had was undrafted, you know, guys like Tom Brady, sixth round pick, all

of this kind of stuff. Like so I I just like, I don't want to be like, oh, well, we shouldn't have to go to the third string guy, but the third string guy should be really good too when they get put in that position to elevate to a level like Dac died. When Dac was a rookie and everybody had gotten hurt that year, and that wasn't really a third I mean he was splitting the raps out there.

It was Showers. Yeah, it was one of the It was one of those who were like at the time, you're like, man, which would have saw, yeah, he was better than Kellen Moore as well Jamal Showers. They had an interesting road for him, but I'm gonna get Will Greer thumbs up. Okay, and oh I almost jumped out of this scene over here. Let me tell you something.

If it's anything you know based off last year and knew he's saying he vouches for somebody, I have to I have to second gets it every time because he was all in on Coach McCarthy, all in sold his house and everything. Ain't stepping Coach of the Year. I got pincers of you. I'm bringing all the receipts. You can't do nothing around this man, no more. And you said to be like a you know, in confidence, but you can't do nothing around this man. He bringing receipts

to the show. You haven't see me my photo everyone, I'm seeing the photo of me and Mike together. No, it was public information. Everything I said about your information, this is all on tape. Tap for the pincer. I thought that was it. Yeah, I mean it's all good. It's gonna come back. It's gonna come back. You know. I'm like britt, I don't I don't lose, call me a psychic. We'll see. Let's take our first break. Can's

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We'll see if anybody shows up the game this week, because there was nobody the Rose Bowl last last week for that because the students are in yet, they're not in school yet, so they don't go to the games. You cover it. You cover LSU, so you know that our fans travel all right, so it's gonna be no. I guarantee there'll be more LSU fans there than you see. I guarantee that. Yeah, it'd be purple Golden Stadium. Don't you worry movie. Oh look, I'm just saying it's using

u C l A fans. Don't show it. That's always been in out there covering it, even when they were good Win in the pack it was a Pack ten back then. When the Pack ten, you know, they had issues and it was really more about who else is coming. Um, if it was another great team, he was coming like when pet Manning King boom Rose Bowl filled up. But then it was just UCLA. Um, it was iffy and so was coming like you know what just gonna be. It's gonna be an LSU home game. Same with Chargers

and Rams. Like Cowboys, there's always more Cowboys fans. I went to a Charger's Broncos game. There were more Broncos fans there. I didn't even know LA had Bronchos fans, but they came through. We have so fine now they're in so Fu. Yeah, back then they were at that little little Man that was oh yeah, they didn't even feel that up the stub Hub Center or whatever. Yeah. Well for us, remember it was a game we went to and we were like, man, they got more fans

than we have. I want to say it was Pritburgh, one of the always stay Yeah. I went to Arizona in Pittsburgh game in Arizona and it was all all them yellow towels, swam terrible towels. Was like, man, we're all it travel. What's up, NELLI? What's going on now? Oh yeah, we gotta hear your thumbs up? Yeah, what's going on? What's the thumbs up? Double double thumbs who

thumbs up? First off? To me, Will Greer, it's the upgrade over Garrett Gilbert and Cooper Rush, So right out the gate, I'm gonna give it to them because it's an upgrade to me. O, yes, yes, yeah, I'd agree on that one. Yes. And I'm thinking in a in a view of long term. And here's a guy that many, many years ago I thought the Cowboys should have kept around. They didn't. They tried to sneak him through the waivers.

It didn't happen to the guy went on to have a nice productive career and picked up a Super Bowl ring As a backup quarterback, that was Matt Moore. And when I think about the you know an ideal type backup quarterback for Dak Prescott. You know somebody who can can be in the room and if you need to help, you can kind of help you try to win three or four games the way we saw Jason Garrett doing his career. That's what I'm looking for. Matt Moore, That's

what I'm looking for. When my homes was out a little bit, Andy Ree was able to curtail the offense a little bit. Matt Moore is able to make the throws and not kill the team. This is what I'm looking for. So let me just make sure I staved there. Okay, the games you talked about, when when Will Greer played? Yea, when when when when he played? Um? That was a team that was bad. The head coaching ron Rier, head

coach was fired. This was a bad Carolina team and they went to him and you know he wasn't any good. The team wasn't any good. Um. The coaching staff they brought in last year, Matt Rule, they didn't want him. They had their guys already, so they were doing what they were doing there. I go back to what I watched him in the Big twelve because I spent a lot of time covering TCU football Will Greer under Dana Holgersson. It was a good quarterback. Oh, he definitely was nice

at West Virginia. Good quarterback. I remember the game where they were taking on Texas down there in Austin. Let a comeback win there. So I look at him, said, backup quarterback, good player, a guy who they could develop behind a Dak Prescott and maybe have this guy here for four or five years. That's what I'm looking for

in a Will Greer. That to me is what you want and is in costing you any money when you think about when they had uh, Kyle Orton here, Kyle Orton cost him some cash and even Andy Don't last year cost him some cash. This guy's not gonna be a a He's not gonna be killing the cap here. And so this is where I'm going to go to Duck Nuss mim a quarterback coach, kell Him Moore, my

offensive coordinator, Mike McCarthy. You guys are also to be offensive play Help make this guy better, Help make him a Matt Moore, a guy that you could have under in your sign into a contract, you know, if if thinks can go well, signing away one of these two three year contracts where you can have this position. Somebody who's backing up DA quarterback said, backup Dak Prescott as your backup quarterback and be okay, who's got a little

bit of skills? Are you more comfortable with, like, let's just say week four it comes round, Are you more comfortable with Greer as the as the primary backup rather than a Cooper Rush? Great question. Here's the thing. How much of the offense is he gonna know? And that's the thing. So you know, he and nus Meier said they've got a relationship until at least nus Meier knows how does he learn. That's a big thing about coaching. He's trying to figure out, Okay, how do your players learn?

How do they digest the information? Clearly nuss Meyer has talked to more McCarthy and Will McClay and Stephen Jones since they brought Greer in here. I think that the situation in Carolina tough situation, warm didn't work out. But I also remembered at the time during the draft when he was taken, this was thought to be a good pick. But circumstances happen in the national football You guys, as former players understanding, know God may come right here, may

not fit there, can go somewhere else. I look at him at Florida. What the fitted Florida end up going to West Virginia. Good football player West Virginia. So let's see how much they can unlock from him there. I like that versus you keeping Garrett Gilbert. And as far as Cooper Rush goes, look Cooper Rush, in my opinion right now, that's what they should do. Dad gets hurt This dude does know the offense. He has been a

backup here. You're gonna need three quarterbacks because of COVID regardless, and they weren't bringing in they weren't gonna bring in new Jerry Jones. Vouchers is vouching for Cooper Rush, is all all I'm saying. So he's vouching for the handle that he has on the offense. How will he knows it? So you can expect to see Cooper Rush be the backup guy. I think for this entire season. You think

it's gonna go to hold the holes. Yeah, I believe, So, Okay, if if that's the case, I just I don't like I feel like Will and Cooper are the same guy. Like I feel like they are twinsies and they just are the same. So I would have rather brought in a veteran quarterback that can actually help them and like, you know, work through stuff, not just you know, the coach is kind of coming in. But I think it

makes a difference. Again, I've never played football, but I don't so I don't know, but I think it makes a difference when your teammate is coming and kind of giving you pointers and stuff like that. Versus coaches sometimes.

So it's like, if we're gonna have three quarterbacks, if Cooper Rush is going to be the main backup quarterback the whole entire season, why not bring in somebody as a third guy that can help Because honestly, Dak hasn't really been in a lot of these positions as far as playoff wise and making it to the NFC Championship and making it to a Super Bowl and stuff like

that either. So it's like, why not bring in a guy that can honestly help Dak and you know, the backup quarterback develop their skills and develop you know, whatever leadership stuff that they need to do this season. That's just what I think. And yes, Andy Dalton should have been that guy because he was, you know, nine years as a as a starting quarterback prior to that, but he wasn't. But I do feel like having a veteran quarterback in that situation with three guys, with having to

have three quarterbacks, just to me makes more sense. You know, I think like Dak feels that veteran role in that leadership role, yes, but no, just because I just feel like he hasn't. There's certain situations that he hasn't been in you know, like the Cowboys haven't done much since, you know, forever, honestly forever. It sounds like you're describing Cam Newt. Sounds like you're describing a guy. Yeah, he played in a super Bowl. You know, he's a former

NFL MVP. So it's just like, yes, I get the whole COVID thing, but to me, that would have made the most sense just to be that kind of like leader. And honestly from hard knocks and stuff, from what I watched, I didn't really see like a ton of like the camaraderie with the players as much like DA's just always a zeque, like they're just bfs and you just see them too together, but you don't see the energy of everybody kind of like hanging out and doing stuff like

I've seen in past season. So I think that kind of goes into my thought of like, Okay, yeah, he's probably a leader. He probably loves football. He's a great football player. He wants to be out there and play. But I don't like see him as like talking as a as a talking leader. I see him as more of an action leader, lead by action type of guy. Okay, I don't know you latched that last episode of Hard Knocks. I didn't see. I told you here's mister also introvert.

He was he was happing it, okay, good was mister introvert Demari Cooper. All of a sudden, Dad gets in his ear, gets him going, He's out here trade big. And then after after it's all done, he's getting Cooper's walked out the field man. That's not normally me. I need to apologize a two seven. But Dad got me going.

Dad got me going. Dak is the hype man. When you talk about just that that guy on the offense, you know who who gets guys going, It's Dak and Terrell basham Is before he got hurt, was one of the guys that was bringing the energy on the defensive side. And so I was asking him, you know who's that guy on the offensive side? Is Dak? And I asked, Dak at the press comes like, who's that guy that's

getting people going? Oh, that's me, that's me ya, And so so four is a guy who and that was also essentially too why he kept his job his rookie year. His ability to relate to so many people in the locker room and Barry, you gonna doubt you know exactly that. You had guys like Jason Whitton and Tony Romo were boys, established veterans. They shared a suite at AT and T State, their families shared a suite. These guys were there, and you had Jason Witten saying, you know what, man, Dak's

earned the job. I mean when when your boy, your ride or die boys is not sitting up here, you know, vouching for you, Zach Martin. So, Dak's ability to reach across the room and have so many people love for it. And I'll always go back to when he left the field last year. You just you just didn't see all

the cowboys here. You saw the giant. You saw the giants right there, and then across the league, the way people were talking about him, and you know, I go back to my own kid, the way he reached out to my kid in June. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's yeah, your youngest one, right, yeah, the youngest one. Yeah. We were getting COVID tests yesterday and I saw, I saw Dak. He was leaving out as I was going in. I asked, how's your brother doing. I say, he's good. Man said,

thanks for asking he says, how's your daughter? So she had a little tough day of school the other day, he said, tell her, I said, to keep her head up. He's that type of dual. So she comes home from school yesterday and I said, hey, Dak said keep your head up, and it brought a smile to her face. He's he's a special kind of guy. And I don't say that very often about many guys. I've covered a lot of people, but for is a special guy who

reaches out to a lot of people. And I think the Jones family can rest assured that their money in him is well invested. It's well when you talk about it, a quarterback having it. That's why I go back to you what he did Mississippi State. Then he beating in the LSU and when we had seen we hadn't seen Mississippi State do anything like that since since that guy left the building. And you think about it, Okay, how many dudes raw in that Mississippi State team ended up

going there? Were ranked number one in the college football for a while. How do those guys went to the league. I'm not sure about, especially on the offensive side. I mean four is for him and special, so so so we got him on who's gonna be that guy on the defensive side of the ball, because that, I mean, I'm looking at you think I'm looking at I'm looking at Kiano Nil just because he knows dan Quinn and I would imagine that when they're in those meetings in

the meeting room and he's presenting players as leaders. You know our coaches do hey, man, follow this guy. I wouldn't imagine that dan Quinn is saying, hey, follow forty two. You don't think it's gonna be you know, Marcus Lawrence and none of those guys that's been established the side of the ball. I think the Marcus Lawrence will lead the defensive line room. But as far as the were all leads, I think Kean O'Neill is going to be the voice. He is he both. I don't think he

has a choice. I mean because if you look around, it's it's the Marcus Lawrence. And then who is the other veteran presence that because you got as much as I hate to say, you can't guys aren't gonna listen to guys that aren't playing right. Like we've been in that long room, they're not they're not That's why when we talked about Tim Tebow coming in and being this leader, nobody's gonna listen to the third string tight end on

the field. Who is your guy? When we when who was our guy that was that was that defensive leader man for us, I would have to say the Marcus Ware and it was Dware or maybe even a Hatcher When I would I would say Hatcher more because Hatcher Hatcher was he touched every every unit. He touched every unit,

the line, linebackers, secondary. Hatcher touched every unit. So you gotta have a guy on the defensive side of the ball like that that when things are going terrible, that he can he can pick us up, he can let us go. Jacksonville, who's that guy? It was? It was on me and it was on Klai's Campbell. We were those two guys. I kind of had to be the manager back there because I had a lot of personalities

in my secondary. I mean you got Ramsey boy, yeah, I mean we had a lot of different personalities and it was like young team, young team. So I was kind of the manager. But the guy that pretty much got everybody together was kalai As Campbell, And you need that every every team I've been a part of that had success, had that one guy that was like, you know what, we're gonna follow him, whether it be offensively, defensively, whoever it is. We had to have that one guy.

And the teams that haven't been a part of, like our twenty and fifteen team when Romo went down, we had so many quarterbacks, we didn't have that veteran presence, we didn't have a leader in the locker room, and we felled the shambles. I mean, we failed the shambles that year. So we also had Greg Hardy and yeah, and that's you know, we didn't know what these are the veterans that the young guys are gonna supposed to look up to. And I just wonder, who's that guy

on the defensive side of the ball this year. Yeah, I'm I'm giving it forty two. But you know, all the onners to me is going on on band Quinn, my guy, right, he's gonna get them right. They call him d Q. You see, he he's game. He's gained the respect of that defense and they played for him. So I'm excited to will they'd be a top ten defense this year? Come over? It psychic. No, no, I

smell a bet. I don't know, just especially because so many people just didn't play in preseason and they never really got to play against the first team a lot in preseason, um just practicing and stuff like that. I just feel like, um, we're because when I saw the Jacksonville game, I just felt like the defense just looked kind of I will say this, I think, as I said, I think the way that the offense plays will determine

if we're a top ten defense. I think so if you think if they're holding the ball, if you're a convert those third downs, play keep away in games where you need to play keepaway like Camper right, if you're able to do that, then you can have guys like the Marcus Launce and Randy Gregory pinning their ears back and go rush the quarterback, not having to worry about play action and run and then Russian cover and getting picks. And you were there, bro, we got takeaways. We were

rested because the Marco Murray was running the ball. But I say that goes back to Kellen Moore. It does is he gonna be out there playing Madden or is he gonna be out there? You know? Playing the smart game. I don't know. So once again, that's a different regime you got. You two keep talking about what what you used to do the old days. But that's what we're gonna run football. We're gonna do that. And what happened exactly. That's why why do I get off the Mike train?

What happen? Because I was lied to you almost got that's what almost happened. I mean I would, I would assume that scheme, that ball too many times last year. We're gonna be that. We're gonna revert to that offense. Hey, dan Quinn, I'm on your side, man, I would listen. I want you to do great top ten defense. I'm here for you. And uh wait because no, no, no, so that bet want us to be a top ten defense. But I just think it's gonna take a little mid season.

I think we'll start getting there, but it'll be too late to kind of come back up. And I'm taking all bets. Okay, I'm taking all that. I'm taking bets we will be a top ten defense that includes us being number ten. All right, if we number eleven whatever, I'll be a little salty about it, but let's okay. Let me write this down. Yes, it's a season September two d overall in the run or so total defense,

total defotal defense, total defense, thank you. I don't think we need I mean, like, if we're top ten defense day, that's that's a that's a bonus. I don't think we need to be with this explosive offense, but we'll see. To win the Super Bowl, you need to You're gonna need a top ten defense. Yeah. I'm one of those people that it's like OFFENSI those tickets. Defense wins games, Like I feel like the defense has to be there. Even the Patriots last win that was defense that was

not Tom Brady. That defense when they won the Super Bowl. No, they were not. No, and think you're talking about what but oh, by the way, you don't you you're not them. But we know. What I'm saying is we won't beat them if we don't. If we don't have a top ten defense, it's likely that we will see Kansas City in the Super Bowl and we're going to need a defense. Oh yeah, we're going we can't have last year say yeah, we can't be like, we can't have Kansas City defense.

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Ceedee Lamb, Demante Casey, Carlos Watkins coming off the review COVID list. Todd Archer the Dallas Morning News put that out there. Um, we still have members who are on the list, though, guard Carter Williams of receiver Noah Brown remain on that COVID list. Cowboys getting ready faced to Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Thursday to open up the season. Still don't know about defensive coordinator Dan Quinns. So I was asking around about that. So we'll see you where

he called him? Call him call did you call him? Due? I sure hope this don't backfire. You know what, it won't be any worse than the back par y'all. A part of me is, like, you know, I want him to eat. I want you to get that same feeling the betrayal that I had. Betrayal man, okay, but but it's okay. I don't want I don't want to wish. I don't want to wish bad on you, the bad I had on you, um, the way I went through with McCarthy, because because it hurts top ten, DQ, baby,

Harry Queen, whatever it is we get. Let me ask you a quick question. What do y'all think is the biggest reason these guys kind of I don't know, they gravitate towards dan Quinn or whatever they're doing, but they're playing better. We're gonna see that they're playing better on the defensive side of bout. What is the biggest What do you think to come Because it's the same almost. I mean, they brought some players in, but a lot

of those players that played terrible last year. Remember when and Monty Kiffin was here right, how hard it was for him to relate to the players, and we are sitting the meeting room, like is the dude sleep because he was coming in and you're like, what is he talking about? Like he could not get you am for the game. He couldn't, he could not get it right. He couldn't get you the hustle belon couldn't reach his play,

you know. But that's what guys were saying, like, brothers have no idea what he's talking about, right, So I think the same thing happened with Nolan. He came in and he didn't get the respect of the players that were there. And when they seen dan Quinn come in, they said, man, this dude coach the leasion, the boom. He's Super Bowl win a defensive coordinator, he almost won the second Super Bowls. He knows what he's doing. His formula works all right, So he's gonna put us in

position to make the plays and get us paid. Really, so we're gonna follow this formula. And you can see they're playing harder than they played last season. Yea off season two competence team matters. They look at him and they believe he has competency. I also think it helps out when we saw Quinn during training camp out here actively involved in group in group drills. I mean he's out here, um, you know with the d lineman, putting on pass working, putting on the pad, you know, putting

on the paddy and he's working with guys. So I mean he's right there in there. And actually it's not just sitting here. Hey, Danny, do this. This, this, he's actually actually doing this is where I want you to be. So I think that matters when you get a coach who's actively involved. And look, let's let's just be honest. Last year, man, when Mike McCarthy said it was going to be players over scheme that that was not the case with Mike Nolan defensively, Mike, no one's gonna sit

up here. I mean this, and this is frustrating for me, Danny, And why I really really caught upset last year with McCarthy is like, Dude, when I'm a media member and I see what you're doing as a team is is just makes me scratch my head. That's a problem because you guys are getting paid and you're supposed to be experts. Hey, let's put Layton Van direction middle linebacker. What guy made the Pro Bowl that at the week side, and then you got neck problem. Why are we gonna get this

guy up in the crack? And then we go put Jaylen out here on the wheel, like did you not watch the I mean, I'll never forget the Bears game was that Thursday night and the soldier feel cold and watching Jalen get tore up bout Mitchell Tropisky, Tripisky, Tripisky, and he's like, this is not what he does best. So I go back to what Doug Collins once said, the former NBA coach with the Bulls. He said, your job as a coach is to understand your player's awards

covered up. Basically, don't put your players in a bad position. And if you watch and if you have not watched the Nick Saban Bill Belichick HBO documentary, Belichick says, you cannot overcome bad coaching. And last year the Cowboys had bad coaching defensively, and Mike Nolan was here because Mike McCarthy gave him the job and Mike McCarthy seemingly repaid Nolan, who made him the offensive coordinator of the San Francisco forty Niners. And Nolan was a head coach and he

repaid the favor and it was awful. It was just awful what they did last year. So now you got vander Rash. When we talked to Vander Strain, games like hit men, Look, I like this defense. I mean, the guys are basically saying, I'm where I need to be. So the fact that you got a difference coordinator who comes in here and realizes, hey, this is what I do best. I mean, brit if you are if if if Derek puts you in the position to give you your best work, then that's gonna make you feel good.

If it got you in the wrong spot, you're what am I doing? What am I doing? That's that's everybody. Whatever did you do? You want to be put in the best position possible, And last year this defense was it. And these guys basically all told you the story afterwards, and when James Slayton was out here, when the NFL network people around here want to make it seem like she was crazy. No, she got it from the players.

We still don't know who Anonymous was. We're still a good Yeah, I think we got a pretty good idea. But when you know when you got you got Everson Griffin sitting out here, Hey, can you trade me? Please trade me. They're like, fine, we'll trade you. It was bad. It was bad. So when you talk about dan Quinn dq um, why is it different? A lot of it's just competency and it believed that you know what you're doing.

I can guarantee you you will not hear anybody say that we can't as to the ball for the entiregoy that that will be the statement of the defense from last year when your starting safety says, you expect me to hustle every play. Now, what are you talking about? Bro? This professional football? Even even if you're not, you're gonna put your people out that like that in a contract year.

That's what. You don't have respect for your defensive coordinator and your defensive coaches when you can go out there and you can make them look bad like that. I go back to it. Okay, you covered, you covered the Clippers. You saw some bad coaching out there. At times. I saw a bad coaching. I was out that coverny when I covered the Clippers. I saw some good coaching. And it's all some bad coaching, But coaching matters. And you see an NBA. The NBA to me is one of them.

That's one of the leagues when you clearly can see like that dude don't know what you do. Absolutely yeah, and players not buying in if it's anything. I mean, that's one league where you clearly seeing the players ain't buying into the coach. I mean that's really I mean because the players control everything. Yeah, yeah, the players literally control everything. Now they will say in press conferences whatever they need to do. They let people know what what's

going on in their locker room. Like you can tell now by the way, guess we got to ask her this real question. Clippers really yeah, I'm a Clippers fan. Really, yes, really, thank you. I really want to hear this. Having covered having covered sports and LA, I really want to hear the Clippers. So I mean, growing up as a child because it was a family if my family liked the Lakers, so you know, I the Lakers were good when I

was younger, so it was cool. But then my first NBA game I ever went to was a Clipper game. And Clippers have they sucked for a really long time, so they were really big on their entertainment. There's a lot of a lot going on at the game. There's you know, they have different acts before me. Their dance team is really good, like the Clippers just focused on the entertainment. So the games were really fun. Question, Yeah,

because I have to have to. Are you talking Clipper games at Staples Center or Clipper games at the Sports Dungeon the La Arena, Yeah, the form Um. Now, my first Clippers game was at the Forum. Yeah, they didn't play at the Forum. Yeah yeah, yeah, one sports right next to the Yeah. It was. It was Yeah, it was bad, like well it was. It was. It was one of those built what the forum was awful too, the farm. Yeah, the Forum, and I'll tell you the

two Clippers own the Forum. Two of my biggest sports let downs ever were walking into the Forum and walking into the Astrodome because you see them on TV and they were both built in the late sixtum. Don't play, don't play. No, I'm sorry, man, don't play the Astrodome. The Astrodome is a monument. Okay, don't play those like that. It's old. It's a big old room. It's like it's a big old room and then right there's a little a fields. It was just it was a letdown from

what I'd seen on TV. It's actually seen and the same thing with a form it was that it was a letdown. Um so that's all I want to say, where'd you because because yeah, is that the old whatever? The old? I was young. I was like probably like twelve or something like that or eleven, and then um, yeah, I became a Clippers fan. And then you know, we had the Corey mcgetti's, the Daarius smile, Like you know,

I just started liking those guys. I liked the underdog situation of it, you know, And so I was like, everybody's a Lakers fan, so I'm gonna be a Clippers fan. And then my first job out of college was, you know, for the Clippers. So I was like, this gonna this is gonna be my team. And yes I did cry when Kai got hurt this year, I did, you know, gonna lie? What about last year when they were in the bubble, did you cry when they lost? Well? Last

year I was. I was very aware of the fact that we literally didn't have any Our starting lineup did not see each other until the first playoff game. Like all during the bubble, they were people were hurt, people were out, like there was issues all the time. So I kind of knew that there was going to be some issues with the playoffs. I didn't really expect us to necessarily win last year, even though I thought we could have. But this year, I really really thought we

were gonna take it. He played, He played well this year, and he went to friendlay State too, So I always got a Rapaul George last year. Yeah, y'all should have cut him from the alumni chat. And then this year y'all could add him back because playoff and the bubble was he was rough. And then this year he came back and did his thing when Kawhi was out. So shout out the Paul Pears, Okay, I mean Paul George. All right, Well, yeah, we'll see, we'll see what your

Clippers do this yo. Okay. I just wanted to know the background story. Okay, good good luck to you on that. Thoughts and prayers, Thoughts and prayers. Clippers still can do Clipper things. Plait, before you get off there, Well you said Lebron James has done is he's not winning anymore? No, No, you just the whole goat. Okay, No, I'm not gonna count the man out like that. I just talk to hold this whole now that's biased. This whole, Now, that's

what you talk about. The man ain't even finished playing. He could go on to win two championship he has. He won six total has he never had? He lost some championships yesterday. Yeah, people lose, you know, sorry Michael Jordan Muhammad lost its Okay, No, Michael Jordan lost. He didn't losing the final. That's when it mattered. You know, they all matter. It's okay, we don't have to. I'm not on anybody's side. I'm just saying, the dude, it's

not done playing. Yea, let's see his full body of work and then you know, do that goat talk stuff. He's still playing, He's still out there. You're saying, Okay, this this is I don't want to even start because I'll go this whole, this whole I mean basically, Lebron is like like like mcgirl Richardson, try to come on, bro got a front ro oh. Look look that's Michael running away far ahead of me with his six championships

and six and V piece. So thank you very much, by the way to Kansas City conversation about the defense, now, I'm just shutting you down like a dying Lebron and you just compared to those two, Like, move on, what's in here? Bro? What is this? Kansas City won the Super Bowl? They had these seventh ranked defense. They did have a top ten So thank you, producer, christ Dread. So my thing does stay trick got defense? So Brett, are you still on board? No top ten d for

the Cowboys. I hope we do, but I don't think we will. So yeah, okay, so three nos and yes absolutely. I started this show. Okay, I said, Dan Queen, come in here. We're gonna have a top ten defense, and I'm standing on it. They look better. We've been talking positively about the defense that much changing, like just this short amount of time without like really doing a lot of work in preseason, you know, but we just we went back to a four three. We went back to

what what our players are used to doing. And when they were playing a four to three, they were on the open up. As soon as no longer came in and put that three four in, they you know, they hopped off a cliff. Who's gonna start on the other side of Dicks. There's a corner. It's got to be right now, it's gotta be, like I would like to see what Calvin Joseph has, what no Seawn Wright has out there. But I don't think they're ready and especially for that, for that receiving cor we got coming in

here or we got going in Tampa Bay. The right does not want to see any of those guys that's on Tampa. I don't know if Brown doesn't, because I ain't gonna lie. He's gonna do better. He's gonna do better than the two guys. It's Brown's weakness. Balls, well, that's all. He going to get two guys over six too. And we've seen it all last year when it's jump ball time, my boys getting you know, he's getting that shave, that hand shaved. You know what. I'm band Quin's gonna

get him, right, bro. No word the Cowboys coach size, I don't know, man, but we'll see the Cowboys already seven and a half point underdog right now. Is they get ready to go take on Tampa Bay Thursday night? And Danny says the Cowboys are gonna score thirty points and win the game. If I did not work for NFL club, I would take that bet. I'm just telling you, I would take it. I think it'll be closer than

people think. I would think it'll be closer than I think Tampa will you know, get the dub eventually, But I think it'll be closer than a lot of people think. We're gonna run the ball on these dudes. Hopefully, Kellen, you hear that we're gonna run the ball. We're gonna run the ball. I know you don't listen to the players, but but somebody gonna put this tape in his ear. We're gonna to run the ball on Tampa. You got Antonio Brown on my fantasy team. Should I start in

that game? I would, Yeah, I would, but you ain't getting that trophy back I've got. I've got grunk too. Should I start grunking? I start grunk, But you ain't getting that trophy back. If you started Antonio Brown, it's gonna be a bad start for you. Man. You got other options that that that you should start over Antonio. Well, you know, do what you do. Do what you do, man, It's okay. Whatever you want. You don't. You don't play fantasy, but it is bread. It is a It is a

love topic here. So um, real quick, what does our defense gotta do to slow down Tampa? And Tom Brady. What are we gonna have to do defensively to make this a good game. Gotta get pressure at the middle on time. We got it on the edges for sure. Got to get some pressure to be having in the middle. We don't got galla more. Do we have it in the middle to get pressure? We know that's his weakness. Do we have it? D Mac? What we gotta do? Man, listen,

I'm gonna just say that. I don't believe we're gonna shut them down. What we have to do is when we get the opportunity to make the big plays, we have to make them, all right. We we understand that. You know Tom's gonna come out, He's gonna complete those plasts, He's gonna get those third and shorts, he's gonna convert those. What we have to do is when we have the opportunity to get that turnover or get that three and out, we have to maximize those opportunities so we can get

the ball back to our offense. Because I think our offense is going to score some points on them. We have to get more possessions than they do and we win that game. I don't see it shutting them down. I'm not. I'm not I'm not gonna be crazy with that one, but I think we need to make sure that we capitalize on big play opportunities. We gotta do. Britt,

I agree with both of you guys. I do think it's pressure and opportunity because again, we know Tampa's coming with all their twenty two starters all back, you know, and they're big, they're fast there, they have they have the you know, receiving game, they have the run game, they have like literally all the pieces there. I feel like they're probably one of the more complete teams in the league this season. So I think we really just if we have opportunities, we need to take them, like,

you know, like any little bit. We need to like put pressure on them. We need to find these little ways we can kind of sneak in kind of thing, like I don't know if that makes sense, so we have to I'm not a football player, so I don't talk like you guys do, but I do feel like we do have to find these little moments where we can capitalize on because they're not They're going to play their game and we're not going to be able to

take away from what they're already doing. We just have to find little ways to make ourselves, you know, competitive against them. Okay, third and twelve, those are when I say big plays. That's what I mean. Third and twelve. Get off the field. We got it right. We gotta limit the yak. Yes, we gotta limit the yac. Look, we know, you know Brady's a master third down. He's gonna get the ball out of his hands quick. You're gonna let the space players do what they do. We

gotta limit that yak. That's what killed us last year, two to three yard passes, turning it in the fifteen to twenty yard games. We gotta limit that yack yarders if we're gonna have a chance against these people. And yeah, stopped the run in one area. To me that the Cowboys have to win Thursday night against Tampa. You gotta win special teams. We hadn't seen any field goals and then one field goal we saw against Jacksonville was a fifty six yard miss. I mean, they've got they've got

to have a good special teams game. You've got to be able to get down on punch. You've got to be able to convert your field goal. I mean, you just can't have any errors too many times in the last two years. In my opinion, I think the Cowboys have lost the special team's phase of the game. We saw it cost them at New England two years ago and ended up costing Jason Garrett his job. Keith though

Quinn lost his job out of it. The Cowboys, in my opinions, still not got to that point where yet where you can say they're winning that phase of the football game. They gotta start doing because we can't let Tom you know, have a short field like like he's gonna take advantage of everything we do. Any type of mistake we make out there, he's gonna take advantage of it. So special teams comes into play, we we gotta pin them deep, we gotta pin them, make them go the

long way, make them do it the hard way. And that's when speaking of that, we can't give up the big play. I mean, we know they got big play potential all over the field, god Win Evans, Antonio Brown, the two tight ends. They got big play potential all over the field. But we've done a great job so far this this preseason. Defensively, Dan Quinn has done a

great job of not having any busted coverages. These guys are communicating well, they're limiting the big plays if if it is a big place, a contested catching was a hard one. I can live with that in my secondary. But we gotta limit the big play against these guys in the yak if we even standing a chance against his Tampa Bay team. Speaking of special teams, doing the running back we just picked up is a core special teams play. He's been making some plays on special teams

throughout his career. So shout out to them taking this serious. But taking this serious, you pay CJ. Now you bring in another guy who who's known for playing special teams. So I think Neui, I think they're taking it serious and they seeing that it's gonna be a big part of our game. They brought back wellin't Well Thompson on the practice squad, and he has an opportunity to, you know, maybe come up and come down or whatever it may be, so you can help out on teams as well. Shout

out and Jake McQuaid. Yeah, Jack McQuaid, the long snappers is first year. Here's fossils guy that let go LP Lplades. Shout out the LP who was perfect in his career without a doubt, perfect um, no mistakes. So to me, I'm putting pressure on Bones to make sure his unit comes out and they win that phase of the game against Tampa Bay and all year long, Cowboys special teams needs to win. Just no fakes, man, No, no, No

fourth and five, No fourth and five. Let's do a pass, let's let's let's let's do a personal protector, sneak up the minute. Let's just pump the ball pit him deep, don't give him short field. All right? That is the players lounge yere for this week. Brick Johnson, he was a member of the show. She will be with this all year loss and a couple of Fridays and I've

got to sit out. She'll be here, so host duties. Yes, So after the after the Tampa Bay game, I'll be flying back because I'm gonna go out to the game for uh for Channel five. So I'm gonna be flying back, so she'll be She'll be doing the host. I'm learning stuff as we go, I guess. So yeah, I'm drab the both for sures Go Bulldogs playoff was walking on crates of everybody. We will I'll leave on a positive note for Danny McCrae. In twenty nineteen, the Cowboys had

the eleventh ranked defense. According to producer Chris Beans two thousand, twenty nineteen, should say twenty nineteen, twenty nineteen eleven. That was man Nellie's last year. Yeah, I wonder what we were ranked in fourteen when we made the playoffs. We we led the league of takeaways, but I don't think

we was We was up there like Shobe can. Okay, the next episode of the next episode, so um, you'll need to get in contact with Jesse Holly later on here the players Louds will catch you next week right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.