Player's Lounge: Should Dak Take Less Money?

We've been missing him often throughout the twenty twenty season, but he has He has great reasons, So I'm not gonna be Tom Coughlin started taking things on Church from missing activities. But hey, I just know my role. My role is to be here at eleven am on Fridays for the Players Lounge. I'm knew, he scrugs. He is Danny mccraie, former Dallas Cowboys. A lot to get to here over the hour. Now, look, this show is different. Okay,

We're going to be more relaxed. We're gonna have some more fun, We're gonna give more opinions about what we're thinking. I must start with the collective Bargaining Agreement, and fans really need to understand. This is where the NFL owners and the players get together to say this is the contract in which we will have our working conditions and we will run the league. So the owners have approved it. The owners have gotten together and said, Okay, this is

the deal we will accept. So today the NFL Players Association is supposed to get in there, dive into it and go to the membership and ask them what it is they want. Byron Jones represents the Dallas Cowboys. So Danny, as a former player and having gone through this before, give our our Cowboy fans a sense of what happens. What does Byron do his alternates Joe Looney, how are they meeting with the Cowboys players and how did they break down? Because it's a lot to get into. How

did they break it down? So back in twenty ten, my rookie year, we went through this process and Jason Witten was our was our spokes spokesman for the NFL PA. So we had a lot of meetings where we would it would be players only we would come in. He would get us in the auditorium, he would kind of break down the most important parts of the PA and

what he thought about it. He would give us a chance to vote, give people a chance to speak and let them know if they liked it or if they didn't, and then he would, based on what he the feedback that he got from Russell would go back and meet with the rest of the other thirty two NFLPA spokespeople and they would vote and they would say yes, we agree on this, yes we don't, and then they would talk to d Smith and if he felt that that

was right, then he would say yes. If not, he say no. And we went through a process where it was a lot of nos in twenty eleven. So you went through a lot of knows. How did you finally get to the yeses? What was that? What was that time frame? Man? That I remember that pressure is what? Uh what got to the yes is right? I was. I would tell you this. I was so surprised as a rookie to hear of how many big money guys were hurting for cash after one or two months of

this of the lockout. It was crazy, the stories that people would come back. And I remember d Ware. I was sitting next to d Wear in the locker room and uh, it was it was a point where we were getting uh kind of checks that hold us over because every month the NFLPA would hold a little bit from our check just for these type of situations, and we were sitting there and d war It's like, I'm sending my check back to give it to these guys

who are having these issues. And I'm like, how Like, I'm a rookie, I'm making rookie minimum and I'm at least able to make it two months, and these guys aren't being able to make that, make those payments. So as it comes to when you're about to miss those real checks, those twenty and thirty thousand dollars checks, it was like, hey man, the pressure was put on those those league guys to say, hey, let's let's hurry up

and get something done. So once it was kind of in that idea we might miss a game or two, that's when they got real serious and people started moving, making moves. Which is why I say the nfl PA will never and has never had the kind of cloud that Major League Baseball players Association's ad because those players have gone on strike, those players have missed games. If you don't miss any games, then you'll never be able to fully get everything you want as a player because

you are the product. Look, the NFL cannot sit around here and try and roll out scab players the replacements. They can't do that again. I mean, let's just say you wanted to go get a bunch of guys from the XFL and play them this fall. If we've seen what the XFL is in the struggles that they've got to just generate points. It is hard. These are the

best players in the world. But if these players refuse to miss games, because that's to me, that's the only way you make real You've got to sacrifice something to get something, and the NFL players have been unwilling to do that in the past, which is why the owners continually don't have to hand out guaranteed contracts. That's one thing I've always just wondered about from the outside is, Hey, if I'm a player, what's one thing I really want.

I want to see what baseball players and basketball players get, which is a guaranteed contract. Think about Christaps Porzingis and the Mavericks one hundred and fifty eight million dollars guarantee. And think about this Danny he never played one regular season game for Dallas before he signed that contract this summer. Yeah, man, that's the NBA. I will say this as far as getting like getting people to be on board with that.

We have so many more people in our league, right, it's a lot more difficult to get the start of ninety and then those fifty three of every team to feel that way, right. Yeah, of course Tom Brady and those guys making all that money, Yeah, they fine, But then you've got another twenty guys at the bottom of the roster who making minimum. Who's like, hey, no matter what happens with this CBA, I'm still gonna be making minimum.

Like this, this deal for the NFL, and if these players are really for the top five or six guys on the roster, right when you go, hey, you guys get two more percent of the revenue gap right in the bottom half of the roster gets the ninety thousand dollars increase. Yeah, the top half of the roster is getting another ten fifteen million. This is for them. So me sitting at the bottom, when you're trying to get all these guys to say, nah, man, hey, let's miss

a couple of games. It's like I'm making the same amount of bread anyway, And if I'm in the middle, I'm probably gonna get released for a younger guy to come in because now they can't afford to pay me because they're gonna pay the quarterbacks and the receivers all this money. So ultimately, in this new CBA that has been proposed by the owners, there are no guaranteed contracts, so so it's going to basically this will continue to

go on. Now, I'll say this when I watch NBA free agent sign tracks again, I don't want to see anymore tweets from NFL players talking about we should be this, and I wish I had, I mean, the the the enviousness that I've seen these tweets when NBA guys get money from NFL players, I want to hear anymore because this was the opportunity to try to go to membership and say, look, but if you but if you're in the minority, and you and you, and you voted for that,

then you can still got the right to be envious. I mean, you could still be upset with the majority who voted opposite of you, but you still got the right to be envious of not having a guaranteed contrary. You know, the Kirk Cousins. However, one guy on ever want to hear say that it's Kyler Murray because he had money, he had the money in the baseball he turned it away. So here a couple of points about this CBA. Andrew Brant used to be the legal the

legal guy for the Green Bay Packers. He's now out and he's he's a very popular member in the medium. But he talks about the new CBA and the marijuana testing in there. That testing windows go from four months to two weeks at the start of training camp, reduces the number of players tested, reduce penalties for positive tests, and raises nanogram threshold for a positive test from thirty five to one fifty, which is the World Doping um

Agency threshold there. So basically, the NFL is putting out there that we're really not trying to have guys miss games anymore for marijuana. That they're more they're more understanding of it. We now know that there are states like California, in Colorado and Washington where where miracle where marijuana is legal. So they they're they're changing that. And look, I get

this thing too. I mean the end of the day, having guys miss games for marijuana tests is nothing, is nothing any of these owners want, they want their best players.

They want their players, period and Glad you made that point, because I was driving in here and listen to radio, and I was hearing these guys talk about that when you and these negotiation periods and uh, you know, everybody's holding strong, and then all of a sudden you start seeing things that are given out there that you you assume are big, and they really the owners are giving it to the players. It doesn't really hurt the owners.

They don't lose anything about getting it. As a matter of fact, like you said, they actually lose some money by having these great players a miss this time off the field for felling these tests. Right, So what are you really getting out of it? On the players side? This is a plus. This is a plus for both. Now here's another thing that I thought the players would make sure they got, but I don't see there at all. Was limiting Roger Goodell's power. Oh yeah, go back to

Ezekiel Eli. So it was Roger Goodell who had the ability to wield out the six game suspension. The players, Okay, just make sure people get this. The players Union said, yeah, Roger, it's okay. You can go ahead and suspend this at will the way you want to. Why would you not change that at all. If you're the players Association, is that a not in There's that absolutely not changed. Well, the owners didn't put it in there, oh when they

handed over to the players. So maybe I want to do Maybe Richard Sherman and somebody's out there saying, we gotta add this in, and we gotta add this in, we gotta add this in, and we would send them back and see if they agree with it or not. Because I'm of the opinion Roger Goodell suspending Ezekiel Elliott and Tom Brady did nothing to help the league. If anything, you hurt your product because Tom Brady's not there out

on the field playing games. It's Jacobe were setting Jimmy Garoppolo and while the Patriots are able to get by without him and go win the Super Bowl. At the end of the day, you know what I know as a fan, I want to see Tom Brady. You're paying to see Tom Brady play, especially when he comes to your town, right I know. I mean there are two teams right now in the NFL. When they come to your town, you're selling the stadium map. It's the Cowboys and the Patriots. People want to see Tom Brady play.

And then when Ezekiel Elliott was suspending, who was that hurting? Oh goodness that this wasn't you know? That was hurting your league? That was hurting because at the end of the day, we know what Cowboy ratings are, all right. When you start looking at the networks for Fox, CBS, ESPN, and NBC, you go look at what's their highest rated game. It's a Cowboy game versus someone else, the Cowboys equal ratings. You take away ezekielity, you're hurting yourself. And then what

are now people talking about. They're talking about what was going on with Elliott in his situation and what was going on with Tom Brady, which doesn't make the league look good. So I think if I'm the players Association, I go back there and I just say, look, Roger Goodell cannot have a limited power to just sit us down anyway he wants it. He cannot be the judge, jury and execution. So so so what is the alternative

to to that? Is it a vote between three or four people and he has to go talk to somebody else first, or like what does he has to talk Detroy visit and then arbitrating is first off, I would think an independent arbitrator is wasn't needed. That's what I would want if i'm players. So if we're going first off, you go back and say no, he can't do it. So if the owners push back on that, then then

what will playing B to B? I would tell d Smith, Hey, look, let's figure out some way that if Roger Goodell wants to say I'm going to suspend Tom Brady four games for deflate gate, then we need to go to an arbitrator, and we need to put both sides out there. You present your case, will present our case, and then let the arbitrator decide whether or not this this this can

be held up. But I just don't think it's right to have one person be able to decide whether or not because what do we see consistently it's we don't see any consistency with the way that they're sitting here punishing players. And Lord Miles Garapas would be suspended for they said indefinitely, So they so they met the rest of the season. It was basically Roger Goodell's decision. So it was they suspended and for the rest of the year. Well,

they said indefinitely. You know, best said you're suspended for the rest of the season and suspended to definite, which was will decide when you get to come back. Now, what are the beauties of listening to what's happened with the hut To Astros over Major League Baseball is and people say, well, why does it Rob Manford just suspend all these guys. The Players Association won't let you do it because they've got an iron clad agreement about the types of punishments that you can and can't do. So

basically Rob Manford's hands were tied. I would suspend these guys. No you're not, No you're not. Because they talked about all right there was they were never given quote unquote notice, which meant that Rob Manfred and Major League Baseball needed to give notice to all the players. What they did

was tell the Houston Astros management, the general manager. Okay, so Manford told the general manager at all major league general managers, and so their job was then to go down and tell the players, Hey, you know what, can't be cheating anymore. It's all written right here. Lou Now never did it, Jeff lu Now, the GM never did it. So the Players Associations, I guess what so so so the GM, he never, he said, he never went and told them how pay said it. We never got The

players said that. He also said that he didn't say it right, and the players soci they were never given notice. Y'all didn't tell us to stop cheating, broke being go right. So since you never gave me notice, you can't suspend me. That's how powerful the Players Association is in Major League Baseball that the commissioners I can't even mess with these guys. We need to write that down on a whole bunch

of different other scenarios. And that's why I say, until you go out and miss games, until you make a sacrifice as a union, you're not going to be able to get the power and the things that you want. That's why baseball has got what they have. So you've got to be able to do it. Um. And from what you're telling me, there's so many guys and so many people who aren't saving or willing to make the sacrifice that it doesn't happen, which is why you don't have the guarantee a lot of who they do not.

You make a very significant amount of money each week right during the season. Imagine missing a month of that, even even the person making minimum is losing almost one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty thousand dollars. All right, and in that month, let me let me throw this out here, just got this from from from our pretty

sorry player. Discipline for all field violations would be heard by neutral arbitrator, but appeals would go to the commissioner, and the league would still conduct its own investigations into such matters. So when you say heels would go to the commission, it still means guess what, well, you got some of it. You got the first the first part of it, but independent arbitrary. You know, I just would want as little possible going to the commission based on

what we've seen. So so what I'm saying, so it will go to the arbitrator. The arbitrator would make the decision, and then if you want to appeal that decision, it would go to Roger Goodell. So essentially the arbitrator has made the decision anyway, so Roger gonna say yes, I accept the pills or not. So at least you got him out of the He's out of the person one, all right, all right, So that's good. That's a that's

a that's better than what we've seen there. All right, there is something in this CBA that's been that the owners have accepted that if you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, you should be very, very worried about concerning trying to keep a couple of free agents a month all no Cowboys want. We will dive into that next right here on the players Land. I'm Jay Novachik, former tight end for the Dallas Cowboys. Back in the day. I was a guy who always got the tough yards and that's

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Come into an AT and T store to find out how to get one of our popular smartphones for zero dollars down based on GWS one Core September twenty nineteen. Back to the players loud now, he scrugs. Danny McCray buried church. We consist, the three of us in the players lads, burries out, buries out. No, we can hold it down for Toledo. Man, we go hold it down for Toledo. Is all right, We're used to it, he is, He excused. He yes, you that the company. You just

I just wanted to feel like he's still now. You don't want to see No, you don't want to see conflin at all. Um does anybody who's down to Jacksonville. I don't even know Doug Marone, the head coach, was see him anymore after after everything had happened there. Um that was that was that was that was That was a bad, bad decision, and how they were trying to trying to fix that thing. They're like to me that the Jacksonville Jaguars might be the Sacramento Kings, Like these

two organizations keep having these issues. Man, But it's crazy enough because you thought they were old uncle. The upcome after I said, you know, they should have beat the Patriots. I mean, they should have was Pittsburgh. It was it was the Patriots, and and but and ever since then, well, I mean, but they depend on Blake Borders. I'm sorry, yes,

depend on Blake boards. Put go back to this situation where the next year, the thinking they had, well we're going to go to the super Bowl, that they thought they could just pick up where they left off and we were going to be that. And they did all this talking, put this big old bulls eye on their chest, and and they failed to meet expectations. Didn't show up. Blake Borders didn't show up. Look, it is it's hard to think. And Steve Young talked about this in his

book The QB. When you get up there to Mount Everest, you have to go all the way back down and start the climb again. You know, you don't get to Everest in a week. It's it's a long, long, long climb. It's really really hard and you have to start again. And for many years, when coaches would say, well, you know, every team is different, every year is different, I just kind of thought it was coach speak. But then once you start covering the game and you get around it,

you start to see, yes, every team is different. Mentalities are different. Um that last place schedule that Jacksonville was able to utilize to get to the SC championship, Well, now I guess what your first place. Now everybody's looking at you. Everybody's studying and putting in more time in the offseason to check you and what it is you do. Well, it's hard when you're the hunting. Well ask Carolina they went to the Super Bowl, got it ain't been the

same sense. Oh. One of the things that I also have noticed, and this just doesn't apply to football, really applies to a lot of sports. Losing a championship is really hard. It's hard. San Francisco is in trouble. Yeah, pretty much outside of Jimmy because that's obviously okay, look at the Rams. When I did my preseason prognostications, Danny, I did not pick the Rams to make the playoffs. So they're gonna make playoffs. It's hard to come back

from that type of disappointment. Then to the way they lost as well. Your offense not show up. Jared Goff misses that touchdown, that's wide open. I won't say it was Cooks that he missed that right there, that was essentially the ball game. He needed to make that throw if they were going to win that game. It's kind of like that Philly Special that they ran against New England's Super Bowl. You make that play, then the belief factor and everything else you needed was there. The Rams

didn't get it. It's just hard. It's hard because now everybody's also ready for you. They're studying what it is you do. Then we saw Todd Gurley was not the same guys. So it's just hard to lose like that and go back again. Speaking of that Philly special, didn't Tom Brady try to run that same play and uh fumbled and stumbled and fumbled and and did all that good stuff. It's not for everybody, by the way, it's not.

It's not for everybody. I mean, why we're asking a forty year old, Well what I'm saying, I'm taking it to this point. The Patriots, opposite of that, are the one team where you can say every year the expectation is that, right, there's the outline. They're outlined. That's the thing I consistently try to tell people when they want to bring up the Patriots in anything, I said, that's your outliers. They have a quarterback who can stumble and fumble and drop that pass and look like the most

unathletic person in the world. You still say, you know what, that team right there is gonna win a Super Bowl. Let that be dak let that let that be Aaron Rodgers or somebody going out to you like, oh man, we're in trouble. This is how our game started. We're in trouble. There's outliers that it. Sometimes fans just don't appreciate San Antonio Spurs. That's an outlier. Well, let's do what the Spurs do. Nah, not quite, that's an outlier. That's why we have and we look at certain companies

and certain teams. They are put them over here because they're just that. How many times have we seen people try to go and get folks from the New England Patriots and implement what they're doing and they're failing. Can we look at the Detroit Lions right now? But you're not, That's what I'm saying. You're just because you got the

we had no name said. We have the same issue with a coach here who you get somebody else's scheme not your own, and you don't see it the same way they see it, and then you're not able to put the same type of players in that position to where it creates success. But you do have the scheme.

I think that Patricia he knows exactly what the Patriots do inside the organization and how the coach coaches and the expectations and how do you run practicing and all that stuff, But he don't see it the same way Belichick season. The Lions don't see it the same way Craft season. It's not the same just because you go get that guy. Rick Goslin, Hall of Fame Pro Football Writers said it to me best. You don't have Belichick. It's the whole thing. It's it's Belichick. That's the whole

kid in Caboo. It's him, not not what he does, it's how he does it and when he does it and how he thinks about it. You know what I'm saying. Getting it done. You can't just write it on paper and then you read the book of how to do this for dummies and then you think you're gonna go out there be able to do it. It's his I'll give you another example that and you slick over at college basketball, all these coach k assistants who you know,

what's your house? Skip at Mark had, Chris Collins over at the Northwestern, Jeff Capel over at pitt Now and Jeff was over there at Oklahoma. They're not him. Mike Braydon Notre Dame does a good job, but they're not Coach k And so many people think that way, we'll hire from this tree. I'm gonna get this guy here. Most of the time, if you don't have the real McCoy, you're just gonna get a counterfeit. And in the counterfeits

is not a lot of times. Sometimes they put that mark on there and they find out that it's counterfeiting. Then all of a sudden, you're done. They hold it up to the light. Did you ever see that special I told you was It was a really good special about backup singers. It's called two Feet from Stardom or five Feet from Stardom. Well, it's a whole series about people who were backup singers who try to their field become leaders and how hard it really is that. Hey,

some people are just fantastic backup singers. For instance, Luther Vandros was a backup singer for David Bowie. Okay, we all know Luther Vrows one of the great R and B singers of all time. Why he rest in peace. It's hard to make that type of transition. Cheryl Crowe was a backup singer, I want to say she was a backup singer for Michael Jackson. Richard Marks was a backup singer for Lionel Richie so. But it's just really hard to go from being this backup person to lead dog.

Most people don't do it. And it's the same way for a lot of coaches. We see a lot of assistants who get jobs who just can't do it. And that was really so much of what we've seen on the Belichick tree. These guys have tried to jump here and they could not do it. It's a hard thing to do. Man, quick, quick, thirty second off topic, all right, we're talking about singers, all right, because we hadn't got a chance to touch on the All Star Game, all right.

So we had Fergie last year doing the national anthem, and this year we had good old Shaka Khan go out there and do her own rendition of the national anthem. And I really want to get your thoughts on what is going are they doing this on purpose, okay, or it's the NBA booking these people on purpose? Are they telling them to do something special on our land this year? Because it seems like this is the only sport what this is happening in Like the Cowboys, We got the

saxophone play. He's good. You know, he's good at what he does, and we continue to keep him trump This is this is the trumpet. This is continuous with the NBA. Okay, here's my opinion. The NBA's always going to be a little more lax about what they do. They're going to do with things just a little bit differently because it's the NBA, and that's one reason why they've become very popular.

Everyone is chasing Marvin Gay. And when Marvin Gay sang the national anthem at the Fabulous Forum, you're a little young for that, I definitely am, but but check it out on YouTube. This is, in my opinion, the standard of I'm going to do my own rendition and you're all gonna love it. And Marvin Gay is just truly one of the greatest soul singers I've ever heard. Marvin Gay,

Sam Cook, I mean, they're just just beautiful, beautiful. You could take these guys acapella and it's, oh my gosh, she didn't even need any strings or horns or anything because they're that good. People are chasing it, and it's here's the thing once again we talking about, you know, trying to be the real deal. These people are trying to counterfeit. They're trying to sit there and copy, and

they're they're coming up short. And here's that thing, bro short when you when you come up short like that, you come up real. I used to working up backwards. What are we doing? I used to work in LA and I would go to a lot of boxing events at the forum. I would go to a lot of basketball games, and then I would also go to a lot of minor league games too, be at minor league hockey games, in the minor league basketball. So I've just seen a lot of stuff. What would happen in LA.

All these record companies were trying to introduce groups, and so they would send them out there. So forum boxing there would always be now newly sacient artists. They would have these who would all come out with their America, the Beautiful Rendition, or their own version of the National. I have truly seen some of the worst national anthems that you could ever imagine because in La everyone was trying to be this star. Everyone was trying to be this. Well,

we're gonna do it differently. I'll tell you one time, this one group sang the national anthem for Shaquille o'deal's Shaktacular. It was this event that Shack bring in some inner city kids over to Universal Studios and he would have kind of like his Olympic Games. Thing was called Shactacular.

So these guys come out there and this one dude's got this curly hair, another guys, these five of white kids, and one guy's got these twisties in his hair, and they sing the national They don't do it, they just do a regular indition. I just look at there, saying these guys are terrible, man, and I was, um, they were terrible at their normal I just I just I just looked at him, look, I looked at him. I

was like this, look at these guys, man. Because at this point in time, Danny, I'm saying, I keep seeing these these new artists that people bring in. I'm like, Shakuji bring in here. And I talked to this lady who worked for this show Love Line with doctor Drew Pinsky. I looked, I said, these dudes will never make it the name of those five dudes? How wrong were you? How wrong were you? But but so they actually sound

because judged past experience and all is well. I said, this is a rip off Backstreet Boys right here, which they were, but they ended up being better. But that was la. Everybody's coming up with everything different. So you get the Fergies, you get the shot of cuss because you know, I'm I'm gonna do something different because I want to be remembered. Like Martin, they got their names, they already who they are. Shaker count. She has no she has no need or to prove anything to us

by singing a different rendition of the national anthem? What are artists? Artists are people that want to take chances and try and do different. That's a lot of just telling you did she say to somebody first? And then then they tell them, hey, yeah, that's the one you're gonna kill them with right there. Okay, you bring up a very good point because out a friend of mine in the speaking business, uh In delatoral McNeil, who said,

make big mistakes on small stages. So was she singing this in some concerts that she'd been going to and people told her, boy, we really love this. I don't know, I don't know. The family member told her it was good, and then they went right back behind the back and I was like, oh, they're gonna laugh for all the stage because she was leaned up. I heard one on four on one on four in the morning they had a little remix of the so I know, but it's

still it's still listen, that's what it's okay. NFL has that because it Levado this year. Yes, she killed it. Yes she killed it. So good job, good job to us, Good job to us, because that was that was shaky. Look the NBA, their NBA is going to allow you to express yourself a little bit more. So I'm with you. You know. The memes was still the fur, the fergie fur stuff. So bad? Was we did you see Draymond Green? Raymond look at the lips? That was bad? And then

they're just trying to hold it all in. Yes, even if when the players are just like, oh my gosh, what is she doing? Where are we now? That was bad. But I just tell them I've never seen as many bad national anthems as I did during my time in Los Angeles, as all these new people came in here, so that that's what it is. Um, all right? A tweet that Ian rapperport NFL dot com put out there. Uh, he says if the players approved this deal, two tags

turned into just one. He said, huge news for the Cowboys, Bucks, Titans, and others. Meaning you can't use a franchise tag on Dak and a transitional tag on a Mark Cooper. You're just gonna have one tag. So if you're Dak Prescott, you and your agent are sitting at home like, Hey, which one of us is getting tagged? That's what? Which? Which one of us is getting tagged? That's easy? Yeah, it should This should have been easy to say. This

should have been easy last year. The quarterback is gonna get tagged because who's the one guy you're afraid to lose in free agents? Yeah? Most definitely so, So Prescott gets tagged and Mark Cooper could be running free So I'm sure probably Dak and a margin. Hey, how are you doing? This is March tenth? Right, March tenth is when you gotta declare the tag writer at that's that's sounds about? Yeah? Is free agency March tenth. Uh and I noticed because I spoke about it yesterday. My birthday

is on March tenth. I'll be twenty one years old. Good on March tenth. And also we'll find out if Dak is getting at or not. And the to me, if you're a Cowboys fan, you should be worried about Amari Cooper going to the market because Samari Cooper is going to get paid, and and and and fans, this is where I love about fans. Fans want to start getting into who's worth this and what guys deserve. It just takes one team who says we'll write this check

because we want you. It doesn't matter about well he ranked here that they're teams out there that are desperate for players who are going to write a check. And there are a lot of teams that are going to overpay a guy. That's what free agency so much is about. A lot of times, it's going to be an overpay for you to take someone and bring them to your team. You're gonna have to blow with Amari Cooper away to say I don't want to walk away from that. Well.

I also think that a lot of people who watch free agency and then they don't really understand what goes into picking a free agent. So for the Raiders or for the Eagles or Mary, Cooper might not be as good of a fit, but he's a great player who they would pay top dollar for. For another team, they would pay the most for them because in their scheme

he is that missing piece. He fits perfectly and as far as what routs they wanted to run, what type of physicality has, how he thinks as a player on the field, and all that stuff, it's just a different fit. So yeah, for the Cowboys, yeah he might be worth this, But to another team, if he's a perfect fit, yeah he might be worth another five, five or six million dollars because for their team they feel like that is the one piece that they're missing. That's not how the

Cowboys feel about Cooper. Desperation gets a lot of deals done in free agency. And when I say desperation, there are general managers and then they're head coaches who know, we have to win this year and we don't care if we overpay because if we don't win, we're getting fired, right, We're gone, and this is something for someone else to clean up. That's another thing that fans don't talk about.

Is that the Browns? Oh? I thought, you're talking about the Browns because they okay, because they paid a lot for some guys that's been They were just paying them. They didn't care if they fit the scheme or not. It was just like we got we have a bunch of good guys on our squad. I was I was in a conversation with someone about Dak Prescott and I mentioned Kirk Cousins because they were talking about how how in their minds Dak wasn't worth this number. And I said,

I'm gonna point out Kirk Cousins to you. If you think about a three year, eighty four million dollars, this is something we've never seen in the National Football League. This guy's not a top twelve, top fifteen quarterback when he got it? What had he what had he led Washington too? Not a thing. Nothing. There was the playoffs ones right, some it was arg they lit the playoffs once. Yeah, yeah, until they got they got they got a one time, but twenty fifteen. But we look at him overall, I say,

quart is this in eighty four? Is this guy the answer? No? But Minnesota thought this was an upgrade overcase Kingdom. They didn't care what they had to do, and they wrote the check because they were desperate. They thought they were missing one piece and were so for everybody else, Kirk Cousins were not that one piece, but for Minnesota they were like, look, man, we just we were one step,

one step away, and they thought it was Kirt. I go to Jimmy Garoppolo, who reset the market based off seven games with the San Francisco forty nine, and I defended it from this standpoint. Oh you still defending it? Yes, okay, okay, And here's why that family on San Francisco. So we spent a lot of time out there. Do you know on those PSLs that they had at Levi Stadium. They had because once the forty nineers had let Harball go and they went through Chip Kelly and Jim Thoms, there

were people who were not paying them. They told you, we're gonup paying that, you know, So if you're if you're PSL was one hundred and you know, you know, one hundred fifty bucks or fifteen hundred bucks, they they're fans like, yeah, we're not paying it, forget it and basically just ripping up. So they were now suing their own fans. It was bad. You could see red seats everywhere. When Jimmy Garoppolo got in there and he was playing, and he was for those seven games, and they were

winning these games, they started fans started going. He was giving them hope, and they saw it and in their minds, and and and and and and some people they were talking about Joe Montana, like, remind me a little bit of Joe. So you know what he's up right in the check. You gotta spend the money anyway. I mean, you're you know, you got to spend some money. They decided this is our guy. They wrote him a check for twenty eight million dollars and I said, you know

it good good, good for you. From the standpoint that you didn't have any other option, mean they did. They didn't want to draft to Sean Watson, you know, they didn't want to draft Patrick Mahomesy. They had opportunity to go out here, get the quarter. They have options, right, so they didn't want to go that route. They got Jimmy Garoppolo. You didn't want him to get to the market because you're gonna get in the market two years. So they paid him. They said, this is our guy.

We believe in him. We're gonna pay him. You know what, Jimmy, You're you're the man. Fun. I don't have any issues when you are You're John Lynch and your Kyle Shanahan. You believe this is the guy we can work because remember the thought process was they were gonna go get Kirk Cousins. Yeah, because Shanahan didn't happen that way. Didn't happen that way. I will tell you to tell you

this hindsight. And then thinking of the history of the league, if you can get away with paying that much money just to get to the Super Bowl, is worth it. And thank you. That's my other thing, because you got Chicago, who would pay that much money at any time to get back Temples will pay that much money. There's plenty of teams out there who would pay that much money to go to the Super Bowl one five years because that will pay for itself easy raising this year and

people looking for them for them. It's fine, but player wise, and you think about winning games and doing all that stuff or whatever. So yes, I have no issues with them paying. Jimmy g at the time, I said it was good. I was out there in the Bay Are because it was the Cowboys Raiders game in December when we were out there and Jimmy was doing his winning and the Niners had a game that day and they had people show up this people showed up empty. There

was excitement, people were talking about them on the radio. Okay, So in my mind, just seeing when you went to apathy, that's the worst thing you can have as a as a team is people don't care. People cared. People saw Jimmy his hope. They were buying into the well, you know what he played under Tom Brady. He was our part of a team to want. They were there. So if you had the fans excited about a quarterback and they're thinking he might be their next Montana, write the check.

Write the check. And right now, twenty million dollars for a starting quarterback in this league is nothing true because it keeps going up, or even to be only on thirty eleven Thompson, we need to get into Emmett Smith weighing in on Dak Prescott's contract, plus the rest of the gas who've been laying in on his gut. Right, let's dive into that here on the players Latch, He's Danny McCray. I'm new he scribs since eighteen sixty five.

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You let me know what that? Yes all you I got okay, got the spot when I get don't my six thirty? Okay, I get done. When I get done, my sports can which which which one you want to go to? Were gonna We're gonna meet up in that great? Fine? Okay, I'm cool to I could do great man, how about one? So meet? We meet there? Great because I have to feed you then go back to yeah, yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool with that. Man. We're gonna get this done because you waited forty four minutes to go ahead and

get in there. I didn't think about it till we start talking about Joe Burrow. Man, I'm just I'm just trying to eat. Bro I'm hungry. Good for jo, good for Joe Joy Cincinnati, Joe Burrow. Let me just in that whole aj Green and Ross. I think that they have three good players. AJ Green will be healthy. You know, he got a quarterback. I think that'll be just fine. And a J. Free. I think that he will be just first of all healthy JJ Free. Is he healthy?

He's gone go on the weather on the well, No, I can see a J Green at Philadelphia out have them both never because I sure the ain't been healthy for two years, y'all season you can have you can I see him in Philadelphia. So you said Joe Burrow going to Cincinnati with no receivers. It's good. It's a good receiver draft, justin Jeffson. That's a good receiver draft, is lu But Joe Burrows gonna be a Cincinnati being

period period. So uh And Dak Prescott will be a member of the Dallas Cowboys and he will have a new contract. He will have a new contract. Now a new country, not a franchise, a new countract, because I don't I don't consider those the same. Okay, I mean you got to sign it, so it is essentially a country but a long term deal. Yes, yes, okay, so you you put me down here. On February twenty first

on the Players Lounge, Dallascowboys dot Com. Dak Prescott will have a long term deal and he will be playing for the team this fault. Will he miss any any OTAs or many can? Will he miss any of that time due to this? No, So they're gonna get this done or he's just are he gonna show up? He's gonna show up. They're gonna get it. Okay, I'm gonna get it done. They will get it done. Um. I think he's gonna get that tag, and I think that he's gonna put that pressure on him and not show

up to some of these uh voluntary events. You got a new head coach who needs to put in his system. He needs the quarterback here, Cooper Rush. Putting in the system is probably not what Mike McCarthy wants or the seventy seven year old owner and Hall of Famer Jerry Jones wants. Jerry Jones knows he doesn't have that many more opportunities at a championship. Just as we saw Ezekiel Elliott get his money he waited, Dak Prescott is going

to get paid now. Emmett Smith, hall of Fame running back for the Cowboys, decided to come out on a podcast and say that Dak Prescott should take seven million dollars less. When he talked about it, it was when you look at he should take twenty eight million, So he should one seven million dollars less. Now that is Jimmy Garoppolo money. Jimmy Garoppolo made twenty eight and when Jimmy made it, he set the market off seven games

place set the market at twenty eight. Emmett is saying that Dak Prescott should play for Jimmy g money, not Carson Wentz money, not Jared Goff money, his contemporaries. This is but go play for that bro our show. Our show is on Friday, which is which is difficult. So I kind of get a chance to like have to listen to everybody take take our take some sayings that we usually would have said or that we actually do

say in the locker room. And I will say that I did hear Shannon Sharpe say this, but this is, uh, this is this is exactly what it is. Stop pocket watching. Are you serious? Stop count this man money. You're not even playing, You're not here. It has nothing to do with you. Let this man take care of business how you want to take care of business and make his money just like you did. The hypocrisy is unbelievable that that's that. That just stood out to me, It stood

out to many fans, Danny. I was covering the team when Emmett played and that went down. I was there at the training campus Saint Edwards in Austin, Texas, because I was working there when Emmett missed the two games. I covered one of the games that he missed and then covered the first game that he got back. So I remember it, and I remembered all the scuttle. But because at the time they're defending Super Bowl champions, they

ended up losing one of those games. In the Buffalo Bills, they go oh and two, and everyone says, we've never seen a Super Bowl champions start the season off at two. Charles Haley is so mad he throws his helmet where Jerry Jones is standing in the locker room, missus Jerry, and it's it's stayed. I mean the helmet stayed to all they had to go patch the ball. This thing was at deaf Con five and guess who got exactly what he wanted? It was Emmett Smith was high over

the highest fade running back and something like that. He got paid more, he got he wanted more than Mary Setons. That's when he was trying to get that until he got and and can I say this deserved his money? Okay? I had no issues with Emmett getting what he wanted. I just us found it very interesting. And you tell

me if I'm wrong. I don't remember when Emmett told Ezekiel Elliott to save some money so they can sign him Mark Cooper that and I don't remember hearing any stories about anybody on his team telling him to take less money so he can come back and win the Super Bowl. They I'm sure they were in there saying, hey, man, do what you gotta do. We need you back, but you need to make sure that you get your bread.

Nobody was in the tell them to take less money or he was saying, forget y'all, I'm gonna make it. I have been very frustrated by the social media comments that people are trying to say, you can't pay Dak all that money and go win. There's not going to be anyone to put around Dak. I didn't hear that said about Matt Ryan. I didn't hear that said about Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't hear that set about Carson Wentz or Jared Golf. We pay Tony a hunt of million,

and then we pay Tiring a hunt of million. What are we talking about here? It's like we even dishing out the bread. Like everybody said, it is not Dak's job to figure out how to get the pieces around him, all right, it's not his job to do that. And don't bring it in the outlier of Tom Brady because once again now he's looking back and saying, nah, not

no more. So come on, man, you can't. That's just this this fallacy that that somehow that if the Cowboys pay Dak Prescott, there's nothing that nobody else is on the squad. Meanwhile, Zekiel Eli got his fifteen million per nobody can't. I find it amazing, And you know, go back to what I used to say when I did NBC Sports Radio on a national show. It's amazing on who we choose to forgive and who we choose to condemn.

Jared Goff is making a lot of money with and I've got no problem with Jared Goff making a lot of money, But is Jared God, did he leave some money to pay Aaron Donald. Remember Aaron Donald wuldn't pay the time. I'm still trying to get stuff out, every piece of money that he wanted. There you go. Did Carson Wentz leave any money in Philadelphia? Guess what they're gonna figure it. It's not his job. He's not the GM, not on the books. Did Drew Breese ever try to

say if any dollars in New Yorker anybody? The only person that has done that is I'm Rady the outline, so who also has a very rich wife. Yes, so it's not really hurting for cash, which I don't want to count their pocket like that. But I gotta figure out some type of reason for him to say I'm gonna I lead as much money on the table just to somebody because I'm good everybody and not like that. The Saints are one of those teams always got cap issues that are right there with the cap. Drew Brees

gives no discounts. Guess what he signed and you know what they had room to sign Michael Thomas, didn't they Your job is just trying to figure out how to how you do this. We signed Jay, We did all this before we signed There now here's something else, And I go back to this in the eighties that I saw working when sat before the salary cap was even there. But the forty nine ers were trying to still watch spending. Under Eddie de Barlow, they won so much people decided

they would take less money to win. My friend Toy Cook for years played for the Saints, ended up going out to San Francisco, took less money because he wanted to be a part of a team that won a championship. He got a Super Bowl ring out of it. What have we seen consistently with the Patriots that they're getting people like Chris Long and Durell Reeves to take less

market value because they're winning. If the Cowboys get to the point time where they're winning super Bowls, you're going to have people who decide, I will come and play less for you. The great teams have that, the Spurs, we see that happen. How about Buggy Cousins going to Golden State last year making two million bucks making middle because he wanted to be a part of it. So that's one reason, in one way the Cowboys can be good in terms of trying to get guys to come

and play the lesser value. But your quarterback that's going to come in here and take a Walmart TJ Max contract. Matter how many super Bowls, no matter how many super Bowls you win, you get a new quarterback coming on his team. He not taking less money because he thinks that he go win a super bowls him. Who's going to win you the super Bowl? This is the position is different outlier, Tom Brady, everybody else money, give it to me. I have a feeling that Dak Prescott's probably

not gonna show. But Emmett Smith's gala this year, Uh, you know he might. That's a good guy. We also touched some good guy you but but now you you you went to a place. Yeah, that makes him okay. This is the public perception. The public perception for people is that Dak is being greedy or Dak is not

a team player. I watched I watched the clip of Dan Patrick, who I enjoyed Dan Patrick's radio show, and Dan Patrick is out here to well, you know what, if you win a super Bowl there you can you can win for so you should take less money and you should put people no how about this argument? All right, man, you're making so much money off the field on sponsorships, that you should take less money because you're gonna make

it up anyway off the field. What does that have to do with anything with Jerry Jones and up and uh Dak Prescott. But his play on the field, like I told you last night, that will be the equal to us doing our regular job here right, and our bosses are we are on salary, they paying up some money, and we decide nine ten o'clock at night, we're gonna

go drive Uber to make some extra cash. We get back and work the next day, and the boss says, you know what, since you have enough time to go drive Uber at nine and ten o'clock, we're just gonna pay you less and it is still even out to what you was making originally. Anyway, That is crazy or the other thing that I've seen people beat up guys for, Oh, he's so busy out here doing these endorsements and doing

this other stuff that he's not concentrating on football. I mean, how many times have people beat up Tony Roman and say, oh, he's golfing, He's out here doing this thing. He doesn't care about football. So it's interesting of this gift and the curse and you want to say that I am a fan of Kristaps Porzingis of the Mavericks. They don't get this guy unless he had the knee entry. Okay, because the projection he was on with the Knicks and

making an All Star team. This is a guy that people were thinking was going to be one of the next sets of young superstars. But he gets hurt and then he tells the Knicks he wants out. The Mavericks make the trade for him. Mark Cuban paid him a franchise record one hundred and fifty eight million dollars over the summer. He had yet to play one regular season game. I never heard anybody say Mark Cubans should make Chris staus Porzingis go out there and play and prove himself.

Nobody said Chris stops Porzingis should take less money so the Mavericks can go out here sign on them. You never heard that. But for some reason, we're beating up Dak. We But but there are a bunch of people beating up Dak on that level here, And I don't get it of how a guy who has performed at a high level like Dak Prescott has that has If you go and look at all the metrics. This is a top ten, top twelve quarterback in the NFL last year.

And oh, by the way, and I've said many times before, I don't think Dak Prescott had elite coaching when he was here. It wasn't no Sean McVay callin plays or Sean Payton calling plays around here and running that offense as a head coach. Didn't see that there, You didn't see it. Mike McCarthy is an elite play call an elite head coach. So you put Dak Prescott with a guy like McCarthy, I think of what could be. But

at the same time, let's be honest here. The team could have probably got Dak at thirty thirty million dollars last year. They didn't do it. It's kind of the same thing that happened with Tank Lawrence. You could have got these guys at a cheaper rate, but you wanted to see them play it out. Well, you also wanted to pay LC Collins, and you want to pay Jalen Smith. You you know, you want to take care of those

guys who you were talking about. You know, the pie how much pies love, Dak won't have to pie all right, So you either gonna pay him or you're not. But outside of that, if you are an influential person and you are a former player, you do not you do not speak on this guy taking first. Don't speak gonna take a less money, especially not almost a third like seven millions, like seven million dollars, there's nothing seven okay, So seven million in a year. Let's say he wants

to do a six year deal. You know, look at that. I mean, when you start talking about that, kind of you spaceically saying, hey, man, take a year less salary of what you could be. The franchise tag might be thirty three point for me that I read that on Pro football talk dot com. So if the franchise tag is that, why are you taking twenty eight? That's the other thing, like, right, right, do you understand it's been very oh man? And now did you see the two

tongue of Ioloa interview? Didn't? Okay? So two was talking with Steve Wishon said how he was a Cowboy fan growing up and then mentioned deal, Oh you know what, man, I love to play for Cowboys and he's like and then Steve, which is like, you know what, they already got a quarter they got da I can back Dack up.

You know. So I'm listening to people talking about what if we go get to and I'm sitting here to myself one more time saying, you know, the owner seventy seven years old, the owner does not want to go get a hurt quarterback and then developing. Okay, a hurt quarter You don't even know what he can do for you this year, So let's go draft a hurt quarterback, wait for him to develop, figure out the game. He's not doing that, not when he's got a guy that

he's liked and he's invested. If Jerry Jones wanted to invest the number of years he did in Jason Garrett a decade, you think he's gonna go ahead and dunk Dak Prescott after four years and he's told us all he likes him. I don't know why there are a group of fans who just want Dak Prescott gone out of here so bad that they're they're there. I don't think they're using logic and even understanding what they're saying

about the quarterback that they have. Well, a lot of people don't usual logic when he comes to situation like this, especially fans, and you just got to take it with a grant. It'saw sometimes because sometimes people just don't understand the game in the way that you do, or understand the way that the front office works like you do

because you've been around it. They don't. So they see what they see on Twitter, they see what they see on Instagram, they see what they hear, what they hear on first take and all this other stuff, and it just snippets. They don't really unders and you can't be mad atenh for that because they just that's not their job.

All right. So Danny, here's the thing. The consistent person who's telling that the Dak's not worth this and get rid of DAK is the same fan who tells and says to me on social media we need to bring dead Man. You know, I just told you I said DA's look good over that Bass Scott. I'm white. It's no pass or nothing. But as far as him working out and looking quick and fast enough to play the game,

I think he looks good. One thing I want to I gotta ask you new before we get off here, because I gotta bring my keep my LSU on, all right. You know who got his office of coordinator, right, Scott Linahan, I want to ask you, are we okay? I asked, I asked Brian broad Us this, and Brian broad Us says he's fine because he won't be calling plays that he's an analyst. Since you were talking about Deser wants you to know this is happening in Fort Worth today.

See who does Brian my homeboy? So you said get rid of Sammy Watkins and let DA's get on there. I'm just he looked good. I'm gonna just call it like it is. I don't know. I watched the clips that he put up, and of course they are highlights, but I mean, he looks healthy, he looks quick, he looks fast enough, and he can he can always catch the ball. He looks focused. Talk to you and Cowboy Nation. When I say this, just Dez Bryant's not walking through

that door. No, no no, I didn't say anything about him coming back to the Cowboy But I'm just but I'm telling you, they are a group of people out here who are adamant and want this to happen in the worst way. They really think this is gonna happen if the Cowboys do what we think they'll do. And bring back Amari Cooper and bring back Randall Cobb to go

with Michael Gallo. There's no place for Dez Bryant. There's also the issues that Dez Bryant had with certain members of this football team on his way out, and he's reiterated on Twitter that would be an issue for him to come back. Dez Bryant is not going to wear the star again. You're right, but you I mean, but you can't be mad at those people because they loved this Bryan. They see him do some great things. This is this is all emotional for them. This is emotional,

not business wise. So so, I mean, I get it. The guy. I believe somebody's gonna call him. I believe he's gonna play, and I think he's gonna make a difference on somebody's team, somebody's I'm not sure. You know, you never know the relationship between the Joneses and dead You never know. It's not gonna happen. You never know. Okay, I'll put no, no, no, I just want my papa those first. You can't make another bet until last. I'm paying your back. I'm paying your back and that's done,

new bet. Okay, Look we can so that bead is there. Okay, that's non negotiable. It's it's it's done. Okay, you won that bet, it will be paid. I'm not doing a double enough. But what did you just say about that? So we can on somebody's team full season? No, no, no, See, he's going to play on someone's team in twenty twenty. He's going to get a shot. And I think he's going to shine. I'll get that. I get that. I don't know how it's gonna play out of he you know,

he's in training camp but doing all that stuff. I don't know. But he'll be on somebody's squad. Is that. I bet you willing to mate? You can go to Papa see those this time because I like Mexican too. All the papers give I think you are. I think you're correct there. I think I wouldn't make that. You want You're want to be going too against me? I no, I think because all somebody's got to do is sign him in camp and bring him in and then he's

on a tap. I got the shine part, I said, I said, I think he's going to shine as will. He's going to shine in the role that he's given Okay, I'm not going to debate you on that. All right, I'm not gonna debate you on that. I'm not gonna bebate you. My big thing is to stand biased. He's not playing here anymore. And there's this group of fans who are willing to let Dak Prescott go for Ryan Tannehill or Joe Flacco. I mean, that's some of the crazy things. Or let's make a trade up for two

a tong of iolo. I'm just playing, and people who want to then bring in this just playing. Man, it's my team, that's what they playing. This is not what the organization is working towards. They're working towards a long term deal for Dak Prescott. They're working who's trying to

keep Amari Cooper. They're not working towards bringing back um As Brunt and oh, by the way, the head coach has these things that he wants to head coach is coming here because he's anticipating in the work with number four. That's what he's looking to do. Listen, we see, we got we got it. It's gonna be it's gonna be a crazy month of March, Yes it is. It's gonna

be crazy about the march. Yes, yes, the Cowboys have a lot of work to do, a lot of work to do, and then with one transition tag, it's gonna be tough. Well see, it's gonna be tough. But I do think that you'll see Dak Prescott with a long term deal involved in all the offseason activities with the

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