Player's Lounge: What's Your Concern Level?

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and it was it was real. That's what that was. They call you out, call me. I didn't even know they can see that angle, but I now I see that they can, So you know, gotta be on point. Gotta be on point. You are in the players lads, brought to you by Hotels dot Com new he scrugs long time Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas Cowboys safeties, Barry Church and Danny mccrank. Fellas, they are telling us

there's nothing to be concerned about. Since right tackle l Collins left practice with a minor neck injury and a minor arm injury last year, we were told, hey, it's gonna be okay, he'll be back. He never played a snap last year, So Fellas, your concern level for Collins is what? Church? All right, Well, you know, I'm a little nervous because anything anytime you're dealing with the neat type of issue, that's never nothing to play around with.

But you know, we do have a great training staff here, so you know, and they say there's nothing to worry about, then then I'm gonna go ahead and be with them and say there's nothing to worry about. Hopefully it was just one of those stingers, you know. McCray like how sometimes you know you're banging a little bit in the trenches, sometimes your neck go the wrong way and he kind of sends those shock nerves through your through your arm, and down your legs. So hopefully he's just dealing with

a slight stinger. You know, nothing that you know concerns going forward. I would still like to see him play in this Houston game. I don't know if that's going to happen or not, but I would still like to see him play in that game, seeing as though he didn't play a whole snap last year, and so we gotta knock that rust off. I gotta see him in there. He was in the first couple of preseason games. Um, so you know, I don't think it's nothing crazy to

worry about. But like I said earlier, that neck man that that's never nothing to play with. I mean, vanderash knows it, knows it better than anybody. There's never nothing to play with. So I'm gonna go ahead and put my trust in Jim Mayer, Bretton and boards at the training staff and say there's nothing to worry about, and hopefully we see him in Houston. I just got a quick question for you, bro so, so, so, what was wrong with Tyrant last year? Why did he miss so

many games? I guess that was that neck right. But in answer this question for me, what do you know about stinkers? Right? You don't just have one. Yeah, once you get one, it gets you throughout the whole season. Every time you get hit that way, you get that same film bang and every game play, every snap. Okay, number three knew were in church. Who do I say we should have drafted? I do this? What's coming mission

that I said we should have drafted? And the reasons why we had left tackle who was going to be out. We had a right tackle who had missed the whole entire season, didn't play a snap. We don't even made it to the season. Yet we're in the same position when we were here last year talking about Yeah, hey man, they don't worry about it's all good. Let me tell you something. We played enough football to note, Like you said, neck injuries are real injuries. They should always be a concern.

There's no there's no time when you can say, hey man, this dude has a stinger, he has a neck injury. It's not going to bother him for the rest of the season. That's one of the things you buckle down and you say, all right, this is somethingbody have to deal with for the entirety of the season, and hopefully it can heal after because you don't get a chance to heal during the regular season. So I'm very concerned, very concerned, and we already been worried about our depth.

That old line. Anyways, it's true. Who's I mean, you're gonna throw Terran Steel or Brandon Knight out there? Man? Flashbacks will not let me get me and me and you we get together, you know, we get out there and kick step a little bit. Yeah, I'm concerned, though, new I'm very concerned. I am skeptical, and I think based on what we saw last year, any fans out there should be skeptical as well. Yes, they're telling us this, but as Parcels used to tell tell us all the time,

all I can go by is what I see. And last year we were told things, Hey, this person's gonna be all right, this person gonna be okay, this personna be that we haven't seen. Um. I was at camp when Mike McCarthy's like Yoda should be back in a couple of days, when he back with the shoulders trained. So and they can say they're being cautious, but I at this point in time, I have every right to

be skeptical, and I think fans should be as well. Yeah, I mean, look, even with that injury to Collins, who were gonna put out there like that's the That's the thing that gets me as nervous as anything is, like you know, hopefully you know everything is all right, and you know, like I said, nothing wrong or there's nothing slight about the neck. But who's his backup? Who's gonna be that swing tackle? I mean, we got you know, the rookie Josh Ball, we got you know, Terrence Steel,

Brandon Night in there. I don't know if those guys are ready, and especially seeing what we saw so far in this preseason. They played all right, but it ain't like their you know, main stays any't like ain't like I'm very comfortable with Dak being there behind them. So

we gotta make some choices here. I mean, if if, if, if, if Collins is more hurt than what it seems, we might have to go out there and get somebody to be that swing tackle, because, like I said, I'm not too sure that Terrence Still or Brandon Knight or the or the young Josh Ball in there can withstand you know, a full seventeen stretch seventeen games stretch at that right tackle. I mean, that's that's a demanding position. So we shall see. But what makes me the most nervous is his backups.

I mean that that, I mean what you think about that? I listen, It's concerning on multiple levels for me, right, because we're worried about the depth at old line already. Right, we've seen still we see night get out there. We've seen what they've been able to do and their lack there production. Right, and now you have to worry about our offensive coordinator again, right, because every time we have one of these injuries to a tackle, we always sit here on the show and we say, how are we

going to help this guy right throughout the game? Are we gonna put a tight end out there? Are we gonna chip you know, are we gonna run some misdirection to food these defensive ends? And every week we come back and say, why didn't we do it? Right? So now we have that issue, and then we also have the issue of yeah, whatever they say, right, if Collins come back, comes back and he plays Week one, we know, like I said that, at some point in the season,

this stinger is gonna come back. So you're going to have to be solid with the backup because he's going to get some plan time this year. So it's gonna be very important for us to find that that backup guy who is for sure going to get some some serious reps and the and the other team is going to be keyed in on him once he gets in the game, so he better be ready to go. And and me and we were talking about this yesterday. We got a long stretch from that bye week to the

end of the season. It's eleven games. They got eleven games straight where it's it's no break. You gotta you know, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday's all right in a row. So there's gonna be a lot of games out there for these boys. And if we're already talking about injuries and we haven't even gotten out of the preseason yet, it's a little concerning for your boy, A little concerning for your boy. But i'mnna put my trust in Britt Brower and Jim and Jim Mauer and Britt Brown and the boy to get

that man bright and getting ready for the bucks. Let me tell you something, turn can say all he wants to about the trust in the training staff. Ain't nothing they can do about a stinker. It's nothing they can be the best whatever. Unless you are a magician, those things once they come there happened, you probably will still get a stinger. We're not even playing the game for five years. If you got hit a certain way, you would get a stinger from the same position that you

had ten years ago. There's nothing you can do about it. All right, we've forgotten about tying to Techy here. Okay, he does the guy they signed to be the swing tackle. He's missing time in training camp dealing with the knee. But to me, that would be the first guy I would look for if something would happen with Collins. Josh Ball is not ready, so and so don't even do my opinion, put him in the conversation. Also, while I was there at training camp, had an opportunity to talk

to Terrence Steele. He came over and spoke with the media, and he says he feels that he's made a knice leap because he had a full offseason, because he's had playing raps last year. So I look at the sky and steal and think that, Okay, they've got some good options here. And oh, by the way, it's the National Football League. I don't care who you are. Anybody who's losing a starting tackle in this league, their backups are gonna be a big It's gonna be a fall off huge.

So um, you're just gonna have to deal with it. There. So that that's it. And let me tell you something. Okay, question for you, because we're talking about the right tackle. How is our love tackle performing out there? How when you see him in practice? Is he still the guy? Is he? Is he? Is he Tyrann Smith of what twenty ten like Church said? Is he that guy? Or are you seeing him, you know, slip up a little bit, maybe get beat off the line? Or is he or

he just fantastic? Is Tyrn Smith still all decade? I think he has something to prove. We got to talk to him the other night after the Cowboys game. I mean, you know, the Cowboys practice with the fans there. First off, he looks great. Okay, he looks great, And I said to him, how many more Pro Bowls do you think you're having in? And you know Tyren doesn't like to

go there. And we also talked about his you know, his you know, hey, being out last year, if you thought about you know, where your career is and what you've done, he says, he's just going to take a game by game and ultimately, to answer your question, Danny Tyran Smith is still one of the better left tackles in the National Football League and if healthy, I expect him to have a Pro Bowl season. So we just

got to see if they're healthy. But but that that is, you know, the life of any left tackle in the National Football League. And I'll say this, man, if you guys start checking Twitter, you start looking at other teams. You go to a place like Cincinnati, they got questions about their football team on the offensive line. I can't remember who I just saw that was about to sign Jason Peters to play left tackle. And I'm like, wow, you signed at Jason Peters. I mean, you know, you

really reach it right there. So so so you know, this is an issue across this league. Man. I'm even with the the Rams have issues in question marks at their offensive line spot. So I think sometimes we looked at the Cowboys and that's all we look at and you think, oh, man, you know this guy here, this guy there. Even Connor Williams well it's Carter Williams is gonna be good. Connor Williams to be a starter on basically twenty other teams in the National Football League, and

they'd love to have him. It's just with the Cowboys, you've got this high standard because you got a Hall of Famer and that Martin has been to get a Hall of Fame resume, and you judge him, you judge him off that. You judge him off for Nate Newton, you judge him off for Hilarry All. I mean, there has been some excellent guard play with the Cowboys the last twenty five years. So you know it's Connor that no. But you know what, this dude is a is a

good starter in the National Football League. And I think so many times we can we can kind of forget, forget that a lot of teams in this league have issues. But the difference between us and those other teams are we've paid our two tackles right and left, and we went through this last year. Ye right, this is this is a consecutive thing that's going on, right. Tyrant has been injured in consecutive years going back before last year. Layle missed the entire season last year, the entire season.

We have not made it through training camp and he already has another issue. So other teams may be going through stuff like that, But these are two guys that we've paid. We've found the guys that we want, and we can't keep them on the field and healthy for us to have our full old line so we can get back to moving that line of scrimmage, having Ze be productive and producting protecting back back there. Are you comfortable well what we have now at the backups for

the right tackle, left tackle. Are you comfortable with Terrence still Be or Terrence Neil Knight the Sky being one of those swing tackles man, you know, just based off what I've seen from from two of those guys in the past. Absolutely not. Um, I think that's fair. I think it the Seki. I think he is probably going to earn the right to see if he can go out there and be productive and be that swing swing tackle. Um. But as of right now, based off what I've seen, Nah,

I'm not kind of like backup quarterback. Yeah, that's true. Newly you comfortable with the situation? To me, I'm looking at how Mike McCarthy and Kellen Moore and Joe Philbin handled the situation. Let's say that you don't have Collins out there for any time at all, and you got to go into Secy or you gotta go with Steel, then make sure number eighty seven Jeremy sprinkles out there as well, helping block. Just help these guys, that's what

you got to do. In the past, they've been unwilling to help some of these guys and leave out there one on one. Just stop doing that. Make sure that the tackle has some help, because you know what, if I've just got CD Lamb and Amari Cooper and a route, I think I could win and got and got twenty one in the back too, I think I could win a lot of matchups. And so to me, it's how you go ahead and utilize these guys. We got to

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the players Lounge, brought you by Hotels dot Com. We scrubs longtime Cowboys reported joined by two former Dallas Cowboys satans who are undrafted made the football team, Danny McCrae and Barry Church. So he wants to know what you would do and doing training camp? Did you take everything with? You said? Shelves empty? I remember before we look back there there was books lined up and down Amy Awards. I mean it was what was going on with the

with the backsplash you got going on there. It's looking a little empty right now. Yeah, hight over there. We are undergoing some changes. Baby. We were trying to remodel. He got his motorcycle helmet up, the eracing helmet. I mean, you know, because mister Fancy was out there, the Nancy, you know, driving around. He invited us to day after everybody years, let me see the jumper, let me see the basketball in ten years now. And I digressed. Let's get back to it. So you were saying, Jay, what

happened to that fantasy football trophy. Ha wow, I had to get you, man, My bad had to get you though. Baby. I love it. I love it. You got you. Guys are so black, so black man. He's gotta come out with jokes, beating up folks. I gotta I gotta schedule thing here, and I'm trying to get We got it. Hey, thank thanks for that. Thanks for that. Man. I ain't snitching on the body, but I'm snitching on them. Yeah yeah, ce ceb that local build. You want to tell my back.

He took all the books back to the line. Back. We gotta get off you off you are not bad. That's all it does. Man, That's a one. Thats right there. We miss you knew it. That's what I did. I did give the fantasy football trophy back. They can't knocked on your note. That's what we're gonna need it. We need that back. But it was it was COVID. It was COVID so and then the person who had it can't put it their desks because they don't have them

working at the desk. I was like, it may just take it on home, you know, so let him rent it for a few months and try and get that bad boy back. So so that's got to the fantasy trophy here, and I got my draft. I got my draft Saturday. I got the number two picking and overall drafts. I gotta figure out who I'm gonna take. But okay, but we're trying to get a fancy football trophy. Back over to the NBC five. Can we can we talk about Jaylaen Smith? Now we are we done with a

joke on me? Don let's getting those Let's get in more jokes. And I got more joking on Jay Okay, I'm not here. I am not here to joke on Jayila. By the way, have you seen the Netflix special called This Is Pop? If you have? Okay, it's very good. And there's this episode about Tea Pain and Auto Tune and T Pain was flying to an award show and he's on the plane and the stewardess comes over and says, hey,

Usher would like to have a work with you. So te Paint and Usher friends and t paints like, oh yeah, let me go over here talk to him in us. She's got this concerned look on his face and he says over to Tea Paint, hey man, you really left up music, and it was because te Pain was using the auto tune and so many other people were using auto tune. So folks like Usher, we're getting mad. He's like, hey, man,

I'm out here singing using my voice. You guys out here, you know, messing up the game got Jennifer Lopez making hit album Hit Records with auto tune. So te Pain had that song with with Kanye West. Man, Kanye West did a whole album on auto tune, but people blame Tea Paint and they said you're the problem. You're what's wrong, And he said, man, I went to a four year depression after that conversation with Usher because he was doubting himself in his crab and I look at social media.

Jay Z came out with the yes the whole song, Yeah, yes, get but he says, get back to wrapping your tea painting, and that's a that's a cold line. So te Pain talked about how man all this affected him and I sit here and I see all this media hate for Jalen Smith and he should be the fourth linebacker and

trade him and cut him. I'm thinking myself, Man, if this brother is reading this stuff, he about to have a tea pain moment where everybody's mad at him, and I'm sitting around here and I'm thinking, here's a guy that has led the team and tackles the last two years he has played. And if anything, the drafting of Michael Parsons and also the improvements of what we're seeing from from someone like a Keyan O'Neil, that your linebacker room is going to get better. And if lake vanderest

she's back to where he was last year. Yes, Jalen is going to be most likely your fourth linebacker. But is that a bad thing? Aren't those guys right now playing better? Don't they have a potential to give dan Quinn more of what he wants. Doesn't make a linebacker room better? And ain't Jalen's fault that they paid him. They ain't throw that money at you. You're gonna go ahead and take it. But Thang is beating this guy up, and I feel like, man, you're treating Jane like tea pain? Man.

Why dontta treat Jane like tea pain? Yeah? Yeah, I listen. I don't to some extent, I don't think it's fair. Right. We make fun of him a little bit for the advertisements in the swiping and stuff, but that's his swag and swag. His swag got him paid. Right, people began to love Jaylen Smith. Well we knew about the NFL is or what have you done for me lately? Lead? All right? At first it was a feel good story. Jaylen Smith's back everything he overcame, and then he had

a good season. They were like, okay, all that's behind him, all right, we don't care about none of that. Can you play ball now? And then you saw a little bit of you know, regression, you know, and we blame I blame a lot of that on the past defensive coordinator who set these guys back so much. Man, And thank god for dan Quinn coming in here and getting these guys right, but they set them back right. So the expectation now for jay Lens, especially after you get paid,

it's to be one of the greatest. We want to see you, you know, expand on what you did that year when we thought we had the best linebacker corps in the NFL. And it just hasn't been that way. But he's still celebrating and doing his advertisements as if he had been playing that way last season. I think that's the issue was like, hey man, stop all the celebrating and get back to what you were doing that that allowed you to do those type of celebrations. Make

those tackles. We want to see you break down and be able to make open field tackles and run sideline of sideline. If you're not doing that, then stop with the celebrating. I'm not hating on them. Make your money, man, do you but then you got to be open to the criticism that comes your way. That is true. And you know Spider Man said the best Man or his uncle Ben or whatever his name was, with great power comes great responsibility. And when you get the bag like that,

I mean he got sixty five ms. When you get that bag like that, people are gonna expect great things out of you. And he provided that. That first year he went to the Pro Bowl twenty eighteen, everything was on fire. He was doing great returning fumbles for touchdowns, he was making great splash plays. And then as the years went on, it just slowly went down and down as far as his production as far as making splash plays out there, that being that key defender out there.

And then now you got a new rookie coming in the new the brand new toy that everybody's kind of like, oh man, this guy's on fire and he's actually playing well too, and he's making these other linebackers seem a lot slower. But this guy runs a four three. I mean, this ain't like it like a regular guy. This dude's running the four three, so he's gonna make other guys

look slow out there. But I think the main thing with the fan base about j Jala Smith is when you don't play up to your price tag, people are gonna get on you about that. And it is it fair now? Because like Nui said, like Nui said, like nw he said, he didn't get He didn't he didn't say you know, they he didn't tell him. He didn't force him to pay him. You know, he just he took the bread. But with that, when taking that bread, you gotta your play has to Your resume has to

keep keep getting different each and every year. And he hasn't updated his resume. He's still living off of that Pro Bowl to twenty eighteen seasons. So I get why the fans are getting on him a little bit. Is it kind of harsh? Yes, because it gets personal. You know, they take it outside of football. Sometimes, you know, I could see getting on his play, but when you get on everything else about it, you know, that's that's a

little bit too much. But if the guy's not playing to his price tag, I mean, you're gonna get You're gonna get what you're getting. You know, people are gonna get at you. Okay, Church, Church, Church, I'm I'm anna interject on this. When you talk about playing to the price tag, it's it's not like he set the market at his position in the National Football League or even

the highest paid player in Cowboys history. We've seen guys who've hit that mark here recently who have not played up to the level, and they don't get that same key and same vitriol from Cowboy fans to Jayalen does that's true, you're talking about You told about the Marcus Lawrence right who only got he only had like five sacks. But if you look at the Pro Football Focus, everybody's you know, big grades on here, he's still one of

the highest graded defensive lignment. If you look at Jalen Smith's Pro Football Focus, what everybody grades on, he's one of the lowest raded linebackers and all he's saying he's making, you know, terrible plays out there. He's not gonna help the team at all. No, but if you're getting paid that much, your play has to go batch it. Who was the last linebacker to get paid by the Cowboys, Because I'm in my mind, I'm thinking Jalen Smiths set

the Cowboys market for linebackers, all right? They let they let Anthony Hitchins get out of here. He wouldn't won a Super Bowl. If another safety comes in and signs a deal, hired in yours and they let you go, then they set the market for the Cowboys at safety. Everybody's gonna be like, we don't care what other teams that play safeties. The Cowboys have never been in the

pan's safety maybe since Darren Woodson. So if they pay a safety, even if he's not the highest pay safety, the expectation for that guy is going to be higher than Jamal Adams. You're the highest paid at your position in the in the locker room, yeah, things are gonna be expect You're expected to be the best at that at that position and right now being fourth, they being the fourth most productive and you're the highest paid. It

just doesn't add up. I think, and I also think that fans are looking for a reason to kind of explain why Jaylen Smith's production is fell off. Right. It's like, it can't just be the scheme. It can't be this, oh well now, it has to be that he's not focused and that that always comes back to the Cowboys. Right.

Anytime you see a Cowboy go out and do some type of marketing or do some type of commercial and then we don't have a good season, what do they say, Oh, they're not focused, right, They focus on they focus on the brand, they focus on whatever. I'm like, you could do both, right, just because you shoot a commercial that ain't gonna make you miss a tackle, you just didn't have a good season, right. Tony Rommel went through that. If Tony was caught playing golf somewhere, everybody it would

get on him and say that he wasn't focused at all. Here. But I go back to Jalen Smith and the fact that the Cowboys decided to pay him. This is really on management and management's decision and what to do. They ezekie elliet ninety million dollars. Then they go hire a head coach who doesn't want to run the football last year. He didn't happen because season at all. Amari Cooper gets paid a whole lot of money last year and he

didn't have the season. When you talk about what you got paid for, I mean, so I'm telling you man, the bar for Jalen and even just the way we choose. That's why I used to say I'm old NBC Sports Radio show. It's interesting on who we choose to condemn and who we choose to forgive. So we forgiven Ezekiel Eli, We're forgiven Cooper, we forgiven Tank, but Jaylen Smith you're damned.

And that's how cowboy fans on Twitter treating this guy heat the first dude to walk out of here get a whole bag, and he's saying, huh, I mean Brandon Carr got fifty million dollars. He wasn't a fifty million dollars corner. You know. It's not the Miles Austin got paid a whole lot of money and he was never the same player. Jalen Smith is really along the line of the cowboy mistakes that we can look at in the last fifteen years and take did you overpay this player?

It's happened, and it happens with every team, every team old on hold on the exception, with the exception of Miles Austin, because he was doing some crazy stuff, you know, on the field when he got paid. Miles Auston was out there getting two hundred yards this game, one fifty to the next game. So I'm gonna take him out of that category and say, when't they paid him? He was worth it. I think then it kind of fell

off a little bit. I think the biggest difference between you know those examples yet Ezekiel Elliot is the DeMarcus Lawrences, you know, the Miles Austins, all those all those things, is the difference is Jalen Smith got a new shiny toy behind him, and everybody's gonna want to play with that new shiny toy, which is Parsons. So they're gonna make every excuse and every oh man he missed, he

just can't play. They're gonna go ahead and get on him because they see what they what they have behind him, and they want that new shiny toy to go ahead and play. So they're gonna sit there and do everything they can to get You know, mister clear, I have you Jalen Smith about it there, which is it fair now, But that's the fan base we live in. But that's

also that's also an NFL. That's it. That's true. If you got a guy behind you pushing you and he's making better plays than you and you're not making those plays, that's the league, man. You know, no matter how much money you got, it's always gonna be somebody that's creeping

up behind you trying to take your spot. And eventually they always went out, with the exception of a Tom Brady, you know, it always happens to where somebody is younger, faster, bigger, stronger, and they come and they take your position because you got older and father you're the first round him. They're gonna have to play. I mean they're gonna have to well. Well, I think the Cowboys would put themselves in a very good position because Jalen Smith hears it, he knows it.

He's got to have a good year. If he wants to come back next year, he's gonna he's gonna need to have a good year. And if he wants to leave and get a contract after he leaves here, he's gonna need to have a good year and late Vanderest. The team said, you know, we're not gonna pick up your fifth year option, so he's got something to play for. And to me, the Cowboys that put themselves in a nice position. Oh, by the way, Danny, you weren't here.

And I said this about Jalen Smith in the linebacker group. Yes, seventeen game season, there's a stretch where you're gonna play eleven games in a row. They're gonna need all these guys. Okay, they're going to need all these guys. Kean O'Neill has an injury history, Late Vanderest has an injury history. Jabril Cox and Michael Parsons these are rookies, and Michael Parsons didn't play football last year. So this sense that you

know what, cut Jaylen Smith, will trade him. You're gonna need all these guys over the course seventeen games during this season, So there's no reason to cut the guy or anything like some of the drastic things we're seeing. It's this man, let this thing play out, and let's let's have some faith that dan quinn is going to

be able to utilize these guys correctly. Now, speaking of that, Tampa Bay is the first game So you're gonna have a nickel defense with your linebackers out here, because they've got some outstanding weapons three group right receivers and Chris Godwin, Mike Evans, and Antonio Brown. Then he got Rob Gronkowski at tight end. Also got oj Howard coming back and tight end for Tampa as well. So who are your nickel linebackers right now in your opinion for this Tampa

Bay game. We'll start with you, Danny Oho. My man Mica is definitely gonna be in there. Uh, you know, it's a little tough man, because I haven't really been able to see practice. I know I've seen my man Jalen in coverage, um, and I'm not liking it. Right. So if I'm gonna have to leave one of these linebackers in there, I'm going with fifty five at the mic.

I'm putting Parsons opposite of the nickel so he can play on that tight end a little bit, and and I rode with that, put Jordan Lewis at the slot and and we'll see what happens. And then if it doesn't work out, I'm still not putting Jayal in there. I'm gonna give Hi I'm gonna give I'm gonna give my man Parsons some time, right, because we can't go

into this game and forget that. Even if Parsons doesn't perform how we expect him to, it's his first NFL game, right, So what the expectation is for him to out there in lockdown everybody, it's not realistic, all right, So give him some time. Let him get out there. This is gonna be a really big test for him, a really good learning experience, and I think he'll get better from it. So put eleven out there, Put fifty five so he can get on a playoff Lenny, and then see what

see how it shakes out. Look, man, when you're talking about Nickel personnel, we're basically talking about the starters, because that's basically what every offense is going towards. Nowadays, it's more spread offense. Everybody's starting an eleven personnel. Nobody's really dropping out there in twelve or twenty one personnel. Everybody's in the eleven person So when we talk about this Nickel linebacking group, we're talking about a group that's gonna

play probably seventy percent of the snaps out there. So basically, your starters that for me, I'm gonna have to say my nickel tandem now, it's not gonna happen, and it ain't gonna happen because you know, I already know what it is and they ain't gonna happen. But I would love to see Parsons and Keyan O'Neil out there. I felt like that tandem in Arizona when they played, I felt like they fed off each other great. They're both sideline and sideline guys, open field guys that can play

in space, and I think they can. You know, Keane knew it is't the best coverage guy that there is, but if they ask him to guard an in line tighten or running back coming out the backfield, I think he's more than capable of doing that. So I feel like those two are best opportunities to pretty have a good solid nickel defense. I mean, when you when you talk about Keana know he's coming from safety. I'm not sure how he's gonna do against the you know, in

the trenches and all that. But after watching this guy at the point of attack, you know he arrives, he arrives at the ball with violence. I mean, it's not like leaky yardage where you know he's contacting the running back and running backs falling forward for an extra three to four yards. This is guy's stopping people dead in their tracks or he's driving them back. So I think he has what it takes to be an every down

linebacker in this league. And I think so far he's performed the best as far as open field and covering than any other guys. And then we got you know, Parson's over there, who's flying around the football. So I would love for them to see. For the Cowboys that have those two guys jot out there, it's not gonna happen. It's gonna be lv and Jaylen Smith going out there, and then we're gonna have to go through our bumps and bruises out there until they put the other two in.

But for me, that's that's who I would have out there because you know, I feel like they give us the best opportunity to play in space and that's where this league is going. It's all space ball. Can you see a package where it's Neil fifty five and Parsons own and they treat they treat they treat Neil like a walk down safety. So he's always gonna be down. But who is he gonna be? Is he gonna be walked oft on over the slot? It depends on who

who they want him to cover. I would say no, only only because when an offense comes out and they see that package, they're gonna know that if it's a pass, that that defense got gotta be in zone because I mean, and it's just gonna be and it's gonna be a telltale because they're not gonna have Kean O'Neil, you know, guarding a slot one on one. I don't. I don't

think that's a good matchup at all. So they're gonna know that it's gonna always be zoned and they're gonna have their zone beers out there for so it's gonna be hard to disguise that type of package out there. But I still think that's better than well, I mean, I mean, it's him playing the safety. Oh, it's him playing the safety, right, So you got the two safeties and a linebacker, right, but he's one of the safeties, okay, and you still have a slot out there. But the sky, yeah,

I think the guys is out saying yeah. But if you remember, if you remember dan Quinn. This guys was they tried a little bit, but we knew exactly what they were running, right, and they got out there and they played the coverage. UM. So I mean you like saying we're all dreaming, it's not gonna happen. We all know what's gonna happen. It would be great though, what you think about. So let me ask this question here because we bring up Kean O'Neill who was with the

Atlanta Falcons and the Falcons faced the Bucks twice a year. Um, being NFC South team, So how much in terms of hint and I know Tom Brady was there last year it was just first year, but just an ability to have spent time prepping and watching Tampa Bay. How much do you think that factors into them putting him out on the field in a Nickel package in your opinion? Uh? Me,

not really. UM, I think this is this is entirely good and sometimes you have some guys that are out there being able to recognize some of that stuff, but it's not often and coaches really don't plan on putting guys out there specifically for that reason. Right, It's a plus, but I don't think they will be out there just

for that. Yeah, I think he can help them out as far as letting them know, you know what, you know, Mike Evans likes to run what Godwin likes to run, you know, maybe what Howard likes to run in that tight end position. But as far as giving them that, you know, the nuances and all that stuff, I don't think it'd be that big of a big of a thing um for them going forward with him being a being that played against Tampa Bay all those years. All right,

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We're talking about well, we're talking about you. You your desire to to already say that they should have, you know, drafted an offensive tackle instead of drafting I was screaming up. I was screaming up from the raptors all last year. That's no secret. I think we did good with Parsons. By the way. By the way, Rashawn Slater is having a good training camp apparently with the Chargers and the

Cowboys will see him week two, so Parsons later. I think we should be able to see something a week two and then you can start to go from there. No Hard Knocks Episode two air Tuesday night. What were your initial thoughts about the show? Start with you, mister positivity. Danny Krept Listen, I think I think Hard Knox is a little different now because it's the Cowboys. I said it before and I'll say it again. I knew this was going to be the Zeke and Dak show. It

is literally all about Zeke and Dak. They did have have my Man in there. I forget his name was at the Man, Yeah, So they had him on there. They had a special little story on Yeah, which was which was great to see some insighter that I see his mom at the game, you know, dressed in her culture and all that stuff. I thought, I thought that was really amazing. And then right after that you go back to Zeke. You know this with is um uh

sunflower seeds. The whole like the whole game was about Zeke and subflower seeds, and you know, so I'm like, I like the show. I like where they're going with it. But I really enjoyed the show the previous shows because they showed a lot more of those bubble guys and the lifestyle that they live and how much pressure they were under and trying to figure out if they were gonna make the team for me, because that's the position that I was in. I'd like to see more of that,

but you know it was good. Not much Mike McCarthy again, we saw a little bit, little bit of Jarry. But one of these days knew we're gonna see a little personality come from McCarthy and see what he's all about. One day we're gonna see. I ain't gonna lie. I'm thinking Hard Knocks right now, it's pretty boring. I mean, I'm like, I'm sitting there, I'm like, man, well, what

happened to the flair? I mean, like the previous Hard Knocks seasons, there was always you get to see all the dudes joking around in the locker room, playing pranks on each other, just talking noise left and right, you know, getting ready to line up somebody. I'm gonna smoke you or I'm gonna burn you, I'm gonna lock you up. Like it was a lot of that in them Hard Knock seasons. Now it's just it's just like a reality show. It's like keeping up with Dah and Zeke right now.

And and I understand, you know there's stars, they're you know, faces of the franchise. You know, they're a couple of stars in the NFL. You know that just got paid all that good stuff. But man, I want to see more, Like you said, I want to see more of the bubble guys what they're going through, you know, because it's stressful for them right now. You know, they're they're they're fighting and scratching and clawed just to make it onto

the fifty three man roster. So I'd like to see them dive more into that, into what they got going on, seeing how they pick up the playbook under Like, man, I don't know how I'm I'm gonna perform this preseason game, Like you know, see what these guys are going through. I think that'd be more authentic, and I think it would be a little bit better and better for TV. Right now. I feel like it's just a reality show right now. And you know, like like I said, you

got to keep up with the stars. But I want to see a little bit more of those those guys in the trenches, those guys that are battling for that fifty three man spot, and it show a little bit more camaraderie, shows some more joking around with other people. I mean, I know there's more personalities than than he can doc out there. We got some funny cats on the team, so I think it's pretty boring so far.

But I did like Azor Kamara's part in the show where you know, his family got to see him for the first time playing in the International Football League, first time watching them play, and he ended up going in there and getting the would be game when it's sacked but Arizona fall started and then ended up giving them life again. But I think it was you know, I think that part of the show was definitely great and definitely worth watching. But so far this season, I'm kind

of bored with it. I will say. I do also want to see more competition. Ye seeing one on ones and now he saw the Mojo moment for the last episode. We ain't seen, you know, any of those moments to where it's person situations and you see like a CD going against tray Undude, Like we should see that repeatedly.

We should see Michael Parson's going against the Zeke, you know what I'm saying that one on one we should be able to watch that and see the reaction on how it happened, to see how excited one is to win and how they do talk back to each other, Like we haven't been able to see any of that. It's really been like I said, but I will say this, I do like what they did with the Marcus Lawrence and his family, how they saw him, you know, at

the beach and all that. It kind of got to humanize these guys to where, you know, everybody just kind of sees them as football players football football twenty four seven, and we kind of got to see, you know, a little little a little bit of lightened to you know, the Marcus Lawrence and how how his family is and how they can make it a tradition to come out to ox North. So I like that part as well. But like you said, man, we gotta see some more competition.

I want to see some more hits thrown fights, something we see. We haven't seen much of it all right, since you guys are TV producers now, he asked us the question. So so, so I'm going to I'm going to defend the show a little bit in this way. Number One, I don't know what they can and can't do because of pro of COVID protocols. Because if you remember, in some of the episodes they did last year, they went to guys houses and they got to hang out with him, So you haven't seen too much of that.

You know, they did see show you and TD Lamb's you know, residence in hotel room and you saw Zeke there. So that part I do wonder about. And here's a really really big part that most folks don't know. And I found this out because I was sitting around talking to Rich down report the media party and he said he has to go. He's like, yeah, I gotta get back because I have to edit hert knocks And we were talking to the Hall of fameers like yeah, I

gotta get back. So Rich is basically in there. Rich is the Turk for hard Knocks, where he goes in there says take that out. Yeah, that's not gonna be in here. So I do wonder how much of the how much of the eraser has he gone in there? For now? I know Rich and McCarthy are boys. They're both Pittsburgh guys. I mean, they're boys. There was something

that may not have made McCarthy look good. Maybe did he Rich say Nope, I don't want that in there because I don't want McCarthy to do dad, you know, to ever look like Hugh Jackson did, Campo did during Hard Knocks because Dave Campo and Hugh Jackson did not come off good, and I know that's been an issue for McCarthy. They want to make sure the guy looks good. So I do wonder how much creative control the Cowboys have have exhibited in making this really in the episode

two of my opinion, just kind of snoozing. Yeah, and that is true. That is true. I didn't realize that, you know, they got to go in here and kind of erase some of the stuff. So maybe they did take some of the juicy stuff out. But I don't know, man, I still think it's kind of boring right now. They need to go ahead and show a little bit more competition. What you think about that? Yeah, listen, I don't think Richard's going in there telling them not to show the

bubble players. You know that he might be. He might be going in they're telling them, you know, how to

make McCarthy look, how to make Jerry look. But as far as what we're asking for, showing competition on the field, like we already know, they're not going to show us plays and schemes and stuff based off what we saw it last season when they did the Cowboys Night, and we all went to watch it on TV and we just saw the sideline, so we know they're not going to show that, but we're just asking for straight competition, competitive rips. Seeing these guys in their competitive element and

then seeing the reaction to that. Right, some of the best stuff that we saw with Dez when they want all the nothing his competitive spirit you can't guard. Yeah, yeah, then you seeing the other players like who you're talking to? Girl, So I'm gonna get like, like people enjoyed that. They want to see that fire and they love you for that. And I don't feel like we've seen that from for anybody, Like we see Parsons talking about talking a lot about football.

Outside of that, we haven't seen anybody getting getting into that type of element? Are you here? When Aiden was kind of just like a quality control guy here? And that's what cracks me up about it the boat Like when I when I look at Aid and how far he's climbed because he's a deep as a line coach now. But when I was here back in I think it was twenty fourteen, it was right before you got back in twenty fifteen, he was like a quality control guy.

He was just you know, helping out on scout team, running and running routes for us, and to see him kind of grow into that deep as a line coach, and it's hilarious to me, mister positivity, I gotta, I gotta do it. Let me see what Big Cat here. When Aiden was here running around on quality control. Yes, okay, I'm just because I'm yes, good, Okay, was here and Big Cat has been here since then in the churches

with those guys. But because I saw him with the bags and stuff, I was like the big kid, Okay, yeah, yeah, listen, you gotta do what you gotta do, guess. So I'll defend I'll defend it in this sense because we spoke about this before and when I said, whoever, whatever coordinator you brought in here, you needed to let him bring in his guys who could teach his system. So Aiden, it was with dan Quinn in Atlanta and Big Cat

dan Quinn don't have a working relationship. So based on its atrocious is what we saw from Mike Nolan last year. I felt that dan Quinn should be able to get his guys and he did on the front and the back ends, and dan quinne if if you're out there training camp like I was, you see him doing a lot of work with the D line, So he's actually making sure that Aiden is getting more what he wants done.

So I'm defending it that way because I just felt like they needed to give the defensive coordinator what he needed to and I saw what they did with Christopher Sharp, and Christoph Sharpe wanted to bring in his own linebacker coach, Michael Barrow, and they were like, Nah, we already got a guy who's here, and that didn't work out at all. Yeah, that's true. I guess when you come bloom, so I guess. I mean you want guys that come in, you know, to teach your system that's been under your system. So

I can understand that for sure. But I got a question for both of y'all. Does this seemed like to y'all that most defensive coordinators or D line coaches, because I mean it was like it was it was Rob Bryan, it was Marinelli was our DC. He was a D line coach. Dan who is the DC, he's a D line coach. When I was in Jacksonville, our DC, he was a D line coach. I mean, it just feels like I would say this, I had mil Tucker, who

was defensive backs backs. TAB never had a defensive backs coach be the DC because then everything were favorite of the secondary, you know, and we never had that. Everything here has always been about we got to put the defensive line in the best position they can be in and y'all just feed off of that. I just never I just I just always wondered if it was like that. But I guess as you got a dB coach, I mean sounded a little jealous their church, they put us

in some afantageous positions. Right. Well, I'll go back to uh, you know, Mike Zimmer was here, he was a DB's coach, he's a coordinator. Dave Campo was a dB dB coach before he became the coordinator on their Super Bowl thirty team. So they have they've had guys who've been uh, you know, defensive back coaches in the past. So so we have seen that Brian Stewart, who was a defensive coordinator under way his first year here. Brian was a defensive backs

coach when he came over from the Chargers. So it's there, and then of course you start looking at Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll. These guys were during their time. So that's true. So we've seen Tom Landry and people forget Tom Landry is a former defensive back uh uh at the University of Texas in the NFL, then became the Giants defensive coordinator and helped put in that flex defense.

So I think, what is if when he was here, if we would have had a defensive coordinator that was a dB coach, he would have never got to go to Jacksonville because he would have got paid. They would have showed him their respect. But you know, it didn't happen. So they ended up paying d law huntymon. They paid D what they paid other guys on the defensive line before they would paid defensive backs because the defensive coordinator

was it D line coach. I feel you sadies act been paid here since I mean, who was the last safety they got paid here? Was? It was? It was sensible and then they got rid of him that right, I mean, so I pretty much knew I wasn't gonna get paid here. I knew I was on to weigh yall that last. But no, they don't don't let church for you. They paid you while you were hurt. They got the discount check on that one, but they didn't look out for me because I was coming in with

the achilles I was. I signed my contract rolling in here on a scooter. So shout out to Jared. He didn't shave a nothing. Man came. What was my man? George had with the beer going it was It wasn't a good look, but I was. I was on trying times back then. So the Cowboys will take on the Houston Texans Saturday night at and T Stadium. It is the technical dress rehearsal. Mike McCarthy has already said that no starters are going to play in that last preseason

game against Jacksonville. They will treat that as a game for guys trying to make the team. Um, Dak Prescott is not going to play. Mike McCarthy stay, he wouldn't be surprised if he didn't. Teeny snaps, which is just you know, you guys have been around the block. You know he's not playing, as Ellen's not playing. How do you feel about twenty two one four basically twenty one and four two one four not getting any snaps in the preseason and their first action is going to be

against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Week one. Well, well, to me, I'm gonna be honest with you, Um, before the injury, before Dak's injury to his shoulder, out have been like, man, come on, we gotta get this guy at least, you know, one or two series in this whole preseason because he hasn't played in such a long time. He hasn't been around live bullets in such a long time. But after that injury to his shoulder, you know, I don't think the risk doesn't The risk doesn't outweigh a reward like

or the risk whatever. Either way, it doesn't. It doesn't make sense to me because if he goes out there and let's just say he suffered some fluke injury, I mean, what's the whole season's down the drain. And if he doesn't, I mean he played a preseason game, which doesn't matter so to me, and in the Dak thing, I have no problem with him not playing. Zeke on the other hand, I mean, he hasn't played in the preseason game and what since his rookie year maybe, and then each year

after that has been a decline. I just want to see him go out there and at least get one or two one or two series out there. I'm not saying he has to play the whole game or to get you know, fifteen carriers or anything like that, but just let him get his feet wet a little bit, let him, you know, get acclimented to being out there. I don't want to go him to go out there against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which is a fierce defense. That ain't no defense that's just you know, Johnny Come

Lately or whatever type of defense. This is a fierce defense out there. I don't want him to go out there and just be man shell shocked and getting his head knocked off out there. So I'd like to see him get a couple rests, but he's not gonna do it. Hopefully he comes into that Tampa Bay game ready to roll because he won't have any preseason snaps. I'm kind of opposite the Church on the Zeke thing. Seventeen game season.

The way that I expect them to play and I hope that they play, is that this guy gets more snaps, more runs than he's gotten in his entire career. Right what we know about Zeke is if you feed him and he's protecting the ball. He's going to make some plays, all right, And when he comes to Dak, I would honestly rather see Dak go out there and play like garbage the first two games because he didn't play in the preseason, then risk him going out there and playing

in the preseason and getting hurt. If he goes out there and he has a slow start because he hasn't played in real live snaps since he got hurt last season, I am totally okay with that. We've all agreed that the first four games anyway, we should be a very run heavy team, all right, So let back EA's back into and he's back into the game, give him some easy throws to get him ready to go, and I

think he'll be fine. One thing we know about Dak is we have not seen him go out in a season and not put up some of the best quarterback numbers that we've ever seen. He's been doing it since he got into the league. So I don't like I doubt that it would change this year. He's gonna be a little rusty, but I'm not worried about it. Leave him on the sideline, Leave Zeke on the sideline, because in all honesty, Our entire season depends on those two guys.

It's very true, Louis. And you've got Amari Cooper, who will play against the Houston Texans, number nineteen practicing this week, says he is going to play your thoughts all right, listen, I'm glad you brought up Coop because the last time I was on the show, I remember we were talking about how Coop's gonna be the number one because that's comfortable with him, and I've meant to bring that up about hard knocks say what you want too, though, But

when I was hearing those clips of Dak talking about what Cedee Lamb could do, I was like, new number one guy, he said, man, he said easiest. He's an easy guy to throw the deep ball too, because he just runs up under that thing. And you just see him looking at all as he watched Ceedee Lamb make all these spectacular catches and rock these guys up. He's looking at CD like, I can't wait to get out there and be able to throw this guy in the real game because we're gonna do some real, real damage.

I'm looking at seeing CD Lamb by the end of the season being the number one option on the Dallas Cowboys team in the receiving corps. It ain't no way like I love I love CD and what he's bringing to the table. I think he's definitely poised to make that year or two jump and he's gonna be one of the best. But I think he'll be a one B or maybe a two. I mean, we can't forget about Cooper here. I mean, this is a guy. Five of the last six seasons he's went over a thousand yards.

I mean, this guy, he's a legit receivers. What's Miles Austin here when Dad's got here? Yeah? Okay, because Miles Austin was one, Davis was two, and quickly in that season, Davis became the number one. Okay, I'm seeing that now. It didn't take anything away from Miles. It ain't taking nothing away from Coop, but what we're what we're seeing as far as OTAs and training camp from CD. You

can't deny that it's been great. It's been great to watch, So I don't I can see this happening where Back gets in there and he's thrown at the CD and CD becomes that guy. And we already saw last season that Keller Moore is willing to put CD Lamb in those situations when his crunch time and get him the ball. And that was his rookie season. So Keiller Moore's watching this, Ye're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, all right, all right, let me let me interject here. Let me interject here,

because you guys are safety, So tell me this. These two guys line up, who you're gonna double cover nineteen or eighty eight. I think it'd be easier to double double eighty eight because he's in the slot. And what you can do is you can have that nickel on the outside. You can have a linebacker kind of banging him on the inside. You can have somebody dropping, maybe a defensive lineman dropping to kind of to kind of

skeer his inside route. So I think it's easier to double a slot guy than it is to double guy on the outside because if you double guyn the outside, let's say you get a corner and the safety over there, that safety's gonna be leaning. So that that was that quarterback already knows all right, well he's doubled out there is let me see what I got options I got over here? When when the guy's in the slot can

disguise that that's not what new he's asking you. Okaymark Cooper is at the X and Cede Lamb is at the Z. Who are you doubling? It's what he's asking. Okay, that's what that's what he's asking. I'm doubling. I'm absolutely not. Yeah, no, no, no one. It depends on thousand, this is and all that stuff. But I'm going to CD right now. I think on the first couple of games, you'll see that CD is going to be more explosive than Amark Cooper, especially since Amari Cooper has missed all this time and

it's coming off of surgery. Clam is gonna be the guy that you need to stop. Kevin Moore is going to make sure that Ceede Lamb is getting the spotlight in this offense. You just watching that man's getting twenty meal on the right side, Cooper is getting twenty. They're gonna be like you ran the over route on fourth and fourth and three last season. That was Lamb who who they got the ball to. It was specifically to him. Hey man, let's get eighty eighth the ball that was

his rookie year. This is the second year, it's gonna happen. So so so let me let me throw this out here and just just not calling them these tandems. Okay, I'm not calling them these tandems, but I'm just gonna throw out two tandems that where you had a number one guy who then got joined by a younger guy, and we saw how they were able to kind of flip PLoP it a little bit. Um. You saw Chris Carter then get joined by Randy Moss, and you saw what

they were able to do there. We saw an Kumbolden then get joined by Larry Fitzgerald with the Cardinals, so we've seen where and then over with the Rams you had Isaac Bruce who was established one, and then they drafted Tory Holt and when we saw what they were able to do there. Could we be talking in terms that the Cowboys may have this similar situation with a

Namari Cooper and Ceedee Land. Oh, without a doubt. I think, I mean if if, if they continue to play off each other like they have, I mean, they could be one of the top duels in the National Football League. I mean the only team that may have a better duo, you know, Tampa Bay with Guy one in Evans and Tennessee with Brown and Julio Jones. But I mean you may throw in, you know, the vikings with Jefferson and the Eland, but other than that, I mean, I don't

really see. You know, it's tandem. That's better than what we got here in Dallas. And you see how we're just excluding Gallop in all this conversation. I'm telling you what's gonna happen. He gonna start getting these clippings and like, man, hold on, man, listen and listen, all respect to Gallup, he gonna we're talking about who can possibly be the

number one receiver on this team? All right, all the respect to him, it's between CD and it's between Amari Cooper and I'm still the mindset of throughout this season. I think we're gonna see if CD Lamb continues to play like he's been playing in training camp, he's gonna be He's gonna be the guy. The guy. The guy is showing me. I hate to say it because I'm

not there. I'm not I'm not on the field watching it, but I'm seeing on these highlights and Daz Bran, you Bran, come on, man, did we all did you not see the one hand in the back of ends all. I said, no, no, I said type stuff that we've seen when when this first came and he was in that training camp, we all looked at say that guy right there is special. When you're watching CD Lamb, the only thing I'm hearing not a training camp, is this guy is having a year.

We even saw the playmaker come on and say that true hard knocks, this dude is going to be a star making these plays. I mean, who are we to say you know more that we know more about playmakers than many to him say no about Coop, that's true, that's true. You you are Look look Danny, you're right. And I was there for so many of those practices, and yeah, I mean he is a different level. And

they look at this. I think we're gonna go back and the next five years we're gonna go back and look at this draft and we'll talk about what a great class of receivers they are there. Jefferson, We've already saw what he did last year with the Vikings. It was a sensational rookie year. Um ceedee. Lamb in the second year is taking that step out of San Francisco Brandon I who had a really good rookie season and he was like Ceedee Lamb where they went through four

quarterbacks last year. This guy is taking a step there. I think Jerry Judy wants Denver figures out a quarterback here. Jerry Judy is gonna be a heck of a wide receiver here. And if the Raiders can figure out how to hit Henry Rugs deep, you know, I think he's going to be another receiver which you'll kind of go back and say, well, where's Jalen Raiger of Philadelphia? I mean,

they had quarterback issues as well. So I think this receiver class will look here in five years and say, man, this is one of the best classes of wide receivers we've seen in a long long time. And Ceedee Lamb is going to be a very special guy worthy of the eighty eight jersey. And that that's that's that's that's saying something in my opinion, when you say a guy it's worthy to where an eighty eight jersey, he is he is. He's got that kind of potential. Man, do

you me ask you a quick question. Okay, let's just say he balls out this year, and you know they say all right, mar you know we got our new number one. You know it's been real. Will let you slide? Do you think he can do about himself? Or do you think it'd be kind of like a Juju Smith's Suster situation where Ab left and then all the coverage went to Juju and he went dramatically downhill? Do you

think he can do it about something? From what I'm hearing, Ceedee Lamb, who is doing it by himself in training camp, is looking like an absolute star. I agree, like, I agree. I'm just throwing it out there. I agree, I agree. So I'm okay with CD versus versus J. I'm okay agree with y'all. I'm just throwing a question. Now, what'd you think? Newly? Here? Here, here's a better perspective on that.

For what you just said, I'm watching Ben Denucci throw touchdown passes and Cooper Rush and Garrett Gilbert, they're throwing them to Cede Lamb. Oh, I don't know what to do. I'll just throwing to eighty eight and he's coming up with some crazy catches and that's how these guys are actually winning some of these motile moments. So if he's doing that with those dudes. Imagine what he can do with Dak Prescott and over over, you know, seventeen football games.

So I just really believe we're gonna look back and talk about how special some of these wide receivers were in that class of twenty twenty. And I think CD Lamb is gonna be right now. I'm telling you right now, between Jefferson I U CD Lamb, if you're in fantasy football draft, if you can get these guys, one or two of these guys on your football team, think you feel really good because that second year leap they're gonna be able to make because they've had a training him.

I think that's also been a big thing too for CD lamp to be actually out there and to be able to be coaching, being meetings. The kid is taking a tremendous leap in his development. So the hype, the hype is real. So many times I think guys who put the star in their helmet get over hyped, but there's no bull drive with this man. Speaking of the hype. Speaking of hype, how much Monday did Bendauci play pay hbo? Okay, because he never looked so good then he did on

that last episode. Okay, man, I said, Man, I was like, I really in my head was saying, was I wrong about the duchy? That's that's how good he looked on the show for you. He was running all around every corner, you know, game winning touchdown. They painted it with the chest with the music Chess Master. I was like, man, listen, was I wrong about forgot you one wrong? I'm just saying that wrong. That that's that's that's how that's how editing can get you. That's editing can get you. A

TV producer. Man, somebody, somebody the nucy to slid some money in his podcast. Okay, hey, man, are you over there talking to rich Richard very very shout shout out. You know, the nut reminds me those those church those churches chicken commercials I see, Man. I sent up there and looking at the churches Chicken verci, Man, I don't look like they got some spike yallapetero. Then, like you know,

and I don't ever churches. It's not my spine. I don't like churches, man, But you see the commercially like, well, maybe ill to try it. Maybe maybe they didn't step their game and churches didn't roll through the man like man, this is what did I do? The whole buildings at Christ on a commercial rights at Church's commercial? Like, oh what, I knew it. I knew it, but I got fooled. Can't get fooled again. So I don't think Bend Lucy's gonna make this football team. I expect him to be cut.

I do the only think and that's a good question. That's a good question. I think coop us out of it again, it ain't going but yeah, absolutely, But then she might get a little practice squad in there. Hey McCarthy and Pittsburg, bro get off of the get get off of the get off of It's all about the burg Man were going over to we almost CB exactly exactly, exactly exactly. Okay, that's the players lounge this week. Barry

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