Player's Lounge: Where Do We Go From Here?

to go here. I'm new He's scrugs. Joined by former Dallas Cowboys players Danny McCray and Buried Church here on a Friday at Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio Dallas. How are we doing? Just amazing over here? On my side, just amazing. I'm doing good over here. To him, I'm doing good. I just put together, you know, one of the biggest hot wheel sets I've ever had to do in my life. So I'm doing item. Man. Hey man, I got three girls, so I don't know what hot

wheel sets are. I don't have talking for us man. Yeah, when you got girls, man, I didn't get to have any of that. So so I'm a little bit jealous of you, man, because I would love to have a little hot wheels to put together. But hey, it is what it is. Church. You're looking good in those bulls headphones. I got mine, mccraig, how come you're not? How come you're not? Max Man? Listen, I don't know what bowls didn't want to deliver mine, you know, to my to

my spott or not. But they just a little late. So maybe maybe next time y'all see me, I'll have on some bowls. Okay, Well that man, you left boss to the Star too. I know, I know, man, I know, I don't know. Why don't do me like this man, like like the like the step child. All right, So so definitely next Friday, when we recap Day one of the draft, you will have your bowls headphones on, so all three of us will act here on the players Loue. Topic Number one that I want to get to is

something that I saw today. Adam Schefter of ESPN tweeted out the Jamal Adams that's told the Jets he's not going to participate at all program. So then you add the fact that Chefter tweeted the Jets were not looking to extend his contract at all. So you know that got cowboy fan thirsty all day long talking about Jamal Addas because the Cowboys the Jets had conversations about Adams last year. So gentlemen, do you want to start those talks again? Straight? No, don't do it. Don't do it.

You got, like we talked about this earlier. You got too many other areas that you need to focus on. We have two starting caliber safeties already, so I mean, I don't think we should go out and do that. And new he has been adamant on saying then we have to pay him a ton of money to keep him here, So I don't think it makes sense. So that's a hard note for me. Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with DMC on this one. That's a hard note.

I mean, he's a hell of a player, hell of a safety, great playmaker, but it just adds to another piece of the puzzle that you're gonna have to eventually pay and shove out money too. We already see we're in in a fighting chance for our quarterback right now over contract dispiece. So that's just not just another guy that you want to throw in there. He's a great safety, he'll elevate our defense, But I just don't think it's

it's worth it right now. If he was the only piece of the puzzle left to get to this championship that we want so bad, then yeah, I would pull the trigger. But I mean, you got Clinton how hot Dicks back there now, and then you got Woods back there as well. Who's a young, promising safety. So I just don't see the reason to pull a trigger on this one hell of a player. But I wnna have

to pass for myself, all right. Cowboy fans want to let you know according to sport sporttrack dot Com here, Jamal Adams will make seven point one million dollars in twenty twenty that he's under contract for twenty twenty two. Here's also something else you need to know. Not only are the Cowboys gonna have to trade a draft pick to the Jets, You're going to have to sign him to a deal. Much like what we saw last year with Ezekiel Elliott holding out and saying, hey, I want

a new contract, Adams is doing the same thing. Here are the numbers for the top safeties that are being paid in the NFL right now. The Bears gave Eddie Jackson deal He's being paid the high safety in the game right now fourteen point six million. Number two is Kevin Byner of the Tennessee Titans making fourteen point one. So we know when these guys come up here for the Cowboys if they want to be paid the highest at their positions. We saw Zach Martin, we saw it

with our Cooper. We saw it was Zeke Elliott. We saw our Tyrant Smith traps Frederick. Jamal Adam's gonna want the same thing. So you're talking fifteen million dollars for a safety. And if Dak Prescott gets his contract and becomes the highest paid guy in his position, he'll be making thirty five million per season. I just don't see how the Dallas Cowboys can give up draft capital and then turn around and pay Jamal Adams fifteen million dollars

a year. So anybody was thinking about the seventeenth overall pick for Jamal Adams, I tell you right now stop the reason I'm not gonna give up with the number one pick for Jamal Adams. I therefore have to pay him money. I remember when Marshall Fault was traded from the Coach to the Rams. The Rams gave up a two and five, and the reason they did they did that because they also had to go ahead and get

Marshall a new contract. So if the Cowboys are even thinking about a Jamal Adams trade with Stephen Jones was asked about on the fan at noon, I think you got to start with no less than a two. I mean, I just said ada less, but just it has to start in the two. There's no way you can give up the first round pick of five years guarantee of a guy in the first round to go ahead and make a trade for a Jamal Adams. Joal, Yeah, I just don't see that. Go ahead, go ahead you mack Well,

I'm just saying quickly, just the same as cool. It's the same situation. You trade for this guy, he comes in, he makes this huge impact, and you gotta pay him. And I would say that us having to pay Coop is kind of slowing down to us getting paid back. So we're in this situation now and we want to do the same thing again next year. It doesn't make sense. So yeah, giving up your seventeen pick, no, starting at the two, you're still just giving up a lot for a guy that may not even be on your team.

The following year. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't go for him because I mean we're in the same situation where we had with Byron Jones this past year. I mean people were saying, you know, he wants to be the highest paid corner and Cowboys fans had problem because he wasn't getting interceptions. I mean, Jamal Jamal Adams is known to be this box safety, he's not really a ball hockey safety. Yeah, he'll get you maybe one or two a year, but he's not like the Eddie Jackson's He's

an't like the tiring magis. He's not going to go out there and get you a bunch of ball hockey interceptions. And that's what the secondary needs right now. So I just don't see you know, giving him or trading for him then paying him all these big bucks when we had a problem with Byron Jones not getting interceptions. I just think we need a ball hockey safety and I

don't think he's the answer right now. Okay, so the three of us are in agreeing that we love Jamal Adams from hebron as a player, but not in terms of making a trade and then therefore turning around and paying him fifteen million dollars, So at the seventeenth overall pick, let's revisit the topic we talked about last week. Grant Delput of LSU is rated as the top safety, a Xavia McKinney of Alabama is rated number two. Would you want the Cowboys to go to seventeen last week? When

to take a safety? Seventeen? McCray, when we spoke last week, you went back into how the Cowboys already have two guys under contract and you didn't think that they would bring in another safety. So go ahead and explain for anyone who missed that last week. Yeah, I still don't think that that's that's just a good choice. But the fact that we have Woods, who's who's approving starting caliber

safety back there. You picked up Hi high clin Dix, who is a starting caliber safety proven over the years to you know, make big plays, and then you have a guy who you're going to draft in the first round and put one of those guys to the bench or release. I just don't think that makes much sense when you could use that seventeenth pick to help you out in a position where you need some serious, serious help.

I just don't see safety as being that big of an issue, and I really didn't see it last year. I actually saw a grade of Jeff he've come out, came out last year just to give him a shout out as being one of the most consistent and shure tacklers in the league. I just don't think safety is that big of an issue for us at this moment. So seventeen, I just don't see it church for me at seventeen. I'm gonna stick with my guns. I think

I had last week. I had us taking Digs the corner out of Alabama, and I just saw his pro comparison. His pro comparison is Jalen Ramsey. They're both long and both fast, can run with anybody in their physical and we saw I mean, this is a guy and Jelly Ramsey who's all over the place. So I think we want to bring a guy like Digs in there to kind of shadow to be able to shut down number one. I mean, we saw what happened. We passed up on

Ramsey last time. Yeah, we got Zeke instead, but Ramsey's an All Pro, Pro Bowl caliberl corner who we passed up on. I mean, I don't see there. I don't see there. Being in Ezekiel Elliott in this draft. So for me, I'm gonna stick with my guns. I'm gonna stick with Diggs. I mean, he's a solid corner out there, and I think we need corners more than we need safeties at this point. Like Danny said, we got a guy in Clinton had hot Digs back there, who they

just gave four million to to come in there. We got Woods in there who's who's steadily becoming a better and better safety as the years go on. So I think safety is pretty much solid, and I think the biggest need for the secondary and his defense overall would be corner, and I think Diggs fits the mold perfectly all right. For any of the listeners out there don't don't know Danny McCray and Barry Church or both defensive guys, so they understand the position. And then Barry played in

Jacksonville with Jalen Ramsey when he left the Cowboys. So explain to the listeners here and viewers what having a guy like Ramsey did to help that Jacksonville defense. Well, having a guy that can pretty much shut down the half of the field, not even that pretty much shadow the number one receiver if you got a I like that who can play with any receiver out in this league. You just say, look, that's your man over there. I want you to shut him down and you don't have

to worry about that side of the field. I mean, yes, he's gonna give up catches, but he's gonna make up plays as well, and that just lets you focus more on blitzing and you're able to blitch your linebackers more.

You're able to do more stunts with their defensive line because the quarterbacks gonna have to hold the ball or it's going to force the quarterback to go to a second and third option, which if you beat us with our second with your second and third option at receiver, then you deserve to win the game on that one.

So I mean overall, just having a guy that can blanket a receiver out there, and not only that, he's physical, he can tackle in the game because now I think he's a lot of these dvs, a lot of corners, they make business decisions when it comes to tackling. And that's a guy that I respect because he was able to come in there at corner and hit like a safety. And from the highlights I've seen with Diggs. I mean, he has that same prototypical build that's able to play

good against the run and against the past. So that's why I'm so adamant on them taking him. But if you lose a guy like Byron Jones out there at the corner, you're gonna have to get somebody to take his shoes, and I just don't think we have that in the building right now at the corner position. Mccraig, let me ask you about Diggs playing at Alabama, You

played at LSU, you played in the SEC. How much do you think it matters when you play in a conference like that and in that Western Division and there's not a tougher division in all of college football than that SEC West. I think it's huge. I mean, I think it's proven over the years till you see the guys that come out of that conference, and those guys are nfl A ready when they when they come out.

And then you look at a guy like him who had to play against LSU last year, who had a Justin Jefferson Chase top quarterback, so he saw some of some of the best receivers that he will ever see in college. And then he was also coached by one of the best defensive coaches for college at his position for dB by Nick Saban. So I think if anybody is NFL already it's coming out of SEC and playing for Nick Saban, it will be digs. Okay, So Dix seventeen could be there. There's a lot of mock drafts

that had CJ. Henderson of Florida going to the Cowboys. Now Jacksonville, your old place, Barry Church, is an interesting position because they got rid of Ramsey, A J. Boyers out there anymore Jana and Goquay on the D line wants out. They've got left tackle issues there. So just based on your knowledge of Jacksonville, where do you think they go nine? I think at nine they have to go corner man. Like you just mentioned, they're in the same type of boat as the Dallas Cowboys are in.

Um they lost Jayla Ramsey via trade and they traded jay or A J. Boyer as well, both of their solid corners on the outside, and I think they have now there's Trey Herndon and that's it over there at the cornerback position for them. So they're gonna have to go secondary to meet in this draft. They just paid the linebacker from Cleveland to go down there. I believe they have on their mock draft. I'm going after the

guy from Oklahoma. I think his name is Murray, the one we had looked at his interview last on Friday. But to me, they're all about having speed on their defense, being able to fly around. You already got the kid from Cleveland, you got Miles jack there, and like you said in Goakway, who's one of the premier pass rushers in the league. He's already spoken saying he does not want to come back there. He does not want to

be a part of that organization. But they did slap the franchise tag on him, so one likely he will be back there. So we'll see what happens with that. But there's a lot of a lot of mess going down there in Jacksonville. But I can see them going secondary and taking a corner as well. So we know Jeff o'couda, the kid from Grand Prairie, should be a

top five pick. And that's the number one quarner on basically everyone's board, with C. J. Henderson number two, which brings us into guys that the Cowboys of have talked to. Digs Jeff Glatteney of TCU as a guy there Fulton over there at LSU, there's another corner, Danny, give us, give us a little bit of insight on Fulton from LSU. Uh. Yeah, this guy has been a starter for years. He's a

he's a proven player. The only thing that takes away from him and his shine is that he has a guy like Delpa and then he had a guy like Stingley come in in the previous years. But you haven't heard anything bad about his play. He's a good physical corner. He's coached by great coaches. He has speed, he can tackle, and he makes plays on the ball. He's been doing this for years at LSU, So this is a no brainer for me as well. It's just a few names that may be more known out there than he is,

but he's still a great pick for any team. All Right, you are checking out the players Lounge here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio NEWI Scrubs. We've got Buried Church and Danny McCray with us here. McCray Church seventeen. I'm a guy that says, you know, sit there, take your guy. There are a lot of folks out there that want to see a trade down. In your opinion, Church, should the Cowboys take that best player that hits them for

defensive seventeen or do they entertain trading down. Ah, that's a tough one, but for me, it would I would. I would stay at seventeen and get the best defender available. Um, if you go, if you trade down the best defender down there, I mean you're gonna you might be able to sniff around Okuda, the corner from Ohio State, but I feel like he'll be gone top five and I just don't think you have the ammunition to trade down enough to get down in the top five, So ill

fount with them. I would stay where they're at. I'm sure one of those top corners will still be around around seventeen, Like you mentioned the kid from Florida or the guy we were just talking about things from Alabama or the LSU kid. I think they'll still be there. So I think there have plenty of options at seventeen.

I don't think it's worth the risk to go down there and trade down to get, you know, one of the top defenders down there when they're pretty much evenly based out throughout the throughout the first top twenty twenty picks. So if I was them, I would stay where they're at, get the best defender. Okay, yeah, you know it's a them thinking business wise. If the offer is good enough, I mean, I think you have to entertain it to

some extent um. If you're a player is still sitting there two picks before and you think you trade down to let nineteen or twenty and he's still be there, and then maybe maybe that's that's a good case, but it's seventeen. I mean, is it worth the risk to miss out, miss out on the player that's on your board that falls to you at that position. I don't. I don't think so, but you never know. In that in that war room, it gets a little difficult and

intentions get high. So we'll be able to watch next week. Let me ask you a question to all right, god, yeah, Let let me ask you a question for Quenning. Do you feel like there's any offensive player in this draft worth trading down for or do you think it's it's gotta be defense? But are we talking to training training back or trading up training up? I'm sorry, training? Oh yeah, got you? No, No, there's really not um, this is

all about your defense. Now. You brought it first off, and I will not be able to stress this enough. You're bringing Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy is already a guy understands offense. He's got a Super Bowl ring, he's coached an MVP quarterback and Aaron Rodgers. You're paying this guy good money to come in here and take a lot of the pieces you have and excel them, take them up another level. Here. You've already paid the receiver, You've paid your line, You've paid your paid your running back.

You're going to pay your quarterback. Nah, you don't get any more help. You make duty with what you've got. Marcels us to say, you know they want you to cook the meals off of the groceries. Well, guess what, Jerry went out there and bought you a slew a food. On offense, the defense is hungry. The defense needs help. And I go back to what we talked about last week on the Players Club and two weeks before that.

The Cowboys have an issue with their roster. When you start talking about how many dudes are up after the twenty twenty season, there's a lot of guys on one year deals right now. And then the secondary alone. There's only one player that's under contract passed this season, and that's your corner Brown. So you got to start to address these needs here. And the beauty of a first round pick is five years of control. Five years of control where the price tag on these guys is it's

it's it's friendly to the club. You ain't gotta pay him until year you know, two year six. So to me, if you're the Cowboys, you spend all this money on offense, and of course we got Tank making a lot of money on defense. Number one page defensive end in the game.

You have to start to give Night Nolan the pieces, And to me, I think that starts with the corner unless you decide that caleban chasing from LSU is what you need up front, because to me, it has to be the corner or somebody on the edges helping you up front. You got your rank, it's gotta be the edge guy, because I think you're paying the markets. Lawrence Well one hundred and twenty twenty one million, I think that's what a hundred and twenty one million he's got.

He's gotta produce, He's got to produce. He shouldn't have to have a Robin on the other side to help him out. Man, hundred and twenty one MILLI, man, it's got to be the second day for me. Yeah, you gotta go to me. You gotta go secondary. Like they picked up all the smith They're banking on Randy Gregor. They get reinstated, they got Crawford, they got some guys on the D line. Cornerback to me, is you let your best corner get out of there because he was too expensive. This is a way for you to get

a corner that you think is just as good. But we'll be cheaper and we'll be on the line for you know, five years if unless he's uh, he has Zeke's agent, Rocky Arsenal, Rocky Arsenal, the light the light skinned brother, Rocky Arsenal, Get your paid early, Get your paid early. Man, come on, get your check. Yeah, we've got to take a break. Let's get into House Party four. Because they made House Party one, House Party two, they made House forty three. Dak Prescott number four is house

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gonna have you covered for all your draft needs. So we're going to continue to die and talk about the draft here on our show and also other things popping around the National Football League on knuis Scrubs, joined by former Dallas Cowboys dbs Danny McCray and Barry church So. In the news this week, Mike Florio pro Football Talk dot com. He went hard after Dak Prescott for hosting a gathering at his home and there the TMZ report came out said thirty people within, and Dak Prescott says

that was true. COVID nineteen is going on and people are questioning, you know, the social distancing and whether or not Dak Prescott was using that properly. Here. The one thing that I came away from and is dad gotta get some better friends. If somebody leaks videos TMZ, I mean right out the gate, you gotta get some better friends. It's not gonna come up in your place where you beating them for free and they gonna sit around here.

Takes a video that had Zeke in there and then go sell it for a couple of niggas and dimes. The TMZ man, let me tell you something, those those are not his friends one and that's how you know it was it had a little bit more other than ten people or people within that group were just invite only like that was it all Those people didn't know him and they didn't respect him enough to keep that under wraps. And it was somebody who just was invited and they figured they wanted to make a couple of

extra bucks. So TMZ, here you go, give me your take. Were talking about we're talking about a house party. Look, I will say one thing, man, TMZ. I mean, to their credit, they're usually correct on their spreaking stories. I'm just gonna put that out there. But I mean, Yale, you put you hit the nail right on the cough. And Danny, I mean he whoever was over there and blab like that wasn't his real friend. It was probably

the friend was invited. So they invited the friend of a friend or something like that situation because they went they went all out to snitch the TMZ to get this bread real quick. But do I think it was more than ten people? Yeah? I do think it was a little bit more than ten. I don't know about thirty, but a little bit more than ten people. I mean, people ain't gonna just call the cops if they just see, you know, a couple of people here and there. So I think it was a little bit more than ten.

The spread was nice, but they definitely did Nika SAMs. They put Nika SAMs up there though that wasn't SAMs. But I think it was more than ten for me. Yeah, I'm looking at that, and I'm saying to myself, all right, you're writing with an NFL quarterback here who's about to get a contract of you know, probably thirty five million a year, and you're gonna mess it up for this guy for a couple hundred bucks and then also mess up your ability to ride on this gravy train here.

I mean that that would tip me off to no extent. Now I'm not I'm not Dak Prescot, I'm not a twenty six year old guy. Um, but man, for the fact that I'm trying to get thirty five million a year, I wouldn't have anybody around me because I'm trying to make sure I get all this bread i can and what did we see with de Soto's old von Miller he got COVID nineteen. I mean, this thing is no joke and it can get to anyone. And we saw two NFL players this week that have come out and said, hey,

I have contracted the coronavirus. Who knows who else has it? This is not trying to say anything. I mean, you guys understand, if you're a free agent, the last thing you're gonna do is tell a team that you've got COVID nineteen. Team, get yourself as healthy as you can't. I mean, really, I don't got it. You got it. I'm healthy, I'm good. I mean you can't. I mean you can't imagine. Hey, yeah, we signed we signed Solo,

so he got coronavirus. Hopefully he's okay whenever we get back. So, I mean, Dak Prescott, you agent, man, I would I would it? What he's around me? Man knew it, knew it. Come on, listen, let me tell you something. If it comes up in negotiations that his price is dropping now because he could possibly have COVID nineteen, the Cowboys are

not serious about paying this dude. That is not a bigger enough deal to affect this, and that is still telling y'all, I'm not logging on to no WebEx or no zoom session to do none of that for y'all. No OTAs Trobby. So that brings me back to this though. When I asked y'all last week, so you see he ain't doing no virtual training, he said, he ain't gonna show up until you know his deal is there. Do you think he ain't gonna show up the training camp

or mandatory mini camp? If we have what I'm gonna say, what does mandatory mini camp consists of? That? Is that more open up your laptop and let's see what's going on in the film room or is it they have to actually go in. I don't think he'll do either one, but yeah, we'll see you. Do you see what the new CDA out that? Everyone? Go ahead? I just gonna say that that with this virtual trader, what does that consist of? Do you just have to pop it on and they see you? I mean, I mean, how do

you how do you count that? Because I saw where they talked about guys you're gonna be able to pick up their workout bonuses through these virtual things. I mean, I'm trying to figure out what does that truly look like? If you're Mike McCarthy, how do you install your office? What what are they gonna have Dak and Cooper and all these lines, What are they gonna really do? Well? You see that they're talking about sending out Apple watches

and these looks. Because when we play Church, you remember, we had those devices on that would tell you how fast you ran, how much you ran throughout the practice. Uh, they're talking about sending those out to players and then you you will have to do your workout and reach a certain point on those devices in order to have that considered to be a real workout. So, I mean, that's one thing. That's one thing that I heard so far.

You know, we'll see. Yeah, you know you can go ahead and pay something to go run some my house for heck, take listen. Let me tell you so if you, if you are in, if you, if you're an NFL athlete, and you pay somebody to go work out for you, you do not deserve to be on anybody's team. That's true too. That is like, come on, bro, you're supposed to be working out already. Anyway, you're gonna go pay somebody to run around, like put your put your device on the dog and let him go run around the park.

Come on, man, hey, man, now we've all kind of this corona. Man, we've all kind of dialed it down a little bit. Man. I mean, hey, you never know, man, you know, I have a story and I will tell you offline about one player who paid another player to do this particular duty for him. So, oh, listen, I know what you're talking about. That. You know, let's we talk about that. We talk about that offline. There's a lot of stories like we don't have to see players

go ahead. That's not the same that that's that's not the same that now, that is not the same. But yeah, I got you. You could that's far between what we're talking about. But yeah, I got you though. I'll picking up what you're putting down, all right. I didn't see the vond Miller interview today. Mccraig. What did he have to say when he came out and let everybody know about his issues dealing with the coronavirus? Uh, basically that you know, they asked him, you know, how he was feeling.

What did he think that he did wrong? Or was he doing everything right, and he came out and the beginning of the interview started with him, you know, talking about how he had did everything right. He only went to the store a few times. It's just him and his brother over there, and then they keep pushing a little bit and they're asking him, you know, so, what do you think could have caused this? Was there any

like maintenance people that came over. He's like, yeah, well the plumber came over, the fish tank man came over. And then also, you know, I had a couple of players come over and work out in my gym. And I'm like, this is just adding up to to wrong. Like the longer you talked, the more I'm like picking out. I can name like five or six people that you could have possibly got just from I'm sitting there, I'm thinking to myself, how what do you mean you're doing

everything right? You got you got? You got players coming into your crib. Who knows who they touched or who? Where do you and y'all hitting the same weights? Y'll probably dapping each other up. Good work, good. I mean, It's like I just don't right coughing on each other that water, Like, what's going on? Man? What's going on yeah,

and that didn't make sense to me. I was like, man, please stop talking because but one, I mean, you have to try to understand how you could get it if you actually stayed in the house the entire time and did everything right, which I don't know if that's possible, but it's obvious that it was more people that he was in contact with than just him. Was the fish tank man needing? Hey, man, you listen, it's it's it's it's five weeks. Man. You still got to make sure

you keep that stuff up. I don't have a fish tank, but I've seen some dirty ones before. Man, that's not something you want to your house. But isn't this that time right now where you have to kind of do something yourself, like you become the fish tank man? I mean you'll go to YouTube clean the fish a little bit.

I mean, no, let me tell you something. If you don't know how, if you don't know how to change, or you're not gonna get out there and change your own or looking at YouTube, that's just something you're not gonna do. You still gonna call that same person all. But here's a difference. The oil man is open. That's an essential business obviously, the fish tank man's open. The fish take man's open too. He just he's maintenance. I listen for Van, who's doing everything right. That's essential. N

ain't doing nothing, the bar said. The barber came over to man. You listen. It's about people are about to start coming out of the woodworks after the end of you. They're gonna be like everybody been at Miller House. I was over there last week, so TMD gonna have the whole list. Everybody was a VARs House, well known. He recorded it all, all the cars put him up in

the driveway, all the cards leaving. Okay, um, let's talk talk about another NFL topic this week, which which affected the Cowboys because a lot of people slammed the Cowboys after giving Ezekiel Ellie the new contracts and you don't pay running backs, and he became the highest paid running back in the NFL until this week when the Carolina Panthers decided that they were going to pay Christian McCaffrey the highest contract for an NFL running back. McCaffrey last

year was absolutely sensational for the Carolina Panthers. So, gentlemen, your thoughts on run CFC cashing in big time. Oh yeah, you got a church Oh run CMC man cashing in. But congrats to that man because he definitely deserved that contract. Like you said, I think he had over a thousand yards receiving. I think he had fifteen hundred so yards rushing the ball, I mean countless touchdowns. A guy as his money man, so regrets to him to getting paid.

But for me, this is more about the other guys out there, the Drakes of the world, the Derek Hendrys of the world. It's just it's it's funny to me and I want to get your you guys thoughts on this. But it's funny how you know, going into the draft or when it's time to pay a running back, you know all that position is devalued. I don't want you don't want to take a running back that high in the first round because you know they're devalued, or you don't want to pay this guy after five years you

you ran them down there, devalued. But nobody says nothing. When you know Derreck Henry's carrying his whole team into the to the AFC Championship, nobody says anything about the running back being devalued. Then, so I just want to get your thoughts on do you think the running back position is devalued or do you think you know this is this is a new trend coming. Mccraig, you start, yeah, I don't. I've never been one to think that the

running back position is devalued. I think that it's top top three most important positions on the field as far as how you're planning to play, go out to play a game, your your scheme, and because you got to think about it, running game affects how you playing defense, if you're able to control the ball, how you do play actions. It helps out your quarterback if he's a rookie or if he just needs a little help and

getting getting some guys open your screen game. The running back to me is one of the most important positions on the field, and it always will be, and it will always show in the playoffs. It will always show. That's what we saw with Derrick Henry. Most important guy in the end the playoffs for his team was Dereck Henry, and Christian McCaffrey went out to show that as well. For the last two years that dude was absolutely amazing. Overall, So,

the running back position is definitely high. But people want to save money, they want to knock it, so that's the route that they're taken. But Cray, I'm with you. I love what Derrick Henry did. He was the offense and saw what he did in Alabama as well. He won a national championship in high Stoo Trophy there. I mean they used the player. I was a big fan of Christian McCaffrey back when he was over at Stanford.

To day Shaw was using him and Ezekiel Elliott. I contend all day long the Cowboys immediately take him at four when they did. My issue with Ezekiel Elliott has been their lack of using him enough in the passing game because we know what he can do with the football. I feel like they don't get the guy enough touches here. So if you've got an elite running back and those are three elite running backs, well dog, you pay elite

players now. I look at Melvin Gordon, who held out last year with the Chargers, was trying to get the contract that offered a ten million a year. He turned it down like a fool. They got Austin X. You're not here to put up production. I mean you got to know your value and know your work. Melvin Gordon tried to put himself in that category of Zeke. When you've got a special player, and I don't care what position it is, guys, it could be at center, it

could be tight. If you've got a special player, then you pay the special player. And I think all three of those guys we mentioned here, Zeke Runs, CMC and Derrick Henry, these are guys that are difference makers on their football team, and you pay difference mans. You gotta pay the man, and they had paid. They paid Zeke, you know, his his big contract last year. But with that point that you're making saying, if he's special, you

pay them, why haven't they paid for yet? Pay who oh yeah, trying to an I don't know, I don't know. Are the ain't goodness? I don't they dragon talk about dragon feet? This is this is the perfect good We've been talking about this since the season. All all right, let's take a break here. When we come back, let's dive into what you said Church, questioning whether or not they want to pay for because I'm gonna go a different direction, so let's dive into that he's buried Church.

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So they started watching. The next thing I know, I got pulled in to watching the one that's the one that Cuba Gooding Junior was in and Courtney b Vands played Johnny Cochrane. And then my wife got all she got all into the scene when they had him try on the gloves and she was like, they shouldn't have never had him do that, And I said, you gotta rewatch the movie. She's like, what everyone knows those gloves shrunk. I said, you gotta understand. What they were trying to

do is create a reasonable doubt. And then of course I got to explain to my kids, you know who was is that he used to play football and so it's just very interesting to sit around you this weekend and kind of kind of deal with that that O. J. Simpson thing with my kids and then trying to watch that. So what do you guys from watching? And real quick New real quick when we get we get off the air,

I gotta me and mccraig got an interesting story about Cuba. Gooday, Junior, U that off the air and go ahead with uh nah? So I come on, man, come on look. Yeah you'll like it, Yeah you'll like it. Um nah. I'm actually searching for new stuff to watch. Like I said, I finished stuff money, heise Um. How to Get Away with Murder is back on, But I mean that once a week stuff is killing me. Netflix has me spoiled, so I'm looking for something new to get into that I

can binge watch. We started watching the show called Rain, but it's a little uh, it's a little soapy for so we just can't sit there and watch it all day. So if y'all got some got some advice or some recommendations, let me know. Oh I got you covered. Man, you just got to watch the last Dance when Michael Jordan comes Sunday. It don't come on to Sunday. I know that today's Friday. I got two days to time the field, all right, So I'm gonna help you out even more. Here.

You should get the book Michael Jordan The Life by rolland Lazingbet and or The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith to get you ready for the documentary. Now, if you get the Life by rolland Lazingbeat. It's a five hundred page book. Best thing I've ever read on Michael Jordan's Playing for Keeps that David Halberstam wrote about Michael Jordan's also sensational. So I would recommend in these next two days mccraig, go ahead dive on into these Michael Jordan biographies.

Because you're young. You're in church, are young guy? You guys don't remember Jorsi. I saw Jordan play when I was living in favor of North Carolina. He was Mike Jordan for Wilming to North Carolina, playing for the Tar Heels. So I got a little more dive into this church is one of the great great Omega sci Fi members of all times. Church. You see how new it did. I told him, I told him to recommend me something to watch. He gave me two books. I'm trying to watch some TV. I got me and my wife over

here looking for the stuff to watch. We don't wanna go buy two books and read to each other. I'm gonna read that. I'm gonna read that, though I know I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it. But as far as something to watch, I'm fresh out, man, I'm fresh out idea to watch I got. I'm on a season three of The Money Heist, I mean the like you said, Um, what's that how to Get Away with Murder Man? That's that's a good show. But like you said, it's once a week, so how can you? How can

you stick with that? So I'm like you, man, I'm scraggling. I'm trying to find something to keep going to. Look if you rewatch season four or five of The Wire like I did a couple of weeks back last month, that's worth your time. Now out, that's good. That's good TV, man, I can see that. I can see that. One knew you still need to watch Sopranos. How about that? Get started? You are? You are correct? But you know what I've been doing chair Lucrainian Church. I've been reading a lot

so so I hadn't hit as much TV. Now, one thing I did, like, okay, here's one on HBO that I'm watching. Um, it's about Christian Dawkins in that whole college basket. I think it's called the Scheme. I can't remember what's something like that, but but it's about Christian Dawkins and Panels those coaches and everything, how the NCA was going through all that whole day with Sean Miller and Bruce Pearl and then the dude down there, LSU, your boy who was cheating there? Dawn? Here you go,

you here you go? His name? You know, what's it? What's his name? Will whatever? What's it? Naw? I don't know, but I think my bows headphones just showed up. I heard a knock at the door. How about that? Now, Yeah, like we've never been a player the LSU. I'm like, so anyway, check that out. That's two hours on HBO. So check that one out. That that documentary is pretty good. Diego Maradona, it's another documentary that I watched on HBO

back in February. Great Soccer Player with the greatest soccer players ever. It is a documentary worth watching. And you talk about our love of Michael Jordan and how how popular he is, Diego Maradona's status across the world for being a great soccer player, um man. And he cheated the World Cup. It cheated the World Cup. Yeah, I'll tell you that that that is one heck of a documentary, um to. That's on HBOS. And now now I gave you. I gave you something there, mccraig. All right, I'm good.

I'm I check them out. I'm one of them starting to starting today. Oh I'll tell you what. That horse that's trash. Yeah, that's that's absolutely This is a perfect example of trying to do too much, like let it, let it be, bro, you got nothing, you got nothing, Just let it be the women of Troy. Okay, that's another wa I watched on HBO and it really dives into women's basketball and how great a player Cheryl Miller was. And I tell you I was happy to see it

because I have such respect. I remember watching Cheryl Miller played at USC and those two great teams they had the one national championships and Cheryl finished up four years at USC, played in three national championship games, won two of them. She ended up playing a pickup game against guys and blew out herkneath, so we never got to see how great she was. And Cynthia Cooper was a player on the USC teams, but she was never as

good as Cheryl. So when the u NBA finally started, and it happened late and Cynthia's career basketball career, she comes over to the Houston Rockets, wins three MVPs, they win four championships, and she's hailed as the greatest player ever in the league history. When at the end of the day, if Cheryl played there would it never happened. Cheryl ended up being the head coach of the Phoenix Mercury.

But to see how great she is and how great Lieberman is, and the effect is that she had on women's basketball, that is that is well worth your time. It's called the Women of Choice, so you'll enjoy that. Gotch that's a that's Reggie sister right, Uh, yes, yes, yes, Reggie, Reggie Miller and Cheryl Miller. They're from southern California. I've been with Cheryl a few times during the NBA playoffs

when you know T and T hades. She worked for T and T. And I remember one time she was trying to interview a certain player and we were both gonna go in and I just I backed off. I said, no, no no, you the first lady hoops, you go ahead and choosing. And the respect that she had from younger guys, because so many times people talk about, you know, younger guys don't know who came before that everybody in these rooms, man knew who Cheryl was and she had ultimate respecting.

You guys knew his former players that who gets respect in the locker room based on what they used to do as a woman. I'm telling you, man, she had it from these NBA players. Check it out. I'm gonna check him out. Now. Let's check out Cam. Cam Newton to the Jags I told we couldn't figure it out last week. Nowis something that I think I think l as you heard him, so they wanted he wanted to answer that question for so they now they want Cam

Newton to go to Jacksonville. What's what you thinking? For me? I don't don't. I saw about you know, Frenette was trying to coax him to get him down there, and he was talking about you know where Cam, he would I think it would be a decent fit, man. I mean, you know, you know SEC down there. Jacksonville is a huge SEC talent, So I think they would love Cam down there. But I just you know, they could put all their ducks in the gardener Misshire. They just let

go of. They just traded I think folds and then they get you know, they put all their ducks in for Garden Miss. She said, of bringing in some more quarterback competition for him, I just don't think it would be a good idea. Here's my question about Cam Newton to Jacksonville and Barry. You can address us very well. Can Doug Moron? Does he ego deal with Cam new because Cam new is not gonna come in there to sit on the bench. Can Lugo coming there compete against

gard to ment you, kim Ugo come in there? W start? And Cam Newton is a guy that dudes loves, like Alan Iverson you now in the locker room, guys love being around that dude. Is Doug Moron will be you know, secure enough to handle it? I would say no, he has a better chance now than when Tom coughlin was there. When Tom conflint was there, I would have said, hell no, there ain't no way, There ain't no way in hell

that that's gonna work out. But with Tom mccoughlin gone, Doug Moron I still say no. But he has a better shot without Tom conflint breathing down his neck to kind of handle the Cam Newton. But even with that said, I doubt they make that move all right? With the rest of our time. Here, let's go back to something you addressed in the player's lounge earlier church, and that's Dak Prescott and wondering why they haven't paid me. Here's

my take on. The Cowboys kept trying to get discounts, and along the way as they were trying to get the discounts, Dak kept betting on himself and it paid all. I just think they don't want to pay the thirty five million, but we know at the end of the day, they're going to have to pay the high number. It's what they've done for all these guys they wanted to have. And I've covered this team a long time, covered Jimmy Johnson's last year with the Cowboys and Barry Switcher's first year.

I've covered the team a long time. I've never seen the owner lose a player that he truly won. So I just think it's going to get done. Yeah, I think it's gonna get done too. I Mean, here's a guy. I mean, there's no reason not to pay him. I mean, he's he's gotten better each of his first four years. I mean, he's won the division twice. He's got you a playoff game. I think he threw for forty nine hundred yards last last year. I mean, so this this

is basically the gear that gets this offense rolling. I mean, and without him, I think it's a pedestrian offense at that. So you gotta pay him his money. I'm just shocking. I'm surprised that it hasn't come through yet. It hasn't come out yet. I mean, like you said, you paid the running back who had two years left on his deal, You paid the receiver top dollar, you paid everybody else top dollar. You think the most important important position on

the football team will get paid top dollar first. But they're making them wait. Maybe it's because, like you said, they don't want to pay that thirty five million dollars tag. But we'll see. I mean, hopefully they get it done, because it would be a shame for him to have all these years and just be wasted on franchise tags like Kirk Cousins. Yeah, I say that. I want to say that they do pay him Church. I want to throw out last year at least fifteen hundred yards of it.

I'm still adamant that on the trash yards that he got in some of these games. The what the defenses. They were just playing off and letting them throw whatever he needed to just just so they can run off the time off the clock and not lose. So you know,

it was forty nine hundred. Everybody keeps saying he had, you know, his best stats last year, and a lot of it was trash yards, But the previous years of him taking him to the playoffs and the way he played, I think he deserves to get paid off of that, and I think they'll get it done. I go back to two things here that I keep telling people. One, the owner seventy seven years old, he's not trying to wait.

He wants to win. And then two, just look at what Stephen Jones has consistently said, deadlines make deals, and one of the Cowboys done a lot of their They've done them at the deadline. You even think about Ezekiel Elliot last year, who had no leverage. They end up getting it done at the end. Why the owner wanted to get this team on the football field and thought head he had a Super Bowl chance, and the head coach wanted to have Ezekiel Eli there, especially knowing he

was on the final year of his deal. So here comes Mike McCarthy, Mike McCarthy and you guys already seeing No, you're not able to work with these guys in the OTAs and have camp. You gotta sit up here and put a veteran quarterback here. You can't sit and go with Cooper Rush. It's gonna get done. It's a matter of when. But there's no way this thing does not get done. That gets done July fourteenth, and he gets done July fourteenth on the deadline because the deadlines July fifteenth.

But they're gonna get this deal done. Dak Prescott is gonna be a Cowboys football player this fall. They're gonna get a long term deal, Jerry Jones say. Jerry Jones said he was part of the family. So I'm really not worried about it. It's just it's gonna get done. So it's this, uh Jacksonville. No, no, no, no, no, no, no no, no, no no. That's going somewhere. I just I just I just don't know where yet. But well accorded

what newly with your timeline? Uh you know, like Church mentioned earlier, So that means Dax's gonna miss OTAs and whatever the mini camp is. However, that looks he's gonna miss all that because July fifteenth is when they'll get this uh this deal done, or the fourteenth somewhere around there. Here's gonna be the interesting part on the what does what juice does Mike McCarthy have? If Mike McCarthy starts putting this stuff in, you know, he doesn't have him there.

You know, all takes is Mike McCarthy just walking down that lot. Hey, Jerry, I need this guy. I need this guy because if the heck to me that that's that das best. The best person he can have right now in this court is Mike McCarthy. Because if the head coach is sitting here going to Stephen and going to Jerry saying I can't do what I need to do, man, we're gonna be behind. We're not gonna be where we

need to be. We're gonna possibly cost ourselves a shot in twenty twenty to be really good or as good as we can be because this guy's out here. So that, to me, it's gonna be something to pay attention to. What does the head coach what kind of juice does he have with the owner to say I really need Mike.

But but is he not doing this already. I mean, did this not come with him getting hired here to know that he needed deck And that was in the conversation and all these months leading up to this, McCarthy had mentioned that he's gonna be behind and he needs that to be here. Now. Yeah, but I come back to this. Once this stuff starts happening and it's not there, then you know, it takes on a different life of us. Mean,

you guys have been there. You guys have been there where you knew guys were Hey, so and so might not be here. Next thing, you know, here is the ota we remember Travis Frederick, I, Zach Mark, Oh, Zach Mark sat sat it on out. You know, once you start to see it and it's not there, it becomes a different There's one thing to talk about, don When you see it like old rut road, rut rod, then I think it takes on a different So I think that I think that hurts back in this in this

stands because they're not gonna be on the field. You're not gonna Jarry not gonna be able to look over from his tower or wherever he's gonna look for him now because it's not there. And see that the team is being held back because that's not there. It's in his mind. It could be hey man, this is this is just film session. That's a smart guy. He'll be able to pick it up whenever, and we will send in the playbook he can study it on on his own because he's a professional. I think this kind of

hurts him in that sense. Well, this means Cooper Rush will be the guy on the virtual training is doing and I don't think that's what Mike McCarthy signed up. Yeah, it's a bad look. That's a bad look. It's a horrible look. But Dak won't be there on Monday, so it's gonna be Cooper Rush for at least the next week. Yeah. If I'm Dak, man, I'm not. I'm not showing up. I'm not showing up for OTA. My internet, My internet

is out. OK. Just just don't have Just if you don't show up, just don't have a and stop stop telling Dens to tweet out videos and photos of it. So that's that's what you do. If you're Dak, if you're gonna, if you're gonna, if you're not gonna be that, just go dark all the way. Just don't be seen,

don't don't do anything at all. Let's let's wrap this up with where we began talking about the draft, because we are less than a week away next Thursday, the Draft Stars teams are gonna be doing it virtually at seventeen as of right now. Okay, Danny, give me your first round pick for the Cowboys the seventeen, then you Burry, I'm still in barrass pick. I'm going to digs uh

corner you lost Byron. I think that's a one of those positions that you need to have somebody that can excel and play it and cut off half the field, and you assume that that'll be digs seventeen. I think I think that's where we had Wilsons. Danny stole my pick at seventeen with Diggs. I'm gonna have to say, if they can't get Diggs and they can't get C. J. Henderson in the corner out of Florida, and I would have all right, won't My one A will be Diggs and my one B will be his safety and Alabama,

which is McKinney. They need both of them in Dallas. So if you can't get Diggs, go with McKinney as safety. All right, I'm going to assume Okuda and Henderson are gone and it's seventeen, it's digs for me. And if it's not Diggs, TCUs, Jeff Glatten, he's got a little track background as well, so so give me those. But I'm definitely sitting at corner a seventeen for the Cowboys. It is a position of need that gotta give Mike Knowling some help on that defense. They've already taken care

of the offense. You've got a guy and Mike mccarthur who can help them there. They've got to fortify that defense. I don't care if they're scoring thirty a game and they're given up thirty four, but you've got to start to stop somebody. We're all in agreements. Man. They gotta go secondary on this one. It's a must secondary. They might get a round. I'm just playing the week. I'm just joking. I to say, man, kids started on this wide receiver. If you want to ride receiver, start thinking

day three. Okay, day three the earliest. But because the Cowboys need oh see, you got me going now. The Cowboys need three guys in round one, two or three. They need three walking starters or guys who are gonna make some serious contributions this defense. Then he's man, hell, hell, hell, hell, help help us, all right, the hours flown by fellas. This is always fun thing to do here. So next Friday will dive heavily into the Cowboys first round pick.

Hopefully they make it. Forget this Jamal Adam stuff. Okay Jamal and not giving up seventeen pick for Jamal, Lads, it's not happening. So hopefully we're talking about a quarter on Friday where we resume and do the players last. He's Danny mccraig. He's buried Church, I'm newly. We thank you so much for your time right here on the Players Lounge, Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.