Player's Lounge: Who Are You Cutting?

a good teammate and get here for Danny today. M Barry Church to hang on out at home and not tell nobody. When when did you get in? The warning from Church he was I didn't. As a matter of fact, I still I think he's gonna walk in now. Oh no that Oh I see you, Oh Barry you at home? Bro? Oh hey there he is. Oh. So that's so. That's what we're doing today. That's all. That's how we're gonna start this show. All I'm saying is all I'm saying is I came in last week and y'all gave me

a hard time talking about vacation and all that. And now everybody knows that I wasn't on vacation. I was trying to win some money and what are you doing at home? See see what happens new? You know, people get on CBS, they start, you know, they get on these shows, man, and they come back a new person. They come back a new person calling people out on the show. It's hard because I had his backphone money

on the side. Like I always say, I mean that was you know, And I had come up with that creative term because we had a couple of folks who would ask where's Danny, And you didn't tell me what was going on? And I just merely called it assignment because that's what's where we're using the TV business. So we now know those times Danny missed he was on the TV show Survivor, which will premiere September twenty second. Correct on the twenty second, on the twenty second, that

was my sign. I went out there and did what I could do it to be exciting to watch. Okay, So um, look, Barry, we can't ask him. We can't ask him any details about the show, so so we won't. We have to respect that privacy of his agreement to work with CBS. But I will ask you this one simple thing which you can't answer because I have been a part of the reality TV show during my time in La Towns of change. No no, no no no, this one asked, reality has not changed. It's a serious question.

Are you the crazy negro on the show? Because all all reality shows are gonna find one. They're gonna get there. We're going we can hate the producer like got we gotta find the crazy black guy? Who's that guy? Who's the crazy black The editing process got the editing process? Remember how they got t o they got hold? He was the crazy he was the crazy guy that man quit. I said, they free show. They're gonna find a crazy black Teo wasn't hard to find. But I'm just saying

that you can answer that. Let me tell you something I have. I got no comment on that one, but see, let me tell you the type of guy new he is. Okay. As soon as he finds out he sees it on Twitter, right, he says, what did you win? I'm like, come on, bro, why don't we doing good? So I set it up, knew it. This is why you need to watch this show, and how intense and exciting it. I served you up a absolutely perfect ball to hit when I said, did you win? You're gonna need to tune in. It's going

to be exciting. He's gonna that's the time. You take it in like the rock. It's going to be the most electrifying survivor if you've ever seen before. I can't tell you how excited I am to watch it and knew it. You are going to have to be there. I can't tell you, but I ain't gonna tell you this. You are going to look at me in a whole different way and say, damn that Danny was craz What a man? What a man? Hey? Check was what you were supposed to church? Now I know now, I know

why I knew it. So now I knew why I knew we won that. Emmy, you got me excited coming on right now. That's crazy because you're racing and everything. You at home so you can turn your TV right on. I mean you, you know what you can I'll give you that one. I'll give you that one. Man. I mean what you can say is I pushed my body to limits I never thought before I learned so much about myself. I was so excited to do this. I want you to tune in and check me out. How

you know that's not coming. I just said, you said, did you win? And I told you that I laid out a perfect no no no no no no no no no, that's okay, that's okay. I'll just keep tuning in. Man, you know you see some good stuff. So Players Latch brought to you by hotels dot Com. Make sure you were tuning in on September twenty second. Uh, thirteen shows. I'm not sure how many. I'm not sure, but at

least it usually is somewhere around thirteen and fifteen. Season's gonna be at least twelve seasons, at least twelve, so it's gonna it's gonna go a long way. Honestly, I'll tell you, I've never watched a full show of Survivors, so this will be my first time diving into it here, So it was gonna be It's gonna be good man, I guess excited to see it. Um. So cuts are today across the league. Cam Newton has been cut by the New England Patriots, so Alabama Mac Jones has won

that job. And initially, let's get right now. You just check Twitter, people like who camp to the Cowboys camp to the Cowboys just have some of my boss over channel. But when of my manager Champ, I say, hey what I can to the Cowboys and you and I talked about it and then I've forgotten And on the way Dan, I remembered Cam's not vaccinated. Well that there's a twofold problem here. Number one, we know that the Hall of

Fame owner in general manager Gerald Jones believes in vaccinations. Absolutely. We also know what happens and just in case in Minnesota with if you know, if you're if somebody gets contract contract tracing and then you're involved, you have to sit out longer. It's a it's an issue. It's an issue. So can you bring in Dak Prescott, Dak Prescott's backup who's not vaccinated the quarterback position here? Is that something

you want to do? And also you know it takes longer when you're trying to get guys on your team that our vacks as you go through all the different nagues. So this this the thought process of Cam to the Cowboys, Cam backing up um Dak Prescott versus Cooper Rush. You can get excited about it, but there's another layer here that you got to dive into. So now knowing that, Barry Church, you still want Cam. I'm still here, baby, I'm still here. Do you want Do you want Cam?

Do you want Cam? Since they cut your boards? Oh cana Hellna, Like we're getting into this to the COVID discussion. One, he ain't going because of the vaccination, Like that's he's too close in that quarterback room to Dak Prescott and if he gets a close contact or something like that during a regular season, and now him and Dak Prescott both gotta sit out for a game, and we're stuck with Cooper Rush. And we'll get into the double G Cooper Rush situation later, but we're stuck with Cooper Rush.

All Hell's gonna break loose. So that's the one. That's the number one reason, Like you said to me, the COVID he's not vaccinated, so he won't be here. Number two, I don't want my backup quarterback getting that much line like he like it's gonna be a circus coming into

town with Cam Newton. We all know this, Like if and if d for some crazy reason, let's just say he struggles a little bit out the gate, Lord, Rusty out the gate, you're gonna have those fans in the background chirping, oh man, we should get Cam in there. We should get Cam in there. And I just don't necessarily need all that for this team. Dak Prescott's an unquestioned leader and he needs to be such. He doesn't need that whole circus backing him up in what Cam

Newton brings. Is he a solid player overall? Yes, Cam Newton is a solid player, but we don't need him on his Dallas Cowboys roster. Yeah. Let me tell you something. I think that famous quota is the best ability is availability, all right, And there's questions with Cam's availability if he comes on this team, specifically because of the vaccine questions that we have around them, So I think that's a

big issue. I will say that any fan that watches Dak Prescott struggle in the first couple of games and calls for him to be benched for Cam Newton is drunk and they should not be watching any football. They should go watch another sport because that doesn't make any sense. So I don't think you'll see that issue if Cam is here from any real fans. Of course, that noise will come, but I don't think he'll be as big of a distraction as as as Church may think. But

it's possible, but I don't. I don't think Cam Newton to be here on the Dallas Cowboys roster anytime soon. Okay, So now let's let's let's continue this conversation with branching into the Cowboys or cutter today. Numerous reports out already that Ben de Nucci has been cut from Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. Todd Archerds put out that that Garrett Gilbert aka Double G, has been cut. Now, double man, if you listen to the players lounge, Danny McCrae and I

had Double G cut along time ago. You had Church being a hole out, still holding onto this this Pittsburgh game that he played and it didn't work. Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones went on, want to fight through the fan. He said, Cooper rush Is consistency and familiarity with the offense led to the Cowboys keeping him over Garrett Gilbert and Ben the Nucci. So your boy Double G gunn like we said he was gonna be okay Church, No, I'm not okay with this. I'm not okay with this. Look, man,

d Nucci. We all knew the Nucci should have been gone. Look the Nucci, I don't even think he'll be back on the practice squad. I mean, you know, not the pile on the kid. But he just was awful out there. And so look, Double G to me, he's more experienced than the regular season. I know, I keep harping back to the stealer's game, but we had we know nothing about Cooper Rush, and when defensive dcs out there try to make these adjustments towards him and make him go

through progressions and all that stuff, we know nothing. What can Cooper Rush do out there? Now? Overall, I don't think Cooper Rush is gonna be the backup. I mean he might be there for the first maybe week or two, but I presume that we're gonna go out there and try to find somebody to bring in to back up Dak Prescott because I honestly think, and I think you guys can agree with me on this, Cooper Rush is not the answer at backup quarterback, neither of those neither

three of those guys. I'm willing to admit. You know, Double G let me down a little bit. You know, I thought they gave him opportunities in this preseason, he wasn't able to grab the reins and take over that backup job. They gave him plenty of opportunities, and he just wasn't able to do it. But I don't think Cooper Rush is that big of a you know, it has that big of an advantage to be the backup. I don't. I just don't believe in that. So I

think the Cowboys are gonna go get somebody. Whether it be the first week, second week, third week, We'll find somebody and Cooper Rush won't be the backup throughout the regular season. But I mean, overall, we need one bad because this this backup situation is terrible. Take that. Hell, yeah, I'll say this. I'll say this, Barry, because you know, I wanted to look you in your face as I said this. Okay, because yeah, you started off okay, you talk about it els, Okay, you started off with Mike

McCarthy being the guy to write this ship. Okay, you started off with that, okay, and then you backdoor that with Benda Nucci is gonna be the guy. You backdoor that NUC is going to be the guy, Okay, and then you backdoor that we're going to make the playoffs possibly going to the Super Bowl. The Red Pistol is gonna be the guy. Then you backdoor that by saying double G. Oh say hold on, hold on, let me interrupt, reble. I never said red pistol. Red Pistol is the reason

we didn't get to the playoffs. No pistole decided the last game of the season for to play his Church. Did you give him his nick did you take his nickname away? Giving him back his his real name? At some point in the season last year, you said I'm not calling the Red pistol no more. He came in, he did his thing, he got his real name back. Okay, you did. Okay, I'm gonna tell you that's that's what

his nickname is. Okay, okay, but wait, there's more. Then Church says, you know, double double double G is going to win this quarterback battle. That was last week. He said double G's gonna win this quarterback battle. And we no longer have been. We no longer have been to Nucci or double G on the roster, which means we can quit talking about that. That is signed, sealed, the little done. It's over. No double G Cooper because Cooper

rust has won the quarterback battle. Let me ask, did Cooper Rushes are to win that Coop that backup back? You gotta ask Jerry. Jerry said he had a better He had an understanding of the offense he was fine with. Now, I'm going to go back to something you referenced already and I talked about it on the show too. You had all offseason where you set the table for Garrett Gilbert to be the backup. He spent the whole time. Man, this is this is right here for you to win.

We want to give you. We want to give this to you. You take it. That to me was a red flag right there. You guys are both played You guys are you guys have both played this, and you guys have both been on teams where the coaching staff is trying to give someone a job. Here, God, please take it. He didn't do it. That's a red flag for me. And Cooper rushed what he did. Okay, man, go ahead and give it to him. I don't have any issues and you can talk about any man, you know. Uh,

Double G played in the game against Pittsburgh and say lost. Okay, that's fine. Um, yeah, I'm sorry, sorry man, your boy, Your boy had a shot TDNT. Are you are you? Are you comfortable with Cooper? Are you comfortable with Cooper Rush? Barry? We've talked about. I've said this since training camp. I can't go back to WAYT Center. The backup quarterback you need is not on this roster. I said that since camp.

I'm not going to back off that today. But I do know this, all right, you're getting ready to face the Tapha Bay buccaneers. I don't see them being able to get anyone in here during this tip from now until September nine that you're gonna sit up here and say, hey man, this guy's gonna get this offensive. He's gonna be that guy. I don't see that right now. So Cooper Rush is going to be the guy. I'm looking at it this way. So are you? MA? Are you

are you comfortable with that? No? But let's be honest, Church, how many of your thirty two teams are comfortable with the backups they have? There's not many. There's not many all Over, asked Mike McCarthy. How comfortably he was because I remember when when when Aaron Rodgers went down, we will be okay bred hunting and do you know what you saw brand Huntley. Dude didn't do anything. So, I mean most most teams man when you take the starter down,

especially when you got a highly paid starter. Most teams are in the world hurt after that because if you got a highly paid starter, you don't really have enough money to put that resources towards the backup quarterback unless you develop that guy. So to me, if I'm the Cowboys, I'm going to keep Cooper Rush for now, and we've spoke about it before here, You're going to go out and look for someone. Now. Will Greer was cut by

the Carolina Panthers today. I'm not saying Will Griers the answer, but I'll say this, I would pick up the phone or I find Will McClay. I'm doing some research on a guy that Carolina Panthers got rid of who played at West Virginia to see, okay, could there be a fit? Could he be better than Cooper Rush? Could he be better than Cooper Rush in two three weeks? I do

think they're gonna have three quarterbacks. You're not just gonna go with two sold at some point in time, You're gonna have to get a third quarterback and put that third quarterback on the active roster because we know about the whole COVID issues stay, So you need three guys because of COVID right now. So you don't need it right here for the fifty three. You can massage it, but at some point in time, I do expect this

club to go get a third quarterback. You know, look, and I didn't I agree, And if and if, if, if Dad goes down by any stretch of the imagination, the season is lost regardless Solo. I mean, we're hoping. I gotta hope that Dak stays healthy, and I hope we don't see neither one of these backup quarterbacks, but we do got to grab another one because I you know, yeah, Cooper rusts ain't it? Boys believe so? So would you have been okay with them keeping Cooper Rust and Garrett Gilbert?

No Church, No, no, no, so Na no no. I'm not gonna sit here and act like Garrett Gilbert, you know, was that guy Like I tried to defend my guy for a little bit, but like new he said, he didn't grab the reins. I can't sit here and pretend and try to front like he was. You know, he was a frontrunner. He didn't grab the reins. Cowboys gave

him plenty opportunities. So so I'm disappointed and Gilbert on that regard, But I do feel like we need to upgrade that position, whether it be with a Greer or somebody else like that, we do need to upgrade the backup position. Yeah, just y just to finish that one off. Y'all keep saying that he you know, he didn't grab the reins. It sounds like he lost the job. They gave it to him and he lost it. He didn't,

he didn't. He didn't like they didn't set it up there and say, hey man, this is yours to go take. They said, hey man, you are the guy. You went out there and you want You played well against Pittsburgh, so we saw what you could do in this in the regular season, and hopefully you can carry this on the shorts that you could be the backup quarterback. And then he lost it to Cooper rush He lost it no matter no matter how how close the battle was.

They looked at it and said, we believe that we have a better chance of winning with Cooper Rusher at quarterback than we do with Gary Gilbert. And that says a lot about what happened with Gary Gilbert this offseason. Yeah yeah, Gary Gilbert should be mad at Gary Gilbert. Yeah okay, I mean, look, he should go looking at mirror and he should be mad because they tried to give this too they okay, it's yours, it's you. I mean, no different than Michael Parsons, all the work. They gave

him a training camp. They wanted him to be the guy. He went in and did the work and took the job. Sorry, Gary Gilbert didn't do it. This is the National Football League, you know. I think they really wanted to see Ben de Nucci take another step forward and develop. You know, he didn't do it. He got cut And at this point in time, I don't think that I would put Ben de Nucci on my practice squad. Why why we seen we've seen everything now if we've seen a development. Sorry, yeah,

that's that's what. Where Will McClay goes in there with his coffee. If you go sit down with with Mike McCarthy, Hey, man, I know you like him. I know you like him, but yeah, I know i'd say it's gonna be I know y'all got that that Pittsburgh connection, but but not you gonna have to watch this again to night too, man, because it's gonna be on there, all right, it's gonna be You're gonna see your boy Gary Gilbert. They're gonna talk to him in the office telling them why they

released him. You're gonna be able to hear front and center. Okay, so you woudn't even have to hear from me. And now we read any quotes. They're gonna show it to you, all right, So don't you worry. He's gonna say so he's gonna say, hey, my god, be church Man, a part of the players. Now he had my back. Man, y'all, y'all don't see what he sees in me. Hell no, we don't see what you give me that so other other releases today, tard Archer of the of ESPN dot

Com says Braylon Jones has been released. He says he believes he thinks that Braylan could return to the practice squad because he's got a position flexing guard and center. A cut that I was not surprised at was Darry Thompson, so veteran safety Darry Thompson his gun and he wow. Tard Archer says he thinks y'all. Y'all, y'all not surprised about that. Um, look at the numbers. Once Jerry said,

that's of course special, that's of course special team. Yeah boy, he said Hooker was was for sure on the team, Thank you very much. Once once Jerry said Hooker was on the team, somebody had to go and it wasn't gonna be c J. Goodwin. He said, y'all think y'all think hook they're gonna play teams. Uh, we know, hes gonna be on the team. I don't know. You know how many special teams are gonna play? Well, you know, you know we know that the owner said that Malee

Hooker was a lock. He was he was going to be on the Rocks. Oh yeah, hes gonna be running out one or two of them. Yeah, he'd probably be like the safety on a kickoff or something. You know, you're not gonna be doing nothing too crazy, especially coming off an injury. But they they're gonna get the use out of the Yeah, they're gonna get one of two. I mean, be on game active game day. He's gonna have to be on one or two. So so yeah, I mean at this point in time. Yeah, Um, but

but Derry Thompson. When you started looking at the nimpers and I was listening to the Break yesterday with Nick and Dave and and and Dog Team Derek and Luck. It was real simple as they were kind of going down the list because they thought they had Thompson on there and I don't just listen to yase they and and they ended up in the end back And remember they forgot c J. Goodwin because we hadn't seen much of them the preseason. But there was there's going to

be someone you're gonna cut Curse. You're not cutting Kazy. Jerry told you Hooker was taking the team. Yeah, and you got Wilson, And I think what Kurt? What happened with Curse? Well, yeah, and Kurs was he was a core special teamer in Detroit. You know, that's where he made his bones in Detroit. And I think what helped

Curse get over the edges that Houston game. I mean, if we saw that Houston game, his play as safety, I mean he popped off to take and so I definitely got to give Curse that Noah, But you know, I thought for sure they would, you know, at least make a role some type of niche for for Darien Thompson. But I guess if you already got that guy in CJ. Goodwin who's designated as a special teamer and they paid him as such, you can't have two of those on the team. So I guess the guy is the MVP,

c J. Goodwin. It also means they have some other guys that they think can can feel that special team spot as well, being on a receiver or being at another position out there on the field. They see some guys who they think can feel that spot. But that was the four safeties. I mean that right there. I

mean we're looking at We talked about it. So once Jerry said Hooker made the team, Kaz is Quinn's guy, he was gonna make the team, Wilson was there before, and then curses the guy they brought in, and you're playing specials. So right there, you look at those four Thompson wasn't gonna beat any of those guys out. So that's why I was let me ask let me ask you our question. Let me ask you a question there, dude.

So since since we're going super light at safety, only four safeties, that's got to mean we gotta go super heavy at corner. So who's your seven corners? Six or seven corners? Okay, let's let's do this. Let's do this. Let's let's go ahead and the perfect question Church. Let's take a break, and when we come back here on the Players Lounge, brought to you by Hotels dot Com,

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the game exclusively on NBC. I will be at the game in Florida, So, um looking forward to that. Here all right, um, more cuts according to our local beat reporters, here Michael Gel because the Dallas Morning News is the Cowboys wave running back Jaquon Hardy, and he's a guy who could be signed the practice squad on Wednesday if he clears waivers. You saw him on the last episode

of Hard Knox with the whole contact lens deal. By the way Hard Knox does air tonight, also Gilk and reporting that undrafted rookie running back Brendan Knox is gone. So the so the number three running back is not on the roster, so right now it looks like they're just gonna go with two running backs. He also says that cornerback Deonte Burton is gone. Spent most of the last season on that Cowboy practice squad. He's got wide receiver brands. He struggled, he says. Brandon Smith, wide receiver.

Undrafted wide receiver from Iowa has been waived. They expect him to make the practice squad if he can clear waivers. Braylon Jones we talked about before, rookie from Houston. He's been waved. Johnny Dixon wide receiver, kick returner. Johnny Dixon has been let go as well, according to Michael Gelkin of the Dallas Morning News. So cut's coming in here. And of course, if you didn't hear earlier, Darry Thompson's safety gone. We spoke about that. Ben Denucci has been

cut and Garrett Gilbert has been cut. So Cooper Rush has made the Cowboys as the quarterback. Jerry Jones I want to find through the fan saying that he feels that Cooper's familiarity to be the offense has helped him win the job. So that your backup for Dak Prescott going into the Tampa Bay game will be Cooper Rush. Cam Newton has lost the quarterback job in New England

to Mac Jones. So Cam Newton has been cut. They didn't have a whole lot of money in And so for people who talked about, hey, all right, Cam of the Cowboys is a very popular trending item. Cam Newton is not vaccinated. Cam Newton had to miss was it five days? With the understanding Patriots already for a misunderstanding?

Jerry Jones is very adamant about being vaccinated. And when you talk about a backup quarterback not being vaccinated, that's going to be not just a question for the Cowboys, that's gonna be a question for a whole lot of teams in the National Football League. Who and he's a backup quarterback, who's who's always going to be in close contact with the franchise with the guy that's that's got the whole franchise on his back, Dak Prescott. So we can't risk him getting in close contact. Maybe what if

it happen Thursday, Daddy. He was trying to hold it too. He was trying to hold it. You need to get that go ahead. You can see it on his face. He was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's a little one back. You need to handle that real quick. I could take another break, Nae pretty good. I don't know. I don't know if y'all heard it or now I heard that twice. So good? Is that kind of day for you? Church? We're gonna wear everybody wearing you out, man,

So you come on in here today, man, what happens? What? And so you know, you know, you know I could take it. I've benna push them back before on this show, so you know I could take it. But y'all day's coming, though, y'all day is coming. It's all good, y'all days. Hey man, we still love you, man, we still we still we still love you. So it's all good. But that that vaccination question. Okay, so when you talk about Cam's cut down,

you want to go visit a team right now. Now, you got issues with the whole pro COVID protocol thing. So I'm not going to get into a strong debate about whether you should or should not be vaccinated. Okay, I'm not gonna do that, but I'll just simply say this. The National Football League is basically told all players, we're gonna make life as hard as we can for you. If you're not and if you're a quarterback, this is an issue if you're if you are Kirk Cousins making

a whole lot of money. You can play this game. Oh I'm not gonna do it. Okay if you're Aaron Rodgers. And I don't know if Aaron Rodgers you can do this. You're a backup. You can't. You're a backup quarterback. Jet it up, it up? You don't. You don't. I mean because Terrelle Pryor was talking about you see his tweets. Okay, Jarrell Pryor was talking about yeah, man, you know um not Yeah. Teams are telling me that I don't get back to that I may not be able to come

in and it's gonna affect me. And okay, well guess what you gotta do it. I don't know if you two are vaccinated, I will tell you who I am. And you want to know why I got vaccinated? What to um? It was the Cowboys press conference in April and Jerry Jones was talking to He was you could tell how strong he was pushing his thoughts on vaccinations, and he was saying how nobody was going to be

in his draft room he was not fully vaccinated. And I ended up going to um lunch with a lawyer team lawyer for one of the major pro sports teams here, and I said, hey, look, basically, you're letting the media know you're we're not gonna let you near our players if you're not vaccination. And the lawyers like, yep, signed up, went got my shots because it was really simple back then in April, these teams were sending the message to the media, if you're not vaccinated, you're not getting around

our players. Okay, we're not taking a chance on you. You're not about them. You media aren't about to screw us up. They agree, so you know what went head got jabbed up, balloon. And then we got to notice about Cowboy Camp. You want to go to Cowboy Camp, better be fully vaccinated. You're not stepping in the building. And there was one media person I knew who was kind of looking at like, I don't know. I telled me, ask you this, you know what Cowboy camp is he

in late July, going in August. You want to stay here in town on Dallas Footworth burning. You want to get on the plane and go You know, like, I don't know about you, but I'm going to California. Let me get that shot. So literally, I did it for my job and now, I mean, and since I did this was April, so since then, it's basically come out a whole lot of ways from a media standpoint. And if you want to do these things and be around you have to do It's a part of your job.

And I got a friend who works from the major television stations and in the state of Texas and he won't do it. And I'm like, hey, man, I get it. And I told us, like, bottom line is I want to be able to do my job. I do not want to be the guy that can't do his job because he's not vaccinated. I look at a guy like Cam Newton right now, just come back to Cam, your backup quarterback in this league. You're not vaccinating. I don't think you're You're not good enough anymore to take that round.

And that's really if you think about how that's pretty much all backup players. Backup players, you better go get it. You're not good enough to sit around here and take a stand on it. Some starters. It's some starters in the position to where you don't Cam learned that that he was a starter and he didn't have he didn't have what he thought he had, and that ended up getting him released because he missed those days. Mac Jones came in lit it on fire, and Belichick was like,

hey man, we got our guy. And you should have known this because we picked them fifteenth in the draft. It ain't like it was a third or fourth rounder that was behind you. This is a first round pick who's pushing you for the competition for the starting quarterback. And you go out there, you have to miss five days because it is Hey, it's your prerogative to do it whatever you want to do out mine. I got mine for safety. I know people who have gotten in and it didn't end up well for them. I got

a daughter who can't get vaccinated. That's why I got mine outside of work. But I can also now come to work and feel comfortable about being here. So mine is fine. They got the choice to do that, but they also have to know that this consequences repercussions for the people who don't have the vaccine, because that's the rules of the NFL. And you know, the biggest casualty that we've seen is Cam Newton. NBA came out this week said all reps gotta get jabbed up, gotta get vaccinated.

I mean it's it's coming. I ended up having to submit my vaccination um questionnaire to my job. They wanted to win. Where what type you got. It's just a part of the job. And for me, I want to travel. God, I want to go to Tampa Bay. I want to go to Los Angeles. You know, we know you want to go to LA. Don't you want to go to LA? Well, the Super Bowl is gonna be a sofi stad so I want to be there. I will hit Randy's Donuts and I really hit Roscos without you know, make up

my annual LA trips. So go back to my old my old town. So I enjoy I enjoyed that. But that's doing your job and also just living life. These are the reasons why I've done But for football players right now, backup, football players, I'm sorry. I don't know what kind of research you got left to do, but it's really clear the league is just making it really hard for you. And unless you are a solid starter and you have started is making big money that they

can't really do anything to you. To you gotta do it. So Church this Cam Newton question about being vaccinated, and try to get on teams right now, this is going to be an issue. Church. If Okay, you're last year in Jacksonville, they go out and they draft the first round safety, you're still starting. The only thing that could hold you out is missing time, right and you're and the only thing that can make you missed time is not being vaccinated. What is your decision? Oh, I'm getting

stabbed up. Look, I mean that's that's that's that's bread on the line. I'm on the line right there. That's millions of dollars on the line right there. Look, and everybody's not can't be you know, Cole Beasley out here, Cole Beasley's one of the top two options for you know, an MVP candidate and Josh Allen out there. So everybody can't risk that decision to be like, oh, I don't want to get you know, get vaccinated. If if I get it, I get it. If I don't, I don't

a lot of people can't do that. Now, if you're talking about me, I'm for sure getting jabbed up. Look, I'm doing everything I can to keep that job. And now maybe Cam Newton he got enough duckets saved up to where he's like, look, I don't need the NFL. I just like to do this as I just like to do it just because it's you know, it's there and I'm good at it. So maybe he made that decision. But if it's me, I'm going forward. I see this young kid coming up and I can't miss any time

or my job is getting taken. I gotta get stabbed up. Something was that and I say this. I remember when when Cole Beasley first started this and then he went in the press conferences. He was talking about how he had guys who were reaching out to him because he was like the spokesperson forward or whatever. And I would always get these guys this warning, hey man, like you said, Church, everybody is not in the position of a Cole Beasley.

And I can guarantee you some of those guys who were reaching out to him were low on the roster and would lose their jobs if they followed suit behind Cole Beasley. And some of them probably will trying to trying to play that role, and they just got to be ready to do that. But be careful who you followed behind, because you are not Cole Beasley, Cam Newton, and you know you're not the first rounder man. And that dude went out there, and he maximized his opportunity

like Garret Gilbert didn't. I mean we've seen it hundreds and hundreds of times, you know, not with the COVID, but remember, all right, look Ardando Scandrick. He was a nickel corner for us. You know, for a long time with the Cowboys. Young guys would come in and try to act like Skandrick. Like you know how Scandrick was. He was kind of put off. He's kind of talk

crazy to the coaches. Every now and then the young guys would try to come in and follow that Joe d I could remember that, Joe telling these people don't let adulthood or Lando Dragon to the deep end. He can swim out there, y'all can't swim out there. We've seen that hundreds and hundreds of times and it always fails. So I mean, you gotta understand where you are and the pecking toll and and the totem paul when it comes to these teams. And also add another layer into this,

how does your team feel about vaccinations? You know the stands that Jerry Jones has. I go and look at Washington right now, all right, their head coach has had cancer and you heard Ron River early in camp talk about his frustration for guys who were not because he's exposed to them. Now, do you think you can be a backup player on the Washington football team unvaccinated? And the head coaches and told you how he feels. And he's been a cap and he's he's battled and beaten cancer.

I think he wants to be around something backup player who's not, you know, use common sense. Then you look at Mike Zimmer and what happen once calin Man ended up getting COVID and then Kirk Cousins and having quarterbacks for a minute here, and you saw his frustration at the podium. This is one where and I don't you guys tell me this because I don't know how how agents work in the NFL. But if I'm an agent, I got a backup player. I'm on to hey, man, look,

you need to do this. You need to do this because you don't give them a reason to take your job. And Danny, some guys need to make these teams and play that first week so you get yourself vested, baby, so you can get the pinchon. Okay, these are these jobs, some of these are many guys, man, you you may only get three four years in here. You just you trying to get that pinch, man, I and that's where somebody.

That's where somebody's wife or mama need to get up at some son, husband, dad, go get this so we can get this pinch. There's just too much on the line that backup players can sit around here to body. They go stand on some something that's hey, that's that's that's their choice, and then it's it's the NFL's choice and the team's choice to to do with that as they see fit and when we're seeing that around the league with coaches and players. So we'll see how it

shakes out this season. But Cam Newton won't be the only guy. This is correct. This is correct. Hard knocks tonight. Now you interested in watching absolutely? I think uh one week we get to see, you know, this final game. We get to see some of those young guys get out there and play. We get to see kind of behind the scenes of how they are able to prepare and get ready for a game to where they will

actually be the starters. And then we also get to see kind of the sad part of it of this is the league, This is a business, and you're gonna see some of these guys get cut. You're gonna see some some of the end of these guys's football careers. Um, so it's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be a little a little sad, But I think that really shows what the NFL is and how hard it is to remain

in this league and play at a high level. Yeah, I'm a definitely tune in just because I want to see I want to see who's the new Bruce May's like, who's the new guy that's going on tapping guys on the shoulder, like, hey, it's time to go, let me get that laptop or let me get that iPad off of you. I want to know who's that new guy

in there. But it's definitely gonna be intriguing. This is the part of the business that sucks the most because you kind of get a connection with these guys, whether it be you know, the rookies coming in undrafted, whoever it may be. You gotta you get a connection with

these guys. You never want to see their dreams kind of take a hit from being cut, but you know, hopefully, you know there's other opportunities for those guys out there, but I'm definitely gonna be interested in seeing what happens here tonight on Hard Knocks. All right, we will tune in and check it out. Let's hit another break here. I went to Saints practice yesterday at at and T Stadium. Let's dive into their situation. Is there away from Louisiana

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com slash Fan of the Year. So yesterday at Jerry World in New Orleans, Saints were practicing and they're going to practice again there today and tomorrow and then they'll assess what has to happen there here. Because of the hurricane that's hit the Gulf coast, the local media has been invited to come out again today, so from one fifty five to two twenty you can observe practice. So we go out there twenty five minutes. Oh, first off, that twenty five was a lie. It was about ten

minutes that we got to film. We got to film about tests, We got to see warm up, so we right, So we saw a couple of dudes just jogging around and they stretched, and then as they went into individual drills, I cut us off, all right, kind of cameras kind kind of kind of like, wait a minute, I'm just watching Chris Richard throws some passes to the DVS. You know, it's a Jeff heat throw like this. This is not

proprietary information. Good, it's it's a stretch. And then there was a limit, like you guys can stand at the twenty and to the end zone. That's as far as you can go. Well, they got Jameis Winston the quarterbacks way down the field, so we can't even really get eating good on Jamis to tasting hill, tasting Hill, and so it's just they cut that thing off, man. And then you know, so I think I think my photographer

got four minutes of film. But and then so my TV station wanted me in the four o'clock Yeah, we need you in the Portland hiding the four o'clock show. So I was happy I had the force. I said, hey, man, let me let me get get a quick stand up, you know it a little quick intro outro here while I got the scenes behind me the show like I was actually here. And I'm glad I did because when we got down there. Yeah, we ahead cut that out, Like what you mean you said you said two twenty. No,

that's what time you're leaving. Leaving at two twenty. The camera's off. It too hit. I wish you could put that in the nuts. So so I'm out here and worders out here, Jory Epstein from USA Today's out here. The Saint Sweet Riders right here. They got to eat. You know, I'm just sitting there. This was a waste, This was a waste of times. So, you know, told told my folks at the office, like, yeah, we got some stuff. I said, I ain't coming back. I will

not be here today and tomorrow, thanks Sean Payton. So which made me think, man, we got a good here coming to Cowboys fifteen. It wasn't E fifteen. I get more TCU, Man, Lisa, let us shoot it. Okay, you're not. And I understand the coaches paranoia because they're all coaches paranoid. I mean, lord knows are dealing with one here with the Cowboys now, Mike McCarthy, But you are not about to get any significant give advantage by watching individual drills

and filming them for TV. Okay, you're not. Okay, Aaron Rodgers is not about to know anything from what Chris Rashard was just throwing pass this to his DBS right there in individual drill. That's not going to help Aaron Rodgers on September twelve. It's just not okay, it's just not at all. So anyway, I just kind of laughed at how the Saints ran theirs, which is very different. We're very lucky here with the Cowboys. How we're allowed

to Rich Dalry Bull. Let's just do our thing. Here's one takeaway that I had, and I really did feel for some Saints players, you know, like everyone else. They got to cut down the roster. Those guys who were going to get cut from the Saints, they can't go back to Louisiana. And apparently, according to Jorry Epstein that the Saints began roster cut last night, you know, while they're still you know, dealing with being in Dallas. And Peyton said, quote, I don't think anyone's returning to New

Orleans in short term, So there you go. Yeah, what you hope is that a lot of those guys that are getting released don't they don't have permanent residents in New Orleans. You hope that, uh, you know, the Saints can get them a flight back to where their original where original home is so they don't have to deal with that. But I do feel bad for the guys who actually have permanent residents in New Orleans and they

can't get back home. All right, Hey, we just got some breaking news here on Twitter for Jeff Duncan, who covers the Saints. He says Sean Payton said the Saints are planning to be away from New York Ones for the first quarter of the NFL season and will adjust accordingly. Oh, it must be really bad down there. Wow. Well, look,

I know they have no pile and here. And I go back into this because we were talking last night in my office about I think about you know them, because Sean would talked about, hey, we don't know if the first game because it's supposed to be at home against the Packers, and I was like, hey, hopping um September twelve, said, because you got and you guys know this being former players. To Danny Berry, what happens on a game day is you need your local police departments

out there. So the city being in the situation is they can't sit around police can't afford to putting no officers in no football game. I mean they got to they have to utilize that. That and then you got the first responders who come out here for these games. And then you got a workforce of people who come out here from the people who are working the concessions

for the people who are working apart. How are these folks getting, you know, and are they letting are they using the Superdome as as a as a place for people to hold up until until they're able to get back until their own place. And that was the next thing. You don't you don't exactly know exactly You're just just how are they using the Superdome, as you said, for for civic purposes? So that's as how I told I told my guys like, man, there's no way they're playing

that game at home against the Packers right now. So what you play it here? So the first, you know, quarter of the season you play, you play in Dallas when we're not playing well, I mean this is what just kind of looking at their schedule, Um, Cowboys don't have us uh Sunday game that they're playing at Jerry World in September at all. So you know, the first game is at Tampa. The second game is ten days later, the nineteenth, in Los Angele, and then that Billy game

is a Monday night game. So looking at right now, for the Saints and Shanna Paca, was the first quarter of the season, the only game that really would be affected for them. Well, the first game obviously would be Green Bay, which I would anticipate you play here because the stadium will be open. The Cowboys don't play because the Cowboys played Thursday night, so that Sunday night Jerry World's open. Then they go to Carolina, then they go to New England, and then the next game for the

Saints would be October third. That would be the saints next home contest and they could possibly get back by that time. And by the way, it's very interesting. December second, Cowboys and the Saints play each other. That's supposed to be a Thursday night game, and hopefully for the Saints they're able to get get get home by by December.

Once again, we're not sure. So the Cowboys have a home game October third against Carolina, and the Saints have a home game as well against the Jiance, So there's a conflict there. But to me, the conflict is really solvable from the standpoint that you just played on a Monday night. You just have the Saints go play Monday night and it's gonna be They left there not sure when they were gonna be going back, and then to find out they'll be going for the first quarter of

the season. That is that that that's tough to deal with. You know, these guys have families, Uh you know, they have stuff at home, kids have school, you know, so there's a lot of stuff for those guys to figure out outside of football. Which is which is tough? Man? Yeah, it's And then you gotta, like you said, you got all that going on, and then you're supposed to you know, break down film and be able to be prepared for an opponent coming up for this regular season. Like you said, Man,

that's a tough situation right there. So you know it's man, that's a tough one right there. This is probably the best place for the Saints in terms of if you had to go relocate coming up here. You've got a fan base of people. So the Saints play. If the Saints played Jerry Well against the Packers, I mean, you're gonna have a good crowd, and you're gonna get some

poured up here, and it's not too far away. And then you've got a whole bunch of folks who've already relocated from a past couple of a couple, you know, tough weather circumstances, uh down there in in Louisiana. I was talking to Shannon Gross, who who does the Hanging with the Boys podcast, and he's telling me that one of his family members said they had enough that they're they're just going to move out of Louisiana because these

things used to happen. These major hurricanes used to happen, you know, every ten years, you know now because and I'm I'm one of those who believes in climate change. Okay, I believe in climate change. They're just happening three every three, four or five years. Now. How much rebuilding can you

put folks through? You know? How many times do you just say, you know, I'm good And I don't know if you guys have ever had to deal with with, uh, you know, a flood or just having to do you know, Okay, so yes you have, um the TV cameras go away, but you know, all right, you just don't get your you just don't get the flooding and get a whole new floor in two three weeks. It takes a long time. And now you start to think about how COVID slowed things up, and then you have that that blockage over

the sus Canal. It's hard getting materials in. So now it's hard to get materials in that cost a lot more. And oh, by the way, it's hard to find people working right now. A lot of folks are not and so that makes it even tougher. And the prices that people are charging for cruise because my wife deals in this kind of stuff all the time and trying to do home remodels, and they have an issue trying to find find subs to work. And you think about the

after Harvey. It took forever in the same situation. Yeah, and even just after the freeze, it's people still getting their stuff fixed from the freeze that happened in Texas. So I can understand how that is. And I, you know, knock on wood, I've been lucky enough and blessed enough to not have to go through that. But I also just say this whole thing insurance. You know, people just say, hey, we got insurance that they mean, you gonna get the whole chick you think you're supposed to get. At mean,

that's another issue as well. So for folks down there in that Gulf coast there, I'm imagining there are a lot of folks, especially as they get older, and decide, you know what, let me just roll on and move to someplace like Dallas Foot or Texas, or move to Oklahoma,

or just move somewhere, move somewhere else where. I don't have to keep dealing with these with these hurricanes, because it can take it can take a toll on you, man, And I my heart goes out to those folks, goes out to Sean Payton in that organization and those fans those kids. Man. Just so you brought up a great point here. What are you doing for the kids who are now going to be displaced from school? Where do you put them at? Here? I mean, what kind of

adjustment is that going to make? Hey, how long we're gonna be well first quarter of the year, where were they at with their curriculums? Where are they going to be now? And in New Orleans, a lot of those guys send their kids to private schools, So how did that work with tuition, keep that tuition? Are they doing virtual? I mean, how do you how do you get all of that stuff taken care of? And then, by the way, if you're gonna be here this long, where do you live?

Is the team gonna put you up in a hotel? Or do you find it about me? How do you? How do you do the missus? By the way, I did not pick a lot of variable. Yeah, I had to do my predictions for the Dallas Morning News. I did. I gotta go back. I don't think. I mean, I don't think I had the Sames making the playoffs. Pretty sure I did. I think I had New England making the playoffs. I'm about to change that. I think I

think will be okay man like John looked okay. I think I like their defense, But I don't I don't know if I can and go with the I want to go in the Patriots, but Mac Jones being a start a rookie, I don't know him a seventeen games. We've seen some rookies come out and play very very well. If Justin Herbert was on the Patriots, we would they

would have made the playoffs, all right? Last year when you watched him play Church picked him up in fantasy and was like, oh man, I got lucky as hell because it was like this, dude, come out here, Allen. They got the Chargers looking like they somebody, and they just couldn't they couldn't figure it out. But if you have Mac Jones playing a season like Justin Herbert played last year, and he's playing with the Patriots this year, they'll be fine. You know, White we should all care

about this. Was that Matt Jones and the Cowboys go against each other October seventeenth up there Gillette Stadium, So it matters, sweet top ten. I'm not worried about this. This matters really Church Church. Usually usually oh I don't know, no top ten, I'll tell you that much. But usually rookie quarterbacks that have good success, they have a little bit of mobility tuns. And I don't know if Matt Jones can go out there and get itself out of trouble. So I don't know if I'm sold on the Patriots

making the playoffs. I think they'll win around seven eight games, but I don't see them making the playoffs at all. What we know about New England's offenses, you do not need mobility to be able to be productive because Tom Brady sat there and did that with no mobility for a long time. It's gonna be a lot of short routes, a lot of crossing routes. It's gonna be running the ball, it's gonna be playing good defense. I think that suits Mac Jones really, really well. All right, I want to

add this from Jack Jones and Tom Brady. No, no, no, no, no, no, no no, that's that's not what I said. He can be. I said, I said he doesn't have to be mobile. He was. Bill Belichick won eleven games in Mack cast just and Matt Castle came here stuck up to joint as a backup quarterback, remember that Church. So he was trying. He was not there. He was not the best. This

from James Slater here of NFL dot com. She tweets out UH Saints head coach Sean Payton says owner Gail Benson is picking up the tap for hotels, meals for fam for the families. He says it's been a unique environment given circumstances, that he's enjoyed getting you to see all the players, kids and their families that they would

not otherwise get to know as well. So Sean Payton has been put in another interesting situation as a head coach, and it's good to see Gail Benson is going to do her part helped take care of the families, and it'll be interesting, you know, if you're the Saints right now knowing that you're going to be here for for a quarter of the season. I don't know where they're staying at right now, but you know where you keeping the mat? I mean, do you go to someplace like

grape Vine? And then also where are you practicing? Yeah? I think out, yeah, where where are you practicing right now? And then the logistics of trying to get that done here, well, you you won't be in there. Yeah, I'm done with that. And oh, by the way, once again, the Saints and the Cowboys face each other December second, So some interesting situations when you start to think about what's been going on around the league and how they affect the Cowboys.

If you hadn't been paying attention to Denver Teddy Bridgewater wins the quarterback job. The Cowboys and the Broncos face each other this season, and that game is going to be um November seventh, and that game is going to be at AT and T Stadium. So there's there's a lot of the kind of moving parts there. And you go back into the whole thing we're talking about COVID in the whole Minnesota quarterback issues. Here Cowboys face Minnesota

here this year. Um, there's a lot going on here, man, across the National Football League that you gotta pay attention to and how it affects the Cowboys. Gardner Minshew ends up going to Philadelphia in a trade from Jacksonville for a late sixth round conditional pick. Here and Philadelphia and the Cowboys get it on Monday night. That's the third game of the year here at at and T Statum. Jalen Hurts is the guy in Philadelphia. As you say, Jalen, I'm just waiting for you to tell me what Jerry

said about these linebackers. I'm just sitting I'm on the edge of my seat. Thank you. As you say. As you say, Jalen, I'm just waiting to hear this. I gotta I gotta know, okay, Uh yeah, he said top three linebackers are Neil Parsons and l V. Those those linebackers, those top linebackers team. I mean, I think we all knew that. I think we knew that. So there you go. So so so what are we gonna do? What we're gonna do? I'm not surprised. I mean, we all saw

the tape out there. We saw what, you know, what Parsons was able to do. We've seen what Neil was able to do at his linebacker spot. And I don't think l Vee took that big of a drop. But when we look at Jalen, I mean we didn't. We just don't see what we need. He doesn't pop off the tape. He doesn't make any big splash plays, and too many times have we seen guys kind of just running around him, just getting outside of him, running around him?

Now will he'd be a great depth piece for these seventeen games season, of course, But as my boy gonna play some special teams or something, I mean, you can't just you know, just take a roster spot chilling. We need, we need, we need some We got already Malie Cooker, who's just gonna play what one special teams? I mean, we need some of these guys to get on team. Let me take you something we just uh, we had Daria Thompson, you know, he's, he's, he's he's lost some

special teams reps. Okay, so my man Jalen might be getting those. Look we know Jens. Jalen's gonna be playing special teams for sure. I go back to what I said right here on the players, not about Jalen. They're seventeen football games. He's going to be on this team and they've got a having a stretch of eleven games in a row. You're going to need Jalen Smith. You're going to need him on your football team. Kean O'Neill. These guys have shown you that they don't write them,

don't write sixteen games down next to their name. They're going to be issues. So Jalen is going to help your football team. But how bad does that? But how bad does that look? How bad does that look when your fourth linebacker is making what eight meal? That doesn't? Okay? Then look, can I defend Jalen? Can I defend j We're not We're not going against Jaylen and we're not gonna That's what it is. And I'll defend the team. Okay. So when you had to make this decision in March,

you have Jalen. You got Banderesh and Joe Thomas is gone, So you gotta decide, are we going to go with jalen Or and pay this man? Are we gonna go into the unknown? You didn't know exactly where you were going. And while everybody's sitting up here right now giving Parsons

a thumbs up and they like him, I'm sorry. On Draft Day there was a whole lot of folks on my Twitter timeline that we're not happy when they saw Patrick's Ertan wasn't the pick, that j. C. Horne wasn't the pick, or in the case of this one sitting over here, that the old boy Slater, the tackle for the Northwestern wasn't here. So there was not a whole big, receiving line of love for Michael Parsons. Yeah, but it wasn't because they thought Michael Well, not because I didn't

think Michael Parson was a good player. I thought that we needed a tackle, and if you look at our roster now, we talked about this. I'm glad you know we got a couple of minutes. I remember we talked about those stingers Church and how they're gonna be going and bothering you all season. It ain't been one week my man was out again with a what another stinger? I mean, what are we what are we talking about there? So I'm not mad. I don't because I don't because

I think Michael Parsons is a bad player. But when you talk about what we need and what is the most obvious thing, Yes, when we missed a tackle, you you might as well count that as a lost two church. Okay, but but but just that whole premise of going back, going back to Jalen, going back into jail. And at the time you had two linebackers or on the football team that we're proving for you. So it was either pay this guy or going to the unknown. They decided

not to go on the unknown. They signed Neil. There, people forget Neil's niels. You know, this is gonna be his first game at linebacker for the Cowboys. In terms of regular season, he was a safety. But you get dan Quinn, he's here and he's shown us so far. Then okay, this is a guy who's healthy and can help you. So now here's Neil going, you know, going above Jaalen Parsons. He's showing you he can adapt that

he is the real deal. So now he goes above Jaalen to me and then I see you see Jabrille Cox, young guy, and you're thinking, you know, in two years and you can catch this guy up, and he'll to me this is this has been a good job of the team. And I'm not mad at jail like some fans. All you overpaid bum. I'm sorry. He was always limited. He was like a non trade clause or something. Okay, who is there like a non trade clause or something? Berry?

Who's would you would you rather would you rather be? Dude? Would you rather be four deep at linebacker or at least one deep at the tackle position? Dude? Who's trading you got backup tackles? Still? And who is trading contract? Nobody? Nobody. And that's what I'm saying. It looks bad right now. That's all we're saying. It looks bad right now. Like okay, but we four deep our fourth linebacker Niga eight mil tell we got we got two backup tackles that who

knows what's gonna happen with them? No Church bad because they wouldn't pay him six and he got to be a starter. Ye now they paying a backup eight tell tell me, tell me a football team out there that doesn't have a guy that they're sitting around here saying, we ain't exactly happy with this contract. Um, the Patriots about to pay Stephan Gilmore a lot of money and he's now gonna be on the physically and physically unable to perform. Not the same season. He's gonna call Stefan Gilmore,

Jalon Smith six weeks. He knows, well, this was no last year you was beating on the table for him to be the best corner. He's gonna be the best guy. Bla blah blah blah, all that stuff, not even the Gilday. I'm a fan, but this is also a guy they were trying to trade. They were trying to get rid of Gilmore. And the issue with Gilmore is this guy wants a new contract making a hundred million bucks or at least seventeen eighteen a year, and nobody else, nobody

out there is signing up for this. And so they've had their issues. And now here's Gilmore about the miss six games, which means hill, mister cowboy game. Um, there you go. So so I mean every point being every team that can you can go down. Hey, whoa that guy's making what every team's got that. I mean, I don't know if you know or not. Chicago Bears got a quarterback making some good, significant money and he's not going to do anything for them at all. Every team

is gonna have a guy Church. You see what new we're doing to you, bro he sign of turning. Were talking about James. We're talking about a guy who plays six. We talk about and let me get back to the talking about quarterbacks and quarterbacks the pup. We talked about one backus. We ain't talking about backups. We talk about fourth on the death. Yeah, we're talking about people got beat out. Ain't none of them dudes get beat out of their spot? Nick Voles can get me that. No, no, no,

no no, no, hold on hold long. We talked about step Bug Gilmore. Don't Nick Voles and Jayleen Smith played sixteen games to team last year. Let the club and tackles. They've upgraded, they've upgraded. They had to. They had to decide by March to pay the guy. I didn't have an issue with them paying him then because at that time you had to make a choice. You didn't have a better option. But now you got better options. But nobody's trading you. Then we're gonna trade I don't they're

gonna trade it. I'm like, I'm not mad at Jaylen. He got beat out. Let's it happens. This will be his last season on on on the roster. There you go, man, There you go. Man. I'm I can't listen to Church. I can't. I can't look to have you back up in the jal hate you guys still back in person, Bro, I can't wait to have you back in person. Many. I'll be back there. Stop treating Jalen like he's tea paying. I'm not laughing at I like Jay. Who is he? Then? I like who? We got to think out who he is?

Jay has been. That's the next. That's the next. He's going to be a contributing player on this team. Yes, we're over time now, Church, go ahead and play Daddy Daycare. We'll get your tea time. We'll hit you see contribute being fourth on the day. Ain't playing those special teams. He's gonna be a coach on the sideline. He's playing special teams on the next. See me about see me about to get y'all come on back. Chris sped William boycs.

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