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Speaker 2: All right, We'll talk about the Mavericks in just a second.
Speaker 2: Here's where we are with the Cowboys coaching search and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. If they are actually searching, who knows.
Speaker 2: They did deny permission to the Bears to interview Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 2: so they're just hanging in which saying tell you that
Speaker 2: probably that means McCarthy's back. McCarthy's probably back, and they're
Speaker 2: negotiating it, and Jerry's saving pennies and maybe trying to
Speaker 2: throw in some incentives in there. I'll give you two
Speaker 2: million dollars more you get us to the championship game.
Speaker 2: You know, that's probably what's going on, unless it's not,
Speaker 2: but that's probably what's going on. Jerry's done a really
Speaker 2: good job of keeping it pretty. He didn't slip up
Speaker 2: like a normal eighty three year old man would like
Speaker 2: the slip up and tell you what they're doing. Nah,
Speaker 2: I kind of still don't know, but that's where it
Speaker 2: seems like this is going. So enjoya McCarthy everyone. That's
Speaker 2: just unfortunate if you were really wanting change.
Speaker 1: It is bizarre too, because it really felt like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna part way with him during the season,
Speaker 1: and it seemed like they had their guy, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Jerry's just winging it. But I do know this.
Speaker 1: Jerry is a master marketer, and so he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to rush out immediately and just say yep, McCarthy's the guy,
Speaker 1: because then the story's dead. And every day that the
Speaker 1: story lives, it's free publicity for the ten billion dollar brand.
Speaker 1: So why would he want it to go away? He
Speaker 1: wants if he has a deal with McCarthy, then the
Speaker 1: stipulation is you can't say anything about it till we
Speaker 1: milk this for every penny it's worth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got seven days to keep this on
Speaker 2: his timeline and I'm not moving off what I'm doing,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: So it's it's just very u it's very It's it's
Speaker 3: actually not surprising.
Speaker 2: You know, you're not going to go out and interview
Speaker 2: a bunch of dudes, and it's not because of laziness,
Speaker 2: it's because of comfort.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was thinking about this whole aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Of Okay, so if you know you're not bringing McCarthy back,
Speaker 1: and you deny him the chance to go interview you somewhere,
Speaker 1: that's horrible form. Then I was like, all right, who
Speaker 1: is that horrible? Form?
Speaker 4: Two?
Speaker 1: And the reason Jerry probably doesn't think it's horrible for
Speaker 1: him is because he's like the Dallas Cowboys. The line
Speaker 1: forms to the left of everyone that would drop what
Speaker 1: they're doing and run here to coach our team. And
Speaker 1: you signed a contract that has you under contract for
Speaker 1: another week, so what that's what you signed. So it's
Speaker 1: like it is poor form. In the rest of the world,
Speaker 1: especially the NFL world, would look at that as complete trash.
Speaker 1: But Jerry thinks that everyone wants to be here more
Speaker 1: than anything, and they would do anything to be here.
Speaker 1: It's why they low ball everybody. And then at the
Speaker 1: very end they're like, oh, wait, no, we can't lowball you.
Speaker 1: We have to pay market value here it is we've
Speaker 1: waited too long. You're going to miss the first month
Speaker 1: of the season because they think everyone's just going to
Speaker 1: do whatever they want to be a Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 2: Which is not true now anymore, because that's what might
Speaker 2: have been. That's what no, that's what agents are for. Agents,
Speaker 2: Go dude, are you serious? Hold by that crap?
Speaker 1: You guys are right, But I'm wanting to Micah, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you said Micah. Will Micah fall for it? Will
Speaker 1: Micah take less money? Because he does want to be
Speaker 1: a Dallas cowboy and he sees the value in that,
Speaker 1: and they've got him convinced. Look, if you take us
Speaker 1: for all the money you're worth, we're screwed. We need
Speaker 1: to go get other players. We need you to get
Speaker 1: your deal done quickly and give us a home team
Speaker 1: hometown discount. You think he's going to fall for the
Speaker 1: banana in the podcast routine? Yes, yes, you know.
Speaker 2: His agent is David Mulgletta, So keep that in mind
Speaker 2: where going with this stuff. Mike has done a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff. Micah is one of those guys. He's kind
Speaker 2: of like Jerry where he almost had to take a
Speaker 2: grain of salt what Micah says, because he will flip
Speaker 2: flop on you in a week. Like he's talked about
Speaker 2: saving us staying taking less, and he's also talked about,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm just here to get my money, you know,
Speaker 2: like Micha's greazy.
Speaker 3: That's what happens. We give Mike an hour show every week.
Speaker 2: It's great. I got a clip of Micah here for
Speaker 2: twenty seconds. Cowboys fans just enjoy this. This is beautiful, dude,
Speaker 2: This is great.
Speaker 3: Is what do you want to hear?
Speaker 5: We are not done yet and our hope, y'all don't
Speaker 5: think we're done yet. It's gonna be amazing, amazing, amazing
Speaker 5: thing to see next year when we're holding the trophy.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's big goals.
Speaker 5: But I'm telling you right now, is holding the trophy,
Speaker 5: I'm saying my prayers out loud. I'm saying my goals
Speaker 5: out loud, so y'all can hear them. You know, we're
Speaker 5: going to be holding a trophy up next year, point
Speaker 5: blank period.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, they're going to be holding a banner that
Speaker 1: says number one valuation in all of sports. Yeah they are.
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I looked at their opponents for
Speaker 2: next year and I see six and eleven around the corner.
Speaker 3: But that's me.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go through the let's go through the schedule.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't have the Yeah, okay. The thing one
Speaker 1: of the hardest things of looking forward to trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what they're going to be. First of all,
Speaker 1: when is Dak going to be back? Is he ever
Speaker 1: going to be the same guy again? Is he ever
Speaker 1: gonna be able to run again? Is he gonna be back?
Speaker 1: And he's gonna be fine, hundred percent same guy? Their
Speaker 1: two their last two first round picks got the worst
Speaker 1: Pro Football focused grades for the entire season. Yeah, oh mode.
Speaker 1: They each were first round picks, and they look like Busard.
Speaker 1: It's early for Guiden especially, it's only when you're in.
Speaker 1: But they both had the worst grades of any player
Speaker 1: on the roster. So if you're not fortifying with free
Speaker 1: agency and you're not hitting on your draft picks, and
Speaker 1: you keep giving up fourth round picks for nothing, for nothing,
Speaker 1: how can you have a good roster. I'm in on
Speaker 1: Trey Lance. I enjoyed that game. I enjoyed that game
Speaker 1: very much. I enjoyed it as much as those three
Speaker 1: Super bowls Jerry gave me in the early nineties.
Speaker 3: I think Tray's gonna be good in the UFL.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be good there now. I think
Speaker 1: I think he's a good backup quarterback.
Speaker 2: So so, last year, after McCarthy was told, you're you're good, dude,
Speaker 2: you're good. We don't need to get to the conference
Speaker 2: championship game. You're like, you're back for your five year contract. Right,
Speaker 2: he goes to meet the media. Jane Slater asked him,
Speaker 2: why should Cowboys fans be excited that you're back for
Speaker 2: your last year and he does this I'm a winner
Speaker 2: thing that he always does, and then he ends it
Speaker 2: with buying to us.
Speaker 1: I right have it.
Speaker 3: I might have it right here, Actually I do.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, I why I.
Speaker 3: Was talking about it.
Speaker 1: I got it right. I think he guaranteed US seven
Speaker 1: and ten.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did that. Man, here's McCarthy.
Speaker 2: This is again, like this is five days after the
Speaker 2: season and a week of this just kind of sitting
Speaker 2: around going, I don't know if I'm coming back or not.
Speaker 1: Experience and why fans by back in she was then
Speaker 1: a coaching this team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I believe that the direction, you know, the leadership,
Speaker 4: everything is in place. And I'm not very comfortable talking
Speaker 4: about myself. But I came here to win a championship.
Speaker 4: I didn't come here to get another contract or anything
Speaker 4: other than that. I came to Dallas to win the
Speaker 4: world championship. And that's why I'm standing here and buy
Speaker 4: into us.
Speaker 2: Okay, so buy into us next time. Mike is telling
Speaker 2: everyone we're gonna win the Super Bowl. So Cowboys fans, look.
Speaker 3: You're guys, you're these guys at the top of your franchise.
Speaker 2: Here McCarthy, Micah are telling you, I'm gonna cut him
Speaker 2: good times are coming.
Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna cut him slack there because he said
Speaker 1: everything is in place. He didn't know they were gonna
Speaker 1: lose dan Quinn. And so now when you look back
Speaker 1: at it, had it played out like you thought and
Speaker 1: they had kept dan Quinn twelve and five, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: McCarthy is a He's at least an average head coach.
Speaker 1: He's not much above that if anything, but he's at
Speaker 1: least an average head coach. They play well during the week,
Speaker 1: they have good regular seasons. Whatever he's got, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: Nothing crazy special there, But I don't mind him coming
Speaker 1: back in that regard. What I do wonder about is
Speaker 1: who in the hell is going to suddenly create good
Speaker 1: offensive plays for this team. None of the receivers get separation,
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of trouble running the ball,
Speaker 1: don't you guys think though? Like one of the things
Speaker 1: that we talked about with them getting rid of Kellen
Speaker 1: was that he was coming under a bunch of fire.
Speaker 1: Now I don't think he ended up. He wasn't under
Speaker 1: the fire that I thought he was under. Because I thought, well,
Speaker 1: if they don't get to a conference title game. They're
Speaker 1: bouncing him. Boy was I wrong on that. But there
Speaker 1: was this perception that there was fire, and so he
Speaker 1: got rid of Kellen Moore and he started calling the plays.
Speaker 1: If they're bringing him back and they're doing the same
Speaker 1: song and dance, again, he ain't under fire. So why
Speaker 1: couldn't they bring in an offensive coordinator like Ben's talking about?
Speaker 2: They might be negotiating that this week with Mike. Okay,
Speaker 2: that makes sense and Mike, however, to drag it out
Speaker 2: and go okay with the Bears.
Speaker 1: But again I like that. That's a great point skin
Speaker 1: but if they have uh, Typically the way you get
Speaker 1: a great creative offensive mind is you promote them. So
Speaker 1: it's the offensive coordinator who's the wonder boy becomes a
Speaker 1: head coach like Ben Johnson in Detroit. Right, he's going
Speaker 1: to become a head coach, going to get promoted. How
Speaker 1: do you go find the guy that, hey, we think
Speaker 1: he'd be a great offense coordinator, but he's never done it,
Speaker 1: but he's the WonderBoy of receiver coaches? Well, you go
Speaker 1: into that tree, because that did happen with the whole
Speaker 1: Shanahan McVeigh and all that thing, all those guys. All
Speaker 1: those guys got gigs.
Speaker 3: Dude, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: There's a I'm gonna get too deep here, but there's
Speaker 2: like a guy who does like these analytics based on
Speaker 2: the play callers, So he ranks the play callers after
Speaker 2: each week and then he put out his season ending rankings.
Speaker 1: McCarthy's twentieth.
Speaker 2: McCarthy also had to work with Cooper Rush, so we'll
Speaker 2: keep that in it. For instance, Kyle Shanahan's seventeenth, but
Speaker 2: they also had injuries. Injuries as soon as you have excuses.
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel's always been seen as a wonder boy. He
Speaker 2: was fifteenth, but also no t no tua for half
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah, here's your top seven or eight guys.
Speaker 2: Lafleur in Green Bay number seven, Kellen Moore number six,
Speaker 2: like Joe Brady with Buffalo is number two, who I
Speaker 2: would be highly interested in. The old guy who made
Speaker 2: Burrow and Jamar Chase work at LSU, Ben Johnson number four.
Speaker 2: Like you have all these guys who are gonna go
Speaker 2: get jobs, right, and then you've got McCarthy who's like
Speaker 2: holding on to a job. Do you got guys who
Speaker 2: are destined to get these jobs. Yes, that's who I want,
Speaker 2: not guys holding on for their dear life to jobs.
Speaker 1: Okay doing, but you know what's what and this kind
Speaker 1: of speaks to what we always talk about with the
Speaker 1: dysfunction and why it's hard to have any hope whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So the number four guy was the guy that you
Speaker 1: got rid of because McCarthy needed to call the plays
Speaker 1: and like when he and by the way, when he
Speaker 1: was here, our offense, our offense was very highly rated.
Speaker 1: And then he went to the Chargers and their offense
Speaker 1: despite all their problems and their head coach and that
Speaker 1: chaos was very highly rated. And then he went to
Speaker 1: where is he Philly this year? And they're very highly rated.
Speaker 1: So the guy that we had that was the offensive
Speaker 1: innervator got ran off because of whatever that level of
Speaker 1: dysfunction is at the top with Jerry and Mike and
Speaker 1: all that they gave Mike the keys to the car.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, that's dysfunction.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: So, but the.
Speaker 2: MAVs won last night, one day losing, streaking over shocked.
Speaker 3: That was awesome.
Speaker 1: So shocked by that win. And you know it's on
Speaker 1: a night where you shoot forty seven percent from three
Speaker 1: point range. It just felt like everything was going down,
Speaker 1: You're going to be hard to beat. Give the MAVs credit,
Speaker 1: they kept fight and they closed up quarters. Different guys
Speaker 1: picked up slack at different times. Hardy had his moments,
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson had his moments, but man, I just think
Speaker 1: Dinwoody's so important during this time where you don't have
Speaker 1: Luca and Kai. I'm shocked that they won. They were
Speaker 1: seven and a half point underdogs at home to the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and man, very meaningful win. They had to have it.
Speaker 1: I think the way that the thirty six hours unfolded,
Speaker 1: with how they approached Memphis and then how they approached
Speaker 1: the Laker game was one huge for Hardy. That Memphis
Speaker 1: game spiraled out of control in the second quarter when
Speaker 1: they simply could not get a single basket and it
Speaker 1: was a very wild offense. And then there was the
Speaker 1: Gafford injury. So I'm sure they were all, you know,
Speaker 1: slumped over and hanging their shoulders, but their approached offense
Speaker 1: was wild. And the good thing that came out of
Speaker 1: the Memphis game was that Hardy got a really good rhythm.
Speaker 1: They really need him to be an offensive presence because
Speaker 1: as you look up and down even like just just
Speaker 1: in a vacuum and you go, all right, who's the
Speaker 1: guy that has your best chance of going and getting
Speaker 1: you six points in two minutes behind Luca and Kyrie?
Speaker 1: I think it's Hardy. But Hardy's had a horrible year.
Speaker 1: He had an incredible preseason. He was their best player
Speaker 1: in preseason. He signed a contract and then immediately fell off.
Speaker 1: Cliff and kids stopped playing him. Then he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he missed whatever. It was a month time, a really
Speaker 1: long time. We've seen Hardy go on incredible offensive binges,
Speaker 1: I mean incredible, and he had that stretch in the
Speaker 1: Memphis game where he really got it going and Ben
Speaker 1: mentioned a second ago his third quarter last night was
Speaker 1: awesome and it came at a huge time, and is
Speaker 1: we're gonna have this stretch where we know we don't
Speaker 1: have Luca. I would suspect we don't have Kyrie for
Speaker 1: another week minimum minimum. You need Hardy. And the other
Speaker 1: thing you need Spencer Dinwiddie to do is you need
Speaker 1: him to involve other people as he goes in stretches
Speaker 1: where he doesn't. And that's why he's always been combo
Speaker 1: guard guy. You know, you don't run your team with him,
Speaker 1: he's combo guard guy. And so if Dinwiddy can approach
Speaker 1: this stretch like he did last night when he I
Speaker 1: don't know if it had anything to do with him
Speaker 1: not getting to start in Memphis or not, but I
Speaker 1: love the way he played last night, and Hardy catching
Speaker 1: rhythm is big. It may die in their game against
Speaker 1: Portland Man. He's been so up and down, but they
Speaker 1: need twelve to fifteen points a night from Hardy minimum
Speaker 1: to get both stretch. I hope he takes advantage of
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Yeah, if Dinwiddy can't do it, no one can.
Speaker 1: That's why I think if you don't have Lucan, you
Speaker 1: don't have Kai, I think you'll lose. I think most
Speaker 1: likely you will lose. Unless you just shoot lights out
Speaker 1: and have a freakish night where you hit a ton
Speaker 1: of threes, I would expect you to lose. So the
Speaker 1: big question for them is going to be how soon
Speaker 1: can Kyrie come back? Is a bulging disc going to
Speaker 1: bother him long term? Is that gonna be a thing
Speaker 1: that's gonna bother him for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we're gonna have an answer,
Speaker 1: they said they were saying that they were going to
Speaker 1: have an answer on the initial treatment in forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: and that was like twenty four hours ago. If He's
Speaker 1: going to be out for a long time and Luca's
Speaker 1: out for a long time, man, they're in huge trouble
Speaker 1: because the West is so stacked and they'll be fighting
Speaker 1: to scrap to get in. But look, if you know,
Speaker 1: it really comes down to win, is Luca back as well?
Speaker 1: If both those If Kai can come back to help
Speaker 1: stem the tide while Luca's out, number one, that's the
Speaker 1: most important thing. But then when Luca comes back, if
Speaker 1: they're still alive and like in the mix, even to
Speaker 1: be in the play in, well, then you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a healthy, fresh Luca for a nice little run there.
Speaker 1: And I think that might not be all bad, right,
Speaker 1: like him having a huge rest might not be the
Speaker 1: end of the world. No, I think it'd be great.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a matter of what is their
Speaker 1: record in two and a half weeks, three weeks? Can
Speaker 1: they stem the tide? If they can stem the tide,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't anything, No one cares what I think.
Speaker 1: But I'd be all for don't bring Luca back. Till
Speaker 1: after the All Star breaks. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: that would be massive because I think he's at minimum
Speaker 1: gonna need a week and a half of just condition
Speaker 1: I can remember in twenty eleven when they brought in
Speaker 1: Pasia and Carlisle was like, I'm not putting that guy
Speaker 1: on the floor boot camp and they put him through
Speaker 1: two weeks of conditioning before he saw the floor. I think,
Speaker 1: like having Luca miss an entire month of basketball mid season,
Speaker 1: He's going to need a week to ten days minimum
Speaker 1: of conditioning. And what you don't want to do is
Speaker 1: bring him back and start throwing him in games. So
Speaker 1: they're going to evaluate him. I believe they said January
Speaker 1: twenty seventh was when they were going to evaluate him. Man,
Speaker 1: I would love it if they were in a good
Speaker 1: enough position to where they could just float a little
Speaker 1: bit longer and then, to Ben's point, bring him back
Speaker 1: and he's been fresh after a month and a half.
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