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  • quote Cowboys players initially bought into keeping things internal.

  • Now is they sit two and four.

  • The discontent is leaking out on the coaching staff.

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  • Totally unprepared.

  • They don't teach.

  • They don't have any sense of adjusting on the fly.

  • That's what one player told Jane's later another said quote.

  • They just aren't good at their jobs.

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  • I really don't care to be honest with you when it said whether it's in a public setting privately, obviously, coaches, you know they don't like when players say negative things about their style of coaching and the way things are being done.

  • But when you start to see players saying those things now, I would like for the players to put their names on it because that's just who I am.

  • You know, if I don't need Thio, go behind the coaches or players backs and whispered things, if they are doing their job, you put your name to it.

  • It's fine with that being said, when there is smoke, there's fine.

  • There's something there.

  • What that something is we don't obviously know because we're not in the building on Lee.

  • Thing we could see is the results that were put on the field against the Arizona Cardinals, which they quite frankly, stink.

  • And they were not good.

  • They look horrible.

  • Um, you know, when you look at Mike McCarthy's first hired when he was first hired and you look at Mike Nolan, Mike McCarthy hired him.

  • You thought OK.

  • Two former head coaches won a Super Bowl winner.

  • Had some successes of D.

  • C in this league kind of know his stuff.

  • You thought it would be much better than it's turned out.

  • They're not buying into what they're selling.

  • They're not buying into it.

  • And if they're not buying into it and you're looking at it from an ownership standpoint, how long do you ride this out?

  • It's very easy to fire the defensive coordinator tomorrow.

  • It's very easy to fire him at the end of the season, But do you want to hit the reset button as a whole?

  • You got Dad.

  • Prescott is coming back, so he's coming back off injury.

  • So that's a That's a good thing when he's back next season, that will be good for you.

  • Um, hit the reset button on Mike McCarthy at the end of the year.

  • If it doesn't go according to what that plan is.

  • Are you willing to sacrifice that young talent over the next couple of years?

  • It kind of getting the same sort of production that you got this year.

  • And if I'm a billionaire times over like a Jerry Jones and I have Mike McCarthy there and I'm not winning the division, and I put money and drafted CD lamb and and putting money in the other players, and I know the offensive line has been decimated.

  • I understand I get that, but you still should be competitive.

  • There's teams like the San Francisco 40 Niners shiny and figured out how to put that together toe beat the Rams and and win some games.

  • And there's other teams that have injuries as well that figure out how to get things done if we can't figure I hit the reset button.

  • And if it costs me whatever $25 million to get you out of here, fine.

  • Now I'm gonna go find that coach and I'm right the biggest Check whoever that coaches.

  • I'm gonna go take somebody else's coach.

  • If I'm Jerry Jones and I'm gonna bring that dude here, I'm gonna bring Eric the enemy.

  • I'm gonna bring Jim hardball because I need help.

  • I like hardball is a pro coach.

  • I like it now.

  • He may get a little crazy in year four or five, but I'm willing to pay ah, 100 plus million dollars in that four year window to get my to get or whatever the numbers turn out to be willing to beat Ohio State doesn't want to break up with her.

  • He's a pro coach reserves.

  • He deserves to be in the pros because his style works.

  • And I just I like him to to restore order.

  • And young quarterback.

  • You've seen what he's done with young quarterbacks in the pros.

  • Okay, if hardball, if you didn't go that route, I'll tell you what.

  • Half of those players won't be on that team.

  • When when when are we gonna start putting ownership?

  • Listen, and I listen.

  • I'm not the biggest Mike Nolan fan, right?

  • You know, he knows why, but Mike knows with me.

  • Well, he's when we in Baltimore.

  • He was the reason that the Baltimore Ravens went to a 344 from a 43 So I know you got the secret sauce now At some point we got to put it on the players.

  • These players are soft, and I tell you what I've never lost.

  • It was a couple of teams that we've always talked with.

  • Players air soft.

  • In your opinion, right, man, that they're soft horse does that.

  • Is that not indicative of the coaches personality and how you get like like I've been around hard nosed culture?

  • It might.

  • Nolan hard nosed coach.

  • It ain't about that zits, about what they decided to do and how they decided to build this football team their side.

  • They decided to build it on the offensive side of the ball, try and put up a lot of points, change their identity.

  • Two more about Dak and not more about Ezekiel Elliott.

  • Understand the offensive line.

  • You know it's decimated and they're not not the unit that they used to be, So it's harder toe to really have the offense go through that mean go through it through Elliott.

  • But the problem is, listen.

  • Whenever, whenever I ever played, the Dallas Cowboys team was always too soft.

  • This team I've ever played right mentally, basically, I'm telling you, Listen, listen, remember was on that team.

  • What do you mean?

  • You know, that was all We got the Dub that day, too.

  • I wasn't soft, You weren't soft.

  • What I'm saying is the philosophy and as an organization, their brand is soft.

  • They want to act like they're tough team and they want to act like they're contenders.

  • Their front runners.

  • They've always been a front running organization.

  • Whenever we played them, we knew it was gonna be barbecue chicken, because that's the way they roll.

  • Everything is so nice.

  • And plus, for them, you know, they got the best facilities, they got the best stadium.

  • They got the best of everything, and it makes them soft.

  • And they've always been Underachievers.

  • Whenever we ever really talked about a Dallas team ever, you know, since since since the nineties.

  • And they say that they feel like I feel like these players Airway Nam as the head coach.

  • That's just that's just me.

  • Listen, I've been with Mike Nolan, Mike Nolan.

  • Like I said, we got our issues.

  • But he he knows what he's talking about unprepared.

  • That's never any.

  • Any description that you're saying about Mike Nolan.

  • I see some of the dumb I see some of the dumbest football players I've ever seen in football, and there could lack of communication, that lack of football acumen.

  • They don't know how.

  • Listen, maybe it's too complicated for him because there's a lot of dumb football players in the league right now.

  • They don't understand what what that means.

  • When we have two receivers in close proximity to each other, that means that we're going to talk about let's limbo.

  • You see, guys, that's farm, their own land, their selfish.

  • They saying No, I'm gonna get my guy.

  • I don't care if it's hard for you because you guys gotta wrap here, man, on this show, we way we talk, just tell you, man, because they you know Wacky D right there.

  • But you can put on the players.

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