Media Mash: Let’s Shake it Up

Published Jan 16, 2025, 9:38 PM
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It is time for the media mass. It has been requested for. People say they want it, so we are bringing you most trusted Clarence Hill, Alsee Dallas, the Hall of Famer, Edward Channel Late, the author Jean Jacques Taylor. He wrote the book Coach Prime. I'm new, he scruggs. We're sponsored by nobody, but that could change one day.

I'm gonna write the book on Kellen Moore.

Maybe, Yes, Howard Eskin may fight you about it.

He's got his own problem.

Right now.

Yes, a job, I think, But.

Does he still have a mink cope.

And they get it run out for burrating some female staff or so well.

We may find out this weekend because Philly is still playing.

Philly is still playing.

Okay, let me make sure I get the proper things out of the way so I don't get in trouble. Uh, mister Werder, you had a tweet so that Dion Sanders, I'll let.

You go ahead and follow up.

I tweeted that based on talking to people close to him, which is not Jock. Jock is not my source, just putting that out there avoid any confusion, that if Jerry Jones offers Dion Sanders the chance to be the next head coach, he'll almost certainly accept it. That the people around Dion are encouraging him to pursue it, and that Jerry is fascinated by the idea of it all. And let me just let me give you a little sense of why that might be, that Jerry's fascinated and just the kind of impact higher this could be. So I basically tweeted four things about the NFL and the Cowboys today. One of them was about Bill Belichick and his contract status. His contract apparently is not yet signed at North Carolina, which led a lot of people to speculate about whether Jerry Jones might come in last minute and try and hire him without having to pay the ten million dollars, And that got one hundred and fifty nine thousand engagements. I then tweeted about Dion what I basically just told you that got one point two million engagements. Kellen Moore being interviewed by the Cowboys got fifteen thousand engagements. So there's just there. There's Jerry's motivation from.

How many followers you got?

Two hundred and fifty two hundred forty thousands a good number.

Yeah, I got to ads to them engagement the Bill Belichick think, let's be honest, he hadn't signed the contract, but it quick pro quote he's he's doing, we're working for them.

That would be hard.

Don't forget what he did with the Jets. He took the Jets job and then hand wrote a piece of paper and handed it to him that he was resigning as the coach.

How far hard?

What was a while ago?

But I mean, don't want to say the time in between taking a job and walking away.

Really close, right, this is many DZ took the job, then ran on off and went to Miami hired working.

So I mean college, there would be lawyers for sure.

Yeah, yeah, it'd be a lot of lawyers.

And Lombardi is certainly who's you know, been tweeting out pushing back on all of that.

Well, Lombardi's there. He doesn't want to lose his.

Job exactly GM anywhere else, but exactly regarded Dion thing.

And I respect your report.

That's fine. You can contradict it all you one.

I'm not contradicted of this addings, you know, just different perspective layering. Yeah, layer, I talked to someone who spoke spent most of the day with dealing on.

Tuesday, I was here. I just want to make sure on my teammates.

And he said that Dion made no conversations, never really closed former teammates who's spent a lot of time with them, continues to been a lot.

Of time with them.

Uh.

They made no conversations about the Cowboys. They only talked about Colorado, Colorado extension and getting things right and Travis Hunder's situation he spent he spent a lot of time with her. Also talked to a coach or an agent for a coach who recently re up with them or read some relip in with them, and he said, and that's possible, So that it is.

Possible, Deane and Jerry's proven anything possible.

Let me give you one more layer, which is you can never forget that this man spent about thirty days in the hospital and really nobody knew what he was doing because his circle is that tight and that loyal to him.

His recent toe surgery.

Yeah, because if if you, if you, if you breach the trust of that circle, you will never get back in that circle. So so the people who are the very closest to him, that would be the that he might discuss these things with, they ain't really talking to nobody. And so everything we get is a word from a word from a word doesn't mean it's not true. It just means that, you know, it's been my experience that you know, he just doesn't reveal a lot of what his real thoughts are to people.

Now, just like y'all, I talked.

To some people out that.

Not being said, and I went the other approach.

Now, these people would probably be the last to know, but I went to some of those some of those recent recruits, some of those people that he flipped, some of those people that he convinced to come in the last two weeks, and they were all like, God, we hope he stays. But he's given us no indication that our kids having don't have any not that they really would because these things happened. As a friend of mine once said very early this morning in a Cloak and Daggett style, and it becomes at nine o'clock he was our coach and at ten o'clock he was not our coach.

Because why sports is fluid.

Right, right, And I'm not sure, and I think it's going to happen. In fact, I've had people close to him tell me they don't think it's going to happen, and they would bet that it's not going to happen. That would be me, but it was not you either. But but the point is the first person that we know Jerry reached out to, and Dion was very careful to make sure that as you described the conversation, it was Jerry who initiated the phone call. And Jerry has surprised us in this realm how many times before, Like trying to predict his behavior in hiring a coach is a totally dangerous game.

No, no, no, no doubt. And you know you say enamored. I remember Jerry being a number with Johnny Menzil and.

It almost happened, I know, but he was stopped from me, you know.

And and he was also enamored with Dion as a player, and he was almost stopped by Stephen Jones, who might be.

Trying to do this right now, en with Tarylllewans. I mean, I'm just saying, but most recently, though that was years ago. Most recently, you know, he's been stopped from making you know it thinks he's been enamored with.

I've seen nothing to suggest that what Jerry was thirty years ago is different than what Jerry is now.

Well, let's talk.

About this from another perspective. Why would Dion?

What does Dion want from the job other than it's the Cowboys job?

And is that enough to the NFL?

It's it's the highest level of competition there is. There's not anything in that alluding to him. That's never been a competitor. That's never been an allure for him.

I mean, he's never he's and I've had a bunch.

Of conversations with him over the last several years about college football the NFL.

And not once says.

His whole thing has been I don't want to deal with the professional athlete that's that's in the league today.

I like these guys, the guys he has or just like professional athletes.

Well, you know they're moving that way, and so that, but.

He also has control over the money. He like to the other day, if you're great, we're taking your money.

If your brain's fall.

We're taking your money. You know. He tweeted like, yeah, he's smoking weed. You out of here. You know, he has more control over those guys.

He would have of NFL and the guy that's really I mean, he's I mean, he's like he probably would be more like Jimmy or Parcels anybody else.

He ain't really no fun to play with in a.

Lot of cases, play four, play four, because he's so demanding and he don't have no filter. He's Kurt, I mean, he's he's a He is hard on them dudes, and you know, it would be a fascinating look to see if it were working the NFL.

And he's gonna try us.

And one thing that we talked about this morning, you could expound even further, but everybody did to have a chummy chummer relationship. Okay, he and Jerry, But having a chummy chump relationship and working together as two different things. Because Dion is as much a dictator as Jerry is. He's a guy that wants final say on everything, on everything he knows you're not getting that.

Well, then that that's.

Part of it, you know, because he wants he gonna want final say on the roster and different things like that.

You got a coaching staff, not just that, he got his own PR guy and his own camera crews, and how does.

That all fit with, you know, what the Cowboys do?

And because my brand is Dion Sanders and well Off media that my son does and we got our own thing going over here, and how.

Does that fit into what the Cowboys doing?

With the Cowboys's going to be more in house camera people over here than you've ever seen in your life.

Got to sign way and now I'll be in the locker room, even back in the locker room.

You know what, perhaps there is different.

I'll be back in the locker room.

But yeah, it's it's the thing that I on the flip side. And then we talked about, you know, this whole process. You know, usually the process when the college coach leaves, it's in the dark of the night because you don't really go through an interview process. You know, my agent talked to your agent all of the sudden, we got a deal, and you leave into all the players or find out the last minute. With the NFL process, you got to do these interviews, you know, and you go through this second round of interviews.

How does that work with a college.

Coach who's recruiting and got these families and players weren't about the future. People use that for negative recruiting against you, because the even if you talk to the Cowboys you don't go next year, it is still on.

The tape gets used against you.

It gets used against you. It definitely gets you if us but you want to stay, it's gonna be used against you.

Every time another coach talked to a recruit you're talking to, you know he't gonna lead to the NFL. You see he thought about it last year or even some of these recruits you have. Now, I'm here this year, but I don't know. I'm at to being the porter next year because I don't know what Delon's gonna do.

So I would I would argue that college players are more like professional players now than ever before, and college coaches have less control over their players than they've ever had before. And I would say to the to the point about well, he said he would only go to the NFL to coach his sons. How do you get around that because he can't come here and coach Shador Sanders because the Cowboys are picking twelfth and they've committed the most money ever to their quarterback and it just starts this next year. It's one hundred million dollars to cut Dack and you can't trade him as a no trade claw. If I'm Jerry. The way I get around that is, well, you're not gonna coach your kids in Colorado, So what's the difference. If you're not gonna coach him here, You're not gonna coach him there, doesn't make any difference. Go coach him in Tennessee.

All I know is this that.

Colorado cannot let him get get leave. I mean that that would upset the whole apple cart there. I mean everything about that program is centered around them.

The great bit about that point is a lot of people say, oh, how can you turn down the Cowboys?

Just the Cowboys?

Just the ell, No dog, I got a whole I can be for Colorado.

What bar Brian is Alabama?

Or Dabbo is the Clemson of Woody Hayes And both simple are to U.

Shim Beckler, because I know y'all think I did really Yeah, Woody Hayes because he started he started.

Don't get punched. I'm gonna I'll punch you get wrong.

And in this bare brag, do y'all have a statue wood.

He No, we don't, Urban Meyer. We got a statue of bucks.

Brutus is it wre noting that the only that the two coaches Jerry's hired who were most successful with the Cowboys and won Super Bowls were coaches who had no NFL coaching experience and came from college or from the had retired from college. Jimmy and Barry.

It's gonna put Barry in it. Hired one with Jimmy's guy.

You know how he won.

I was there. I'm just like he was an architect or something.

I didn't say he was an architect. I said he did was a coach of a winning Super Bowl TA.

He was the architect they demise.

So let's let's dive into a little bit of what Aikman said.

Pertain this to to Dion in college coaching, is the Colorado job a better job because he has the ability to have whatever say he wants at Colorado.

Versus you come here. He's not the generalman.

First Colorado is not a better job than the Cowboys.

If you're the first coach to lead the Cowboys to a super Bowl in thirty years, that's bigger than anything you can do in Colorado.

Okay, this is true. Is this not a better job than the Cowboy?

I said, based on having the ability?

Right, he does have autonomy there, That's that's all it is.

I'm not saying. I'm not saying. I'm talking about the ability for you to run your own show.

Yeah, now, we talked about it. That's what I'm talking about.

That that thing that Colorado's because it's built around him, and that's what we talked about. Everything about Colorado is built around him. Would that be the same with the Cowboys?

That's my point.

Does he have He'll never have the autonomy anywhere else that he has a Colorado?

Right, That's why I'm asked. That's my point of asking.

Is it a better job because you get to be the guy?

Depends on what you're in it for.

You're not worried about you know, you're doing the radio show.

You don't have to worry about a press conference going on while you do that.

I mean, from that standpoint.

What times are practice? I got Fox at four point thirty.

That's that's my question, not about I mean, we know the Cowboys or the Cowboys, the Lakers of the Lakers.

I'm just saying, what you could accomplish here is far more long standing and legendary than anything you can do in Colorado. But he's not gonna be able to do it his way like he ken at Colorado.

Will snatch the trophy out of your hands when they win it.

Deon did that. He ran off the field in Arizona with the trophy to the locker room. Did not Troy, not Michael, not it, not Woody, Larry.

Allen, Dion Prime, Nobody could catch you. All right, let's get a break in here. Let's talk about Keeling.

That Stephen Jones called Kellen Moore Parcell coach Parcell.

Got to talk about more than Keeling.

We got, you know, we'll get on the list, Leslie, and we got Robert Saloon.

You know you get yeah that every time you start trying.

To produce the Keeling I'm just saying, I already got a hefty raise, were coming in on off season.

I mean, you know you got a raise.

We'll get your candidates for you as well. Okay, we'll get to that. Well, okay, we'll let you rail. We'll get all that in here with most Trusted Clarence Hill, the Hall of Famer Edward the author of the book Coach Prime Sean Jacques Taylor on New he Scrugks This Media National, Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

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To the divisional championship games.

Yes, get to a championship game here and his answer.

That's because his team beat the seventh seed last week, like every other team, like the eight other ones, all the way in digging all the way and just putting it in context.

You are you are very much. I don't know who was the last team that lost to a seven seed?

The only team that lost what Dallas? Okay twenty seven and the last only what do you mean one?

So as I want to add to get all as a knife all the way.

I don't twist, I just put it in. I would just say that it's it's stop it talking about knives, talking about knives.

I was gonna say, that's that b why you met it?

It is?

You mean, hey, let's shake it, shake it up.

It was nice having one off season show.

I hope you liked it.

No need a ACE code not the Pepper to watch it that.

Sorry, go ahead, I.

Got two kids. I ain't worried. So, as it turns out, Kellen Moore, the former offensive coordinator who relinquished his spot here in Dallas so that Mike McCarthy could call the plays, he winds up being the first interview known interview to replace Mike McCarthy as the Cowboys head coach. They're going to interview him virtually interview can't last more than three hours. Seems a ridiculous time for a coach who has a big game coming up forty eight hours later to be spending any time interviewing with three NFL teams about his next job, when all these coaches are telling the players to focus on what's at hand. It's an absurd proposition. But yeah, I think he would have. He would probably be my favorite if I was handicapping. I think he's the one most who best fits the criteria that Jerry uses to determine these sorts of things. I mean, he's almost like he's got the same biography as Jason Garrett.

Now do you think he would be a good head coach?

That's two different conversations, I think.

I think there's two different conversations.

I think that guy would be willing to give him the chance.

I know.

I mean, you can't you can't question how good he is as a play caller.

We've seen it.

He has a relationship with Dak, he has a relationship with everybody in the building. He knows how this organization functions and dysfunctions. And I think that the biggest question people would have about Kellen Moore is does he have the right temperament, Does he have the right personality? Can he really be a leader of an entire team in the way that a head coach does. And I think that's a hard thing to know, because when Matt Lafleur left Tennessee as the offensive coordinator, left Mike rabel staff to go to Green Bay, I had people telling me this is a huge mistake the Packers have made. This guy cannot command the room.

Well.

He inherited Aaron Rodgers and he's done nothing but win since he's been in Green Bay. So, like I said, I think that's a hard, hard thing to judge.

I think the way you and I don't know about Kellen, but the way you go about it is and you can't talk to that because he's buys, but you got to talk to everybody else who's been in those offensive meetings. And it's not just how he drew it up and how he installed it, but when you messed up for the third time, did he say, hey, guys, try to be better, or did he know jump you the way a coach typically jumps a player when they've made the same mistake multiple times.

Let's be honest.

Now we've been dishonest so far.

And I know you that if you're a cowboy faners Kellen more excite you. No, if he wins, I'm talking about going it.

Jerry sell it to the fan base now, not like Pete Carroll or Dion or who else? Who else would be a prominent John Belichick, Belichick and Vrabel. Yeah, those would have been my first two picks, Belichick and Rabel. If you'd done it last year, he could have probably had either one of them.

Yeah, you know we've covered Kelly Moore. I don't know if he could command the room. He certainly doesn't command the press conference. He doesn't win the press commerce at all. He's kind of mealy mouthed.

He doesn't.

You don't really talk with any conviction. I mean, Shoddy is better in the press conference, if you want to ask. And I don't know how much that means.

Nobody's better than bones.

No doubt. But yeah, but I'm just saying though that.

But so I wonder, uh what it would look like him being the leader of the team. Uh his Yes, he had success with dak under Jason's system. I know when he went to with the Chargers had like the twenty first ranked offense with a quarterback who's supposed.

To be, you know, one of the most talents and.

In Philadelphia have like the twenty ninth ranked offense and he has two of the best receiver tandem leading of the twenty ninth ranked office pass.

Because they got a two thousand yard Russia.

So isn't that smart? Like, doesn't that show that he's able to just what he does to fit the personnell he has. Like here he's throwing the ball and Dak's got his career high thirty seven touchdown passes. I've got Saquon Barkley's rushes for two thousand yards. Like that's what I want.

I agree.

I think you will find it out a lot about the Kellen Moore candidacy, whether they get out put out this weekend.

All right, so let's now move to Robert sala former Jets head coach, was the forty nine Ers defensive coordinator when they ended up losing Super Bowl to Kansas City. Also was an assistant for Pete Carroll when they won Super Bowl forty eight in Seattle.

All right, most trusted Robert Salad, your thoughts.

Robert Sider, legitimate candidate in my book, You know, I think he got a raw deal with the Jets. Certainly was very respected coming out of San Francisco when he got.

The Jets head coaching job. He's a guy who is part of the circuit.

You know, he's interviewing with the Raiders, that he's interviewed with the Jaguars, with the you know, and going to interview with the Cowboys, and so keeping that team together. Are dealing with Woody Johnson, dealing with Aaron Rodgers. I think he has the temperament to handle the Cowboys situation.

The question is who would be his offense coordinator?

Who does he didn't win.

First of all, he hadn't been in the play He hasn't made the playoffs ever as a head coach. No, the defense was I'm not saying it's his fault, No, that's not. But yeah, I think the question is does he run the defense?

Yeah?

I think he'd be great running the defense, and maybe he's your defensive coordinator if he's not your next head coach.

Let me ask this question, because when someone was talking to me about it, I said, because they're basically why him? And I said, what if he's another Todd Bowles? People said, oh, he was with the Jets topple. Oh, clearly we saw Todd Bowles could coach. It's hard to coach the Jets in that organization, no.

Doubt, I think. I think that's part of the conversation.

And their defense was top five in the league when he was coaching there, and so you know he can run the defense. Again, it depends on who's going to get his your offense coordinate if he's your head coach.

But again, as Ed.

Pointed out, and you know with the cow Boys, you just you just don't know what the motives are. And that's because they Yes, yes, I mean it's interesting that an organization who's had just two minority coordinators in their history Maurice Carthon and Brian Stewart in their history, never had a black head coach, especially enlightened with the sham job that the Patriots did with their bringing in Pep Hamilton and Brian Lefferts before they hired their guy that they wanted to hire. The first two names that comes out of legitimate interviews before the Keller More today was Robert and Leslie Fraser. And as I said, Robert sala is a legitimate candidate. Where's Leslie and Fraser coming from and listen knowing Leslie long time defense coordinator, head coach of the Vacous of ten to twenty thirteen, most recently the defensive coordinator of Buffalo from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two before was let go, did not coach in twenty twenty three. Is the currently the assistant head coach in Seattle because they got a young coach and they wanted him up there. But nobody has put Leslie Fraser in any conversation.

You can get a single interview last year the yeah.

And so where is he coming from? Are we really is this about the Rooney rule?

Well, it's it could be about that, or it could be we want to talk to you about our head coaching job. And when you get here, what we really want to talk to you about is being our defensive coordinator. If we hire so and so.

Well again and to me, that's dirty pool.

I mean, you don't bring me in to be my defense court, don't hire, don't interview for my head coaching job to be my defense coordinator.

I mean, that's not the spirit of the rule.

Don't want to be slick.

Yeah, that's not the spirit the same thing with Roberts. That's that's not the spirit, that's not what it's for.

Class.

We're bringing you in to interview you for the general sports columnist job. And while you're here, if we don't hire you for that, how would you feel about being the Cowboys beat writer.

Again?

How much the opinion better than nothing right? Better than no offer?

It is better no offer. But we're talking about the spirit of the rule and what we're trying to do. That That's that's what I'm dealing with.

Hey, now I understand people will take those jobs.

My other problem is this, and this is why the process is messing for me. And we can get into the Jason Witten stuff.

He can say he's seriously is considering Dion for the job.

Right.

This is this is my problem with the mess because which has been a thirty year problem because Jerry is trying to control things. Okay, if I'm hiring somebody head coach, I want them to pick their coordinator. I want them to pick their titiess coach. Don't pick nobody from my staff before I get here. Okay, don't interview people from my staff before I decide who I want on my staff. Because at most head coaching candidates, including Kellen more than anybody else, they already got ideas who they want on their staff.

Every offensive head coach has an idea.

Who if I get this job, who my defense courting is gonna be, Who my titians coach gonna be? Who my office court, my office line coach is gonna be every defense coach. I understand that that's my problem with the process. But you know, when I'm talking about the process, the rotten process way back wins, That's what I'm talking about.

Well, they're talking about two different things. Ones on an NFL level, the other ones are more local issue. We're talking about the Cowboys. Well, but the rule is league wise.

Listen, listen, listen, the fruit of the same poisonous tree.

Well, I mean, I mean it's two things.

But Clarence is right, like way back when when I was covering to beat, used to ask up and coming assistance if you ever got a job, who'd be your guy?

That way, when they get a job, you already got an edge on it.

But but you know the other thing is if you take a bigger look at the Rooney rule and take a bigger look, I can't remember which one is macro not micro. But and say, how do really most jobs, how do people get hired? They get high because ed, I'm looking for something. Do you know anybody clans, I'm looking for somebody. Do you know anybody you go? Oh, yeah, I know Newly and I know Jacques one personal recommendation one is fine. So some of this Rooney rule stuff is just you know, yeah, you going in just so you can do to Mike Tomlin, I interviewed, Well, you didn't need me, Oh you need a coach. Oh, I just introduce to view this young guy blew me away.

I can't. I didn't have room for him for whatever reason. Boom and so.

It's not the preferred method, but it's better than you never get in front of him to talk it all.

Now, that's the spirit of the rule.

And I'm glad we brought because Mike Tallan seemed like he's an outlier.

You know, only if Mike Thomin got hired.

That way by the very people who the rule is saying.

Right, But but yes, that's the spirit of the rule.

But what I'm saying is that's that what the patriots did is not about getting in the room.

And hey, I know this guy.

It's about let's just cursory interview this guy so I can hire my guy.

Check hey, check.

And my point is it's interesting that the first two names that came out, maybe because incidentally or not.

You think they knew Salah was a Rooney rule, KENNI.

Yes see, they know elevenies. Everybody knows that. Yes, everybody knows that he ain't white.

The Patriots might have been able to make hurt round a third round pick. The Patriots might have made it may look better if they weren't feeling like if they were gonna get verable, they had to act fast, right. They were afraid he was gonna go somewhere else, right.

And they acted. And the dirty thing about it, this is the tweet. It was a tweet.

It was a tweet that they interviewed these two.

They tweeted on the same They put him in the same to.

Everybody else got individual tweets. These two guys got one tweet.

Social media intern about to go to lunch.

Time, Hey guys who bought the black guys?

Chris Cross two gals working to revise that each candidate must have his own.

Tweett like really.

Like air baths got to look at go back and look at their social media, and everybody every other interview got their own tweet.

These two guys got one.

When we come back, if we come back, if you had a conversation with Jerry, if you went right upstairs, because we're r at the Star, Jerry called you upstairs. It said who should I hire? And ask everybody here on the panel, who would they tell Jerry to hire? Okay, that's next right here on the mediamational Dallas Cowboys.

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Here we are back on the media mash.

We've discussed Robert Solo, discussed us A Fraser, We've discussed Kellen Moore.

So I ask each panelist, if Jerry Jones called you up.

To his office upstairs here at the Star, who would you say, Jerry, you should hire Jack Taylor.

I'd say, hey, man, go get Ben Johnson there, very simple, offensive guy, his first time coach. I know you don't like that, but get over yourself. I like the fact that he throws the hooking ladder more than once. I like that coaches with attitude has said, as evidenced by the tackle Legenible plays in Dallas.

And you know, let's take a walk on a while side and have some fun.

Edward or Hall of Fame in which you got I.

Could have said, Dian.

The line of my pocket I would is, I'm trying to be a team player for Jerry.

I'm interested in Pete Carroll, but I too would probably hire Ben Johnson because if you no quarterback in the NFL succeeded from under center play action passing than Jared Goff did this year. And that's the way I think Dak Prescott has to be used in his age thirty two and beyond season. And I think that's what this hire is all about. This hires all about that you're the last one who has a shot to get Dak Prescott to a super Bowl. In all likelihood, he's going to be thirty two and coming off of two leg injuries in the last five years. Who do you want in that position to create the right offense, to call the right plays. And I know Ben Johnson doesn't have any history of running an entire team, but he's been influenced by Dan Campbell. Look with he was a heart of something huge. Nobody thought the Lions could be what they are now. They're twenty seven and seven the last two years. That's the best record in the NFL. So for all of those reasons, I would hire Ben Johnson, but primarily because he coaches the kind of offense Dak will thrive him.

Now Chill is gonna say you're gonna bring out that telling with him.

Yes, No, that's on the people here to get him to talent.

Or that they're good. There goes the problem I would hire. I would say Eron Glenn. You know, I want a leader, you know. And there's a guy who trained under Bill Parcells, you know, and it's familiar with the.

Cowboys, familiar with the process.

But just listening to him talk, he's a leader, you know, and I think he can hire the right people. He has the right temperament to coach today's athlete. That's why I got a problem that we're all have with all of our choices, is the rotten process the Cowboys.

Had dealt with because they can't talk to.

Them to particilarly after the Super Bowl, not Ben Johnson, not Aaron Glenn, because they waited a week because they were by You can only get in start the process with those guys last.

Week when they want to buy.

Now they cannot interview them until after potentially the Super Bowl.

All right, I'm gonna go with a leader of men, somebody who's been in the building. Richard Pisacia. I am a person who believes that being able to get in front of the room like special teams coaches do. I think that matters.

I thought Richard did a heck of a job.

After that whole Grouten tobaccle happened with the Raiders, he kept that ship afloat. They made the playoffs. They had a heck of a game against Cincinnati, which they lost. That Cincinnati team ended up going to the Super Bowl. And I look at special teams coaches from the past. Dick for Meal, NFL's first ever special teams coach, won a Super Bowl. Bill Belichick's first job in the league's special teams coach, Bill won six Super Bowls. Bill Kauer, former special teams coach, won a Super Bowl. And we look at what John Harbaugh's doing out there with the Baltimore Ravens.

Is it sexy?

No?

Is it effective?

Is it effective?

Yes?

I mean Rich Damn Near fought Greg Hardy on the sidelines up in New Jersey during the game.

He was the only one who took issue with that, his behavior in public.

And yeah, so to me, it's not a sexy high. It's not a brand name, but I want some substance.

But he hasn't even gotten interviewed anywhere, right.

And that therein lies the problem. There in lies the problem where if you are you need to dig deeper. You need to look and say what rock are we not looking under? I do believe that along the way, how come we're seeing these special teams guys who touch every part of your football team, who have to get up for the football team, and they hardly ever interview them.

I don't get it.

But Rich has done the job, and I thought he did a real good job the Raiders, and they've been searching for somebody to lead that franchise since then.

And he transformed Green Bay special teams in one year.

Everywhere he goes, he wins. Everywhere he goes. He's been a part of the winning team. So that's why I know you roll your eyes.

That's a client.

Oh no, he's not.

The problem with hiring a special teams guy like that, or the problem with hiring a defensive oriented coaches. If you wind up with a good offensive coach and a good offensive player and he's not your head coach, you're gonna lose him.

And look, you know, I am second behind you with Aaron Glynn. On's to get a leader of men. The only thing with Rich is Rich has done it. Aaron has not done it. But I do believe that both guys because I'm not here, no offense. I ain't here for the joystick. Guys, Jimmy ain't call no plays. You know, you can't have Dan Campbell's not calling any plays. Can you get up there and lead the room? That's what you need.

And you're dealing with Jerry, somebody that can deal with all that time.

Well, you talked about selling it to the fan base. How are you going to sell that?

You know what?

When?

Well?

I mean well when?

But you know, hey, man, he said he wanted three sixty five days soap opera.

So get up there, Jerry, do what you do.

And my thing is, you know, I was talking to a player last week and we get caught up into familiarity and all for me, why can't the boys be like the Rams and go outside the box?

I mean, who knew of McVeigh.

Thirty years old?

You know, kay? What's wrong with out of? You know, outside the box?

Higher North was outside the box, higher wide receiver coach, not to coordinated, you know right right?

You can't find somebody like that. I mean, we can get so caught up into.

Familiar doesn't that one more fit that profile? No, no young offensive.

Because because it's like said the only reason he's connected here so strongly is because he was here.

Well, because he performed well here is the quarterback performed well here. We just talked about, right, talked about what an important hire this is for Dak Prescott, and I think Dak would react pretty well to I agree.

I'm just saying, byside, I don't think that's outside the box. That's not what I'm saying. That there's something that that we we don't have a.

Right How about Josh McCown. He was talked about three years ago being the Texans head coach, that they were kind of floating that out there.

Is he coaching anywhere?

Yeah, he's with Minnesota.

Okay.

I can't let us leave the show without getting the thoughts about Jason whitting His name has been roomored out there as well.

That is Jason.

But again, that's my problem when I talked about the fact that you're already and Jason wouldn't will most likely one day be a fine coach, and I think he's doing a good job in college.

But the fact that Jerry's.

Miss high school high school, Yeah, high school, I'm sorry that I'm sorry. Uh, the fact that Jerry's interjecting him into conversations whether he was going to be the coaching waiting with the parcels.

Nobody won't win on the coach on the staff if you're a coach, because all you can do is view him the way people view Jason Garrett with Waye Phillips, like, either you're telling on me. You're usually waiting for me to fail so you can get my job.

I like when he goes to Monday Night Football, he'll be similarly overmatched as a going from high school, took it to the NFL as a head coach of this franchise, right, And I love Jason Whitten, and I have no doubt Jerry is going to try and put him on whoever the next coach here, He's gonna try and put him on that person's staff, And in some places it will probably fit, and others, like with Mike McCarthy when he tried to do it with Mike five years ago, Mike saw what happened with Jason Garrett and Wade Phillips. He's he's too smart to repeat that. Would Pete Carroll accept him and not be threatened? Maybe with Kellen Moore, Absolutely.

Not with Dion I don't think so okay, all right, fellas, this was fun.

It won't Hey man, good luck, goodluck to your buck eyes. Luck to your buck eyes.

Uh, you know, I handled myself with grason dignity for most of the game, and to.

Get pet you got time for pitty.

I was petty after the game.

I would say I behaved myself except for when Henderson went seventy five years on the screen and when Sawyer returned his return the fumble.

Outside of that, I'm telling him where you were. I'll tell him where you were.

I was in a switep full of Texas pictures.

You got the video too, I got a picture. Hey, good luck to you, Good luck to you. I'll be rooting for not to name all.

Right, that's on point some point dirty though. Yeah, I appreciate you. O.

Hey, let's do this again next week.

If we're not fired next Wednesday, uh claims, will let us know goodbye.

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