Dan weighs in on the Connor Stalions debacle as the NCAA closes in on its investigation of Michigan. Plus, Matthew Berry joins the show to give some fantasy football pointers, trends on fantasy players and why he bought Guillotine League.
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Well? I made it.
I actually named names. I said, would you rather have CD Lamb or Micah Parsons? And most of you are, at least a majority of you said Michael Parsons. Would you rather have a great receiver or a great defense player?
Edge rusher?
And it was surprisingly to me that you went edge rusher instead of a wide receiver, yes, seton Well, yeah.
It's interesting because Micah Parson's linebacker. Yeah, when you put names in the poll, it only shifts about ten percent. Right, So when it's positioned by position, the wide receiver has let's see, right now, it's twenty seven percent of the vote, but when you say CD Lamb, that jumps up to thirty nine percent.
Of the vote.
Okay, well I was doing that just recency biased. With Cede Lamb signing his deal, I don't think Michael Parsons gets a new deal this season. I don't get the feeling that Dak Prescott cares about getting his deal done, or maybe the Cowboys care about it either. It's just kind of interesting there. There feels like there's no sense of urgency. But the money has already been said. For what Dak is supposed to make this year, it's already he kind of knows where he's going to be slotted here. He should be making more more than Joe Burrow and more than Justin Herbert. I'm guessing more than Lamar Jackson, even though Lamar Jackson has two MVPs. But it's you're the next person up. Joe Burrow's been to a super Bowl. They should be higher paid than him. But it's next guy up and Dak Prescott's going to get close to sixty million dollars, all right? Eight seven seven three DP show email address DP at Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Fantasy football expert Matthew Barry will join us coming up here in the man Cave. There's more details on Connor Stallions, Michigan NCAA, the spying scandal. What is going to happen, who's involved, how deep does it go?
Who knew what? When did they know it?
Connor Stallions, there's a documentary that's out that he kind of in denial. I mean, he's a company man, he's a Michigan man. I don't think he's going to spill any details on anybody here. He said he didn't recall being on the sidelines, Like that's always weird when you go, ah, I don't know Central Michigan where you're on the sidelines. I don't recall. Okay, that's not a great answer for me. I don't recall. But so you got tickets for your friends to go to games, and then they sent you videos of people recording things. You know they were recording signals with teams that you were going to play. There's deleted text messages between Connor Stallions and the then assistant coachs Sharon Moore. There's there's a little bit of a paper trail here. There's a little bit of a HM and it's smoke. I don't know if it turns into a fire, and maybe it's a campfire, maybe it's a you know, three alarm, maybe it's something more than that.
Maybe it's not.
But it just felt like Connor Stallions he doesn't remember anything. And I mean, I I don't know how he answers the deleted text message, Like what's in there that you have to delete? Would be the first thing that I would want to know. Who's getting these videos? So you're buying tickets, you're buying you're using your own money to buy tickets for your friends to go to games, to record the signals that are coming in from the sidelines, and then you get those videos. And then he said, yeah, but you get those videos. It's kind of like when I already knew I already knew the signals. It's kind of like when your aunt gives you a gift for Christmas, but you already have it, and so he was getting things that he already had. I don't know why they felt the need to keep recording these signals if he already knew what they were.
I find that kind of odd. But I don't know.
Are they going to have to vacate victories here? Are they going to keep their national championship? Your guess is as good as mine because it comes down to the NCAA, and that.
Is gray area.
A couple of things that stood out. Connor Stallion said he never himself videotaped any sidelines or anything like this. He said he never even advanced scouted. He said he got all his signals the way every other team does legally, through watching TV copies of games and gathering intel. And he says what sets him apart is the way he organizes information and process it because he's like a codebreaker type guy.
He's saying.
The other thing is his lawyer, in the middle of the interview with the NCAA demanded to know how they got their information about this and said, we can't keep going unless you're forthcoming with us. He even asked him was it Ohio State? We'd like to know yes or no? And once they said, we're not going to tell you our sorts of Marria issue was with them, we're done cooperating. He said, that's it, We're done.
Well that might be there out is.
It's not about if he did something, it's how did you get the information? The OJ Simpson trial was about the credibility of a police officer, and it wasn't necessarily about OJ, but the credibility of this police officer who was on the scene. When you think about it now, obviously we're talking about different scenarios here, but it's did or did you do it? It's how did you get that information? And did you get that illegally? But it's a story that will linger. It feels like if Yahoo sports stays on this, then something might happen. It feels like Yahoo Sports should be a branch of the NCAA because those guys are still doing investigative work. Not many people are doing that anymore, and it feels like they still are and maybe you'll get something a little bit deeper. Maybe it continues, maybe there's some kind of finality resolution to it, or it might be one of those It just lingers. It just floats out there and we never have any real conclusion to it. All Right, so NFL cutdown day teams have to get down to fifty three players. Ceedee Lamb gets his deal. The Titans traded Malik Willis. This was kind of quietly to the Green Bay Packers, and Malik Willis was a thing there for a little while at Liberty.
Then with the Titans, he wasn't ready.
He got a couple of starts there a lot of talent three starts, but I don't know if he's going to make the team with the Packers, I don't even know who their backup quarterback is. Is Brett Huntley? Still there is there a Penn State quarterback?
Maybe are we playing the guest the Packers backup quarterback game?
Sure?
Oh oh okay, Wow, this is actually be more fun than I thought. Okay, this man I was gonna call a young man, but that would be wrong. Played at least six years of college football. He was often maligned, but somehow survived to start another year maligned, oft maligned, off maligned, which I think is hyphenated. I'm trying to see if it played for two schools. I think he played for one college.
Off maligne off.
The line, but every year this team would show up and there he was quarterbacking again.
He started. Yeah he is five years Nathan Peterman.
That's a great gass, the great gas. I'm going to give you half a point for that because of the entertainment value. Okay, Sean Clifford of Penn.
State, Okay, I got the Penn State quarterback. Okay, give me half a point as well. Runny, Yeah he was played nine years of Penn State. He's not Trace mcsrely, but okay. Christian Hackenberg, Yeah, no, he didn't even get to play.
He would have been the first pick if he left after the present year. That's true.
Man, if he could leave right now, we always love the quarterback who can't come out. You know, he's not available, not yet. Man, he'd be the first pick and then all of a sudden the draft rolls around.
You go, whatever happened to that guy? That's the Sam Darnold situation. Yeah, that's true.
Transfer portal is always loaded football rosters. It's an opportunity to get that quarterback who maybe played two, three, four years at another school. And we've seen that. Joe Burrow did that. Jayde and Daniels both did that at LSU. Both won Heisman trophies. Caleb Williams at Oklahoma goes to USC. Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray Oklahoma back to back Heisman Trophy winners, and this weekend with Florida State, we thought, Okay, dj Uiyungo La is coming there and you know, maybe he could have one of those Heisman like seasons. Washington State former quarterback There cam Ward's now with Miami. Dylan Gabriel is the favorite to win the Heisman. He's at Oregon. Duke quarterback Riley Leonards now with Notre Dame. With a favorable schedule, plays for Notre Dame, He'll probably be up there with the Heisman opportunities there. I'm not sure what his Heisman odds are, but Dylan Gabriel is your odds on favorite to win the Heisman. Carson Beck is second. Quinn Hewers, who transferred from Ohio State to Texas years ago. Jackson Dart transferred from USC to Ole Miss. He's next. Jalen Milroe is at Alabama. Will Howard from k State went to Ohio State, cam Ward from Washington State to Miami, and then Riley Leonard distant on the list, transferred from Duke to Notre Dame.
I mean, that's the new formula.
It's go get experience and then at the end of your career if you'd like to come and have a one off here. You know, Notre Dame did that with Sam Hartman last year, where you're getting that guy for maybe one year, maybe you get some magic there, get an experienced quarterback. But these are the Heisman Trophy candidate, you know, So it's all of them except to Jalen Milroe and Carson Beck transfers here. That's the new way to get your quarterback.
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Yeah, you know, it's a real statement on I don't know if it's a it's got to be a statement on the position correct.
Yeah, But do you want to go with a new pole question since it feels like.
Oh yeah we have up there, we're doing chiefs of the Field.
Oh it's also okay up there, hold on a second, let me grab those results for you.
I mean, it's smart to take the field with something like this because you're basing this off Mahomes staying healthy, Chris Jones staying healthy, Travis Kelcey staying healthy, you know, and over the course of seventeen games, it's it's highly unlikely that everybody stays healthy. But who's that other team or teams where you go. They're right there with the Kansas City Chiefs. Like we used to think Buffalo was right there is Miami there. I got to see it. I got to see it in January. I like the Bengals as a sneaky pick I do, you know, from a last place, finish, tough division, but I do like the Bengals sneaky Ravens. You know, I'm waiting, Yeah, I'm waiting.
That's going to be pretty this well maybe not for everybody, but I feel like it would be pretty disappointing if Lamar Jackson and the Ravens don't win.
When, yeah, that's a lot of talent to not get there.
Well, especially if you're going to be MVP, right and you had a home playoff game against Kansas City.
I mean, like that's the thing for me too, Like there are players that you watch it, he's just pure electricity when you're watching him, it's unbelievable. He gets all of this credit for the way that he runs, but when he throws a football, it's like he has an absolute canon for an arm. You know, he's just so much fun to watch. I want people like that to win.
But it comes down to there's guys who were built for the postseason, their game is built for the postseason, and guys who are built for the regular season. And Lamar Jackson may just be that. He's got incredible regular season numbers, although his numbers last year weren't incredible, but he is a highlight. You get into the postseason and then all of a sudden, it's all we care about is that opponent.
We don't have to worry.
About anybody the week after this, or who were we gonna play, and you focus hyper focus on one team, one player, trying to make them one dimensional all of those things. In Kansas City did a brilliant job with that. That's where you get the guy who somehow is able to adapt. You know, Brady always was able to do that, but he was able to do that because Belichick adapted. There's nobody better in game than Bill Belichick, and therefore Brady was so great in game as well. You need to have that coach and quarterback who are able to adjust, and it didn't feel like the Ravens did. And Kansas City, you know, makes them one one dimensional and if you you know Zay Flowers fumbles at the goal line, I mean just things that happen where you go. You know, if he scores a touchdown, what if you got to win those games, You got to win a home game, you got the MVP, you got to win. And so therefore I guess by the process of elimination, you would take Kansas City because it feels like they have fewer question marks.
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When it comes to the exact day, the perfect day to do your draft, is there one the.
Day before the season starts? Okay? I I think it depends on who you're asking, right.
I think that if you were talking to quote unquote Sharps, what they would tell you is people that do do what I do, what I for a living, we would say, like, we want to do it like right after the NFL Draft, or even before the NFL draft because people aren't paying attention and you can get some really good values, especially if doing like best Ball and that kind of stuff. But generally speaking, for ninety nine percent of the population, do it the night before the season starts, Like do it next week? Do it this upcoming weekend when you have as much information before when we've seen all the preseason games. We know, we know the players that are injured, we know who's holding out. You know, the more information you have, the better. I mean, think about think about what a draft is today versus a draft twenty four hours ago.
On Ceedee Lamb. I was in it.
I was literally in a draft and somebody was up at the fifth pick and they they went between between Ceedee Lamb and a' Monro Saint Brown or they chose I'm on Ross Saint Brown, And literally twenty minutes later, the tweet comes out, Oh, Ceedee Lamb, he's back in camp. He signed this massive deal and had that draft pick happen. Literally a half hour later, they had a picking Ceedee Lamb because Seede Lam's my number two overall player, So you know what I mean, Like, it's just the more information.
The better. Christian McCaffrey number one, Yes, not even close. I don't know that it's not even close.
Obviously there's you know, he's got the soft tissue stuff that makes a little concern. But for me, no, just because not only is he great, but he is so much better than everyone else at the position, like over one hundred points last year, better than everyone.
Else, like twelve games of Christian McCaffrey.
And I'm not suggesting that he's not going to play every game, but even on a part time basis. Christ McCaffrey just is such a huge value week in week out at the position.
Matthew Berry, NBC Sports Fantasy football expert, joining us in the man cave.
How many sure things are there?
I mean, it's sports, though not very many, right, but I think that that's what your first round should be. Your first round should be. I always say this. You don't want to you don't want to try to win your league in the first round, but you can lose it.
Like you're in the first round. This is like this is a superstar.
This is somebody that has a very high floor that you're going to count on week in week out.
So hopefully your first round pick is a sure thing. Give me some names. I mean, I listen at the running back.
I think there's only three guys right that I feel really good about this year as quote unquote sure things. So there's other guys that I like a lot, but Chris McCaffrey, Breese Hall, Bejon Robinson. I will also say that I think Derrick Henry and Isaiah pa check Out have monster years this year, but I don't know that they're sure things.
Right. You didn't include Saquon Barkley. I did not because.
Because there's two things that we just don't know how it's gonna play out. Is saque amazingly talented, of course he is. But now going to the Eagles, first off, when they get in close, they give into Saquon or is it just gonna be Jalen Hurtsushbush, who has had Jalen Hurts said the most rushing touchdowns in the NFL of the last two years. Right, And yes they've lost Jason Kelsey, but still like, just how many times does Jalen Hurts call his own number versus handoff to Saquon Barkley. So there's concerned about touchdown equity for Bake Barkley. And the other thing is, at least traditionally, Hurts has not been a dump off to the running back kind of quarterback. He has either been he's thrown it downfield to aj Brown, Devonte Smith, Dallas Goddard, or he's tucking and running. And so one of the big appeals of Saquon Barkley as a running back, he's he's such a good pass catcher out of the backfield, and that's you know, in New York, that's how they.
Used him a lot. Now, Listen, Philadelphia isn't stupid.
And you don't you don't sign Saquon Barkley that kind of deal to not use him to his full ability?
But does does he get the passing.
Volume that we have seen in previous years in Philadelphia? Like he may be a better NFL running back for the Eagles than he can be a fantasy option. Like I still haven't like running back six. But you asked me about sure things, and I think there are considering how high you have to draft Barkley this year, I think there are question marks that you could say, like is he going to have the level of production that he had in New York, you know, during the glory years. The counter argument that is that he's playing behind the best offensive line he's ever played, and because he's on a team where he's not the entire focal point of the offense, that they're gonna be able to scheme more stuff and keep them moping. If you do some RPOs with Jalen Hurts, you're gonna open up big lanes and all Saque needs is you know, a hole and he's gone.
So but you win these leagues. It feels like where later in the draft. Okay, so take us later into the draft, give us some players that if our audience hasn't done their league yet, that they're at least aware of.
You want middle round? How deep do you want to go? How deep you want to go? Because this is one of those things. It's always just like all right, like.
What do you know?
What would you like to eat? We had an Italian restaurant or we had a diner? Is it breakfast?
Is a dinner?
Like, let's go semi deep semi uh semi deep. I mean like like I'll just I'll rattle off some some late round running backs and wide receivers like these are like like literally like your last couple of picks off the top of my head in no particular order.
Let's see.
I mean, I think, uh I love.
Greg Dortsch in Arizona.
The human doors like these are all gonna be guys like who you talk about like, uh, Jalen McMillian. McMillan in Tampa Bay seems to have won the third the third job there. Josh Downs is somebody who I liked a lot in Indianapolis last year. He's a little bit banged up to start the year, but I think there's some real nice potential. I don't know when it's gonna happen Dan this year, but at some point this year, Luke McCaffrey's gonna be a thing for the Washington Commanders. So like these are like like Darnell Mooney. No one's talking about Darnell Mooney in Atlanta, like they're gonna be thrown a lot with Kirk Cousins, and obviously everyone's talking about you know, Drake Lennon, Kyle Pits and Bejon Robinson. But Darnell Mooney is kind of an interesting late round flyer. I think the Buffalo guys Khalil Shakir and h Curtis SAMUELI needs to get healthy, but I think those guys are some late round wide receivers. At running back, it's a lot of the I think Braylan Allen is really interesting in uh in New York. I think I think I would argue the same for Ray Davis in uh In in Buffalo, Bucky Irving in Tampa Bay in terms of some in terms of some kind of late round running backs, I'm just to go through go through my list. It's one of those things if you said a player or you said a team, I'd be like, Okay, here you go.
Okay, do you ding Justin Jefferson a little bit that you have Sam Darnold throwing to him this year?
Not at all? I mean Justin Jefferson. Last year, four games.
Justin Jefferson played without her cousins, he averaged twenty two point one fantasy points per game. He was a top five fantasy wide receiver that was with Nick Mullins and a little bit of a little bit of Hall. Like whatever we think of Sam Donald, he's probably better than Nick Mullins. I just I think Justin Jefferson is going to get probably north of a thirty percent target share. He's all they've got in Kevin O'Connell. It is a pass first, you know, aggressive offense. And so if you're Sam Donald, right, if you think about this like this, this is one thing that I think gets lost in fantasy football analysis, Dan, And tell me if you agree with the supremacy, which is that they're human beings. So much of fantasy footall and now this is like, well this stat and this stat and this X and o and this x and o, and I'm just like and all those things are important, you know, film watching and data analysis and and statistics are all very important. But the other thing is they're human beings. And so I just sort of think about like, I'm Sam Donald, Right, I go to the Jets. It's a disaster, Carolina was awful, all right, to go for a cup of coffee in San Francisco. Wow, I'm the starting quarterback of a team with legit playoff aspirations and I've got one of the best wide receivers in football on my team. Here's my first real shot at playing for a real team and to resurrect my career. If you're Sam Donald, what are you doing? Are you like, oh, where's you know? Where's Jalen Naylor their third wide receiver? Are you like, hey, jj, where are you going to be? I'm trying to get you the ball? But I mean, you know, like Sam Donald's got an opportunity here, and I think I just think people don't think like that, And I'm just like, yeah, he's one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. Justin Jefferson for his career average is over ninety receiving yards a game, Like it's just it's stupid. So I think Justin Jefferson's actually one of the safer guys at the you know, you asked me about sure things like in terms of wide receivers, right, I think Ceedee Lamb, I think Aman Ross, Saint Brown, I think uh, I think tyreek Hill, assuming he stays healthy, I think, and I think justin Jefferson.
What about Brandon Ayuk in that he's sort of in limbo if he goes someplace, does that increase his value?
Depends where he goes? But unlikely? Right, I mean, I mean that the rumor now is Pittsburgh.
Right, there was there was talk about New England, there was talking about Cleveland, there was talking about Pittsburgh. And I think if he goes to any of those situations, it's not as good as being in San Francisco being schemed open by Kyle Shanahan. Having he clearly has a connection with Brock Purty. And if you're a defensive coordinator and you're trying to figure out, like, all right, do I try to stop Kittle or McCaffrey or Deebo or Ayuk and like that's the genius of Shanahan. And so I think wherever he goes, it would be a downgrade to his fantasy value if he does and that and that the problem is is like does he That's the other thing is like as you're going to drafts, there's just the uncertainty of both Ayuk and Jamar Chase. Now Jamar Chase is back at practice, and so we're hopeful that he, you know, ends up playing the season. Jamar Chase, by the way, proud Fantasy Life investor, thank you, Jamar Chase. We love Jamar, but you know, you just don't know what's what's gonna happen with that situation.
How do gambling and fantasy sports intersect? Like? Where? Where do you think we're going with this? I think they're still very separate.
I think what it the positives of it for for the fantasy sports industry is that now there's a lot more money and interest in fantasy sports because fantasy sports players are very likely going to become sports better is when it's legal in their state, right and or they are you know they already are. But anyway, so there's been more resources, more money, more attention paid to fantasy that's been very helpful, you know, in terms of my career, right, I mean, I I would like to think so, but I don't know, like part of the reason I think that I was able to that, you know, I'm at NBC awesome, but I'm on Football Night in America, right, I'm on a pregame show for I'm on the number one pregame show. And I think a big part of that is because I do segments for DraftKings, you know, and so the influx of revenue and money and resources into fantasy from sports betting companies has been real positive to the industry. I think overall, in terms of the actual gameplay, there's definitely obviously some you know, there's there's definitely some sort of games that are kind of gambling kind of fantasy.
That are sort of gray.
But ultimately, I think the value proposition for fantasy versus the value proposition for sports betting are different. Right, Like with fantasy, it's like you we were talking before the show about your son, Right, It's like you get together with your buddies and you want to you want to, you know, talk crap to each other all all week long, and you know, it's a much more social experience, whereas with sports betting, you're.
Like, I'm watching the sun night football game and I want on a little lot. Right, We've got We've got You.
Know, you may not be a fan of the Chiefs or the Ravens, but you're gonna be watching Thursday night and maybe you think like I think, Mahomes kills them, give me the over on one and a half passing touchdowns.
Or whatever, you know, whatever it is.
And now you've got a rooting, a rooting action in something that you might not have rooted for before.
All right, So, my son, knowing that you were coming on, knowing I wasn't going to give him any advice. He wants an honest review, okay, of his fantasy team here.
All right? How many teams in the league? I think twelve? Twelve team league? Okakay, so Breese Hall great, Saquon yep.
Sure, Sequin's awesome as a number two running back, sure, Rock perty fine, Mike Evans okay, Michael Pittman okay, George Kittle great, James Cook, uh huh, Love Cook, Christian Kirk great Miami Dolphins defense.
Okay, fine?
Uh.
Then some of the bench Blake Korum, yeah, some Mere White, Calvin Rich, Hollywood Brown, Dante Johnson, Jacobe Myers, Dallas Goddard.
So I think he's a little after his two big running backs, he's a little light on running back. I wish he had one elite wide receiver. I will say that I think Deontay Johnson is a great pick. Just of all the guys you ran through, Deanty Johns' is gonna be the focal point of that Panthers offense, and I think that's really interesting. I think Calvin Ridley's pretty interesting too. I think the Titans are gonna be a much much more fun team this year than people expect them to be. They're gonna be more pass happy under Brian Callahan. Will Levis is gonna chuck it all over the place, like I'm honestly, I'm I'm looking forward to the Titans this year. I think they're gonna be a lot of fun. And uh, you know, the Evan Evans is fine. You know, Evans is solid. He's gonna be another thousand yards he always is. My only concern on Pittman is just I assume it's PPR scoring. Okay, Yeah, so Pittman's kind of a PPR cheak code, but he just he doesn't score touchdowns a lot and so hard to see. We don't know yet with a full year of Anthony Richardson how much, how much looks he's gonna get. I would have liked a slightly better wide receiver room for your son, but overall that's pretty good.
Team.
Guillotine leagues, yes, how popular. They are getting more and more popular. So guillotine leagues. Have you ever played one? Dan, Are you familiar with this concept at all? Okay, so for people who have never played it is this I think it is the greatest thing in the world. Guillotine league is very simple. You get a league together, You draft a team like normal, everyone drafts a team. The key here is that you don't play head to head. What you do is you just start your lineup like normal. At the end of the week, the team with the lowest score in the league gets cut, chopped forever. Your season's over, and you just keep doing that until one team remains. Here's the other twist that's completely just blows your mind. All the players on the team that get cut go back into the free agent pool. So it's like week six and like Mahomes and McCaffrey are on the waiver wire, and so every week, you know, every team has stars, and so every week there are stars on the waiver wire. I like this game so much, I bought the company. I literally own Guillotine Leagues Fantasy Life. We bought Guillotine Leagues dot Com. And it's literally one of those It's it's the old Victor Kim. I liked it so much, I bought the company, and you know, we've we've made the game free to play, and.
So I'm just out.
I'm liking eleven different leagues of Guillotine Leagues, and the people that play it absolutely love it. Everyone that's ever tried it is just like this is so addicting because it's one of those things. It's like I have a bad week in normal Fantasy, but be like, all right, whatever. But then what happens is you got a guy on a buy, somebody leaves the you know, the game early, another one of your stars has a bad game, and suddenly you're sitting there like Josh Jacobs doesn't score a touch on a Monday night, I'm dead, Like it is a sweat like you've never had dan, And so it's it's really fun.
And the other cool thing is the last thing I'll just say is.
You if you if you're like I can't get a league together before the time the season starts. It doesn't matter because you're not playing head to head. You can start a lead any week you want. Like, all you need is one more team in the league than weeks left in the season. So with four weeks of the season, you could start a five person league. Because again, it's just all about just don't be last.
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Dan.
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Saw this interview now, I saw the written transcripts of this interview that Jerry Jones had with Clarence Hill, who's been covering the Cowboys for decades, and he was pretty specific about a lot of things. His duties as a general manager for the Cowboys. He says, I've done it all, so I have an ordinate amount of confidence that if if anybody can figure out how to do this bleep, I can figure out how to get it done. I've been there every which way from Sunday, and I have busted my bleep a bunch a bunch. And there's nothing living that's out cutting and shooting that can't give you a bunch of times they busted your bleep. So hell no, there's nobody that could bleep come in here and do all of the contracts and be a GM any better than I can. I'd like to hear it. I don't know if he's bragging or he's angry. Then he goes on to say, I, bleep have had hundreds of bad days. I'm emotional about it sometimes. Well, running this thing, that's who I want to make the last call now when I can't bleep and think when I'm old and can't even do it. But I'm a long way from not being able to do it too. The reason I don't let anybody else be GM is because I don't have anybody that I will let do it and actually do it right, and they're going to have to come to me because I know where it is that you're going to have to pay for it. Jones insisted, according to Clarence Hill, that he has great confidence in his children, but they will only be taking over if he gets hit by a car. No really, he said that he had confidence getting the job done if I get hit by a car out here tonight.
So I'm not.
Sure exactly what Jerry's saying other than he doesn't have a very competent staff because he's still the best GM that they have. This comes down to me, Jerry wants all the c credit when it works. He wants all the credit. Now He's going to take the blame because he is the GM of the owner. But boy, he doesn't. He doesn't want to share the credit. Case in point, Jimmy Johnson kicked him to the curb, waited decades to put him in the Ring of honor. This is about getting credit, and Jerry has gotten in his own way. Because are you trying to tell me there is no better person to be a GM of the Cowboys, considering you haven't done anything. Basically in thirty years, any other GM would have been fired. You would have had five seven different gms probably over this. You know, span of that time because they wouldn't have had the bottom line results. But Jerry is staying in because the owner keeps the GM in and Jerry's both But this is about taking credit, and you know, he can take the blame, but he's he wants all the credit. And I think that was part of the problem that he had with Jimmy Johnson was Jimmy was getting the credit and rightfully so. I mean, he should have gotten a lot of credit. You can give him all the players. He still has to make all of that work. And Jerry has made some good moves as a GM, but there have been those moments where he hasn't you know, specifically as coaching hires. He has never wanted somebody it feels like to have a personality to be able to be somebody like if Mike McCarthy is still there and they would happen to win a Super Bowl, Mike McCarthy's not getting the credit. Jerry Jones will and Jerry will see to it because you can bring in somebody that you can kind of manipulate, and that's what he's done down through history. Jimmy was a personality he did not want to give Jimmy. That credit that you wait decades is truly embarrassing on his part and petty because Jimmy a brilliant coach no matter where he went, and he changed the Dallas Cowboys. We still say how about them Cowboys because of Jimmy Johnson.
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I found an article from the ESPN Analytics team and they're grading draft ability and they went back to twenty ten to twenty twenty three and they ranked NFL teams of how they draft, like do those draft picks stay for a certain many years?
How many wins?
Did it translate to how long do their careers go? How many careers are busts? And the Cowboys are fourth in the past thirteen years of drafting well of the entire league, Seattle's best, Kansaity Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, and then the Cowboys. You get a lot of bonus points, sure for taking starting players after rounds after round two, for example, like a Dak Prescott or like Tyreek.
Hill for the Chiefs.
And when you do well in the mid rounds and later rounds, you get lots of bonus points.
Yeah, but what do they have to show for it? No, I'm just saying from the analy Seattle won a super Bowl, Kansas City has won a few, Baltimore has him. But that's probably as well run of an organization as you have in the NFL in their ability to draft. But Dallas does so, then what's it come down to? Does it come down to coaching? Because you have done well in the draft, but you know, you're still saying we have all that, we have the talent. This is what Jimmy Johnson did. He had the talent and then they won. You had the talent, have had the talent, and you've made some good picks. Maybe it comes down to the person you've put in there as a head coach.
Yes, Martin, did Jimmy Johnson make those trades like the Herschawalker trade? Was that Jimmy Johnson's idea?
He says that, and I'm going to trust him on that. I don't know if Jerry would say the same thing. Jimmy had a points system and so he fleeced the Vikings by sending Herschel there. Jerry would probably say, well, we did it together.
Had to approve that.
Yes, Marvin, that's got to be the worst trade ever, right, not for Dallas no, No, I'm just saying, just like it's so lopsided, like they started dynasty by just trading away one guy and getting all these draft picks.
Well, and it did result in winning Super Bowls. I still think if you're looking at like trades that changed the entire league, Bill Russell being traded, or the rights to Bill Russell by the Saint Louis Hawks to the Boston Celtics, that changed the NBA. I don't know if there's there's a trade that you go, oh my god, look at what that did. The fallout from that they got Bill Russell, it changed the NBA.
Yes, Pauline, guess who has the worst drafting reviews of the past fourteen years. In the NFL, there's two teams that are actually tied for futility the two worst teams at drafting going back to twenty ten.
Okay, should be somebody's think Marvin the Panthers, No, they're close, but no, Todd Arizona Okay, Seeing Raiders.
No, No, the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets are tied for the last congratulations.
Well, I was going to see the grounds, but then they had a couple of pretty good picks.
Though, Uh, they had a couple of terrible drafts.
They had many, many years of really terrible drafts. They had a lot of picks. They were terrible with their draft picks.
I got some names, Trent Richardson, Barcabious, Mingo, Justin, Gilbert, Corey, Coleman, et cetera, et.
Cetera, Brandon, that's all been since twenty ten. Yeah, good grief. Yeah, I was just man see that. That's crazy, terrible.
Fourteen years, bro, Trent Richardson, and who knows, how did Deshaun Watson. Trade's gonna work out. Everybody's quiet on the Cleveland Browns. Everybody's quiet, like you're not allowed to bring up Deshaun Watson. Like you still have to bring him up, whether you like him or not, whether he was a creep or not. Is he capable of being an elite quarterback again? Seems like it's a long long time ago that he was