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(speaking in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - You're back with The Killer Bees on ESPN 97.5 and 92.5. Life in the Veritex Community Bank Studios. Here's Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branham. - Let's go straight out to the HRMP guest line. Sad Houston, cowboy beat rider for the athletic host of one star, Cowboys podcast joining us now. Sad, thank you for taking a few minutes, hanging out with The Killer Bees. What's going on with this, the Dak Prescott situation? How come they haven't put them on the IR yet? And what does the position look like the rest of the year? Why go with Cooper Rush and not with LabDance Lance? - Yeah, there's a lot going on, but I think with Dak Prescott, it's just an inevitability. I don't think that they're in a situation where they really need to create that rush as far right now. They're not in any rush, but inevitably he will end up on IR. But in terms of going with Cooper Rush, right now they believe that they, at least internally, I know we all have different views on the team right now from the outside, but internally, they still believe they have a chance. And so Cooper Rush, they believe, gives them the best chance to win. He went four and one with the team a couple of years ago, a very different Cowboys team. That was a much better team than they are this year. Obviously there were three and five you went with Dak this year. So they just believe that Cooper gives them the best chance to win. And there's not really any upside, I guess playing Trey Lance at this point, because Dak Prescott did find that contract extension right before the season started. So even if Trey Lance balls out and, you know, shows you a lot, he's an unrestricted free agent and he's probably gonna leave anyway. So I think that's why there's taken up with Rush. - Hi, Seth. How you get to the bottom of what's going on right now? Michael Parsons, Mike McCarthy. It seems like Mike McCarthy's dead man walking. Michael Parsons is the one guy of the big three that was, you know, wanting to get that extension done that hasn't gotten one done yet. Does this affect him in any way? And is it basically that Mike McCarthy is what we all seem to think he is, which is a goner at the end of the year? - Yeah, so on two of those different things. Number one, Mike, Mike Parsons, he actually did not want to get a contract done last year. He was very clear about that. You know, like he's in line to get paid, but he made it very clear to us last year going back to OTA's and then you can't, that he really wanted to play out this year because he felt with the trajectory that he was on and, you know, if he hadn't gotten hurt, who knows how it goes? But he felt that he could really raise his stock and he wanted to play out another year and, you know, boost his value as much as possible. So I only say that to say that there's not really any animosity between Micah and the front office. They were kind of on the same page of waiting to get that extension done. But on the tone of Mike McCarthy, you're absolutely right. Like I think, you know, he's done at the end of the year. It would take a miracle. And for anybody thinking that like, you know, he was dealt a bad hand this year with the injuries at Dak and all that stuff. It's important to remember that they were three and five with Dak Prescott at quarterback. And also, you know, yeah, there were three straight 12 win seasons, but that Packers debacle has come up unprompted from Jerry's mouth multiple times throughout this year. And I don't think anybody's forgetting that real quick. - We were kicking around yesterday. I think that Jerry Jones likes to hire and you would know this better than me. He likes to hire two different types of coaches and it kind of depends in the mood that he's in. Whether it's a splashy name, like he's done that with Parcels in the past. And then somebody he can control, like a Dave Campo, maybe McCarthy? Right now, Jason Garrett comes to mind. Who do you think would be on his short list if he did make a coaching change this off season? - Yeah, it's really interesting because you're right. I mean, even the Parcel is hired. I mean, that was mostly because you wanted to get a new stadium built. And so he needed a quick turnaround on that. But a lot of people obviously mentioned the name of Bill Belichick. I don't think it's completely out of the question because Jerry has expressed so much mutual respect going back. I mean, shoot, I can even remember going all the way back to 2018-19 of him talking about Bill and him having this conversation of if there's ever a hire, if there's ever an opening. So I don't think that's completely out of the realm. Mike Rebel is another guy. I just have a hard time seeing Jerry Jones going after the hot shot offensive coordinator first time head coach. It just doesn't seem to be his type of thing. It seems like he's more of the type of guy who would want to hire someone who's been there done that kind of the way that he did with McCarthy. So to that extent, I would really think that it's someone like someone that's on the couch right now, whether that's Belichick or Rebel or someone else like that. So how do we go forward looking at this Cowboys roster and try to figure out Jerry saying he's in go for it mode and then he doesn't go for it and then knowing that the best running back on the market, Derek Henry, who lives in Dallas in the off season said that that was basically his first choice and then Jerry had to go. And of course, from a Jerry perspective, even the whole radio debacle, like are the fans clamoring for a new general manager as well? And how does this team possibly go forward with Jerry pulling the strings and the team playing so much less than what it was expected? - I've been in Dallas the last 27 years, and I can tell you for just about two thirds of that time fans have been clamoring for a new GM. That's something that's like, it's all this talk radio segment that we have here in Dallas, which is Jerry, the owner needs to fire Jerry, the GM. And that's just always been the case. I don't think that's a recent development, but I do think that it has definitely picked up a team with a lot of the recent comments and a lot of his, like you said, the radio stuff, all of that stuff, it's kind of piled on and added up, but that's never going to happen. Like anything that the Cowboys do, they have to be under the premise of Jerry is going to be the GM, and he is going to be over the football operations and whatever improvements happen are going to happen under those circumstances. - Being joined on the HRNP guest line by sad, use of covers, the Dallas Cowboys for the athletic, also hosts of one star Cowboys podcast. I love the drama, sad, I'm a bit messy, you might say. So I love the whole Jerry Jones. I want to fire these radio hosts. All of that, I'm sure it was ratings gold. I wish Cal McNair threatened to fire me. His handlebar mustache would be a great time. What is the aftermath of that though? Well, it would have been the falling out of all of that. - Well, I think Jerry definitely loses a lot of, I guess, favor, you could call it in the court of public opinion, but you have to remember who you're talking about here. This is Jerry Jones. Like this is someone who, as long as you're talking about him, as long as he's on ESPN, get up, and as long as he's being talked about on first stage and all those other things, like that's, you know, it's a win for Jerry. It doesn't matter if it's a negative press. Jerry is the type of person who literally, he told us, actually, I think I was the one that asked the question this year in training camp, and he mentioned that, you know, he will go out of his way to quote, unquote, stir it up whenever he feels like things are getting a little flat. So you have to remember that, yeah, Jerry might look bad and, you know, Jerry's getting bashed by everyone in the court of public opinion, but this is a team that's so boring that you always, with Jerry, you always have to think about, okay, what is the marketing part of this? And, you know, even, and that extends to the football thing, too. You have to earlier about Koopa Rush, right? And I think right now they're going with Koopa Rush. I think if the Cowboys start to get flexed out of some of these front-time ganks there and things, you could see them go to Trey Lance, and it's not because Trey Lance will give them a better chance to win. It's because Jerry needs to jolt something and change something up so that he is, so that people can start talking about the Cowboys again. So a lot of that is just a bedrock of all this. So when he asks about the fallout, like, yeah, Jerry loses a little bit of favor in the court of public opinion, but, you know, I've done interviews with other people in the past, they're like, oh, it sucks that you're covering this, you know, losing team. And I'm like, the reality is like, you know, I got up to the press box after last game, and they got their butt kicked by the Philadelphia Eagles, and anything related to the game was like number 10 on my list to write about, because Jerry's going off about the sun, and Mike has talked about Mike McCarthy, and there's just always something going on. So that's the thing. The Cowboys thing is they don't want to be boring, and that starts with Jerry. - I'm telling you, from the radio perspective, you need a curtain sponsor, and you need a divorce lawyer, because like you said, I mean, between the sunshine coming through the windows, and the messy divorce coming between McCarthy and the Cowboys, you got plenty to talk about. But as it relates to the game itself, this looked like at the start of the year, this was going to be a big game. Of course, in the state of Texas, it's a big game whenever these two teams square off. But at the start of the season, these two teams had very high aspirations for the playoffs and so much more. Now we're at a point where it has a lot less luster than it did at the start of the year. Texas trying to get right. It seems like from what you're talking about, the Cowboys still seem to think there's a chance they could get right too. How do you see this game coming out or turning out now? - Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, I think the line is like eight or something, and I would be right around that point. I think Houston is, like easily, the better team than the Cowboys, there's no question. But I have watched enough Texans games to see that they do end up sometimes playing with their food. And you guys would know a lot more, obviously, on the Houston side of this. But I do think that, you know, Micah Parsons could have a big game because the offensive line is struggling there with what they have going on. And, you know, I was talking to a few people in Houston recently, and, you know, with Mike McCarthy's tenure coming to an end, most likely after this year, I remember last year during the cycle, Bobby Splowick was getting a lot of love in the rumor mill and things like that. And it seems right now, he's just trying to get his job, you know, in line in Houston with what's going on. So, you know, going back, there's been a lot of interesting games between the Cowboys and the Texans going all the way back to the Texans winning their inaugural game to, you know, whatever else, you know, the game down in Houston that was the overtime win to Sean Watson with Quarterback. I think that was one of their last games and one of the last two. So, I do think that, you know, the Houston Texans will win the game. I just think I don't know that it'll be as big of a blowout. I would say, you know, I picked the Houston Texans to win by 10 points, which is kind of what I'm seeing right now. - Do you want Bobby Splowick? You can, you can have him. - Yeah. You can leave him there. - Yeah, that's about what I've heard from a lot of people down in Houston as well, that yeah, he's lost a lot of momentum. And he'll be, he'll be lucky enough to keep his job in Houston, you know, after this year, let alone get a coaching job elsewhere. But, you know, I was a big Bobby Slower fan with the way that he changed things around. And last year, and CJ shout out as a rookie, but I do know they've been struggling. I know they've had injuries and I know Nico Collins might be coming back and hopefully for the interstate, that changes things. But it's been, it's definitely good stuff. But I'll tell you, one thing that's come up a lot in the Cowboys locker room, the last two, three days, there is a lot of respect for Demico Ryan and that defense that the Texans have going on there. So I think that has become the focal point for the Cowboys. - Sad, we appreciate the time. Maybe someday Houston will get a beat rider from the athletic for their Houston football team. We appreciate it though. - Yeah, no problem. Thanks for having me guys. - And sad use of joining us. Cowboy beat rider for the athletic and host of one star Cowboys podcast. 71370 0ESP and he mentioned Nico Collins, mentioned the possibility of him being back. I think we can all read the writing on the wall. I think he was probably available this last Sunday but they absolutely needed him if it was a playoff game. Demico mentioned, which is very unlike Demico. Very unlike Demico. He mentioned early in the week. Yeah, we think Nico is going to practice this week. He was at practice today. 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