November 15, 2024 • 16 mins
105.3 The Fan's RJ Choppy joins Adam Wexler to preview the Texans-Cowboys on The A-Team. He talks about how Cowboys fans view this game and their chances on Monday night. He also gives Texans fans reason to be optimistic about their offensive woes in the second half coming to an end. He also says that Jerry Jones really, really wants the Cowboys to beat the Texans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That raucus music means only one thing.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is football.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Five Here on the A team, Adam has made his
way to Toeta Center or begun the trek to Toda Center.
But I am here with you and glad to be
joined to talk a little football here with RJ Choppy.
You can hear him in the Metroplex that we were
just talking about part of one oh five point three
the Fans Morning show right there at DFW. And I
can't help myself, RJ. Obviously, the Texans and Cowboys are
(00:26):
playing on Monday night, got a whole other show each
of us to run through all that on Monday, and
a lot of good things to get into, and there
was some hilarious bulletin board material delivered a conference call today.
But like I said, I can't help myself, RJ. I'm
sitting here in Arizona getting ready for a Friday night
college football game, so I have to ask you about
our own college football game of the week. You think
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that the volunteers are gonna beat the Georgia Bulldogs this weekend?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I have no idea, and I'm very like I had.
This team has beating me up enough to the point
where even if I think they're gonna win. I don't
think they're gonna win.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know. It's just that's that's where I'm at with them. Uh.
They better I needed. I needed to happen. I needed
to happen for my own sanity.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But I I don't have a great feeling. I really
don't like. It's just the way it is when we
go on the road. Kirby shuts us down every single time.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
For our listeners that were locked into your comments, they
heard a wei and they heard in us.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You are personally.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Home to the original ut of the sec.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Absolutely absolutely. That's that's my alma mater. Uh, and I
my mood. I kind of live and die. I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't live and die with any sports team anymore.
After I've you know, you get in the business and
it just dies out on you a little bit. That
is the only one that that and their basketball team
the only ones that just really changed my If I
posted all the videos that I've made and I've I've
decided not to post, Uh, would you would you would
really get a good look at it?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
My job with the discretion. I think that's usually this
wise move on social media. So it's much appreciated on
the professional grid iron. We do have to wait until
the Monday night game, the third of three consecutive primetime
games for the Houston Texans. They've played well enough that
they have not only they got them during the offseason
when the schedule came out, but I think they've played
well enough to have somewhat earned them. The Cowboys record
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suggests otherwise. Clearly they're not gonna have Dak Prescott out there.
I assume at some point they'll put him on IR
instead of continuing to have him hold a roster spot,
and I'm sure they will do that before game time.
But what is this team on offense? The Cowboys? If
Cooper Rush plays a lot more like the pre twenty
twenty four Cooper Rush.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, if he plays like you did a couple of
years ago, I mean, they're they're a seventeen to twenty
three point a game team, right.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They're not gonna light it on fire.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
They're gonna they're gonna get They're gonna manage the game. Well,
Cooper's a fine quarterback. I don't know what that was
last week, I really don't.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know. The Cowboys say that he had like a neck.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Injury that happened on a fumble and that was early
in the game.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I could buy that because you know in in preseason
what we saw him in camp. I mean, he was
throwing the ball much better. He's a good accurate passer.
He could push the ball downfield. He's not gonna make
tight window throws.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
If Cooper plays and he doesn't play the way he
did this past Sunday, you know, I can see the
Cowboys scoring, you know, fourteen to twenty points against you.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, Houston's defense is good.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's a good defense, and I don't expect them to
be able to break the twenty point beard.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is he gonna help unleash the Jonathan Mingo experience on
the NFL?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Man, I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know what the Carolina Panthers are doing. I
don't know how you could just not unleash that guy.
I mean, he is super stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We were, we were in the middle of our show
on that Tuesday when that trade happened, and our reactions
were just like, so non, you gotta be kidding me.
That is what they got, and that's what they gave
a fourth round pick. They gave up more for him
than they got back from Mark Cooper. It's just this
is wild.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The situation.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We're leading all the way to it as slowly as possible,
but a move like that gets made because Jerry Jones
is running this team. He's the overbearing in every possible way,
to his credit at some points during his tenure and
obviously to the team and their fans detriment as things
have moved on, Where do you think things change for
the better, if at all, anytime in the near future
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with how he runs the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, it's interesting. I mean they you know they had
prior to this year. I mean they have won.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Twelve games for three straight years, you know, twelve games
in the season. I mean that's pretty good. That's that
You're you're getting into rarefied air in the history of
the NFL of teams that win twelve games three years
in a row. I mean that that's pretty good. They
didn't do anything in the playoffs, and I don't know
that that's necessarily Jerry's fault. This year is this year?
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Is is Jerry's fault? From the all in comments, whoever
is in his ear? Because I don't think I don't
think day to day, Jerry is is as involved as
people want to think. I mean, he's involved, but I
don't think he's involved the way he was at one point.
You know, his he whoever's in his ear that is
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telling him that they can't sign outside free agents. I
just I don't know why he has put so much
faith in what that person said.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now maybe that person Steven his son, I don't know.
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I think that's the reason is that you know, Steven's
a cap guy or a wanta be cap guy if
you will, and and and he's kind of the Hey,
we don't need to spend all this, but it makes
no sense. I mean, the Cowboys are they're they're run
like the world's largest mom and pop and they've always
been run like that under the Jones family. Uh, they
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do run it like a family business. But you know,
there's there's some problems with the structure of the organization
that they've overcome. I mean they really have. And a
lot of that is due to their fact they've been
able to draft really, really well. Well what happened in
two in the last four years, I mean, they had
pretty average of best drafts, and that puts a tremendous
strain on your ability to maintain a good roster.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What do they do talking with Rja Choppy of one
of five to three the fan they're on the metroplex,
what do they do with I can't believe I'm asking
this so recently after he signed his deal, Dak Prescott,
this is a pretty significant injury. As it turned out,
it's not going to impact him probably in the future.
And clearly when you have that money invested in cap ramifications,
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et cetera, commitments and CD Lambs deal is in place,
is there really anything to do other than say, well, well,
Dak's just gonna be better in this offense next year
and the team's gonna be better.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
There's not much they can do. I mean, he's got
to look, he has a ninety million dollar cap pit
next year. This was the cheap years. This was the
cheap year. His cap pit's ninety million next year. If
they wanted to move on.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
From him, like trade him or cut him, I mean, you're.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Looking at one hundred, one hundred and fifty million dollars
dead cap just from that. So there's not a whole
lot of wiggle room. You know, all the all these
fans talking about you know, or or media members saying,
you know, the Cowboys just draft you know, draft Shador
and higher don. Yeah, that's cool, but like, what are
you gonna do. You're gonna take a hundred million dollar
cap hit just to trade your quarterback or one hundred
fifty million dollars cap pit to cut him. I don't
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I don't see it happening. I don't think anyone's gonna trade.
You know, people would trade for Dak, but like what
would they trade? His market is at the all at
the lowest the low right now, coming off an injury
and coming off a year where even when he.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Was healthy, he wasn't tremendous. So they're stuck.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I mean, they just are stuck with Dak Prescott. And
I don't think that's really stuck. I think Dak's a
good player. I mean, I think you can win. I
think you can win a super Bowl with him. I
think a lot of things need to break right for you,
but I do think you can win a super Bowl
with him. But that's the problem, Like you have to
have so many things break your way. You've got to
get a little lucky, You've got to have an all
time defense. Uh, and you gotta have good weapons around them,
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and that's just not something you can do when you're
paying them sixty million bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Do they are the fans there even? Are they looking
and saying, well, the commander's kind of turned it around overnight,
and I guess coincidentally are not so much so. They
have our defensive coordinator who's running things there despite their
last two losses. But does anybody look at that and say,
I can't believe where we've been. Thirty six wins in
the last three years and now we're no better than
third best in a division and a distant third.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Mean, like every team in the NFL is like one
player away, and that one player is always a quarterback.
But that's the issue, is that you know, you got
to be in a position to draft one, and you're
not usually in a position. The Cowboys have been very lucky.
Just consider how they haven't. They haven't drafted a quarterback
in the first round since Troy but nineteen eighty nine,
that's how long it's been. And they've gotten very lucky
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to have stable quarterback play for the better part of
the last twenty years. And they did that because they
got an undrafted free agent Romo and a what a
fourth round pick a back that doesn't happen didn't happen
anywhere else. You know, most teams don't get that lucky.
They're like Washington, who has to stink for twenty five
years and they finally fall into you know, RG three
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one year he got hurt and then now Jade and Daniels.
So like you see Washington turn this thing around. They're
doing a great job of it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's because they.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Got they hit on the quarterback. It's really that simple.
You hit on a quarterback, everything changes.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
There's no question about that was the big key to
a Texans turnaround. You mentioned a little bit about your
thoughts on the Texans having a good defense. The viewpoint
is you've discussed things this week, but what is the
viewpoint of what the Texans bring offensive? We see j
Stroud and the return of Nico Collins.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, I'll tell you this, y'all are aware that you
could play in the second half, right, not.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So much not the last four weeks. That's off limits.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I don't know. I don't know what happened there. I
don't know what's going on with that.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Like that is one of the strangest things I'm seeing
where a team just stops playing at the half at
halftime and was it. Five to the last six games
they haven't scored a touchdown in the second half. That
is that is unfathomable to me, that that was able
to happen, Like there's no business.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
They had no business losing last week.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I don't understand how they lose uh to Alliance team
that had five interceptions and a big half time ly.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I just don't know how you lose that game.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But they found a way to do it, and they
signed a way to do it in very dramatic fashion.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But you know, you're not playing the Allions this week.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're playing the Cowboys, and the Cowboys worst quarter is
the third quarter. That's where they get beat up every
single week. It doesn't matter who the team is, asn't
matter whether there's home or on the road. They get
beat up in the third. They've won one third quarter
all year from a points perspective. So I think you're
your touchdown. The street comes to an end in the
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second half this week.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, five of the last six games, the Texans have
not scored a touchdown in the second half. They've only
scored a touchdown on the second half of four of
their games all season. They do come in at six
and four, Cowboys at three, and I mentioned something right
off the top and wanted to get to it here
before we let you go our j The comments made
by Texas native and Longhorn and second year Cowboy Jamaron overshean,
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does that carry any weight with a lot of people
that there, because there really isn't much of a rivalry here.
I think wanting to stay ahead of so called little
brother makes some sense there. But we've always talked about
it here for twenty plus years. It's nice that they
have an in state thing going, but since they never play,
I never felt like there was a real rivalry here,
even on the big games or the holiday game that
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they've played, and even on Monday Night, do the players
have much care that it's the Texans that they're playing.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know who really cares is Jerry. I think if
you were to, I think you were gonna get Jerry into.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A room, lock him into a room, and say, name
us the teams outside the NFC East that you want
to beat the most. I think Houston is the first team,
he mentions after San Francisco. Uh he when when when
the Texans beat the Cowboys. I think it was I
think it was Texas first game ever, like two.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Or something, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Uh he that that is as mad as anyone has
ever seen him ever after a game that was as
mad and and and I don't know if the trickles
down to the players or not, but it is. It
is a rivalry here from Jerry's perspective, because Jerry, you
gotta run. You gotta realize how he operates. He operates
in two worlds because he wears two hats. He operates
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as the owner, as the general manager. The general manager,
Jerry just wants to win every game. The owner wants
to win the marketing battle.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And he views the.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Texans as his biggest threat to a a kingdom or
one of the biggest threats to a kingdom, because they
operate under the same state border. And that's why I
don't believe while he's alive, there will ever be a
team in San Antonio or Austin. I don't know if
the it's the it's kids when they do take over
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the team after Jerry's gone, and they have the same viewpoint,
I assume they do but yeah, there's no doubt there
is a rivalry aspect from the front office Jerry specifically
when it comes to Houston.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm glad you brought that up. One last thing for
you on that, because I remember during these last twenty
plus years, you know, talking with ownership here and other
people in the organization and league wide about the possibility
of a third Texas team, and even going back to
the late nineties when the expansion process was underway with
the Texans ultimately winning, which was somewhat of a surprise
considering La was in the mix. Jerry's competitive nature from
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a business side, and he's arguably been the biggest money
making figure in the NFL for every owner over the
last twenty five plus years. He's such a big part
of what the NFL entity does to make money. Do
you think he recognized having a team in Houston as
valuable to the NFL versus a threat to his Texas
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kingdom properly?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, I mean he puts the I mean he he
started that. He was one of the big proponents of
the salary cap, like he and that's one that that
it really hacked a lot of fans off because it's
like that wasn't in the best interest in the Dallas Cowboys.
It was it was a way for him to make
more money and not spend it. That's basically what the
salary cap is. And and yeah, like obviously La was
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a much bigger market than Houston and still is, but
I felt like Houston was the same size as Kansas City, right,
it was a huge market. Texas having the one team
didn't make a whole lot of sense. Not a whole
lot of people thought that it was right for the
Oilers to move anyway to Nashville, even though nash was
a growing city back in the ninth mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I mean, I lived in Tennessee there.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You know, Nashville was still a much smaller town, a
much much, so much smaller. Now it's blown up like crazy,
but I don't think people predicted that thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So yeah, Jerry is always and.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That's the thing, and that's that's the t a war
that that happens in that building, is he gonna put
football first or money marketing? And the fans would say
you got to put football first, and Jerry says, well,
why can't. I put ball first, and that's what makes
them so special as a as a businessman, but also
maybe potentially flawed as an order.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
GM last thing for you, just just a little game prediction.
What's gonna happen Monday night?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh, I think Houston wins.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I didn't when I would say somewhere in the twenty
seven to seventeen range. I don't see how the Cowboys
can win. The Houston's a much better football team, even
though they haven't played as well as people expected them
to do this year. I don't think the Cowboys just
they're limited. They're limited from a talent perspective right now.
The obviously don't the quarterback. We don't know how Cooper
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Rush is gonna play coming up what he did last week.
I expect to see some Trey Lance, But I think
Houston wins.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Sounds good.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Really appreciate the time RJ and everybody there, I'm sure
appreciates the insight you deliver each and every week, weekday morning.
Right there, I want to five three of the fan.
Good luck Saturday night, and hopefully we'll talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Soon anytime, man. I appreciate it.
That raucus music means only one thing.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is football.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
Five Here on the A team, Adam has made his
way to Toeta Center or begun the trek to Toda Center.
But I am here with you and glad to be
joined to talk a little football here with RJ Choppy.
You can hear him in the Metroplex that we were
just talking about part of one oh five point three
the Fans Morning show right there at DFW. And I
can't help myself, RJ. Obviously, the Texans and Cowboys are
(00:26):
playing on Monday night, got a whole other show each
of us to run through all that on Monday, and
a lot of good things to get into, and there
was some hilarious bulletin board material delivered a conference call today.
But like I said, I can't help myself, RJ. I'm
sitting here in Arizona getting ready for a Friday night
college football game, so I have to ask you about
our own college football game of the week. You think
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that the volunteers are gonna beat the Georgia Bulldogs this weekend?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I have no idea, and I'm very like I had.
This team has beating me up enough to the point
where even if I think they're gonna win. I don't
think they're gonna win.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know. It's just that's that's where I'm at with them. Uh.
They better I needed. I needed to happen. I needed
to happen for my own sanity.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But I I don't have a great feeling. I really
don't like. It's just the way it is when we
go on the road. Kirby shuts us down every single time.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
For our listeners that were locked into your comments, they
heard a wei and they heard in us.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
You are personally.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Home to the original ut of the sec.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Absolutely absolutely. That's that's my alma mater. Uh, and I
my mood. I kind of live and die. I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't live and die with any sports team anymore.
After I've you know, you get in the business and
it just dies out on you a little bit. That
is the only one that that and their basketball team
the only ones that just really changed my If I
posted all the videos that I've made and I've I've
decided not to post, Uh, would you would you would
really get a good look at it?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
My job with the discretion. I think that's usually this
wise move on social media. So it's much appreciated on
the professional grid iron. We do have to wait until
the Monday night game, the third of three consecutive primetime
games for the Houston Texans. They've played well enough that
they have not only they got them during the offseason
when the schedule came out, but I think they've played
well enough to have somewhat earned them. The Cowboys record
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suggests otherwise. Clearly they're not gonna have Dak Prescott out there.
I assume at some point they'll put him on IR
instead of continuing to have him hold a roster spot,
and I'm sure they will do that before game time.
But what is this team on offense? The Cowboys? If
Cooper Rush plays a lot more like the pre twenty
twenty four Cooper Rush.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, if he plays like you did a couple of
years ago, I mean, they're they're a seventeen to twenty
three point a game team, right.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
They're not gonna light it on fire.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
They're gonna they're gonna get They're gonna manage the game. Well,
Cooper's a fine quarterback. I don't know what that was
last week, I really don't.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know. The Cowboys say that he had like a neck.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Injury that happened on a fumble and that was early
in the game.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I could buy that because you know in in preseason
what we saw him in camp. I mean, he was
throwing the ball much better. He's a good accurate passer.
He could push the ball downfield. He's not gonna make
tight window throws.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
If Cooper plays and he doesn't play the way he
did this past Sunday, you know, I can see the
Cowboys scoring, you know, fourteen to twenty points against you.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, Houston's defense is good.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's a good defense, and I don't expect them to
be able to break the twenty point beard.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Is he gonna help unleash the Jonathan Mingo experience on
the NFL?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Man, I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know what the Carolina Panthers are doing. I
don't know how you could just not unleash that guy.
I mean, he is super stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We were, we were in the middle of our show
on that Tuesday when that trade happened, and our reactions
were just like, so non, you gotta be kidding me.
That is what they got, and that's what they gave
a fourth round pick. They gave up more for him
than they got back from Mark Cooper. It's just this
is wild.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The situation.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
We're leading all the way to it as slowly as possible,
but a move like that gets made because Jerry Jones
is running this team. He's the overbearing in every possible way,
to his credit at some points during his tenure and
obviously to the team and their fans detriment as things
have moved on, Where do you think things change for
the better, if at all, anytime in the near future
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with how he runs the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Well, it's interesting. I mean they you know they had
prior to this year. I mean they have won.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Twelve games for three straight years, you know, twelve games
in the season. I mean that's pretty good. That's that
You're you're getting into rarefied air in the history of
the NFL of teams that win twelve games three years
in a row. I mean that that's pretty good. They
didn't do anything in the playoffs, and I don't know
that that's necessarily Jerry's fault. This year is this year?
(04:59):
Is is Jerry's fault? From the all in comments, whoever
is in his ear? Because I don't think I don't
think day to day, Jerry is is as involved as
people want to think. I mean, he's involved, but I
don't think he's involved the way he was at one point.
You know, his he whoever's in his ear that is
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telling him that they can't sign outside free agents. I
just I don't know why he has put so much
faith in what that person said.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now maybe that person Steven his son, I don't know.
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I think that's the reason is that you know, Steven's
a cap guy or a wanta be cap guy if
you will, and and and he's kind of the Hey,
we don't need to spend all this, but it makes
no sense. I mean, the Cowboys are they're they're run
like the world's largest mom and pop and they've always
been run like that under the Jones family. Uh, they
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do run it like a family business. But you know,
there's there's some problems with the structure of the organization
that they've overcome. I mean they really have. And a
lot of that is due to their fact they've been
able to draft really, really well. Well what happened in
two in the last four years, I mean, they had
pretty average of best drafts, and that puts a tremendous
strain on your ability to maintain a good roster.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
What do they do talking with Rja Choppy of one
of five to three the fan they're on the metroplex,
what do they do with I can't believe I'm asking
this so recently after he signed his deal, Dak Prescott,
this is a pretty significant injury. As it turned out,
it's not going to impact him probably in the future.
And clearly when you have that money invested in cap ramifications,
(06:37):
et cetera, commitments and CD Lambs deal is in place,
is there really anything to do other than say, well, well,
Dak's just gonna be better in this offense next year
and the team's gonna be better.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
There's not much they can do. I mean, he's got
to look, he has a ninety million dollar cap pit
next year. This was the cheap years. This was the
cheap year. His cap pit's ninety million next year. If
they wanted to move on.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
From him, like trade him or cut him, I mean, you're.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Looking at one hundred, one hundred and fifty million dollars
dead cap just from that. So there's not a whole
lot of wiggle room. You know, all the all these
fans talking about you know, or or media members saying,
you know, the Cowboys just draft you know, draft Shador
and higher don. Yeah, that's cool, but like, what are
you gonna do. You're gonna take a hundred million dollar
cap hit just to trade your quarterback or one hundred
fifty million dollars cap pit to cut him. I don't
(07:24):
I don't see it happening. I don't think anyone's gonna trade.
You know, people would trade for Dak, but like what
would they trade? His market is at the all at
the lowest the low right now, coming off an injury
and coming off a year where even when he.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Was healthy, he wasn't tremendous. So they're stuck.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I mean, they just are stuck with Dak Prescott. And
I don't think that's really stuck. I think Dak's a
good player. I mean, I think you can win. I
think you can win a super Bowl with him. I
think a lot of things need to break right for you,
but I do think you can win a super Bowl
with him. But that's the problem, Like you have to
have so many things break your way. You've got to
get a little lucky, You've got to have an all
time defense. Uh, and you gotta have good weapons around them,
(08:00):
and that's just not something you can do when you're
paying them sixty million bucks.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Do they are the fans there even? Are they looking
and saying, well, the commander's kind of turned it around overnight,
and I guess coincidentally are not so much so. They
have our defensive coordinator who's running things there despite their
last two losses. But does anybody look at that and say,
I can't believe where we've been. Thirty six wins in
the last three years and now we're no better than
third best in a division and a distant third.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Mean, like every team in the NFL is like one
player away, and that one player is always a quarterback.
But that's the issue, is that you know, you got
to be in a position to draft one, and you're
not usually in a position. The Cowboys have been very lucky.
Just consider how they haven't. They haven't drafted a quarterback
in the first round since Troy but nineteen eighty nine,
that's how long it's been. And they've gotten very lucky
(08:50):
to have stable quarterback play for the better part of
the last twenty years. And they did that because they
got an undrafted free agent Romo and a what a
fourth round pick a back that doesn't happen didn't happen
anywhere else. You know, most teams don't get that lucky.
They're like Washington, who has to stink for twenty five
years and they finally fall into you know, RG three
(09:10):
one year he got hurt and then now Jade and Daniels.
So like you see Washington turn this thing around. They're
doing a great job of it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's because they.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Got they hit on the quarterback. It's really that simple.
You hit on a quarterback, everything changes.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
There's no question about that was the big key to
a Texans turnaround. You mentioned a little bit about your
thoughts on the Texans having a good defense. The viewpoint
is you've discussed things this week, but what is the
viewpoint of what the Texans bring offensive? We see j
Stroud and the return of Nico Collins.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, I'll tell you this, y'all are aware that you
could play in the second half, right, not.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So much not the last four weeks. That's off limits.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I don't know. I don't know what happened there. I
don't know what's going on with that.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Like that is one of the strangest things I'm seeing
where a team just stops playing at the half at
halftime and was it. Five to the last six games
they haven't scored a touchdown in the second half. That
is that is unfathomable to me, that that was able
to happen, Like there's no business.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
They had no business losing last week.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I don't understand how they lose uh to Alliance team
that had five interceptions and a big half time ly.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I just don't know how you lose that game.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
But they found a way to do it, and they
signed a way to do it in very dramatic fashion.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But you know, you're not playing the Allions this week.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're playing the Cowboys, and the Cowboys worst quarter is
the third quarter. That's where they get beat up every
single week. It doesn't matter who the team is, asn't
matter whether there's home or on the road. They get
beat up in the third. They've won one third quarter
all year from a points perspective. So I think you're
your touchdown. The street comes to an end in the
(10:47):
second half this week.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, five of the last six games, the Texans have
not scored a touchdown in the second half. They've only
scored a touchdown on the second half of four of
their games all season. They do come in at six
and four, Cowboys at three, and I mentioned something right
off the top and wanted to get to it here
before we let you go our j The comments made
by Texas native and Longhorn and second year Cowboy Jamaron overshean,
(11:12):
does that carry any weight with a lot of people
that there, because there really isn't much of a rivalry here.
I think wanting to stay ahead of so called little
brother makes some sense there. But we've always talked about
it here for twenty plus years. It's nice that they
have an in state thing going, but since they never play,
I never felt like there was a real rivalry here,
even on the big games or the holiday game that
(11:33):
they've played, and even on Monday Night, do the players
have much care that it's the Texans that they're playing.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know who really cares is Jerry. I think if
you were to, I think you were gonna get Jerry into.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A room, lock him into a room, and say, name
us the teams outside the NFC East that you want
to beat the most. I think Houston is the first team,
he mentions after San Francisco. Uh he when when when
the Texans beat the Cowboys. I think it was I
think it was Texas first game ever, like two.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Or something, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Uh he that that is as mad as anyone has
ever seen him ever after a game that was as
mad and and and I don't know if the trickles
down to the players or not, but it is. It
is a rivalry here from Jerry's perspective, because Jerry, you
gotta run. You gotta realize how he operates. He operates
in two worlds because he wears two hats. He operates
(12:32):
as the owner, as the general manager. The general manager,
Jerry just wants to win every game. The owner wants
to win the marketing battle.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And he views the.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Texans as his biggest threat to a a kingdom or
one of the biggest threats to a kingdom, because they
operate under the same state border. And that's why I
don't believe while he's alive, there will ever be a
team in San Antonio or Austin. I don't know if
the it's the it's kids when they do take over
(13:03):
the team after Jerry's gone, and they have the same viewpoint,
I assume they do but yeah, there's no doubt there
is a rivalry aspect from the front office Jerry specifically
when it comes to Houston.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm glad you brought that up. One last thing for
you on that, because I remember during these last twenty
plus years, you know, talking with ownership here and other
people in the organization and league wide about the possibility
of a third Texas team, and even going back to
the late nineties when the expansion process was underway with
the Texans ultimately winning, which was somewhat of a surprise
considering La was in the mix. Jerry's competitive nature from
(13:39):
a business side, and he's arguably been the biggest money
making figure in the NFL for every owner over the
last twenty five plus years. He's such a big part
of what the NFL entity does to make money. Do
you think he recognized having a team in Houston as
valuable to the NFL versus a threat to his Texas
(14:01):
kingdom properly?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, I mean he puts the I mean he he
started that. He was one of the big proponents of
the salary cap, like he and that's one that that
it really hacked a lot of fans off because it's
like that wasn't in the best interest in the Dallas Cowboys.
It was it was a way for him to make
more money and not spend it. That's basically what the
salary cap is. And and yeah, like obviously La was
(14:25):
a much bigger market than Houston and still is, but
I felt like Houston was the same size as Kansas City, right,
it was a huge market. Texas having the one team
didn't make a whole lot of sense. Not a whole
lot of people thought that it was right for the
Oilers to move anyway to Nashville, even though nash was
a growing city back in the ninth mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I mean, I lived in Tennessee there.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You know, Nashville was still a much smaller town, a
much much, so much smaller. Now it's blown up like crazy,
but I don't think people predicted that thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
So yeah, Jerry is always and.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That's the thing, and that's that's the t a war
that that happens in that building, is he gonna put
football first or money marketing? And the fans would say
you got to put football first, and Jerry says, well,
why can't. I put ball first, and that's what makes
them so special as a as a businessman, but also
maybe potentially flawed as an order.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
GM last thing for you, just just a little game prediction.
What's gonna happen Monday night?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh, I think Houston wins.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I didn't when I would say somewhere in the twenty
seven to seventeen range. I don't see how the Cowboys
can win. The Houston's a much better football team, even
though they haven't played as well as people expected them
to do this year. I don't think the Cowboys just
they're limited. They're limited from a talent perspective right now.
The obviously don't the quarterback. We don't know how Cooper
(15:47):
Rush is gonna play coming up what he did last week.
I expect to see some Trey Lance, But I think
Houston wins.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Sounds good.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Really appreciate the time RJ and everybody there, I'm sure
appreciates the insight you deliver each and every week, weekday morning.
Right there, I want to five three of the fan.
Good luck Saturday night, and hopefully we'll talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Soon anytime, man. I appreciate it.
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