Dak Prescott can miss some time because of a hamstring injury that knocked him out of Sunday's 27-21 loss to the Falcons Prescott will undergo an MRI today to determine the severity owner general manager Jerry Jones said he's concerned about the injury additionally star wide receiver CD lamb is dealing with the right AC joint issue with his shoulder he's set to go undergo an MRI as well here's Jerry on if a deal could be made by tomorrow's trade deadline you might do something this week could be a trade yes it takes to Tango but we've got
some things in the middle we're going to do everything we can at all times uh to improve this team and in our judgment uh if what you have to give up helps improve it we'll do it uh we uh I mean I know everybody understand I don't think I have to say it but uh we'll we'll go for it Stephen A clearly it it is not the Cowboy season right it's one thing after the next year what do you think was the biggest mistake that this organization has made well the first biggest mistake the organization
made was was Jerry Jones not doing anything in the off season the second thing was Dak Prescott as far as I'm concerned get receiving what he was receiving because you want a fast track to Nowhere um obviously you look at that and those are the two glaring situations and and in Dak Prescott situation I want to make sure I'm clear about this do and Shay Dak Prescott can ball I'm being very very serious here I know I love trolling Cowboy fans because their misery is my pleasure and I get all of that but this is
not the day for that when you look at Dak Prescott I'm not in any way saying that he can't play that he's some scrub that he didn't warrant you know uh what the market says he warranted but he almost never stops the bleeding and so what happens is that you're looking at a situation right now certainly the biggest reason I'm going to put Jerry Jones at the top of the list is not only the you know he didn't do anything in the offseason which means you didn't go out and get Derrick Henry for $6 to8
million you delayed signing Dak Prescott and CD L which could have saved you about $20 million and on top of it all you had a six-time champion as your head coach who wants nothing to do with talking to the media regardless of what he may be doing right now on the Manning cast and other stuff in bill bich this man wants to coach and he wants to lead a football team and he's a six-time champion as a head coach an eight-time Champion overall and he's on the open market and you went away from that to
hold on to Mike McCarthy but you're swearing that you're going to do all that it takes in order to win a Super Bowl clearly you didn't mean that and I think the evidence is is certainly there but in the end again it's a collective collapse make no mistake about it they're bereft of the talent and the depth that they need they've been hit by injuries we get all of that too but in the end the three biggest things to me was him being negligent in the off season by not signing a guy like a Derek
Henry and Del laying Dak and CD signing of course not firing Mike McCarthy for the purposes of bringing in Bill bich and ultimately knowing you're on a fast track to Nowhere still Doling out $60 million to Dak Prescott who wasn't going to do anything to help you or win because obviously he's not capable of doing that when you don't give him the talent that he needs to surround him Shannon yes Stephen I agree with a lot of things that what you said but I think obviously what the biggest mistake is was believing that this roster
was good enough to contend for a championship you see if you do what you've always done you'll get what you've always gotten and because they've gone three straight years at 12 and five he believed this was going to be the year and he didn't make the necessary adjustments and changes to this roster to get you over the hump you see teams that say we going all in look at the Kansas City Chiefs you see what they're doing now they're looking they talking about you hear the rumbling that they're talking about going out and signing a
marshan Latimore you see the difference some people talk about doing things other people are about doing things Jerry Jones says oh yeah there's something at the trade deadline why would you want to do something at the trade deadline when you had the entire off season to build a roster to shape a roster into a contending team you knew you needed a left tackle once Tyron Smith was gone you knew knew you needed a second wide receiver opposite of CD to take some of the pressure off of him you did none of that even Mike McCarthy
took a subtle shot at you on Friday saying running back by committee is not the ideal way to do things but it's the situation that we've dealt and so we try to make the best of the situation everybody knows that Jerry talks talks talk and I'm not saying Jerry Jones is not telling the truth I'm saying he's misspeaking the truth you take with that whatever you want to do with it but at the end of the day Stephen it comes down to Jerry Jones he's always in the way he always has something to say and
it's really a whole a whole lot of n but the biggest mistake that was made was believing that this roster was good enough to contend for a title because they went 12 and5 the previous three years but you know this do Stephen A you know this last year don't have anything to do with this year it's like playing a hand of poker the last hand had nothing to do with this hand this is an entirely different hand this is an entirely different season and you're going to get the results in what they're getting they're not
a well- constructed team they're not a well coach team they're not a welld disciplined team and when you add those three things together you get the kind of record that they have this year Dan the biggest mistake is choking in back-to-back playoffs against the San Francisco 49ers offensively and then getting absolutely whooped at home by the cowboy or the the Packers and not changing anything that's the real mistake this was a very good football team for three years in a row regular season wise this was a to football team that in back-to-back playoff appearances against
the 49ers played good good defense and the offense couldn't get it done that was the window and then at home last year in a team that was so Superior when it came to the coaching element of football you get absolutely smoked and you sit there and don't have the courage to make the the tough decisions that's the mistake you you could have made the change Stephen A I sat on the show Shannon with you guys last year the day after the game and said you got to change now you cannot go forward with what you
just saw on the field that's why they are where they are this is a football team that is sloppy it's undisciplined it's out coached on a weekly basis and has subpar Talent there isn't one single thing that's wrong about this football team and there's not one single thing that's going to save this football team I can't for the life of me out of the abundance of respect and admiration I have for Jerry Jones fathom that he thinks there's a move that can drastically change this football team guys next year Well 2025 let me get this
last thing in in Step sure sure sure they 46% of their cap next year is to Dak in CD 46% that means 54% of their salary cap is available to 51 other players it's going to get worse before it gets better hey guys jeery Jones lied but here's what I want you to understand is someoke the truth St exactly I want you to understand this coming from me as somebody who knows them a little bit bit the biggest person he lies to is himself he actually believes some of the stuff he's saying he actually believes
he make he he's making sense when he goes on a radio show and talks about how Derk Henry might not have been good for their situation he actually believes this kind of nonsense okay because again he's somebody and and and he forces us to rewind the clock and go back to his history well you know what Jimmy Johnson wins a couple of super bowls for you and you let him go and then you bring in Barry Switzer and you still you you win a Super Bowl again with him even though it wasn't year one when
Jimmy Johnson was gone San Francisco beat you because they got Prime and obviously they got prime time and they win the Super Bowl and then Dallas comes back and you end up winning three Super Bowls in those four years and then you wait forever to put Jimmy Johnson in the Cowboys Ring of Honor when you knew that he richly deserved that because you had convinced yourself it was the right thing to do why because you were still stuck on how you two communicated with one another and a level of respect he didn't Accord you when
the Dallas Cowboys dynasty was being built you lean on those kind of things because you see behavior that replicates the kind of stuff that has been chronicled about Jerry Jones over the years and so now we fast forward to the year 2024 the season and what are we looking at here we're looking at a Derrick Henry available to you in the off season well we you don't even give him a call he's working out in Dallas lives there in the offseason you don't even give him a call you know you're going to sign Dak Prescott
but what do you sit down and tell me to my face and you tell an audience okay when you want the Stephen A Smith show you said quote you know what at the end of the day we get it done When It's Time season hasn't started yet you're not thinking about the stuff so you're playing games and in your in your mind you're the boss you know what you're doing and this is what it is and what is he leaning on fellas back to back to back 12 and five seasons and then you ignore the
biggest culprit in all of this which is Mike McCarthy why do I say that guys he lied he took the job he told him what they wanted to hear and literally laughed with the reporters I'm trying to get the job guys I'm trying to get the job no harm no foul but then to have the number two ranked offense led by Kellen Moore and have him pushed out the door because you swore that you didn't like the way he was doing things and you would do it better and you would conserve and protect your quarterback
your franchise your future investment and then you turn around and you do even more of what Kell Moore was doing these are the kind of things that we ultimately have to point to Mike McCarthy slamming the board down last night when they called that fourth and one that sweet for CD lamb who's calling the plays y'all who's the guy in charge who's the guy that was not archaic any longer who's the who's the guy that spent the offseason his year off from football once he got let go by Green Bay talking about he was going
down to different camps and all of this other stuff spending time with folks shredding that archaic reputation that he had and all of this other stuff it was all smoking mirrors and so now you come up and says arrived and It ultimately falls on Jerry Jones but I'm looking at coach Mike McCarthy too because I'm not saying that he can't coach I'm saying he doesn't deserve this job and he's proven it by the way they're looking right now yeah well Stephen I used a a a less harsh term than what you said you said Jerry
lied I said he misspoke the truth but Dan if you studied the Cowboys on Third and one and fourth and one they like to run the Jets weep hand off to the running to the wide receiver a lot of time it's Kavon Turpin and sometimes it's uh uh CD lamb so the cowboy says you know what in this situation we get motion short motion by the wide receiver there's a great chance that the Jet Sweep is coming and they read it the GU the linebacker Ellis uh shot the Gap and he made an outstanding play
this the play that normally running third and fourth of this down in distance so nobody is surprised that it got stopped only Mike McCarthy is surprised that it got stopped and so when you do a situation like this when you look at the Cowboys they tried to skate goat Zeke they bch Zeke and talk about he's been late for practice and he was missing Excuse Me Miss meetings and he was tarded you see my famous quote you never accept anything in a win you wouldn't in a loss Stephen A Dan let me ask you a
question in those last two of the three seasons they went 12 and five do you or do you do you not believe Zeke Elliott missed a PR missed a meeting do you believe he was tged any of those meetings you see what happened when they were winning they accepted this kind of behavior now all of a sudden they're losing this is the reason that why we're losing you see there is no standard there is no leadership they are devoid of leadership in that locker room this is why this kind of behavior happen and this is
how it seeps onto the field and you saw when Trayvon digs got upset at that guy because he was jogging more time did not that was the only one that got pointed out go back and look at the film yeah this team is closer to a top five pick in next year's NFL Draft than they are the the playoffs this season if you want to they're going to playoffs a microcosm of what they are on a third down early in the first quarter on defense they had 10 people on the field and then later on
that game on fourth down when they're going to go for it on offense they have 12 people in the Huddle Shannon you hit on the head where's the adult in the building [Music]
