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Thank you for taking the time to hop on. I feel like Dallas missed out on a great opportunity. We saw what took place with the Stars, but we still have the Mavs this Thursday. How's the city feeling right now? A little bit bittersweet?
Yeah, a little bittersweet. Hockey of the South is what it is, right? It's not nearly as big as the other three sports. So I think if you were to ask fans around DFW, would they sacrifice the Stars for the Mavs win to get to the NBA Finals? I think a lot of people outside of the diehard Stars fans would say yes, and that's kind of what they got.
Wow. Well, we know the Finals is getting underway on Thursday. What is your confidence level that the Mavs can walk away with a championship, something that the Stars don't even have the chance to do? I think Boston clearly should be favored. They've earned the right to be the favorite.
Let's go back to the Super Bowl. I think there's a lot of Niners chiefs to this matchup, and I think Boston's the Niners. They're the better team. They've got a better roster.
They're more complete. I think that every GM in the NBA would trade their roster for the Celtics right now, but the Chiefs had him, and the Mavericks have him, and that's the difference. I think that gives the Mavs a fighting chance. When you have the best player on the floor, you have a chance in the NBA. That's just the nature of the sport.
It's the nature of basketball. If you get the best player on the floor, you've got a chance to win. So I do give them a good chance. Not a great chance.
I think this thing can go deep. I think they can win this thing in six games or seven games. I don't think the Celtics are going to sweep them.
Without surprise, it just goes six or seven, and it wouldn't surprise me who wins. But I think Boston clearly needs to be favored. When you look at the fan out in Dallas, Fort Worth, nationally, most people who see Luka Doncic, you see a lethal crybaby, like he's one of the most dangerous players in the entire NBA. If he wins a championship, people will most definitely say he's the best guy. How was he received in Dallas, in the fan base?
I love him. There's no doubt. Dallas fans, Cowboys are different. Cowboys are a different animal. They get treated differently. If you're a player on the other three teams, they don't want to see your warts. They want to see all the Cowboy player warts. It's weird.
It's very fickle here. They love him here. They overlook the whining, because he does. It's annoying watching, sometimes, how much he complains. That's just his game. I don't really want him to change it, because that's what makes him part of the player he is.
Show all your emotions, I don't care. You can't overlook the fact that he does complain at a Tim Duncan level. He doesn't do palms up on defense.
He does palms up when it's a bad call. Without a doubt. His running mate there, Kyrie Irving. Do you feel with all the attention to the Cowboys and with Lukan next to him, that is one of the contributing factors as to why we don't hear or haven't heard so much about Kyrie through the year?
I think it's a lot of it. The Mavericks can kind of go and hide for six months or more. We don't really talk many other sports besides the NFL during the fall.
Basically, from September until the Super Bowl, unless the Rangers are making a run to the World Series, we're not really talking anything else. The Mavericks media is smaller. It's not like when you're in Brooklyn, when you've got 40-beat writers out there in media, it's not like that. You can kind of come out here and hide.
If you play for the Cowboys, you can't. But if you play for the other three teams here in town, you can get away from it quite easy. It's almost kind of like a college town, the way the teams can kind of control things.
It's just a little different. I do think that's a major contributing factor. Kyrie Irving grew up in Jersey during Jason Kidd's run with the Nets. He was a huge Jason Kidd fan. He looks up to him and sees him as kind of like my childhood basketball hero. That plays into it. Jason Kidd has his respect. I think that's the number one thing with Kyrie is he's got to respect you.
And if he does, and I think he clearly does with Jason Kidd, then the Mavs organization allows the players to be their own person. I think that plays into it as well. But media attention, we're not an intrusive media in general here at DFW.
I think that kind of plays into it. RJ Choppy joining us from 105.3, the fan out in Dallas, Fort Worth. You talk about the Cowboys, no room to hide. Earlier today, we learned about this huge contract to Justin Jefferson, 140 million bucks, 35 per. If you're C.D. Lamb, what's the expectation that you get 36 mil? It looks like C.D. will get his, but then Dak is going to be a free agent?
What are your thoughts on how the books are being balanced with the Cowboys? I think C.D. is going to, look, C.D. I think wanted 35. The Cowboys are going to point to this and be like, see, you're not getting 35.
This is the top. He's going to fall in somewhere between A.J. Brown and 35 million. So what, 32 to 35? He'll fall in at 34 million, 33 million. He'll fall somewhere in there. It's on the Cowboys now to pay up.
I don't really think C.D. truthfully wanted to sign until Jefferson signed. I think he wanted to see the market get set first. And I think the Cowboys truthfully probably wanted the same thing. Now with Dak Prescott, that's a totally different animal because we've seen Jared Goff get his money. Dak's going to want close to 60 million bucks. I assume he'll get it, but the thing is, if the Cowboys don't sign him before the year, I don't know, is Dak going to be motivated to sign during the season? And there's a lot of talk in town that if he gets a free agency next March, he's gone. They don't think he's going to come back if he gets a free agency. RJ, did you say Dak is looking for 60 million dollars a year? I know Burrow is making 55. Dak would be looking for 60? That's the rumors, that he wants to come in and as close to 60 as he possibly can get.
He's in that next line of resetting the market, reset the market, reset the market. That's what he's looking for. I think he's going to get it. Someone's going to give it to him. If it's not the Cowboys, someone's going to give it to him.
And that's who he's looking for. The Cowboys have blocked it at this point. They've blocked to it. But they'll pay up or he'll leave.
It's kind of that simple. RJ Choppy here with us from 105.3, the fan out in Dallas. When you talk about the team and what they've done this past offseason, even are we going to keep Mike McCarthy? Are we not? Are we going to extend Dak? Are we not? What are we doing in the draft? And you talk to Jerry Jones.
He appears on your show. It feels like the Cowboys right now are running on a treadmill. Am I missing something here? It seems like everybody else around him is trying to do something and it's just there. Yeah, they operate in their own world, man. Jerry's got his own schedule. They sign guys on their own time.
They don't really believe in market value. It's a wild organization. It's the world's biggest mom and pop, this organization. It really is. Between all that, they've somehow won 12 games, three years in a row. They put a really good product on the field, a really good team. Every year, it's a good team. You go back to Parcells and the only years they've been below 500 is when they lost their quarterback to an injury.
That's it. It's remarkable. It's remarkable how consistent this team has been for almost 20 years and they never advance the playoffs. Ever. Ever.
They're always there and they never advance. You can't make it up. Yeah, I feel like they're running in quicksand, but I would think as Jerry Jones continues to get older, none of us are getting younger, that there would be a little bit more urgency, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's like he's playing Hunger Games or Russian Roulette with his staff and his players.
It's mind boggling to me. Yeah, he has a lot of faith in their personnel department. Will McClay is the facto general manager and then Steven Jones, his son, does the money side of it. Then there's Jerry. Jerry's not the GM GM. He has the final say, but he's not running things the way we think.
A lot of the common people think that he is. I bet you if you were to ask him to name the entire roster, I don't know that he could do that. I don't know that he could name every player on the team. He's an older guy. He's got his hand in a million different businesses.
This is a business. This is his major point of money and point of interest. But I don't know deep down how invested day to day in every single player he is. He's had all the practices, but it's like he's the GM for Dak Prescott, C.D. Lamb, and then there's other guys.
That was always the joke when it was even 10 years ago. He was Romo's GM and Witten's and DeMarcus Ware's and T.O. and Dez and everybody else.
They went to Steven. And I think that's kind of what it is. You know, he's he's he's the GM over the top guys and everybody else filters down. Well, R.J., you know, we learned earlier today, unfortunately, not the news that anybody wants to deliver, certainly when you work in our business on air and television and radio, the passing of Larry Allen had to have been a shock for everybody in the Metroplex, especially given the fact that he was on vacation with his family. If you could just share a few words about that news.
And it's never good to have to be the disseminator of the information. So we got a text message. We have a text, you know, outlet or show we can read. Somebody text us about six a.m. who was at the hotel saying this happened. And we didn't we didn't we tried to look into it. Nobody confirmed anything. So we didn't say anything during our entire show. And as soon as we got done with the show, the news broke about an hour later. You know, I covered Larry for a little bit when I first started in the industry back in 2002 is when I started. And he I don't think I ever heard him say a word.
He was one of the most quiet individuals. I'm friends with a lot of the 90s cowboys that I talked to today. And they're just stunned and heartbroken because he was the youngest of the bunch. You know, he's younger than Michael over to Emmett Smith and Nate Newton. He's a lot younger than most. I don't think he was only around for one of the titles. He wasn't there for the first two.
Ninety five. Yeah. And that's just I mean, that offensive line got better with it. But this was I mean, for everybody to a man, whether you're on the offensive side of the line, the defensive, they all said that he was like a super cool dude.
But the most intense competitor, the most silent assassin they've been around. And he would not say much, but he would go and he would dog walk you and practice every single day. And it made everybody around him better.
Yeah, without a doubt. Listen, growing up and watching him, it's wild that you can always notice one guy on the football field, especially on the line. He was one dude that you could identify. I could pick him out of my 13 inch television back in ninety five. I knew exactly who he was.
And he always got the better of whoever was in front of him. So just unfortunate news today. Learning of his passing yesterday. I don't know that we can that we that I could think of a more famous person who played a more anonymous position in sports.
I don't know. There's a household like everybody knew who Larry Allen was. And no, you can't name a guard.
You know, like you centers and guards like Jason Kelce. We all know it doesn't count today. Everybody's got a podcast now. It doesn't count. Right.
It's heaven. You have him. Oh, I would have had a podcast in twenty, twenty five. So it doesn't count back then to have I mean, he became a household name playing a position that is so anonymous and that and the only reason you know offensive lineman is because they commit a holding penalty or allow a sack. That's it. Right.
For the most casual fan. Yet he was a household name. And I just want to show you how great he was.
Yeah. Pro Football Hall of Famer went in about a little more than a decade ago. Hey, R.J., thank you so much for for sharing your perspective on everything going on in Dallas. We didn't get into the Rangers. We got plenty of time on that.
I see that kind of flat so far. Where can people follow you and all of your work on one of five, three, the fan and more? You can follow me on social media at R.J. Choppy on Twitter at R.J.
Choppy on most things. And then obviously for work, the Odyssey app, one of five through the fan. Sean and R.J. is the show. Five thirty to ten Central Time in the morning. R.J., thank you so much, man. Get your rest and enjoy the finals later on this week, OK? All right. Thanks for having me on, man.
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