RJ, how are you, man? What's up, man? How are you?
I'm very well, thank you for taking the time. So, this is a Dallas Cowboys team that's three and three. How much of their current situation will you put in the bucket of a lot of injuries on defense, some on offense, versus, hey, they didn't do a lot in the offseason. How do you look at this season so far?
Ah, you know, it's tough to separate the two. You know, like, you have to account for having injuries, right? Micah and Tank, Daron Bland, you know, Diggs is coming off of an ACL, which the Cowboys, it's kind of an underrated story that hasn't been told, but the Cowboys did not have much luck with guys returning from ACL injuries.
And then Eric Hendricks is out this week. You know, you add to the fact that they lost a lot of guys on defense. Where they lost the most guys this offseason was on the defensive side of the ball. And defense, you know, you can have all the stars you want, but defense has always been a weak link unit, right? That's the offensive line. Offenses will find the weakest link and they'll target it. And that's what's kind of happened. I don't know how much, I can't really separate offseason from injuries because, like, the offseason didn't cause the injuries, but the injuries and the subsequent play is a byproduct of losing a lot of depth in the offseason.
RJ Choppy here with us from 105.3 The Fan out in Dallas. This is kind of what I expected. I still think the Cowboys will make the postseason barely, I guess, as a wildcard.
What do you look at as the most likeliest outcome? They have the 49ers up next. We know they're dealing with their own injury with McCaffrey. But as the season goes on, the Cowboys just look, they look mediocre.
Yeah, they do look mediocre. You know, I thought going into the year, I mean, like this team, the way the offense is, we know the NFL, if your offense is good, then you're good, right? That's the way it is now. But, you know, I figure the Cowboys offense is going to be good because they've got a good quarterback and they've got just about everybody back.
All right. They'll probably win 11, 12 games. That is, I mean, that is not going to happen. That just is not going to happen. I don't believe.
I would be really, really stunned if it does. I mean, this whole thing has changed and this entire season, your expectations have changed. What you think of this team has changed and where they're going to go is changed. If they make the playoffs, it's almost a coin flip, right? It's almost a 50 50. Now you're three and three, the entire NFC North is four and two. So you, you got to, or four two or better, I should say, you're going to have to what? Win the NFC East.
I mean, it looks doable because there's nobody great in the division, but it also doesn't look like the Cowboys can beat anybody in the NFC right now. We heard from Jerry Jones after that, that loss and you know, typical, typical Jerry, you know, Hey, we laws were bad this and that, but what's gonna, what's gonna change. He said, there's not, they're not going to move Mike McCarthy. I don't see any reason for them to do that now, but what's the difference. I feel like it's, I said, this is similar to watching a sitcom. It like, we know what's going to happen because we've seen the same story over and over again. Oh, nothing's gonna change. Um, like organizationally, nothing's gonna change. Um, he, Jerry has this philosophy and I assume when Jerry, um, you know, passes it on past the torch to Steven, uh, by his own doing or when, you know, when, when Jerry's time is up, it's going to be the same.
Steven's going to be the GM. The family philosophy is just that they make the decision. That's just the way it is. It is the world's biggest mom and pop. And I've called it that for years.
It is a mom and pop, but the biggest mom and pop there is. And that's, there's not going to be a change. Like if you ever hear the talking points and if you notice and you, and you listen to the radio in town and you follow the fans on social media, DFW, nobody ever blames the players here. It's always the coach. And it starts with the owner who starts blaming the coach because he picked the player. So it's obviously never going to be the players that are the problem. It's the coach.
I love that press. I think that's a great quarterback, but you tell me the other quarterback that goes through five office of coordinator slash head coaches and still keeps his job. You know, not that they left on their own, like they retired, they were fired from Linahan to Kellen Moore to Jason Garrett to Mike McCarthy and one other, I'm just drawing a blank. How many do you want before you got to say, okay, guys, maybe it's not the coaches, but this team does that all the time. They've done that for 25 years. Never the players.
They got to get rid of the coaches. So Arjun, let me ask you this. We're here in January. I don't know.
It could be January 15th for all I know, pick a day. And Mike McCarthy is now gone. He has to get the boot because you can't fire the quarterback we just gave 60 mil to. You can't fire the wide receiver. Can't fire the defensive end.
You can't do any of that. You're not going to fire the owner. He's not firing himself. What do the Dallas Cowboys do next? They're just going to pick up Joe Blow off the street to run the team.
Like what are they doing? Well, they're going to go and they're going to, yeah, I look, I, everybody keeps talking about Bell. In fact, I don't see it happening. I don't see it happening because I don't see Jerry giving up any control.
Um, and, and really, do you really want a guy who the guy who's in new England now wouldn't when, when he was asked, you know, why is the roster so bad? And he said, why don't you tell me, which is his way of saying, you know, why like, do you really want that? And Jerry will not.
And he has talked about this before and he said it on our show. He's not interested in training on the job. So what does that mean? Well, it means he's not going to get a college coach. And it also means not going to get what the chic in the NFL is, which is a hotshot office guy.
He wouldn't go after Ben Johnson. He wouldn't go after Bobby Schlewick because he's not going to train you on the job. So he's going to go and get himself a retread head coach, like a Mike Rabel, the throat, Mike Rabel. He's a good coach, but you're going to get something like that. You're not going to get the new wave of, of, of young head coaches. Oh, RJ, this is, do you, I know you don't replay the shows, but we've been, everybody's been saying this for years. Like how, what has the fan base finally just said, like, what do we, what can we expect the rest of the year? There has to be an uprising at some point. No, I mean, you would think so, but there hasn't, I've been doing radio here since 2002. I've lived here since 1997 when I moved here and I was at the end of high school. It's the same. I mean, there's never, you're never going to see any change here. The fans, uh, you know, Dallas is a glitz and glamor town.
Um, it's not blue collar. They're not going to try to run you out. Um, they'll be there. They're going to show up, uh, on September of next year, whether Mike McCarthy is the head coach or Bill Belichick is the head coach, Mike Rabel or, um, Marvin Lewis or whoever, right? Doesn't matter who that coach is, you know, they'll be here.
Uh, he'll be here week one. And that's just, Jerry's got him. He's at the stadium and he, and it's the other thing. And I don't think Jerry is, is I don't think he truly believes this, but you know, there's, they're going to get a hundred thousand people every game, whether the cowboy fans buy him or lion fans buy him or Packer fans or whatever, they're going to have a hundred thousand people there. And I do believe the fans truly think that that's all Jerry cares about.
And I don't believe that'd be the case, but you know, it's, uh, money does cure a lot of ills and he has talked about that. Well, when, when you have an organization, he's a great salesman organization is worth north of a 10 bill at this point in time, we haven't seen a championship since calendar year 96. What does this team have to do to get closer to a title?
Uh, do you think they are, we far out now that DAC is getting this money? Like they're just running on a treadmill. Oh yeah.
They're on a treadmill for sure. Um, that that's really all it is. It's, you know, people talk about, you know, you take over the quarterbacks, then you're in quarterback purgatory.
Well, what are you in now? What are these teams then that, you know, if you don't have an elite quarterback, what are you in? You're, you're hoping for two things. You're hoping for, um, you know, that quarterback to have a career year at the same time that your defense has its career year.
Right. Um, which, you know, we, we, we're still better in DFW cause we just completely trash on Eli Manning, but Eli has got two rings, but you know, like the defense was great and Eli had a great run in each of those two years. So you're hoping for that, or you're hoping for a situation where like what happened with, you know, Tony Romo, even where he got hurt and Dak Prescott comes in and then you're able to move on and you're supposed to get, you get a cheap quarterback for four years.
Like, so that's the situation you're in. Like the Cowboys are in a, are on a hamster wheel of really good, but bordering on mediocrity and, and it's, it's frustrating. Um, I'm sure it's also frustrating to hear the owners say that they're in the same pack as the Kansas city chiefs. I don't, I didn't get that one. Did I miss the NFL?
You know, they're in the NFL together. Okay. Right. That's gotta be it. It's gotta be it. They're in the same pack. Yeah.
I was a little confused by that, but, uh, I'm glad I'm not alone there. Hey RJ, thank you so much for the time. Where can people listen and keep up with you on the airwaves? Uh, uh, at RJ choppy on Twitter. Um, and of course on the Odyssey app, you can check out our show one Oh five three, the fan Dallas, Fort Worth six to 10 myself with Sean Sharif. Hey RJ, always appreciate you joining in the time, man. Enjoy the rest of the soap opera. Always do.
