Cowboys and Giants Face Rocky Seasons Ahead of Game

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00:00Game 2 of the Turkey Day Tripleheader.

00:04Not exactly the most desirable matchup.

00:08Maybe preseason it did with the Giants and the Cowboys in Dallas.

00:13But man, have both of their seasons gone off the tracks.

00:17Let me start with the Cowboys side of things, Cam,

00:19because Jerry Jones did his weekly appearance down in Dallas radio this morning on The Fan.

00:25And the guys asked him about McCarthy, whose contract's up at the end of the year.

00:29And it's funny, Cam, people just assume that he's not going to be the coach after this year.

00:35He's won before this year. He'd done pretty good, at least winning 10-plus games and getting him to the playoffs.

00:40This is his first bad year in Dallas, but people just assume he's out.

00:45Jerry actually said, Cam, he's not ruling out that McCarthy could be extended after the season.

00:51Said he's done a great job and he's a Super Bowl-winning coach.

00:55Are you buying that form of nonsense that Jerry is spewing all over Dallas, that McCarthy—

01:02I am.

01:03I actually do, too.

01:04People think he's just going to get rid of this guy? Are you kidding me?

01:07Jerry Jones does whatever Jerry Jones will do. It doesn't matter.

01:10He'll talk a big game, they won't pick up a free agent, McCarthy stays.

01:14Who the hell knows what this guy's going to do?

01:16I actually—you know what? If there was a bet at long odds, Carver,

01:19I think me and you would say McCarthy stays.

01:22Give me a big enough plus number, I'm in.

01:25See, here's the thing, Cam, that people have to—

01:29and there are some guys out there that are desirable, I guess you could say, at the end of this season.

01:36Namely, of course, Mike Vrabel and Bill Belichick as being the guys that everybody kind of said,

01:41that's who I want to coach my team.

01:43Not everybody wants to work for Jerry.

01:46Nope.

01:47Okay? Not everybody wants to work for him.

01:49And I don't think that those two guys would necessarily want to work for Jerry.

01:54And if you get rid of him, who are you—

01:57you know, Jerry might prefer an experienced Super Bowl winning coach,

02:03whether you like him or not, over the next hot coordinator who's never done it.

02:09You know, Jerry might prefer that.

02:10He'll also want a yes man. Right, Carver?

02:12And a yes man, which is Mike.

02:15Yes, Jerry. Yes, Jerry. Whatever you say, Jerry.

02:18Now, look, that's why Garrett was there for a while, because Garrett was a good yes man.

02:23And eventually, you just couldn't go any further.

02:26I don't think that they've reached that with McCarthy yet.

02:29This is his first bad year.

02:31And people will say—you could say, at least Mike would make the case,

02:36I've had a billion injuries this year.

02:38I lost my quarterback.

02:39I lost Parsons for the first six games in the first half of the season.

02:43I lost this.

02:44What do you want me to do?

02:45You didn't give me anybody in free agency.

02:47I had no running backs.

02:48I had no anything.

02:49So I think Mike actually might have a case if he sat down with Jerry and said,

02:53this is why.

02:54And Jerry would probably go, oh, yeah, you're right.

02:56So we'll keep him back.

02:57I'm with you, Cam.

02:58I lean to, he's back more than he's gone.

03:02And I know that's probably surprising for a lot of people, but that's how I lean.

03:06Now, the other side of the coin is the Giants.

03:08Oh, here we go.

03:09And they got all kinds of problems.

03:13And they've had a lot of these.

03:15But one of the most embarrassing losses was Sunday at home against the Bucs,

03:19where they just got smashed 30 to seven.

03:22And after the game, Cam, we played a clip of neighbors yesterday,

03:25here, me and Joe.

03:26And there were several other players who kind of voiced their opinion about

03:31the team.

03:32A bunch of them called them soft.

03:34Neighbors was upset that, you know,

03:36he wouldn't get the ball until it was 30 to nothing.

03:39Lots of players voicing their displeasure in the locker room.

03:44What does Brian Dable think about all that?

03:46Again, when you lose a game like that, Art, there's frustration.

03:50Certainly, you'd like to keep it in-house.

03:52But you understand, I've been doing this for a while.

03:55And there's, you know, there's conversations that you have to have, you know,

03:59if comments like that are made.

04:01And I respect the opinions of the players and of the coaches.

04:06And we'll work as hard as we can to get this fixed.

04:11I don't believe you.

04:13That's basically, let's translate what he just said, Cam.

04:17I can't do anything about it, is what he just said.

04:20There's nothing I can do about it.

04:22And he's going to be finished.

04:24What's this guy doing?

04:26Like, he goes for two when you shouldn't go for two.

04:28You are actually in games, you lose games.

04:30You've done everything wrong, Dable.

04:31Like, what do you want the players to do?

04:33You said that Locke was going to be the backup.

04:35You put in Tommy Cutlets because he's popular in the city.

04:38Like, what the hell are we doing here?

04:40Like, what is the goal?

04:42The goal, like, I get it.

04:44Lose games, get a better draft pick.

04:46But you still got to compete.

04:47You can cover numbers.

04:48I don't know what the deal is, Carver.

04:50What do we do with this game, honestly?

04:52This is the one where, you know, they say, TV off, fellas.

04:55It's Thanksgiving.

04:56You're like, thank God this is the middle game.

04:58Click.

04:59If you had to, like, not watch a football game for a while, it's Dallas and the Giants.

05:02But I don't know what to do.

05:04Like, should Dallas be a favorite?

05:06Like, what a hard game.

05:08I don't know what to do.

05:09Dallas is three and a half point favorites here in this game now.

05:14Now, we also have some giant quarterback situations.

05:18Dable said today that DeVito's throwing arm is sore.

05:22And he's not 100% sure if he's going to play on Thursday, which, of course,

05:26would then mean Drew Locke would play.

05:30I'm trying to decide if that's better or worse, Cam.

05:33Oh, it's better.

05:34That Drew Locke's going to play.

05:35I think it's better.

05:37For maybe guys like Malik Nabors, it's probably better, I think.

05:41But three and a half and 37 and a half.

05:46Cooper Rush and Tommy DeVito, if it's those two guys, you know,

05:52sometimes you get two bad quarterbacks, two bad teams,

05:55and suddenly you get a crazy high-scoring game, Cam.

05:58That does happen sometimes.

06:00I'm going to tell you, if it's Drew Locke, he's playing for his future.

06:03It's not about the Giants.

06:04It's about him.

06:05Get me another backup job somewhere else or keep me in the damn league.

06:09Like, you know, you're being pushed behind DeVito.

06:12I think that's why I would bet on the Giants.

06:14But who knows?

06:15We don't know what we're going to get from Locke.

06:16But you're right, Carver.

06:17You get two crap teams with a total that low, you might even want to go over.

06:20But I don't feel comfortable laying points with Dallas.

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