Nightcap Best of NFL News Part 1: Jerry Jones + Micah BEEFIN' Already? + Bengals Never Ending $$$ Drama

23:43Brian Robinson. Brian Robinson.

23:44Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. They was 12. That's fair. That's fair. The Dolphins, you got A-Chan, you got Reek, you got Tua. Yeah.

24:02Shannon Sharpe:no no not in front of the cowboys you don't think you don't think the commanders in front the crowd in front of the cowboys yes that's what yeah no i don't think they should be a top five but i'm just saying okay okay okay i thought you were saying top five like oh no no no no no no commanders nor the other team should be top five because although a chain expect no the commanders camp because Brian Robinson, let me see. Would I take Brian Robinson over Chase Brown? Hell yeah. But I'm not taking him over Saquon. I'm not taking him over Darien. I'm not taking him over Gibbs. Hell no. Yeah. I'm not taking him there.

24:42Shannon Sharpe:And I'm not taking, you know, I love Terry McClure, but I'm not taking him over Zay Flowers or AJ or Alman Ra. I'm not. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Slow down. You take him over AJ Brown? Hold on, you say you're not taking Terry McLaurin over St. Brown? No, I don't think I'd take him over St. Brown. Because it's, you know what, Elcho, let me tell you why it's hard. Wait a minute. Because one play specifically outside, the other is mainly inside. And so you look at Almond Ra. Almond Ra had, what, 100 and probably 15 catches? Yeah, yeah. He's customarily always over 100 catches because he's the slot.

25:24Shannon Sharpe:So what was his numbers? Amon Ra. You look up Amon Ra, I'm going to look up Terry McClure. That's interesting. I know T-Mac. I'm going to call him T-Mac. I'm going to call him T-Mac. I can't call him Scary Terry right now. I ain't call him Scary Terry until they pay him. Okay, Amon Ra was second in catches. Right. Fifth in yards, third in touchdowns. What he had in yards? By what? 1263 how many catches second in catches 115 god yes oh boy them boys ain't they be 115 passes no that's 115 catches he probably have 145 to 150 targets hey man I'm trying I wish I was able to do the math if you take my best season whatever it might have been and you did the numbers based on yards per catch i think my highest my highest total season is catches like 97 if i had 115 catches i wonder what my numbers would look like it's only a handful of guys gonna have that many catches when that's crazy you gotta look so you gotta look at somebody like a moss yes i mean are you looking at i mean i'm I'm talking about a speed guy, a guy that's outside, that's catching the balls like that.

26:51Shannon Sharpe:Man, they're going to be 1 ,600, 1 ,700 yards on show. Because if you think about it, you're averaging 15 yards a catch. You're averaging your best season. When you had 1 ,600 yards or high 15s, you was averaging 15 yards a catch. So just imagine 110, 115, 120, 30 catches. Imagine this during that time, me, TJ, Hoosh, Chris Henry. Imagine if we had what they have implemented in everybody's game plan today. those little quick screens, those little bubble screens. Those little quick passes where they get it in your hands and let you do what you... Man. Only a handful of teams running that. We started adopting that late, like my last year or two in Denver.

27:30Shannon Sharpe:Right. But prior to that, the only team that really did that was the Colts. Yeah. What about the Rams? What about the Rams? The Rams kind of started it. Right. With Isaac, with Azaher. Aza Keene. they would do it they would do it with Marshall Falk they would put Marshall Falk out and you know motion him and throw it to him Holt caught some of those Isaac Bruce and then now everybody just they'll just raise up and just throw the Falk the guy the guy will bubble he'll be in the slot and he'll bubble back and they'll pop it to him but it's a different game now Ocho we had our time we we played we played how we played because I can assure you I heard Ozzie and Kellen and all the guys like man I sure wish we threw the ball like y 'all threw it today.

28:17Shannon Sharpe:I'm like, oh, you think we throw it? Hell, I don't know if y 'all seen Denver's offense. There's a whole lot of throwing going on. Yeah. But look, Bengals 1, Eagles 2, Baltimore 3, Detroit 4, Kansas City 5. I would go Eagles 1, Baltimore 2. I agree with you. I would go Detroit 3, Kansas City 4. Not Kansas City, Cincinnati 4. Yeah, I was going to say, I ain't putting Pacheco them in front of Cincinnati. No, hell no. Yeah. That's my toss-up. My toss-up is do I put Detroit 3 and Cincinnati 4, or do I put Cincinnati 3 and leave Detroit at 4? But the Eagles and Baltimore should be 1-2. Well, hold on.

29:013? I'm doing Detroit at 3, and I'm putting the Bengals 4.

29:05Shannon Sharpe:And that's what I'm saying. That's what my toss-up is. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Listen, that's not even a toss-up for me. That's a no-brainer. Wow. That's a no-brainer on my end. But me, no-brainer is Eagles at one, Baltimore at two. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

29:24Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, Cowboys. But, you know, we talked about Washington. We talked about, hell, well, no, they ain't got no quarterback. And I think I know Atlanta. Atlanta didn't really have the quarterback situation because I can't put that kind of stock. Because I like Atlanta's running back and I like Drake London. Hey, B. John is nice. Drake London is nice. I like Michael Pittman Jr. I like Jonathan Taylor, but I'm uncertain about their quarterback position. You see what I'm saying, Ocho? Yeah. I'm not sure about Minnesota. I know Jetta. I know Jones, but who's the quarterback? J.J. McCarthy. I ain't seen him throw not one NFL pass.

30:02We just saw with – why am I drawing a blank on the quarterback?

30:11Shannon Sharpe:Oh, you're talking about from Minnesota? Yeah, from last year. Why am I drawing a blank? In Seattle now.

30:20Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold. Listen, we saw Sam Darnold in New York. Yeah. Okay, we saw Sam Darnold. He was somewhere else before he went to Minnesota. He's with the Jets. He's with San Francisco. Bingo. We saw what he did. with the Minnesota Vikings last year. Historic run. Historic season for him individually. Right. So what do you think J.J. McCarthy going to come in and do? But you got to realize that I'm done. Jordan Addison is still there. Justin Jefferson is still there. He going to be all right. He can sling it now. You ain't really got to do much when you're a quarterback like that, even if it's going to be your first year playing.

31:01You're not a rookie. You're going into your second year. But what's around you is so great, all you have to do is just facilitate the ball and don't make any mistakes.

31:10Shannon Sharpe:But see, that's the thing. You see how you have to play. You talk about don't make any mistakes. Sam Darnold had a historic season. Yes. Now, the thing is, plus he has some season. He was seasoned. He understood this offense because it's a very similar offense to what they run in San Francisco. Right. So it's going to be interesting to see. But I understand why they didn't put him up there. Because I understand Jones. I understand Jetta. But I'm not sure about the quarterback position. Right. I'm just not. So. I mean, that's fair. Not the 49ers, the Chargers. What about the Chargers? Ladd McConkie, Justin Herbert.

31:47Shannon Sharpe:They got Najee Harris. But they do have Najee Harris now. That's right. That's right.

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34:28Shannon Sharpe:Jerry Jones chose the opening training camp by taking a shot at Michael Parsons. Ocho, let's take a listen to what Jerry had to say. Just because we signed him doesn't mean we're going to have him. He was hurt six games last year. Seriously. We've signed, I remember signing a player for the highest paid at the position in the league, and he got knocked out two-thirds of the year, Dak Prescott. so there's a lot of things you can think about when you just as the player does when you're thinking about committing and guaranteeing money he just can't help himself Dallas Cowboys fans Dallas Cowboys players this is your head coach this is your excuse me hey this is the man that he is the head coach huh this is the man that runs the show.

35:21This is the man. This lets you know in short term how they really feel about you. It's a big... After all that man has done. This is how they really feel about you. There's nothing like getting... taking a dig or taking a shot at your two-star players. Your two-star players... Oh, well, I made one the highest paid, but he missed it. Missed the season because of the injury. We play football. It's a contact sport. It's a barbaric sport. Sometimes injuries do happen.

35:53Shannon Sharpe:I remember he made another quarterback the highest paid, and he never took a shot at him, and he stayed injured. But that ain't none of my business. I don't even know why I brought that up, Ocho.

36:05Shannon Sharpe:This is who you have to go out there and play for. This is who you have to go out there and play for. I want to know, was Tony Romo— That is how your owner thinks about you. Yeah, but we know that. See, the thing is, OJ, see, I remember in 2016 when calling him up to oh but Jerry loves his players Jerry loves people that look like you and I that can do something for him don't you fool yourself it's a mistake that people make oh Jerry no no no no no no no Michael Irvin could do things for him Dez Bryant can do things for him Emmitt Smith could do things for him Charles Haley could do things for him Nate Newton, Larry Allen I could go on and on and on.

36:49Shannon Sharpe:Stop fooling yourself. Oh, out of the kindness of your heart. Okay. Okay. I have a question. And this is for the chat, for the people in the chat as well. If you played for the Cowboys organization, how would you feel as a player? Understanding that's how the man who runs the show and writes your checks felt about you. I already know how I feel about me. I've done my whole work. How does that even give you the motivation? You want to go out there and play for that man. Play for that man. Outside of the money. That's all I'm doing. See, he's upset at Dak because Dak has always has been posed him.

37:29Shannon Sharpe:Dak has always been what it was. You're the owner. I'm the player. A lot of players get close to Jerry. Dak has never allowed that to happen. Todd France comes in, does the negotiating, hard line. boom I'm up out of here Dak goes about his business Dak ain't trying to go to his house Dak is not trying to go out and hang out with him Dak is Dak, Dak does what he does Dak now has a family boom stricken business you see he taking a shot at Michael because Michael wouldn't let him glaze him oh it's between me and the player you never did a deal with just the player when the player had representation but you know what it's going to cost you because you let Max Crosby get a new deal.

38:18Shannon Sharpe:You let Miles Garrett get a new deal. You let TJ Watt get a big new deal. And guess what? Michael Parsons is three to four years younger in all of them. So guess what he's about to do? Poll vault him. So whatever TJ Watt got, Michael Parsons is going to get a million to$2 million more. And don't give me that junk. I play in Texas. Oh, well, I do. I know it ain't no state income tax, And I'm glad for that. So that$42 ,000,$43 million, Uncle Sam's only going to get 36 % of it. No state taxes. Right. And I'm understanding, obviously, I wanted to text Micah. I wanted to call him. But I was like, you know what?

38:58I'm not even going to bother him. Just ask. How do you feel? How does that make you feel? And I'm just thinking about.

39:04Shannon Sharpe:This is my owner thinks about me. Now, what about the time before he missed some games? but I guarantee you there's some games that he should have missed more because I know Michael has some issues going on, but that ain't none of my business. I don't even know why I brought that up again. Damn, I keep telling people business. You know how many times all of us have played the game of football and went out there anyway? Yeah. Had to take toward all pills, had to take toward all shots, just to line up and play for the same thing. Yeah, Zala came, Mark came, yeah, court of zone, yes, all that. shooting up in your shoulders and your knees not why i shoot my knees up i shot my ankles up shot my shoulders up ribs did all that ocho did all that i mean i mean how do we not how do we not understand or just have any self-awareness where that's the kind of stuff that you say to yourself but you never say out loud about the players that are on your team you don't say stuff like that out loud had the nerves dead in my ankles so i couldn't feel no pain the whole that's what nerves do they allow you to feel pain and say, okay, hey, bro, back off that.

40:10Shannon Sharpe:I had my nerves and my ankles dead so I couldn't feel pain so I could go out there and play. And then to have somebody talk like that, man, please, I'd have lost it. I'd have lost it. Hey, you know what's funny is when you think about the owners, obviously it's 32 owners, I think Jerry is the only one with the cojones to come out and say how he really feels. No one else would do that. That's why. What you saw today, nobody else would do that. No, why wouldn't? But see, that's what Jerry wanted to be about him. See, Jerry don't want no superstar. Because you know why he want a superstar? Because he would never take a Tom Brady.

40:51Shannon Sharpe:He would never. He couldn't play for Peyton Manning. Because they'd be bigger than he is. And he don't want that to happen. Right. I've been very fortunate. I played for two owners. Mr. Bowling, I did something for his family today. Yes, sir. But Ocho, it was about us. We were the superstars. He was telling me all the time, Sharpen, I ain't catching no passes. Sharpen, I ain't making no tackles. Why the hell I need to be up there and talking and carrying on? That's what I pay you guys for. I say, and you play us quite well. I don't get why Jerry felt to open up training camp like this. I don't know.

41:35Shannon Sharpe:everything that comes up doesn't need to come out right but michael oh what you're thinking doesn't need to be said every little thought especially stuff that you know is going to ruffle people's feathers catch media headlines hell the only thing that should be catching headlines today is cowboys opened up training camp and george pickens looks motherfucking good excuse my language sorry george piggins look good day one that's it that without which that should be the conversation not what you said about that what you said about michael man come on jj watt took to uh uh twitter well excuse me x to defend him anytime you can publicly take a dig at your star quarterback and your young star pass rusher simultaneously right before the season begins, you got to just take it.

42:28Shannon Sharpe:Nothing makes guys want to fight for you more than hearing how upset you are that they got hurt while fighting for you. Micah reposted that. No discount for you, Jerry. Wait, hold on. What if he didn't... Excuse me. What if he even goes worse? What if Micah says, you know, that's how you feel about me? Trade me. Aren't you traders? Yeah. Then what? Then what? And the funny thing, the funny thing about me, I'm just finding out all about Jerry's ways because I never played for the Cowboys. And obviously when I was playing, you know, I'm blind to what's going on over there. But Unk, you don't want to introduce me and told me about the whole thing with Jimmy Johnson.

43:17Yeah. So that raised my eyebrows, but I thought, okay, maybe that's just, okay, maybe that's just a one-off. Maybe they just had a disagreement and he's not really like that, but they got into it.

43:28Shannon Sharpe:He thought after three years, he hired 89 with Jimmy's first year. That's the year he took over. He brought the, I think, Bum Bright. I think that's who he brought the Cowboys from. So he took over him and Jimmy in 89 because Troy was their first draft pick. They won the championship in 92, won it again in 93, again in 95. So in four years, so 89, 90, 91, 92. So in the fourth year, he thought he knew more football than Jimmy. Now, see, what Jimmy could do, Jimmy was coming from college at the U. So all these guys that's coming out, guess who knew him? Because he tried to recruit him at the U. Yeah.

44:06Shannon Sharpe:See, Jerry thinks because somebody handed him a piece of paper that they've done all the work for him. See, Jerry's that guy that does no part of the project, but he gets an A. You ain't do nothing. You just happen to own the team. You did nothing. Jimmy the scouts the evaluators they did all the work it burned him it burned him that Jimmy got the credit everybody gave Jimmy the credit and he wanted Jimmy to toast him

44:41that's that's a tough spot to be in for a player um it has to be just to hear that from your owner has to be a tough spot to be in. You know? He's running it. It's supposed to be a football team. It's supposed to be an organization, but you're running it like, I'm not going to say the P word. You're running it like the P word. Ocho. As long as... You saw Django? Yes. You saw Django? Okay. Okay, you see where I'm going, yeah? Okay, you're running it like that. You don't say that about the players that you're paying. you don't complain oh i i made the quarterback the highest state because you fucking waited to

45:22Shannon Sharpe:pay him you waited to the last minute you waited to the last minute you would got michael parsons on the fifth year option so you waited to the last minute and he said it and i used to say this all the time i am not going to give i would give you a discount if you sign me with a couple years left because now you're giving me guaranteed money i'm not giving you a discount if you make me get to the punctuation. The end. No, bro. I got to get maximum dollar out of you. Max value. But see, here's the thing, Ocho. I know who Jerry is. And as long as they know who Jerry is, they should never have a problem with it.

46:02Shannon Sharpe:He applauds what you do, not who you are.

46:07Shannon Sharpe:It's transactional to him. You can provide a service, a damn good one. He's going to pat you on the back but if you think it's anything more than that you're sadly mistaken sadly mistaken hey man that's that's i ain't never heard nothing like that now i know a lot of them think like that one thing to think but they actually say it out loud bro listen see a lot of times people want to they'll take what he says about them but I listen to what he says about everything else and how he handles everything else that told me a lot yeah oh your toes are going to be on the line your hands going to be over the heart oh oh oh doing that oh yeah yeah yeah I see where we go with this yeah I see what I see how you think yeah I mean listen it's unfortunate it'll be you I hate to talk like I said I know Michael Little I like him a lot great personality know his representative but I'm going to be very very disappointed if y 'all don't rake Jerry ass across the coast if y 'all don't get at least 42 43 million dollars if y 'all don't get if y 'all don't get 10 million if y 'all don't get 5 million more than what TJ Watt got TJ got 3 years 143 million he got 108 guaranteed with 1 year oh man y 'all better to get your 115 million.

47:36Shannon Sharpe:Guaranteed. Fully guaranteed. As a matter of fact, Jerry, since you've been nasty, I want 100 of it in signing. I want 100 of it in signing. As soon as I sign it out of line, I'm not even shaking hands. Hey. I'm not even shaking hands. I'm happy to be a cowboy, but I'm more happy than I get to secure my family. This is generational wealth. My family, my dad, my brother, hey, we good now. that's crazy

48:10he really said that out loud yeah

48:15Shannon Sharpe:but that's Ocho don't you like that let me know where I stand with you far too many times I just need to know see that's the difference between the south and the north and the south you know they don't like it they tell you yeah I don't like you bub as opposed to hiding right yeah tell y 'all what he think Michael actually reported a training camp today despite the contract standoff should Michael trust Jerry Jones enough to report the camp yeah I'm gonna report the camp I'm gonna report the camp I don't want to get no money back I don't want to but I just

49:06Shannon Sharpe:because they've tried to that's another thing Ocho see see what they put in there now hey there's no forgiveness it doubles I mean what did it start at 15 ,000 30 ,000 you missed 10 15 days of practice that's over a million dollars that the team can't forgive yeah Yeah. But now that you know, you go in there, you know, you play the game. Hey, I'm playing for the name on the back of my jersey. I'm playing for the name on the back of my jersey. F that name on the front because that's what you said to me. Yeah, basically, basically, and not so many words. Yeah, that's crazy. So. Hey Go do what you do Micah I hope Micah get 25 sacks And the 40 million you're going to pay That's 50 now 50 million Micah Hopefully you get a contract extension What's Micah playing What's his 50 option 20 what

50:25because he's outside he's the edge over here dn 24 me micah all you do is that you pay your

50:33Shannon Sharpe:monthly expenses don't you buy nothing don't you buy a car don't you hey tell your mom and dad say hey, look here. There'll be no expenses going on. I'm going to pay my rent. I'm going to pay X, Y, and Z. I'm just going to pay monthly expenses. I'm going to sit tight. Because if this, you know what, try to franchise me, I'm not coming. I'm not signing no franchise tag. I'm not signing a franchise tag. I'm not going to do it. You think you would play with him? Yeah. you do realize here's the thing Ocho you didn't do it to me now so you've made me run the gauntlet two years in a row well oh no bro I got to hit you over the head with a heavy hammer yes absolutely if I'm Michael yes the price goes the price goes up 10 % every year that you don't get this done so right now it's 42 million you don't pay me this year guess what it's a 10 % increase,$46 million, and plus another 10 % on the guaranteed money.

51:46I don't... Does he purposely... What is the method? You did it with CeeDee Lamb. You did it with Dak. You did it with D.K. Elliott. What's the purpose of the last

51:56Shannon Sharpe:minute? He's thinking they're going to give him a discount. I'm not giving you a discount when you're making me run to the last year of the contract, Ochoa. I'm not. see he thought that would give him a discount like Wentz and golf gave their team discounts but those teams they were first and second overall pick they got huge their total contract was guaranteed they got four they got 35 million they got 32 million fully guaranteed right I don't know what that was a fourth round pick so I don't really know what those numbers are then three years into the deal, they give a new contract. That is what they did with that.

52:35Shannon Sharpe:So, Ocho, I've already gotten$32,$33 billion guaranteed. Plus, you come to me early. Okay, I'll give you a little discount. I'll help you. I'll help the salary cap. Right. Understandable. I'm not giving you a discount when I'm that low of a draft pick my first contract. Now, first one, I'm trying to split your dome. oh yes absolutely now i might give you one the second one but that's my choosing no you say oh oh you know you tell me uh that's you know football business and let football people do football things well i'm gonna let y 'all handle that salary cap so my job is not to try to help y 'all manage y 'all salary cap i'm trying to extract because i care just about as much as winning as you do.

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