Nightcap Hour 1: Unc & Ocho react to Colorado Buffs FALLING TO Georgia Tech at home + Cowboys TRADING Micah Parsons

23:52Damn.

23:52Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I don't know how to do it, Ocho, but most of the time, if you don't make somebody get up out, if you rent an apartment, if you use somebody's landlord, and they go a month or two and they ain't paid you your money, there's a good chance they're not going to pay you in week three, a month four, month five, month six. So they squatting. They squatting, basically. I've got them. Okay. Guess what? You come home, it's locked, it padlocked. Or the locks changed. Uh huh. And then I don't know why. I don't know what happened. I know what happened. You 13 ,000, you're 15 ,000 in the rears on rent.

24:30Shannon Sharpe:And I've got responsibility. I got, I got banks that want their mortgage on this, on this building. And you talk about, man, and that bank don't want to hear nothing about you lost your job. Right. Because I can't, you know what, I'm going to bring you your money next month because, you know, a couple of my tenants lost their job. They're not trying to hear that, Ocho. No, at all. So in this situation right here, all Colorado did was yell across the field, hey, appreciate them three turnovers. Now kick our ass. Yeah, that's it. Three turnovers in the first quarter, Ocho. Yeah, you got to do something with that.

25:06You got to. Take full advantage of it. The second one, I say, okay, if they get another one, we got to find a way to get the game out of their hands.

25:18Shannon Sharpe:Yes. Make it a little easier on the back end. But after that second one, and they went damn near three and out. You know, damn near. They did. Might as well have been. I say, you know, it's going to be a long night. I knew they wouldn't win this game. Once they got them three turnovers in the first quarter, and they only came away with seven points, and you allow Georgia Tech to stay within the scheme of what they want to do. The first thing I want to do, if you are a running team, I want to get you out of that. I don't want you to be able to run the football. What do you do? What is the second best thing that you do?

25:51Shannon Sharpe:I want you to play to that. I don't want you to play to your strength, Ocho. I want you to play to your weakness. And if you beat me with your weakness, Ocho, I come to the center of the field. Congratulations. Good job. Hey, stay healthy. I'll see you down the road, Coach. But I'm not going to let you beat me when I know that's what you want to do. Right. But like I said, the D coordinator, I understand y 'all put a lot of time in because you know what Georgia Tech does. Georgia Tech wants to run the football. But your gap integrity, your leverage, your contain was piss poor. Yeah. And that'll cause you to lose a lot of games.

26:30Shannon Sharpe:That'll cause you to lose a lot of games. We had this conversation last year when they played Kansas. We've had these conversations over the years when we're discussing Colorado about being able to stop the run. Now, one thing I will say, Ocho, they look better in pass protection. Oh, yeah, absolutely. That left tackle is going to go play at the next level. That left tackle number 77, he's going to go play at the next level. Yeah, he's going to go play. He's going to be playing on Sundays. But they've got to do a better job. I don't care how good you are offensively. If you cannot stop the run, because they're just – I mean, think about it.

27:05Shannon Sharpe:They still have five more minutes of possession with three turnovers. Yeah. And a lot of turnovers are like two plays. One play, turnover. Three plays, turnover. You give them the ball back too fast. You're not doing nothing with it. You're not doing nothing with it. Man, I was so frustrated because I'm like, bro. Hold on. You think you're frustrated tonight? Wait till you wait. Wait till you see tomorrow's game. You might be frustrated again. Who? Who play tomorrow? Well, Texas and Ohio State. What you mean? Oh, yeah. Look, I think the thing is, Ocho, when games, if you know somebody, I'm going to be watching because I like Sark.

27:46Shannon Sharpe:I know Sark. He and I, we communicate. So, yes, I'm going to be pulling for Sark. I'm sorry, Chad. Yes, I'm going to be pulling for Sark because I like him. But, you know, when you know time, you're kind of vested. You know, you and I both have gone to see you, watch them play. It's a great atmosphere. And this was a winnable game for Colorado. But they did everything they possibly could to help Georgia Tech steal it from them. But Georgia Tech didn't steal it. They went on the road. They outplayed them. And Coach says, look, give their defense credit because the defense bowed their back because they only gave up seven points on those three turnovers.

28:23Shannon Sharpe:So they could have gotten out of hand. Colorado took care of the football. They didn't turn it over not one time. They all had less penalties. But when you when you let a team go run for 320, 320. I mean, first of all, 200 yards a lot. We just don't let teams get 300, 400 yards running on you. Please. Yeah, please. But. I'm sure Coach Prime, I don't know how to do it in college. I mean, we played on we played Saturday. We was off Sunday unless we play like horse and coach to make us put our uniforms on and go practice. I was thinking about that, Ocho. Ocho, do you know? I mean, think about it, Ocho.

29:06Shannon Sharpe:If you played a game on Monday, I mean Sunday, and coached you in Cincinnati, they said, Ocho, put your pads on. We're going to practice on a Monday. I don't know about that. Hey, listen. Grown folk, now grown folk, that ain't finna work. We are not putting no pads on after playing a three-hour game on a Sunday. That's not happening. I'm not sure who the team captain would be, but I can guarantee you, they will not be in no pads after game day. Uncle, you already know how we're feeling after game day. What? Yes, I absolutely know. You know how long it takes to get out of bed after a game? I do.

29:40Put on some pads. Pads who? Shoot.

29:44Shannon Sharpe:Nah. Ain't happening. But they'll probably have tomorrow off. Come in Monday, watch the tape. Get ready because it's a fast turnaround, Ocho. You can't let this linger. That's Lynch's there. long not long it's just something about look it's been damn near 40 years since i was in college ocho yeah there's something about and i was never a big guy that went out after the game but i can assure you if we lost yeah we're gonna see shannon sharp face on campus oh hell no you first of all you barely saw me after a win barely i'm talking about maybe i think i went to maybe one party in four years of college i ain't no no no and we lose yeah I'm looking at the guys Filing out man they hurrying Back Ocho to shower especially if we home They hurry up in the shower And go to the party I'm like you sorry mofos y 'all want people To see y 'all they're just lost I tell you what though this is how I look at it and I'm gonna be honest You have to think my time during my tenure in Cincinnati We had what maybe one maybe Two winning seasons When I was there So I had no choice but having my business week in and week out whether we're winning or losing because I'm stepping outside.

31:01I'm stepping outside. And I can tell you I know exactly where I was at because I had friends of mine that I met. Maine, Rico, Los, all them boys down in Cincinnati as a group of five. We've been friends since 2001. I have no other outside friends outside of those I met. On the first day I got lost in Cincinnati. First day. Still friends of this day. dude we go to annies after every game we play at one o 'clock the game in at three we had jay alexander's at six o 'clock and then when when 10 or whatever it called roll around oh i'm going out i'm going out because i'm i'm trying to enjoy myself get some of the soreness out walk around you know have a little fun talk to some of the fans you know the dudes out you know out the hood that be out off a short vine and and wherever they from you know just just talk football i like that.

31:49I was more of a people person during that time and loved to talk to the game of football, whether we were losing or winning. And I would always show my face whether we were losing or winning.

31:59Shannon Sharpe:I enjoyed it. I mean, one of the worst times I had, Ocho, I was in Baltimore and I had already made reservations at Ruth Chris. I had brought everybody in and we lost the game. If I had to have my mom and my sister and all them kids, I'd cancel that. Hell no. I would get takeout. I would get take out. We lost the game. Right. Hey, Sean, we going by such and such. I say, nah, I'm going home. I'm going home. Yeah. I'm a sore loser. I'm a worse winner. Right. But I don't want to be around nobody. I know how I am. I'm moody. I'm irritable. Because guess what? That's why y 'all lost. Y 'all out here partying.

32:40Shannon Sharpe:You need to be home in your playbook. You need to be studying your play. You know what I'm saying? I ain't trying to hear that. Right, right, right, right, right. Let me take my black ass home, soak, moat, and think about, man, what could I have done differently? Right.

32:57Hey, I was hanging with us. I was hanging with us. We have a game. We have a game. Obviously, we played 1 o 'clock. I swear for God, you would think I wasn't even a football player. For one, not just a football player, but a star football player at that. because if you catch me at the football game before me and the fellas go eat dinner you can just catch me on short vine you can catch me down the way i go see my little young bulls that enjoy the game of football i sit there with them talk about the game for a little bit you know chit chat we on the corner huh we on the corner in cincinnati just chilling talking talking football for about an hour or two i sit there with them smoking cigar after the game boom i go down to jay Alexander's my routine was the exact same for a decade straight it never changed well I don't

33:47Shannon Sharpe:know if they're still in existence but I would go I would call I would get black eyed peas was the name of the restaurant I would get uh the grilled chicken or the country five state I would get colonel I would get rice I would get colonel corn and I would get black eyed peas get some I get a combination of like lemon lemon tea lemon uh raspberry tea or something and I'm going home That's it. I'm going home. I want to be miserable by myself. I don't want to see nobody. I don't want nobody to tell me you played a good game because I played like dog. I don't care if I have 150. I played terrible.

34:21Shannon Sharpe:I didn't play good enough to win, and I don't want nobody to try to pat me on the back. You guys are going to get – no, we're not. Right. No. I don't know what's going to happen after this. I'm talking about this game. So I know how I am. I've always been like this. We lost a game in high school. man I'm going home coach take me home if we win your boy I'm going to walk the streets with y 'all right right right we lose

34:56Shannon Sharpe:nah nah because I know I've always been one of these guys that worked so hard for it I know what I put in and the more you put into something the more it hurt when it doesn't work out in your favor see I like what you just said you know what you put in i i understand what i put in i understand the work i put in to make sure i is the team game right yeah when it comes when it when it comes time to get paid you get paid individually basically you do i made sure i did my part you definitely do so now if the other 10 don't do what they're supposed to do now i'm not i'm not gonna punish myself i'm not punishing nowhere because y 'all song right here I'm gonna go get my Jay Alexander's I'm gonna talk to my homeboys you know and I'm gonna go out I'm gonna go to Annie's and I'm gonna enjoy myself now I don't drink no alcohol but you know I got my fellas with me I got my fellas with me I'm gonna make sure they have a good time man uh a transformer just hit Joe's house and so he ain't got no power What?

36:06Shannon Sharpe:Joe got buzzed, look. He need to move. Hey, Joe over there on a$100 million property. A$100 million property. 273 ,000 square feet. And ain't got no power. Where the goddamn generator, Joe? Joe, where the generator? I know you got a generator out there, Joe. Everybody should have one Atlanta because them pop-up storms gonna pop up and knock it out. Gonna knock your power out. Hold on. Can Joe see us right now? Hey, Joe, can you see us? Hey, FaceTime me, Joe. He got no power. Nah, he got a cell phone, huh? Internet. You don't got, oh, come on now. You don't, you need LTE or G5, what you call it?

36:49What you call the provider?

36:52Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, 5G. Hey, that don't require nothing. Your phone should work. Joe, FaceTime me, Joe, if you can see this. FaceTime me. If he ain't got no internet, he can't FaceTime you? Yes, you can, huh? No, you can't. But the internet in the house has nothing to do with your cell phone working. Man, look here. Okay. And he can FaceTime. I can just hold the phone up. He can still be part of the show. Coach Prime, who was recently diagnosed with bladder cancer and needs frequently used so the restroom no longer has to travel far. He has a portable toilet next to Colorado's bench to accommodate him following bladder reconstruction surgery.

37:30Shannon Sharpe:And it's sponsored. being tied by this by. Hey, that depends. I know they paying well for that. Oh, yeah, for sure. Because a lot of people are embarrassed with that, Ocho. I wish I would. You know how many zeros probably come behind that right now? Yeah, but I'm saying a lot of people don't want people to know that they have to wear adult undergarments. You don't say it like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Listen, you got to understand who Prime is. You got to know who Prime is. He's one that could wear any and everything on his shoulders. Don't give a damn. But none of y 'all on the outside thing.

38:07Shannon Sharpe:People wear them, but they don't want to advertise it. But like you said, you know what I'm saying? Hey, hold on. They make them for a reason. Oh, yeah. Anytime they make something, somebody is purchasing it. So it's a lot of, you know, sometimes women, after they have kids, it takes a while for those muscles to get back strong again. Sometimes men, they have bladder cancer. They have prostate. They have issues. it's hard and some you know hey my grandmother wouldn't wear them she said Liv I want my dignity so my grandmother wouldn't wear them and you know she obviously she passed I think Granny was 88 in May she was 88 so she passed in July yeah listen I tell you what depends if you see this come on holler at your boy ain't nothing wrong with you but sometimes I do be thinking about getting me a goose I be tired of walking to the bathroom I just need to get me a goose and go right inside the bed give me something where I can just roll over to the right or roll over to the left I don't want to get up by the bed anyway because I keep upstairs by 60 degrees 60 degrees it's freezing up there so when I got to get up in the middle of the night sometimes I don't want to do that I could always use some depends I'm going to date myself here And if you my age or older and you're from the South, you know what I'm talking about.

39:29Shannon Sharpe:Hey, I'm going to get me a night pot or a slop jar. So if you're from the South and you my age or older, you know exactly. They call them pea pots. They call them night pots. They call them slop jars. Slop jars. I ain't never heard that. You can Google it. Okay. That's what I say. Anytime I say something, I say, hey, you know what that mean?

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44:15Shannon Sharpe:Should have told me that. Because I got to get you. Ocho, the trade heard around the world last night. The Dallas Cowboys did the unthinkable. Trading the four-time Pro Bowler, defensive rookie of the year, two-time first-team All-Pro, Michael Parsons to the Green Bay Packers. in exchange for two first-round picks and defensive tackle Kenny Clark. The Packers handed Michael Parsons the largest contract for a non-quarterback in NFL history. He got four years,$188 million,$120 million fully guaranteed at signing. Yeah. And$136 million total guaranteed,$188 million total. Ocho. Yeah. Talk to me. Hold on.

45:05Take your time, too, now. You want me to start it off? Well, I can start it off because, listen, you will probably get a little bit more in depth than I will, but I would just do this. Chat, y 'all stay with me real quick. This is all ego. This is all ego and pride on Jerry's hands. Yep. When he did the deal and he got in front of the camera, he did some, as always, that he shouldn't have done. One of the first things he said is this was a good trade, and two, we need to be able to stop the run. Now, you're bringing in Kenny Clark, and again, once again, you put the pressure on Kenny Clark and your defense and the coaching staff to be able to stop the run because who you play week one on?

45:47Who they playing? We go to Philly. They're going to Philly. And what does Philly do extremely well outside of throwing the ball?

45:54Shannon Sharpe:Running the football. Now you're going to put your team in a blender doing the same thing you were always doing, is doing all that talking before it's even time to play, and you ain't been in the NAND meeting room, you ain't been on NAND field, oh, letting one of the greatest young superstars of all time go, and you feel your team has gotten better. How does that make you? That's cliche talk, Ocho. Oh, we got better. Really? So if you felt that way, why were you trying to sign him? If you thought you could get better by trading Michael Parsons, why did you even offer him$200 million? Now, all this time, the last four years they were getting run on, I never heard Jerry say a word about running on.

46:39Shannon Sharpe:Now, I don't know about y 'all, but the thing is, you want guys to go hunt the quarterback because the Kansas City Chiefs stopped the run. What did the Eagles do? They got after Mahone, boy. Yeah. because that's the guy that's the head of the snake is your quarterback yeah and al davis coined the phrase the quarterback must go down and he must go down hard and it needs to happen early in the game and often see jerry see again if you watch the documentary america's team the gambler and the and the i think the dallas cowboys it was his ego that's what caused him in charity so now he done well i we had a handshake deal what can't do that man first of all you cannot if a player has representation the owner or the northern general manager can negotiate a deal with the player you must talk to his agent jerry knows that michael probably thought i'm shaking hands on you hey man jerry good to see jerry said well you shook my hand we got a deal it's been reported that michael said okay jerry call my agent yeah then oh we do the deal we i've done plenty of these deals well you shouldn't have the nfl should have punished you the nfl pa he told on himself Oh, I've done plenty of these.

48:14Well, you also have to understand the leverage that Jerry Jones has. If you got an owner like Jerry Jones that says some of the things that he says out loud that owners are not even supposed to say, maybe think, but you never actually regurgitate it in front of a camera, understand that the whole world is listening and watching. So, you know, he don't care about that. Then we talk about the same owner that you told me about sued the NFL.

48:40Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. He had the nerve and the gall and the cojones to shoot the NFL and say, I'm going to get every day. And if I'm not mistaken, basically won. He basically won. He did. He changed it. So what is the NFLPA going to do? What are they going to do? There's nothing they can do because he doesn't care. He's in a position of power right now to be able to do what he wants because he just let the world know. I tried to handle contract negotiations without Micah Parsons' representation. all he's doing is telling you to his eye I mean to everybody's face he says he's done plenty of these yeah two middle fingers up what y 'all gonna do well why did you do that with Dak why did you not circumvent Todd France hey Dak don't play that you know Dak if you don't know Dak personally you know Dak and Jerry don't see eye to eye and he doesn't have that friendly that friendly banter relationship with with Jerry Jones Dak is one of the few players that actually He kept it strictly business.

49:42Shannon Sharpe:Micah was like that too. Micah and Jerry didn't have. Micah did not have the same type of relationship that Jerry had with Michael Irvin. Right. Or he had with some of the other players that come along. Micah's like, I'm here to do business. I'm going to do my job to the best of my God-given ability. But, hey, it is a business, and I want to keep it moving. Now, me, and I'm just talking about me, guys. I think once Jerry started saying all this stuff we pay him, who would you say that we're going to have him? Remember he missed all these games, he's still calling the man Micah Parsons and not Micah, even Steven had to say Micah that, basically Micah He's doing it on purpose I don't know if it was on purpose or not but I'm just saying Ocho I think as Micah started to listen to what this man was saying like this man don't respect me.

50:38Shannon Sharpe:At all. This man don't respect nothing about me. At all. Jerry, thank you. I mean, you own the team, but you don't own me. And that's how Jerry's thinking. Jerry's thinking if I pay you, I should tell you to come in. In the old days, they had the mule. They say, gee, and hard. You say, get up, you'll stop. That's how Jerry's mentality is. Yeah. I'm not saying that he don't feel the same way about the other players, but I'm just saying his mentality is if I pay you, you do what I tell you to do. Nah, bro. It ain't like that. And it is reported, I don't know, James Slater said that Michael says, okay, let's get a deal.

51:21Shannon Sharpe:Jerry said, nah, you're going to play on the fifth of your option or you can leave. Yeah, all right. We'll make it happen then. Yeah, you got the right one. Because I'm not playing for 21 or 24. I'm not. So Whatever you got to do, do what you got to do. So what about – so I'm just trying to – all these years, because the Cowboys' weakness over the last since Micah's been there or before he got there was the inability to stop the run. Yeah. I remember Cleveland Browns ran for 300 yards. Arizona Cardinals ran for 300. The Baltimore Ravens ran for 300. Pick a team that didn't run. Jerry ain't mentioned nothing.

51:57Shannon Sharpe:So if you just got better, because I remember when Jerry was there and Chad, y 'all correct me if I'm wrong, all the time that he was telling you these teams remind him of those Super Bowl winning teams. He just traded a player that was on the team that he said had as much talent, if not more than no Super Bowl winning team. He just traded him and said he got better.

52:21Listen, Kenny Clark is good. Kenny Clark is good, huh? He ain't no slouch. He ain't no slouch. He's 30. But we talk about Michael Parsons. we talk about Micah Parsons we talk about a generational talent

52:35Shannon Sharpe:I'm going in the draft looking for a Micah Parsons a TJ Watt a Miles Garrett those are transformational transformational players those are the guys that you're trying to get I tell you what tell me the run stopper that's in the Hall of Fame that got a gold jacket we were just talking about Leonard Williams he was talking about how Aaron Donald changed it where they want guys to get the D tackler to go get double-digit sacks. That's different. That's a different animal. Because they throw the ball so much emphasis on the passing game. I need a guy that can attack the quarterback. That's what Micah Parsons does.

53:17Shannon Sharpe:First of all, Jerry, you're going to have to – because here's the thing, Ojo. The way they're constructing this team, the Dallas Cowboys, the offense is supposed to get the lead. The team is supposed to be ahead. The other team can't run the football. They throw. Micah Parsons go hunt the quarterback. Yeah. What happens when Dak turns it over or they don't have this big lead? So now, because you constructed a team that you lighten the britches, you can't hold up when they boom. Yeah. And they come and boom. And they come and boom. Right. Like Marshawn said, over and over and over and over. You hit him in the face.

53:56Shannon Sharpe:That's what Jerry don't understand. So unless you're going to redesign your team, let me know how that work out for you. But again, I would say that the trade is not even swapping in any way based on skill and talent at the positions. Kenny Clark is very good. Kenny Clark is very good. He is. He had a down year, but he said he had a foot injury last year. But Micah Parsons is a generational talent. I don't care what people say. They try to hate. I don't care what it may be. I mean, if your eyes, if you know the game of football, if you watch football, you know, even for me, as being a receiver, I understand what he brings to the table regardless of what team he goes to.

54:40He's a difference maker completely. He wrecks havoc. Oh, yeah. I can't believe Jerry did that. I can't believe Jerry said some of the things he said before it to even get to this point. I did. The more he talked. If you paid him last year ahead of time and tried to copycat with some of the other owners who are doing it around the NFL to continue to build winning teams, then you wouldn't have this issue. You wouldn't run into this problem. But your ego continues to get in your way, and it's been getting in your way the past 30 years.

55:13Shannon Sharpe:Every time he talks, Ochoa, toe pops out. Because he got his whole foot in his mouth. Oh, yeah. So every time he talks, I see another toe. I say, mm-hmm, there it is. But I will say this. Look. Look. when you when you get drafted somewhere there's something there's a there's like a sense of loyalty that you know i want you know what i want to be a one jersey guy i want to be one helmet i want to stay here for the rest of my career yes and i do believe micah would have preferred to stay there me okay the packers gave him 47 million ocho but to stay in dallas i took 44 oh yeah let me tell you why because what can i do with 44 that i got to have 47 because see and Plus, now it's being reported that the podcast caused some problems.

55:53Shannon Sharpe:See, the podcast is only valuable when he's a Cowboy.

55:59Shannon Sharpe:They want to hear about the Cowboys. They want to hear about the boys. They want to hear about Jerry. They want to hear about Dak. I'm sorry. And this is not a shot at no other team. But there's a reason why. Yeah, it's different. It's different. It absolutely is. 1 ,000%. Anything attached to that star. Right. If you're playing there, you want to take advantage of that window when you are there because it comes with so much. Yeah, bro. It comes with so much. Troy, media. Romo, media. Dandy Don Merida, media. Michael Irvin, media. What other franchise can boast that? Now, the guys that call, the color guys, do you know the color guys?

56:47Troy.

56:48Shannon Sharpe:Two of the prominent spots occupied by Cowboys quarterback. Now I know a lot of y 'all don't remember when Dandy Don Meredith was on ABC with Howard Cosell. Yeah. He was a Cowboy. Michael Irvin was a Cowboy. Moose Johnson. Cowboy. Moose. Hey, Swagoo. Cowboy. Yeah. that's not an accident that's not an accident and plus if you and look Michael Irvin ain't caught a football Michael Irvin make millions Emmett make millions and ain't none of them caught a football or ran a football in two decades Michael retired before me and Emmett retired a year after me

57:37so

57:38Shannon Sharpe:and Jimmy just retired yeah So think about that, Ocho. That's not an accident. So the money that you were going to be able to make, now look, it's all mute now. It's a moot point. Mute means you can't hear a moot. Absolutely. Anyway, with that being said, it doesn't matter now. But I'm just saying, if the opportunity would have presented itself, say, okay, we're not going to give you 47 because this really reset the market. 44 would have reset the market. That's$3 million more than what TJ Watt got. So that's an extra$12 million. They went six. They went 24. So I don't have a problem. It hurt him, Ocho, because any time a team trades you, they say, hey, we good without you.

58:34Shannon Sharpe:The thought of it. Yeah. And I don't like it. I don't like it. This is what I hate. I hate when players get traded, players that we know are really good, players that play for our team, and you know how good a player is. And when they get traded, then as a fan – The fans start talking about, oh, he wasn't that good. He wasn't that good anyway. Come on now. You never said that when he was there. You're only saying that now. Again, that's your team. That's their team, Mocho. Look, it's team because guess what? Somebody else is going to wear that number 11 one day. all they see is the star on that helmet players come and go they're interchangeable they've had great players with the cowboys all the way back when they came into existence in 1960 when they drafted bob lily and they got randy white and they got all these guys they got a lot of a lot of hall of famers yeah and so that's what they see they see it doesn't the name okay yeah we love emmy we love troy we love those guys but guess what we got new cowboys now we love them too Well, hell, you just let a future Hall of Famer go.

59:42Shannon Sharpe:And I know Michael wanted one of those blue coats that, you know, the Ring of Fame, when you saw Jimmy and you saw Emmitt and all those guys wearing those blue coats, we have orange ones. You know, somebody else. I think the Dolphins got that teal color, if I'm not mistaken. The Patriots got the red, got red coats. Yeah. That's not going to happen now because, you know, think about how long it took him to put Jimmy in. Yeah. Mike ain't, I mean, and it probably, look, he got enough money. And the difference was, Ocho, is that Mike is 26. In three years, he can come back to the table and get another big deal.

1:00:19Exactly.

1:00:19Shannon Sharpe:Jared wanted to do five years plus the fifth year option, which is six. To make sure he won't be able to come back and double dip. Yep. Yep. But, Ocho, we had this conversation. Chat. Now, it was Green Bay. Man, people, they need to stop making up stuff. Ocho and I, we tried to tell y 'all, when this stuff keeps leaking out, it's coming from somewhere. I know y 'all don't want to believe that your favorite player, or they could potentially trade your favorite player, or release your favorite player. I know you don't want to believe that. But where you think this stuff comes from people's so all the things someone could have said Why green to the Packers was what they went with all the things they could have said of all the teams 32 teams 53 players per team plus somewhere between 13 and 16 practice squad guys of every story line They could have said right.

1:01:21This is what they went with a where there's smoke this fire Where there is smoke this fire you know and the first thing people want to say well who's your source don't worry about the source whatever you're hearing from somewhere they know how to get it out there i don't know how to get it out there but they get it out there this is how to get it out there hey man i'm gonna tell you something hey and then you ain't here for me you know how you do hey put your spin on it okay

1:01:51Shannon Sharpe:I'm just I'm just telling you how it is oh man I love him I'm not an insider I'm not and I don't really try to break no news I could I could but that ain't what I was when I was on CBS that's not what they paid me for they had Charlie Cassidy for that when I was on Fox that's what they had Jay Glazer for I'm with ESPN that's what they got Adam Schefter for I ain't breaking nothing right I'm gonna keep my relationship because I have to be very, very careful. Because people got all over me when I said what I was saying about when Russ, man, well, how you know? I don't know. Right. He ain't in the locker room.

1:02:28Right.

1:02:30Shannon Sharpe:Okay. But I'm just saying. So I just say at that point in time, I say, you know what, Shanna? It ain't worth it. It ain't worth it to you. I don't know. I'm just going to speak. This is what, you know, for me, if I was in the locker room, X, Y, and Z, knowing

1:02:50knowing

1:02:54but

1:02:55Shannon Sharpe:Ocho you could tell the more and more Jerry talked he made it worse the more he was like dug in he made it worse hey you know what he called Stephen A he wanted to get his point out there with Stephen A Stephen A sitting down with Jerry Jerry's like this first time we got him under contract for three more years nobody was him you and i had that discussion i said ocho he got the fifth year option and he got two franchise tags yeah so theoretically he could be a jerk about it and says okay play on the fifth year option franchise franchise okay go ahead and go but i done got seven years of service at you well listen and michael was gonna be a jerk too you notice you notice they say he was cleared for his back pains right so you know what he did oh y 'all want to play games so we're gonna play the game i'm gonna go get a second opinion i'm gonna make sure the second opinion i get make sure let y 'all know that i can't play right he was finna play the game so jerry understood okay you know what he ain't playing he not finna fold he really finna play this game so it's better my third opinion yeah yeah so he's second that second opinion sounded too much like the first opinion so let Let me go get a third opinion.

1:04:11Shannon Sharpe:I need a descending. I need a descending vote, you know, three. You know,

1:04:17look, the Cowboys say they're a better team.

1:04:20Shannon Sharpe:I don't know how you trade your best defensive player. I believe he was their best player on either side of the ball. I don't know how you trade him and get better. We'll see what they do with the draft compensation. You know, you could look at Houston and say when they traded Deshaun, they got better yeah cj strow they got nico collins they got uh anderson so you know you don't say don't show you can say oh they got better they got they got some all pros over there they got a a franchise quarterback you got a a hell of a defensive lineman you got a really young great receiver we did all right don't show yeah that's now that's getting better that's getting better but i want to i want to see what they do with the draft picks but i don't know if if you can't attack a team's quarterback that's how they're built yeah you were built they got they got undersized offensive linemen except mozzie smith yeah that's his job so you put so in other words you put all the well we didn't stop the run we'll look at look at my bro you sing so you sing it so now because you guys got ran on you put all that on micah yeah also well wait a minute he said the problem is fixed now though he said the problem is fixed we got better we got Kenny Clark therefore I feel we can stop the run now so now you put the pressure on them boys and them boys ain't even play yet and they got to play the Eagles week one so when things don't turn out how you said they are as far as you guys getting better to stop the run and you got Saquon Barkley running for 250 yards on you now you got another problem with Jalen Hurts with Jalen Hurts ordered Uber Eats back there talking about what they got I like the Mugu Gopan I like the General Joe's chicken I like the y 'all got egg rolls he be back there smoking a cigar chilling yeah because Lane Johnson and my lot ain't to be played with nothing bad nothing bad how we gotten better not realizing who you play week one do you remember the defensive do you understand the offensive line you're getting ready to play week one are you sure are you sure you've gotten better hey and you got the commanders

1:06:42so we're gonna find out i you know look a lot of times don't you know hey we we all have it

1:06:49Shannon Sharpe:we all have it we make up our minds or something i don't care it might be the best thing for us But sometimes we'll cut our nose off despite our face. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you. You think I can't live without you? You think I can't be without you? I'm going to show you.

1:07:10Shannon Sharpe:Sometimes we can't get out of our own way, Ocho. Yeah. And then when you realize the gravity of the mistake that you've made, it's too late. It's too late. We've all been there. Chad, we've all been there. We've all, hey, you know, I can, they have plenty of fish in the sea, but as my grandmother told my aunt, you might not catch him.

1:07:35Shannon Sharpe:And Jerry? Jerry Jones had plenty to say about the biggest reason for not signing Micah Parsons because the Cowboys needed to stop the run. He also said we can win more without Micah than when had we signed him. So if that's the case, why were you trying to sign him? Why was it such a big deal, this handshake deal? Why were you trying to get him to sign this contract see Ocho if he had never offered Michael contract? I could agree with everything that he said yes

1:08:06Shannon Sharpe:Well, he also had a comeback for a reporter asking how players can get a contract extension Oh, you take a listen to what Jerry had to say about that, right? Jerry Micah 12 plus sacks in each last four years very productive for other Cowboys players coming up the line if they see how this negotiation with Micah went, how would you answer their question, well, gee, what do I have to do to get an extension if Micah can't get one? Ask Dak. Highest paid man in the NFL. But guess what, Ocho? Yes, sir. Did you do this deal with Dak, or did you work with Todd Friends? Work with Todd. That's all I want to know.

1:08:44Shannon Sharpe:That's all I want to know. And then I'm going to go ask Dak. Jerry Jones, did you work with Dak? did you have a handshake deal with Dak Prescott or did you work with his representation representation you know that don't play that okay you know that gonna play that absolutely not and first of all they couldn't agree on the years yeah they couldn't they couldn't agree on the years so that that was that was an issue to start with that was the issue to start with the time was perfect green made game in four years jerry wanted five because the more years you got ocho you could spread the money out so you kick the can uh uh uh michael said y 'all kick the can for three years then y 'all have to come see me yeah because guess what the numbers are going to be so big and they're not any more guaranteed money it's the same thing with miles garrett remember miles garrett said i don't know if i can win here because he didn't have no more guaranteed money on those final two years so he's like man i don't know you know i don't know if the direction they said well 140 million is going in the right direction.

1:09:42Shannon Sharpe:That's the direction I'm headed in, Ocho. I'm headed to the bank.

1:09:48Miles understood the business. He understood the business aspect. Not having any money guaranteed left. Okay, I got to shake it up now. I got to shake it up. I got to shake it up now.

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