00:00What did you think the Cowboys were going to do about the Bears interview?
00:18Were you surprised yesterday over this news or were you expecting it or you were totally
00:2250-50?
00:23No, I mean I knew there was zero chance they would let him interview with the Bears.
00:28I mean it's a solid ploy, I get it, on both sides.
00:31For the Bears, you make a request, you try to kind of throw a wrench at another person's
00:38situation.
00:39Then for McCarty, it gives him, I guess, leverage, not that he really needs the leverage.
00:43I knew there was zero chance.
00:44I mean it's a thing, but it's not a real thing.
00:49I knew there was zero chance the Cowboys would let the Bears interview him and then they
00:53deny it, obviously.
00:55So it's an exclusive negotiating window.
00:58I think the Cowboys take these things seriously and I think they're going to use, I don't
01:01think they're going to use all of it, but I think they're going to use a pretty good
01:03portion of it.
01:04Well, let's go from zero then to a hundred because I believe that's like near a hundred
01:10percent, that the denial means near a hundred percent chance that McCarthy returns here.
01:17Is that off?
01:18Is that view, does that view make sense?
01:21Well, I don't think the denial means that because I don't think that's, that's always
01:26been my thought.
01:27But I mean, like if I got the denial was always going to happen no matter what the Cowboys
01:31have, you know, the way the Cowboys think, like they have the right to talk to them.
01:35They're going to use that right.
01:36Like they're not going to just give up their exclusive negotiating, exclusive negotiating
01:40window for nothing.
01:41So I knew there was no chance that anyone was going to get to interview him.
01:46But I'm with you though.
01:47I mean, I would say to me, judging from the comments from both sides, you know, judging
01:55from the fact that the Cowboys have continued conversations with him, I mean, I believe
02:00he's back as well, but you know, how that actually happens is an interesting thing.
02:04If you're the Cowboys, what you'd like is the most flexibility, you know, obviously
02:08it's not going to be like this, but let's just say theoretically, like best case one
02:11year deal, give them the option at the end, at the end of next year, that's not going
02:15to happen.
02:16Okay.
02:17What about two years?
02:18That's probably not going to happen either.
02:19All right.
02:20Well then how many years are we talking?
02:22want the longest deal you can get because you want the most security and you want, you
02:27know, I would imagine Mike McCarthy does not want to go through this again next year.
02:30We're all new.
02:31Let's talk about it.
02:32His job status the whole year.
02:34So there's a middle ground in there.
02:36They just have to find it.
02:37But yeah, I'm with you.
02:38Like I believe at the end of the day, McCarthy will be the Cowboys head coach.
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