Maclain Way on “America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys”, Jerry Jones & more

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Shan and Bobby were joined today by Maclain Way, director of the new Netflix documentary series “America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys.” Way shared the full access he had to Jerry and Jimmy’s relationship, their triumphs, challenges, and the infamous “divorce” that changed the franchise. He also revealed behind-the-scenes moments from filming and explained what sets this story apart from all previous Cowboys documentaries.

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00:00there's been so many documentaries and nfl networks and espn sports centuries and pieces

00:20done on the cowboys and the divorce in the 90s what separates this one mcclain what makes this

00:26different yeah i think what initially drew us was just the full access to jerry and jimmy and it's

00:33like i know that they have talked individually about their relationship dating back from when

00:38they were 17 years old to universe to teammates at the university of arkansas to winning back-to-back

00:43superbowls and then of course jimmy's firing and him leaving the cowboys but i had never really

00:48actually heard them talk together about it at length like yeah they had done kind of small little

00:54fox segments here and there but i was really excited about the opportunity to sit down with

00:59you know we interviewed jimmy for i think about seven hours one day and probably spent you know

01:03three and a half hours talking about his relationship with jerry jones and jerry we interviewed for almost

01:0840 hours so the opportunity to really like dive deep and have these guys do what we call the

01:15post-mortem like let's do a post-mortem on your relationship all these years later and they came

01:20up with some like what i like to think are really interesting and thoughtful answers there's always

01:25going to be disagreements between these guys if you get them in the same room and ask them who who

01:30deserves credit for the herschel walker trade you're going to get two different answers to this day

01:34but a lot of them you know a lot of times they expressed a little bit of regret and a little bit

01:38of responsibility and a little bit of accountability um while still acknowledging kind of the amazing

01:42things that they accomplished together so that was really what drew us to this one uh from the get-go

01:47do you get the sense that they like each other today i get the sense that they have reached a

01:54spot which like i personally admire which is they can acknowledge that they will have disagreements

02:00from here until the very end like they are never going to agree over certain things yeah but that's

02:06okay and they say that's okay and they can still have a relationship that's built on like respect and

02:12admiration and they can be in the same room and honestly they can actually have a great time together

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