Rex Ryan admits he CALLED Mike McCarthy over Cowboys opening 🤠 | NFL Countdown

On NFL Countdown, Rex Ryan explains why he wants to be back coaching amid the rumors surrounding the Dallas Cowboys.

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Of over $ 59.5 million with a $34 million base salary ideally they’d like to try to get a teal done but the fact of the matter is Dak Prescott has got enormous leverage in the fact that they can’t tag him and they can’t trade him and that’ll

Be the biggest thing the Cowboys want to do they want to go for the Super Bowl but they can’t do it without Dak Prescott’s cooperation on a long-term deal that lowers the cab number and this past week the Dallas Cowboys went ahead and hired Mike Zimmer as their defensive

Coordinator he rejoins the Dallas Cowboys after serving in Dallas as their prior defensive coordinator from 2000 to 2006 before becoming the Vikings head coach later on obviously they talked to a wide number of candidates like our own Rex Ryan and I can tell you this they loved Rex they were highly impressed

With Rex Rex made quite a mark on the Jones family and I’m a little surprised they didn’t hire him with as much as they loved him but we’re quite happy that they didn’t we’re happy to have him here and this will be a big year for the Dallas Cowboys without him Mike McCarthy

On the last year of his contract so Rex has got security here he doesn’t have to worry about a head coach on this set being in the last year of his deal I just keep getting offended because everyone tries to take you away from us okay it’s nobody

Does it’s hard we love having here you know we a fight don’t you oh hey no question and I can I can honestly say right here first off I’m not so sure that Zimmer’s got that job right now not real sure about that um I can honestly say I’m I I’m I don’t

Believe that’s a fact right now um but I I will say this the reason I was so like this is I’ve been out for seven years I’ve never called another head coach or anything like that I called Mike McCarthy and the reason I did is because

I want to be on this stage I want to be back on this stage if I’m going to get back into coaching have a chance of that I think with this roster the way it is I think offensively special teams and defense and I figured I could make maybe

Even a little bit of an upgrade that they could be right here that’s why I was interested I don’t you know it’s funny how well should we get the no your team has no chance at me okay that that’s generally the case I would only go at the right the the right situation

And if it’s not completely right then I’m not going but this team it is interesting because they are so close to getting over that edge and that’s why I think people would be interested in this job well the Clos is on is the defensive side of the ball in my opinion it’s

Almost Dan Quinn him leaving I think is almost a good thing because where did the Cowboys struggle and where must they succeed against these teams like the San Francisco 49ers like the Green Bay Packers these are teams that run similar systems those shanahans okay you’ve got laflor running it also in Green Bay

Green Bay eliminated them I mean it’s it’s just a system that I’ve seen them have problems with so the changes on the the defensive side of the ball to eventually you’re going to have to run through this system I don’t know which team whether it’s the ners or the

Packers or somebody but the Cowboys have problems against it it’s obvious in those two games that they they had against those teams so hopefully Zimmer can have can have a little bit more success or you probably could have had a little bit more success too tell let’s

See I when I look at this I I look at the you know the problem for the Dallas Cowboys all of all all of last season and it it it was the defense and you know one of the things that stood out to me you have 11 guys and I I forget I

Forget his name but I remember number 14 at the linebacker position and we kept we kept talking about how undersized he was and I said to myself okay that’s like week four or week five but he still at the linebacker position in week 12 and week 13 I mean I know there’s some

Free agents out there put a little bit more beat back in the line Packer position whoever it is for the defensive coordinator they need to be able to get the best out of this defense you got one of the best players and Parsons and all

Of football but he Fades out at the end so like I said whoever that coordinator you need to get the best out of this defense left by Parsons yeah I tell you what though you got a great start because you got guys that can play Man coverage on the outside that’s rare in

Today’s game so Micah Parsons to me I mean is the biggest ex factor maybe in a National Football League your job as a coordinator Mike zimmers whoever would be we got to find some one-on-one opportunities cuz nobody can block this man one-on-one so it would be interesting to see what’s going to

Happen talking defense I want to go to the offensive side of the ball and you know the Cowboys talking about uh restructuring D Prescott’s contract and and I think he’s a fabulous player wonderful man great representation for the National Football League but at Dallas they play for championships

Winning divisions um winning 10 12 games a year is not good enough you have to perform at the at the biggest moments and with a two and five record in the playoffs uh it has to be better he he has to be able to Galvanize those guys

Get them to believe that he’s capable of leading them to be be a to play on this stage and um and I I I I need to see that you know the reason they replaced Tony Romo with Dak Prescott is because he couldn’t win the big games and I’m

Starting to see the same Trend with Dak we were over here debating Brock in his value to bring that back to this game would you take Dak Prescott over Brock pie Larry you know that’s tough to say because you know who knows who knows what what what Dak would do with the

Talent don’t give me your your politician answer right now it’s hard to say no no I would I would not take him in in this moment right now I would I would struggle based on what I’ve seen um you know he puts up big numbers but he just doesn’t make the decisive plays

To be able to get over the top you talk about Patrick Mahomes there’s never a moment in the game of magnitude when you think is he going to make this throw is he going to make this play because you’ve seen it time and time again and

Dak has the ability to do that we just need to see it consistently in the biggest moments yeah you’re not wondering that you’re wondering if the receivers are going to catch the ball like they had a trouble with this season He