Audio: The ENTIRE Brooking vs Dennis segment!

[Alexander]

He's defending his coach, I get that. What I don't want to hear is Phillips regular season record, when he says that he sounds just like Phillips.

Maybe this will help get these guys fired up, but he sounds way to much like his coach to me.

It is hardly surprising he is the one defending Phillips. He has a history with Phillips. I have no doubt he takes it more personal than most if not all the players on this roster. He is the one who has been around him the longest and probably believes what in Phillips is doing and how he handles things.

But the key is does he speak for everyone? Just the defense? Does he speak for the offense, who played a great game only to be beaten Sunday?

I don't know how much good it does unless the entire team wants to defend their head coach and he's speaking for the majority of them and not himself.

 

[pancakeman]

It is NOT the media's job to hold a team/coach/players accountable. That statement there shows just how far down the media has gone. They should be about reporting the news but instead they have made it their mission in life to create news by generating controversy.

 

[kmd24]

Not saying that "you" belive your a loser but to everyone else, you are what you are that week.

Dude, if your coach sits in a press conference and says you are a loser, what do you think that does to your confidence?

Wade says we'll bounce back because we have a team of winners, the media refuses to accept that, almost demanding that Wade call the bunch losers, and people are defending that? Suggesting that Wade is settling for 8 wins because he believes the guys can bounce back?

It's ludicrous.

 

[Coy]

Only a complete idiot would think that this coach (or team) is "content" with what they've accomplished. Neither Phillips nor any player have said that they are content.

Are they "losers"? No! They're 8-4 and in 1st place! Is that enough? Is anybody happy about that? No. But it's a heck of a lot better than most teams in this league.

I would much rather be in this position than the position of a majority of the teams in the NFL.

This guy Dennis is a typical Dallas media tool that can only focus on the past. Let's talk about SD - not last December. Every loss this year has been "the beginning of the end". The doubters come out and pound their chests. Well Dallas has won 8 of 12 and all 4 losses were tight games. This team competes and usually wins. They make mistakes and certainly have had a few rough calls and bounces, but overall they WIN. There is nothing wrong with calling these guys "winners" at this point in the season. If the season ended right now they would be a divison winner. Nobody said "playoff winner" because the playoffs haven't happened yet!

NOBODY has indicated that they are "content".

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I found this to explain it all:

Dennis: I've gotta be the bad guy on CBS11 and my radio job on ESPN. I don't have to be the bad guy here. - 5:48 mark

That's not what being a reporter is about. That's great if you can change personalities if you're in say, professional wrestling. But when you're a professional reporter it's much different.

I usually like Steve Dennis, but I just think he was way off here, mostly because of what Brooking asked 'what do you want Wade to call them?'

And there's nothing wrong or remotely out of the ordinary than a HC trying to not degrade his players in the press in order to prevent things from crumbling. And does Dennis really think Parcells made *every* player decision, especially when guys like Bryan Broaddus say point blank that wasn't the case? Does he really think Wade never gets mad at the players?

I have a friend from Chicago that I talked to yesterday and he's a Bears fan who cares less about the Cowboys but even he mentioned he couldn't believe what Dennis (he didn't know his name) was badgering Wade about.

It's amazing that the Cowboys have the only local press that by and large detests the local team.





YAKUZA

 

[Chocolate Lab]

That's not what being a reporter is about. That's great if you can change personalities if you're in say, professional wrestling.

:laugh2:

 

[cowboyjoe]

You cut this off right before Buehler came on?

You better sleep with one eye open tonight.

yeah i was hoping to hear what buehler said too;

 

[Yakuza Rich]

:laugh2:

I know I made a joke there, but that's EXACTLY what Steve Dennis is saying. I change my personalities depending where I am reporting. If I'm on CBS11 or ESPN radio (big surprise), I'm a heel. I come to the Keith Brooking show, I'm a face.

Great integrity.





YAKUZA

 

[aikemirv]

What is important about this whole segment is what Brooking says at the end!


"it's the players that do it"

It is time to step up and stop making crucial errors at crucial points in the game.

As good as Spencer has been playing he has screwed up more than his fair share of times this season. He has to step up his concentration and focus. You know he can do it, he does it for 95% of the game but he can't keep up with the blown assignments, penalties and so forth.

the blown tackles, missed sacks!

 

[cowboyjoe]

The reporter is correct. This team has and is acting like "they done enough"
All Phillips talks about is how many regular season games he has won.

After listening to the rest of this, Keith is satisfied with wining games in the regular season also.
He doesn't mention Wades December record.


It's great to win those games but it's not enough. It gets you nothing.

Thats what has been one of my points with wade, you cant be just content to win in september to november.

Now, what wade should have said was, we are tied for first place in our division with a winning record of 8-4 so far. WE are not going to stop there though, whatever I have to do to get across to the players in keep winning, whether its demoting some that arent doing their jobs, or keep making mistakes, or seeing that my coaching staff does a better job of coaching including myself. We are not content just to win with a winning percentage in first 3 months. We want to win it all like every other NFL team and we expect to win. We realize that with the total yardage we had against the Giants, time we had in time control on the Giants, we should have won if we didnt make these dumb mistakes. I HATE Losing and so do my players or if they arent I will see that they do.

Something like that!

 

[JustDezIt]

"Am i happy with that? Hell no i'm not happy with that."

 

[HanD]

I love these responses when Parcells tenure here is worse than Phillips.
Record wise sure it was, that's obvious. Compare the rosters and the maturity
of some of the players. Parcells had to bring in ageing vets because our GM
had filled the roster with his wet dream players.

Let's say for the sake of argument, Jones suddenly became a smart GM and started making the right decisions on players, do you really think they would turn it around over night? It does happen but it's very rare.

Parcells knew the personalities of his players, he knew who needed to be nursed along and who didn't. He did just that (see Romo).

Phillips was handed the keys to a very well built team. (weather it was Parcells or Jones) He couldn't keep one big name player in check so that hurt the rest. That player is gone, what's the excuse now?

This is simply Phillips MO. Win the regular season, lose a big game when you need the momentum and fall back on your regular season record.
He doesn't have the answers to get any team to the next level. It isn't in him.

We lose to the Chargers we can say we are 8-5 I guess. Whoopee!

so why the change from 9-7 parcells to 13-3 the following year under phillips with the same players? people overrate the BP era here. he did a GREAT job building the talent but he had zero results with it. The seahawks game was horrible decision after horrible decision not to test pete hunter who came in off the street. People *****ed about BP play it safe mentality to keep it close and now forget all of it because someone else is here to complain about.

 

[Cochese]

The entire segment is far better than the 3 minute blurb. Keith Brooking flat out punked Steve Dennis. He got him to admit he was satisfied with Parcells at 23-20 and 1 playoff loss, but isn't as satisfied with Wade at 30-13 and 1 playoff loss in the same time frame.

Agenda exposed.

YES, we win the 2009 media pissing contest, any one know where I can buy a commemorative t-shirt?

 

[Dave_in-NC]

so why the change from 9-7 parcells to 13-3 the following year under phillips with the same players? people overrate the BP era here. he did a GREAT job building the talent but he had zero results with it. The seahawks game was horrible decision after horrible decision not to test pete hunter who came in off the street. People *****ed about BP play it safe mentality to keep it close and now forget all of it because someone else is here to complain about.

Why change? Parcells quit. What choice was there? For the rest of your statement you are missing the point. Phillips inherited a team in place, they mature more and more every year right? They should become tighter every year they are together. Phillips/Jones have even added some better talent, yet so far the same ole results, unless you are satisfied as Phillips is with a great regular season record and nothing else, we are in great shape.

 

[DallasEast]

Like many of the media here, after bill left they changed their tune about him.

Most of them like Steve Dennis, changed his tune so that it would fit in with whatever he was cornering phillips with that day.

But in 06 dennis blamed everything on parcells. Everything. You would have thought campo was the coach still.

oh and laufenberg makes dennis look stupid every week. One of the videos I put up a week ago or so, laufenberg got him to twist his opinion about 3 times in a 6 minute span about Jason Garrett!!!

Steve Dennis like many media members in every city, he just always portrays the image that there is someone better, someone who does it different. The angry fan falls for it every week!

The media covers more than sports, so I would say, "The angry listener or viewer" instead of "fan", but as far as everything else you said?

My response-->

 

[HanD]

Why change? Parcells quit. What choice was there? For the rest of your statement you are missing the point. Phillips inherited a team in place, they mature more and more every year right? They should become tighter every year they are together. Phillips/Jones have even added some better talent, yet so far the same ole results, unless you are satisfied as Phillips is with a great regular season record and nothing else, we are in great shape.

The point is parcells' tenure here is vastly overrated now that he is gone and there is a new person to pick at. same ole results, you're right...same ole results as parcells. so dennis should stop saying parcells is a leader that phillips is not. so what happened to parcells to go from 10-6 and playoffs with campo's team to a stinker the following 3 years? you can't say wade is not a leader because of last year's fall from 13-3 unless you say the same of parcells.

the point is it was a stupid question that was intended to bait and wade phillips could answer it no other way. was he supposed to call them losers? to THIS POINT IN THE SEASON, they are winners if you had to classify them as anything. look at what was expected of this team before the year? every had the cowboys finishing 3rd in the division and around the 9-7 mark. i'd say based on that expectation, so far they are doing well. is that all i'll be content with? no.

all the accountability, leadership mumbo jumbo is something that no one knows about concretely. i don't pretend to be in the locker room and know how the players really feel about the coach or if he is hold players accountable or if he is content. but personally i don't think any coach or player becomes content unless they win a sb.

 

[Dodger12]

The point is parcells' tenure here is vastly overrated now that he is gone and there is a new person to pick at. same ole results, you're right...same ole results as parcells.

Why do people constantly feel the need to cut BP and even Jimmy Johnson (in Brooking's case) in order to build up Wade? Because Wade the HC can't independently stand on his own track record. You can't mimimize what BP brought to the table no matter how much you and others try. He's recognized in the NFL as having rebuilt three franchises, not including the NYG and he'll be in the HOF. Wade's on his 3rd franchise and he's choked at every single stop and has never won a playoff game. When he says he's coaching the way he's always coached, that's just silly since it hasn't worked in any of his previous stops. He hasn't been able to change and evolve with the game which is much the same criticism BP received when he was here but people will defend Wade and be critical of BP and others.

But it's par for the course around here, as people have stated that Jimmy and even Landry was over rated. Only on a Cowboys message board......

all the accountability, leadership mumbo jumbo is something that no one knows about concretely. i don't pretend to be in the locker room and know how the players really feel about the coach or if he is hold players accountable or if he is content.

Listen to the link that DC provided. Brooking himself stated that, from what he's heard from the team, that the team was in "chaos" at the end of the season which led to the embarrassing *** kicking in Philly. How much more "concrete" evidence do you need or want?

 

[Hostile]

YES, we win the 2009 media pissing contest, any one know where I can buy a commemorative t-shirt?

Believe it or not, they sell them right here.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Such a classic!

 

[BAT]

Brooking wimped out IMO. He should have tackled Dennis after the "I'm a good guy on this show" comment. At least kick his chair out from under him and fire his arse.


And the obvious media hate for Wade is insane. Wade is hated b/c he is not Parcells, b/c he doesn't puke in his mouth or give "great" quotes. Ridiculous.


Parcells was a shell of himself in Dallas. He was always grumpy and a quitter, he was just moreso with the Cowboys. THAT, not wins, is the standard now????