Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy interviews with RJ and Bobby and comments on Zack Martin’s season ending injury. McCarthy discusses how big of an influence he was to the Cowboys and how much he will be missed. He explains that injury is inevitable in this game and that this is just another uphill battle for them as they continue through the season How will Martin’s absence affect the Cowboys execution on the field?
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00:00Coach, you, uh, you announced the Zach Martin, uh, surgery yesterday and that his season
00:20will be over. Uh, can you just talk about in general what Zach Martin has meant to this
00:25locker room while you've been here and, and how he's impressed you as a, as a player and
00:31a leader, not only as your time here in Dallas, but, you know, when you were a competitor
00:35on the other side in Green Bay.
00:37Uh, definitely. I mean, I, I think, you know, number one, um, you know, for Zach to be recognized
00:44for the Walter Payton man of the year award, you know, it's clearly one of the greatest
00:48individual honors, um, in, in all sports. Uh, I think it clearly shows the type of man
00:54at the individual that he is. I mean, he, he's represented this organization, you know,
00:59the team, the locker room, both on and off the field.
01:02And it's such a, you know, high-class manner. Um, you know, I think we all, you know, we
01:08start these conversations, uh, because of the type of player he is, um, his play on
01:12the field has been super consistent. I mean, he's a annual pro bowler and we'll see nine,
01:1710 pro bowls and his career. And, um, but he's, he's, he's that person every day too.
01:23And I think just, you know, the consistency that he was able to, you know, illustrate
01:28on the field is that they're playing at a pro bowl level each year. Uh, but he's even
01:33more of that, more of that for us as a man. And, uh, you know, we're, we're definitely
01:37going to miss him.
01:38Is it, is it a little weird when a player gets to this stage of their career, which
01:42obviously Zach Martin's talked about it himself that like, yeah, I can kind of see light at
01:46the end of the tunnel. It's getting near the end of my, my time here in the league. Is
01:49it a little odd that when, when something like this happens, like you want to heat praise
01:53on them and talk a little reflectively while also balancing like, Hey, let's not memorialize
01:57somebody who has, has not made any decisions about what they want to do with the rest of
02:00their career.
02:01Oh yeah, definitely. No, that's, um, I mean, he's, well, you know, he's focused on getting
02:06healthy and, and, uh, you know, I just think that, you know, this is the hard part of the
02:11game. You know, it's, um, no one, you know, no one really gets to go through this game
02:17with, without, you know, the, the injury challenging, you know, and just for his season to come
02:22to an end.
02:23Um, you know, like I said, we're going to, we're, you know, we're going to miss him,
02:26but, uh, you know, he'll still be here, you know, as far as the everyday stuff. Uh, but
02:30yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, this is, uh, this is all part of this challenge that we're
02:35having this year as a team.