Cowboys radio color analyst Babe Laufenberg joined Shan, RJ and Bobby to talk the latest Cowboys storylines as the season comes to a close. They discuss why the team released Zeke so late in the year, his thoughts on Mike McCarthy's future with the team, if Trey Lance will return to the Cowboys next year, and more.
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00:00Dave, what did you make of the Zeke News?
00:20It was kind of startling, if you will, last game of the season, and it was like, what?
00:27Not to say that it shouldn't have happened. You know what's funny? This really should have
00:33happened when they suspended him, and I was surprised. At that point, I said,
00:37today it'll be a suspension, tomorrow they're going to release him. And I was just,
00:44why would you bring him back at that point when all the things that were happening
00:49were happening? It's like, okay, what are you getting out of this?
00:51You know, the novelist Thomas Wolfe said, you can never go home, and I think that's true in
00:59so many aspects of life, and especially with that situation. Hey, Zeke, we all know, I mean,
01:06he was a great player. Not a good player, he was a great player. He was bumping up against a Hall
01:11of Fame player, but he wasn't that guy at this point. We all know that, and you can't go home
01:17and try to make it work again. And it was just a, I thought it was a weird, what's the word I'm
01:24looking for, relationship, if you will, from the start. Again, it's like bringing back your old
01:28girlfriend years later, and then you realized, oh wait, okay, yeah, that's why we broke up in
01:33the first place. So again, it didn't make sense. Training camp, if you recall in training camp,
01:40they were saving him, and now Zeke is saying he didn't get a chance to compete. Again,
01:46and they suspended him. Should have been, I mean, I would have released him at that point,
01:51and I'm not sure who, I'm sure there was some talk in the building. I'm sure some people wanted to
01:57say, hey, let's just cut our losses here, whatever you want to call it. But whoever prevailed,
02:04prevailed, and it turned into what it did yesterday, and I can't see any team picking
02:09him up for a playoff run.