Why former Cowboys QB Danny White says there are ‘too many me-first players’ in Dallas - The Dallas Morning News

Former Cowboys quarterback Danny White joined the K&C Masterpiece Show on 105.3 The Fan [KRLD-FM] to talk about his former team. Here are some of the highlights.

Is the key for Ben dinucci, this week to run short routes or, or just not to sit around and try and make too big of a play?

White: Well, yeah, you know, that’s dangerous because if you take the deep throw out of your game plan, you know, those corners are gonna squat on the receivers and you’re not gonna have anybody to throw the ball to and if you do you risk an interception but... so when you do throw the ball down he’s got to have max protection to help out those young tackles.

What’s the difference on joining a team like the Cowboys when they’re on top of the world versus now being a Dallas Cowboy where you’re just told the Cowboys were good at football at some point?

Well, you know, in my opinion, and that’s all it is my opinion: They’ve got too many me-first players and not enough team-first players.

When I played with with Gil [Brandt] and coach [Tom] Landry, I mean there was a huge emphasis placed on effort. And they would talk to your coaches in college, like to find out what your background was, what kind of family you come from, stuff like that. For a lot of emphasis on the wonderlic test. And so a lot of the intangibles were addressed. And I’m not saying they’re not being addressed now. But I think in the recent past the Cowboys have just not had enough of that type of mentality, that mental toughness that went with, with guys like Lee Roy Jordan, Jethro Pugh, Larry Cole and guys that just refused to lose. And that’s all that mattered to them and if we did lose it was not any fun on the plane ride back from the game, or that whole week in practice, because we just didn’t believe we were supposed to lose.

And there’s just not enough of those kind of players and you’re seeing the Cowboys make some moves now that I applaud and and think should have been made, probably weeks ago, to get those guys that are me-first players out of the locker room, because that becomes a cancer.

How can you spot the me-first players?

White: Well, you have to be in the locker room or in the meeting room to be able to spot them. All I know is from the broadcast booth, it was obvious, just by body language and the way they were carrying themselves in and out of the huddle, off the field on the field, that there was some real internal issues going on. And it can be little things. You know, Dontari Poe doesn’t get in the right gap and let the linemen get up on Jaylon Smith and Jaylon Smith can’t do his job. But it all starts with Dontari not doing his job and it affects other players.

And that leads to Jaylon having ill feelings towards Dontari and that’s got to get addressed and if it doesn’t get addressed it’s just going to fester.

And I think that’s the kind of thing, at least from my viewpoint. It looks to me like the really good players, the good effort players were being affected by the me-first players. And it looks to me and now like the Cowboys, as a result of the people, the coaches, the captains — captains are so critical to that process. They got to be willing to sell out of teammates, even, for the good of the team, if that’s what it takes for the team to be successful. And I don’t know if the captains are doing their job or what type of structure they have, but the captains have to put the team first that’s why it’s so important to select the right kind of captains. But it can’t be just one player. In my opinion Jaylon Smith has been playing hard. But it can’t just be Jaylon. It’s got to be those guys up front that are protecting him. It’s got to be the guys behind him.

And there are two reasons to get cut: lack of talent or lack of effort. And only the coaches and the people in the locker room can make those decisions.

— Click here to listen to the full interview.

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