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Speaker 1: Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, September fifth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number thirty four. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys, you join us. We got a

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Speaker 1: great show lined up for you guys today. And just

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Speaker 1: before we went on the air, there seems to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit of news. It's breaking out there in

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Speaker 1: the world of Earl Thomas. Dave, why don't you catch

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Speaker 1: us up on what you're hearing now from Twitter? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like six months worth of the news cycle just happened

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Speaker 1: in about twenty five minutes. It sounds like, um, I mean,

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Speaker 1: according to social media, Earl Thomas is reporting to the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks under protest. It sounds like if you follow

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Speaker 1: them on it. But Brian brought us had this thing

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Speaker 1: nailed from the jump. I mean you I think Derek

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Speaker 1: you said that too, to be fair, but you're asking

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Speaker 1: a lot of a guy to pass up nine hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars a week in game checks, and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound like that's something Earl wants to do. I haven't

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Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt. But the word

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Speaker 1: on social media coming from you know, guys like Adam

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Speaker 1: Schefter and Ian Rappaport, and again, you know, to go

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Speaker 1: back to that point, these are these are the guys

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Speaker 1: who talk a lot to agents, So it's it's interesting

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Speaker 1: where they get that information from and how quickly they

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Speaker 1: get it. But it sounds like the Cowboys made a

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Speaker 1: concerted effort to get that deal done, like a lot

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Speaker 1: of people speculated they might based on their reports. Yeah

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Speaker 1: uh off, you know, up in their offer potentially to

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Speaker 1: a second round pick, and the Seahawks said, nope, we

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Speaker 1: like girl, we think he's great. He's kind of a

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Speaker 1: going to report. And this is ridiculous, that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: Why if you're Seattle, I mean, you would take that

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Speaker 1: I would. I would take that deal, especially you have

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Speaker 1: because and you're not willing to give him what he

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Speaker 1: have him, so why not go for a second round pick. Well,

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Speaker 1: Dave made a great point before we went on the air.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it from a stampont

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Speaker 1: about it as Hey, if he leaves next year, which

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Speaker 1: we probably they probably feel like he's probably going to leave.

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Speaker 1: The only way they keep him from leaving gets is

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Speaker 1: if they franchise him. But if they let him leave

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Speaker 1: and he goes and signed somewhere else, it's probably a

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Speaker 1: pretty sizeable chance they're going to get a third round

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believe kind of what you're saying from

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Speaker 1: the standpoint of disgruntled players. I don't like having disgruntled

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Speaker 1: bad culture. But that's just my opinion. But then again,

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Speaker 1: if Earl's a stand up guy, you trust that he

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Speaker 1: won't poison your your locker room. I and further reck,

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Speaker 1: I'm not I hear where y'all are saying. I'm not

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Speaker 1: willing to say, like Earl Thomas, there's no chance he'll

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Speaker 1: He posts it on Instagram disrespect. It's real and it's

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Speaker 1: can price saying going to go down, So time and

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Speaker 1: money can heal wounds. I'm just saying money can. But

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Speaker 1: You'll be having a completely different conversation after this season

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Speaker 1: the next twenty weeks. You know. Great. I think Earl

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Speaker 1: It'd be great in Seattle after the Cowboys in Seattle

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Speaker 1: Why did it? Why did it suddenly matter now? You know,

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Speaker 1: And I even said this, I feel I don't know

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Speaker 1: this of like why the Cowboys wouldn't do a second

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Speaker 1: why he's in the second Why is this big offensive

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Speaker 1: tackle from Michigan State falling well because he's deaf in

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Speaker 1: his in his left ear right, M. Well, let's put

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Speaker 1: What was that? Ameni Salatalululo, Sillatulo. I'm sorry, thank you?

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Speaker 1: he probably might be. He's dealing with a knee though,

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Speaker 1: and he might be out too. So No, that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is you're you're pretty right, Derek, which is

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Speaker 1: this team the Cowboys have a chance to mask their

429
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Speaker 1: safety issues in the sense that hopefully this is gonna

430
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Speaker 1: be a long day for Cam Newton because to Marcus

431
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and Randy Gregory, I have to be really excited

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Speaker 1: about those options. Curtis Samuel is also out. He had

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Speaker 1: a procedure for a irregular heartbeat this week, which sounds

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Speaker 1: terrifying to me. But everybody keeps saying he's not gonna

435
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Speaker 1: miss that much time. But he is gonna miss um.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna miss this game. So that's that's a nice

437
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Speaker 1: little break for the Cowboys getting to who's actually here.

438
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Speaker 1: This offense is fascinating to me because I think it's like,

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Speaker 1: it's what offense is going to look like in the

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Speaker 1: NFL and as trends continue in football. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: it's what I would like the Cowboys to look like.

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Speaker 1: Because you've got a mobile quarterback who can do a

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Speaker 1: little bit of everything. You've got a wide receiver who

444
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Speaker 1: can do everything. Christian McCaffrey. I know he gets the

445
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Speaker 1: scatback label put on him, but they run this dude

446
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Speaker 1: between the tackles plenty this year. He's gonna be the guy.

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Speaker 1: He had twenty one carries in the in preseason over

448
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Speaker 1: three games, so I mean that's a pretty good workload.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty one yards, two touchdowns, six catches

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Speaker 1: on nine targets for seventy three yards. So he's that guy.

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Speaker 1: And C. J. Anderson's there. But Christian McCaffrey, Yeah, you

452
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Speaker 1: said you got him in fantasy right now. I actually

453
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Speaker 1: didn't think loved it. That was probably a really good call.

454
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Speaker 1: And the other thing is they got these tight ends.

455
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Speaker 1: Greg Olson you obviously know, but Ian Thomas is another one.

456
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Speaker 1: He's a rookie that we really liked on the Draft show.

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Speaker 1: He's a third round pick. This is that Jimmy Graham

458
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Speaker 1: stuff where like, you know, this ain't Cowboys tight endplay.

459
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Speaker 1: These guys are lining up off the line both sides,

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Speaker 1: and they're basically big wide receivers. Um. And then you

461
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Speaker 1: got Devin. You got Devin Funcius who's basically a small

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Speaker 1: tight end too, So like there's a lot of size

463
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Speaker 1: and a lot of athleticism here. Um, Tory Smith is

464
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Speaker 1: is your speed guy. He was with Philly last year. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously you drafted Dj Moore, who like him,

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Speaker 1: I did. I really I did. Like DJ Moore, Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's I mean he's not he's not like the burner

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Speaker 1: of all burners, but he's a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: do everything guy. He's definitely got some speed. And then

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Speaker 1: Nick's guy, Jarius Wright is in from Minnesota, which he's

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Speaker 1: pretty speedy too, so obviously, I mean, Devin Funcius is

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Speaker 1: an outside receiver. He's a he's a Dez Bryant type

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Speaker 1: of guy, which, yeah, I mean you see in the

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Speaker 1: preseason the way that he can box people out and

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Speaker 1: just go get those contested balls. That's going to be

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Speaker 1: an interesting thing to watch. And then right and more

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Speaker 1: or more of your traditional they can move inside and outside,

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Speaker 1: and then Tory Smith I would say mainly outside going downfield.

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Speaker 1: This is fascinating for me from the Cowboys perspective because again,

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Speaker 1: you've got two tight ends who kind of function like

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Speaker 1: wide receivers and a wide receiver who kind of functions

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Speaker 1: like a tight end. What do you do with those guys?

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Speaker 1: And Byron Jones we haven't seen him doing that type

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Speaker 1: of stuff this year. That's typically what I would say

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Speaker 1: is like, well, put Byron on the big guy, but

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Speaker 1: can you do that now with him playing outside? Do

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Speaker 1: you put him on Devin Funchis do you worry about that? So?

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Speaker 1: And and then you got your slot guys. So what

489
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Speaker 1: I come back to is this is going to be

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Speaker 1: a really interesting challenge for these linebackers. Like we've been

491
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Speaker 1: talking all night or all preseason about Jalen Smith and

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Speaker 1: he's been he's had so much success going downfield. Is

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Speaker 1: he gonna be able to do that against Greg Olsen

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Speaker 1: Ian Thomas potentially funcis depending on the formation. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of athleticism here. I'm curious to see how it

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Speaker 1: shakes out. Yeah, And you know that's that's actually an

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Speaker 1: interesting point because going back to what I said first

498
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Speaker 1: and what Nick said about it, when you start talking

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Speaker 1: about a team that is heavy on tight ends and

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Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey being a guy that runs out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield, it catches out of the backfield. That now

502
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Speaker 1: puts a lot of extra press pressure on your linebackers

503
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Speaker 1: and on your safeties. Do they have enough bodies? Do

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Speaker 1: they have the right bodies to be able to cover

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Speaker 1: those guys? Knowing that again, you have a quarterback that

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Speaker 1: you might want to spy, which would take another linebacker

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Speaker 1: kind of out of the mix there, right, And so

508
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: you look at all that that could be and when

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Speaker 1: you start talking about how you deploy all this that

510
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Speaker 1: could be. The part that really hurts you is that

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Speaker 1: they have linebacker. I mean, they have tight ends and

512
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Speaker 1: they have running backs that really are probably even better

513
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: than their weapons at wide receiver because that offensive line

514
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: still an issue. Yeah, but that could be a challenge

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Speaker 1: with him right, No, absolutely, And that's so again I

516
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Speaker 1: think the Cowboys best best shot in this matchup is

517
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Speaker 1: I think your defensive line has the potential to wreck

518
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Speaker 1: the game. I forgot to mention my guy, Trey Turner

519
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Speaker 1: from LSHO. He's a he's a beast, he's a stud,

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Speaker 1: he's a position sorry guard right guard. He I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's not quite on the Zach Martin level, but he's

522
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Speaker 1: certainly in the upper eche line. But like it's him

523
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Speaker 1: and not a lot else that we know of. And

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Speaker 1: even if Darryl Williams and some of these other guys

525
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Speaker 1: can get into the game, they're probably not going to

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Speaker 1: be at one hundred percent. So wreck that offensive line

527
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Speaker 1: and I hope that it affects the rest of the

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Speaker 1: game plan. I feel like last year when they played Washington.

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Speaker 1: The Redskins had a situation like this where it was

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Speaker 1: just all kinds of problems on their old line and

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Speaker 1: it was a close game, you know, and the Cowboys

532
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Speaker 1: didn't really pull away, but they did win. They dominated

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, so you know, Washington did a

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Speaker 1: nice job of patching it together. There was a game

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Speaker 1: in San Diego a few years back where the Chargers

536
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Speaker 1: at the same thing. I mean, they had no offensive

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Speaker 1: linemen and I think Rivers went for four hundred, so

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Speaker 1: they yeah, for sure. Now, the Cowboys d line was

539
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Speaker 1: like that was the year where anybody that's ever played

540
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Speaker 1: it just comes off the street. And they brought in

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Speaker 1: about fifteen guys that year, so then they didn't have

542
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Speaker 1: what the dep they have now. But I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: teams seemed to figure it out, you know, they seemed

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Speaker 1: to kind of patch it together. And it's not you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not just gonna be just just you know, no, no,

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Speaker 1: of course not. I just I think that is one

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Speaker 1: spot where it just looks like a unique matchup win

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Speaker 1: at least on paper. And I would love to say

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Speaker 1: the linebackers too, But I got to see him do

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Speaker 1: it in a game. Again, that's what the potential is there.

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Speaker 1: And if they look like they did in the preseason.

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Speaker 1: But the Panthers are just so like they're such a

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Speaker 1: hybrid again, like you got a lot of size, you

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Speaker 1: got a lot of speed. You got a quarterback that

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Speaker 1: can run better than anybody. He's not the best passer,

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Speaker 1: but he can do that too. You gotta receive a

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Speaker 1: running back who's a receiver, tight ends who look like

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Speaker 1: big receivers, receivers who look like tight end. Like they

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Speaker 1: can do a little bit of everything. And that's it

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Speaker 1: makes it fun to watch just as a football fan,

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Speaker 1: because they can do shotgun pistol option type stuff just

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Speaker 1: as easily as they can do your tradition traditional you know,

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Speaker 1: what to expect. And I'm I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: fascinating to see how the Cowboys defense matches up with it.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's take our final break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: Which of those three do you think is the biggest

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Speaker 1: hurt you. But I think McCaffrey is just a unique player.

639
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: I mean it's rare that a running back and get

640
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: eighty catches like that. He did it in his first year,

641
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: So he's just gonna you look at those numbers in

642
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: the preseason that you know the average is up there,

643
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: there's big play potential. I think it's gonna affect the

644
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: safety's linebackers. I think he's the guy that they really

645
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: need to focus on. This is a cop out, but

646
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: I just think it's the duo of Cam and McCaffrey, Like,

647
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: how do you handle it? Ding it? Like what I

648
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: should have gone next? I'm sorry because that's what I

649
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: was gonna say say it then. Now I was gonna

650
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: say that because after listening to all the guys that

651
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: are kind of banged up on their line, it just

652
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: you would imagine, and you know of Cam being big

653
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: on running. You know, he's a big runner, and I

654
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: think it would be a combination of him either handing

655
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: off the ball or him running the ball himself, because again,

656
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be battling with that time

657
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: of trying to get the ball out, and the quickest

658
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: thing would be to just go for the run rather

659
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: than have enough time to pass or try to throw

660
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. And obviously the Cowboys defensive

661
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: line I consider them really good, so I think they're

662
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna have trouble there. And the biggest key point for

663
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: the for the Panthers would be the running game or

664
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: just trying to run it somehow a little by little,

665
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, I just said in the last

666
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: segment that McCaffrey's gonna be a workhorse. He's going to

667
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: carry it between the tackles. But I'm not worried about

668
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: him dominating the game in that regard, like the way

669
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: that Ezekiel Elliott can. I think between your defensive line

670
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: and your linebackers. You can limit that, but just the

671
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: different ways you can use both of these guys, I

672
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: would have to guess they're going to do some read option.

673
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's going to be just a constant safety net who

674
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: they will scheme ways for him to be within five

675
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: yards of the line of scrimmage. Cam is going to

676
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: break some plays. Not only if he breaks some plays

677
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: and run him on his own, but he can break

678
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: a play and then dump it off to the easiest

679
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: throw where all I mean it looks like a throwaway

680
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, McCaffrey gets eight yards. Which

681
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: is why I say both of them combine because they

682
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: both have the potential to Obviously they have the potential

683
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: to hurt you, but they both have the potential to

684
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: make something out of nothing, like whether it's McCaffrey taking

685
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: a short throw for long yardage or Cam turning a

686
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: sack into a scramble. I just think keeping both of

687
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: them under wraps is gonna be whether or not you

688
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: stop this offense. Carolina has always used two backs, um

689
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: you know they've They've always done a good job of having,

690
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: you know, multiple runners, So I think c j Anderson's

691
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: gonna play a factor here. And I think it was

692
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: just a year ago. He had a really big game

693
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: almost to the day, you know, a big game in Denver.

694
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: I mean they couldn't stop Well I'm just saying, I

695
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: mean he had he hadn't lost it, you know. So

696
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: they've done a nice job, and it maybe it starts

697
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: with Cam, you know, with with Jonathan Stewart that was

698
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: there for so long, and they had the Angel Williams

699
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: and they've had two different backs. So I could see

700
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: where Anderson's gonna play a role into running some in

701
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: between the tackles too. Do you think that, and I

702
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: know we talked about the offensive line challenges that they

703
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: have right now because of injuries. Do you think that

704
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: because Cam is a mobile quarterback, it to some degree

705
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: can neutralize the pass rush because now the guys have

706
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: to be very discipline and how they rushed the passage.

707
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: They just can't pin their ears back and go because

708
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: you leave a scene and Cam Newton gets through it.

709
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: He's now out in open space and it's hard to

710
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 1: take him down with one guy because he's so big.

711
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: Huge game for the tackles. You know, if if if

712
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: Crawford is gonna be playing there or some and Collins

713
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: will be in there, and you've got a rookie and

714
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods. I would imagine it's gonna be playing there

715
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 1: on the nose. And you know, if you've got situation

716
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: there where those guys, like you said, are going to

717
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: be come from the outside, and it's just natural to

718
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: step up. If you step up, you know who's there

719
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: waiting for you. You know. That's that's where MALIEK Collins.

720
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: We haven't seen him much. We need, you know, need

721
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: to see some some things from him. And how I'm

722
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: trying to think they were going to get Price Price

723
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: is no longer here. Ye, d Antone Jones is not available,

724
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: but they think he will be. But for this game,

725
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: your tackles, it's gonna be. They are hopeful Malik can go.

726
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: He was at practice today, Um Malik and then Crawford

727
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: probably right. Well, that depends on how they want to

728
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: play it, because they've been saying for a while that

729
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: they would like Malik to play. Three. Tyrone is obviously

730
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: more of a three than a one, which you're kind

731
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: of short on true ones. You have Antoine Woods who

732
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: can do it. Brian Price has gone now and then

733
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: Daniel Ross too, so it's gonna he's gonna have to play. Absolutely.

734
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: I thinks Garrett said today that they all eight, all

735
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: eight of those guys need to play. Um. I would

736
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: think that your primary three, it'll be Malik in Tyrone

737
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 1: at the three in Woods and m Ross the one. Yeah,

738
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: most likely, and then maybe maybe on on passing situations

739
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,320
Speaker 1: on third and long, that's where we've seen, you know,

740
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 1: guys like maybe Taco can slide inside. I've seen it.

741
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: You know that maybe as Crawford and Malik, I would

742
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: have Crawford and Malague, I feel at the same time

743
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: in passing situations, we've seen that they've done that some

744
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: here in the late part of the training camp in preseason.

745
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: I'll do my broadest in my Marinelli impressions. Keep them

746
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: in the well, keep them in the park, I mean try,

747
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean yeah, I don't want that dude

748
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: running a round, not an open feel. If you can't

749
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: get to them, at least force him to make a

750
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: play from the pocket. Right, that's exactly right. Let's take

751
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: a call real quick from Tray in Texas. Tray what upright? Yeah?

752
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: So a big fan, thank you really appreciate you taking

753
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: my Callum, you know, what's the news coming down about

754
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas today? My question is simply this, Um. You know,

755
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: he's gonna go in, He's gonna play. But at the

756
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: end of the year, Seattle is gonna lose them more

757
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: than likely. I mean, all signs point towards them leaving.

758
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: And so my question really comes down to this, Seattle

759
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: didn't want to trade them. They you know, it's not

760
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: that they don't want to get rid of them as

761
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: so much is maybe they want to say face. So

762
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: does him reporting give them that opportunity to say face

763
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: and say, look, we won, and I put that in

764
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: air quotations. We won. Now we can trade him and

765
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: come across like we're the winners, you know, because I

766
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: don't know how GM thinks, but my belief that a

767
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: GM doesn't want to be strong armed into anything, and

768
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: so maybe now this gives them an opportunity to say,

769
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 1: you know what, he's coming in. We won. Maybe maybe

770
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: now we can do something as far as a trade,

771
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: because if they don't do the trade, then at the

772
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: end of the year they get nothing. And so I

773
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: just want to see what your thoughts were on that

774
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you taking my call and thanks for

775
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: all Ch'll do all right, thanks. I don't know about

776
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: the whole we won. I mean, you know they will

777
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: see I mean, we'll see what happens here. Doesn't sound

778
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: like he says he's playing it under a protest. It

779
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like there's any winners at all here. I

780
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: think that Dave said earlier in the shows is that well,

781
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, hey, you're not happy, we're not happy coming

782
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: here and play. You need the money, we need the safety,

783
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 1: you know. But no one's no one's won anything yet here. Yeah,

784
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: I just I mean I get I think there is

785
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: something to that is like, I mean, ego is so

786
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: much a part of this. Like you don't want to

787
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: look like you're left holding the bag or that you

788
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: lost the deal. But Earl to show up and like

789
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: three days later you're like, okay, we're ready to do it.

790
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: Do the deal now. Like it doesn't jive with me,

791
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: I think, And that's I mean, I said this earlier

792
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: in the show. I don't just you can't just assume

793
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: that Earl Thomas doesn't have a future in Seattle. They

794
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: could franchise him, they could sit down and hash it

795
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: out and come to an agreement, and even if he

796
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: does leave, they'll get a comp pick for it. So

797
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it's I think it's disingenuous to say

798
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: they'll get nothing, and they'll get They'll get sixteen games

799
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: of high safety play from him, so they'll definitely get something.

800
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I didn't think it was likely

801
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: to begin with. I mean, you're right, it's not one

802
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: hundred percent impossible to happen, But I just I think

803
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: it's dead in the water. Yep, Okay, So give me,

804
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: I guess, give me your final word on this offense.

805
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: Do you think when you look at all the things

806
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: that that you that we've talked about regarding this offense,

807
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: do you look at the Cowboys defense. Do you think

808
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: at the end of this game, we'll sitting here on

809
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: Monday morning and saying Cowboys didn't win this game or

810
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: Cowboys did win this game because of the Carolina Panthers

811
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: offense in the Cowboys defense the match up there check

812
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 1: the weather real quick says, it's supposed to be raining.

813
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be raining during

814
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: the game. Last I looked at it, there was going

815
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: to be rained later in the later, but it's supposed

816
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: to be kind of like they're getting rain because of

817
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: that whole weather pattern, that tropical storm or whatever it is,

818
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: her weather pattern. Yeah, there's a weather pattern that's right

819
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 1: in their way. I don't know that it's necessarily gonna

820
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 1: be during the game though, right, Okay, it doesn't change anything.

821
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the we'll get to the Panthers

822
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: defense tomorrow, but I don't think they're gonna lose this

823
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: game because of this matchup. I mean, there's this is

824
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff here that should be concerning.

825
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: But with the injuries and again, I'm just I'm going

826
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 1: to assume the defense is gonna play like it's been

827
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: playing in the preseason, which is pretty good. I think

828
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: I think they have the personnel here to match up

829
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: and if I think it'll be way more because the

830
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: offense can't do anything against the Panthers than anything else,

831
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: which will get to that tomorrow, because this is a

832
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: very very very good defense. Yeah, yeah, that was at

833
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: the Yeah. To me, this defense, it comes down to

834
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: it's like it's like when you're watching a men's tennis matchup.

835
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: If you do watch that It's just like you can

836
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: sit there and just hold serve all day long, but

837
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: you gotta break some every once in a while to

838
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: do anything, and you're gonna have to get a turnover.

839
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: That's where what I'm trying to say is they need

840
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: to get some turnovers. You can play well, fly around,

841
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: get punts and all that, but I think the way

842
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: the offense is going to go on the other side,

843
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: this defense is gonna have to be better than just

844
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's gonna have to get some turnovers, sacks,

845
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: not just a sack, forced the ball out, get something

846
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: there from it. We've seen it in the preseason. We

847
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: need to see it more there because I think they're

848
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: gonna need all give the offense all the help they

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Speaker 1: the ball. But when it comes to the Cowboys offense,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it tomorrow, that's what it's more

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Speaker 1: concerning to me and something that I really don't know

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Speaker 1: what to think as of right now. And another thing

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Speaker 1: is the coaching you know, I'm a big fan of Rivera.

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Speaker 1: I just think he's a really good coach and he's aggressive.

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Speaker 1: I like the aggressiveness in coaches, and I think that, um, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how Garrett is gonna handle

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Speaker 1: this new game. I mean, is he gonna keep doing

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Speaker 1: changes there? I think that Rivera is the type of

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Speaker 1: guy that is not afraid to try different things and

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Speaker 1: just go for it in a way. And did he

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Speaker 1: cut his kicker right before? You know? I meant, hey, hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: good point. But Rivera is a really good coach. He

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Speaker 1: has been, and he's he's not a long time Yeah

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Speaker 1: he has and he's a good coach, but pretty opposite

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Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see coaching side of the thing.

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Speaker 1: And it's just tough to judge any team at this

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Speaker 1: point when you haven't seen everyone together on the field.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see tell me about it, all right, We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys join us. We'll be back tomorrow at twelve.

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