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Speaker 1: This he is Talking Cowboys Screaming live on Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips.

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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. We have a

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Speaker 1: riveting show for you in week seventeen as the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: prepared to take on the Eagles this week in a

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Speaker 1: blustering cold game that we will have covered just like

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Speaker 1: every other one we have this season. So Thursday at

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Speaker 1: the Star, how are you guys doing? Or the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: practicing outside again indoors, indoorsdoors Thursday? Was it cold in

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Speaker 1: the Ford Center today? Mickey? Might be? They probably turned

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Speaker 1: the heat off. Okay, Yeah, I didn't know. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've been practicing outdoors for the past three weeks. And

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Speaker 1: then of course it is going to be a really

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Speaker 1: cold game on Sunday, and I didn't know if they're

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Speaker 1: going to keep that. Yeah, how cold is going to be?

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Speaker 1: Low of nine, Mick, I have twenty at game time.

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Speaker 1: At game time probably around fifteen, Yeah, one o'clock. That's

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Speaker 1: frozen tundrass style. Yeah, you guys need a little that

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Speaker 1: in your life, do we though? Yeah, sure you do.

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Speaker 1: I'm insight, sure you do. Come ban, No, no, right,

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Speaker 1: Lindsey and I do an award winning show in the Star.

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Speaker 1: You do do that award take that show on the road.

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Speaker 1: We're good. What if I bought your steak on Saturday

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Speaker 1: night downtown Philly, you know I wouldn't even go for

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Speaker 1: a steak. I used to live in Philly. Philly is

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Speaker 1: a good Philly cheese name. I name you Philly Cheesetack.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, it's a it'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: because of the conditions, you know, of how how you play.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jason Garrett obviously is going to play to

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Speaker 1: try and win this football game. So you know, how

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Speaker 1: will his young quarterback handle things? Uh? You know the receivers.

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Speaker 1: I wrote about a woozy having to cover you know

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Speaker 1: all Sean Jeffrey this week, this for this game, is

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Speaker 1: he gonna play? Yeah? Yeah, like you know, you might

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Speaker 1: as well make up a matchup. But a Woozia, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the great thing about Jeffrey. He knows how to

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Speaker 1: play in cold weather. So you know, you get some

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Speaker 1: guys a Woozia's from Colorado. He knows what it's like

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Speaker 1: to play with the toe is cold and your fingers

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Speaker 1: cold as well. Jeffrey had a pretty good game in

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Speaker 1: that uh yeah thirteen game in Chicago, right, yeah, sure did. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's what I'm saying. But but the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: didn't have their last time they faced the Eagles. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have this uh defensive bat configuration in play. So

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Speaker 1: it should be interesting, you know, with Zach Erntz and

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Speaker 1: also with Jeffrey and those guys. I mean, hey, cover

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Speaker 1: him up. Let's see if those sleeve nick Foles can

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Speaker 1: you know, can they knock him around a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I like you bringing the positivity and optimism of this game.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna go win it, go win it. What

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Speaker 1: was he being positive or optimistic about that? You know?

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Speaker 1: The Eagles haven't seen this dB coordination. Yeah no, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I'm interested to see how they how the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: play against these guys, I really am. And if if

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Speaker 1: if Doug Peterson doesn't play, any of the guys, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I get it, but hey, these young guys, I want

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Speaker 1: to see him finish out well, I do. I want

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Speaker 1: to see Jeffrey covered. I want to see you know,

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Speaker 1: I want to see Tory Smith covered, Nelson Aguilar covered well.

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Speaker 1: With the victory on Sunday, the Cowboys would end with

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Speaker 1: a nine and seven record and would post back to

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Speaker 1: back winning seasons for the first time since two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine. So a lot of people talking about what

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Speaker 1: a meaningless game this is. Obviously, you know, no playoff

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Speaker 1: And these guys have been playing since July and and

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Speaker 1: some of them deserve to look back on a winning season.

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Speaker 1: Zeke reference winning season Toay yesterday, and I think that matters.

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Speaker 1: I think they can look at this season and say,

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Speaker 1: we didn't make the playoffs, but as much crap as

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Speaker 1: we've been through and things didn't go our way and

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Speaker 1: some of itself inflicted, we won more games than we lost.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's something you can at least hang your

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Speaker 1: so is this a must win game? We've said it

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Speaker 1: the NBA or the NHL or you know, major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: get into all that. But you know, you bring up

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Speaker 1: rob Zeke Elliott talking about a winning season, and it's

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Speaker 1: crazy to think that he's only one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: nine games with his suspension. Amazing, isn't it. Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: you guys think that he will play enough in this

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Speaker 1: game to actually get close to that or even reach that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the game plan is. We're just

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Speaker 1: assuming that all players will play. But that's a good question.

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Speaker 1: twenty five carries, and that's might be what it takes.

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Speaker 1: But the way Jason Garrett's talking sure sounds like I

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna get twenty five carries, Jason Garrett said today,

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Speaker 1: Rob and you heard it, and Mickey heard it. We

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Speaker 1: all heard it. On Dallas Cowboys dot Com. The question

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Speaker 1: was asked, it's Cooper Rush getting any reps and the

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Speaker 1: answer was, no, he's not. With a succinct no, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're going to go and win this football game.

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Speaker 1: we'll see if they're good enough to do it. But

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel getting twenty five carries on a frigid day in Philadelphia, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is what he lives for. He's done this in

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Speaker 1: his fingernails in a ball, you know, in Washington, and

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Speaker 1: He said he's itching to play. Yeah, and you can't

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Speaker 1: six games. Yeah, you only get to play ten. I've

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Speaker 1: attitude to play and win, by all means, go try

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Speaker 1: and do it now again, know what the ramifications are

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Speaker 1: and know what the possibilities are. But if you walk

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Speaker 1: the right thing, go ahead to take no. I was

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Speaker 1: just going, I think you end this season on a

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Speaker 1: I think, you know a lot of people don't don't

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Speaker 1: take that into account. I remember two years ago, the

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Speaker 1: going and that I think it was a Derek Jeter

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Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? Yeah? I think so you could be

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Speaker 1: about it. It's well documented. But you're five and one.

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Speaker 1: When's the last time the Cowboys went five and one

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Speaker 1: against the division. I'm going to guarantee you though, what

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Speaker 1: one game in Philadelphia? Yeah that one counted, did ye? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So that's I'm saying. You know, you'd have to go back,

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Speaker 1: much do you think it benefits these young guys going

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Speaker 1: throughout this season? Kind of like, hey, what you just said? Rob?

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Speaker 1: Dealing with everything they dealt with. Next year, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: get a pass rush if you're Taco Charlton and get

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Speaker 1: coaching staff will say, Okay, this is our plan for

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Speaker 1: for the media. And and I'll let Rob and make

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Speaker 1: you take it away and Brian and I will listen

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Speaker 1: and give a commentary on it. But what were your

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Speaker 1: first impressions of Dez Bryant's open, honest frustrations about his

427
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Speaker 1: own season contract? So much more? Take it away? Go

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Speaker 1: ahead ahead, Well, I first off, the interception in question

429
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Speaker 1: where Dak hit him in both his hands. He owned

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Speaker 1: up to that completely, said that was my faults play

431
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Speaker 1: I gotta make he also man, he just he covered

432
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Speaker 1: the whole gamut from would you expect to not be

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Speaker 1: here next year? Potentially potential pay cut, all that speculation.

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Speaker 1: He addressed all that stuff and kind of went back

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Speaker 1: and forth, but ultimately said that's not something he would

436
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Speaker 1: want to consider, which can you blame him given the

437
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Speaker 1: money that he's due next season. But you know, he

438
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Speaker 1: really opened up about a situation. I think he's fresh

439
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Speaker 1: traded like taste said, mentioned the scheme, said he and

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Speaker 1: Dak are good. Uh, but you know he would like

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Speaker 1: to be more involved. At the same time, I think

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Speaker 1: and Mickey we've discussed this. This is a different offense

443
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Speaker 1: than when he came into this team. Um, what's seven

444
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Speaker 1: years ago? Yeah, I'm much different from last year. Well, Mick,

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Speaker 1: before you get in yours, Kent says that we have

446
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Speaker 1: a few cuts. So kind of what Rob says, if

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Speaker 1: you'll if you'll play that Kent before Mickey gets into it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this one's about the question. I guess. He gets a

449
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Speaker 1: lot of flak on social media about his route running

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Speaker 1: and so he wanted to address that. This is one

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Speaker 1: of many things that does talked about yesterday in the

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Speaker 1: locker room. Here we go, man, let me actually pull

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Speaker 1: that up real quick on Dalla stowboys dot com. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is what we're you gonna say, though, Micky, you're

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Speaker 1: saying it's not too much difference since last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's I mean the scheme changed? Oh like you to

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Speaker 1: say that different routes, Yeah, you know, running different routes.

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Speaker 1: You know. One thing I hate hearing is um right here,

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Speaker 1: um people say, oh I can't run routes. You know

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Speaker 1: some of the film that I see. Uh My, damn,

461
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Speaker 1: I'm running rout a lot better than this person and

462
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Speaker 1: this person. You know. It's all about the opportunities, you know,

463
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Speaker 1: and um, you know it is what it is. Hey, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm this Brian baby all the day. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's just you know, knows what it is? Does Brent

466
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Speaker 1: all day? God love him? Yeah? Hey, he's a competitor

467
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Speaker 1: and he knows he's being criticized. Yeah, and he doesn't

468
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Speaker 1: mean so prideful. It just needs to stay off of

469
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Speaker 1: social media. But they can't. They can't, and we will

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Speaker 1: see that more and more because it is so second

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Speaker 1: nature to them. They're finding their own validation and what

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Speaker 1: other people are saying and that, and that to me

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Speaker 1: is sad. You know a lot of these guys, they

474
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Speaker 1: go on social media and if they have a great game, oh,

475
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Speaker 1: retweeting everyone here reading this. Man, everyone loves me. I

476
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Speaker 1: have the most followers on Instagram. This matters to these

477
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Speaker 1: guys shouldn't and they should stay off the talk radio

478
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Speaker 1: and they need to listen. They need to learn to

479
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Speaker 1: know who they should listen to and who they shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: The whole thing gets distorted when you get into that situation.

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Speaker 1: Did he did he forget how to run routes in

482
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Speaker 1: the offseason? No, because the last seven games last year,

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Speaker 1: if you just took those seven games and factor him

484
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Speaker 1: over a season, he had a Pro Bowl season. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: So what happened. What happened? Quarterback didn't play as well,

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Speaker 1: the offensive line didn't play as well, and there was

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Speaker 1: other factors, and there was things that I think he

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Speaker 1: wanted to say, sure, but he didn't. He caught himself,

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Speaker 1: and I give him credit for that. Was there a frustration, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought the the best thing that came

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Speaker 1: out was the fact that He admitted that he'd been

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Speaker 1: dealing with the tendonitis this whole time. Now, you know tendonitis.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's got something soreness hurts. Yeah, and you know he

494
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Speaker 1: didn't miss time, he didn't miss practice. He pointed out. No,

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Speaker 1: he goes, I'm a warrior year. You know I'm gonna

496
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play. But I'm sure it affects your speed

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Speaker 1: at some point. Um, I just to me the whole

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Speaker 1: thing what Brian just said, The whole thing's mystifying. How

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Speaker 1: you can have All anybody has to do is go

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Speaker 1: call up the Packer game, the playoff game. Sure he

501
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 1: was a he was All Pro in that game. So

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Speaker 1: what happened. Yeah, he's healthy. We thought, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much the tendon nine has bothered him. And as

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Speaker 1: tendon ninus, we think goes back to what the Chiefs

505
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Speaker 1: game said Kansas City about a month and a half ago,

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Speaker 1: a halfway of the season. Yeah, that was eight games.

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Speaker 1: So you know, there's a lot of things. And he

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Speaker 1: talked about his frustrations and you know, and Brian and

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Speaker 1: I have pointed this out. When he gets in a

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Speaker 1: game and he gets frustrated, he loses his poise. And

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Speaker 1: it causes him to play freely and he starts trying

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Speaker 1: too hard. That's what he did in that game. He

513
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Speaker 1: was trying too hard. It's got to sit there and relax. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I caught a pass. I love having the ball in

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Speaker 1: my left hand, but you know what, on the sideline

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Speaker 1: it should be in my right hand. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: going anywhere because there's three guys in front of me.

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Speaker 1: Just get out of bounce. Yeah. You know, if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna run a route over the middle and you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to settle down five yards, then settle down. Don't try

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Speaker 1: running before the ball gets there. Before you get into that.

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Speaker 1: Let's play the Cluttered Mind clip where he talks about

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Speaker 1: kind of dealing with some of these different things when

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have a clear minded play game. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: just got to focus on things I can control, and

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Speaker 1: then only I can control, you know, And I know

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Speaker 1: if if I don't, if my mom not cluttered, I

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Speaker 1: can beat whoever and whenever, anybody at any time. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, um, sometimes they send things get

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Speaker 1: to me that I should I mean, what did how

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Speaker 1: did deck put it? Control the controllable? What were you

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Speaker 1: gonna say, Brandon, No, I think he's right. I think

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Speaker 1: to what happens with Dez is he's his emotion got

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Speaker 1: the best of like he said, you know, Mickey said,

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Speaker 1: changed the ball. But he's the left handed player. We

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Speaker 1: understand that he tried to run over a guy instead

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Speaker 1: of just getting out of bounce and fighting for the

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Speaker 1: next play. And I give him full credit. With Maxwell

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Speaker 1: knocking the ball out of his hands, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: Maxwell wanted no part of him. You could tell he's

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Speaker 1: backing up. He just punches the ball straight out of

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Speaker 1: his hands. You know, that's a that's an understanding of

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Speaker 1: you know, no one who you're playing right here. But

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Speaker 1: you know, to me, there's so many things that have

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Speaker 1: led to the problems that they've had, and I think

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Speaker 1: everybody's frustrated because the offense was really the star of

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Speaker 1: coming into the season. The offense was gonna you know,

548
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Speaker 1: Dak was not going to regress because of Dez Bryant,

549
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Speaker 1: the offensive line and Ezekiel Elliott. That wasn't going to happen.

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Speaker 1: So what happened you had Dak Prescott not play very

551
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Speaker 1: good football at times this year because of the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: the lack of the running game with Zekiel and Dez

553
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Speaker 1: Bryant not being as consistent as he's usually is. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot too it Dez Bryant.

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Speaker 1: When you know, when Dak Prescott was not able to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball in the move, that was going to

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Speaker 1: be a problem. When you see offensive linemen have problems

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Speaker 1: blocking one on one, that was going to be a problem.

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Speaker 1: When you saw Noah Ezekiel Eliot in the game and

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Speaker 1: there was no threat there, that was going to be

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Speaker 1: a problem, you know. And then with Dez Bryant's inability,

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Speaker 1: like I say, to catch the football. You know how

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Speaker 1: many times Dez Bryant can make one hand and catches

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Speaker 1: all day We've seen, we've been we've been marveled by

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Speaker 1: watching him warm up and just you know, the way

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Speaker 1: he snatches the football and stuff. When he drops balls

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Speaker 1: that are right in his hands, something's wrong And almost

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Speaker 1: I mean in that play, it's almost like he's thinking

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Speaker 1: end zone, run after catch and just securing the football

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Speaker 1: first and just trying to make a big play instead

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Speaker 1: of first the little play and then try to But

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Speaker 1: you know what, he's had success doing that. He's punished

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Speaker 1: people with the football, right hands and so, and that's

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Speaker 1: a frustrated guy running a football. He had a drop yea,

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Speaker 1: he had to slant drop. Yeah, you try to tackle

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Speaker 1: me Maxwell, I'm gonna just run right over you and

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Speaker 1: I'll get five more yards out of the play. And

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00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't thinking. Maxwell was like, I want no party.

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Speaker 1: You punch the ball out. You know. That's a smart

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Speaker 1: play on his part. But I think the biggest I

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Speaker 1: don't think. I think again, the questions going into this

582
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 1: season were not offensively. The questions coming into the season

583
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Speaker 1: was defensively. And I think that's where I think that's

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Speaker 1: where everybody's having the problem. I don't think Scott Linehan

585
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Speaker 1: got stupid from last year to this year. I really don't.

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Speaker 1: Now as he made some mistakes along the way with

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Speaker 1: a play call. Yeah, but that happens in games. We

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Speaker 1: see it all the time. You know, Lett go back

589
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Speaker 1: to Seattle, they lost a Super Bowl on a stupid

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Speaker 1: call by Daryl Darren Bevel not to run the ball

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Speaker 1: right there on the goal line with with Marshawn Lynch.

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Speaker 1: That was a stupid play that lost a Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. Okay, So now you mean coaches do

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Speaker 1: make bad decisions but but it's about execution as well.

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Speaker 1: It's about des Bryant securing the football. It's about ezekiel

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Speaker 1: Let running the football. It's about Byrne Bell getting his

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Speaker 1: guy one on one. Yeah, you know. And it's about

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott making an accurate throw on the move or

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Speaker 1: making the right read. When the coaches call a play

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Speaker 1: where it's an RPO and a guy's open, that's that's

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Speaker 1: Those are things, I mean, those are all factors that

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Speaker 1: deal into why people have fifteen minute locker room conversations

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Speaker 1: of what's wrong. Yeah. I liked when he said, for me,

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Speaker 1: the most frustrating part is they don't know what goes

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Speaker 1: on in house. He's talking about the media. You got

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Speaker 1: a lot of people just yapping at the mouth like

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Speaker 1: they just know, they don't know how we run things

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Speaker 1: over here. Well, I thought Zeke made Zeke actually made

609
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense yesterday. We ought to be playing

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Speaker 1: his cuts. What was the difference plans, what was the

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Speaker 1: what was the what was the difference between last year

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Speaker 1: and this year? We one close games last year, sure,

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Speaker 1: we lost two close games, by the way, and he

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Speaker 1: didn't bring up the Chargers game, and he didn't bring

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Speaker 1: up Atlanta. He brought up the Rams and the Packers.

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Speaker 1: He was in those ones. Yeah, that's right, and you're right,

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Speaker 1: so that's why we have that's why we had that poll. Right. No,

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Speaker 1: he pointed it out. And then you know, he also

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Speaker 1: pointed out that when they questioned him about not getting

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Speaker 1: the ball on the goal line, he says, we probably

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Speaker 1: threw six touchdown passes, and I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: number was, but his point was that play has worked

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Speaker 1: on the goal line when we've hit Beasley out of

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Speaker 1: the slot. No, but it's worked when you're throwing the

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Speaker 1: ball to Jason Witten who still blocked nobody, which you

626
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Speaker 1: pointed out right correctly yesterday. But that's but that is

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Speaker 1: but point. He's pointing out some things that I think

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Speaker 1: are very accurate. He's absolutely right, I mean, and that's

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Speaker 1: you know again, Scott Linahan to me, I think you

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Speaker 1: give Scott Linahan credit. I will say this, and and

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Speaker 1: I was told this from guys in the scouting department,

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy to admit this. They give the coach's

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Speaker 1: credit for bringing Dak Prescott here. You know, And I

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Speaker 1: don't think I think everybody's quick to like dismiss Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I think that Majorito's people probably are

636
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Speaker 1: Tony Romo fans that are They're very happy right now

637
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: to say see told you so. We're last year they

638
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Speaker 1: couldn't say see told you so. You know, they just

639
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Speaker 1: want to be right. Yeah, it sounds familiar tone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. Don't make stuff up. Yeah, I am right.

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Speaker 1: I will say this about Dea. I've always said this

642
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Speaker 1: about Dez and I respect him for it. He you know,

643
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Speaker 1: you never see him talk publicly about his frustrations with things,

644
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: scheme whatever. He wants to win so badly, and when

645
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Speaker 1: he doesn't, that's when he might air some of that,

646
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: you know. And and some guys receivers worried about just

647
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: getting theirs, and he is. He is acquiesced in this

648
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: situation where it's a run first offense. And I think

649
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: you do have to look at that and say, his

650
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: numbers in the last couple of years they were going

651
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: to be down because the way the Cowboys do things.

652
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: But when they're not winning, that's when things like this surface.

653
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Speaker 1: And you know, you did mention the scheme, but there's

654
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Speaker 1: also things he could have done better to maximize his

655
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Speaker 1: opportunities and like Brian said, it all goes together. You

656
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: can't focus on one or two guys offensively. I'm not

657
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Speaker 1: willing to point the finger at one guy here. When

658
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Speaker 1: you look at the whole body of work, when you

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Speaker 1: do the autopsy, you know you don't just look at

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Speaker 1: one section. You look at the whole, the whole thing,

661
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: the whole thing. If I told you at the beginning

662
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Speaker 1: of the season that the defense is going to finish

663
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Speaker 1: ranked higher than the offense, would never probably thought me

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Speaker 1: I was crazy. Well, right now, it's the offense is fourteenth,

665
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: the defense is eleventh. Yeah, and I can remember saying

666
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Speaker 1: one of the things that had to happen this year.

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Speaker 1: Can the defense make that next jump because they've been

668
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Speaker 1: getting better and better better each year each week last

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Speaker 1: year or was fourteenth, Can they get to the top ten? Right? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, if they have a good game against the Eagles,

671
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Speaker 1: they might finish tenth. The defense played well enough in

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Speaker 1: that game to get you to an opportunity to maybe

673
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Speaker 1: play again against Philadelphia with a chance to get in

674
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's that's how well they played down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: Just immediately when you said that, making the thing that

676
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Speaker 1: I was thinking of is who can you put a

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Speaker 1: majority of responsibility on that for? Is it the coaching

678
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Speaker 1: on each side of the ball, or is it the personnel,

679
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: the growth, the growth of the defense, or the just

680
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: the overall demise are going from a playoff team to

681
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: a non player? Yeah, if you have here's your defense,

682
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: you have a defensive coordinator, and you have a personnel,

683
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: their success hand in hand. I think they I think

684
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: they gambled on getting rid of veteran players in the

685
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Speaker 1: secondary and it paid off. For true point, and now

686
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Speaker 1: now it was a slow It was a slow ascend

687
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Speaker 1: up the mountain, and I wish that they could have

688
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: done it in week Again, I think the problem you

689
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: hodded in the sea and the Chargers game magnified what

690
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: you needed to do. And you know, maybe they could

691
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: they could have made that decision quicker. But I felt

692
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: like that they gambled on no Church, no car, no Clayborn,

693
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: and it paid off, and it bade it off. Eventually

694
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: they felt like that group had reached a ceiling, you know,

695
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: and maybe they were the fourteenth best defense, right and

696
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: that's what they were. And with that group, with that

697
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: group veteran guys, you're not thinking upside with those guys

698
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: anymore who approaching thirty years old, and and then you

699
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: factor in money, and it's like, we can get younger,

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00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: we can get faster, maybe a little more dynamic, but

701
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some growing pains. And these guys by

702
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: by late December, they're looking like future cornerstones of this defense.

703
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: Right now? Do you see them doing the same thing

704
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Speaker 1: for a position this year like they did with the

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Speaker 1: secondary one position? And just yeah, saturated, Yeah, just saturated,

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00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: and say, you know what, we're gonna bite the bullet

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Speaker 1: on A, B and C and just go ahead and

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Speaker 1: and try a whole new line of attack for the

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Speaker 1: offensive side. You're saying just in general, enjoy you might

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Speaker 1: you might have to replenish your linebackers. Maybe that's the well,

711
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: but that's gonna come down to two things. Can you

712
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: resign Hitchens? Yeah? And what is your evaluation going forward

713
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: of Jalen Smith? What do you project he can do?

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00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: Is he a sixteen game sixty snap a game starter?

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Speaker 1: Because if he is, then he's your middle linebacker. Buy

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Speaker 1: Anthony Hitchings and then you don't sign Anthony Hitchens, right,

717
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: But if you say you start sucking breath, yeah, then

718
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: you gotta sign Hitchens. Yeah, and then you can't sign

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Speaker 1: Hitchens and say Jalen Smith's gonna help me some and

720
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Speaker 1: then use your first round draft choice we talked about

721
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: it yesterday, and then sign another linebacker. Yeah, in the

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Speaker 1: first round. I mean, draft a first round linebacker? Sure?

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Speaker 1: How do you do that? Because if Hitchins is here,

724
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: he's your middle linebacker, right, where's that guy gonna play?

725
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: You know what I hate to say. For this last

726
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: month of the season, I think we saw the end

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00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: of David Irving here. Yeah? Maybe really you think so? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even though he's restricted and you can can kind of

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00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: control Yeah, but I think that you can. You can

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Speaker 1: kind of heade your bet. Yeah, he's right. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I can either do him on his you know,

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Speaker 1: normal get him a minimum right or a second round

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Speaker 1: or a second round. See I I you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can control your risks. I want to. I'm gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know what if it's second round, if it's a

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Speaker 1: second round tender. I still don't know if anybody would

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Speaker 1: do that. I still don't. I mean, now maybe somebody would, yea,

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Speaker 1: And I think that I think, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: I believe that that if somebody offered them a second

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Speaker 1: round tender on him, that they would take the second

741
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Speaker 1: round pick. I've been saying that too, and it's no

742
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Speaker 1: knock against him, but second round picks are well, they

743
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Speaker 1: push his commodity. They busted a few of them here,

744
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: well they have, but I mean it's I mean, first round,

745
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: huge second round pick. You're expecting teams expect their second

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Speaker 1: round pick to be starters. I mean, how many games

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Speaker 1: year one, if not year two, how many games is

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00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: he gonna end up playing this year? Eight? Well, he

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Speaker 1: missed the first four, but eight, yeah, yeah, because he

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00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: would have been four and four, four and four, yeah, bookends.

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, it's interesting you're saying that, though, Brian,

752
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: because just because man, before he got hurt, he was

753
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: looking like he had put five sacks in his first

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00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: five games, looked like maybe the most dynamic defender other

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00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: than DeMarcus Lawrence that they have. I have a feeling

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00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: that they Yeah, I have a feeling that they just

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00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: they tender what they have to tender, and if it

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00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: if it turns into a move on situation, they move on.

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00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: It's almost like let somebody else decide how much he's worth,

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Speaker 1: because if it's a second, it's not gonna even be

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00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: three million dollars. Well, it'll be to something. Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: no one, you know, and and I would think, well,

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Speaker 1: you never know what other people think. Right. If it

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Speaker 1: was me and I saw this guy and what his

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Speaker 1: production is and then the Cowboys say, oh, I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna tender him a second, boy, I'd have a red

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00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: flag going ahead and saying, okay, I'm gonna sign you

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Speaker 1: for three years fifteen million dollars. Yeah, there's some teams

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Speaker 1: Saint Jacksonville looks like they've had some success with their draft,

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00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: and then who they signed defensively, maybe somebody say, you

771
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Speaker 1: know Clais Campbell and Bouoye and those guys that they signed.

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Speaker 1: Maybe somebody's you know, the Giants. You look at what

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00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: the Giants gave the Cowboys fits last year with the

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Speaker 1: guys that they signed, you know, with the corner and

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Speaker 1: with the defense. I mean, some teams might say, hey,

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00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: we're a David Irving away in a rotation from being

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00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: pretty good defensive, and we've got salary cap money, and

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00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: we can go ahead and and bet three million dollars.

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00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: I just have a feeling I just have a feeling

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Speaker 1: that that that if they're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: let this thing go if you gotta express your feelings,

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Speaker 1: as des Maria showed us yesterday. So thank you. Let's

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Speaker 1: take our final break here. When we come back, we

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Speaker 1: of segment two beautiful discussing the rise of this defense.

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Speaker 1: Could they rise to top ten status by the end

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Speaker 1: to a close, which phase do you feel best about

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Speaker 1: on the Cowboys heading into twenty eighteen? Offense, defense or

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Speaker 1: is the defense now the strength of this football team?

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Speaker 1: I still think it has a lot of questions. I

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be able to franchise tag your rusher?

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Speaker 1: What's the health of the linebackers. Don't think you have

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Speaker 1: any questions about what the corners could be, you know,

844
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: I think there's some you know, but man, you have

845
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: some you would figure that as the offensive line. I mean,

846
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna lose your left guard. You know, you

847
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: don't think Cooper's back. I don't think Jonathan Cooper's back.

848
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: I don't you want them back? Played pretty well. I'm

849
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: in a situation where I think you're gonna need Mickey

850
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: swing tackles a really good plan right there. Yeah, you

851
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: know you got it. You better figure something out for

852
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley too. You better figure out how to get

853
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: him more open. You better figure out, Hey, Zekiellett, you know,

854
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 1: be careful with yourself in the offseason. My friend, need

855
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 1: you for all sixteen next year? Bubble wrap them? Yeah,

856
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: you know, I think Dak Prescott's gonna work hard. I

857
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: think he's gonna try and do what he has to

858
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: do to learn and be better. You know, I think

859
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: the coaches need to help him with some stuff. You know,

860
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 1: I don't feel good help him. But here's here's all

861
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now I'm a kickers starting to missfield goals.

862
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,959
Speaker 1: You know, felt good about the punter, felt good about

863
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: the coverage teams, felt good about the returner, except when

864
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: he fumbled in the Rams game that killed Mickeys, That

865
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: killed Mickey's dream. Yeah, there's a lot of quarter. Do

866
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 1: I sound like there's a lot of questions on this team? Sure,

867
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: oh nine and seven there are, but no, no, no,

868
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: when you go oh nine seven guaranteed to win. No,

869
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: when you go to when you you go two and

870
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: fourteen like the Giants, you're gonna go. I just kind

871
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: of named off a lot of things, didn't they for

872
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: nine and seventeen? Yeah? You did, which is amazing to

873
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: think that they were able to get there. That was

874
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: going to be my point. They were one win away

875
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: if they win this last game. The case with every

876
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: team though some of the way. No, No, there's some

877
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: really bad teams in this league. How there's questions on

878
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: going into an offseason with every team. Forty Niners feel better? Yes, Yeah,

879
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: they got a quarter. Yeah, but I'm just saying from

880
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: a salary cap Era's perspective, You're always gonna have questions

881
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: about certain guys contract, right. You gotta deal with guys

882
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,320
Speaker 1: getting a little older, right, you know, it's never perfect

883
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 1: for any team. I think we've seen across the league

884
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: this year. There's not a great team in this league

885
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,320
Speaker 1: right now. There's really not. So there's a lot of

886
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: good team. I think Philadelphia is a great team with

887
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: your quarterback, with their quarterback, what's the questions? What's the vikings?

888
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 1: But the vikings obviously playing with a backup quarterback too.

889
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: Who do you feel best about what position? With phase?

890
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: I still think the offense is personnel is the best

891
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: of the three groups. And here's another question you got

892
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith has dealt with a lot of stuff this year.

893
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: The back has been bothering for a couple of years now.

894
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: If he can get back and he's okay there, I'm

895
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: I'm still leaning an offense because you've still got three

896
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: Pro bowlers on your offensive line that are your foundation,

897
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: that helps your running game. You've still got a young

898
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: quarterback you feel good about. Does Bryant can still be

899
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: a productive receiver in this league? Are you hoping there now?

900
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: Are you open? What do you think last year was

901
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: an accident. What asking, Brian, I'm just saying offense was

902
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: last year an accident? No, I think they were. I

903
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: think their offense was really good because of their ability

904
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: to run the football, and I think that I think

905
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: they that helped him. I don't know now with where

906
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line is. I don't know if you can

907
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: get really the consistency. You want Mickey to be honest

908
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: with you, well, because the offense is going to affect

909
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: you running the ball if it's healthy. Is it healthy though?

910
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 1: That's the question. And and and we've we've dealt all

911
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: year long with a bulky left tackles health, and we've

912
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: dealt now with a with a right tackles health who

913
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: has to deal with a back injury. The consistency of

914
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: the left guard has not been great. Second round tackle

915
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: that can play guard, that's going to be the top

916
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 1: priority in the draft. You would enroll with Cooper again

917
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: next year? Is your left guard? I let me ask

918
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 1: you this as my back is the is the offensive

919
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: lines downfall has affected the whole team? Yes? Yes, yes,

920
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: absolutely so. Everybody feels good about the offense, though right

921
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: I feel better about the defense. I need two spots.

922
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: You need a linebacker and a swing No on the

923
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: offensive line. Oh, you need a left guard tackle and

924
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: a left guard. But you but your swing tackle might

925
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: play guard. It's what you're saying. Maybe maybe see that's

926
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: it's got to be, or he's a tackle for the future.

927
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think at the end of the day,

928
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: Mickey had this all right, the offensive lines issues. It

929
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: was really that. It wasn't Zeke being out of the lineup.

930
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: It was the offensive lines problems because the offensive line

931
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: made Dak Prescott what he is. Offensive line made Ezekiel

932
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: what he is. The offensive line helped. See. We keep

933
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: talking about does Bryant and all we do is look

934
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: at his numbers. No, but go back and look at

935
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,319
Speaker 1: the plays that caused those. Oh no, I'm with how

936
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: many passes do you think tipped off some? But he's

937
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: hand for an interception this year? Half dozen? Oh we

938
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: had six pick sixes, right, am? I right? Four or four? Ye?

939
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: And at least three he had some. He had some

940
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: clang passes, There's no doubt about that. I'm gonna say

941
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: a lot of that had to do with problems you

942
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 1: had with your offensive line. Let's be honest. Protection. I mean,

943
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: look at what happened in this last game. I love

944
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith, but was Tyrn Smith the reliable player this year?

945
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: Wasn't healthy? No, it's I'm saying his health caused you

946
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: to have problems. They net Mickey's right. Actually never his

947
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 1: absence he played through. They never if they never when

948
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: he was out of the lineup, they never solidified that

949
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: position right right, And I'm saying if there there is

950
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: a question, obviously can he come back be Hell if

951
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 1: he is, You've still got three elite players up front.

952
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: There's no reason that your offensive line can't be better

953
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: than next year. Maybe it's not going to be what

954
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: it was in twenty fourteen, but it should still be

955
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: a strength on your football. It's just an elite offensive line.

956
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: This year it hasn't been. It has not been, but

957
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: that potential still there. You still got guys in the

958
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: prime of their career. Oh I I'm with you. I'm

959
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: with you on three or four of them. Yeah, but

960
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: that one spot the problem is, and who's behind those

961
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: guys when they get Your left tackle is an elite player, right,

962
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: The problem is how much can you rely on your

963
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: left tackle? What's his How old is he? Twenty six?

964
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:32,959
Speaker 1: I think yeah. Six. He turned twenty six on December twelve, twelve.

965
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: Any big guy with a back, I mean, that's it's

966
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: something you got to think about and make sure you

967
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: got to manage that. But I think they can manage it.

968
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: The problem was he had a straight groin and then

969
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 1: he had a spray knee. Can he get it fixed

970
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: like DeMarcus did over the off season. No, it's not

971
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: a disc Yeah, it's see. Let me ask you guys

972
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,839
Speaker 1: this though. I mean no, No, I know you want

973
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: to switch the left guard and you talk about Collins back,

974
00:48:58,600 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: but what are you going to invest to do that?

975
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: You know, what are you gonna spend in free agency

976
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: on and a left guard? You didn't resign Ron Leary Nick,

977
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: it's a draft one. I don't disagree with him. There

978
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: gonna draft one that's gonna step in and start for you. Yes,

979
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: you have to second or third round be better than

980
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: what you got right now, as team has a history

981
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: of not picking those guys very well. Either come second

982
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: round over second or third round guys. Was on third

983
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: with Chaz Green. I'm just saying it's not it's not

984
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: this easy fix. You go find yourself another Ron Leary.

985
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: You know, you do have three pieces that when they're healthy,

986
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: to me, it ought to be good enough to be

987
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 1: a really good offensive line. But and Collins too, He's

988
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: played better and better except when one of the pieces

989
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: is out. Do you see them indulging in free agency

990
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: more for this? See that's my points. They just don't

991
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: ever seem to spin like that. They're gonna focus on

992
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: Zach Martin becoming the richest guard. You think they bottom

993
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: feed for a guard? I think you have to now,

994
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,760
Speaker 1: don't that's your solution. But you just bottom fix Bride.

995
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: It's my bridge. But I gotta find somebody to play

996
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: that spot, and I got I'm make a bad face

997
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 1: at Umia. I'm just sitting there thinking about how many

998
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: times it's the bottom feed. They bottom feeded on ron

999
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: Learry and it worked right well, they took it. They

1000
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: had They actually got ron Learry out of the draft, right,

1001
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: I know, But it was kind of a bottom feed

1002
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: because he ended up being a free He's got a

1003
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: knee problem, right, exactly problem they said people had him

1004
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: off the board. It's very similar what they've done in

1005
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: the past. They bottom feed on Lale Collins. That was

1006
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: an extraordinary uni, right, But they they made sure that

1007
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: they went and got him. They bottom fed on Nolan Carroll. Yeah,

1008
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: and that didn't work Steven, who retired even five games

1009
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: in the season. Yeah. See, so bottom feeding to me

1010
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: is not the answer. No, I'm with you on drafting

1011
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: the draft guy. I mean, they were taking how do

1012
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: I say it, just say it, educated chance on a

1013
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: Ron Leary. Yeah, because they knew about him. Oh, they

1014
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 1: had a high enough great on finimum salary. Yeah, undrafted, right,

1015
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: I didn't spend any money on these bottom feeders they signed,

1016
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: thank god. No. But but you're still that being said,

1017
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: and Tay's pointing this out, and she's right. Nold Carroll

1018
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: stepped in as your starter, he wouldn't have Zozy was healthy.

1019
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe not. Paia will look like a key piece

1020
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: in the defensive line during Yeah, they were counting on

1021
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: a couple of these guys. Try more in the rotation too.

1022
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: I worry about the Cedric Thornton's of the world, that

1023
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: kind of ye. I worry about that when somebody comes

1024
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: with that name and Stephen Jones goes, Okay, well, is

1025
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 1: this is this guy Cedric Thornton. It's like the time

1026
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: that Jerry Jones asked me about Leroy Glover. Can this

1027
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: guy really play? I'm about to hand him five million dollars,

1028
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: you know, but but it might be a little gunshi

1029
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: there were they maybe they took those chances on not

1030
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: Thornton because he was here already, but Paia. Yeah, and

1031
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:56,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't much right, right, because they knew David Irving

1032
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: was going to be suspended for four games. Yeah, they

1033
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 1: got rid of more Hia and in the corner because

1034
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: they had trust that MALIEK. Collins was going to be

1035
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: one of their starters in there, right, and then David Irving.

1036
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,919
Speaker 1: You you had to do something there because he wasn't

1037
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: going to be there for four games. So there was

1038
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 1: a little secondary thought there and what you had to do.

1039
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you this, keep it rolling

1040
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: legitimate guard starting guard free agency or Anthony Hitchins in

1041
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,879
Speaker 1: free agency. I think I'm going after a legitimate defensive end.

1042
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: I might draft when they're t bolster your pass, but

1043
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: that's gonnat you ad another zeke. Let me ask you this, well, yeah,

1044
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 1: that's gotta beat Taco. Yeah. Well, let me think about

1045
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna pay Anthony Hitchens or you're gonna

1046
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,959
Speaker 1: pay a quality left guard that can start. You gonna

1047
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 1: have to tell me what's the prognosis on Jalen Smith.

1048
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, this is gonna play sixteen games for you.

1049
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: I mean he snaps per game. He's gonna play them all.

1050
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: But then I can't resign Hitchens, So you gotta go through.

1051
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Speaker 1: I hate to say it. Yeah, that's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: hardest thing. Okay, what what's gonna make what's gonna make

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Speaker 1: you what's gonna make you cringe? What's gonna make you cringe?

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00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 1: I have to because if I do it that way,

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00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: then I've got to have another what's the stat line

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Speaker 1: that's gonna or what's this recently? A decent not high

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00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: like a first round pick, but somebody that can come

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00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: in and play linebacker. Yeah, as a backup, right, And

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00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 1: I can't do that in the first round if the

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Speaker 1: guy's not going to be a starter. Yeah, like ray

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Speaker 1: Kuan Smith from Georgia. Yeah, because if I do that,

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Speaker 1: then you know, but I won't know. You want somebody's play,

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00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: don't I want somebody that In case Jalen can't do

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00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: it or Sean Lee can't do it, I can have

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00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 1: a guy and that amazed. A backup, you're being held

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00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: hostage now by two good players. I mean, I think

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00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith is going to be a good player, but

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00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: the unknown that he's just talking about now has held

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00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: you hosta They've got to get a very good medical

1070
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: evaluation of where they think he's at, and they will.

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00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: But can you get it soon enough? Like, can you

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00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: get it by April? They think, No, they think he's

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00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 1: gonna be better than eighteen. They do, and they can.

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00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 1: That was the timeline he played. He's played sixty more games.

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Speaker 1: I thought he would they honestly, I think all along

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00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: they were looking at twenty eighteen even Yeah, well they

1077
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: were here in the fact that he played sixteen. Doctor

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00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: Steiner basically said twenty eighteen will be his season. He

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00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: plays ten games for the season to make you cringe. Yes, okay,

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00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 1: does that make you want to go get Yes, Anthy Hitchins. Yes,

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00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: what's more important to Anthony Hitchens or that left guard?

1082
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: I have to get the left guard in the draft? Okay, Yeah,

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00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: that's the cheapest way to do it, and then maybe

1084
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 1: I can afford Hitchens, because you know what Hitchens can

1085
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: he may be Jalen Smith out who knows the biggest

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00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: bus factor in the draft if you had to go

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00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: get a linebacker or the guard guard. They've missed on

1088
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: guards years ago, I mean pre McLay. Yeah, you know,

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00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: do you trust him now? Draft an offensive lineman David

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00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: Arkin in the third round? Oh well that's ancient history. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just saying, just saying, it's not an exact science.

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00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: Regardless of who's pulling the trigger for you, that one

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00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: should have been exact. Okay, yeah, okay, MC David Arkin

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00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:31,400
Speaker 1: about Chads Green in the third he didn't know he

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00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: was going to be hurt. For two, he was hurt

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00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 1: coming in. Chads Green was not terrible last year. No,

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00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't. Anybody was hurt. Right, let me ask you this.

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00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 1: He missed, he missed all of last year. Basically interested

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00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: in replacing the offensive line coach? Would that be a consideration.

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00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,919
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I know nobody wants to get fired.

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00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be Oh you're not

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Speaker 1: firing anybody. But they were pretty good last year. Yeah yeah, right,

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00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: minus one spot. Yeah, Siekes got more rushing yards than

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Speaker 1: Emmett did in this first There you go. I'm hesitant there.

1105
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: And by the way we're talking about all this, you

1106
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 1: gotta pick and shoes. You may have to make hard decisions.

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00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 1: That's why I'm very tapped the brakes on his dad's

1108
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: gonna be back, because man, if you were to let

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00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: him go, then you create another big void of how

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00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:18,759
Speaker 1: do you know he always talks about that if you

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00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: get rid of guys, who's gonna tell me who might

1112
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: replace me? And he's right about that. He is right. Well,

1113
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: you're gonna spend a first round pick now on receiver.

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00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: I just, oh yeah, would drive him nuts if he

1115
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: knew he needed a linebacker or needed another position. Because

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00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: it's established they're not gonna spend tons of money in

1117
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: free agencies. Jack Martin is their big free agent or

1118
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: or and also the rush end. Right, they're gonna give

1119
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Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars. They're gonna guarantee seventeen million dollars to

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Speaker 1: Lawrence think about franchise tag Yeah, yeah, hopefully it CAP's

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Speaker 1: going up. Wow wow, Well before we go, we have

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Speaker 1: two minutes left, but let's get to Denny and why

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Speaker 1: he's been paid on the line. Denny, sorry to cut

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Speaker 1: you short. Hello, Hello, how are you guys doing thanks

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Speaker 1: very good, Danny. Yeah, that's really quick. Um this offseason,

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Speaker 1: do you think that Will McClay and Stephen Jones really

1127
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: sits down with um Marinelli or with the offense? Like

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Speaker 1: I think we need more team speed on offense and

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Speaker 1: then on defense. I want a true number one technique

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00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:31,919
Speaker 1: to keep guys off of Jalen and and um leet.

1131
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: That's what I really want. And you know, can they

1132
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: sit them down and convinced them to take these guys on?

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Alla, Hello, thank you. Can you

1134
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,439
Speaker 1: get that guy from Texas from last night? Ninety five?

1135
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Why was his name? Pop Poa?

1136
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me about it last night. I had not

1137
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: looked at him. Somebody on Twitter asked me big enough

1138
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: to take up two spots machine with arms? Oh it was,

1139
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: We'll see that's Washington's got a guy too the university WinCE.

1140
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: And by the way, some one techniques in this draft.

1141
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: You need the number one punter in the in the draft.

1142
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: I saw him last night from Texas? Are you kidding me?

1143
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: I can't wait pee of the game. I can't wait

1144
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 1: for your player breakdowns coming up with the draft. Please

1145
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 1: use coke machine with arms at point. Please do that.

1146
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: I'll tell them what that that that they've got some

1147
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 1: one techniques in this draft. You're gonna have to convince

1148
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: Rod to do that now. The next question is though

1149
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: about speed. Everybody's seeing Christian Kirk play. Yes, sex's A

1150
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: and M. That's that's a legitimate guy right there. If

1151
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: you want a guy that can stretch, can stretch defenses,

1152
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 1: can run routes with the same speed, explosives, electric player

1153
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: at the college. It's five eleven, he's two hundred pounds,

1154
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: he's thick enough. There's a lot of things that you

1155
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: can do with him. How about the kicks? How about

1156
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 1: the guy at SMU. I'm small, No, no, he's a

1157
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: six three, you know type guy, good player. The problem

1158
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: is making I'm getting away from these big, big guys

1159
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: that aren't great route runners. I think you have to

1160
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 1: be able to separate. I really really do. You guys

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Speaker 1: are great. Previous show coming our next week a game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. There is a game, and we'll have a

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Speaker 1: Friday show, our last day show up, showing up tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I'll be there, Mickey. This has been a production of

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