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Speaker 1: joined by two former Dallas Cowboys safety's Danny McCray and
Speaker 1: Barry Church. Gentlemen, how are we doing on a Thursday?
Speaker 1: Doing good? Man, doing good? It's beautiful day outside. Um,
Speaker 1: you know you got a little work out in earlier,
Speaker 1: so you know, feeling good, feeling great. Man. Listen, I
Speaker 1: found out. I found out yesterday and I got two
Speaker 1: enemies on the show. So I'm gonna just be quiet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to make you know,
Speaker 1: without without without causing any issues, you know, because I
Speaker 1: thought I thought, I thought I had two friends, man,
Speaker 1: But you know, they turned it back on me. Man,
Speaker 1: They turned it back on man. You know what I
Speaker 1: always say, Man, you look and I knew it, and
Speaker 1: I knew he won't even literally express my feelings. Bro
Speaker 1: goodness great, I can't do nothing on the show man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you so could. I did appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: running me down last night on Texas. Miami was getting
Speaker 1: dragged and game that was ugly. Now that was ugly.
Speaker 1: You said Miami is six. Huh. He did say that.
Speaker 1: He did say that you stick it with that. Get
Speaker 1: one Muther again, man, you get one Muther again. You're
Speaker 1: sure you want you want to stick with that? Man?
Speaker 1: Got got guys hurt. Now, I don't know. Man, ain't
Speaker 1: got drop foot injson. Jimmy got hurt. It was ugly, man,
Speaker 1: and they made it. Would be just very interesting if
Speaker 1: Dwight Howard ends up getting a championship ring after the
Speaker 1: last few seasons where he has played. I mean, everyone
Speaker 1: has dumped Dwight Howard. The Hornets dumped him, his hometown
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks dumped him, the Washington Wizards dumped him. And
Speaker 1: then this guy would jump on Lebron James and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis is back and get himself a ring. That would
Speaker 1: be that would be that would be something. If Dwight
Speaker 1: Howard ran out there with a ring from this NBA
Speaker 1: Orlando bubble. But what you mean, game, woman, you talk
Speaker 1: about I mean, this is a foregone conclusion. Man, it's
Speaker 1: over with. It's talk about the Cowboys. About the Cowboys
Speaker 1: they take on the Cleveland Browns. There was there was
Speaker 1: a topic that we brought up in pre show yesterday
Speaker 1: that we didn't get to the I want to dive
Speaker 1: into that, and it is or the one in two
Speaker 1: twenty twenty Cowboys better than the three and old twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen Dallas Cowboys. Forget what twenty you guys have brought
Speaker 1: that up. But Church, you go ahead and start on this.
Speaker 1: What's your opinion three games in of this season versus
Speaker 1: last season? Man? You know what three games in? Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and say this, This Cowboys team
Speaker 1: this year is better, man, um yo, just just talent alone.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're a lot better than with that
Speaker 1: group they had last year, especially offensively. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you got your number four and five receivers Wilson and
Speaker 1: um Noah Brown out there making plays, big time plays
Speaker 1: and games like that, I mean, it just goes to
Speaker 1: show you how much depth they have at that position.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's hard for any team to
Speaker 1: hang with the group of receivers we have. Now we
Speaker 1: do have, you know, some problems on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: We got some injury reason all that, But overall, I
Speaker 1: got the feeling that, you know, this this team that
Speaker 1: we had right now, um, they show a lot of
Speaker 1: fight and you know, they're one and two through the
Speaker 1: first three games. Last year we were three and no.
Speaker 1: But um, the three and no team, they went against
Speaker 1: a lot of scrugs and I meant it was Washington,
Speaker 1: New York and I think Miami were our first three
Speaker 1: wins last year against the Against the teams we had
Speaker 1: this year, I mean, we had Atlanta LA who's balling
Speaker 1: out right now. Atlanta's O and three, but I think
Speaker 1: they're the best oh and three team in the league.
Speaker 1: And then um, obviously we lost to the Seattle last week.
Speaker 1: So just the competition alone for the first three weeks,
Speaker 1: I feel like this team, um is better than what
Speaker 1: we produced last year. And hopefully we just don't end
Speaker 1: like we did last year and uh make it to
Speaker 1: the playoffs this year. I'm total opposite of you. I
Speaker 1: think I think last year we were better, Uh, I
Speaker 1: mean talent wise, I mean, if you look at it,
Speaker 1: we added um ceedee lamb. Other than that, we still
Speaker 1: had the same offense. On defense, uh, I think we
Speaker 1: were we played a lot better than than we've been
Speaker 1: playing this year. So I think that that last year
Speaker 1: we were in a better position, you know, to make
Speaker 1: some plays, but we just we just didn't make those.
Speaker 1: This year we have. So we said we had bad
Speaker 1: coaching last year. This year we have horrible coaching and
Speaker 1: less talent as far as on the defense wise. So
Speaker 1: I think that that so far this year, I would
Speaker 1: have to say that we are behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1: Injuries have played a lot into this thing. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about last season, just you know, one of
Speaker 1: the things you do to the offensive line, Travis Frederick
Speaker 1: was there last year. He's not there this year. And
Speaker 1: in my opinion, one of the big things that hurt
Speaker 1: the Cowboys with their old line was not having an
Speaker 1: off season because there were two players I was very
Speaker 1: interested to see if they could win jobs had they
Speaker 1: had OTA's mini camps and a pool training camp. That
Speaker 1: was Tyler, to be honest, the center they took out
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin, and then Connor mcgoverned, the second year guard
Speaker 1: who many people thought could challenge Connor Williams. I was
Speaker 1: hearing that from people right there at the Stars. So
Speaker 1: you know, not having these guys, um, I think from
Speaker 1: an offensive line standpoint, then you see, you know, we
Speaker 1: got LEL. Collins out and and Tyrn Smith is smiss
Speaker 1: two games already, So right out of the gate, you
Speaker 1: know your offensive line for twenty twenty is nowhere as
Speaker 1: good as the offensive line you had is twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Then you look at lake Vanderesh Sean Lee not playing
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys on defense in twenty twenty versus these
Speaker 1: guys playing uh and helping this team in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's I don't want to say two
Speaker 1: different teams, but but there's a there's there's not there's
Speaker 1: there's some differences here And go ahead, Dan, I got
Speaker 1: a question, so listen. So, so for for the first
Speaker 1: three games, but any of these games, would you say
Speaker 1: that the old line and the injuries and the substitutions
Speaker 1: that we had in the lineup has cost us to
Speaker 1: lose the game versus play calling defense and in just uh,
Speaker 1: the offense in general has has the offensive line you
Speaker 1: have You looked at him be like, man, if we
Speaker 1: would have had an offensive line, we would have won
Speaker 1: that game. I think that the Atlanta game, we definitely
Speaker 1: saw in the first quarter when they kept turning the
Speaker 1: ball over left and right. They did not know how
Speaker 1: to handle the Falcons be tat McKinley. When once McKinley
Speaker 1: got got had growing injury, went out of the game,
Speaker 1: life got a lot of got a lot easier. But
Speaker 1: they were not handling Grady Jared up front. He was
Speaker 1: running through guys and tat McKinley as well. I mean
Speaker 1: that thing was tough. So I definitely feel like the
Speaker 1: offensive line, but they caught up, but we won the game.
Speaker 1: Injuries won the game. But still there was that was
Speaker 1: not a clean game offensive line at all. It just
Speaker 1: was not. No, I'm just saying they're not the weakest.
Speaker 1: They're not the weakest on the on the team. Like
Speaker 1: like if you have a level of of of like
Speaker 1: phases of the game who aren't playing well, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put the old line up. There is number one for
Speaker 1: something that needs to be fixed for us to win games.
Speaker 1: I think they're playing decent enough for us to win.
Speaker 1: They might be one, but but Danny, I'm going back
Speaker 1: to the question was which is better one and two
Speaker 1: twenty twenty Cowboys or three and old twenty nine team Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So I'm comparing the old lines looking at them just
Speaker 1: based on the topic here, and for me, the offensive
Speaker 1: line in twenty twenty with the issues and the combinations,
Speaker 1: that's one reason why I'm saying the twenty twenty team
Speaker 1: is not as good as the twenty nineteen team because
Speaker 1: you had a better offensive line and if you look
Speaker 1: at what Dak Prescott and obviously it was bad teams,
Speaker 1: but you know, his first three games, this guy was
Speaker 1: balling out like crazy, and Dak Prescott while he's put
Speaker 1: up numbers, Dak Prescott's not played clean as he did
Speaker 1: the year before. Now, part of it is better competition,
Speaker 1: but also just I just believe that they're offensively, they're
Speaker 1: not where they need to be, So to me, they
Speaker 1: would really go back to answer the question, I think
Speaker 1: last year's three and old team after you know that,
Speaker 1: that's a better club than what we're seeing right now.
Speaker 1: So that's that's my my my retort to that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm still going with twenty twenty, but I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys, you guys had you guys had your your
Speaker 1: points there. I mean, we are struggling a little bit offensively,
Speaker 1: but I still gotta go with this team. Just offer
Speaker 1: the rep of the competition we're going against compared to
Speaker 1: last year's competition. Yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool with the
Speaker 1: old line. Uh, you know, I want them to be healthy.
Speaker 1: But I just think we have, you know, bigger issues
Speaker 1: than them. I think that we can we can make
Speaker 1: it through a few games, you know, and and have
Speaker 1: the capability to win those games with the old line
Speaker 1: that we have if we tidy up some stuff in
Speaker 1: other phases of the game. Look, would you say that
Speaker 1: the would you say that the offensive line is a
Speaker 1: is a top three issue though? Or would you just
Speaker 1: or you you think that you know, they're not really
Speaker 1: that issue at all. No, no, no, it's it's an issue.
Speaker 1: You want to have your guys out there. But I
Speaker 1: think that that defense is one to me coaching actually
Speaker 1: coaching this one defense is too And then yeah, I
Speaker 1: would put I would put play calling in offensive line somewhere.
Speaker 1: You know, three A and three B. All right, So
Speaker 1: so stay there because that's another topic that we hit
Speaker 1: in on the pre show meeting. You're your two biggest
Speaker 1: issues for the Cowboys and what they faced so far
Speaker 1: this year. So Danny, you're gonna coaching number one, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: And and and I say that because when you look
Speaker 1: at the defense, a lot of the errors that they're making,
Speaker 1: like you can get out physical sometimes and you know,
Speaker 1: some guy, some teams just come in and and and
Speaker 1: they have a scheme that's that's better than yours. Are
Speaker 1: running back and stronger, and you see some guys get
Speaker 1: ran over. That stuff happens, that's football. But when you see,
Speaker 1: you know, the game in and game out guys with
Speaker 1: their eyes in the backfield, that's blowing coverage, just playing
Speaker 1: cover one and letting guys run free, and you know,
Speaker 1: uh doing stuff on special teams, dropping balls, and like
Speaker 1: the list goes on for for for coaching errors, things
Speaker 1: that coaching should be able to fix for us. And
Speaker 1: I think if you subtract those, even half of those
Speaker 1: from the first three games, don't I think the outcome
Speaker 1: is totally different from from where we're sitting right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: So coaching's one. What's your second with Danny? The second
Speaker 1: one for me just because and I say this because
Speaker 1: I know that our defense is going to continue to
Speaker 1: struggle because you know, injuries and what we have there
Speaker 1: is play calling and us being able to call plays
Speaker 1: and create the floor of the game that helps out
Speaker 1: the defense so they don't so they're not stuck out
Speaker 1: there on the field and having to play defense for
Speaker 1: the entire game and us getting beat in time on possession.
Speaker 1: So I'm going coaching, and then you know, my one
Speaker 1: part where I'm going to straight the offense is Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore and Mike McCarthy figuring out how to help out
Speaker 1: the rest of the team by calling offensive plays that
Speaker 1: that suits us and helps us control the clock. All right, Church,
Speaker 1: your two from Yeah for me, you can kind of
Speaker 1: put this in the coaching realm. But I'm gonna say communication.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen how these secondaries, you know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's between the coaches and the players
Speaker 1: or the players themselves, but something's not getting right through
Speaker 1: there when it comes to communication. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the safety's not communicating to the corners or the
Speaker 1: or the front seven. I don't know who's messing up,
Speaker 1: but somebody's messing up there because you can't just I mean,
Speaker 1: just look at last week. You can't just have guys
Speaker 1: running scott free, like you pointed out there, and you
Speaker 1: can't have them running scott free through your secondary that way. Usually,
Speaker 1: if you're safe, you're the last line of defense. So
Speaker 1: even if everything breaks down, you gotta be back there.
Speaker 1: You can't let anything go over your head. And we've
Speaker 1: seen too many instances of that this year where guys
Speaker 1: are just blown coverages, guys are wide open. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if it's the communication between the coaches and
Speaker 1: the players or the players to other players relaying the call,
Speaker 1: but something has to work out there. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a coaching slash communication issue going on
Speaker 1: there for one problem, and the other one is to me,
Speaker 1: it's got to be injuries. We know it's it's a
Speaker 1: part of the game. I mean people, it's a violent sport.
Speaker 1: People are gonna get hurt. But I mean when you
Speaker 1: have the rash of injuries that we've had, I mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna affect the team. I mean we got you know,
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins out, tying Smith, I mean Frederick who decided
Speaker 1: to retire. We're down to our third linebacker in the middle.
Speaker 1: You know, we lost our two starting corners on the outside.
Speaker 1: So I mean, like like it is, it's a part
Speaker 1: of the game being injured, but when you have injuries
Speaker 1: of this magnitude, it's going to affect the team. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm echoing a lot of what Danny said. It's the
Speaker 1: coaching and the coaching from the standpoint of guys being
Speaker 1: ready to play. Coaching from the standpoint of guys understanding assignments,
Speaker 1: Coaching from the standpoint of guys buying into what's going
Speaker 1: on here, because you've got some players right now that
Speaker 1: aren't buying in to how they're doing defensively. And also
Speaker 1: coaching from the standpoint of what you said, Danny is
Speaker 1: they need to have complimentary play. They gotta play complimentary football.
Speaker 1: You just gonna be out calling plays. You gotta be
Speaker 1: calling some plays instead up here. And also protect your defense.
Speaker 1: And I've been saying this from from Jump Street the
Speaker 1: season starting. This Cowboys defense is not good enough to
Speaker 1: be on the football field thirty minutes. The offense has
Speaker 1: to find a way to protect it. So I'm putting
Speaker 1: all that into coaching, right, all that right there into coaching.
Speaker 1: And my second one is turnovers. I mean, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are mine is four and you simply can't be you
Speaker 1: can't you can't have you know, four negative turnovers and
Speaker 1: trying to win football games. It's just hard. I go
Speaker 1: back and look at what happened in Seattle. You throw
Speaker 1: an interception right before the half and Russ Russ converts
Speaker 1: it into a touchdown, and then you come out of
Speaker 1: the half and you got a fumble and they go
Speaker 1: out here and get more points out of it. And
Speaker 1: you can't do that, especially when I started looking here
Speaker 1: at Cleveland and right here on my notes for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: they are tied for second in the NFL and they've
Speaker 1: scored thirty one points off turnovers. So that's an area
Speaker 1: that they can keep talking about and telling you in
Speaker 1: the locker room and go work on it. Mike mccarthur
Speaker 1: can say, there's press conferences, but if you slip up
Speaker 1: and give the football to Cleveland this week, you could
Speaker 1: be looking at an l And I don't know if
Speaker 1: fans realize this is not this is not your your
Speaker 1: regular Browns that you've been used to the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski is coming here and at least figured out
Speaker 1: what their identity is. They got a big offensive line
Speaker 1: that they paid money for. They're trying to run the
Speaker 1: football and limit Baker Mayfield. If Baker Mayfield is throwing
Speaker 1: the ball under twenty twenty five times twenty five times
Speaker 1: a game and under, they're able to win. When that
Speaker 1: dude throws it more, they're going to lose. So that
Speaker 1: those are my two for me, the coaching and the turnovers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let me follow up with the coaching things, just
Speaker 1: so we can be clear on this, all right, we
Speaker 1: try the hardest to lose. The Atlanta game, you think about.
Speaker 1: Your defense is struggling. You go two fake punts, right,
Speaker 1: so you're you're putting the defense on short fields after
Speaker 1: already having turnovers. You turn around the next game and coaching,
Speaker 1: you have your your your your kick returner, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to return every kick. And he makes a mistake
Speaker 1: and he puts the defense on the short field as well.
Speaker 1: And then we go out there and we missed. We
Speaker 1: missed two field goals, two extra points. They watch blocks
Speaker 1: two extra points. You've missed two extra points. You're giving
Speaker 1: the ball on the short field, like you said. Then
Speaker 1: we go out there and fumble and give Russell short field.
Speaker 1: All these things they just they just go back to
Speaker 1: coaching to me, like you said, and being ready, having
Speaker 1: you guys ready to play. But some of these are
Speaker 1: just decisions that you know they're head scratching, especially when
Speaker 1: you know the makeup of a team. So fix that.
Speaker 1: And and we could possibly be twill and one. Look
Speaker 1: they can't. But they got three games in a row
Speaker 1: here at home. The Cowboys have got to make hay
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy had mentioned that at his press conference
Speaker 1: as well. Here, okay, a lot of get to here
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Speaker 1: Safety's Buried Church and Danny McCrae. Dak Prescott spoke to
Speaker 1: the media today. I listened to it. I did not
Speaker 1: see the video, Chris Bean, Do you know it's Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott wearing his Mississippi State shirt at all because they
Speaker 1: kind of they had a nice little win over weekend,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know. Okay, okay, yeah, just just check
Speaker 1: on that form on the head Hail State shirt, you know,
Speaker 1: because Mike Leaks went into Death Valley and just ran up.
Speaker 1: Leave it, know it. You do know that the LSU
Speaker 1: Fighting Tigers are still the defending national champions right, Okay,
Speaker 1: just just check it. Just checking. I just wanted you know,
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to know that I thought you forgotten.
Speaker 1: Oh so, so you're gonna be like the Eagles and
Speaker 1: keep celebrating this chan sampionship for years and years. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be like that. No, that's just the still celebrating.
Speaker 1: So they are they are. They are no longer defending
Speaker 1: national champions. We are still defending national champions So we're
Speaker 1: just gonna ride it for the year like we're supposed to.
Speaker 1: The trophy stays with us until somebody takes it. So, yes,
Speaker 1: it's still ours, thank you. Okay. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: all want to be like Nick Saban, you know who
Speaker 1: won a championship with lash and Mini at Alaba, Nick Saban.
Speaker 1: You know he keeps it rolling, you know, last year's
Speaker 1: last year. But if you guys still celebrating last years
Speaker 1: last year, when Nick saban last years last year? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, could keep keep picking and choosing. Man, it's okay, man,
Speaker 1: I know you like the fighting tigers. This cool. You
Speaker 1: can get on the bad wagon. I just asked if
Speaker 1: dad wore a hell State shirt. Man. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: because that's all you was doing. That's all you was doing.
Speaker 1: That's all you mean. Hey, I picked LSHO this week
Speaker 1: is they get ready to face Vandy the one. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to pick us. Don't pick her. You
Speaker 1: picked my Andy, don't pick us, don't pick us. You
Speaker 1: pick you picked the heat the win, you pick it. Man,
Speaker 1: I ain't gotta danta fight in this one. Do whatever
Speaker 1: y'all want to do over there. Man, Look, eitherbody worrying
Speaker 1: about LSU or Mississippi State Rights throwing slugs from the back,
Speaker 1: y'all ain't here. Y'all can't hear what Chris Beans saying.
Speaker 1: But he throwing slugs. He wouldn't dare watch his school play.
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about in fairness to barry the Mac.
Speaker 1: The Mac hasn't played, you know, they decided they weren't
Speaker 1: gonna play. Now that I think they're deciding there they
Speaker 1: made players, is it? What? What? What's the issue there?
Speaker 1: I mean, Barry, they're still trying to play like a
Speaker 1: six game a matter of fact. A matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to play like a little six
Speaker 1: six game season something like that. Man, you know the MAC. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, me and the MAC. We don't really get
Speaker 1: along like that. So you know you're asking the wrong
Speaker 1: person right here. Come on, baby, don't give them all
Speaker 1: the macchin. Come on now, that was it Tuesday at
Speaker 1: Wednesday night matching? Come on Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday. Hey, they
Speaker 1: you'll play any time of the day. As a guy
Speaker 1: who used to cover some Kent State football games, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm and and acri A can win any
Speaker 1: good But hey man, I'm the MAC. Is good by me,
Speaker 1: Mac is good by mean a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of good football players in the MAC. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you start to think about in the NFL, you gotta
Speaker 1: like Ben Roethlisberger, Khalil Max. So they do some player
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, you know, Barry Church and Curtis you know,
Speaker 1: Kareem Korean. Yeah, and we talked about college football coaches. Um,
Speaker 1: if you go was up there for a little bit,
Speaker 1: that's right. You started looking at the history of college
Speaker 1: coaches who coached in the Macca. Aero Parts Teak, Woody Hayes.
Speaker 1: I mean, um, they've got a lot of Urban Meyer
Speaker 1: coached in the MACCA. I mean the MAC is that
Speaker 1: is a good football league. That it's not a Power
Speaker 1: five conference. And if you're if you can't play Power
Speaker 1: five football or you're not coaching Power five football, the MAC,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is one of the best in the country.
Speaker 1: So I got nothing but good things to say about
Speaker 1: that league that I got the cover back in the day.
Speaker 1: So the MAC is good by me, Man, all good
Speaker 1: by me. Nui endorses the MAC. Man good to know
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. They didn't do that to me. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not personal for me, it's personal for you, man. Man,
Speaker 1: MAC didn't do nothing to me. Man. I was able to,
Speaker 1: you know, have have my career go to where I
Speaker 1: wanted to go. Man. So, uh, you know, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, we're going mad at Bowling Green. They all
Speaker 1: they all had a piece. They all had a piece.
Speaker 1: They all had a piece of the Shenanigans man, so
Speaker 1: it's all good. Though you know it's all good, it's
Speaker 1: all good. I don't think it's all good, Danny. You.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's good. Danny listening. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what we're not about to do. I tell a lot
Speaker 1: of it's not about about this Salt Church segment. All right,
Speaker 1: we ain't about to do that. I wouldn't I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be on your side. But after what you did yesterday
Speaker 1: pleaded the field, I say the weeks, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: forget this city. Man. I'll tell you what, man, I
Speaker 1: tell you what, like I always say with friends like y'all, Man,
Speaker 1: y'all know the rest. Man, it's crazy. We are in
Speaker 1: our SWBC Mortgage Virtual Home studios. Another topic one to
Speaker 1: get into, and that is Brandon car So, guys with
Speaker 1: the issues going on at the defensive back and the
Speaker 1: defensive back feeling Jerry Jones saying they're not about to
Speaker 1: go out here, bring anybody in? Is it time to
Speaker 1: put Brandon car back there at safety? This week? Is
Speaker 1: they take on the Cleveland Church? I say why not?
Speaker 1: I mean, from from what we've seen these first couple
Speaker 1: of games, I mean, why not put him out there?
Speaker 1: I don't think he can do any worse than what
Speaker 1: you know we've seen so far. This is a guy
Speaker 1: he's going into twelfth or thirteen year in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's seen pretty much every single offensive scheme
Speaker 1: out there. He's seen all the route combinations, and furthermore,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that he can go
Speaker 1: back there and he can calm this secondary down. I mean,
Speaker 1: when things start to get haywire, a couple of players
Speaker 1: get made here and there, this is a veteran presence.
Speaker 1: This is a guy back there who can calm everybody down,
Speaker 1: get everybody lined up in the right way, and sean
Speaker 1: you know what to expect. I mean, it's a guy
Speaker 1: who knows how to break down film. He's been in
Speaker 1: the league for all a decade and something, So this
Speaker 1: is a guy that can he could do all those
Speaker 1: things for these young guys, settle them down, get them
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. So, like I said, I
Speaker 1: don't see why not. I think he deserves a shot
Speaker 1: back there. Yeah. For me, honestly, I'd really like to
Speaker 1: see some creativity and defense to where he's able to
Speaker 1: come in and play safety in certain positions and corner
Speaker 1: and certain situations in corner and other situations, right, So
Speaker 1: I don't want them to be out there having to
Speaker 1: be a full term safety, having to try to be
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas and all that. If there's somebody tight end
Speaker 1: and needs to be covered or some something that fits
Speaker 1: his skill set, you know, playing safety, then have that
Speaker 1: package for him to come out there and do that.
Speaker 1: And then I would love to see him get redemption
Speaker 1: on the Odell as well. So I want to see
Speaker 1: him covering the covering O'Dell out there, you know, get
Speaker 1: his payback for what happened last time, the most famous
Speaker 1: kitchen in NFL history, And I think he could do that,
Speaker 1: but I want to see some creativity. I think moving
Speaker 1: him around loving to play safety in corner, just like
Speaker 1: they did in Baltimore would be best for our defense.
Speaker 1: So as former players, I look at Brandon Carr, who
Speaker 1: spent your numerous years in Baltimore, playing these Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: twice a year. How much can he help other players
Speaker 1: about tendencies and things he sees out there and how
Speaker 1: much do you think he can help just based on
Speaker 1: and I know it's a different coaching staff in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: but understanding what guys like Odell Beckham Junior and Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry like to do on a football field. Church, I
Speaker 1: think I think he can help out a lot. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling but the guy that can help out even more,
Speaker 1: in my opinion is Um the White. I think he's
Speaker 1: an our wide receivers coach. Now, is that I am
Speaker 1: mistaken saying that? Yes? Yes, okay, so yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that guy can help out even more. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a guy that was with O'Dell and Jarvis Adam
Speaker 1: four seasons, Adam Henry he was. He was with O'Dell
Speaker 1: and large Jarvis Landry out there in Cleveland, and he
Speaker 1: can just give you the little nuances about their game.
Speaker 1: I mean, he can tell these dbs how they like
Speaker 1: to release, what's their favorite route concept, what you know,
Speaker 1: what the little little tell tales they have. If it's
Speaker 1: a pass play and O'Dell thinks he's getting the ball shoe,
Speaker 1: does he tighten his gloves up, does he do anything
Speaker 1: with his mouthpiece? I just think he can tell us
Speaker 1: a lot about this team and a lot about what
Speaker 1: the receivers like to do, because, I mean, face it,
Speaker 1: as a secondary, we've been struggling and we need all
Speaker 1: the help we can get. So if I'm a warner,
Speaker 1: if I'm a safety, if I'm in the secondary, I'm
Speaker 1: going to that coach right now, and I'm asking him,
Speaker 1: you know, what's his favorite release off the line of scrimmage?
Speaker 1: How do I get under his skin during the play?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm asking everything because I'm sure he would
Speaker 1: know that he was with those guys. He was in
Speaker 1: the room with those guys, and he knows how they
Speaker 1: work and how they play. So if I'm a cowboy secondary,
Speaker 1: I'm going straight to him and saying what he can
Speaker 1: give me. You know, Church, if we had been playing
Speaker 1: a little bit better on defense, I would be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent with him. But at this point, and you
Speaker 1: know how we've been playing, I don't want our dbs
Speaker 1: thinking about nothing but having the eyes in the right
Speaker 1: place and planning the coverage that is called. I don't
Speaker 1: want them looking to see if if they if they
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a runner pass based on how
Speaker 1: theyll stand in. No, none of that. Because last week
Speaker 1: they were out there in a two man route by
Speaker 1: Seattle and we had four dbs in front of these guys.
Speaker 1: They got behind four dbs. So I just want them
Speaker 1: focusing on what they're supposed to be doing. Go out
Speaker 1: there and use the man to man cover skills that
Speaker 1: you were taught up until now and start there. Just
Speaker 1: just cover who you're supposed to come. Just do that,
Speaker 1: and then you know, as you do that, then you
Speaker 1: start reading into seeing how how they're playing throughout the game.
Speaker 1: But until until you can get on your p's and
Speaker 1: ques and get the basics. Now, just you know, just
Speaker 1: focus on that. But do you do you have faith
Speaker 1: that they can do that? I mean, we've seen three
Speaker 1: weeks of not so great play subpart player? Or do
Speaker 1: you have faith that they can just go out there
Speaker 1: and know? I like that. I don't. That's why I
Speaker 1: don't want to add nothing else. They don't need to
Speaker 1: be asking nothing except what should I be looking at? Coach?
Speaker 1: What you think? What about looking at? You think? If
Speaker 1: they add too much pepper on there, it's gonna get
Speaker 1: out of hand. They're gonna be looking at all the
Speaker 1: types of things. Oh of course, of course. And and
Speaker 1: these are young guys too, so it's not like they
Speaker 1: vince and they can really see it. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It takes It takes some real experience. You know,
Speaker 1: to get out there and be able to notice that stuff.
Speaker 1: Because on top of that, you have to, like you
Speaker 1: have to look at the formation, you know, try to
Speaker 1: read what the formation is and figure out what schemes
Speaker 1: are coming out. That it's so much stuff to look
Speaker 1: at it up preplay that all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: try to add in what individual players doing. For a
Speaker 1: young guy, it's just I feel like it's just a
Speaker 1: lot on their play. I feel like you're talking about
Speaker 1: one guy in this instant If you talking about we
Speaker 1: all ya, you're talking about one guy. No listen, if
Speaker 1: you had your eyes in the backfield last week, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about you, all right. So that's that's that's just
Speaker 1: about all. That's Jordan Lewis too, man, because he you know,
Speaker 1: we all just had eyes in the wrong place. Man.
Speaker 1: Adam Henry UH is the Cowboys receivers coach. He spent
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen coaching in Cleveland with Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. And he was also their
Speaker 1: receivers coach at LSU, so he knows them very well.
Speaker 1: Brandon Card his mini meetings UH twice a year as
Speaker 1: a member of the Baltimore Ravens facing the Browns. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do have some knowledge here about about what
Speaker 1: these these were fevers can do. We'll see if the
Speaker 1: knowledge can translate onto the football field as the Browns
Speaker 1: and Cowboys face each other at noon on Sunday at
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Speaker 1: practice report is out and let me let you know,
Speaker 1: all right, three guys show up on the report for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That's Trevon Diggs, the corner with a shoulder
Speaker 1: and knee. He was limited today after practicing full on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence with a knee, did not practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: He did not practice today. And Tyre Smith, the left
Speaker 1: tackle with a neck injury, did not practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: He was limited today. So Diggs, Smith limited, Tank Lawrence
Speaker 1: did not practice over on the brown side. Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: junior with a back limited today for Cleveland. Joel Beatonio
Speaker 1: with a back their guard, did not practice Wednesday, was
Speaker 1: limited today. Jack Conklin their right tackle with an elbow
Speaker 1: limited on Wednesday. Full practice for the Browns today because
Speaker 1: continue going down the list there, all right. Kareem Hunt
Speaker 1: with a growing injury didn't practice for Cleveland on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: did not practice today. Jarvis Lantry, where they hit, was
Speaker 1: a full participant in practiced yesterday and today. Their center
Speaker 1: Jc Treder with a knee limited yesterday and limited today.
Speaker 1: Olivier vernon De even with the ads, have been limited
Speaker 1: today and limited yesterday as well. Denzel Ward, their top
Speaker 1: corner with a growing did not practice yesterday, was limited today.
Speaker 1: Greedy Williams cornerback with a shoulder limited on Wednesday, was
Speaker 1: limited today. So that's that's some of your latest injuries
Speaker 1: between the Cowboys and Browns. Fellas, what are you reading
Speaker 1: that injury report for both teams. I'm I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys on this one. But um as far
Speaker 1: as like uh chavon days he should be fine, I
Speaker 1: mean just being limited or whatever with the shoulder and
Speaker 1: a little bit of knee. He should be fine. I'm
Speaker 1: a little concerned about that d Law though. He you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't practice yesterday, he didn't practice today. I'm a
Speaker 1: little concerned about that one. But I heard reports that
Speaker 1: they're just trying to get him rested and ready for Sunday. Um,
Speaker 1: the big one to me is is Tyrn Smith. For
Speaker 1: him not to practice yesterday, but for him to be
Speaker 1: limited today, that's that's going in the right direction. Um.
Speaker 1: You know today's usually you don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: pads on. Well back in Garrett, today you didn't have
Speaker 1: pads on. And for him to go out there and
Speaker 1: at least get a couple reps with it with the
Speaker 1: team functions, show that he can be and have a
Speaker 1: possibility to go out there Sunday for the Cowboys because
Speaker 1: we're gonna need him. I mean, we got we got
Speaker 1: a demon on the other side of that ball, so
Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna need him out there. So with him
Speaker 1: being limited, I think that's a good direction for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah. The only ones that worried me for both
Speaker 1: sides at this point of the season are the ones
Speaker 1: when somebody says their knee is injured, so digs a
Speaker 1: little bit with the knee, and then those guys with
Speaker 1: the growing injuries are the ones that I think probably
Speaker 1: won't suit up and be able to play, or they'll
Speaker 1: be very limited once they get into the game. As
Speaker 1: far as tiring. The only thing that worries me about
Speaker 1: this is the same thing, the same worry that I
Speaker 1: had with Vander Esh. It's a neck injury, and ever
Speaker 1: since he's had the injury, I don't think he's been
Speaker 1: able to go full speed and his first rep of
Speaker 1: going full speed will probably be against Miles Garrett, So
Speaker 1: that worries me. So I would I would still have
Speaker 1: had his backup ready, just because you really just don't know,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes with something like a neck. So
Speaker 1: I don't want us to get caught, you know what,
Speaker 1: our hands down and not being able to have a
Speaker 1: replacement ready for him, you know, just because we think
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to go one hundred percent
Speaker 1: for the full game. Mike McCarthy's press conference today did
Speaker 1: tell the Cowboy media members that they have worked on
Speaker 1: several combinations at the tackle spots so that they'll they'll
Speaker 1: have a plan there. I'm looking at Kareem Hunt with
Speaker 1: the groin injury, you know, not practicing the last two days,
Speaker 1: and then Denzel Ward their their top corner with a
Speaker 1: groin injuries, well limited today it could be the Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb show. If you're Cleveland, I mean you've got Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: that's your number one guy and Kareem Hunt is one A.
Speaker 1: So they can they can win a football game with
Speaker 1: just rolling it out there to Nick Chubb. But on
Speaker 1: the other side with Denzel Ward. As far as a
Speaker 1: corner and a groin goes fellas, because you've been defensive
Speaker 1: backs in this league, how does that affect the guy
Speaker 1: out there on the football fields? Specially when you're talking
Speaker 1: about Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup and Cede Lamb and now
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson out here in these routes. I think it affects.
Speaker 1: For a corner, it can hurt you immensely, especially when
Speaker 1: you're pressing at the line of scrimmage or trying to
Speaker 1: mirror or shadow that receiver versus his release, because you
Speaker 1: think about its doing a lot of side to side
Speaker 1: lateral movement, which involves you're growing a lot as a corner.
Speaker 1: So if you're having trouble you know, getting side to
Speaker 1: side those receivers, they can expose you quick. So for
Speaker 1: a growing for a defensive back, I mean to me,
Speaker 1: that's almost as bad as a hamstring once you think
Speaker 1: about that. Matt Listen, I almost hate to see that
Speaker 1: on the injury report, just because the way that we've
Speaker 1: been calling games, all of a sudden killing more and
Speaker 1: Mike mccarth to see that, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we come out and throw the ball six times at
Speaker 1: Denzel Ward run the ball. But as far as him
Speaker 1: being able to perform, I don't think him and Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt would be, you know, be very effective if they
Speaker 1: if they truly have growing injuries that are keeping them out.
Speaker 1: If it's if it's something they're just holding back and
Speaker 1: they don't want them to play because their their vets
Speaker 1: and they understand, you know, how to get ready for
Speaker 1: the game without practice, that's fine, But if they really
Speaker 1: have growing injuries, I don't think they'll be effective because
Speaker 1: because both of those wassitions have a lot of lateral
Speaker 1: movement involved, and if you if you're growing is not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, you will be real slow. And that's
Speaker 1: all it takes for somebody to take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: I think we just look at what happened to Tack
Speaker 1: McKinley in the Atlanta game. And here he is defensive end,
Speaker 1: creating pressure and the Cowboys were having some troubles dealing
Speaker 1: with him and Grady Big Grady in the middle, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, Tad goes out with the growing
Speaker 1: and then to a whole different football game for the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Basically, that pass rush went from getting back
Speaker 1: there causing some issues to not doing anything at all.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys were able to go ahead and make an
Speaker 1: adjustment there. So if you're a cornerback out here and
Speaker 1: you're trying to you're trying to you're trying to go
Speaker 1: out here all these routes, good good luck to you.
Speaker 1: Um And is it a thing you know? And I,
Speaker 1: you know, did play this level, so I don't know
Speaker 1: what you guys know. So when you've got a growing
Speaker 1: like that, you're you're the top corner. Did they tell
Speaker 1: you not to travel? Do you just stick on one
Speaker 1: side because of that growing injury? How does that work
Speaker 1: for me? If I got a groin and it's hurting
Speaker 1: like that, UM, I'm sticking to whichever side I don't
Speaker 1: have to push off as much on like, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get go out there and exposed me to have
Speaker 1: me out there covering Amari Cooper left and right, and
Speaker 1: he's out there exposing me. So nah, I'm not traveling.
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, I'm a I'm his zone corner today.
Speaker 1: So y'all, y'all have to do some half man half
Speaker 1: zone on this side. But I'm not getting exposed out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm saying, listen, my growing hurting that bad. I'm
Speaker 1: not playing. Don't don't don't. And I'm the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting you out there because because honestly, Church,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, like I know, if if they
Speaker 1: want to take advantage of a player, they can find
Speaker 1: a way to do so. They could line you up
Speaker 1: and slot, they could they can line you up in
Speaker 1: some formation where they figure you out a man and
Speaker 1: man and make you travel across that field or go
Speaker 1: a certain way to take advantage of your injury. So
Speaker 1: if you feel if you're not feeling feeling well enough
Speaker 1: to be able to play on both sides of the field,
Speaker 1: you probably shouldn't be out there because you will be
Speaker 1: getting toasted and the worst is when like the worst
Speaker 1: is when they when you know it's coming, like they're
Speaker 1: go to tight end. He got a nub side tight end.
Speaker 1: So for those who don't know enough, he's by himself
Speaker 1: on the outside. He stands up in motions to the
Speaker 1: outside like he's a flanker, rip receiver. You just want
Speaker 1: to want you already know they're trying to expose you
Speaker 1: out there. And when that starts to happen on a
Speaker 1: regularity for me at safety, that's when I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: let me get that, let me get that high hold.
Speaker 1: You go ahead and take these man reps. Man, they're
Speaker 1: trying to expose your boy out here. So for me,
Speaker 1: like Daddy said, I probably wouldn't even play man, Jim,
Speaker 1: be honest with you. And then and just to add
Speaker 1: on to that, because we talked about that with Dalton shots,
Speaker 1: you know, not getting reps and not being able to
Speaker 1: play in the game and then I mean be ready
Speaker 1: to play in the game and then going out there
Speaker 1: and having those lights to him into facing him dropping
Speaker 1: those passes. Those are the same issues that you have
Speaker 1: in this situation, right. You have a guy that's going
Speaker 1: out there and trying to muscle through it. And and
Speaker 1: nine times out of team he's not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to finish the game where he's taking reps away from
Speaker 1: the from the backup who really really needs those reps.
Speaker 1: So that just puts you in a tough situation. That's
Speaker 1: why if I'm the DC, I'm like, man, look if
Speaker 1: you if you can't play, if you don't think you
Speaker 1: can go out there and finish the game and play effectively,
Speaker 1: just sit this one out and play the next game
Speaker 1: because you're holding you holding us back as a team.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, it's a hard thing to do,
Speaker 1: especially if you got somebody creeping up on your back,
Speaker 1: like you think, hey, he might take my job. It's
Speaker 1: a hard thing to do to sit there and be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm injured. Let me take this one
Speaker 1: off because if that boy go out there and ball out,
Speaker 1: you might not see that field again. So oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely a hard thing to do. You got to
Speaker 1: be established to do that. Yeah, you're right, you got
Speaker 1: to be established to do that. I think this award
Speaker 1: is established enough. But yeah, you don't want to get
Speaker 1: your spot taking, you know, based on injury. Get that
Speaker 1: old Wally Pip man. You can't get Wally pipped out here. Man, Oh,
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor the way just straight, just straight dirt. That's bad,
Speaker 1: bad news man. The team doctor doing Tyrod Taylor and
Speaker 1: so Kareem hunting out practicing that is their past catching back.
Speaker 1: I mean Kareem can get the football in space and
Speaker 1: make some moves. He's dealing with a growing injury. Chubb
Speaker 1: can't catch the football, but it's not what he does
Speaker 1: best as the way Kareem Hunt does it. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys may end up catching or break offensively and defensively.
Speaker 1: Even if both guys play, they're not going to be
Speaker 1: at one hundred percent. So if you're the Cowboys that
Speaker 1: you know that's that's not a bad deal for you.
Speaker 1: As banged up as you are, You're not going to
Speaker 1: sit around here and feel bad for anybody. Speaking of
Speaker 1: feeling bad, I feel bad from a fantasy team because
Speaker 1: they have delayed the Steelers and the Titans game has
Speaker 1: been postponed. They'll they'll play it later on. So I
Speaker 1: don't have James Conner to put in my lineup this week.
Speaker 1: But what did you guys think about it? Another COVID
Speaker 1: test coming out here for the Titans and you know,
Speaker 1: this is I'm going to say this now, It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be the last game that they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go ahead and move because of COVID. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is just what we're dealing with right now. They've been
Speaker 1: lucky enough to get through three weeks with no issues
Speaker 1: at all, but here comes week number four and we're
Speaker 1: going into cold and flu season. So I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: we're going to see another game that has to be
Speaker 1: postponed and then the league has to work it out.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the postponement bells? But Grey, yeah, I um,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, we all knew that at
Speaker 1: some point this was going to happen. I just want
Speaker 1: to know how many of these instances will they be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, to take on before this becomes
Speaker 1: a really serious issue, Like how many games can you postpone?
Speaker 1: How many players have to get does the whole team
Speaker 1: have to get it before it's all of a sudden
Speaker 1: like we need to take a step back and stop
Speaker 1: and stop this entire thing and figure out what's going on. So,
Speaker 1: you know, it'll be interesting to see, you know, how
Speaker 1: many more of these cases that we have. But I
Speaker 1: think if if it keeps going and it's every three
Speaker 1: weeks and it gets bigger and bigger. I think the
Speaker 1: NFL is going to be in for some serious trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll be in a little bit of trouble.
Speaker 1: If definitely, if it's multiple in one week, like if
Speaker 1: it's you know, one here then one team you know
Speaker 1: five weeks later, or maybe a team you know, one
Speaker 1: team three weeks later, I think they'll be they can
Speaker 1: do a little better job of managing it. But if
Speaker 1: it happens to be an outbreak where if it's like
Speaker 1: you know, in one week, we have three separate teams
Speaker 1: um contracting it and then that can in it all
Speaker 1: affect six teams in total because those teams have to play,
Speaker 1: I think that's when you the NFL, might you know,
Speaker 1: tap in and say, hey, we know, Moss, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to postpone something to figure something out because if
Speaker 1: if it turns into an outbreak, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: too many players per squad, too many staff members per squad.
Speaker 1: We just don't have those means like the NBA and
Speaker 1: like hockey where they can kind of make it a
Speaker 1: bubble because there's just less people you know that have
Speaker 1: to deal with it. I have to deal with in
Speaker 1: the in the NFL. I mean, you got what sixty
Speaker 1: some players per roster, and you get all these staff members.
Speaker 1: So h if it turns into the outbreak, I think
Speaker 1: the NFL have some trouble on its hands. Well like
Speaker 1: like well, like you said, one more thing to do, So,
Speaker 1: like you said, I just I just thought about how
Speaker 1: you just win and it goes if three teams are affected,
Speaker 1: that's really the three teams that they actually played against,
Speaker 1: and then the three next teams that they have to
Speaker 1: play against as well who are affected. So you know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you can go from from a
Speaker 1: few from a few issues to almost the quarter of
Speaker 1: the league. So to Tennessee's game in Nashville against Pittsburgh's postpone.
Speaker 1: Tennessee played in Minnesota last week. The Vikings have no
Speaker 1: tests at all in Church And Danny's one thing that
Speaker 1: I do believe that the NFL had spoke about a
Speaker 1: playoff bubble. I think that's something that when you see
Speaker 1: something like this happened, and as they said, we're going
Speaker 1: into flu in cold season, that may be something that
Speaker 1: the NFL has to look into and with seven playoff
Speaker 1: teams in each conference is trying to figure out where
Speaker 1: can you go in a bubble because that's the one
Speaker 1: thing you can control, is the playoffs. You know you want,
Speaker 1: you need that to happen. And we're even seeing Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, you know they're going into a bubble atmosphere
Speaker 1: for the League Championship Series in the World Series. So
Speaker 1: right here in Arlington, the Globe Life Field National League
Speaker 1: Championship Series in the World Series is gonna be do here.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting. Let's hope we dive in tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You know we're at a time today, but we can
Speaker 1: dive into tomorrow or make our predictions for tomorrow as
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