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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, June second, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number one twelve. Welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break. We're live from the s WBC Mortgage studios

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Speaker 1: But we will get to some today and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to get as many fan questions as we can

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Speaker 1: possibly get in a one hour show. How's everybody feels

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Speaker 1: so good? So it just wonderful. A lot of you

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Speaker 1: guys are feeling well. All you guys, I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be over soon. It's gonna be great. Yes, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna love it. Let's jump right in. We got lots

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Speaker 1: of questions, got a lot of questions. I've already pulled

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Speaker 1: a quick question from Victor Perez on Twitter. His question

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Speaker 1: is what do you think our biggest train is going

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Speaker 1: into training camp? And what's our biggest weakness. Let's start

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Speaker 1: with the biggest strength first. What do you think is

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Speaker 1: the biggest strength of this team going get to drink camp?

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Speaker 1: Why are you laughing, David, I'm because, like you know,

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Speaker 1: and no offense to Victor get it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: it's just it's just what we've talked about for a

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Speaker 1: long time. It's like the central storyline of this team,

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Speaker 1: I think is Okay, let me, can I put something

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Speaker 1: think I know where you're going. You cannot say just

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Speaker 1: Gottle deeper because if you're right, that's gonna bet the

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Speaker 1: answered then that would be really easy. But you can't

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Speaker 1: say this offense. You can't say defense. What's the biggest

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Speaker 1: strength of this team. The biggest strength of this team

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Speaker 1: is that they have one of the five or six

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Speaker 1: of upside and the potential to be one of the

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Speaker 1: two or three best in the league at some point

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Speaker 1: in the future. And and he's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: weapons to work with. Like, anything the Cowboys accomplish will

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Speaker 1: it's gonna fall on him. And their biggest weakness is

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Speaker 1: obviously I mean, yeah, defense is too obvious. But the

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Speaker 1: The cornerback depth chart looks better than it did before

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Speaker 1: the draft, but is completely unproven. I mean, the guy

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Speaker 1: the way of proven playmakers in the secondary camber. Biggest strength,

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Speaker 1: I would say the wide receiver group. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: But also part of me almost wants to say Kellen

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Speaker 1: I think the greatest advantage for this team this year

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Speaker 1: The strengths are the tackles. Win they're healthy. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: not the tackles because their strength. No, I know when

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Speaker 1: he's playing, when he's healthy, he's gonna be really, really good.

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Speaker 1: What we don't know is was this surgery what he

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Speaker 1: can play a full season. We don't know that. And

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Speaker 1: they're betting on it. They're betting a lot on it.

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Speaker 1: They are laughing. We're here. No. Well, and you know,

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Speaker 1: because we had a long conversation before this show about

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Speaker 1: were talking about the Athletic Podcast and they did like

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Speaker 1: the non quarterback draft, like the best non quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. And I get what you're saying, but even like,

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Speaker 1: even if all those guys are healthy, how good are

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Speaker 1: the tackles. We all know those, all about those three

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Speaker 1: like all the guys you listed on defense, like, how

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Speaker 1: good are those guys? Like, even if you get seventeen

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Speaker 1: they're good? No? We don't absolutely, but what we do

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Speaker 1: know is what we do know is they're the best

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna have. Sure, you're not gonna get

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Speaker 1: better than what you got with Tristan Hill. You're not

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Speaker 1: of what it sounded like. I mean, he wasn't all

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Speaker 1: know what he is? It was that last year? Are

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Speaker 1: last year. I think we're gonna find out that last year,

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Speaker 1: especially on defense, is just gonna kind of get thrown

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Speaker 1: out the windows. The coordinator, because of the coordinator, because

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Speaker 1: I think that some coaches did it better. Obviously there

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Speaker 1: they need all that. I actually agree with you. I

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Speaker 1: defense ever thrown out saying that's gonna be deep blue

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. Who would watch that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: no offense? People do like the train wreck. Look, people

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Speaker 1: like the train My experience like people won as little

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Speaker 1: We got a lot to roll through here. We're going

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Speaker 1: to keep it rolling. We got a question here from

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Ganzel. He says, how much of an upgrade is

455
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Speaker 1: a healthy Kauze over our past free safeties. It's a

456
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: great question and it's one of the more intriguing storylines

457
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: about the defense because like on paper, the answer is

458
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 1: should be a lot better healthy healthy, if he's healthy.

459
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't remember the last time the Cowboys

460
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Speaker 1: employed a safety who had a seven interception season. I

461
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: mean that's a lot. Haha, Clinton Dicks, No way, you

462
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: weren't alive. Yeah, seriously, I mean nineteen eighty Wow. Really

463
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Speaker 1: seven interceptions from a safety, which also seven that's a

464
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Speaker 1: lot too. Seven inters. That's an outlier, Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of guys that get that many

466
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Speaker 1: in a season. But the point but like he's got

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Speaker 1: the coverage ability in the ball skills that we haven't

468
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Speaker 1: seen here a lot. The problem is, like Amber, how

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Speaker 1: many you know? How many times are we gonna fall

470
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Speaker 1: into this trap? You know? And like I met Demante

471
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Speaker 1: because he last week and he's a super nice guy.

472
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Speaker 1: I'm definitely pulling for him, But like I've been down

473
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Speaker 1: this road before. They do what gives you pause? I mean,

474
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Speaker 1: obviously you talked about what the positive is, what gives

475
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Speaker 1: you pausitive? I don't need anything else it's an achilles injury.

476
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 1: It's like we medicine has made so much progress, but

477
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: that is still a tricky thing. You know, Barry Church

478
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Speaker 1: even talked about it. If Like I thought that was

479
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Speaker 1: super interesting the way that Barry talked about you know,

480
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: he did the same thing early in his Cowboys career

481
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: and his first year back, he's like it just feels weird,

482
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Speaker 1: like learning to trust it again and like relying on

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Speaker 1: it the way that you need to, it's difficult. And

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00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: then the other thing, you know, look at what Look

485
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Speaker 1: at what they gave Kazee, Like follow the money always

486
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Speaker 1: and it's a tiny deal. Like I think, like it's

487
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Speaker 1: like one hundred thousand dollars and guarantees that is nothing.

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Speaker 1: And whenever, like if the guarantees are that small, it

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Speaker 1: just gives me pause. I'm like, okay, Like they they're

490
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Speaker 1: not super confident that this is going to work out,

491
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Speaker 1: or they would have given it more money. And if

492
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Speaker 1: it does work out, we'll be here in a year

493
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Speaker 1: or wondering what they're going to do in free agency

494
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Speaker 1: because they let him go. I mean, he did I

495
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: bet on myself type of deal and so you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not like this is a fix. You know, it

497
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Speaker 1: might be good. Albus could always resign him if they could. Yeah, yeah,

498
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 1: they could definitely resign him. But you know, but um,

499
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Speaker 1: you know, an upgrade over what they had. Yeah, I

500
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: mean he's a big upgrade if he's healthy because Xavier

501
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods he didn't make any plays. Yeah, he just didn't.

502
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Speaker 1: I mean he he was out there and he ran

503
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Speaker 1: around and he you know, and he did some things.

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Speaker 1: Okay I don't remember them, but I mean he did

505
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Speaker 1: enough to start. I'm not, you know, nice guy and

506
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 1: all that, but I mean he never made a play.

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Speaker 1: He I mean, over the course of the time he

508
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Speaker 1: was here, I can think of a few, like most

509
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Speaker 1: most of them were like hard hits really or what

510
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Speaker 1: like he had a you know, I think he demolished

511
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Speaker 1: somebody in that Saints game in twenty eighteen. It was

512
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Speaker 1: a big, like tone setting play. But like I agree

513
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Speaker 1: with you, for the most part, I can think of

514
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: more dropped interceptions than anything. He had three or four

515
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Speaker 1: of those. So so this is a big upgrade if

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Speaker 1: he's healthy, He's a big upgrade. The if the if

517
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: does so much work in that sentence. Yeah, that's the

518
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: freaking frustrating part that when it comes to safety, there's

519
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: always a question mark. There multiple question marks, and even

520
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Speaker 1: when you get a guy like this that you've heard

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Speaker 1: of his history and what he's been able incapable of

522
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Speaker 1: doing in the past, there's still question marks around it

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00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 1: and you still don't know what you're actually gonna get.

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Speaker 1: And to be honest, and this is gonna be done

525
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:29,439
Speaker 1: because most people know about Darren Woodson, most Cowboys fans. Me.

526
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: I knew the name, I knew he played for the Cowboys.

527
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: I didn't know much about him or anything. So my

528
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: appreciation and like the idea of what I wanted to

529
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: safety has changed very much after learning more about Darren Woodson,

530
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Speaker 1: and they're you know, Nick and Rob Phillips. They're working

531
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: on a Deep Blue documentary on him, which is I

532
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,359
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be really good and this is coming

533
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: out soon. But that has gotten me to learn more

534
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Speaker 1: about what the safety position can be for the Cowboys

535
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: and what it's not. So if I was upset about

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00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: the safety before learning so much about Darren Woodson, I

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00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: am more upset about it and now based on the

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00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: things that I've seen, and if I was, and it's

539
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: not very necessarily to compare it to compare players, but

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Speaker 1: you can kind of fair well, I guess so, but

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Speaker 1: it's just it's not even close. It's not even close

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Speaker 1: to that level. And it's just frustrating when you see

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Speaker 1: years after year that the Cowboys haven't necessarily put the

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Speaker 1: amount of attention on that kind of need, even though

545
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: this year they talked about it over and over like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we know we need a safety and then and they're

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Speaker 1: always saying at least this year that they've been trying

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Speaker 1: but it just hasn't quite worked out and all that.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like, just get someone

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Speaker 1: that's healthy, that has some history that you can have

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Speaker 1: some kind of trust or man, it's just really frustrating.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is like, okay, and I know, you know,

553
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: the staff has changed and there's we're seeing different trends.

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00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: Right like they drafted Quentin Bohana. You know, they haven't

555
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: valued one technique of for a long time, but it

556
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 1: seems like maybe that's changing. But what's funny to me

557
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: is most of the time I've worked here, they haven't

558
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: valued one technique defensive tackle. But it kind of makes

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00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: sense because they've found production there without like they've kind

560
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: of sort of been right, not really, but like Terrell McLean,

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00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: they got good use out of him, Antoine Woods think.

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Speaker 1: I mean for a gun drafted guy that they plucked

563
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: off the scrap heat, they got great value out of that.

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00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,959
Speaker 1: They treat safety the same way and it bites him

565
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Speaker 1: in the ass every year, and they don't change their mind.

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Speaker 1: Whether you know, way back when I first got here,

567
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: it was Will Allen. He made it like five weeks

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Speaker 1: into the season, haha, Klinton Dix didn't make it out

569
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: of training camp. Like, they don't spend and they don't

570
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: get production out of it, but they don't change their

571
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: mind about it. Like does that make sense? Yeah? And

572
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: I think that they that that you also have to

573
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Speaker 1: remember here is like the difference between those two positions.

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00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: The one technique has over the years gotten less important, right,

575
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: it is a two down play if that in the

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00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: NFL at this point where you're talking about safety, where

577
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: in a passing league has gotten more important. So you

578
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: would think they'd be giving more resources to trying to

579
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: find the right free safety even if they weren't putting

580
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: those resources in a one technique. But it doesn't seem

581
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: like those for whatever reason. It's not working, and whatever

582
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: they're doing, it's not working. It hasn't. It's frustrating and

583
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: borderline terrifying. If Demante Kaze is healthy and is playing

584
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: like a beast, then they're going to look really smart.

585
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: If he's not, they signed j Ron Curse, who has

586
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: nine career starts, actually wrote about him today. I mean,

587
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: he's got a big opportunity here, but the point is

588
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: he hasn't done it consistently in the NFL. Israel mcquamu's

589
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: a sixth round pick and Donovan Wilson is showing a

590
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,479
Speaker 1: lot of promise. I'm sure there are people that are

591
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: mad that were just now mentioning him, but like third

592
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: year players showed a lot of promise, we would all agree.

593
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Speaker 1: Like coverage has not been what has made him flash strong? Yeah,

594
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: like that's where he's a box safety as far as

595
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: I have seen to this point in his career. Maybe

596
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: he can continue to develop, but we don't know that

597
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: and so that's not it's not a lot to go on, man,

598
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: it's really not. Give me a quick update on Mukuamu.

599
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: Because we had a question from east Side Sammy. He

600
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: was asking the same He was like what's up with him?

601
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: He said he heard some good things from Barry Church

602
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: talking about him from the opening ota from the Rookie

603
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: Muni camp. Haven't heard really much about him since then. Well,

604
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know Bucky Brooks, who studies, you know,

605
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: all the entire draft, he has him as one of

606
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: his favorite picks from the Cowboys as well. You know,

607
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: he's a corner. He played corner opposite jac Horn at

608
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, and so you know, he told Jerry Jones

609
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Speaker 1: He's gonna be the best corner in the draft. And

610
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: then they called him like an hour later and said,

611
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Speaker 1: we're actually moving you to safety, and he was like,

612
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to be the best safety in the draft.

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00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, like that's just his confidence. But

614
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: he's got length, he's tall, and you know, if he's

615
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: got skills to play corner, you know, everyone always thinks

616
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: if you're a little bit lower to play corner, you

617
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: just play safety. That's not necessarily like you got to

618
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: be able to be tough, you gotta be able to tackle,

619
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: you gotta have awareness and instincts. So I think he

620
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: can do all that. But but when just out here

621
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Speaker 1: and look at him, he yeah, he looks the part

622
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: because he's he's got range, he can cover. We'll see

623
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Speaker 1: how tough he is when the paths come on and

624
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: you start having to get up there and make the plays.

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00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: I'll throw this in there too, because people have asked

626
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: about it. Reggie Robinson was playing corner at the Open

627
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: Ota last week. You know, it seems like he's been

628
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: moved back and forth like six times at this point,

629
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: but he was playing corner. And I haven't seen or

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00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: heard anything that suggests Jordan Lewis is dabbling in safety.

631
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have mentioned that. I

632
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: see no evidence that that's the right's best slot, right, yeah?

633
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: Or is Anthy Brown better than you think that's lot?

634
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: I would probably take Jordan. I think Jordan's a better slot. So,

635
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, a lot like people love doing that, like

636
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: when the depth chart gets crowded, they're like, oh, maybe

637
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: this guy can play corner or safety. I haven't. I

638
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Speaker 1: haven't seen it. I don't think that's happening. All right,

639
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: let's pull the next question. This one is from Joe t.

640
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: He says, what's the confidence level that our defensive line

641
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: can keep blockers off our linebackers? This year? Not a

642
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: high pause. It's not a high confidence level. I mean

643
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: that's by the pause a lot, right, Yeah, I mean

644
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: that that was a big issue last year. And then

645
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: you know what, what what has really changed? Boa? Yeah,

646
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: but I knew that was going to get and and

647
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: and yeah that's that's great. But we'll see. I mean

648
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: I want to know, like, what is the reason for

649
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: the first five and a half rounds of him getting passed?

650
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: You know, like he looks the part and all that,

651
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: but is he is he gonna play seven plays and

652
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: tap his helmet? Like, I don't know, what is the

653
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: what is the thing with him? I don't know? Um,

654
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: why do you think they would have let Antoine Woods

655
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: go if they didn't think Bohannah is gonna be playing

656
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: as at least that kind of role For that one

657
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: point seven million dollars difference? That really yeah this year

658
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: it is Yeah, if for this year, that is a

659
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: huge difference. They are they're counting dollars also, don't I

660
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: mean didn't have a replacement though one I get one

661
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: point seven Is it like two days after the draft? Yeah?

662
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: I mean like that just to me, it just kind

663
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: of saying they think, now again, he may not be

664
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: able to It's signaled to me they think they got options,

665
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: and you talk about urban Urban being an option as well.

666
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: To me, it just said they think they got options.

667
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: Well and don't don't. I mean, I get it. Bohannah

668
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: fills a specific role. They drafted two tackles and a

669
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: third guy that can play tackle in Gholston set. Yeah,

670
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: it's just a numbers game. I think they're like, yeah,

671
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: we got three, three guys that probably add up to

672
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,479
Speaker 1: cost what Antoine costs exactly. And they're just like, yeah, well,

673
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: like this is a place we think we can save.

674
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: You just gotta hope guys are better. You hope that

675
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: you know that Neville Galimore comes in the second year

676
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: and he's he's better, you know, trust than Hill was

677
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: actually coming on pretty good last year. And if he

678
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: if he makes this recovery from his injury, you got Galimore,

679
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: you got you got Tristan Hill, you got Osah Diggi Zua. Yeah,

680
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: Bohannah Golson slides in there. Urban slides in there. I

681
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: mean Urban is in there. You know. It's funny. We

682
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: hope that they're better. It's funny because you guys talked

683
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: about this in the first segment and like defense is

684
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: so wildly unpredictable, like you see it every year, it shifts,

685
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: it's not sustainable. Turnover differentials a big part of it,

686
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: and it like you see teams move around a lot,

687
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: and unless you're like a Seattle type defense that just

688
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: has Hall of Fame talent everywhere, there's a lot of fluctuations.

689
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: So like, there's plenty of optimism that this can be

690
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: a much better unit, But how in June can I

691
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: say that I'm confident about them doing anything? Really? I mean,

692
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: like I like the Brent Urban signing a lot, but

693
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: we're still we're talking about that. This is the way

694
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have done this for a few years now,

695
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: and it really hasn't paid a ton of dividends. So

696
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: Watkins is he Carlos Why? Yeah, I mean he's yeah,

697
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: he's he's played defensive tackle in his career. That's kind

698
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: of what they're doing with him right now, like playing

699
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: always forget about him because you see the size of

700
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: the deal and you're like, Okay, like they can cut

701
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: this guy in August if they want to, and that

702
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: goes for all of these guys. So easy to be optimistic,

703
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: but hard to feel confident. That's that's how I feel.

704
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: Question from Christopher Trout. He says, what is the likelihood

705
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: of any more free agent editions before or during training camp?

706
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: And he throws out Malik Hooker safety. I think from

707
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: the Colts, yea um as a as a possibility in

708
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: the event that, let's say, for example, because they don't

709
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: think he's quite ready or they think they need a

710
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 1: little more help at safety. What do you think about

711
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: Hooker or any other free agents out there? Doesn't he

712
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: Hooker comes with the injury. I mean it's and that's

713
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: not all. I mean, he had injury concerns coming out

714
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: of college. That's why he didn't get dressed. I think

715
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: he's at an MCL and an ACL on one knee

716
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: and then meniscus on the other knee and then the achilles.

717
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: So and he also he came in the same week

718
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: that because he did, they were they brought him both

719
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: in and looked at him, and I think they felt

720
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: better about because he's prospects. So I don't think I

721
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: wou you should never say never, especially if it's a

722
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: guy that they've brought. They liked him enough to bring

723
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: him in, But I think something would have to change

724
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: for them to want to do that. You know, I

725
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: think the answer to that if it would be a quarterback. Yeah,

726
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: I think that's the best option for But didn we

727
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: all say last week. I just want to say, I

728
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: think last week we all agreed that we were good

729
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: with where they are right now quarterback, right, we are good.

730
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: I'm answering the question part. They keeps talking about it

731
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: and I didn't wanting to add depth at the position,

732
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,720
Speaker 1: and they haven't found the right guy that they are looking,

733
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: but they brought in what two guys? Yeah? Yeah, I'm

734
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: laugh because h never mind, that was funny. I forgot.

735
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: I forgot where we are and what day it is

736
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: and all that. Now I'm good day the break. I do.

737
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: I do have confidence in Garret Gilbert, but you know,

738
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: I think when watching him sometimes you think that he's

739
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,959
Speaker 1: you know, you think, oh man, he's good, he's ready

740
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: to go. If that's what he was it, if that

741
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: was the floor against you know, Pittsburgh, you'll be fine.

742
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: But you know, he's he's a journeyman. And I'm sure

743
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: you can get better. You can get guys that are better.

744
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 1: But I I think I'm okay with him. I don't

745
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna find like better than him out

746
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: on the street, going to find more experience, you may

747
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: not find better. Keep in mind, you know, we're fixated

748
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: on June one for all of our own things, but

749
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: that's every team in the league. Like you can, you know,

750
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: salary cap the rules allowed teams to do stuff that

751
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: they couldn't have done before. So like you know, you know,

752
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about Julio Jones and Aaron Rodgers, but like, well,

753
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: well we'll see some teams are going to tinker with

754
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: their rosters now. Like I've you know, Chicago has got

755
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: to do something with Nick Foles, whether I'm right, I mean,

756
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: they have Dalton and they just drafted fields and Foles

757
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: is on a huge contract, like something feels like it's

758
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: that that to me might be an upgrade. If you're

759
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: talking about bringing him in as your backup, I think

760
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: that absolutely, even knowing, even knowing that he didn't play

761
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: well in Chicago, I would feel better about that. But

762
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: are you going to trade for that contract? Probably not.

763
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: He would probably need to be cut first. But and

764
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to start rumors. I haven't heard anything

765
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: about that, But guys like that, we're gonna see teams

766
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: shed that salary and kind of tinker with their rosters.

767
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: So maybe maybe in late June or July would that

768
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: be How ironic would that be if Nick Foles comes

769
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: here to be the backup to to Dak Prescott. And

770
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: I know he's on another team right now, but but

771
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: wasn't it Nick Foles when Tony Romo got hurt that

772
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: They're like, we gotta get a veteran in here. We

773
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: gotta get somebody everybody, and then it feels like we're good.

774
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: We're good here, We're good, we're good here. Yeah, we'll

775
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: see what we got with that and all that, and

776
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: that is I didn't even think about that, but that

777
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: would be ironic in the Philadelphia. But you know, let's

778
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 1: not forget he's super Bowl, yeah, like in the middle

779
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: and then he signed in Philadelphia after Dallas was like

780
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: we're good and yeah, wow. I hadn't thought about that

781
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: for everybody. But and again, like I have, I bet

782
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: I bet the people upstairs would laugh at us if

783
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: we brought up Foles, because they laugh at us when

784
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: we suggest everything. But um, there's just there's gonna be

785
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: players available later this summer that aren't available right now.

786
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: They laughed when you said we needed a better receiver

787
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, better than this. They didn't laugh halfway

788
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: through the season. That's what I'm saying. They laugh and

789
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: they're like, we're good's that's everybody was agreeing on it.

790
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: It's it's a bad idea until they decided it's a

791
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,160
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00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,120
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793
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,399
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Speaker 1: going to be the next to last show. Next week

848
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: will be the last show we will have all the

849
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: way until training camp. So and Amber, I don't know,

850
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: your next show will probably be sometime and I don't know,

851
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: maybe September, October, November, someone who knows, who knows, but

852
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: call in? Oh good, we don't have anyone calling in

853
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: right now, so I might call it the hook. Yeah. No,

854
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: I think people are just like we candle care. Yeah,

855
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: they'll catch it later and that catches it live. I'm

856
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: gonna happen one day. Y'all will believe me that most

857
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: people don't listen to podcast live. We know this day.

858
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: I see the numbers. Why you're all the time? No,

859
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: I know, it's just's yeah, our numbers come on to man,

860
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: it's good. It's fine. And by the way, if you're

861
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: listening on demand, shout out to you. Appreciate you than

862
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: checking us out on demand all account. They did absolutely

863
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: all right, So we get back to these questions that

864
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: we got from fans. We got one from hip hop

865
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: hip Hypotency. I don't know, it's a name made up

866
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: on Twitter. And here was this question, how much will

867
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: it help hurt this young team to have the extra

868
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: time on field leading up to and by playing in

869
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game versus now playing seventeen games schedule.

870
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: So I was I was feeling really positive about what

871
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: you were saying, because I was like, of course it's

872
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: going to help to have OTAs and like all this

873
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: install I mean that stuff does matter. I still I

874
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,919
Speaker 1: don't let the Cowboys off the hook for how bad

875
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: they were last year because a lot of good teams

876
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: didn't have OTAs and still had good seasons and some

877
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: that had new coaches. Yeah Cleveland comes to mind, yea, yeah, anyway,

878
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: But then the second part of that, I don't feel

879
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: good about it at all. Like I was, we were

880
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 1: talking about this yesterday, you think you think it hurts them.

881
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: I hate to be the of bad news. I mean,

882
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 1: this is common knowledge among NFL fans, But like teams

883
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: that play in the Hall of Fame game don't have

884
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: a great postseason history, like and I don't think it's

885
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: a coincidence, Like you're reporting to camp basically two like

886
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 1: two and a half, three weeks earlier than everybody else.

887
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: This year's only a week. Well, that's better. It's an

888
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 1: extra preseason game. Even with the shortened preseason, it's less

889
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: preseason time. And I know the starters aren't doing all that,

890
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: But the point is that is a slog from July.

891
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: What we're probably leaving for California on like the eighteenth,

892
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: and like the third week of July eighteenth until January ninth,

893
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: and then if you're good enough to be in the playoffs,

894
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: that's another I mean that is a lot. Super Bowl

895
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: is second week in in February. That's that is a

896
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: long term. That is a slog, and I just like

897
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: I get it. You want time on task, but it's

898
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: a lot to expect people's bodies to hold up over

899
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: that much more importantly, to stay mentally engaged. That's the

900
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: hard part when you go through a long NFL season

901
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: is to keep yourself mentally engaged the whole time and

902
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: not allow yourself to be distracted by all things that

903
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: can distract a player during a season. The only thing

904
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: that I think this year is a little bit different,

905
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: and I agree, I mean if you do something for

906
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: that long, for the Hall of Fame game and no

907
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: one's having any success, I think there may be something

908
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,280
Speaker 1: to that. But I do think there's a lot of players,

909
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: guys that are on the roster that still haven't played

910
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 1: a lot of football because there was no preseason last year.

911
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: So that's the only thing about getting another game that

912
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I'd like to see that. I

913
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: think of a guy like Rico Daddle made the team

914
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: last year. We'll see if he makes it again this year,

915
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: but he hasn't had that time to even run the

916
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: ball a lot and be the guy, and he's gonna

917
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: he will this year. In preseason he'll be the guy,

918
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: probably starting some games. But because I don't think pauler

919
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: it will play a lot either. But I just think

920
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: there are players. There's even the Tarrant Steels of the world.

921
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: His first game was against the Rams and and those

922
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: guys on Sunday Night football. I mean, I'd like to

923
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: see him play a little bit more against competition, you know,

924
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: from a confidence standpoint and all that. So that's that's

925
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: that is a that is a really good point. And yeah,

926
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 1: they leaned on a lot of young guys who didn't

927
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: get a lot of reps before the season started last year,

928
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: and which I say this every year, but this year

929
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: probably even more so, Like get those starters out of

930
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 1: the preseason games, like they would play for me by

931
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: starters would play two games. There's two preseason games this year,

932
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: the second and the third. That's how about And I'm

933
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 1: only talk part of those games. How about two preseason series,

934
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: Like I mean, hey, I think you gotta do some

935
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: I think you gotta get them some work. But it's

936
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: only two games. I'm even really dressing them with the

937
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: intent that are going to play at all that first

938
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: game and that last game, I would not have them

939
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: out there at all. I don't care. I don't know

940
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: if the NFL is would would come in, you know,

941
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: with a uniform policy, but I'm putting Dak out in

942
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: a red jersey just to see what happens, just like

943
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna wear red guys. I don't care, you know,

944
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,919
Speaker 1: find me right. That would probably only put a bull's

945
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: eye on them even more. But you know, but you

946
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: know the other thing I would do if I were

947
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: if I were Mike McCarthy this year, I would you

948
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 1: got that two weeks now, between your final preseason game

949
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: and the opening game that first week, not the week

950
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: of the game, but that first week. I would probably

951
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: give these guys day, maybe two days off, get them

952
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: out of here, let them relax, let them mentally unwind

953
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: from training camp, and then come back refreshed and ready

954
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,720
Speaker 1: to go. I think that would be a good thing because,

955
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: like again, for me, it's more of the totality of

956
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: staying engaged that whole time. You gotta find those moments

957
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: where you can give players an opportunity to mentally dissigate.

958
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: I feel like, sorry, I was just gonna say, I

959
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: feel like when you look at the roster, to me personally,

960
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: there are so many new names, so so many names

961
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: that you're like, Okay, who is this guys? It looks

962
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: so different than years before. You're getting to know these

963
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: players now. And a lot of these games, I mean,

964
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: guys that would play in that game. Our guys are

965
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: gonna be in the back, you know, in the bottom

966
00:46:55,560 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: part of the depth chart anyways, And to me, you

967
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: take that let them go for us. It's gonna be

968
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: boring to watch, probably, but it's a crucial game and

969
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely needed for these guys, and you

970
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: talk about keeping up or like staying engage and lasting

971
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: through a whole season or whatever, you gotta remember that

972
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: most of these guys, hopefully you won't need them during

973
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: their real games, so they're not their bodies are not

974
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: having to go through that kind of battle that you

975
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: go through during a game day, so they're staying kind

976
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: of fresh. They're just having to practice during the week

977
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: and then if you come to use them. I mean,

978
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if that logic to me makes sense. Yeah,

979
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 1: but I think that's the thing in the preseason, even

980
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: if they're not playing much in the games, they still

981
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: out practices throughout the week, so again they're still having

982
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 1: to be mentally engaged throughout the week. I think it's

983
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: it's good idea to find moments in a long season

984
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: where you can tell your team literally get away for

985
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 1: a second, take a day, don't don't be around football

986
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: for a day, and just enjoy still happen. But I'm

987
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this America's team is all great. Cowboy

988
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: fans love it. But the Cowboys, I'm sorry they got

989
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: screwed by the NFL this year with the schedule. This

990
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: this is I don't think this is a good advantage

991
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: for them at all if you're going to put them

992
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame game, you know, which means

993
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: they have to start practice to all that. Most teams

994
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: with this extra week that you're talking about, you know,

995
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not going to some you know, space

996
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: camp here. I mean they they they're done on They

997
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 1: have a Sunday game. When have you ever seen that

998
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: they have a Sunday game on August twenty ninth to

999
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: accommodate the NFL tbou and and and to play the

1000
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and all this on the twenty ninth, a noon

1001
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: Sunday preseason game. And then they they get they get

1002
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: ten days off but before their game against Thursday night

1003
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: against the Bucks. Everybody else is probably gonna play a

1004
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: Saturday game on preseason and they'll play earliest Thursday, right Friday, Saturday.

1005
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: Most teams are going to get fifteen days between the

1006
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: last game this one and the Cowboys get tent that. Yeah,

1007
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: that's a good point. I didn't think about that. That

1008
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: is not I mean, that's that's that's not a fair situation.

1009
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: It really isn't, Especially when you saw the email come

1010
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: through or something that says, the Bucks, the Cowboys, and

1011
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: the Steelers will all get to start training camp a

1012
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: week early. I don't understand this, but the Steelers and

1013
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: Cowboys because they play in the Hall of Fame, the

1014
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: Bucks because they play on Thursday to open the season.

1015
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: Also the Cowboys do as well. It's like, which is why,

1016
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: maybe this is petty. Doesn't make sense to me. That

1017
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Maybe this is petty on my part,

1018
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, the Cowboys are in the Hall of

1019
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: Fame game because they're a draw. I mean, I know

1020
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: they have guys going into the Hall of Fame, but

1021
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: they're a draw. And they'll be on national TV to

1022
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: in the preseason because they're a draw. And I just

1023
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: hope that nobody important plays in either game, Like just

1024
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: get them all out of there. Sorry NFL, sorry that

1025
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: you're not getting what you want out of this, but

1026
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn Like anybody that matters to

1027
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: the success of my season is gonna do next to

1028
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: nothing in those I hope Sunflower is a sponsor because

1029
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: every time you show back, he's gonna be I mean,

1030
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: I'm nut, I'm dead serious, Like I wouldn't give I

1031
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't give anybody important more than three or four series

1032
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 1: max across this entire preseason. See the Cowboys starting lineup.

1033
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: Can't wait, Garrett Gilbert football line back? Everybody and it's yeah,

1034
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: n McEwan, yeah, I hope it happens. I want to

1035
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: see that. I actually want to see that. That would

1036
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: be awesome. At least that might get well. Never mind,

1037
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: because Jason Garry is not here anymore. Who knows how McCarthy.

1038
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, our training camp, like you know, beach,

1039
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: they got watermelon king over here, throwing watermelons around, smashing

1040
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: I mean McCarthy. I know Covid was part of it,

1041
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,839
Speaker 1: but he was pretty good about, you know, giving them

1042
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: separating life from football. I'm sure he'll come up with something.

1043
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: I heard a story the other day about Jimmy Johnson,

1044
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: and I'll say this because Jimmy Johnson. Everybody loves Jimmy.

1045
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: I mean, that was when the Cowboys were winning. That

1046
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: was the toughest all that Jimmy Johnson every single season.

1047
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: I don't know about the Cowboys when he was at Miami,

1048
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: when he was at college, he took his team one

1049
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: day to the beach or to the pool, and just

1050
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: when they felt like they really needed it, you know,

1051
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: so I think coaches have a sense of doing that.

1052
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: But I don't know if the beach for the Cowboys

1053
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: was was the thing you know all the time. It

1054
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: got to the point where you know, you were like,

1055
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 1: you're trying to surprise them, but it's like there's nine

1056
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: buses out there that are running. You know, we're going somewhere. Yeah,

1057
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: the lifts aren't even up in the air, you know,

1058
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: those cars to always think he was going to catch

1059
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: those guys off guard, and it it was like, bro, you

1060
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: remember how hard it is to move a ninety man

1061
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: roster anywhere, Like people are gonna know you remember the

1062
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: day I think we were all here, I think a fifteen.

1063
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you remember the day when when they were gonna

1064
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:56,240
Speaker 1: leave one day early, Yes, And it was the biggest

1065
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: like you're gonna get fired if you tell anyone. Everybody

1066
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,720
Speaker 1: was like the worst kept secret because the time they said, guys,

1067
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: we're actually gonna go to the airport and we're gonna leave,

1068
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: it told the whole team and the team was like,

1069
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: oh yeah, everybody was like everybody by that point, everybody,

1070
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: you can't tell anyone. As we're packing our suitcases playing sight. Yeah,

1071
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: Brad Sham I think didn't know. I think it was

1072
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: Brad Sham. Brad was like, yeah, Brad was a little bad. Yeah,

1073
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: the game, it was a little bad, but he got

1074
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: over all right. I do want to try to get

1075
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: to two more questions here before we end the show.

1076
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: The first of those questions is the position battle you're

1077
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: most intrigued to watch this training camp, And then I

1078
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: want you to predict how you think it's going to

1079
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: play out. Oh man, that's a good one. I mean,

1080
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: how could it be anywhere but the defensive side of

1081
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, take your pick, like, give me one, Okay,

1082
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:53,920
Speaker 1: take everybody, Okay, all right, um, all right, I mean

1083
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: it's really all of them. But I guess I'll just

1084
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: stick true to my brand and I mean safety, I

1085
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: guess just because Jeron Curse, what's his role in that

1086
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: whole thing. I feel good that Donovan Wilson will have

1087
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: one of the starting spots, but I don't think it's

1088
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: a guarantee. And you know, throw Mukuamu, don't forget about

1089
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson. Yeah, there's just I don't know what that's

1090
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: gonna look like. Predict outcome Donovan Wilson and Demante Kizie.

1091
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's healthy enough to be doing what

1092
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: he's doing right now, then that boats well. Amber. I

1093
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, I've been intrigued this whole whole off

1094
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: season about the linebacker position, and we talked about it,

1095
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: and I don't know how much of an actual position

1096
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: battle because I think that you got your guys who

1097
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 1: are pretty set and you know, okay, these are the

1098
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: guy who are expected to be. But it does bring

1099
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: me a lot of curiosity as to what would happen

1100
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks into the season and how those

1101
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: guys are actually playing and if whether or not, Okay,

1102
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: do you take out now Late and vendorsh and Jalen

1103
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: Smith and put in some of these guys and US

1104
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: starters and change that up. I mean, I think that

1105
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, all of them are

1106
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: going to get to play one way or another. But

1107
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: it does I am very curious of just how that

1108
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 1: whole group is going to turn out level wise, not

1109
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,480
Speaker 1: necessarily position battle, but just how that whole group is

1110
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 1: gonna end up being. But I wouldn't make a I

1111
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't put it past anyone. I don't even know if

1112
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: I'm using that saying right or properly, but I wouldn't

1113
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: think that they will stick to Layton and Jaileen just

1114
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: because of who they are in their position, or their contract,

1115
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: Jaileen's contract, or any of that. I think that maybe

1116
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: this year they've recapacitated in their head after what happened

1117
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: at the tackle position or whatever last year in the

1118
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: offensive line. I think maybe the pride goes to the

1119
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:52,919
Speaker 1: side and they will make wiser choices if they see

1120
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: it fit and need it and it's someone that has

1121
00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: earned that spot to go in. Rather than that is,

1122
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: they're not bound to either one of those guys beyond

1123
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: this year, and so they can be a little more

1124
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 1: flexible right in how they evaluate and who they decide

1125
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna let play in other years where they may

1126
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: have been like, hey, we still got another couple of years,

1127
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: Well we gotta keep them. From the standpoint of money,

1128
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 1: like that may help them make that decision to keep

1129
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: him in there, but they're not tied to anybody at

1130
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: this point the linebacker position other than Parsons. I think

1131
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: everybody else who knows what happens with him quit Mine's

1132
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 1: the center position. I think that, you know, I don't

1133
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: know how that's going to work out, But you know,

1134
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,399
Speaker 1: when you think about who the front runner is, the

1135
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: front runner is a fifth round pick entering his second year.

1136
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: He's only played a few games in Tyler Biadish and

1137
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: you know, I think that he's not that he can't

1138
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: be that far ahead of Matt farniok or even Connor McGovern.

1139
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: And I still think there's a guy on the street

1140
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: that we all know that they could they could bring

1141
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 1: back as well, so in Joe Looney or any other

1142
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 1: veteran for that for that matter. So I'm my prediction

1143
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: is your starting center is not on the roster. Okay,

1144
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: safety was a bad answer. I'm not going to do

1145
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but like, defensive tackle is probably the

1146
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: position that you would have the hardest time in projecting

1147
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, Like Tristan Hill's not even practicing OsO

1148
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,319
Speaker 1: Diggi Zoo was drafted higher than Neville Gallimore was, which

1149
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: just so they clearly like him a lot. What's Brent

1150
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 1: Urban gonna do? I mean future Hall of Famer Quentin

1151
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: Bojanas here, so yeah, I mean, who the hell knows

1152
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: what's going to happen there? Yeah, all right, you know,

1153
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: I'll throw out I thought for sure one of you

1154
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: guys are gonna take this, especially since Dave took two. Sorry,

1155
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: but the fact that nobody mentioned cornerback, which to me

1156
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: is the most intriguing because if you look at whoever

1157
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: you think is the best of that group, and you

1158
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: look at not necessarily the worst. But let's go five

1159
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: six on the depth chart, what's the difference between those players?

1160
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: As far as what we know right now, I don't

1161
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 1: know if there's a really big delta between them. I

1162
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: don't know how whom I thought it was just one, two, three, four.

1163
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: And then like listen to this. You got Anthony Brown, obviously,

1164
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,279
Speaker 1: you got Trayvon Diggs, you got Jordan Lewis. Then you

1165
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: get into the draft picks where you got Kelvin Joseph

1166
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: and you've got Nashan right, you've got Rashad Robinson from

1167
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: last year. If they're gonna keep him, I mean, if

1168
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 1: you're keephim at cornerback, sorry, Reggie Robinson. If they're gonna

1169
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: keep him at cornerback. Um, A lot of people still

1170
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: forget I kind of forget about him. But does Marie's

1171
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: Kennedy play into this, Like Maybe he does. Maybe he doesn't.

1172
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:26,960
Speaker 1: They got him last year he opted out. Maybe he's

1173
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: a guy that shows up at camp and he's a veteran.

1174
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: Maybe shows up at camp and he's better than these

1175
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: other veterans. Right. All I'm saying is there are enough

1176
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: guys that are kind of just in that middle area,

1177
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that any of them stand out

1178
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: to me is, Oh, this guy's so much better than

1179
00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:42,280
Speaker 1: everybody else. The only guy that's a sure given. I mean,

1180
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: like Diggs is gonna make the team, and Joseph and

1181
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: all that, But I mean you meant you didn't even

1182
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: mention one cornerback that's gonna make the team. CJ. Goodwin.

1183
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: Oh well, I don't think of him as cornerback. He

1184
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: is the best special team in the league opinion as

1185
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: a corner because I think if ye Kennedy could be

1186
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: better than goodwinnes but teams he could. That's how That's

1187
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: why they got him. I think Goodwin is a Goodwin

1188
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: is an ace. Yeah, this guy's this guy's really good.

1189
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: I think of Kennedy in the same vein as Goodwin.

1190
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,919
Speaker 1: To be honest, I mean, can you keep two of those?

1191
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: Maybe one of them gotta be able to play in

1192
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: a pinch at corner. And actually Goodwin did last year.

1193
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: If you think about it, he actually had a role

1194
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: in one of those games. Yeah he was the he

1195
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: was the he. I mean he was basically. But the Hurts.

1196
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: Was it the spy? Yeah, yeah he was. I was

1197
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: gonna say he spied somebody. I hope it wasn't Lamar

1198
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: because it didn't work. No that it was. Yeah, it

1199
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: was Hurt. It was Jalen Hurts. All right, real quick,

1200
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: this is how we're gonna end the show. I want

1201
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: you guys to tell me what is a realistic win

1202
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: total for this team in twenty twenty one eight? I

1203
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 1: didn't even go up because we got seventeen games. I

1204
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: got a losing record game. What's real realistic win total?

1205
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: Um um? Only at me? I'm just I mean, I

1206
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: mean what it's realistic? I mean with this, I don't know.

1207
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: I would say I think ten is realistic. I really do.

1208
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,439
Speaker 1: I think. I think I think the guys that they lost.

1209
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: Can you be four games better than what you had

1210
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: last year? Four games better? It's tough to do. But

1211
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: the guys that you lost, and how much you lean

1212
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: on those three players the quarterback and your two tackles.

1213
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: I think you can be four games better they have

1214
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: On paper, they have one the second easiest schedule in

1215
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: the NFL, which is kind of wild, Like when you

1216
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: look at it, it just doesn't that doesn't seem like

1217
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: it should be true. But I mean, they ran the

1218
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: numbers and it is so yeah, I look at the schedule.

1219
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a tough schedule. But yeah, good ah man,

1220
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: they're so sorry. I don't mean to take long, but

1221
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I could possibly see ten, just like

1222
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: I could see eight. That's a safe answer. That's definitely

1223
00:59:52,480 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: a safe, safe answer. But just Nick made a good

1224
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: point about the guys that they're getting back, and based

1225
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,479
Speaker 1: on what happened last year and kind of how they played.

1226
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,439
Speaker 1: With having those guys back in, you should be better.

1227
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: You should be able to win more games than you

1228
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 1: did last year. Uh. So, I have full trust that

1229
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott will be a better player this year and

1230
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: he will help the offense um and make more balance

1231
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 1: on both in the running game and then the passing

1232
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: game with Dak Prescog being back in. So I would say, yeah,

1233
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna copy your answer and go with something like ten,

1234
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: you know, and ten and seven. It just doesn't seem it.

1235
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: It's not as great obviously. It's like it's gonna take

1236
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: us a while to adjust to that, and by the

1237
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: time they do, then now it'll be there's no way

1238
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: you can't keep it odd, dumb. Nobody does this. No,

1239
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: nobody has odd numbers in your schedule. It'll be eighteen

1240
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: and two within the next few years. I'm two preseason games. Yeah, Um,

1241
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: is it cheating to just say I expect him to

1242
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: win the division and like the wind total doesn't matter? Cheating? Okay, well,

1243
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 1: all right, but thanks for that that bonus answer. I

1244
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: expect them to win the division. Uh, it's a bad division,

1245
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: that's part of it. Like, you know, I don't think

1246
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: they are an elite NFL team, but I think they're

1247
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,919
Speaker 1: a good NFL team, And I think that the NFC

1248
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: East is the worst division in football. So, you know,

1249
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: if Dak's worth the money and all of these guys

1250
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: coming back from injuries are as good as we think

1251
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: they are, they should be good enough to do you

1252
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: think it will continue to be the worst division in football?

1253
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: Because I look across like it wasn't just a conboy Giant.

1254
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: The Giants lost their best player as well. Like it,

1255
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: I think all of these teams have a case to improve.

1256
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: And I you know, again, defense is hard to predict,

1257
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: and that's the strength of Washington. So I think you

1258
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: got better on offense too. They did. Um, but I

1259
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: just I just I what am I trying to say? Yes, Um,

1260
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: I do think it'll get better. I still think it

1261
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 1: is among it's among the two or three worst. I mean,

1262
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 1: the AFC South looks like a wreck for sure, you know, um,

1263
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Speaker 1: but I think the NFC East is in that conversation. So,

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01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: you know what, seven wins won the division last year.

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01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: So and it's weird with the extra game, but I

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01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,240
Speaker 1: would guess seven or eight wins is good enough. And

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01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: I think they're probably a little bit better than that

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01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: if everybody's healthy. So nine and nine and eight at minimum,

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01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:21,600
Speaker 1: and then I could see them realistically maybe ten or eleven. Yeah, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think eight. I don't even

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Speaker 1: think nine's gonna win this division this year. I think

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01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: this is gonna better than that. I think this division

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01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: like it went through some like whenever Washington wins the division,

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01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: you know, there's some problems going on to division, like

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01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen enough in the modern NFL. Did

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01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: those problems get fixed, Like it's perfically good enough to

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01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: make the Giants like, yes, is he not one of

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01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 1: the best three running backs in the NFL. He's a

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01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 1: running back, Okay, I get that, But their offense runs

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Speaker 1: through him, and so everything else that they do comes

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01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 1: off of them being able to do special things with him.

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01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: So if they don't have him, I think it makes

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01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: a difference with them. I just I just don't believe

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01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: in Daniel Jones. I guess that's yeah. I don't either,

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01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: But but I still think sa Quan can be sa Quan,

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01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: And if he's sa Quon, I think that's gonna give

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01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: him a few more wins. I think Washington got better offensively.

1288
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 1: I think their defense is among one of the best

1289
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:09,720
Speaker 1: in the league. So again, I just think that overall,

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01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: I think the division is going to be better than

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01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: it was last year. I think last year was an anomaly.

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01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,080
Speaker 1: By the way, that's an anomaly across the league. You

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01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: don't see divisions like that that are that bad. As

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01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: bad as the MC East was last year. They don't

1295
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 1: say that bad for a long time. Like it's just

1296
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: like you said, it's cyclical, and it also has to

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01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: do with the teams you're playing, and that what's happening

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01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: with those teams too, Like it's in twenty fifteen, it

1299
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: was the same thing. It was really bad. Who wants

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01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: to win that. I think Washington won it, like to

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01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: your point, you know, everybody was down. But then in

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01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen you know, the Cowboys and the Giants,

1303
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: where I think were the two two best teams, you know,

1304
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: then they both make the playoffs. I mean, so, you know,

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01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: I think it just has a way of kind of

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01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:50,439
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think they'll be great though.

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01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: I still think it's not gonna be among the best

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01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 1: divisions in the league. But I do think it's gonna

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01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: be around the middle, and I think that's it's gonna

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01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: be better than it was last year. I just think

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01:03:57,600 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: so I think the team, I think the team that

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Speaker 1: wins the division will be better, you know what. I like,

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01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, I don't winner, not necessarily the whole division, right,

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01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna see a team with a

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01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,320
Speaker 1: losing record win this division again. But I still, you know,

1316
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: like you know, let's just hypothetically say the Cowboys win

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01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: it at ten and seven, which is a much better

1318
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: record than the team last year. But like, I don't

1319
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: think that means top to bottom. I just don't, like,

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01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Philly's gonna have to go through

1321
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: some stuff. I think, like they just Philly's gonna be

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01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:26,479
Speaker 1: the only team in my PA and it's not gonna

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01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: be better. I think the Cowboys will be better. I

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01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: think Washington will be better, and I think New York

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01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: will be better just because they're getting players back. They're

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01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: gonna they have to be better than they were last

1327
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: year because they're getting key players back, they get Galladay Holiday. Yeah,

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01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: I mean their offense could be you know, and I

1329
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: want to say they gotta They picked up an offensive lineman.

1330
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 1: Is that like a big time offensive or somebody was

1331
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: coming back from injury. Put me on the spot, I

1332
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: can't remember right off, but their offensive lineman was they

1333
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: cut off as Hitler was better? But either way, I

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01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: do think they Yeah, I do think that they they're

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01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: going to be better. I think the Giants will be better.

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01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:03,800
Speaker 1: How many games better, I'm not sure, but I think

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01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 1: they'll be better. I think Washington will be better, and

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01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will be better. I don't know,

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01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 1: but I just I still again, I still think, go

1340
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,880
Speaker 1: go down the list and like, tell me a division

1341
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: that is definitively worse and maybe the only one that Well,

1342
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: that's also when we're working based on what we know,

1343
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: and I know that's going to change. But on paper

1344
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 1: right now, maybe the AFC South like that's but but

1345
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,280
Speaker 1: the AFC South has the Titans, who have you know,

1346
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: back to back playoff trips, Like there's a lot to

1347
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: like about that team. Yeah, so I don't know, but

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01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 1: I do think I expect the Cowboys to win the

1349
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: division and get to the playoffs. I mean, I don't

1350
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen, but that's what I expect.

1351
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: I know we're up against it in a time. But

1352
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: if you just went down, if you just went down

1353
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: the schedule, which is not a good thing to do

1354
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: because it's so early and it never plays out that way.

1355
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: But even if you're even if you're just right on

1356
01:05:56,880 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 1: the fifty fifty optimistic, but you know, I'm a Homer

1357
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: fan or anything like that, it's hard not to say

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Speaker 1: eleven twelve wins, Yeah, that's great schedule. Really, I mean,

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01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 1: you're like special, they should win. Yeah, they should win,

1360
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: but we know that sometimes they don't. Sometimes they'll sneak

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Speaker 1: some of those losses into wins. So you know, we're

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01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: just saying that nine out of ten because of what

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Speaker 1: we've seen, but the schedule will kind of look if

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Speaker 1: you look at it, you could easily go to twelve.

1365
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: You could go to twelve and five. I don't like

1366
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,360
Speaker 1: to say the number for that very reason, just like you,

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01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 1: impossible to predict. But they were in they had a

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01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: chance to win the division on the last day of

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01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: the season with everything awful that happened and every and

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Speaker 1: it was a lot of awful things. And if we

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Speaker 1: are right about even half of the stuff that they're getting,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm sorry if dad, and I'm king Dak lover.

1373
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: If dad's that good, they should win the division if

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01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: he's healthy, because the division's not that strong. By the way,

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01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 1: give me one of those tackles and Dak, I think

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01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: they're they're a playoff contender. There are you know that

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01:06:58,320 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 1: they can be a really, really good team, and that

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Speaker 1: I think it's a completely realistic expectation. I don't think

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01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: it's realistic they could win the Super Bowl. I don't

1380
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: think that's realistic. Yeah, I think it's realistic that they

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01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 1: should be in the tournament if all these players are

1382
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,439
Speaker 1: worth it, if you get there, who knows what happens, right, Yeah,

1383
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: to me, what realistic is is that you can definitely

1384
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: argue both ways. I mean, you can easily see both

1385
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 1: ways playing out. Every year, I feel like, regardless of

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01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 1: what happened the previous season, you come back with higher

1387
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: expectations or newer expectations, and again you come back with excitement.

1388
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:36,000
Speaker 1: But as we've seen in the past, sometimes it doesn't

1389
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 1: matter who the opponent is whatsoever. Does not matter who

1390
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 1: you are playing. The Cowboys sometimes end up just biding

1391
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 1: themselves in the butt and making their own mistakes, and

1392
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: then you end up losing a game that could have

1393
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: easily be won by the Cowboys, but they didn't because

1394
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: why they're doing dumb stuff. And that's the thing that

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01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: you you know what you can wear, they can be

1396
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 1: with the players that they have, You know that, man,

1397
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 1: this could be a really good team. But then you

1398
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: see certain things how they play out, and it just

1399
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who who's in the schedule, and it

1400
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 1: ends up being not turning out as good as it

1401
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: should be. So I think that it could go either way.

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01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I know I say it all

1403
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,719
Speaker 1: the time, but I just love watching you just adapt

1404
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 1: to the misery that is being being a fan of something.

1405
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 1: That's how it's not fun. It's fun five percent of

1406
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: the time. Well that that's those those one those anomaly

1407
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: years when your team gets all the way to a championship,

1408
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: like that's when it actually you can sit back and

1409
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: just be like, man, it's good to be a fan today.

1410
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: But that doesn't happen very often, and you haven't wait

1411
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:48,640
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to wait sometimes, and it happens in

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01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: any fan, by the way, no matter what team you're

1413
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 1: a fan of, you're probably gonna go through those periods

1414
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: where it's gonna seem like forever since you've been a champion,

1415
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: and so it's a part of it. It's just a

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Speaker 1: part of fandom. All right. We appreated you guys, Jonnus.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back next week. It'll be our final show

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Speaker 1: before we end before training camp. Until then for Nick Eatman,

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Speaker 1: Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. This

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Speaker 1: has been the Break Live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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