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Speaker 1: we are back today. We're gonna talk about game day
Speaker 1: predictions and all that fun stuff. But before we get
Speaker 1: into it, how about them Cleveland Brown Shout out Brown Wow,
Speaker 1: shout out. I've never been so hyped for a game
Speaker 1: and it didn't involve a team I care about. So
Speaker 1: they've turned their first game Sincember. They beat the Jets,
Speaker 1: and that was pretty exciting. I mean, I'm surprised they
Speaker 1: are still Browns fans out there, but there were a
Speaker 1: ton of themselves. Honestly, you're saying some hardcore fans in
Speaker 1: Cleveland you would really hardcore. You would jump ship on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys if it wins South like that, You're just like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to root for this. Well, it's different.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys do win games, but but what if they didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that's what fans are for, Like,
Speaker 1: you can't leave your team like three years no wins.
Speaker 1: I mean, miserable fans, bro because of LSU. You know
Speaker 1: about that life. I don't even come at me, Garcia,
Speaker 1: that's the most ignorant thing you've ever said. Wow, we
Speaker 1: haven't missed a bowl game since like nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I'll admit it. I don't know anything about college football,
Speaker 1: but I do know that what is it? SMU loses
Speaker 1: games all the time they do, and LSU loses game
Speaker 1: a lot of the time. I'm about to freak out.
Speaker 1: That's not even close to being the same thing. I'm
Speaker 1: just enjoying. I'm back and forth. But anyway, it's the
Speaker 1: Browns are celebrating today after did you watch the game
Speaker 1: day whole thing? Yeah, the whole thing, And you said
Speaker 1: you were watched most of it. I had a little time,
Speaker 1: I couldn't watch it, but I watched most of it.
Speaker 1: So based on what you've seen in the past and
Speaker 1: now this game changer with this new quarterback, what are
Speaker 1: the expectations now that we need to talk a lot
Speaker 1: about the Browns right now, but it changes. I was
Speaker 1: actually kind of shocked that Baker played as well as
Speaker 1: he did when he got in there. I mean, Dave,
Speaker 1: you've been saying, and I give you all credit, you've
Speaker 1: been saying forever. No. You said when they made the
Speaker 1: draft pick, you were like, he's gonna be good for them,
Speaker 1: And I remember us having that conversation. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not buying it. I have to see it. I
Speaker 1: wasn't expecting to be that good. I love Baker, but
Speaker 1: anybody that says they expected him to go in in
Speaker 1: the middle of a game, I don't care if it
Speaker 1: is the New York Jets, like seventeen to twenty three
Speaker 1: for two hundred and there were a couple throws there
Speaker 1: that were like wow, leading them down, letting them back
Speaker 1: from fourteen nothing to win. I mean even I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have predicted he would be that good. And yeah, like
Speaker 1: he I mean he was slinging the rock like it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was impressive. It definitely was impressive. And I think
Speaker 1: we're impressive. Those those over there on Brown's break today,
Speaker 1: they got a lot to talk about. They're pretty excited
Speaker 1: right now, would expect which it's only one game. Hey,
Speaker 1: for all the haters out there, like Dak has played
Speaker 1: games like that, before. So don't you know he's not
Speaker 1: He's not the second Coming because of that game. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have his struggles. They're gonna quote unquote figure him
Speaker 1: out too. That's what the NFL does. But no, like
Speaker 1: I would be so pumped if I was a Browns
Speaker 1: fantas see DeShawn Lesson. Yeah, well, congratulations to them, Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: Go Brownies, Go Browns. Okay, so let's jump into the inactives.
Speaker 1: Who we think we'll be inactive this week. Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: did pop up yesterday with a limited um. He was
Speaker 1: limited in practice with an ankle injury, and I mean
Speaker 1: I don't know the severity of it. He was taking
Speaker 1: part in practice today actually, like I got, I have
Speaker 1: so many things going on on a Friday morning. Not
Speaker 1: to pat myself on the back, but I didn't even
Speaker 1: make it to practice today. But he did take part
Speaker 1: in the open portion of practice today. I know that
Speaker 1: thinks to Twitter. So he's out there. I'm not super
Speaker 1: worried about him, I don't think So, who are you
Speaker 1: worried about it? You're worried about Millie Collins. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think Millie Collins is well, he hasn't practiced. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: he hasn't practiced. Um, so got him out. Then what
Speaker 1: about Sean Lee? Sean he was limited yesterday. Sean says
Speaker 1: he's playing. Jerry says he's playing. He moved from did
Speaker 1: not practice to limited yesterday. Okay, can I ask you
Speaker 1: a question? And you you've been You're obviously a beat writer,
Speaker 1: so you kind of are in the mix. So what's
Speaker 1: the deal? Was it a what was the deal with
Speaker 1: his hamstring? Is it? Is it a hamstring? Is it
Speaker 1: a cramp? And it keeps kind of going back? Did
Speaker 1: you hear did you hear what Sean said yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I kind of read a little bit of it, so
Speaker 1: described as hamstring tightness on Sunday, Right, Sean came back
Speaker 1: and he was like, I really thought it was more
Speaker 1: of a cramp and bait. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to put words in Sean Lee's mouth, but like, and
Speaker 1: you could even see during the game he was like
Speaker 1: arguing with the medical stat like he didn't want to
Speaker 1: go in the tent and get looked at. So I
Speaker 1: imagine a scenario where he's like it's fine, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: I'm cramping and they're like whatever, you got hamstring issues,
Speaker 1: but you know you need Yeah, we need to look
Speaker 1: at you. And so I think that's just an agreement.
Speaker 1: You agree to disagree about what's wrong. So he's still
Speaker 1: he still believes and wholeheartedly believes there was a cramp.
Speaker 1: The quote of the week probably was, um, somebody asked
Speaker 1: him that yesterday, were like, is it a cramp in
Speaker 1: your hand? Like what's going on? And Sean was like,
Speaker 1: it's a cramp in my hamstring, and like everybody's like,
Speaker 1: that's not how that works, Like, you don't cramp in
Speaker 1: your hamstring. As far as I'm aware, I just think
Speaker 1: that's different. I think Sean is just trying to you know,
Speaker 1: I mean and rightfully so, like alarm bells go off
Speaker 1: when you hear Sean Lee hamstring. So I think he's
Speaker 1: just trying to do his part to allay that concern.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want people freaking out. All the way that
Speaker 1: he allays that concern is he comes out and he plays.
Speaker 1: He's playing, rights saying so if he can play, then
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, it was a cramp. Yeah. If he
Speaker 1: can't play, then you're like, and he might be off
Speaker 1: for six weeks. We'll see it's yeah, but he's I
Speaker 1: expect him to play, all right, good, good, Well he
Speaker 1: said he would play, but then Jerry, I don't know,
Speaker 1: he still said that it was hit about him and
Speaker 1: who else was it that he Gregory and and you know,
Speaker 1: teams don't want to give that away for game planning purposes,
Speaker 1: and also which I feel like Jerry has kind of
Speaker 1: changed his tune about that in recent years. Like I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Jerry at one point in time would just
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, he's gonna play, but now I think
Speaker 1: he kind of defers to his coaching staff like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give up the goose on Friday
Speaker 1: morning when you know, we're trying to take this thing
Speaker 1: to Sunday. So he said Randy Gregory and Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: are game time decisions, but he said he feels very
Speaker 1: optimistic that they'll be available. Me reading between lines, I
Speaker 1: think they'll both play and both of practice this week.
Speaker 1: So you would hope, you would hope that you're progressing.
Speaker 1: Would be disappointing if they didn't. Yeah, so this will
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a different week because when
Speaker 1: you start looking at inactives, yeah, you don't have the
Speaker 1: same number umber of guys that are injured that make
Speaker 1: your your inactive list a little. It kind of creates
Speaker 1: it for you. Right So basically, I mean right now,
Speaker 1: he's Millie Collins, Trevis Travis Frederick. I think those are
Speaker 1: both very good bets. Mike White and every week is
Speaker 1: gonna be y. So then you got four you got
Speaker 1: to come up with that are healthy scratches. I think
Speaker 1: if Sean Lee is gonna play, that means you probably
Speaker 1: don't need Chris Covington. I don't think he got into
Speaker 1: the game against the Giants the other night. I don't
Speaker 1: think so he was active, but I don't think he played,
Speaker 1: so okay, so i'd be Chris Covington. You got four,
Speaker 1: need three more. You pick an interior offensive lineman. Maybe
Speaker 1: you know Xavier sue A Philo, he's been here for
Speaker 1: a little while. Maybe he gets in or Adam Redmond,
Speaker 1: whichever of those, one of the two, one of the two, um,
Speaker 1: one of the two tight ends. Probably again, take your pick.
Speaker 1: I hope Rico's up again to think he showed he
Speaker 1: didn't really show anything, but just he had the opportunities
Speaker 1: were there that I hope he gets another shot. I no,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I was just gonna say, surely, and I
Speaker 1: was moving on to the next position, and then you
Speaker 1: have to sit a receiver. I don't know how you don't,
Speaker 1: but no, that's that's an interesting question though, if right
Speaker 1: now you were you were faced with that question, which
Speaker 1: of those guys you think you put down? If everything
Speaker 1: is okay with Terrence, which so I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's always so convoluted with the Cowboys. But you know
Speaker 1: reports the surface last night that he was facing a suspension,
Speaker 1: and I think you know, when you add a seventh
Speaker 1: receiver that's familiar with the scheme in the middle of
Speaker 1: the week, that is something in your mind immediately goes
Speaker 1: to I don't think anybody would be smitching that yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: super surprised. But the Cowboys don't appear to agree with that.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones said he didn't know. You know, He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know about the accuracy of that. It would
Speaker 1: be bad if we didn't have Terrence, but we're counting
Speaker 1: on having him, So I don't know what to make
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, And to be honest with you, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be anything. No, I think it's just
Speaker 1: again because of the nature of it, and this is
Speaker 1: what we were talking about yesterday because of the nature
Speaker 1: of how it all came about with Bryce. Then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they add a seventh receiver when they
Speaker 1: didn't think they need it one at first, and otherwise
Speaker 1: nothing has changed other than two games of play, where okay,
Speaker 1: is it because you think you need more help at
Speaker 1: wide receiver, or is because something's going to happen with
Speaker 1: Terrence because you know at some point the league's gonna
Speaker 1: have a ruling one way or the other one Terrence.
Speaker 1: In a way, it's a lot like the Zeke situation
Speaker 1: last year. It's just nowhere near as high profile, one
Speaker 1: because it's nowhere near as serious of a situation, and
Speaker 1: two because Terrence is nowhere near is important to your team.
Speaker 1: So but I'm you know, let's say that happens, and
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but it might not happen this week.
Speaker 1: It could happen next week, and that could just be
Speaker 1: them trying to get ahead of it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's what makes the most sense. Terrence has done so
Speaker 1: little this season that you could sit him, or you know,
Speaker 1: depending on how Bryce practiced this week, you could sit him,
Speaker 1: like if he looked terrible. If he looked like a
Speaker 1: guy who hasn't been practicing for a month, maybe you
Speaker 1: sit him, or maybe he looked great and he gives
Speaker 1: you something that you don't have, so you sit. I
Speaker 1: think it would have to be one of those two.
Speaker 1: You don't think it would be a have a hard
Speaker 1: time thinking it would be, have a hard time believing
Speaker 1: it would be anybody else, Like it's it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be Tavon, It's not gonna be Gallop, It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be Coal unless Cole's hurt. Wait, right, he's practicing, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Um
Speaker 1: Deonte Thompson's played more snaps than anybody, and those four
Speaker 1: seemed pretty steady. Can't imagine it would be Alan Hearns.
Speaker 1: I know Alan Hearns hasn't had like this crazy stat line,
Speaker 1: but none of them really. But they're not gonna sit
Speaker 1: all I make him inactive. I wouldn't. I don't for
Speaker 1: a guy that just got here this week. I would
Speaker 1: think it's either Terrence or Bryce unless Cole can't go right,
Speaker 1: So that's yeah, So I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess.
Speaker 1: Mike White, Bryce, Adam Redmond, MALIEK. Collins, Travis Frederick, Chris Covington,
Speaker 1: who'd I forget? Oh? And Dalton Schultz. Sorry, there you go.
Speaker 1: I can ask you this. Um, Let's assume for a
Speaker 1: second that the Cowboys had to play a week and
Speaker 1: may mean maybe not this week, but had to play
Speaker 1: a week without Cole Beasley. Do you think that they
Speaker 1: would use um ideally? Would they use um Tavon in
Speaker 1: that role as your slot guy or because Hearns can
Speaker 1: play the slot, will he be the guy that primarily
Speaker 1: would be in there? Who do you think would kind
Speaker 1: of jump into that role if Cole weren't available. I
Speaker 1: would hope it would be Tavon, just because he's got
Speaker 1: that quickness. That's what makes Cole so valuable as a guy.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not that he's fast to say he's quick.
Speaker 1: Tavon's both, but like is Alan, Hearn's really going to
Speaker 1: create that instant separation with his quick feet, you know,
Speaker 1: within five yards of the line of scrimmage. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I doubt it. Um. I would hope it's Tavon, And
Speaker 1: Tavon has shown that he can do that again. You know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't He hasn't needed to. I guess he's only
Speaker 1: played eighteen snaps that's his season high. So but that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. Well, he's the next man up
Speaker 1: closest to doing that kind right, He's the closest skill
Speaker 1: set to what Cole is. Yeah, so that's a fair assumption. Okay,
Speaker 1: before we're going to break and this might be a
Speaker 1: longer discussion, I wanted to touch on Chris Rashard and
Speaker 1: we talked about it a little bit yesterday. He did
Speaker 1: talk to Scott Linahan, you know, helping out game plan
Speaker 1: this whole thing. So he's an important guy this week,
Speaker 1: not only for the defense but also for the offense.
Speaker 1: How big of an impact can we expect from him
Speaker 1: and the offense being able to give those insight information
Speaker 1: from the time that he was at Seattle. I asked
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett about that yesterday and he shockingly downplayed it.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, always, well, there's interpersonal relationships all
Speaker 1: over the league and that's just a thing, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then I asked Scott Linahan about it and he
Speaker 1: was like, Chris has been great. He gave up every No, dude,
Speaker 1: I would sometimes I hear things that I would I
Speaker 1: would just pay so much money to be a fly
Speaker 1: on the wall. So Lenahan, Lenahan's like, yeah, he came
Speaker 1: in and we watched because Chris Richard was with Seattle
Speaker 1: for every game that Lenahan has coached against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: So that's three games, the Classic in fourteen, the ugly
Speaker 1: loss in fifteen, and then last year's Christmas Eve game.
Speaker 1: He's like, he came in, we watched all three games,
Speaker 1: and he went through the whole game with me and
Speaker 1: told me, like, you know how the Seahawks like to
Speaker 1: prep for us, and what they think they can do
Speaker 1: against us, and tendencies and all this other stuff. And
Speaker 1: I was like, man, the football dorc and me, I
Speaker 1: would pay an extravagant amount of money to just get
Speaker 1: to watch that. I think it would be so cool.
Speaker 1: And here's the deal. I'm not under the illusion that
Speaker 1: this doesn't happen all across the league. Like, here's it.
Speaker 1: There are all those relationships, here's the difference. The difference is,
Speaker 1: I don't trust it. Every coach is smart enough or
Speaker 1: has a handle enough on what's happening with his old
Speaker 1: team to really be able to break it. Down as
Speaker 1: well as as at least I perceived Chris Rashard. Not
Speaker 1: only that, but like, okay, cool, you coached linebackers in
Speaker 1: Philly for a year and a half, Like big whoop.
Speaker 1: That's not the same Chris Roshard was. He wasn't the
Speaker 1: architect of that defense. Dan Quinn was. But like Chris
Speaker 1: Rashard was in charge of that defense for like four years,
Speaker 1: and he was the coach of the Legion of Boom
Speaker 1: for three years before that, Like, he knows everything about
Speaker 1: how they want to play defense, and also he knows
Speaker 1: everything about how they schemed for this offense for years.
Speaker 1: And I know the quarterback has changed blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: but Lenahan's been calling it since since then, so he
Speaker 1: probably has a lot of information about how the Seahawks
Speaker 1: might prefer to play them exactly. And and I trust
Speaker 1: based upon just the results of what I've seen from
Speaker 1: this defense, which I attribute so much of what we're
Speaker 1: seeing this year from this defense. I think this defense
Speaker 1: was good last year. I think this defense has a
Speaker 1: potential to be great this year. And according to the
Speaker 1: things that I that I heard yesterday, it sounds like
Speaker 1: much of that is attributed at least from a coaching
Speaker 1: side of it, to Chris Richard, and not only is coaching,
Speaker 1: but his ability to call make call play calls during
Speaker 1: the game because they mean Lena, I mean, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Marinelli basically said as much yesterday though he's the one
Speaker 1: that's making these calls. The reason why they're blitzing so
Speaker 1: much it is because he's making these calls. So he
Speaker 1: has quickly made an impact on this d defense and
Speaker 1: taking this defense to the point now to where I
Speaker 1: heard a commented earlier today say that that fearsome front,
Speaker 1: that fearsome Dallas front. When's the last time you heard that, right?
Speaker 1: It sounds pretty nice. Yeah, but I'm saying that's but
Speaker 1: that's that's what people are thinking right now around This
Speaker 1: is a national guy. That's what people are thinking right
Speaker 1: now about this defense. Scared. The last time anybody said
Speaker 1: that about this defense was when Where and Spencer were
Speaker 1: your ends and Ratliffe was going to Pro Bowls at
Speaker 1: nose tackle. Yeah that was that was a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: for DeMarcus Ago. Yeah that was a long time ago. Yep.
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Speaker 1: for this game. I wanted to ask you that, guys,
Speaker 1: do you expect this to finally be the time for
Speaker 1: Rico Gathers to make that game catching ball that will
Speaker 1: break the internet? Game catching ball however you want awarded?
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Just catch a ball, catch a
Speaker 1: ball that means something. I gotta I know. I know
Speaker 1: it was right there for him, and it's not his
Speaker 1: fault that Dak should have hit him. No, I gotta.
Speaker 1: I gotta see it to believe it, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, like, even though it should have happened last week,
Speaker 1: I gotta see it. You don't think this is it? Well,
Speaker 1: we don't even know for sure if he's going to
Speaker 1: be active. So oh, you're just is this the law
Speaker 1: of attraction? You're just like Rico to the active roster.
Speaker 1: I'm just expecting him to be I think that after
Speaker 1: them seeing how close it was, and given the fact
Speaker 1: that it was more Dak's fault not to make it
Speaker 1: happen and get that touch I think that they saw that,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, we do have the opportunity here, we
Speaker 1: can make this happen. And from what I hear, I
Speaker 1: mean they keep practicing this thing between them too, So
Speaker 1: I'm expecting them to keep him active and give him
Speaker 1: more chances for this to happen. I hope. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a limb and I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: by the end of this year, Rico will have five touchdowns. Whoa,
Speaker 1: we have five touch based on bet on what, just
Speaker 1: based on the fact that I believe he just has
Speaker 1: too much skill and ability for them not to figure
Speaker 1: out how to use him in the red touchdown. Put
Speaker 1: money on five touchdowns, one of those happening this weekend.
Speaker 1: Anybody on this team besides Das have five touchdowns last year?
Speaker 1: Did anybody on this team besides Das have five and
Speaker 1: twenty six? Five? Yes, five five touchdowns. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: five touchdowns. This year? We have fivedowns. Okay, I got
Speaker 1: thirteen steak so ober here, Yeah, Okay, no, not serve it.
Speaker 1: Just keep it in the back of your brain. So
Speaker 1: if this doesn't happen, what are you gonna give us?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. But what am I
Speaker 1: supposed to give you? Make something funner? He's gonna take
Speaker 1: it fun He's gonna take us all out to dinner.
Speaker 1: Like I don't do that all way to him? No,
Speaker 1: I know, but yeah, but I'm thinking like, Indy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's my birthday? Did you say that was? Okay?
Speaker 1: We'll go out to dinner and but we won't know
Speaker 1: then if if if he actually won't, if he has,
Speaker 1: then you'll be paying for my Saint Elmo? Well yeah,
Speaker 1: is that is that? An Indie's the saying Elmo Steakhouse?
Speaker 1: A right? Good? So so wait wait wait so if
Speaker 1: he has three by then do you pay for my steak? No? No?
Speaker 1: Why not? Like this can't be a one sided bet.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. We'll figure it all right, all right?
Speaker 1: So crazy predictions for this game? Do you feel that
Speaker 1: will make somewhat of a crazy play and impact this
Speaker 1: game in a positive way for the Cowboys? Uh? Somebody
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna get on the interception Ledger this week.
Speaker 1: That's the protection for the Seahawks is too bad. Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's gonna get hit too many times for him to
Speaker 1: play a completely clean game. I think he's thrown picks
Speaker 1: in both of their games so far. Yeah, he threw
Speaker 1: the pick that ended the Bears game, and he definitely
Speaker 1: got picked in Denver as well. So uh yeah, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna get a pick. If I had to
Speaker 1: put money on it, I would say, obviously, Jeff you
Speaker 1: somebody step up and dethrone him. Then, I mean the
Speaker 1: guys led the team and picks three years in a
Speaker 1: four years in a row, right since fifteen? No, that's
Speaker 1: only three. Sorry, I can't count um either way. I
Speaker 1: would guess Jeff Heath, but maybe Bayern r Cheeto. But
Speaker 1: somebody's somebody's getting a pick and it'll be a big play.
Speaker 1: Can the Cowboys score more points in this game than
Speaker 1: the Seahawks or I mean again, we talked to about
Speaker 1: this um maybe yesterday, I don't know, but that Seattle.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, they've lost games, but they haven't really
Speaker 1: had issues with scoring points. And based on the still
Speaker 1: early but based on these two first games, I feel
Speaker 1: more confident with the with Seattle being able to score
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys so far, I don't. Here's the reason why,
Speaker 1: Because I think the Cowboys defense is better than the
Speaker 1: defenses that Seattle's face so far, and so I don't.
Speaker 1: I expect both offenses to struggle. I don't. And here's
Speaker 1: the deal. When I say struggle, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense will actually play better this week than they've played
Speaker 1: the first two weeks, because I think Zeke will be
Speaker 1: better um and I think because they'll be able to
Speaker 1: get the running game going to some degree that will
Speaker 1: help them and help their offense throughout the game. So
Speaker 1: I actually expect this to be a week where Zeke
Speaker 1: goes of one hundred yards. You look at his history.
Speaker 1: First two weeks is usually when he's not that great.
Speaker 1: Gets to the third week, that's usually when Zeke comes on.
Speaker 1: And I expect Zeke is gonna come on this week,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna have a good week. I
Speaker 1: still don't think the Cowboys are gonna score a ton
Speaker 1: of points. I don't think they're gonna get into the
Speaker 1: twenty seven range, but I wouldn't be surprised her up
Speaker 1: at the twenty one range. Twenty four range maybe at
Speaker 1: the most, but I think that's gonna be enough if
Speaker 1: you look at it, because I just think that I
Speaker 1: think that both these defenses are gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dave broke it down for you to defense
Speaker 1: just say. Seattle's defense isn't bad. They're just not at Colt.
Speaker 1: They're just not where we are accustomed to seeing them,
Speaker 1: Like they don't have the talent that they once had,
Speaker 1: but they still Any defense has got difference makers at
Speaker 1: all three levels, is gonna be a good defense, and
Speaker 1: they do. They have difference makers at all three levels.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be tough for both teams to score.
Speaker 1: I think I would guess it's gonna look a lot
Speaker 1: like the last two games, which twenty fifteen Seattle one
Speaker 1: thirteen to twelve and twenty seventeen Seattle one twenty one
Speaker 1: to twelve, and one of Seattle's touchdowns was a pick six,
Speaker 1: so their offense wasn't on fire by any stretch. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a lot like that. Like I
Speaker 1: would be shocked if the winner of this game has
Speaker 1: twenty is about as hard at high as I'm willing
Speaker 1: to go. But I really think the score will be
Speaker 1: more like seventeen to fifty fourteen, you know, sixteen to thirteen,
Speaker 1: something like that. I certainly could see that. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be. I just think the defenses are better.
Speaker 1: Both the two defenses are better than the offense. Hopefully
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can get in the end zone because they
Speaker 1: have not in those last two games. Yea, all field goals,
Speaker 1: but that problem. But that defense, those defenses they face,
Speaker 1: those two usual much better than the defense they're going
Speaker 1: to face the Sunday. Absolutely, well, let's hope you're right, Derek.
Speaker 1: Let's take a call from Tony in Denver. All right,
Speaker 1: how's it going, guys? Hey, what's up? Hey? I enjoy
Speaker 1: the show. And as fans do, we dare start to
Speaker 1: use the term doomsday defense again. And I think we've
Speaker 1: finished number eight and defense overall last year. And should
Speaker 1: we have vander esh play more in this game against
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson then Damien Wilson, that's a that's an interesting thought.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Damian Wilson. I know you missed that tackle
Speaker 1: in Carolina, but I think that game, again Eli was
Speaker 1: maybe the best he's ever played. But um, I get
Speaker 1: your point. I mean Layton vander Esch, Him and Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith are your most athletic linebackers purely just from a
Speaker 1: talent standpoint. Um, I guarantee you they're going to get
Speaker 1: him on the field. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: if you spy him. I'm curious about that. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Chris Rohard, like, are they gonna just blitz Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: a ton knowing that if it doesn't work, they're screwed,
Speaker 1: Because that sounds scary to me, whether he just beats
Speaker 1: the blitz with a throw or escapes from the blitz
Speaker 1: and then you got nobody to account. Well, there are
Speaker 1: ways to to blitz in a way where you keep
Speaker 1: maintaining you're the gap in your you're laying integrity, and
Speaker 1: they're still not giving him escape routes. Right, that's the
Speaker 1: whole point. If you can do that without giving him
Speaker 1: escape routes, that's what you want to do. It's risky,
Speaker 1: but I think there are ways to do it where
Speaker 1: you can you can have both. You can blitz and
Speaker 1: keep him from getting outside of the pocket. To answer
Speaker 1: the question more directly, I think Damien has played well
Speaker 1: enough that I would have expect he's your starting Sam
Speaker 1: still but I know that they want to get vander
Speaker 1: Esch snaps, and I bet you he will get fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty. It's my guess. Definitely not a bad problem
Speaker 1: to how No, it's so it's really good. Still can't
Speaker 1: believe that we're talking about this, like how do you
Speaker 1: get all these linebackers onto the field? Like I remember
Speaker 1: years where it was like, who's this guy they signed?
Speaker 1: Like last year I think it was, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was twenty sixteen, like they had to move Keith Smith
Speaker 1: back to the linebacker because they didn't have enough. They
Speaker 1: were like, hey, you still remember how to do that? Right, Well,
Speaker 1: we have nobody left, so can you get over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's pretty cool that they're just absolutely stacked at linebacker,
Speaker 1: right and everybody and all of them are playing well.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about it too. It's not just they
Speaker 1: got bodies, like, they got guys that are playing really
Speaker 1: well and you're having to really like the fact that
Speaker 1: they're not having to put the first round pick on
Speaker 1: the field. That's all. I mean, that's just I know,
Speaker 1: such great like people. I get it, you get drafted nineteenth. Overall,
Speaker 1: people want to see you play. People expect you to
Speaker 1: make a different But that's not the worst thing in
Speaker 1: the world. No, And most times, especially at that position too,
Speaker 1: you know, where it takes a little more time to
Speaker 1: get going and figure out the game. But most teams
Speaker 1: aren't patient enough for that. Most teams they get their
Speaker 1: first round pick and they want the first round to
Speaker 1: pick on the field well and the fact that they've
Speaker 1: got guys who were here that are playing well enough
Speaker 1: for them to feel like they don't have to force
Speaker 1: him on the field. Your first under pick usually unless
Speaker 1: you do something you know, bold like draft of Pat
Speaker 1: Mahomes when you have Alex Smith, like, usually your first
Speaker 1: round pick is at a position where you don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of EI one. Yeah, but you know, Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas even you know, I think people thought that was
Speaker 1: a good signing in the spring, but who's even exceeded
Speaker 1: those expectations. Jalen Smith is clearly just shooting right up
Speaker 1: like a rocket. I mean, yeah, but let's be real.
Speaker 1: That first round pick for the Cowboys last year was
Speaker 1: an insurance pick, yes, because they didn't know if Jane
Speaker 1: would be back to being himself. They didn't know what
Speaker 1: was gonna happen with Sean and his injuries, and so
Speaker 1: that was an insurance pick and it paid off on
Speaker 1: him because now he really is insurance. I said it
Speaker 1: in August when people were killing the guy for not practicing,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna need him before the season's over, because
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna get hurt. Knock on wood, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: need him in the coming years because Shawn Lee's thirty two,
Speaker 1: right and has an injury history of a fifty five
Speaker 1: year old. Flights al really popping off. Yeah, and exactly
Speaker 1: like going into third week cramp, it's a cramp. Layton
Speaker 1: vanderessh is fine, Like he's gonna be fine. Um, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say something, Oh, Damien Wilson, you know, Surprisingly
Speaker 1: to me, I honestly did not expect him to be
Speaker 1: playing as good he has been so far coming into
Speaker 1: this year. I don't know why. It's just he's been
Speaker 1: because he hadn't been very good his career. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say his career has been disappointing, because if
Speaker 1: you're still on the roster as a fourth round pick
Speaker 1: in your contract year, you've been pretty good. But I
Speaker 1: always think he gets compared to Anthony Hitchins so much
Speaker 1: because from the same conference, same you know round, same
Speaker 1: position obviously, and he hasn't been anywhere near as good
Speaker 1: as hitch right, And yeah, no, I I going into
Speaker 1: you know, when they drafted Vanderash and signed Thomas, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, it's not a lot. Damien Wilson makes
Speaker 1: this team. So kudos to him that he's Yeah, I
Speaker 1: really thought he'd be gone by now, and he's you know,
Speaker 1: people dogged Kyle wilburto, but Damian Wilson is one of
Speaker 1: your key special teamers too. It's a contract you're for him, yes,
Speaker 1: because fifteen sixteen say yeah, yes, So this is his
Speaker 1: opportunity to do like Hitchens and make some money. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna do like Hitchens, right, but what
Speaker 1: I'm saying that that's his opportunity, right, that's his opportunity
Speaker 1: for a second contract, which will be far bigger than
Speaker 1: the one he's on right now, even if it's not huge.
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Hey, everybody, Hey, you know, I guess to
Speaker 1: score a lot of points, you got to take chances.
Speaker 1: And I see Thako Mayfield last night, and the one
Speaker 1: thing I like about that kid is he just lets
Speaker 1: it go. He sees it and his brain tells his
Speaker 1: arm and the balls out and it's moving. And I
Speaker 1: don't see that with Dak. I see Dak he's like
Speaker 1: a little gunshot. And I don't know if that's started
Speaker 1: from Atlanta last year, but when he rose the quick slant,
Speaker 1: that's his best throw because there's no thinking. He gets
Speaker 1: it and he fires it. But anything that's down the field,
Speaker 1: he's so afraid to make a mistake that when he
Speaker 1: finally decides, you see him throat in a dirty rushes it.
Speaker 1: So my question to you guys is would you rather
Speaker 1: have Dak be like this, protect the ball but you're
Speaker 1: one holding penalty away from maybe punting because this team
Speaker 1: has a hard time overcoming first and twenty, or would
Speaker 1: you like to see him take more chances let the
Speaker 1: ball go. But he may throw some more interceptions, But
Speaker 1: you got a shot at making bigger plays. What do
Speaker 1: you guys think? Let me ask you this question. I
Speaker 1: want you to kind of walk through this yourself. What
Speaker 1: is what do the Cowboys do best? Run the ball,
Speaker 1: run the ball? Which of those passing strategies works best?
Speaker 1: If you're a good running team. Ah, that's tough because
Speaker 1: if this if you're if you were going to tell
Speaker 1: me that this team could methodically march down the field
Speaker 1: and not get a penalty, I say, just checking it down.
Speaker 1: But the problem is, I don't think the offensive line
Speaker 1: is as good as it was and we've seen so far,
Speaker 1: especially in the first game. Is you get this team
Speaker 1: just one holding penalty, one offside penalty and they backed
Speaker 1: up first of fifteen, They're going to have a hard
Speaker 1: time overcoming that. So if he I may personally, I
Speaker 1: think you have to stretch the field like they did
Speaker 1: against the Giant. I think he needs to take some shot.
Speaker 1: I don't mind him thrown an interception once in a while.
Speaker 1: You know, if he's going to throw me a forty
Speaker 1: yard pass down the middle of the field or something
Speaker 1: like that, I'll take it. I took it at Romo,
Speaker 1: and you know you knew Romo. How great is he
Speaker 1: was throwing a ball? He was going to throw them
Speaker 1: in a suctions all the great quarterbacks do because they
Speaker 1: take chances. I think in this league they're begging you
Speaker 1: to take chances with the rules and everything, and I
Speaker 1: just think you're asking the office and you're asking a
Speaker 1: defense to be so precise. Just trying to work these
Speaker 1: twelve play drives. I don't think he could win consistently.
Speaker 1: Were you okay with the idea that? Were you okay
Speaker 1: with this last game? From the standpoint the frequency of
Speaker 1: the downfill throws? They had three that were, to my opinion,
Speaker 1: kind of what I call downfield throws last week. They
Speaker 1: hit on one of them, So they connect on one
Speaker 1: on one of three, and when you're going down feel
Speaker 1: like that that's probably going to be the frequency. Maybe
Speaker 1: a little higher percentage, but that's probably gonna be the
Speaker 1: frequency with which you catch those. Were you okay with
Speaker 1: that frequency of doing it three, three or four times
Speaker 1: a game? Yes? I think you got to back them off.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's no mystery. Every defense is saying,
Speaker 1: we got to stop Zeke I mean the safety Land
Speaker 1: of College came right out and said it's there's no mystery,
Speaker 1: and that back them off. And I think in the
Speaker 1: long run, you may not hit it. We didn't hit
Speaker 1: it like you said, we hit one. But if they
Speaker 1: back up a few steps, maybe that opens up a
Speaker 1: little more room to zeke. You know. I just think
Speaker 1: in this league, if you're gonna think and dunk, I
Speaker 1: don't think it can work. Okay, I said, it's just
Speaker 1: too much, too much overcoming, there's a penalty. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call, and I actually I think kind of in
Speaker 1: listening to him talk about that and talk through it,
Speaker 1: I think the answer is really in what he was saying,
Speaker 1: which is as you got to do a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. You're not gonna go out and bombs away
Speaker 1: every play. You get three or four of those a game,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of the game you run the ball,
Speaker 1: drop it off down low. I mean, there's there are
Speaker 1: different ways you want to attack a defense, and just
Speaker 1: going deep the whole game isn't the right answer because
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get enough percentage. You will be punting
Speaker 1: a lot, right because that's only a fifty fifty prospect
Speaker 1: in most instances, right, So you really want to have
Speaker 1: a balance of it. And I think, honestly, three or
Speaker 1: four times a game, to me, it's plenty to go
Speaker 1: downfield it especially if you connect on one of them
Speaker 1: and it's a touchdown. That's going to force a defense
Speaker 1: to really think twice about whether they're willing to give
Speaker 1: that one play out of out of the three, and
Speaker 1: that may keep them back a little bit or at
Speaker 1: least make them hesitate a little bit on a run
Speaker 1: and give Zeke a little bit more of a headstart
Speaker 1: before he gets to that second level. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I'm officially ready to say, like we make too much
Speaker 1: of a deal out of the down field passing. And
Speaker 1: when I said, I mean like thirty fourty yards down field,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna take a few of those a game.
Speaker 1: Maybe like Ben Roethlisberger hits them with more frequency and
Speaker 1: a lot of people, but like he's going to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and he's got a receivers probably the
Speaker 1: Hall to back a defense off when you have a
Speaker 1: run game like this, I really think it's as easy
Speaker 1: as like consistently hitting receivers for first downs like eight, ten, twelve,
Speaker 1: fifteen yards down field, like I you know, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't have issue with the call because I honestly
Speaker 1: think Rob made a few really good points. But we
Speaker 1: did see this work in twenty sixteen, like it worked
Speaker 1: really well, like they put those drives together, and he's
Speaker 1: absolutely right. The offensive line was better, the running game
Speaker 1: was better, Dak was better to this point, and I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are in the process of trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how they get back to that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they can do it with this personnel. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the receivers are good enough to scare anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Dak can make those plays. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the offensive line without Frederick and from
Speaker 1: what we've seen from them so far, can get to
Speaker 1: that level. But that's what they're going to try to
Speaker 1: do because that's the way they've built this team, And honestly,
Speaker 1: with the way this team is built right now, I
Speaker 1: would rather just not turn the ball over and it
Speaker 1: probably won't be exciting, sorry about it, but that is
Speaker 1: the way they've built this team. You've got a good
Speaker 1: enough defense that it can keep you in and maybe
Speaker 1: even win some games if your quarterback doesn't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. That's a pretty good formula for success. It
Speaker 1: won't be sexy. I'm sorry, but that's probably the best
Speaker 1: strategy for this team to win games. I'll take a
Speaker 1: game like last week for the rest of the season
Speaker 1: every single week if they're winning. Honestly, yea, And the
Speaker 1: last week wasn't a beautiful thing to watch. They had
Speaker 1: a couple of moments that were really beautiful to watch,
Speaker 1: but by and large, that was one of those games
Speaker 1: and it was kind of ugly and kind of like
Speaker 1: you felt like they were I mean, you knew they
Speaker 1: were winning, but you felt like it was kind of tenuous,
Speaker 1: and you really didn't know whether they were gonna be
Speaker 1: able to maintain it, especially once you got into the
Speaker 1: second and third quarter and then an offense really wasn't
Speaker 1: scoring at that point. But the fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is the way they played that game. They came out aggressive,
Speaker 1: they got to lead, the defense held, and then they
Speaker 1: got to the fourth quarter and they said, let's put
Speaker 1: this game away, and they put the game away. If
Speaker 1: you had that formula every week and you have the
Speaker 1: personnel to do it, that's a winning formula. We're seeing
Speaker 1: that formula go to the Super Bowl. If that's a
Speaker 1: winning formula, and if you're a college football fan Alabama,
Speaker 1: I mean exactly, It's hard to play that way in
Speaker 1: the NFL because Alabama has such a ridiculous talent advantage.
Speaker 1: But that's the formula and it can work. Yep, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough because but it can work. And like
Speaker 1: I said, that's that's the way this team is built
Speaker 1: right now and when you will run it. The good
Speaker 1: thing about that is there will only be one formula
Speaker 1: in my opinion, that would that would harm you if
Speaker 1: you're doing that, and you do if you do that well,
Speaker 1: and that is the super quarterback. If you're playing Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: if you're playing Drew Brees, if you're playing Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But they're only a handful of those, right those are
Speaker 1: gonna be the only teams that are really gonna if
Speaker 1: you can do that well, if you can play really
Speaker 1: really great defense, you can run the ball really well
Speaker 1: and you don't turn over the ball, only those great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks will really have a great shot at beating you.
Speaker 1: And I'll take my chances with that. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good that's a pretty good setup to say, Hey, if
Speaker 1: that's the only people I can beat us. If those
Speaker 1: four or five can beat us and everybody else, we
Speaker 1: fact we can beat That's what's a that's what're taking.
Speaker 1: That's a shot we're taking, no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: I really don't know how long it would take for
Speaker 1: Dad to get to that level as far as being
Speaker 1: able to make those long distance throws, especially giving the
Speaker 1: amount of opportunities that he gets in the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't really see great progress when you don't get
Speaker 1: many chances. But didn't need progress from what he did.
Speaker 1: I think what he did last week was no, it
Speaker 1: is fine, It is fine, and moving it slowly like that,
Speaker 1: as long as you get it moving and get to
Speaker 1: the no. I'm saying what he did last week as
Speaker 1: far as the deep now, yes, it was fine because
Speaker 1: one of me connected four touchdown. The other two didn't connect,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be the percentage you do when
Speaker 1: you're going that far downfield. But the thing is, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not consistent enough. And like you said, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: that's fine when you're making those few ones here and there.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think it can affect
Speaker 1: his confidence and start giving him that more of that
Speaker 1: hesitation that we've been seeing of like thinking, Okay, should
Speaker 1: I make this this throw or not. I think it
Speaker 1: affects him in his confidence and the way and how
Speaker 1: quickly he executes. I don't know. I think quarterbacks know that.
Speaker 1: They call it a fifty fifty ball for a reason.
Speaker 1: I think quarterbacks, no, you're not going to connect that
Speaker 1: a lot, Like that's not if that's your bread and butter,
Speaker 1: unless you're the Greatest Show on Turf where they were
Speaker 1: doing that every week multiple times in the game. Then
Speaker 1: that's just not the way the offense runs, I mean,
Speaker 1: and that certainly is not the way the offense runs here.
Speaker 1: That's not what they're even asking him to do. So
Speaker 1: I don't know that affects his confidence as much as
Speaker 1: it is just we're gonna take a shot here, and
Speaker 1: there is still value in the shot, Like even if
Speaker 1: you don't connect, the fact that you got somebody down
Speaker 1: feel and the fact that Dak threw the ball forces
Speaker 1: a defense to think they're gonna hesitate for justice. Staff second,
Speaker 1: thinking are they going deep here. We gotta make sure
Speaker 1: we'recovering that. We gotta make sure we got people in position.
Speaker 1: So that's all you have to worry about it, and
Speaker 1: for me, that's that's the value of it. I don't
Speaker 1: think that everything else is working. That's those the defense
Speaker 1: is working. As long as able to run the ball
Speaker 1: and as long as you turn it over. I think
Speaker 1: those are the three critical factors. And if you can
Speaker 1: do those things, I think the deep ball becomes just
Speaker 1: kind of that added thing just to force them to
Speaker 1: respect it. You know, I absolutely agree. Just when those
Speaker 1: other elements are working, then you got a great game going.
Speaker 1: But if one of those goes down, then everything else
Speaker 1: goes down. And we've seen that happen multiple times. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think Dad can be fine, but
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see how it's just a we'll see.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, absolutely, we haven't. I mean, I can't sit
Speaker 1: here and tell you that Dak is going to develop
Speaker 1: into an all pro quarterback. But this is this is
Speaker 1: the way this team is going to have to win
Speaker 1: right now, and that's that's what's important today on Friday,
Speaker 1: and not mess those Rico passes in the end zone
Speaker 1: he's getting down. We're picking this game or what are
Speaker 1: we okay, final score for this game? Who wins? And
Speaker 1: what is the final score? All right, Um we go first, Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. I think Cowboys win. I think they win
Speaker 1: twenty to sixteen in a close one. In another game,
Speaker 1: it's just like the Giants game. That's I think that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna have to get used to seeing. I
Speaker 1: do think they put up a couple more points, and
Speaker 1: I think the offense looks a little more efficient throughout
Speaker 1: the game, because I think the running game is going
Speaker 1: to be much better this week than it has been
Speaker 1: the first two weeks, so it'll look a little better,
Speaker 1: but the result will still be pretty much the same.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be right there around twenty points. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: Cowboys will win. I said before a week one that
Speaker 1: I was going to choose to believe a lot of
Speaker 1: things about this team. The defense has it looks good.
Speaker 1: The offense not so much. Not enough time has passed
Speaker 1: from week one. There's not a large enough sample size
Speaker 1: of success for me to have a ton of faith
Speaker 1: in this offense. Seattle's offense has problems of their own.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, they have an all
Speaker 1: Pro quarterback. It hasn't been pretty for him, but he's
Speaker 1: still there. A lot of those guys are gone, but
Speaker 1: this is still a franchise with a great home field
Speaker 1: advantage that knows how to win games and is used
Speaker 1: to winning games. There's a lot of pride up there. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be pretty at all for anybody, really,
Speaker 1: but I just think an Owen two Seattle team finds
Speaker 1: a way to keep it season alive. I'm thinking, like,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a must win when you were
Speaker 1: onto one to get it wasn't. It was a must
Speaker 1: win for Dallas, and this is a must win for
Speaker 1: Seattle and three and oh and two? Right, but oh,
Speaker 1: I meant not that are we doing this right now?
Speaker 1: I'm just getting clarity. I'm just getting clarity. They like
Speaker 1: they needed to win that game and they didn't, But
Speaker 1: now it's must If it's only twenty twenty percent of
Speaker 1: teams making it Owen two, it's even fewer at three
Speaker 1: out about it. Um, I think Seattle wins fourteen to thirteen,
Speaker 1: fourteen thirteen. All right, an game. It won't be fun.
Speaker 1: It will not be fun, but it'll be defensive, be
Speaker 1: a fun trip home, it'll be. It'll be. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be a slugfest. I think it'll
Speaker 1: it'll find a way to be entertaining. But I think
Speaker 1: Seattle gets it done. All right, Um, I will I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick Seattle as well. I will say under twenty
Speaker 1: that's the final score. I don't know what it would be,
Speaker 1: but I would just say it's gonna be a one
Speaker 1: point difference for this game. So wa difference? Yeah, one
Speaker 1: point doesn't matter, doesn't Now it's gonna be thirty eight
Speaker 1: thirty five. That would be fun. Yeah, for real, Dax
Speaker 1: is gonna be splinging it around. Hey, I don't mind
Speaker 1: that I bring it. Bring I'd be happy to eat
Speaker 1: some crow. That's what I want to do, all right.
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