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Speaker 3: Let's ry he go, he kept it, He kept the
Speaker 3: last ride. Man, shout out the rust man. Man he
Speaker 3: did get bade big if he got a thirty seventies,
Speaker 3: he wiping his face with all hundreds. Let me go
Speaker 3: ahead and cry with these man, you know the crew.
Speaker 3: Danny McCrae, Heck Maharrison, Barry Church, he scruggs. So Russell
Speaker 3: Wilson being mentioned in Denver on the second day at QUANTSA, Well,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't get they ain't that song.
Speaker 4: He's due, I said, I think it's the fifth day
Speaker 4: of the league year. He's doe thirty seven million guaranteed.
Speaker 4: So if you he gets hurt in these last two games,
Speaker 4: well then he's getting straight back. So you know what
Speaker 4: they did like they did there car Hey, Hey, young fellers.
Speaker 5: Hey, it's a thirty whatever. On top of what he
Speaker 5: was already gonna get right.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be get so.
Speaker 3: Now if they want to make a move, you know.
Speaker 4: It's a dirty game. They're too young to man what
Speaker 4: Nino said.
Speaker 5: What it's never business, it's never person it's never persons.
Speaker 2: Always. He's having a good season, so he gets all.
Speaker 3: Does he get the guaranteed he signed for when he
Speaker 3: first signed up for the for the.
Speaker 2: So mostly what they'll do quartering right?
Speaker 4: And it was an article by two days ago that
Speaker 4: Florio had put it out there Pro Football Talk got
Speaker 4: com basically thirty seven mili guaranteed by the league year
Speaker 4: fifth and he had posted like do you sent him?
Speaker 2: Because what they did with carlast and it's got Florido
Speaker 2: is a real piece of work. Man, are you gonna
Speaker 2: put that in the universe like that? That's crazy. That's
Speaker 2: a real piece Seriously.
Speaker 4: So this is something that every I mean, if you,
Speaker 4: if you are a team, you got to ask you
Speaker 4: do we want to pay him? And it's clear by
Speaker 4: the things that Sean Payton has been saying, he's not
Speaker 4: sold on Russell. So instead of paying him to thirty
Speaker 4: seven mili, you get ready to make up a post
Speaker 4: June cut and you start slicing.
Speaker 5: So the question is are they gonna now going to
Speaker 5: be paying him to go away because of the part
Speaker 5: of his contract that it's still guaranteed.
Speaker 4: They're basically going to get so because the thirty seven
Speaker 4: mil would have been guaranteed on June fifth, I mean
Speaker 4: March fifth, you cut him. Now you will designate him
Speaker 4: to be a post June one cut. He's not gonna
Speaker 4: get that money, and so now you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: eat that that that.
Speaker 2: But you're right less than what is it? Less than
Speaker 2: what it would have been had.
Speaker 4: He Basically it's almost kind of gonna kind of even
Speaker 4: out there. But bottom line is Sean doesn't want Yeah,
Speaker 4: and if you're Sean Payton, you go to you just say, guys,
Speaker 4: look you saw where we were. This is not good enough.
Speaker 4: You're seven and eighteen right now, is what it is.
Speaker 2: They eliminated.
Speaker 3: They eliminated because O wait, holda chiefs leading it right,
Speaker 3: they're nine and six in that division with Tumo left, which.
Speaker 2: Is crazy and I don't believe have they even clinched.
Speaker 4: Right now to the third seed? So Baltimore is your
Speaker 4: one seed. So this is the way we're looking in
Speaker 4: the first rounds of Baltimore gets a buy in AFC,
Speaker 4: then it would be Miami is a two seed against Indianapolis.
Speaker 4: But obviously we know Miami Baltimore played this week. But
Speaker 4: right now, currently Miami getst Indy and because Indy's the
Speaker 4: seventy three seeds Kansas City, they would face Buffalo to.
Speaker 3: Six seed, and then it would be a game duvall
Speaker 3: the fourth seed against Cleveland the fifth seed. That's what
Speaker 3: that's the current playoff.
Speaker 2: So Buffalo is what they once gave over five hundred,
Speaker 2: right ninety six.
Speaker 4: Well, they're projected to be ninety six right now, but
Speaker 4: right now Buffalo is, yeah, ninety six right now, ninety
Speaker 4: six right now, and Buffalo, Buffalo's got New England at home,
Speaker 4: and then they're on the road in the season of
Speaker 4: the road at Miami, So that's where that's where they're
Speaker 4: out there. Then over here on the NFC side, you've
Speaker 4: got San Francisco is your one seed, then your seventh
Speaker 4: seventh seed is Seattle and they would go to Philadelphia
Speaker 4: the two seeds to the Lord's Work. The sixth seed
Speaker 4: would be the Rams at the third seed of Detroit
Speaker 4: Lions and the five seed Cowboys right now would be
Speaker 4: at the four seed Tampa Bay. So that's the current
Speaker 4: playoffs you wish.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you you're gonna eat those words. Sometime. You're
Speaker 2: gonna come say that. Put it going, even if it's
Speaker 2: not in the first round.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, if you if you end up not getting
Speaker 5: the two seed and you have to go on the
Speaker 5: road for the entirety of the playoffs, you you were
Speaker 5: eating those works of like. We have not performed well
Speaker 5: on the road, which is thank goodness. We were at home.
Speaker 2: This week is Detroit early, but thank goodness went home Campbell.
Speaker 2: Cowboys can still win this thing. They still get the
Speaker 2: two seeds. That's what I want. Play out, go, let play.
Speaker 2: What do you still want the five seed?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that still your your stance? I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I go either way. No, see got here. He was
Speaker 2: all off the fence.
Speaker 3: You was you was want Look, look, you know Bakers
Speaker 3: played well, but I can see what the matchups.
Speaker 2: So you're talking about why the five seed would be attractive.
Speaker 4: Now I say this, You say two seed now Seattle
Speaker 4: versus I just want the Rams.
Speaker 2: So this two seeds Seattle, Yeah, shut me up. I
Speaker 2: take the Rams. At home five, take Tampa on the road.
Speaker 4: So my whole premise was not wanting any parts of you.
Speaker 4: So now Seattle sitting here at seven Rams, are sitting
Speaker 4: here six Rams Detroit first round.
Speaker 7: Boo.
Speaker 2: That that's good TV right there, Sign me up to
Speaker 2: watch that one.
Speaker 5: I mean that forty nine ers in Rams game at
Speaker 5: the end of the season is gonna be a that's
Speaker 5: gonna be a duce.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, yes, sir. So look, forty nine ers. We'll
Speaker 4: go here looking at the forty nine ers schedule at
Speaker 4: Washington this week.
Speaker 2: Again, that's the payback.
Speaker 5: Y'all feel no kind of way about jacobet start, Well,
Speaker 5: you might be missing, might be missing William.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get tried. So you might be missing.
Speaker 5: In Washing so they gotta make that flight. Yeah, got
Speaker 5: a growing injury. Yeah, so you know I can see
Speaker 5: that he was. I imagine he won't be playing this
Speaker 5: week because you want to getting ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: That's your only hope over for both.
Speaker 3: Well, NBC guys is out there when Washington went to
Speaker 3: go play out there at the Rams, and he tweets
Speaker 3: a picture of a sofi seems like you never know
Speaker 3: anything happened.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, you know, that's right, it's not
Speaker 4: going to get that. Poor Terry McLaurin. They're wasting his
Speaker 4: life and career. And Jonathan Allen and I don't know, man,
Speaker 4: I don't know if he wanted that bad.
Speaker 2: So so you got that.
Speaker 3: Talking about these Cowboys they are a six point favorite
Speaker 3: at home against Detroit.
Speaker 2: Huh, yes, like that. They smoking on it. They trying
Speaker 2: to set you up. Come on, they stay rich for.
Speaker 3: By the way, breaking news here, Cowboys release linebacker Rashaan
Speaker 3: Evans after marijuana rest.
Speaker 4: Just came up on the thing there.
Speaker 2: So I hate to see it. But at least he
Speaker 2: got Christmas in. He's not ext Christmas.
Speaker 5: How do you, as a player who was brought in
Speaker 5: mid season, knowing that you have to do everything you
Speaker 5: possibly can to stay on this roster, slip up like that.
Speaker 2: I just don't like. I don't understand.
Speaker 5: It's something that you're gonna look back on five years
Speaker 5: from now and be like, man, this team go to
Speaker 5: the playoffs and all a sudden make a run, and
Speaker 5: then that is the reason why you weren't a part
Speaker 5: of that. That that that roster with all the work
Speaker 5: that you put in, and that's the news out there
Speaker 5: tonight and the next person who's thinking about picking.
Speaker 2: You up as the word like, that's just I just don't.
Speaker 5: I never understand that it's a bad situation, but it
Speaker 5: still doesn't help us, it don't. I mean, the linebacker
Speaker 5: room is thin, and we're already in the position right
Speaker 5: now where your main concern and word is stopping to run.
Speaker 2: I don't that's it.
Speaker 5: We gotta stop the run and we need linebackers to
Speaker 5: do it, and we can't have enough of them. It's
Speaker 5: it's a team that going into training camp you thought
Speaker 5: you were pretty solid at the linebacker position and then
Speaker 5: one a cl injury to Overshawn later that's real, next day,
Speaker 5: next thing, you know, that's the thinnest room on defense.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how we especially coming up this
Speaker 5: week against Detroit, because you're gonna need your linebackers to.
Speaker 2: Play till you're gonna need your linebackers.
Speaker 3: And is there any word on on Hankins, any word
Speaker 3: on Hanks being able to play.
Speaker 2: We're gonna need somebody and it does.
Speaker 5: Sound like they sounds like now listen after the negative yesterday, Okay,
Speaker 5: I do want to I do want to speak positively about.
Speaker 2: My man dan Quinn.
Speaker 5: Somebody's phone is on. Let's see be in the back.
Speaker 5: I want to speak positively about dan Quinn. Okay, for
Speaker 5: just because of what you said. You go into the
Speaker 5: season knowing that you have an overshun an lve. You're
Speaker 5: looking at DeMont Clark, You're looking at your linebacker room
Speaker 5: and about Janell Cox, and then and then the injury
Speaker 5: start to strike.
Speaker 2: Okay, and whatever he's been able to.
Speaker 5: Do with all those injuries, and then putting in a
Speaker 5: guy like Marku's Bell and saying, hey, I think you
Speaker 5: can be successful. Not as successful as one of like
Speaker 5: a natural linebacker, but serviceable enough for us to make
Speaker 5: it through this point in the season. That takes some
Speaker 5: work and some trust in what you can see and
Speaker 5: get out of a player. So I want to give
Speaker 5: some props on that. And I'm still staying the tall
Speaker 5: on this. Maami. Listen, twenty two points. You got to
Speaker 5: get the dub twenty two dollars, you got to get
Speaker 5: the done. This team put up seventy on the Denver Bronco.
Speaker 5: I watched them at Denver has a good defense. I
Speaker 5: just you know, in the playoffs, I e aspective.
Speaker 4: You know, if they win this game and they're six
Speaker 4: point favorite here surprising, how would you feel because you
Speaker 4: you would be beating a division winner who can run
Speaker 4: the football, which has been your achilles here, and you
Speaker 4: would complete a perfect home record and getting ready to
Speaker 4: face a Washington team that has been giving up right now,
Speaker 4: and they are four and eleven right now, they get
Speaker 4: they get San Francisco's this week.
Speaker 2: So I'm about to say they four to twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right about that. I feel good? Would you feel good?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 3: I would feel good if they were able to go
Speaker 3: out there and beat this Detroit team. Because when you
Speaker 3: look at it, we all understand what's going to happen
Speaker 3: in this game. It's going to be a playoff atmosphere.
Speaker 3: You got, you know, two teams competing for seeding as
Speaker 3: far as the playoffs are concerned. So you know you're
Speaker 3: gonna get the most out of each and every team.
Speaker 3: You look at that Quinn, what he's able to bring
Speaker 3: to Detroit, you know you're gonna get a sixty minute battle.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what it's gonna be on both sides
Speaker 3: of the football, offensively, in defensive.
Speaker 2: Camp Yeah, with the camera.
Speaker 3: So then with that Detroit team. Offensively, you know what
Speaker 3: their best thing is, that's their offensive line. So it's
Speaker 3: gonna go against all defensive line versus their offensive line.
Speaker 3: To me, is gonna be the matchup that's gonna solve
Speaker 3: this game because if you're able to slow down that run,
Speaker 3: which is it's a doozy because they got two big
Speaker 3: time backs.
Speaker 2: You talk about Montgomery, you talk about Gibbs.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like Pollard and Elliott last year when
Speaker 3: you got that thunder lightning combo. So if you're able
Speaker 3: to slow that down and force it into Jared Goff's hands.
Speaker 3: We all know that man is a statue in the backfield.
Speaker 3: He's a statue. If you give him time, he could
Speaker 3: pick you apart. But if you go into it similar
Speaker 3: to what you did in the Rams game when you
Speaker 3: had a statue at quarterback like Matt Stafford, if you're
Speaker 3: able to harass this man, it could be a blowout.
Speaker 3: Now that's a lot of ifs because we understand what
Speaker 3: they bring us as far as that run game. But
Speaker 3: to me, that's the matchup that's that's gonna be. The
Speaker 3: big time thing is that offsive line in the trenches.
Speaker 2: So hackn Harrison. They win this game, then how you
Speaker 2: feeling now? Man?
Speaker 5: First of all, it's an if, is a big old
Speaker 5: if right now, and I feel good if they win
Speaker 5: it because I feel like this is your tough your
Speaker 5: toughest opponent that you face at home, on offense and
Speaker 5: on defense. I think that Detroit is a tough team
Speaker 5: that a lot of people may be not looking at
Speaker 5: or undervaluing what they can do in the playoffs. But
Speaker 5: I think this is a dangerous team that's starting to
Speaker 5: catch fire at the right time.
Speaker 2: And it's funny how.
Speaker 5: When you look at this Gibbs kid from Detroit, how
Speaker 5: similar he looks to James Cook, just his ability in
Speaker 5: open field, but also as a receiver, does something out.
Speaker 2: Of the backfield, catches the ball, and he's really good.
Speaker 5: I think the one area for me is and I'm
Speaker 5: with you, I've always wanted that number two seed because
Speaker 5: I felt like we're so much better at home. Offensively,
Speaker 5: we're so much better at home, and in that game
Speaker 5: versus Miami, Like you're saying they get twenty two points,
Speaker 5: you need to score thirty points. Yes, that's all it
Speaker 5: is to it, right, But I feel like we place
Speaker 5: so much better at home defensively, we got to figure
Speaker 5: out a way to get our mojo back.
Speaker 2: However, we gotta do it. We got to sell out
Speaker 2: to do it. Whatever we have, we've got to get
Speaker 2: it right at home.
Speaker 5: Versus a Detroit Lions team that their offensive line is
Speaker 5: if we thought we had a challenge against the Bills,
Speaker 5: if we thought we had a challenge against some of
Speaker 5: these other teams that's brought to physicality. This is a
Speaker 5: Bills team, I mean, this is a Lions squad that
Speaker 5: is also very physical at the line of scrimmage. And man,
Speaker 5: they're playing for Dan Kimbell. I mean, I know he's
Speaker 5: a guy that you've been talking about for a while now,
Speaker 5: and just what he represents in the way that those
Speaker 5: guys are playing for him. And you can just get
Speaker 5: a feeling from that team that they'll run through a
Speaker 5: brick wall for Dan Campbell right now.
Speaker 2: Gibbs, you guys like Gibbs gives them.
Speaker 5: Montgomery, I think if we win this game, it depends
Speaker 5: on how the game plays out, because for me, I
Speaker 5: want to see us be able to consistently stop the run. Okay,
Speaker 5: and then we ran up against Buffalo didn't do so well,
Speaker 5: all right, I am. I feel better about our run
Speaker 5: defense based off how we played against Miami.
Speaker 2: So real quick, would that be a good run stopping
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 5: If we go against De Troy and held them to
Speaker 5: the amount in Miami, Yes, if you held him to
Speaker 5: a team like that, you're going to beat that team.
Speaker 5: Because Jared Goff, as good as he's been playing, if
Speaker 5: you put the game in his hands, he's probably going
Speaker 5: to turn the ball over multiple times. But if you
Speaker 5: let them get into this position where they can run
Speaker 5: the ball, then they got play action and then La
Speaker 5: Porter can get rolling.
Speaker 2: Now you have an issue. But if you stop them
Speaker 2: like you.
Speaker 5: Stopped Miami Montgomery and Gibbs, then I feel like you
Speaker 5: have a very good chance of winning this game. Not
Speaker 5: only this game, but then that gives you the confidence
Speaker 5: to say, Okay, this is one of the better running
Speaker 5: teams in the league. Yes, when we go up and
Speaker 5: face another team that specializes in running the football, you
Speaker 5: know for a fact that you can get it done
Speaker 5: because you've done it against Miami, who was a top
Speaker 5: five and now you're doing it against Detroit. And that's
Speaker 5: what we've been waiting to see the entire year because
Speaker 5: that's been our Achilles Hills in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Can we stop the run? Where's Gibbs from?
Speaker 6: Y'all?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: Right away, he's still talking about my my man just
Speaker 5: won the hous this year, just got the Heisman Trophy,
Speaker 5: and he over talking about Gibbs in my in Alabama.
Speaker 2: I know why he didn't go. I know he didn't go.
Speaker 2: He didn't go to your school. If we could get
Speaker 2: Tony Paula to play like Gibbs, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Does he have the opportunities gives is getting Is he
Speaker 3: getting the opportunity of Gibbs?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If somebody what is Gibs stats this year?
Speaker 5: First, you don't even got to pull up the stats,
Speaker 5: like eight hundred, you don't have to pull up the stats.
Speaker 2: It just looked different, Like it looks different. It looked different.
Speaker 5: And at this point he said that throughout the season,
Speaker 5: if Tony Paula got twenty carries, I do not believe
Speaker 5: that you will see anything drastically different, Like I like,
Speaker 5: I don't know how at this point, like we're like,
Speaker 5: how tell me the ideal way you would use Tony
Speaker 5: Pollard specifically, because you've been watching the season, you see
Speaker 5: how many times the man want to come out of
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 2: But is that is that him saying that I've seen them.
Speaker 5: I've seen it maybe two times the whole season where
Speaker 5: he goes like this, I don't know, I've seen it.
Speaker 2: I've seen I've seen him like this. You have to
Speaker 2: go off the field.
Speaker 5: So ideally, in a perfect world, what do you get
Speaker 5: from Tony Pollard?
Speaker 2: What like how many opportunities runs? Passes?
Speaker 5: Twenty five touches, total touches. Here's the thing I'm gonna say,
Speaker 5: Tony Poler has more yards and gifts. All right, But
Speaker 5: like you said, eyeball tests two different types of players.
Speaker 5: I'm only talking about from the receiving aspect when our
Speaker 5: short passing. And that's one of the questions I brought
Speaker 5: up about what do we have to do when the
Speaker 5: running game is because.
Speaker 2: Right now we don't have a running game.
Speaker 5: Let's keep it real, we don't have one, And so
Speaker 5: how do you go into the playoffs saying I don't
Speaker 5: have a running game. That's going to have to be
Speaker 5: an extension of the passing game, the show passing game
Speaker 5: that extends to the running game. For this offense to
Speaker 5: even be a threat in the postseason, because if we
Speaker 5: cannot test teams at the line of scrimmage, we're dead
Speaker 5: in the water, because then we become one dimensional and
Speaker 5: that's my only thing. We are searching desperately for another weapon.
Speaker 5: Teams already know we're gonna go to Ferguson. Teams already
Speaker 5: know we're gonna go to Cede Lamb, and they're already
Speaker 5: checking the fact that with Brandon Cooks, he trying to
Speaker 5: hit us on something deep with Cooks, which is like,
Speaker 5: and I understand the twenty five touches thing. I'm still
Speaker 5: on the like, Okay, we're not a running team, We're
Speaker 5: a passing team. You need to still find a way
Speaker 5: to get your top passing weapons involved.
Speaker 2: We have not consistently done that.
Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks last week two catches, two catches, two targets,
Speaker 5: one for a touchdown. We've been talking about this all season.
Speaker 5: What happens when you take away CD Lamb. Do we
Speaker 5: have an opportunity to get somebody else involved? Then we
Speaker 5: started seeing it's tober, it's gallup, it's turping. When you
Speaker 5: got a guy like Brandon Cooks out there, Now, I
Speaker 5: could just not be watching enough film and maybe he's
Speaker 5: getting cut and then I would admit that I was wrong, right,
Speaker 5: But until I get to watch all lift, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: say this. I've seen the guy and every time you
Speaker 5: throw him the ball, he has an opportunity to make
Speaker 5: a big time play, and he's done it with touchdowns
Speaker 5: or first downs.
Speaker 3: Looking at numbers here, just Tony Pollard two hundred nineteen
Speaker 3: carries for eight hundred eighty six yards, five touchdowns, Gibbs
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty four carries for eight hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy two yards, nine touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Yards poort timp yards per timp tip me what that is.
Speaker 5: I had to go back, okay, because it seems much.
Speaker 3: Higher than on Montgomery one hundred ninety five carries for
Speaker 3: nine hundred and ten yards at eleven touchdowns.
Speaker 4: So those two are combined for twenty touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Man, so dangerous, do it? Geez? So it's different.
Speaker 4: But I would also come back into this, and I
Speaker 4: go back to what Skip Pete said when he was
Speaker 4: a running back.
Speaker 2: Oach here, man, you got to get these guys. It
Speaker 2: needs to be two dudes.
Speaker 3: Detroit's going with two dudes and with Pollard, That's what
Speaker 3: he felt the best way to use Tony so you
Speaker 3: want to go back to yards per average, and Montgomery
Speaker 3: is four point seven yards.
Speaker 4: Carrie Gibbs fight point seven. So if I were to say,
Speaker 4: how could you make Tony Pollard a better player? Go
Speaker 4: get another running back to pair with him, It's what.
Speaker 2: I would say it. But it's hard to strike like that.
Speaker 5: In the draft, when you get a guy like Gibbs
Speaker 5: and then you could bring the Montgomery, it's hard to be.
Speaker 2: Able to do that.
Speaker 5: I mean, but living in the now, living in the
Speaker 5: now of our situation, ric o'dalla, we asked that question
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago, how many carriashit ric o'dad'll
Speaker 5: getting that one to five? You know what we're seeing
Speaker 5: His production hasn't. It's not trending up in any way.
Speaker 5: And you saw in the first quarter Mike McCarthy come
Speaker 5: into the game and say, look on an Olypke, you
Speaker 5: know we need one yard. We're gonna give to forty
Speaker 5: a couple of times. We're gonna do this. I don't
Speaker 5: think that that was the plan. That's the plan going
Speaker 5: forward through the rest of the season and in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: But we've got to find a way because if teams
Speaker 5: are not threatened at all by us our inability to run,
Speaker 5: or just thinking that hey, third and one, they're gonna
Speaker 5: turn around hand this off third and two. We're doing
Speaker 5: tight end crossing routes man and that and that to
Speaker 5: me is that's the scary part. When you're in fourth
Speaker 5: and two and you passed the ball and you have
Speaker 5: no confidence whatsoever you run.
Speaker 2: But can we can we honestly.
Speaker 3: Say that Pollard has give got the opportunity this year
Speaker 3: to be that bell cow back? Can we honestly say
Speaker 3: that that he's gott an opportunity to get the touches
Speaker 3: that are number one running back should get.
Speaker 2: He got more than them, but based off he got
Speaker 2: two nineteen.
Speaker 5: But based off of what you're saying, you want him
Speaker 5: to be a twenty to twenty five a carry.
Speaker 3: Why not let him prove us wrong. Let him prove
Speaker 3: that he can't be that guy. What else do we
Speaker 3: have to lose when we had the running game is
Speaker 3: where it is right now. I mean you, there's no
Speaker 3: other option. You might as well give him little opportunities
Speaker 3: to be that And if he proves you wrong and says, hey,
Speaker 3: he can't do it, like like he can't be that
Speaker 3: number one guy.
Speaker 4: Then we start to push by pushing Pool with different
Speaker 4: running backs.
Speaker 3: But until that point, why not give him the opportunity
Speaker 3: to go out there and prove himself.
Speaker 2: I mean you give to everybody else.
Speaker 4: Let's get break Rake, gotta get a break in here
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Speaker 4: So the Cowboys release linebacker Rashaan Evans after he was
Speaker 4: arrested for possession of marijuana Tuesday and Frisco. And as
Speaker 4: they waived him, they have made room for offensive tackle
Speaker 4: Matt Well. Let's go activated off the injured reserve after
Speaker 4: dealing with his shoulder injury that he suffered in training camp.
Speaker 5: So well, let's go back in there. So you need him,
Speaker 5: sure me dovera did it boy tell you to shim
Speaker 5: will be chilling all week. I'm just gonna go ahead practice,
Speaker 5: get these one reps and then let terror to tyre takeover.
Speaker 2: In the game. And then he finally had to go
Speaker 2: out there. It takes the live reps. They said. You
Speaker 2: know when the coach up top said get met, well,
Speaker 2: let's go get him right. We get met right.
Speaker 5: We got something back at the house that could do
Speaker 5: better than look out, look out, I look out. Eight
Speaker 5: Hutches are coming to town. Hut He's gonna find him
Speaker 5: a matchup. He gonna be around you find him a
Speaker 5: mansa unbelievable ready something back this week so whatever they
Speaker 5: injected him with the pills.
Speaker 2: What we're taking. Man, it works. Make sure when you
Speaker 2: go to the locker room you get that interview for us. Man. Serious,
Speaker 2: I'm not joking. I'm serious. We never do anything just
Speaker 2: it just doesn't. They just friends. They talk about back.
Speaker 5: Now what I do.
Speaker 4: I'm talking to him pregame do the brother head No,
Speaker 4: just no, we walk up to we talked.
Speaker 2: We have a pregame, we talked, talked pre game. That's
Speaker 2: why I get like, yeah, he can keep keep guessing
Speaker 2: he forgot the neck roll on. You know it's ready
Speaker 2: to That's not true. That's what we've seen the bad
Speaker 2: one on this week this year, and.
Speaker 4: Making jokes all you was the last week you needed.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we.
Speaker 5: Always need Tyring Smith to be healthy like that. That's
Speaker 5: not the argument here, dude, don't even that. We always
Speaker 5: need him healthy because when he's healthy, he is one
Speaker 5: of the top tackles in the league. I also seen
Speaker 5: Trip Williams go down and they was on three without
Speaker 5: Trip Williams and then they lost that game, uh the
Speaker 5: other night. Now you appreciate it is very important to
Speaker 5: have your best player because when they're in the game,
Speaker 5: the difference when the backup get in. It's so visible
Speaker 5: when you have such a great player in left tackle,
Speaker 5: and that is our problem, and that's also San Francisco's problem.
Speaker 5: Somebody is so great playing left tackle that no matter
Speaker 5: who gets in as a replacement besides Tyler Smith, you
Speaker 5: just see a huge difference.
Speaker 2: That's every team. How many teams out there can lose
Speaker 2: a left tackle and they got somebody. Oh here, here
Speaker 2: he is. It's different, though, I don't know, look, but.
Speaker 4: It's a different It's so different because these are two
Speaker 4: all decades and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. They're so great, so
Speaker 5: we always need them. We always need them. And we
Speaker 5: see Kansas City go to the super Bowl without any
Speaker 5: offensive lineman. I mean, look, you need your left tackle.
Speaker 5: But lord knows, we didn't want to look that funny
Speaker 5: in the light out of tyr Like we look funny
Speaker 5: in the light without tyrant Man almost every time.
Speaker 4: So at some point in time, and I think we
Speaker 4: saw on that last drive there, this is this becomes
Speaker 4: with Mike McCarthy. You see chum out here getting getting
Speaker 4: getting done, guessing wrong. Help him, help him somebody there.
Speaker 4: You draft the schoolmaker guy came from Michigan to block
Speaker 4: block help him. We can't sit around here and ask
Speaker 4: you to be tired because he's not tired. We keep
Speaker 4: on doing that around here.
Speaker 2: Chas Green.
Speaker 4: Look, I know Chas was terrible against Atlanta, but my goodness,
Speaker 4: gracious Scotland, hen help him.
Speaker 5: I think with Chilmy Douga, one of the legitimate gripes
Speaker 5: that I have, it's just the communication. You got one
Speaker 5: guy coming inside and a guy coming outside, and you
Speaker 5: take the inside guy. That's a that's a misread. That's
Speaker 5: a communication breakdown. I never played offensive line, so I
Speaker 5: don't know the responsibility of that, but I know you're
Speaker 5: not supposed to let your up come free like that.
Speaker 5: Can't that can't be the plan, especially when you guys
Speaker 5: you have a guy sitting inside.
Speaker 2: So again, I know it's a preparation in all week
Speaker 2: and all week.
Speaker 5: These guys going to it expecting to see everything, especially
Speaker 5: blis packages, but they just didn't handle it well.
Speaker 2: And that was a problem with the execution of the offense.
Speaker 2: It's like the NBA, somebody getting hot. We better go.
Speaker 4: We got to figure out something. We got start doubling.
Speaker 4: We have to do something, and it was pretty clear
Speaker 4: Chubb was getting.
Speaker 2: Hot on Tumor. Help them.
Speaker 5: It must be really difficult to do because, like you said,
Speaker 5: we've been talking about this A is lennon hand. Now
Speaker 5: we got Mike McCarthy and you know, they know right,
Speaker 5: but like I wonder what it is that holds them
Speaker 5: back in certain issues, in certain instances them to say,
Speaker 5: all right, we don't have a play for that, and like,
Speaker 5: right now is the guy to have it? I don't
Speaker 5: have a guy to have it. Play with us bringing
Speaker 5: holding the tight end end to come in and help
Speaker 5: Tumor do Like I don't. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 5: but it's consistent and it's consistent across the league too, because,
Speaker 5: like you said, when other teams had these left tackle problems,
Speaker 5: you say the same thing.
Speaker 2: Help them. You can't be the top of the boys.
Speaker 3: You couldn't help both sides because if you look at it,
Speaker 3: yes it's number two for Miami, Chubb was going crazy,
Speaker 3: but if you look at it number forty three Van Winkle,
Speaker 3: then he was getting tears still.
Speaker 2: All he wanted on that right side. So it's like,
Speaker 2: but where you gonna help?
Speaker 4: But play callers are so much in there, all right,
Speaker 4: we gotta get it four ride receiver set.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what, man, send three? How about that? Listen,
Speaker 2: we're gonna send three and find eighty eight. How about that?
Speaker 2: I got something. We'll only send three out because you're
Speaker 2: tossing it the one right.
Speaker 4: We're gonna school school when you stay in, we send
Speaker 4: down three, go find eighty eight.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 5: You know he getting double, So send them on out
Speaker 5: there with the double team and throw up the tober
Speaker 5: of whoever else you cooks.
Speaker 2: Run fast, clearing out, clear out, clearing out, man clearing.
Speaker 2: What's the name of the play? Cooks run fast?
Speaker 5: You run fast?
Speaker 2: Fine eighty eight? You staying on three? Here we go.
Speaker 5: Man didn't run fast, and it was it was a
Speaker 5: little it was a bad ball. That would have been
Speaker 5: the big time he did. His part would have been
Speaker 5: a big time play. I was excited to see them
Speaker 5: open the.
Speaker 10: Game that way.
Speaker 2: Was open the game that way, and it was you know,
Speaker 2: there's a game answers.
Speaker 5: Game answers to get myself hot, Like I know that's
Speaker 5: how you be screaming at the TV.
Speaker 2: Hu. No, that's like you're trying to get home. I'm
Speaker 2: too old for that. Back in the day, when I
Speaker 2: cared that much.
Speaker 4: Now I don't care. But you know I'm watching that
Speaker 4: just you know, I watch it, but I'm not.
Speaker 2: Invested like that. By the way, speaking of invested, JayR.
Speaker 4: Alexander was not named a captain on Sunday by the
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers, but he went out for the coin
Speaker 4: toss anyway.
Speaker 2: And made the.
Speaker 7: Quote quote on quote.
Speaker 2: Everybody was laughing.
Speaker 4: I was like, what y'all laughing at the Packers that
Speaker 4: suspended him for one game for conduct detriment.
Speaker 2: To the team. What's going on here?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: So, my man, he must be from Charlotte or something,
Speaker 3: or because they played in Carolina, so he must I
Speaker 3: ain't gonna have.
Speaker 2: I'm at my whole town. That's fake news. He went
Speaker 2: out there, took over the coin toss. He suspended from
Speaker 2: what game? Goodness yead this revised me.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 2: Do you remember was it the Super It was some
Speaker 2: game in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: My man was on the sideline with flip flops on
Speaker 5: and ran out there on the field and got a penalty.
Speaker 2: Not him, He was somebody else to celebrate. He ran
Speaker 2: on the field with him flip.
Speaker 5: What is wrong with.
Speaker 2: I'm doing the coin toss?
Speaker 5: You tell me because he knew he wasn't the captain
Speaker 5: before the coin to so he knew he was going out.
Speaker 2: That's why I hate these games.
Speaker 3: He got he got sunglasses on afterwards in locker room,
Speaker 3: and and the interviewed it and he said, quote, the
Speaker 3: guys backed me up.
Speaker 2: That game map the floor. Boy, that's that's say you
Speaker 2: tell your hair comes out of respect you. By the way,
Speaker 2: he is the NFL High Speed Corner. So that game
Speaker 2: one game gonna cost some coin a little.
Speaker 4: Well, it depends on how how you know did they
Speaker 4: did they roll up a bunch of money and you know,
Speaker 4: depending on and you.
Speaker 2: Know now it's Green Bay. Green Bay is not a locked.
Speaker 2: They're still fighting. Yeah, they one of them in the
Speaker 2: hunt squad. Yeah, they're they're they're there.
Speaker 4: We don't count on baby, okay, green Baby.
Speaker 5: Making the tree locked it up, right, they locked already,
Speaker 5: So you're still counting on the new ball.
Speaker 2: You have a little hope for new ball. And you
Speaker 2: off that terror terror.
Speaker 3: You know, you got a TM mom out there on
Speaker 3: social media talk about the whole line and okay, all
Speaker 3: going down here.
Speaker 2: You mad at them because you picked him. Why even.
Speaker 3: Past that, the bigger issue is the Fantasy production. Okay
Speaker 3: it always boils down. Okay, bad about that Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 3: No this fancy but hate he went straight down.
Speaker 4: Bench had to bench Trevor week two with and they
Speaker 4: had to go get Joe Flaco because this guy is trashed.
Speaker 2: Joe Fla and ballad.
Speaker 4: But you know Aten had getting this thing is mama
Speaker 4: I through social media plead for people blocked for him
Speaker 4: is bad.
Speaker 2: So no, I'm not counting on.
Speaker 10: Alexander actually is from North Carolina. He went to Rocky.
Speaker 2: He was from, Yeah, I'm gonna be this captain. Captain,
Speaker 2: I'm here, but the walk out that makes more sense.
Speaker 5: He told him he was gonna be captain and then
Speaker 5: found out he was. It was too late for him
Speaker 5: to be like my mom and grandma and all them here.
Speaker 5: They got to see me be able to do this
Speaker 5: coin talk because I told him I was gonna call tails.
Speaker 2: For my granddady was somebody background.
Speaker 5: I gotta make it make sense because I don't understand.
Speaker 5: I understand why you were doing it in the first place,
Speaker 5: but it had to be something like that.
Speaker 3: Straight I'm going out, had six pieces of boat jangle
Speaker 3: on the sideline to what you're gonna do Matt Lafleur that.
Speaker 2: Man, that's disrespectful. But that was Greg Hardy yspect that.
Speaker 3: Was the top ten right there he did when heid Yeah,
Speaker 3: New York, right on the sideline right what was that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I was writing in my head. I was saying,
Speaker 5: could y'all let him act like this any other time?
Speaker 5: And that's why you come out here and do it
Speaker 5: on the field with Pajamason in the walk through, just
Speaker 5: disrespecting everybody. Then they looking at us like we're supposed
Speaker 5: to do so I was like, go ahead, why you
Speaker 5: help me? When he when he choked his backyard man,
Speaker 5: I said, y'all been letting run him up for the
Speaker 5: whole season. You're talking about two years?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, Friday, when you went over there, like, why
Speaker 2: did y'all help me with?
Speaker 5: That's how she was of that. Daddy wows just got rich.
Speaker 5: We had just got hit for a touch down, by
Speaker 5: the way, Harrison still on our feelings when he came
Speaker 5: up here with that, with that foolish he slapped, Hey, Joe,
Speaker 5: did ask you about that? When I went up there?
Speaker 5: He said, you would help me if I was. I said,
Speaker 5: but I know you wouldn't have been treating nobody like that.
Speaker 5: He wouldn't even have the boss come over there and
Speaker 5: do that. Was and that it's not on Rich, that's
Speaker 5: on that's on some you know folks. That's some other folks.
Speaker 5: But some people need the head check. That's pretty bad.
Speaker 2: I don't know, No, it was.
Speaker 5: It was the defensive coaches because they couldnt because him
Speaker 5: man mcclaim.
Speaker 2: So he just off the field. I forget how he
Speaker 2: just walked over to the sideline.
Speaker 5: So they so Dwayne Harris runs the kick off back,
Speaker 5: so now we up for kickoff return. This man must
Speaker 5: have been on the bench somewhere. It was just, man,
Speaker 5: come on, stop it. They don't have seven before they
Speaker 5: got more than seven. Greg, Look, he's scoring on y'all too.
Speaker 2: Sit down somewhere. That I was wild, yeah yeah, but
Speaker 2: not in you know, twenty It was a wild year.
Speaker 2: That's a wild year. That's a whole year. He took
Speaker 2: that fight shirt to own left. Was a character. But
Speaker 2: I thought he'd be beating up people over the USC
Speaker 2: got me on the table. He knew what I'm on
Speaker 2: the side of the coln. He knew what his column
Speaker 2: was for sure. Besides you gonna tap out.
Speaker 5: He ain't want none of that you man, you talking
Speaker 5: about Alexander. Just get beat up on the sideline on
Speaker 5: National TV Prime time.
Speaker 2: You know them, camera's gonna be over. Whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2: You at least peaced them. Scratch it. We need a break.
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Speaker 4: I love the improvisation of this show. That was a
Speaker 4: turn with Memory Lane, Greg Hardy now UFC Fighter. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I know you're calling, hey, hey, understand your gifts. Understand
Speaker 4: your gifts. On the way over here, I was at
Speaker 4: a at a different company and Hm and the lady
Speaker 4: was upset about the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: She's mad by the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: And it just remind me of we look here, it's like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's a ten and five team, but people
Speaker 4: act like it's five and ten. Like you start thinking
Speaker 4: about this team here. You only have one team in
Speaker 4: the league it's got twelve wins, and then you've got one, two, three, four,
Speaker 4: four of the teams to have eleven wins.
Speaker 2: So the Cowboys are right behinded.
Speaker 4: This is a good football team with two games to go.
Speaker 2: Why is it might so gloomy and dooony?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: Are you really asking?
Speaker 4: I'm asking, man, because because I literally she was. I said,
Speaker 4: do you know they got Detroit this week? They're six
Speaker 4: point favorite. Then in the year against Washington, you could
Speaker 4: end up with twelve wins.
Speaker 5: And a five seed, playing on the road where you came,
Speaker 5: where you don't know how to play, which is what
Speaker 5: people are seeing. They're seeing the last two years of
Speaker 5: San Francisco. They're seeing that. They say, you know what,
Speaker 5: I know, we're gonna have a successful regular season. We
Speaker 5: talked about the regular season. We expect to have a
Speaker 5: good regular season and make it to the playoffs. Your
Speaker 5: performance in the playoffs then dictates how your season really
Speaker 5: went so far on the road, which is five seed
Speaker 5: going on the road.
Speaker 2: We just have not played well.
Speaker 5: So people who are looking at us being the five
Speaker 5: seed saying okay, we're probably gonna have to go on
Speaker 5: the road in the playoffs multiple times to make it
Speaker 5: to where we want to be. It makes you a
Speaker 5: little nervous. It makes you a little nervous. And people
Speaker 5: don't really forget that Buffalo stump out. Okay, it was
Speaker 5: a stump out. It wasn't you know? It was ugly.
Speaker 4: San Francisco just took a stomp I mean people taking
Speaker 4: stomp outs to out the game. I mean it happens.
Speaker 4: Miami took a stomp out when they played Buffalo.
Speaker 5: How many how many stumpbulls they took? I don't know,
Speaker 5: because we took a stump out against San Francisco earlier
Speaker 5: this season. We took a stump out against Buffalo to
Speaker 5: this season and we got beat by the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 5: with Josh Dobbson's they quarterback. It makes you nervous when
Speaker 5: you say, I gotta go out here and play these
Speaker 5: playoff teams, possibly on the road, and I see what's
Speaker 5: happened to us in the regular season. It makes me nervous.
Speaker 5: I mean maybe not you because you want us to
Speaker 5: be the five to go on the road, but it
Speaker 5: makes me.
Speaker 2: Nervous as hell. I'm nervous. I want a home game.
Speaker 2: I want a home game. Play what we comfortable at
Speaker 2: what you think?
Speaker 5: No, I mean seven to zero at home? You want
Speaker 5: to play a playoff game at home? But I think
Speaker 5: people are freaking out because you've seen the twelve, Like
Speaker 5: you just said, you've seen the twelve and five the
Speaker 5: regular season. It don't mean nothing, especially when you remember
Speaker 5: how you got eliminated from the playoffs. And that's verse
Speaker 5: the San Francisco forty nine ers and the last time
Speaker 5: you saw them, they beat you forty two to ten,
Speaker 5: and it seemed like you didn't learn nothing from that
Speaker 5: last stump out. So and you want this team to
Speaker 5: have some level of toughness to it to where they
Speaker 5: don't get exposed in the running game like that to
Speaker 5: the tune of two hundred and somemi yards on the
Speaker 5: ground and look against Miami, and I've come along with
Speaker 5: what you were saying yesterday as far as the defense
Speaker 5: and how they held them and you would have wanted
Speaker 5: to get a stop there at the end, just to
Speaker 5: signify that, Look, that's Dak's moment, and as our team,
Speaker 5: we're going to make sure that we back our quarterback
Speaker 5: up that got us that lead. But there's something about
Speaker 5: this team that you feel like, I'll see along. That's
Speaker 5: a miss I haven't been able to put my finger
Speaker 5: on right now. All I can point to is a
Speaker 5: running game. I can only say the running game, this is,
Speaker 5: this is what's ailing us. But at ten and five,
Speaker 5: Newly you're looking at a team where if you were
Speaker 5: the same team in Tennessee, you'd be like, man, we
Speaker 5: got a good damn team and we're looking forward at
Speaker 5: the fifth spoder and whoever we got to play, we played.
Speaker 5: But somehow there's a cast of a dark cloud over
Speaker 5: this organization that's saying, oh, now we can't go and
Speaker 5: play on the road.
Speaker 3: And I also think it's winning the season. Things are
Speaker 3: starting to go a ride a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 3: when you look at it, we all know this December football.
Speaker 3: That's when you want to be playing your best football
Speaker 3: as a team, as an organization, meeting up into the playoffs,
Speaker 3: you want to be trending in the right direction, not
Speaker 3: on some of somewhat of a roller coaster ride. When
Speaker 3: you look at it, you know Buffalo, you know that
Speaker 3: meeting happened in December. Then you got this this game
Speaker 3: against Miami where that you know, the defense and the offense.
Speaker 3: You know, they both made enough plays to win. But
Speaker 3: like you said, there was just something missing, just one
Speaker 3: thing missing. So in December, like I said, you want
Speaker 3: to be going in the right direction, not on a
Speaker 3: roller coaster ride. And they have an opportunity to fix
Speaker 3: this out. You know, these last two games going into
Speaker 3: the playoffs with a little bit of momentum, with a
Speaker 3: streak against a really good Detroit game or really good
Speaker 3: Detroit team, and then Washington at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: So you got a chance to write it out. But
Speaker 3: to me overall, yeah, I mean, you don't want to
Speaker 3: be on a roller coaster ride in December. So you say,
Speaker 3: really good Detroit team. So I'm looking at just Detroit losses.
Speaker 4: They had Seattle with a lead at home and then
Speaker 4: they ended up losing that second game of the year
Speaker 4: thirty seven thirty one. Look at the next loss, they
Speaker 4: went to Baltimore and got.
Speaker 2: Stopped out thirty eight to six.
Speaker 4: Then remember now they had the game, they had the
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving their game right before the Cowboys played, and Packers
Speaker 4: beat them up. They ended up losing that game. Then
Speaker 4: they went to Chicago Justin Fields put on a show
Speaker 4: on him and they lost twenty eight to twenty eight thirteen.
Speaker 2: So they got steamroll there. Those are the losts, crazy
Speaker 2: loss for them. What losses?
Speaker 3: You like? What what are So you start looking across
Speaker 3: this leap. It's going to happen. People look at their
Speaker 3: own team and just like it's in college football.
Speaker 2: Man, it's happening. It's not a straight line. That's why
Speaker 2: we got a letther playoffs.
Speaker 5: Whatever you say, do, whatever you say, whatever you show,
Speaker 5: that's the show.
Speaker 2: Three straight losses you want, you want.
Speaker 5: That whole that whole thing about not having back to back,
Speaker 5: all that is gone. Like this, this is what we
Speaker 5: still for a long time. It's going I start over
Speaker 5: at one hopefully hopefully we get it. Then go back
Speaker 5: to how many points do we score in our losses?
Speaker 2: Do we have?
Speaker 5: We have?
Speaker 2: We had a high scoring loss, you know that was
Speaker 2: the only one. Philly was the only one.
Speaker 4: It would be great for you to bring up tomorrow
Speaker 4: with all those statistics Danny, thank you so much. Garry Church,
Speaker 4: We're done, thank you, Chris Beam Jazz everybody Players Lounge
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