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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, guys, Cowboys are three. I note three, I not.

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Speaker 1: We're celebrating here, you know, after a victory against the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: a game that we didn't necessarily expect to be flowing

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Speaker 1: the way it did. Did it collect the show? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We were lying about to see our pants this morning.

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Speaker 1: And at one point in the game. I guess you

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Speaker 1: might say the same thing about the Cowboys. But they

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Speaker 1: got it all together and anybody the Cowboys. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: had a meeting too. They were running late to the game.

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Speaker 1: It took them a little bit too. We're just gonna

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Speaker 1: hit play and then what's going on? But like I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, thirty seconds ago, neither one of these two,

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Speaker 1: Derek or Amber seconds ago come flying in. As you

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Speaker 1: hear the open going a little flustered, Amber takes over.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like Yeah, it's kind of like what

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Speaker 1: happened in the quarter Cowboys were like, oh, well we're

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Speaker 1: playing playing a football game. Here we go. Let's go

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Speaker 1: Cowboys for you know it that they're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: great show. Cowboys do get the big win yesterday, thirty

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Speaker 1: one to six. Did the score, I don't know. The

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Speaker 1: score maybe tells the story I think more than anything else,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a story of two halfs. The first

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Speaker 1: half probably wasn't the Cowboys best football. And if you

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Speaker 1: talk to the players after the game, they even talk

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Speaker 1: about some moments where, um, I think maybe they made

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Speaker 1: some decisions the quarterback in particular, made some decisions that

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Speaker 1: maybe they would have made if they were playing let's

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Speaker 1: say the Saints next week. But all that, all Cowboys

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Speaker 1: do come out with a big win, and they moved

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Speaker 1: to three and oz and looking really good in their division,

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Speaker 1: where the Eagles lose yesterday, and so the next closest

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Speaker 1: team is one and two. Let's start first with Dak. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Dak is the engine I think that makes this that

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Speaker 1: has been making this thing go over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. He was nineteen to thirty two, fifty nine

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Speaker 1: percent completion percentage two hundred and forty six yards, two touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: an interception, and also a rush touchdown. Talk to me

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Speaker 1: just overall about what you thought of his performance, because

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Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of different facets to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, just like we've seen in the first two

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Speaker 1: games that he didn't play as great early on. He's

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Speaker 1: having a hard time i think, coming out of the

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Speaker 1: But for whatever the reason, at a halftime, the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: he's really you can't say anything other than perfect, because

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Speaker 1: that's what it's quarterback rating has been. In the third

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Speaker 1: quarter this season, he's been outstanding, and you know, he

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Speaker 1: kind of figures it out and he definitely did it

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Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, and so it wasn't his best game,

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Speaker 1: but it was a very good game, especially in the

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Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, it's interesting. Like I guess my main

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Speaker 1: impression of this is I can't kill him too much

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Speaker 1: because they woke up and they I mean, this game

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Speaker 1: was never really in doubt after halftime. But we gave

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Speaker 1: Jason Garrett so much praise for the way he keeps

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Speaker 1: these guys focused, and they didn't look focused when this

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Speaker 1: game started. None of them did to your point, like, no,

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Speaker 1: Dak has never played a perfect game in his life,

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Speaker 1: and he's thrown plenty of interceptions, but he just it

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Speaker 1: was an uncharacteristic performance on his part, which he even

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Speaker 1: I was looking for kill shots, just doing uncharacteristic things.

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Speaker 1: they were just like they were like, these guys are

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Speaker 1: win the game on every play, like every play should

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Speaker 1: be a sixty yard touchdown. And that's how Dak approached it.

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Speaker 1: In the beginning looked sloppy. You know, not to take

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is something to freak out about.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's very exciting to have the team that

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Speaker 1: It just seemed like there wasn't there wasn't the sense

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Speaker 1: that game is at the running game was was really phenomenal,

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Speaker 1: little nugget, right. Yeah, Well, now you got me worried

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Speaker 1: isn't this what we probably should have thought an NFL

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Speaker 1: Because here's the deal, Nick, you talk about it all

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Speaker 1: the time. You beat teams on Wednesday and Thursday, right,

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Speaker 1: And then that's when you start just taking it from them, right,

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Speaker 1: giving you their very best, and it's not until a

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Speaker 1: little later sometimes when these kind of games take that

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Speaker 1: feel like that was the case for the Cowboys. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I think, Yes, the Cowboys came out and they were trying,

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Speaker 1: making those mistakes. Yes, there were certain plays where the

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Speaker 1: But if if we're gonna nitpick it and that I mean,

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Speaker 1: like it played out. Take the totality of the game.

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Speaker 1: It out pretty similar to what we thought. But two

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Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, like I want Tony Pollard

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Speaker 1: to have a sizeable role here, but I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it would be some sort of fifty fifty

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Speaker 1: thing and all honesty. They came out of the half

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Speaker 1: and Pollard was on the field, and like I was,

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Speaker 1: I was annoyed. I was like, what what do you do? Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I actually like seeing that. I don't have Zeke on

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Speaker 1: your fantasy team, don't I actually actually but Pollard's on

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Speaker 1: my bench. But that's beside the point. I've always said

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Speaker 1: that I think that if you've got a guy that's

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Speaker 1: capable like Pollard, I really wanted the Cowboys to have

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Speaker 1: a running back that's a second option that you don't

439
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Speaker 1: have to hold your breath and say what's going on

440
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Speaker 1: every time he's on the field, because that does allow

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Speaker 1: you to have a fresher Zeke, especially especially as you

442
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Speaker 1: go down the stretcher and you get into December and January.

443
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Speaker 1: If he's fresher in those months when the weather might

444
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Speaker 1: be bad, you might need a game. There might be

445
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Speaker 1: a game where you need him to go thirty you know,

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Speaker 1: you might need to run him thirty times. I want

447
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Speaker 1: to take the opportunity now earlier in the season to

448
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Speaker 1: keep those snaps off of him so that I'm saving

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Speaker 1: him he's fresher. Once I get down to post to

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Speaker 1: December and postseason, I don't think it will be normal

451
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Speaker 1: to see him crack double digit carries unless the game's

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Speaker 1: out of hand. I mean, that's I could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: That's just how I feel about it. But Pollard, you're

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Speaker 1: talking about, Yeah, but this is cool to see. It's

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Speaker 1: fantastic to put it on tape, show it to people.

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Speaker 1: Let Pollard prove that. I mean, he's clear, like he's

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Speaker 1: got juice, Like he looks dangerous when he hits the

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Speaker 1: hole or when he turns the corner, because he gets

459
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Speaker 1: there so fast. Like I like what he can bring.

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Speaker 1: I think he needs to have a role, not necessarily

461
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Speaker 1: getting for he does sixty percent of the carries. But

462
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much you can do with him.

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Speaker 1: I think at the very least, I would try to

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Speaker 1: get him his own series, like at least once per half,

465
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Speaker 1: and then there's so much stuff you can do with

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Speaker 1: him motioning him. I'm baffled as to why he hasn't

467
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Speaker 1: been part of the fly sweep jet action stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Seems like it's tailor made for him, and it could be.

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Speaker 1: Although they did do something interesting yesterday. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you guys noticed when they went to twenty personnel,

471
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Speaker 1: which is two running back, zero tight ends, three wide receivers.

472
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Speaker 1: He and Zeke Wild both line up in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: He goes across the quarterback and then the quarterback throws

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Speaker 1: the quick little pass out there to him in the

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Speaker 1: flat and let's him make a play, which to me,

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Speaker 1: I kind of thought that two for a second, like

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Speaker 1: he was gonna get out there and then try to throw.

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Speaker 1: But my point is what it does. It gets him out,

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Speaker 1: It gets him in motion, it gets him already moving,

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Speaker 1: and it gets him out in space where now he

481
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Speaker 1: can get some blockers in front of him and try

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Speaker 1: to make some moves, which I think it's very similar

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Speaker 1: to what you're trying to accomplish with the jet sweep,

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Speaker 1: So I think it's kind of a similar type thing, right,

485
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Speaker 1: Tavon Austin, We'll see, you know, we'll see what the

486
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Speaker 1: week holds for him. We haven't seen him since Week one,

487
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Speaker 1: But like Tony Pollard, can do all that stuff and

488
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Speaker 1: I'd like to see it. And again, much like Tavon,

489
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Speaker 1: he's the type of guy that can impact a defense

490
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Speaker 1: without ever touching the ball. So very excited about him.

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Speaker 1: Definitely think he's got a role to play. But I

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Speaker 1: just don't think you're gonna see him crack one hundred

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Speaker 1: rushing yards very often in games that aren't blowouts. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just unless he's got a couple of really big yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Like, he's just not

496
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Speaker 1: going to get the carry count to get close to

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Speaker 1: those numbers unless they're not worried about the outcome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm all good with that. I just again, I love

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Speaker 1: the idea that they have a running back who's actually

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Speaker 1: Kapello as a number two guy. Use him. Don't let

501
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Speaker 1: him sit on the sideline. Use him, even if you

502
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Speaker 1: got to put him and Zeke out there together. Use him.

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Speaker 1: Get out because I'll tell you this the play I

504
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Speaker 1: just describe to you. If they do that enough times,

505
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Speaker 1: that's gonna open up things for Zeke running up the

506
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Speaker 1: gut because they're gonna teams are gonna have to respect

507
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Speaker 1: the fact that when Tony goes out there, he might

508
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Speaker 1: get the ball, and if he gets the ball quickly,

509
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Speaker 1: they gotta have a linebacker out there trying to stop him.

510
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Speaker 1: So I think all that stuff plays in together. It's

511
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Speaker 1: just one more weapon. Don't let him sit on the

512
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Speaker 1: sideline and waste away. Absolutely no, I completely agree. He's

513
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Speaker 1: too good to just wait for Zeke Tanita blow right. Um.

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Speaker 1: So it's and you know, for all they've been hyping

515
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Speaker 1: him since they picked him, and it was like you

516
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Speaker 1: kind of roll your eyes at some of it, like, Okay,

517
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Speaker 1: Kamara really, but he's living up to it. I'm not

518
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Speaker 1: saying he's Kamara because Kamara put on a show yesterday,

519
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Speaker 1: but yeah, I was sitting there watching it like, oh,

520
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Speaker 1: that's next Sunday. Yeah. I talked to Jordan after the game.

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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, you can tweet it was

522
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Speaker 1: the best Devon got show is the nose tackle for

523
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins And he said, uh, he said, if that's

524
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Speaker 1: the best O line in the league, then what am I?

525
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Speaker 1: And Jordan Lewis quote tweeted him and said, oh and

526
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Speaker 1: three the best. He's awesome. I love Dan's he and

527
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Speaker 1: the thing about it is is that everyone's like, oh,

528
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Speaker 1: they got him, and you go ask Georgian and be like,

529
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Speaker 1: what they are? There are one thread they haven't won.

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Speaker 1: He asked, what what you know? I mean he actually

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Speaker 1: said he like. He tweeted later and was like I

532
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Speaker 1: feel kind of bad. I didn't need to do him

533
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Speaker 1: like that, but it was good. The people people respond

534
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Speaker 1: They were like, you didn't feel bad enough to delete

535
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Speaker 1: the tweet, Like I'm here. He is a gym, Yeah

536
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Speaker 1: he is. I talked to him. I said, you know,

537
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Speaker 1: this week there's gonna be a lot of Kamara Kamara

538
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Speaker 1: stopper and stuff like that, and so he was just

539
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Speaker 1: like okay, Like yeah, because most guys would be like, oh,

540
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Speaker 1: don't be calling that. Don't be calling me that. Basement. Yeah, okay,

541
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Speaker 1: I mean he only played what ten snaps in that game?

542
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Speaker 1: Seven it but it but Kamara didn't do anything and

543
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Speaker 1: he made the one play that that probably yeah, almost

544
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Speaker 1: in the game. It's gonna be I know we'll talk

545
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Speaker 1: more Saints, but like this is this is gonna be

546
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: a tough game. I mean, it doesn't matter who the

547
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Speaker 1: quarterback is. I mean, you go to more, it's gonna

548
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: be tough. Sean Payton is a hell of a coach

549
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: and he's gonna he knows how to get guys ready

550
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Speaker 1: to go. So they they had it. They had a

551
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: great game plan against Seattle. We got to watch some

552
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: of that game, and you know, you've got to tackle.

553
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Speaker 1: You have to tackle, and they have been pretty good

554
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Speaker 1: at tackling, you know, the Cowboys. I wouldn't say they've

555
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Speaker 1: missed a lot of tackles this year. But and they

556
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Speaker 1: faced Barkley, you know, I mean they that was not

557
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Speaker 1: with the best game. But this will be interesting. Part

558
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Speaker 1: of it is the expectation because one of them was

559
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Speaker 1: all Pro and the other one is a near pro

560
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Speaker 1: bowler and just signed a contract extension. But Jalen Smith

561
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Speaker 1: and Layton Vanderesh like they haven't been bad, but they're

562
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Speaker 1: gonna need to play better. They're gonna need to be

563
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Speaker 1: expect like to beat the Saints of the world and

564
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Speaker 1: stop guys like Alvin Kamara. They're gonna need to be

565
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Speaker 1: you know, and they happen. Not to try to be

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Speaker 1: like an apologist for them, but I do think because

567
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Speaker 1: they're so good and so young, and they're both badasses,

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Speaker 1: I think that they get kind of like there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of times I feel like people say, wow, that

570
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Speaker 1: wasn't a great play by them, but look who they're

571
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Speaker 1: Look who they're losing battles too. I mean, like a

572
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Speaker 1: receiver comes over the middle and puts a move on them,

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Speaker 1: and then okay, Jalen doesn't you know, I'll cover that.

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Speaker 1: I think that they handled the guys are supposed to

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Speaker 1: a lot. But when we see him get beat, they

576
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Speaker 1: get beat by receivers and stuff, I'm like, well, they're

577
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Speaker 1: not moving them to safety. I mean, you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a reason why these guys are getting beat kind of

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Speaker 1: like Tony pod that time Tony Pollard ran right by

580
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Speaker 1: Jalen and practice that whoa, yeah, whoa. I'm like, and

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, if he didn't like my Jake's draft.

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Speaker 1: My takeaway from that was never blaming Jayalen. It was

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Speaker 1: dak how did you miss that throw R? That's because

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Speaker 1: it's practice and it's not a game, I guess. So

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Speaker 1: and talk about the defense. I want to dive a

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about how well those guys performed.

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Speaker 1: get on it, get on it all right. Let's talk

639
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: about the defense. Yesterday. They end up holding the Dolphins

640
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: a two hundred and eighty three yards total yards of offense,

641
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: only seventy two rushing yards, two hundred and eleven passing

642
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: yards UM three or fifteen on third downs pretty impressive,

643
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: and zero of three in the red zone again, very

644
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: very impressive. UM. The one thing I think that that

645
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: still does stand out is is no picks. They weren't

646
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: able to get any interceptions. They were able to force

647
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: a fumble, which is a good thing, UM, and we're

648
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: able to recover that. What do you think of their

649
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: performance overall? Though? As a defensive unit? What do you

650
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: think of their performance? I think, I mean, I don't

651
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: want to rehash everything I said in the first segment.

652
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,479
Speaker 1: I mean they buckled down again like it's a sixty

653
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: minute game. You get credit for the totality of it.

654
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: I thought they played well in the grand scheme. But again,

655
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: if you're looking for things to be concerned about, three

656
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: takeaways on the year, which is near the bottom of

657
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: the league. They're one of only five teams in the

658
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: league that doesn't have an interception yet this season. The

659
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: other four are all pretty bad teams Denver, Oakland, Arizona

660
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville don't have an interception this season either, So

661
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the only one of the five with

662
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: a winning record and only five sacks. Only five teams

663
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: in the league have fewer than that. Maybe Robert, I mean,

664
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: it certainly seemed like Robert Quinn gave him some jews.

665
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: He looked, he looked good. I know it's the Dolphins,

666
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: but his motor like he just was given them fits.

667
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: He seemed like he was bending that corner every time

668
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: they dropped back to pass, got his own sack, and

669
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: then tank it get another sack. So that's encouraging, but

670
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: through three weeks you'd like to like to see a

671
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: little bit more. Yeah, that's one thing I expected in

672
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: this game. Even if they weren't going to get the interceptions,

673
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: I expected they were going to get a ton of sacks.

674
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: I figured it would be now part of the function

675
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: of that, or at least how I thought about it was.

676
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: I thought they'd get a big lead early and they

677
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: would force them into a lot of passing downs a

678
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: lot earlier than they actually did, and so they would

679
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: get to that point in the game where they're just

680
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: coming and coming and coming, and that would happen earlier,

681
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: it didn't. It happened really about mid to late third

682
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: quarter when they start actually being able to kind of

683
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: just go get them. But I was kind of shocked

684
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: that they all ended up. We talked about it on Friday.

685
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: We talked about maybe this will be the game where

686
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: the defense just picks it up, gets hype, get all

687
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: out of energy, you know, for this week leading up

688
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: against the Giants. That's I mean, I was expecting them

689
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: to come out of there a lot better. Where now

690
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: I feel excited and ready for them to face the Saint.

691
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we keep talking about, Okay, they

692
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: don't play bad. They're not playing bad. It's not horrible,

693
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: but still it's not the defense we were talking about

694
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: last year. That is, like, man, this defense is carrying

695
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: the offense, basically playing for both sides, And right now,

696
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm just concerned what's going to happen if a game

697
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: comes where the Cowboys offense is just not able to

698
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: move the ball. Is the defense going to be able

699
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: to help them out? Well? I mean last I mean

700
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: this last teams. Yeah, against better teams. I mean I

701
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: think the last year the defense carried them because and

702
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: they were the best thing that the Cowboys had. I

703
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: mean this so far through three games. No, I mean,

704
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have probably one of the best offenses in

705
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: the league. I don't know what the stats look like,

706
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: but I don't have in front of me. But they're

707
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: they're good. I mean, I mean, I mean, the Patriots

708
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: are up there scoring you know a lot of points too.

709
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: But and the Ravens and things like that. But Chiefs, Chiefs, yeah,

710
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: they're decent. Um with my homes, no, but I just

711
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: think that the offense now has picked it up. The

712
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: offense is the best. You know, those games happen where

713
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: all of sudden, like we saw it, what was even

714
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: against the Rams, where the defense was just like off

715
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: and that was the side of the ball that you

716
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: expected to carry the game. You know. But let me

717
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: ask you this, is it our perception or is this

718
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: defense really not doing what they were doing last year?

719
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: Because if you remember last year, like they'd give up yards,

720
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: they were just holding teams to field goals instead of touchdowns.

721
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: And if you look at what Dave throughout the stat

722
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: a little earlier about the scoring right now, as far

723
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: as scoring defenses are concerned, the fourth and the league,

724
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: so they were also, I mean not to quipal with you. Yeah,

725
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: they were top five or six in yards allowed last year.

726
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: They're certain they're middle of the package. But because of

727
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: the offense, because of the offense, it's affecting this And

728
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: I've said it several times. You go, fine, by the

729
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: end of the year, you look at these great offenses,

730
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: their defenses won't be rated that high. Go through three

731
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: quarters of the game, three quarters against the Giants, ten

732
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: points against the Redskins, fourteen points, I believe maybe even

733
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: set it was in the third quarter, and then and

734
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: then Miami six. So some of these points are happening

735
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: kind of late. I think they're doing they think they're

736
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: doing five. And I get what you're saying, David, I

737
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: just think that. I guess. The point I'm making, though,

738
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: is I look at this defense, and to me, they're

739
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: similar to what they were lasted they're just not getting

740
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: they're not getting the pressure that I that I it's

741
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: the it's the other things that lead to yards and

742
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: points that I'm not seeing that I expected to see

743
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: funding them. It's not necessarily I think that from a

744
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: point standpoint, they're giving up a lot because they're really

745
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: not And when you look at the teams they faced

746
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: so far. That's where my problem comes from. Like if

747
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: you if this was the defense performing like this against

748
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 1: better teams, other teams, then I'm like, yeah, wow, they're

749
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: playing great. But again, when you talk about who the

750
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: opponent have been in these first three weeks, I definitely

751
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: expected them to be better. Do better, get some turnovers,

752
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: because what's going to happen when you play all these

753
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: other teams? Okay, I think I think we know the

754
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: Dolphins aren't gonna be very good, but it is early.

755
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: It's early on like I always did. It's weird when

756
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: people will say, well, you haven't beaten anybody with a

757
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: winning record, or you haven't beat anybody that's won a game.

758
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: Well through three games. I mean the Cowboys are the

759
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: reason why they haven't done that, the reason why you

760
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: haven't won a game yet because you only played three

761
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: and one of them you got beat. Um. The Giants

762
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: actually have won a game. So I mean, looking at

763
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: the Patriots, I know they're three and oh I think

764
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: all three of their opponents are owin three as well. Yeah,

765
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: so it's still early. Now that they face the Bills

766
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: this week, they have their first Yeah, that'll be a

767
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 1: good one, and you know, the Cowboys obviously going to

768
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: the to the Saints, and so it happens. But I mean,

769
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: it is early in the year, and it's like, we

770
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: don't really know what these teams are gonna be. I mean,

771
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Dolphins are gonna be, but

772
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna win a game. I mean, they

773
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: do you. Yeah, they're gonna win a game. They're getting

774
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: outscored at a better clip than either of the last

775
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: two and sixteen teams. Just saying I don't know. I'm

776
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: not convinced they will, honestly, because at some point you

777
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: lose your will. I mean, you know, you hate to

778
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: say that about professional football players, but after six or

779
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: seven of those types of beatings, well, I don't know

780
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: how much longer you can hang in like that, you know.

781
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: I think that they'll if they can get any kind

782
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: of running game. I think Rosen was was pretty good there.

783
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: I thought he moved it pretty well. You know, Now

784
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: that they have an elite rusher on the with Taco,

785
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: I think that they'll be able to get some such

786
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: got a sack. Got a sack ya first, und I'm

787
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: not treating him like that. Either, but he's no better that. Hey,

788
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: he comes off the plane on Thursday plays on Sunday.

789
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: No it is. But yeah, but he's he's not a

790
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: leap back. No, he's not a leap jokes. The first

791
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: round pick that he's got, first round might be the

792
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: best one they got. That's that's the thing, And that's

793
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: they showed you how bad that they are by saying, yeah,

794
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: well pick him up and he'll play him. And he

795
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: played and he played pretty well. And either way, I mean,

796
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: he'll help him. I think so he'll help him. I'll

797
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: be the first to admit I thought they would play

798
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: a cleaner game, you know, from beginning to end. I

799
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: didn't think it would be so dicey in the first half.

800
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: But like I really I don't care about style points

801
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: in the NFL again, you know, like I'm sweating what

802
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: happens in the second half against Northwestern State when LSU's

803
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: supposed to win by sick Like that's different. This is

804
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: still the NFL, even if you're the worst team in

805
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 1: the NFL. And honestly, I think most of those arguments

806
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: I think people are motivated by, like, you know, you

807
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: gotta go to the water cooler and deal with your

808
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: coworkers on Monday, and they're like, oh, the Dolphins are terrible.

809
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: That doesn't even count, Like bs, it doesn't count. Well,

810
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: it counts. It's a win, and you only need about

811
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: ten of them to get to the playoffs. So you're

812
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: a third of the way there. About it is. It's

813
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: not like college football. People's opinions on style points actually

814
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: do matter, because they do affect what rankings are, right, affect,

815
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: you know. But the NFL they have a pretty nice

816
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: system of like here's the record, the top six teams

817
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: go and you play it out, and so we're gonna

818
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: have a story tomorrow that says power rankings and the

819
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: people will click on it because they want to know

820
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: what people think. But it doesn't better doesn't matter. And

821
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: I guarantee you, well, let's just play somebody. Let somebody

822
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: that's three and oz is probably gonna not make the playoffs.

823
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 1: It actually happened. This is the biggest seventy four percent

824
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: of time that those teams make the playoffs. So yeah,

825
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: in sixteen, in twenty sixteen, there were four teams that

826
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: started three and oh and didn't make the playoffs. That's four, right,

827
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: isn't that crazy? Yeah, it is, so how many did

828
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: how many were four? And oh that did? Oh? I

829
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: don't even know what makes the playoffs? I mean not really. Yeah,

830
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: I don't think the builds make the playoffs. We will,

831
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't battle it right now because I don't

832
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: think they win their divisions. So then you started looking

833
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 1: across the AFC. Are they better than the other teams

834
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: that are gonna be wild cards? But I actually don't

835
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: think they will. Put a gun to my head. I'm

836
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: not like, I'm not sold on the forty nine ers

837
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: being a playoff team there three and oh and for

838
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: I mean, for that matter, we don't one hundred percent

839
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: know what the Cowboys are yet. But all you can

840
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 1: do is win the games that are put in front

841
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: of you, and that's what the Cowboys have done. Yeah,

842
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: the Cowboys haven't been three now since two thousand and eight.

843
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: They did not make it that year. That really, it's

844
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: such a bummer of a stat because like you hear

845
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: that and you're like, first time since so eait, like

846
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: that's really impressed Tony and then the last time they

847
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: did record if you if you you know, but when

848
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: when that when it's all done for me? And You're like,

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Speaker 1: what was the craziest season. I'm gonna say two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight was. We'll be right up there, because it

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Speaker 1: was because after the three and oz game against Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: I wrote a column that said, this is the best

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Speaker 1: team in football right now, the best football team, the

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Speaker 1: best football team in the NFL. You didn't write that

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Speaker 1: last night, did you? Thank you? I didn't um at all,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it was just weird. It was just

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Speaker 1: a weird year. And that was the It was very

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Speaker 1: similar because they were coming off a really good season

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Speaker 1: and they kind of it was like Jerry's were going

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Speaker 1: for it. I'm gonna get pac Man, I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: Tank Johnson, We're gonna keep TiO on this team. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go and we're gonna, you know, go over the top.

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Speaker 1: Injuries happen. You know that thing about the NFL. Injuries

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Speaker 1: are the biggest indicator. I yeah, injuries, and there was

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Speaker 1: some other stuff. I was gonna say. I wasn't around,

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Speaker 1: but even like I remember, I just have these vivid

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Speaker 1: memories of like being in I guess I was in

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Speaker 1: college at that point, and like Edward, Edward or was

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Speaker 1: on Sports Center every day because there was so much

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Speaker 1: drama around this team, Like he just had a permanent

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Speaker 1: hit where they're like, well, who got arrested this week?

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Speaker 1: Or like what are the cowboys dealing with right now?

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Speaker 1: Who had who had guns in his car? Like I

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Speaker 1: just remember being in college, like can we stop talking

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Speaker 1: about this team for like five minutes? You know? But

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Speaker 1: then I'll grew up and I'll work for them and

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about him every day real quick though, But

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Speaker 1: a very delightful sub story with this team right now,

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Speaker 1: not to jinx him. I don't believe in that anyway.

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Speaker 1: There's none of that. Yeah, none of that's happening right now.

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Speaker 1: Taco was the t was the closest to drama they had.

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Speaker 1: And he's in Miami and that's why, And and you

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Speaker 1: go back to that season and maybe I've just created

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Speaker 1: a column for myself on Wednesday, But you know the

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Speaker 1: big difference is as TiO was on that team, and

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Speaker 1: TiO wasn't going to allow for their not to be drama.

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Speaker 1: There's just players that are that are that way. So

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Speaker 1: when you're if you're out there and you're about to

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Speaker 1: send that tweet or text or message and say, if

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Speaker 1: the NFL clears Antonio Brown. You just say no, no,

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Speaker 1: you don't need it. You don't need that on your team.

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Speaker 1: This isn't a guy that's going to take you over

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Speaker 1: the top of the Cowboys have done that before, and

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that doesn't help you. If Taco was

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Speaker 1: a distraction, what would you know what I mean, So

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Speaker 1: you don't need that. And I don't know if he'll

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Speaker 1: ever play for anybody again. But there's I mean, so

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Speaker 1: so much time left in the year for unforeseen problems

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Speaker 1: to arise, but it is refreshingly football centric here in

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Speaker 1: Dallas at the time. I mean, we'll have heard, well

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Speaker 1: I guess we haven't heard anything about Crawford or is

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Speaker 1: that completely forgotten. I haven't heard. But that's the thing

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Speaker 1: about That's the thing about the commissioner is the commissioner

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Speaker 1: could come out today and like, oh, he's got two

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Speaker 1: to three games, like just there is no timetable. They

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Speaker 1: do it at their own discretion. I mean, there is

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Speaker 1: still the Randy Gregory thing that's kind of hanging out

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00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: there that some fans are like, well, what's happening with him?

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Speaker 1: But that's not really a distraction because he's not here.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, there are storylines that are around the

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Speaker 1: team right now, but there's nothing that is really taking

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Speaker 1: this team's focus or could potentially take the sea. There

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Speaker 1: is one that's potentially taking the focus, but it's not happening.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a quarterback that's playing as well

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Speaker 1: as anybody in the NFL right now, you're worried about

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Speaker 1: anything getting paid like you know, a special team's ace.

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Speaker 1: That's what he's getting paid like right now. I mean

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Speaker 1: credit to Dak and Marii Cooper for really and they're

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Speaker 1: falling out right now. But that may play like they're

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Speaker 1: worth it. They're both may just be sitting here saying,

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Speaker 1: all right, well that's gonna keep We're just gonna keep playing.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna push that price, push that price, you know. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that either one. It doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: at least either one of them is really pushing the

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Speaker 1: issue when it comes to their contracts. So it doesn't

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Speaker 1: become a distraction because they're not pushing it like that. Yep.

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Speaker 1: All right, we appreciate you guys joining us. We will

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Speaker 1: be back at our normal time tomorrow eleven forty five

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Speaker 1: till then. For Nick Eatman, Dave Helm and Amber Garcia.

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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on

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