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Speaker 1: It is Monday, September thirteenth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number nineteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, Nick,
Speaker 1: give me a nineteen Uh, Keishan Keishawn Johnson, Keishaw Johnson
Speaker 1: now doing radio for a ESPN. I could have probably
Speaker 1: done other than that. Huh. There's a few. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, but a Marii Cooper, the current guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jet like bring it back. Yeah, I need I need
Speaker 1: a guy from back in the day, not a not
Speaker 1: a current guy. All right, let's we had a lot
Speaker 1: to jump into today. We are, uh, coming off the
Speaker 1: Cowboys off, calling off the NFL's Week one of the
Speaker 1: season yesterday was full slate of games. It's actually nice
Speaker 1: to sit back and actually watch football all day on
Speaker 1: a Sunday because the Cowboys game was over. But we'll
Speaker 1: start getting you guys ready this week for a week
Speaker 1: number two. But today we're gonna kind of do a
Speaker 1: little bit more of unpacking what happened last week with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Um, I wanted to start first talking about
Speaker 1: some some news items. Lyle Collins, we find out at
Speaker 1: the end of last week has now been suspended for
Speaker 1: five games, or at least that is what's being reported,
Speaker 1: for violating the substance abuse policy. Um, what's your Dallas
Speaker 1: do it right? Tackle? Well, sorry, you kind of glossed over.
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on with the Lyle Collins things
Speaker 1: more than just that. Now if he does miss five games,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna miss something that I want Dave, because
Speaker 1: I mean it's this is this has got about twelve
Speaker 1: layers took. There's a lot happening here and so by
Speaker 1: the time I would imagine by the end of the day,
Speaker 1: there'll be some different things shaken out here. There's just
Speaker 1: a lot of dots to connect. Um, there's an appeal
Speaker 1: process here. Did the NFL jump the gun? Did they
Speaker 1: announce something that they should have? Is he even should
Speaker 1: he be suspended at all. I'm telling you that there's
Speaker 1: a lot happening here. Nick's trying to be nice. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are pissed, and and I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have information for you that can
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of it. It's obviously a very
Speaker 1: murky situation. But this whole thing is weird, and you
Speaker 1: can the team's pissed. I'm sure Lyle is pissed. Um
Speaker 1: And I, yeah, I don't. I don't know the first
Speaker 1: about that, like whether or not the NFL jumped the gun,
Speaker 1: whether or not Lyle Collins needs to be suspended for
Speaker 1: five games, And yeah, I mean, I don't. Do you
Speaker 1: have you heard something new since Friday? Because I have no, not,
Speaker 1: not really. But there's just like with anything in life,
Speaker 1: COVID is also factoring into this too, because just just
Speaker 1: with COVID that there's something about a COVID protocol that
Speaker 1: he could have been on that that changes. Again, we're
Speaker 1: supposed to know the information, and I apologize that we
Speaker 1: really don't. I don't know as much as I should.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, there are a lot of moving
Speaker 1: parts in this. Um. Let's just say that he is
Speaker 1: suspended because he got a game to play. NFL moves
Speaker 1: on and he probably won't play. But I just know
Speaker 1: that this is probably not as much as the Zeke
Speaker 1: thing was back in twenty seventeen, where we're on off,
Speaker 1: on off, but it's got that kind of murkiness to it.
Speaker 1: I've asked a couple of people, and I've kind of
Speaker 1: got that stiff farm like, don't even don't even go
Speaker 1: there yet. There's just so much do we are supposed
Speaker 1: to know these things? But this is a situation where
Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about not knowing, Like it's all
Speaker 1: it gets weird with with these like league team conflicts,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, remember how much legal reading we
Speaker 1: had to do to even try to decipher the Zeke stuff.
Speaker 1: And nobody on either side wants to help you in
Speaker 1: this because it's a legal issue and all sorts of
Speaker 1: you know, weird stuff going on that they would probably
Speaker 1: rather people aren't snooping into. So this is a situation
Speaker 1: where it's hard to get answers, but I am curious
Speaker 1: to see where it goes. Yeah, and so I guess
Speaker 1: what I'm going back to. The first what I'm taking
Speaker 1: from this is five games May may not happen. At
Speaker 1: this point, there's still just a lot up in the air,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be in a final resolution
Speaker 1: to whatever the issues are on both. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to give people like It's kind of like Zach
Speaker 1: with COVID, Like, well, Jerry said he might play yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to give people false hope, like well,
Speaker 1: David Nicks that it's gonna be less than five games, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know that. And I know, if I know anything,
Speaker 1: the League is very stubborn and firm about like not
Speaker 1: going back when they're wrong, right, No, even they will
Speaker 1: go down with their ship in the in an effort
Speaker 1: to not look wrong. They do it all the time.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe they completely screwed Lyle Collins over.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe Lyle screwed this up. I don't
Speaker 1: really know, but I have a hard time believing the
Speaker 1: league is they're gonna do everything in their power to
Speaker 1: not backtrack on this. If I had to guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the reason why all that's important is
Speaker 1: that goes back to your question, because if it's just
Speaker 1: a straight five games in the story, five games, then
Speaker 1: then you make a different decision if it's maybe not,
Speaker 1: if it's maybe one, if it could be two, it
Speaker 1: could be back and forth. Now I think you have
Speaker 1: to Okay, well paint both those scials. Let's assume for
Speaker 1: a second five it's five games, as it's been reported.
Speaker 1: What happens? What do you do it? Right tackle? And
Speaker 1: let me be let me be clear. I'm asking you,
Speaker 1: what do you nick and day? What would you do
Speaker 1: at right tack? I hate that answer because what I
Speaker 1: do it doesn't matter. No, it matters for the sake
Speaker 1: of a radio show and we're talking, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: give opinions. Tell me what you would do in the
Speaker 1: instance that this was a five game. If it was me,
Speaker 1: I would have gone to Zach Martin on Friday and said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, I know you don't want to do
Speaker 1: this and it sucks like it's a bummer. We're one
Speaker 1: game into the season and we're already dealing with this.
Speaker 1: But if we're gonna not have LC for five weeks,
Speaker 1: i'd like you to I'd like you to start practicing
Speaker 1: it right tackle. Have we thought about maybe making him
Speaker 1: a manager? That was actually a good way to do it,
Speaker 1: Like come on seeing and sit down like it, I
Speaker 1: really need to. I'm just as unhappy about this, right.
Speaker 1: I know, I know that you're not gonna like this,
Speaker 1: but this is what we gotta do for the team.
Speaker 1: Let's go together. We can get this done. That's what
Speaker 1: I would do. Yeah, I don't think the Cowboys will,
Speaker 1: at least not yet. I would start Terence Steal at
Speaker 1: right tackle and I would have Zach Martin at right guard.
Speaker 1: So I think that's what I would do. Why, um,
Speaker 1: And I think I'm looking at this matchup more than
Speaker 1: any of the matchups. Okay, I'm looking at this one. Um.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably better than Tiansecki from what I've seen.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I could be wrong there.
Speaker 1: I just haven't seen Insecki do a lot. He just
Speaker 1: seems kind of too big and lumbering and just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a wrong I would. I would. If we're
Speaker 1: not moving things around, I'd rather play Steal than yatsek Um.
Speaker 1: I'd like Steele with with Zack Martin. Um. I think
Speaker 1: he's got quick feet, quicker feet. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: go out. He's gonna go against Bosa. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: that would be a tough one, But I just, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's what I would do because I want
Speaker 1: my all Pro guard to be an All Pro and
Speaker 1: I want him at guard. If he's at right tackle,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's an All Pro. I think
Speaker 1: he's good. You don't think when he played last year
Speaker 1: at that position, he played at that kind of level.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say that. I don't even know
Speaker 1: about that level. He didn't play really well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember the Seattle game he winning there, he played well. Um,
Speaker 1: if this is just what I know what not watching
Speaker 1: a lot of the tape and film and all that,
Speaker 1: they have to decide, they have to they look at
Speaker 1: it and go steal or insecty whatever they decide, and
Speaker 1: then Zach Martin inside and also Zack Martin inside with
Speaker 1: Tyler Beiannest. Don't forget that aspect of it too. Zach
Speaker 1: next to Tyler. It also could help because he needs
Speaker 1: some help too. Um, they have to decide what's better
Speaker 1: between that or McGovern staying where he has give him
Speaker 1: another good start there, and then sliding Zach Martin. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean they Joe Philbin's a really good offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: and the they'll they'll weigh all those pros and cons.
Speaker 1: I think it's close enough that we can debate about it.
Speaker 1: I think we all agreed that McGovern had a good
Speaker 1: week last week. So how does this factor into the
Speaker 1: whole concept of getting your best five on the field,
Speaker 1: Because I think most would probably agree McGovern is a
Speaker 1: better guard than Steele is a tackle. Okay, that's I
Speaker 1: think that's the genesis of the argument. That's why people
Speaker 1: are talking about this is. Yeah, if if McGovern can
Speaker 1: go out there against Tampa's front and play as well
Speaker 1: as he did, then it stands the reason that he
Speaker 1: can hold his own in there as an every down starter.
Speaker 1: And he did it for eight games last year, and
Speaker 1: for the most part, looked pretty good. And people are,
Speaker 1: for better or for worse, people are scarred by what
Speaker 1: they saw from the right tackle spot last year. And
Speaker 1: I mean that's a big part of it as well
Speaker 1: as just like I've seen this, oh, but I mean
Speaker 1: the whole like a lot of the stress from the
Speaker 1: tackles stems from that Atlanta game, which was four years
Speaker 1: ago at this no doubt, So I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: I really like Connor McGovern. I think he's gonna be good,
Speaker 1: But I'm not willing to say that he played well
Speaker 1: last week. I think they protected the heck out of
Speaker 1: those offensive linemen in the middle because they didn't do
Speaker 1: anything with them. They went into the game plan saying,
Speaker 1: we're not even going to try. We're not trying. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go sideline to sideline. We're gonna play this way
Speaker 1: and if it gets down to the red zone, we'll
Speaker 1: take our chances in. And they really didn't win down there.
Speaker 1: They had to throw it in so they to me,
Speaker 1: they were a very one dimensional offense. And if that's
Speaker 1: the way the offense is gonna be, that's what it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. But I think if you put Zach in there,
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have a better chance to be a
Speaker 1: little a little less one dimensional. That's why now I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that McGovern versus the Chargers won't be you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they can run the ball a little bit more,
Speaker 1: but they're going to have to figure out ways to
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I mean, I do think that the
Speaker 1: the when you look at just how good Tampa is
Speaker 1: against the run, Yeah, I think that factors in, right,
Speaker 1: That's the big reason. Yeah, that's the big reason. That's
Speaker 1: way more reason, I think than mc govern being in there.
Speaker 1: I think they probably realize we're up against that kind
Speaker 1: of defense. And by the way, the strength of that
Speaker 1: defense is right up the middle. Why would we try
Speaker 1: to run against that brick wall with a lesser set
Speaker 1: of players than just throwing the ball. But but all
Speaker 1: that being said, um, what do you guys think that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will do? Because we talk about what you
Speaker 1: would do, what do you think the Cowboys will do
Speaker 1: in this instance? So again we're assuming it's five games.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna roll with these swing tackles. I
Speaker 1: don't know who. I don't know if they know who,
Speaker 1: because I mean, if you think about the preseason, they
Speaker 1: alternated Steel and Inseci all through it. They both played
Speaker 1: both sides of the line, they both got different opportunities,
Speaker 1: they both played deep into pretty much every preseason game.
Speaker 1: So you probably roll with the combination that you feel
Speaker 1: best about by Thursday, if I had to guess, But
Speaker 1: between those two guys, that's what I think they'll do.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy has been pretty straightforward about and really not
Speaker 1: wanting to do drastic things unless it absolutely has to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting about the Gallop situation as well,
Speaker 1: you know, Gallop out maybe three to five weeks something
Speaker 1: like that. We'll get to that second. Yeah. But but but
Speaker 1: but I think if factors in here, because if you
Speaker 1: do play steel or Inseci, what do you think's also
Speaker 1: going to happen? Tight end tight end chip and then
Speaker 1: get Zeke in there with that pass pro again, So
Speaker 1: that might change a little bit of having three receivers
Speaker 1: as much out there anyways. I mean, the Gallup might
Speaker 1: not have played as much as they wanted him to anyways,
Speaker 1: just because you might have to go a little with
Speaker 1: two tight ends or keep tight ends in. So I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson's gonna play, and he's gonna play a lot.
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, don't forget. Noah Brown's gonna get back and play,
Speaker 1: and I think he will help this team a lot.
Speaker 1: I've I've sort of changed my thought a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I know I'm jumping ahead on your rundown, but
Speaker 1: I just I think these things kind of matter because
Speaker 1: it's a domino effect. We got to help the right tackle,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to or if we don't help the
Speaker 1: right tackle, we have to help inside blocking in there.
Speaker 1: And then and then how does that affect with receivers
Speaker 1: we have, and of course they're one big receiver down.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to throw this out there too,
Speaker 1: And I think it's an underrated You're talking about things
Speaker 1: being connected. This is an underrated aspect of the whole
Speaker 1: thing as well. And I just said that I would
Speaker 1: probably want to move Zach to tackle. But one argument
Speaker 1: for why you probably don't, or if you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, an argument in your favor, I think,
Speaker 1: is the quarterback. Honestly, Dak Prescott is good enough at
Speaker 1: this point in his career that I trust him to
Speaker 1: make things work. I trust him to get the ball
Speaker 1: out quickly. I trust him to make the protection, you know,
Speaker 1: call the protections to help out whoever needs it the most.
Speaker 1: He knows where the ball needs to go. He's also athletic,
Speaker 1: he can extend plays. I know their record wasn't good,
Speaker 1: but the line was a shambles for the first five
Speaker 1: weeks of the season last year, and they played functional football,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean it got down to the last
Speaker 1: throw of the game against Seattle in Week three and
Speaker 1: that was when Zach was playing guard and they had
Speaker 1: to do all heard tackle I mean, they had to
Speaker 1: do all this crazy stuff. I think Tyrant Tyrant was
Speaker 1: in and out of the lineup. Like Week two against
Speaker 1: the Falcons, I don't believe they had either one of
Speaker 1: them right, And they only had Tyrant against the Browns.
Speaker 1: And again, I get it. They didn't win all these games,
Speaker 1: but they were moving the ball, they were scoring points
Speaker 1: like the offense was doing things. And so I think
Speaker 1: that is something to consider, is that a quarterback of
Speaker 1: Dak's caliber, it doesn't all need to be perfect the
Speaker 1: way it did when he was a rookie or in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen or even probably twenty eighteen. I think I
Speaker 1: trust him so much more to make it work with
Speaker 1: less than I did even two years. I've I've heard
Speaker 1: Romo say this, if there was a wink a week
Speaker 1: link on the offensive line, make it be the right tackle,
Speaker 1: because I can see that. I can figure it out.
Speaker 1: I could see him come in and I could you know,
Speaker 1: of course he could see the left tackles coming to him.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he could do that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: and and I think I think Dak is even better
Speaker 1: than that and better than than Romo when it comes
Speaker 1: to eluding that kind of stuff stronger. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I also, I think I'm going to reiterate that about
Speaker 1: him in the right guard. I think he helps, and
Speaker 1: I think he'll help be Odish on this side. I
Speaker 1: think he'll help the right tackle. So I think I
Speaker 1: would probably keep it and then go with my best
Speaker 1: guy on the right tackle. And I just think from
Speaker 1: an athletic standpoint athleticism, I think it's steel. But you know,
Speaker 1: let's also remember that the Cowboys might have thought this
Speaker 1: was coming, you know, because suspensions. Don't they sneak up
Speaker 1: on fans. They shouldn't sneak up on the Cowboys. Maybe
Speaker 1: this one did. But you know, they do have three
Speaker 1: backup tackles on the roster, one of them being Josh Ball.
Speaker 1: But they have three, and that's that's kind of heavy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I might have been a reason for this. I talked
Speaker 1: to somebody Friday. I was like eventful afternoon. Han. They
Speaker 1: were like, well, you know these we have advanced notice
Speaker 1: of these things. I mean, it sucks, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like me who was sitting here waiting for
Speaker 1: the press conference, playing crossword puzzles and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Lyle's gone like it's not quite the
Speaker 1: same for people on the inside. I guess all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break when we come back.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about Michael Gallup and what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna do at wide receiver. Now it looks
Speaker 1: like he'll be out for multiple weeks, or do that
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Speaker 1: segment of The Break Black. In the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star, we talked about Lyle Collins. Now
Speaker 1: we got to talk about Michael Gallut. That news also
Speaker 1: came out on Friday. He was injured in the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay game. Sounds like he's gonna be out for multiple weeks?
Speaker 1: Do we know exactly how long? Whereas it just kind
Speaker 1: of right now he's going to be out multiple weeks,
Speaker 1: definitely won't be playing this game. And the early prognosis
Speaker 1: was three to five. But ye, maybe they were kg
Speaker 1: about the Lyle thing, like nobody wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: anything like that on Friday, Like Mike McCarthy didn't really
Speaker 1: give us much of an updated timeline on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that, I mean, it was three to five is
Speaker 1: what I've heard, and I haven't heard anything different yet,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, you obviously you can't go off
Speaker 1: what players tell you. I've been burned by that in
Speaker 1: the past, and you can't go off of basically what
Speaker 1: they're looking like. Mike looked fine leaving, like we were
Speaker 1: down in the tunnel waiting for a post game and
Speaker 1: they're all filing back into the locker room, and he
Speaker 1: didn't look like he was limping. He seemed like he
Speaker 1: was in good spirits, which you're right, because I saw
Speaker 1: that and I was like, Okay, he's fine. And then
Speaker 1: Friday morning it was like three to five weeks, right,
Speaker 1: So I have a hard time thinking, like five week injury.
Speaker 1: I just you know now what it feel like when
Speaker 1: you woke up will be the difference, right, right, And
Speaker 1: it was kind of initially like an ankle sprain, but
Speaker 1: then it's now it's a calf sprain. And you know
Speaker 1: that's or calf's strain what I'm saying, But I mean
Speaker 1: that that's that's a different injury. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: they happen. It is. Nick knows all about cass. Like
Speaker 1: Dick and Ling, we talked about it. It's almost an
Speaker 1: outside joke now it's been talked about it. I hurt
Speaker 1: my calf, it still hurts two years later. Let's not
Speaker 1: compare me to any NFL athlete because I'm not an
Speaker 1: athlete and they are. But it does factor in your
Speaker 1: evaluation of injury. I'll tell you the difference. Though. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup's not going to be a dumb ass and run
Speaker 1: on it three days later. He's not going to do that.
Speaker 1: He's NFL guys a different breed. Burt Brown is going
Speaker 1: to make your ass on the training table that right
Speaker 1: there is the reason why he won't. All right, So
Speaker 1: tell me how do cowboys adjust to this? What do
Speaker 1: they need to do in his absence? And you started
Speaker 1: talking about this little league. But what do you need
Speaker 1: to do here? Well, I think you know, Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: has been ready for it. I mean he's got more
Speaker 1: reps with Dack than probably anybody. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: he's a member of the back yard, you know club.
Speaker 1: So he goes out there and um does that, and
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's got a good rapport
Speaker 1: with him. We saw it in a couple of games
Speaker 1: last year or too, so I think Noah Brown will help. Also,
Speaker 1: I've kind of done a one eighty on my thoughts
Speaker 1: on Noah Brown. He's impressed me to the point where
Speaker 1: because I think he's playing like a big bodied receiver.
Speaker 1: They tried to do it tight end stuff with him.
Speaker 1: Now he's a big body receiver. He plays that way.
Speaker 1: He made some contested catches. I would. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I love the Dack yard is a thing. By the way.
Speaker 1: I love that. It's a feast. What an outstand. I
Speaker 1: didn't come up with that. Somebody did it. That was amazing.
Speaker 1: That's that's a really good thing yard football. I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Noah is playing more like a big bodied receiver.
Speaker 1: But I saw um, you know, they were talking about
Speaker 1: Jarwin's miss block on the option play on the goal line,
Speaker 1: and Zeke's mom on Twitter was like, I know, I
Speaker 1: know a guy who could probably make that block. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I see what she did there? Did
Speaker 1: she spell it that way? Yeah? I know a guy
Speaker 1: n o a h a guy that could pull that off.
Speaker 1: And I was like, good, I like that, don absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah. But I mean we that's some
Speaker 1: clever writing. I know a guy. Wow, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: something you would say, thank you, that's high praise. You
Speaker 1: would do that, you would do that. But um, she's
Speaker 1: a good follow. She's a really good finn. I don't
Speaker 1: want to downplay. It sucks if Mike's going to be out.
Speaker 1: He's a very good player and that sucks. But this
Speaker 1: is a situation where I'm like, well, this is why
Speaker 1: you kept these guys. This is why you weren't trying
Speaker 1: to shed salary and keep Simi Fehoko, Like, yeah, Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson probably has caught more balls from Dak Prescott than
Speaker 1: anybody on this team. If I had to guess, Noah's
Speaker 1: been here forever. They know the offense. Cedric's got some
Speaker 1: inside outside flexibility the big thing for me, Like, if
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it, I'm like, Okay, Cedric's probably first
Speaker 1: man up. Do you want him in the slot more
Speaker 1: with CD outside or do you want CD outside you know?
Speaker 1: Or do you want to move Cedric outside and keep
Speaker 1: Ceding in the slot. Probably do a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm not I'm not worried about that
Speaker 1: at all. Like that is an injury that you should
Speaker 1: be able to absorb. That's why you kept two veteran
Speaker 1: arguably quote unquote overpriced receivers on the roster. Again, did
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's at a level where he's still got CD
Speaker 1: in Amari? So just fill that in with what you
Speaker 1: got and I think they should be fine. So let
Speaker 1: me go. I was just going back to that that
Speaker 1: thought about Noah Brown out there on that play. Noah
Speaker 1: Brown is a much better person to have out there
Speaker 1: because because he's a receiver, I mean not yes, he's
Speaker 1: changes how the defense is gonna mess right now because
Speaker 1: you could be right on him. They could be pressed
Speaker 1: on Jarwin and then get buy him for the block.
Speaker 1: But if you, if you try that, Deck could change
Speaker 1: it and say wait a second, he thinks this corner,
Speaker 1: thinks is gonna be a run. I got Noah, I
Speaker 1: can no one could beat this guy. So yes, I
Speaker 1: think no one could do a much better job. I
Speaker 1: think we all could. I mean, somebody can get a
Speaker 1: hand on the guy, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time we've seen Jarwin miss in
Speaker 1: the open fil that's not his thing. Blocking is These
Speaker 1: tight ends aren't the greatest blockers. Yeah, we know that,
Speaker 1: and but I think we were always kind of worried
Speaker 1: about the defensive end approach, like they're not going to
Speaker 1: be very good if they get overpowered. But we're seeing
Speaker 1: them struggle more with corners and safeties knifing their way
Speaker 1: in space. So um, that's why I think Noah Brown
Speaker 1: would have been better there. This isn't it's not a
Speaker 1: crazy stat line, but Cedric caught all three of his
Speaker 1: targets for twenty four yards the other night. He blew
Speaker 1: up against Seattle when they needed him. I'm I wish
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was healthy, but I am not sweating this
Speaker 1: the way that I'm sweating not having Lyle Collins. The
Speaker 1: one thing I would I would ask if you ask
Speaker 1: about that, I agree with you that I think both
Speaker 1: those backup receivers can step in and fill inadequately. The
Speaker 1: one role I'm still wondering who's gonna take is the
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna stretch the field. Michael Gallup seems to
Speaker 1: be the guy that stretches the field for this offense.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that tends to get back deep and
Speaker 1: get those those big balls. I'm not sure if there's
Speaker 1: another person we've seen him are do it some I
Speaker 1: don't think that's really CD's game. So who's going to
Speaker 1: really stretch to feel here? I'll bet you ten dollars.
Speaker 1: CD could do it if you gave him the chance.
Speaker 1: He just hasn't needed to now. I mean he can.
Speaker 1: He can go I mean we saw him all through
Speaker 1: training camp. He can go up and snatch the ball yea.
Speaker 1: Like he's great at it. It just hasn't been something
Speaker 1: that they've asked him to do. Amar's not He's not
Speaker 1: the type to like box out, you know, but he
Speaker 1: gets open with his route running like no. I mean,
Speaker 1: both of those guys can do that, Like Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: is good at that, but it's he and it sounds
Speaker 1: like I'm talking trash, like I don't think he possesses
Speaker 1: this elite skill set that nobody else on this roster
Speaker 1: can do. He just he just plays the role. By that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he plays the role. But I think either one of
Speaker 1: those other two can do that if I fast two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Amari's has been one of the better deep
Speaker 1: threats on the team. I mean, he really can stretch
Speaker 1: the field. We saw it in that catch against Atlanta
Speaker 1: last year. We saw it against Washington on Thanksgiving. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can get by the defense. It doesn't look like it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's moving there. That's it. Never Amari's those
Speaker 1: long balls to him, it never looks as crazy because
Speaker 1: Mike usually goes up and kind of does his Dez thing,
Speaker 1: and CD's kind of got some of that to him
Speaker 1: as well. Amar's just a step and a half behind.
Speaker 1: I mean, Amari reminds me a lot of and I
Speaker 1: know he's played eighteen years and he's Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: and all that, but he reminds me a lot of
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald and the fact that his route running is
Speaker 1: so good and and maybe not the fastest, but but
Speaker 1: he gets it done, and he's getting it done for
Speaker 1: a long time now. He's maybe not as durable, and
Speaker 1: if he plays that long, that'll be amazing. But I
Speaker 1: mean it's just it's never really flashy until you look
Speaker 1: at the stats and you're like, wow, that's pretty amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I thought, you know, I said before about
Speaker 1: that that that fumble that Dak had and he lost
Speaker 1: the fumble and he picked it up and threw it tomar.
Speaker 1: But I you know, Amari was where he needed to
Speaker 1: be too. I mean, Amari down at the goal line
Speaker 1: is a really really good route runner. We saw it
Speaker 1: his first game. Was it his first game against the
Speaker 1: Titans when he came in, We saw that touchdown. I mean,
Speaker 1: we just he is. He can be really good. So
Speaker 1: if they're not going to run the ball, if they
Speaker 1: can't run the ball, at least you got a guy
Speaker 1: down there that can win those quick in bone booth
Speaker 1: type plays. Ye. All right, we're gonna take our final
Speaker 1: break when we come back, We're gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about this team's identity. We've been watching Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: do some pretty amazing things going back to last year,
Speaker 1: and the question for these guys is has the identity
Speaker 1: of this team changed? Are they now a passing team?
Speaker 1: Firmly and no longer a team that relies on the run.
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Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: team identity. This team, from the time that they drafted
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott was a team that I think we all
Speaker 1: will I would say I certainly thought. I would assume
Speaker 1: you guys thought was a run first team that they
Speaker 1: were built around the offensive line and the running back.
Speaker 1: I think over the last year, going back to the
Speaker 1: game's last season that Dak played before he was hurt,
Speaker 1: and then what we saw in Week one against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: to me, it has become a parent that this is
Speaker 1: a team that is a passing team. The past sets
Speaker 1: up the run. They rely on the past far more
Speaker 1: than they rely on the run. Do you guys agree
Speaker 1: with that sentiment? I think I made that switch in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Honestly, I mean that's when I really and
Speaker 1: maybe you know down the back half of twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, when Amari Cooper got here, a switch flipped,
Speaker 1: and I think Amari was a big part in jump
Speaker 1: starting that because Dak absolutely needed a receiver of that caliber.
Speaker 1: But over time he has grown and evolved, and that's
Speaker 1: going back to my point about the offensive line, Like
Speaker 1: he is now a quarterback that has that type of
Speaker 1: command over the offense that it would be silly to
Speaker 1: not have the offense run through him. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: a lot of it has been personnel. That that's you mean,
Speaker 1: look at the receivers that were here when when Dak
Speaker 1: when you thought that statement, when Zeke was running the
Speaker 1: way he was running, the line was blocking. I mean,
Speaker 1: the receivers weren't. That wasn't the best position group on
Speaker 1: the team. But it's over time. You know, they hit
Speaker 1: on a third round pick with Gallup. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been a really good third round pick, and then, like
Speaker 1: you said, they traded for Amari and then they just said,
Speaker 1: we cannot pass on Cede Lamb even though doesn't make
Speaker 1: the most sense, it does if we can, you know,
Speaker 1: if they can work together, and so then that's helped
Speaker 1: Dak grow and an offensive line hasn't been the same
Speaker 1: though too. Offensive line isn't as good as they've been.
Speaker 1: They haven't been as dominant in the run game. So
Speaker 1: I think there's just been a shift. Well there's been
Speaker 1: a shift in the sport of football too. And like,
Speaker 1: and I love analytics, I'm not good enough at math
Speaker 1: to really understand them the way that I would prefer.
Speaker 1: You know, like there's some people that are just like, well,
Speaker 1: this point three eight EPA means this. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: want to understand this better. But you can look at
Speaker 1: all of these charts and realize, like this is a
Speaker 1: passing leak, and the difference in pat like your success
Speaker 1: rate passing and what throwing the ball can do for you.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's there's no denying it. And even teams
Speaker 1: like Tennessee, for example, who have this amazing running back
Speaker 1: and everybody's afraid of Derrick Henry, they make their bread
Speaker 1: off of play action. Like people are so afraid of
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, they use that to their advantage. Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: has had a career renaissance since he got there because
Speaker 1: he throws off of the threat he throws off the
Speaker 1: threat of the run. So even teams like that, you
Speaker 1: need to be throwing the ball to really be tapping
Speaker 1: into your offense as well as you should. And I
Speaker 1: commend the Cowboys for realizing that. I commend Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: Is that a winning strategy for this team? Though? Because
Speaker 1: if you go back to last year, they were three
Speaker 1: or four losses in those first four games that Dak
Speaker 1: started and played throughout the game. They lost the first
Speaker 1: game to this season, and the only game that they
Speaker 1: won in the last last year and this year with
Speaker 1: Dak doing this was against Atlanta where they had to
Speaker 1: come back from this what we thought was an insurmountable
Speaker 1: lead that they'd given up and win by a point.
Speaker 1: So is this a winning strategy for Dallas? Now? I
Speaker 1: know this can be a winning strategy around the league.
Speaker 1: We've seen other teams do it. My question is really
Speaker 1: is Dak good enough and is the rest of the
Speaker 1: team around him the other things that have to work
Speaker 1: the way that they have to work for this strategy
Speaker 1: to be successful. Debt for Dallas, I'll throw in the
Speaker 1: caveat that. I mean, in the NFL, you need to
Speaker 1: be able to run the football in certain times and
Speaker 1: it would certainly be nice. Hopefully against lesser competition than
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, you can have some second half leads that
Speaker 1: allow you to use Ezekiel Elliott. Not that you need to,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean that is that's very beneficial. Like
Speaker 1: there's all there's an argument on social media all the
Speaker 1: time where it's like, well, when Zeke runs twenty five times,
Speaker 1: they win this amount of time. Why why do they
Speaker 1: win so often when Zeke touches the ball twenty five
Speaker 1: times Because they have a lead and you get to
Speaker 1: lean on the opposition. That is a valuable thing and
Speaker 1: I don't want them to get away from it completely.
Speaker 1: But time and time again, we you know, teams show
Speaker 1: that you can absolutely win being that skewed toward the pass.
Speaker 1: I know it's not fair to compare anybody to Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: but they do it all the time. And for that matter,
Speaker 1: the reason the Cowboys had such a crappy record, in
Speaker 1: my opinion last year, it was turnover differential more than anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were in those holes because they were
Speaker 1: turning the ball over two and three times in the
Speaker 1: first quarter every week. Outside of Pat Mahomes. You brought
Speaker 1: up an interesting point. Outside of a Mahomes. Obviously, he's
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the league. I think Dak is
Speaker 1: up there and probably top five quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: But putting that aside, what else does Kansas City have
Speaker 1: that Maybe Dallas doesn't have track speed, a tight end
Speaker 1: that's a big receiver. I mean they have mismatched problems.
Speaker 1: What they have they have? I mean they have Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: who can just go and then they how do you
Speaker 1: how do you try to I mean that one two
Speaker 1: punch is so dynamic because if you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: cover Travis Kelsey, you have to you have to get
Speaker 1: some kind of safety or corner help. Well, then what
Speaker 1: are you doing over here with Tyreek Hill? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: and that's that's just an amazing one two combination. Those
Speaker 1: guys are just amazing and and and then you got
Speaker 1: you got a great quarterback there. Does Dallas do a
Speaker 1: similar thing from a matchup standpoint, Not necessarily from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of two guys that are that dynamic, but from
Speaker 1: a standpoint they have so many different parts that are
Speaker 1: hard matchups that maybe they create that same sort of
Speaker 1: matchup problem for the team. Have some matchup problems but
Speaker 1: because they have it more in numbers yet, right, But
Speaker 1: but nothing that's just you know, I've said this before.
Speaker 1: They don't have anybody that's that's in that top five
Speaker 1: of their position other than guard, and now we're maybe
Speaker 1: moving him to dackle, which I don't think he'd be
Speaker 1: a top five tackle. I don't think. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to doubt him. I don't want to
Speaker 1: bet again. I don't want to bet against them. But
Speaker 1: I mean, thirty two teams decided that he was a guard,
Speaker 1: so I mean, I think he can play it, but
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason they could be special at guard,
Speaker 1: and he has been. I just don't so. But Kansas
Speaker 1: City has a top five receiver, they've got the number
Speaker 1: one quarterback, the number one tied in, so they got it.
Speaker 1: They got some special things going on that The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have some good pieces, but they don't have elite pieces.
Speaker 1: Dak's getting there though. At quarterback, he just he just is.
Speaker 1: But they've got to they've got to show that. You know,
Speaker 1: the defense is going to have to help him as well.
Speaker 1: I think at the well, it sucks that Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: has now hurt for a few weeks. But the some
Speaker 1: the sum of all the parts, I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey's the best tight end in the league. Tyree Hill,
Speaker 1: I mean, did you see did you see him yesterday?
Speaker 1: He does it every week. Yeah, But I think if
Speaker 1: everybody sum of all the parts is on Dallas, I'll
Speaker 1: put it up there against Kansas City all day. They Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't have something as freaky special as Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: but I mean they got three guys that are going
Speaker 1: to get open against almost anybody. And that's you're asking
Speaker 1: me this and that. I think that's why I was
Speaker 1: so excited on Friday is they played unbalanced football quote
Speaker 1: unquote in the traditional way. I would still argue again,
Speaker 1: you can create hidden rushing yards, like a third of
Speaker 1: Dack's pass attempts were basically rushes when you think about
Speaker 1: screens and stuff like that. But they were as unbalanced
Speaker 1: as we've seen them in forever, and they came right
Speaker 1: down to the wire against one of the best defenses
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That and that is incredibly impressive to
Speaker 1: me that by the third quarter Tampa Bay had to
Speaker 1: know exactly what was coming and they still couldn't stop
Speaker 1: him reliably. Obviously, Dallas lost the game. We get that,
Speaker 1: but they were almost fifty percent on third downs. They
Speaker 1: scored twenty nine points the red zone. Not good enough.
Speaker 1: That's got to be better. But that is such an
Speaker 1: encouraging thing to see against such a stout defense, in
Speaker 1: my opinion. But let me let me play devil's advocate here,
Speaker 1: because when you look at a team where they got
Speaker 1: four takeaways, they won the turnover a battle by plus three.
Speaker 1: They also one time of possession by huge amount. I
Speaker 1: think it was thirty four twenty seven to twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty three. Typically, when you see a game with those
Speaker 1: two stats like that, you should win. You should win,
Speaker 1: You should so are you? I know we all came
Speaker 1: out of that game on Friday Field and like, okay, man,
Speaker 1: they really played some good football against the Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: But when you look at those kind of numbers, it
Speaker 1: makes you say they really should have won that game
Speaker 1: going away. You would think when you see those numbers
Speaker 1: like that, are you at all concerned about the fact
Speaker 1: that they may have put out their very best game
Speaker 1: and that wasn't enough. That's the Cleveland Browns how they
Speaker 1: feel today. But I mean the Cleveland yeah talking about
Speaker 1: are probably one of the best three teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then the brown You know, you could tell if
Speaker 1: you watch that Chiefs Browns game, that was the Browns
Speaker 1: were like, we are here to make a statement. This
Speaker 1: is the team we know we've got to beat. From
Speaker 1: the very beginning, they were like, I mean, they got
Speaker 1: went for two on the first possession, they were throwing
Speaker 1: haymaker after haymaker. They lost it. Yeah, and it sucks.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, this is a tough league. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: those two teams, those are the top two teams. They
Speaker 1: played in the super Bowl. And so you know, for
Speaker 1: us to sit here in Week two and say, okay,
Speaker 1: well doesn't look like the Cowboys are better than the
Speaker 1: super Bowl champs right now? Well, okay, we didn't need
Speaker 1: a game to see that. We didn't think that was
Speaker 1: the case. You know, but you know, you have to
Speaker 1: bounce back. You have to bounce back and show it here.
Speaker 1: I've said it numerous years and I'll say it again.
Speaker 1: That's why week two is so important. You've got to
Speaker 1: go out there. You've got to establish yourself. You can't
Speaker 1: be in that OZ and two hole. And if you
Speaker 1: look at what they're doing on social media. The Chargers,
Speaker 1: you don't want to get you don't want to take
Speaker 1: an l to them and what they've got working in
Speaker 1: over there, because if they're gonna do that to Washington,
Speaker 1: just think what they'll do to the Cowboys. They their
Speaker 1: social team was probably brainstorming for our game in June.
Speaker 1: M guessing they got some options. That's you're so right
Speaker 1: even know what I'm talking about what they did, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm seeing some of those stuff they I mean,
Speaker 1: they know, yeah, as you said that, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go look at it, but I can pretty
Speaker 1: much guess that they did something pretty oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was the Washington It's funny because in the
Speaker 1: big picture, well, I mean, they can afford to start
Speaker 1: O in two. Honestly, in my opinion, when you look
Speaker 1: at you know, after that, you go Eagles, Panthers, Giants,
Speaker 1: Patriots like those are all flawed teams. You do obviously,
Speaker 1: you need to win as many games as you can,
Speaker 1: but they could climb out of O and two in
Speaker 1: my opinion. But it's just it's just it's about consistency,
Speaker 1: and that has been probably the most maddening thing about
Speaker 1: this team for the entire time that I've covered it
Speaker 1: is they're schizophrenic. You never know what you're gonna get,
Speaker 1: and it would be it would be so cowboys for
Speaker 1: them to go out there against you know, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers are good team. Don't get me like this is
Speaker 1: this is they are a very good team. This is
Speaker 1: not a gimmey game. That's not what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: we feel great about how they played against Tampa. It
Speaker 1: would be very cowboys for them to play like crap.
Speaker 1: I don't just mean lose, I mean play like crap
Speaker 1: against LA And I hope that doesn't happen, but you
Speaker 1: can't say it would surprise you. You You look at the
Speaker 1: defense and I talked about the four takeaways. They also
Speaker 1: stopped the run, which is another thing that you put
Speaker 1: in their category as far as something that that seems
Speaker 1: to be an improvement. The passing game, though they the
Speaker 1: defense had some some issues. Obviously, again you're talking about
Speaker 1: one of the top three maybe passing offenses in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That all being said, how concerned are you with what
Speaker 1: they gave up in the passing game against the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. I mean concerning because we knew that the secondary,
Speaker 1: especially the cornerback position is not one of the strengths
Speaker 1: um Tampa Bay obviously with a great receiving corps and
Speaker 1: the best quarterback to play. So yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was not a favorable matchup. They once they won
Speaker 1: their sheriff times, but I mean they were beaten like
Speaker 1: like they expected. I mean, like we expected that to be.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to sit there and say
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown needs to be bench I mean number one
Speaker 1: for who I mean. And then well, that is the question.
Speaker 1: Like there are a lot of fans out there, and
Speaker 1: again I'm not saying that this is the right answer,
Speaker 1: but there are fans out there. They are like, you
Speaker 1: invested in a second round and a third round pick.
Speaker 1: The second round is not healthy. I got that. But Kelvin,
Speaker 1: Joseph Nashean Wright, those are guys you invested second and
Speaker 1: third round picks in. Should you be at least putting
Speaker 1: them out there and letting them start to learn? Is
Speaker 1: that better than what you got right now from Anthony Brown?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. It isn't. It isn't better. I mean, Trayvon
Speaker 1: digs it, I get it. He had to learn on
Speaker 1: the flight. He was the best by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the best option. I don't think Nishan Wright
Speaker 1: is ready for that. Anthony Brown is a solid player.
Speaker 1: He just he is. He's a solid corner that he's virtual,
Speaker 1: he can kind of go inside outside. No one's thinking
Speaker 1: he's gonna, you know, wondering when he's going in the
Speaker 1: Ring of honor. No one's wondering about that. He's not
Speaker 1: going to be a Pro Bowl player. That's not what
Speaker 1: he is. He's he's a solid guy. And to assume
Speaker 1: that there's just so many guys that are better on
Speaker 1: the street or better on this team is just not here.
Speaker 1: Maybe Joseph when he gets healthy, your best was healthy,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be playing over Anthony Brown. He hasn't shown that.
Speaker 1: And that's I agree with everything you just said about Ab.
Speaker 1: The brutal reality is he's also you know, he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna get circled by the opposing offense and game plan meetings.
Speaker 1: They're like, this is a matchup that we feel good about.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. I mean, yeah, would be
Speaker 1: circled twice. That's we did this in the preseason. Everybody
Speaker 1: was clamoring for Kelvin and he went and he had
Speaker 1: like an awful first series against Arizona and he got
Speaker 1: he got a he got flagged and then he got
Speaker 1: bombed on like the next play. Nashan Right, I'm so
Speaker 1: impressed with what he's done. I don't I don't see
Speaker 1: that going well, especially a long strider like him going
Speaker 1: against somebody like Antonio Brown. Come on, yeah, stop stop
Speaker 1: and it is what it is. I just I feel
Speaker 1: like I said it all through the spring, as soon
Speaker 1: as Horn and Certan went off the board. This is
Speaker 1: the reality that you were signing up for, is we're
Speaker 1: going to be in a holding pattern and our best,
Speaker 1: our best hope is that Kelvin Joseph, much like Treyvon
Speaker 1: Diggs last year, sort of starts putting it together as
Speaker 1: the season goes and maybe in the latter half of
Speaker 1: the year he can be a viable option. But to
Speaker 1: think that he ordn Sean Wright is going to come
Speaker 1: in and be better than somebody that's been in the
Speaker 1: league for five years right away, it's delusional. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but you have. The point is you got to give
Speaker 1: them time to get there. They may be long term
Speaker 1: better prospects, they're not there yet. I will say that.
Speaker 1: And on the flip side. I think something to feel
Speaker 1: good about. Treyvon Diggs played really really well. I and I,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully really I need game Pass to have
Speaker 1: all twenty two up this week. They say somebody reported,
Speaker 1: let me report yesterday. You say that, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much he traveled with Mike Evans. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was every snap, but he was on
Speaker 1: him a lot. And Mike Mike Evans did not have
Speaker 1: the jack, which you can say, well, yeah, why you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw up Mike Evans if Antonio Brown's always open,
Speaker 1: but not every team they play is gonna have three studs.
Speaker 1: You know, you get into some matchups with more normal
Speaker 1: receiving corps. Maybe it's not as gross as it looked
Speaker 1: on third starters have one really good one they do
Speaker 1: and he Mike Williams no Ena all okay, I thought
Speaker 1: you were being serious. I was like, well, Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: Williams I think led him yesterday. Did he not leave?
Speaker 1: Mike Williams is there, He's their first round pick. I
Speaker 1: think receiving he's good too. Yeah, yeah, I need college
Speaker 1: I need a college name for those guys like that.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. I feel like Mike Williams in the league,
Speaker 1: and I would have said, I do think the Chargers
Speaker 1: have the Chargers have two really And but the reason
Speaker 1: I kind of balked is because I do think Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen is probably the most criminally underrated player in the league.
Speaker 1: Like no buddy, nobody knows about Yeah. So also when
Speaker 1: you play in with the Chargers, like sometimes it's hard
Speaker 1: to get that kind of profile. I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: if it's Monday, if I can go the whole week
Speaker 1: with calling them just LA and Chargers like, it'll be
Speaker 1: a win. And on me too, because I've heard it
Speaker 1: last week. I've heard I've heard San Diego twice on
Speaker 1: our other shows. It's just I think I said it
Speaker 1: last week. I think I sit all right. We'll appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys joining us. We will be back tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: give you guys a big picture look around the NFL.
Speaker 1: See what's going on in the NFC East. That's pretty
Speaker 1: interesting coming off week one. We'll do all that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Until then. For Nick Eatman, Dave helm and I'm Derek Eagleton.
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