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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely

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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: It is Wednesday, November fifteenth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number seventy six. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: Live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: How's everybody doing this morning? Oh? Hey, that probably wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Not a good idea? No, probably not, probably not great? Good? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: ready for some everybody's doing pretty good here. Talking about

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, Yeah, you're ready? What have they done? Who

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Speaker 1: are they? Who are you? Oh? Still waiting on them

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Speaker 1: to lose tune a row. It's hard to lose tun

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Speaker 1: a row one. You did mention that? What about week

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Speaker 1: three or four? It always happens. Yeah, yeah, awesome. Saints

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine lost a couple in a row. Three,

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Speaker 1: three to be exact, three to be exactly a fan

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Speaker 1: back then, Oh my god. Yeah, hardcore. Yeah he's still

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Speaker 1: he's kind of like, oh he is, yeah, but trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out what to do about this seventh game

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Speaker 1: winning streak. I'm not lying to you. I don't know

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Speaker 1: anything about it other than that Alvin Kamara is having

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Speaker 1: a good season. And when you liked it anyway from

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Speaker 1: the draft show, right, I did that. I grew up

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Speaker 1: a Saints fan, you know, I like the Saints. I

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Speaker 1: have no time to watch or care about them, Like,

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Speaker 1: I just don't you pull out your fandom Mint Lsu

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Speaker 1: with this. Yeah, I mean the NFL's used to be

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Speaker 1: a big Kansas Jayhawk basketball. I don't have time for

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Speaker 1: that either. I literally I texted Kelsey Charles last night

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Speaker 1: and I was like, we hung out today that like

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Speaker 1: Ku had this huge game again Kentucky last night. Didn't

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Speaker 1: even loss my mind until I turned on the TV

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Speaker 1: while I was watching Eagles tape and I was like ah,

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Speaker 1: and didn't have to yance to finish watching. I went

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Speaker 1: to bed when there was still like three minutes left, like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. You just Jay Cutler the whole game.

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Speaker 1: I'll have time for anything else right now. Man. I

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Speaker 1: got I got like somebody was asking me last night,

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Speaker 1: and they were like, well, if we need a linebacker

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Speaker 1: in the draft, who were some ones that you like?

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know. Man like LS she

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Speaker 1: was the only team that I like watch. I'll get

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Speaker 1: into all that when the season's over. I don't. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that's the point maybe a little early. Oh well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe before the season you get You get

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Speaker 1: my point though, like like, I'm not the busiest person

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Speaker 1: my time that I don't I'm not gonna go watch

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Speaker 1: Saints highlights in my in my spare time, but that way, Amber,

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Speaker 1: how's it going this morning? Oh well, very well, thanks

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Speaker 1: for asking, Derek. Good good for a life, happy day.

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Speaker 1: I just heard life right, just life, a happy life.

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Speaker 1: Got it perfectly. I want it, I say, sarcastic in

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Speaker 1: Spanish folder slap that I was gonna say, is it really?

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say sarcastic, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: don't be a smart right, don't be a smart ass

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Speaker 1: to co that's probably how you say in Spanish. See,

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Speaker 1: got it all right, Let's move on, let's talk to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: This is what you wanted. You wanted this stuff now tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be like, welcome to up forty four the

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Speaker 1: Eagles defense. There is no good way to open this show.

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Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. There isn't Let's just

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Speaker 1: you just jump right in and just start talking football. Right,

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Speaker 1: That's fine. Let's that's what the fans want. I guarantee you.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Philadelphia Eagles offense. Dave, you have

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Speaker 1: a scouting report for us, go football? Yeah, um, this

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Speaker 1: just go one one. They're They're good. They're good. They're good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they are. But honestly, you know what, they remind

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Speaker 1: He did that against Denver where he takes it, fakes

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Speaker 1: What he's saying, he's a much more accurate past and

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Speaker 1: throws a lot better than him. That's scary, I would argue,

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Speaker 1: have it. Yeah, Panthers Week next year or playoffs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: was out of the lineup. Is it that far? Is

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Speaker 1: it that much? Do you think that's just kind of

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Speaker 1: a narrative gone crazy? It's different for me because I

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Speaker 1: mean it's it's a quarterback league. You touch the ball

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Speaker 1: on every play like usually you're not going to be

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Speaker 1: as good if your quarterback's not in there, unless you

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Speaker 1: luck into a Dak Prescott. That's just the nature of it,

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Speaker 1: you know. But a line like a defender, I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many times does a defender touch the football in

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Speaker 1: his career? Probably less than a quarterback does in an

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Speaker 1: average game. But um, but I've never seen a drop off,

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Speaker 1: right if any player though more than we saw last

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Speaker 1: week with Tyron Smith. Well there is that so mean

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Speaker 1: that they just couldn't do anything, They couldn't function at all.

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Speaker 1: Well that probably you guys are probably seeing the same thing.

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Speaker 1: It's really about the difference between the starting guy and

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Speaker 1: the backup guy. And then in this league, there aren't

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Speaker 1: enough quarterbacks to even go around, let alone getting to

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Speaker 1: a second level of quarterbacks where the drop off from

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Speaker 1: your starter to your backup is good enough quality for

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Speaker 1: you to win. So it's kind of the same thing.

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Speaker 1: You look at the left tackle last week. That's about

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Speaker 1: the difference between Tyron Smith and Chaz Green. It's pretty big.

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Speaker 1: That's we learned. Let even like even last year. You mean,

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Speaker 1: and I know what have you done for me lately,

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Speaker 1: But like we saw this team function and win without

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Speaker 1: Tyron Smith, you know, like they but other than twenty

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Speaker 1: fourteen when Rolando McLean was here and playing at a

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Speaker 1: pretty good level in the middle, Like they just look

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Speaker 1: incompetent when Sean's not out there. I mean, so, do

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Speaker 1: you think all purpose yards for ty Gurley one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty rushing yards or whatever it was from Aaron Jones,

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Speaker 1: Like that's just crazy compared to what they're capable of

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Speaker 1: doing when he's in there. So when we when we

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Speaker 1: and this is going to switch the conversation a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but when you say that we saw them play last year,

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Speaker 1: okay without Tyren Smith, do you think that maybe the

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Speaker 1: difference here is would you put it more on than

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Speaker 1: not having a Ron Leri at guard or do you

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Speaker 1: put it more on if you had Zeke last last

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Speaker 1: week that maybe you would have been better in the

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Speaker 1: running game. Oh yeah, you would have been way better

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Speaker 1: with Zeke last week. And so it doesn't matter as

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Speaker 1: so you're not in a situation where you expose Chaz

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Speaker 1: as much. Maybe, but I mean, like it was like

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Speaker 1: it was, he was beaten so badly that I have

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Speaker 1: a hard time even saying that. You know, like, again,

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Speaker 1: we don't need to hash it out all over again.

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Speaker 1: But you're just talking about speed rushes where like he

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Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything special, you know, like it was ridiculous

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Speaker 1: that they didn't run the ball at him. That That's

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Speaker 1: what I don't understand. Dwight Freeney was a really good

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Speaker 1: rusher back in the day. He couldn't stop the run

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Speaker 1: at all because he didn't want to. They just gassed

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Speaker 1: him right up the middle there, I mean, right right

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Speaker 1: where the space that he would leave. And I just

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Speaker 1: don't understand why they didn't attack that more. He's trying

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Speaker 1: to get up the field and beats Chaz Green. That

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Speaker 1: creates a huge lane, especially when it's this wide nine.

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Speaker 1: They I thought they should have exposed that more and

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Speaker 1: run right at him. I want to say that happened

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Speaker 1: a couple times and their linebacker was a forty five

487
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Speaker 1: bon Jones. Yeah, snuffed it out like pretty quickly on

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Speaker 1: both the players that I think. I remember when they

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Speaker 1: tried to do that, and so I don't know that

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Speaker 1: they didn't do it as much as he just didn't

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Speaker 1: work on it. Seems like a lot of the runs

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Speaker 1: to the right, right, right right side everything. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I could always be wrong, and hopefully Tyron

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Speaker 1: Smith plays in this game. Although I think there's an

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Speaker 1: argument to be made, and Nick brought it up, there's

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Speaker 1: an argument to be made that just deal with it

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Speaker 1: and have Tying back for Thanksgiving and hopefully he really

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Speaker 1: feels better as opposed to rushing it. Regardless, let's say

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Speaker 1: Tyrn doesn't play in this game, I still, like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it will be good, but I just have

501
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Speaker 1: this strange sense that it won't be that awful again.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like that is a okay, that is a wreck,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not you get worse than that. You can't.

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Speaker 1: That's the point. You literally cannot in an NFL game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, four guys have ever done that before? You

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Speaker 1: actually cannot do worse than that. So disagree. Now you

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Speaker 1: think what eight? I mean, like, what do you when

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Speaker 1: that guy runs onto the field and he goes like

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Speaker 1: that to the to the ambulance that comes over there

510
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Speaker 1: to get your quarterback, who's you have to pick up? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that could get I'm not talking about the results of

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about like you literally there's only a handful

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Speaker 1: of instances where a tackle performed that badly in the

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Speaker 1: history of this league. That's my problem is that the bars.

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Speaker 1: You know I always talk about expectations is I don't

516
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Speaker 1: want to be sitting in the press box and filling

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Speaker 1: like you like gave about two and a half sacks.

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Speaker 1: I mean only our two sacks three sacks? Don't he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He didn't really have that bad of a game. It's

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Speaker 1: just three. That's where the bar is. I'll gladly take

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Speaker 1: two and a half yesterday or Sunday. But that's the problem, Like, well,

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Speaker 1: what do you want to do about it? I mean,

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Speaker 1: move people, move people around, That's what I would do.

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Speaker 1: I would try something else. I just you've already seen it.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to see it again and let a

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Speaker 1: guy hurt. Honestly, I don't know that I have to

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Speaker 1: put your hand on the stove to know it's hot.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But I don't know that I've move

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Speaker 1: people around as much as I say, okay, going into

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Speaker 1: this game, how do you help him? Because I don't

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Speaker 1: think Byron Bell from what we saw, I don't think

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Speaker 1: Byron Bell is necessarily an improvement. I think you're probably

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Speaker 1: going to get about the same level of play. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if in this kind of week I want

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Speaker 1: to move my guard over to tackle. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I want to take my right tackle. I think

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Speaker 1: it's getting better and playing pretty good right now over

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Speaker 1: to left tackle. So I think you're kind of stuck

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Speaker 1: with what you have, and if Tyron's not going to play,

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Speaker 1: then you go into this game saying, what all the

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Speaker 1: ways that we can give him help. Let's line up

542
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Speaker 1: a tight end over there, Let's chip him when we can,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm thinking, every down, if I need to, if

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Speaker 1: it gets to that point, every down, how can I

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Speaker 1: give him help? And I will verify, I mean I will,

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Speaker 1: I will do different things to give him help. But

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Speaker 1: that I think you're better option than anything else you got.

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Speaker 1: Right now, jumbo snap and just put Looney out there

549
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: with gilt right but he is now you're you're tight in.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even get to finish that thought, which is okay.

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Speaker 1: Nick disagrees with me. That's fine. I at least have

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Speaker 1: some type of optimism that it won't be that bad

553
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,679
Speaker 1: for the tackles I have. We have a large sample

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Speaker 1: size of proof that suggests that without Sean Lee it

555
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: won't be any better for the defense. I mean that

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Speaker 1: that's just the fact that's just a fact. I mean,

557
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: every time he hasn't been out there this year has

558
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,959
Speaker 1: not been because they've had Jalen out there for an

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Speaker 1: extended amount of time. And if they were to say,

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Speaker 1: sleck we talked about yesterday, either with Durant or with

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Speaker 1: marsh Lillard or both use them more and still limit

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Speaker 1: the amount of plays that they give to Jalen Smith.

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll see, because I can't fathom how they

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Speaker 1: could justify doing that to Jalen again having seen what

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Speaker 1: we saw in the first half of the season. Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, Justin, Justin Durant has his own

567
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,959
Speaker 1: limit limitations. He's not going to be Patrick Willis out there.

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Speaker 1: But you, I mean, you know what's going to happen

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Speaker 1: when you put him in that situation. I hope they

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Speaker 1: don't do that again. Okay, all right, Nick, what's your

571
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Speaker 1: one thing, one thing you've seen from this offense that

572
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Speaker 1: scares you most? Well? I just I kind of go

573
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Speaker 1: back to what we've seen the last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: and I think we saw it in the last game

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Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen. Zach Ertz is a problem. Now. He

576
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Speaker 1: did miss last week's game because of an injury, they're

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Speaker 1: coming off a bye week. If he plays this game.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought last year Carson Wentz kind of

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Speaker 1: used him as his security blanket a little bit as

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Speaker 1: he was trying to grow and get better, and those

581
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: guys kind of developed a pretty good core there, similar

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Speaker 1: to like I guess, kind of you know, Romo and

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Speaker 1: Witten type of thing. So now as they've gotten weapons

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Speaker 1: around him, he's even more of a weapon this year.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you just see last week. You see

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Speaker 1: Austin Hooper making plays there and making some of those

587
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Speaker 1: guys look silly. I just think covering the tight end

588
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: has always been an issue. It's not going to get

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Speaker 1: better if Sean Lee's not out there, just because of

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Speaker 1: all the over compensation they'll have to do. I think

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00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: that could be a problem all day long. It's just

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Speaker 1: trying to how to figure out zach Ertz because he

593
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: just moves the chains. He's like, he's almost like a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver playing tight end. It was not to the

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Speaker 1: point of who they faced a couple of weeks ago.

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00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: I mean, Kelsey's not like that, but he's pretty close.

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Speaker 1: So to me, it's it's discovering the tight end because

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Speaker 1: that will just dictate all the other things, and before

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Speaker 1: you know what, Nelson Agilar is running fifty yards down

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Speaker 1: the field or something like that. So zach Ertz stopping

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Speaker 1: him is gonna be a problem. He does lead the

602
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: team in receptions, yards and touchdowns the Eagles. That is wow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he missed last week. So so here's the question,

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Speaker 1: you guys think this is a tougher matchup. I know

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Speaker 1: that their offenses. Their offenses are comparable when you look

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Speaker 1: at the rankings, but do you think this is an

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00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: easier or tougher matchup They're trying to match up with

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Speaker 1: the kansasy each I think this is a tougher matchup

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Speaker 1: because when you hit Alex Smith, he's gonna go down

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Speaker 1: pretty much if you hit him, and he's quick and

611
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: he can move around, but you can get him to

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Speaker 1: the ground. The problem with wins is that you can

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Speaker 1: just jump rodle on his back and hit him in

614
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: the waist and he's still gonna touchdowns and throws him.

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Speaker 1: He had one a few weeks ago against the red Skins.

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00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: I believe where his feet were were off the ground.

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00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: You know, he jumped and got hit at the same

618
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: time and threw a perfect pass to a running back.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember who caught it, but it was perfect play.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I think that was Clement. Actually, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we didn't touchdown. Yeah, it was a really great play.

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Speaker 1: I was like, this guy, I don't have to deal

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Speaker 1: with him for decade. I don't think the Eagles, uh,

624
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Speaker 1: I don't think their skill players scare me as much

625
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: as the Chiefs do. Really, I don't think so. I

626
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Speaker 1: mean they like, I agree with it. There's not a

627
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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill on this team. And I don't think Urtz

628
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Speaker 1: is on Kelsey's level. He's really good, don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 1: but I Kelsey's gronk, like in the in the matchup

630
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: problems he creates for you. So let me throw the

631
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Speaker 1: set you though, you look at the Kancy Chiefs and

632
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: you got three unique talents on their offense, and then

633
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Speaker 1: from there the drop off I think is much more significant. Yeah,

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00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: I would with the Eagles are deep breath right deep? Yeah?

635
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Speaker 1: And then I mean I don't know that. I don't

636
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Speaker 1: know that the combination of Jagien Lagarret Blunt is definitely

637
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: better than Kareem Hunt. They probably are just better in

638
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: savvy and all. But regardless, however, you feel about that

639
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: fact that Sean Lee's not probably not there scares me

640
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot more because of that. And

641
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: you gotta handle two different types of backs. I think, well,

642
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: really three different types, maybe even four of that stuff,

643
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: like they're gonna they're all gonna get out there. Yeah,

644
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: they all do their own and that's we didn't. I

645
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: went I went back and watched their game against the

646
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: Chiefs because it's the only team that beat them. So

647
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: I was like, what did the germanically, what did the

648
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: Chiefs do well? Which, first, they had sproles back then,

649
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: so they're basically trying to compensate for not having that.

650
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: But if you were curious what the Chiefs did, yeah,

651
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: nothing like the Eagles had four hundred and six yards

652
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: of offense in that game. They threw for three thirty

653
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: three and ran for one oh six. The big things

654
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: that I came up with, they scored twenty points. The

655
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs sacked them six times. I think that's probably pretty

656
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: big they were. The Eagles were minus two in turnovers

657
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: and they missed a field goal, so they left as

658
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: many as ten points on the field. But that doesn't

659
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 1: they had to have some really, they must not have

660
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: scored much when they got to the red zone if

661
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: they had four hundred plus yards and only came away

662
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: with twenty points in this the field goal that the

663
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: interception did not come in the red zone though, but

664
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: they missed a field goal towards the end of the

665
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: first half, and then the pick came in the fourth

666
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,959
Speaker 1: quarter and set up a Chief's touchdown. But now they

667
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: just they had forty yards. You would assume they're at

668
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: least in mid twenties, right, I mean they scored a

669
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: typical situation for twenty points. Yeah, I mean no, it's

670
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: it's a wonky stat line when you think about it. Yeah,

671
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean I went into it thinking like, oh,

672
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: they must have they must have turned the ball over

673
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: five times in this game or something. Not really like,

674
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean, all credit to Kansas City for winning, but

675
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: it looks like the Eagles just kind of shot themselves

676
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: in the photo. I think when you take six sacks,

677
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, Zack to give you a negative seven, negative

678
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: nine out of sporting position. Yeah, so even though you

679
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: got those yards, you have those negatives that that kind

680
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: of affected that as well. There is so there is

681
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: not a team that has like just shut them down,

682
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, that's their only loss, and they

683
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: still moved pretty effectively. All Right, we're gonna take some questions.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call. The numbers two one four eight

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Speaker 1: seven two twenty one oh two. Again it is two

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Speaker 1: one four eight seven two twenty one O two. We

687
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Speaker 1: have a call from Mike in Arizona. Mike, what up? Hey?

688
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: Happy hum day, my peoples. How you doing. I'm good,

689
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: I'm good, you know, licking the wounds. I just kind

690
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: of like a PSA for all of us cowboy fans

691
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: out there that were hanging off the ledge. Listen to

692
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: hanging with the boys. The first hour they knew in

693
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: preachers and it's all about the next week. We got

694
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: coaches in place, we got players in play. See Bobo

695
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: those It's ready to go. It's the Eagles Week is

696
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: gonna be hectic, competitive, and I'm excited. My question to

697
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: you guys, where's Doug Free? Is he like on a

698
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: recliner eating bomb bombs or something? Is he not like

699
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: an option? And Judge Taylor, if you want to be

700
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: repartable damage, this is the irrepartable damage. Poor Dak Prescott.

701
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: I love your show. Thank you guys. Happy holidays because

702
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: they're coming fast. Baby, thanks, brother, appreciate it. That guy

703
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: just lifted my mood. Like it's good. Like yeah, you know,

704
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of money at steak and all sorts

705
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: of other stuff, but like it's just it's just football,

706
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, like it's should be fun, right, Okay, But

707
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: Doug Free, you know, he's got to be sitting back

708
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: thinking if Doug Free is in game shape, I would

709
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,959
Speaker 1: be stunned. No, I'm saying he's got to be sitting

710
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: back thinking, Man, they always appreciate you after. It's like

711
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,959
Speaker 1: he was never like who would have ever been saying

712
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 1: go find Like people were so happy to let him walk.

713
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: I won't. People were asking that for like five years. Right,

714
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: where's Doug Free? He starts at right tack plays for

715
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: the million, Like right tackle is not this team's problem. No,

716
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: it's not. But you're just looking for tackles a No.

717
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: I know. Well, but I guess my point is, like,

718
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: all right, somebody's still got to play the left side.

719
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,479
Speaker 1: If Tyron's like, you're gonna put Dug out there, because

720
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,479
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's gonna go. Probably you're gonna

721
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: move lyl like it. It's not like that would be

722
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: a cure all in my opinion. But he's out hunting somewhere, yes,

723
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: or watching NASCAR. He will not be coming back to

724
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: the Cowboys anytime soon. It was not something else he said.

725
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: I thought we should kind of discuss this is wable harm.

726
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 1: Oh that's what it was. Good. So if you want

727
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: me to rant for a second, yes, just this was

728
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: something I said on Twitter last night, like the numb

729
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, I distinctly remember, and I think it kind

730
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: of it started this joke in twenty fifteen, like Brian

731
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: brought us famously started watching draft tape the day after

732
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: the Panthers game on Thanksgiving. I was like, all right,

733
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: that's it. They're three and whatever, they're three and ten

734
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 1: or whatever their record was. It's time to start watching

735
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: draft tape. And that's that's fine. The number of people

736
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: who are behaving that way on November fifteenth with a

737
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: five and four record is insane to me, Like, and

738
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: I get it. We talked about it yesterday. Like the

739
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: playoff picture looks crowded. This team has its shortcomings. These

740
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: injured players being out, it's gonna make it tough. Like

741
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you that they're going to make the playoffs,

742
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: but like to be acting like we need to jump

743
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: into draft talk right now when the team has a

744
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: winning record at the midpoint of the season is a

745
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: little insane to me. And it's I said this last night,

746
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: it's insulting to how bad twenty fifteen was that you're

747
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: comparing this to that, you know, like we were the

748
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: Cowboys were basically mathematically eliminated by this point that year,

749
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: Like it would have taken a miracle win streak of

750
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: seven games with Tony Romo, which granted, some people actually

751
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: thought that was possible. I don't know why, but it's

752
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: set it. It's a completely different situation from this, like

753
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: this is what the average NFL season looks like, you know. Like,

754
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: but the problem is the problem is right or wrong?

755
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: And I agree with you this, it's definitely premature, but

756
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: right or wrong. I think the way they lost last

757
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: week and the guys that are out and the reasons

758
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: that they're out and how long they're projected to be

759
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: out absolutely is what has has I think a lot

760
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: of fans saying the arrow is pointing down, like you

761
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: don't know, even when Tyring comes back, he's still got

762
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: a back problem. And he's still got a groin problem.

763
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: That doesn't help you feel good. Why would you be

764
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: excited about the draft? Then? I never understood that, Like,

765
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: let's talk about the draft, then let's talk about of

766
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: what because it's the next That's the only reason is

767
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: because it's getten. It's just because it's the next. I mean,

768
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: I mean that's one way. Look as great as they

769
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: have been soccer or more Chad's Green, what about more

770
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. It's not they just sucked in the draft. No, No,

771
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: they haven't sucked in the but they haven't been that.

772
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: They haven't been like just perfect either. I mean they hit,

773
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 1: they that's the draft. Draft, that's the draft. The draft

774
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: is not going to be perfect. I'm gonna do some

775
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: real quick mass Oh. I just I mean every draft

776
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: is a chance to turn over fifteen to twenty percent

777
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: of your roster and you never know where you will

778
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: or won't hit. It's exciting. Well, I think what I'm

779
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: trying to say is you get sixteen of these games? Yeah,

780
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: like I enjoy them all. Yes, yes, And and that's

781
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: why you'll never hear me say meaningless game ever ever,

782
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: even when it was twenty fifteen. Note go back to

783
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 1: the five and eleven years. You sure mean not meaningless,

784
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: not meaningless games at December game? Was it a December

785
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: in Tennessee? That was fun? It was I had a

786
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: good time. Yeah, all right that Christmas waking up Christmas

787
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: Day and in with a four and what five? Yea

788
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: playing Anthony quarterback? Yes, because I know that's what you do.

789
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: I get it. And that's for people that love football.

790
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 1: We love football. I'm not sure everybody out there loves

791
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: football like that. I don't. Maybe it's just there. It's

792
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 1: just the little trendy way of saying, well, the season's

793
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: over whatever, and maybe maybe it is. But still, I mean,

794
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that's too early. I mean, I think

795
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: draft talk really shouldn't even start until late January. Figure

796
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: out who's gonna be in the draft, you know, figure

797
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 1: out who's gonna declare and all that kind of stuff.

798
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,959
Speaker 1: And yeah, everybody wants it. We've already had a draft show,

799
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and people loved people loved it. Have a

800
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: problem with that, and that's what I was like. I

801
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: love talk, I'll talk draft anytime, but it's just hollow,

802
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. It's hollow and it's not hollow

803
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: to like look and be like, okay, this it is this,

804
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: this kid from George is having a great season. We

805
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: need a linebacker, Like what's wrong with that? Yeah, but

806
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: it might be hollow for you. But that's the thing.

807
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 1: It depends on what you what if you're what I'm saying,

808
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: these guys, big boards, these mock drafts, you know, I

809
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,959
Speaker 1: mean every once in a while, Okay, they hit some early,

810
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: but it's that's manufactured bs though, Like I don't care

811
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: about big boards. I just like I like talking about

812
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: what's coming up. What like, like you can look at

813
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: this team, you can't hit it to one hundred percent

814
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: because of free agency and stuff like that, but like,

815
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: you know what this team's gonna need in the draft.

816
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: You know who will probably be in the draft, and like,

817
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with it. And let's not forget of

818
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: about that. Let's not forget this is all entertainment. So

819
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: if it entertains somebody to think right now, even though

820
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: they know I'm basing it on information that's not complete,

821
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: to start projecting what the draft's gonna look like, and

822
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: that's entertainment for someone. It's entertainment. That's the who point.

823
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 1: It's just entertainment. Okay, that's what I'm saying, But I

824
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: still call it hollow for you, maybe not for somebody else.

825
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: Somebody else, it's fun. If you're trying to figure out

826
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: what the order of the top ten picks is going

827
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: to be, that's hollow. That's a waste of time. But

828
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: to like start trying to get an idea of what

829
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: to expect, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

830
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: But the fact that we've spent eight minutes on this

831
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: further approves my point, which honestly, I agree the arrow

832
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: is trending down, but you've played nine of sixteen gets

833
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of stuff left. And this I

834
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: tell Taylor Stern this all the time, And like you

835
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: got here in twenty fifteen when everything was terrible, and

836
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: then your second season everything was amazing. Like those are

837
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: both outliers in the NFL world. You know, like this

838
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: is what most NFL teams deal with on a year in,

839
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: year out basis, Like the league is designed for you

840
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: to be five and four and have question marks at

841
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: the halfway point. Like that's what football is. And you know,

842
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of football left and no reason at

843
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: all to think that you need to pack it in

844
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: right now, even if the odds look slim. I mean,

845
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: who the hell knows what could happen. Let's take our

846
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,560
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899
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902
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903
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904
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: I think if we can just move on to the

905
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906
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,680
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907
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,480
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909
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,200
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911
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,760
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Speaker 1: Call us two one four eight seven two twenty one

913
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,759
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914
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Let's get a question from Twitter. Do you

915
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: guys think that it was a bad idea to release

916
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: Emmett Cleary? Uh? No, I don't think it was a

917
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: bad idea. You want to talk about Chaz Green. I

918
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,439
Speaker 1: think hmmtt Cleary was right there in the same boat.

919
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 1: I think if you was he on this team, you'd

920
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: be looking at the same sort of player. He's a

921
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: player that I don't think is very good. So I

922
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: don't think it's a big loss. That's I mean, it's

923
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: the epitome of revisionist history. He's like, well, we let

924
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: that guy go. He's in Detroit right now. Like, No,

925
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: I mean no, like and you know what, he maybe

926
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: he would have done better than Chazz, because again, it's

927
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: hard to do worse than Chazz did. But no, Chazz

928
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: has been and was a better player than h McCleary,

929
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: and McCleary looked like a turnstyle most of the way

930
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: through training camp. And no, just no, I don't think

931
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: it was better. Just Okay, are the defensive problems that

932
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are having more because of due to Shaun

933
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: Lee's absence or more of what the safeties are doing?

934
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 1: Wait say that again? Or what the safeties? I think

935
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: it Shaan Lee? Yeah, I mean when when he's out

936
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: out of the game, they struggle a lot more in

937
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 1: the safety he's kind of been there, they don't help.

938
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: I mean because you're you asked this earlier, you said,

939
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: is it is it just Sean Lee? And I was like, no,

940
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean the safeties are struggling as well, but I

941
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 1: think it starts there. I mean, but when when Sean

942
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: Lee was in there, the defense as a whole played

943
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: really well, right, and the safeties are part of that. Yeah,

944
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: So that's where I get back to, Yes, the safety

945
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 1: you can say, I mean like in Denver and Arizona. Right,

946
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: I know, but I mean there are some plays when

947
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: Sean Lee is out there, like Washington and and you

948
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: know you're like worse Heath worst Byron Jones. I mean,

949
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: they they're not the best. We know this, we know this,

950
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: so yes, they'll be better with Heath, but even when

951
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: he's out there, they need some improvements. You're you're not

952
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: gonna say there's a safety, we draft the safety and

953
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: you're like, well, no, because we have Sean Lee's that

954
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: we're fine. I'm absolutely with you. I'm not saying that

955
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: they're great. What I'm saying is I think that this

956
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: whole defense has a whole different level when Sean Lee

957
00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: is out there than when they're not. And that's everybody.

958
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: That's the safeties, as the corners, that's everybody. When he's

959
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: not out there, it exposes a lot more of the

960
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: deficiencies on this defense. And that's not just the safeties,

961
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 1: as the linebackers, as the corners, great everybody make people

962
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: around him. There you go, right, that's exactly right. So

963
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: follow up question to that whole thing, how do you

964
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: make this defense better without Sean Lee there? Why can

965
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: the Cowboys possible in order to improve everyone else. You

966
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: guys want to talk draft like, I like, that's what

967
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 1: they have right now? Why do they do here? We

968
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: go full circle? That's what it kind of goes back.

969
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy to me that it just all seems

970
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: like it kind of falls apart without him, Like you

971
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: would think, you would think that there's a way around it. Um.

972
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, if Sean Lee's not going

973
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: to be there, the defensive line has to play at

974
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: a fantastic level, both in terms of getting to the

975
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: to the passer but also stopping the run, because again,

976
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: Sean Lee is that safety blanket that can mask a

977
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: lot of those types of mistakes. If your defensive line

978
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: is playing well, maybe you don't lean on your linebackers

979
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: so much. Number two like, like I love him to death,

980
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 1: you just can't. You can't put that strain on Jalen Smith.

981
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,040
Speaker 1: Like I want that, I want him to be ready

982
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: to take on that workload. But we just we have

983
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: nine games of evidence that he can't yet. Talk to

984
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: me again in twenty eighteen. But whether it's justin Durant,

985
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: justin March Lillard, Damian, whatever you want to do, Damian Wilson,

986
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: Kyle Wilber. That's for them to figure out. Maddie Reflus

987
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: knows his guys better than I do. But it's got

988
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: to be some combination that allows Jalen Smith to not

989
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: be on the field fifty or sixty plays. I would

990
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: imagine if Shaun Lee can't play Damien or not Damien,

991
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Anthony Hitchins would play Will. And like I said,

992
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: you put somebody else in at Mike. I get there's

993
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: an argument to be made that you just keep Hitch

994
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: at Mike and let them figure out Will. But Will

995
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: is such an important part of this defense that I

996
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: think it makes more sense to have the better player

997
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: playing there. So and then you just hope for the

998
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 1: best real I mean, other than that, I don't know

999
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: what you want me to say, Like there's not this

1000
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: magical reinforcement. Maybe they could have gotten a Varrol Bowman.

1001
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,959
Speaker 1: They never even had a chance to talk. Bowman wasn't

1002
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: coming here, he wasn't to So you know, you can

1003
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: throw Darrel Washington at me if you want to. That's

1004
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: not gonna happen either, and you just have to make do.

1005
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: And I mean, we don't have to talk about it

1006
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: right now, but linebackers something that they need to consider

1007
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 1: in the draft next year, not just the draft. I

1008
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: would consider free agency because I think for a role

1009
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: like that where you have this one guy that your

1010
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: defense is so dependent upon him and his history, not

1011
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: to say that he is. I don't like the word

1012
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: injury prone because it's just like it's you go, you

1013
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: talk a lot about this. It's kind of giving the

1014
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: impression like there's something that the player is doing to

1015
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: be injured, and it's not really that. So just saying

1016
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 1: his history is that he gets injured quite a bit.

1017
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: I think because of that, and because he's so important,

1018
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: getting a veteran that is a good veteran, not the greatest,

1019
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: but a good veteran that could steady the ship now

1020
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 1: protect you a little bit better. Even then, if you

1021
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: can't get the guy that you think you need to

1022
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: get in the draft, however you want to do it,

1023
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. I mean, Sean's great when he's healthy,

1024
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: but other than that, there isn't another linebacker on this

1025
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: team with a long term future here who is up

1026
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: to the task. And you hope that Jalen Smith becomes that,

1027
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: but you can't bank on it. Are you at this

1028
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: point thinking you gotta resign Hitchens? Because of that? You

1029
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: can never say you've got to do anything in regard

1030
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: to free agency, because all it takes is for somebody

1031
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: Atlanta decides that he's perfect for their scheme and he's

1032
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,840
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna offer him thirty five million or what

1033
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, all these guarantees, and then what are you

1034
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna do. You're gonna get into a bidding war. So

1035
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 1: you can't say that with certainty about almost anybody. But

1036
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 1: if you can get him back for the right price,

1037
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: I would absolutely love to have Anthony Hitchins back. All right,

1038
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: let's get a phone call. We have a call from

1039
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: Rob in Vegas. Rob. What up? Hey, guys up? Don't

1040
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: this season's far from over? Anybody given up? It's just stupid.

1041
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: I mean, you got seven games and one broken collarbone

1042
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: to you know, when you saw what happened to Rogers,

1043
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: So now you can't give up? Why not that bad?

1044
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: I just think when you when you take Zeke, who's

1045
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: your best player and your most exciting player, it just

1046
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: sucks the energy, especially as a fan. It just it

1047
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: just took the energy right off the team. You know,

1048
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: nobody else has that that vibe like he does. I

1049
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: know Dak does, but it's like he's a he's a quarterback.

1050
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: He's got too much, too many other things. I just

1051
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: think what happened this year is their contingency plan has

1052
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: been terrible. I mean they bringing Nolan Carroll to replace

1053
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: Brandon Carr, Well, that didn't work out. He's not even

1054
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: on the team. Uh. You you draft jalb Smith the

1055
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: backup league, Uh, that's not working out. And you got

1056
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: Chaz Green trying to back up Tyran Smith and that's

1057
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: not working. I mean it's just every move day made

1058
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: just hasn't worked this year. I mean, they could have

1059
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: even did something really proactive. They could have picked up

1060
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: a Jah with a fourth round pick. I mean we're

1061
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: talking about, you knew Zeke was probably gonna miss six games,

1062
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: and we already talked that they're gonna have to draft

1063
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: the running back next year because now with the suspension

1064
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: on Zeke, any misstep going forward, I think he's out

1065
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: the whole year. So we're talking about drafting and running

1066
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: back maybe third, fourth, fifth round. We could have got

1067
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: a j He for the fourth round. I think he's

1068
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: better than McFadden. Or God keep in my name. But

1069
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: I don't even think those the backup running backs are

1070
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: gonna be on this team next year. So I just

1071
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 1: think the Zeke just sucked the energy out. I think

1072
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: it took a week. I mean last week, it just

1073
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: it just it hit them. I think this week they'll

1074
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: be better. Now. I don't know if it's gonna they're

1075
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 1: gonna feel better enough to win this game because it

1076
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,000
Speaker 1: seems like everything in Philadelphia is good that right now

1077
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: we're bad. But who knows. But you can't give up.

1078
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: Thanks all right, thanks to the call. We appreciate him. Um.

1079
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 1: I will ask this question, do you think that that

1080
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,240
Speaker 1: was Is that a fair criticism that maybe they should

1081
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: have been looking for a better running back option when

1082
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: they kind of started to see the riding on the

1083
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: wall with the Zeke case like a gie where they

1084
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: could have would you have given up a fourth round

1085
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: pick four say, and a gie caveat option for you

1086
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,959
Speaker 1: quick caveat? Which is why it's important to know these things.

1087
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: I loved Jagi coming out of the draft. I wanted

1088
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: them to draft him before Zeke. It was even in

1089
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: anybody's radar. They didn't. They were scared by his medical

1090
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 1: they didn't like his knee, and a lot of teams

1091
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: didn't like I said, he was a bulldozer, do everything

1092
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: running back for Boise State who fell to the fifth round.

1093
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: So if they didn't like him, if they didn't like

1094
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: his knee enough to draft him, I can't imagine that

1095
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: they wanted anything to do with him after he put

1096
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: two or three hundred carries on him. But is that

1097
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: not a little bit different from the standpoint of you

1098
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 1: were looking for him to come in and play a

1099
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: specific role while Zeke is out and then going say,

1100
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: oh what he would be a backup to a guy

1101
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: that you expect to play be out there the majority

1102
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 1: of the time. You're saying two years into Stephen Jackson's career,

1103
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have kind of reconsidered that. I just I mean,

1104
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: how many two hundred yard games did Jagi you need

1105
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: to have in Miami to be like, well, I mean

1106
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,880
Speaker 1: same with Ron Leary. And I understand I understand that

1107
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: that Ron Leary was a seventh round pick. I mean,

1108
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, undrafted free agent. But you know, Denver just

1109
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: still looked at it like, all right, well, we're gonna,

1110
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, he's proven that he can play

1111
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,399
Speaker 1: for it, So I know that I know what you're

1112
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 1: saying long term, but I to answer your question, yeah,

1113
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: I think they should have done a better job with that.

1114
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean, just just keeping these two guys on here,

1115
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: especially one of them that you don't like. Obviously, you

1116
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: know they don't like McFadden. I don't know why they're

1117
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: keeping him. They don't go for a younger guy. And

1118
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: Rob is right, and when he says that those two

1119
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: guys are probably not going to be here next year,

1120
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna they would. Rod Smith will probably be here.

1121
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: That's why they're giving him the carries. But I don't

1122
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: think he's really the guy here. I think Rod Smith

1123
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: is always going to be your second. Well we know

1124
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 1: the guy is here going forward, so maybe that feels

1125
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: the role that you want Rod to play as the

1126
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: second guy, right, Yeah, but you should be scared to

1127
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: death because of I mean, he's you think there's more coming, like,

1128
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't, I don't know. I don't

1129
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: know if there's more coming. I don't know if there's

1130
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: more coming. But I mean, he hasn't shown yet that

1131
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: he can mature from this. He doesn't get the benefit

1132
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 1: of the doubt as far as I'm concerring. Yeah, I

1133
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: wrote about that last week, like you need to be

1134
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: approaching this as though it's something you'll have to deal

1135
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: with in the future, and just in terms of being

1136
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: smart and covering your bases. And even if he had

1137
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: never done anything off the field, not one issue. Okay,

1138
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: he's NFL Man of the Year, You're still gonna be

1139
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: thinking how much are we going to invest in this

1140
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: guy after this because he's still putting a lot of

1141
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: carries on his body and he's gonna enter his third

1142
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: year and all that. So it's if not this year's draft,

1143
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: that next year's draft you would definitely start looking at

1144
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: running back Like, well, but does that does that change

1145
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: now that he's going to actually have a season where

1146
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: for six weeks he didn't put anywhere into that changes?

1147
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,839
Speaker 1: Does that change that next contract situation where you think,

1148
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we are willing to give a running

1149
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: back a second contract because of that? Wow, I'm overall

1150
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,720
Speaker 1: see what he does. I think there's some good points

1151
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: to be made there and some that I disagree with,

1152
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: like the contingency plans don't look good. But I mean,

1153
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: how much of that is hindsight. How much of that

1154
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: should have been better foresight? Maybe your linebacker situation maybe

1155
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: should have been better foresight because you're and maybe he

1156
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,959
Speaker 1: becomes a great player, but you're hoping with Jalen Smith,

1157
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, just like kind of like your safeties, you're

1158
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: hoping Jeff Heath can take a step forward instead of

1159
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 1: covering your basis offensive line. Sorry for the millionth time

1160
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: in a row, but what had we seen from Chaz

1161
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: Green that we shouldn't have thought he could hand that?

1162
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: You know? I mean, he looked good in every opportunity

1163
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: that he got. He was injury prone, but his problems

1164
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,319
Speaker 1: weren't when he played, you know, and he was Sorry, Nick,

1165
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: a highly touted draftman, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but you

1166
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: got it's fat until up until you and at this

1167
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 1: point you're talking about guard anyway, you're not even talking

1168
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: about tackle. But what had you seen from him other

1169
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: than fighting injuries that gave you reason to believe that

1170
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't a good player right up until I would

1171
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: argue week three or four of this season, what preseason

1172
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: game was that? Where it was it was this all

1173
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: over again? He did ms. I think it was the

1174
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: Rams in twenty sixteens. What you're talking about. Yeah, I

1175
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: mean that's when my first thought was he that was

1176
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 1: first game of the year, and he really came back

1177
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: in those early games San Francisco maybe, or it's it's hindsight.

1178
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: It's hindsight to say you're like, well, we knew Chaz

1179
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: Green was awful in my opinion, and we knew he

1180
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: had injury issues. That's one of the mail back questions

1181
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 1: on Friday from last week was are you confident about

1182
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: Chaz Green? And I was like, no, I was so,

1183
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: and I'll eat that crow. That's well. But you know,

1184
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: I think there's an in between here. I don't think

1185
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: you have to be confident about Jazz Green. I think

1186
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: you could be and also not say I was completely

1187
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 1: not confident. I was kind of in the middle. I

1188
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: was like, I think he'll be okay. I think he's

1189
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: gonna give up some plays, yes, but also don't think

1190
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna be horrible. I was wrong on that, but

1191
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,439
Speaker 1: obviously I think I think that's probably where most people

1192
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: felt was he's not a great player, but as a

1193
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: backup tackle in the NFL, you're not gonna have a

1194
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: great player in most instances. So he's probably a serviceable

1195
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: swing tackle, which you can't let an average player get

1196
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl on your dime. Yes, we're all

1197
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,919
Speaker 1: that's all right, but that's that's after we saw it. Okay,

1198
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: nobody went into that game expecting that. Now you can

1199
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: do it again. No, now you don't have much option.

1200
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: You gotta give him help. I think you don't have

1201
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: a better option to put somebody else in there. So

1202
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 1: right now you just got to give him help. I

1203
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: think until you get tiring back, you gotta help him.

1204
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: Start him at right guard. Zach ready, move Zach on

1205
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: over that idea for three years in it Now it

1206
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 1: seems pretty good. All right. We'll finish this up tomorrow.

1207
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: Get you guys ready, Cowboys versus Eagle, see you tomorrow

1208
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,439
Speaker 1: for Nick Even, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia on Derek Eagles.

1209
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,400
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