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

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Speaker 1: a Break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready

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Speaker 1: for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's

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Speaker 1: time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with

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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of the Break in studio. Joining

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Speaker 1: us today is Brian Brodess, replacing Derek Eagleton, He who

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Speaker 1: is somewhere at the beach in Mexico and joining the Sun. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: everyone else around the league is worrying of a free

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Speaker 1: agency and what to do to improve their team. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things happening around the league in

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Speaker 1: that regard. But first let's start off with the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: and what's going on with them and what they have

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Speaker 1: done and haven't done so far. One of the free

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Speaker 1: agents that was much talked about since the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this year was Cole Beasley. What was going to happen

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Speaker 1: with him and his contract, wanting some money, It came

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Speaker 1: Bills twenty nine million dollars four years and just wanted

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Speaker 1: to get your impression on this whole contract. Is it

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Speaker 1: telling that Derek went to cabone during the week that

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Speaker 1: free agency opened, Like, did he know he know part

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Speaker 1: of the team. He knew something. It's part of the team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you've been following the Cowboys, I don't

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Speaker 1: You know, you kind of you can kind of set

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Speaker 1: has always happened. I'd bring it up all the time.

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Speaker 1: I was shocked that Terrence Williams came back two years ago,

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Speaker 1: but Cole was pretty confident that somebody was going to

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Speaker 1: offer him a bunch of money. He's been saying it

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Speaker 1: since October. The Bills did fourteen million guaranteed. He turns

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Speaker 1: thirty next month. I think, I don't you know, you

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Speaker 1: can make fun of them all you want. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: their offense is gonna be bad. But I'll take that

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Speaker 1: financial stability every day of the week. Good for him,

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Speaker 1: So not surprised at all. That's pretty much my reaction

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Speaker 1: what could the Cowboys fans expect to be done at

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Speaker 1: this pacific position? I'm actually sorry, I mean, if one,

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Speaker 1: I'm actually writing about that as we speak, shameless plug age.

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Speaker 1: I think it remains to be seen. I think. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you know the guys that are on this team.

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Speaker 1: Alan Hearns is a guy that they've pegged as a

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Speaker 1: a guy that people like to throw around. Lance Lenore's

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Speaker 1: a guy that's done it in the preseason. Haven't seen

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Speaker 1: at Golden Tate. I know, yeah, that's I knew. Brian

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Speaker 1: gonna start seeing some bargains here and you get some

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Speaker 1: guys that are probably looking at some one year deals

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Speaker 1: It looks like some of the other slot players that

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Speaker 1: I've tried to get into it before. This roster, to

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Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. It's a dead deal, is

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Speaker 1: what I meant to say. Which that's frustrating to hear

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Speaker 1: this a blue check mark? Guy? This is Adam Schefter. Okay,

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Speaker 1: How much did you say? Again? Fifty five with thirty

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Speaker 1: you know, the safety that we've been talking about for

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Speaker 1: Damian Wilson did leave to Damian Wilson left, Which what

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Speaker 1: else can you said, Eric Thomas, I mean, you can't

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Speaker 1: keep talking about it. Have you listened to this program

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Speaker 1: at any point in the last two years? We can

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Speaker 1: talk about to move on Connor Williams does Connor Williams though.

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Speaker 1: The trade that you didn't make is that now where

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Speaker 1: you look at you look at Connor Williams and say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he needs to come back. He needs to be a starter.

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Speaker 1: He needs to be a six seven year starter for

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Speaker 1: you talking about to make this, Yeah, to make this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know cowboy fans out there are looking

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Speaker 1: at this Earl Thomas thing, and you know, they're shaking

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Speaker 1: their heads and they're calling us all bad names and stuff.

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Speaker 1: This is when Twitter sucks, by the way, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're trying to kind of be a voice of

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Speaker 1: reason here and it's really not working very well. But

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Speaker 1: you're gonna look at the Connor Williams second Round on

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Speaker 1: the Clock conversation with John Snyder as Okay, you're you're

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Speaker 1: better off because you didn't take Earl Thomas, but you

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Speaker 1: got this starting young guard instead if he's twenty one

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Speaker 1: years old, twenty two years old. If you want to

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Speaker 1: be the voice of reason, then yeah, it was still

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Speaker 1: probably the right decision because what you get, you get

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Speaker 1: one season out of Earl. Maybe, I mean, he played

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Speaker 1: four games for the Seahawks. Can't he might not have

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Speaker 1: broken his leg, maybe he plays all six. We still

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Speaker 1: love Earl Earl Thomas, So we're not saying it, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, because I wouldn't our show going, Yeah, go

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Speaker 1: for it. Point, you had a chance to get him

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Speaker 1: last year in the middle of the season. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you try to play hard ball here and then he

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Speaker 1: didn't go your way, no question. This is where I'm

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Speaker 1: asking though, does the does the But what I'm saying, well,

501
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Speaker 1: so my point is, Okay, Earl just got fifty five

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Speaker 1: million with thirty two and guarantees after playing four games

503
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Speaker 1: and breaking his leg. Let's say he helps the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs. He would he would be getting more

505
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Speaker 1: money than he got in this timeline. Like if he

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Speaker 1: plays a full season with the Cowboys, he can command

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Speaker 1: a better contract. He's still gone because they're not going

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Speaker 1: to pay him. Yeah, and then think you get one

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Speaker 1: year out of Earl, they'd have a chance to maybe

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Speaker 1: sign him early. Maybe, but as we're watching with d Law,

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't. Well, not only that, but also like, if

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Speaker 1: I've learned one thing about Earl Thomas, I respect the

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Speaker 1: hell out of that guy. I've never met him, but

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Speaker 1: he is clearly obviously he's a help of football player,

515
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Speaker 1: but like he's a savvy businessman too. He is about

516
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Speaker 1: his business. And he ain't signing with the Cowboys in

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Speaker 1: November because it's three hours away from home. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be like, no, We're gonna play this thing out and

519
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get as much as I can. And so

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Speaker 1: he would probably be gone that way. He's the same

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Speaker 1: way some no I know, but I think Earl Thomas

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Speaker 1: is smart in the way he goes about this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Point being, he would still be gone. Let and I

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Speaker 1: doubt he would have helped the Cowboys win a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: so he'd still be gone. So give me the twenty

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Speaker 1: one year old guard who started ten games last year

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Speaker 1: and should, by all reasonable expectations, improved this year. I

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Speaker 1: agree with you there. The only thing, if if we're

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Speaker 1: looking back in hindsight, then you know, if I would

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Speaker 1: have known that that is Avi su Laphilo would have

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Speaker 1: been there, it would have been probably a better player,

532
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Speaker 1: and that you can get for two years then then

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Speaker 1: I like the trade even more. And maybe Joe Looney too. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you think about the way Joe Nney played for you, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't change. So all right, maybe it's not

536
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Speaker 1: Connor Williams if you had known, But wouldn't you rather

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Speaker 1: have four years of a player taking at sixty than

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Speaker 1: twelve games of Earl Thomas? Yeah? No, I That's that's

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Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. I love Earl Thomas. I

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Speaker 1: was all about trying to get him doing whatever you

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Speaker 1: had to do. But it would have been fun. I

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Speaker 1: think if you look back on this, I think is

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Speaker 1: fans you look back on this, and if if in fact,

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Speaker 1: Connor Williams comes back at twenty two years old and

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Speaker 1: is a starter, is a type of guy? Heck, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's be honest with Aaron Donald didn't kill you in

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Speaker 1: that Rams game, right, It was the other guy that

548
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Speaker 1: killed you. And the other guy was over your all

549
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Speaker 1: pro tackle our guard. So let's yeah. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: if if you talk about a guy that had improvement

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Speaker 1: and I'm just looking back to evaluate to trade. I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying to look back on draft day when we

553
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Speaker 1: were sitting in this room talking about, well, who they're

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Speaker 1: gonna pick. Oh, they're gonna take Connor Williams. Oh wait

555
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: a minute. We're hearing there's a possibility of an Earl

556
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Speaker 1: Thomas trade here, and we're all like going, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of a thing. But I think to

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Speaker 1: a man, we were okay with yeah, go ahead. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know I had a I had Connor

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Speaker 1: Williams in my top fifty and when it came down

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Speaker 1: to it at the end, So I'm okay. If you're

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Speaker 1: telling me that Connor Williams is going to develop into

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Speaker 1: a quality starting NFL guard, by all means they did

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Speaker 1: the right thing I expect them to. Yeah, Like I'm yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel and the money was never got at

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Speaker 1: all because you're right, Dave, the player is not going

567
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Speaker 1: to allow you. I'm not coming to you. I mean

568
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, oh yeah, Cowboys eight million dollars. Yeah great,

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Speaker 1: you know, no way, no way. That mean we were

570
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Speaker 1: all dreaming that, right, but reality was fourteen million dollars

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Speaker 1: solo Owen's Mills, which Maryland. You know the fact that

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Speaker 1: Earl didn't get something done at one o'clock on Monday

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Speaker 1: gave a lot of people cause for optimism. I thought,

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Speaker 1: you can survive another day, you had a chance, which

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Speaker 1: clearly was not the case. Well, if you can survive today.

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Speaker 1: But well, okay, either way, Yeah, regardless, point being is

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00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: we're right back where we thought we would be anyway,

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Speaker 1: which is they're gonna wait till the second wave. I

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Speaker 1: will say, if there's one thing, you know, I'm not

580
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Speaker 1: trying to pump sunshine, but I think the caliber of

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Speaker 1: player that's still left in free agency at this point

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Speaker 1: is better than it typically is. Especially it's I mean,

583
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Speaker 1: every safety in the league was available in free agency

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Speaker 1: this year, it felt like, and a lot of those

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Speaker 1: guys are still out there. So it ain't gonna be

586
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Speaker 1: Earl Thomas, but you can still upgrade that position. Quinn Cyprian,

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00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: you mentioned you mentioned the Chargers guy. Are those guys

588
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Speaker 1: better than Jeff Heath, because I mean, that's who's gonna

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Speaker 1: se get knocked off the Yeah, this is I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to pretend that I've studied tape on all these guys,

591
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Speaker 1: but I have to believe you can find a better

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Speaker 1: safety than him at an affordable price. Sometime in the

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Speaker 1: next week, people will argue about Sendejo from from Minnesota

594
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Speaker 1: used to play here. Yeah, no, I'm saying, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think there's medical concerns there with the concussions and

596
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Speaker 1: things like that, so you need to check more into that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, I mean to me, this is

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Speaker 1: where we're writing about Jeff heat today. I would have

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Speaker 1: liked to have been able to get a safety here

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Speaker 1: because I'd like to put Jeff Heath back in the

601
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Speaker 1: role on special team I felt like struggled last year.

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Speaker 1: I want him give Keith O'Quinn a chance, you know,

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Speaker 1: and poor Jeff Heath plays you know how many how

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Speaker 1: many snaps Jeff Heath played a game? Oh, he plays

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Speaker 1: andy on defense, and he plays all um on special teams.

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Speaker 1: He plays one hundred and twenty snaps a game. You know.

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Speaker 1: I want Jeff Heath to be a big part of

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Speaker 1: this football team and just don't necessarily want him playing

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Speaker 1: snaps on defense. Yeah, yeah, no, thank you. See. That's

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Speaker 1: where that's where I think the Earl Thomas thing was

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Speaker 1: very That's where I was excited about it. Sure, But

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Speaker 1: but you have to draft, Brian, I love to draft,

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Speaker 1: and then he if you don't have if you don't

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Speaker 1: do it through the drive, then you know the guys here,

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love draft. You watch you watch these teams

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Speaker 1: every week when they play the Cowboys. Is there a

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Speaker 1: guy out there that would make you feel better about safety? Well?

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Speaker 1: Would you know Gibson he signed with? Well, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: saying if he was available, because I saw him play

620
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Speaker 1: a guy that's on the street, a guy that's not signed. Quinn.

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Speaker 1: Quinn's probably the best guy out of that of the

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Speaker 1: of the guys that I mean that was with the Lions.

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Speaker 1: You know, you talk about him. I would love for

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Speaker 1: them to be interested in Trey Boston, but that they

625
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Speaker 1: never weren't last year. They never have. Yeah, they never have. Yeah.

626
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Speaker 1: And there's people out there in the Cowboy fandom area

627
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Speaker 1: that that, oh, Boston, you gotta get bought. You know,

628
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Speaker 1: he was available until June last year. Nobody, nobody, nobody

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Speaker 1: went there. Took so much as a whiff in front

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Speaker 1: of the drives, are busy hitting mark ingram And it's

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Speaker 1: it's curious, Like I said, it's it's Wednesday perfect back

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Speaker 1: by the way for the Ravens there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to come, but man, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be confusing. If they are trying to upgrade

635
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: this team with just a second and a third round pick.

636
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to work out well for them. Yeah,

637
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: it's just kind of an arrogance of like top ten,

638
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: top ten roster though, let's talk about that again. We

639
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: talked about top ten roster. That's not good enough for

640
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett because they he finished eighth, right, he finished

641
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: eighth in the final standings, and so if he finishes

642
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: eighth again, I bet he's gone. Okay, So now now

643
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: be a top five now instead of instead of talking

644
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: about free agents, so we need to talk about the

645
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: head coach. That's that's the trick. See, But that's that's

646
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: a great lunch room conversation. By the way, who could

647
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: coach this team into the top four. It's not gonna

648
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: change between now in the start of the seas. It's

649
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: so it's not like that doesn't do anything for me,

650
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: Like this isn't Jason Garrett like not making these moves

651
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: because if you're you know, everyone knows that it's easy

652
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: to spend other people's money. So I mean, if I'm

653
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, I am trying like hell to get them

654
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: to spend every bit. Like the guy at the Jets,

655
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: a generalman, Mike mc kicking at the Jets. Yeah, keep

656
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 1: keep spending. It's gonna be somebody else's problem. You know,

657
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: it's not my problem anymore any more. The words of

658
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: Shaggy it wasn't me, It wasn't it's I mean, he

659
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: got to the divisional round with this roster last year,

660
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: and the way it looks right now is they're going

661
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: to ask him to do the same thing. Maybe I

662
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: mean Travis Frederick coming back. Maybe when you say I mean,

663
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: you say, prove it year to players all the time,

664
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: Jason Witt maybe helping in the red zone. Prove it

665
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: year for DeMarcus Lawrence last year. Okay, go out and

666
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: prove you're in all pro he did, like, go out

667
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: and prove you deserve another contract, Like we're not going

668
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: to give you, Earl Thomas. Just go make it work

669
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: with what you've got. You did it last year. Prove

670
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: that this football team can handle success because they haven't

671
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: shown it. They come back from fourteen, they were bad

672
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: in fifteen. They come back in sixteen they were decent,

673
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: but not good enough in seventeen eighteen. For me, every

674
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: other year, let's see if you can handle success with

675
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of a target on you that, oh,

676
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: this is a good football team, will act like but okay, fair.

677
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: But that more so than anything in free agency or

678
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: anything else that is that is what frustrates me as

679
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: somebody who follows this team, is they are currently not

680
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: setting themselves up to do that because they are in

681
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: the early stages of a standoff with arguably their best player.

682
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: They're arguably their best player who needs a surgery that

683
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: could sideline him for multiple months, and it doesn't sound

684
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: like he's going to do it until he gets a deal.

685
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: So is this team really going to get better and

686
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: sustain success if DeMarcus Lawrence isn't it? I mean, okay,

687
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: forget training camp OTAs setting the tone for these guys,

688
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: letting could this team survive without DeMarcus Lawrence? What do

689
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: you mean by survive? Could they survive? Could they win games? Shirt?

690
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: I mean ask you this, Are they capable of having

691
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: a bad season even with him signed? Yeah? Of course anything.

692
00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: I mean he could break his fifth metatarsl like three

693
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: quarters into his first game. But with the just with

694
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: the fact of you've got Taco who hasn't done anything

695
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: for you, and you don't know what's going to happen

696
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: with Gregory and Dorrence Armstrong is just seems like a

697
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: guy right now. No, I don't. I don't like the

698
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: fact of not having a defense. In fact, I mean

699
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: that's a top priority the way the way that this

700
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if you include the fact that DeMarcus Lawrence

701
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,760
Speaker 1: is staying away, you couldn't play games with this defensive

702
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: line right now. You don't have enough, you don't have

703
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: enough bodies, and you don't have enough talent so survive

704
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: I mean no, I mean they're not going to achieve

705
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: their ultimate goal. Without DeMarcus Lawrence. You might be able

706
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: to win some games, but you mean you want to

707
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: go back to the post DeMarcus ware years where you're

708
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: you're you're already looking at me like, oh, broadness, you're

709
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: gonna start pitching when they have no pass rusher? Right,

710
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: we finished the season with twenty four sacks. How did

711
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: that happen? Oh, well, you didn't pay your best pass rusher.

712
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: Are Jones gave up nine touchdowns this year because well,

713
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: is he more? Okay, let me ask you this. You're

714
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: paying a guy, is he more eight sacks or fourteen sacks?

715
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: He is more? I get the guy plays to run,

716
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: love it, love it. I think he's like a baseline

717
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: of eight with fourteen to sixteen as the ceiling, like

718
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: any I mean, and you know, injuries factor into that,

719
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: double teams factor into that, the other talent on the line.

720
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: So I put it like a like a basement of

721
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: eight and a ceiling of like sixteen seventeen somewhere I mean,

722
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: anywhere in there? What's he closest to split the difference? Ten?

723
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: You want me to peg this guy's sack total? I

724
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: want you to try nine months ahead. We're just doing

725
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: radio today. You signed him, you sign him for let's

726
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: say you sign him for five years. I bet he

727
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: won't have less than Oh? Is he can become the

728
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: guy that all of a sudden we give the money too,

729
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: and then when he doesn't get sacks for like three

730
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: or four games in a row, assuming fans are losing

731
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: their minds? Yes, assuming am I right? That happens with anybody,

732
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: does it? Yes? Yeah? Big money to every player that

733
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: gets a big contract. Everybody about you guys, is he

734
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: closer to eight sacks or sixteen? For the money you're

735
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: gonna get him? Probably closer to eight. Well, you said

736
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: fourteen and fourteen fourteen, it's a tough one. How about it?

737
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: Go twelve? Okay, but you have to look at other

738
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: things aside from just his own personal numbers. You sign,

739
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: you sign him to a five year deal. Here, I

740
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: bet you he'll hover. He'll hover between nine and twelve. Fans, Nick, No,

741
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: that's not good enough for fans. It won't be good.

742
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: It won't be good enough for fans, Thank Hill, Crawford.

743
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: Nothing's good enough for fans. I mean, all right, good

744
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: enough for you. Twelve sacks? Okay, eight sacks, good enough

745
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: for you. Zeke Zeke gets a huge deal. Okay, Okay,

746
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: let's say he every time he has an eighty yard game,

747
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: it'll be but when the Rams from the page, let's

748
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: say the Rams game ended the season with a strong

749
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 1: forty seven yards from him. Yeah, after and he gets

750
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: this big deal. We're gonna be talking about that. Got

751
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: more breaking news here, Ian Rappaport, Let's go Jamay's Ali

752
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: Walles with the Dallas Cowboys. That is that not what

753
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: you wanted? To hear, Nick, is that not the news

754
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: you were looking for? We can move on, Kyler. Murray

755
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: didn't measure the day. By the way, do you see that?

756
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: What first pro day? He didn't remeasure. They're trying to

757
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: say he faked it, like did he put like risers

758
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: in his shoes? He he did not remeasure at the

759
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: pro day. From what I was told, our fans don't

760
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 1: care about that. Save that. Save that for the draft shots. Yeah,

761
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: what what is that? Roy Williams? It looked like Roy Williams,

762
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: we're watching TV. We're bad. Yeah, like y'all, this is

763
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: bad radio. This is bad radio. I just want to know, though,

764
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: I just want to know if you told me DeMarcus

765
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: Lawrence could reliably get to double digits even if it's

766
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: only ten, on top of everything he does against the

767
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: run and the attitude that he brings. I think that's

768
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: worth it. Does he deserve to be the top one

769
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: of the top paid defensive ends just playing the run

770
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: and getting eight sacks. I didn't say eight, I said

771
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: double digits, but ten. Okay, But what else is he

772
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: doing in the line? Is he allow all other guys

773
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback? That's another thing. If he's

774
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: not the one registring there capable of paying this guy

775
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: and him having a losing season. That's everybody, Like, that's

776
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: any position, that's I mean, that's the risk of football.

777
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: What do you want? And I mean, what do you want, Brian,

778
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 1: what do you want? I'm just saying the price tag

779
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: is a lot, but sorry, that's the going rate for

780
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: guys that affect the quarterback like that. I mean, if

781
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: you want to trade him, like I mean, you talk,

782
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: go back and listen to the draft show segment we did.

783
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: I'm at least kind of go in that direction though

784
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: I'd rather sign him. But like if you if you're

785
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: telling me, would I rather trade him today or draw

786
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 1: this thing out until July? And now we're like, well,

787
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: he might be ready for opening Day, and like all

788
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's not good because he didn't have

789
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: a training camp and isn't completely healthy and all this

790
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: other nonsense like Dez Bryant. Then just rip the band

791
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: aid off. I would rather rip the band aid off

792
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: than draw this out into this big, frustrating thing. And

793
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: that's the point I was making earlier, is like this

794
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: team doesn't seem to ever want to let itself build momentum. Like,

795
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: if this is your guy and you like him and

796
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: you're convinced, just bite the bullet because the market dictates

797
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: that's what he's worth, and that's just what it is.

798
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, playing hardball is only going to hurt

799
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: you in the long run because all of a sudden,

800
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: he's not wearing pads at training camp. He's out there

801
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: conditioning instead because he didn't have an off season. And

802
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: he's not the player that you got used to watching

803
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: for two years because he didn't have an off season.

804
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, it's his fault that

805
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: he's not getting sacks because he didn't have an off season.

806
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm already pissed off thinking about that, and it will

807
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: be very frustrating if that's what happens. So if you're

808
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: telling me, get ready, if you're telling me those are

809
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: my two options, you're ready. I'd rather rip the band

810
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: aid off and get some draft picks than do that, honestly,

811
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: and that and I hope that doesn't happen because I

812
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: think the world of the markets. Okay, I'm good, No, no,

813
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: you okay with you? Okay with trading this guy? Yeah too? No,

814
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to trade him. I'm not trade him.

815
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: I don't because you're like trading him for what? Like?

816
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: When are you going to try to get better? Like

817
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: it's always like trading picks? Next year's one. All this

818
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: stuff to when are you ever going to just pounce

819
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: and say we're gonna play now? Why are they not better?

820
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 1: I don't. Okay, let's go ahead and take our final break.

821
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll answer that question. Why are

822
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: the Cowboys not better? All Right? While the player can

823
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: look good on paper, it's when he's out on the

824
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: field that you really find out what he's made of.

825
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: That's why the Cowboys rely on more than just stats

826
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: and scouting reports when building their team. When picking the tractor,

827
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: it's why you should rely on more than just specs

828
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: and features. You've got to take it out and put

829
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 1: it to the test. The Cowboys did when they named

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833
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834
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835
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836
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837
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838
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,120
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839
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,680
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Speaker 1: All right, who wants to attempt to answer this question?

869
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: I think it's going to fall on unique. Why are

870
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: the Cowboys not better? Oh, they're not better because they

871
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 1: don't have any consistency in No, Actually they have plenty

872
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: of they have plenty of consistency. That's just the problem

873
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: that they're just too consistent. They're just too back and forth,

874
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: back and forth they I think a lot of it's arrogance.

875
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: I really do. I said it earlier. I think that

876
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: they have this arrogance that you know, we do this

877
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: the right way. This is how we do it. This

878
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: is our approach. But after twenty two years of not

879
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: making it to the super Bowl, it's not working. Flip

880
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: it up. Why do you have to wear blue every

881
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: single day? Why why fix it up, change it up,

882
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: do something different because this isn't working. I mean, it's

883
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: working to a point, but it's not. I mean, why

884
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: why are you not more active in free agency? And

885
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: why did you plan to not be active in free agency?

886
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: That's my big issue. It's the only thing not to

887
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: do it, and I'm just gonna leave it at that.

888
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: But they're planned to not be active in free agency.

889
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: It makes a good point for a team that prides

890
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: itself with we talk about in signing its own, they

891
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: didn't sign one of its own right now, right They

892
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: didn't go aggressively, aggressively and sign a guy that that

893
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: we just talked about Dave. I thought you made some

894
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: excellent points about the player and what he could bring.

895
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: And you know, you're you guys are right about the

896
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: injury stuff. I'm glad everybody talked about that. But you

897
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: think if they're going to be you know, sign your own,

898
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: sign your own, go out and get this done, Go

899
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: out and get go out. And and Nick talked about

900
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: the word momentum or Dave talked about the word momentum.

901
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: You know, it does not exist here, It does not exist.

902
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: You're right about that, you know. And I like to

903
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: blame the coach because I do and I always I

904
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: always do, and I and I think that they're not

905
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,919
Speaker 1: better because of the coach, you know. And you talked

906
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: about it wearing blue every day and being the same

907
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: guy and all that. And you know, the guy showed

908
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: me and I make a joke of he showed me

909
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: three NFC's Championship hats every time I try and fire

910
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: the man. But something needs to be done there, you know,

911
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: And and hopefully this is the season where it is done.

912
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: Hopefully this is the okay. You you've you've exhausted everything

913
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: you've done, You've you've done the you could. It's not

914
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: good enough, move on, you know, and I know Cowboy

915
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: fans will be happy about that, but again it's another year.

916
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: Well and they're not better I think because of the coach.

917
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: That's me mate, Like I said, I mean, that would

918
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: be fascinating. I mean, you'll never hear like a real

919
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: answer to that. But like, what if this is a

920
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: prove it year in this You're like, no, we're not

921
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: gonna prove it year for the quarterback. It's to prove

922
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: it year for the coach. Well a lot of people,

923
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: let me stick, let me stick prove it year for me.

924
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: Let me stick with Jason Garrett for a second. I

925
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: mean you know what I mean. What if the front

926
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: office is like, we're not gonna money whip these guys

927
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: and invest all this stuff in the salvaty coach come in,

928
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: just start over with a new coach who like hates

929
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: half the decisions we made. And you're like, hey, Jason,

930
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: but he won't not to cut you off, he won't

931
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: hate the decisions because that'll be the decision make it

932
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: of Jerry hires you or not. Well, that's okay with that.

933
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: You know, I don't really like Dak. I didn't thank

934
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: you have a good day. I didn't. I didn't mean

935
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: Dak so much as like an Earl Thomas or you know,

936
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: if you bring it in these ballyhood free agents, and

937
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: then point being is like, hey, Jason, if you want

938
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: a contract extension and you want security and all that stuff,

939
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: you made the playoffs with this roster and go do

940
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: it again. Go. I mean, if you're a great coach,

941
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: you should be able to take this to another level

942
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: without all this crazy help. And I'm not saying that

943
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: that will work, but maybe that's their mindset. I don't know.

944
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: And like I said, they would they would never admit

945
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: that it was true. The talent on the field has

946
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: not necessarily always been the question. I think the Cowboys

947
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: have always had good talent, good enough talent to get

948
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: you where you're trying to get to. The thing is,

949
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: and it just that's the reality comes down to the

950
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: coaching and what the coaching is doing and what they're

951
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: not doing. You can get to where you need to

952
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: be with these players that you have, and every year

953
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: that passes by, you know, I like talking about the

954
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: life expectancy of a player that's just being wasted every year.

955
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: Look at see going to his fourth year. Yeah, that's

956
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: unacceptable and it really upsets me. And let me shut

957
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: up before I say something bad. You know, one thing

958
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: that is going to be different is the schedule. I

959
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: mean there's no question. Yeah. Usually I don't like to

960
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: say that everything can change, but I know New England's

961
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: gonna be good. I know the Saints are going to

962
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: be good. I know the Packers are going to be

963
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna have Aaron Rodgers, and I know

964
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: that the Ram Rams Rams Saints. It's gonna be tough. Yeah,

965
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: tough looking schedule. Philadelphia will be back, probably with what

966
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,760
Speaker 1: they're doing. Probably got two wins from the Giants thanks

967
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: to their wheeling Zealand. No, you gotta play with the

968
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: Bills though, you gotta stop that guy. True, you do

969
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: have to stop Colby's got to stop the sauce. I

970
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: mean there's a hint of there's a hint of sarcasm

971
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: in your voice, but like, watch him, just watch him,

972
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: just torch him. Is it? Do we agree though the

973
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: roster is good enough to be a top four roster?

974
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: Do we agree that the top four team we'll see

975
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: in the in the in the NFC East, in NFC

976
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: see the top four conference in the conference. Oh yeah, okay,

977
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: when you include the AFC, I'm a little more reluctant.

978
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Saints. The Saints are better and they

979
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: were a top four team in the FC last year. Yeah,

980
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: they already were. They beat the Saints. That's it's you

981
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: try not to let the last game color your opinion

982
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: too much, but man, they just they got outclassed in

983
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: that game. I know, they only lost by eight, mickey,

984
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 1: you'll tell me that. And they you know, they scored

985
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: more points than everybody else. Like, they got outclass badly.

986
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: It reminded me of of like high school football, of

987
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 1: like a five four a team playing a six eight team,

988
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: because what is the difference when when you see that

989
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: they all have skill players, but usually it's it's yeah,

990
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: you just can't when you watch Alabama just whipped down.

991
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: You know, somebody like a Central Florida is pretty good all,

992
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: you know, and they have good skill players, but if

993
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: they played Alabama, they wouldn't get many yards on the

994
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And that's what it felt like. You

995
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball, couldn't definitely couldn't stop the run.

996
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: It was an eight point game. I mean you know,

997
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: the Rams led by like fifteen, but like, like it's

998
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: sound like players then more than coaching. Well, I think,

999
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: I mean it all goes hand in hand. I don't

1000
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: like that's I'm not willing to just finger point one

1001
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: specific area because yeah, like they got who I am,

1002
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 1: they got out talented in that game, but they absolutely

1003
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: got out coached too. Yeah, And that that's my point

1004
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: is you try not to let that color your opinion

1005
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: too much. But like you watch that game and you're

1006
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: just like, man, they're not that close. Like that's the

1007
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: opinion I came away with. I see it very well.

1008
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, our view sucked. So you felt good

1009
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: coming out of Seattle. You felt good coming out of

1010
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: that game, but then you get to the Rams. It's

1011
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: just to hit a reality. Yeah, sure felt like it.

1012
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 1: Maybe it was just a bad day because we've seen

1013
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: that defense play a lot better against human log was hurt, Yeah, shoulder,

1014
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: you're right. Well, I think I think when teams figure

1015
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: out how to how to run the ball and really

1016
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: move them around. I mean the Colts and the Rams

1017
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: that they had so many things going on when their

1018
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: passing game that I think they allowed them to just

1019
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,439
Speaker 1: have these gaping holes and run the ball. I mean

1020
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: they were as a defense you get lost. Yeah, they

1021
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: were out schemed in the Colts game and the Rams game.

1022
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: You know, and you understand it when girl's doing it,

1023
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: but when like Marlon mack is doing it, You're like,

1024
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: what's going on here? So you saw some holes there

1025
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: at the defensive defensive line. I mean who you got?

1026
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 1: Malie Collins and Antoine Woods are good players. I like,

1027
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,839
Speaker 1: I feel good about that. Well, you need more there?

1028
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: Are You not concerned with the injuries from Elie Collins?

1029
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: I mean he's I mean, he's a good player, but

1030
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: he battle all last year with the same type of

1031
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: injury he I know, Yeah, he's had. He's dealt with

1032
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: injuries every year of his career, and I wouldn't be

1033
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: surprised it's a contractor year for him. I wouldn't be

1034
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: surprised if this is his last year. But he's a

1035
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: good player. Yeah, I don't have a problem with him.

1036
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: But there's nothing in the way of depth behind them,

1037
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: right you. I mean, I know there's it seems like

1038
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: there's optimism that Randy Gregory could make a comeback. You

1039
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: certainly can't count on it again. You're you're keeping your

1040
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: best defensive lineman out of the building on purpose right now.

1041
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: So it's it's hard to feel good about that. And

1042
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: that's my point is I hear everything you're saying about

1043
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: the coach, but they did not look talented enough to

1044
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: beat the Super Bowl runner up, Like they played the

1045
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: team that lost the Super Bowl and did not look

1046
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: remotely as talented. And they have not done anything to

1047
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: upgrade the roster. And you know, if they don't want

1048
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: a money whip Earl Thomas, that that's fine with me. Honestly.

1049
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: It's again the frustrating thing for me is sign our own,

1050
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: sign our own. They got their own. They asked him

1051
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: to prove it. He did, and that it stands right, yeah,

1052
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna tell me, sign my own, sign

1053
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: my own, sign your own, it's like which, you know,

1054
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: if if DeMarcus Lawrence had gone out there and had

1055
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:43,160
Speaker 1: a disappointing season, they would not hesitate to low ball him.

1056
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: They'd be like, well, this is what your play on

1057
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: the field dictated you were worth. But he had a

1058
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: really good season and made another Pro Bowl and they're like, whoa,

1059
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: we didn't want you to prove it that much like

1060
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 1: now you're too expensive, Like you asked that, you asked

1061
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: him to do that. You could have signed him last

1062
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: year or tried to at least you asked him to

1063
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: up his value and he did and you don't like

1064
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: the result. Sorry, It's like a Saturday and you have

1065
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: like a to do list of like nine things and

1066
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: most of them are shopping, but one of them go

1067
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: to the bank. You're gonna do that first, right, and

1068
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: go to the bank and do that. Yeah, and now

1069
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: you can go maybe do the shopping you need to

1070
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: and that, and they haven't done that. You can't and

1071
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: that's I mean, you can't have the rest of these

1072
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: conversations until you do something with him, honestly, and that

1073
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 1: doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon. And that's a bummer.

1074
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna change the subject a little bit.

1075
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like y'all really want to talk about Shawn Lee,

1076
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: but we have to because it is something that the

1077
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:41,239
Speaker 1: Cowboys did do during this past week, which was restructure

1078
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,280
Speaker 1: his contract basically gave him somewhat of a pay cut

1079
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: and got some incentives in there. You're being nice because

1080
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,319
Speaker 1: this was really like one of those slash slash it down.

1081
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: It was okay, but with some incentives in there thrown

1082
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: in there. But as always, we always look at fans

1083
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: response and a lot of the responses I was able

1084
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: to read after this happened was why why I even

1085
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: do that? Why not I get rid of him and

1086
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: save more money? He doesn't do anything, He's always hurt

1087
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 1: blah blah. You know, same story that we always hear.

1088
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on this signing and what the

1089
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys did there? He doesn't do things that they see.

1090
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: He does things that that the Cowboys see. And I

1091
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: know it's not always about, you know, behind closed doors,

1092
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: but in this case, I do think that that he

1093
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: can he could be a benefit to this um, to

1094
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: this team. And you know, he still he still can

1095
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,280
Speaker 1: make some plays. But again, like Dave said, you remember

1096
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: the last one, and you know a lot of it too,

1097
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: is his scheme and and the Cowboys are going to

1098
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: have to with Witten and with Lee, They're going to

1099
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,919
Speaker 1: have to realize that two thousand and twelves not coming back.

1100
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: It's like that's gone. Don't put Sean Lee out on

1101
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: the field on the biggest play of the season, third

1102
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: and seven or whatever I'd like to have. I'd like

1103
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: to of Layton vander esh out there instead of him.

1104
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: I think he could have got off that block a

1105
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: little bit better. Is they gotta have that? They got

1106
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: to quit this arrogance of like that Sean Lee. It's

1107
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: Sean Lee. Is it not fair to say? Though that

1108
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,879
Speaker 1: on and you grade the tape on the whole Sean

1109
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 1: Lee played a better game that night. Then, I don't

1110
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 1: think anybody that's a good point. I mean, I don't

1111
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: think give up five hundred yards two hundred seventy three

1112
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 1: rushing yard. They didn't get off blocks. They the fits

1113
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: were bad. I mean they were bad overall. This one

1114
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: is true. Wasn't good, No, he was. He might have

1115
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: played the worst game of his rookie year. Yeah, And

1116
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: so I don't know, this is one I don't I

1117
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 1: don't understand the consternation because you took his price down

1118
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: and there's incentive, like if he plays eighty percent of

1119
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: the snaps, he can earn a lot of that money back.

1120
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: He probably won't like that. He's your third, maybe your

1121
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: fourth linebacker. He's nice insurance and all of the intangibles

1122
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,479
Speaker 1: that he brings to the table that Nick mentioned as well,

1123
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: That's what I would have done, as that point to

1124
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,919
Speaker 1: a TV what signed Tyrod Taylor to a two year deal?

1125
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, okay, yes, I would have done that.

1126
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: That's one move that I do like. Sorry, Coop, I

1127
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: know you like Mike White, I do, so maybe we should,

1128
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, you know, we'll see what happens this summer.

1129
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: Having having Sean Lee here does an upset like you're

1130
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: not you're not going to take a twenty three year

1131
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: old pro bowler off the field more than every now

1132
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: and then, I don't believe that has anybody fallen further

1133
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: than Shawn Lee. Seriously, No, this time last year we

1134
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: were all talking about how we can't play defense without

1135
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 1: she was the hero and nobody wanted to linebacker. And

1136
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: now and now all of a sudden, it's like, get

1137
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: this guy off our team, which tacos him. The two

1138
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: guys that everybody wants to go after money, Well that

1139
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: the funny thing, and that's hearns. The other thing that

1140
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: makes me chuckle too is they're like, get these guys

1141
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: off the team and then we can go sign these guys,

1142
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: Like what about this? Don't you understand they would not

1143
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 1: use that money even if they cut those guys, right,

1144
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: they're not going to do it. So the fact that

1145
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:04,479
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns what happened with the does money right, they've

1146
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 1: carried over like twelve million dollars. They they're not going

1147
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,439
Speaker 1: to sign those types of deals even if they had

1148
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns and Shawn Lee's money. So you might as

1149
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: well have a versatile, good attitude wide receiver in the

1150
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: locker room and a versatile alpha dog leader linebacker who

1151
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: can step in if your pro bowler gets hurt. Like,

1152
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: these are good things and they're not breaking your cap.

1153
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: They're a little more expensive than you would prefer, but

1154
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be doing anything with that money anyway. So

1155
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: get over ten against Buffalo, Shawn Lee has to make

1156
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: a start, yea one of those better better Sean Lee

1157
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: make a start than than Damien Wilson, Right, yes, exactly. Well,

1158
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,320
Speaker 1: here's a comment from one of our fins on Twitter.

1159
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:48,440
Speaker 1: Why not make Shan Lee a coach? It does not

1160
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:52,240
Speaker 1: cost cap dollars because coaches can't step in and start

1161
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: for you in week ten and Buffalo. Yeah, that's why

1162
00:56:55,800 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: you've been really Arguably Christoph Shire one of the three

1163
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: like best leaders, best football character guys on this roster.

1164
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,479
Speaker 1: He is still capable of playing at a high level.

1165
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,799
Speaker 1: He showed it this as recently as this year. And

1166
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: he's not costing you that much money. And even if

1167
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: he's costing you more than you would prefer, you wouldn't

1168
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: be spending that money anyway. So what are we mad about?

1169
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:19,439
Speaker 1: Oh no, we're mad. What are we mad about? Because

1170
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: we how That's why if Sean Lee plays more than

1171
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: like forty per not forty like, he's gonna play like

1172
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the snaps barring injuries. This is the

1173
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: Layton and Jalen Show. There's no question. And so again, like,

1174
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm totally okay with this. I'm just so I'm yelling

1175
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: at you, but I'm really not. You know what I mean?

1176
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: You yelling at Joe and Flower mount I'm yelling at

1177
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,439
Speaker 1: Joe and Flower Mountain. Did this team get better since

1178
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: the show started or did it get worse? Because I

1179
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: don't think it got worse, but it didn't get better. Well,

1180
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: did it get worse because the one guy that everyone

1181
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: was like, you know what, it would feel a lot

1182
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: better if you just went out and got Earle and

1183
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: that went away. Didn't we really did they get better

1184
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: because they got Jamay's Jamae's It would be easy to

1185
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: poke fun at him. But like for all their love,

1186
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: like they don't even for all the love, they talk

1187
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 1: like they always have a fullback they did, blah blah blah.

1188
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: They don't use them anyway. I know, I know he

1189
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: dropped a touchdown in Indianapolis, but like they don't use

1190
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: him anyway. From what from what this is, Nick's not

1191
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: getting better theory here. Yeah, from what I've heard though,

1192
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: and this isn't gonna get anyone excited, but I think

1193
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: that they're gonna try to use him more in the offense,

1194
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: and not so much as a fullback, but more as

1195
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 1: one big runner. Okay whatever, I know, I mean, let

1196
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: me okay, whatever, Okay. You know he's one of the

1197
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: fastest players on the team, not enough. He's an athletic guy,

1198
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: not just at like his position. You line up the

1199
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: whole team and he's one in the top ten. It's obvious.

1200
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: It's two hundred and sixty. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

1201
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: If we haven't seen it, you can go, but we don't.

1202
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: I just said I remember this from when they traded

1203
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: for him. Um, he actually doesn't matter special teams. He

1204
00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: led the team in special teams, and you use that

1205
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: speed to run down and kickoff's camp. Sorry, he he

1206
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: housed the touchdown from like eighty yards away when he

1207
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: was in Oakland against the United States. No, it was

1208
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: not in the United States, was in Mexico. Like, he

1209
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,439
Speaker 1: is totally irrelevant. I just wanted He's an athletic guy.

1210
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: I know they if they want to use him more,

1211
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,280
Speaker 1: that's great because like, yeah, honestly liked they didn't use

1212
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: him last year at all. Like I don't know this

1213
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: percentage of snaps, but I know it's not large. Does

1214
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: our attitude change if they somehow get this contract done

1215
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: with a defensive end in the next week or so, Yes,

1216
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: if my attitude changes, if if DeMarcus Lawrence is here

1217
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: for the start of the off season program and I

1218
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: can count on him a camp captain's workouts and he's

1219
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: out there kind of leading everybody. If I get to

1220
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: work and he's leading the defensive line, I mean they

1221
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: still have work to do. That's not what I'm saying.

1222
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: Like they I think they need to sign a safety.

1223
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: They need to bring in another defensive end who's capable

1224
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: of starting. What if? But I would feel better if

1225
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 1: he was in the bild. What if those two options

1226
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: you just said are no longer really on the table

1227
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: because they didn't sign him two weeks ago, three weeks ago,

1228
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: a month ago, because they I kind of waited till now.

1229
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: Cap space is fungible enough that I think you can

1230
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: do that. You can get it done, even with DeMarcus

1231
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: on the tag. You can make those things happen. And

1232
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: it's not going to be the guy that gets you

1233
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: excited and makes you run out and buy an earl

1234
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: Thomas Jersey. It'll be more of what we're used to.

1235
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: Go get a Golden Tate. But Golden Tate would that's

1236
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: a step up that would get people excited. Yeah, I'm

1237
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: with that, but even you know, if you know, I'll

1238
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: just using a name because it's in my head, Like

1239
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: if they signed Glover Quinn. Yeah, I can get down

1240
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: with that. It's better than what they had. It's not exciting,

1241
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 1: but it's a start. At this point, If you don't

1242
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: sign Golden Tate or Sue, no one's going to be excited. Honestly,

1243
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: I think in terms of like getting the average fan excited,

1244
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: that flew the Coop when Earl signed, like, that's gone.

1245
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 1: That was a that was a gut punch. But you

1246
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: know again, I'm not trying to own we're done so

1247
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: we could keep going. Are going to go today? What

1248
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: time we do in our periscope or at the at

1249
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: the risk of sounding like an apologist, I don't care

1250
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: about getting people excited. Just make the team better. And

1251
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: still I still think that they can do that, but

1252
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: I'm not optimistic that they're going to row. Well, let's

1253
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 1: hope the next week we will be talking about some

1254
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: exciting things that the Cowboys did. In the meantime, let's

1255
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 1: just keep our finger crossed and hope that this team

1256
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 1: does get better. Floyd and Brian Brunnis Nicki Men, David

1257
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: helm and Andergarcia. This has been the Break on Dallas

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