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Speaker 1: Brian brought us, Nick Harris and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 6: Welcome back to another episode of The Break presented by LG. Today,
Speaker 6: I am taking over the show. Derek is somewhere on
Speaker 6: the road or on the fly. I think, yeah, he's
Speaker 6: going to the game playing hooky if you will.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's playing hooky. That's right. Good call.
Speaker 6: So today we're gonna handle the show. We got Nick
Speaker 6: and then Brian and I wanted to start the show. Obviously,
Speaker 6: we're gonna play some games, which, by the way, we're
Speaker 6: bringing back every Friday. I'll be bringing back a game
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Speaker 6: Brian has another game for us as well, and we're
Speaker 6: gonna get into the game and all the shin inny
Speaker 6: games for the weekend. But to start off the show,
Speaker 6: we did just hear not too long ago, Jerry Jones,
Speaker 6: he was on the one oh five point three, the
Speaker 6: fin and basically the things that's surrounding and circulating around
Speaker 6: social media at the moment is just a very simple
Speaker 6: quote that he said. He said, I won't be discussing
Speaker 6: anything at all about Dak's business or contract at this
Speaker 6: particular time. I think many of us believed or thought
Speaker 6: that the contract put could potentially happen. Earlier this week
Speaker 6: they got done Citie Lamb, and then we thought that
Speaker 6: soon after Dak's contract would come along. So I just
Speaker 6: wanted to bring back the conversation and see where you
Speaker 6: think the Cowboys currently stand with this whole contract negotiation
Speaker 6: with Dak.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you pair what Jerry said on the fan this
Speaker 7: morning with what Stephen Jones said on San Antonio Sports
Speaker 7: Star yesterday, and they are being a lot more guarded
Speaker 7: about these negotiations right now. And if you call back
Speaker 7: to when other deals have gotten done, this is typically
Speaker 7: the kind of rhetoric that comes around right before that
Speaker 7: those deals do happen. So where there is smoke, is
Speaker 7: there fire. I still feel personally in my soul that
Speaker 7: this does not get done. Will I be wrong? Very
Speaker 7: very highly likely? Who knows? I just I don't see
Speaker 7: why Dak Prescott would get this done right now unless
Speaker 7: he just doesn't want that burden over, you know, overbearing
Speaker 7: throughout the entire season. But every time I get a notification,
Speaker 7: I'm looking at my phone. I mean, it's it's you know,
Speaker 7: I am on high alert at this point. I think
Speaker 7: if a deal is not reached by Sunday, though, I
Speaker 7: think maybe we look towards the bye week, and then
Speaker 7: if a bye week deal is not done, then we're
Speaker 7: looking towards the off season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've I was trying to recall the fourteen years
Speaker 2: of working in this organization, and the one thing that
Speaker 2: I took from Stephen Jones not saying anything is he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to do anything to harm maybe negotiations this time.
Speaker 2: It's very critical things you say in the media might
Speaker 2: be taking the wrong way, and so you have to
Speaker 2: be really careful of that. So when Stephen goes quiet,
Speaker 2: I usually feel like it he's got something close. Jerry
Speaker 2: going quiet, I think they've got something close here. So
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if we all wake up on Sunday
Speaker 2: morning a guy like Jay Glazer on Fox, hopefully with
Speaker 2: somebody from Dallas Cowboys dot Com has the story going up.
Speaker 2: You know first that he signed, but I have a
Speaker 2: feeling it's where if it's it's gonna happen, it's going
Speaker 2: to happen this weekend. If it's going to happen, and
Speaker 2: I guarantee it'll be some guy like Jay Glazer who
Speaker 2: has a relationship with the Joneses, has a relationship with
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy. You know, he'll be the first one. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, Fox will boom, here's your here's your news,
Speaker 2: and away we go. Nick. I do agree with what
Speaker 2: you've said though about Dak if there's a reason, you
Speaker 2: know why, you know, why carry it this far and
Speaker 2: not go into free agency and see you know where
Speaker 2: you're at. He's always bet on himself. He's always had
Speaker 2: success that way. But if you're always interested in reading
Speaker 2: tea leaves, this is the way that Jones is kind
Speaker 2: of operate. They'll kind of just they'll shut things down conversationally,
Speaker 2: you know, in the media, and then you'll probably get
Speaker 2: your result either we got it done or back decided
Speaker 2: that he's going to let this thing roll until March.
Speaker 6: So the consensus is, you guys feeling that if it
Speaker 6: doesn't happen, this weekend. At some point it will most
Speaker 6: likely not happen, even though he could potentially steal.
Speaker 7: Dak did speak on that yesterday and he said those
Speaker 7: those two can continue working. I will continue working. And
Speaker 7: you know, it's not necessarily a deadline. I'm calling it
Speaker 7: a soft deadline because yes, they can still t walk
Speaker 7: after that first week of the season starts. They can
Speaker 7: ramp up conversations during the bye week, but ultimately, at
Speaker 7: the end of the day, if you don't get something
Speaker 7: done before the season, you don't want to get back
Speaker 7: in the weeds of these conversations while the season is
Speaker 7: going on, while different dynamics are going on. There could
Speaker 7: be a lot of different nuances that happen during the season.
Speaker 7: I mean, who's to say that, you know, this team
Speaker 7: doesn't start off strong and then those conversations just completely
Speaker 7: go away. So in my eyes, yes, if it does
Speaker 7: not get done before Sunday, then we're looking towards free agency.
Speaker 6: All right, Well we're gonna ask they are on our
Speaker 6: tunnels and keep looking at our phones notification.
Speaker 2: I just if it's gonna happen, I could say, we
Speaker 2: always have these guys like the Shifters and and wrap
Speaker 2: reports that break it. Jake Lazer, he's he's due for
Speaker 2: a bomb and he's got he's got friendship. I say,
Speaker 2: what do you know?
Speaker 7: What do you know?
Speaker 2: What do I know?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: What do you know over there?
Speaker 2: Brian? Oh? I just I just know how, I just know,
Speaker 2: I know I know connections of people, right, Okay? And
Speaker 2: you know, Jake Laser, what better to open? You know? Open?
Speaker 2: You know? I think Fox has got the game tonight, right,
Speaker 2: don't they have it?
Speaker 7: We're not Peacock Peacock tonight.
Speaker 2: Peacock tonight. Okay, So it's so Fox is gonna you know,
Speaker 2: here we are Tom Brady National, all this kind of
Speaker 2: you know, hooplah, this is going to be a Jay
Speaker 2: Glazer bomb. Get ready, it's gonna be you know, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna report here the Dak Prescott's under count, you know.
Speaker 2: And that's and that's what's so I would be it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a it's gonna be a race. It's if
Speaker 2: it happens, it's gonna be a race between Glazier, Schefter
Speaker 2: and then Rappaport. I think there, I think if I
Speaker 2: had to handicap who has better insight? I would I
Speaker 2: Rappaport has really good insight, but I think he's got
Speaker 2: connections within, he's got the head coach, and he's also
Speaker 2: got the joneses. That's probably not good for me to like,
Speaker 2: but I'll point these things out because when these guys
Speaker 2: do report stuff, you believe it because I mean, it's
Speaker 2: not just you know, some guys gals might just throw
Speaker 2: stuff out there and you're just kind of like it's
Speaker 2: got novalidity to it, you know, or where did they
Speaker 2: get this.
Speaker 7: There's been a couple of those this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a couple of those where we've had
Speaker 2: to circle back and and you know, you guys have
Speaker 2: done a great job, though Nick and the media of like,
Speaker 2: and you don't want to you don't want to bash
Speaker 2: on somebody else's report, but if it's not accurate and
Speaker 2: you're like, wait a minute, and then you go to
Speaker 2: the source, say you go to Dak Prescott and you say, hey,
Speaker 2: this is now. You guys have open locker room opportunities
Speaker 2: to go up to me and say, hey, wait a
Speaker 2: minute here in this is this Because to me, it
Speaker 2: didn't seem like the right thing with the Cowboys, Cowboys
Speaker 2: wanting a short term deal.
Speaker 7: Really it didn't make sense.
Speaker 6: Well, what do you think is the main hold up here?
Speaker 6: The years? The money?
Speaker 2: I think it's the years. I think it's the years.
Speaker 2: And we'll see if if Dallas and before Dallas has
Speaker 2: always wanted long. Of course you want long. Every team
Speaker 2: wants long. Dallas is trying to stagger these contracts. That's
Speaker 2: been a problem for them unfortunately. I mean, they draft well,
Speaker 2: their players play well, they're players deserve contracts, and so
Speaker 2: when all of a sudden, it when you've got three
Speaker 2: contracts in a row that you're trying to navigate and
Speaker 2: you didn't stagger them, that that's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a that's you know, that's some bad luck along the way.
Speaker 2: But I just kind of feel like though that that
Speaker 2: they need They need years. You need years to spread
Speaker 2: it out to maybe give you the opportunity to have
Speaker 2: that ability to say, Okay, this contract, this year, this contract,
Speaker 2: next year, three years from now, this contract, you know,
Speaker 2: instead of when they come all together then boy, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's a difficult way to have to deal, but it's
Speaker 2: it's part of the And I don't think you can
Speaker 2: call it a curse because if you draft well and
Speaker 2: you have top players at those positions. That's you know,
Speaker 2: that's something you want to have.
Speaker 7: I could see an avenue towards, you know, these two
Speaker 7: sides sitting down at the table and being able to
Speaker 7: figure out why it does make sense for both sides. Yeah,
Speaker 7: if you're the Cowboys perspective, you're looking at it and
Speaker 7: you're saying, hey, we got a lot of guys we're
Speaker 7: gonna have to pay here pretty soon, and we have
Speaker 7: a lot of guys on expiring contracts as well. Would
Speaker 7: they rather be dealing with this DAK conversation right when
Speaker 7: free agency starts next year or would they rather have
Speaker 7: that number already solidified in mind so that they can
Speaker 7: go into free agency and they can worry about DeMarcus
Speaker 7: Lawrence Brandon Cooks also to use you with Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 7: Zach Martin if he wants to come back. I think
Speaker 7: if they know what the DAK picture looks like at
Speaker 7: that time, then they could focus on bringing those guys back,
Speaker 7: and that's something that they could take them negotiation table,
Speaker 7: even though it is something that they have to figure out.
Speaker 7: They could bring that to DAK and be like, look,
Speaker 7: if you want the best case for these guys to
Speaker 7: still be around. The best case scenario is that this
Speaker 7: deal gets done now so that we have six months
Speaker 7: before we can figure out what to do and bring
Speaker 7: these guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was something I think that we talked about.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we were doing show might have
Speaker 2: been shows there and OX started, we kind of were
Speaker 2: I'm saying, listen, I would bring Dak in and I'd say, listen,
Speaker 2: you're gonna win. You're going to win this negotiations. You
Speaker 2: have all the leverage. We don't have a tag, we
Speaker 2: don't have a trade opportunity, we don't have a lot
Speaker 2: of things. You know, you're you're playing at a high
Speaker 2: level second MVP. You're gonna win. Okay, how bad do
Speaker 2: you want to win? How bad do you? And I
Speaker 2: would have I would have and it's probably maybe it's possible,
Speaker 2: maybe it's not, but I would have brought him in
Speaker 2: and shown him a spreadsheet and said, listen, this is
Speaker 2: what our team would look like if you take this.
Speaker 2: This is what our team would look like if you
Speaker 2: took this. You know, and I'm not I'm not asking
Speaker 2: you to give us a break, but I'm just showing
Speaker 2: you what this potentially could look like if you want
Speaker 2: this number, and you know, some quarterbacks would look at
Speaker 2: it and say, well, damn, I don't want a quarterback
Speaker 2: a team that's just a shell of itself. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't want. I mean, you know, I need blockers,
Speaker 2: I need receivers. You got your receivers signed up. You
Speaker 2: know you're gonna have. You've got a couple of your
Speaker 2: offensive linemen signed up. You got a couple of young
Speaker 2: offensive linemen. You don't have to sign for a while.
Speaker 2: But I would have. I would point out that, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna win, but how bad do you want to win?
Speaker 2: And I mean when the negotiations of that maybe and
Speaker 2: it's and it's our fault. Yeah, we've got all these
Speaker 2: deals we have to do. We admit it. It's we've
Speaker 2: got this. This is what we have to do. But
Speaker 2: I would have.
Speaker 6: I don't always wonder how much of the sponsorships and
Speaker 6: commercials and things like that come into play. Yeah, you're
Speaker 6: trying to nego because that's not a certain guaranteed thing either,
Speaker 6: but it's a big thing. When you're wearing the star
Speaker 6: and the helmet and you're the Dallas Cowboys quarterback.
Speaker 7: I think that would be different if he was maybe
Speaker 7: going into his second country. I agree, going into his third,
Speaker 7: He's so established by this point. I don't think advertising
Speaker 7: is going to be a problem with it's because if
Speaker 7: you look at it, if he goes to a new city,
Speaker 7: that's just morey. Yeah, yeah, I think I don't think
Speaker 7: that should be factored in.
Speaker 2: As I think the fact that he has got such
Speaker 2: a pristine personality I say personality record. He's not one
Speaker 2: of these guys that you have to worry about him
Speaker 2: off the field stuff, you know, new Dad, He's he's
Speaker 2: a kind of spokesman you want. You don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about him driving one hundred and twenty miles an
Speaker 2: hour on the whole way and slamming into somebody or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But that's that's saying his his his his, you
Speaker 2: know his. He's pristine. When you start to talk about ads,
Speaker 2: and that's always going to be something. Whether it's yogurt, sleep,
Speaker 2: number beds, whatever he has to promote, he is going
Speaker 2: to do it and people are going to enjoy it. Now,
Speaker 2: I'll disagree with you on one thing. Does does marketing
Speaker 2: him as a Tampa Bay buccaneer or New Orleans Saint
Speaker 2: have the same luster that a Dallas Cowboy would because
Speaker 2: of the fan base.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably not, but I'm saying those opportunities would probably
Speaker 7: still present them.
Speaker 2: He'll still have the opportunities, but it's not gonna.
Speaker 7: Be for sure.
Speaker 6: But he'll be different because I've done I've been in
Speaker 6: that world of like you're doing modeling and commercial and
Speaker 6: all of that, so it would be different. He will
Speaker 6: still be making money and and getting contract and deals
Speaker 6: like that outside of that. But either way, that's uh,
Speaker 6: that's completely different than.
Speaker 2: It's it's very new. It's very lucrative for him, though
Speaker 2: it is. It's very it's very loose.
Speaker 6: Location I think does matter for sure when it comes
Speaker 6: to that kind of income in marketing and stuff.
Speaker 2: Like that, unless to the Jets, the Giants or someplace
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 7: The Rams Vegas.
Speaker 2: Vegas could be another one.
Speaker 7: See that's another one.
Speaker 2: No, No Vegas could be absolutely. I mean you look
Speaker 2: what you look what the Vegas. What what Mark Davis
Speaker 2: has done with the Aces, the basketball team, his ladies
Speaker 2: basketball team. Those ladies are given money to be the
Speaker 2: face of you know, promoting the Las Vegas area. You know,
Speaker 2: their team is going out and they're paying. You know,
Speaker 2: I think it does make a difference. So like to say,
Speaker 2: him as a him as a promoter for the New
Speaker 2: Orleans Saints is a lot different than Hi, I'm Dak Prescott,
Speaker 2: quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. That to me, I always
Speaker 2: remember Sean Payton tell me this, he goes listen broad Us.
Speaker 2: You know when you coach this football team, they know
Speaker 2: your name in China. You know that not a lot.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of places that that that's that's
Speaker 2: the case. You know this this is a worldwide stage
Speaker 2: that you're on at this place.
Speaker 7: I can almost guarantee you if he did end up
Speaker 7: in a different place with a lower luster for advertising possibilities.
Speaker 2: Which he's gonna make money, contract.
Speaker 7: Fair, but nine times out of ten that's probably going
Speaker 7: to be the case whenever you leave Dallas. But he
Speaker 7: has an agent that is really good at finding those.
Speaker 2: Oh no, there's no question, Todd.
Speaker 7: France will you can almost guarantee if Dak is like, Okay, hey,
Speaker 7: if I sign this, you need to get to work
Speaker 7: with this company, this company, that company I wanted to
Speaker 7: discount double check, like, let's just have some fun over here.
Speaker 7: But I think all in all. I was talking about
Speaker 7: this with Bobby Belt last night actually, and just get back.
Speaker 7: I know it's tough, and I was trying to call
Speaker 7: a high school game and we were just like exchanging
Speaker 7: texts and I was like third, third down. But anyway,
Speaker 7: I think there are a couple of things wanting to
Speaker 7: keep him in Dallas term. I think it's the locker room.
Speaker 7: I think there are some guys in that locker room
Speaker 7: that he truly just wants to be able to win with.
Speaker 7: He mentioned yesterday in his press availability, he said if
Speaker 7: winning a Super Bowl anywhere else would not mean the
Speaker 7: same as winning it here. He said, he wants to
Speaker 7: be the QB that wins it here. I think that's
Speaker 7: something that wants that he wants to keep here for himself.
Speaker 7: And then three, he is established here, like you said,
Speaker 7: he's a new dad. He's got this a new place
Speaker 7: up in North Dallas. I mean he's built the backyard.
Speaker 7: He has been established in this community over the course
Speaker 7: of the last eight years. How difficult is it to
Speaker 7: uproot all of that? Not really that difficult, But at
Speaker 7: the end of the day, he'd have to be comfortable
Speaker 7: going into a new locker room, taking over as a
Speaker 7: leadership in a new locker room, and like he said,
Speaker 7: winning it in a different place, it wouldn't be the
Speaker 7: same as winning it here. And how much has he
Speaker 7: truly believed that at the end of the day, whenever
Speaker 7: the dollar bills are in front of him?
Speaker 6: So well, you shall see. We're gonna keep playing this
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Speaker 6: Okay, so we're gonna talk about the inactives for the
Speaker 6: game or what we predict those are gonna be. But
Speaker 6: before we start, uh, looking at the practice report, the
Speaker 6: injury report. I did see Kaylene Carson. He popped up
Speaker 6: on there. He was a full participant. But it's still
Speaker 6: something that you're like, whoa hold on what? He popped
Speaker 6: up with a knee injury, but again full participant.
Speaker 7: What have you heard, Nick, Yes, so knee injury for
Speaker 7: Kaylen Carson, Like you said, full participant. We were able
Speaker 7: to see him in the locker room after afterward, and he, uh,
Speaker 7: he was walking around fine, He looked fine, and he
Speaker 7: actually said he was more worried about a finger that
Speaker 7: he was dealing with. He he had kind of jammed
Speaker 7: a finger during during practice, but that's it was not
Speaker 7: a concern by any means. And then we got into
Speaker 7: talking about the Browns. So he's he's ready to go
Speaker 7: on Sunday. He's talking about, you know, being able to
Speaker 7: have that opportunity to start in his rookie debut and
Speaker 7: take that forward. But something to keep an eye on,
Speaker 7: I think going forward. And if you're looking at the
Speaker 7: depth of that cornerback room, maybe a couple of guys
Speaker 7: that are looking around saying okay, I need to be
Speaker 7: ready to go.
Speaker 6: So well, everybody else on the list looks healthy other
Speaker 6: than John Stevens. We already talked about him yesterday. So
Speaker 6: what are you expecting the list of inactives to be?
Speaker 6: This is just more that's a fun game. I guess
Speaker 6: that we tend to do on Fridays. Yeah, ahead of
Speaker 6: the game, what's your list, Brian.
Speaker 2: I went this way. I went floor nooy Stevens because
Speaker 2: of the hamstring injury. Lance is your third quarterback? Well
Speaker 2: let's go. Wat put Duce Fawn on the on the
Speaker 2: down list in this first game. So got Duce Fawn
Speaker 2: inactive and now my final spot was either going to
Speaker 2: be Buddy Johnson or Mazzie Smith, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: go with boys is going to kill everybody. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Mazzie Smith as the inactive Okay, am I
Speaker 2: getting Am I doing right? Am I doing wrong?
Speaker 7: We won't know until Sunday. I'll tell you what my list. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I do like your list. I think i'd go with
Speaker 7: Buddy instead of Mazzi. Okay, but I see where I
Speaker 7: see your lineup thinking there. The only thing is, I
Speaker 7: think Mazzie starts, you really, I do. I do, And
Speaker 7: I think I think.
Speaker 6: I see your lineup thing. But actually I think he's
Speaker 6: gonna start.
Speaker 7: I think he starts. But I understand where you're coming
Speaker 7: from with that, because I think Mazzie's gonna get the
Speaker 7: opportunity here early in the season on early downs, and
Speaker 7: Lindvall is gonna have to earn it a little bit.
Speaker 7: I think he will. I think he will.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, I had it as I thought, because
Speaker 2: I thought they would start Linnville Joseph in this game,
Speaker 2: and you know him, and you know Phillips is the
Speaker 2: backup three, right correct. It's so you're gonna go with
Speaker 2: Mazzie and Osa inside of the tackles right, and then
Speaker 2: that would be are you going to start as the
Speaker 2: rookie is is neeling gonna start it right in?
Speaker 7: Probably not okay, that would be that would be where
Speaker 7: DeMarcus Lawrence is in.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna play You're gonna play Lawrence at right in.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, DeMarcus Lawrence at left in and then you're
Speaker 7: having mic over there.
Speaker 2: Rchah, we play the right see, because see Micah was
Speaker 2: talking about that zimmer He's like, he asked Zimber about
Speaker 2: you know that six technique. That sixth technique is you know,
Speaker 2: that's the guy that plays in the outside eye of
Speaker 2: the of the tackle and he and it sounds like
Speaker 2: that Micah was more interested in, like, listen, I'll play
Speaker 2: over there if you have to, if I have to play,
Speaker 2: But he was also saying no, he would like to
Speaker 2: play some inside technique, you know, stand up, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of play over the centers and the guards and
Speaker 2: things like that. And I didn't know how much of
Speaker 2: that six technique, of that outside that edge technique that
Speaker 2: he was going to have to play.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's valid. I think Nyland still does
Speaker 7: get quite a bit of reps in this game. I
Speaker 7: think if you're looking at Marshaw Nieland and you're looking
Speaker 7: at Demarvin Overshown, I think those are two guys that
Speaker 7: are gonna have very similar snapcouts coming out of this
Speaker 7: week and probably in I would guess like the twenty
Speaker 7: five to thirty five range.
Speaker 6: I would imagine so as well, because you got other
Speaker 6: guys that him play in there and like help them
Speaker 6: out and not put so much pressure on either of
Speaker 6: those two guys. But I do have a hard time
Speaker 6: I agree with your list, Brian, but I have a
Speaker 6: hard time imagining that they would just completely sit Mazzi.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, what where do we see? What? What was
Speaker 2: Mazzi towards the end of training camp? You know, it
Speaker 2: was like it was we had the we had the
Speaker 2: allergy problem. We didn't play in the final game or
Speaker 2: the second game or the second game. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, was it was it? Were they
Speaker 2: bubble wrapping him or was that just I'm saying it's
Speaker 2: legitimate stuff. Likely, I just didn't get the vibe that
Speaker 2: he was going into the start of the season with
Speaker 2: a lot of momentum. I agree with you and so
Speaker 2: I you know, to me if you're just if you're
Speaker 2: just doing this because Mozzie Smith was the first overall
Speaker 2: pick or not first for first round pack? Yeah, sorry
Speaker 2: my first overall pick, but your first round pick. Man
Speaker 2: and you and you mentioned the word earn it, Lynnville
Speaker 2: Joseph has to earn it, and I'm I'm sitting like,
Speaker 2: well did the starter earn it? Did the guy that
Speaker 2: we're talking about starting earn this agree with you?
Speaker 7: I'm not sure they do?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, they never agree with me the last time.
Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, I get text messages that tell me
Speaker 2: they hate me. So I mean it's it's okay.
Speaker 7: I think one potential flip that we could see on
Speaker 7: your list there. I like your list top to bottom.
Speaker 7: I think one potential flip we could see is maybe
Speaker 7: Israel mcwalmu instead of do Swan. I think that's potential.
Speaker 2: So you had you would you guys think Booth over mcwalmu.
Speaker 7: I think he would want the outside death more than.
Speaker 2: The inside death. See. The thing I worry about is
Speaker 2: in Djoku the tight end. How do you how are
Speaker 2: you going to treat him in this game?
Speaker 7: That's fair?
Speaker 2: Are you going to treat him with The one thing
Speaker 2: I thought with is he is he's got length, Is
Speaker 2: he's competitive? Is he will tackle? You know Booth? Booth
Speaker 2: is competitive too, and I understand the outside stuff with him,
Speaker 2: but I was a little bit more nervous about Booth
Speaker 2: when people were taking him vertically down the field and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. And that's the one thing that if
Speaker 2: you look at the Browns that they got a little
Speaker 2: bit better at. Was throwing that ball down the field
Speaker 2: that way?
Speaker 7: Well, the beauty of Mike zimmer defense, you probably have
Speaker 7: a linebacker that can step up for a Joku. Now
Speaker 7: you got the Marris Luafoul or the Demarve and overshown
Speaker 7: that could that could step for him with well, step
Speaker 7: with him in coverage.
Speaker 2: Is there any chance they don't dress one of these
Speaker 2: safeties like this wan Yer Thomas, And I'm sorry I
Speaker 2: should have looked at wan Ye Thomas, who's our personal
Speaker 2: protector on punt.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he has been in the past. It's been a
Speaker 7: different guy every preseason game. Feel a different guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what That's what I was a little bit
Speaker 2: worried about.
Speaker 7: Is proven to be super valuable on specialty?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so too.
Speaker 7: And the way Belle playing the preseason, I'd be surprised
Speaker 7: if he's in an active guy. I think they activate
Speaker 7: all four safeties. I think if you're looking at a dB,
Speaker 7: i'd say.
Speaker 2: Good when they're and then get yourself in trouble.
Speaker 7: I'd be looking at Mubu before I'd be looking at booth.
Speaker 6: Well, that is an area that they're gonna have to
Speaker 6: I mean, have a lot of guys to stepping in.
Speaker 7: Help for sure.
Speaker 6: So let's switch it up and now let's step into
Speaker 6: your little game that you have for us.
Speaker 2: Brian.
Speaker 6: It wasn't tough questions. It was more questions that make
Speaker 6: you think.
Speaker 2: By Brian. Thank you very much, Amber, I appreciate that,
Speaker 2: Nick oh oh. Last night, we saw in the game
Speaker 2: that that could have been a tie game at the
Speaker 2: end Baltimore. You know it came down to a toe
Speaker 2: touch that could have been a kick, the extra point,
Speaker 2: go to overtime. Same situation, Dallas Cleveland, Dallas gets the ball. Scores.
Speaker 2: Do you think Mike McCarthy goes for two in this game?
Speaker 7: Do I think Mike McCarthy goes for two.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's got a shot, he's down, he's down, he's
Speaker 2: down seven and he's got a shot to go for
Speaker 2: the win. Do you feel like that he's going for
Speaker 2: the win on the road in Week one?
Speaker 7: Does this also mean that the quarterback ran for one
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty five yards in that game?
Speaker 2: Anything you want, anything, you want to do to get
Speaker 2: the same. But the question is, does Mike McCarthy go
Speaker 2: for two in that situation if it was his team
Speaker 2: to go for the win?
Speaker 7: I think he's factoring in what's happened during the game,
Speaker 7: like does he have a play that can work from
Speaker 7: three yards out?
Speaker 2: Or has his defense just been gassed and they're not
Speaker 2: gonna and you play in overtime and you're not gonna
Speaker 2: you're gonna get, You're gonna give out.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what. If it's that same exact situation,
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy is the head coach of the Ravens. In
Speaker 7: that situation, he's going for two. Anybody would be going
Speaker 7: for two in that situation because the quarterback, the quarterback
Speaker 7: and the running back that you have, and the red
Speaker 7: zone threats that you have Isaiah likely Mark Andrews.
Speaker 2: And how about the fact that we all we've been
Speaker 2: talking about all week how Cleveland's not very good in
Speaker 2: the red zone. Yeah, you know that's an issue. They're
Speaker 2: really good on third down defense in the field, but
Speaker 2: you get him in the red zone, they give it up.
Speaker 6: So, I mean, one thing, McCarthy, he's shown not to
Speaker 6: be afraid to go for two.
Speaker 7: He'll do that.
Speaker 6: He's done that before they've tried, but it typically happens
Speaker 6: earlier on in the game. He's had this whole thing
Speaker 6: where he'd rather find out find out earlier then rather
Speaker 6: than later. So with that being said, I mean, and
Speaker 6: I can still see him making the decision too, but dang, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'll give it to him. I could see him doing it.
Speaker 4: I I think he kicks it.
Speaker 10: I do.
Speaker 2: I think he kicks it in places for overtime. But
Speaker 2: there's always the rule like when you're on the road,
Speaker 2: you go for the win, right, and then that's like
Speaker 2: the coaches, But then all of a sudden you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: go for the win, and then they the next thing.
Speaker 2: You know, you see this.
Speaker 6: It depends how confident you feel about your team.
Speaker 2: Well, you've driven the ball, you know. He's probably thinking, well,
Speaker 2: if I could get the if I can win the toss,
Speaker 2: then maybe I can get the ball, but everybody gets
Speaker 2: a shot here.
Speaker 7: Now, I'll tell you what if you could go for
Speaker 7: two by kicking a fifty five yard field goal, Brandon
Speaker 7: Auberty would be out there for fifty five yards.
Speaker 2: Every single time. Hey, g another Mike McCarthy question. How
Speaker 2: aggressive do you think he'll be on fourth downs in
Speaker 2: these games? Remember we've always kind of with Mike. It's
Speaker 2: always like, God, why is he going for it here?
Speaker 2: And then they get You're like, oh, okay, good, you know,
Speaker 2: and then you know, just how aggressive do you think
Speaker 2: he'll be in week one with his fourth down calls?
Speaker 6: I mean, there's so many different factors here that I'm
Speaker 6: trying to think of. I would expect him to be
Speaker 6: very aggressive and like try to set the tone and
Speaker 6: go in like because again we talk about the pressure
Speaker 6: around this year, you have to that starts week one,
Speaker 6: So I can't imagine him just being very aggressive with
Speaker 6: every single play and going for it and hopefully hopefully
Speaker 6: we can establish the running game and that can come
Speaker 6: into a big play there, and these running backs can
Speaker 6: help and make you feel more confident when making those decisions.
Speaker 6: So I would say he starts off trying to be
Speaker 6: very aggressive.
Speaker 7: Nick eighteenth. The Cowboys were in third day or excuse me,
Speaker 7: fourth down conversion conversions.
Speaker 2: But how many they have They had to be one
Speaker 2: of the top teams with that, weren't they.
Speaker 7: So they had twenty three attempts. Like I said, eighteenth
Speaker 7: in the eighteenth in the NFL. This is just a horrible,
Speaker 7: horrible list. I'm looking at right here. We'll come back
Speaker 7: to this, I think. I think again it's somewhere in
Speaker 7: the middle of the pack, because I feel like there
Speaker 7: were times last year where they were in the middle
Speaker 7: of the field and it was fourth and three and
Speaker 7: they're kicking it and I'm like, what are we doing?
Speaker 7: You know, there's an opportunity here.
Speaker 6: That's where I think. I'm like, you have what are
Speaker 6: we doing now?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 6: It's either you win or lose a type of situation,
Speaker 6: so freaking go for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a full of a coin sometimes I feel Yeah, Nick,
Speaker 2: I got another question for you.
Speaker 7: Throw it at me.
Speaker 2: Are you worried about the crowd being a problem in
Speaker 2: this game?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely. I think just the environment overall. You're gonna
Speaker 7: get that lake wind. It's it's an outdoor games wind.
Speaker 7: It's on grass. This is a different environment. I think
Speaker 7: the dog Pound is a little bit more amped going
Speaker 7: into this year than they have been in recent years
Speaker 7: for obvious reasons. And they have a healthy, somewhat quarterback,
Speaker 7: and they're getting a somewhat healthy running back back in
Speaker 7: a few weeks. There's a lot of excitement around Cleveland.
Speaker 7: I think this is going to be a pretty big crowd.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be probably one of the
Speaker 7: bigger home dominant crowds that they see all season. I mean,
Speaker 7: you'll see Pittsburgh in a few weeks. That'll obviously be
Speaker 7: a big challenge in its own right. But other than that,
Speaker 7: most road environments that this team goes and plays in,
Speaker 7: you see a lot of cowboys, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of cowboy They're not going to give up their tickets.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's going to be the case here
Speaker 7: in Cleveland. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Ag crowd gonna be a problem for this one.
Speaker 6: I'm not one to worry a whole lot about crowds,
Speaker 6: to be honest, that's not something that I take a
Speaker 6: lot into consideration, even though it's very, very important. But
Speaker 6: I will tell you this, all week, they've been practicing.
Speaker 6: When they've been practicing out here, you hear the speakers
Speaker 6: they're playing. They're practicing with very very loud noise that
Speaker 6: they turn all the way up, so they're training for
Speaker 6: it and preparing for this type of environment. And to me,
Speaker 6: I mean, when you're playing, this is just part of
Speaker 6: the game. You're a professional, and this is just one
Speaker 6: thing that yes, it could potentially be a factor, but
Speaker 6: I'm not too worry about it.
Speaker 2: Final QUI here for you. I'll start with you again, ag.
Speaker 2: If you were to win the toss, do you take
Speaker 2: the ball or you play defense? You win the opening toss,
Speaker 2: you get to call it, you call heads, you win,
Speaker 2: You're playing, you're playing defense, you're going off the defense.
Speaker 6: I play defense. I think one big key to this
Speaker 6: game for me is for the defense to start right
Speaker 6: off the bat putting pressure on Deshaun Watson. So you
Speaker 6: put in that pressure, make him be on his toes.
Speaker 6: And then also in the second half, your offense you
Speaker 6: get the ball and you get going. So I think
Speaker 6: it's for me set the tone on defense and then
Speaker 6: come back second half and you got the ball with
Speaker 6: the offense.
Speaker 7: I feel the same way. Yeah, I'm taking defense. Any
Speaker 7: reason why that same reasons here, the same reason Also,
Speaker 7: I want to be able to get the ball coming
Speaker 7: out of the second half, and this is going to
Speaker 7: be a rock fight, like you said, of a game,
Speaker 7: I want to be able to have offensive momentum going
Speaker 7: into the second half rather than starting out the game.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 7: I thought a little bit. I had to think a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 6: We had us thinking, all right, well, let's take our
Speaker 6: second break and then when we come back, I have
Speaker 6: another game for you, guys. Let's flip the ball, Brian,
Speaker 6: and I got you answering some questions too after the break.
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Speaker 6: All right, guys, we got the game filling the blank
Speaker 6: type of questions, so bear with me. We'll try to
Speaker 6: go slow so it doesn't get too confused. And the
Speaker 6: first one, the biggest factor influencing the game's outcome will be.
Speaker 7: The trenches. I have the trench work on both sides
Speaker 7: of the ball. This game is going to be one
Speaker 7: at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: I'll be different quarterback play, okay, because one is clearly
Speaker 2: better than the other. And you have to that that
Speaker 2: guy has to be They have to to me, they
Speaker 2: have to win that battle right there, because they're gonna
Speaker 2: the trench thing is going to be. It's it's going
Speaker 2: to be tough. That is going to be tough. Your
Speaker 2: quarterback is one of the best when it becomes tough,
Speaker 2: when it's trench warfare, their quarterback isn't and they they
Speaker 2: you can't. It can't be. Both quarterbacks play even when
Speaker 2: when pressure happens. They Dak has clearly got to be
Speaker 2: that guy. But I'm gonna say the quarterback, but I
Speaker 2: do really think he's absolutely right about the what's going
Speaker 2: to happen on this offense and defensive lines for both teams.
Speaker 6: Oh, both both things are right. Yeah, the most anticipated
Speaker 6: moment of this game will.
Speaker 2: Be when the first third down for Dallas on offense,
Speaker 2: because that's going to be that's going to be potentially
Speaker 2: when you're gonna have to see how they're going to
Speaker 2: handle Miles Garrett here. You know, that's that's where everybody's
Speaker 2: looking at. Is it going to be a chip, is
Speaker 2: it going to be a space? Is it going to
Speaker 2: be a one on one? All eyes are gonna be
Speaker 2: we we talked about this in the breakdown. Early down.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get a lot of man coverage from these guys.
Speaker 2: So on third down they play a lot more zone.
Speaker 2: That means more opportunity, a little bit more separation. Can
Speaker 2: you protect Dak get the ball out? We talked about
Speaker 2: the pressure he's facing. He's good against the pressure. But
Speaker 2: that first third down of the game, when it turns
Speaker 2: into it's a third and say seven, all eyes are.
Speaker 6: Going to be what kind of day are we going
Speaker 6: to have here?
Speaker 2: All eyes are going to be on ninety five for
Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns, and then all eyes are going to
Speaker 2: be on number sixty for the Dallas Cowboys. If that's
Speaker 2: the matchup you get.
Speaker 7: When Brandon Aubrey trots out for a seventy yarder, No,
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be when that first deep
Speaker 7: ball is heading towards A Mary Cooper's way. I think
Speaker 7: I listened this morning to A Mariy Cooper's availability from yesterday,
Speaker 7: and he spent a lot of time respecting Dak, respecting Trayvon,
Speaker 7: respecting Micah. But you can hear in the tone of
Speaker 7: his voice he's ready for this game. He wants to
Speaker 7: make an impact in this game. So when that first
Speaker 7: deep ball is heading on Mary Cooper's way, and let's
Speaker 7: say it's on Trayvon Diggs, that's going to be a
Speaker 7: highly anticipated moment for me.
Speaker 6: One surprising element of this matchup might be.
Speaker 7: Huh, you got some here, Brian.
Speaker 2: One surprising element might be Dallas. We talk so much
Speaker 2: about the about the Browns defense, Dallas has got the
Speaker 2: better linebackers in this game. Yeah, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: Corra Moore is a really good player, and to me,
Speaker 2: if they find if running the ball for Dallas is
Speaker 2: going to be there successful, They're gonna have to block
Speaker 2: Corray Moore. He's the one guy that will make the tackle.
Speaker 2: So but I feel like the surprising you talk defense, defense, defense,
Speaker 2: defense for the Browns, Dallas got the better They might
Speaker 2: not have the better secondary, but they've got the better linebackers.
Speaker 2: I feel like in this game, you know, Mike, you
Speaker 2: can put him at linebacker. I bet. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: really an edge. But I feel like that Dallas has
Speaker 2: got the type of linebackers that can play well in
Speaker 2: this in this particularly in this game. So I think
Speaker 2: that's a surprising. I think a lot of people aren't.
Speaker 2: I think people are giving him enough credit at linebacker
Speaker 2: if I think so too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm going to piggyback off of a point you
Speaker 7: made yesterday age Cavante Turpin. I think there's an opportunity
Speaker 7: to really get him involved in the offense this week.
Speaker 7: And if there is not any momentum that it's being
Speaker 7: generated in the running game early on, they they will
Speaker 7: need to get creative in the running game. And Cavante Turpin,
Speaker 7: I think is the first guy you look at. So
Speaker 7: Cavante Turpin, I think he maybe has one or two
Speaker 7: plays that will be big juice generators for this offense.
Speaker 6: In terms of game strategy, the Cowboys will most likely focus.
Speaker 2: On They've got to focus Scaret.
Speaker 7: That's what I just keep coming back to here. They
Speaker 7: are going to they are going to always know where
Speaker 7: ninety five is on the field, and.
Speaker 2: That's that's that's like a given, yeah, because it's the.
Speaker 7: Raining defensive player of the year. But on that same token,
Speaker 7: as you mentioned earlier in the week, and I agree
Speaker 7: with you're going to see him on both sides of
Speaker 7: the ball. Where do you where do you help? Where
Speaker 7: do you slide protection? I think it's if you're focusing
Speaker 7: on Miles Garrett that it allows you to deal with
Speaker 7: that experience in the interior a little bit more isolated.
Speaker 7: But I think as long as you wash out Miles Garrett,
Speaker 7: I think you can. You can win someone on one
Speaker 7: battles there in the middle.
Speaker 2: The strategy part of it. Could you say, on your
Speaker 2: on your side with Parsons?
Speaker 7: That does that mean absolutely?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You see because to me, you've got similar players here.
Speaker 2: You've got two guys that neither both teams are looking
Speaker 2: at it like, okay, when we look at the final stats,
Speaker 2: and it might not, the stats might not tell the
Speaker 2: whole story. But how effective was Miles Garrett playing? Was
Speaker 2: he affecting the pocket? Was Parsons affecting the pocket? You know?
Speaker 2: With their with their? And Dallas in this game has
Speaker 2: the better offensive line the way it's currently configured right now,
Speaker 2: with all the backups and all that happened to play.
Speaker 2: So your hope is that Dallas's focus will be Okay,
Speaker 2: let's make sure that we make sure that we take
Speaker 2: care of ninety five. But I think on the other
Speaker 2: side of that, the Browns have to be terrified. They
Speaker 2: have to be terrified. But the Browns have got some
Speaker 2: other guys too, Okawamau and and Smith, They got some
Speaker 2: other They might have better pass rushers than what Dallas has,
Speaker 2: But I don't think that their offensive line. I don't
Speaker 2: think that the Browns offensive line. They could be in
Speaker 2: some trouble with Dallas's rush too, you know, especially if
Speaker 2: Zimmer gets in a game where he's blitzing this thing
Speaker 2: up and he's attacking him with the linebackers and and
Speaker 2: and you know, with Micah and the twist stunts and stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was watching a bunch of tape on
Speaker 2: these guys that they have problem with some movement, and
Speaker 2: the Cowboys will they'll find ways to move up front.
Speaker 6: And now to finish off this segment, the standout player
Speaker 6: in this game will.
Speaker 7: Be I'm going Michael Parsons. I think he has a
Speaker 7: big game. I'm giving him multiple sacks. I think he's
Speaker 7: active in the run game.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 6: You've been saying all week, I have been saying other
Speaker 6: than I.
Speaker 7: Mean for the team, But I think I think Micah
Speaker 7: has a couple of those. So I think Michael Parsons's Scott.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at I got two and you guys pick
Speaker 2: which one you want. I think Jake Ferguson could be
Speaker 2: huge in this game against this secondary group, against these safeties.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're linebackers too. Will see how much they play
Speaker 2: and coverage. I think Cede Lamb out of the jump
Speaker 2: out of the blocks is gonna be good. I do,
Speaker 2: And I know their corners or you know, their corners
Speaker 2: don't give up much all. But this is this is
Speaker 2: a type of game where I think that Dak CD.
Speaker 2: I know they haven't had a lot of practice time together,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be like old hat for these two guys.
Speaker 2: They're gonna get it going early in this game and
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some key plays that He's gonna make
Speaker 2: and come up with some big, big plays. Dak's gonna
Speaker 2: make some quality throws and it's gonna they when when
Speaker 2: you're in a game where Nick's talking about a rock fight,
Speaker 2: what's the one way to keep you know, with the
Speaker 2: with the rock fight, it's it's tough, it's back and forth,
Speaker 2: that kind of thing. Big plays when you're fighting for
Speaker 2: inches and all big plays make a difference, especially a
Speaker 2: defense that's really really good. If you you can't move
Speaker 2: the ball on them by playing it by inches, you
Speaker 2: got to play big play football if you can. And
Speaker 2: I think Ceedee lamp Fergus and I think they make
Speaker 2: some big plays in.
Speaker 7: This game all right.
Speaker 6: Time for game day predictions.
Speaker 7: What'd you got, Nick, Yeah, I'm gonna stick to the
Speaker 7: score that I had yesterday seventeen thirteen Cowboys. Like I said,
Speaker 7: rockfight of a game. I think it's gonna be whatever
Speaker 7: defense can can match the intensity a little bit more.
Speaker 7: With this game. What it boils down to is being
Speaker 7: won or lost in the trenches. I think whoever wins
Speaker 7: that battle on either side of the ball probably comes
Speaker 7: out with a one in oh victory.
Speaker 2: Dallas wins this one twenty three to sixteen, and it's
Speaker 2: and it might be we might see some of our
Speaker 2: special teams being a factor as far as getting return yards.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of teams, like last night, we
Speaker 2: saw them kicking the ball in the zone. Put the
Speaker 2: ball in the thirty. Let's go. But keep an eye on,
Speaker 2: keep an eye on special teams. Special teams usually struggle
Speaker 2: early in the season. They don't quite have you know,
Speaker 2: the right man, because you got guys you're playing in
Speaker 2: the preseason. You're playing a lot of different bodies to
Speaker 2: see if you could play.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: You've got your starters playing this and sometimes you have
Speaker 2: some mistakes. Sometimes you have some you know, out of
Speaker 2: position guys trying to be here. I like to see
Speaker 2: what Dallas can do. They're gonna I think they'll take
Speaker 2: advantage of some maybe some punts, you know, especially if
Speaker 2: they get Cleveland a punt early in this game, reterping
Speaker 2: those guys. Maybe they could flip the field on some
Speaker 2: field position, get some shorter fields. But Dallas twenty three,
Speaker 2: Cleveland sixteen.
Speaker 6: Well, let's hope that's the that's the outcome. I have
Speaker 6: the Cowboys winning twenty seventeen, but I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 6: Part of me has a lot of hesitation because some
Speaker 6: of the things that I watched during those practices a
Speaker 6: training camp against the Rams, there were things that I
Speaker 6: saw that I just made raise an eyebrow, like, huh,
Speaker 6: I thought you learned too well. Talk about the red
Speaker 6: zone area and some of those passes that Dak was
Speaker 6: throwing and not connecting there where they just couldn't move
Speaker 6: the ball, whether it was rushing it or throwing it
Speaker 6: in the air. Again, very small little thing that we
Speaker 6: got to watch, and there were very good plays that
Speaker 6: they were able to execute as well. But it's just
Speaker 6: one of those things that you're like, we'll see we
Speaker 6: haven't seen them yet.
Speaker 7: In the press, c Lambak probably helped call those concerns
Speaker 7: for you in the Red US.
Speaker 6: Oh absolutely absolutely, So that's that's an added element for sure.
Speaker 6: And I'm with you guys, and with Brian that he's
Speaker 6: been saying, I don't think he's gonna miss a beat,
Speaker 6: Like he's gonna step in there and play like he's
Speaker 6: been here all along. But we will soon find out.
Speaker 6: Tonight it is the Eagles versus Packers that's happening in
Speaker 6: brass Sie up man, I'm not gonna lie. I'm a
Speaker 6: little jealous. That would be fun to be playing in Brazil.
Speaker 7: It's it's very interesting for all the reporters having to
Speaker 7: cover that game because Twitter is banned in Brazil. And yes,
Speaker 7: so all these reporters are having to get super creative
Speaker 7: about how to cover the game.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I noticed Instagram.
Speaker 7: Is it? I think?
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 7: I think if it were me, I'd be like texting, Uh,
Speaker 7: I'd be like texting tweets to a friend, like and
Speaker 7: he's logging into my account, be like all right, sweet
Speaker 7: this twenty bucks?
Speaker 2: Yeah great idea.
Speaker 6: All right, Well there you have it, guys. Thank you
Speaker 6: so much for listening and tuning in for this live show.
Speaker 6: We'll be back next week on our laughing at Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: He always asked me up uh for Nick Harris, Bryan
Speaker 6: brad Us, Chris Beam in the back I remember.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
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