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Speaker 1: happen in Carolina when Joe Brady goes from L s

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Speaker 1: U as kind of like a passing game coordinated to

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Speaker 1: be in the o C with the Panthers. I think

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Speaker 1: you have to look in their ranks because the game

434
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Speaker 1: is blending so much that I want to make sure

435
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Speaker 1: that I get the best out of the shan Wasason.

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Speaker 1: I think the best way to get it out of

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Speaker 1: him is to have some of those new school things

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Speaker 1: that he did in college available. Not saying that I

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Speaker 1: want to make him into the runner that he was

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Speaker 1: at Clemson, but I do want some of that r

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Speaker 1: P O game. I do want some of the easy concepts,

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Speaker 1: maybe some of the basic air raid principles. I want

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Speaker 1: to a blend of some of these easy lay up

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Speaker 1: opportunities to get and if I can't get that, then

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Speaker 1: I want the system that we talked about, the Shanahan tree.

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Speaker 1: I want something that is going to make the game

447
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Speaker 1: so easy for him that I know at the end

448
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Speaker 1: of each game, Deshan Watson is going to finish with

449
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Speaker 1: a completion percentage sixty seven. He's gonna have about two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards, a couple of touchdowns, and his

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Speaker 1: passer rating is gonna be at a minimal turnovers. That's

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Speaker 1: how I want to sound Watson deploy. So last year, um,

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Speaker 1: once the hiring firing season was starting to kick up,

454
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Speaker 1: I created kind of a dust storm on social media

455
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Speaker 1: and people lost their minds because the Dallas Cowboys job

456
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Speaker 1: was open, and I said, my sleeper candidate for the

457
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys head coaching job is Joe Brady, who at

458
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Speaker 1: the time, you know, and I didn't think they'd won

459
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Speaker 1: the national championship yet they were still playing, and people

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Speaker 1: were like, Cowboys are really going to hire a coordinator

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Speaker 1: from college to be their head coach. This is the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Well, I think I might have been one

463
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Speaker 1: year off and I might have the wrong team in Texas,

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Speaker 1: but when I when I look at this, But let

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Speaker 1: let's just go over the last three years of Joe Brady.

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Speaker 1: Tell me how it gets better than this. You're in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans with Sean Payton and Drew Brees, so you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're in that building. You're learning under that offensive

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Speaker 1: genius combination there between Breeze and Peyton. You go from

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Speaker 1: there where they've had nothing but offensive success. You go

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Speaker 1: from there to l s U. You have the most

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Speaker 1: prolific college offense. Colin plays the most prolific college offense

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Speaker 1: in history. Go underfea did win the National Championship. Quarterback

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Speaker 1: wins the Heisman quarterbacks number one overall pick, by the way,

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Speaker 1: a quarterback that was viewed as a third or fourth

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Speaker 1: round pick before you got there. Now you go, okay,

477
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Speaker 1: Now you get an opportunity of the NFL offensive coordinator

478
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Speaker 1: in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers team that we

479
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Speaker 1: would all say is in major rebuild mode. And all

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Speaker 1: you've done is get Teddy Bridgewater playing the best football

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Speaker 1: of his career playing lights out. You're competitive each and

482
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Speaker 1: every week. You're five hundred when nobody thought you'd be

483
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Speaker 1: five hundred Christian McCaffrey. And you don't even have your

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Speaker 1: best player. You don't have your best player. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, um, now now you've gone from proving

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Speaker 1: that you can. You know, you're learning under one of

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Speaker 1: the best in the NFL. You go dominated at the

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Speaker 1: collegiate level, and now you go get the keys to

489
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Speaker 1: the car in the NFL for the first time, minus

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Speaker 1: your best player for a couple of games here, and

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Speaker 1: you're nothing but competitive and putting up good stats, improving.

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Speaker 1: It's a very quarterback friendly system. Joe Brady's gonna get

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Speaker 1: a head coaching job this next cycle. I'm confident he's

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Speaker 1: going to get one. Oh he's gonna be in the mix,

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Speaker 1: for sure. He definitely will. When you look at all

496
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Speaker 1: of the things that are going and not only this,

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Speaker 1: and I think this is where you have to look.

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Speaker 1: I think, if i'm if I'm an owner, if we

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Speaker 1: talk about the quarterback position, what I want to do

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Speaker 1: is not only look at the quarterbacks that are playing well.

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Speaker 1: I want to look at the young quarterbacks that are

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Speaker 1: playing well, so you will talk about Joe Brady and

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Speaker 1: what Joe Brady is doing with Teddy Bridgewater as a

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Speaker 1: guy who was the first time coordinator. But I also

505
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Speaker 1: want to see, man, why is Justin Herbert able to

506
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Speaker 1: have so much success right away? Uh? Some of that

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Speaker 1: is the system. Some of that is also like the

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Speaker 1: people around them, Pep Hamilton's and Nick Ronni and those

509
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Speaker 1: those guys there too is done a good job. Like

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Speaker 1: like those guys are doing what I want to know

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Speaker 1: who else is doing that stuff? I mentioned Nick Ronnie

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Speaker 1: because the Indianapolis Coasts and Philip Rivers and the way

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Speaker 1: that they're playing um, the way that they've gotten Philip

514
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Speaker 1: to buy into a less is more principal in terms

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Speaker 1: of we're gonna run the ball, we can throw our

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Speaker 1: play action, We're gonna be a ficient and effective Frank

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Speaker 1: Rick has done a good job with this team. Of

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Speaker 1: the like, there are a lot out of candidates that

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Speaker 1: I think you can do it. I think the one

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Speaker 1: trick though, when you hire a guy that is um,

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Speaker 1: young and an offensive mind and those things, who you

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Speaker 1: pair him with on the other side of the ball

523
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Speaker 1: is really key. Ideally because way Phillips is out there. Ideally,

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Speaker 1: you want to take a young guy or someone who

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Speaker 1: is an offensive girl, and you want him to have

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator who can be an assistant head coach

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Speaker 1: defensive the adult adult in the room, the adult in

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Speaker 1: the room to be able to kind of do those

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Speaker 1: things you can bounce ideas off of him. He can

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Speaker 1: help you when it comes to commanding the room and

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Speaker 1: the structure and all those things. I think that is very,

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Speaker 1: very critical. But um, we're going to see it because

533
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Speaker 1: these young quarterbacks are beginning to play so well. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be another name Brian dave Ball. In the

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Speaker 1: job that he's done up in Buffalo, He's gonna get

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Speaker 1: a lot of looks. And I think of all the

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Speaker 1: things we can talk about Joe Brady, and Joe Brady's

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Speaker 1: success is outstanding, but Brian dave Ball, because what we've

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Speaker 1: seen over a three year period, we have seen him

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Speaker 1: take Josh Allen from a wild child prospect to a

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Speaker 1: legitimate m VP candidate. And you can say whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to about Josh Allen. We can talk about it

543
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Speaker 1: like I've gone back and forth on the roller coaster

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Speaker 1: experience that Josh Allen is. But there's no denying that

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Speaker 1: he is playing at the m v P level. And

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Speaker 1: there's also no denying that Brian dave Ball has taken

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Speaker 1: the new pieces that they've given him over the past

548
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Speaker 1: two years and found the way to incorporate them while

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Speaker 1: building up Josh Allen's game, Stefan Dick's whole, Beasley, John

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Speaker 1: John Brown, all of these guys around Josh Allen are

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Speaker 1: flourishing with the quarterback also stepping up his game. Brian

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Speaker 1: dave Ball is going to be in the conversation as

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Speaker 1: one of the head coaches. And also because the culture

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo is so good, like you just can feel

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Speaker 1: that tough minded uh persona and think that Sean uh

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Speaker 1: McDermott and Brandon being even still, Brian dave Ball gets it.

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Speaker 1: And plus he has the experience from New England and Alabama.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll be really prepared if he continues to

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Speaker 1: stick to who he is and what he what he's

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Speaker 1: been able to do. So the other name I brought

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Speaker 1: up the other day actually got some pushback on Twitter

562
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Speaker 1: from their fan base because they're not fans of them apparently,

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Speaker 1: But I mentioned Byron Leftwich and let me give you

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Speaker 1: my thoughts on that. Number one. He's been around Bruce

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Speaker 1: Arians for a long time, which I think is a

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Speaker 1: good system that's been proven successful. It's got a chance

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Speaker 1: now to have have you know, coach Tom Brady been around.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady sees what it looks like at the ultimate

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Speaker 1: level in terms of preparation and those things. Brady's playing

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Speaker 1: well right now. I give a left Which some credit there.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is I'm just always partial to you know,

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Speaker 1: head coaches as who are who were back up quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: If you look at some of the best ones we

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Speaker 1: have and some of the ones who are really good

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Speaker 1: at working with quarterbacks, a lot of them are former

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Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks. Is what it is. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: Cavka is a name that I love. I love Mike

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Speaker 1: cavco is the quarterbacks coach with the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a head coach pretty soon.

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Speaker 1: But Byron Leftwich Buck, I go back to the combine

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Speaker 1: that was actually my first year. I wasn't even hired

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Speaker 1: by the Ravens that I went out there and worked

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Speaker 1: the combine for him, and uh so I all the

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Speaker 1: combines have been to probably what ten Um his inner

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Speaker 1: view in the combine when he walked in the presence

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Speaker 1: that he had, the way he handled himself in the

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Speaker 1: interview was the best combine interview I've ever seen. So

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Speaker 1: that's my interaction with Byron left which consists of a

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Speaker 1: fifteen minute interview when he was coming out of college.

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Speaker 1: That's the only interaction I've ever had with him. But

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Speaker 1: it's stuck with me all these years later because this

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Speaker 1: guy had a presence in a command about him, which

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Speaker 1: is very important for a head coach. This guy played

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Speaker 1: the most important position. He's been around the game. He's

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Speaker 1: been in the league for a long time. Everybody that's

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Speaker 1: ever been around him, you go back to college, his

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Speaker 1: leadership was was lauded. I mean, just talk about it.

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Speaker 1: He had a long release. I mean that's why Byron

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Speaker 1: Leftwitch wasn't successful in the NFL. Was he was too

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Speaker 1: slow footed and he had a long release. But he

601
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Speaker 1: was always very very smart, very sharp. So I look

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Speaker 1: at guys like Doug Peterson is is long term backup

603
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have had success. Um, you look at a

604
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Speaker 1: lot of these guys around the league. That's you know,

605
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Speaker 1: Frank Reiks another one, you know, long term backup. He's

606
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Speaker 1: been a really good coach in the NFL. It's a

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Speaker 1: laundry list of those guys. I think, to me, Byron

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Speaker 1: Left which I'm bringing him in, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to him. I want to see somebody I

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Speaker 1: want to get to know a little bit better through

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Speaker 1: this coaching process. Man d j I, Um, I've always

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Speaker 1: been buying a Left which Fan uh maried his toughness

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Speaker 1: when he was coming out of Marshall. I remember the

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Speaker 1: game when they carried him, carried him down the field.

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Speaker 1: I think it speaks to his leadership building, his ability

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Speaker 1: to play with a broken leg and continue to kind

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Speaker 1: of get things and that that's remarkable for me. I

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Speaker 1: think his NFL career, I think you could say it

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Speaker 1: was like solid. You know, he started some years in Jacksonville,

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Speaker 1: was a long term backup in Pittsburgh. When he got

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Speaker 1: opportunities to go in the game, he did a good

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Speaker 1: job of getting him to the winner circle. Um. I

623
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Speaker 1: think um he comes with unique experiences because the Jacksonville

624
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Speaker 1: situation leading to the Pittsburgh situation. He saw the stability

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers organization having success there being paired with

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Speaker 1: Bruce Arians. Bruce Arians given him my opportunity to call

627
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: plays um early and then allowing him to be his

628
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator down in Tampa. He's been around Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: He has earned the respect of Tom Brady. If this

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Speaker 1: team wins like many expected to, he is going to

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Speaker 1: be there, and so he's great. In one last point,

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Speaker 1: I had opportunities just sitting and listen to Bryan left

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Speaker 1: which do a presentation at the NFL Quarterback Summit. This

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00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: summer prepared detailed Um. The knowledge that he was able

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Speaker 1: to share understanding the management of the game and understanding

636
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position leads me to believe that he will

637
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Speaker 1: in time really figure out how to put together a

638
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 1: team in a program that is successful. He absolutely should

639
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: be on the short list of candidates when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Hey, coaching guys, Now there you go. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see what the Texans end up doing here again, you

642
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: need to find a general manager and a head coach.

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Speaker 1: Um Dallas Cowboys, Buck Um, this is a team, and

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Speaker 1: we talked about it a little bit the other day,

645
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Speaker 1: but just when you go back and watch the tape, Um,

646
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: the defense giving up over three hundred yards rushing and

647
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk about you know was

648
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: this scheme related, No, bile, do you have any of

649
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: the quotes that we that that came out after this game,

650
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: because I know we had some from Jerry Jones as

651
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: well as uh uh Coach McCarthy. What do you have there?

652
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: So Mike McCarthy said after this loss to the Browns,

653
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: he's said, I didn't see an effort as an issue

654
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: in the game. If we had an effort issue, that

655
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: game would have been over in the middle of the

656
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: third quarter. Our guys fought all the way until the end.

657
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: And then Jerry Jones recently said on one or five

658
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: point three the Fan, when talking about Jalen Smith and

659
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: his effort, he said, I think he has been courageous.

660
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: I'll use that word right there. In his performance. He

661
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: gives you everything that he's got and then uh he said.

662
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 1: Also on the Cowboys and what they need to do

663
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: on defense, Jones said, they need to basically execute the

664
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: scheme and the plan and trust the plan, trust the scheme,

665
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: just trust the play, trust your preparation. That can be

666
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: challenging if you've got a new system. Go ahead, Buck,

667
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: I'll give you the floor on this one first. Okay,

668
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: So I understand some of that, right, I understand some

669
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: of what they're saying, like it's hard to play fast

670
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: when you confused and those things, but I think it's

671
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: inexcusable to resolve the players from the lack of effort

672
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: and the things that just show up on the tape

673
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: and multiple games. I'm looking at the tape and DJ

674
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: you pointed out a great a great segment on aftermath,

675
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: like guys not running to the ball, guys laying on blocks. Um.

676
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 1: The effort was lackluster at best. And the thing that

677
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm most troubled by is I'm looking at Treyvon Dicks.

678
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: All Right, Treyvon Dick comes from Alabama. Treyvon Digs knows

679
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: how a championship standing. He knows what it looks like.

680
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: And I believe that his play is already slipping because

681
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: he's seeing what's allowed to happen. And I'm I'm worried

682
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 1: for the young players that they have in place that

683
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: they think it's okay to play like this. It's okay

684
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: not to hustle to the ball, it's okay not to

685
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: finish plays, it's okay not to engage and try and

686
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: throw your body around and make tackles in gang tackle

687
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: and do all those things. And I also wanted to

688
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: understand the code because we talked about like, hey, what

689
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: stays in the locker room, like what said in the

690
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: locker room stays in the locker room, and that you know,

691
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: we don't air our dirty laundry out to the public. However,

692
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: I also know Mike mccarthon, when you ask a point

693
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: blake question about the effort, there's a way to answer

694
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: that question being truthful, so you can acknowledge what everyone

695
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: sees except for the coaches. Evidently that let mean we're

696
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: not we're not playing hard and battling back from those

697
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: deficits that they battle back from. Like that's great, but

698
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: a lot of that has been offensive driven. The offense

699
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: hasn't been the main culprit in terms of the team struggles. Yes,

700
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: they've turned the ball over, but it's been the defense.

701
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: The defense is near near the bottom of the league

702
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: in every category in DJ you've seen this. I mean,

703
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: just think about um, when you're playing high school ball,

704
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: when you're app State and y'all are running the option

705
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: down people's throat. It is a different level of of

706
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: of a tail kicking when someone runs the ball for

707
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,479
Speaker 1: three hundred yards on you like, that is different than

708
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: someone thrown for five hundred yards. When someone lines up

709
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: and they run the ball without their star running back

710
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: for three hundred yards, that is a problem. And when

711
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: you talked about guys being turtled up uh plays where

712
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: you've stopped the film and there four and five guys

713
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: on their back with their feet kind of kicking up,

714
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's just a problem. That's something that

715
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: you can't even I couldn't even accept watching youth players play.

716
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: And I think they have to address it, and nothing

717
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: is going to change until they talk about that stuff.

718
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: In the film says so Buck, we're both parents, and

719
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure you use the same word that we use

720
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: in our house all the time. That word is the standard. Okay,

721
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: we have a standard for our family and for our kids,

722
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: and that is the standard. I don't care other what

723
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: other parents are letting their kids do, what other kids

724
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: are doing, whether it's legal, whether you're allowed to do.

725
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: You know, this is the This is our family standard,

726
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: and it is here, and we're going to beat meet

727
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: that standard. And it's the same way with organizations, it's

728
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: the same way with teams. It's the same way with units,

729
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys have no standard on defense if

730
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: that's the case based off what we've seen, because you

731
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I can take other teams in the league,

732
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: and I can take Indianapolis and we've talked about, and

733
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: I can show you plays where they are there seven

734
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: eight hats to the ball on anything to the perimeter.

735
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: I mean that you end the frame. The whole defense

736
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: is in the frame. The whole defense is in the picture.

737
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: And then you watch the Dallas Cowboys lollygagging. I get

738
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: to quote like an old coaching or a phrase or whatever.

739
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: They're they're just jogging. There's no intensity, there's no urgency,

740
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: there's no effort from what you see from them, And

741
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: to me, that's a standard. Like you're either you're either

742
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: teaching it or you're allowing it to happen. So that's

743
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: why I'm not absolving the coaching stuff. I think some

744
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: people thought, oh, you're just putting it all on the players. No. No,

745
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: from a coaching standpoint, you can't allow this to happen.

746
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: You get pulled off the field with some of the

747
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: some of the chase efforts we saw in that game.

748
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: Get out, you're out I'll put some young kid in there.

749
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: Doesn't maybe he doesn't ready to play. At least I

750
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: know he's gonna run hard. He might not run in

751
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: the right direction, but at least I know he's gonna

752
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: give me effort. And then the other players. One of

753
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: the other plays I showed, when you're Aldon Smith and

754
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: you're on the back side and the titan has lined

755
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: up inside of you, the play goes away and he

756
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: goes to reach you on the other side. Okay, obviously

757
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: it's a reverse. Why in the world is he trying

758
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: to reach me right now? And he's got his eyes

759
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: in the backfield, he can see the action coming. You're

760
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: you're a outside edge rusher against the tight end. That

761
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest mismatches in football. Get your

762
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: head around the outside. You can't get reached by a

763
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: tighten at that point in time, and you you ideally

764
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: you want to be able to shut him and get him,

765
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: you know, get him completely off. If nothing else, you're

766
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna get your head around and you're gonna force that

767
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: thing back inside. He just sits there. Where's where's the

768
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: reach block? Doesn't even try and get through it, verse

769
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 1: goes right around him. And then once the ball gets

770
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: by him, he jogs to try and go down the field,

771
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: And like, how is this acceptable? Like what is the

772
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,399
Speaker 1: standard for the Dallas Cowboys? And if your head coach

773
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: comes out afterwards, and your owner comes out and says,

774
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: you know what, that what we saw, Yeah, that's that's

775
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: that's effort and that's acceptable, then I got you got

776
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: no hope because if if you can't see the difference

777
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: between teams that are hustling to the ball and playing

778
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: with ferocity and intensity and urgency, if you think that's

779
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: what that looks like, you've got no shot. You have

780
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: no shot. And you bring up the Indianapolis Coast And

781
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: the reason why I think the Coast is such a

782
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: great example. The Coats have two blue chip players, the

783
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: Forest Buckler and Darius Lennard. The rest of the guys

784
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: are I don't want to say this and being disrespected.

785
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of try hard guys, but the

786
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: hard guys that are just out there running around or whatever.

787
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: Xavier Rose was a Pro Bowl player, but he hadn't

788
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: been that player prior to arriving. But now you look

789
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: at the Coats, the Coast line up, They run to

790
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: the ball. They're physical, they tackle well, and part of

791
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: the reason they tackle well is because they get so

792
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: many hats on the ball Like that is part of

793
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: being a good tackling team. So you don't have a

794
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: bunch of one on one tackles. You make people go

795
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: one on three. Oh, I make this guy missed, but

796
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: the other two guys come in pop up and they

797
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: knock you down. That is why you coach it, that's

798
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: why you demand it. And I am worried about the

799
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: standard that is being put into place because I'm looking

800
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: at this and we're four weeks in, four weeks in

801
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: and we're saying this. I'm like, man, we have to

802
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: get is rectified. We're last. We're lasting so many categories

803
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: on defense that is a problem. The other thing with

804
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: the Cowboys when it comes to the affort, the effort

805
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: is mind boggling. And I get that. But I'm looking

806
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: at the scheme and I understand the conundrum that Mike

807
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: Nolan is in. When you can't cover, it makes it

808
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: hard to drop an extra safety in the box, so

809
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,800
Speaker 1: he wants to play cover for a split safety defense,

810
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: both safeties are about at ten or eleven yards um.

811
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: It's a pattern re defense based on what the offense

812
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: does that the safeties react a certain way when you

813
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: play that that means you're really leaning on seven guys

814
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: to stop the run. Well, it's hard in this league

815
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: against a good offensive line that is working in sync

816
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: to stop the run with seven and what you saw

817
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: repeatedly two on ones, double teams, they are knocking Dontari

818
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: po and those guys off the ball and into the

819
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: laps of the linebackers. And at some point, you just

820
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: want to see some fight from your guys. You want

821
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: to see you just want to see him fight. And

822
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: that comes from the coaching staff demanding urging, nudging, pushing,

823
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: replacing or whatever. And I had a coach say this,

824
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: if you want to defense that plays hard, just play

825
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: the players. They play hard. And at some point they

826
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: have to examine the tape and look at the players

827
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: that play hard and give them the opportunity to get

828
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: onto the field. Yeah, I mean, I I would just

829
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: say this, go go if you're if you're a cowboy fan,

830
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: don't take our word for it. Go get go, get go,

831
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: get an NFL game pass. Do do do three things.

832
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 1: Go watch any Buffalo Bills game. Go watch any Indianapolis

833
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: Colts game, and then go watch last week with the

834
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: Cowboys against the Cleveland Browns, and you tell me that's

835
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: that's all. That's how I finished that. And that's a

836
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: great point, man, Buffalo Bills, because they play hard, like

837
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: just just do it like. It is very similar to

838
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: me to watch in the NBA Finals and the NBA

839
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: teams in the bubble. When you watch the Miami Heat play,

840
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: when you watch the Dimmer Nuggets place teams that fancy

841
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: themselves as try hard teams. You see the effort and

842
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: energy that is exerted on each and every possession. And

843
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: we've talked about it. You brought this up and now

844
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: it's like one of my favorite things. Thoroughbreds and donkeys.

845
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: Thorough Breds and donkeys in the same staple. Like Thoroughbreds

846
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: expect the most, they have a high standard. They go

847
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: get us, they eat the right stuff, and that's why

848
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: they're thoroughbreds. Donkeys are jackasses, like they just go about

849
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: their stuff. And right now, man, the Cowboys look like

850
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,439
Speaker 1: a bunch of donkeys just based on how they fight.

851
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: By definition, you know that the you have to rain

852
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: in thoroughbreds, you have to hit a donkey on the

853
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: back side to get them go. Let's go. I'd much

854
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: rather draft players where I've got to rain them in

855
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: a little bit. Hey, we probably need dial that back

856
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, a little over aggressive there

857
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 1: versus trying to get somebody motivated to give you some effort.

858
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 1: And again, that's that's why you go out there and

859
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: you you bring those guys into your building. And I

860
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: think you even said something. I don't know if you've

861
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: mentioned this buck on the show. I know we've talked

862
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: about it off air about the offensively be be a

863
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: little bit leary when you're we're bringing in a lot

864
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: of veteran players versus trying to be younger and built

865
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: from within. Where again, to me, when you build from

866
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 1: within with your young guys and so you're older players

867
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 1: on defense ideally are guys that have been in your system.

868
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: You're not bringing in older guys. You might have some

869
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: guys from within that get older, but you're constantly bringing

870
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 1: in the young guys underneath them. But then you have

871
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: your standard. It's set and everybody understands the standard. You know,

872
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: we you know call it play like a raven, you know,

873
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: the raven way or wherever. But when you bring in

874
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of outside veterans at that point in time

875
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: in your career, just just share with the with everybody

876
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: what you were telling Yeah so so so. D you

877
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: getting a hodgepodge of people who already have the bad

878
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: habits form bad habits as a veteran player are in

879
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: concrete like, there's no changing or eradicating those behaviors. When

880
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: you bring in a don Tery po Um, Gerald McCoy

881
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: who was already hurt and gone, you have Alden Smith,

882
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 1: Um Everything Griffin who I like, you have a bunch

883
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: of older players, you have Darryl Worley. I mean, we're

884
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: now bringing in a lot of these older guys and

885
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: unless they have played for you in your system, unless

886
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: they understand clearly, like when when your mic knowing exactly

887
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: how you want it done, you run the risk of

888
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: it falling apart. Whereas if you have a young team

889
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: that you're developing from scratch, well you're their first exposure

890
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: into how the league it's supposed to operate. So when

891
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: you have them doing pursuit drills or where you're demanding

892
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: that they run to the ball and finish at the

893
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: ball and punch at the ball at every turn. That's

894
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: all they know because that's their exposure and you're holding

895
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: them to that standard. And to be a coach that

896
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: demands that stuff, you have to have the energy to

897
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: harp on it each and every play. You have to

898
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: be relentless in your demands. And sometimes when you're an

899
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 1: older coach, you've been in the league a long time,

900
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,959
Speaker 1: you don't have the energy to go about it each

901
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,959
Speaker 1: and every play to the man exactly what you want.

902
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: And so you have a bunch of different factors working

903
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys right now. I'm just waiting to see

904
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: if someone steps up, player or coach to help them

905
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: get this turned around. Yeah. Um like. And the last

906
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: thing I'll say on this is somebody brought up, you know,

907
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: scheme and effort in the difference between them, I would

908
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: I would uh strongly um convey the fact that if

909
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: you play with fanatical effort, you can cover up some

910
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: deficiencies and scheme. There is no scheme, There is no

911
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: scheme in the history of football that can cover up

912
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,279
Speaker 1: a black effort. I don't care you have. That has

913
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: to be where it starts, has to start with. The

914
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: effort has to start with the energy. Um, it has

915
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: to start. We've heard people talk about it takes no

916
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: talent stuff. It takes no talent to play hard. It

917
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: takes no talent to be a good tackling team. It

918
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: takes no talent to do the little things when it

919
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: comes to being discipline and detailed and knowing your assignment

920
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: or whatever. None of that stuff takes talent. Those things

921
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: are expected, Those things should be required, like that is

922
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: the standard of play. The other stuff like, man, we

923
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: may not be the most talented team, but man, if

924
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: you play hard, you can erase a lot of mistakes

925
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: just with your energy and effort. And so they have

926
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: to talk about it. I think before they can even

927
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: fix the scheme, it has to be about fixing the

928
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: effort and energy. This week, we'll see what the Cowboys do,

929
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: how they react to it, and maybe maybe, like you said,

930
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: maybe they just want to keep things in house. Maybe

931
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: they are having those discussions. I sure hope they are

932
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: um and don't have their head in the sand and

933
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: think that what they put on tape last week was acceptable.

934
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: So we'll see how the Cowboys react this next week. UM.

935
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: All right, last thing here for today, Trey Lance and

936
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,360
Speaker 1: the weirdest you know college football NFL draft scenario I

937
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: can ever recall. Had his one game season on Saturday.

938
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: I wrote about on NFL dot Com. I watched the

939
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: game on ESPN Plus on my computer. Um, he came out,

940
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: he was rusty, he missed some throws early in the game. Uh,

941
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: missed a deep ball down the field. Um, through his

942
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: first interception that he's that he's thrown in his college career.

943
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,399
Speaker 1: Got that one out of the way. So he had

944
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: his one pick, which I loved. Every was overreacted to

945
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,959
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I'm like, look, every once, every fourteen games,

946
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: you can throw an interception. It's not a big deal. Um.

947
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: But then he came back. Guy ran for I think

948
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty yards, UM. A couple of touchdowns

949
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: on the ground and you get a couple of touchdowns

950
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: through the air at the yard yards wasn't big. But

951
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: I saw a third and three or third and four

952
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: late in the game. They had a four point lead,

953
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: and uh, he had a deep out one of his

954
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: better throws, just a laser to sideline on on the money.

955
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: And I came away after watching that game and I

956
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: was thinking about, you know, as much as we've talked

957
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: about Josh Allen. I think he's well beyond where Josh

958
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: was as a college player in terms of just how

959
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: comfortable he is. Not his best game in that game

960
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: against Central Arkansas, when you look at the whole picture

961
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: with him, I see somebody that's you know, I think

962
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: he's close to forty pounds six three to forty. He

963
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: is a big, strong kid. He's athletic, he's got a

964
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: big arm. Um. We've talked to him. He's very intelligent. Uh,

965
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,919
Speaker 1: he's got a great work work ethic. From everything I've

966
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: heard from talking to everybody around him, all of the

967
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: pieces are there with this kid. If if you're gonna

968
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: overreact to his one game season, um, then that's your

969
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,760
Speaker 1: That's just that's your fault. You're you're not very smart

970
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: if you're gonna base everything off of that one game. No, No,

971
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: And I think it was a tough game. And I

972
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: think we talked about him when we had them on

973
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: how it's such a unique circumstance you have one game

974
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: to show everything, and he didn't acknowledge at the time.

975
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: That's a lot of pressure when you know this is

976
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: the one game audition for you in the National Football League,

977
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: no matter how many big games he has played during

978
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: a sign in North Dakota State, Like, it's still different

979
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: when you have the internal pressure of I want to

980
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: prove the scouts whatever all of the criticism may have

981
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: been leading up until the game. Um. I think with

982
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, I think this is really an easy evaluation

983
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: for me. I think when you go and you look

984
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,479
Speaker 1: at Trey Lance, let's just put him up against last

985
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: year's class of quarterbacks. Um, we we've seen Justin Herbert

986
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: was six two, a tog of but Lower was five,

987
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: and then we had Joe Burrow at number one. Well,

988
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: he's certainly in that top six range. I think. I mean,

989
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: you can put him right there with Justin Herbert right

990
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 1: now without even without even really saying like, let's do

991
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: a deep dive in his game. He's a much better

992
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,439
Speaker 1: player than Jordan's Love was in college. So he's top

993
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: ten worthy. Now it comes down to, all right, well,

994
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: let's go back and look at his tape, and let's

995
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: look at what he looked like last year when he

996
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: had a full spring ball, a full training camp, a

997
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: regular traditional season where each and every week he was

998
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: able to get better. Wow, this dude was terrific to

999
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: a touchdowns and the interceptions. Let's look at him in

1000
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: the playoffs when they needed him to step his game,

1001
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: but he made every big play. I am good on

1002
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: Trey Lands. I believe Trey Lands is going to be

1003
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: an excellent player. He has everything, and I think he

1004
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: has a game that is one of the unique games

1005
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: that can play in any system. We talked about the

1006
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: Shanahan system, we talked about the catching, run offenses with

1007
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: a lot of option football and those things. I think

1008
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: he is one of those unique players that you can

1009
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: drop him into any franchise and run the system as

1010
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: you have it laid out without having to make a

1011
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: whole lot of changes based on what he brings to

1012
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: the table. Yeah you want to run some uh QUB power,

1013
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: go at it. Yeah, you know, and do whatever you

1014
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: want scheme wise. So yeah, And to me, I think

1015
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: that the kind of the cherry on top was the

1016
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: chance that we've had to visit with him, and you

1017
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: can find that go back and listen to the interview

1018
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: we did. Just go through Apple podcasts wherever you listen

1019
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: to podcasts, and go find that episode with Trey Lance

1020
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: on it and listen to that interview. And tell us

1021
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: what you think. Because came across a very very smart,

1022
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: very mature, very tough believe in himself. You had, you know,

1023
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: big ten programs offer him as a linebacker and as

1024
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: a safety. Um, he believed he was a quarterback and

1025
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: uh and went to North Dakota State and proved it.

1026
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm in Entre Lance and we'll see how

1027
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: it all shakes out. Um. You know, I think, look,

1028
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 1: Trevior Lawrence is gonna be the first quarterback taken and

1029
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: this is gonna be I think it's gonna be a

1030
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 1: good discussion between Trey Lance and Justin Fields. That's gonna

1031
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: be kind of the race there for the number two

1032
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: quarterback in this class. I think all three of them

1033
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: gonna up going to the top ten once all said

1034
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 1: and done. Oh yeah, I think all three of them

1035
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: on top and out make a small little um prediction.

1036
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: I think all of them going to top five, like

1037
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: just depending on how I think all of these guys

1038
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: have the ability to um be Day one QB one's

1039
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: franchise quarterbacks. I think they all have the character and

1040
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: the football stuff that you look for. Um. I don't

1041
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: see major concerns about any of my I think it's

1042
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: just a matter of going to the ice cream shop

1043
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: and determine and what flavor ice cream you want at

1044
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: your quarterback position and going the road. I think those

1045
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: guys are definitely the first round picks and I don't

1046
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: think any question that they'll be gone early. All right,

1047
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: what's coming up in the notebook this week? But I

1048
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: mean I don't know. And that you brought into stuff

1049
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers and Matt the floor and maybe Aaron

1050
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,920
Speaker 1: Rodgers being the best quarterback to ever play, I think

1051
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: they have to lead up with that. And the point

1052
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: about the Houston Texans job being a good job, you

1053
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: know why. I know we can talk about the lack

1054
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: of draft capital, but when you lay out the things

1055
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: as we laid out quarterback left to ackle pass rushers,

1056
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: we talked about those marquee positions, Um, the coach can

1057
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: come in and really do some things and make that

1058
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: offense better. Yeah, and I think you look around that

1059
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: division as well, Philip Rivers. You know, last year or

1060
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: two for him, you've got Ryan Tannehill is good, not great.

1061
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: Gardner Menshew, that Jerry he's still out on him. I mean,

1062
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: you've got a chance to have the best quarterback in

1063
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: that division for a long time. As it looks so,

1064
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: um it managed to see what happens with that job.

1065
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 1: I do want to share with everybody. We've got some

1066
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: some kind of exciting news about what we're gonna be

1067
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: doing on Thursday nights with Thursday Night Football on. It's

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00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: gonna be on Amazon Prime, it's gonna be on streamed

1069
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: on Twitch as well. So if you just want to

1070
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: basically hang out with me and Bucky as we watch

1071
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: a Thursday night game along with Joy Taylor from Fox

1072
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: is going to join us. Um, that's gonna be fun

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00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,760
Speaker 1: as we get to kind of sit together and and

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00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: hang out watch a watch a football game together. So

1075
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: we'll get you some more information on that. We'll tweet

1076
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: that stuff out on a Bucky Brooks are at Move

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00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: the six. You can check that out. And we've got

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00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: tons of video content NFL dot com slash uh pot

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00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: or sorry, YouTube dot com, slash what is it? YouTube

1080
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,439
Speaker 1: dot com slash NFL podcast I would get that wrong.

1081
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: And then we've got NFL dot com slash MTS video,

1082
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: um so where everywhere you can find all that stuff.

1083
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: But it looks like I'm just getting a text here.

1084
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,359
Speaker 1: That Mike Clevinger might start Game one, buck, so I'm

1085
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,919
Speaker 1: feeling better about that. Uh, with Todds and the Dodgers here,

1086
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: you feel good about putting the injury guy out there.

1087
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: You want to put them on the mountain, like when

1088
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: the intensity is heightened, you can put them right out

1089
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: there and just see, huh, just give me, just give

1090
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: me five innings, manng you, I don't need you to

1091
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 1: rubber arm that thing into seventh ending, seven and eight

1092
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: are bullpen is good. Let's just get me five and

1093
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: we're good. See, this doesn't even feel This doesn't even

1094
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: feel like, doesn't feel like basic playoff baseball to you,

1095
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't even I don't know what playoff baseball

1096
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: feels like. I'm a I just I just feel like

1097
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: I feel like you're getting the cheated experience because, like

1098
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: one my estimation, playoff baseball should be played at night.

1099
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: It is a packed house. You can feel the intensity

1100
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: and energy like on every pitch. Like to me, this

1101
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: is when baseball season starts. And so I don't know,

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00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: I feel like you'd be in short chance. Any any

1103
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: kind of right, any kind of playoff baseball option right

1104
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: now is a good one for a Podre fan, We'll

1105
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: take it. However we can get it hopefully next year.

1106
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 1: There's fans in the stands and they can you know this.

1107
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: The good thing is we have a young team. The

1108
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: Dodgers have a you know, obviously the best team in baseball,

1109
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: and they're young. So I think this is the first

1110
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: of many. This is the first of many postseason meetings.

1111
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: Like like, I like what you're doing. I like how

1112
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: you land it out there, Like, oh, that's against the world.

1113
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: We don't have a chance. It's like nothing, We've got

1114
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: nothing to look, we've got nothing house money. If if,

1115
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: if we're able to do this, wow, look how far

1116
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: Just just just just know this, buck, I've set the

1117
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: stage where the Padres get swept. We're a young team.

1118
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna be back next year. We're not going anywhere

1119
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: playing with house money. But but I'm telling you, we've

1120
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 1: had a good relationship for a long time. If if

1121
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: the Padre, if the Padres somehow win this series, I'm

1122
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: gonna be I will be unlikable. I will not be

1123
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: somebody that you want to be around. I'm gonna tell

1124
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: you it could it could impact our friendship. You're you're

1125
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 1: already unbearable on Twitter, like I see no, like you

1126
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: live and die, You live and die with every pitch

1127
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 1: like I find it. I find it funny, like I

1128
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: find it funny as a guy, as a Padre fan.

1129
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 1: I can tell you this. I'm not a sword loser,

1130
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: because that's what I'm used to. I'm not a good winner.

1131
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a I'm a sore winner, like I can't

1132
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: I kind of cross over into that annoying obnoxious. You know,

1133
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm the guy whose team hasn't done anything in fifteen years,

1134
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: and then now I come back and uh um, you

1135
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: know we win one series and I'm gonna lose my mind.

1136
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: So you know that's coming this way. Oh um. By

1137
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: the way, I don't know if you noticed, but the

1138
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: tar here's a rank in the top ten in football.

1139
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if in the top ten.

1140
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: We haven't been paying attention. But we're eight nine. We're

1141
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: eight nine. And the thing I told you this is

1142
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,839
Speaker 1: a year. Wow. This year we bring home the crystal ball.

1143
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: When do we play? When do we play again? Next year?

1144
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: Maybe the year after? No, No, no, We've been all right,

1145
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: we got our win. I'm I'm a live off last

1146
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: year for a while, would be nice and loaded by

1147
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: the time we play y' all again. Yeah, when do

1148
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: you guys play? When you guys play a good team,

1149
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: we played Virginia take this week. We've always had a

1150
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: problem with them. Um so their best player ain't playing.

1151
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 1: He popped it out and I don't know, go ahead,

1152
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: they all the good players. Maybe my big runs out.

1153
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: I never know. I just hope that we're able to

1154
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: take care of business. But if we take care of business,

1155
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: we have Notre Dame modus schedule later and then Thompson

1156
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: would be in the championship game. So you played two

1157
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: good teams. You got two teams, you have two team schedules.

1158
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: Who have you beat this far? Who have you played?

1159
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: I don't know whoever's run out there? We play Boston

1160
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: College and we played Syracuse. It's a it's a hey,

1161
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: we can all you gotta do it? Way hold up all.

1162
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: I guess when all these kind when you don't have

1163
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: the big ten of the pack twelve, all you gotta

1164
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:21,439
Speaker 1: do to get in the top ten is beat BC

1165
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: in Syracuse. That's what you gotta do to get in

1166
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: the top ten these days. I mean, I mean they

1167
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: already respected that, like, yeah, let's see who else we have. Okay,

1168
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: so Virginia Tech. We have mighty Florida State. Oh my gosh,

1169
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: this is just team after another. Come off Forest. It

1170
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,720
Speaker 1: used to be a must. State holds us to Jacksonville State. Dude,

1171
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: uh NC State Virginia we have Dope, which is always

1172
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: a bit of robbery. Um, wait for us. This is

1173
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: a good schedule. Notre Dame Miami, and then we just

1174
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 1: picked up Western Carolina. The Catamounts never sleep on the academia.

1175
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: I think I've we had beaten Western Carolina like twenty

1176
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 1: years in a row, playing on the road. They had

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00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: Brad Hoover. Remember Brad Hoover played for h Yeah, who

1178
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: was that fool bag? Yes, Buck, I might have had

1179
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:13,239
Speaker 1: might I only want to look it up. I think

1180
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 1: I might have turned the ball over like five times

1181
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 1: in that game. We had beat him like twenty times

1182
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: in a row. I fumbled two or three times. In

1183
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: respect the Catamounts. I thought We're gonna roll right through them.

1184
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: There's like there's a like like temporary stands. There's a

1185
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: couple of hundred people at the game, and like this

1186
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: this team stinks. We've beat him a hundred times in

1187
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 1: a row. Brad Hoover had like forty nine carries in

1188
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: the game, and uh, I was terrible. We had a

1189
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: ton of turnovers and we lost. So yeah, I'm not

1190
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: a big fan of the Catamounts. Yeah, so if we

1191
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: continue to move move along the way, I may become

1192
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: a little more opnocious. I may you have that right,

1193
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: I've opened that door. I've opened the door for being

1194
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: obnoxious about your team. So it's all yours man, it's all.

1195
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,160
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Speaker 1: this was fun, So we get back at it on Thursday. Yeah,

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00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,240
Speaker 1: we'll be back on Thursday. Thank you guys for listening.

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00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 1: Thanks to the Bill for all your hard work. And yes,

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00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: Mark Brady, I do only talk about the potteris when

1204
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: I go on rich eyes and all right, we'll catch

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