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Speaker 1: your hosts, Mickey's Fagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and

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Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. Welcome everyone to another edition of Talking Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Always happy to be here, live from the SUBC Mortgage Studio.

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Speaker 1: And it is the bye week, but it is the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and there is news to be talked about.

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Speaker 1: So before we get to all of that, how are

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Speaker 1: you guys doing, Mickey? You look great in your gold?

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Speaker 1: Thank you go Tigers was the reason they were showing

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Speaker 1: cowboy highlights. Their h Rogers named Offensive Player of the week,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, the NFC he was how many times it

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Speaker 1: was the Cowboys defense? Now done that twice, girly one

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Speaker 1: two in a row. Nothing happened in Denver, right, Anderson

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Speaker 1: had to be proud of Now Anderson might go to

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Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl, though he'll be able to highlights we

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Speaker 1: see exactly, So maybe Brady through for four hundred yards

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Speaker 1: at point. Yeah, probably, that's a good point. You never know.

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Speaker 1: These these quarterbacks, they're able to just do magic sometimes

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Speaker 1: just trying to keep up with the current thanks events, yep,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, makey because some current events we have

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Speaker 1: going here. It is now expected that Nolan Carroll will

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Speaker 1: be released from the Dallas Cowboys. Of course, he was

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Speaker 1: a free agent signing for the team in this spring

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Speaker 1: after they had a lot of defensive guys go with

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Speaker 1: different contracts things like that. So Nolan Carroll released, It's

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Speaker 1: nothing has officially been said yet. You know, the salt

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Speaker 1: expected to be. He was not out at practice when

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Speaker 1: it was available about an hour ago, so they just

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Speaker 1: finished what's wrong about him? I was wrong about Nolan Carroll?

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Speaker 1: Why were you wrong? I felt no, only Carroll could

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Speaker 1: come in and give you some of the similar play

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Speaker 1: I mean Nolan Carroll to have this injury. No, but

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Speaker 1: that's still not the he you know, you look at

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Speaker 1: the Giants game was not an issue the but the

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Speaker 1: the Denver game was an issue even before he got hurt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so to me, that's that's bad on my part

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Speaker 1: to miss evaluate a player that you know, you saw

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Speaker 1: that in training camp when he battled Dez. I saw

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Speaker 1: good as where he needed to be. I thought Nolan

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Speaker 1: Carroll would play better for this football team. I can

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Speaker 1: understand what the scouts saw in him. And you know,

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Speaker 1: because I saw this a lot of the similar things

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Speaker 1: know that he played the Giants, he was very competitive

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Speaker 1: against Odell Beckham. You know, I felt like, hey, if

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you watch a guy and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you're guy going, well, he can't help you because and

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Speaker 1: I was wrong about him, because again he wasn't up

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Speaker 1: at it, though, playing all these young kids, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: If you want to play a Woozier, you want to

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Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, Bran, and I think sometimes

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Speaker 1: a picture to somebody out there, whether it's Talking Cowboys

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Speaker 1: or or Dallas Cowboys dot Com, you have to be

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Speaker 1: then and I did. I thought, no, only Carroll would

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Speaker 1: rob did? He played better than everyone expected as a rookie,

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Speaker 1: And then when they drafted all those guys, I said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it becomes an expensive bridge. But you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: have been Wickery than Nolan Carroll, A healthy Nolan Carroll.

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Speaker 1: That's the decision they made. We haven't seen a lot

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Speaker 1: Like Mickey says, it costs you money. I think he

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Speaker 1: that's what I was just going to get into, Robin,

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Speaker 1: practice soon, but Rob, I'll start with you first. Now

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Speaker 1: course we're seeing them have success at other teams, totally

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Speaker 1: different personnel, different schemes. But should they re look at this?

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Speaker 1: not overpay it. You know, Cedric Thornton wasn't a large contract.

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Speaker 1: But they've tried to be smart with it and build

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Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? Well, no, I'm just saying,

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425
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Speaker 1: good on the chords. By the way, as we talk

426
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: about this next week, Tay, I think your practice report

427
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: should be favorable. I want that, you know, I expect

428
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 1: that every week. Yeah, I'm just thrown off when there's

429
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: no football. Yeah. So, and there was another bit of

430
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,919
Speaker 1: news this morning. Um, the Colin Conny grand jury no

431
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: build the Damien Wilson case, so they declined to indict

432
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: him on charges of backing into a woman in the

433
00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: parking lot at Toyota Stadium and brandishing a woman brandishing

434
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:05,199
Speaker 1: a weapon not a woman. Yeah, so, um kind of

435
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: had a feeling that's where that was going, especially since

436
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 1: the Frisco Police Department declined to file the charges. They said, now,

437
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: let's send that to the grand jury and let them decide.

438
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 1: So they decided this morning about I guess it was

439
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 1: a little after nine. They know build him, so he

440
00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 1: doesn't have to worry about that, thank you. And still

441
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: no news worry about Simon Ezekiel Elliott's decision. We should

442
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: expect it soon. Yeah, I was. I was betting on Tuesday.

443
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: Missed Tuesday, didn't I missed the Tuesday deadline. So I'm

444
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 1: just kind of leading the league and be just probably

445
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: listened to talking cowboys them. They aren't going to force

446
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,239
Speaker 1: us to get this down. They've tweeted at us a

447
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: few times. You know, I mean, you guys are really

448
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: smart people. Uh what what if it goes on longer?

449
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: Do you worry? I mean always, I'm always I'm always

450
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: one of those guys about time. The longer something kind

451
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: of hangs out there, the better or worse. I mean,

452
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: people kind of read the tea leaves that way. I

453
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: actually think the longer it takes, it's it's it's better

454
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: for him, okay, because I think if it was gonna

455
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: if they were gonna rule for the NFL, it was

456
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,120
Speaker 1: going to be cut and dried. So they got something

457
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: to think about. Because normally when you try to do

458
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 1: these things with an arbitration case in you have a

459
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: CBA or a union, they're gonna rule for whatever you

460
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: agreed to in in collectively a bargain, collectively a bargain. Yea.

461
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: And now maybe they have something to think about, and

462
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe they got more important things to do.

463
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: I would hope they do, right, I'll tell you what though,

464
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 1: that to me is you know, it's it's it's something

465
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,640
Speaker 1: that you're like thinking during the bye week that maybe

466
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: you would get news on it. Yeah, but it's not

467
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: a bye week for well, no, no, it's not. I

468
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: was gonna. I was thinking they're sitting there eating there

469
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: a beignets this morning. I don't know if they I

470
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: don't know if the court cares about this, but it

471
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: would give the cowboys an opportunity to read group if

472
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: they don't care about that either. Okay, well, I guarantee

473
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,160
Speaker 1: the judge did say what last week that he would

474
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: try to provide an answer a SAP. But again, we're

475
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: on the courts time and it's not and it's three judges,

476
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: so you got to get them all together to decide

477
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: this stuff too. And everybody's got to write their own

478
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 1: little what do you call it, brief reef or everybody

479
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 1: has an opinion? Yeah, it could, you know, I could

480
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 1: one who knows. I don't know. I don't know which

481
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: way this. My gut feeling is just gut feeling. And

482
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong. I think it's going to go

483
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 1: badly here, as in he gets six games immediately and

484
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to deal with without him, and they

485
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,479
Speaker 1: just dismiss everything. Now the other option rights, they can

486
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: throw out the case in that jurisdiction and it starts

487
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: all over again and right, which I hope I'm I really,

488
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong, but I I just to me,

489
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: it just kind of reading into some things. It's reading.

490
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer, but I'm just reading into things.

491
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,199
Speaker 1: It sounds like there's one of these Appellet judges that

492
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: is really not either on Zeke side or the NFL side.

493
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: And then now about his decision, it will come down

494
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: to one one man's decision about this. And like Mickey says,

495
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: when you start talking about collectively bargained agreements, you know

496
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: that that holds a lot of weight. You know, the

497
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: players agreed to give the Commissioner's office the power to

498
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: be the final the vinyl say yeah. But also a

499
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: big thing that everybody keeps going back to is that

500
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: irreparable harm phrase. Sure, and they were asked again during

501
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: that hearing, Okay, irreparable harm, but you let him play

502
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: week one despite your claim that that would cause irreparable

503
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: harm to the NFL. So they have to figure that

504
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: they have to rationalize that to this Appellet Panel two.

505
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: And then the other thing is they pointed out was

506
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: Ray went through a whole season, right, and in the

507
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 1: question was what harm did that cost? So you're thinking

508
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: that you think it's gonna go for the side. I

509
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: think I think they're gonna look at this. I've being

510
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: wrong right now. I think they're gonna I think they're

511
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: gonna look at it, and what they have to settle

512
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: in their mind was exactly what Judge Amos kind of

513
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: pointed out that, Yeah, you have to go with the

514
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 1: arbitrator's decision, but did the arbitrator make egregious mistakes but

515
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: not allow they allow this thing to be That's a

516
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: fair and I think that's something they got to consider.

517
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: That's fair, you know, was the arbitration fair? Now? Did

518
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: you exhaust all avenues to allow them to plead their

519
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: case and they weren't. They weren't allowed to interview or

520
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: have the commissioner testify, to have uh lease of freel testify.

521
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,640
Speaker 1: And these were the people that basically and made out

522
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: testimony or potential testimony. Right. So yeah, I mean that's

523
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: what Mozunt ultimately ruled by exactly right. That they're right,

524
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: there were flaws in the arbitration press and now they're

525
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 1: trying to skirt kind of skirt that and say, well,

526
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: they filed this before, they should have been allowed to

527
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: file right, right. And the nflpa's argument was we knew

528
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: it was about to have If I knew my house

529
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,959
Speaker 1: is getting ready to get run over by a semi

530
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: do I have to wait till the semi hits the

531
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: house before I leave any and the analogy, No, that

532
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: was what they used in the court of law. Absolutely

533
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: interesting analogy. Yeah it was. It was. I was shocked. Yeah,

534
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: it's like you have to wait till the tornado hits

535
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: before you leave, you know. I was gonna say, no,

536
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: I'm not. Yeah, yeah, I don't. They're having problems in Napa. Yeah,

537
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: very sad. All my wine is burning up. Oh god,

538
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: Oh it's bye week here. We're all confused. That's awful.

539
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was so widespread. It's terrible, terrible.

540
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: It is terrible, really bad, beautiful part of the world. Hey,

541
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: by the way, did any of you catch uh the

542
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: uh opening of the Las Vegas Nights Less Night? I

543
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: happened to be and I said, oh, let's see what's

544
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: on this channel, and it just started there. It is

545
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: on TV for everybody. And that guy was a mating

546
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: in England. I don't know the Vegas players he was.

547
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: He was watching the stars. He was the guy that

548
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: we played there in the minor leagues and uh ended

549
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: up living there, getting married there, having kids there, and

550
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: he spoke. But they brought out all these first responders.

551
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: They brought out nurses, doctors, and each player led them

552
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: onto the ice and it was dark and on the

553
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: spotlight was I mean, it was unbelievable. And everybody, and

554
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: I'm not being p icole here, everybody in that stadium

555
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: that they showed they were singing the national It was chilling. Yeah, yeah,

556
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was an amazing And then

557
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: within maybe seven minutes they scored three goals. Oh no,

558
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: that's there. I don't think they've lost on a boom. No,

559
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: they opened with a beating them the Stars here two

560
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: to one. Not a bad not a bad team, not

561
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: a bad team for an expansion group, yep. But some

562
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: might argue that the Cowboys are headed to be a team.

563
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: Hopefully this buy is coming out a good time for them.

564
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you guys a few big

565
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: picture questions. We got into some different things yesterday and

566
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: there's still some things to be answered. What to do here? Okay,

567
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: So do you guys think that anyone besides to Marcus

568
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: Lawrence obviously leading the league in sacks with eight point five,

569
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: has had a Pro Bowl season yet on defense or

570
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: on the D line. I'm going to say on the team.

571
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: On the team, Wow on the team. And I say

572
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: that because last year, obviously this team had lined you know,

573
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: the entire National Football League with seven des Bryant and

574
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: Shawn Lee were alternates, but you know you had dak

575
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: Zeke the three linemen and uh Shaun Ley ended up

576
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: being there and des Bryant. I don't think the quarterbacks

577
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: got near enough credit. I would hate to see where

578
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: this I was gonna. I would hate to see where

579
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: this team would be at. The quarterback has not played

580
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: as well as he has. DA's been fantastic. I had

581
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: him on their back. The numbers, the numbers don't really

582
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: show it, but he's been under some some really some

583
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: serious pressure, especially with the run game not being that

584
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: run game hasn't been there. He's the team which was

585
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: very good at not dropping the football on him, has

586
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: started to drop the football on him. And so last

587
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: year they were one of the best in the league

588
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: when it came to those numbers. You had guys like

589
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley that you know you throw at his direction,

590
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a catch. It's not the Coles dropping.

591
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: But they've had some untimely drops in this game in

592
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: these in this season but I would, I would, I

593
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to know where this team would be. The

594
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: team might very well be like the Giants if in

595
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: fact that you didn't have Dak Press Scott, Yeah, playing

596
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: to the level that he's playing at right now, They're

597
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: just aren't many spots. And right now there's seven NFC

598
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with a higher passer rating. So if you go

599
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: based on numbers, you know, he's got a ninety three

600
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: point one rating. That's certainly very good. Leven touchdowns. Um,

601
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: but sometimes these things go off of statistics. Give it time.

602
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: There's a lot of time, and Shaun Lee was playing

603
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: awfully well until he got hurt. Yes, I think so too.

604
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: And I think the offensive lineman, I mean, three get

605
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: in every year. I think, especially on the offensive line,

606
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: you create a reputation for yourself. Well they need to

607
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: pick it up. Well, they obviously they do their point,

608
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: but I think all three of those guys still has

609
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: a shot to get in the Pro Bowl. Yeah. Yeah,

610
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: but I mean if you just said right now, week five,

611
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: but week six vote, the one I think of is

612
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: the quarterback not a Zekiliot, not yet not Yep. It's

613
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: just been Yeah, it's been tough tough, not not all

614
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: on him, not all on him, but you know, there

615
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: there's there's issues. You know, It's funny, you can you

616
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: can kind of go around the offense, the defense, even

617
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: special teams. You could go around and pick one or

618
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: two areas of huge concern. Yeah, you know, and if

619
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: you don't correct those areas, then you really, like Bill

620
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: Parcells would say, you are what you are. You know,

621
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: they really wanted to lean on this offensive line, like

622
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: Mickey says, it just hasn't played very well as a group.

623
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's not just the left guard of the

624
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: left or the right tackle. What's been worse, And maybe

625
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: worse is a hard word for that, but what needs

626
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: to improve? What has been disturbing? Well, what needs to

627
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: improve more? Is it the run blocking or is it

628
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: the past protection? No, it's really been both. I thought

629
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: I thought Dak has That's because I was just looking

630
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: at that. I'm sorry, Yeah, no, I thought Dak had

631
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: some cleaner pockets against the Packers. But you look at

632
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: those first four games, and he was under more pressure

633
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: than I can remember him being under last season. And

634
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: it's not like it was always pretty for him, but boy,

635
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: he has really had to move and duck and scramble

636
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: and stand in the pocket and take hits. And he's

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Speaker 1: done it especially in games. Even in that Denver game

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Speaker 1: where they were trailing, he would still continue to stand

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Speaker 1: in there and take hits. Um. But obviously you look

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Speaker 1: at the numbers in the running game and say, yeah,

641
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: run blocking has been an issue. This is the identity

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Speaker 1: of this football team is physical. Is the physicality of

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Speaker 1: running the football. That's their yea, that's their identity. That's

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Speaker 1: what helps their offense move, that's what helps their defense

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Speaker 1: stay off the field. All the things that we know

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Speaker 1: about this team, it's their running game. The fact that

647
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott can avoid I think can allow you a

648
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Speaker 1: little leeway as far as your pass protection. But as

649
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Speaker 1: long as they're running the football, you're gonna keep people

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Speaker 1: from coming after you in the in the passing game.

651
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Speaker 1: If you can run the ball. That they mean. Aaron

652
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Speaker 1: Rodgers got a huge break the other day. I couldn't

653
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Speaker 1: imagine if Aaron Rodgers had to play a game where

654
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Speaker 1: and he's had to a little bit this season where

655
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Speaker 1: they haven't been able to run the football and he

656
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Speaker 1: has just been him, they might have sacked him nine. Yeah,

657
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: there were there were. I mean they could have been

658
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Speaker 1: that way. Now. With that being said, though, I just

659
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Speaker 1: feel like though that the running game is really needs

660
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: that that needs to get going for this foot ball

661
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: team because he helps again not only helps the offense,

662
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 1: it helps your defense as well. It needs to get

663
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: going more efficiently. Efficiently, yes, because it's not sporadic. It's

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Speaker 1: like a thirty yard run here and then you have

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Speaker 1: two one zero minus one. Right, can't have those, right,

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Speaker 1: there's no business assistent. Yeah, it's nice to have the

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Speaker 1: twenty five yard run. We talked about it yesterday. When

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Speaker 1: he hit the twenty five yard run. He did more

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Speaker 1: six yard. He had thirty one yards over however many

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Speaker 1: carries it was, Yeah, it was Yeah, what did they

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Speaker 1: average on first down last year? I keep going back

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Speaker 1: to last year. It's a different season. It was it

673
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: was it was darn near five yards of carry. I mean, god,

674
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Speaker 1: that's that's the quarterbacks dream right there, to be on

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Speaker 1: the second and five every time and then third and

676
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: two or whatever you're saying. For last year, I think

677
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Speaker 1: I have it. If not, maybe Kent could look that

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Speaker 1: up for us. But now we ran on first down

679
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Speaker 1: or just average first down run first down running. I

680
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: felt that was really good. Five yards of carry something

681
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: like that. We can look. Yeah, you never felt like

682
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: they were really in a whole right way. Rarely Bryan

683
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: would say they were staying ahead of the chains. Yeah,

684
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: the change. I mean, there were only a couple of

685
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: games where you felt like they really struggled Minnesota Giants.

686
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: Struggle the Giants was a struggle. But and he saw

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Speaker 1: it offensively that what they weren't able to accomplish when

688
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: they didn't run the football. And I think the fact now,

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00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about what you've seen from

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00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott from one year to the next is he's

691
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: had to play clearly under more adversity this year. You know,

692
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: you look at more long down and distances, more pressure.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's had to make throws. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: that play he made to Bryce Butler third and sixteen.

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Speaker 1: On the play third and fourteen, whatever, I mean, you

696
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Speaker 1: know he's scrambling around, moving around, and then he keeps

697
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Speaker 1: his eyes down the field. I mean those are the

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Speaker 1: types of thing to play he made down the field

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Speaker 1: to Rod Smith. Yeah, those are those are the types

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Speaker 1: of plays you're seeing seeing those seeing him make. And

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00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: that's that's been the impressive thing. Again, credit the defenses

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00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: they've been playing too. We always we don't always give

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Speaker 1: credit to the other team, but the talent level on

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Speaker 1: some of these fronts that he's facing in the passing

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Speaker 1: game and then obviously in the run game has been

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Speaker 1: has been really good. Yeah, well, let's take our final break. Sorry, Mick,

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Speaker 1: maybe you have a question. They no I was going

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Speaker 1: is talking cowboys. And if we're talking cowboys, as we know,

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Speaker 1: we talk. And I think today's National Pizza Day, So

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Speaker 1: I can't think of anything better than to call Papa

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Speaker 1: some Papa Johns baking up holidays. Mick. Now, the guys,

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Speaker 1: I heard it on the radio this morning because they

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Speaker 1: They were debating what's your favorite topping on pizzas? And

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Speaker 1: so caught my attention. Yeah, yeah, well okay, so we

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Speaker 1: had some now here's you're a pineapple guy. I'll eat

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Speaker 1: anything pineapple. All right. Well, mister pineapple, so wrong. Bryan

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Speaker 1: Bronson used to this is an ended question. What question

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Speaker 1: an open ended Oh? Yes, so, and we can get

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Speaker 1: to that. We'll get to this one and then we'll

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Speaker 1: get to the pool which has options for jars have options. No, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's open. Let's just go. It's opinion based.

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Speaker 1: Just to follow up on that previous segment, thank you,

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Speaker 1: it says six point six yards averaging on first down.

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Speaker 1: I think that's passing though. Yeah, that's good for Russia,

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00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: but that's kind of where they were this year thanks

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Speaker 1: to that seventy yard run by Morris. Sure it was

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Speaker 1: a first down run, right, Brian. Yes, I want you

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Speaker 1: to tell me your top moment from the season and

774
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Speaker 1: your worst moment from the season, and what you can

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Speaker 1: expect more of My top a lot. Yeah. My top

776
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: moment of the season I think was the fact that

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00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: they were on the ropes at Arizona. That was looking bad. Defensively,

778
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: they were looking bad. They really weren't getting off the field,

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Speaker 1: uh you know, but then things flipped for him. They

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00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: were to hang in that game. That showed you a

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00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: lot of that game is a lot about the coach

782
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: likes to preach about toughness and fight and all that.

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00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 1: That to me was as good as you're going to

784
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: get right there when everything was going the wrong way,

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Speaker 1: you you were able to to stand tall at that

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Speaker 1: time and go get you win in a difficult place

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Speaker 1: to do. You know your season, you know the way

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Speaker 1: it was. But I think that the worst moment. I

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Speaker 1: have two but I I and you had green Bay

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00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: on the ropes. You really really yeah, and you just yeah,

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00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: you just couldn't. You couldn't finish the game. And that

792
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: to me is disappointing because it's not often you know,

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00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: when you when you got a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers

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00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: and you haven't beat and you just can't finish it.

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00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: That itself is disappointing. I think the Rams game, though,

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00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: really really really bothered me. I can understand green Bay

797
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: because I gut feeling I picked the Packers to win,

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00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 1: But the Rams game bothered me. For the second half.

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00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: They had the Rams dead to rights and they instead

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00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: of like they finished the Arizona game, they didn't finish

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00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: the Rams game, and that that that was disappointing to me. Uh, overall,

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00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: And it's it's not just I can't just point out like, oh,

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00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,439
Speaker 1: it's the running game, it's disappointing, it's the pass rush

804
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's it's the it's the games that I

805
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: think about, because they they they they had, Yeah, they

806
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: had the game at the Rams, and they also had

807
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: the game at the at the Cowboys. The inability to

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00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: finish this is troubling. I would say top moment holding

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Speaker 1: the Giants, and we know the Giants now are winless,

810
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: but to three points defensively, Wow, that you look back

811
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: at that game and you thought the way they tackled,

812
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: the way they kept got off the field really impressed

813
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: things going forward. Yeah, yah, that's whether they got to

814
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: get back to um. Worst moment, I would say just

815
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: the most shocking one for me is looking at the

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00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: stat sheet after the Denver game and seeing Zeke carried

817
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: eight times for nine yards like that, that's that's a

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00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: good It's just I would have never guessed that would

819
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Speaker 1: have happened. And they did get behind early and big

820
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: in the scoreboard, but that's just the total the polar

821
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: opposite of what their offense is about, and they've got

822
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Speaker 1: to avoid that going forward. Top and worse, Mick, worse,

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Speaker 1: Can I just pick the whole Denver game? The weather

824
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: delay really got to just tizzy awful got home later.

825
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: If I had to pick one play, it was the

826
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Speaker 1: muff punt against the Ramps because they were getting ready

827
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Speaker 1: to put that game away. There you go, Uh, this

828
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Speaker 1: is gonna sound weird, But I thought one of the

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Speaker 1: top moments. And I don't know if you would say

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Speaker 1: proud or what was the ability down twenty eight twenty

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Speaker 1: four to drive seventy nine yards in seventeen plays over

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Speaker 1: eight forty three and score a touchdown against the Packers

833
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: to take the lead. I thought that was maybe the

834
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Speaker 1: most impressive thing I've seen him do in quite some time.

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Speaker 1: That was right after the pick right now, Yes, but

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott has scored eight rushing touchdowns throughout his entire career.

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Speaker 1: I believe I will double check on that most updated number.

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00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: I'll look up. So you're right, Mick, And he does

839
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Speaker 1: score a rushing touchdown at the end of that, and

840
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: I was breathing a side of relief only because I

841
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: trust stats so much here and prior to the loss

842
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: against Green Bay, every time he had gone in for

843
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown, this team won win a game. Yeah,

844
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: in a game, so you're betting it. Yeah, you're pushing

845
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: the chips total eight totals, so yeah, you know when

846
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: he got seven to six last year and two this year.

847
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: He got the one against the one in the playoffs

848
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,959
Speaker 1: too though. Sure, yeah, so you know. So it's what's

849
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: really said is we've had more. I think we remember

850
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: the the bad times now more than we remembering the

851
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: good times. I mean Mickey's point about the touchdown drive,

852
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: what's what's gonna be That's gonna be a footnote in

853
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: history one day, seventeen plays and all this. If you

854
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: win the game, that's legend. That's that becomes a legendary drive.

855
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: They still talk about drives. And I know it was

856
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: a playoff game in Denver and on l Way in

857
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: Cleveland and all that, but they still remember drives. You know,

858
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: they remember the drive. It in Denver, and but you know,

859
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: you could have, if you could have pulled that victory off,

860
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: you could have remembered this one. As you know, one

861
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: day in Cowboys, you know, somebody will be talking talking Cowboys.

862
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: I'll be at a lake somewhere and someone will be

863
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: saying how about that drive they had that time against

864
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: against the Packers that want you know, Rogers off the field. Yeah,

865
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: cap Rogers off the field. And yeah, as I think

866
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: and talking to some fans, that game is going to

867
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: be one of the more memorable ones for the just

868
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: high low high right, the emotional roller coaster. It was

869
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: people were just worn out. Oh I know about when

870
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: on set I was worn out. The playoff game was

871
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: like that too, right, I thought. I thought the playoff

872
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: game even more so because they were down early. Yeah,

873
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: but it was a constant day we care, we come,

874
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: here we come. This one was here we come, there,

875
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: we go, here, we come, there we go and then

876
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: the innerception and then you come back and do that,

877
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: and then they come back and do that. I bet

878
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: people were just emotionally spent after that game. It's tough,

879
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: and it's tough think about the coaches and the players

880
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: and the front office and all that. I mean, I

881
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: you know that that I have experienced myself. But afterwards

882
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: I just couldn't, you know. And we were worth less?

883
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: Miles and he was. He kept saying, your less was

884
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: his coach, Miles was. He kept saying, think about the

885
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: coaches here, think about the players here, think about you

886
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: know it just the the peaks and valleys that they

887
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: had to roll through in that game and see and

888
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: that was one of them so much invested in it

889
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: and bringing that up. That's what I was concerned about

890
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: the team, right, recovering from that, right, because that's tough.

891
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: It is now maybe the buy kind of smoothed that out.

892
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: You know, you got time to not have to get

893
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: back to practice today and get ready for the next game, right,

894
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: But the emotional roller coaster can wear a team out,

895
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: and you got to hope that you can get over that.

896
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: Baggies after the UCLA game, they didn't exactly come out

897
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: with fire the next week here. Yeah, it takes a

898
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: little while to get over something that's hard. Yeah, well

899
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:05,720
Speaker 1: against Alabama though, Well what about your poll though, Robert,

900
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: that's always fire. Thank you day I voted you did. Yeah,

901
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: so the poll today, it was something we talked about yesterday. Yeah,

902
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the show. You know, if you

903
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: could point to one particular aspect of this team that

904
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: needs improvement or that you could improve, what would be

905
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: and coming out of the buy and there's four options.

906
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 1: Pass protection, run game, run defense, or takeaways defensively, would

907
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: you have Day said takeaways takeaways? Because there are two

908
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: touchdowns behind your opponents without any takeaways. Yeah, you're the

909
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: bottom of the lead scoring defense they have four through

910
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: five games. Brian thoughts, I'll tell you what I would

911
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: like to see the run defense approof. I really would.

912
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: I think teams, if this team could just somehow find

913
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: a way to play better on first and second down.

914
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: I went up and looked up some numbers as well.

915
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: I just trying to learn. But teams are averaging almost

916
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: six yards to carry on second down. You know which

917
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: is which is near the bottom for the cow near

918
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: the bottom for any team in the league. So I

919
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: think run defense has been just as much of a

920
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: of a problem and needs to be corrected as quickly

921
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: as possible. I would say run defense as well, because

922
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: it spills over to the offense. Get your offense back

923
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: on the field and try to get them in a

924
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: rhythm with their own run game. Mickey got a vote. Oh,

925
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: I'm with Brian. Run defense. Yeah, And I was just

926
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: trying to look up, so what three of the next

927
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: four games are on the road, right, So San Francisco

928
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: they're they're running offense. Yeah, they're twentieth, Kansas City. We

929
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: got Washington after that, okay, Washington, and then Casey Washington seventh,

930
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: Kansas City second, and then what's after that, Atlanta, Atlanta

931
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 1: third eye. Yeah, so they're got some teams that run

932
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: and throw the ball awfully. Well, you know, it's just

933
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: got to stop one facet. It's kind of like San Francisco,

934
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: even though their twentieth he thought Green Bay was near

935
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: the bottom of the trip. But hopefully again Shawn Lee,

936
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 1: Anthony Hitchins and you're sitting there going oh, and they're

937
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: top two running backs are out. Yeah, and then Aaron Jones, Yeah,

938
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: lights you up. Yea, the great Aaron Jones. I'll see

939
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: you what the old passo Texas. The turnout the turnovers, though,

940
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,280
Speaker 1: is an interest. That's a good one. That the turnovers

941
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: are interesting because look what, look what's happened when the

942
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: Cowboys have turned over the ball? You know, I mean

943
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: that you know, Denver was a that pick six was

944
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: bad and that you know, you're trying to rally there,

945
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 1: but that was a huge play in the game. The

946
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: other day. They just have you know, I mean, you're

947
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: turning over the ball and but you're not getting anything back. Well,

948
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: look at that muffed punt. Yeah, the muff punt. May's right,

949
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: I mean that that those are just huge. Turn that

950
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: whole game a walk around around. Sound you vote? That's right? Well,

951
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I mean, what if the

952
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys had gotten a turnover in that one minute thirteen? Well,

953
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: see that's Obsand yeah, if you've got if you got

954
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: the interstand or maybe standards on the blitz and he

955
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: goes up and it's kind of tipping the ball, he

956
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: somehow catches that ball or you know, somehow you get

957
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: one of the sacks becomes you know, fumble, sack fumble.

958
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we know Rogers he gets hit and he

959
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: doesn't fumble, but howbut just keep the guys in bound. Yeah, yeah,

960
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: well we're on the right track. Fifty percent said run defense,

961
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 1: thirty one percent said takeaways. Okay, did you vote? Would

962
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: you vote? I didn't vote the run defense would make sense. Choice.

963
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: Yet where you lie? That's where I lie. It's where

964
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: I stand. Well he doesn't lie. Yeah, Robert is one

965
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: of the most enterous guys here, I believe so. But oh,

966
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: thanks Day, It's just it's I think you're right, Brian.

967
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: You know, you said a great point. When you're sitting

968
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: here at two and three and the Cowboys have had

969
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: bad losses to the Broncos, the Rams, and the Packers,

970
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: you're thinking more about the bad things than the good.

971
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: Sure out, I mean the last time, the last time

972
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: it buy for the Cowboys last year they were five

973
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: and one. Think about that. We weren't we weren't talking

974
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: Cowboys at lambeau Fied. Yeah, exactly, so think you know, Yeah,

975
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: you're in a situation where you're thinking a lot differently

976
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 1: about your football team. But they've they've got issues. They've

977
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: got issues on the run defense, they've got issues on

978
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: the offensive line with their ability to be complete run

979
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: or pass. They've struggled getting open wide receivers. They've had

980
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: some bad drops, you know. I mean, it's just been

981
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: a lot of inconsistencies. Is why you're the two and

982
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: three you are right now? Is the thing He's right like,

983
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,959
Speaker 1: it's not a flukey play here or there. It's there's

984
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: a body of work here. Over five games, they've struggled

985
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: with certain things and it's got to get better. And

986
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: that's what this bye week partially is for, is it

987
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 1: try to clean up some of the stuff and selfis

988
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: out yourself. Well yeah, fortunately they don't. You only have

989
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: two practices. Yeah, but you know, and maybe it's just

990
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: getting away. Like I mean, they showed up this morning.

991
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: They had a planned team meeting at seven thirty to

992
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: eight o'clock. Um, that was on the schedule on Thursday.

993
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:07,240
Speaker 1: They have one after practice. Was on the schedule since Thursday.

994
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: And then you know tomorrow that it's early and then

995
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: they're gone. Maybe it's just a mental break they'll make. Yeah,

996
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: four days, you gotta have four days in a row. Yeah,

997
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 1: you have four days in a row, including the weekends.

998
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: And so were mail back Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Mondays

999
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: that four days in a row, unlike what built parselves

1000
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: would pull. Yeah, he'd practice, give him, he'd give him Monday,

1001
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday off and say, oh yeah, we're going

1002
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: to practice Friday and I think on Saturday. So if

1003
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: you're leaving town to go to the old Alma Mater,

1004
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay a full fare on the airline.

1005
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 1: Not fun, not fun, But it is fun around here

1006
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: to to have this job, to be able to look

1007
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: at this because we will go and talk to these

1008
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: players at one PM. Don't know how many will be

1009
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: in there, but the locker rooms is going to be

1010
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: guys empty. Do you really do you think? Do you

1011
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: think I think it's gonna be mostly empty. I think

1012
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: there'll be a couple of the team leaders in there.

1013
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: And the reason I brought up that team meeting was

1014
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: like because it sounded like something. That's when they had

1015
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: their talk out. There was reporting that they had an

1016
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: emergency team meeting, sure discuss all this stuff was schedule,

1017
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: That thing was planned since Thursday. So the players, yeah,

1018
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, not only you're fighting the

1019
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 1: record to be in two and three, but your own

1020
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 1: your own feelings forever for Yeah, for the I mean,

1021
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: maybe it's a good thing and it's happening during the

1022
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 1: bye week. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's just not distracting

1023
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: you preparing absolutely for a game. Absolutely. Yeah. You look

1024
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: at some of these guys, like Bryce Butler was on

1025
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: NFL Network the other day, and they're able to kind

1026
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,399
Speaker 1: of break away. A lot of these guys were golfing. Now, yeah,

1027
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: they've all picked up golf. Dak Prescott, Tyron Crawford, Bryce Butler.

1028
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: You know, and I think and I don't want to

1029
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: get into this. But I think the good thing is

1030
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: is that the owners are meeting on Tuesday as as

1031
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,280
Speaker 1: a league, and they're gonna in New York, I assume,

1032
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: and they're going to come up with a policy to

1033
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: make it uniform for every everybody here you go, and

1034
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: then there's no, oh, we're doing this, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

1035
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 1: it'll be a unified thing what the league decides to do.

1036
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: And I think that's what needed to We need a

1037
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: long time. Give me some directions, that's all it needs. Well,

1038
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: I like what you guys are saying. We have a

1039
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: few minutes left, So why don't you say the one

1040
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 1: player because we've talked about what they need to improve over.

1041
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: But who's the one player that you think can benefit

1042
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: most from these four days off? I'll go with Sean Lee.

1043
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: Maybe that's an obvious one, but I think they need

1044
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: him back so badly, and I think an extra week

1045
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,839
Speaker 1: just for a veteran like him, it's just a little

1046
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: extra time to make sure that hamstrings right because you

1047
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: need him back against San Francisco. Jaln Smith, Now go ahead,

1048
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith. Reset button. Yeah, let him hit the reset button.

1049
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: It'll be good for him. Just to get away from

1050
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,479
Speaker 1: this for a little bit, you know. I mean, there's

1051
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: he's he's played the best he could under his condition,

1052
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe a little rests will allow him

1053
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: to heal up a little more. You'll feel about one

1054
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: of the most positive guys as you'll ever be around

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Speaker 1: in your life. And you know, but I think he

1056
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: needs to take a little break and kind of re

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Speaker 1: evaluate and see where he's at it. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a great thing that we're gonna get Shawn Lee and

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Speaker 1: Anthony Hitchins back, because him in a rotation should be

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Speaker 1: pretty good. But it's him as a full time starter

1061
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Speaker 1: for sixty plays a game. I think that's asking a

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Speaker 1: lot for him. And in twenty eighteen, load up the wagon.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, I think you just need to. Now they're

1064
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Speaker 1: not putting him out there hurt, but he's having it's

1065
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Speaker 1: having to play a ton and I think that's hurting

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Speaker 1: his performance. I think it frustrates him. It does. It

1067
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Speaker 1: absolutely does. And he doesn't let on. He's never gonna

1068
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: let you know he's mad, but you can just kind

1069
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Speaker 1: of tell his body language in the field that he

1070
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Speaker 1: gets frustrated that I can make this better yeah, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not. Yeah, I'm gonna give you two guys and

1072
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Speaker 1: aren't that kid, David Irving and Anthony Hitchins. Those guys

1073
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: hadn't played a game since the Oakland preseason game, and

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00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you they are are sore puppies even today.

1075
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: So this will give them an opportunity to get their

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00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: legs back underneath them. When you don't play and half

1077
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: contact for that long, you know you can come out

1078
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: and play the way they played. But boy, the next week,

1079
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: it's your trouble, your shot, your shot, you are so sore.

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00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: So they actually get all this time to recover and

1081
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: be ready to go again. And I think those two

1082
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: guys are very critical to not only Sean Lee coming back,

1083
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: with those two guys playing the way they can play

1084
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: to help this defense out going forward. Well there, you guys,

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Speaker 1: haven't great bye week shows here in the SWBC Mortgage Studio.

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00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Stay tuned to Dollars Cowboys dot com because

1087
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: they will announce what time a special joint show will

1088
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: be on line tomorrow. Yeah, we got the draft show.

1089
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Speaker 1: We taped it all so be on Thursday as well.

1090
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Speaker 1: So a couple of shows for you to get you too.

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Speaker 1: We got content, we got content, We got absolutely so

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for watching today. This has been

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