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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are

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

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Speaker 1: a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so

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Speaker 1: much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar

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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October twenty of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number forty five. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. I got Isaiah Stanback,

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Speaker 1: I got Jesse Holly, I got Amber Garcia with me.

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Speaker 1: It is day two of our mix up here, and

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Speaker 1: these guys, I think they learned a lot yesterday about

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Speaker 1: what it takes to make a really quality football podcast.

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Speaker 1: They I mean, I got a lot of tweets saying

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Speaker 1: how much better you guys have gotten in one show.

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Speaker 1: I think, by think by next week, we're gonna send

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Speaker 1: you back to your shows. And I expect some everybody's

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Speaker 1: I really do. That's called leadership. I'm just coaching you up.

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Speaker 1: I'm just cluching you up. All right, we got we

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Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about today. We're gonna continue

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Speaker 1: our big picture look at this team. Yesterday we talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about the offense. Today we're gonna focus in

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Speaker 1: a little bit more on the defense, and we'll have

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Speaker 1: some some topics too on the overall team um as

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Speaker 1: well today. But today we gotta first start with some

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Speaker 1: news that came out yesterday, not the greatest news. And

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Speaker 1: the reason why I want to bring it up because

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Speaker 1: I'm one that, like a lot of times when it

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Speaker 1: starts getting into who got arrested in this kind of stuff,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, if it, if it affects the team and

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Speaker 1: what's happening on the field, then we'll talk about it.

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Speaker 1: If not, I really don't care to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: But the reason why I want to talk about demonte

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Speaker 1: CAZy being arrested for a DWI, it's more from the

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Speaker 1: standpoint of you, two guys as former as fleets, both

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Speaker 1: played here at the Cowboys. My question for you, because

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Speaker 1: a lot of fans out there, you probably are like, man,

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Speaker 1: like you know that to some degree, in the position

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Speaker 1: like you're gonna be looked at it with you know,

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Speaker 1: with a lot of great things in your life comes

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Speaker 1: a lot of responsibility. So you accept that as being

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Speaker 1: a professional athlete, you got a responsibility to live up

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Speaker 1: to that. Do you guys talk about or did you

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Speaker 1: guys talk about that kind of stuff in the locker room,

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Speaker 1: especially heading into a bye week, did you talk about, like, man,

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Speaker 1: let's stay out of trouble. Let's make sure we're not

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Speaker 1: putting ourselves in situations where we can end up being

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Speaker 1: a headline for the wrong reason. Yeah, I think. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was a real brief conversation. I don't know about

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Speaker 1: a real brief conversation. It was more so, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: protect the team, be smart, and that was it. And

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Speaker 1: that was pretty much extended a conversation. That's all that

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Speaker 1: needed to be said because you knew that you needed

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Speaker 1: week or you know, really just a couple of days

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Speaker 1: days off, you know, have fun, but be smart, right,

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Speaker 1: stay off your legs, don't don't kill your legs, and

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Speaker 1: don't make bad decisions. And that's really it. There's no

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Speaker 1: you about to do? What am I about to do?

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Speaker 1: Just protect the team? Be smart. I brought show and

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Speaker 1: Tell today. Okay for this very reason. You didn't. We

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Speaker 1: whenever they broke was hey, guys, enjoy yourselves, take care

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Speaker 1: a fact. I know for a fact, and I have

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Speaker 1: a zero I have a below zero tolerance for DUIs

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Speaker 1: or dwis or whatever you want to call them. And

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Speaker 1: here's why this Cowboys football team, we are not. People

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Speaker 1: on Twitter drive me insane with the oh, well, you

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Speaker 1: now where there's left, there's uber right that those are

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Speaker 1: well I didn't want to leave him one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: They have it to where now they bring another driver

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Speaker 1: players cards, right, there's three of them. Okay, on the

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Speaker 1: On the back of each one of these cards. What

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Speaker 1: does that say though it's crossed out, it says DUI

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Speaker 1: It says d UI crossed out. There's a number that

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Speaker 1: pick you up for free. No questions, ask, no no,

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Speaker 1: no no distance, no matter what that will come and

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Speaker 1: Association has it, Every NFL team has it. Every person

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Speaker 1: someone's life, not only yours, but someone else's life can

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Speaker 1: We're gonna move on. We're gonna talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: those two games he was playing primarily defensive end, Right,

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Speaker 1: But what happened when he goes a linebacker sixty five snaps? Right,

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Speaker 1: So you're taking somebody's ability. Yeah, they can impact the

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Speaker 1: time he played DN, he got his ribs hit. Right.

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Speaker 1: He ain't been at that defense end position too much

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Speaker 1: You're going against one of our heaviest, more's, most biggest

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Speaker 1: was what we saw all last year from the linebackers. Basically,

428
00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 1: you take a false step and then you're out of position,

429
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 1: you can't get off a block hole, and there you go,

430
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: and then and then the run turns into something where

431
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 1: the running back is now on your safety before you

432
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: know it. So I do think that there's probably a

433
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: little chance that the linebackers could play better here and

434
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 1: help your run defense. What do you guys think it's

435
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: the best way to improve the interior run defense. I mean,

436
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: guys just have to play better. I mean, really, it's

437
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 1: not I don't think it's necessarily a scheme thing. It

438
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,360
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what linebacker you got, you can put trigging

439
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: bray Ray back there and anybody else. Bart's got anybody

440
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 1: else you want to put it in the middle. If

441
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: the offensive linemen get up to the second level, it's

442
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: a wrap. Yeah. They're just bigger, larger, stronger humans. Right,

443
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: It's just what it is. It's kind of like the

444
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: Big Brother company just grabbing you, throwing you somewhere. You

445
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: can't do anything about it, no matter how much you're

446
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: getting paid. But the interior defensive linemen just have to

447
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: continue to play better. And obviously what do you do there? Though?

448
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,440
Speaker 1: Because right now defensive tackle, we knew going into the

449
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: seasoned defensive tackles an area that they probably could use

450
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 1: some improvement. Um, I think they've had some play, Carlos Watkins,

451
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 1: I think is played pretty well. Yea, all things considered,

452
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 1: And you know, Bohan's a young guy, he's a big guy.

453
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: But what do you think, just from a standpoint of

454
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: the defensive tackles and their play, where can they be

455
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,399
Speaker 1: better there? I mean leverage? Right? Um? Leverage playing you know,

456
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: playing half a man, trying not to get let these

457
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 1: guys reach you. Um, that's I guess, you know, playing

458
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: playing your gaps. But we don't know the schemes that

459
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: they're playing, right, so I'm up speaking just in general terms. Um,

460
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what their assignments are, but just trying

461
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: to be more stout right and just trying not to

462
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: get moved off the ball. There's a lot of different

463
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: techniques those guys can can utilize to not get moved

464
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 1: back to the second level. But at the end of

465
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 1: the day, we're missing our big boys. That's that's the

466
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: real We're missing our big boys upfront. Our heavy hitters

467
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: are not there right now. We have explosive guys, we

468
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: have guys that can get some penetration, but when they

469
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 1: actually want to come off to these other teams want

470
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: to come off the ball and set their mind on

471
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 1: running at us as a struggle. When you play teams

472
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: like like like New England, you know it's gonna be

473
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: a struggle. When we play teams like like Minnesota, you know,

474
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: as you look forward to the schedule, then you got

475
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: the Broncos and Falcons. There's some teams that we're not

476
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: going to worry about that being a predominant part of

477
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: their game. But when you have teams that are built

478
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,479
Speaker 1: like the Patriots, Yeah, until you get your your your

479
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: your your meat upfront, it's gonna be a struggle. Well, Jesse,

480
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: I'll ask you this question. Can you fix that problem?

481
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: Because even the guys you're asking that you're going to

482
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: be expecting to return, they're not your big traditional one techniques,

483
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: Like you don't have one of those. Are you going

484
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: to improve this without having to go outside the organization?

485
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: By the way doing that like who knows what's on

486
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: the street at this point, But can you really improve

487
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: that because you're not gonna get much bigger. Yeah, and

488
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: that's the that's the difficult part. And you know, to

489
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: use a term that that my guy, big Nate Newton

490
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: always uses is big greasies. And you want you want

491
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: to get big greasies in that middle, not necessarily to

492
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: be game changing playmakers, just to eat up blocks. I

493
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: just need you to commit two guys to me every

494
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: single time, or have to have that second guy stay

495
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: on me a little bit longer before he passes me

496
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: off to go to the second level to get to

497
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: the linebacker. Because when you talk about football being a

498
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: game of inches, it is literally a game of inches.

499
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: A linebacker, you take one false step the wrong way,

500
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: that guard's up on you and now he has an

501
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: angle or if you're not getting him off from just

502
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: like we say you're not, you're not getting off of them,

503
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: like yeah, he is. He is paid to grab you

504
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: and moll you and like a pit pit yeah and

505
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: yeah and it and the same thing when it comes

506
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: to the big guys up front is if I have

507
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: to make that guard stay on me just a tad

508
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: bit longer. Now my linebacker has read his keys and

509
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: is attacking. And if I'm attacking and you're still engaged,

510
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: I win. And and some I mean, some of the

511
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: greatest linebackers of our time had what great defensive big

512
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: big And that's that's the only thing. And and and

513
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 1: what you can hope for is when you get a

514
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 1: guy's like Neville Gallimore company back, is that your rotation

515
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,400
Speaker 1: becomes better. Guys become fresher, stay fresher longer throughout the game,

516
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: and you have more wins than you do losses up front.

517
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: But there's nothing you can do at this point in time.

518
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: Never got them more. Ain't getting twenty more pounds in

519
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: the middle of the season, right Carter's Walkers ain't getting

520
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,880
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty more pounds in the middle of the season.

521
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: Some people maintaining you maintain. Yeah, you're trying to hold

522
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: on or whatever weight that you have right now to

523
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: maintain throughout the throughout this year. So it's it's given

524
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: what you got and hope for the It's really hope

525
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: for the best. It's given what you got and hope

526
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: for the best. And hopefully you don't run into many

527
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: teams like New England like that, and and the and

528
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: the and the reality of it is you aren't. That's

529
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,959
Speaker 1: the reality of it. You are. Are they that much

530
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: different from a personnel stand point or was it more scheme? Yes,

531
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint, it's both. I think he's having to skin

532
00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: the scheme for sure. I mean that's every coach, right.

533
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: But when you look at somehow how these teams are built.

534
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: Let's look at our schedule coming up here. We got

535
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: the Vikings. They're going to run and crap out the ball. Yeah,

536
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: so we better are they, because that's that's one thing

537
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: I heard about New England. I'm not sure, but supposedly

538
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: their offensive line was bigger. Yes, And so are you

539
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: gonna face that similar type of big offensive line against

540
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: Minnesota against other teams down and so I'm talking about it.

541
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 1: It's it's all about it. So to your point, right,

542
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: it's a scheme as well. Bro scheme not only just

543
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: translates just from what the coach is saying to facilitate

544
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: on the field. It goes back to the weight room, right,

545
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: How how is your team built? Right? When I when

546
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: I was when I was here in Dallas, we lifted right,

547
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: but we lifted for explosion. When I went to New England,

548
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: you know, we lifted like it was offseason, like big

549
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: boy heavyweight, throughout the whole season. Why because that's how

550
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: that's the type of team we wanted to have. We

551
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 1: wanted to wear you down. When I went to Seattle,

552
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: guess what it was all about, moving lightweight and moving

553
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: it fast, right, just being fast, being fast. So that

554
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: the scheme right, and how they want their team to

555
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: the identity of their team, That's how everything's gonna translate.

556
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,439
Speaker 1: That's how your dietitian's gonna make your food, That's how

557
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: your weight room's gonna do. All it goes. It goes

558
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: all the way back to that in terms of how

559
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: they want to approach this thing. So there's gonna be

560
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: games where you face teams that are built to have

561
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: the advantage against you, and you got to find ways

562
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: to make plays. Um, you know. But as we look forward,

563
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: we're not going to worry about that. How we are

564
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: in terms of speed and being an explosive, that's going

565
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: to work to our advantage. But the majority of our

566
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: opponents we have remaining on our schedule, Yeah, they must

567
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,719
Speaker 1: be on that fast thinking out program because I am

568
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: most of these guys, like, I never really see them

569
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: putting on weight, like usually they start, yeah, muscle wise,

570
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 1: they'll start building muscle, but then trimming down. Like even

571
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: with Tristan Hill, you know, he came in, you could

572
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: see him a little weight and then he starts trimming down.

573
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: So that's something I never even thought about. But I

574
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: have noticed physically, you know, physical wise, Yeah, I think

575
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: this year especially, we talked about this on the break.

576
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: This year especially, you saw a lot of guys coming

577
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: back a lot leaner than they've been before. And I

578
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: don't know if that was what Harold Nash was trying

579
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: to do with this team or those guys just specifically

580
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: we're working with our own trainers to do it, but

581
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: you definitely saw a difference in guys like Zeke and

582
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: Dak like they came back much leaner than they've been

583
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: in the past. It wasn't the big bulky, it was

584
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: the league fast, very explosive, is what it looked like

585
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: they were trying to achieve. And what most coaches will

586
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: tell you as you begin to age in this league,

587
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: you want to get light, right, you want to shed

588
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: some of those pounds because it's a lot of harder

589
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: to do that than trust me. I know, I trust

590
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: me where we fight, we fight the battle every day. Um.

591
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: But but also your body doesn't recovers faster. Yeah, you

592
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: know you want to have that. You don't want to

593
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: have to carry those extra pounds. And again, look at

594
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: the way this league is going, Um, you're you're gonna

595
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: need more explosion. You're gonna need more versatility, more athleticism.

596
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: It's it's not the nineties Cowboys where Nates three hundred

597
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: and forty pounds because he's going up against another guy

598
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: who's three hundred twenty pounds and it's just just mauling

599
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: big group type things. It is speed, more speed, and

600
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: more speed. Like when you look at the combine numbers

601
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: we used to we used to be like he ran

602
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: a four three, Yeah, what what what now It's like, dudes, Now,

603
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, Michael Partson ran a four

604
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: three at two hundred and forty some pounds, fifty some

605
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: pounds like I'm in at three hundred pounds of running

606
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: five four seven four eight, You're like, wait what that

607
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: was unheard of fifteen years ago. Now it's almost a norm.

608
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: And so the only way that you can you can

609
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: keep up with that kind of speed. Have you run

610
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: a four four? Just go, just go. It's in the

611
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: corner like like I remember throwing up and it was

612
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: like that was like the number. Oh you gotta run

613
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: a full four like that was the pinnacle of speed.

614
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: Now it was like you run a full four as

615
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: a receiver, it's like okay, like that ain't nothing special,

616
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: Like yeah, that that dude average who's forty pounds heavery

617
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: than you, Yeah he runs he runs a four to

618
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: five nine Like you know, a four four nine. You'd

619
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: be like, dang, I'm two fifteen, you know, two eighty five.

620
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: But doesn't even get tricky once you start mixing that. Okay,

621
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: I'm intally of being faster and lighter with inexperience and

622
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: younger guys, you know, when they come in. I feel

623
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: that it's it's a tough balance there because they don't

624
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: have the experience, not necessarily the full on technique that

625
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: they need that maybe having that extra weight kind of balance,

626
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think there's also a

627
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: difference between weight and strength. Like I don't want to

628
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: confuse weight and strength, because I do think what happens

629
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: and you see it all the time with guys going

630
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: from their first year to the second year, Like you

631
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: can see the difference, and they grow into their bodies

632
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: and you could, yeah, you could tell that it's starting

633
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: to get to that point where they're stronger. They might

634
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: be lean, but they're very, very strong. And I think

635
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: that's kind of the difference here is not necessarily weight,

636
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: but but strength. No, I mean, that's that's a huge

637
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. I can give you

638
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: guys an example when I've finishing up my career. I

639
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: went to Jacksonville as a tight end and it was

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Speaker 1: Mercedes Lewis and myself. No one asked me why how

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Speaker 1: I got to tight end, but I was that's kind

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Speaker 1: of like the Hernandez era, right when it's like, you know,

643
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Speaker 1: the two hundred forty two forty five pound tight end

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Speaker 1: that could run and create mismatches against guys like Curse.

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Speaker 1: So that was Mercedes. Lewis was the underlying guy. I

646
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Speaker 1: was kind of the wing back. He's one of the

647
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Speaker 1: league's best blocking tight end even probably to this day.

648
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Speaker 1: Still he's amazing. You're still team He's ridiculous, right, But

649
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Speaker 1: he knew leverage, he knew how to use his length

650
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Speaker 1: and all those all his limbs to create movement. I

651
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Speaker 1: was strong. I was stronger than he was in the

652
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Speaker 1: weight room, right, And he would get frustrated with me

653
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Speaker 1: because when I got on the field, I couldn't block

654
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Speaker 1: these big dudes. While I was two hundred forty pounds,

655
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Speaker 1: these are three hundred pounds, right. So I was strong, right,

656
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Speaker 1: but I didn't have enough none, enough junk in the

657
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Speaker 1: truth right, So to that point, you could be a

658
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Speaker 1: strong man, you're stronger. I've seen you go ahead though

659
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Speaker 1: I can't because I'm strong and weight room strong. But

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Speaker 1: these boys are these are grown human beings, grown man

661
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Speaker 1: strength right and there, and so to your point, right,

662
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Speaker 1: it can be a disadvantage. But when your whole entire

663
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Speaker 1: program is built off of it, and then you have

664
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Speaker 1: these offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators, you know, special team's corners

665
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Speaker 1: come in and put you in position to be successful

666
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Speaker 1: based upon your skill sets. Now, all of a sudden,

667
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Speaker 1: that becomes an advantage. Now if they ask these guys

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Speaker 1: to come in and play something and be something that

669
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Speaker 1: they're not. Right. Two hundred and forty pound guy trying

670
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Speaker 1: to go up there against two hundred and eighty five pounds,

671
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Speaker 1: that's not that's just not. That's not gonna work. It's

672
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Speaker 1: not gonna work. So we start talking about why it

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Speaker 1: was New England so successful on the ground, Well, they're

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Speaker 1: big upfront, and then oh, by the way, then they

675
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Speaker 1: have they have four tight ends that are active every game.

676
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Speaker 1: Then there they put three of them out there, and

677
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Speaker 1: there's two of the best tight ends that happened to

678
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Speaker 1: be in the league as of last year. And that's

679
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: they're getting paid forty million, fifty million dollars for it. Yeah,

680
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Speaker 1: that's why they were able to move us off the

681
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Speaker 1: ball because they had two hundred and sixty pounds coming

682
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Speaker 1: up and moving two hundred and thirty two hundred and

683
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Speaker 1: forty pounds off the line. So that's I mean, that's

684
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: that's how this league works. It's all about mismatches. I

685
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. Every team's not built the same, every

686
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: team's not built the same. That's why we needed to

687
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Speaker 1: get up on New England because they can't catch up

688
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Speaker 1: right once they're up right. The reason why we didn't

689
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Speaker 1: want the game to be closest because if it is close,

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Speaker 1: and guess what New England could play New England ball

691
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Speaker 1: right now? They can just run you down down the

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Speaker 1: fieldgate chunky, Okay, who's gonna be chunky? Heavy player here?

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Speaker 1: And then we got the strong, which job one. So

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Speaker 1: you create that balance, you hit that will to play right,

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Speaker 1: Let's go sometime. Can you give us some chucky? All right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break. We're gonna come back

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna ask these guys a question. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: ask him, what's the biggest problem that you think would

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Speaker 1: Here's my question for you guys, and I'm hopeful that

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Speaker 1: this question is going to bring a very thoughtful answer

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Speaker 1: because there's a lot of things here that I think

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Speaker 1: people are talking about as potential gotchas as you go

746
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Speaker 1: down the stretch. The question is what is the biggest

747
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Speaker 1: problem that concerns you? In this second segment of the season,

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Speaker 1: we heart coach talking about it. They broke it into

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Speaker 1: three segments. You got six, six and then five games.

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Speaker 1: In this second segment, would it be coaching decisions, would

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Speaker 1: it be the kicker, Would it be run defense? Or

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Speaker 1: would it be red zone offense? Can I throw another

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Speaker 1: one in there? Sure? Absolutely, I think I might. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I said this are on a talking Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: But my concern is that when our guys come back,

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Speaker 1: our guys gallup more Law, the injured guys, right, d Law,

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00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: gallop right, all these got our guys, right, the guys

758
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Speaker 1: that we expect to go out there and make big

759
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: plays for us. Do our current guys that are out

760
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: there doing well for us, do they do they back down?

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Speaker 1: Do they go into the corner? Because we've all seen

762
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Speaker 1: those guys right when you're when you're considered to be

763
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Speaker 1: when you're number two when they call you up the

764
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Speaker 1: number one and number one's out for a while. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go, let's rock, right, let's go. I'm me again, right,

766
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it from college, or to do from

767
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Speaker 1: earlier in my career. Let's ball, right, and the cats

768
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Speaker 1: out there trying me, and then they become ballers again, right,

769
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Speaker 1: and everybody's like, you know, to your point, Oh my god,

770
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that these guys get playing. I know

771
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Speaker 1: these guys can ball, they just have been subjected to

772
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Speaker 1: being a second tier guy. What happens when they're when

773
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Speaker 1: the dogs come back, when the number ones come back

774
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Speaker 1: and they get their thrown back. I've seen it two ways.

775
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: I've seen it where guys that remain competitive and they

776
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: pushed their starters and they make them create a rotation

777
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: like we're talking about. Or I've seen guys kind of

778
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Speaker 1: back down to kind of what you expected him to

779
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Speaker 1: be in the first place, which is kind of just ah,

780
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Speaker 1: he he's inconsistent, right, What players would concern you most

781
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: because immediately when I started thinking about that, I'm like

782
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Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, they've already been in rotations

783
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Speaker 1: even before those guys out, So it doesn't necessarily I

784
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: don't think it would have. Like think about a Cedric Wilson.

785
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: This shouldn't affect him much because he's been used to

786
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Speaker 1: playing in a position where he's rotating osa defensive tackle.

787
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Speaker 1: They put, they rotate, Like, what are the positions or

788
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: players that you would be more for. I'm thinking about

789
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 1: cornerback Kelvin Joseph hasn't touched the field. Yeah right, I'm

790
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: thinking about I'm thinking about cornerback position. I'm thinking about

791
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Speaker 1: Enough Brown and Jay Lou What are they gonna do? Right?

792
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: A Brown got himself a pick so far, but you know,

793
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Speaker 1: is he gonna is he gonna be a starter still,

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Speaker 1: Joseph's not ready though, I'm just I'm just saying. I'm

795
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: just saying. I mean, I haven't talked to you about that. Yeah, yeah,

796
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Speaker 1: it is Joseph Ray. I don't think I don't. I

797
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 1: don't think he's ready either, But I mean, we don't

798
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Speaker 1: make those decisions up there either. You know, they took

799
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Speaker 1: they took him pretty high, so he gonna play. He

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Speaker 1: gonna so it does matter is he is he gonna

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Speaker 1: replace those those five million dollar guys. They're both getting

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Speaker 1: pay five Millie. You know so, I mean that's a

803
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: question that you that you have to ask. You know,

804
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Speaker 1: what happens there? What happens that the D line position happens?

805
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 1: D line has a heck of a rotation going right now,

806
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you bring Hell back, you bring

807
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Speaker 1: Gallimore back, you bring d Law back. Those are three

808
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: bona fide starters. What happens to that rotation? Now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're different. I think we're different. Where in

810
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Speaker 1: past times it would have been oh yeah, he comes back,

811
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Speaker 1: he has to play, or we drafted him high, he

812
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Speaker 1: has to play. I think we're different. I think this

813
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Speaker 1: coaching staff, specifically on defense, I think we're different. I

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Speaker 1: think it's you know what, Son, Yes, we drafted you high,

815
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Speaker 1: but right now we roll them and maybe we'll get you,

816
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll fit you in there, you know, but you

817
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: haven't done anything that says you deserve that position. And

818
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Speaker 1: I get your draft at us and maybe, well we'll

819
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Speaker 1: attack this full goal next year and OTAs and mini

820
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: camps and so on. The so fourth, I think in

821
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Speaker 1: years past we would have been subjected to up. We

822
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Speaker 1: drafted him eye, we gotta play him, no matter what.

823
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Speaker 1: I personally just feel like it's different. And I think

824
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Speaker 1: that so you think, do you think the culture in

825
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Speaker 1: the in the front office has changed as well. I

826
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Speaker 1: think that the guys who are putting these players on

827
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Speaker 1: the field, the coaches and such, have earned enough say

828
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Speaker 1: so with the way that things have gone this year,

829
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Speaker 1: for whether it be one of the Joneses or someone

830
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Speaker 1: that he'll go just trust me on this one, like

831
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Speaker 1: like let let like I know that we drafted him

832
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Speaker 1: in the second round and I get it, and he'll

833
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Speaker 1: he'll be fine, and we'll get him right and we'll

834
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Speaker 1: get him to a position where he's playing at a

835
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Speaker 1: very high level. This is not feed but we're not

836
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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, like you know what I'm saying. And

837
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Speaker 1: and we'll we'll we'll work our way back in there,

838
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: and we're working in there. We'll find spots for him

839
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Speaker 1: to get him some confidence, to get him some playing time.

840
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Speaker 1: I just feel like this is just a different set

841
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Speaker 1: of circumstances and a different set of dudes who are

842
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Speaker 1: who are called the shots, and you know, I hope

843
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: they have that power and on the and on the

844
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Speaker 1: same the same respect, I think I think dan Quinn

845
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Speaker 1: has done a great job with and can have and

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Speaker 1: you know this, I said, there are certain coaches who

847
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Speaker 1: can come to you and have that man to man

848
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Speaker 1: conversation and you respect those guys like I've always respected coaches.

849
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Speaker 1: Just told me straight off, like don't don't we're too

850
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Speaker 1: old fall that well, you know, just keep chipping away.

851
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Speaker 1: And I don't think Dan Quinn is that kind of

852
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: a guy. He's a Jersey dude. I'm a Jersey dude

853
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: like we are. We are straight up dudes. And I

854
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: think he has the conversation when you come in and say, listen, son,

855
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Okay, you're a part of this football team,

856
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: but right now we're going this and here's why we

857
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: still want you to be engaged, you know. And once

858
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: you have that real conversation man to man, I think

859
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: many men accept that better and you'll get the same productivity.

860
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: And Quinn will tell you like, hey, this doesn't mean

861
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Speaker 1: stop competing, This doesn't mean we can't we can't use you,

862
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: we don't need you, probably saying your expectations. Right, Hey,

863
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: go out there every single day, every single practice and

864
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: worked like you want to be the starter, or worked

865
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Speaker 1: like you were before this guy, you know, came back

866
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Speaker 1: from injury, and I think when you do that, you

867
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Speaker 1: get guys to respect you more, and you get guys

868
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Speaker 1: to go out there and give you a great How

869
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: do you go about practice though, during the week when

870
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Speaker 1: a guy like that comes back, for example, a veteran

871
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Speaker 1: guy gets back ken, do you give them half the reps?

872
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about it from the standpoint of Donovan Wilson,

873
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: Like he's trying to come back in and Jayron Curse

874
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: has been playing his button. So what happens in that situation?

875
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Speaker 1: What happens for Donovan? What happens for jay Ron? Like

876
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Speaker 1: that's the question, right, Yeah, I don't know. I mean,

877
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Speaker 1: I've never really been in those conversations, but I don't

878
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Speaker 1: and we only get to see a portion of practice,

879
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Speaker 1: so I don't really know how they go about distributing

880
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Speaker 1: in a scenario like is where these guys on the

881
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: field are playing well and now you got these other

882
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: veteran guys that you have been expecting them to be

883
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: the starters come back in. I don't know how most

884
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: teams is not this competitive, So it's this difficult when

885
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: it's this competitive. When it's this competitive is very differently deep,

886
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: Like this is a deep team. Relative to other teams

887
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: in there. And it's a good problem, it's a great

888
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,320
Speaker 1: problem to have. And again, you you divvy those reps

889
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: up and practice, you're saying, you know, you can say, hey,

890
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: all right, listen, jay Ron, when we go team seven

891
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: on seven, you're in uh uh de Wilson, when we

892
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: go you know this team period, you're in. And then

893
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: now you just kind of gauge it throughout the week

894
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: about giving both of these guys reps and and this

895
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: is what they pay the coaches the big bucks for this.

896
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Speaker 1: This is this is a good problem to have, but

897
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: this is your problem to figure out, and it's not

898
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Speaker 1: always going to be an easy situation. And then it

899
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Speaker 1: comes down to at the end of the day, what

900
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: do you feel most comfortable with? Because when you're when

901
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: you have to go to a game and coach, the

902
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: last thing you want to go into a game doing

903
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: is having uncertainty, because if you have uncertainty, there's no

904
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Speaker 1: way you're calling a definitive football game. So most coaches,

905
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Speaker 1: once they get to that threshold of Thursday is Friday,

906
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: most definitely Saturday, here's what we're doing. I'm going here

907
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Speaker 1: until something changes, and then next week we'll try it again,

908
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: and then when I get to that Friday, that Thursday

909
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: is Friday, most definitely Saturday. We're going here because my

910
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: team and I need to know as a coach how

911
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: I'm going to call this football game when we go

912
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: out there and injuries happen and things happen, and to

913
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Speaker 1: Isaiah's point, matchups, they may come a time when you're saying,

914
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Speaker 1: you know what, Donovan is a much better fit for

915
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 1: this matchup or this scheme that we're going this week

916
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: than jay Ron. Jay Ron is a much better fit

917
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Speaker 1: because we're playing a taller tight end, or they may

918
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Speaker 1: have whatever it may be. So to have those options

919
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,400
Speaker 1: is a great thing. But that's why they played the

920
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: coach the big bucks. Yeah, I can tell you I'm

921
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Speaker 1: looking at these these snap as we're talking about matchups.

922
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Speaker 1: J Ron week one sixty two percent of the snaps

923
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Speaker 1: Week two ninety seven percent, per week four ninety seven percent,

924
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Speaker 1: and then one hundred percent for five and six. Yep. Yeah,

925
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: he probably by the way he's making the most of

926
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Speaker 1: those reps. He is balling out. And to answer your

927
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Speaker 1: question that you previously stated, it's a red zone, it's

928
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: red zone because that has not only been one. You

929
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 1: need to score in this league, and I've kind of

930
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: almost unless there's an injury to Dak Prescott that prolongs

931
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Speaker 1: him from coming back on the football field. I pretty

932
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Speaker 1: much summed up this regular season, We're gonna win a division.

933
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Speaker 1: There's nothing in this division said that we're not going

934
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Speaker 1: to sweep this division. It maybe lose one game, we're

935
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Speaker 1: gonna win a division. I start looking at playoffs. You

936
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Speaker 1: play Arizona, Arizona, you better score touchdowns. You play Green Bay,

937
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: You're better score touchdowns. You play Tampa, you're better score touchdowns.

938
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Speaker 1: You know, you play anybody in the NFC. Ye the

939
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: best school touchdowns in the playoffs. And one of the

940
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: problem that the Cowboys has had years and years and

941
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: years and years has been red zone offense. So I

942
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: think that's always going to be a concern for me.

943
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: They were doing better earlier this year with the red

944
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Speaker 1: zone situation. They kind of fell back a little bit

945
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Speaker 1: with that. And say what you want about the calls

946
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Speaker 1: in the red zone, whatever, you know, but that is

947
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: going to be so important. We cannot we cannot kick

948
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 1: field goals when you're talking about playing the really good

949
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: football teams you'll get away within the regular season, get away.

950
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Speaker 1: You'll get away when to get the Giants in Washington

951
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia and you know teams like that. You ain't

952
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: getting away with that. Against Tampa back, you ain't getting

953
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: away with that. Against the Ramp, you ain't getting away again.

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Speaker 1: You know, even even sometimes against you know, a team

955
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Speaker 1: like New Orleans. You never know what. You never know

956
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Speaker 1: what jamis you might get. You might get bove touchdowns, right, Minnesota,

957
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,760
Speaker 1: you never know, right, you might get eating w Jamis.

958
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: You might get twelve, you might get twelve new Kirk Cousins. Right,

959
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: you might not get nighttime Kirk Cousins. You might get

960
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: twelve new Kirk Cousins. So always getting in the red

961
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Speaker 1: zone and being able to come away with touchdowns rather

962
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Speaker 1: than field goals. All right, folks, that's a rap, real quick.

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Speaker 1: Tell us where when we can hear you guys? Aah

964
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Speaker 1: working fans here? Oh yeah, yeah yeah talking cowboys. Man,

965
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Speaker 1: You guys know what it is. Okay, nine o'clock every day,

966
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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. We're the first show because we're the

967
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: best show. We know you guys, when you guys wake up,

968
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Speaker 1: get your cup of joe. You want to come out

969
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Speaker 1: here and get the real come out here and make

970
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: a deal. Hang out with you boys and talking to cowboys.

971
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Speaker 1: You understand I'm saying, listen, man, Jesse, all that was

972
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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Y'all know what. Y'all

973
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Speaker 1: know what it is. I don't got job turkey he

974
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Speaker 1: talking over that. Come through hanging with the boys. If

975
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Speaker 1: you want to come with you, if you want to

976
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: come hang out with your drunk goncal and talk good sports.

977
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Speaker 1: Who's the drunk get drunk drunk. I'm the crazy cousin

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Speaker 1: and then and then curtain Shannon. They just like related.

979
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Speaker 1: They like crazy. So yeah, yeah, we give a little

980
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Speaker 1: bit of everything, man, So come check us out man,

981
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Speaker 1: eleven thirty Monday through Friday. You know what it is

982
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: with the boys. And I got my Danny shirt on.

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Speaker 1: See yeah tonight. We ain't afraid to promote it and

984
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Speaker 1: help out other people. That just how we get down

985
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Speaker 1: week because we take it. We take on everything. We

986
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Speaker 1: just do what you do, y'all talk about Wow, I'm

987
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: just wondering why I see y'all. Okay, watch my boy

988
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Speaker 1: Daniel on Survivor tonight. Shout out Team Danny on Survivor

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Speaker 1: along with Nick and Dave on the Break every day

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Speaker 1: at ten thirty am. We'll be back next week in

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Speaker 1: our normal, normal settings. But man, it was good to

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Speaker 1: have y'all. I had a good time having y'all on,

994
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Speaker 1: and hopefully we can do this a little bit more, well,

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Speaker 1: just every every body week for sure until then. For

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Speaker 1: until next week. Friday is stand back. Jesse, Holly amber Garcia.

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