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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. David Hellman is
Speaker 1: not in today. We unfortunately have a replacement for him,
Speaker 1: which is just happens to be Brian broad Us. Huh
Speaker 1: whose Twitter account got hacked. I don't need to keep
Speaker 1: talking about that, but yeah, it's true. He is here
Speaker 1: on the show today. We'll see what he can bring.
Speaker 1: Good to have you back, Brian. I had a show
Speaker 1: with you in a long time. Glad to bring some
Speaker 1: reason to this thing, some real knowledge, some real knowledge.
Speaker 1: It better be good, Better be good. Well, there was
Speaker 1: some trash talking aside from the mine that I'm doing
Speaker 1: right now, there was some trash talking happening yesterday. We
Speaker 1: talked about what that linebacker guy move come to move
Speaker 1: Cruzier Hill. Crucier Hill said about the Cowboys and how
Speaker 1: they basically just always end up choking and how they're
Speaker 1: gonna choke them out. And then of course that was
Speaker 1: brought back to the locker room, and I thought that
Speaker 1: Prescott had an interesting response. I liked his response. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, coach Garrett has a great saying. I don't
Speaker 1: know where he got it from, but winners worry about
Speaker 1: winning and losers worry about winners. We're focused on ourselves
Speaker 1: in this locker room about what we need to do
Speaker 1: in itch, in every phase of this game, and what
Speaker 1: we need to do for this week. Yeah, reactions to this,
Speaker 1: did you like his response? It was the perfect It
Speaker 1: was the perfect way to throw shade in a classy
Speaker 1: way because it was very clear he'd heard it. He
Speaker 1: is good at he and he did it in a
Speaker 1: way that was professional. He did it in a way
Speaker 1: that doesn't become bullets and bullets and board material for
Speaker 1: the other team. But you get his point. I mean,
Speaker 1: he started with who and he did he heard, he heard,
Speaker 1: But that's the point, Like he said it in a
Speaker 1: way that he could do it and let that guy know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard what you said, but whatever you know, I'm
Speaker 1: moving on. You're not worth my time. Basically, that was
Speaker 1: The funny thing when they said his name and told
Speaker 1: him it's like who yeah, right, okay, this is defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champ though, right, yeah, no doubt. I mean
Speaker 1: the play. Yeah, why are they having Why are they
Speaker 1: having to throw you know, why are they having to
Speaker 1: say things like that? That's clearly not that not Their
Speaker 1: team is not as good as it was. They've got
Speaker 1: issues and they know it. That's the thing. You're a
Speaker 1: little scared when you say stuff like that. You're a
Speaker 1: little scared. You know, you gave up a lot of yards.
Speaker 1: He was part of it. He dropped an interception down
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Yeah, down in that It would
Speaker 1: have been a huge play. I mean, Dak hadn't throw
Speaker 1: an interception in a long time. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: this guy drops one. Hey, I'll go out and make
Speaker 1: some plays. Your team's not very good right now, and
Speaker 1: they need you to make some plays. We'll see, we'll see,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna get a big dose of that ball
Speaker 1: coming ride at him, and we'll see if he can
Speaker 1: handle that. That's that's where you know, with the Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence last week, his locker room talk, he backed it up.
Speaker 1: He went out there and played an incredible game. It
Speaker 1: sounds like to me the Eagles are a little scared
Speaker 1: about what's about to happen to them. So I guess
Speaker 1: we get to that's gonna be Marcus was scared too
Speaker 1: last week. I mean, but that's what happens. Though. You
Speaker 1: play it that way and you kind of rallying people
Speaker 1: around it. The problem is is that guy's not the
Speaker 1: leader of that defense, right like the d Laws. But
Speaker 1: they got more to lewas well, I did hear. I
Speaker 1: heard our national report from one of the guys that
Speaker 1: covers the Eagles, as said after talking to some guys
Speaker 1: in the locker room, he got the impression they weren't
Speaker 1: very happy with their teammate for saying what they said,
Speaker 1: and more so just kind of like where'd that come from?
Speaker 1: Like why, yeah, why did you say that? That does
Speaker 1: it didn't even make sense, Like what's the point of
Speaker 1: you saying that? So? Um So, I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: everybody was on board. I don't think that's the way
Speaker 1: that I went. I don't think when that's those types
Speaker 1: of things are said, I don't think everybody's on board anyway, right,
Speaker 1: I really don't. I mean, to me, it's you and
Speaker 1: Nick you said you mention about Lawrence being scared. I
Speaker 1: think Lawrence did that in his way of Lawrence is
Speaker 1: a legitimate player. You know, Lawrence is a Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: All probe type player, a player that makes seventeen million
Speaker 1: dollars a year to you know, to make play. This
Speaker 1: guy doesn't make plays. And to me, that's trying to
Speaker 1: talk something up. You know, they realize they're not as
Speaker 1: good as they were. Now. They're capable of winning this game,
Speaker 1: absolutely they are, but they're not the same team that
Speaker 1: last year went through and run the Super Bowl the
Speaker 1: way they did and the other they're fighting for their
Speaker 1: lives right now. Yeah. The other thing I'll say is
Speaker 1: I think in this instance, and I don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: guessing here because of what I what my impressions of
Speaker 1: what I saw. My impression is, I think this guy
Speaker 1: is just kind of having a little fun with the media.
Speaker 1: I don't think he really was trying to be bullets
Speaker 1: in warm into. I think he's just kind of having
Speaker 1: a little fun. And actually I think the opposite with
Speaker 1: demark I actually think DeMarcus was like I kind of
Speaker 1: think that I see a path for us winning this game.
Speaker 1: This is here's how I see it happened. This is
Speaker 1: how nobody believed. No, but but I think I honestly
Speaker 1: think that, and I've heard this from a couple of
Speaker 1: different people, both in the locker room and just people
Speaker 1: that work with this team, that there was a feeling
Speaker 1: in that locker room last week that you know, we
Speaker 1: really think that they haven't faced the defense like ours
Speaker 1: this season. We really feel like we can beat this team.
Speaker 1: We really feel like we can do some things against
Speaker 1: him defensively that will show, that will shut down this
Speaker 1: offense in a way that people haven't really seen happen.
Speaker 1: They believe that, whether we didn't believe it or anybody
Speaker 1: else to believe it is beside the point. They really
Speaker 1: believe it. And I think Demarcus's comments were more reflective
Speaker 1: of that, And I think grugia Hill was more just
Speaker 1: kind of having fun with the rivalry, having fun with
Speaker 1: the media, sure more so than him saying we're gonna
Speaker 1: really be able to do this. That's just my impression. Now,
Speaker 1: before we completely dive into game day predictions, any actives
Speaker 1: and all that, I wanted to hit on a different
Speaker 1: note real quick. Derek Henry from the Tennessee Titan tied
Speaker 1: up a rerecord with Tony Tony, and I'll let you
Speaker 1: guys talk about it because this is more around y'all's era,
Speaker 1: not mine. So yeah, it sucked. I didn't realize it would. No,
Speaker 1: I was just like tack well, I was like tackling.
Speaker 1: I mean kidding me. I mean it was the worst
Speaker 1: set of tackling. But I did not think that would
Speaker 1: bother me like you did. And I remember I grew
Speaker 1: up Tony Dorset posters on the wall, my favorite player ever.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that that that was uh
Speaker 1: something that Cowboys had, you know, and they still do
Speaker 1: um you know. I mean, I guess the Titans needed
Speaker 1: eleven guys on the field to get it done. I
Speaker 1: mean the Cowboys didn't. But cow Whiskey just do it
Speaker 1: with you know, it just uh it was. It was
Speaker 1: an outstanding play and congratulations to Derrick Henry for doing it.
Speaker 1: I mean the speed and the strength and all that.
Speaker 1: But I did I did like the fact that it
Speaker 1: was the Cowboys rerecord Tony door sets and you know
Speaker 1: it's still I think was a longer run, but it
Speaker 1: still goes down. You can't beat it, So it was
Speaker 1: tie it beat it, But I. Yeah, I was a little.
Speaker 1: It was more affected by it than I thought it
Speaker 1: would be. Never why would that affect you? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was his favorite player. I get it. But I
Speaker 1: mean I six, I'm six years old and I and
Speaker 1: I woke up as a Monday night game in college.
Speaker 1: I woke up and I said, I asked for my mom.
Speaker 1: I said, did we Did we win? You know, that
Speaker 1: was before I got to stay up and watch the
Speaker 1: whole game, And she said, I remember vividly. She said no,
Speaker 1: but there was a really great play and she talked
Speaker 1: about that, you know, and I I was like no,
Speaker 1: but I mean, like, well, what's the butt? And I
Speaker 1: lost to the Vikings, you know, but she was like
Speaker 1: explaining this play, and it's just been it's been awesome
Speaker 1: that that, you know, the Cowboys did it, and they
Speaker 1: did it with ten players on the field, and so
Speaker 1: it's been tied. But that's okay. Sorry, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: back in the day, like I say, as a Cowboy
Speaker 1: fan growing up, you know that I had certain players.
Speaker 1: Only twenty two was my favorite player. But it's it's
Speaker 1: funny that you see record there's certain records you think
Speaker 1: will never be broken, you know, there's certain And then
Speaker 1: but if I can understand if you had a guy
Speaker 1: that was your favorite player and you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: just always wanted him to be in the record, but
Speaker 1: I wanted him to be I didn't want people to say, well,
Speaker 1: they've had two ninety nine yard runs in NFL history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony Dorset and Derrick Henry, and you go and then
Speaker 1: you go, who yeah, yeah, you know, like you know,
Speaker 1: Nick's kid's gonna one day, Dad, who was your Tony Dorset? Who?
Speaker 1: You know that kind of I mean, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's Derek Henry. It's just a great point because of
Speaker 1: what Emmett Smith has been able to do. And he's
Speaker 1: not the greatest running back in Cowboys history anymore, and
Speaker 1: so it's like he's always kind of had that. So
Speaker 1: he has he had a hell of a career here.
Speaker 1: I mean, he really really did. And then Emmett Smith
Speaker 1: comes along and then all these everybody when you think
Speaker 1: about Dallas Cowboy running backs, everybody always says Emmett Smith first.
Speaker 1: But from my era, being old and all that, yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony Dorset was legitimate. Calvin Hill before him, you know,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Thomas before these guys were Dallas has always had
Speaker 1: a great history of running back except for the Hamricks
Speaker 1: were here when I was part of that mess. But
Speaker 1: you know they're well, it was Nick was put on
Speaker 1: this earth to remind you of all bs that we
Speaker 1: drafted and signed for all those years. So you know,
Speaker 1: every time I see Nick, I think about it. He
Speaker 1: remembers every single mistake, every single I'll say this, when
Speaker 1: they have like instructional videos on how to tackle, like
Speaker 1: there's like a Tommy man Sky type of tackling drill
Speaker 1: trash can ye centerfield, it won't be that play now,
Speaker 1: Like it won't be quit. You know. Mickey said Jacksonville
Speaker 1: was frauds. He said that like like a week after
Speaker 1: that the Cowboy, after the Cowboys beat him, he said,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's a fraud team. That team was one play away
Speaker 1: basically from going to Super Bowl. Ay where I don't
Speaker 1: call him a fraud. I really don't. I think this
Speaker 1: was a to me, this is a classic case. This
Speaker 1: is a classic case of a team that last year
Speaker 1: probably played a little bit above their heads, sure, and
Speaker 1: they probably got into this year and started going wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that defense looked across at the other side that
Speaker 1: the offense, It was like they're giving us nothing, and
Speaker 1: I think they've just gotten a point where they're just like,
Speaker 1: we can't do it on our own. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: feels like, okay, just throwing up their hands like we
Speaker 1: just can't do this on our own. Excuse me on
Speaker 1: bur if I may do this? Can can you tie in? Though?
Speaker 1: Could the Cowboys have done that with their defense? And
Speaker 1: what wait and what way? Throwing their hands up said
Speaker 1: you know what, we can't do anything with this. That
Speaker 1: the cow if you look at Jacksonville, took the approach
Speaker 1: of you know, let's be honest. Dak was having some
Speaker 1: problems and you know, and and you're defensively, you're not
Speaker 1: giving up anything. You're trying to win games. Hell, you
Speaker 1: held the Saints to thirteen or to ten points and
Speaker 1: he gave up seven sacks. Think about that. But do
Speaker 1: you think at some point in time do you think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys ever got to a point in the season
Speaker 1: you know what they said defensively, they go, god, we
Speaker 1: just can't why do we keep doing this? They might
Speaker 1: have if they wouldn't have pulled that trade off, and
Speaker 1: maybe that maybe that's why they get it. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: may have been the coaches and the front office may
Speaker 1: have looked at that and saying, we're at that might
Speaker 1: be the fining that might be the defining moment of
Speaker 1: the season that Jerry Jones. Someone says to Jerry Jones, Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we can give up a one. What he goes, we
Speaker 1: give a one to get one. No. No, I've sat
Speaker 1: with him for two straight drafts. I've talked about this.
Speaker 1: He hates that he hates is the drafts going on
Speaker 1: and he's just watching and he's going, God, I can't draft,
Speaker 1: I can't, you know. So, I mean somebody had to
Speaker 1: really convince him or he looked at this division and said,
Speaker 1: this things for the taken Sunday. It's for the defense. Sunday.
Speaker 1: It is for the take. And if they go out
Speaker 1: there and take it, it is you know. But I
Speaker 1: wonder if there was a point in time, and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if if they wouldn't have made that trade that
Speaker 1: they or they wouldn't have changed the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: that the defense would have instead of Ambar walks up
Speaker 1: to somebody and interviews him in the locker room and
Speaker 1: take goes Ambar men. Our offense is just not get it.
Speaker 1: Done well. Really no, just can't win without this With
Speaker 1: this offense, we can't win. That's what's happened in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Trust me, when you're looking at this team and back
Speaker 1: then and you see the way that this defense is playing,
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to reflect and say you don't
Speaker 1: want to waste this defense and the way they're playing,
Speaker 1: because that does not guarantee you that you're they're gonna
Speaker 1: be playing the same way next Year's point right right,
Speaker 1: The NFL is all about the moment, because think about this,
Speaker 1: and that's that was a tweet I had last night.
Speaker 1: Think about this. Just last year, Barry Church said when
Speaker 1: he went to Jacksonville, this is a more talented defense
Speaker 1: than the one I came from. And guess what, he
Speaker 1: was right. That defense last year played so much better
Speaker 1: than any defense in the NFL. They were legit. One
Speaker 1: year later, Barry has lost his starting job. Their defense
Speaker 1: is playing very poorly, they don't tackle, And the defense
Speaker 1: he left that he said was less talented is now
Speaker 1: a top five defense in the NFL. The NFL changes
Speaker 1: rapidly if you don't take advantage of opportunities right now.
Speaker 1: And that's why again, and the move of the Maury
Speaker 1: Cooper the movie you made on the offensive line, you
Speaker 1: better be making those moves in season because if you
Speaker 1: feel like you have an opportunity, you see a window,
Speaker 1: jump in that window. Don't wait because next year is
Speaker 1: not promise. You can't say, wow, defense will be better
Speaker 1: next year. You don't know that. You really don't know it.
Speaker 1: Have you? Are you guys surprised though, that they've had
Speaker 1: those defense play as well as they have without really
Speaker 1: Taco being very good, David Irving being m I A.
Speaker 1: You know, are you surprised that they've been able to
Speaker 1: play as well as they have? I mean, look at
Speaker 1: all the things that they that had, mean, you know
Speaker 1: they play, you know, the human log comes in there.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been great playing as a defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, Collins has been banged up. I mean you've yeah,
Speaker 1: you're missing Sean Lee. What's sawing about him? Well before
Speaker 1: we came in, he saw no master, right, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be on master. Yeah, he's like human. I'm like, who
Speaker 1: who's that? It's like you don't know anyway. Okay, but
Speaker 1: but think about think about on defense what they haven't
Speaker 1: had and able to and they've been able to pull
Speaker 1: things together the way they have, you know, defense, Let's see,
Speaker 1: we'd just kind of been still waiting for Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you've getting all pro play out
Speaker 1: of your left defense, ven, But how about everybody else
Speaker 1: who thought vander esh you know, who thought Jalen was
Speaker 1: gonna rise the way he has? I mean, this defense
Speaker 1: is played tremendously without certain pieces that you really thought.
Speaker 1: You know, you're like, oh man, they gotta have David Irby,
Speaker 1: they gotta have David Ry, they gotta have Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: you know. And now it's like who trying to figure
Speaker 1: out Lee would fit back in? Yeah? Or do you
Speaker 1: want him to fit back in? Yeah? I think you do.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that those are the kind of questions
Speaker 1: that I'm going around. Now. It's just a complete one
Speaker 1: eighty from where we were. And I don't want Vanderesh
Speaker 1: getting twenty one stamps like he did against the Redskins
Speaker 1: and they lost that game because he got fifty and
Speaker 1: Sean and Jalen got sixty five. I don't want that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you don't. You don't put a guy on
Speaker 1: a T shirt to get twenty one snaps. Why would
Speaker 1: I Why would I, Oh, why would I take Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith off the field? If I had to and keep
Speaker 1: Sean Lee and Vander on the field, I would do that.
Speaker 1: Is there any reason why I should do that. That's
Speaker 1: one of the things I said when when we start
Speaker 1: talking about and nothing to get Chanlee. I kind of
Speaker 1: like keeping Vandersch on the field as much as anybody, right,
Speaker 1: And then I figure out what I'm doing with everybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can figure out how to get those three guys
Speaker 1: in a rotation. Can I ask one more question, host hostess?
Speaker 1: I was wondering, you know, if if if Sean Lee
Speaker 1: comes back and doesn't play well, do you think that
Speaker 1: he knows too? You know, I know he's a competitor,
Speaker 1: but does he and his does he tell Marinelli and
Speaker 1: Richard hey play these guys play the young guys. I'm
Speaker 1: not helping you here, you know, I mean? Or is
Speaker 1: it or is you know? Or is it Sean Lee
Speaker 1: is so prideful that they're going to carry him out
Speaker 1: on his shield? You know? Can I have both? Like?
Speaker 1: I can't let me tell you why I say that,
Speaker 1: because I do think when it comes to his career, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have to get pushed out of
Speaker 1: the door. Yeah, I think Brian would be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to push him out of
Speaker 1: the door because I think he, to me, reminds me
Speaker 1: of the kind of person that loves the sport so
Speaker 1: much that I just I have a hard time thinking
Speaker 1: that he'll ever think I can't at least play a
Speaker 1: role for you. Now that doesn't mean he thinks that
Speaker 1: he's still the starter, right, but I think you'll always
Speaker 1: believe I can tell play a role for They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to say. I truly believe that he's a team
Speaker 1: player the way he asks, so I think that he
Speaker 1: would seriously do what he thinks is best for the
Speaker 1: team and the way like during this time. And you
Speaker 1: would think he would be threatened by what Latin is
Speaker 1: doing right now and you know, kind of pushing him
Speaker 1: out the door and doing and playing so well. But
Speaker 1: it hasn't. Like when I see Sean Lee, I mean
Speaker 1: he's talking to Latan. Their relationship is great. He gives
Speaker 1: him advice. So it's it's something that to me, it
Speaker 1: amazes me because most people would just be upset or
Speaker 1: envious and not want to help them. Want that person
Speaker 1: to do bad. Yeah. Yeah, basically, but he's absolutely different. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. There that was that you talk about
Speaker 1: a teammate approach. I'm not trying to slam Tony, but
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, the the the urban myth is,
Speaker 1: oh he helped him, he got him. No, No, what
Speaker 1: you just described is absolutely right what you've seen from
Speaker 1: strong Lee. I just wonder if, like you said, it's
Speaker 1: being such a great team player, if he wasn't there,
Speaker 1: if he wasn't better, that he would step up and say, guys,
Speaker 1: you got to go with these guys, right. But that's
Speaker 1: the point of what I'm saying is I think that
Speaker 1: he would. I think he would defer to whatever the
Speaker 1: team say, because I think he has a team guy.
Speaker 1: But I do think he would believe I still can't
Speaker 1: play a role for this team. So his expectation would
Speaker 1: be I should be getting some snaps because I could
Speaker 1: still provide whatever that role is. I could provide a
Speaker 1: role for this team. And so I think he would
Speaker 1: have a problem with not playing at all. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think he would have a problem whatsoever. Was saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: whatever kind of rotation you want to get us in
Speaker 1: get us in a rotation where it's best for the team. Competitor,
Speaker 1: that's how you always feel. You feel inside that you
Speaker 1: can't help the team and that you want to be
Speaker 1: out there and do it. It's just that's the soul
Speaker 1: by competitor Nick. He said yesterday Jon Smith said they
Speaker 1: got three elite linebackers. Is he true or false on that?
Speaker 1: I think he's false. I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: that they're three elite guys anymore. I really don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think that who's not elite. I don't think Sean
Speaker 1: Lee is elite because he doesn't. You have to be
Speaker 1: on the field to be elite. I mean you have
Speaker 1: to do that. Like talent wise, that's great, but he's not.
Speaker 1: So if you said elite talent, would you say that's
Speaker 1: an accuracy? It doesn't matter. It's the same as David Irving.
Speaker 1: I mean he's got elite talent too, but wait to
Speaker 1: talk about him stam rail Cook and Crawfish. Hey, who's
Speaker 1: the best player you've ever saying? It didn't do anything
Speaker 1: David Irving, although he's back in the building. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: good for a big difference, though not helping people. He's helping.
Speaker 1: So it's like a different kind of talent. When you
Speaker 1: mentioned Travis Frederick, Travis Frederick, I'll give you that. I'll
Speaker 1: give you that that that that helps, and I you know,
Speaker 1: and I totally agree that Romo didn't help. Sanchez was
Speaker 1: the one that, yeah, exactly more than anything with Dak.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna help you get in the butt, did Romo.
Speaker 1: I don't think Sean Lee's gonna have a prepared statement
Speaker 1: and get up there like Robot didn't and kind of passy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's different. I mean, like we know this, I
Speaker 1: mean quarterbacks, It's just it's different. You you play one,
Speaker 1: you can play three. You can figure it out. I
Speaker 1: agree with you that he'll he's out, He'll he's stepped
Speaker 1: backward a little bit, but still have a run. He'll know.
Speaker 1: I think he'll know too. I think he doesn't need
Speaker 1: You don't think they'll have to push him out of door?
Speaker 1: You think now. David Hellman said this other day he
Speaker 1: thinks there's gonna be two press conferences this year to
Speaker 1: retirement press conferences, um, and he thinks one of them
Speaker 1: will be Sean Lee. Just just like I've had a
Speaker 1: good run before they cut him for salary cap and
Speaker 1: you know, but that's a tough one because he's you
Speaker 1: would think he's gonna be like he reminds me of
Speaker 1: Bill Bates way, you know, way back when a guy
Speaker 1: that would just play and play and and and maybe
Speaker 1: even play as a special teams guy. Yeah, just started
Speaker 1: to be out there. I want to play the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: keep playing, Keep playing. That's a better example, Dirk, because
Speaker 1: you were the best guy and now you're not, And
Speaker 1: you don't want to go play for another team and
Speaker 1: chase a ring. You already have one, right, different different lee.
Speaker 1: But I mean, he's not going to go with a
Speaker 1: better spot. So who was the second you left that
Speaker 1: wide open? I actually forgot it. I'll think of it
Speaker 1: in a second. Alright, Well everybody's got to Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the center of attention. I think he plays. It
Speaker 1: was a few weeks ago. Let us go ahead and
Speaker 1: thank our first break when we come back. I like it.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break. You ready and we're back, Cowboys Break.
Speaker 1: Here's Ambar, Thank you Ken, Thanks kid. All right, we
Speaker 1: are back and let's talk about so many actives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of these guys that might be able to play
Speaker 1: and the ones that might not be ailable too. So
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and give our predictions and the inactive,
Speaker 1: starting off with I'll go with us. I'll go with
Speaker 1: Swaying Swing. I'll take Tavon Austin for five hundred. Mike
Speaker 1: White seems like a good guy this week. David Irving,
Speaker 1: Oh that's all. There's five. I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: Cubbington the linebacker. That'll be six? Is that right? Five?
Speaker 1: Or six? Five or six? With let's at six and
Speaker 1: I give us the last one name. I do not
Speaker 1: want to go with an offensive lineman because I don't
Speaker 1: feel like so you're keeping Tyrant smiffective guys play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I want to keep They'll probably go Redman,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I'd go eight guys there.
Speaker 1: But where else can you can you get seven? You
Speaker 1: get what about talking not being active? You want to
Speaker 1: scratch him again? Well, I'm just saying though at some
Speaker 1: point I want to be not happy with Tycho what
Speaker 1: you know? I know I know about it. But they
Speaker 1: talk about attitude adjustment, They talk about a lot of
Speaker 1: different things to talk about and being hurt. Give me
Speaker 1: a rotation for your defensive ends. Give me, give me
Speaker 1: a rotation, give me. I'm so confused with this whole
Speaker 1: attitude thing that keeps getting tacked along to Tackle's name,
Speaker 1: because from my end, and it's not like I'm there
Speaker 1: all the time, it's gotten better. I've never seen that
Speaker 1: kind of persona coming from him. I've never seen him
Speaker 1: acting like that to where I would get a sense
Speaker 1: of him at having like a bad attitude or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's why world on the side of the building. What
Speaker 1: are some of the things that you've heard that it
Speaker 1: is with him? And trust me, I got a lecturing
Speaker 1: of because on one of my gut guts ones, which
Speaker 1: you absolutely love, by the way, a big fan of
Speaker 1: the game. Actually check that out this afternoon. And yeah,
Speaker 1: despite what Ambar says, you know, I think that, like
Speaker 1: I wrote that, I wrote one day that you know,
Speaker 1: expect Taco to be back in the lineup part of
Speaker 1: the rotation data. DA got a text later on the day,
Speaker 1: Oh Taco's playing. Oh I guess he's not, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I thought did Taco was healthy
Speaker 1: and all that, And you know there's some you know,
Speaker 1: there's been two or three people who's kind of saddled
Speaker 1: up to me and said, hey, you know, need to
Speaker 1: need to knock it down or rung or two. You know,
Speaker 1: and you know there's responsibility as a player, you have responsibility.
Speaker 1: You know, what do we do when we stand up
Speaker 1: and look at our desk, walking out the hallway or whatever.
Speaker 1: You look out in the field. Who's out there working?
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's out there working, Tavon Austin's out there working.
Speaker 1: You know, there comes responsibilities as as a pro you know,
Speaker 1: and if you're injured, you have responsible as if you're injured,
Speaker 1: you have responsibilities. You know. It's not just show up
Speaker 1: and roll your helmet out there and think you're gonna
Speaker 1: get sacks. And you look at what they've done at
Speaker 1: defensive end. Randy Gregory's done a nice job. Crawford's been
Speaker 1: over there. You know they they've got a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rotation. They could put Armstrong over there. Sure,
Speaker 1: I want Taco to be good. I mean, someone told
Speaker 1: me this the other day. How about this for a
Speaker 1: quote that guy goes, hey, you know what, why is
Speaker 1: everybody getting upset about us trade in a first round
Speaker 1: pick away for a for Mary Cooper. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: pick Taco, think about that. You know. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna pick vander esh okay, you know, oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: if you're gonna if you're gonna pick talk, you know
Speaker 1: that that just shows you right there that you know
Speaker 1: people are if you're just gonna if you're gonna pick
Speaker 1: a guy that's you know, needs to buy in a
Speaker 1: little bit better to what's going on. Yeah, you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: As a young player. You should be doing everything in
Speaker 1: your power to be a part of this. You know,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're fighting for a division title. You should
Speaker 1: want to be on the fish. You want to be
Speaker 1: about there. But you know with the rotation, you mean,
Speaker 1: you got to make these coaches want to play you,
Speaker 1: you know what make it hard for them to say,
Speaker 1: we can't we can't have him inactive this week. You
Speaker 1: know we can't. He's got to play right, you know.
Speaker 1: And but you know it's it's really easy for me
Speaker 1: to sit there and say, what has Taco done to
Speaker 1: make me? If you know, Nick, you could talk about Okay,
Speaker 1: who plays center of something happens to Joe Looney? Well,
Speaker 1: I think you need Chris Redman. He's your Adam Adam
Speaker 1: remember Chris Adam Redman to be your center. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean there's certain guys that if they had to
Speaker 1: go in the game to play, you would want them
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah, I think I would. I would stay
Speaker 1: with eight offensive lineman active. And then you asked about
Speaker 1: the rotation. I mean I typed in eight guys here,
Speaker 1: I got Gregory, Lawrence Armstrong and then Crawford at the ends,
Speaker 1: a Leak, Ross Woods and Red as your tackles, Taco
Speaker 1: and Irving or you're an active you could you could
Speaker 1: play that way. Yeah, Now, I don't think I do.
Speaker 1: I just think that Tyrone Crawford is playing as well
Speaker 1: as anybody on I broke the other day. Most underrated
Speaker 1: players on the team right now or to me or
Speaker 1: Joe Looney and Tyron Crawford and A don't know what.
Speaker 1: I love the way he's playing. Yeah, he's not just
Speaker 1: a big, jolly, fun guy that you want to root for.
Speaker 1: A damn good player. Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: can get a little nasty out, ye like that. That's
Speaker 1: if you the worst. Mike him up because I want
Speaker 1: to see him talking. Yeah, I'm Betty, I'm I'm having
Speaker 1: a hard thing, and he doesn't. He probably just laughs
Speaker 1: at you, like in an intimidating way, like for dinner
Speaker 1: and rubs. So as far as the old line goes,
Speaker 1: you would just keep Safilo in there and then just
Speaker 1: add back Tyron Smith. And as far as starting and
Speaker 1: I want my backups to be UM seventy five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you got Yeah, you got flaming Connor Williams and Redman.
Speaker 1: It might they might, they might just go seven, but
Speaker 1: they might, they might just do that. But but where
Speaker 1: where What do you worry about? Because you really have
Speaker 1: to You can't put Connor Williams down because he could
Speaker 1: be well, you got fleming. But okay, now who's going
Speaker 1: to back up the guards? She's gonna be back up?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's there's so many things. Where are your
Speaker 1: bigger questions Sue Filo's ankle and Tyron Smith's shoulder. I've
Speaker 1: better protect myself in that area. Yeah, because there's when
Speaker 1: you're talking about a sting, there's a real he can
Speaker 1: feel great before the game. There was a real chance, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that you get in the game and just one hit
Speaker 1: the wrong way aggravates that thing, and now you gotta
Speaker 1: paybody in We've seen we've seen. How about how about
Speaker 1: Zach Martin? I know he's off the injury report, but okay,
Speaker 1: what happens something to Zach Martin? Now, how are you
Speaker 1: gonna play a guard? What are you gonna do with guard?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean you got Williams and if well,
Speaker 1: what if you sat when you can't sit him? Or
Speaker 1: what have happened? Something happens to Sue Field? You can't
Speaker 1: sit him? What Thompson does he have to play? Darius?
Speaker 1: See Darius Thompson could be an out? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean special teams to show up. No, not really, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, I would keep all eight like Nick him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm all for playing if it means
Speaker 1: it's going with three safeties and then having and having
Speaker 1: more defensive back. There's more cornerbacks in the field where
Speaker 1: they're gonna where they're gonna hurt you in this game, Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Is the number of receivers are gonna throw last week
Speaker 1: against the Saints. I know your show probably did this.
Speaker 1: You sat there and talked about Michael Thomas the whole time.
Speaker 1: You didn't talk about anybody else. This game. You're going, well,
Speaker 1: they've gotten you know, Jordan Matthews. Yeah, Golden Tate they've got,
Speaker 1: you know, they've got and by the way out they
Speaker 1: got sprawls. I mean, you're thinking about Zach Hurtz, thinking about, Okay,
Speaker 1: how am I going to cover these guys? You know,
Speaker 1: Thompson playing is not going to help you cover these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: having as many corners out there will help you cover
Speaker 1: these guys. I actually brought up the question, do you
Speaker 1: think that this week they do something similar to what
Speaker 1: they did last week where they use some dime because
Speaker 1: they wanted to be able to put a corner on
Speaker 1: the running back. Do they maybe put a corner on arts?
Speaker 1: Do they consider possibly keep getting those That extra cornerback
Speaker 1: on the field will cover all the different guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the different guys that you can cover. See, this
Speaker 1: is where if it's third down and long. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not. I'm trying to give the last
Speaker 1: time you played of sixteen reception or the sixteen targets
Speaker 1: that Ern's had, Nine of them were zone, seven of
Speaker 1: them were manned. Okay, so you're you're got to think, Okay,
Speaker 1: where did he kill you? He killed you? Really playing zone?
Speaker 1: You know, now where you also have to know is
Speaker 1: this guy is a first down machine, like forty four
Speaker 1: percent of his catches resulting first down. Yeah, so you've
Speaker 1: got to figure out, Okay, how would I play him.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying take Byron Jones on him every time.
Speaker 1: I mean I think he got to mix it. I
Speaker 1: don't think you just sit there and let and let
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz sit there and go Okay, let's see what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Okay, see I got it. Well again there
Speaker 1: it is. Oh hey again, Okay, there it again. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think you do that. I think you say
Speaker 1: Heath Whoa, Jones, vander Esh Okay, we're not gonna go now.
Speaker 1: You know, kind of you got to kind of make
Speaker 1: him think about some different things out there. And that's
Speaker 1: I think though, if you get in some long third
Speaker 1: and long situation. Absolutely you look at Zach Earns's career
Speaker 1: and if you think about it when Byron Jones was
Speaker 1: covering him, basically, you know it's like for one game
Speaker 1: in sixteen, four four catches. Let's go fourteen, you got
Speaker 1: uh four catches, five catches, three catches, no catches, three catches,
Speaker 1: three catches. That's in what that's what Byron Jones. That's
Speaker 1: his career. That's Zak Earns. His career catches against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys kind of in the Byron Jones administration. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's the buck stops there, you know. But you
Speaker 1: look at the last couple. He had fourteen in this
Speaker 1: last game two two and thirteen. So yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: figure things out there. Jordan Lewis one person on Twitter
Speaker 1: agreed with me. I don't agree with you on that,
Speaker 1: Nick Nybe. You put Jordan Lewis on we're playing basket
Speaker 1: where the height advantage kills you long arm guy play.
Speaker 1: I get it, But I'm just saying, if you if
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis can beat him to the spot. As great
Speaker 1: as zachert is, he's a great tight end, he's not
Speaker 1: a great receiver, Jordan Lewis, he can. He's quicker than him.
Speaker 1: He can beat him to the spot. Now, if everything's
Speaker 1: up in the air, Okay, great job Carson Wentz. But
Speaker 1: if I want him throwing it in the air, if
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, he'll throw it away. I mean he's not
Speaker 1: that accurate. Yeah, think No, the thing the thing that
Speaker 1: you have to worry about. And on the fourth down
Speaker 1: play that was short of the sticks. It was Heath driving.
Speaker 1: You know. That's where I would worry if you had
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, you got Jordan can tackle. Jordan's a
Speaker 1: long arm guy. See this is why I would disagree
Speaker 1: with you here, Nick. I would put somebody on him
Speaker 1: that's comfortable playing him. I don't know Jordan Lewis to
Speaker 1: me now, he's probably not comfortable covering Golden Tate because
Speaker 1: Golden Tate got him in a dime package. He missed him.
Speaker 1: Book out the gate. Here we go. So but to me,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones understands the play he's played. He's played this guy,
Speaker 1: he's played. He goes, Okay, this guy's gonna try and
Speaker 1: stick me on the outside. I've seen this move. I
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do here. Oh he's tight split.
Speaker 1: Oh he's gonna run this thing to the inside and
Speaker 1: break it out. I know what he's gonna do here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play him and get somebody because I know
Speaker 1: sixty five percent of the time that quarterback is gonna
Speaker 1: throw the ball to him. Yeah, I know that, and
Speaker 1: I like that. All I'm saying is is kind of
Speaker 1: what you said this time it is Byron Jones he's long,
Speaker 1: he can go with them this time, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: Louis Oh no, no, absolutely, yeah, this time it is
Speaker 1: vander Eschi. You get hitting me off the line, So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe like that. Yeah, I think that's what you're gonna see.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna see him just get just
Speaker 1: repetitively get some guy. But I would say this, if
Speaker 1: you get into those situations where it's third and long,
Speaker 1: like you said I would in those instances, I would say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna line him up. Every time there's a third
Speaker 1: and long and there's a like that kind of situation.
Speaker 1: I trust the fact that more times than not, I
Speaker 1: can get Byron the way he's played this year, I
Speaker 1: can get him to make a stop fall. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this. He used the number sixty five on passes
Speaker 1: of seven or ten yards or more. He's getting the
Speaker 1: ball sixty four point five percent of the time. That's
Speaker 1: where that Carson Wentz is saying, Okay, who can I
Speaker 1: throw this ball too and get a first down. I'm
Speaker 1: doing whatever I can to take him out at that
Speaker 1: moment in those situations and make him go somewhere. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna I'm going to keep him from beating
Speaker 1: me in this football YEP. I could maybe survive Jeffrey
Speaker 1: and guys like that. I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: survive zach Ernz. Sorry to interrupt you. I'm sorry. Ram
Speaker 1: kind of have a show going on. Sorry, sorry guys,
Speaker 1: but we kind of do have to go to break
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Speaker 1: Now two, Okay, go ahead. David Helma was gold on.
Speaker 1: He just sent me, uh um, I don't know, yeah, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, oh yeah, Like you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny because the Cowboys and Eagles last week. I would
Speaker 1: have said this, but now I no, I mean two
Speaker 1: Cowboys Cowboys David now Nick's prediction, Um, you know exactly,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be It's gonna be a good one. But
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is better, I really do. I think
Speaker 1: they're just a better football team, and I think they've
Speaker 1: got something going here and all this while two straight
Speaker 1: games for the Eagles, that's that's nice. Saints had ten
Speaker 1: and they shut that down. I think Dallas it'll be
Speaker 1: it'll be a tight game. This team is different. They
Speaker 1: have to prove it, and I think they will. I
Speaker 1: think they win twenty eight sixteen over the Eagles. I
Speaker 1: think they're better for ball team and they're gonna show it. Derek,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think the same thing. I
Speaker 1: think the difference in this game really ends up being
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia secondary. I think that the Cowboys will have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get some big plays on this defense,
Speaker 1: on this uh, this Philadelphia secondary, and because of that,
Speaker 1: that's going to get them a comfortable lead. Not only
Speaker 1: will they they'll be able to run the ball as
Speaker 1: he did the last time when they played them, but
Speaker 1: just their ability to use Amari Cooper and as we've
Speaker 1: been seeing, they're they're looking at Gallup as well. Gallup
Speaker 1: is starting to get a little bit more integrated into
Speaker 1: this offense. He's a big play kind of guy. I
Speaker 1: think they're going to connect on some of those big
Speaker 1: plays this weekend. I think Cowboys get to win twenty
Speaker 1: four sixteen. Gallup actually just a missed practice today. He's sick,
Speaker 1: but I feel like he'll be gonna be okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sickness is fixed. Sickness he'll be fine. Yeah, nice, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: your turn read gut feeling. You know what in this show.
Speaker 1: In this show, we keep it real and we say no, okay,
Speaker 1: what is your prediction. No, I'll tell you what I think.
Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboys have the better defense, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what's it could take. One of these
Speaker 1: teams defenses is going to have to stand up and
Speaker 1: make and make a stand, if you want to say.
Speaker 1: And Cowboys played very well against the Saints. This is
Speaker 1: a different challenge with all the receivers and weapons they have.
Speaker 1: I think they've got the guys in the secondary to
Speaker 1: do it, though, I really really do. That's interesting thing
Speaker 1: in fact about this about the Philadelphi Eagles so defensively,
Speaker 1: when they face a team that rushes the ball for
Speaker 1: twenty two times or more, they've lost every single game.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys find a way. They did it
Speaker 1: last time running the football, they converted on third down,
Speaker 1: they finished some drives, they had two drives they went.
Speaker 1: They went seventy two seventy five yard drives in that game,
Speaker 1: and I think they could do the same thing. I'm
Speaker 1: with Derek on the score. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be a ten point game, you know, if the twenty
Speaker 1: six sixteen something like that. But I think Dallas has
Speaker 1: the better defense. I think the offense is coming around,
Speaker 1: and I don't think the Eagles have anybody that can
Speaker 1: cover a Maury Cooper. The Saints put their best guy
Speaker 1: on a Maury Cooper and he was eight for eight
Speaker 1: on targets and catches. I don't think they have anybody
Speaker 1: that can do that. That will be huge in this game.
Speaker 1: But Dallas's ability to run the ball will be the
Speaker 1: difference and this make in this game, along with their defense.
Speaker 1: Nice yellow enough. No, the Colways got me hooked. Now
Speaker 1: I am hooked. I'm on the train. Both of my
Speaker 1: legs are inside the train. The earlier weeks, earlier months,
Speaker 1: I have one leg out, I one in, But I'm
Speaker 1: all in this time. I think the Cowboys will definitely
Speaker 1: find the way to win. The defense. Everyone knows how
Speaker 1: they're playing. I think they can do enough to stop
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense. Especially playing at home, is gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun game. The energy level is gonna be up
Speaker 1: to the roof is gonna be crazy. Only when the
Speaker 1: defense is on the field. Yeah, let's keep the energy
Speaker 1: level down. When the offense is on the field, just
Speaker 1: the public service announcement. Yeah no, no waves, no no,
Speaker 1: not when the offense is wait, say that for the defense.
Speaker 1: When the defense is on the field, go crazy like
Speaker 1: have fun offense. We'll see how many Eagles fans show up.
Speaker 1: They have a chance, they have a chance to kill
Speaker 1: the Eagles season. They do, they do. They have a
Speaker 1: chance on Sunday afternoon to kill the super defending Super
Speaker 1: Bowl chances, champs season. You got to take that attitude
Speaker 1: in there. I mean you almost assassin like is it.
Speaker 1: Go in there and do that. Can nine and seven
Speaker 1: get you into the playoffs? I don't think it can.
Speaker 1: Nine and seven Well no, no, I don't think it can.
Speaker 1: And I can't. I've seen eight and eight got one year,
Speaker 1: remember the Cowboys within eight and eighty and they got
Speaker 1: any cost. So it kills their chances to win the
Speaker 1: NFC East for sure. Yeah. The thing about it is
Speaker 1: I kind of want them to win some games if
Speaker 1: even if they lose to the to the Cowboys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: win a little bit. But I agree with you. You
Speaker 1: have put them put them away. Yeah, they're not winning
Speaker 1: the NFC East at all. If you if you knock
Speaker 1: this game. There's there's all these teams battling at six
Speaker 1: and six, the Carolinas, the Minnesotas, those people. One of
Speaker 1: them has to get in. Yeah, one of those people
Speaker 1: will get in, you know. And I think this is
Speaker 1: a year where if you would have played Carolina today
Speaker 1: instead of Opening Day, you would love to have played
Speaker 1: them in stead of the Eagles. But I could say
Speaker 1: just I'm happy that. I just hope they keep going
Speaker 1: on a role and win these games, because then I
Speaker 1: want momentum going into the playoffs. I don't want that
Speaker 1: Week sixteen. Oh, We've got to rest guys bit and
Speaker 1: then you know, I know, just keep the teams that
Speaker 1: have that every game has been a back against the
Speaker 1: wall game. Keep that attitude, keep that momentum, and you know,
Speaker 1: those are the teams that have success because they've been
Speaker 1: playing playoff games since halfway through the season. Keep playing
Speaker 1: playoff games in your mind. So before we end the
Speaker 1: show real quick, we've talked about the defense and the offense,
Speaker 1: both matchups here overall. When you look at the Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Eagles, what would you say is the toughest part
Speaker 1: of this game for the Cowboys defensive front? Philly I mean,
Speaker 1: you still got to deal with Fletcher Coxe's that the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's still gonna be that because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you still got to be able
Speaker 1: to block those guys up front. And those guys are coming,
Speaker 1: and as Brian said earlier in the show, cowboys give
Speaker 1: up a ton of sacks. That's the problem I worry
Speaker 1: about about Dak ball security in the pocket. They've only
Speaker 1: had nine turnovers all year. The Eagles they they they're
Speaker 1: going to look to create turnovers. How do you create turnovers?
Speaker 1: Attack Dak Prescott in the pocket. Knocked the ball loose.
Speaker 1: That's the way to do it. And they're bad secondary though.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing. They can't stack the box
Speaker 1: to stop the run because they're a secondary so bad
Speaker 1: and if they blitz it just exposes them a little
Speaker 1: bit more so. Cooper's got to get open, Gallop's got
Speaker 1: to get open. Decks gotta hit him, all right? Nice, Now,
Speaker 1: is this the first time that we all picked the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in this room? Maybe the Redskin I want to say,
Speaker 1: there was another game Thanksgiving. I can't see anyone. Did
Speaker 1: you all pick them against the Saints? Only one? The
Speaker 1: only one is proud of that one. Yeah, just quick quick, no,
Speaker 1: let me say a quick no. For those of you
Speaker 1: listening to like paying attention to what Brian has said
Speaker 1: about he's very proud of picking the Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: against the Saint let me just say this. This is
Speaker 1: what he said. My gut is usually wrong, so I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go with the opposite this time. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Saints. So there you go. That's
Speaker 1: all I wanted to say. That's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: No matter, but you got the best record of anybody.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I got the best record. That's
Speaker 1: why you should look at the gut feeling today and
Speaker 1: final thoughts, hope, So you're the only one who was
Speaker 1: a scout, okay, so I would hope you get most
Speaker 1: of them right. Well, sick, not lying. I'm the only
Speaker 1: one that went to jail exactly. You know what, you
Speaker 1: know what a true incident is that you're seven and
Speaker 1: five and the Cowboys. Amazingly somehow we line up. Then
Speaker 1: a game that Mickey picked against the Cowboys was the
Speaker 1: first Les game. Gotta show me that killed killed. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much Brian for joining us today. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for listening. For Derek Hilton, Nicki Man, Brian brought
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