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Speaker 1: wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, October second, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number fifty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, it's

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday, Big picture Tuesday. We get a chance to

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Speaker 1: take a step back and look at this team overall

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Speaker 1: through four weeks of the season. It's the quarter mark.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have played a quarter of the season, and we'll

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Speaker 1: get to some questions here throughout the show that will

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Speaker 1: this team right now. How's everybody filming this point? I

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Speaker 1: am great, Derek awesome. So what we're gonna do Before

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Speaker 1: we get to that, though, I do have a few

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Speaker 1: up on. Zeke and we mentioned this yesterday. Zeke after

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Speaker 1: that game's limping pretty bad, and it was pretty noticeable

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Speaker 1: that he was limping. Where do we stand right now

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Speaker 1: with Ezekiel Elliott and his health. Zeke's fine, that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: players play through, especially twenty four year old All Pro

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Speaker 1: You know, when Garrett says he thinks he's gonna be fine,

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Speaker 1: we used to twenty two geez, dating yourselves a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You get some time during the week, didn't he I

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Speaker 1: don't remember this. You don't remember. If I remember and

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Speaker 1: you don't remember, that's I don't remember Himmett getting held out.

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Speaker 1: miss practice. That point is is that when it comes

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Speaker 1: if it's just Rod Smith does this, Rod Smith does that,

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Speaker 1: this week. Dave, you wrote an article about kind of

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Speaker 1: in the game, like that's that's the plan instead of again,

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Speaker 1: chump change by NFL standards to get a proven starter

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Speaker 1: in here in you know guys who have been to

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Speaker 1: Matthew a one year, seven million dollar deal, big whoop

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Speaker 1: if he you know, at worst, you got the best

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Speaker 1: safety depth chart in the league. Even if you get

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Speaker 1: Earle and if he was horrible when he got to trip,

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Speaker 1: has never made It didn't make sense in the spring,

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Speaker 1: it I mean, And I don't even you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't mind him not drafting a safety, to be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, the way the board fell, and obviously I'm

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Speaker 1: I don't hate that at all, But I mean, three

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Speaker 1: just like, nah, we're good and it's coming back. It's no,

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Speaker 1: it's coming back on him right now, and they don't

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Speaker 1: have anybody to blame but themselves. And there's no real

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Speaker 1: recourse you're gonna get at this point. There are not

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Speaker 1: guys sitting out on the street that are the quality

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Speaker 1: of those guys that you could have had in the

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Speaker 1: off season. I will say this about Heath. I think

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Speaker 1: that his games last year and the play against Oakland

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Speaker 1: has helped him to the point where he could have

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Speaker 1: a game like that. And I don't know, I didn't

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Speaker 1: see like a whole bunch of like, well, he's horrible,

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Speaker 1: he sucks I mean it might have yeah, oh oh

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Speaker 1: I just know I agree. I just think they're dumb

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Speaker 1: again for the fifth time. I like Jeff Heath a

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Speaker 1: a starting caliber safety in this league. He needs to

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Speaker 1: have talent around him. He needs to be Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is a bad way to phrase it, but he needs

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Speaker 1: he's bad, But the other four guys need to be

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Speaker 1: better than him, and they're not right now, and it

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Speaker 1: it shows. All Right, we're gonna take our first break

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Speaker 1: when we come back. We're gonna get into some of

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Speaker 1: the Brink Welcome Back. Second segment of the show, Live

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Speaker 1: from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Nick take

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Speaker 1: it away. You know what, this is a new one,

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Speaker 1: But if you can watch season thirteen Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders

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Speaker 1: making the team on CMT every Thursday night at nine

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Speaker 1: pm Central. Season thirteen of that, Yeah, that still has

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Speaker 1: some really good ratings. Actually, I was kind of shocked.

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Speaker 1: But you don't a lot of people see that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: a point. I want to say it's the highest rated

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Speaker 1: show on CMT. I say, yeah, no, I'm saying maybe ever,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know. I'm saying seasons and that I

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Speaker 1: straight years. Yeah they have. All right, let's get back

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Speaker 1: into it. I have some questions for you guys. We're

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Speaker 1: at the quarter mark of the season. Cowboys have played

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Speaker 1: four games of the sixteen on the schedule, and so

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Speaker 1: I have some questions for some different players and different

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Speaker 1: parts of the team, and I want you guys to

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Speaker 1: answer them truthfully and with all honesty. So let's go. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Question number one who's the most improved player for this

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Speaker 1: team through four games. Jalen Smith or Byron Jones. Those

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Speaker 1: are the only options you want to throw in another

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Speaker 1: one that's better than those twosing a smart ass, it's

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Speaker 1: Byron Jones. It is why because he's the twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: overall picking the draft. There was speculation about whether his

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Speaker 1: option was even worth picking up. They moved him to

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Speaker 1: a new position that he was not good at as

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Speaker 1: a rookie, and he's been gang bust. If we're talking

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Speaker 1: about speculation, there was speculation Jalen Smith may never walk

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Speaker 1: or run or anything. So if we're playing this speculation thing,

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Speaker 1: then that far but improvement from last year to this year,

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Speaker 1: because that's the thing. Last year we saw Jalen play

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Speaker 1: and he was good in spurts, but when he had

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Speaker 1: to play too much, he was not very good. And

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Speaker 1: this year he has been very good. And I think

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Speaker 1: he's been very good consistently throughout good these games. The

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Speaker 1: stats say that Byron is one of the best outside

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Speaker 1: corners in the game through four weeks, and that it's

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Speaker 1: it is a premium position. It's a position the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: haven't gotten great play at in recent years. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean close, I don't. I don't think you can argue

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Speaker 1: that either way. I like what Jalen has done though

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Speaker 1: he's he's much better than he was last year. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that they could win a game without Sean

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Speaker 1: Lee and Vanderessh is a big part of that too.

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Speaker 1: But I think he's more active in the pass rush

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Speaker 1: than we've seen from a linebacker. Absolutely, yeah, and he

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Speaker 1: looks good doing it. Who would who would be a

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Speaker 1: if you had to just you know, do a third guy,

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Speaker 1: who would it be most improved? I mean, because the

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Speaker 1: first guy that comes to mind to me would be

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Speaker 1: Taco M that's good, yeah, or Cheeto is Cheeto was good.

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Speaker 1: He just Tito missed some time last year. About Tyrone,

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Speaker 1: He's been pretty good, has been good. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if i'd put him in the category with those other guys. No, No,

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Speaker 1: well we're thinking of we're trying to think. But I

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Speaker 1: think he's been good. Um, nobody on the offense the

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Speaker 1: only guy could remotely think of a Swain. But he's

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Speaker 1: just playing more and he was just doing what Swain does, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, And that's the thing about Swain, Like

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Speaker 1: I never thought Swain was a bad player. He's a

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Speaker 1: good player, but he is just kind of that. I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't even say good. He's a solid player, not from

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Speaker 1: not from the ability standpoint, really just position number face.

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Speaker 1: Does anybody Elseie Swain when they see Kelsey for the Chiefs, Oh, Travis,

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Speaker 1: you think he looks like him? I don't know what,

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Speaker 1: not really maybe with their helmets on, I don't see.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's that's what it is. I think it's not.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about production on them. I was about

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Speaker 1: to say like that, No, no, they would would kill

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Speaker 1: for that. We haven't talked about that, like I thought,

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Speaker 1: sure somebody would be talking about left handed throws and

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Speaker 1: stuff to night. I'm just so good, I mean, fun

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Speaker 1: to watch making Cowboys. It's as much it's as much

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Speaker 1: fun as I've had watching Monday night football in a while.

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Speaker 1: But I just figure people want to hear us talk

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Speaker 1: about the Cowboys. So he's a ton of fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: I was actually watching that game last night, just like

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Speaker 1: he's unreal, Like wow, he you know he's I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's already like one of my top fifteen or twenty

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Speaker 1: favorite players to watch, like he has We're talking about

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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes for people that might people who listen to

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Speaker 1: this show know how I feel about Aaron Rodgers. Well, like,

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Speaker 1: if he's playing, I'm gonna try to watch it, right

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Speaker 1: Like he's he's awesome, he's fun to watch. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's getting better and Witten is getting better. He was

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Speaker 1: way better last night than in the first three. He's

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Speaker 1: still got some morning to do better. For sure. They're

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out you know what, I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: when anytime we would ever have a caller, or not

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Speaker 1: a caller, but somebody would call in on the show

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Speaker 1: and they're supposed to be a part of the show

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Speaker 1: from the phone, it's kind of hard because sometimes you're

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Speaker 1: you know, you you're over. You don't get to see

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Speaker 1: each other, so you're talking over. That's a dynamic that

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Speaker 1: they're having to deal with because they got three people

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Speaker 1: in there. One guy's not in the booth and so

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Speaker 1: you know, he talks a lot like he talks to

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Speaker 1: the guy as though he's in the booth, right, So yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so they have to kind of figure that out a

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Speaker 1: little bit. He had a wit had a romo moment

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Speaker 1: last night on the fourth down. I think it was

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Speaker 1: the game winning drive or it was one of the

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Speaker 1: two fourth quarter drives they scored on and they had

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Speaker 1: a fourth and one and Winton was like, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get him on the move and try to do a

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Speaker 1: boot and he's going to have a pass option and

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Speaker 1: it was the exact I mean, it was the exact play.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he's getting steadies. He knows he's doing all right.

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Speaker 1: Next question, most disappointing player, and I'm talking about expectations

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Speaker 1: going into the year based and then relative to how

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Speaker 1: they've played in the first four games. Tyren Smith, Dak Prescott,

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Speaker 1: Lyle Collins. Feel free to throw in another name if

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Speaker 1: Lee could be up there, because Sean Lee really wasn't

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Speaker 1: playing that well except for the one game and then

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Speaker 1: he got hurt, so he has not provided much for you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you could throw that in him. He will't be. He

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Speaker 1: this summarizes football completely because given his pedigree, his talent level,

637
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Speaker 1: his accomplishments, and the way we think about him, it

638
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Speaker 1: is probably Tyrn Smith because you think of him as

639
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: just this wall you're not getting past him. He's the

640
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: best he's suiting blah blah blah. He hasn't played like

641
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Speaker 1: that at all. He's been very disappointing just because of

642
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: the standard. But when your quarterback's not playing well, it's

643
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: it's everything. And I mean, you got you got to

644
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Speaker 1: have good quarterback play. But if you're left tackle isn't

645
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Speaker 1: playing well, does that affect your quarterbacks play? No, because

646
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Speaker 1: I don't think Tyrant has been that bad. Okay, yeah,

647
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: it's not land of bad. Yeah, I'm and I was

648
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: just wanting to make that clear because I think that

649
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Speaker 1: could be the natural. Honestly, Yeah, Tyron playing the way

650
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: he's played the first month is still better than a

651
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: ton of starters in the NFL. But wouldn't you say that,

652
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: Tyrn if you had to rate them all, would you

653
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Speaker 1: say and not? This isn't about expectations. This is about

654
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Speaker 1: who's playing the best. Wouldn't you say Tyrant's number two

655
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Speaker 1: on the old line right now? As far as play, Yeah,

656
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Speaker 1: I mean you wouldn't say yeah, But I think would

657
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: you say yes? But here's the problem. No problem. That's

658
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: also part of the problem with the offensive line is

659
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Speaker 1: if right now, if he's your second best, then that

660
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Speaker 1: means the offensive line isn't playing atom you know me,

661
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: I like to grade on a current, but given who

662
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: he is and where he's playing like, I'm pluning it too,

663
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Speaker 1: just because not only is he stepping in for an

664
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Speaker 1: all pro and not sinking the ship, but he's if

665
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: playing pretty well, Dak doesn't pick up the fumble, We're

666
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Speaker 1: not sitting here and talking about talking about Looney getting

667
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: beat on that play. So it just kind of worked

668
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Speaker 1: out like that because I thought Looney had a great game,

669
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Speaker 1: and I think he did that playa could have been

670
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Speaker 1: his last one of the game. It's true, they're all

671
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: they're all that way. Tyrant's got something. I think the

672
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Speaker 1: ANSWER's Dak. I think he's it has to be it's

673
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: it might not be fair, but you know, it goes

674
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Speaker 1: with the Denidists what it is. It's Jason nice to say,

675
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Speaker 1: might not be your fault, but you're the problem back.

676
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: You're gonna get too much credit when you're good and

677
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: too much blame when you're bad. It's just the way

678
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: it is. All right, who's been the best player, and

679
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: I know that's he sounds easy, but you gotta choose

680
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: between Zeke and Tank. It's been a better player. Thank thank,

681
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: It's harder to make an impact on the game from

682
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: that position, Like you have to be really good to

683
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: put up those kinds of stuff. They're both leading the

684
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Speaker 1: league in their respective categories right now, Zeke no. Zeke

685
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: is leading with in rushing with four and twenty six yards.

686
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: Tank is leading in sacks with five and a half. Also,

687
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: let's not I mean, let you know, let's give all

688
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Speaker 1: credit and blame where it's due. Zeke put up a

689
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: stinker in Seattle. I don't care what his yardist total was.

690
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: He had two drops at a bad game, bad game,

691
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: and that tells you a lot. Yeah, one twenty seven

692
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: yards and it was a bad game. I think it's

693
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Speaker 1: you know, Levion Bell's not playing. It's between Zeke and

694
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Speaker 1: um Gurley for best back in the league. And Zeke's

695
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: on pace to break his sixteen rushing total by a

696
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: healthy margin. Like he's great, he's really good, But what

697
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Speaker 1: do you get that years he's really a great stock

698
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: sixteen fifty one. No, but that's about all four games,

699
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: Like the first two games weren't great. It says a lot,

700
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: but like it says a lot about how spoiled we

701
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: are since twenty thirteen when it comes to running the football,

702
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: because like, eighty yards is a great day for eighty

703
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Speaker 1: percent of NFL running backs and it's nothing here. It's

704
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: so his pace is I think seventeen oh four. Yeah,

705
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Speaker 1: that man for sixteen fifty one and sixteen. I think

706
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Speaker 1: that's also because most teams are probably throwing the ball

707
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Speaker 1: for three hundred plus. Yeah, Cowboys are usually in that

708
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Speaker 1: one fifty to two hundred, right right. I just Tank

709
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: hasn't had a bad game yet that I'm aware of me.

710
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: He's five and a half sacks, forced fumble, I believe.

711
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's in the all over the play.

712
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: He's great. Yeah, he's been. He's been the best one.

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Speaker 1: You know, we do a top ten players of every

714
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Speaker 1: game for the for each game this year, and you know,

715
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: he's been in there every every week. Of course, I

716
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Speaker 1: think he's the only player that's been in there every

717
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Speaker 1: single game. So maybe Zach Martin too. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: take our final break. When we come back, we're going

719
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Speaker 1: gonna get back into we got one more question in

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Speaker 1: our quarter review. Um, and then we're gonna get some calls.

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Speaker 1: We got a call already waiting. We'll get to that

784
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: in just a second. But our final question, there was

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Speaker 1: the best newcomer? You got Tavon Austin, Alan Hearns, and

786
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: Layton vander Esh You again, feel free to throw in

787
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: another name if you choose has been the best newcomer.

788
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: You know her has been pretty good. Okay, that's another one.

789
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: I mean he's uh yeah, credit words due. He hasn't

790
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: lost your game. You know that's a low bar. Well,

791
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: I don't think he didn't lose the game with this

792
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: his miss kick, and they didn't lose the game for him, right,

793
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: Let's be real too. He's like he's he's probably gonna

794
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Speaker 1: be pretty important for a team that's not scoring a

795
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: ton of touchdowns right now. Connor Williams is starting, but

796
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: he's not really doing a lot. Oh god, that's a

797
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: I Each one of these seemed like they've had moments.

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Speaker 1: I want it. I wanted to say over all of them, okay,

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Speaker 1: because he actually won a game for them. Even though

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Speaker 1: Tavon may have won that Giants, he's just been so

801
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: inconsistent because of how they use him. I want it.

802
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: I want it to be Tavon. I want him to

803
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: play more than eighteen snaps a game. But it's not

804
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: a big enough sample size, so I'll probably say Layton, Um,

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00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm really what. He's got twenty six twenty six tackles

806
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: in four games, and so what that's like six seven

807
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: a game, and only one of those was a start.

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00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: So he's doing a lot of that as a reserve.

809
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: He just looks like his instincts are impressive. He seems

810
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,479
Speaker 1: like he's good at diagnosing plays, and he hasn't missed

811
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Speaker 1: a ton of tackles. He's made the ones he's had

812
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: the shots at, so he hasn't been phenomenal, but I'm encouraged.

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00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, think back to what Taco did through

814
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Speaker 1: the first month of last season. He is playing a

815
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Speaker 1: big time role in this defense. So so if he's

816
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: only going to get better, which assume this is your floor.

817
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: If this is the floor, then I'm feeling pretty good

818
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: about that pick. Right, So yeah, all right, let's get

819
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Speaker 1: to the phone lines. We got some calls. Let's get

820
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Speaker 1: a call from Lance in New Jersey. Lance, what up,

821
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Speaker 1: how's it good. I just want to thank you in advance.

822
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Speaker 1: Right now. I'm a mailman out here in Jersey, so

823
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Speaker 1: it's nice to hear somebody's voice. I listen to you

824
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Speaker 1: guys every day. Thank you, thank you. So I had

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Speaker 1: two quick Well, I want to comment on who I

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Speaker 1: thought was the most surprising and like disappointing. I love

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Speaker 1: the way by Earn's playing right now. I think Chris

828
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: Richards has done Richard has done a great job with him.

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Speaker 1: The disappointing guy I think is, uh, it's been Jordan Lewis.

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Speaker 1: I know he hasn't gotten a lot of reps this year,

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Speaker 1: but he hasn't really taken advantage of those reps so far.

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Speaker 1: And my question is, are you guys concerned with the

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Speaker 1: lack of turnovers we've had so far this year through

834
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Speaker 1: four games? Guys, how do you really got their hands

835
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Speaker 1: on the balls in the secondary that I've seen? Um,

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Speaker 1: And that's really it. I'll hang up and listen to

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Speaker 1: you guys. Have to say, all right, thank you sir.

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Speaker 1: You know absolutely terrified. I don't see anything wrong with

839
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Speaker 1: that call. Jordan Lewis, you see anything wrong with a

840
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: little bump and grind going on it? So on. That's

841
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Speaker 1: the kind of the style of defense Chris Richard has

842
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Speaker 1: been playing a little bit, and that's one of the

843
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: reasons why Jordan Lewis doesn't play a lot. I mean,

844
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Speaker 1: they really get into it. I mean like he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: And so you're exactly right about that he hasn't been

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Speaker 1: playing much. I thought he would be playing a lot more.

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Speaker 1: I thought he'd be a starter. I thought he would

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Speaker 1: take over whom I did not think that Byron Jones

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Speaker 1: would just immediately come in and do and do well.

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong on that one. So I thought Jordan Lewis

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Speaker 1: and Cheeto were going to be the two starters on

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Speaker 1: this team for a while. Hasn't happened at all. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I think you're right about being disappointed. We're

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Speaker 1: disappointed by that than I think, than than Dak. You know,

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Speaker 1: the part I'm most disappointed with with regard to him

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Speaker 1: is that I thought he would be in the top

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Speaker 1: three and whatever, in whatever machination. I thought he would

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Speaker 1: be a guy even if they decided he wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to be in the slot. I figured some one of

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Speaker 1: those other two would be in the slot and he

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00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: would be on the field when there were three cornerbacks

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00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: on the field and the fact that he's not, that's

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Speaker 1: the part that's very disciplined. And Anthony Brown is not

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Speaker 1: playing right. Well, he's been he's doing okay. He hasn't

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Speaker 1: been like great, but he's at some bad moments this year,

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean. And so it's not like, well,

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Speaker 1: you just can't get on the field because he's three

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Speaker 1: or playing. No, I mean there's room for you to

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Speaker 1: be there from seven starts to what he is. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's disappointing, it's surprising, it's kind of confusing even.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know he doesn't fit though, right, I don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he played well last year, right, and and

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Speaker 1: at this point we know how that position works too, Like,

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Speaker 1: I have to believe his his psyche is a little

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Speaker 1: screwed right now. I saw him in the locker room

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Speaker 1: after the game and he had about a million yards

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Speaker 1: stare like. I mean, he didn't he didn't look like

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Speaker 1: they just won a game. And I don't blame him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's played one snap two snaps now

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Speaker 1: this year, and one of them was a forty five

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Speaker 1: yard touchdown a golden Tate. So I feel bad for

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Speaker 1: the guy, to be honestas Yeah, in that game, No,

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Speaker 1: he's played two snaps all season. He played one snap

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Speaker 1: when Byron came out with a wrist in week two,

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Speaker 1: and they put him out there in dime last week

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00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: and Tate took it to the house and they're like,

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Speaker 1: no more dime sorry. So I it wow? That which

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Speaker 1: that that that is something that can really affect your

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Speaker 1: your mental Yeah, which, And I mean you know I'm

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Speaker 1: not I don't want to just make excuses for the

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Speaker 1: guy and act like he's got no part in this,

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Speaker 1: but it can't be good for your mindset. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I'm mystified as to how you go

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Speaker 1: from starting seven games and playing pretty well too. You

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Speaker 1: can't work your way on in the field, even as

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Speaker 1: a dimeback as soon as you as soon as you

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Speaker 1: make him inactive because you don't need him. That's when

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Speaker 1: somebody gets to that point. No, he's absolutely right. Um,

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Speaker 1: only team in the league with no picks, only team

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Speaker 1: in the league with no picks. They've got two takeaways

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Speaker 1: all year. And that goes back to my rant about

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00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: these safeties is like you talk about linebackers, you want

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00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: to be active. These guys don't seem active, like I

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Speaker 1: feel like getting getting takeaways is just about being in

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Speaker 1: the right place. Like you're not going to diagnose the

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Speaker 1: play and jump in front of the pass every time,

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00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: but you gotta be Yeah, unless you're a beast, but

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00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: you gotta know enough about what's going on to be

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Speaker 1: in the proximity of the ball so that when Jalen

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Speaker 1: smacks the guy and it pops up, you're right there.

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Speaker 1: That's or when the quarterback just overthrows, you're in the

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Speaker 1: right position to be able to be there and get

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Speaker 1: your hands up and make the catch. Right. It's those

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Speaker 1: kind of moments, which is about being the right position.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to knit pick Byron and Cheeto too

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Speaker 1: much because I think they've played well, but I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see them start making plays on balls. Byron, it

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Speaker 1: seems like he's great at making like the reactionary play,

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Speaker 1: like it's his trademark. Is like that swipe where he

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Speaker 1: just bats it down. But if you could turn that

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Speaker 1: into a way to actually get the ball even better,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it's not easy, but that's super

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Speaker 1: troubling though. No picks and no month not good, all right,

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys joining us. We're back tomorrow. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna start getting you guys ready for the next game.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, what's gonna happen in Houston this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys will take on the Texans this Sunday at Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Football and it's Cowboys versus Texas. We'll do that

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Speaker 1: tomorrow for Nicky Eatman, Dave helm and I'm Derek Heatalts

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