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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, it's Friday Friday, and the Cowboys are
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Speaker 1: we marked the return of our man Danny, Daddy, Daddy, Matt,
Speaker 1: Danny and Ride welcomed in a bay be a girl
Speaker 1: this week. He took some days off. I wanted him
Speaker 1: to take the rest of the week off, but he's
Speaker 1: got things handled right now, so he's gonna come back
Speaker 1: and spend forty five minutes with us. Here the players
Speaker 1: launch a bought to you by Hotels dot Com. So, um,
Speaker 1: take me through the experience. Man, man, it was it
Speaker 1: was crazy, right, so we uh, you know, late at
Speaker 1: night and then you know, she started feeling it. So
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, So I was I was
Speaker 1: being the doula, you know, keeping the time of the
Speaker 1: contractions and stuff. With the COVID going on, we can't
Speaker 1: really have one come in, so you know, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get nervous. So we get to the hospital quickly.
Speaker 1: You know, the contractions were coming fast, and then we
Speaker 1: got to the hospital and it slowed down. We ended
Speaker 1: up being in there for about fifteen sixteen hours before
Speaker 1: the little little princess came out, so you know, gained
Speaker 1: a new respect for the wife and women who give birth. Mans.
Speaker 1: It's amazing, but it's you have to be really strong
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. And you know, seeing
Speaker 1: seeing her come out, it was like nothing I've ever experienced. Man.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's just been great. You know, no
Speaker 1: sleep the first night that we got home, but you
Speaker 1: know that's to be expected. So that nap I just
Speaker 1: took got me ready for the players lounge today. All right,
Speaker 1: So tell me when you drove home, did you drive
Speaker 1: under the speed limit or at the speedit I was.
Speaker 1: I was definitely driving under the speed limit one specifically
Speaker 1: because the hospital is right off of Dallas North Tollway,
Speaker 1: so I almost thought about just riding the feet are
Speaker 1: all the way home, but you know, we were hungry,
Speaker 1: so we wanted to get something to eat. Sau. I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I'm gonna drive just a little
Speaker 1: bit under and uh, you know, make it there safely.
Speaker 1: And I think I found myself doing that day too
Speaker 1: as well when we went to the pediatrician. Just drive
Speaker 1: a little slow and you know then you know, as
Speaker 1: as the longer I went, you know, the faster, the
Speaker 1: faster I went, I got a little bit more comfortable.
Speaker 1: But yes, it's one of those protective feelings. Yes, And
Speaker 1: that's always you know, with those questions. I kind of
Speaker 1: wait to ask guys, all right, when you drove home,
Speaker 1: how did you drive? This says thirty five, you're about
Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine, or you're that guy on the
Speaker 1: road everyone hates because when you're taking that bundle of joy,
Speaker 1: Hold man, you're not speeding. You're just trying to Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make sure everything's good. Don't want
Speaker 1: to hit a bump. I want the baby to become
Speaker 1: and tell that's good. I'm glad you. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: got that same experience because I had the same way
Speaker 1: three times, three times, I did it. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. Listen. So when I was younger, I used
Speaker 1: to see all these the vans and the long SUVs
Speaker 1: with the baby on board stickers at the back. I
Speaker 1: like sought myself in that. When I was going slow,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I don't want to seem like
Speaker 1: I'm just some dude just just cruising along holding the traffic,
Speaker 1: So I might have to give you one of those
Speaker 1: baby on board stickers. So everybody knows that's the reason
Speaker 1: why I'm going slow. Good for you, man, good good
Speaker 1: for you. Protect that bundle of joy, and welcome to
Speaker 1: the Dad Club. We are in our s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Home studios today and normally I'm I'm texting you a
Speaker 1: bunch of topics and where I want to go and
Speaker 1: how I want to how to flow of the show,
Speaker 1: and we're doing the same thing. But today I said, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sending anything in because I know where
Speaker 1: I'm going for a segment. And look, you and I
Speaker 1: in church. We've gone round and round talking about dak
Speaker 1: in the contract, and one of the things that continues
Speaker 1: to frustrate me is when it comes to dak in
Speaker 1: the contract, how they're seemingly is this moving target of
Speaker 1: what he has to or not doesn't have to do that.
Speaker 1: People are wanting Dak Prescott to earn his money in
Speaker 1: a sport where people at his position are not paid
Speaker 1: by what they've done. They're not They're paid by the marketplace. Okay,
Speaker 1: make sure I understand it one more time. Now people
Speaker 1: are saying, well, he has to go on a super bowler,
Speaker 1: Go do this, Go do that, then prove yourself to
Speaker 1: get paid. That's not how it works. Okay, And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you a couple of examples of ware that
Speaker 1: hasn't worked or has not applied to him. Danny, I
Speaker 1: want you to just take a small guess in eleven years,
Speaker 1: how much money Matthew Stafford Detroit Lions is. Just take
Speaker 1: a staff Man. I would say somewhere in the two
Speaker 1: fifty three hundred range, two hundred and twenty six point
Speaker 1: one million dollars from Matthew Stafford now win his twelfth
Speaker 1: season with one Pro Bowl and not one playoff victory,
Speaker 1: not a one. So then I looked at Sam Bradford.
Speaker 1: Nobody's stolen more money for the National Football League than
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford, former number one pick in highs Pet Trophy,
Speaker 1: Gonta Olaholm. In nine seasons, he made one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. Alex Smith Alex Smith former number one
Speaker 1: overall pick, one hundred eighty nine point seven million dollars,
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins now in his ninth NFL season for
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty point six million dollars in contracts.
Speaker 1: Of what they've given Kirk Cousins, who just got his
Speaker 1: first playoff win last season, and if anybody saw him
Speaker 1: play last week or the first two weeks in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, you would say, boy, he should give
Speaker 1: some of this money back. I am consistently a person
Speaker 1: who's on the player's side. Get what you can while
Speaker 1: you can. The National Football League is a one casualty industry.
Speaker 1: When you leave this game, there is something on you
Speaker 1: that is hurting. Okay, so these guys got paid, fine,
Speaker 1: they got their money. But when you come to Doc
Speaker 1: Prescott and you've got a whole legion of people out
Speaker 1: here trying to say he must earn this, and according
Speaker 1: for you to get this guy, you got to go
Speaker 1: out and show this no, you don't. This is a
Speaker 1: league that has shown you that we don't care, we're
Speaker 1: gonna pay you. I've just given you a list of
Speaker 1: guys here and Sam Bradford, Alex Smith, Kirk Cousins, these
Speaker 1: guys are They're just dudes. They're just multiple talents. Yes,
Speaker 1: multiple contracts, okay, multiple contracts on third and four, you know,
Speaker 1: third contracts. And I remember them. I remember they paid
Speaker 1: saying Bradford was twenty five million when he went to Arizona,
Speaker 1: and then he ended up tearing as they sail, but
Speaker 1: everybody knew saying Bradford was down before then. They paid
Speaker 1: a twenty five meal to go there. And kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: did the franchise tag twice and then got paid a
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed contract pretty much in Minnesota. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: even a struggle for them to get money, you know,
Speaker 1: on the open market, right, you know, kirk Cousins had
Speaker 1: trouble with Washington, but once he hit the open market,
Speaker 1: he was paid. Mark Sanches got a second contract, okay,
Speaker 1: Mark Chanches. And never during Mark Sanchez's time did you
Speaker 1: think that he was the engine driving the Jets so
Speaker 1: that they were winning because of the quarterback. They were
Speaker 1: truly protecting the quarterback and running the football. There. So
Speaker 1: David Moore of the Dallas Morning News, who I've known
Speaker 1: a long time, no my twenty years here in the
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth market, and I liked David Moore. But
Speaker 1: what David Moore wrote today made me say, wow, really,
Speaker 1: so this is what they bit more robe, he says.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's only a few days removed from becoming the
Speaker 1: first quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than
Speaker 1: four hundred yards and rush for three touchdowns in a game.
Speaker 1: Every single yard was violence. Prescott let a come back
Speaker 1: that saw the Cowboys overcome a fifteen point deficit in
Speaker 1: the final eight minutes to win. The question now for
Speaker 1: the reigning NFC Offensive Player of the Week is simple,
Speaker 1: what is next? How do you top that performance? Go
Speaker 1: out and beat Russell Wilson in Seattle. That's all life
Speaker 1: is a quarterback of a high profile guy. It isn't fair.
Speaker 1: It generates even more scrutiny when you pass the point
Speaker 1: roughly of nineteen months of trying to strike in a
Speaker 1: court with the franchise on a long term deal. In
Speaker 1: can't If you want to be paid among the best
Speaker 1: at the position, go out and beat the best at
Speaker 1: the position. No one is better at the moment than
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. So that's what David Moore robe. And my
Speaker 1: problem with this again, this is not how quarterbacks you're
Speaker 1: paid in this league. You're telling you're saying once again,
Speaker 1: hey Dak, you have to do this in order to
Speaker 1: get paid when we need to Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: look at this offensive line is bad. This defensive line
Speaker 1: gives you nothing. This defense is not good. It's it's
Speaker 1: more than just the quarterback. When we're talking about trying
Speaker 1: to win games. Dac Prescott, in my mind, has earned
Speaker 1: a contract from the Cowboys. Danny and I don't get
Speaker 1: this man. Go ahead, so listen that that has definitely
Speaker 1: earned his money, right and they I think they try
Speaker 1: to give him something that he didn't want and he
Speaker 1: had the right to decline it because I think he's
Speaker 1: worth more. What happens is, you know, the people that
Speaker 1: write these articles should go listen to what Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: said when they're trying to pit like him versus Mahomes
Speaker 1: in the game, offense doesn't play against offense, all right,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson will not be thrown against Patrick Mahomes. He
Speaker 1: will not be trying to complete a pass against him,
Speaker 1: in the same way with Patrick Mahomes trying to complete
Speaker 1: the pass against Lamar Jackson. That's not the game. So
Speaker 1: you can say he got to go auhead and beat
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Are you saying that his stats have to
Speaker 1: be better? Are you saying that the Cowboys have to
Speaker 1: win the game, because, like you said, we have problems
Speaker 1: on defense. This is a this is a defense offense,
Speaker 1: a special team's game, right, this is the optimal the
Speaker 1: sport where teamwork is optimal. Right, you have to beat
Speaker 1: You have to have teamwork to get out there and win.
Speaker 1: So this isn't all on that that can go out
Speaker 1: there and play a hell of a game and our
Speaker 1: DEFENSEI go out there and play trash. And then they'll
Speaker 1: be talking about how the back didn't win the game
Speaker 1: and he can't win whatever, blah blah blah, and none
Speaker 1: of that would be accurate. So you know, those are
Speaker 1: just people talking and trying to get some get some
Speaker 1: stuff across to try to you know, paying the reason
Speaker 1: for why that hasn't getting paid and why he will
Speaker 1: if he does win. But that's not what it is
Speaker 1: because this is a team game and you know how
Speaker 1: that plays and if we win, to lose has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with his contract going forward in my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: so so I go back. I want to read this
Speaker 1: one more time. If you want to be paid among
Speaker 1: the best of the position, go out and beat the
Speaker 1: best app the position. No one is better at the
Speaker 1: moment than Russell Wilson. I'm gonna throw out this date
Speaker 1: in case people forgotten. All right, and I wrote a
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Here it is January fifth, twenty twenty. The Cowboys,
Speaker 1: led by Dak Prescott ended up beating Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: Seattle little playoff game twenty two. Does that not count?
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times when people have beaten up
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott well with a playoff game? Go do this?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's the never ending moving target for
Speaker 1: number four. And that's what I don't understand. Why listen
Speaker 1: to market all the time? If if that, I promise
Speaker 1: you listen, because this is why it's hard to listen
Speaker 1: to people who write that type of stuff. Because I
Speaker 1: promise you, if that goes out and have has a
Speaker 1: horrible game, but our defense somehow scores to two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and the kick return that comes out and score a
Speaker 1: touchdown and we win by six. But Dak has a
Speaker 1: horrible game. They won't credit that to that. They'll be like,
Speaker 1: what Dak played like, he played like garbage. But they
Speaker 1: won the game. So he still has a proven that
Speaker 1: they had to get paid. Right. That's stuff. That's stuff.
Speaker 1: Doesn't work. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. And and
Speaker 1: I say it's four times I liked David Moore. David
Speaker 1: almost really good at his job. Okay, he's really good
Speaker 1: at his job. We just have different takes on this
Speaker 1: situation here, and I'm starting to realize more and more
Speaker 1: when it comes to media and Dallas full Worth that
Speaker 1: I'm really on a different side with some of these
Speaker 1: guys and how they are evaluating Dak Prescott and how
Speaker 1: you judge the quarterback market, I said many times right
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Speaker 1: dot Com. Quarterbacks are like houses in Beverly Hills. There
Speaker 1: is no liquidation sign. The price is the price. It
Speaker 1: only goes up. It's what it is. I lived in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I used to drive around Beverly Hills a lot,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I didn't see any you know,
Speaker 1: reduced signs all these houses, these houses were what they were.
Speaker 1: A baby you want if there was a sign right there,
Speaker 1: you called, you made it just what it was is
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills, and quarterbacks are Beverly Hills. And the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have done a bad job in terms of trying to
Speaker 1: get this contract done. This thing should have been done
Speaker 1: last year. Okay, if people have written that that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys miss time this and they misjudged this thing. But
Speaker 1: this whole premise that Dak Prescott has to earn his
Speaker 1: dollars or that this win is gonna therefore show you
Speaker 1: that he deserves to be paid, now, I think that's ludicrous. Now.
Speaker 1: A person I do respect when it comes to the
Speaker 1: quarterback market and their football acumen is Rick Gossell. He
Speaker 1: is a media member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: and one of the things he consistently says is, if
Speaker 1: you're a franchise quarterback, what you need to do is
Speaker 1: elevate the players around you that you need your quarterback
Speaker 1: to make other dudes all right, boom Scotty Miller. All right.
Speaker 1: I know Scotty Miller was, but now he's playing with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. You've seen the guy like Scotty Miller makes place.
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan was the guy in Buffalo. I didn't know
Speaker 1: who he was. He goes out of New England. Next
Speaker 1: thing I know, I see Chris Hogan catching passes in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl from Tom Brady. I mean Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was able to elevate players when he played. Last week,
Speaker 1: I saw Dak Prescott elevating guys. Dalton Schultz was a
Speaker 1: guy out about you, Danny. After after that, after the
Speaker 1: Ram game, I was done with Daltons. I mean getting
Speaker 1: rid of this guy, okay, because Blake Jarwin gets hurt.
Speaker 1: Dalts dropping easy past on this guy's and what do
Speaker 1: we see, career high and catches caught a touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: That to me is a part of elevating players. And
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see Jack do more and more of that.
Speaker 1: He's improving his game because I go back to the
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls. I went to that Seattle was at
Speaker 1: and there were so many people who were saying, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's not a franchise guy. They're Carrie and Russell Wills
Speaker 1: and people were hard on him. Pete Prisco, one of
Speaker 1: my friends at CBS sports dot com, you shall have
Speaker 1: my all my old NBC sports radio show. We would
Speaker 1: go round and round about Russell. He's like, Russell's not
Speaker 1: a Francise quarterback. Now he's finally saying it two years in.
Speaker 1: But I just shake my heads, like, what are you
Speaker 1: guys watching? And why is it certain quarterbacks have to
Speaker 1: go ahead and prove the standard above here? And then
Speaker 1: other dudes get these passes and they say, well, he's
Speaker 1: got this, he's got that. I'm telling you, Danny, it's
Speaker 1: hard for me. It is hard for me when I
Speaker 1: see this stuff written a guys like Dak Prescott, and
Speaker 1: I just shake my head because it's not a standard
Speaker 1: that's held to everybody else. I want to read you
Speaker 1: what I got on Twitter, and this comes from a
Speaker 1: guy named Art. He says, I'm a big Stafford fan.
Speaker 1: He never had a running game or defense. I also
Speaker 1: think CJ is the greatest rite receiver ever created, but
Speaker 1: his supporting staff was garbage. I think Stafford was wasted. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's excuses. What are you talking about? Cool old man?
Speaker 1: This dude if he if he's the greatest receiver ever
Speaker 1: ever created, and you have one of the top quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you know, getting paid that way that their game was
Speaker 1: not that bad. They've won games, they've been to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You know, he just he just didn't win. So if
Speaker 1: you're just gonna make those shoes for the guy, I
Speaker 1: think that's crazy. I do want to preface this by saying,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm off for Dak and Dalton Shultz and
Speaker 1: all that stuff and whatever, but I still feel the
Speaker 1: same as I felt last week. You know, after we
Speaker 1: beat Atlanta that we won the game, and credit to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for being able to do so, but we
Speaker 1: weren't playing Atlanta, all right, So you know, we went
Speaker 1: through this. We went through some similar last year where
Speaker 1: we struggled against teams that we should have beat, that
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have blown out, And to me, last week
Speaker 1: was one of those games. But the difference was we
Speaker 1: were able to come back and win a game that
Speaker 1: we should have won. It dominated from the beginning. So
Speaker 1: I'm still looking for big things for us moving forward.
Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from us, but
Speaker 1: you know, history shows what Atlanta is. Week one showed
Speaker 1: what Atlanta was, and we went out there, you know,
Speaker 1: in the second half, and did what we were supposed
Speaker 1: to do versus Atlanta. So I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: this next game where it's something where we might be
Speaker 1: considered an underdog, and we go out there and we
Speaker 1: performed like we're supposed to from beginning to end, and
Speaker 1: you know, and get us a win. I'll count your
Speaker 1: point here, and I hate that it's going to sound
Speaker 1: very homeristic, but but I think this is also just
Speaker 1: a legitimate This could be legitimate when I said, and
Speaker 1: you haven't played in the National falling, I think you'll
Speaker 1: agree with this. Over the course of sixteen games during
Speaker 1: a season, you're gonna need to win one that you
Speaker 1: probably didn't necessarily deserve to win. That's normally the case
Speaker 1: on teams who end up having playoff season that hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, we snuck our foot out of the
Speaker 1: bear trap of this week. But that is what you
Speaker 1: have to do over the course of the season. Win
Speaker 1: some games that maybe you didn't have your best effort
Speaker 1: and maybe the other team outplayed, but you found a
Speaker 1: way to do it. And I go back to this
Speaker 1: thing again of who we choose to praise and who
Speaker 1: we choose to condemn. There are many times where I
Speaker 1: would watch the Patriots play a game against Miami, especially
Speaker 1: down to Miami, when they do with that that that
Speaker 1: that that weather, which is especially human for the Patriots
Speaker 1: in that second part of the season, or they're going
Speaker 1: to play Buffalo up there in that snow, and the
Speaker 1: Patriots would end up winning a close game, not playing
Speaker 1: their best, but they ended up winning the game. Bill
Speaker 1: Walsh of San Francisco forty nine ers. They played in
Speaker 1: a notoriously weak NFC West where they would go and
Speaker 1: face the Atlanta Falcons. They face the Saints and they
Speaker 1: being a slobber knocker and just kind of barely beat
Speaker 1: you know, eke it out with a Joe montana um,
Speaker 1: you know, last second drive, but they were able to
Speaker 1: win those games. You're not gonna play sixteen perfect ones.
Speaker 1: If you win ten games, letting games, you're not. They're
Speaker 1: not all going to be pretty. So you need to
Speaker 1: get an ugly win in here. And huge difference was
Speaker 1: hus difference because you know, we talked about you talked
Speaker 1: about New England going to Miami. My huge thing with
Speaker 1: with with us in Atlanta was not so much the players.
Speaker 1: It was the coaching right. Players go out there and
Speaker 1: players fumble, players drop passes. Those things happen. This is
Speaker 1: the National Football League, the highest paid players go out
Speaker 1: there and make mistakes. Where I'm talking about from a
Speaker 1: you know, strictly coaching stands stands point. We had a
Speaker 1: game when we went out there and we and we
Speaker 1: craped the bed coaching wise, and our talent came out there,
Speaker 1: you know, and and helped us overcome that. When you
Speaker 1: get into a sixteen game season, those are not the
Speaker 1: things that you could do right or your talent and
Speaker 1: overcomes with stuff. But if you continue to have those
Speaker 1: type of coaching mistakes and coaching errors, you will not
Speaker 1: win no matter how good your talent, especially against the
Speaker 1: most talented teams. I'll tell you, we were lucky to
Speaker 1: be playing the Atlanta found us when we got that
Speaker 1: hopefully we got that coaching style and those coaching errors
Speaker 1: from being off a year out of the way, So,
Speaker 1: you know, lucky for us, and we played Atlanta and
Speaker 1: we did pull it out thanks to the talent that
Speaker 1: we have around and Dak Prescott raising this game and
Speaker 1: helping us come back and overcoming that. But I just
Speaker 1: think those are a little different from from us from
Speaker 1: New England playing Miami because those games are always tough,
Speaker 1: you know, because they just Miami just plays New England
Speaker 1: tough for us. It wasn't even like that. It was
Speaker 1: this was total, total, totally opposite. It was our coaching
Speaker 1: was getting us in so much trouble that we just
Speaker 1: had to keep clawing out of getting out of there.
Speaker 1: It was a long time since I've ever seen two
Speaker 1: coaching staffs equally horrible at the same time, like I
Speaker 1: did um with the Falcons and Dan Quinn and Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and the Cowboys. We've got to take a break
Speaker 1: when we come back. There is a player that is
Speaker 1: getting lit up on social media, and I want to
Speaker 1: defend the player who was not asked the question, but
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Speaker 1: is off today, so let me dive into something that
Speaker 1: was a topic for Mike McCarthy, the head coach, and
Speaker 1: that was being asked about the defense and Mike Knowles
Speaker 1: defensive coordinate and he was basically asked, you're given guys
Speaker 1: too much because you're trying to install a new defense,
Speaker 1: trying to run some three four concepts and four three concepts.
Speaker 1: These guys are pretty much used to a four three
Speaker 1: And Mike mccarthur will make sure to read this right.
Speaker 1: He says, you cut the volume back when he talked
Speaker 1: talked about simplifying the defenses his time is a head coach.
Speaker 1: When guys are having issues and missing the sims, you
Speaker 1: cut the volume back. So Jaylen Smith was asked about
Speaker 1: that and he said yes. And here's another quote from
Speaker 1: Jaylen Smith and when he was spoke to the media,
Speaker 1: he says, I believe it's important that each and every
Speaker 1: player knows in and out what they have to do,
Speaker 1: and with the smaller playbook, it gives us a better
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. Jaylen Smith is getting lit up
Speaker 1: on social media for saying that people. Oh he can't
Speaker 1: handle it. Oh he didn't know what to do. Oh,
Speaker 1: Jayalen needs to study more. Danny, you spoke about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense and having a whole lot in the playbook
Speaker 1: from the time you got to the Cowboys and there
Speaker 1: was the lockout and Rob Ryan was the head coach.
Speaker 1: So please remind listeners and viewers what you said. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: you know, when when Rob Ryan was first hired as
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, it was the year of the lockout,
Speaker 1: so we didn't have any offseason and we had to
Speaker 1: report straight to training camp. Right. So Rob Ryan has
Speaker 1: this this very complex defense with a lot of players,
Speaker 1: a lot of different blizzers, a lot of players playing
Speaker 1: different positions, and he tried to install the same thing,
Speaker 1: and you know, credit to him, he tried to do
Speaker 1: what he could. He had never, you know, experienced having
Speaker 1: to do that during the lockout, but you know he
Speaker 1: figured his players could pick it up. And when you
Speaker 1: saw us out there on the field, the first thing
Speaker 1: that you said was, man, miscommunication. These guys look, you know,
Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing, and you know they're
Speaker 1: forgotten that we hadn't had much time to input this stuff,
Speaker 1: and Rob kind of forgot that too. So as we
Speaker 1: moved throughout the season, we did try to cut back
Speaker 1: and run a few different things, but you know, for us.
Speaker 1: It was just, you know, too little, too late. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, I said the same thing about about
Speaker 1: fossil Um, I'm sorry Mike Nolan. I said the same
Speaker 1: thing about Mike Nolan. You know that hopefully he comes
Speaker 1: in and he's able to input his defense, but he
Speaker 1: takes it slow, especially having all these young players and
Speaker 1: draft picks that will be playing, and he just puts
Speaker 1: it in, you know, slowly, so these guys can focus
Speaker 1: and know where they're supposed to be at. And it
Speaker 1: looks like he did not do that, and I don't
Speaker 1: I don't take anything away from Jayalen for saying what
Speaker 1: he said, because if that's the way it is, that's
Speaker 1: the way it is, right because you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: get on him when you see him out of position
Speaker 1: and missing plays. So it's it's his right to defend
Speaker 1: itself and say, hey, look, it's fine. You know that
Speaker 1: we have all this stuff in, but you know some
Speaker 1: guys aren't picking it up. And I think it'll be
Speaker 1: best for us if we cut back and let us
Speaker 1: play fast with our ears, pent back and go make
Speaker 1: the players like we usually make, because when you have
Speaker 1: players out there overthinking, that's the worst thing you could do,
Speaker 1: especially on defense, because that'll get you beat all day.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, we've been seeing some of that,
Speaker 1: you know, on the field defensively. Everson Griffin told the
Speaker 1: media that he prefers to play with a three point
Speaker 1: stands that he wants to go ahead and play with
Speaker 1: his hand down, that he basically likes playing in the
Speaker 1: four three. That's what he knows. Tank Moritz is another
Speaker 1: four three guy. Then, and to ask guys to try
Speaker 1: and make this switch here without an ota, without a
Speaker 1: meeting camp, without a full training camp, that's a challenge here.
Speaker 1: And so the question starts to become is Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: going to decide that, hey, I'd better do what these
Speaker 1: guys know how to do and then slowly bringing my system.
Speaker 1: I go back to when Bill Parcells was here. Bill
Speaker 1: Parcells takes over, he's a four three defensive guy. When
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls running the four three defense. That arguably
Speaker 1: the greatest linebacker ever in Lawrence Taylor. But when he
Speaker 1: came to the Cowboys, Mike Zimmer was a defensive his
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They ran a four to three and then
Speaker 1: as he went into his second year, they started transitioning
Speaker 1: into a three four, drafting three four linebackers and making
Speaker 1: that change. But even he didn't come in here and
Speaker 1: try and switch it in one year. It's like, let's
Speaker 1: do what we know how to do. And then he
Speaker 1: was able to switch it and get things more into
Speaker 1: what he wanted. And to me, Mike Nolan, especially with
Speaker 1: as you said, you know, a shortened offseason, you have
Speaker 1: to really try and do what these guys do best
Speaker 1: because right now two games in, this defense has got
Speaker 1: a lot of issues. You're not good up front. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're not good up friend, let me run some of
Speaker 1: these numbers here for you. Danny two sacks, seven quarterback hits,
Speaker 1: fourteen quarterback pressures and that is tied for twentieth in
Speaker 1: the league when it comes to pressures. There. When you
Speaker 1: look at their run defense here, they are twenty first
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Atlanta ran thirty three times against this
Speaker 1: team for one hundred and nine yards, and then you
Speaker 1: had the Rams run against the Cowboys four thirty three
Speaker 1: times over one hundred and fifty one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: nine yards. So you're not good up front. And if
Speaker 1: you're not good up front, and that's what they talked
Speaker 1: about Hey, we're gonna be real good up front and
Speaker 1: let these linebackers roam free. No, Jayleen Smith is not
Speaker 1: doing what we thought he would do, because right up front,
Speaker 1: they're not any good. So it's more than just pointing
Speaker 1: it at fifty four and thinking, hey man, you stink
Speaker 1: you're the whole problem. There's a lot of problems on
Speaker 1: this defense. Two games into this, well, listen, if you listen,
Speaker 1: we had Will McClay on here, right, And if you
Speaker 1: don't want to put any stock into what we're saying
Speaker 1: or what the players are saying, Will McClay came in
Speaker 1: and straight said, you know, I asked them, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what's going on the defense. How can we
Speaker 1: get better? He said, Hey, we have some guys, you
Speaker 1: know on the defensive lines that have been playing in
Speaker 1: a four to three and they've been one gap in
Speaker 1: their entire career, and now they have the two gap.
Speaker 1: This is how Crawford's telling Will this right, So he's
Speaker 1: adjusting and trying to get used to playing playing a
Speaker 1: two gap system. So Will McClay come up, came on
Speaker 1: here and said the same thing that Jaalen said, the
Speaker 1: same thing that McCarthy said. As far as our players
Speaker 1: are trying to learn something new and you know, and
Speaker 1: learn a new system. So if you're not taking any stock,
Speaker 1: putting any stock into what we're saying, put some stock
Speaker 1: in what Will is saying, because you have to listen
Speaker 1: to somebody and this is the whole the whole band
Speaker 1: is saying the same thing. So yeah, you know, minimize
Speaker 1: the playbook. Put these guys in positions to where they're
Speaker 1: running fast and they're not thinking. Put one or two
Speaker 1: blitzes in. You know, put a put a put a
Speaker 1: blitz into where wherever the team runs. Whenever they run
Speaker 1: a certain formation, you always blitz that formation. Do something
Speaker 1: as simple as that, and then build on it. Right,
Speaker 1: because we want we should be creating more pressure too.
Speaker 1: We should not be as lost as as we are,
Speaker 1: you know, considering what Jalen said, like so it's a
Speaker 1: way for him to minimize the defense and still be
Speaker 1: effective and not be vanilla, you know, like like like
Speaker 1: we were in previous years. He can still get this done,
Speaker 1: and that's why they get paid the big bucks. You know.
Speaker 1: He has to come out here and create a different
Speaker 1: game plan and he has to fit it to the players,
Speaker 1: fit the system to the players. Those are Those are
Speaker 1: what the great coaches doing. That's what the great coaches
Speaker 1: do for the teams to win, in their players to
Speaker 1: perform at the highest level. Yeah, and I'm not sitting
Speaker 1: here saying that Jalen is playing perfect and he has
Speaker 1: no room from proving. What I am saying is fans
Speaker 1: that are making it seem as though fifty four is
Speaker 1: the biggest problem here. No. And if I'm going to
Speaker 1: call a player out and say, look, I need more
Speaker 1: from you, it's number ninety. If DeMarcus Lawrence is getting
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, then this whole defense is a different
Speaker 1: deal because you didn't bringing Alden Smith and Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: to be the guy. You brought them in to help
Speaker 1: the guy in this old D line. Also, we look
Speaker 1: at don Terry Poe, who Jerry Jones said today was
Speaker 1: playing well. A lot of people have a disagreement with
Speaker 1: their Tristan Hill. These guys have got to be better
Speaker 1: at plugging up the run, Danny. When you're running thirty
Speaker 1: three times in the football game as an offense, that's
Speaker 1: that's telling you what they're They're saying, we feel like
Speaker 1: we can attack you, and that's what both teams did.
Speaker 1: The Rams did it in Game one. They were effective.
Speaker 1: The Falcons tried to do it, not as effective. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this week, you better believe Brian
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer's gonna take Chris Carson and Carlos high and run
Speaker 1: right at the Cowboys here. So I expect another thirty
Speaker 1: point I just thirty point, but a thirty carry day
Speaker 1: for a team against the Cowboys. You'd be crazy not
Speaker 1: to try and put this. Put your team out here
Speaker 1: to run and keep this Cowboys defense on the field
Speaker 1: as long as you can. They're playing over thirty minutes
Speaker 1: a game. That's how you've beaten the Cowboys a past
Speaker 1: few seasons, Danny is win the time of possession and
Speaker 1: wear out their defense. Yeah, listen, as we said, you know,
Speaker 1: once you put something bad on tape, the other teams
Speaker 1: around the league that you're playing, they're going to try
Speaker 1: to do the same thing. Right we put we put
Speaker 1: that on tape that we're we're we're susceptible to the
Speaker 1: run against what our offense, I mean on our defensive
Speaker 1: line and our linebackers. And Atlanta saw that tape and
Speaker 1: they said, hey, we probably can do the same thing.
Speaker 1: So let's focus on trying to do that now. They
Speaker 1: weren't as successful as a team before, but they had
Speaker 1: some success at some points, you know, the floor of
Speaker 1: the game kind of change that form. So Seattle will
Speaker 1: will definitely do the same thing. I also want to
Speaker 1: touch on this right because I heard you guys talking
Speaker 1: about Everson Griffin and de Marcus Lawrence, and for any
Speaker 1: of the fans out there people listening, whoever run a
Speaker 1: forty yard dash or seeing somebody running forty yard dash
Speaker 1: at the combine, you see that they can take off
Speaker 1: in a three point stands right. They practice this, you know,
Speaker 1: over and over again so they can run as fast
Speaker 1: as they could. You have some guys that you know
Speaker 1: that are in the three to four right, so they
Speaker 1: they're able to do the run their you know, their
Speaker 1: forty yard dash from a stand up position. When when
Speaker 1: coaches come in and they try to coach the Marcus
Speaker 1: where they're not gonna try to get him to go
Speaker 1: from what he does best, which is standing up and
Speaker 1: rushing to putting his hand in the dirt, right, and
Speaker 1: if he complains about it, he's going to be standing
Speaker 1: up again. The same thing with our defensive line every
Speaker 1: time you watch the Marcus Lawrence, he has his hand
Speaker 1: in the dirt and he's able to create his leverage
Speaker 1: and his pressure from from that rushing position. So now
Speaker 1: when you put them in a different position, of course
Speaker 1: you're going to see see a little, you know, a
Speaker 1: little a little something off of the same thing ever
Speaker 1: since Griffins. So they just need to get back to
Speaker 1: what they do best. And the coach, like I said,
Speaker 1: they have to be able to create this scheme and
Speaker 1: adapt it to what their players are able to do.
Speaker 1: Because you're paying these guys too much money to try
Speaker 1: to force them to do something they're not good at.
Speaker 1: So let them get back to what they do best,
Speaker 1: and I think you will see some big change in
Speaker 1: production if you do so. All right, let's take another
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Speaker 1: Got Danny mccraie, former Cowboys safety. Barry Church, former Cowboys safety,
Speaker 1: is off today, all right, Tank Lawrence is still dealing
Speaker 1: with the knee issue. Danny. Basically, they're telling us are
Speaker 1: gonna be a game time decision on him and then
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith. According to Mike McCarthy, who missed last week
Speaker 1: because of a stinger, he's making progress, which also means
Speaker 1: we're going to have to see what the available ability
Speaker 1: is on game day. So I expect those decisions to
Speaker 1: get made then about when they do what they do.
Speaker 1: Alden Smith was asked about this defense. Aldon Smith got
Speaker 1: a sack in Game one against the Rams. Cowboys have
Speaker 1: two sacks overall, Smith with one of them, Everson Griff
Speaker 1: Them with the other, and he said, quote, I feel
Speaker 1: like the coaches have made it fairly simple. I think
Speaker 1: everyone needs to chill out. This is the third game
Speaker 1: coming up. We didn't have too much of an offseason,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a preseason. I know every week we're
Speaker 1: gonna get better, Danny. What do you say to what
Speaker 1: Alden Smith came out and told the media today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I think it makes sense
Speaker 1: or half of it. Anyway. It's the fact that they
Speaker 1: didn't have much of an offseason, and you know, to him,
Speaker 1: the defense could be simple. He he's a vet, right,
Speaker 1: so he's been through different schemes. He's he's learned systems before.
Speaker 1: So for him, it may be, you know, it may
Speaker 1: be simple enough. But for some of those younger guys
Speaker 1: that we have out there. We have a young safety,
Speaker 1: we got a young linebacker, we got young corners, right,
Speaker 1: it's not as simple simple for them, right, So I
Speaker 1: think that they can't get better, you know, as the
Speaker 1: year goes on and those guys, you know, they get
Speaker 1: rid of those you know. You know, all rookies go
Speaker 1: through go through a phase of like trying to pick
Speaker 1: up the speed and the systems and things that they
Speaker 1: do different from college to the NFL. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a learning curve for them, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, this is this is the season they're
Speaker 1: we're in where we didn't have much time to learn,
Speaker 1: so they're going to pick it up as they go.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's any reason for us to panic,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as for them being able to
Speaker 1: perform better and learn the scheme. You know, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing to panic about his injuries, and that's happened all
Speaker 1: over the league. So you know, you just got to
Speaker 1: be able to plug and play, and that's difficult when
Speaker 1: you have a system to where some people maybe maybe
Speaker 1: think already that it's too difficult. The Cowboys, I'll go
Speaker 1: back to say something we continue to say on the show.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys offense has to take care of the defense here.
Speaker 1: This defense isn't good enough to survive shootouts. I will
Speaker 1: give the defense credit. Last week against Atlanta from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of the offense put them in some horrendous positions
Speaker 1: and they were holding the falcons to fit some field
Speaker 1: goals on fake punting some of the fubbles here. I
Speaker 1: thought they did a decent job of that. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to win the time of possession battle. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is two games in a row where they've not done that.
Speaker 1: And I already talked about the numbers. When you talk
Speaker 1: about rushing the football, when the team's running the ball,
Speaker 1: thirty three times against you. That shows you that they're
Speaker 1: they're being more aggressive and they're taking it too. But
Speaker 1: the Cowboys front offensive standpoint can help this team by
Speaker 1: running the ball. Church you and you McCrae. You guys
Speaker 1: were at playing for the Cowboys when you went up
Speaker 1: to Seattle and DeMarco Murray had a game of games
Speaker 1: and it was a twenty fourteen and Seattle never had
Speaker 1: the ball. And I remember because I was at that
Speaker 1: game and Seattle and afterwards people people said to see,
Speaker 1: you know, Pete Carroll, what happened? He said, we never
Speaker 1: had the ball, and the Cowboys had the ball. They
Speaker 1: ran it. Tony Romo did an excellent job with play
Speaker 1: actually passing me. He was one of the best game
Speaker 1: plans that Jason Garrett, Scott Lena had had, ever had
Speaker 1: ever come up with. They need to do a lot
Speaker 1: of that. And to me, not only is it giving
Speaker 1: the ball to Zeke to run it, but I also
Speaker 1: believe it's throwing the balls, you know, throwing some screen,
Speaker 1: some wheel routes and using your best offensive player and
Speaker 1: making the Seahawks have to defend him. We know the
Speaker 1: Seattle passed. He's terrible. There's their thirty second in the league.
Speaker 1: But if you're running it with Zeke Danny and if
Speaker 1: you're able to get him out in that passing game,
Speaker 1: that that's gonna make it even easier to try and
Speaker 1: hit Amari Cooper, CD Lamb and Michael Galler. Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 1: So you know, knew we unfortunately, you know, I had
Speaker 1: gone to Chicago that year when they were able to
Speaker 1: put that put that season together and get you know,
Speaker 1: and get those guys running. But I did see them
Speaker 1: when they came to Chicago and they definitely ran that
Speaker 1: game plan on us. It was keep the ball away
Speaker 1: from us, which they didn't really need to, but you know,
Speaker 1: they controlled the clock, they ran it, and you know,
Speaker 1: and they beat us pretty badly. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think that is the recipes for success for us. And
Speaker 1: getting Zeke involved early, having him start the game with
Speaker 1: a couple of carriers and unlike we did last week,
Speaker 1: I think will be huge. And I think getting us
Speaker 1: into some third and shorts to be it passing it
Speaker 1: to Zeke, getting into Schultz or just you know, creating
Speaker 1: creating some third and threes with some with some hitch routes. Whatever.
Speaker 1: She was on the outside will help us tremendously, right,
Speaker 1: because that gives you the option to a run on
Speaker 1: third down or pass on third down, or and that
Speaker 1: opens up play action as well. And when you can
Speaker 1: when you can have all those options open to you,
Speaker 1: that's when that's when you had an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: some big plays. And then you know, control the clock
Speaker 1: and move methodically down the field, you know, and keep
Speaker 1: our defense on the sideline. So I think if we
Speaker 1: play that way, we can we can definitely get a W.
Speaker 1: But we have to stick to it and uh and
Speaker 1: try to make that happen when we get out there.
Speaker 1: You know, things change once you get out there on
Speaker 1: the field and things don't go your way. I go
Speaker 1: back to a stat that I said yesterday with Church
Speaker 1: that's talking about winning first down. Here's a number. The
Speaker 1: Seattle defense allows six point eight yards per attempt on
Speaker 1: first down, which is twenty seventh in the league. In
Speaker 1: the Dallas offense is averaging six point six yards on
Speaker 1: first down, which is seventh in the league. And that's
Speaker 1: where I think about, Hey, what could you do by
Speaker 1: throwing the ball out here and getting Ezekiel Elliott in space. Yes,
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner is a fantastic linebacker. You could argue maybe
Speaker 1: the best linebacker in the National Football League. And we
Speaker 1: know kJ Wright is an awesome player. But if I'm
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I'm going to say I got an awesome
Speaker 1: player here too. Let's see my guy against your guy here,
Speaker 1: and I think Ezekiel Ellick can win his fair share.
Speaker 1: And if the Cowboys Danny can win this first down battle,
Speaker 1: I think I have an excellent opportunity to win the game.
Speaker 1: Speaking of winning the game, Danny, what is your prediction
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys or a four and a half point
Speaker 1: underdog in Seattle? You know what, a lot of times
Speaker 1: last year I picked, I picked us to win and
Speaker 1: we lost. This year, I picked us to win and
Speaker 1: we lost. Then I picked us to lose and we won. So, uh,
Speaker 1: for the sake of us, you know, proving me wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say we should be at three point underdog
Speaker 1: and we'll probably we'll probably fall to Seattle thirty or
Speaker 1: to twenty seven, you know, on a late field goal
Speaker 1: with you know, Russell's kind of driving down there at
Speaker 1: the end of the game and giving their kicker a
Speaker 1: chance to beat us. You know, hopefully hopefully that changes.
Speaker 1: But if I'm just being honest with myself about what
Speaker 1: I've seen last week, Um, that's that. That that's my pick. Okay,
Speaker 1: So McCray thirty to twenty seven, Seahawks winning. Barry Church
Speaker 1: gave us his pick for the game. He's got Seattle
Speaker 1: winning thirty one to twenty four, got Seattle with a
Speaker 1: seven point win, and I am going to go thirty
Speaker 1: five thirty Seattle wins. I don't know. I'm still worried
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys' ability to control the line of scribbage
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. Here, Tyran Smith possibly
Speaker 1: not playing again, and even if Tyring comes back, you
Speaker 1: never know what these next stingers. He could play a
Speaker 1: couple of plays and it happens, or at any point
Speaker 1: in time he could suffer another stinger. So Lell Collins
Speaker 1: is not going to be there at right tackle. So
Speaker 1: you're the offensive line overall, it's been an issue. Connor
Speaker 1: Williams one of the guard spots. He's been an issue.
Speaker 1: The offensive line has not been the strength that we
Speaker 1: thought thought it would be. They haven't shown that they
Speaker 1: can win the time of possession. So as bad as
Speaker 1: Seattle's defense is, I'm gonna go ahead. And say the
Speaker 1: Cowboys end up losing this game and they can start
Speaker 1: to get healthy in October, starting with Cleveland coming to
Speaker 1: town October fourth. But before the season started, when I
Speaker 1: was going through my little win loss tracker, I had
Speaker 1: the Seahawks winning this football game and I don't think
Speaker 1: there'll be any shame and a Cowboys loss of five
Speaker 1: points at all. This is two teams that could end
Speaker 1: up meeting again in the playoffs. Because I actually have
Speaker 1: Seattle winning this division. I think they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: really good football team. Day. Yeah, I think Seattle's Seattle
Speaker 1: is gonna be good. It's a it's a good test
Speaker 1: for us, you know, you know, to kind of phase
Speaker 1: off what we did last week, because I know everybody's
Speaker 1: riding high with the biggest comeback and happy. But I
Speaker 1: think us playing a good quality team, you know, will
Speaker 1: show us a lot about where we are and if
Speaker 1: we're getting better throughout the season, you know, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I hope we got some of those coaching things fixed
Speaker 1: and we're able, like if we lose this game. Let
Speaker 1: us lose this game, because we got outplayed. Our players
Speaker 1: went out there in fault, but we just didn't have
Speaker 1: it to have it that day. Don't let it be
Speaker 1: because we made some silly mistakes coaching wise, and you know,
Speaker 1: and we come back here on Monday and we say,
Speaker 1: what the heck were we doing again for the second
Speaker 1: time in the row. So you know, I'm going for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But like I said, my honest feeling is
Speaker 1: is that's where we are and hopefully, hopefully I'm proving wrong,
Speaker 1: and hopefully our defense could get out there and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and create some pressure. It's gonna be difficult
Speaker 1: because that that scrambling quarterback is It's something very difficult
Speaker 1: for a d line and linebackers to stop. But I
Speaker 1: think if we if we can get that done, I
Speaker 1: think we'll be all right. Keep keep Russell in the pocket,
Speaker 1: you know, don't let them run around and create those
Speaker 1: extended plays. And I think we give us give ourselves
Speaker 1: a chance on defense. And DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: are playing very well. Cheat to a Woosian, one of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys starting corners is out with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, another one of the Cowboys quarterbacks starting on
Speaker 1: injured reserve, and Trayvon Boyk and the rookie on her
Speaker 1: back had a shoulder injury earlier this week. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary has got some misues and some things that
Speaker 1: they've got to work on as well, which is once
Speaker 1: again why I picked Seattle, just looking at what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have. They got to get some things cleaned up.
Speaker 1: But as I said, you start looking at schedule in October,
Speaker 1: I think that's a point where it gets schedule gets
Speaker 1: a little bit easier and the Cowboys starting to get
Speaker 1: some guys back, and then you start to see where
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