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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, May twenty six, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number one hundred and at eleven. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: latest episode of The Break. We are presented by Geico,
Speaker 1: and we are alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star. Got David Amber and uh and Nick
Speaker 1: here with me, Yes, Nick, Nick here with me. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk some Cowboys football. We gotta catch you
Speaker 1: guys up on all that happened yesterday. Cowboys are starting
Speaker 1: their OTA practices. Yesterday it was open to the media,
Speaker 1: um several players were able to talk to the media.
Speaker 1: Dave had an opportunity to talk to even more players.
Speaker 1: So we'll catch you up on all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: then it was a very hectic day because a lot
Speaker 1: was going on. PR should have divided things up in
Speaker 1: several days. I think, but you got shot, you got
Speaker 1: you got players and players players. That's a slider right
Speaker 1: across the plate, right off the bat. We're not starting
Speaker 1: with flashballs or I love it. I love to figure
Speaker 1: out if if pregnant Amber is spicier than regular Amber,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the same same. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: she's always been like that, so I don't know. Now
Speaker 1: my tolerance level has gone lower. But but no, it
Speaker 1: was just a lot. It was just a lot. You
Speaker 1: had a week, you know, you could have spread it
Speaker 1: out a little bit at least the interviews. That was
Speaker 1: a lot to take in. But it was a lot
Speaker 1: of information that we got to dissect because there are
Speaker 1: a lot of different people that talk to a lot
Speaker 1: of different things that were interesting. Let's start off first,
Speaker 1: and I was not just in full disclosure, I was
Speaker 1: not able to attend practice. I had lots of other
Speaker 1: things going on. You guys all attend to practice. So
Speaker 1: a lot of this is gonna be me just trying
Speaker 1: to get answers. I want to know things, and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping our listeners out there want to know kind of
Speaker 1: the same things I want to know. So I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw a lot of questions at you guys about
Speaker 1: different things. And again let's we're gonna start this by
Speaker 1: prefacing this is OTAs like, obviously, these guys are in
Speaker 1: shorts and T shirts and it's not the same as
Speaker 1: what even training camp will be. The level of what
Speaker 1: they're doing right now is not that, but just kind
Speaker 1: of getting some general feelings of things you guys saw
Speaker 1: and getting an understanding of maybe kind of how things
Speaker 1: look right now. All right, So let's start first with
Speaker 1: what I think is the most important and and fun
Speaker 1: part of the story. Is you got your quarterback back
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott back at practice. He's out there. Tell me
Speaker 1: how he looked? Well? He being out there is the
Speaker 1: most important thing. Like you said, I mean, he he
Speaker 1: brings so much energy just just having him there. That's
Speaker 1: what a true leader is. And there's no question about
Speaker 1: who who the leader of the team is. And you
Speaker 1: know when when he's not there, we all saw it
Speaker 1: felt it in that game against the Giants. I mean
Speaker 1: you could just kind of see how did he look.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, he wasn't doing he wasn't one
Speaker 1: hundred percent as far as like I don't mean he's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent. But I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: like turning him loose yet. But I thought he threw
Speaker 1: the ball well, and I just thought his presence of
Speaker 1: pushing this thing to be out there, to be with
Speaker 1: his team, that was great. Yeah. I mean, and they
Speaker 1: didn't cut him loosey, didn't do team stuff. That's by design.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he won't do that till training camp.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, everything else pales in comparison, because
Speaker 1: he looks he looks pretty damn good to me. He
Speaker 1: looks ready, like like shockingly, so you know, like I
Speaker 1: kind of went into yesterday like all right, I wonder
Speaker 1: if he'll even do anything today because he you know,
Speaker 1: he was doing stuff during the closed ota on Monday
Speaker 1: and and he I mean he did a full I
Speaker 1: mean he did seven on seven, He did individuals. I
Speaker 1: actually I wrote about this yesterday. He actually got intercepted,
Speaker 1: which is typically bad in practice, right, but the throw,
Speaker 1: you know, his primary reads weren't there, and he broke
Speaker 1: out and was like running across the field like we've
Speaker 1: seen him do so many times, and he like fired
Speaker 1: it to cde Lamb probably twenty yards down field. But
Speaker 1: just you know, torqued his body, threw off his foot
Speaker 1: just doing dack stuff, and it didn't He didn't look
Speaker 1: like a guy that had broken his ankle to me
Speaker 1: at all. I mean, he's throwing it thirty thirty five
Speaker 1: yards down field and good for them. I mean, he
Speaker 1: doesn't need to do everything right now, but he looked
Speaker 1: like he could. And that's amazing. On Like, that's all. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't care about anything else. If I have that,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, we'll get into the rest of it.
Speaker 1: It is interesting, but that's that's Numero uno for me. Well,
Speaker 1: you know again Alta is you're not full goal. But
Speaker 1: remember when we used to talk about dag being bad
Speaker 1: of practice and he just wasn't a Yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about that a lot previous years, and that was in
Speaker 1: the case. Like he was moving there very well. And
Speaker 1: you know those little what do you call those cushions
Speaker 1: that they set up on the on the field and
Speaker 1: then you kind of go over it with your feet. Um,
Speaker 1: you could see the leg movement in the leg work
Speaker 1: and the feet how he was moving, and he looked good,
Speaker 1: and the arm looked good, the precision looked good, and
Speaker 1: his calf's muscles they're there that he got some muscles there. No,
Speaker 1: he does not, So that's a good indicative that he
Speaker 1: has been working out. He has been able to put
Speaker 1: the kind of pressure and work out that muscle. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor or anything, but it looks like
Speaker 1: these muscles have been able to work properly based on
Speaker 1: looks of it. I saw Dak walking through our part
Speaker 1: of the building a couple of weeks ago, and uh
Speaker 1: and Shanny was Shannon and I and Shannon told he
Speaker 1: stopped and he's like, man, you're looking like you look
Speaker 1: like he lost way. You're looking thin. He's like, Noah,
Speaker 1: not really thin, but I'm definitely in shape, Like I'm
Speaker 1: in I feel like I'm in good as shape because
Speaker 1: I've ever been in he said. Actually, I feel right
Speaker 1: now faster and more agile than I think i've ever
Speaker 1: been because i think I'm just in that good at
Speaker 1: shape right now, So you know it kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, he did look like he was more I
Speaker 1: guess felt might be the right word. Like, he didn't
Speaker 1: look as bulky, but he certainly looked like he was
Speaker 1: in great shape. So I'm interested to see how he
Speaker 1: looks when he's on the field and certainly when they
Speaker 1: get to training camp and there they have him going
Speaker 1: full go, I think, you know, I'm I'm I'm starting
Speaker 1: to get excited about what this season can be for him.
Speaker 1: That's you know, it's I think it's natural, especially when
Speaker 1: you've seen so many serious injuries, to be like, okay,
Speaker 1: like it's a it's a process. He's gonna he'll do
Speaker 1: this today and like in a couple of weeks, maybe
Speaker 1: he can do that. I got the impression he could
Speaker 1: do everything if if he wanted to, or if they
Speaker 1: wanted him to. Yeah, and that's day two of OTAs.
Speaker 1: So that's definitely exciting for what he could be doing
Speaker 1: in a few months. Ye all right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the linebackers. I think that's probably the next topic that
Speaker 1: a lot of people want to find out about. We
Speaker 1: had heard that, you know, obviously, in the week before
Speaker 1: in the rookie minicamp, Michael Parsons mentioned that he was
Speaker 1: working at middle linebacker. So then the question became, so
Speaker 1: what are they doing with all these linebackers? They got
Speaker 1: so many options at this position. Did you guys see
Speaker 1: anything or were you able to get a beat on
Speaker 1: anything with maybe how they're going to deploy all these
Speaker 1: different resources they have at that position. Not really nobody's
Speaker 1: jumping in on that answer either. Yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 1: see what you had to say. Well, we didn't watch
Speaker 1: practice together, so we didn't and I I look at
Speaker 1: it like and and remember, the coaches know exactly when
Speaker 1: what day the media is out there too, so so
Speaker 1: you know, whatever they're trying to install, this is installed
Speaker 1: time for OTA. So I, unless I missed some things,
Speaker 1: I thought they threw a lot of different things out there.
Speaker 1: And you also have to remember that Jalen Smith wasn't
Speaker 1: in the team part of it because he's still limited
Speaker 1: from his back. He was doing some things, but nothing
Speaker 1: that had any kind of contact because he had risk surgery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had surgery on his wrist, which you know. And yeah,
Speaker 1: all these guys are on their different timelines and different
Speaker 1: things that they're allowed to do. You know, Dak didn't
Speaker 1: do team the tackle. Tyrn, Smith and Lyott were out
Speaker 1: there all day, but they were held out of like
Speaker 1: the stuff that involves contact with people. For the most part,
Speaker 1: Jalen wasn't even hitting sleds because he heard his wrist,
Speaker 1: so I get that. But he did do seven on seven.
Speaker 1: So my impression is mainly just they got they got
Speaker 1: a million of them, and they were all they were
Speaker 1: all it was. It was hard to keep up with, honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Layton was in there with Jalen.
Speaker 1: Layton was in there with Keyan O'Neill. Jalen was in
Speaker 1: there with Keyan O'Neill. I do feel like they worked
Speaker 1: the rookies together mostly for the most part. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that's not you know, I'm sure Michael Parsons got in
Speaker 1: there with a vet at some point, but Parsons and
Speaker 1: Cox were together for the most part. I feel like
Speaker 1: that makes sense to bring him along at the same speed,
Speaker 1: don't throw him into the deepend too quickly. Whatever. But
Speaker 1: I mean, it was mix and match all day and
Speaker 1: that and for them, I would say the vast majority
Speaker 1: of what we saw in terms of offense on defense
Speaker 1: was seven on seven stuff too, where you you don't
Speaker 1: really get to see the linebackers mixing and moving with
Speaker 1: the defensive lines. I mean, I'm sorry if you want
Speaker 1: me to be in here just like well, but Michael
Speaker 1: was screaming off the edge as like a designated pass rush. No,
Speaker 1: it didn't that didn't happen, but we did get to
Speaker 1: see a lot of rotation between all of these different guys.
Speaker 1: And you know, right now, it's one thing if you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've seen Rod Marinelli's defense for seven years, we know
Speaker 1: what he's trying to do with Dan Quinn. We don't
Speaker 1: really know that. We don't. This is the first practice
Speaker 1: we've really seen with him, I guess the rookie minicamp,
Speaker 1: But so you don't. You still don't have a good
Speaker 1: idea of what he's thinking of a guy like Kean
Speaker 1: O'Neill and what he's thinking with Jalen Smith and Parsons
Speaker 1: and all that. So, um, you know, it's it's fun
Speaker 1: to watch, but I mean we still I mean, jury
Speaker 1: is still out on what's going to happen with these guys.
Speaker 1: I'm just I hate I hate myself because I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be I am trying to be nice. No, But
Speaker 1: you know what something I can say is with makeup
Speaker 1: Arsons and I know it's a very small scale, but
Speaker 1: to me, the very small little taste that we got
Speaker 1: to see, he looked good. And to me, he looked
Speaker 1: like he'd belonging there. He had the instincts and the
Speaker 1: movements in there compared to I don't know, some veteran
Speaker 1: that just doesn't look like wow, like doesn't look Jalen
Speaker 1: doesn't look good right now? He doesn't, he does. He looked,
Speaker 1: he looked. I don't know if it's I hate to
Speaker 1: say it's because of his surgery or wrist or whatever,
Speaker 1: but he did not look as fluid as as he
Speaker 1: has looked in the path. And I know in the
Speaker 1: path he hasn't been looked looked at it, So he looked.
Speaker 1: He looked less fluid, because that's one of the things
Speaker 1: I've thought he's gotten here. That's one of the things
Speaker 1: that always looked odd to me, Like he he always
Speaker 1: looks like if you look at the top partist body.
Speaker 1: I think he was saying this to me yesterday, Amber,
Speaker 1: you look at top part of his body, he looked
Speaker 1: he's working really really really hard, right but you look
Speaker 1: at his legs, and his legs are kind of just
Speaker 1: kind of plodding along a little bit, all right. It
Speaker 1: just looks weird, and I think any everybody should. I've
Speaker 1: been very critical of Jalen Smith, but this seems extreme
Speaker 1: to me. Like and again, like the go watch the
Speaker 1: tape from last year. It's all there. I get it,
Speaker 1: but like this is an ota, it's an install. It
Speaker 1: just right. And I was about to say, like, I
Speaker 1: hope everybody out there looked fluid in shorts and jerseys,
Speaker 1: and then again it's it's not even a training camp
Speaker 1: practice where you're thudding up, like the whole thing is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna run. This is the key.
Speaker 1: And everybody on defense you see it time and time again,
Speaker 1: like they flow to the ball carrier and then they
Speaker 1: always do that kind of thing like a sprinter where
Speaker 1: they throw their arms up like they're not actually gonna
Speaker 1: hit anybody, so you're not there's no contact whatsoever. It's
Speaker 1: literally just didn't react to what's happening and tried exactly
Speaker 1: and the read and react wasn't there to begin with,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, And that's actice four year veteran. You
Speaker 1: got four year Jalen's been here. Jal's been playing since seventeen,
Speaker 1: so well, he's a veteran. He's a guy that to me,
Speaker 1: it just like he should not have looked that way.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to compare him to Parsons at all,
Speaker 1: you know, different guys whatever, But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it was refreshing to see and it just gave me.
Speaker 1: It made me feel better about the draft pick selection
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys making that pick and me thinking that.
Speaker 1: And again it's very early, like Dave said, this is
Speaker 1: Joe just OTAs, and you're basing you're creating an opinion
Speaker 1: based on very little things. But from what I watched,
Speaker 1: I just feel a lot better. And it makes me
Speaker 1: think that this guy Parsons, he's going to be a
Speaker 1: good player for the Cowboys, and he's going to be
Speaker 1: able to really help and do the kind of job
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are needing a linebacker to do. I
Speaker 1: just laughing because I'm thinking, like, he looked like Romo
Speaker 1: out there. That's what hed like he did. We'll save
Speaker 1: that conversation, Romo, we have that conversation. There are some
Speaker 1: guys that really jumped out to me. Yes, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it. But that's mainly because of low expect
Speaker 1: and you're like, WHOA, like this guy that isn't really
Speaker 1: on anybody's radar, Like he's making some plus some plays, okay,
Speaker 1: But like I I thought, Michael Parsons and Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: looked basically exactly the same. They were doing the same stuff,
Speaker 1: Like really, I mean, just they're running everybody different. Note
Speaker 1: that I get that, but but again, the kind of
Speaker 1: things that that Amber's talking about you should be able
Speaker 1: to see in shorts, like the fluidity and the the
Speaker 1: ability to be agile and change direction and move like,
Speaker 1: those are things you should be able to see in shorts.
Speaker 1: And to sound like she's saying she saw something different
Speaker 1: than I paid attentions to the whole linebacker fair, I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I don't know. I'm I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm imagining things, and I trust your knowledge. They for
Speaker 1: sure you watch, but that's fair. I'm for sure I
Speaker 1: would watch those two guys. I'm just pidding the young
Speaker 1: people gets each other because I like to see the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like this. We're supposed to be united. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'd like to see the young everyone, I guess.
Speaker 1: And that's I mean. And if yeah, i'm you, probably
Speaker 1: I was. I watched. I tried to watch everybody. Maybe
Speaker 1: I didn't. But that goes back to the whole thing
Speaker 1: of like we fall into these off season traps where
Speaker 1: it's like why you know, he looks so great at
Speaker 1: training camp. Why wasn't he any good? And it's like
Speaker 1: I refuse to sit here after one day of OTAs
Speaker 1: and be like jayl and didn't look good, especially there's
Speaker 1: nothing else to talk about, especially when whoever has told
Speaker 1: him he's limited. I mean he's he's limited in physical
Speaker 1: contact and maybe he's limited and maybe mentally he's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I mean I'm not going one hu. I
Speaker 1: can't do what I do and hit, which by the way,
Speaker 1: might be what they want from him right now, so
Speaker 1: it's unfair a little bit. But but but he you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, he's a he's a lightning rod.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone everyone's talking about him, number all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you know, they just want him
Speaker 1: to be better. Just be a better football player. That's
Speaker 1: what everybody wants. And I guess that's probably my thing
Speaker 1: is and it's nothing against you, but like day one
Speaker 1: of OTAs where like Jalen still looks like crap, and
Speaker 1: then everybody hears that and it's like, well, see, well
Speaker 1: what are we doing here. It's like, let's not overreact
Speaker 1: to one day. I will say this and this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a question. I'm not asking you guys this
Speaker 1: question right now. I think I've asked a couple of
Speaker 1: you this question over the last day. But this is
Speaker 1: a question I think we're going to ask in training
Speaker 1: camp a lot, and certainly once we get to the season,
Speaker 1: is how many linebackers on this team will be better
Speaker 1: at specific roles than Jalen, which will limit the amount
Speaker 1: of snaps he's gonna get when you start thinking about
Speaker 1: who are your best base linebackers, who are your best
Speaker 1: two linebackers that you want to have out there in
Speaker 1: nicol who are your best coverage linebacker, who's your best
Speaker 1: linebacker that maybe you want to use. When you start
Speaker 1: looking at all those different roles that you can come
Speaker 1: up with for linebackers, I just wonder, I'm wondering aloud, like,
Speaker 1: how many of the linebackers that are currently on this
Speaker 1: team will be better at each of those roles, Which
Speaker 1: means you start finding finding ways to not have Jalen
Speaker 1: on the field because other people are just better than
Speaker 1: him in those roles. That's going to be an interesting
Speaker 1: question that they will have to answer throughout training camp
Speaker 1: and heading into the season this year. Let's talk real quickly,
Speaker 1: about the offensive tackles. I know Dave, he said that
Speaker 1: they weren't doing everything, but justin how they looked moving around.
Speaker 1: Obviously both of them coming off of injury surgeries last year.
Speaker 1: What do you guys see from the offensive tackles? For me,
Speaker 1: my baseline is like, what are you doing at the
Speaker 1: start of OTAs because and you know we we'll get
Speaker 1: into this with the monte Kazee as well, Like he
Speaker 1: had a full day of reps and like not a
Speaker 1: lot of people were expecting that. People you're coming off
Speaker 1: a serious very silly you know, there are people thinking
Speaker 1: like maybe this guy's a pop consideration, maybe he's not
Speaker 1: ready for the start of camp, and he was. That's
Speaker 1: huge that he's able to participate. And the same thing
Speaker 1: goes for Tyrn and Lyle. These are serious injuries that
Speaker 1: require big surgeries. And no, I mean they you know,
Speaker 1: they're not going to go out there and pancake people
Speaker 1: on day one. But they did team stretch. They disappeared
Speaker 1: for twenty minutes, probably to get treatment, and then they
Speaker 1: came back out and they were with the O line.
Speaker 1: They did seven on seven, most of it on air
Speaker 1: where they're just dropping in their stances and you know,
Speaker 1: getting familiar. Yeah. But again, the fact that they're able
Speaker 1: to do that on the you know, first week of OTAs,
Speaker 1: that's huge because in my brain, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that's necessarily one hundred percent right, but in my brain,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, if you're participating at the start
Speaker 1: of OTAs, I assume you'll be ready for training camp.
Speaker 1: That's just that's my thought process. Yeah. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like at times they're sort of joint at the hip,
Speaker 1: you know, because they kind of do things together, Lyle
Speaker 1: and Tyron. You know that they were running out there
Speaker 1: together midway through practice and then first team your reps
Speaker 1: and then boom there they both are. But I feel like,
Speaker 1: and obviously that's not the case when it comes to
Speaker 1: their rehab, but I feel like, tyring Um, if I
Speaker 1: don't see him until the Tampa Bay game, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that. I know he needs his reps and all that,
Speaker 1: but I'd rather not do anything that's gonna cause that's
Speaker 1: gonna trigger this because he's gonna have Does that include practice?
Speaker 1: You don't necessarily want to see him in one a
Speaker 1: little bit, get the bowlers out with him, with him specifically,
Speaker 1: because I know it's just a it's a I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of time with him, He's gonna have
Speaker 1: some issues, and I would hate that he that he
Speaker 1: gets banged up trying to trying to block an eager
Speaker 1: Terrell bash him around the edge in Oxnard and he's
Speaker 1: he's out three weeks, which goes into the season. I mean,
Speaker 1: I when he when it's time to play, he'll be
Speaker 1: ready to play. But does it bother you that maybe
Speaker 1: because he hasn't played in so long and he's coming
Speaker 1: back from that injury. If you don't give him that time,
Speaker 1: then he still is operating at a bit of a
Speaker 1: deficit when you're getting out of game speed and in games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get your Arizona. He knows what he's doing. Arizona
Speaker 1: preseason and jj W, can you please go up and
Speaker 1: go up against them for a little bit, give him
Speaker 1: some repsol get out of there. Okay, we do want
Speaker 1: to see some reps. And I definitely think during training camp,
Speaker 1: I think you want to ease him in and let
Speaker 1: him do some stuff because I don't want him the
Speaker 1: first time he's really doing anything being a game situation. Well,
Speaker 1: i'll tell you this too. If he's not practicing a lot,
Speaker 1: and I know you got to get tired. Lyle in there.
Speaker 1: I want Lyle on the left side too. I want
Speaker 1: him some left left tackle reps because if something happens
Speaker 1: in the season I feel much better about him at
Speaker 1: left tackle than I did. You know now, I don't
Speaker 1: know in Secy. I guess could be out there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's played both. He probably adds if
Speaker 1: you're a journeyman lining and you've played everything, so whatever
Speaker 1: is the best fit. But I mean, I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: seeing Lyle maybe do that a little bit too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hopefully they'll move a lot of those guys around, because
Speaker 1: I think they found out last year that you got
Speaker 1: to be prepared for every scenario. So I think they
Speaker 1: should take the time to be able to move those
Speaker 1: guys around. Make sure you've got some different options of
Speaker 1: ways you can align them. All right, let's take our
Speaker 1: first break. When we come back, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a couple other positions. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. He's a guy we haven't really talked a
Speaker 1: lot about. I don't think anybody's really talked a lot
Speaker 1: about him. I want to think I want to hear
Speaker 1: from you guys. What will maybe your impressions yesterday? If
Speaker 1: you happen to notice him being out on the field
Speaker 1: running around anything stood out, We'll talk about thath We
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Speaker 1: some some different observations from the latest OTA practice yesterday
Speaker 1: that you guys were able to witness. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb again. We haven't talked a lot about him.
Speaker 1: One of the things I was interested in and I
Speaker 1: noticed this happens a lot with players coming into their
Speaker 1: second year. Typically going to that first offseason, you tend
Speaker 1: to see a change in their bodies. They start to
Speaker 1: get a little bigger, sometimes a little more muscular, sometimes
Speaker 1: a little leaner, just depending on what the position is.
Speaker 1: My question for you guys is did you see anything
Speaker 1: different about Ceedee Lamb? Did you see anything that stood
Speaker 1: out to you about Ceedee Lamb? Or is he still
Speaker 1: just the same bad a that he was last season?
Speaker 1: You know, I think he probably he looks like he's
Speaker 1: been in an NFL weight program for a year, Like
Speaker 1: I get you know, he looked a little stock here.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this yesterday, like, you know, the
Speaker 1: way fewer restrictions at practice yesterday. I was like, I
Speaker 1: was giddy yesterday, like I got to be around the team.
Speaker 1: I got to be close up at practice. It felt
Speaker 1: you haven't done that in a year and a half.
Speaker 1: Even you know, even training camp they made us watch
Speaker 1: from sixty feet above the field. So yesterday might have
Speaker 1: been the closest I've ever been to Ceedee Lamb. I've
Speaker 1: never met the guy introduce your well, I didn't see him.
Speaker 1: He didn't for whatever reason, he didn't come by. I
Speaker 1: think I saw everybody else on the roster, but not him.
Speaker 1: You were looking forward to that too. It's fine, but
Speaker 1: I mean he looks stocky. He looks like he's probably
Speaker 1: put on some muscle. I don't want to just go
Speaker 1: overboard and be like, oh he's so yoked like he's
Speaker 1: looks slufer Igno. Yeah, the shape of his but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he looks like he's in shape. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, Amari took the day off yesterday and he
Speaker 1: had a foot, he had a knee scope. I think
Speaker 1: like he way back in like February. He seems like
Speaker 1: another guy that they're gonna be very cautious with, which
Speaker 1: is fine by me. But you know, CD was CD
Speaker 1: was kind of leading the show yesterday, which I thought
Speaker 1: was especially interesting because Michael Gallup is is more you know,
Speaker 1: he's more senior than he is, which I'm trying to
Speaker 1: make any drama there, but like CD was sort of
Speaker 1: leading the group, doing the drills first and kind of
Speaker 1: take It seemed like he was taking charge. To me,
Speaker 1: I don't remember him doing anything nuts. He actually the
Speaker 1: pick I mentioned Dak got picked off trying to throw
Speaker 1: to him. Deante Burton made the play, which how many
Speaker 1: people listening to this even remember that name? But um
Speaker 1: so I'm nothing insane, But he looks he looks like
Speaker 1: CD yeah, you know Deontay Burton, just just by you
Speaker 1: mentioning that, I kind of I looked at the broster
Speaker 1: at one point because before he made the pick, he
Speaker 1: almost made another play, and I was like, thirty three,
Speaker 1: it's big looking, corner, safe, corner, safety type guy. And
Speaker 1: I bet you, even though Burton will probably not make
Speaker 1: the team, knowing what dan Quinn likes out of his
Speaker 1: defensive backs, he was like, Okay, who's this guy Burton?
Speaker 1: And they're like, he's a safety. Corners like, oh no,
Speaker 1: he's a corner. Like he looks exactly like you would want,
Speaker 1: like he wants to play now is he good enough?
Speaker 1: I don't know. He's kind of bounced around for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, but prototype wise, Deontay Burton looked exactly
Speaker 1: the type of guy that dan Quinn wants as his cornerback.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is he six I would Burton,
Speaker 1: I would say six two two twenty five. I'll just say,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have an ag, but I
Speaker 1: just know six two two ten. Jordan Lewis stands out
Speaker 1: like a sore thumb. We'll say that, we'll say that
Speaker 1: I love him though, but yeah, so well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we saw that they were basically looking like we
Speaker 1: gotta type. They definitely gotta type when it comes to
Speaker 1: court I do. I actually got that tight. But I
Speaker 1: had a chance to catch up with Jordan though, And
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting because like dan Quinn was here
Speaker 1: when they offered him that contract, and I know some
Speaker 1: degree they needed to cover themselves and make sure that
Speaker 1: they had starters. But and I asked Jordan, I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, for you to be willing to resign here,
Speaker 1: they probably had to. You know, you, I would assume
Speaker 1: you would want some assurance that you're going to have
Speaker 1: an opportunity and probably just not immediately be relegated to
Speaker 1: like the fifth string on the bench. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, chances to make plays and get on
Speaker 1: the field is what it's all about. And I definitely
Speaker 1: took that into consideration. So and we'll get it. You know.
Speaker 1: I hate to do the whole like first string second
Speaker 1: string thing and training in OTAs, especially when there's injured guys.
Speaker 1: But I will say probably the most constant thing at
Speaker 1: the entire practice was the first three cornerbacks like Kelvin
Speaker 1: Joseph got some reps and Nashan Wright mixed in, but
Speaker 1: like when the big dogs were out there, it was
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and Trayvon Diggs on the outside with Jordan
Speaker 1: in the slot like damn near every time, and so
Speaker 1: not saying that's what it'll be when training camp ends,
Speaker 1: but that seems to be their preferred situation until otherwise notified.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's also maybe a function you mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier that you saw that rookies were out there together
Speaker 1: a lot. You think they may also be a part
Speaker 1: of that, where where there's kind of keeping the let
Speaker 1: let the vets be out there together, Let's keep the
Speaker 1: rookies just watching while the vets are out there for
Speaker 1: a while, and then maybe a little later or certainly
Speaker 1: by training camp, you start mixing the note I feel
Speaker 1: like I remember Joseph getting in there with Diggs, but
Speaker 1: that's anecdotal. Maybe I'm wrong, so but yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: think there's something to that. It's like letting the young
Speaker 1: guys work together and not overwhelm them too much. If
Speaker 1: he would have caught it, we would have probably not
Speaker 1: spent thirty minutes of the show without talking about Sean
Speaker 1: right because he made a play that looked like I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a it was your Dion Sanders type break
Speaker 1: on the ball picket and would have been a touchdown
Speaker 1: the other way. He dropped it though, oh he dropped it.
Speaker 1: But I mean the break like, you know, good show.
Speaker 1: But the break that he made on the play, he
Speaker 1: it was great. It was a great play and then
Speaker 1: of course it much better if you dropped it then
Speaker 1: good did he hear the whole That's why you play
Speaker 1: corner in that kind of stuff more, right, But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it was it was encouraging. I thought, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're asking, and again it's all weighted right,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not impressed by I'm not impressed by CD
Speaker 1: unless he does something like the Vikings catch, you know,
Speaker 1: like that, the expectation and the stuff we saw him
Speaker 1: do a training camp all last summer. Um. But so
Speaker 1: with weighing expectations like Nashan right and Reggie Robinson caught
Speaker 1: my eye several times. Reggie did. Reggie had two breaks
Speaker 1: like he he broke up and it was against here,
Speaker 1: I got my notes right here. It was against better players. Um,
Speaker 1: he's one of the guy that took He stole Semi
Speaker 1: Fijoko's lunch money. He just reached right in there and
Speaker 1: punched it out. I'm not going to talk about Simi
Speaker 1: right now. He's he's But that goes back to the
Speaker 1: Jaalen thing, like okay, like he you know, he got
Speaker 1: bullied a little bit at his second OTA as a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick, like just that day. Like again, I've heard, well,
Speaker 1: I've heard people talk last week that he didn't look great,
Speaker 1: and then I heard it again yesterday he didn't look great.
Speaker 1: Help when you start saying does he look great? Like
Speaker 1: it's a learning curve, man, It's a steep learning I
Speaker 1: feel like it's it depends who you're talking about, because
Speaker 1: something like a guy like him, you haven't seen him
Speaker 1: and he's new, right, so you're like, okay, you go,
Speaker 1: you gotta give him some time. And I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to bring back Jaalen into the conversation. But
Speaker 1: then it's different when you're looking at a guy like
Speaker 1: that yet that you've seen in the past, so you
Speaker 1: have a different Like they've said, expectations, It's all about expectations,
Speaker 1: So you know, the two corner and talking about defensive backs.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're watching OTAs, it can get kind
Speaker 1: of boring. It's exciting because you're getting to watch football
Speaker 1: and the veterans and the rookies together. But then he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not really full contact or anything, but
Speaker 1: they made it excited. He's like, oh, okay, those with
Speaker 1: those plays. You're like, okay, okay, remember getting some action
Speaker 1: eat like Nashan, right, he did it twice and like,
Speaker 1: you know, do it once and you're like, whoa, okay
Speaker 1: and then whole okay, Nashan. Reggie did the same thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was Dak. Dak was looking for Aaron Parker
Speaker 1: on a flag route to the sideline, you know, eighteen
Speaker 1: yards downfield, and Reggie just dove and kind of poked it,
Speaker 1: poked it away from over his shoulder. It was a
Speaker 1: great play it and it was it was a good
Speaker 1: throw by Dak too, Like Reggie Robinson just made a
Speaker 1: great play. So, and going back to your point about Fojoko,
Speaker 1: that was Reggie last year. We're like, oh, they were
Speaker 1: excited about this guy and he looks awful and so
Speaker 1: for him to you know, for him to flash in
Speaker 1: the first opportunity that were available to see him was
Speaker 1: that was exciting. I will tell you this, and I
Speaker 1: know it's way too early to be him doing this,
Speaker 1: but I am really starting to wonder if we're gonna
Speaker 1: look back here at a few years and we're gonna
Speaker 1: say Nashan Wright is a better player than Calvin Joseph.
Speaker 1: And I know, way early. I just think I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna I look at it like this. Those coaches
Speaker 1: are gonna have every reason to want Nashan Right to
Speaker 1: succeed because he fits the mold of what they really want.
Speaker 1: And so if they're even, Like if if they come
Speaker 1: out and they're even and Right, isn't clearly better. I
Speaker 1: think Nashan is going to be the guy that gets
Speaker 1: the opportunities. So don't I don't know, I don't. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that you're wrong, because like, nobody knows how
Speaker 1: any of these guys are going to pan out. That's
Speaker 1: what makes it fun. But I just love the way
Speaker 1: that you're like, I want to get to ahead of myself,
Speaker 1: but but they'll be he's better, will I mean, if
Speaker 1: you finish that and you said, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get ahead of myself, but maybe Nishan Right or Nashan Right,
Speaker 1: maybe he's going to be the third corner in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL that's six four and taller. That's good,
Speaker 1: you know, because there's there's there's a lot there like two.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I think the guy. I think
Speaker 1: there was a guy in Miami, Sean Smith maybe and
Speaker 1: uh am I missing someone Smith that big. I remember
Speaker 1: him from that big. I mean, but like Bobby Taylor
Speaker 1: from the Eagles was like sixth was good though. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I thought you're saying I mean, and I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: there's just a reason why guys that tall aren't cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: It's just hard. T was Troy Vincent because they were
Speaker 1: together and Troy was like he was a taller corner.
Speaker 1: He wasn't really think he was that tall. He was
Speaker 1: probably like six two six three out right. Yeah again,
Speaker 1: it's not I mean, it's just he's tall and linky.
Speaker 1: He looks like Pat Watkins from back in the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah we went back. Yeah, Troy Vincent's listed at six
Speaker 1: one one. I get Nick's point, and there's just not
Speaker 1: many of them. He looks he looks really fluid moving
Speaker 1: in a straight line. If you watch his tape, it's
Speaker 1: open space, which that makes sense. Open space is a
Speaker 1: problem for him. So it's it's a very small sample size,
Speaker 1: but considering the amount of debate and outrage about that pick,
Speaker 1: it was funny and fun that he looked really good
Speaker 1: and his first opportunity in front of media. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the same thing. You know, I heard some similar
Speaker 1: things last week in the rookie camp about him, like, yo, wow,
Speaker 1: he's kind of looks better I thought he would look.
Speaker 1: So again, he's just piquing my interest. And you know,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of the fear of doing these kind
Speaker 1: of shows. Sometimes you get out there and you just
Speaker 1: talk about things that that kind of pique your interest
Speaker 1: and then before you know what, everybody's like, well, you
Speaker 1: said Nashan was gonna be great, and it's just like
Speaker 1: that's just what I'm starting to kind of okay, Like
Speaker 1: I'm sorry if it's boring radio, but it's all right
Speaker 1: to sit on the fence for a little while. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing is is that, you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: like that play and then Nahan right broke on the ball.
Speaker 1: He almost picked it, he didn't, but it was it
Speaker 1: was good. But and I don't I can't even tell
Speaker 1: you the answer this, but like what you also have
Speaker 1: to factor in is what was the path, what did
Speaker 1: the past look like? Well, who did it come from?
Speaker 1: And how long did the quarterbacks stare down the receiver
Speaker 1: be like, I'm throwing it to you and then you know,
Speaker 1: so we don't factor at all in it was Ben
Speaker 1: Denucci throwing to an undrafted rookie running back in the flat.
Speaker 1: Just so we're clear if I don't know, so don't
Speaker 1: watery down. Let's not let's just enjoy what we saw. Evans,
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's not It's not what I was doing there.
Speaker 1: I had my homes and then I went Tampa. You'll
Speaker 1: have to play them both. So I'm just killing all
Speaker 1: the fun and you know, and you have to in
Speaker 1: week five is gonna be like what were we doing?
Speaker 1: Saying these guys were good like? And then I catch hell,
Speaker 1: that's why I control because of you, because you created
Speaker 1: cow bites. Cow bites the thirty second clip that too,
Speaker 1: and it's like did I say that? Did I say?
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden we got our team in
Speaker 1: the back Chris Beam and guys be like, oh, yes
Speaker 1: you did. You're like, hey, it's cow bites. I'm just
Speaker 1: wanting I want as clear a picture as possible so
Speaker 1: that people aren't in my mentions demanding why I was
Speaker 1: why I sold them a bill of good I get that.
Speaker 1: I get that honestly. Again, Like I said, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the hard part of doing shows like this. You
Speaker 1: say out loud what normally you just think to yourself,
Speaker 1: or you say to a friend like, hey, man, I'm
Speaker 1: wondering about like this guy might actually be better than
Speaker 1: we thought, you know, and then you get painted with
Speaker 1: that brush forever. Yeah, you're that guy forever. All right,
Speaker 1: let's jump on. I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about the center position. Can I can I ask something
Speaker 1: real quick. It's something that I keep forgetting every time
Speaker 1: and when, and it reminded me of when Dave was
Speaker 1: talking about Jordan Lewis and insurance and insurance and the
Speaker 1: Joe Looney. I keep forgetting about him, and I'm always like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what was the deal with him? What happened with him? Well?
Speaker 1: I know he hasn't signed with any other team. Why
Speaker 1: is he still sitting out there? I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys have any or unique If you have any,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a wonderful I mean, I get the
Speaker 1: guys that they currently No, No, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly, but I know if you go to the
Speaker 1: other side of that page, the numerical aside, Uh, you
Speaker 1: know in that order, Uh, they got four or five
Speaker 1: guys with two numbers out there, you know, four or
Speaker 1: five guys on double numbers. But look at number seventy three.
Speaker 1: There's number seventy three on that roster. I don't see
Speaker 1: seventy three, right, And I think there's something to be
Speaker 1: said for that. I think so too. And I think
Speaker 1: have you heard that, because it's just a guess on
Speaker 1: my part is really just a guess. But I think
Speaker 1: that it's like, we're gonna let these guys see and
Speaker 1: we all we know what Looney is if we need them.
Speaker 1: What do they love to say? Like create competition, paper
Speaker 1: over the holes in their eye? They didn't do that
Speaker 1: with Center. It's just it's the Tyler Biada Show. And
Speaker 1: I like, I know Connor McGovern has done it too,
Speaker 1: was a lot. So that's what I was gonna say it, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, all through the offseason, it's like, well, Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern can do it, and and Connor Williams has done that,
Speaker 1: and during you know McCarthy does the quarterback school Beotish, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't want it wasn't McGovern but Beotish and Connor
Speaker 1: Williams was actually snapping during the quarterback school and I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, that's really interesting. But then we get
Speaker 1: into team portion and Matt FARNIOK, the last pick was
Speaker 1: the first team center, and like it. As far as
Speaker 1: I'm aware, Tyler Beiodish is fine because he he was
Speaker 1: like he was. He was in the offensive line drills
Speaker 1: like I think the other offensive linemen and maybe some
Speaker 1: of the rehab guys were working on stances and stuff
Speaker 1: during the team periods while farneyoc is running with Dak
Speaker 1: which kind of blew me away. No disrespect to Matt FARNIOK.
Speaker 1: And he did he played center at Nebraska, so it's
Speaker 1: not completely out of left field a little A little bit, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think one. I think he made one start at center,
Speaker 1: start in a few other games. Um, but that it
Speaker 1: just kind of blew me away, and you think about it,
Speaker 1: you're just it's weird to me that that there's not
Speaker 1: like a true center and then to see if be
Speaker 1: honest doesn't really and I don't want to overreact to
Speaker 1: one day of OTAs, but like he I would assume,
Speaker 1: be honest, would just be the first team center all
Speaker 1: the time, like he's the guy. He needs to work
Speaker 1: with that as much as possible, And that's not what
Speaker 1: was happening. So it's it's interesting, and I wonder, I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're kind of like, if we really don't
Speaker 1: feel good about this by the time, you know, by
Speaker 1: the time we're getting ready to go to Oxnard, we
Speaker 1: can call Joe. It's just a guess. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what I agree. I mean, I guess that too. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if the leave it his jersey number
Speaker 1: open is something, But I think it might have something
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that, you know, he thought
Speaker 1: he might be coming back, and I was told, I
Speaker 1: was told the second or third day of free agency
Speaker 1: that Looney that could happen this week. So there were
Speaker 1: talks of him coming back, he thought he was, and
Speaker 1: it just didn't materialize. And now here we are. Then
Speaker 1: you get closer to the draft, You're like, let's just
Speaker 1: see what happens in the draft. Now, let's see what
Speaker 1: happens in OTAs. But I think he's will sit there.
Speaker 1: They haven't lost his number. I can just picture, you know,
Speaker 1: with the amount, with the amount that Stephen Jones has
Speaker 1: talked about their cap situation. I can just picture him
Speaker 1: being like, how much how much Joe want? Oh? Dan like,
Speaker 1: let's let's see what we got here and we can
Speaker 1: maybe we'll call. Maybe that price comes down, right. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say, even if not with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: it's just crazy to me to think that he's still
Speaker 1: sitting out there starting center with guard capability. He is
Speaker 1: a valuable game day guy. Um, but no, I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say that might also be because he's like,
Speaker 1: I really want to stay in Dallas. I want to
Speaker 1: wait it out and see what happens there. Because I
Speaker 1: think if he really wanted to go get a one
Speaker 1: year deal from somebody, there's a team out there that
Speaker 1: would have given him a one year deal. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any reason to believe that that's not
Speaker 1: the case. So I think this might also signal that
Speaker 1: he wants to be here and he's just kinda waited
Speaker 1: out the Cowboys, gonna wait it out and see what happens.
Speaker 1: That it just it is so obviously opposite of what
Speaker 1: they us try to do that they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got this guy we drafted on day three last
Speaker 1: year and not a lot else. Well, I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's been said behind closed doors, but
Speaker 1: I would go to the guy that you paid forty
Speaker 1: million dollars a year or two and I'd be like, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is the guy that gives you the ball, and
Speaker 1: this is the guy that blocks right in front of
Speaker 1: you and makes the calls to make sure the other
Speaker 1: guys block the right guy. Who do you want? I
Speaker 1: mean that you can't say that about a lot of positions,
Speaker 1: but with him, and you're trying to protect him like
Speaker 1: I would put dex. I would way that did because
Speaker 1: I because I did hear that. The reason why Beards
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot in the second half of the
Speaker 1: year over Looney was because of Andy Dalton, because Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton wasn't comfortable with Beardish just shot gun snaps. They
Speaker 1: were too erratic, and he had to keep his eyes.
Speaker 1: He had to get his eyes off of the defense
Speaker 1: and under the ball because they were a little bit
Speaker 1: We don't we don't think of it all the time,
Speaker 1: but the ball here or here, we just know we're
Speaker 1: just looking down. We look up and the guys got
Speaker 1: the ball. But Andy Dalton he couldn't see. He couldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, there would be blitz Is coming
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, next thing, you know, he's gotta
Speaker 1: get the ball down here. Looney was a little bit
Speaker 1: better with it. And you know, Dalton I think preferred that.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he said. He said, don't you know,
Speaker 1: he just would prefer. So that's something Bash has to
Speaker 1: work on this offseasons. Those shotgun snaps have to be
Speaker 1: right here ready, which and I'm the guy that already
Speaker 1: said don't make too much of whose first things string,
Speaker 1: second string, third string in may, but center, you probably
Speaker 1: want your preferred center and your preferred quarterback working together
Speaker 1: as much as possible. We mean, it seems like it
Speaker 1: would make sense. So it's weird. It's weird. I got
Speaker 1: my eye on that. All right, let's let's take our
Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, I gotta talk. I
Speaker 1: want you guys to talk about Demanti Cassie because there
Speaker 1: were there were a couple of people that told me, man,
Speaker 1: he just got out to watch yesterday. There were some
Speaker 1: things he was doing out there was pretty impressive. So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. When we come back. This is
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Speaker 1: Final segment of The Break Life in the s WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're heading into a holiday weekend,
Speaker 1: so we get this show done and then it will
Speaker 1: be a nice little couple of days here, a few days.
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna be out for the next three days,
Speaker 1: so be good. Yeah, you're gonna get some time. Sure, Amber,
Speaker 1: you're getting some time. When when do we get off?
Speaker 1: The company's given us Monday, but yeah, but if you
Speaker 1: want a little extra time past Monday, take a little
Speaker 1: extra time, Dave, I'm going home tomorrow night. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: go and see forever. I will thank you. Can you
Speaker 1: bring back some food from new while? I will try,
Speaker 1: Like that would be great. I will try. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Always say the same thing, and it never happens.
Speaker 1: I know, he never brings any food back. But it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work. No, it is a lot of work.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of work. You just put it in
Speaker 1: a container and bring it like back, just bring some
Speaker 1: seasoning and then cook it. Over here. Maybe that but
Speaker 1: seasoning or something. But like you didn't bring home some food.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I'm not gonna bring you. You're the
Speaker 1: pickiest eater ever if it isn't right, like I mean, so,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine coming in a day's car back I'm flying.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a picky eater. I'm really not. I
Speaker 1: know what I like. OK, whatever you say, I know
Speaker 1: what I like. Whatever you stuff, maybe it's not yeah,
Speaker 1: not picky. You just like it prepared. Yeah, like I
Speaker 1: assuming way, I like it prepared. But I assume everybody
Speaker 1: that cooks in New Orleans knows what they're doing, because
Speaker 1: that's a place where you don't find bad food very often.
Speaker 1: You really don't know. So Wednesday night Saints game right
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving, me cannot wait. I cannot wait. All right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about de Moneycauz because it
Speaker 1: sounds like from from everything I've heard, you guys can
Speaker 1: can jump in here wherever you want to jump in.
Speaker 1: But from what I heard, he probably if you had
Speaker 1: one player you want to identify as the standout guy
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are talking about, he would
Speaker 1: be that. Tell me what you saw, Well, it's just
Speaker 1: for me, it's just a baseline of where the guy is.
Speaker 1: If he's a basketball player that's coming off an injury
Speaker 1: and he does an alley dunk right off the bat,
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, that's what he can do. Now, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he's going to do it all the time,
Speaker 1: but what can he do? Where's he health wise? We
Speaker 1: didn't know, and he made a playoff that you know, um,
Speaker 1: Dave describe it, but he made a play that just
Speaker 1: lets you know. Okay, I didn't know he was honestly
Speaker 1: didn't know he was going to be out there and
Speaker 1: he was actually, yeah, I don't I don't remember him
Speaker 1: making a specific play, to be honest. Okay, you you
Speaker 1: do it, Okay, Um, okay, I'm sorry. I thought I
Speaker 1: thought we talked about it. I guess it was Rob,
Speaker 1: but you and I talked about yeah maybe so, um,
Speaker 1: guys look like, um no, he just he made a play.
Speaker 1: It was and it was just one of those you know,
Speaker 1: the play breaks down the quarterbacks looking down the field
Speaker 1: and then decides to check it to the running back
Speaker 1: out in the flat, which was because he's responsibility as
Speaker 1: well keeping his eyes and it was a Rico dattle
Speaker 1: out of the flat right when he caught it boom,
Speaker 1: because he was there. He made a cut to get
Speaker 1: there and to be right there on you know, and
Speaker 1: the of course he makes the sound oh you know,
Speaker 1: I got you and all that. Who knows who would
Speaker 1: have won the battle, but the whole, the whole sideline erupted.
Speaker 1: And whether or not that was just a great play
Speaker 1: by a defensive back or some of them know, Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy's coming back from an achilles injury. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: who's coming back from an Achilles injury. I mean, that
Speaker 1: is the kiss of death. Nobody wants to hear that word.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do, especially as a safety who has
Speaker 1: the back pedal and then cut, plant, cut go. He
Speaker 1: did it? Is he does that mean he's back? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he made a play that I
Speaker 1: didn't think he could make. I didn't think he was
Speaker 1: going to practice it. I didn't think he could make
Speaker 1: that play. In May, I was shocked when I saw
Speaker 1: him get on the field and play. Shocked Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: towards ACL in Week one. That's widely regarded as in
Speaker 1: this day and age, an easier injury to come back
Speaker 1: from he didn't do anything yesterday. Demonte Kazi tore his
Speaker 1: achilles in week five, so like a month later and
Speaker 1: he's out here in May and like not just a
Speaker 1: little bit, like he was out there a lot. Him
Speaker 1: and Jayron Curse and Donovan Wilson mixed in. Those three
Speaker 1: were like the predominant first group out. I would bet
Speaker 1: I would bet Cazi had thirty five reps or so
Speaker 1: between seven on seven and Team and all. I could
Speaker 1: not believe it. And now that you describe that, I
Speaker 1: kind of remember it, but just in just him being
Speaker 1: out and yeah, cutting I did. Yeah, super nice guy.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to talk to the whole media, but
Speaker 1: he had to go pick up his kid from school,
Speaker 1: I think or something, so he had to but like
Speaker 1: he he gave me five minutes. I said that. I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, people are a lot of people
Speaker 1: on outside are surprised to see you out there. And
Speaker 1: he's like, oh yeah, I know. Like he was like,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what people say about achilles injuries and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and he you know, he's he was
Speaker 1: talking you know, what a what a terrible, what an
Speaker 1: awful situation to be in a contract year and suffer
Speaker 1: that injury. He was like, yeah, he's like I learned.
Speaker 1: I learned a lot about like the real nature of
Speaker 1: this business, like not knowing where I'm going to be,
Speaker 1: not knowing if you know, how am I going to
Speaker 1: come back? Who's gonna want me? Uh? He said it
Speaker 1: was a big, big relief to get a contract. Did
Speaker 1: you ask him if he's running too Zeke? Yet? I
Speaker 1: did not. I did not, and I don't think I
Speaker 1: want to trying to make good impressions. Um if you
Speaker 1: remember Zeken demolish, Yeah, yeah, kind of laid there for
Speaker 1: which I will say, I'm you know, literally ran into
Speaker 1: Zeke lately. Yeah, yeah, I don't mean like ran into
Speaker 1: in the conversation literally got I made a joke. I
Speaker 1: made a joke at Jordan's expense earlier, and I'll say that,
Speaker 1: which you know, we we made a big and rightfully
Speaker 1: so we made a big deal about how you know
Speaker 1: all these tall guys, all these six three six four
Speaker 1: corners and dan Quinn has a type. Dan Quinn again,
Speaker 1: he had to have been in involved in resigning Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: He was definitely involved in bringing Kazi here, and Kazi
Speaker 1: is small. He's a small guy like there there are
Speaker 1: not very many NFL players that where I'm like really
Speaker 1: looking idun one four. That's like, that's where I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to if he's five to eleven, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's five eleven. Maybe I'm maybe I'm
Speaker 1: misremembering this, Like no, I probably not. And like I mean,
Speaker 1: i'd i'd die as an exaggeration. I mean he was
Speaker 1: taller than me, but like it felt like I felt normal,
Speaker 1: not just like oh hey, Zach Martin, like nice to
Speaker 1: reach up and take a full extension on your arm
Speaker 1: for the micrap like he he felt like a normal
Speaker 1: sized person to me. Whereat you know. And then I
Speaker 1: you know, Nashan writes walking by and just swing an
Speaker 1: eight foot long arms receivers like the rookie But I
Speaker 1: was down there for rookie Minicamp and all the wide
Speaker 1: receivers were walking by. I was like the Mavericks would
Speaker 1: have a hard time with this group. I mean, like
Speaker 1: they well not last night. You know they're good, but
Speaker 1: um just tall tall like the group and you know,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of which surprised me about the
Speaker 1: receiver they did sign that Johnny Dixon. Oh yeah, um
Speaker 1: he was. He was one of the receivers from the
Speaker 1: workout with Brett Hunley, um, and he stood out I
Speaker 1: guess more of it than Hunley. But if we have time,
Speaker 1: can I mention this about the backup quarterback. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a huge problem. I'm i'd be okay.
Speaker 1: I mean Garrett Gilbert, I'm okay there, I really am.
Speaker 1: And I and they've looked, they looked around, and they
Speaker 1: they might still you know, sign a guy. But based
Speaker 1: off what we saw from Dak And I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. And I think Garrett Gilbert is gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. I've been maintaining since last year when he
Speaker 1: played in that game. I know that it didn't end
Speaker 1: up the way the Cowboys wanted, but I thought he
Speaker 1: played a pretty good game all things being considered with
Speaker 1: you know, he got here and within a week he's
Speaker 1: playing football at quarterback and whose quarter Like everything about it,
Speaker 1: I said, I want to see more from that guy,
Speaker 1: like I think Garrett Gilbert can be a pretty good
Speaker 1: backup option for this team and h and so I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a little less concerned about that as well as
Speaker 1: you like I'm in the same boat with you on that.
Speaker 1: It's it's a mixed because I sort of agree. I
Speaker 1: would love I think you could upgrade the position, but
Speaker 1: not right now, like unless I'm out there is the problem.
Speaker 1: Unless somebody gets cut, or if you want to try
Speaker 1: to trade for like a gardener Menshew can't trade for
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. I think that's way too much money, Like
Speaker 1: he's got too much on his contract. But like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would have signed Blake Bortles before he went to
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I mean, you can say what you will
Speaker 1: about Blake Bortles, but he's started a lot more games
Speaker 1: than Garret Gilbert. But I think Garrett Gilbert's just as good,
Speaker 1: if not better than what is available to them right now.
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, I look at a guy like him
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'd rather have him over Bortles, because
Speaker 1: what I know about Bortles, they start a lot of games.
Speaker 1: We can't had a lot of production, and I think
Speaker 1: Garret Gilbert probably is at the worst. I think Gilbert
Speaker 1: is a similar quarterback, you know, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know that that Bortles is. It is a much better
Speaker 1: quarterback than where Garret Gilbert is I'll take my chances
Speaker 1: that a guy I just what I wanted to backup
Speaker 1: is somebody who's like been there and done that. And
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles, you know he's I don't He's started at
Speaker 1: least like sixty games. He took a seam to a championship, right,
Speaker 1: and then you you know the same thing you just
Speaker 1: said about Garrett Gilbert, like put Bortles, give him Zeke
Speaker 1: and a healthy offensive line and this receiver corps. Like
Speaker 1: I can talk myself into that, and I think I
Speaker 1: think you can argue both sides of that. Um. I
Speaker 1: leaned towards the guy as a backup that will keep
Speaker 1: himself ready and stays ready all the time. And I
Speaker 1: don't have It's a small sample size with Gilbert, but
Speaker 1: we did see it. He I mean he was he
Speaker 1: was new to everything. And another guy that you talked
Speaker 1: to yesterday, Dave and and and Garrett, Yeah, and asked
Speaker 1: him about he was really impressive to him. Honestly, he
Speaker 1: he's you look at eye with him. No, he's tall,
Speaker 1: that's that's like Gret Gilbert. Yeah, is Demante because he's
Speaker 1: definitely taller than me too, because everybody is. But it's
Speaker 1: just yeah, you spend enough time talking to guys that
Speaker 1: are six, two, three, four, five and six. When somebody
Speaker 1: who's five to ten comes along, you're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to kind of like me, I want to
Speaker 1: see that video again before you start to working here.
Speaker 1: I was in Anthony Davis. I don't think the video
Speaker 1: of me interviewing Anthony Davis exists anymore. But I covered
Speaker 1: a yeah, seven fo I covered. I covered the SEC
Speaker 1: Tournament the year that that Kentucky team was amazing, and
Speaker 1: I so I interviewed all those guys for ESPN and
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Michael kid Gilchrist, and I mean it's just ridiculous,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not exaggerating, like I'm holding the mic like that. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works with seven footage. And
Speaker 1: I think I've finally gotten over it a little bit.
Speaker 1: But like back then, I was definitely like it felt
Speaker 1: emasculating to like stand on a stool or something like that.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: Like what I'm like, I'll get on a ladder. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: it's just it just looks right exactly. It's not even
Speaker 1: about being embarras like it just looks bad when you
Speaker 1: have to like do this to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're somewhere out there. There's some grainy video
Speaker 1: of me talking to Kentucky basketball players and it looks
Speaker 1: really bad. So awesome. Hey, before we end the show,
Speaker 1: I do need to quickly talk about some some changes
Speaker 1: to numbers. There were a couple of guys who have
Speaker 1: changed their numbers. Only one of them. Only one of them,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, as decided to move from fifty four to
Speaker 1: the number nine, which has some people up in arms
Speaker 1: about it. Um, I'll just open it up and let
Speaker 1: you guys give me your thoughts on the move number
Speaker 1: one and then number two, how people are responding to
Speaker 1: it from what you've seen, and I'm sure people have
Speaker 1: been on your in your mentions and and said things.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to hear from you guys what your
Speaker 1: thoughts are there. If Jalen Smith was better, if football,
Speaker 1: everybody would care, That's my take. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's uh. I think it's weird that a guy who
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to have a lot of job security would
Speaker 1: be willing to pay that much money just to wear
Speaker 1: that number this year. I mean it is my belief
Speaker 1: that if he doesn't have a better season he might
Speaker 1: he probably won't be here next year. And so for
Speaker 1: him to willingly part with that much money just to
Speaker 1: wear nine, I wouldn't do it, but we've known for
Speaker 1: a long time. Nine means a lot to him, Like
Speaker 1: he tweeted when he got fifty four that part of
Speaker 1: the reason for it was that five and four out
Speaker 1: up to be nine. Like, for whatever reason, it's very
Speaker 1: important to him. It's his money, like it or not.
Speaker 1: He's one of the established players on this team and
Speaker 1: he wanted to do it. And clearly Jerry Jones, probably
Speaker 1: because he was getting part of it at least, is
Speaker 1: that he's getting a lot of money back in exchange
Speaker 1: for it. And also, Jalen doesn't play quarterback. I just
Speaker 1: don't care. And I think people really only care because
Speaker 1: Jalen didn't play well last year. If he was coming
Speaker 1: off an All Pro season, people would think it was awesome,
Speaker 1: you know. Speaking of Joe Looney, Joe Looney wears the
Speaker 1: number of the one of Nick says the best player
Speaker 1: in Cowboys history. But people like Joe definitely top three,
Speaker 1: people like Joe Louis, so nobody cares that he's wearing
Speaker 1: Larry Allen's number. Chuck Howley and Randy White have better
Speaker 1: cowboy legacies than Tony Romo. Yes, and nobody was talking
Speaker 1: about this at all, but you know, people are, you know,
Speaker 1: nostalgic and sad about the way Romo's career ended and
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith had a bad season, and so people are
Speaker 1: mad about it. I probably wouldn't have done it, mainly
Speaker 1: because it's a really expensive thing to do, but if
Speaker 1: it makes him happy, more power to him. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was telling Nick before we went on the air. I
Speaker 1: was like, what you don't know is I know a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys are pretty superstitious, and this could
Speaker 1: be one of those things where he's just like, look,
Speaker 1: give me my number back, Like that number matters to me,
Speaker 1: It makes me feel a certain way. And in a
Speaker 1: year where there are a lot of different things coming
Speaker 1: at me and I'm talking about different new players that
Speaker 1: are kind of in his space, now, I need to
Speaker 1: be at my very best and he may be like
Speaker 1: this gives him that extra superpower. Like again, superstitions are
Speaker 1: never logical, but people have them, and uh, and I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't, for the life of me understand why you'd
Speaker 1: be willing to pay all that money for it. So
Speaker 1: the only thing I can't think is that maybe it's
Speaker 1: just the significance of the number. The number just Madiston.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, the number maddist him, and he's willing
Speaker 1: to do it because the number maddist him. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you have something you want looking for a quote? I
Speaker 1: looked for something he said yesterday ahead. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you were looking at quote from him, it was
Speaker 1: I was looking at a fan quote. I just thought
Speaker 1: said it perfectly, and and I it was like, well,
Speaker 1: we've all said but it was like in a quick
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty characters, was just like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: pulling for you. But like, you know, it was basically just,
Speaker 1: you know, you should be more worried about the fact
Speaker 1: that they they got four linebackers to do your job,
Speaker 1: you know, like, I hope it works out, but you
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money to change into a number
Speaker 1: when you don't seem to be I mean, play better,
Speaker 1: just be a better player, and you don't seem like
Speaker 1: worried that they got Parsons. Oh they got this guy
Speaker 1: fell in their lap. They got to get another linebacker.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like you're just worried about the wrong stuff.
Speaker 1: But do you honestly, the way I look at that is,
Speaker 1: I don't think Jalen is one that probably looks at
Speaker 1: all those things and is all that worried about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about it. No, seriously, You're talking
Speaker 1: about a guy that has overcome what most people thought
Speaker 1: he couldn't overcome it, And I'm not saying that. So
Speaker 1: it's about It's about perspective. I think he looks at
Speaker 1: it and says, Okay, challenge accepted. I'm good with the challenge.
Speaker 1: Do you bring in all these guys, I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: be the one stand at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I honestly believe what I know of him that fits
Speaker 1: like he does not see that as a problem. He
Speaker 1: sees that as a challenge and he's going to be Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to buy my tongue here, But why would
Speaker 1: you just start doing that? Well, I just you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't I don't measure the things that come
Speaker 1: out of my mouth and how I saying I might
Speaker 1: regret it later or whatever. But the thing is with him, Okay, yes, great, accomplishment.
Speaker 1: You came out and everyone respects that, and it's a
Speaker 1: great accomplishment, it is. But don't be walking around or
Speaker 1: acting around like you're this badass linebacker playing for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: because you're not. And there are certain things and I
Speaker 1: try not to judge a player off the field or
Speaker 1: personality because that's not our job. Really. Our job is
Speaker 1: to judge a player about what they do on the field.
Speaker 1: But the thing is he brings that on the field.
Speaker 1: And I've seen situations where the Cowboys were sucking on
Speaker 1: defense yesterday, last year, last year, and like, for example,
Speaker 1: you get these defensive players and I remember I sent
Speaker 1: you guys a clip of it that I think it
Speaker 1: was the Marcus Lawrence yelling at everyone and just kind
Speaker 1: of getting everyone hyped up and you know, like we
Speaker 1: gotta do better. Jyalen is the only one walking next
Speaker 1: to it, like la la la la la. It doesn't
Speaker 1: apply to him at all whatsoever. And the assistant manager
Speaker 1: that the manager was going off on the Yeah he's
Speaker 1: over there like laughing or smiling when he in reality,
Speaker 1: it was like I think he's talking to you, yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: And things like that is what makes me boil a
Speaker 1: little bit and makes me so upset. And going back
Speaker 1: to the jersey thing, it is not about Tony Romo.
Speaker 1: To me at least, it is not about the number.
Speaker 1: It's about the person who's making that change. I could
Speaker 1: see a rookie with the number nine and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, at some point you got to move on
Speaker 1: from the number. But it's just about who it is.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to hate on him so much,
Speaker 1: but it's just like certain things. When he comes and
Speaker 1: he takes it onto the field, that's when it becomes
Speaker 1: a problem to me because I try not to comment
Speaker 1: on people off the field whatsoever. And another thing on
Speaker 1: his interview from yesterday, he was like, Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to carry the number nine legacy. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: what legacy? What kind of legacy are you gonna be
Speaker 1: carrying here? I mean, I hope he does better and
Speaker 1: I hope you're right on this number nine that has
Speaker 1: some magical power. And I'm saying, maybe that's how he
Speaker 1: views it. I don't expect that, like as Dave always
Speaker 1: is like, maybe some people do believe in it. And
Speaker 1: can he be the third best linebacker in the history
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys, because I really think that's what number
Speaker 1: nine is, right, third best quarterback in the history of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I think so. I mean you can argue
Speaker 1: absolutely based off of that, but stats and everything around it.
Speaker 1: I put him at three. I put him at three.
Speaker 1: I didn't cover the other two guys. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: think he can be third in third linebacker got some
Speaker 1: ground and make up, but he he was wearing the
Speaker 1: number of one of the best. I mean, so is
Speaker 1: the underlying struff that no one's thinking of is already
Speaker 1: He disrespected the fifty four more than the doing with
Speaker 1: the nine. I just number, honestly think Randy White. You
Speaker 1: talk about where they rank, Randy White, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: maybe the best defensive players the Cowboys have ever had.
Speaker 1: He was a dominant if you want to throw in
Speaker 1: Dion and those few years. But like Manster was, like
Speaker 1: he was, Yeah, I had a Manster poster. I wasn't
Speaker 1: even a Cowboys fan, like, I mean, this dude was
Speaker 1: seriously one of the best to ever do it, and
Speaker 1: he wore his numbers. Let's let's also throw this part
Speaker 1: in about numbers, because there's different rules for different numbers.
Speaker 1: Some of them are absolutely untouchable. Okay, seventy four and eight,
Speaker 1: you're not getting them at twenty two. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're getting that either. Some of them you can get
Speaker 1: if you're a badass at that position. Ninety eighty eight
Speaker 1: and fifty four is sort of in that boat. They
Speaker 1: try to give it to a linebacker that they think
Speaker 1: can do something. Bobby Carpenter laugh, if you want first
Speaker 1: round pick? I thought, okay, Bruce Carter, Yeah, they thought,
Speaker 1: you know that they could happen fifty four, and that's
Speaker 1: why they gave it to Jayalen. Twenty or seems kind
Speaker 1: of similar too. That was ever since number one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they try. They try with corners. You know, Barbara had
Speaker 1: it in there too. But I mean, like and the
Speaker 1: reason why Jerry I think finally Jerry didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it at first. From what I've been told, he
Speaker 1: finally they convinced them, you know, family convinced them he's
Speaker 1: not a quarterback. If this was a young quarterback, we're
Speaker 1: not doing it. But Jalen is not a quarterback, so
Speaker 1: it's fine. We can't keep nine forever. He didn't do
Speaker 1: enough for you to be untouchable nine, but maybe not
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Same with thirty three. They get thirty three
Speaker 1: out all the time, but if it's a running back
Speaker 1: up and coming running back, they won't do that right
Speaker 1: while or Woody has just got to watch Terrible DBS
Speaker 1: where twenty eight like every and I don't know who's
Speaker 1: gonna wear eighty two again, Yeah, I can't see. Definitely,
Speaker 1: don't be a tight there's a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of tight ends that I mean numbers.
Speaker 1: You know they can wear different numbers now, so you
Speaker 1: don't have to be in the eighties. Yeah, you talk
Speaker 1: about an untouchable number, that one. Jason's up there now,
Speaker 1: I don't see other life life, you know, Like, what
Speaker 1: is that picture? I can't even call it a picture.
Speaker 1: What it is? A rural? Yeah, he's a mural. It's
Speaker 1: a piece of art. With his likeness, I just think
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith's gonna take care of this for everybody. And
Speaker 1: that's like if you just detach yourself of the emotion
Speaker 1: of it all. If he feels better than nine, he's
Speaker 1: gonna go out and play in nine. If he plays great, awesome,
Speaker 1: and it'll it'll be fine. And if he doesn't, and
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have a tough decision to make
Speaker 1: next year and then well it may be an easy decision,
Speaker 1: but either way, it'll it's gonna be clear, be fine,
Speaker 1: and it's just you know, I get I get that
Speaker 1: it's a it's a hot topic thing. Good decision. Find
Speaker 1: it at the end of the show, Derek, because if
Speaker 1: you would have put it, we would have four before
Speaker 1: we talk about the OTA. Yeah, it's smart. We appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 1: Joanna will be back next week for another week. We
Speaker 1: actually have a few more shows before we end for
Speaker 1: the summertime. I think we got two more shows here.
Speaker 1: We got two more shows. One of those shows Amber's
Speaker 1: gonna host. We have a figured out which one yet,
Speaker 1: but she's hosting one of them. So we got two
Speaker 1: more shows and then we're gonna be taking a little break. Boss.
Speaker 1: Can't take a little break for the summertime. Till next
Speaker 1: week for Nick Eatman, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I
Speaker 1: am Derek Hickleton. This has been The Break Live on
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