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Speaker 4: Officially done with Week one of football across the NFL.
Speaker 4: A lot of storylines come out of Week one, but
Speaker 4: I think the biggest so far was yesterday's Monday night
Speaker 4: game against the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers officially out for the rest of the season
Speaker 4: with an achilles tear. Wow, that is not how you
Speaker 4: expect a Monday night football game to go. I was
Speaker 4: definitely honed in watching as I'm sure both of you were.
Speaker 5: Christy, I know you were at Cowboys Hour.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was literally on our way home. It just left
Speaker 7: the Star District in Frisco and turned on the radio,
Speaker 7: and the crowd's going wild because Rogers is running out
Speaker 7: on the field for the first time. And then within
Speaker 7: two minutes o'clock time, just four plays and he's out
Speaker 7: for the year. And what's funny is just forty five
Speaker 7: minutes earlier, Leyton Vandersh, who was the guest on The
Speaker 7: Cowboy Hour last night, was talking about how excited he
Speaker 7: was to go against Aaron Rodgers again and for the
Speaker 7: first time with the Jets, but Layton had gone with him,
Speaker 7: gone against him when Aaron was with the Packers, of course,
Speaker 7: and Layton was saying, was this is how you really
Speaker 7: can measure your defense, right, I mean, the different challenge
Speaker 7: is week to week, but going against one of the
Speaker 7: all time great quarterbacks in a future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 7: he felt like it would be a good measure for
Speaker 7: late and personally, but particularly for the unit overall. But
Speaker 7: instead it's going to be Zach Wilson getting the start
Speaker 7: for the Jets Sunday afternoon at and T Stadium.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and we always talk about here on the podcast
Speaker 4: just how hard it is to see these injuries happen
Speaker 4: to any player across the NFL. But Aaron Rodgers' story
Speaker 4: in particular of closing the chapter with the Green Bay
Speaker 4: Packers deciding to go to the New York Jets, the
Speaker 4: Jets really building this team around him. He finally gets
Speaker 4: this start. He's running off on the field at the
Speaker 4: start of the game, holding the American flag in tribute
Speaker 4: for the nine to eleven memorial that they did before
Speaker 4: the game.
Speaker 5: The crowd is electrified.
Speaker 4: The tweets before the game were him running with that flag,
Speaker 4: how excited everybody was. Four plays into the entire game,
Speaker 4: and you just knew something was wrong. You could just
Speaker 4: see it. The way he got up. He had this
Speaker 4: really weird look on his face, and then he went down.
Speaker 4: He didn't crash down, He just kind of sat down,
Speaker 4: rolled back, got up, and sat, I should say.
Speaker 5: And then that's when the medical staff went to go
Speaker 5: to him. Are you shaw.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you were watching the game, but for you,
Speaker 4: it's just such a shocking moment. I feel like a
Speaker 4: lot of us are still in shock, kind of taking
Speaker 4: in what happened with Aaron Rodgers. What did you see
Speaker 4: when all of that happened. I mean, it was just
Speaker 4: so quick.
Speaker 3: Why I'm gonna lie, y'all.
Speaker 6: The older I get, the more I accidentally take naps,
Speaker 6: and so I woke up from a nap and literally
Speaker 6: as soon as I woke up was when it was happening.
Speaker 6: So I woke up my TV's on because I had
Speaker 6: already had a set on the game, and I was like,
Speaker 6: ain't no way.
Speaker 3: Bro, Like, it's devastating.
Speaker 6: And I think in my lifetime we experienced some of
Speaker 6: the Tony Romo injuries and stuff, but Dak Prescott's the
Speaker 6: first quarterback that I've studied from college into the league,
Speaker 6: and to see him be out with that ankle injury
Speaker 6: and just how much that shook the team up in
Speaker 6: that moment, but then also to around him, but then
Speaker 6: also to just the feeling the weight of knowing the
Speaker 6: extent of his injury. And during that time, I empathize
Speaker 6: for the Jets fans and stuff because there was just
Speaker 6: a lot of optimism to what Aaron Rodgers could bring
Speaker 6: to the team. So I feel for the fan base,
Speaker 6: definitely feel for the team, even though I think they're
Speaker 6: going to rally behind twoever's back there, but it was
Speaker 6: it was tough, and to see the responses on social media,
Speaker 6: it was not I mean, it ended well, but you
Speaker 6: still could feel it you know what I'm saying, you
Speaker 6: still could feel it. So someone that great, that important
Speaker 6: to the game, to see him get injured like that
Speaker 6: is tough any time.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, the Jets would pull off the overtime win twenty
Speaker 4: two to sixteen. What an ending And what was so
Speaker 4: chilling about it was the excitement that everybody had right.
Speaker 5: When when the game ended. Everyone was so happy, so excited.
Speaker 4: But then you just you watch it and you kind
Speaker 4: of just look at the wind for what it is
Speaker 4: in the moment, and as soon as the game ends,
Speaker 4: you remember, whoa, Yeah, there's a really big injury. This
Speaker 4: really could change the course of things. And it's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4: It's not just any quarterback you're talking about. Not to
Speaker 4: say that, you know, he's more important than the next
Speaker 4: guy that gets hurt, That's not the case. It's he
Speaker 4: is a once in a lifetime quarterback, whether we like
Speaker 4: to say it or not, whether we like to admit
Speaker 4: it or not. Here in Dallas, he really is a
Speaker 4: quarterback of the time.
Speaker 7: Oh we know better than anybody Alas because it's been yeah, boogeyman,
Speaker 7: dagger to the heart for the of the Cowboys, and man,
Speaker 7: I will admit he is my all time favorite NFL
Speaker 7: player to watch non Dallas Cowboy. I love to watch
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers. He's special. And it was crystallized that twenty
Speaker 7: sixteen Divisional Round playoff Cowboys loss. That was the one
Speaker 7: at at and T Stadium where it's third and twenty
Speaker 7: and Rogers rolls to the left and throws the ball in.
Speaker 7: Jerry Cook, the tight end for the Packers, just comes
Speaker 7: out of nowhere, going towards the sideline and goes down
Speaker 7: to his knees and catches the ball. Byron Jones for
Speaker 7: the Cowboys actually had good coverage there, but as Rogers
Speaker 7: was rolling left that ball it was coming right to me.
Speaker 7: I was like a third baseman ready to catch it
Speaker 7: on one hot and then all of a sudden, Cook
Speaker 7: just you know, from your peripheral vision you could see
Speaker 7: him coming over. It's like, huh, this one's out of bounce,
Speaker 7: and then suddenly he caught it, and then Mason Crosby
Speaker 7: kicks the field goal to win and Cowboys another exit
Speaker 7: from the playoffs. And he's just the guy is just
Speaker 7: a shive to the heart every time, you know, for
Speaker 7: Cowboys fans. But you know, that win was incredible though
Speaker 7: And what was really cool from a local perspective is
Speaker 7: the young rookie who had the punt return touchdown for
Speaker 7: the Jets, Xavier Gibson, of course, became known. If you've
Speaker 7: been watching Hard Knocks on Max, you know that you
Speaker 7: know a little bit about his story. But he's a
Speaker 7: local Dallas kid, Woodrow Wilson High School and then went
Speaker 7: to Steven F. Austin. So what a what an ending
Speaker 7: and what an introduction to the NFL for Gibson?
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 7: And that Jets defense, oh yeah, it gives us plenty
Speaker 7: to talk about.
Speaker 4: Man, gives us plenty to talk about as we start
Speaker 4: to kind of turn the page here on Girls Talk,
Speaker 4: Boys Talk for the matchup against the Jets.
Speaker 5: One thing I did want to mention is Jerry Jones
Speaker 5: went on one O five to three The Fan this morning.
Speaker 4: Of course he was asked about his reaction to the injury,
Speaker 4: and he was just very quick to say, you know,
Speaker 4: it was sickening. It just made him feel sick, made
Speaker 4: everybody feel sick that had to see it. He was
Speaker 4: He said he was reminded at how fragile a season
Speaker 4: can be for a player, and it's funny that you
Speaker 4: bring up the Jared Cook catch because he said that
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers has taken his toll on the Cowboys with
Speaker 4: two specific games in mind, that was one of them,
Speaker 4: the other one. Can anybody guess what the other game
Speaker 4: was with the Packers that he needed to does the
Speaker 4: does catch one? Because des did catch it, as we know,
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 5: He talked about those two moments.
Speaker 4: But overall, Jerry Jones just very somber when he was talking.
Speaker 7: About it's bad for the league, you know, to lose
Speaker 7: one of the premier guys, and there are all sorts
Speaker 7: of repercussions. The Green Bay Packers instead of getting a
Speaker 7: first round draft pick and trade, they're going to get
Speaker 7: a second round pick because Rogers is not going to
Speaker 7: play two thirds of the snaps this year. Look at
Speaker 7: all the money that is against the Jets cap for uh,
Speaker 7: their starting quarterback and a franchise future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 7: and then you know, and he signed seventy five million
Speaker 7: dollars guaranteed, and even if he wants to come back
Speaker 7: next year in rehabs, he will be older. So I mean,
Speaker 7: these are these are serious consequences, not just for the Jets,
Speaker 7: but there's a ripple effect that that touches the whole league,
Speaker 7: And and what about what about the NFL schedule makers?
Speaker 7: Why are the Jets on so many primetime games and
Speaker 7: being featured and stuff?
Speaker 5: That might change? It might it might.
Speaker 7: I mean later in the league when you have some flexing,
Speaker 7: maybe they get flexed out. But hey, we saw that
Speaker 7: defense last night for the Jets. This is still this
Speaker 7: is still going to be a team to contend with.
Speaker 7: And and you see their run game, and so you know,
Speaker 7: Zach Wilson hadn't done anything in his first two years
Speaker 7: in the in the NFL other than falling to third
Speaker 7: stream quarterback. But now he has his chance and a
Speaker 7: new coordinator and and so you know, we'll see now
Speaker 7: he has a chance to prove himself. He was the
Speaker 7: second overall pick in the NFL draft.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it'll look a lot like what the
Speaker 6: Cowboys look like with Cooper Rush, especially since your defense
Speaker 6: is so explosive. Can turn the ball over?
Speaker 3: Can you know? Pressure at a high clip?
Speaker 6: You probably take a conservative, conservative game plan moving forward
Speaker 6: with Zach Wilson. Just let him methodically use the run game.
Speaker 6: But I will tell you, if they can't run the ball,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but they got Breis Hall and then's.
Speaker 3: Cook and that's fine and dandy.
Speaker 6: But I'm saying like there's if they come up against
Speaker 6: the team that can stop the run, there's a lot
Speaker 6: of issues in the passing department, especially from.
Speaker 3: Their offensive line standpoint better in the run gang. I
Speaker 3: know we'll get to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we'll get there. I also just wanted to
Speaker 4: make mention that Mike McCarthy just talked about facing Aaron.
Speaker 5: Rodgers again yesterday during his press conference as well.
Speaker 4: He said, let's see that he was excited to see
Speaker 4: him again, and most of all, he was excited about this.
Speaker 5: New chapter in Aaron Rodgers' life, and Aaron knew that.
Speaker 4: So it's just so chilling when you think about the
Speaker 4: timing of these things.
Speaker 5: McCarthy had just said that.
Speaker 4: Right before we came on here on Girls Talk, Boys Talk,
Speaker 4: we go home, we're settled in, we're taking in thep
Speaker 4: we're doing Cowboys Hour, feeding the dogs. You know, we're
Speaker 4: doing things kind of right after this, and then this happens,
Speaker 4: and it's just so shocking still, So we wanted to
Speaker 4: make that we'll get into more of the key matchups
Speaker 4: with the jets as the week continues on, but we
Speaker 4: did want to continue to kind of break down what
Speaker 4: we saw from the Dallas Cowboys Week one against the
Speaker 4: New York Giants.
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Speaker 4: something that we didn't get to mention yesterday and as
Speaker 4: soon as we left here, I think I even told
Speaker 4: that Yosha.
Speaker 5: Oh, we didn't mention this.
Speaker 4: It's been sitting on my heart, so happy to talk
Speaker 4: about it. That is Jalen Tolbert being this team starting
Speaker 4: gunner and John Fossil talked about it yesterday as well,
Speaker 4: which I just think is so awesome to see this.
Speaker 4: Jalen Tolbert comes from a background that doesn't really have
Speaker 4: him pegged as a special teams guy. However, for him
Speaker 4: to come in his second year, after you know, a
Speaker 4: year not full of opportunity for him, and then to
Speaker 4: come in not only solidify a spot in the offense,
Speaker 4: but also now in special teams in that gunner position,
Speaker 4: I think is so incredibly cool for him. Really excited
Speaker 4: to see that. John Fossil yesterday made mention saying that
Speaker 4: he is committed to being a player on special teams
Speaker 4: and he's becoming a No Brown type guy for that unit.
Speaker 5: So just really excited to see that.
Speaker 4: Ayisha, this is something that I think you had mentioned
Speaker 4: well before we saw it come to light. Something you've
Speaker 4: seen from JT and you talked to him. You've talked
Speaker 4: to him all year, he talked to him all last year.
Speaker 4: Is his confidence boost? How is that going to help
Speaker 4: him in that gunner position.
Speaker 6: I mean, well, special teams is just the We've talked
Speaker 6: about it the other day. It's just the physicality of
Speaker 6: it and just getting involved in that also too. But
Speaker 6: there's specialized you know, jobs and things within playing special
Speaker 6: teams that you have to be on assignment.
Speaker 3: Your timing has to be.
Speaker 6: Right, you have to be there, and I just think
Speaker 6: I just think him having some responsibility outside of being
Speaker 6: a receiver maybe not getting any He didn't get them
Speaker 6: any opportunity.
Speaker 3: I don't think he really got that. He did.
Speaker 6: He got a couple snaps at the end of the
Speaker 6: game last game. But it'll keep them warm too, keep
Speaker 6: them active, keep them involved, And I think that matters
Speaker 6: when you have a young player that's trying to continue
Speaker 6: that confidence. Having a spot on special teams and him
Speaker 6: earning that allows him to stay on the field in
Speaker 6: some way and to continue to keep that confidence. Because
Speaker 6: we're on the sidelines a lot, it's very easy for
Speaker 6: that to dwindle.
Speaker 7: Sure, Absolutely, when you're the fourth, fifth, and or sixth
Speaker 7: wide receiver on an NFL team, you have to play
Speaker 7: special teams.
Speaker 3: If you're the.
Speaker 7: Second, third, fourth running back, same thing, second third, fourth
Speaker 7: tight end, Absolutely you're going to be a core guy,
Speaker 7: and Tolbert had only gotten one rep at gunner in
Speaker 7: preseason action and that was Game two. But yes, you're right, Jess,
Speaker 7: he didn't have that background at University of South Alabama.
Speaker 3: He was too valuable, you know, he was.
Speaker 7: Offensive player of the Year for the conference, and they're
Speaker 7: not going to risk their top wide receiver out there.
Speaker 7: He said that he had only fielded two punts. We
Speaker 7: had him for our first Cowboys Hour of the year
Speaker 7: and that was actually Labor Day that evening. Anyway, he
Speaker 7: said that twice he had been on the field in
Speaker 7: college and it was for safe punt return, you know,
Speaker 7: just make sure you catch the punt and don't fumble
Speaker 7: it or don't return it. And that was his vast
Speaker 7: experience of special teams in college. But you know, I
Speaker 7: think that people forget what a great duo the Cowboys
Speaker 7: had at gunner with Kelvin Joseph and C. J. Goodwin.
Speaker 7: And so when Kelvin Joseph was traded to Miami just
Speaker 7: a couple of weeks before the season regular season started,
Speaker 7: then that was the opening in Jalen Tolbert. He's embraced
Speaker 7: the challenge and Jes you're right. He did draw praise
Speaker 7: from coach Fossil yesterday, so I was glad to hear
Speaker 7: Fossils always enthusiastic about everything, but it's certainly well placed
Speaker 7: when it comes to Jalen.
Speaker 4: You know, it's so funny you see John Fossil and
Speaker 4: you just don't know what you're gonna get. Ayusha and
Speaker 4: I were standing outside the locker room last week waiting
Speaker 4: for the players to come in, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: you're standing right there yet, but we see Bones walking
Speaker 4: in and he has a scooter, like this random scooter
Speaker 4: that he's writing in, and we're like, what is he doing?
Speaker 4: And then didn't he have a ball or something too?
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 5: How you doing? Just living great coach.
Speaker 4: I've talked to past players a lot about how much
Speaker 4: he's impacted their life, and I don't think he gets
Speaker 4: enough praise. I don't think he gets enough credit for
Speaker 4: the kind of coach that he.
Speaker 5: Is and the impact he has on these guys.
Speaker 4: Sometimes, let's talk a little bit more special teams. Christy,
Speaker 4: I know you wanted to make mention of this because
Speaker 4: again we like to give all credit to all units
Speaker 4: here on the podcast, But let's talk about a couple
Speaker 4: interesting nuggets from special teams that you saw kind of
Speaker 4: things that went wrong but could end up going right
Speaker 4: for the Cowboys in the long run. Specifically with Brandon
Speaker 4: Aubrey and his missed kick. Tell us a little bit
Speaker 4: more about what happened and kind of how that can
Speaker 4: help be a learning lesson for Brandy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a huge one. Coach Fossil was talking about this.
Speaker 7: But if you recall the missed extra point, it was
Speaker 7: early in the game, and so it was after the
Speaker 7: first touchdown obviously, and that was the blocked field goal returned.
Speaker 7: And so that's called sudden change, all right. It's like
Speaker 7: if there's a turnover and sudden you know, let's say
Speaker 7: when Stefan Gilmore got the interception and then the offense
Speaker 7: has to run out there's that sudden change when you
Speaker 7: have a surprise touchdown, like on a blocked field goal
Speaker 7: and now Cowboys now the extra point team, the field
Speaker 7: goal team has to run out there to convert the
Speaker 7: extra point. That sudden change. So what John was pointing
Speaker 7: out with the mix with Aubrey, the learning the teaching
Speaker 7: point and something that Aubrey learned very quickly.
Speaker 3: And made the adjustment.
Speaker 7: They go out, Brandon Aubrey goes up out there and
Speaker 7: he gets set in his place, and the linemen aren't
Speaker 7: even ready to go. Brian Angers not even down, So
Speaker 7: Brandon Aubrey for like twelve seconds is in his spot
Speaker 7: kind of waiting for everyone else to get set. Well,
Speaker 7: that kind of waiting and just kind of the timing
Speaker 7: and everything it was all off. So Aubrey needs to
Speaker 7: pace himself in terms of going out there and going
Speaker 7: through his process and getting set and everything and making
Speaker 7: it synchronized with his teammates. So a sudden change score
Speaker 7: Aubrey getting out there a little early, rushing it, and
Speaker 7: just kind of the timing being off with everything else.
Speaker 7: So I know that that sounds like a lot of minutia,
Speaker 7: but in the NFL, where games are in tenths of seconds,
Speaker 7: it can be very important. And then the other thing
Speaker 7: that coach was talking about was the blocked field goal itself,
Speaker 7: And remember how one we talked about it yesterday, Yanye Thomas,
Speaker 7: the terrific play that he made going in and blocking
Speaker 7: the field goal, and Bones was talking about how at
Speaker 7: the walk through Sunday morning, you know that since it
Speaker 7: was a night game eight twenty Eastern kickoff. When it's
Speaker 7: a night game, the team will do its final walkthroughs
Speaker 7: on offense, defense, and special teams at the team hotel
Speaker 7: on Sunday morning or Monday morning if it's a Monday
Speaker 7: night game. But they're going through just a few things,
Speaker 7: so for kickblock, field goal units, and CJ. Goodwin had
Speaker 7: pulled one ye aside and said, okay, on this, here's
Speaker 7: a specific scenario and if you get this, then you
Speaker 7: do this through this gap, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 7: and by golly, that's what happened on the I'm sorry,
Speaker 7: I said, field goal block, yeah, yeah, field go block yep.
Speaker 7: And so CJ his what he said to one ye
Speaker 7: Thomas that morning is exactly what happened. And then one
Speaker 7: year made the play and Noah took it in for
Speaker 7: the score.
Speaker 5: Noah Igbinoghny, every good job.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I blew it last night on Cowboy.
Speaker 5: We're still getting used to it.
Speaker 3: Repetition it does.
Speaker 5: I had to said that you should have a voice
Speaker 5: note of how to say it.
Speaker 3: Just saved it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she saved my voice note. She said, can you
Speaker 5: send me a voice out of how to say it?
Speaker 5: So I said, no, what monogamy? And then I sounded
Speaker 5: it at her and now we're good.
Speaker 4: Something else I wanted to make sure to mention about
Speaker 4: that is CJ. Goodwin was the special team's captain. He
Speaker 4: was elevated from the practice squad special teams captain for
Speaker 4: week one.
Speaker 5: I should talk all things CJ.
Speaker 4: Goodwin and what a good win this man is for
Speaker 4: the Cowboys special teams please.
Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, I'm sure Christy would know more than
Speaker 6: me in that department.
Speaker 3: I'm just not learning about.
Speaker 6: All of the specifics of being a special teams player
Speaker 6: and to be be I mean, Goodwin has made his
Speaker 6: career being a special teams player. That's just speak to
Speaker 6: you on how good he is at, you know, being
Speaker 6: the general on that side of the ball.
Speaker 3: Bones is.
Speaker 6: I think I would, I would. I would consider him
Speaker 6: Bones's voice on the field, and I think every coordinator
Speaker 6: has a guy like that. He's that guy for this
Speaker 6: team and that's why they keep that cornerback slot for him.
Speaker 6: That's why when we talk about roster cuts, you're just like, well,
Speaker 6: he's gonna be on the team because it's not just
Speaker 6: because of the athleticism and what he does, because he's still.
Speaker 3: He'll tell you he's lost a little bit. He'll tell
Speaker 3: you he's a little slower.
Speaker 6: Than what he used to be because he has gotten older.
Speaker 6: But just also to just getting guys in the position.
Speaker 6: Like he said, he's played a lot of football. He's
Speaker 6: seen a lot of fronts, he's seen a lot of kickers,
Speaker 6: He's seen a lot of stuff. So where we talk
Speaker 6: about this team, how there's a veteran or multiple veterans
Speaker 6: at every position on both sides of the ball, then CJ.
Speaker 3: Goodwin is that for the special teams players.
Speaker 4: Bones had mentioned in that press conference of CJ. Goodwin
Speaker 4: never aging, he said, as it gets older, he just
Speaker 4: does not age. He just and you know, I think
Speaker 4: that comes with mentality because physically we all age, we
Speaker 4: all get older, and as a football player, your job
Speaker 4: is to be very physical on your body. So obviously
Speaker 4: that's good to take its toll, and it's time and
Speaker 4: as you get older and you're in the league long enough,
Speaker 4: that's going to take its phase on you.
Speaker 5: However, I really like CJ.
Speaker 4: Goodwin's mentality and he's somebody that I would like to
Speaker 4: get to talk to a little bit more as the
Speaker 4: season goes on.
Speaker 5: But Christy, as far as what CJ.
Speaker 4: Goodwin can bring to this special team's unit weeke in
Speaker 4: week out and just special teams in general.
Speaker 5: We know how important it is.
Speaker 4: How much of an impact does he have for this
Speaker 4: unit as a whole, being that general, that leader for
Speaker 4: everybody to follow.
Speaker 7: Suit with special teams. Kicking game, it's measured not in
Speaker 7: tenths of seconds, but hundreds of seconds. So the difference
Speaker 7: in getting a field goal off and one point two
Speaker 7: eight seconds that would be from the time the long
Speaker 7: snapper begins the snap, it goes to the holder, the
Speaker 7: holder puts the ball down, places it, and the kicker's
Speaker 7: foot strikes it. One point two eight to one point
Speaker 7: three to zero seconds is the difference between successful kick
Speaker 7: and it being blocked. So yeah, you have to be
Speaker 7: exactly right, no missteps, no mistiming. Everything has to be perfect.
Speaker 7: And when you talk about the mentality to detail, and
Speaker 7: it takes for that. Do we have time? I think
Speaker 7: I told this story last year, but the muck raking
Speaker 7: story for CJ.
Speaker 5: Goodwin, shall I?
Speaker 7: Because I know I know that we have new viewers
Speaker 7: and listeners. Tell me to the Girls Talk, Boys Talk podcasts.
Speaker 7: So for those of you who heard this early last year,
Speaker 7: it's worth you and again because it's such a great story.
Speaker 7: CJ is from West Virginia but near the Pittsburgh Market.
Speaker 7: One of the great steelers of all time, Mel Blunt,
Speaker 7: part of the Steel Curtain and the great defensive backs
Speaker 7: in NFL history, has a farm in West Virginia and
Speaker 7: it's one of these working farms and UH would host
Speaker 7: like youth camps and trouble you things like that. Well,
Speaker 7: see J see played basketball with mel Blunt's son, and
Speaker 7: CJ had relatives that worked on mel Blunt's farm. So
Speaker 7: when CJ is a teenager, he takes a job working
Speaker 7: on mel Blunt's farm, literally mucking, mucking stalls, shoveling, bleep. Okay,
Speaker 7: that's what he does. He's playing basketball. He has no
Speaker 7: intentions of being an NFL player. He wants to play basketball.
Speaker 7: He ends up getting scholarship to small college. He's playing basketball.
Speaker 7: But mel Blunt has followed his career and been like
Speaker 7: a mentor to him, and by the time CJ even
Speaker 7: finishes high school, Mel's given him a promotion to where
Speaker 7: he's working like as a counselor. When the younger kids
Speaker 7: come to the farm for those kind of camps and retreats.
Speaker 7: So at one point, after a couple of years of
Speaker 7: playing college basketball, Mel encourages Cig to play football, and
Speaker 7: he does. He plays a couple of years as wide
Speaker 7: receiver for a couple more small colleges, and Mel, for
Speaker 7: the first time ever as a great Steelers legend, calls
Speaker 7: the Pittsburgh Steelers and asks for a favor. Ask the
Speaker 7: Steelers to give this young kid named CJ, a wide receiver,
Speaker 7: a tryout one of these offseason tryouts, and he's Mel Blunt.
Speaker 7: So the Steelers do CJ. Of course, he doesn't get drafted,
Speaker 7: but he does get a tryout and he makes it
Speaker 7: on the practice squad, and then he goes to Atlanta
Speaker 7: and now he's been in the NFL four man Yeah,
Speaker 7: so eight years. But yeah, he was an undrafted rookie
Speaker 7: free agent and on the practice squad for Pittsburgh in
Speaker 7: twenty fourteen. Gets signed to the Falcons practice squad in
Speaker 7: twenty fifteen, ends up playing fourteen games the following year.
Speaker 7: Then he goes to Arizona, plays twelve games, and then
Speaker 7: he doesn't. Then he's kind of wallowing around the league
Speaker 7: a little bit. Cincinnati practice squad, the Cowboys sign him
Speaker 7: off the Cincinnati practice squad in October of twenty eighteen,
Speaker 7: and he's been one of the mainstays, not just a
Speaker 7: special team so one of the good guys, one of
Speaker 7: the glue guys, one of the leaders on the team
Speaker 7: since then. So because he muck stalls, Mel Blunt knew
Speaker 7: the character of this kid and knew what a hard
Speaker 7: worker he was, gave him a chance several years later
Speaker 7: a phone call to the Steelers for a tryout. They
Speaker 7: see his athleticism. It's when he went to Atlanta that
Speaker 7: they converted him to a defensive back. But obviously his
Speaker 7: destiny was to be a special teams Maven and he.
Speaker 5: Is absolutely love Christy.
Speaker 4: Your stories so good, so impactful, and just shows a
Speaker 4: lot about who's CJ.
Speaker 5: Goodwin. Really well.
Speaker 7: You know, people think that these NFL players that they've
Speaker 7: been coddled their whole lives and they've been the stars
Speaker 7: of their foot to case since they were six years old. Oh,
Speaker 7: there's there's so many different stories.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We didn't really get into much offense, so I wanted
Speaker 4: to make mention of that because what you saw is
Speaker 4: obviously a very dominant defense. We know that we talked
Speaker 4: about that. That's really what the talk of the game
Speaker 4: was but I wanted to make no of the offense.
Speaker 5: I wanted to really.
Speaker 4: Dive deep into that this last segment as well. Take
Speaker 4: a quick look at the Cowboys schedule. Keep in mind,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys will play your Jets this Sunday, Week two
Speaker 4: at home. Then they're away in Arizona the following Sunday.
Speaker 4: The following Sunday after that, they're back home.
Speaker 5: For the Patriots.
Speaker 4: So that's just a little glimpse ahead. Let's talk about
Speaker 4: the Cowboys offense. So a good starting point for them,
Speaker 4: I'll call it. Are you sure when you went back
Speaker 4: and you watched them at the tape, what are some
Speaker 4: of the things that you really noticed from this Cowboys
Speaker 4: offense as being effective, not just for the offense as
Speaker 4: a whole, but Dak Prescott specifically.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, when you go back and look at it,
Speaker 6: I understood why it was difficult for them to get
Speaker 6: into a rhythm because they weren't on the field that
Speaker 6: much and then they were on and off, and obviously.
Speaker 3: The rain and things like that.
Speaker 6: But I really was looking at I really was looking
Speaker 6: at how he delivered the ball, some of the play schemes,
Speaker 6: any pressure that came really came from the interior with
Speaker 6: the Doga and be Odish being on the other side
Speaker 6: of things like they had their hands full there. But
Speaker 6: the drive after the half is probably the best drive
Speaker 6: to refer to.
Speaker 3: Which was which was?
Speaker 6: I think it was the slant to gallop, the really
Speaker 6: quick slant to gallop, and then Dak threaded the needle
Speaker 6: to ceedee lamb and.
Speaker 3: Beyotdish was actually almost in his lap with that throw.
Speaker 3: That was interesting. And then you.
Speaker 6: Had the twenty five yard run with Tony Pollard where
Speaker 6: the tight ends we mentioned it yesterday they blocked their
Speaker 6: tails off, so you had eighty six schoonmaker Henny and
Speaker 6: a ferg with Terrence Steele lead blocking and ceiling off
Speaker 6: so Tony Poller could get that could get that twenty
Speaker 6: five yard run. And then Rico Daddo came through right
Speaker 6: behind Big seventy. As we've seen before show some of
Speaker 6: his power had the drop td by Henny at that point.
Speaker 6: But you could see again, like I said, you could
Speaker 6: see the rhythm, some of the schemes, some of the
Speaker 6: tempo that they wanted to change within the game. Then
Speaker 6: you had the TP screen, the really nice screen that
Speaker 6: was real pretty and he fumbled the ball, but I
Speaker 6: believe that Shady mentioned that the fact that Tyler Biottish
Speaker 6: was where he was supposed to be was really the
Speaker 6: reason he was able to recover that that fumble, which
Speaker 6: was important. And then you had Lipkey, you know, shades
Speaker 6: of the had lifty lead blocking for the TP touchdown.
Speaker 3: So I really that was the drive that I really
Speaker 3: wanted to.
Speaker 6: Refer to, because I felt like you could look at
Speaker 6: the rest of the game and see little pieces of
Speaker 6: things that you liked.
Speaker 3: The rub routes, the double rub routs.
Speaker 6: Man, listen, you you saw some of the intent to
Speaker 6: create separation, and we talked about that so much last year.
Speaker 3: It was the lack of separation.
Speaker 6: You could see schematically that there are things that Mike
Speaker 6: McCarthy put in place to create separation, get some easy
Speaker 6: throws for these wide receivers, and those were some of
Speaker 6: those are just some of the few things I noticed
Speaker 6: in this in this game to start, not a lot
Speaker 6: to go off of, but just enough to kind of
Speaker 6: get a vision for what the offense could be.
Speaker 7: Yeah, be Hoddish recovering that Pollard fumble and it was
Speaker 7: so crucial, And then there was a play earlier in
Speaker 7: the game where it looked like the Giants had that
Speaker 7: possible interception there in the end zone that Uh throw
Speaker 7: to the Tide end, but the cornerback came off of
Speaker 7: Cooks and nearly intercepted the ball. But I think the
Speaker 7: main thing about the offense is because the otdish got
Speaker 7: on the ball because the Giant defender didn't make the interception,
Speaker 7: they were not self inflicted wounds. And that was the
Speaker 7: number one thing. What is statistically the number one determining
Speaker 7: factor in NFL games who wins the turnover battle. And
Speaker 7: the Cowboys obviously dominated that on Sunday, and I thought
Speaker 7: that the offense was just efficient enough.
Speaker 3: They didn't they didn't.
Speaker 7: You know, turn the ball over, and there were not
Speaker 7: a lot of penalties in the game, so it was
Speaker 7: overall a clean, efficient game. But I love what you said.
Speaker 7: You mentioned lip Key, and we talked yesterday about how
Speaker 7: they were using turpin and lined up in the backfield
Speaker 7: and so we didn't McCarthy didn't play all of his hand.
Speaker 7: He didn't have to at forty to nothing. But it
Speaker 7: was to see the way that they deployed the personnel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, one more thing, the offensive line, Sorry, no, go ahead. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but the offensive line is what I was also paying
Speaker 6: attention to. Somehow they were pinning and pulling ceiling off.
Speaker 6: There's a and I believe that Tyron Smith talked about
Speaker 6: it on one of five point three the Fan when
Speaker 6: they interviewed him at training camp.
Speaker 3: He said, we're taking it to guys. Now.
Speaker 6: There's an aggression that you see from this offensive line
Speaker 6: that is far less reactive and more proactive about being
Speaker 6: the aggressors in the play. And I think that's gonna
Speaker 6: pay dividends moving forward, especially when you start playing teams
Speaker 6: like the Jets and stuff like that. I do think
Speaker 6: this was a good test interior wise for this defense.
Speaker 3: Who is gonna be this offensive line?
Speaker 6: Rather that's going to be challenged next week with the
Speaker 6: Jets coming in, because yeah, they pose a lot of
Speaker 6: issues with their front four getting home without having to bring.
Speaker 3: An extra blitzer or anything like that too.
Speaker 7: So tiring out Lead and Turpin on that, Oh man,
Speaker 7: that was beautiful.
Speaker 3: Funn to see moving in space.
Speaker 7: Outside zone run And how'd you like to be the
Speaker 7: dB with big Tyrant coming right at you?
Speaker 6: He looks so big compared to everyone else out there.
Speaker 4: Real quick, something I wanted to mention was Mike McCarthy
Speaker 4: talked about penalties in this game in his press conference.
Speaker 4: He said, to him, there's three kinds of penalties. There's
Speaker 4: a pre snap, the post snap, and competitive penalties.
Speaker 5: And with competitive penalties.
Speaker 4: What he means is that there's a bit of a
Speaker 4: gray area, and that gray area means, look, you were
Speaker 4: fighting for something, it didn't work out in your favor.
Speaker 5: It is what it is.
Speaker 4: But then there's also, you know, just inexcusable penalties, which
Speaker 4: to him are the pre snap penalties that get them
Speaker 4: in trouble.
Speaker 5: He specifically mentioned.
Speaker 4: Jaron Curse's unnecessary roughness penalty that costs let's say it
Speaker 4: was fifteen yards enforced at the New York thirty eight,
Speaker 4: which that play was a little weird. Went back to
Speaker 4: watch that that was a little weird, a little weird
Speaker 4: penalty there. He talked about that being an example of
Speaker 4: players excelling in the gray areasing to really learn from
Speaker 4: not necessarily something to penalize.
Speaker 5: No pun intended JK.
Speaker 4: For with that as well, So I wanted to make
Speaker 4: sure to mention that I think it was Christy it
Speaker 4: said it was a clean game.
Speaker 5: So I just wanted to throw that out there as well.
Speaker 5: It was good.
Speaker 6: That's I mean immediately when I saw JK do that,
Speaker 6: And if you know anything about JK.
Speaker 3: Now, granted, Daniel.
Speaker 6: Jones does not slide often, and I think that played
Speaker 6: a role too. And how late he how late it
Speaker 6: was because on tape if you watch him, he's not
Speaker 6: sliding that much, so I think may have surprised him
Speaker 6: to slide.
Speaker 3: But it's it's kind of a tone setting thing too.
Speaker 6: That's I'm gonna be here all night, homie, We're gonna
Speaker 6: be here all night.
Speaker 3: That that that's what that was about.
Speaker 6: So I get with mich McCarthy. I'm glad that he
Speaker 6: clarified that too, because for a.
Speaker 3: Lot of people, they were like, what is he doing?
Speaker 6: It was such a boneheaplate, No baby, he's trying to
Speaker 6: let him know, keep doing that if you want to,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be a long night for you.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I think he's very focused on those pre
Speaker 4: snap penalties of course, being you know, more of an
Speaker 4: issue there as well. Something I wanted to mention about
Speaker 4: playing with this aggressive play style is you mentioned Tyler
Speaker 4: Beyotdish and he's somebody that I talked to you in
Speaker 4: the locker room. When I have any kind of offensive
Speaker 4: line question, I just go straight to Tyler. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 4: I need your help with this.
Speaker 5: This what am I seeing? Can you dissect it for me?
Speaker 4: And he has such a brilliant football mind, the way
Speaker 4: he works and the way he operates, and so talking
Speaker 4: to him has just giving me a deeper appreciation for
Speaker 4: that center position just in general and how much he does.
Speaker 4: But I was asking him because it was a topic
Speaker 4: of conversation of Oh, my goodness, is Tyler Beotdish so
Speaker 4: chippy all of a sudden? Where did this come from?
Speaker 4: This is so new and it's not new. His chippy
Speaker 4: play style is not new. So I wanted to talk
Speaker 4: to him about it and kind of just see where
Speaker 4: his mindset was. And I loved his answer when we
Speaker 4: had this conversation. He said, you know, that conversation obviously
Speaker 4: came from what happened in training camp with the scuffles,
Speaker 4: and it kind.
Speaker 5: Of carried forward.
Speaker 4: He said, there's a difference between being chippy in practice
Speaker 4: and being part of an NFL practice competition, and then
Speaker 4: being smart and taking that competition into a game. He said, obviously,
Speaker 4: there's some stuff you're going to do in practice that
Speaker 4: you're not going to do in a game time scenario
Speaker 4: because that wouldn't be playing smart football. He said, So
Speaker 4: you have to be aggressive, you have to be chippy,
Speaker 4: you have to have your teammates' backs, but most importantly,
Speaker 4: you have to be smart about when you're doing that,
Speaker 4: and you have to be disciplined. That comes with the
Speaker 4: discipline aspect of his game. So I just loved that
Speaker 4: he mentioned that because Tyler Briottish to me, he's like
Speaker 4: a bear, right, Like you go talk to him in
Speaker 4: the locker room, he's very nice, he's very polite, a
Speaker 4: little soft spoken, and then you see him on the
Speaker 4: field and he is like a grizzly bear, right. So
Speaker 4: I absolutely I commend Tyler. Well, I just I support
Speaker 4: how Tyler Piottish operates with his game so so much,
Speaker 4: such an important player, and I'm glad he got more
Speaker 4: attention season.
Speaker 7: Usually the offensive lineman, the biggest guys, but the softest
Speaker 7: hearts sometimes, Oh yeah, sweetest. And you know Terrence Steele,
Speaker 7: very soft spoken and he tells them.
Speaker 6: He tells the that line going back and looking at
Speaker 6: film on him, Oh he's the one yeah.
Speaker 3: He's the one.
Speaker 6: He's the one that if Tyler wants advice on how
Speaker 6: to be chippy and not get caught up in game.
Speaker 3: Man, Terrence is the best at it.
Speaker 6: Because even when I think Tpad is first TD, they
Speaker 6: were kind of holding on him too long, and Terrence
Speaker 6: was like he ran up, like all right, man, let it,
Speaker 6: let him go. Like he's very he's very vocal, and
Speaker 6: he he'll get in there.
Speaker 3: You'll see him on the film.
Speaker 7: There's the art to it. You know who the best
Speaker 7: trash talker on the Cowboys was, let's say, through the
Speaker 7: previous decade, the twenty tens. Well, actually he played so
Speaker 7: long the aughts as well, Jason witten By far but
Speaker 7: you never saw it and you never heard it. He
Speaker 7: would like make a play or something. He'd be walking
Speaker 7: past one of the defenders and not under his breath
Speaker 7: because it was loud enough for the defender to hear it.
Speaker 3: But he oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 7: You ask any of the guys in the locker room
Speaker 7: who's one of the best trash talkers, and oh, dazz
Speaker 7: or this is, They're like, Witting's the one that'll get
Speaker 7: the burns in. It's just that he's very subtle about.
Speaker 4: It, absolutely real quick. For times sake, I want to
Speaker 4: go around. We're going to get into all of the
Speaker 4: Jets matchups and everything like that starting tomorrow and girls talk,
Speaker 4: boys talking. We'll do that for the rest of the week.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you, guys, after all of the
Speaker 4: scrutiny and just coverage that this team got in the
Speaker 4: off season for losing in the playoffs, obviously you know
Speaker 4: what the downfalls were. You know what areas of improvement
Speaker 4: were needed after this first game. What gives you the
Speaker 4: most hope of the area of improvement that they put
Speaker 4: work in the most during the off season?
Speaker 7: Defense picking up where it left off last year in
Speaker 7: terms of the takeaways and the great pass rush and
Speaker 7: the aggression and then seeing the young guys stepping in
Speaker 7: and making big contributions right away. And by that I
Speaker 7: mean like the Marquise Bells and the one ye thomass
Speaker 7: Man of the world. So I would say that because
Speaker 7: you know, the offense it was, it was fine, it
Speaker 7: was efficient, but you know the best is yet to
Speaker 7: come with that. But the defense picking off up where
Speaker 7: it left off.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you mentioned and I know I heard.
Speaker 6: I think Mike McCarthy mentioned a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 6: like they're aware that teams are going to If I'm
Speaker 6: a team and I watched what the Cowboys just did
Speaker 6: from a past rushing standpoint, we are going to try
Speaker 6: to run the ball the best that we can. I
Speaker 6: don't care, and I think you can expect teams to
Speaker 6: do that moving forward.
Speaker 3: But when you look at.
Speaker 6: This revamped linebacker corps, let me tell you, what dan
Speaker 6: Quinn is doing is so inventive, It is so beautiful.
Speaker 3: I think it's going.
Speaker 6: To change how people look at the linebacker position, be
Speaker 6: with the use of the safeties. I don't know if
Speaker 6: I've ever seen anything like this. I don't know if
Speaker 6: you've seen anything like this. Christy Marquise Bell coming in
Speaker 6: going back to watch the film on him and Wan
Speaker 6: Ye also was really I was so excited, Like I
Speaker 6: I was calling people before I got here.
Speaker 3: I was like, y'all, well, did y'all see this bro?
Speaker 6: Just the lateral quickness, how well he tackles, how physical
Speaker 6: he is in the box, and he's okay with doing that,
Speaker 6: with making tackles. The Cowboys run defense is the thing
Speaker 6: that people really were nervous about. And when I look
Speaker 6: at some of the things that they're doing with the
Speaker 6: different fronts, but also the usage usage of the safeties
Speaker 6: to come in there slash and be able to They're
Speaker 6: physical enough to make the tackles and to be punishing,
Speaker 6: but they're also fast enough to wear offensive line you
Speaker 6: can't get their hands on. Oh yeah, the speed, The
Speaker 6: speed is the lateral quickness.
Speaker 3: Everything was great.
Speaker 6: So to me, that's what I have to look forward
Speaker 6: to is that I understand that on that first drive
Speaker 6: you kind of seen you saw some leakage, you saw
Speaker 6: some stuff. But as soon as dan Quinn figured out
Speaker 6: this lineup's not working, it was fixed. He put those
Speaker 6: guys in there and they started really clamping down in
Speaker 6: the run, sidelined the sideline, all of that.
Speaker 7: And just to follow up on that point, Layton vander
Speaker 7: esh and the Cowboy Hour last night was talking about
Speaker 7: the unscripted the looks.
Speaker 3: Yea, and they were different.
Speaker 7: Than the un scouted looks. Yes, they were different, he said,
Speaker 7: because Mike McCarthy said, usually it's about thirty five percent
Speaker 7: unscouted looks, he said, he said, we were getting about
Speaker 7: seventy five percent.
Speaker 3: Say that it's a great point.
Speaker 6: Yes, and you could tell looking at the beginning of
Speaker 6: that game because I just watched. It's fresh on me
Speaker 6: because I just watched it before I got here, and
Speaker 6: you saw the over communicating. And that's one thing about
Speaker 6: the Cowboys. Most of the time, they're quick to the line.
Speaker 6: There's not a lot of over communicating, but you could
Speaker 6: tell that they were trying to sort through things.
Speaker 3: Also, dan Quinn went small. He went with a small
Speaker 3: lineup to start. If I'm not mistaken, it was.
Speaker 7: Started.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a it was a smaller lineup with
Speaker 6: I think Chauncey Golston was in there at some point
Speaker 6: in time. Uh. And then and again, like I think
Speaker 6: that they thought they were going to see things differently
Speaker 6: than what they saw. They adjusted and then you saw
Speaker 6: that run defense shore up like it was against the
Speaker 6: forty nine ers. I think they found good things to
Speaker 6: build upon to keep this this run defen Bay and
Speaker 6: that's important moving forward because I think that's how teams
Speaker 6: are going to attack you.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about more defense, but I want
Speaker 4: to talk about the secondary.
Speaker 5: Can we talk about how.
Speaker 4: Short up that secondary is with Stefan Gilmour, Because what
Speaker 4: I really liked about this when dan Quinn was asked
Speaker 4: about Trayvon Diggs, and you know, he's not necessarily the
Speaker 4: one being the ballhawk in the moment he said, he's
Speaker 4: a mindfulness of getting the football no matter where it is.
Speaker 4: So whether that's making the pass breakup, making a strong
Speaker 4: tackle that ends up.
Speaker 5: In a ball fumble, and then you know, the.
Speaker 4: Rest is history from there, he's a mindfulness to now
Speaker 4: be able to do that. And I think, to me,
Speaker 4: it's Trayvon Diggs just playing finally, kind of a sigh
Speaker 4: of relief that you have a guy on the other
Speaker 4: side that's there to help.
Speaker 5: You and balance you out, and now all you have
Speaker 5: to do is play football.
Speaker 4: You don't have to do anything other than just play football,
Speaker 4: find the ball and go for it. That seems simple enough, right,
Speaker 4: But also when you have two just solid guys on
Speaker 4: both sides of that secondary, it's so dangerous. And then
Speaker 4: you go back and you watch Sefan Gilmour. The way
Speaker 4: this man plays football is insane. His ability to just
Speaker 4: pretty much read a route before the receiver reads the
Speaker 4: route fair off the charts. I mean you can just
Speaker 4: see him eyeballing and he's shifting before the receiver even
Speaker 4: knows to shit.
Speaker 6: There were times he were looking and he was looking
Speaker 6: at the court.
Speaker 3: They'll tell you how.
Speaker 6: Much he cared about the quarterback throwing the ball. There
Speaker 6: were some times he was looking at the quarterback and
Speaker 6: he's just like, Okay, well I know what you're doing,
Speaker 6: my guy.
Speaker 3: You know so, but I don't. I think dan Quinn
Speaker 3: said it.
Speaker 6: I don't know who said it, but they were talking
Speaker 6: about how the pass rush is married to the secondary,
Speaker 6: the corners are married to the edges, and that's also
Speaker 6: too gonna help him run defense with those I think
Speaker 6: durn Blane you mentioned how much he moved around.
Speaker 3: I think you mentioned that.
Speaker 6: Yesterday he came up and tackled so well. Also too,
Speaker 6: that they made they made the Giants have to take
Speaker 6: short short yardist situation. They took away those DB's, took
Speaker 6: away any type of depassing that they had in mind.
Speaker 3: It was an impressive It was impressive.
Speaker 7: And then the most exciting thing about the secondary, Donovan
Speaker 7: Wilson and Jordan weren't available and they're going to be
Speaker 7: back soon, so don't know that it'll be this weekend,
Speaker 7: but that really good secondary was without two key guys.
Speaker 4: Good point, Christy, Well, that gives you a little glimpse
Speaker 4: of what we have to talk about. It's going to
Speaker 4: be such a fun time. We're going to start our
Speaker 4: h our key matchups. We're going to take a deeper
Speaker 4: dive into your Dallas Cowboys New York Jets week to
Speaker 4: match up. Until then, please go be awesome, enjoy the.
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