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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys

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Speaker 1: training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headboars at the

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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Hellowing the sack and now your hosts,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeomans.

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Speaker 1: It's our first post Thanksgiving edition of Talking Cowboys here

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Speaker 1: on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and from the SWBC Mortgage

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Speaker 1: Studios at the Star in Frisco. Glad you're with us,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's, Isaiah stand Back, heck Ma Harrison and the

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Speaker 1: great Rob Phillips as always and well boys, you know

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Speaker 1: this last couple of days, this past weekend, the thing

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Speaker 1: Giving holiday has taught me one thing, and that's to

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Speaker 1: appreciate what I have. And it's to appreciate and reflect

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Speaker 1: and rest up a little bit after the weekend, because, uh,

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Speaker 1: there was a bit of a beat down on Thursday

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Speaker 1: that we kind of have to get to in terms

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Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys and one that I know that

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Speaker 1: a lot of us kind of wanted to forget about

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Speaker 1: as Cowboys fans. Ones that we one that we kind

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Speaker 1: of wanted to shove to the side. Well, we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna do that. We're gonna attack it straight at it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the forty one to sixteen loss

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Speaker 1: to the Washington football team coming up here in just

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But first, let's let's start off on

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Speaker 1: a positive note. Let's keep things positive because it's been

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Speaker 1: a good weekend, Rob, how is your Thanksgiving? It was?

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Speaker 1: It was good. I didn't I didn't leave the house.

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Speaker 1: I got to catch up on dad duty for with

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Speaker 1: the nine month old who's soon to be ten months old.

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Speaker 1: So that was good. I was looking forward to that,

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Speaker 1: just just being a dad. Man. That was a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. That's awesome, Rob, or excuse me, Isaiah, Mi

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Speaker 1: is good man. I got to sit down, you know,

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Speaker 1: aside from you know, I did a little bit of work,

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Speaker 1: but not too much, man, So it was it was.

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Speaker 1: It was good time, spending time with the kids much

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Speaker 1: in ea of time. And uh, the wife got a

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Speaker 1: new vehicle, man, So everybody's happy. It's a good weekend. Balling.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah always says it to us in a joking manner,

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Speaker 1: But you can't you can't hide money. Heck, mo, you

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Speaker 1: just can't you can't using a statement against him, but

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Speaker 1: you can't hide it. He was your thanks it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's good. But when it comes down to Isaiah, it's

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Speaker 1: rare air up there. That's because I'm taller than all, y'all.

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Speaker 1: That's all. That's I'm taller than kind of true. True indeed, man,

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Speaker 1: My my Thanksgiving was amazing. Man, it was good and

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Speaker 1: for me and my family, we were we're self quarantine

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Speaker 1: have Thanksgiving as you know, the big family gathering. My

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Speaker 1: wife had to prepare all of the food and she

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Speaker 1: did a wonderful job. So I'm sure wife Nicky cool

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Speaker 1: points point. You've done all the Christmas decorations though, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's already got the Christmas How about that. It's a

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Speaker 1: little Grinch tree, the Charlie Brown tree is what we

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Speaker 1: were calling you. Why are you gonna come? It's her

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Speaker 1: one footer. You gotta get at Chris. It's not something

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Okay, let's let me say this. Let

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Speaker 1: me say this though, can you say this? I gotta

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Speaker 1: thank I gotta thank Derek Eagleton for helping me with

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Speaker 1: my whole Yeah, Grinch then not wanting to decorate before Christmas,

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving, and so yeah, there was a little Twitter

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Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving, so it's okay at this point, it's fine

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that Thanksgiving battle. Let's let's go back

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Speaker 1: into this. And Rob, you were at the game, I

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Speaker 1: But forty one to sixteen, the Cowboys give up twenty

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Speaker 1: seemed like the Cowboys had a lot of momentum. The

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Speaker 1: and then after that it really kind of went down

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Speaker 1: and how did the Cowboys let this one slip? Well?

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Speaker 1: I saw two different entire league games. I saw one

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Speaker 1: And then you lose Zack Martin and Cam Irving on

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Speaker 1: interesting to see how they respond. Heck, month, you know,

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Speaker 1: Rob said it, and I believe that when you say

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Speaker 1: this way, this is I've seen this happen twice, and

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Speaker 1: Whatever we were playing for, whatever we thought we were

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Speaker 1: I didn't, man, I was our right about it. I

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Speaker 1: And no matter what you have going going to however

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Speaker 1: they're willing to battle you. They've shown you that they're

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Speaker 1: willing to overcome two guys. They're two starting offense alignment

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Speaker 1: change You don't trust your team to go out there

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Speaker 1: and continue playing tough defense. Um, you don't trust Zeke,

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Speaker 1: After after seeing that he responded will following the fumble, right,

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Speaker 1: that's the response that you received from your team. Those

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Speaker 1: I thought John Fossil explained the rationale better than anybody.

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Speaker 1: do more. Thank you, Isaiah, stand back for backing up.

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Speaker 1: He's like he's all got back. You're like a background

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Speaker 1: singing like on these reads. That's that's what I would

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Speaker 1: equate to it. Hey, I'll be your backing up. I

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00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 1: got you kind of about it. Man, you're the best.

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00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: Hey hey, hey, hey, as as we all know this

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Speaker 1: is your show, you know what I'm saying. You know,

448
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: because we all got kicked off the show. We all know.

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Speaker 1: We all know that is Isaiah. That's one thing that's

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Speaker 1: clear about this show is Kyle's show. Yeah, what was

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Speaker 1: that line? What was that line during the during the

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Speaker 1: shuffle where he was like, I don't have to change

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Speaker 1: because yeah, because I'm well. They asked me the question,

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Speaker 1: you said, why you get to stay and why do

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Speaker 1: we have to go? And that was the answer because

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Speaker 1: Darren kept the host on their shows and so I

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Speaker 1: was the host. So I stay, that's not what you said.

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Speaker 1: That's not what you said. That's not what you said.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that it was. It was I'll get

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Speaker 1: I'll give Isaiah pas Kyle. This is a circle of trust,

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Speaker 1: circle of trust. Oh, I'm outside the circle of trust.

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Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm outside the trust tree. Now that kind

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Speaker 1: of makes me sad. I got, man, that's gonna take

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Speaker 1: a while. That's gonna take a while. I'll have to

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Speaker 1: bring backup dance, Isaiah. I am all heard that. God.

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, you brought the You brought the smoked mac

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Speaker 1: and cheese this past weekend though, and that was fire.

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Speaker 1: So for the Thanksgiving game, Isaiah brought an entire pots

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Speaker 1: pan thing of smoked mac and cheese. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: it was yeah, brilliant, and the pounds about right. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, it's a pound cake. That's not a joke. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he brought some fire pound cake too. It was

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Speaker 1: some of the best pass Yeah. Shot out the Mama D.

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Speaker 1: Shout out the Mama D from my facility. Stiffast performer.

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Speaker 1: She went out there and held it down for us.

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Speaker 1: She kicked. But thank you for the poundcake. She'd made

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Speaker 1: that specifically for y'all. That was That was so maybe

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Speaker 1: next year for me? And hey, yeah, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know Rob, I don't know Rob. I'm just

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Speaker 1: here once you're back in the hunt. Yeah, how about that?

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Speaker 1: So I teased this going into the break talking about

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, and he ended up with ten carries, thirty

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Speaker 1: two yards and a fumble. That's the lowest yardage in

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Speaker 1: any game of his career where he has also lost

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Speaker 1: a fumble. It's the second lowest amount of yardage he's

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Speaker 1: ever had in the game. The only other time he

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Speaker 1: was underneath thirty yards was in twenty seventeen on the

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Speaker 1: road against Denver at Mile High Stadium. That was also

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Speaker 1: a game where the Cowboys lost by twenty five points,

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Speaker 1: but that one was forty two to seventeen. This one

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Speaker 1: was forty one to sixteen. So my question to you,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna start with Hekma on this one, but

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Speaker 1: was this Zeke's worst game of his career? Seeming that

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Speaker 1: he had a fumble, he lost the fumble and then

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Speaker 1: also only ended up with thirty two yards on ten

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Speaker 1: carries in a game where you really needed him to shine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that the fumble was just a cherry on

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Speaker 1: top flour. How bad the game was for Zeke and

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Speaker 1: the last couple of games that he's had versus the

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Speaker 1: football team haven't been you know, glowing games. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if you can, he has built in excuse if you

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the offensive line and losing both

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Speaker 1: of your tackles and the ability for this offense not

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Speaker 1: to sustain any rhythm, and also the Washington football team

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Speaker 1: and those long drawn out drives that may have frozen

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Speaker 1: this offense. But it was bad. I mean, it's enough

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Speaker 1: blame to go around for guys. But offensively, we couldn't

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Speaker 1: get anything going because man, the football team's defense, their

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Speaker 1: front seven was just I mean, it was rockham socka robot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And the thing about it is, as Cowboy Nation, we

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Speaker 1: just gotta get ready for this matchup between the football

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Speaker 1: team because they're really good up front, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be They have a bunch of young guys. And I

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Speaker 1: know you're asking about Zeke right now, but I gotta

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Speaker 1: say this, man, this kid McLaurin, as soon as he

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Speaker 1: can find a quarterback, he's gonna be a problem. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a big old problem. What's what's crazy about

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Speaker 1: that is he's their only deep threat right now. So

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Speaker 1: if they add another deep threat and they shore some

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Speaker 1: things up offensively, they're gonna be yeah, because the defensive

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Speaker 1: is not line's not going anywhere, no pain, all of

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Speaker 1: those pains Montest sweat. I mean, what an athletic play

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Speaker 1: that he made. But this's just Terence still whipping on

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Speaker 1: the block. He absolutely didn't know who he was going

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Speaker 1: with or four at that point. So, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: Zeke is just all of these things are just a

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Speaker 1: byproduct of the fact that our offensive line is not

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Speaker 1: any good when we don't have Zach Martin on him.

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Speaker 1: Is zam Yeah. I can't speak to his to his

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Speaker 1: whole career, I could speak to this game, and I

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Speaker 1: honestly think Zeke was running pretty darg on heart. Man.

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Speaker 1: I know everybody's being hard on him right now. And

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Speaker 1: I know he lost a fumble. Whenever somebody loses a fumble,

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Speaker 1: I always look to see how they respond, what kind

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Speaker 1: of energy that has come back with, a kind of

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Speaker 1: vision does he come back with, does he have patience?

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Speaker 1: And I thought that I thought Zeke was running hard.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he had some the old line was struggling with

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Speaker 1: the with the defensive line defensive friend of Washington, like

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Speaker 1: they what we expected. But overall, I don't think Zeke

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Speaker 1: was running bad man. I think it's hard for guys

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Speaker 1: to get their legs underneath them when they want to

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Speaker 1: get in the ball ten times. I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't you take any starting running back and you

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Speaker 1: give him ten carries. I don't know what you expect

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Speaker 1: the production to be. I just I just really don't um. So,

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Speaker 1: I think Zeke was actually doing okay. I wish they

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Speaker 1: would have gave him the ball more and then we

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Speaker 1: would have really been able to see what he can do.

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Speaker 1: But I thought his vision was good. I thought his

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Speaker 1: patience was really good on some runs. I thought he

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Speaker 1: hit it up in their hard Sometimes they put him

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Speaker 1: in there at fullback on one play when it was

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Speaker 1: I think it's fourth and one or something at third

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Speaker 1: and one. Um, you know, they put Poller that running

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Speaker 1: back to put him at fullback and he I think

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Speaker 1: he snuck out like eight yards on a quick little

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Speaker 1: dive route. I thought he was doing well. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's my that's my that's my take. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he was the worst game of his career. I think

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Speaker 1: the worst game of his career was a few weeks

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Speaker 1: back against Arizona at two loss fumbles that led to

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Speaker 1: two touchdown, fourteen nothing Cardinals lead, and the game was

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Speaker 1: over at that point. And that's the week after Dak

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Speaker 1: gets hurt and you're looking to Zeke to spark the

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Speaker 1: team and lead the team, and that was the result,

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Speaker 1: and that that to me, was his worst game. I'm

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Speaker 1: more so. I'm more so with Isaiah on this. Like

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Speaker 1: I it's not been a good season for Zeke by

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Speaker 1: his standards. I don't think there's any question about that.

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Speaker 1: His yards are down, his carry numbers are down for

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Speaker 1: different reasons. The fumbles are a career high. But it's

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Speaker 1: hard to evaluate. I know, I know he's paid to

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Speaker 1: be special despite the circumstances around him, but it is

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Speaker 1: really hard to evaluate this running game this year based

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Speaker 1: on the deficits they've had, based on the offensive line

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Speaker 1: combinations that have been in and out. It sounds like excuses,

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Speaker 1: but it's just a fact. And I just pets. The

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Speaker 1: pass attempts, yeah, I mean they what they I think

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Speaker 1: they had eighteen carries in the game and it was

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Speaker 1: a close game, and so but I just think maybe

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Speaker 1: Kellen More just felt like, look, we can't get it

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Speaker 1: established against this front with the line that we currently

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Speaker 1: have in this ball game right now. But here's here's

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Speaker 1: the fact. I mean, this is gonna be your offensive line,

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Speaker 1: barring more injury, for the rest of maybe the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season, at least the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: because it sounds like Zach and cam Irber are gonna

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Speaker 1: be out for for multiple weeks, is what Mike McCarthy said. Yep,

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Speaker 1: Zach's yeah, that's what That's what we're doing. Man. We're

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Speaker 1: data mining for bad and it's just we can only

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Speaker 1: go off of what we're seeing, and it it looks

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Speaker 1: bad every week, and so it's it's the fumbles for me,

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Speaker 1: and I just want that is my pet peeve. That

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Speaker 1: is one thing I do not like is a running

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Speaker 1: back that fumbles the ball, and no matter how you

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Speaker 1: come back from that, and especially if you don't have

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Speaker 1: a guy dragging on you, poking at it. And it's

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Speaker 1: just I mean they replayed it. It didn't look like

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Speaker 1: how did that ball come out? I don't know. But again,

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Speaker 1: ten Russian's thirty two yards a fumble. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: bad showing for from a running back that you're paying

603
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Speaker 1: those kinds of dollars too. And again, if it's if

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Speaker 1: it's everything that he's gonna do for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season, it's going to be contingent on having an

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Let's just say we don't have one, so

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Speaker 1: that we can just go ahead and get ourselves mentally

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Speaker 1: prepared for what his production is gonna be over the

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Speaker 1: next of the over the last half of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you still have to run the ball. You still got

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Speaker 1: to run the ball, man, I mean, of course, I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's no you can't reinstill confidence. I don't give a

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Speaker 1: dog on how much somebody's getting paid. You're still a

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Speaker 1: human being. You still run off a confidence. Right, Either

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Speaker 1: I'm confident holding the ball, holding onto the ball and

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Speaker 1: tolding this thing, or I'm not right. And if you don't,

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Speaker 1: if you don't allow for me to get my feet

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Speaker 1: underneath me, if you don't give me the attempts to

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Speaker 1: get myself out of this rut, how do you expect

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Speaker 1: me to ever get out of this rut? Right? The

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Speaker 1: facts of the matter are Zick needs to protect the ball.

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Speaker 1: Facts that Also. The other fact of the matter is

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Speaker 1: Kelling Moore doesn't like running the ball. He doesn't like

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Speaker 1: running at all. He doesn't like it. He's a pastor guy.

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Speaker 1: He wants to show off what he could do in

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Speaker 1: a passing game. So you're battling those two things right now.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, Kelly Moore doesn't run enough and doesn't run

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Speaker 1: often enough to allow Zeke to get himself back going,

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Speaker 1: to get himself going again. Obviously, you can talk about

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Speaker 1: the office of line, We could talk about you know,

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Speaker 1: all these other aspects, right, but at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, your team revolves around the run. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what office coordinator you have in there. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what you have going on at the receiver position

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Speaker 1: you have Zeke, you have a office line that's beat up.

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Speaker 1: They will figure it out. They will figure it out.

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Speaker 1: Give him the ball. Let him get his feet going, man,

638
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: because that's where your energy comes from. You've never seen

639
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: this fourth and inches? Ye, fourth and one. You don't

640
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: turn around in hand twenty one the ball? Yeah, I

641
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: mean that's what are you telling him? But what are

642
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: you telling him when you do that? Maybe we're saying this,

643
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: maybe we're saying the same thing different, but I'm just saying.

644
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that when you look at it from

645
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: from a team perspective, you know, he's not even a

646
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: viable option. And when he is, there's a probability that

647
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: there may be a fumble involved. He's leading the league

648
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: in fumbles, right, And is that a byproduct of our

649
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: offensive line or is that him? Right? And And so

650
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: that's that's That's what I'm asking, Isaiah. I mean, so

651
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: so when when I when I hear that question, I

652
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: think back to like Brett Farve, Brett Fireft interceptions left

653
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: or right. But you're he's still Brett Farve, you know

654
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like he's still Brett far If he's

655
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: still gonna he's still gonna make some plays for you,

656
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: and that you take that risk with it, right, You

657
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: take that risk with it. But you know he's still

658
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: a dog. Right, So when you're talking about when we

659
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: talk about this leadership and a lack there of leadership

660
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,959
Speaker 1: on his team, now Zach Martin goes out boom, He's gone, right,

661
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: who are you turning to? Who's your leader on that

662
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I know we're all going to say, Zeke, Right,

663
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: So if twenty one's your leader and you go fourth

664
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Speaker 1: in inches and you don't give the ball to your

665
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: leader when any other coach would, what are you communicating

666
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: to him? And what are you communicating to his role

667
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: on this team? Now, I will say, and I've thought

668
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: this before forehand as well, and I've definitely been guilty

669
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: of this, But I also don't like talking about quote

670
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: unquote leaders and using that term leader so loosely because

671
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: of the fact that we're not in that locker room.

672
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: We don't know how the coaching staff's relationships are with players.

673
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: We can only see what we see from the outside

674
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: looking in. So maybe Zeke's not the leader that we

675
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: think he is in terms of from an outside perspective.

676
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: I know that's kind of a stretch, but I'm just

677
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: saying overall, we don't know. We're not in that relationship.

678
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: We're not in those friendships, those meetings, etc. Etc. But

679
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: I will say, and kind of going back to a

680
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: point Isaiah said a little bit earlier, was the fact

681
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: that Zeke asked for that contract, And a big reason

682
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: why he asked for that contract, the one that he

683
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: has right now, is because he saw Kellen Moore ahead

684
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: of him. He saw the fact that Kellen Moore is

685
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: a pass happy, air raid sort of offensive coordinator. So

686
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: the running game might have been at stake and the

687
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: numbers that he had had previously as a running back

688
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: might have been at steak, which is one of the

689
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: reasons he wanted to get paid. But with that being said,

690
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: I and heck, but hit this too. Offensive lines don't

691
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: cause fumbles. You still pay this guy to be elite

692
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: and to hold on to the football and be that

693
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: bellcal But he hasn't been that all year long, even

694
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: with the offensive line issues. Isaiah, Hey, it happens. Nobody

695
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: likes that it happens. It turns and guys, yes, it

696
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: happens six times. You guys, guys getting a ret It's

697
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: not something that you like. It's not you guys. Think

698
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: of something that he's not trying to correct or, You

699
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: think it's not something that's on his mind every time

700
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: he touches the ball. Now, it's not something he's trying

701
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: to do, right, Just like quarterbacks going on these interceptions tyrants.

702
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: You think Tom Brady likes throwing interceptions right now? No,

703
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: but he's throwing them right. So I mean, like like

704
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: like people get into little rets and you have to

705
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: get yourself. You have to get yourself out of this

706
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: rep but you have to be given the opportunity to

707
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: do so. And you know, when I start talking about

708
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: what are you communicating to your team? And some people

709
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: might think that, oh, you're looking too deep into it.

710
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: Trust me, this is coming from somebody who's been in

711
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: playing the locker rooms. It matters, right. Think about the

712
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks when they decided not to get Marshawn the ball?

713
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: What happened to that team? What did that communicate to

714
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: the team? It can it communicated directly to Marshawn You're

715
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: not our dude. Russell's are dude. That's exactly what That's it.

716
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's are dude. You're not our dude. Forget what

717
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: you've done for us so far. We know that you

718
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: probably could have made the play, but we're gonna go

719
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: with him anyway, just because we're leaning that way, right,

720
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: so it's a lot deeper man. And then that everything

721
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: blew up. You know, you lost. You lost on a

722
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: bunch of guys after that that were a part of

723
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: that program that did no longer believed in coach Carroll

724
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: because of that decision that he allowed. But the thing

725
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: about it is, prior to this last game, they did

726
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: get back to basically yeah, and they were more competitive

727
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: scept that is because the defense has been more competitive,

728
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: gives your offense a chance to do it. That's why

729
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,439
Speaker 1: I was surprised they didn't at least try to stick

730
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: with it a little more in the second half against Washington,

731
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: because you're talking about a one score game. It just

732
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't stick with it. And but I

733
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: Isaiah's right, like, they've still got to find a way

734
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: to try to run because I don't think you can

735
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: put it all in on any Dalton these last five games.

736
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: I just wonder how proficient they can be a doing

737
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: at that, because there was no There's no question when

738
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: Zach came back from the concussion, there was a difference

739
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: in the running game, and now he's out for who knows,

740
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: at least a couple of weeks. I completely agree, and

741
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying to you the running the ball is the

742
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: alphabet super. Is this the alphabet super football? Right? You

743
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: gotta run the ball. It balances everything. You saw what

744
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: it did versus Minnesota. It made everything right like rain.

745
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: We said, you know, the office, the play calling from

746
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, it almost looked subdued because we were seeing

747
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: just normal football. But that's not what when when the

748
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: when the running game shuts down, they have nothing. There's

749
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: it's a free for off of what you're gonna call.

750
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,359
Speaker 1: You get double reverses. You got a fourth and one

751
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: when you try and isolate Ceedee Lamb instead of just

752
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: turning around and handed the ball to Zeke and getting

753
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: the first down. And a guy who has as or

754
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: who just came off of concussion protocol, you're willing to

755
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: run his head up in there to get a first down.

756
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 1: And Andy Dalton played brilliant with getting with his legs

757
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: and a lot of times those first downs that he

758
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: picked up. I mean all of you were probably like,

759
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: come on, Andy, get down, but that's him being brave

760
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: and still just trying to pick up something in the

761
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: running game. Our offensive line is as bad as it

762
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: gets without Zack Martin on it and Cam Irvin obviously

763
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: on it. So how do we continue this? Okay, we're

764
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: just gonna run into this brick wall. We're trying to

765
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: get our offense started when it's not there. You saw

766
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: it against Washington, Man. We could get nothing going against

767
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: this team period. The coaching, the coach's calls, let you

768
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: know that they felt the same way that they saw it.

769
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: We can't do anything with this team. So let's do

770
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: ask your question. Let me ask you a question. What

771
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: was our what was our rushing average? Since we're such

772
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: such an analytical team now because of our punts and

773
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: we're looking at the analytics, what's what was our rushing average? Right?

774
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: I know, three point three so there's three point three yards?

775
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 1: Give you a give you an inch, yes, yes, okay, guys, wondering,

776
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: just wondering, just hands wondering, just wander like, come on, man, like,

777
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: come on, dude, like it's so much deeper. It's so

778
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: much deeper than just a play call. And I hope

779
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: everybody truly understands that what is it is? It is

780
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: blatant delivery messages communication to your team. You're talking to

781
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: your team without talking to your team. And right now,

782
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: none of these guys on this side of the ball

783
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: have a reason to believe anything these coaches are saying anything.

784
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: If you if you think that your defense is not

785
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: watching a fourth and inches play intently, if you don't

786
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: think that they're on the sideline over there looking like,

787
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: are we running there? Are we throwing? Oh? These casts

788
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: through the ball, they're watching. They're watching right when you

789
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: go out there and you let your old line come off,

790
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: you say, hey, we're giving you guys the ball. We're

791
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: coming right behind you. We're coming right behind you, whatever

792
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: number you are, We're coming right behind your butt. You're

793
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: gonna fire off, or you're gonna go ahead. We're gonna

794
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: throw this thing around. That's whack. So following the fumble,

795
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 1: there were four carries for Ezekiel Elliott. The first one

796
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: was seventeen yards and that was the one that I know,

797
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: Isaiah you were referring to in the moment as, Oh,

798
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: he's coming out and throwing some energy into it. We'll

799
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: take that one away because there was a penalty on

800
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz and it was holding and it actually backed

801
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: him up ten yards. So after the fumble there were

802
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 1: three official carries for Ezekiel Elliott the rest of the game.

803
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: There was an eight yard run, a minus two yard

804
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: run following the interception to Jalen Smith, and then he

805
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 1: ran for three yards at some point in the middle

806
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. That was it. That was all

807
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: that Zeke saul for the remainder of the football game

808
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: against Washington after he fumbled it. So there's plenty to

809
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: talk about whenever it comes to the running game, the

810
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: play calling, and Ezekiel Elliott. When we come back, I

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812
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,560
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Speaker 1: talk in cowboys, no matter how you're listening to talking

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Speaker 1: cowboys here on this beautiful Monday after Thanksgiving, it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be quite the same unless you're listening with bows

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Speaker 1: Quiet Comfort earbuds. You can definitely listen. Heat's got the headphones.

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Speaker 1: I realized this the other day. You're you're showing off

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Speaker 1: the headphones. We're talking about bows, quiet talk about I'm

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Speaker 1: just showing the bows. Hustle man happen. I'll let the

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Speaker 1: I'll let the hustle happen. I like it. I like it.

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Speaker 1: But bows Quiet Comfort earbuds are the official earbuds of

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Wanted to shout out bows before we

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Speaker 1: close things out. One question for you here in this

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Speaker 1: final segment, and this is gonna sound kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna phrase this in a way that

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Speaker 1: I want to phrase it, and it's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: And Isaiah, we're gonna start with you. Did the defense

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Speaker 1: play well on Sunday or on Thursday? That's that's my question.

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Speaker 1: Did they play well? Yes? Or no? Because I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I can't through one through four play Did they play

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Speaker 1: well one through four not? I'm putting it all together.

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Speaker 1: It's all one game, So damn it, man, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say yes before the coaches show lacker of a confidence. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Why you can't just say yes? And then you gotta

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Speaker 1: at least get me so you said it was no question.

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Speaker 1: I know you have to. It's a podcast. I think

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Speaker 1: I think the guys were playing well. I think the

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Speaker 1: guys were playing well. I think again, they're trying to

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Speaker 1: reinstill their confidence. Um, they weren't doing anything that was

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Speaker 1: that completely terrible until they had the meltdown. And as

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Speaker 1: soon as soon as the meltdown happened, guys were like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. That's honestly what happens. I mean, guys

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Speaker 1: get to the point where they just like, man, whatever, dude,

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Speaker 1: these coaches are tripping, And that's what happened. So up

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Speaker 1: until that point, I thought they were they were fighting

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Speaker 1: right the answers, I'm gonna say no and nope, And

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Speaker 1: because you got a forty burger put on you and

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Speaker 1: all the way up until that point, you still have

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to stop them and you couldn't. So that

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Speaker 1: ism I like that I got. I mean, I'm with

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Speaker 1: I'm with Isaiah in terms of everything. No, everything, No,

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Speaker 1: I'm with I'm with everybody. I'm with everybody because I

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Speaker 1: think you I don't think you can evaluate this game

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Speaker 1: without mentioning the fake punt. The fake punt changed everything. However,

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Speaker 1: if we are judging it off of an entire game, No,

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Speaker 1: they didn't play well. Now up until that point, they

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Speaker 1: allowed twenty points and they were still in the game. However,

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Speaker 1: start to finish, No, still having trouble stopping the run.

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Speaker 1: You know, I it earlier like Terry McLaurin is their

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Speaker 1: only deep threat. I think they had other than McLaurin.

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Speaker 1: Scary Terry. They had two wide receivers for two catches

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Speaker 1: for twenty three yards. You're getting beat by running backs

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Speaker 1: and tight ends in the passing game and just just

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Speaker 1: trying to dink and dunk like yeah, I mean that

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Speaker 1: you ought to be able to do more against that

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Speaker 1: because that their passing the attack is not what it

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Speaker 1: should be this year, and they still couldn't stop it. So, no,

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Speaker 1: they didn't play well overall. They are they better than

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Speaker 1: they were a month ago. Yes, they still are better,

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Speaker 1: but no, but not good enough. Thursday, I would agree.

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Speaker 1: I think there's still a lot of things to grow

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Speaker 1: on from a defensive standpoint. I thought your defensive line

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Speaker 1: got you a little bit of a push Randy Gregory.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how about the game that Gregory had, and

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Speaker 1: that's something that I know you can build upon. I

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Speaker 1: thought Alden Smith was decent and run defense, and he

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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily have the pass rush that you want to see,

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Speaker 1: but he was good as well. I think that defensive

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Speaker 1: line played well, so you have stuff to build on,

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Speaker 1: but that defense still has a lot of holes that

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Speaker 1: you have to fix whenever it comes to stopping the run,

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Speaker 1: slowing down tight ends, and then of course the deep

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Speaker 1: threat like we saw with Terry McLaurin. Now we'll be

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow, Hopefully tomorrow will know more about what's going

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Speaker 1: to happen this week in terms of the Cowboys and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Still lots of unfolding there. We're gonna hit

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Speaker 1: it tomorrow, but it is fans on the fifties, so

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Speaker 1: bring your fan questions. We're gonna continue looking back at

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Speaker 1: the Washington Dallas game, but also look ahead a little

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Speaker 1: bit to the Baltimore Evens coming up on what is

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Speaker 1: now at this point scheduled for a Monday night game,

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Speaker 1: are really a Monday afternoon game. So we'll hit that

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Speaker 1: tomorrow when we come back here on Talking Cowboys. But

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Speaker 1: for today, for Chris Beam in the back, for heck

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Speaker 1: Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, and the great Isaiah stand Back.

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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman. Thanks for listening. We'll see you tomorrow

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