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Speaker 1: Week eleven of the NFL season and the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: are on the docket this week, We're going to talk
Speaker 1: about what we saw last night out of that game.
Speaker 1: Of course, we were all doing some scouting in terms
Speaker 1: of the well, it was kind of a boring game
Speaker 1: last night and kind of a man it was very
Speaker 1: man yesterday from the Bears and the Vikings on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. But first, Olympie introduced the outstanding crew. As always,
Speaker 1: Cowboys insider mister Rob Phillips are a resident Super Bowl champion,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back and the great heckm Harrison joining us
Speaker 1: as always. I'm Kyle Yeomans and guys, there are a
Speaker 1: couple updates to get to for the Cowboys and then
Speaker 1: we'll start kind of going into this this Vikings matchup
Speaker 1: as well. Plus it is fans on the fifty Tuesday,
Speaker 1: So send in your fan questions. I don't have a
Speaker 1: ton of them right now. I know you guys are tired.
Speaker 1: I know, I know you're off the bye week. It's
Speaker 1: a little laxadaisical, but no sending your fan questions because
Speaker 1: we want to talk about them and we want to
Speaker 1: answer me chout you out at the same time. But
Speaker 1: rob a couple updates In terms of the Cowboys. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton seemingly has passed both the COVID and concussion
Speaker 1: protocols and should be ready to go. Plus Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: expecting Cheeto to be back this week. Yeah, finally with
Speaker 1: Cheeto right now now, he I'll couch that and said, look,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, it sounded like he was
Speaker 1: going to play against the Eagles, I think, and he didn't,
Speaker 1: and he stayed on IR and they activated him last week.
Speaker 1: Really is almost a procedural move because he was right
Speaker 1: up against that three week practice window on ir to
Speaker 1: keep practicing. So but it does sound like he'll be
Speaker 1: back in the lineup and that that's big with Trayvon
Speaker 1: out and Andy Dalton. You know, yeah, I mean if
Speaker 1: he's clear to practice, then obviously he's been cleared by
Speaker 1: the league to be on the field and do that.
Speaker 1: So that's that's great news. Mike McCarthy said, they'll take
Speaker 1: that throughout the week and see. So Garrett Gilbert stay ready.
Speaker 1: But you know that's that's a great sign for your
Speaker 1: offense because I just said this on the fan. It's
Speaker 1: funny how we've been talking about the defense all year
Speaker 1: long struggling and they put back to back solid games together.
Speaker 1: It's the offense that has regressed since Dak got hurt,
Speaker 1: and maybe Dalton can can take a step forward and
Speaker 1: build on what Gilbert did against the Steelers. We will see,
Speaker 1: fellas heck, when whenever it comes to Andy Dalton in general,
Speaker 1: does it still give you kind of that same feeling
Speaker 1: that we had originally when he was coming in of Okay,
Speaker 1: things are going to get back to normal. Things are
Speaker 1: gonna kind of find their way into place, whereas that
Speaker 1: was the original thinking, But I just want to know
Speaker 1: if it's the same kind of feeling for you or
Speaker 1: do you have any bubble guts whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, well, I'd i'd be lying. I I'd be
Speaker 1: lying to you too early in the morning. Man if
Speaker 1: I told you that I felt comfortable right now with
Speaker 1: either of these guys. But it's uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think with his experience we've talked about this at length,
Speaker 1: and his experience giving us a leg up as far
Speaker 1: as him ability to read defenses and get the ball
Speaker 1: out of his hand quickly. This week, that's definitely what
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to do because you know Minnesota, if
Speaker 1: you watch the game last night, Minnesota's going to apply
Speaker 1: a ton of pressure. So I'm still in that place
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton where I want to see him actually
Speaker 1: do it, you know, and have some positive things happen
Speaker 1: for him in this offense. I think we hadn't seen
Speaker 1: anything good happen for Andy in this offensive. I guess
Speaker 1: in the New York Giants game was the last time
Speaker 1: that he actually threw a touchdown or we had a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So it's important to me to just find out what
Speaker 1: this week is going to be like for both of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, Gilbert and Dalton going into this week, when
Speaker 1: coach Mike McCarthy was asking about who he was gonna
Speaker 1: go with, he answered it kind of vague and just
Speaker 1: said that, hey, you know, we'll talk about this on
Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday once we have an opportunity to evaluate
Speaker 1: both of these guys. So it's really kind of cool
Speaker 1: to have a quarterback controversy in week eleven of the
Speaker 1: NFL season. Well, I remember they said, if any Dalton's healthy,
Speaker 1: he's your man. That's what they said. That's what they
Speaker 1: said this week. I don't know, I know things changed
Speaker 1: all the time around here, but I had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to go back because I know there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of talk about Any Dalton and I obviously he spoke
Speaker 1: highly about him early on. Um, he came in, took
Speaker 1: care of business against the Giants, and then um obviously, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of kind of got punched them out
Speaker 1: for a little bit against against Washington. But I went
Speaker 1: back and I watched. You know what I'm saying, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't like to speak just so just off opinion.
Speaker 1: I want to speak off off of facts, which is
Speaker 1: what you should. Yeah, I want to talk to the people.
Speaker 1: You don't want to to the people to y'all. Um.
Speaker 1: So I went back and I watched, I watched the emotions,
Speaker 1: just just facts with me. I don't I don't have emotions.
Speaker 1: If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. If I'm right, I'm right.
Speaker 1: You know it is the week eleven, everybody, you should
Speaker 1: figure that out. Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna touch
Speaker 1: a little bit on this and in the film room.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, you guys, you gotta check
Speaker 1: that out tonight. But but but I went back and
Speaker 1: I watched the film and any Dalton didn't do half
Speaker 1: as bad as I thought he did. Really, when we
Speaker 1: look at that watching the game, and the reason why
Speaker 1: is because other guys didn't take care of their of
Speaker 1: their responsibilities. Right now, he could have done better. No disrespected, No,
Speaker 1: no disregard at all. Right, No, I'm not taking any
Speaker 1: accountability off of him at all. He needs to take
Speaker 1: that responsibility. He needs to do better. However, a lot
Speaker 1: of the situations that we face in that Washington game
Speaker 1: would due to a lot of failed assignments. Yeah, and assignments.
Speaker 1: Where had everybody done what they're supposed to do. Annie
Speaker 1: don't want to have had plenty of time to deliver
Speaker 1: the ball. There are guys that are open. He has
Speaker 1: zero time to throw the ball. And it wasn't just
Speaker 1: the fact that he was sitting there patting the ball
Speaker 1: and holding onto it and things of that nature. Now
Speaker 1: he did some of that. Um, he am sure from
Speaker 1: between then and now, I'm sure he's he's kind of
Speaker 1: taking that self analysis, but um, you know, going forward,
Speaker 1: I feel good about him against this team. Even though
Speaker 1: Minnesota's coming off a big win last night. I think
Speaker 1: that this we're set up well for this team that's
Speaker 1: coming in here, and I think that I think any
Speaker 1: Done's gonna do pretty good with that. If the officer
Speaker 1: line is a lot better, right Let's just that's facts.
Speaker 1: Officer line substantially better. The defense is playing better, The
Speaker 1: morality this team is better, the energy is better. I
Speaker 1: think the team is poised for a good position right now.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that, Isaiah, because I felt like
Speaker 1: last week I felt like I was on a on
Speaker 1: an island, a rob Pe island with with Dalton. I
Speaker 1: felt like nobody was had my back on on bringing
Speaker 1: any back as a starter because of the way Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert played in that game. And I you know, he played,
Speaker 1: he played well, but you know how much of it
Speaker 1: were we comparing to what Benda Nucci rolled out there
Speaker 1: against the That's a good point and I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not again, I am not knocking Benda Nucci. I think
Speaker 1: it was a terrible situation where playing that game, and
Speaker 1: I thought Garrett, yeah, it really did. He wasn't ready, um,
Speaker 1: you know, as a seventh round pick. But I thought
Speaker 1: Gilbert did move the offense. He brings some mobility to
Speaker 1: the table. But remember the Cowboys kicked four field goals
Speaker 1: in this last game against Pittsburgh, four field goals and
Speaker 1: those last two drives. One was really late time against them,
Speaker 1: but they didn't get things going late in the game.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think they feel like with Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton as a veteran guy. To your point, Isaiah, go
Speaker 1: back to the Arizona game. I don't even think you
Speaker 1: can evaluate him based off of that game with I
Speaker 1: think that was the Zeke Fumble's game and the lack
Speaker 1: of protect protection upfront. Uh. You know, I just didn't
Speaker 1: think it was a great situation for him in that
Speaker 1: game either. So if he gets he's healthy, he's good
Speaker 1: to go. I feel better about it. I just do
Speaker 1: going forward with a more veteran guy. Now, now you now, Rob,
Speaker 1: I have to admit, Okay, you were on that island
Speaker 1: by yourself. Now, I was in the canoe and it
Speaker 1: was tied to the island. Okay, it was tied to
Speaker 1: a post, and I was out there halfway into the ocean.
Speaker 1: But I can still come out, still come back. So
Speaker 1: I still believe that Gilbert. I feel if I was
Speaker 1: a coach, I would still go with the energy of
Speaker 1: the squad rail and I would still go with Gilbert.
Speaker 1: That does not take away the fact that I believe
Speaker 1: that any Dalton can be successful and will be successful. Okay,
Speaker 1: but let me play Devil's advocate here for this specifically
Speaker 1: and the reason why, and in talking about Gilbert, I
Speaker 1: know y'all are both on the Andy Dalton's side, or
Speaker 1: at least at the moment you're in that that that
Speaker 1: boat literally, But whenever it comes to Garrettibert the canoe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to Garrett Gilbert is what we saw
Speaker 1: on last Sunday. I guess against Pittsburgh is that the
Speaker 1: ceiling is that the most we're gonna get out of
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert. There's a very good chance it is. There's
Speaker 1: a very good chance that that is the ceiling for
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert. Where's Andy Dalton? We know for a fact
Speaker 1: because like Jerry and Steven and Mike and everybody has said,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is a starter in this league, his ceiling
Speaker 1: is much higher. But is the floor for Gilbert higher
Speaker 1: as well? Whenever we're talking about maybe the fact that
Speaker 1: there's a bigger range of controversy with Andy Dalton as well,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, it's hard to compare to two, right,
Speaker 1: because any Dalton obviously has been to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: He's been, he's been that guy, so we know what
Speaker 1: he's capable of, right, So we we seen what he's
Speaker 1: what he's put out right, and we know and then
Speaker 1: we know what he's capable of. So here's a huge
Speaker 1: gap there, right, there's a huge gap that we're looking
Speaker 1: to feel as Gilbert when he came in, he was
Speaker 1: at the bottom in our eyes, right, everybody's eyes, he's
Speaker 1: at the bottom, right, So all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: performs and everybody's like, right, he raises up right, So
Speaker 1: then there's that question mark, it's like, what else can
Speaker 1: he do? Right? What else can he do? And and
Speaker 1: the truth is, we don't know what else he can do.
Speaker 1: We don't know if he had a couple more weeks
Speaker 1: under his belt like he does now, how much better
Speaker 1: he would be as far as his timing with his receivers.
Speaker 1: We don't know how much more confident he would be
Speaker 1: with his cause, how much confident he would be with
Speaker 1: delivering the ball on time instead of waiting till guys
Speaker 1: come out of their routes. Right, So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things we don't know. Versus Andy Dalton. We've seen
Speaker 1: his capability, so it's not really a fair comparison um.
Speaker 1: And that's why that's why we're all based off opinions
Speaker 1: right now. Ema h Yeah, I'm out here on yacht
Speaker 1: Gary Gilbert. Yeah, I'm on the yat yach Gilbert. And
Speaker 1: I'm just taking it as man. This is this offense
Speaker 1: completely needs to change. I mean, we could talk about
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and Gilbert at LID, but it's it's not
Speaker 1: that big a difference in these quarterbacks right now in
Speaker 1: their career and what they're facing. And I just feel like,
Speaker 1: and you said it, Isaiah, when it comes down to
Speaker 1: the energy that you got from Gilbert and the Steelers game,
Speaker 1: I want to ride that. I mean, but this team
Speaker 1: has had a bye weekend. Obviously, with the COVID protocol,
Speaker 1: they were they were cheated out of at least getting
Speaker 1: a vibe for both of these quarterbacks in the offense.
Speaker 1: But I think that you have. My opinion is go
Speaker 1: with Gilbert, and because I feel like just the energy
Speaker 1: and what he bought during the Pittsburgh game is enough
Speaker 1: for this team to possibly sell the division or getting
Speaker 1: more wins, right, And so I think that it maybe
Speaker 1: they go back to to Andy Dalton. But Guys, the
Speaker 1: comparison between the two, I just don't I don't think
Speaker 1: it is as big as we're trying to make it.
Speaker 1: I think there's something to be said for that, you know,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah mentioned that too. Heck, the momentum factor and
Speaker 1: I have a bye week in between, but that was
Speaker 1: the first signs of life from the offense in three weeks,
Speaker 1: So I think there is something to be said for that.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're talking about giving yourself the best,
Speaker 1: and we can talk about the team tanks stuff all
Speaker 1: we want, but if you're giving yourself the best chance
Speaker 1: to in and when this awful start to the division,
Speaker 1: when this race, I think you just logically you gotta
Speaker 1: at least go back to Andy and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: And you know, he doesn't preclude yourself from going back
Speaker 1: to Garrett Gilbert. I things aren't going well, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably what they're going to do, provided
Speaker 1: he has a good week of practice and is ready
Speaker 1: to go, and based off of what we heard this morning,
Speaker 1: and based off of what we've heard the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and everything. Whenever it comes to the Jones
Speaker 1: family and the coaching staff, they're not playing it on
Speaker 1: team Tank. We're not sitting here looking at a top
Speaker 1: five pick at least, right I mean, I know right
Speaker 1: now we are. But there's a ton of people that
Speaker 1: want that to happen. But the coaching staff in this
Speaker 1: organization just isn't wired that way. They're never gonna be
Speaker 1: wired that way. And we're about to see a little
Speaker 1: bit of at least to turn around. I mean, Jerry
Speaker 1: even said it this morning. He wants to turn it around.
Speaker 1: He wants to find a way to win games down
Speaker 1: the stretch. And whenever you look at the next five
Speaker 1: games for Philly, there's a chance that they go into
Speaker 1: week fifteen at with three or four wins total. Anyway,
Speaker 1: can we can we just say this cause anybody right
Speaker 1: now who's saying that this team should just tank and
Speaker 1: play for and play for draft picks, can we just
Speaker 1: put them in in a in a blow bubble right
Speaker 1: and saying that, let's put them in a bove real
Speaker 1: and say that if this team turns things around, if
Speaker 1: this team turns things around and goes to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and has a miraculous run, that they cannot get back
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. Oh you're saying, oh, you don't want
Speaker 1: them to get on whenever they get because the people
Speaker 1: the same people that say, oh, let's tank and oh
Speaker 1: you know, let's go ahead and play for draftings are
Speaker 1: the same people ow to be wearing dog on stars
Speaker 1: and getting tattoos under four head of stars. When if
Speaker 1: these guys make a run and go for the dog
Speaker 1: on Super Bowl somehouse some way, right, which is I
Speaker 1: know it sounds crazy, but it's still possible, right, So
Speaker 1: I keep saying that it's still possible because it is.
Speaker 1: That's facts. Take the motion out of it. You can't
Speaker 1: play both sides. You guys can't. People can't sit up
Speaker 1: here and say, I know it's already been said. You
Speaker 1: can't sit up here and say that you want a
Speaker 1: competitive team, a competitive organization. Who goes out there, he
Speaker 1: goes walls to the wall and then and expect guys
Speaker 1: go out there and tank. That's that's that's BS. That's BS.
Speaker 1: So if you guys are out there, I'm talking to
Speaker 1: everybody out there. If you guys are talking about anybody
Speaker 1: who has tweeted, said text any of that stuff said
Speaker 1: that you want this team to take and play for
Speaker 1: draft picks, y'all just just go ahead and take all
Speaker 1: the stars out your closet right now and put them
Speaker 1: in put them in the attic. And you guys got
Speaker 1: to wait until next year, okay, because now it might
Speaker 1: go either way. It might go your way, and they
Speaker 1: might play. They might end up playing for draft picks, right.
Speaker 1: You never know. However, do not try to get back
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon. If these dudes start bawling, it's it's
Speaker 1: a question mark, But don't do. Yeah, you gotta put
Speaker 1: your pan next year. Yeah, if you check all your messages,
Speaker 1: just type in draft. If you send draft over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks. Just put it, Yeah, just put it
Speaker 1: in a dog on closet, take all your clothes, Okay,
Speaker 1: you would be out. Yeah. Can I just ask what
Speaker 1: what tanking means? Like, yeah, please define mind that based
Speaker 1: based on like what we've seen this this year, because
Speaker 1: they're already playing younger guys out of necessity, out in
Speaker 1: part because out of need. And also you know, there
Speaker 1: are a couple of spots on defense where they said,
Speaker 1: we're not getting production, so we're gonna go to some
Speaker 1: younger guys and it's actually paid off. They're minus thirteen
Speaker 1: in the turnover ratio that is by far the worse
Speaker 1: than the end of they have they have because of
Speaker 1: the way they've played this year, they have given themselves
Speaker 1: zero margin for error. So tell me what tanking means exactly?
Speaker 1: Because Rob, they're playing their hardest and they're not they're
Speaker 1: still not winning. So don't you know, I just don't
Speaker 1: get it. I don't get hey, hey, Rob and and
Speaker 1: and the way that this season is going. They can
Speaker 1: go out there and play their hearts out all the
Speaker 1: way through and it still might be a bad season.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna end up with a top five pick
Speaker 1: anyway based off of the fact that you are playing
Speaker 1: with your fifth street quarterback and your officeive line is decimating.
Speaker 1: Your defense is historically bad. So whether you want to
Speaker 1: take or not. And I think the mentality with tanking
Speaker 1: has something to do with giving up. And that's not
Speaker 1: a team in NFL that's about that. Well, maybe there
Speaker 1: are two or three, right, yeah, maybe that I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get that big about this. None if the coaches
Speaker 1: want to keep their jobs and everything involved there because
Speaker 1: nobody ever wants to lose for real. I mean, the
Speaker 1: only reason you end up tanking is if you you
Speaker 1: aren't very good. And I like we've talked about previously,
Speaker 1: this is a team. This is an organization that feels
Speaker 1: like if things kind of roll the right way, you
Speaker 1: can you can have a good team, and you can
Speaker 1: run it back in twenty twenty one and have a
Speaker 1: good team. And there's so many different aspects that go
Speaker 1: into quote unquote tanking that it makes it tough and
Speaker 1: it's a decision making process. But I like how Rob
Speaker 1: said that it's even you can play as much as
Speaker 1: plays as hard as you want, it doesn't mean things
Speaker 1: are going to go the right way. For you, but
Speaker 1: you want to find a way to try and get
Speaker 1: into the tournament. And right now we're still in the
Speaker 1: tournament at least at the moment, everything's still in front
Speaker 1: of you and Isaiah, I wanted to ask this just
Speaker 1: based off of what you were saying a moment ago.
Speaker 1: But from a players point, you never want to tank.
Speaker 1: There's never been an opportunity. There's no such things ever
Speaker 1: want to do that, right, No, there's no such thing.
Speaker 1: You get ran out the locker room if you if
Speaker 1: you're out there low fan and not giving one hundred effort,
Speaker 1: you're getting ran out of the locker room. You guys
Speaker 1: understand when you guys, that's why, that's why Rob rob
Speaker 1: p asked a great question, what does the definition of taking?
Speaker 1: Because as a competitor, as a player, every time I
Speaker 1: step on the field, every time that that eye in
Speaker 1: the sky all right, that we talk about, it doesn't lie.
Speaker 1: That is your resume. That's your resume. So you can
Speaker 1: go out there and half tell it if you want to.
Speaker 1: You're gonna mess with your own money going forward, right,
Speaker 1: whether it's on a team that you're ready with or
Speaker 1: whether there's a team that you might end up trying
Speaker 1: to go to you're messing with your own money. So
Speaker 1: there is no definition. There's no thing called tanking. Now now, now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the front office talks about. Right,
Speaker 1: the front office might be positioning herself and start playing
Speaker 1: for stuff with players. No, no such thing. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, don't watch any Jets football games, text field games.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, well, I mean, I mean about
Speaker 1: opinion on that. I mean, everybody last year said that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were taking right. The Dolphins last year were
Speaker 1: taking right. They were doing all their positioning themselves. Blas
Speaker 1: look at them. They win seven to one, and now
Speaker 1: they're winning a lot of games. They're balling, they're baling.
Speaker 1: So what is taking right? More thing on it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is? I you know, like I'll just make an
Speaker 1: NBA reference because I love the league. Like it's this
Speaker 1: isn't a Golden State Warrior situation where they've won titles.
Speaker 1: They've got their culture. We talked about culture on the
Speaker 1: show a lot. In place. They just have a bunch
Speaker 1: of injuries for one year to steph and play and
Speaker 1: you know they're playing young guys and they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a great draft pick and be right back where they were.
Speaker 1: This is a brand new staff, brand new schemes. As
Speaker 1: a fan, don't you want to see some sort of
Speaker 1: progress going into next season with Mike McCarthy or would
Speaker 1: you want to watch the first month of this season
Speaker 1: for the rest of the way. I just, if I'm
Speaker 1: a fan, I want the ladder, you know. And if
Speaker 1: you if your draft pick suffers a little bit, fine,
Speaker 1: you know, but because you're still gonna get healthy next
Speaker 1: year and you're still gonna be a better team next
Speaker 1: year when you're at full strength pretty easily. I think
Speaker 1: whenever you look at everything that's gone wrong here in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty on the field and off the field, you
Speaker 1: can talk about how twenty twenty one should be better,
Speaker 1: and hopefully it will be for the Cowboys, And sure
Speaker 1: you would like to add a draft pick to that.
Speaker 1: And That's where I'm at too. I want to evaluate
Speaker 1: the draft and I want to provide as much content
Speaker 1: as I can to the fans out there that are
Speaker 1: catering to that draft need. But there's a way you
Speaker 1: can be successful in the top five of the draft
Speaker 1: and in the mid twenties. There's a way you can
Speaker 1: do it both ways. If you really wanted to do it.
Speaker 1: The good teams figure it out. Every team figures it
Speaker 1: out from time to time. So we're gonna step aside.
Speaker 1: When we come back, though, It's time for some fans
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Speaker 1: send us your questions. Send them on Twitter as well.
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Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys Here on this Tuesday, it's past nine fifty.
Speaker 1: You know what that means. It's time for some fans
Speaker 1: on the fifty. Fans on the fifty as always, Chris
Speaker 1: Beam killing it in the back and always making us
Speaker 1: sound much better than we actually are. Isaiah standback, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: hat my Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeomans, and time to get
Speaker 1: some some fan questions. You can continue sending these in
Speaker 1: throughout the segment, but we've got some good ones now
Speaker 1: rolling in and our guy Jay, who is talk about Jay?
Speaker 1: I want to take a second. We just went on
Speaker 1: our Talking Cowboys Ted talk on why you should be
Speaker 1: non bandwagon er fans. Jay is the definition of a
Speaker 1: true diehard fan. And Jay is a fantastic guy as well.
Speaker 1: He's and it's not even just with our show, it's
Speaker 1: every show as the day goes on, and we appreciate
Speaker 1: Jay all the time. And he asked fantastic questions. He says,
Speaker 1: who do you guys see taking mister Trayvon Diggs spot
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to the cornerback position. Of course, Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs rookie second rounder out four to six weeks with
Speaker 1: a broken fractured foot. Where do you see the Cowboys
Speaker 1: going in terms of replacing him? Because he brought an
Speaker 1: element the Cowboys haven't had that position in a long time.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think it's gonna look like, um,
Speaker 1: you know, with the healthy guys that got, it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna look like it's been you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, where it's Cheeto and Anthony Brown and Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis probably your top three guys. I would imagine, am
Speaker 1: I missing somebody? Probably not Brown, Cheeto Lewis? But where
Speaker 1: who's gonna be on the top guy though? Is gonna
Speaker 1: be Anthony Brown or is it gonna be Cheeto? I
Speaker 1: think it's just a b right now. He's the healthier guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it would be look just
Speaker 1: depends on where Cheeto is right now and his his hamstring,
Speaker 1: and so I think the coaches would know that you
Speaker 1: also have Savion Smith, who did not play very well
Speaker 1: at all against Pittsburgh, but still he's he's a guy
Speaker 1: that you could bring in in some some nickel, but still,
Speaker 1: you know this Lewis uh is gonna be your inside guy,
Speaker 1: and Brown and Cheeto I would imagine would be your
Speaker 1: starting corners on Sunday. I'm a double up at heck,
Speaker 1: M double up. Heck, got nothing else to add. That's it.
Speaker 1: And if they play sides, you know, you're just kind
Speaker 1: of matching up with who's on your side. And uh,
Speaker 1: but you know that you brought up Savion Smith. Heck,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna play Savion Smith, who uh they like?
Speaker 1: But you drafted Reggie Robinson and I know they're not
Speaker 1: going to do this, probably because they move Reggie to safety.
Speaker 1: But if you're hurting a corner, I just I want
Speaker 1: to see Reggie Robinson. I heard so many good things
Speaker 1: about him coming out of the draft and actually talking
Speaker 1: to his position coach at Tulsa, and I was excited
Speaker 1: to see him competing and I haven't seen him. I
Speaker 1: haven't even seen him on special teams, which he also
Speaker 1: excelled at in college. Now there's seven games left, but
Speaker 1: I would like to see him on the field at
Speaker 1: some point, d p ay. Reggie Robinson is to me
Speaker 1: as Bradley and I is to Kyle where we need
Speaker 1: to that's take a moment every week waiting to see
Speaker 1: Reggie Robinson. I don't know why, but I have something
Speaker 1: about Reggie. I'm looking forward to see him play well.
Speaker 1: With this being said, our guy pass is already jumping
Speaker 1: the gun and he asked us the question on Twitter
Speaker 1: a while ago, why won't they free Reggie Robinson? And
Speaker 1: then he used the hashtag hashtag free Reggie Robinson. Free
Speaker 1: Reggie is now something we need to get trending on
Speaker 1: Twitter and we get some t shirts made. That sounds great,
Speaker 1: but it is. It's easy to forget about him because
Speaker 1: he hasn't been on the field and he hasn't been
Speaker 1: at I forgot about him. No, I agree. I don't
Speaker 1: think any of us have forgotten about him. But whenever
Speaker 1: you haven't seen forty one on the field, you want
Speaker 1: him to make a debut. Whether it's at corner or
Speaker 1: whether it's at safety. Right now, it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1: I just want to see him play and see something
Speaker 1: because we saw flashes rob even in training camp where
Speaker 1: he looked good and played decently even as a rookie
Speaker 1: in that spot too, But we just haven't gotten a
Speaker 1: chance to see him. Yeah, I mean the fact that
Speaker 1: he's moved to safety. I understand maybe they think he's
Speaker 1: not ready to help, although you've watched him play like
Speaker 1: six different guys at safety this year. Uh. The thing
Speaker 1: that gets me at special teams because um, he I
Speaker 1: think he had three or four block kicks in college. Yep.
Speaker 1: He played every special team's unit at Tulsa. I just
Speaker 1: think he could help you potentially there at some point
Speaker 1: on the coverage units. And and we're not there yet.
Speaker 1: So um, I don't know that that one's That one's
Speaker 1: surprising to me. And Mike McCarthy has been asked about
Speaker 1: it and he's basically said, I want to see him
Speaker 1: get to special teams first. That's that's the goal. But
Speaker 1: it's it's we're not We're not there yet. It's crazy
Speaker 1: to me. Hecma, well, Isaiah, I mean, I thought Isaiah's
Speaker 1: gonna break out the free Regid Robinson teams. There it
Speaker 1: feels it feels like it's the preseason and they and
Speaker 1: they're like holding a practice practice squad player the guy
Speaker 1: they want to bring back. They don't want to show him,
Speaker 1: you know, That's what it feels like. But he's collected
Speaker 1: eleven checks now, you know, and and and good for him,
Speaker 1: you know, stack him up. He's healthy, you know. But
Speaker 1: got dog man. I want to see the boy. I
Speaker 1: want to see him playing. It's not like I can't
Speaker 1: imagine that everybody else who's played before him is that
Speaker 1: much better than him. I just can't foresee. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just can't foresee that now. But not Wilson, but Thompson backfire.
Speaker 1: My opinion has been of Reggie Robinson just coming out
Speaker 1: of the division that he came TELSA. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what that division is. That he played the
Speaker 1: American athletic that a lot of those guys American athletic
Speaker 1: like kids like that probably need your rookie OTAs and
Speaker 1: two of days to get acclimated with the NFL UM.
Speaker 1: I think with the coaching staff and all of the
Speaker 1: evaluating that they do daily, if Reggie Robinson was ready
Speaker 1: to go, he would have been on the field. Don't
Speaker 1: do that. Don't do that. I don't do that. Head
Speaker 1: and I'm there. I just feel like the evaluation has happened. No,
Speaker 1: he's moved, he's moved to he's moved positions. He's safety now.
Speaker 1: And I'm with Rob when when I when I say
Speaker 1: that his best chance of getting on the field is
Speaker 1: probably going to be special teams and he hadn't even
Speaker 1: got there on that. So he's a guy that is
Speaker 1: active every week and collect the checks. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, there has to be something to
Speaker 1: his game that has given these this coaching staff pauls Heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, say I need to get out the rep shirt. No, don't.
Speaker 1: You don't need the rep shir because I'm aout to
Speaker 1: end this right now. The back Typically I typically would
Speaker 1: go with that answer. Heck, the fact that you sypically
Speaker 1: that you know the coaches and you know the scows
Speaker 1: and everybody else have evaluated him, and you know he
Speaker 1: just must not be ready, all I'm gonna say is
Speaker 1: Gucci Thenucci. Obviously we're not that dog On good at
Speaker 1: at evaluating who's ready who's not ready. So dog on it,
Speaker 1: put Reggie out there. That's all you had, that's that's
Speaker 1: all you That's all I need, that's all I need,
Speaker 1: that's all you had. No, No, they didn't really have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: theyn't have a choice. If you think if there was
Speaker 1: somebody else out there, I would have won the staying up.
Speaker 1: They could have They could have called your boy. I
Speaker 1: would have put the headphones down and I would have
Speaker 1: came out there. Okay, no, lord, No, I would have
Speaker 1: loved it. I would have known you. I would have
Speaker 1: paid to see that. Well, they would have paid to
Speaker 1: see it too, because that's only I would have got
Speaker 1: out there. We would have that's fair, fair, that's a
Speaker 1: good point. And it would have had to be a
Speaker 1: hefty check at that point as well. We would have
Speaker 1: had to get Chris Beam to take our little road
Speaker 1: road set up and take the road caster, and we
Speaker 1: would have to sit out on the practice field and
Speaker 1: be like Mike, listen, listen, listen, listen, that's our guy.
Speaker 1: We know there's no practice availability for media, but this
Speaker 1: is different. I would have loved I would have loved
Speaker 1: for them to see me. I would have drove the
Speaker 1: cart to pick you up off. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I got money on it. I'm still faster than eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the dudes on the squad right now, right now,
Speaker 1: hey man, I would take and I would put it
Speaker 1: on the side against you, against me? Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: think you're eighty percent I am. I'm just saying there.
Speaker 1: I mean, do I need to bring do I need
Speaker 1: to bring out some film? Film? Now? Hey, y'all know
Speaker 1: I own a gym, right you know? You know do
Speaker 1: you own a track? I have a track? Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to know if you do you see
Speaker 1: this right now? Are you seeing this right now? I'm here? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like the next time we take this out
Speaker 1: to the Tostitos, you know, out there in front of
Speaker 1: that in front of the I feel like we have
Speaker 1: to race on the dog on front line. Now I'll
Speaker 1: race you. It'll be terrible. I think of funny Sebazy.
Speaker 1: You hear that in the back Listen up, next time
Speaker 1: we're out there in the front yard is going down
Speaker 1: basement insurance company. We wait to get this pool hamstring
Speaker 1: that college is gonna have. Please, ain't nobody trying to
Speaker 1: race you? Champ Man going on with that. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I'm driving the car. I'm driving the cart through
Speaker 1: to come get you off the field. Dog. Believe that
Speaker 1: I would look like rich icing out there. He got
Speaker 1: this little suit run I would just be like struggling
Speaker 1: and labor in the whole time. Yeah, that would be
Speaker 1: that would be fun. Oh man. Okay, so we've kind
Speaker 1: of gotten off track a little bit and our time
Speaker 1: starting to run out. But we've got a really good
Speaker 1: question from Joe Ferguson. I want to get to it.
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Speaker 1: started talking about racing Isaiah. But whenever we whenever we
Speaker 1: come back, we will we will hit this Joe Ferguson
Speaker 1: question and continue on with some more fans on the
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Speaker 1: it's nineteen oh eight. Don't you think we should get
Speaker 1: electricity and stop using candles to see it night? It's
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Speaker 1: here for Talking Cowboys final segment here on this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: continuing on with some fans on the fifty and some
Speaker 1: race talk back and forth in the breaks, were Gore,
Speaker 1: Isaiah's like pumped up, Well, so we pulling back your
Speaker 1: curtain again. We do a film room right after this
Speaker 1: six and we go into Oh gosh, we go. We
Speaker 1: go and do the film room right after this, and
Speaker 1: Isaiah are talking about maybe going out to the Toastitos
Speaker 1: Fiesta Plaza and maybe running really quickly just for fun. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Isaiah's pumped about it. But got some fans
Speaker 1: on the fifty questions we want to get to here
Speaker 1: before we run out of time here on this edition
Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys, and Joe Ferguson brings up the question.
Speaker 1: It's very simple one. But someone is on the open
Speaker 1: market as of yesterday because of some legal issues and
Speaker 1: legal decisions, and we can get into this as much
Speaker 1: as we want or as little as we want, but
Speaker 1: he asked, what do you all think about DeAndre Baker
Speaker 1: in terms of the cornerback position and the former first
Speaker 1: round corner that is now on the open market due
Speaker 1: to his case being dropped in kind of something that
Speaker 1: really it honestly needs a Netflix documentary. How crazy his
Speaker 1: whole thing has been back and forth, but Jerry was
Speaker 1: asked about it this morning, So I'm asking you, guys,
Speaker 1: what do you think about DeAndre Baker? Rob He's a
Speaker 1: talented player, Um, the guys that the fan asked me
Speaker 1: about it, and be honest with you, I haven't followed
Speaker 1: that whole case that closely. I mean, I saw what
Speaker 1: happened yesterday with I think his charges were dropped correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's part of an extortion case. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Really talented guy. I just think I think, you know,
Speaker 1: any team's got to kind of dig into what happened.
Speaker 1: I think figure out what's going on with that UM.
Speaker 1: And Jerry was asked specifically about him on the fan
Speaker 1: this morning and just kind of said, look, we're always
Speaker 1: looking to upgrade our team, but we're you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't really comment on it specifically, So that's just kind
Speaker 1: of where it is. Just a kind of a strange deal.
Speaker 1: Huh Yeah, strange to say the least. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: kick the tires. You gotta kick the tires on the
Speaker 1: guy like that. And I think that Will McClay and
Speaker 1: his staff are doing that for every player in the
Speaker 1: league period, just trying to find out if they can
Speaker 1: upgrade this roster. And we talked about it was it
Speaker 1: groove on to move on yesterday and I think once
Speaker 1: I got to my move on, I pretty much got
Speaker 1: rid of half the defense. So if we're turning over
Speaker 1: the roster at the rate that I was talking about,
Speaker 1: then definitely, yeah, man, it's worth giving this guy. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know enough about him, so Okay, I can't
Speaker 1: really comment on him. That's fine, that's fine. And he
Speaker 1: that's the thing is really what do we know about
Speaker 1: him in terms of an NFL roster because right now
Speaker 1: it ends up being very minimal tape And then you
Speaker 1: had the legal issues that kind of arose, and sure
Speaker 1: you got what you had in college and Georgia, but
Speaker 1: ultimately you're you're still going to go off of what.
Speaker 1: I guess what you're ceiling for him is you would
Speaker 1: treat him like a first round pick, but the contract
Speaker 1: is going to be odd because of the issues that
Speaker 1: were off the field. It's going to be very interesting.
Speaker 1: It's a complicated matter overall, But I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people would take him, And I think, like Heckma said,
Speaker 1: you have to kick the tires, right, you gotta, especially
Speaker 1: when it's a position of need, and it's a position
Speaker 1: that most likely you're going to spend a very very
Speaker 1: high pick on in the first round of the draft,
Speaker 1: maybe the second round of the draft. Why not kick
Speaker 1: the tires on him. Why not try and see what's
Speaker 1: out there and maybe sure up your defense a little bit.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine texted me last night about it,
Speaker 1: and he said, what would you think about a Treyvon Diggs,
Speaker 1: A DeAndre Baker and a Patrick's Certain who's a top
Speaker 1: draft prospect right now that you could get in the
Speaker 1: mid teens. You could don't have to get him in
Speaker 1: the top ten at least right now. All those three
Speaker 1: there's a guy those three. I'm just saying those three guys,
Speaker 1: and I said mid teens. I didn't say top five.
Speaker 1: He's not a top five pick. So I'm saying, even
Speaker 1: in the middle of that first round where you picked
Speaker 1: last year. If you even if you're in the middle
Speaker 1: of that first round and you could get a Patrick's
Speaker 1: certain and those three to guys would be unbelievable to
Speaker 1: find a way to do it. Now, moving on from there,
Speaker 1: there was a draft question that was that was involved
Speaker 1: in in the fans on the fifty and since you
Speaker 1: guys just don't want to talk about draft, we won't
Speaker 1: do that. Now I will ask and I say this,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about or excuse me, here's the
Speaker 1: questions from strike Chris on the periscope. He said, do
Speaker 1: you all think if we win the division we will
Speaker 1: sign Dank to a long term deal or would you
Speaker 1: tag him? Isah? Hopefully they would. They will honor him
Speaker 1: and sign him to a long term sign him. It's
Speaker 1: disrespectful to tack somebody, especially at that position. Is it
Speaker 1: literally is taken as a sign of disrespect. There's no
Speaker 1: it's no other way to go about it. Um, they
Speaker 1: have the money to do it. Um, they had the
Speaker 1: time to do it, and they chose not to. Now
Speaker 1: they have all the time in the world to do it.
Speaker 1: If they franchise tack him again. I don't like the
Speaker 1: franchise tack. First of all, I don't, don't thirty five
Speaker 1: million dollars. It doesn't matter, It doesn't, it doesn't matter. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm asking close to thirty eight. Yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: thirty eight million dollars worth of disrespect, I think. So
Speaker 1: check this out. Heck, it's disrespectful because you work your
Speaker 1: butt off to get to that point in your career
Speaker 1: where you can leave. Right, You work your butt you
Speaker 1: grind business, You grind business. Yes, but I'm saying it's
Speaker 1: it's a disadvantage, right if you the same the same
Speaker 1: the same power that the ownership has to be able
Speaker 1: to say you can't go anywhere. You've worked your butt
Speaker 1: off to get to this point. Now you can't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I think the players, somehow, someway should have the same way,
Speaker 1: the same power to veto that, because that's it's just
Speaker 1: it's you have so much time as a professional athlete,
Speaker 1: right as especially you have a very small window of time,
Speaker 1: and if you work your butt off to make sure
Speaker 1: that you're ensure that you've done everything you can to
Speaker 1: get to that point to where you're even in a
Speaker 1: conversation to get franchise tagged, you should they should not
Speaker 1: have the power to do so, I just I personally don't.
Speaker 1: I think it's just unfair. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: unfairness league, but that's one thing that's that's definitely unfair.
Speaker 1: And honestly, what happened to Dak with the ankle is
Speaker 1: exactly why yep, yep, no, And you can look at it.
Speaker 1: I see it that way as well. But when you
Speaker 1: talk about the word Dak is trending even after the
Speaker 1: ankle injury, he's he's he's gonna be fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: you talk about the injury and his rehabbing, him coming back.
Speaker 1: I would love a long term deal with Dak. I was.
Speaker 1: I was hoping forward before the season even started. We
Speaker 1: didn't get it. Uh, And so the way that things
Speaker 1: are are progressing with this whole negotiation with Dak, it
Speaker 1: looks to be that that's where we're leaning towards getting
Speaker 1: him signed to a long term deal. You look at
Speaker 1: the cap. The cap is the Dallas Cowboys cap. We're
Speaker 1: in a bad situation with that. So to even relegate
Speaker 1: thirty eight million dollars for just one player for one year,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take away our ability to get other players signed.
Speaker 1: So I think with to that regard, we may not
Speaker 1: want to cap him, but I mean franchise him. But
Speaker 1: come on, now, I mean that we're dealt. But look
Speaker 1: at the situation that Dak's in currently, right, Dak's almost
Speaker 1: in a situation where I don't want to put this
Speaker 1: on him because it's not coming from his words, but
Speaker 1: where he's almost hoping that his team doesn't do that
Speaker 1: right because it improves his stock. Right as an individual,
Speaker 1: being selfish, as an individual, you you almost hope that
Speaker 1: your team doesn't do that well because now they miss
Speaker 1: you right now, they need you now, they have to
Speaker 1: pay you. Now. They if any dogman who came out
Speaker 1: here and balled out right now, look at look at
Speaker 1: the position that he's in, yeah, look at a position
Speaker 1: that he's in an came out, yeah yeah, his leverage
Speaker 1: goes down, his stock goes down, you know, because now
Speaker 1: people are looking at and says he wasn't as important
Speaker 1: to this team, right, So I mean, it's it can
Speaker 1: go either way, and that's the reason why the franchise
Speaker 1: tag is so bad. Look at Earl. Look at Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1: Right when Earl Thomas came back. Earl Thomas came back
Speaker 1: right now, last year where he wanted to get his
Speaker 1: contract extending out. He wasn't a franchise tag, but he
Speaker 1: wanted to get that extension to hire. I feel like
Speaker 1: he should have got that, should have got that extension,
Speaker 1: and he didn't. He tried to hold out, and any
Speaker 1: what did he do. He said, I'm gonna come back
Speaker 1: for the team because of my teammates. And then what
Speaker 1: it end up happening. Yeah, right, got hurt, broken life. No,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's no. I get it. I understand exactly
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I'm just talking about as far as
Speaker 1: Dak and his where he is right now, and by
Speaker 1: the time he gets to the end of his career,
Speaker 1: he's going to be a very wealthy man. And so
Speaker 1: I just look right now the way that the things
Speaker 1: have gone this year. I think you hindsight is always
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and you can say, oh my god, we
Speaker 1: should have got a long term deal going. And whether
Speaker 1: the narrative is he's making more money not playing because
Speaker 1: of how bad the offense looks, that's a whole nother
Speaker 1: thing as well. We didn't look that good when he
Speaker 1: was playing, and so that we needed to get better obviously,
Speaker 1: But there's so many variables to that, right, and that's
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that all off season. But still, man,
Speaker 1: I think Dak is going to be handsomely taken care
Speaker 1: of for the rest of his career as long as
Speaker 1: he's you know, healthy obviously well. And if you if
Speaker 1: you tag Dak and you don't get a long term
Speaker 1: deal done prior to that July fifteenth deadline, then you're basically,
Speaker 1: I mean, that might be it. That's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got one year with him, and then he's going
Speaker 1: to test the open marketing and he's gonna get his money.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough task to get him back. Remember,
Speaker 1: the only two quarterbacks who had ever been on the
Speaker 1: franchise tag twice was Kirk Cousins left Drew Brees left
Speaker 1: back the year after they were on their second franchise tag.
Speaker 1: So you talk about the fact of the matter is
Speaker 1: is someone will pay this quarterback. Somebody will pay a
Speaker 1: premium for Dak Prescott. So if you tag him again,
Speaker 1: you're ultimately saying, all right, test the market, we'll see
Speaker 1: what you get out there, and we'll find our way
Speaker 1: on our own. And I don't think that's what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. I think they're going to get a deal time.
Speaker 1: I think they very well might tag him just to
Speaker 1: keep that window going. You know, if they have to
Speaker 1: tag him by March, that's possible, just to keep talking.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm with you, Kyle. I just think I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm being naive and there's a lot of skeptics
Speaker 1: out there that don't think the Cowboys are really going
Speaker 1: to push to sign him. They've but they've put offers
Speaker 1: on the table. It just hasn't gotten done. I think
Speaker 1: what's happened with the ankle and him being out. I
Speaker 1: think it's like Isaiah said, man, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: more than just what he brings when the ball is snapped.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think clearly his leadership has missed um.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of intangibles with Dak Prescott point. We're
Speaker 1: seeing that, and that's that's why I think it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna get done. I really believe it's gonna get done
Speaker 1: after the season. But Chris Beam did some math for
Speaker 1: us on on on our webcam. I guess that's the
Speaker 1: was that the was that the total money he would
Speaker 1: make Chris on the on the tag over two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like close to seventy million to heckx point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's great. Yeah, I know, but think about been
Speaker 1: thinking about the long term security though, Yea, with a
Speaker 1: long term deal, it's it's well beyond that. I'm just
Speaker 1: soaking guys, this is all good now. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: take that disrespect too. Yeah, that'd be fantastic. I'd be
Speaker 1: cool with just one seventy years hundred dollar bills. Now, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one way to end the show. But whenever we're
Speaker 1: we're talking about I want to go off of what
Speaker 1: Rob just said. And and I think that's funny because
Speaker 1: we whenever we started this group, whenever we first got
Speaker 1: on this show last offseason, we were talking about the
Speaker 1: Dak saga. Prior to that, we were talking about the
Speaker 1: Dak saga. Well, we just when we thought another wrench
Speaker 1: couldn't be thrown into it, the injury got thrown into it.
Speaker 1: And you have another wrench that's into this whole deal,
Speaker 1: and it just adds complexity to the whole thing, and
Speaker 1: it's something that you're gonna have to deal with. But
Speaker 1: other than that, I think that I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it. For us, I'm talking Cowboys. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get past one hundred. I'm trying to get past one hundred.
Speaker 1: I don't even want that visual action. I don't either.
Speaker 1: I don't want it either. All Right, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us, for Chris Beam in the bag, for
Speaker 1: heck By Harson, for Rob Phillips, Uti stand back. It
Speaker 1: wasn't uppercutting. That's knocking us out here. On Talk to Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle. You almost will see you tomorrow nine thirty
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