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Speaker 1: This is the Talking Cowboys Break, streaming live on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys out Welcome

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Speaker 1: everybody to in a special edition of Talking Cowboys Break

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Speaker 1: in the swbc's Mortgage Studio after the bye weekend. Joined

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Speaker 1: today by myself, Taylor Stern, Brian brought us, Dave Hellman,

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Speaker 1: and of course Nate Newton. So, how is everyone doing?

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Speaker 1: Feeling rested after that bye weekend? Feeling frustrated? Where are

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Speaker 1: you at? It's a crazy NFL. Yeah, this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're going with this. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: tell me what you did over the weekend. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: just you know, you just watch tape of Navarro Bowman

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Speaker 1: all day on Sunday pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, you're feeling good. Nate.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real, real good.

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Speaker 1: I just knowing what we gotta do and hoping the

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Speaker 1: coaches found some answers, you know, to translate to these

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Speaker 1: players what they need to do to get better to

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Speaker 1: win some games. I just want to say, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think about this team one time from like Thursday night

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Speaker 1: until an hour ago, and it was awesome. But I'm

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Speaker 1: ready to go now I'm feeling good. That's funny. You

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Speaker 1: would admit that it is your job. It is my job.

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Speaker 1: And when I get like a three day break from

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Speaker 1: it for one of like two times all year, I

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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. You'll be able to be real

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Speaker 1: good for this show. Then. Oh, I'm so ready to go.

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Speaker 1: He's prepared, ready, ready to go. Yeah, you didn't think

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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys when you heard that all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: Navarro Bowman was an unexpected free agent in the NFL

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Speaker 1: linebacker when the Cowboys need a little bit of help

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Speaker 1: right there. I think that technically happened before we left

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Speaker 1: for the bye week. So I'm Saturday. We started hearing that,

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Speaker 1: did we Well? Whatever, I got my ear to the ground.

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Speaker 1: I'm good. You're on Twitter. I'm always on Twitter. He's

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Speaker 1: always on Twitter, so he's always thinking about the team.

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Speaker 1: He's just trying to act like he's miss I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to act tough. Right now, Navarro Bowman, we can talk

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Speaker 1: about him because he is a free agent in the league,

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Speaker 1: and he is a guy that's been very well known

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Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys. Played with Sean Lee at Penn State.

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Speaker 1: Both drafted in the same year Obviously Sean Lee ended

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Speaker 1: up here and Navar has been at this forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: So what do you guys think of him on the market.

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Speaker 1: It should think take on him Brown, I know you've

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Speaker 1: seen something. Yeah, I know, I watched him. I just

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Speaker 1: got done. Watched him again against the because now the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers being an opponent watching him against the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't run as well as he once did. I think

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Speaker 1: the Achilles the knee has kind of robbed him of

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Speaker 1: that ability. Still a very good point of attack player.

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Speaker 1: Still one of those guys that you know, if you

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Speaker 1: talked about, hey, I could see the fit because the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have really really struggled against the run. He plays

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Speaker 1: Mike backer. That's kind of where the Cowboys, you know,

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Speaker 1: have a little bit of some strength if you want

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Speaker 1: but yeah, that's you know it would be. It would

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Speaker 1: be as a fit as a rotational player. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how much you would want him to play in

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Speaker 1: times where I watched him get taken advantage of that way.

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Speaker 1: But when the ball's come in his direction, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: make the tackle, He's gonna be physical doing it, and

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Speaker 1: it's made that type of a player. I see why

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Speaker 1: the tires on that he's a two down player. Now.

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Speaker 1: I think he still played three for the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: first of all, let be let's be real for a sac.

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Speaker 1: Usually when these types of things happen, you just kind

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Speaker 1: And we're not doing that here because I don't I

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Speaker 1: think everybody would agree that this wouldn't be a terrible idea. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not a terrible idea. So with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: can you outline a more specific plan for how you

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Speaker 1: But in this case, the more the merria, yeah, the

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Speaker 1: in these types of situations. If could get somebody that

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Speaker 1: Than Hitchens and Lee. I think that Hitchens, to me

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Speaker 1: but he runs better. But you're the space. You're still

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Speaker 1: probably looking at a solution where you're going to platoon

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Speaker 1: You this might even cause you to have to sit Smith,

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Speaker 1: from here that that's not a bad thing because Jalen

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Speaker 1: I wonder for them, For the Cowboys, I wonder if

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Speaker 1: wonder if Bowman is willing to admit that that's the

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Speaker 1: just I'm just old school. How what was you thinking? Okay,

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Speaker 1: we we we even need a run stopping line defensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: All we need a lineback or somebody to help. You know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you see what I'm saying. So now I don't

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Speaker 1: by what brought us. Says he'll brought us, say he'll

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Speaker 1: You know. So I hear what you guys are all saying,

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Speaker 1: but technically cleared up for the fans because it's not

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Speaker 1: on visits. He's gonna go talk to some other teams.

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Speaker 1: then from there, how does you know? Technically, since he's

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Speaker 1: does that? He's a vested veteran. So San Francisco's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to pay him all year long, no matter what. No,

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Speaker 1: he could, he could. If he doesn't sign anywhere, he

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Speaker 1: can apply for his salary. Okay, but you know, if

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Speaker 1: he goes, If he goes, he's at a six million

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Speaker 1: They know the forty nine ers, the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: You can negotiate a different deal for him. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to pay anything. I mean, excuse me, Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can negotiate a new deal with that. Okay. Instead instead

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Speaker 1: we're gonna pay him for the last eleven weeks. You

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Speaker 1: that in itself gives you an opportunity. I know, talking

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Speaker 1: my selling point. If I was the Raiders, I'm like, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: you you know you're right by the basically, don't have

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Speaker 1: to change. You don't have to change, you don't have

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Speaker 1: You got to go to Alameda now instead of Santa Clara.

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Speaker 1: If he if he's good enough to help the scene,

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Speaker 1: and uh, the money's right, you know, don't hesitate. I'm

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Speaker 1: want to I'm about a youth movement. But evidently the

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Speaker 1: Cowboy isn't not about a youth movement. So let's get

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Speaker 1: this veteran in here that making help us, because you're

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Speaker 1: either gonna sell out. And what I mean by that

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Speaker 1: is braink putting Neil on the roster, put Ash on

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Speaker 1: But it seemed like they don't want to set out.

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Speaker 1: So this guy should be looked at in a serious manner,

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Speaker 1: else stepping up in say yeah, absolutely again, I gave

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Speaker 1: ready to talk more about the Dallas Cowboys and how

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Speaker 1: they will respond with eleven more games left to go

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Speaker 1: in the twenty seventeen season two and three. Right now

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Speaker 1: sitting there, ready for the forty nine ers away game

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Speaker 1: this weekend and a yeah, where I guess we're talking.

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Speaker 1: It might not be as easy as everyone's thinking. No,

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Speaker 1: thirteen points separating the forty nine ers between their five.

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Speaker 1: They're rowing six, aren't they They're rowing six and they've

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Speaker 1: lost five of those games by thirteen combined points. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they got beat up pretty good in Week one,

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Speaker 1: and ever since then they've lost on like the last

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Speaker 1: play of the game. Every week they made a quarterback

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Speaker 1: except they made a quarterback switch. Yeah. With bet c J.

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Speaker 1: Beth out of Iowa. We talked about him on the

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Speaker 1: Draft show Shout Out time to out out Draft Show. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And just when you think and and five teams locked away,

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Speaker 1: the Giants go and get the win on Sunday Night

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Speaker 1: football really upset you, didn't it did not Survivor Pool. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for many reasons, but Survivor Pool people took that one

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Speaker 1: on the chin. Yeah. Gosh, that's brutal. But you know

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Speaker 1: it was last week when we got the news of

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott Thursday evening that the Fifth Circuit Court, I

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Speaker 1: hope I said that right. So many sees, different courts

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Speaker 1: every week, it seems, has decided to uphold Ezeki elliott

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Speaker 1: suspension removing the injunction, and as it stands right now,

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Speaker 1: he's currently suspended, but the NFLPA has announced they will

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Speaker 1: file another a pill. Yeah, I'm so confused with this

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Speaker 1: whole entire process. But you know, we were talking about okay,

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Speaker 1: people are saying, are you going to trade for Carlos Hiden?

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Speaker 1: You know, we were like, oh, these crazy rumors and stuff.

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Speaker 1: But fans want to know what are they going to

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Speaker 1: do with running back? And do we even know where

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Speaker 1: Ezekie Elliott stands right now? When will we know? For

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Speaker 1: this week? At least? Well, as far as I understand it,

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Speaker 1: Zeke and his team are going to refile in bank

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Speaker 1: is what it's called, right, right, um spelled? Yeah? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: at the which court are they're gonna do it? At?

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Speaker 1: Just tant They're gonna refile in the fifth circuit? Yeah

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Speaker 1: they not Yeah for a for a basically an appeal

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Speaker 1: of what was just tossed out. Yeah, everything that I've

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Speaker 1: read suggests that it's very unlikely he will win this. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's what I've heard, um, And so if that happens,

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Speaker 1: then for there are reasons why I'm sorry to interrupt

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Speaker 1: but it's just it's a rarity for the court to

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Speaker 1: grant these types of things. Basically, that's as far as

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Speaker 1: I understand it. It's not something they do very often.

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Speaker 1: You know, the judge in Texas is asking for it,

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Speaker 1: right for he renders a final decision. But it was

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Speaker 1: so funny, is yeah, when this first went up to

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Speaker 1: the Fifth Court, Oh, this is a seven percent chance

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Speaker 1: they've rather even looking change these things. Well we got

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Speaker 1: seven percent. Yeah, Well you had three judges, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it was it was it was pretty clear, just kind

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Speaker 1: of talking to some people that were following the case

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Speaker 1: pretty tightly. One of the judges was a was a

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Speaker 1: pro pro NFL judge, one judge was pro labor player,

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Speaker 1: and the third judge who had to make the call,

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Speaker 1: they didn't know which direction was going to go right now,

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Speaker 1: but they've seen some of these decisions have been made

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Speaker 1: on party lines, Democrats and Republicans. So that's another thing

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Speaker 1: you've got to kind of keep an eye on. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, to me, I wonder if people, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about this on our show six weeks ago, seven

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, that the fact that you're possibly going to

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Speaker 1: be three and three with Ezekiel Elliott. Do you mean

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a hindsight play now? But it's something

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Speaker 1: I talked about. You know, do you go ahead and say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I understand clearing your name. I get that we're trying

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Speaker 1: to clear your name honestly, but do you take the

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Speaker 1: suspension right there and hope that you're three and three

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Speaker 1: or whatever and then play it out. Let's let's take

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Speaker 1: this at face value. You can't. You can't do that,

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Speaker 1: and you can't argue for that if you are, what

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Speaker 1: would you think they're better record could have been without him,

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Speaker 1: honestly their best case scenario. I don't, And honestly I

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Speaker 1: felt the same way that you did. Back in August,

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Speaker 1: and on our show, Derek Eagleton made what I thought

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Speaker 1: was a really good point, which is that if you

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Speaker 1: are to believe Ezekiel Elliott that right, he didn't do

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Speaker 1: anything wrong, and you're, yes, how can you can't just

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Speaker 1: take that suspension which not as only not just as

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Speaker 1: six paychecks that you're not going to get, but you're

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Speaker 1: just accepting that being your record and your legacy going forward,

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Speaker 1: and it's something that you have to work. I think

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Speaker 1: people have survived this you know. But but if you

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Speaker 1: adamantly believe that you did nothing wrong, why why he's

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Speaker 1: going to get suspended now anyway? Clearly? Yeah, but the

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Speaker 1: court system, the courts system, whether it's it's about and

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Speaker 1: it's not about it's not about the domestic violence now,

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Speaker 1: it's about whether he can play or not. They're not

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Speaker 1: ruling on the ruling on the ruling on right to work.

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Speaker 1: What they're doing right now, we've buried all the domestic

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Speaker 1: domestic violence stuffy eighteen feet of red tape. See that's not.

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Speaker 1: That's not the case anymore. It's it's not. But I

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Speaker 1: guess my point is, if that were me and I

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Speaker 1: was adamant that I had not done that, I'm not

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Speaker 1: just gonna put up with that if I don't have

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Speaker 1: to and just say, yeah, well so my legacy going forward?

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Speaker 1: Is it any better now? For him? Nate's got an

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Speaker 1: interesting look on no, no, no, I'm just to a

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Speaker 1: great debate here, But oh it's not. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: not a great one because because to me, it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's clear that I get the part about clearing your name,

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Speaker 1: I understand it, But did he really clear his name?

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Speaker 1: If he obviously it didn't work out the way he

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Speaker 1: wanted it to. But you're talking about life versus football, right, No, no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: They can go ahead on. But my bottom line is

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Speaker 1: just right here. If we're gonna get past the domestic violence,

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Speaker 1: you still don't You still fight for the team. You

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Speaker 1: still have to make him, try to get all the

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Speaker 1: six games in as long as you can, because you're

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Speaker 1: a better team with Zeke. So you fight, fight, fight

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Speaker 1: until you can't fight no more. And then then then

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna not bury the domestic violence and you

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Speaker 1: adam it that you didn't do it, you still you fight, fight, fight,

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Speaker 1: because six games without Zeke is not is imaginable. But

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Speaker 1: I feel more comfortable with Zeke. Oh sure we do so,

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that's the question. I think you

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Speaker 1: could say, well, what would you think this team would

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Speaker 1: be without Zeke? A disaster? Oh no, you're about to

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Speaker 1: see what this team is out without You're about to

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Speaker 1: see who would have started the season. It would have

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Speaker 1: been a disaster. Even they get him now, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a disaster. So I don't even think record read

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Speaker 1: out of him. I just think, Okay, we got a

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Speaker 1: bunch of young kids have had it. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I thought an interesting point that Emmanuel Acho made a

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Speaker 1: while back on Cover four, and at the time I

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Speaker 1: didn't really think, well, I didn't think it had any

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Speaker 1: merit to it. And now, kind of going back to

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Speaker 1: your question, he said, you know, maybe if this whole

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Speaker 1: situation had been handled in training camp and it was

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Speaker 1: six games, that's it, you know it with maybe three

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Speaker 1: three weeks, maybe a little bit more heading into your

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Speaker 1: regular season play that Ezekielllett will be missing the first

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Speaker 1: six games of your season. And he said, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like when you break an arm and it's it's

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Speaker 1: your dominant hand. You have to learn how to write

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Speaker 1: with this hand. For sure. You know you're gonna go

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Speaker 1: back to this eventually, but while you got this cast on,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to learn how to be productive with

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Speaker 1: the left hand for a little bit. Okay, what do

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Speaker 1: you do? How do you write? What are the different

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Speaker 1: movements in your life and kind of getting used to

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Speaker 1: that just for the time being. And you know, if

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Speaker 1: this team would have maybe had that knowledge, I think

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Speaker 1: the uncertainty has almost affected more than any case I've

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Speaker 1: seen before. You know, David Irving you knew it well

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Speaker 1: in advance. He's going to be out those first four games.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be here? They could have benefited from

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Speaker 1: a more clear cut pick, I think so. I think

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Speaker 1: you know with this up and down and up and down. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you had to bench Darren McFadden maybe to keep him

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Speaker 1: healthy because you never knew when could he have been

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Speaker 1: a better back him and Zeke tandem. That's why I

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Speaker 1: would have done this in August, you know I would have,

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Speaker 1: and and trust me, Nate makes a great a great view.

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Speaker 1: You make a great view, you know. But is his

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Speaker 1: name really cleared? Obviously not, That's what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna fault him for trying. No, and you

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Speaker 1: shouldn't and should but you're doing right now. You're saying

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Speaker 1: he should have just taken it and sat out. See,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that. I'm saying that because I don't see

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Speaker 1: an I don't see a good ending for him. That

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Speaker 1: was my whole thing. It ain't gonna be a good inning,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I just don't see it. I

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Speaker 1: don't see a good ending for him, and I don't

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Speaker 1: see a good ending for the team. But Brian, this

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Speaker 1: is this is, this is what the fall eventually gonna

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Speaker 1: be is Are you ready for that? To put this

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Speaker 1: team on his back? Every week? He has for the

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Speaker 1: first six weeks, and that's why I told you the

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Speaker 1: first five weeks. So with so without him, at least Zeke,

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Speaker 1: give him a reprieve. Rather, he's just for a half.

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Speaker 1: But without Zeke, you know now, I his accordinator may

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Speaker 1: not even wait, you may not even have no inkling

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Speaker 1: to say. Okay, let's continue to press on. Am I? Okay?

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Speaker 1: And we disagree on that. I get your point. It's

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Speaker 1: a bad situation. No, I don't see a good ending

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Speaker 1: for anybody, really, But I'm not going to kill the

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Speaker 1: guy in hindsight for trying to get out from under this.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, am I a crazy homer? If I'm

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Speaker 1: I want to watch what this looks like before I

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Speaker 1: just declare it a train wreck? I mean, certainly, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you're losing one of your best players and a crucial

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Speaker 1: component of your run. Your quarterback has played out of

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Speaker 1: his mind, right, and you're two and three combine Dak

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Speaker 1: raising his level of play with all right, we can

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Speaker 1: talk about that. Lets yes, where a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: component with you. Go ahead, I mean between the trio

635
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Speaker 1: of Alfred Morris, Darren McFadden and Rod Smith. Certainly it's

636
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: not as good as Ezekiel Elliott, but I'm not ready

637
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: to declare it an ineffective train wreck either. I just

638
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: will it be enough? Probably not. What was worse than

639
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen I know, we've got to rewind two seasons,

640
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: so and very different slates, different personnel. What was different?

641
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Speaker 1: Was it that you didn't have a solid quarterback or

642
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: that you didn't have a solid runner most of that season?

643
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: You had that season running back by committee. That kind

644
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: of plays to my points, hey, because their running game

645
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: was not bad that year. Darren McFadden, Yeah, sure, what

646
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Speaker 1: I'm saying is there. You didn't start with Darren mcno, No,

647
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: Darren McFadden didn't take over until after the bye week.

648
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Speaker 1: Fittingly enough, it feels kind of familiar, and he ran

649
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Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty seven yards against the Giants

650
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Speaker 1: in his first game as the starter. Um, I don't

651
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Speaker 1: you know, people are asking that on Twitter. I don't

652
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: know if he's just the de facto starter from here

653
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: on out or if it's Morris. I don't know how

654
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: much to expect from Rod Smith, but I do think

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Speaker 1: between the three of them, I certainly think the Cowboys,

656
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Speaker 1: combined with DA's abilities as a runner, I think you

657
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: can hover at or above one hundred yards rushing. What

658
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: are they in the league right now rushing? I want

659
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Speaker 1: to say like fourteenth heading in Well, let me say,

660
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: let me rephrase this. Maybe if you had had Dak

661
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Speaker 1: press Scott in that twenty fifteen season when you were

662
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Speaker 1: going through Okay, Matt Castle, Brandon Weeden, who's this quarter?

663
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Speaker 1: But and you still have the running back situation, would

664
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Speaker 1: you have felt better about that team? Of course? I

665
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: mean defense played better. You know here you are. That's

666
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Speaker 1: if it's kept him in almost every game. That's a

667
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: seven to nine win team with Dak Prescott, I think, yeah, yeah,

668
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying instead of four and twelve,

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Speaker 1: right so, and that's so where I'm at right now

670
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Speaker 1: is barring something crazy like that, everybody just suddenly balling out.

671
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Speaker 1: And I've kind of been feeling this way since probably

672
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals game is you're you're probably talking about you're

673
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to scrape and claw for your wins, and

674
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: this is probably a seven to nine win team. If

675
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Speaker 1: I had to guess, that's just the and it's gonna

676
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: be tough sledding. I had us. If you reframe your

677
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: expectations in that manner, I don't think this is completely undoable.

678
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: The reason I'm not as optimistic is because I had

679
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: us winning nine games easily. No, I had us win

680
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: nine and games he gave away two. Yeah, just gave away.

681
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: Had us winning nine games at the beginning of this season, Yeah,

682
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: and barely getting in as a wild card. Uh. Now,

683
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: you know, you take away Zeke and you know, and

684
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Speaker 1: that's why I would once if he goes away, you know,

685
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: let's have another joint show him about four weeks, you know,

686
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: the Taylor boss man. Yeah, yeah, so we can see

687
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: where we at. Because, uh, just like Zeke and Dak

688
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: came in together and complimented each other last year, I

689
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: think the more complimentary player was was Zeke. If you

690
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: think Dak was easier, handle easier, his success was greater

691
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: because of Zeke in his offensive line. The condition you're

692
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: in right now, would you accept that condition if you

693
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: knew that suspension was over after this week? Obviously I

694
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: would much rather be in a situation where this Zeke,

695
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: situation was about to be over, over, over and done

696
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: with your return. Yeah again three and three potentially and

697
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: over Hindsight's twenty twenty. Man, Sure it is, and that

698
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: that's what we do here in the show. If I'm willing,

699
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm willing to break that apart and criticize it. You know,

700
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: I'm still man. I'm not criticized. I'm just saying though

701
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Speaker 1: me personally, if I was in that front office, I

702
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: would like to have this behind me as soon as possible.

703
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: I just don't. I think you wind up in a

704
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: situation there where you're looking at NFL players as chess pieces,

705
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: and that's not the case. You know, they're not just

706
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,280
Speaker 1: tokens that you move around on a board. They're people.

707
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Speaker 1: And Zeke Elliott is adamant that he didn't do anything wrong,

708
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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to bash him or the organization

709
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Speaker 1: for trying to fight that, and obviously it's not ideal

710
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Speaker 1: for anybody. The court, the court system says he wasn't,

711
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Speaker 1: so he really is not a He's really not. It's

712
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Speaker 1: the NFL that's saying that he is a domestic violence person, right,

713
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Speaker 1: not the court exactly, so, which makes it all the

714
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Speaker 1: more frustrating. So why, I mean, his argument is though, well,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, you're calling me a domestic violence

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Speaker 1: abuser or abusive guy. The court of our country says,

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Speaker 1: I'm not, so, so what's the difference? Why? Why? Why

718
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Speaker 1: be concerned with the NFL because they're gonna because data

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Speaker 1: one holds golden the golden him. But but but but

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Speaker 1: but the law of the land. But the law the

721
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Speaker 1: land says he's not a domestic violence guy. Let's not

722
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Speaker 1: be naive, Brian, like that doesn't matter. It's it's whether

723
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Speaker 1: he's serving the suspension and what the NFL says that's

724
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Speaker 1: going to dictate his advertising revenue, whether or not he's

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Speaker 1: to win games, witness Gay This is so without this guy,

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Speaker 1: Cowboys app Hey, So I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen with the Cowboys or Ezekiel Elliott

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Speaker 1: and what all happens over the next eleven weeks or so.

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Speaker 1: But I do know that Tommy John makes the most

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Speaker 1: comfortable underwear I've ever worn. In my life. They're gracious

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Speaker 1: it's I'm with you there. If it's free, give me three, Brian.

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Speaker 1: If I have to pay, no way, thank you. That

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Speaker 1: Brownie paper towel then too. Obviously that was a dig

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Speaker 1: at Dave wearing flannel. It's fifty degrees in Dallas today.

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Speaker 1: You're damn right, I'm wearing flannel. Okay, So Nate ask

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Speaker 1: your wonderful question that you asked. Yeah, yeah, team, I

786
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: just want to know one thing from Brian and uh

787
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Speaker 1: and get him Dave. Would this team be better without Zeke?

788
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean no, they're having a problem no winning games

789
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: with him. Will this team be better without him? I

790
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: don't think they'll be better without him, But I, like

791
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: I said, I'm not ready to declare them an inoperable

792
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: train wreck either. I don't know. What do you think

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00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: I thought if if he just sat the first six weeks, right,

794
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. No, No, if he would have, they

795
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Speaker 1: would have been writing now what they are? That's what

796
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: I was thought. I thought they were. I thought they

797
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Speaker 1: would probably be a five hundred team. I didn't expect

798
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Speaker 1: to lose to the Rams. So what do you think

799
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Speaker 1: they are now? Where it looks like he won't be

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Speaker 1: available for this next six week stretch? I think you're

801
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: in trouble. How much trouble I think because you're gonna

802
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna put it all the quarterbacks back. Define define

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Speaker 1: trouble because I mean, I mean, are we talking O

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Speaker 1: and six during the two and four? Maybe two and four,

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Speaker 1: so that would put you at four and six? Am

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Speaker 1: I doing the map? No? I'm not four and seven. Yeah,

807
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: that is trouble. That's bad. Yeah. Enlisted team, enlisted team

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00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: defensively in the top fifteen defense real real quick. Yeah,

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00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: you you you are in trouble because, like like brought

810
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Speaker 1: I said, two fifteen, we at least had a defense

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Speaker 1: that competed and hailed people up and got people off

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Speaker 1: the field. You know this hasn't happened, This happened, this

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00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. I mean the Giants stopped themselves. Yeah, this

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00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: was a conversation. You know, everyone over the bye weekend

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Speaker 1: you see different people and you see a lot of

816
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Speaker 1: people asking about what's going on with the Dallas Cowboys.

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00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys all got it this past weekend,

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Speaker 1: whether you wanted to think about the team or not.

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Speaker 1: Dave looking at you, Yeah, that's what the fair thing

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Speaker 1: that you know, people kept asking, like, man, last team

821
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Speaker 1: last year, that team was just having so much fun,

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Speaker 1: you know, they were doing great things and was it

823
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: the locker room chemistry? And it got me thinking, you know,

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Speaker 1: we talked a lot about Man, this team just was

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00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: jelling on all cylinders last year. You know, obviously you

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Speaker 1: do that when you have eleven straight wins, no matter what,

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Speaker 1: whether you want to or not. But you're talking about

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Speaker 1: this youth movement? Does that affect and Nate, you're probably

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00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: the best way to answer this from first, does that

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00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: affect your locker room chemistry? You got guys catching up.

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Speaker 1: You know, you don't know them as well. They've only

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Speaker 1: been here for three months, and now you know you're

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Speaker 1: supposed to go to war with them and kind of

834
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Speaker 1: work on the line to them do different things. Last year,

835
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: you had so many veterans in this locker room, just

836
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: a sprinkle of young guys. Let's say you answer to yourself.

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Speaker 1: You answer to yourself. I mean a lot of guys

838
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Speaker 1: don't know each other. I mean they don't know what

839
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Speaker 1: each other is gonna do on certain plays. Can they

840
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Speaker 1: depend on them? If I was to call it, hey, briders,

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Speaker 1: now you know I'm gonna blitz this time, drop back

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Speaker 1: in this deep, deep zone. You know you just say

843
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: to drop back, I'm going on this here. Well, if

844
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: they did that last year, I could depend on brought

845
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: us to drop back this year here everybody whole way

846
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: out and all of a sudden the ball to snap

847
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: and now you see a lot of this, and winning

848
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: cures a lot. But if you don't know how to

849
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: play this game, you don't know how to be a

850
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: profession If you don't know that, hey, this is where

851
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be at all costs, and you don't

852
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: know when to adjust. It's third and five. The defense

853
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: asked for you to be ten yards off. You got

854
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: to move up. You know, you got to move up

855
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: because now all of a sudden, he run five y'alls

856
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: catch the ball. By the time you get to him,

857
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: he's got a first. So you got little nuances like that,

858
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: guys are not getting you know. I talked to a

859
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: coach and that he's like, if we can just get

860
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: him the line up right and not you know, and

861
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: not go off on their own. I mean, but make

862
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,359
Speaker 1: a guy think he can go off on his own. Yeah,

863
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: it's happened. Yeah, it happened for big plays. Because it's funny,

864
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm hearing you say that you thought this

865
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: team was gonna win nine games, and I agree with you.

866
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: I had high expectations for the team, like most people did.

867
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: But it's almost funny that we didn't look at this

868
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 1: as a season of rebuilding because here you go, you

869
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: got you have to play a first place schedule, and

870
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: you got a lot of rookies, and then on that

871
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: old line that was so stout, you got two new

872
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: roles that are being filled that aren't just you know,

873
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: a step in and be the left guard, be the

874
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: right tackle. Those are big time roles. But what I'm saying, though,

875
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, should our expectations have been lower? Well, no, no, no,

876
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: you you keep your expectations. But like the right tackle

877
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: playing better than that most people would. The left guard, yeah, yeah,

878
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: they're coming out of training camp. He's playing much better.

879
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: You know, the left guard. We can't even decide who

880
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: was the left guard right, So you got me in

881
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: consistency there. Now your defense as a whole, uh you

882
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: love you love Deva's men and Sean Lee those you're

883
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: positives that ain't good enough? Yeah, and I for I mean,

884
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: you know we're talking about hindsight again. But okay, Nate,

885
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: Nate thought nine wins. I think I think I probably

886
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: thought ten. I was there were ten myself, which is

887
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: a damn good season. But that's a three Greek, three

888
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: game regression. I mean, I don't know anybody that expected

889
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: them to be what they were last year. Again, when

890
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: you talk about losing two fifths of your line, you

891
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: talk about secondary, letting your whole secondary go to Rell

892
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: McClain up and down Zeke decision made huge, Zeke the

893
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,399
Speaker 1: Zeke roller coaster we've been on since Lie. So yeah,

894
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: the expectations on this team were high, um, but I

895
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: think I think most people probably did expect some sort

896
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: of regression. Whether it's the schedule, whether I mean eleven

897
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 1: game winning streaks in the NFL just don't come around

898
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,800
Speaker 1: very all. The regression they thought was going to be

899
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: at quarterback, that's true that that hasn't happened. The regression

900
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: hasn't been at quarterback, which is honestly, and that's where

901
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: everybody worried. Two things you worried about the most regression

902
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: at quarterback and where's the past rush going to come from?

903
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: That's that is a common common thread. Yeah, throughout this

904
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: whole year. What what what got me nervous was the

905
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,959
Speaker 1: first place schedule And what we got me even even

906
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: worse is I saw the Eagles, and I saw the Riskins.

907
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: I thought got better either through coaching, through getting better coaches, oh,

908
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: getting better players. Eagles got better players. Riskins got a

909
00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and the defensive line coach that's better. You know,

910
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach Risks, I knew was going to

911
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: get better because that guy can coach. Yeah, go calhanya ye.

912
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: And this is another's something I was actually talking about

913
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: last night, which all that stuff is true. And you

914
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 1: know the Cowboys have progressed. Um, that's all there in

915
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: the record. But you look around the NFL right now,

916
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: and particularly the NFC, and find me the team that

917
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: looks head and shoulders up and down better. And there

918
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,720
Speaker 1: are some, but it's not a long list in my opinion,

919
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: especially in light of the fact that Aaron Rodgers is

920
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,800
Speaker 1: potentially now done for the season. I think, particularly in

921
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: the NFC, you're looking at a whole lot of teams

922
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: where like nine, ten, maybe eleven wins is like you're ceiling,

923
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 1: Like is there going to be a fourteen thirteen window

924
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: in the NFL playoffs? It certainly doesn't look that way. No,

925
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: it's not. Well, I mean, the Eagles have the best

926
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: record in the NFC right now and five and one right,

927
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: I don't you know. Obviously it's early and I'm not

928
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: an Eagles writers, so I'm not that equipped to speak

929
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: on it. But they don't strike fear in my heart,

930
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: you know the way that like playing really good defense

931
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: that the Green Bay Packers do. Yeah, no, no, they are.

932
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: I mean their front seven is nasty, don't They don't

933
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 1: let you run the ball? Yeah, and no, and that's

934
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: gonna be problematic certainly. And I think they have the

935
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: leg up to win the division. The loss they took

936
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: was at Kansas City, and at the time I thought

937
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: Kansas City was the best team in football. I don't

938
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: think you can still easily argue that they are. And

939
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: that was and the Washington went and played him as

940
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: a stalemate too in Kansas City. I mean, there's teams

941
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: better in this division the Cowboys. Oh yeah, no, it

942
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: was that was the killer. You know that that or

943
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: at least right now though are No, that's that's completely fair.

944
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: I think Washington and Philly both look better than the

945
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: Cowboys right now, but I don't think they're so much

946
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: better that it's impossible to imagine this team winning games

947
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: against them. And that's kind of where. No, the Cowboys

948
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: aren't as good as I think anybody expected them to be,

949
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: and they're going to be dealing with problems for the

950
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 1: rest of the season. But yeah, you you the two

951
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: games that you just I don't i'd got to kill you.

952
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: I don't we get the remaining schedule. I don't see

953
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: a lot of long winning streaks, but I don't see

954
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 1: a lot of long losing streaks either. Think what gave

955
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: your hope is you thought Daz would be much better. Yeah,

956
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, you thought the offensive line would at least

957
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: be consistent, not not better. I knew he wasn't gonna

958
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: be better, not early, but we thought they would be consistent. Yeah,

959
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: we didn't know where the pass rush was coming from,

960
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: but we also thought that our linebackers as a whole

961
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: would be much better. That's been the most glaring We

962
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: thought that was a strength coming out of camp. That

963
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: has been the most glaring weakness in the whole. Dealing

964
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: with Sean Lee uh left out. It's like, wow, I

965
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: the safety play has been bad too, Nate, you know,

966
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: I am. I don't even want to respond to that.

967
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:56,399
Speaker 1: That depressing, huh because Jones I was thought his instincts kicking.

968
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: I thought his football instincts were kicking. He's reading his

969
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 1: keys and understanding the difference between a play action pass

970
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: and an actual run would be better. Uh, you know,

971
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: I can't hold nothing again. Heath. Heath is what I thought.

972
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: He was an excellent special team player that should have

973
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: a role in the DEFA not playing sixty players again. Yeah,

974
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: now that that see some things, you know, and it

975
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: may get me in trouble with some of the guys

976
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: over there management. Something's unfair. Yeah, some things that Heath,

977
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: that's unfair. Uh, Jalen Smith I said it back then.

978
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: I said now, I'm not judging his kid good or

979
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: bad until next year. Yeah, that was unfair. I am

980
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: shocked to be on a podcast in which I have

981
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: the sunniest disposition about what's going on with this team

982
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: because I'm not. I'm not trying to convince anybody that

983
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:51,440
Speaker 1: it's good. But it was San Francisco. Howld on, mand On,

984
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: hold On, I know him asking it, san Francisco. How

985
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 1: do you feel? Oh, that's that's that's yeah. See, we're

986
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: getting a lot of tweets right now. They're saying stop

987
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: the skies falling, mentality and all this stuff. Yeah, then,

988
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: don't you know what I'm not. I'm not saying this guy,

989
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: well I am. I'm saying I think you can absolutely

990
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: be you can have a realistic attitude about what what's

991
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: going on with this team without thinking that the season's over.

992
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,879
Speaker 1: On October sixteen, sixteen, do you think do you think

993
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: do you think that they're gonna be able to cure

994
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: problems that they've had in the running game or in

995
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: the run, run defense, cure cure because they're gonna have

996
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: to do that to ought to be successful. I think

997
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: you've got teams that can't run the football, that have

998
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: run the football on you. I think it'll I think

999
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: it's one thing for Todd Gurley to run the football

1000
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: on you. I think they have what it takes to

1001
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: improve it for sure. With with Anthony Hitchins and Sean

1002
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: Lee healthy and playing, I think it can be better. Yes,

1003
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: even with I know we talked about the defensive line

1004
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: and all that. I think it can be better. And I,

1005
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't. You will miss Zeke, you

1006
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: absolutely will. But I think this team can. They'll do

1007
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 1: what it wants to do offensively with what it has

1008
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,439
Speaker 1: it running back, especially with how well the quarterbacks playing.

1009
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: One thing I feel really good about this team is

1010
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Maybe that'll be enough. Yeah, because maybe that

1011
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: will be enough. We're looking over there on the screen

1012
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: and we see Aaron Rodgers breaking that collar bone. One

1013
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: thing that I hope and pray is that we on defensively,

1014
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: we either gonna stop the pass. Oh, We're gonna stop

1015
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: to run. You can't get you can't give up the

1016
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,919
Speaker 1: chunk yardage on both played inside the rid zone. Huge

1017
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: thing that you can also. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna

1018
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: We're gonna sit here and play both running pass team.

1019
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 1: It's too good. Teams are too good. You can't do that.

1020
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: You got to go into the rid zone. I'm saying,

1021
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: you ain't running the ball, so the only thing you

1022
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:48,280
Speaker 1: can do is fast or vice versa. What if Navarra

1023
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: Bowman's on this team by Wednesday or Thursday, didn't take

1024
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: by two weeks to get him up to speed. Let's go,

1025
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: let go. Nate's ready to make that big of a difference.

1026
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm asking you. I told you could

1027
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: play the run here you go could help. Yeah, good

1028
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: help earlier. But the thing about it, we side here

1029
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 1: and we debated this team, but we debated Friday whether

1030
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: we should have uh Neil or the other young guy

1031
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: as Ash. So, yeah, make that somewhere somewhere and that

1032
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: you you gotta put a player in there that can

1033
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: stop to run somewhere in there, somebody that can help

1034
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: stop the run, help stop the run somewhere in there,

1035
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:30,879
Speaker 1: because you think fass rushing way pass rushing is gonna

1036
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: go away when you always and that's what we did

1037
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: the other teams last year. When it's third and two,

1038
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: it's third and three. You know who, we gotta put

1039
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: a big boy here because you put a little nicola

1040
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: who were gonna blow him up? Yeah? Yeah, I'm gonna

1041
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: give you a big old hug when the show's over.

1042
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,320
Speaker 1: I'm okay, Okay, you guys are good. You guys know

1043
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: I don't need a hug. I just I just you know,

1044
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: if if you're if you haven't looked at this football

1045
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:58,160
Speaker 1: team and seen the issues, then I mean I can't

1046
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: help you. I'm well, I'm well aware of No, I'm

1047
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,720
Speaker 1: not talking about you. I'm talking about you are talking

1048
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: about No. No, Hey, I can't believe I'm sitting there

1049
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: with a guy with a Sunday disposition. I'm not going

1050
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: to try to tell you that everything's all good. Yeah

1051
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: I'm not. But it's also not as bad as you

1052
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: two are not knowing it. No, No, I'm not. I

1053
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: just what do you like, really, break, what do you

1054
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: like about this? What are three biggest positives? Just give

1055
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: him one? Okay, I'll give you the quarterback. I mean

1056
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: that's a big one. Okay, I'm with you on that.

1057
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: And I mean I'm the first one to criticize the

1058
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: offense as the reason why they lost that Green Bay game.

1059
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: But you're putting up thirty points a game. You're running

1060
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: the ball not as well as you did last year,

1061
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: but pretty well. I looked it up during the break

1062
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 1: there and they're in the top ten in the league.

1063
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,240
Speaker 1: And Russ get the left guard, right, I don't because

1064
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: the quarterback is better. Certainly helps, but that's all that

1065
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 1: all works in it together. But you're two and three. Yes,

1066
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,880
Speaker 1: with the YEA offense, they my issue. It's not my issue.

1067
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: You're this team was only ever gonna be as good

1068
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: as its offense, and even without Zeke, I'm not ready

1069
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: to close the book on the offense being napped. I

1070
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:09,919
Speaker 1: think last year defense got to feel not enough. Yeah,

1071
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: not enough, like last week when they didn't keep Aaron

1072
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: Rodgers off the field. Again, defense did just enough last

1073
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: year off the field not enough. Defense did just enough

1074
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: last year even some games had good games. Yeah, you

1075
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: haven't had that one good game. I'm play yeah another

1076
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,240
Speaker 1: and honestly call me a homer if you want. Another.

1077
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: Thing I do feel good about coming out of the

1078
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: bye week is the relative health situation. I mean, Anthony

1079
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: Hitchins and Shaun Lee. I expect to start and play

1080
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: a lot in this game this weekend, and I do

1081
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:41,879
Speaker 1: think that can make a difference. You flip my way

1082
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: the loose. Oh, if they lose to San Francisco, I'm

1083
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: joining you on the SS Draft show. Yeah, let's do it.

1084
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: Day took his headphones off three minutes left no servants

1085
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:55,240
Speaker 1: to Sunshine. Mister jack Man would not be allowed to switch.

1086
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,840
Speaker 1: You know you would not if they lose to San Francisco.

1087
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: I'm no, I want Dave to be the guy. We're

1088
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: going to do it if he if they are not

1089
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: losing San Francisco, but if that tragedy was to have

1090
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,439
Speaker 1: we are testing the same thing about the RAM shirt

1091
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: up every show, the same thing about the RAM they

1092
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: lose to the Niners. I'm just gonna work from home

1093
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 1: for the rest of you. Not not doable, Sorry, I

1094
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna pick the Cowboys gets the Rams ms Rams.

1095
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: These boys came beatlem after We'll see we will see

1096
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: it doubt now, isn't there? Oh it's hey, join us

1097
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: for a Monday episode. Yeah, just trying to have my

1098
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: best Monday possible right now, coach, Just trying to have

1099
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 1: my best money. Yeah, when you though about the Cowboys

1100
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: all weekend, way to go. He did. He told you

1101
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: three times in the show that he was very much

1102
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,959
Speaker 1: and tuned to everything Cowboys. I wanted to seem like, mister,

1103
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: I can't turn it off even when I have a

1104
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 1: social life. You don't. I have no social life. You

1105
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: really don't. But at least LSU who got you a

1106
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: win this weekend Tiger Tigers. So you know, hey, we

1107
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: just gave you kind of a pressing overview of all reality. Ever,

1108
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: don't ever look at this is depressing. When you when

1109
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: you're honest, when you're when you take you're honest with yourself.

1110
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: The number one problem, the number one problem that NFL

1111
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: front offices have that they can't evaluate their own team.

1112
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: When you when you lose that ability to evaluate your

1113
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: own team, you're going to be the Cleveland Browns and

1114
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: this team big and they can evade what they seeing

1115
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: the same thing seeing, they seeing the same thing. That's

1116
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: why they're trying to getting Vera because they see we

1117
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: got to stop this run. Yeah they yeah, they understand,

1118
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: they see the same thing. They totally understand. The problem is, though,

1119
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: can you do enough? And you know and you Navara

1120
00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: Bowman is a piece that can help you and if

1121
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: you get it back into go in the right direction.

1122
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: But Nate's right, you don't play the run, and teams

1123
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: just continually hammer the football and show balance on you.

1124
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: You can score thirty five points a game and it

1125
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: ain't gonna matter. Yeah, you can look at the Dallas

1126
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys to that in sixteen season, we're able to do that.

1127
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: Go find the twenty thirteen tape to talk about bad defense.

1128
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well we've got plenty to talk about

1129
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: this week. I mean, hey, I didn't think this whole

1130
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,439
Speaker 1: hour it's just going to be dominated with the talk,

1131
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: but it was great stuff. So thank you guys today

1132
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: and everyone will have normal podcasts starting tomorrow. If you

1133
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: guys stay tuned to Dallas Cowboys dot com. Can't Garrison,

1134
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: We'll get that schedule for you. So thanks everyone. Stay strong,

1135
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: Zeke