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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, September first, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen,

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Speaker 1: episode number fifteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at

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Speaker 1: the Star, got Dave and Nick with me, and we

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Speaker 1: got a special guest with us. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: him in just a second. Just know, during the show today,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster, see if there were

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Speaker 1: any notable cuts that these guys need to point out.

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Speaker 1: We might even talk a little bit about one Cam Newton,

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Speaker 1: who is sitting out there as a free agent right now.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that a little later in the show.

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Speaker 1: And of course we're going to start getting you guys

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Speaker 1: ready for Cowboys Versus Buccaneers. That happens next Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: It opens the NFL season, and that is why our

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Speaker 1: special guest is here once again this season. We're very,

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Speaker 1: very proud and excited to have Bucky Brooks of NFL

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Speaker 1: Network joining us twice a week every week to walk

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Speaker 1: us through his thoughts on the opposing matchup and give

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Speaker 1: us his scouting expertise. What's going on, Bucky, Hey was

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Speaker 1: going on, Gus, how you doing, We're doing, We're doing well,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna start this thing. Obviously the Cowboys have.

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Speaker 1: They opened the season against the defending Super Bowl champs.

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Speaker 1: And what most people I wouldn't say, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: say most what a large number of people believe maybe

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest quarterbacks or the greatest quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the history of the NFL and Tom Brady. Check this out.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at some of his numbers. Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: last year was third in passing yards. He was second

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Speaker 1: was declining even a bit that maybe in some alternate

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Speaker 1: universe the Cowboys could exploit. Well, No, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: having to deal with different issues because you're older, you

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Speaker 1: need more rest and recovery, covery to be able to play.

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Speaker 1: But he's playing at a high level, and we just

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Speaker 1: don't see players at this age play at a high level.

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Speaker 1: When I think about the Buccaneers offense and how they

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Speaker 1: it's it's a tough matchup because it's not just him,

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Speaker 1: You you then have Rob Grenkowsky and Oj Howard in

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's awesome. What have you, hey, Bucky? What have

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Speaker 1: On my from my standpoint, as he vaccinated. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: if people, you know, it's none of my own business

428
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Speaker 1: to ask or whatever, it's the cowboys business to ask.

429
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Speaker 1: It's the cowboys business to say. Is it a good

430
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Speaker 1: idea to be bringing you around the most valuable asset

431
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Speaker 1: in our franchise and having you sit in meetings room

432
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Speaker 1: with some meeting rooms with him all day every day?

433
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Speaker 1: I think that is paramount. Do you think that's going

434
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Speaker 1: to affect his ability to get a job anywhere? Yes,

435
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Speaker 1: and it'll be you know, yeah, I mean teams are

436
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Speaker 1: gonna well I should take that back because urban Meyer

437
00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,719
Speaker 1: had no problem saying that it was. Well, he's recinded

438
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Speaker 1: it that yes, more yeah, quickly reccandid that rookie mistakes.

439
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Speaker 1: But privately, away from microphones, everybody in the league is

440
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Speaker 1: going to check the vaccination status of everybody that they're

441
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Speaker 1: going to bring in. And again, like, the fun part

442
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Speaker 1: about the way that the NFL has designed all of

443
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Speaker 1: this is we don't even have to get into the debate,

444
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,120
Speaker 1: the stupid debate of whether or not it's a good

445
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Speaker 1: idea to take the vaccine and blah blah blah. The

446
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Speaker 1: rules are what they are, regardless of what you think

447
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: of it, and the league has made it drastically harder

448
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: for unvaccinated players the waiting time to get into a team.

449
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: You know, we saw that with Malie Cooker, the protocol

450
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Speaker 1: that he had to go through. He wasn't available to

451
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: do stuff for a week after he signed. The frequency

452
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Speaker 1: of testing. Um, what you're like, the traveling you're allowed

453
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Speaker 1: to do. This whole snaffoo with New England started because

454
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: he went to Atlanta to get his ankle checked out.

455
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: But there's way more involved in that if you're not

456
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Speaker 1: vaccinated in terms of how hard it is to do that.

457
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Speaker 1: So life is just a giant pain in the ass

458
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Speaker 1: if you're not vaccinated. And then you get into the

459
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Speaker 1: fact of and I know the vaccinated people can pick

460
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Speaker 1: it up and spread it as well, but it's way harder,

461
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Speaker 1: like all of the numbers suggest that. So on top

462
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Speaker 1: of it being a pain in the end, by the way,

463
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Speaker 1: you also don't end up in hospitals and most instances,

464
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: sure that's also good thing. And so do you do

465
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Speaker 1: you want to invite all of that into the quarterback room.

466
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Speaker 1: The extra pain in the butt, the thought that Cam

467
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: could be gone for ten days at a moment's notice,

468
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: and that it's substantially easier based on everything we know

469
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Speaker 1: for him to potentially contract it and maybe spread it

470
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Speaker 1: to your best player. Uh no, thanks, sorry, Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: he if he's vaccinated, if he if he has gotten

472
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Speaker 1: it since camp started, or if he decides to absolutely

473
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Speaker 1: if he's ready to come in and be a backup.

474
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Speaker 1: But that's that's line one for me quote Jason Garrett.

475
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Speaker 1: To be honestly, I think it's kind of a moot

476
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Speaker 1: point for the Cowboys just because I will be shocked

477
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Speaker 1: if we get four or five weeks into the season

478
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Speaker 1: and Cam Newton isn't a isn't on a team and

479
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Speaker 1: looking at the possibility of being a starter. And the

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Speaker 1: reason why I say that is because, as we all know,

481
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Speaker 1: in the game of football, they're going to be injuries.

482
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Speaker 1: We know that that is a certainty some team is

483
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Speaker 1: going to lose their starting quarterback here in the first

484
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Speaker 1: few weeks of the season. When that happens. You look

485
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Speaker 1: around right now and the quarterbacks that are out there

486
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Speaker 1: on the on the free agent list, he's one of

487
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Speaker 1: the few that actually have the credentials that he as

488
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Speaker 1: So to me, I don't see a scenario where he

489
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Speaker 1: would where he would subject himself to being the backup

490
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Speaker 1: yet because they're still going to be opportunities for him

491
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Speaker 1: as a starter. I love when this happens. We can

492
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Speaker 1: actually we can solve this live just like that. Tom

493
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Speaker 1: Pella Sero has is one of the reporters that has

494
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Speaker 1: access to the waiver claims as they happen. Dallas has claimed,

495
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Speaker 1: Will Greer, here we go the third round. You mentioned

496
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Speaker 1: that third round to day you did? You came off

497
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Speaker 1: as I mentioned it, I meant heard of the gay.

498
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Speaker 1: Well maybe it was you. I could used all the time.

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Speaker 1: I look kind of like, go ahead where I don't

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Speaker 1: remember him at all. I love, I love connecting these dots.

501
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Speaker 1: He was the West Virginia quarterbacks, West West Virginia by

502
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Speaker 1: way of Florida. Oh, he came to Florida where I

503
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 1: kicked our butts, where his offensive coordinator was who for

504
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: a year, Doug Nesmyer. So you love to see the

505
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: way that these dots get connected. He was a top

506
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: one hundred pick for the Panthers from what I heard,

507
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: did have a great camp. Obviously, he got waived in

508
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: favor of their backup whose name escapes me right now.

509
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Speaker 1: So I'm not sitting here telling you he lit the

510
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Speaker 1: world on fire, or he wouldn't have been available. But

511
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Speaker 1: but I like him as a development guy. He had

512
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: he had top one hundred talent. This will be his

513
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: third year in the league. He's got experience with nuss Meyer,

514
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: which I bet plays a factor into this. So yeah,

515
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 1: now Cam Newton coming here seems even less likely than

516
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: it already did. Ye, But I don't think that was

517
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: going to happen anyway. Yeah, I look at that more

518
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Speaker 1: as that sign signing to me or that claim to

519
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: me is really more about replacing the role that maybe

520
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: de Nucci had where he may be. Now, now you

521
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: don't bring back a Denucci to your practice squad. He

522
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: becomes the guy that's on your practice squad that you

523
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: try to develop and you see where it goes, and

524
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: maybe even in a few years you see if he's

525
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: actually developed into a player. Well, but when you claim

526
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,159
Speaker 1: a guy off waivers, he's on your roster, he doesn't

527
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 1: go to well, but I'm saying they could still move

528
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: him around. Like my assumption is my assumption is, well,

529
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Speaker 1: I'll put it like this. I would be again, I

530
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: would be shocked if they roll in two week two

531
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: three four, with three quarterbacks on the active roster, would

532
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: you guys not be with Will Greer being here? Now?

533
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: I think that seems like a certainty, because if I'm

534
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: not mistaken, if you claim a guy, you have to

535
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: keep him for three weeks, right, three weeks so they

536
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: can't do anything with him, and I don't think he's

537
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: not ready to know and then yeah, yeah, he's not

538
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: gonna really do anything for you, That's what I'm saying,

539
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: Like long time. Maybe he has to stay there for

540
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: three weeks. I would be shocked they held him there

541
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: all season, right, doesn't that seem a little bit? Yeah,

542
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect three quarterbacks on the roster all year,

543
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: especially if you get to a situation where you need it.

544
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: But as it stands right now, I mean, they've got

545
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: a lot of things working for them that they can

546
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 1: they can have three quarterbacks on the roster right now.

547
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: I would bet they keep I don't I think they

548
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: keep three for at least the first half of the

549
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 1: season or so, Like, you're not even gonna know what

550
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: you have in Greer for a month or more. He

551
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: just got here. He's gonna need and he's not gonna

552
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: get a ton of practice time. Anyway, you have to

553
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: keep him because of the waiver claim, and I assume

554
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: they claimed him because they thought they wouldn't be able

555
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: to get him otherwise. So I just I would imagine

556
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: they'll be going with three quarterbacks for a while at least.

557
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: I'll be interesting. It'll be interesting to see once this

558
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: all shakes out. You're right, it was like, this is

559
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: not what typically happens on cut day. You kind of

560
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: know that what happened is what's going to happen other

561
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: than obviously filling in your practice squad. But there's a

562
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts still. Yeah, well, and anything can happen.

563
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: But it kind of seems like if they're going to

564
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: do that, then that's probably it because for now, because

565
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: you sign any of these other you know, we have

566
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: a list of what ten twelve veteran guys that were cut.

567
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: Sez he was he was waived, which means he you know,

568
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: they claimed him off waivers, but there was veteran quarterbacks

569
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: probably ten, ten or twelve that were released. And if

570
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: you're going to bring one of those guys in and Greer,

571
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: now you've got two guys that don't know the offense

572
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: and all that, so it doesn't seem likely now that

573
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: they're going to do that. Seems like Cooper Russia the backup,

574
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: And Jerry actually mentioned that on his call yesterday with

575
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: the Fan He said, you know, the way you have

576
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: to think about it is Cooper Rush has been here

577
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: for a while. He knows this offense. So if you're

578
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: replacing him, you're kind of setting yourself back, at least

579
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: in the beginning with regards to having somebody really ready

580
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: to step in and take over. So yeah, I think

581
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: that's probably the general theme at this point is that

582
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Speaker 1: what you have a quarterback is probably what you're gonna

583
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: have for the foreseeable future. If they were gonna if

584
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Speaker 1: they were going to replace Cooper Rush as the backup,

585
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: it would be with a Cam Newton type of player.

586
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: And even then you probably want to give Cam a

587
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: few weeks to get up to speed on a completely

588
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: new offense. But and so I think this only emphasizes that,

589
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: you know, when Cooper Rush is the backup at least

590
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Speaker 1: for I think probably the first half of the season realistically,

591
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: and they have to make a roster move and it

592
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: hasn't been announced yet. I mean that claim has gone

593
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: through we're kind of talking with our you know, PR

594
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: department right now to figure out what the what the

595
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: corresponding move is, and they got to do something, and

596
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have turned it in to the league.

597
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: We just were not aware of what they've done just yet.

598
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: So that's you know, it could be one of those

599
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: guys getting released. It could be you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a lot of things, you know,

601
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: that they can do with this roster, and so I

602
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: would think three o'clock today, we're gonna have a much

603
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: better idea of what this roster will look like. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break. When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit more about Tampa Bay's

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Speaker 1: segment of the Break Life from SWBC Mortgage Studios at

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Speaker 1: the Star. Let's talk some Tampa Bay Buccaneers versus Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys that happens this third next Thursday night kick off

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Speaker 1: the NFL season. On paper, you look at this Tampa

656
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Speaker 1: Bay offense, you look at this Dallas defense, and it

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Speaker 1: seems like it's gonna be a very very daunting task

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Speaker 1: based upon what you saw from both units last season.

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Speaker 1: That all being said, based and I asked Bucky this

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Speaker 1: question earlier, I'm interested to see what you guys have

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Speaker 1: to say about it based on what Dallas has done

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Speaker 1: this offseason. How convinced are you that they will be

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Speaker 1: better this year? I'm not convinced. I'm just not. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why we would we would be convinced.

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Speaker 1: I mean really, because convinced is a strong word, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm and I'm just not. I've seen I've seen this

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Speaker 1: play out too many times. I've seen the defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: that's like, oh man, this guy's good, this guy's got it.

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Speaker 1: He figures it out, and you know, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: looked better than what we've seen but you know, like

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Speaker 1: Bucky said, from what we saw in the and then

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Speaker 1: you know training camp and the guys getting their hands

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Speaker 1: on the ball and all that stuff. Did they did

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Speaker 1: they face a numb umber one quarterback at all? I

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00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: mean a few days of DAK and then that's it.

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00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: They didn't face one in the preseason. They didn't face

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Speaker 1: any starting quarterback other than Trevor Lawrence. And that didn't

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Speaker 1: look good. But they had they didn't have the starters

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Speaker 1: in there, but they the starters have not faced they

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Speaker 1: number one quarterback, and now they're going to face the

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Speaker 1: best quarterback in the history of the of the league.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm not convinced of anything. I am convinced

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Speaker 1: that they'll be better in the sense that it's almost

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Speaker 1: impossible for them to be worse. I mean, how many

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Speaker 1: times in all of your years watching football have you

686
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Speaker 1: seen a pro defense surrender two separate three hundred yard

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Speaker 1: rushing performances, which they did. Um I went to I

688
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Speaker 1: didn't say, I didn't say, it's never happened. That was

689
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Speaker 1: pretty bad, And yeah, she was pretty bad. It was

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Speaker 1: Was it better? No? One? That's the thing is probably

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Speaker 1: like a little better, but not like they were they

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Speaker 1: still bad, Yeah, but they that draft, like, I don't

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Speaker 1: think they got a player even close to what they

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Speaker 1: got right this. It would just it would be statistically

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Speaker 1: hard to be worse. And but that's that's as much

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Speaker 1: as I'm willing to say. You know, I'm excited about

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Speaker 1: Micah some of the you know, I noticed this yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they're good. Does not mean they're good. But

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Speaker 1: they didn't cut any of their free agent signings. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was no Haha, Clinton Dicks, there was no Jasper Brinkley.

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Speaker 1: The guys that they've brought in they think can have

702
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: a role, Brent Urban, Carlos Watkins, Jay Ron. I know,

703
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: but Poe and Whorley made the team last year. So

704
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: does not mean that they're good, right right, right point

705
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: does not, But it's at least a step in the

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Speaker 1: right direction that they didn't have to cut any of

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Speaker 1: the not yet. I think that could still happen. It

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Speaker 1: could happen. No, all eleven made the team with Charney.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm still surprised Semifohoko made the team. I am.

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Speaker 1: I just I didn't see make a play or anything.

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Speaker 1: I actually looked this up. We know, we know that

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Speaker 1: they like to protect their draft. But I was actually stunned.

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Speaker 1: I'm I was stunned when I looked it up, how

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Speaker 1: much the length that they really go to to protect

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Speaker 1: their draft. Will took over in twenty fourteen Will McClay. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: if you listen to this show, you know who Will is, Well,

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Speaker 1: we just signed We just say Bill, oh boy, okay, sorry, um,

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Speaker 1: he took over eight seconds ago. They've made seventy picks

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Speaker 1: with Will running the draft process, and all but ten

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Speaker 1: have made the team as rookies. And of the ten

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Speaker 1: that they have cut in that time span, seven of

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Speaker 1: the ten or seventh round picks. Okay, so three the

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Speaker 1: other three sixth round pick Rico Gathers, who they gave

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Speaker 1: a lot of money to to keep him around. That's right,

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Speaker 1: So that's that's almost like cheating. Yeah. Uh, sixth round

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Speaker 1: pick Marquez White from a few years ago. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: I put this in a tweet lost. It's got to

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Speaker 1: be the fifth round. It's gotta be a Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, Yes it was he yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: who they wanted to bring back on the practice squad

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Speaker 1: and he's one of the very few guys he made

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Speaker 1: it to the practice. I looked this up at his name.

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Speaker 1: He got claimed off the practice squad later in the season,

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Speaker 1: but he did make it initially, Michael Jackson, and then

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Speaker 1: there were five Chaz Green, Martin Zacha, Jalen Smith, Cedric Wilson,

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Speaker 1: and Connor McGovern. All were placed on season ending lists

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Speaker 1: like they didn't have rookie seasons, but they were obviously

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Speaker 1: still on the team played. If you get drafted, if

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Speaker 1: you get drafted before the seventh round, they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: their best to keep you. But here's great. But here's

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Speaker 1: what But here's what I think is missing from that

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Speaker 1: great story. But here's what I think is missing from

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Speaker 1: that is you didn't normalize it for me. What is that? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have time to look at

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Speaker 1: the other but my point is. But my point is,

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Speaker 1: if if that number, that number is what it is.

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Speaker 1: But what we don't know is our teams out there,

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Speaker 1: do they keep more than that? Do they keep less?

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Speaker 1: Is this right there at the average? And this is

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Speaker 1: what typic happens with teams because you're trying to infuse

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Speaker 1: yet you're trying to keep young talent around to develop them.

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Speaker 1: But we don't have to normalize it because we're not

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Speaker 1: worried about them. Well but no, no, but when we'm

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Speaker 1: all I'm saying is when we get to the training

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Speaker 1: camp and we're talking about guys, we need to put

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Speaker 1: more emphasis on that number because it's this team. But understood, understood.

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Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying and what I was trying

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Speaker 1: to glean from, that's just from my own personal knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Like do the Cowboys protect their draft more than other teams?

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Speaker 1: That's where I was going with that. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think the whole league protects their drafts because that's

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Speaker 1: how you keep salary downright. But and that's why you

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Speaker 1: know when a guy I'll first, this has burned into

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Speaker 1: my brain because he wound up here. Vince Mayley was

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Speaker 1: a fourth round pick for Cleveland a few years ago

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Speaker 1: and they cut him as a rookie, and it was

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Speaker 1: like headline news. That just doesn't happen, Like if you're

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Speaker 1: picked in the like it's rare to see a guy

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Speaker 1: pick that early get cut as a rookie, Like fourth

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Speaker 1: round picks make the team because you don't want to

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Speaker 1: admit that a guy you took that highway he sucks.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know the numbers for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the league. But to Nick's point, I said it all

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Speaker 1: throughout the offseason. I was like, if you're a fifth

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Speaker 1: round pick, that doesn't mean you're safe. History indicates that,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean we're gonna We're gonna write that story

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Speaker 1: at some point, you know, like going into like next

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Speaker 1: year or whatever. I mean, it's it's really it's it's

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Speaker 1: really good to know that because but but to me,

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Speaker 1: the second year, I mean, like all bets are off,

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Speaker 1: But but but are they like this is what I

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Speaker 1: want to know, was was Bradley and I is he

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Speaker 1: that much better than Rondelle Carter or is he better

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Speaker 1: at all? You know, I hope you know, if it's close,

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Speaker 1: they'll probably go with with the you know, the draft pick.

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Speaker 1: But I mean they're probably very happy to put Reggie

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Speaker 1: Robinson on IR for the season because they didn't want

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Speaker 1: to have to cut a fourth round pick who wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to make this team. Yea, he was at the bottom.

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Speaker 1: He was nearly of your depth chart there, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: position yet but now you know, he comes back, he's

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Speaker 1: goes to training camp, he gets cut next year, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's three years removed from the training from the draft,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, man, it's too small of a sample

795
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Speaker 1: size because it's only two years. But since McCarthy got here,

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Speaker 1: they kept their whole class last year, including Ben de Nucci,

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Speaker 1: and they kept this which they might still cut Farniac

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Speaker 1: or they could maybe they could cut Simmy. I kind

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Speaker 1: of doubt it. But that's so eighteen straight rookies making

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Speaker 1: the team interesting. Yeah, definitely getting back to the conversation

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Speaker 1: on the Bucks and the Cowboys. No, that's fine. That

802
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: was a good detour. That's a detour we're taking outside

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Speaker 1: of Michael Parsons, though, what's the most convincing thing that

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Speaker 1: you can give fans hopes that the Cowboys will be better? Like,

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Speaker 1: name a player or a position or something. Looking at

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Speaker 1: me like I've got something to say, and I don't.

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Speaker 1: I can give fans a reason to believe that maybe

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Speaker 1: they are better than they were last year. What player

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Speaker 1: other than Michael Parsons on defense are you excited about?

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Speaker 1: I think it's Randy Gregory. I mean I am. I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited about Randy, but I'm not ready to just

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Speaker 1: to sign him that status, you know, like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be going against JP. He and Shaquille Barrett. Tampa fans

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Speaker 1: have every reason to believe that that is a fearsome

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Speaker 1: duo among the best in the league. I'm excited about

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Speaker 1: Tank and Randy. I'm not ready to be like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: especially Tampa's tackles are great Donovan Smith and Tristan Worths.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Tristan Worf's was like all pro as a rookie. Like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not ready to just be like, yeah, Brady's going

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Speaker 1: to spend the whole night on the ground. I'm not

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Speaker 1: ready to say that at all. Well, you're forgetting Dan,

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Speaker 1: of course, by the way, I'm not. I'm not. I'm

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Speaker 1: not expecting I don't think And that's why I've been

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Speaker 1: wording these these questions the way I have. It would

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Speaker 1: be foolish not to recognize the fact that this defense

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Speaker 1: is coming off one of the worst performances in club history.

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Speaker 1: So to think that they're all of a sudden gonna

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Speaker 1: be among the best defenses in the league, I think

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Speaker 1: is foolish. But I don't think that that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: they can't be improved. And that's where I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out, is where are the areas where you can

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Speaker 1: see some level improvement. You talk about players that you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe that could be Like I look at a Treyvon

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Speaker 1: Diggs and I'm like, if he's better, which we see

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Speaker 1: the trajectory that he could be better. If he's better,

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Speaker 1: maybe that's an area where you could see something. I

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Speaker 1: do think the safeties. I think the safeties are better

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Speaker 1: than your safeties last year. That doesn't mean they're great.

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Speaker 1: It means I think they're better than they were last year.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm looking for, is what are those

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00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,439
Speaker 1: areas where you could see areas where they could be better.

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Speaker 1: I got I got one on third and seven, third

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Speaker 1: and eight on Then when they get to the nickel,

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Speaker 1: I think that Kean O'Neill and Micah Parsons will be better. Uh,

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Speaker 1: in the linebacker position, those guys will be better. I

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Speaker 1: think with having Randy Gregory on the outside, I think

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Speaker 1: some of the past rushing combinations that they have Dorance

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Speaker 1: can help with their With that, I think you put

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00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: your safeties back there. I think they can get off

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00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: the field better than they have before. Mainly because of

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Speaker 1: those linebackers on nickels. We don't have to pile on

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00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith it's it's a dead horse, no point to it.

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00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: But um Prescott Pylon, I don't Pilon Prescott. Don't like

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00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: that nickname at all. Doug Nasmyer, go back to the

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00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: well and try again. I just um all, I can

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00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: remember running Ram through the building over the last few weeks,

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00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: I think. But um, I this defense, they're going don't

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00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna better. They're gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: faster and a lot more athletic. When you add Michael

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Speaker 1: Parsons to the mix and Kean O'Neill, a former safety

861
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Speaker 1: playing linebacker, and you hopefully take a guy who's not

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00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: fast enough to be a star at this level take

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Speaker 1: him off the field more often. That's that's gonna make

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Speaker 1: a big difference. I think. So. Yeah, Like I think

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Speaker 1: I said that. That was our other mail back question.

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Speaker 1: I was like, just get to the ball quickly and confidently.

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00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: That's really like that is like the baseline expectation for

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00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: this defense, and if they do it with more regularity

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Speaker 1: than they did last year, they should be a lot better. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot a lot better, meaning middle of the pack

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Speaker 1: instead of just absolutely the worst. You can be middle

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Speaker 1: of the pack if your offense is special. If the

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Speaker 1: offense is special, like we think it can be, your

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00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: defense can be considered middle of the pack. That could

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Speaker 1: be good enough if your offense a special. Well, I

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Speaker 1: will say this though, I think a lot of the

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00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: things I saw last year, the problems with this defense

878
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: were just basically mistakes, mental mistakes, guys not being where

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. I don't think it was a

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Speaker 1: lot of I was in the right spot, I just

881
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: got run over, or I just missed the tackle, or

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00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it was and guys are

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00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: just out of place. And so I think if you

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Speaker 1: can get that part right, I think this defense takes

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Speaker 1: a jump. Like now, if you're at the bottom of

886
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: the legue, that jump might get you to twenty two.

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00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: You're still out at the top half of the league,

888
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: but you're better. And that's where I think there's room

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00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: to grow here. Regardless of what what else you think

890
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: of this defense and what they've done. I just laugh,

891
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: and I you know, some listeners give me flak because

892
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: and I agree, like sometimes I tend to like over

893
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Speaker 1: inflate the opposition, like I just always think that the

894
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Speaker 1: opponent is way better. Yeah, yeah, I am, Well, they

895
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: especially when you don't give me a reason to be honest,

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00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 1: you're a pessimistic kind of part I am. I think

897
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: of myself as a realist, but sure, um, but the

898
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: opponent is funny, Like, this isn't college football where you

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Speaker 1: get too up against little sisters of the poor, right,

900
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Speaker 1: But there are opponents on this schedule that I'd feel

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Speaker 1: way better, particularly on defense. You know, like if the

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Speaker 1: Dallas defense, if you were getting Carolina in Week one,

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Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, yeah, let's see where this goes,

904
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Speaker 1: and maybe they'll do this better. You just look down

905
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Speaker 1: Tampa's depth chart and you're like, that's gonna be a problem.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a problem. That's gonna be a problem.

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00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: And Tampa's got a great defense too. Yeah, but I'm

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00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: a lot more maybe even better than the offense. I'm

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00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: a lot more optimistic about the Dallas offense being able

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00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: to get some wins, whereas I'm just like, well, we

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00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: don't feel good about the secondary, and this is the

912
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: probably the best receiver cords in the league. I know

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Speaker 1: Dallas has something to say about it, but if Antonio

914
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: Brown is really back to who he was, that's terrifying.

915
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 1: Tom Brady speaks for himself. The line speaks for itself,

916
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Speaker 1: like just if you did it player by player, you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you would take a Dallas player across

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00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: the entire matchup. Probably. Yeah, So that's just this is

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Speaker 1: as tough as it it's in terms of opening the

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Speaker 1: season with a brand new staff and a brand new everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a rap for us for today. It's

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Speaker 1: a good way to wrap it up. Sorry, sorry to

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Speaker 1: bring the mood down. We will be back on Friday

924
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Speaker 1: and we are going to talk about the Cowboys offense

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Speaker 1: versus the Tampa defense and all that. Although that defense

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Speaker 1: is really good, I agree with you. I think there

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Speaker 1: are some matchups where maybe the Cowboys can find some

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Speaker 1: some ways to move the ball and hopefully and generate

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Speaker 1: some points because this might be a game where they

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Speaker 1: have to generate a lot of points in order to win.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on Friday. Till then for Nick

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Speaker 1: even Dave helm and I'm Derek Hilton. This has been

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