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Speaker 2: Seven days, seven days. You were gone coming the whole
Speaker 2: entire year. I take off one week and you act
Speaker 2: like I just been missing.
Speaker 1: We were worried about him, man, We were like, man,
Speaker 1: what's up with Fred? We gotta call the cops.
Speaker 3: We honestly thought she tapped into the old Free You know,
Speaker 3: the old Fred used.
Speaker 4: To just not even tell nobody where he was at.
Speaker 2: Can come up, go up on the bend.
Speaker 4: It was a long night for him and he be
Speaker 4: going with Friday's.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just us, man, Fans were asking about it,
Speaker 1: where's Fred? Wor's Fred?
Speaker 5: We got fans actually missed me? You didn't actually miss me?
Speaker 5: I actually miss Fred, I told.
Speaker 1: You outside I missed you. Yes to see you. I said,
Speaker 1: it's good to see you.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 1: That's me saying I miss you. And then Santanamos, the
Speaker 1: guy that's just cool as a cucumber all the time.
Speaker 4: Damn, I don't even like cucumber.
Speaker 2: I know it's drunk of cucumber shaking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 4: I told you the apple drowned it out.
Speaker 1: A little bit, so you know, well that's a weird
Speaker 1: that's a weird turn of expression. Cool as a cucumber.
Speaker 2: Well, because actually cucumbers mostly water.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean they wanted the few vegetables they
Speaker 5: can freeze.
Speaker 1: Oh freeze, I mean that's afraid. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: I respect it. Can a watermelon freeze?
Speaker 2: Yes, the water in the can. I just told him
Speaker 2: how to make a watermelon.
Speaker 5: Uh not the icy shave dice if I wanted to
Speaker 5: make a shave, but if I will put this in
Speaker 5: the fridge for like eight hours, let it freeze.
Speaker 2: HOI brick and did scrape it.
Speaker 1: Because people are listening to this, they can't see what
Speaker 1: you're pointing at. Fred from his garden, Yeah, brought in
Speaker 1: a watermelon. Yes, they had to wait man, we.
Speaker 5: Were straight out of safe way.
Speaker 1: And we are going to try it later in the show.
Speaker 1: It's our last segment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got but I got some scrawberries two hours.
Speaker 2: Did you grow those two? Yes?
Speaker 5: They're not easy your wash and grow. They might need
Speaker 5: a little, but I don't use pesticides. All my stuff
Speaker 5: is grown.
Speaker 1: U fertilizer. What are use for fertilizer?
Speaker 5: Well, all you gotta do is grow red peppers around
Speaker 5: this stuff and insect hate red.
Speaker 2: Uh, incorporate grow red.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm laughing to my secreuse. I actually want to go
Speaker 4: see him, and he's gone and it set up.
Speaker 5: Listen, I'll be in there like mama and then like
Speaker 5: somebody grandma.
Speaker 2: Listen to mob and game player. I'm vegetables love and
Speaker 2: listen to mobbing day.
Speaker 1: There's there's a thing right about vegetables and music. They
Speaker 1: like certain times of music.
Speaker 5: Vegetables and animals were go. Cows listen to music daily.
Speaker 1: Drink a lot of beer too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do drink beer to keep keep that all
Speaker 2: the bacteria.
Speaker 3: And I heard something about it, and I'm not sure
Speaker 3: this got anything to do with you know what we're
Speaker 3: talking about. But seriously, I heard something about water. Scientists
Speaker 3: got water and basically, you know, put in a negative environment,
Speaker 3: blasted some negative you know music, music and voiceovers and
Speaker 3: frozen and said you can see the water.
Speaker 4: Look it froze different that they did it.
Speaker 3: What they did the same water with positive surrounding, spoke positive.
Speaker 4: Stuff in the air and it was crystal. It was
Speaker 4: like clear water, icicles and stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, it's emotional water out there.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you that they say that we can shape
Speaker 3: stuff off of motions, off energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I believe that. Like I say, I don't
Speaker 2: know this.
Speaker 1: I heard it.
Speaker 3: For me to tell you about it, For me to
Speaker 3: tell you about it, that means I heard it.
Speaker 1: So what I know, I'm going to be a nerd.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push my glasses up my nose here. I
Speaker 1: think this might be spuriously correlated to some other factors.
Speaker 1: Because water has no perception of emotions, it looks like
Speaker 1: it's just noise to water. But okay, that's the whole
Speaker 1: time out. But music is operates at a certain wavelength, right,
Speaker 1: is a wavelength, and so the water doesn't it's going
Speaker 1: to perceive the wavelength.
Speaker 2: That don't shoot the.
Speaker 5: Water don't shoot the message. Yeah, energy is organized chaos.
Speaker 3: Okay, A couple of fans listening and going to say, yes,
Speaker 3: I saw the same thing.
Speaker 4: I saw it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you, if you, if you heard this,
Speaker 1: leave a comment. If you're a scientist, also leave a comment.
Speaker 1: Angry Water, if you ran this experiment, leave a comment.
Speaker 1: Maybe calling the show. We got a special guest. Our
Speaker 1: first special guest is about Angry Water. Right, But let's
Speaker 1: get back into what we're good at talking about, which
Speaker 1: is Fred's farming, but also football, right, Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: week we're going to do a deep dive on the
Speaker 1: NFC East, just kind of talk about like where the
Speaker 1: visions at, what each team's doing, and then maybe like
Speaker 1: a bigger, high level picture for the division. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's just start with I don't know what do
Speaker 1: you start with? The Eagles? Guess cause there were a super.
Speaker 5: An the crop last year. But let's be honest, the
Speaker 5: NFC shocked everybody last year. We was almost the first
Speaker 5: division to have four teams to make it to the playoffs.
Speaker 5: So everybody, and how so soon do they forget? Because
Speaker 5: now all of a sudden, we six months removed and
Speaker 5: everybody saying that the AFC East is going to be
Speaker 5: the square.
Speaker 2: I think is uh, who's a Brown's Ravens Bengals.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be the squad this year.
Speaker 2: No, they're saying distance.
Speaker 5: Oh interesting, jackson Ville, not not Jacksonville, but that division
Speaker 5: that everybody's hyping up. And now just about the fact
Speaker 5: that Dallas is stacked, Philly is restacked. The Giants I
Speaker 5: think might take a step back. And I thought we
Speaker 5: got better in the off season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean Philadelphia like that was maybe the
Speaker 1: best roster in football last year. Everyone says, oh man,
Speaker 1: they do. Their offense is so crisp and so simple.
Speaker 1: It's one of the things you can do when you've
Speaker 1: got a really good football team is run a Chris
Speaker 1: simple offense. Are they able to get back? They lost
Speaker 1: their left guard, Isaac Suppogo. I forget it's probably yeah,
Speaker 1: butchered as well. He's he's in Detroit now. They got
Speaker 1: to replace that guy that drafted Tyler Steen from Alabama
Speaker 1: in the first round. Yeah, and then they got you know,
Speaker 1: the linebacker's gone, Nakobe Dean's back defensive lineman. They kind
Speaker 1: of have our re stocking, but with some people and
Speaker 1: pieces that are a little unknown. And our producer brought
Speaker 1: this up, and I think this is a really good point.
Speaker 1: Jason shout out new dad, what's up? Yeah, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had yeah something weeks. He looks good though.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I will say that it's really hard for teams
Speaker 1: to repeat his Super Bowl Champs unless you got an
Speaker 1: elite quarterback. And is Jalen Hurts an elite quarterback? When Champs,
Speaker 1: they was running and runners up?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: And is it can they get back to that same
Speaker 1: level or is there going to be a regression? And
Speaker 1: is there going to be a regression? Let's just start
Speaker 1: there with I think that's a great question.
Speaker 3: But I think one of the things that stands out
Speaker 3: the most that we haven't talked, but it's just a
Speaker 3: lot of those coaches that have departed. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the players play the game, but trust me, we know
Speaker 3: throughout the week's preparation is key. And if you have
Speaker 3: a new guy, a new instructor that's teaching you something.
Speaker 4: He might not be you know, comfortable with coaching real.
Speaker 3: So I played on plenty of teams where we had
Speaker 3: the players and we just wasn't giving right right bingo.
Speaker 4: So that's my question.
Speaker 3: I think when it comes down to what they have,
Speaker 3: they restock the d line. They got so many guys
Speaker 3: from Georgia that we don't know what they're trying to
Speaker 3: do over there. And then offensively, man, they still they
Speaker 3: still poping. You know, they have three of the best
Speaker 3: or two of the best receivers in the game in
Speaker 3: our division. They have a quarterback to me that easily
Speaker 3: could be what top five right now, easily top five.
Speaker 5: About right now, he could be top five. But they
Speaker 5: got a legit top five tight end. They got DeAndre
Speaker 5: god Or just considered top five right now. I'm telling
Speaker 5: you what I say. You got Swill at the running
Speaker 5: back position. I think they just signed Males Jack and
Speaker 5: they just signed another linebacker, so they understand where their
Speaker 5: roster at and they're at that bubble. So yeah, they're
Speaker 5: ready to buffs. They're all right, they got one of
Speaker 5: those teams now. Talent just brought it up.
Speaker 2: Coaching. Sarahani is mostly known for his defense, right is it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni is known for his defense. Right am I
Speaker 2: right or wrong?
Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, you lost your
Speaker 5: defensive coordinator like this who had the personal relationship with
Speaker 5: the defense you lost your offensive coordinator, you lost your identity.
Speaker 5: I know somebody else is gonna try to call something
Speaker 5: very similar, but at the end of the day, if
Speaker 5: it ain't Payton, Manning and somebody else that already runs
Speaker 5: there on offense, you're gonna have a new identity.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because I actually think they're getting a new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator might be better for their defense because their
Speaker 1: defense was so vanilla last year, very soft cover three,
Speaker 1: soft cover six right, and like lots of underneath throws.
Speaker 1: So what happens when you get a little bit more aggressive.
Speaker 1: We talk about being more aggressive with our guys, and
Speaker 1: like watching training camp practice and seeing those guys be
Speaker 1: way way more aggressive, and how that affects the pass rush.
Speaker 1: He's got a pretty god pass rush over there, pretty
Speaker 1: good d line rotation. So does that make them better?
Speaker 1: It doesn't make them worse. We don't know. We're not
Speaker 1: out of practice for them. But the thing that gets
Speaker 1: me is the big question mark is the offense, because
Speaker 1: that's so much of that, insulating the quarterback, understanding what
Speaker 1: he does well, understanding what your personnel can do, and
Speaker 1: having a flow. Yes, I've never seen I've never seen
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator come in and run the offense
Speaker 1: better than the old guy.
Speaker 3: And to the offensive guys that they're already credit they
Speaker 3: might not have to act of that new court in
Speaker 3: to do much, you know what I mean. Let the
Speaker 3: guys run, you know, let these guys run the yard.
Speaker 3: I think when you look at Jalen Hurts, who expected
Speaker 3: him to look like he looked last year? And already
Speaker 3: we're hearing in camp he's just being looking phenomenal. And
Speaker 3: you know, we're talking about the top one hundred guys
Speaker 3: just a couple of weeks ago and we just found
Speaker 3: out that, you know, the the guy you know, we
Speaker 3: know who eat Patty Old Paddy, he's.
Speaker 1: Number one overall.
Speaker 3: But his own teammate said that Jalen Hurts, I'll played
Speaker 3: him and he said he never saw super Bowl play
Speaker 3: at that level. So Jalen Hurts to me, made that
Speaker 3: team look like they looked last year. I think that
Speaker 3: defense have always been known to be one of those
Speaker 3: defenses that come up there and play weekend and week out,
Speaker 3: year in and year out. But having that quarterback position,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, play it dominant as Jaden Hurst
Speaker 3: played last year. I think that's the reason why Philadelphia
Speaker 3: stood out, and to me, I think that's what's going
Speaker 3: to have to go forward. They're going to be the
Speaker 3: team that had to be on Joen Hurston.
Speaker 5: And had a hint of unfinished business. Like it don't
Speaker 5: feel like a hangover far just losing the Super Bowl
Speaker 5: with them. I feel more honger because I was, you know,
Speaker 5: I like to spou on him. I was firing on
Speaker 5: him two days ago. And they say, right now, Jayden
Speaker 5: Carter is giving Jason Kelsey everything he can, and that
Speaker 5: tells me everything's been center in football. They say, Jason Carr,
Speaker 5: I mean Jalen Carter is picking him up, moving him
Speaker 5: to different parts. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: don't forget they still got Jordan Davis, Brandon Graham like, so, Dan,
Speaker 5: you got to Fletcher Coxes your third detach. They add
Speaker 5: a very dangerous and deep team. Everybody's trying to for
Speaker 5: some reason, and they do this every off season, try
Speaker 5: to throw the Cowboys in the upper excellent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, doesn't doesn't feel like that roster
Speaker 1: the Cowboy When you look at Philly's roster top to bottom,
Speaker 1: it's just there's not a lot of weaknesses. They re
Speaker 1: signed Darius Slay. They get all those pieces back in
Speaker 1: the secondary. They do a good job drafting young players
Speaker 1: for those safety spots to kind of fill in linebackers.
Speaker 1: I think question mark there with the Kobe Dean, right,
Speaker 1: like what's he going to be because like I was
Speaker 1: not super high on him coming out of college, but again,
Speaker 1: like maybe he's the guy.
Speaker 5: But keeping them the tackles, keeping people out for him
Speaker 5: so he can run sideline and sideline.
Speaker 2: And don't forget they signed cunning him.
Speaker 5: It was the six four middle linebacker from Bandon and
Speaker 5: they also signed mass Jack, so they go, you go
Speaker 5: two venturis in case the Kobe Dean not ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I actually think the biggest question mark for
Speaker 1: me is the is the coaching right if they can,
Speaker 1: if they can kind of write that ship. I don't
Speaker 1: see from a roster standpoint. I guess barring injury too, right,
Speaker 1: if Jalen hurts gets hurt, like that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough deal, right, But I think they're they're the cream
Speaker 1: of the crop in the division.
Speaker 2: They guess who you got to beat?
Speaker 1: Yeahs, who you got to prove it?
Speaker 4: Knock them off?
Speaker 1: They pedal? Yeah, Yeah, I think we're all in agreement there, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 5: So nobody feel good about New York Giants. And do
Speaker 5: everybody feel like it was free gazy what they did?
Speaker 1: So just the market. It's one of those teams where
Speaker 1: like the margin for Aratanna is so small, right, they're
Speaker 1: winning games sixteen to seventeen, the last minute field goal,
Speaker 1: They're everything has fallen right for them. They're going on
Speaker 1: these twelve fifteen play drives. Consistency. Now, that's coaching, and
Speaker 1: that's good stuff, but it's also like there's a reason
Speaker 1: people don't do that. It's statistically not sustainable. And so
Speaker 1: I but I am higher on the Giants, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people get I think they did
Speaker 1: good a job kind of bringing in talent around Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones tight end. And they brought in, you know, some
Speaker 1: kind of fast, small receivers that can make them, make
Speaker 1: them a little bit more explosive offensively, create more space
Speaker 1: underneath for some of those players.
Speaker 5: So they drafted the guy from Tennessee who flat out run.
Speaker 5: I think he's gonna have to learn how to go
Speaker 5: against the pro press.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 4: He was in motion all the time and and he's like.
Speaker 2: A runaway type guy. He used to run, and I
Speaker 2: want to see him run the whole route. Tree used
Speaker 2: to just running past people. That ain't gonna work in
Speaker 2: the NFL every day.
Speaker 5: But I think the Giants are just a scrappy team
Speaker 5: with they do got identa because I thought they played
Speaker 5: on defense well, I think lowing Thibadeau.
Speaker 2: I think dead group of guys they got over there.
Speaker 2: I think they can play. But if you ask me,
Speaker 2: they're the last team in this division. If you ask
Speaker 2: me the.
Speaker 1: Last team the last season. Wow, interesting because I think
Speaker 1: they're they're so well coached. They don't have they do
Speaker 1: have our number, but they're solo coached, and they've they've
Speaker 1: got better on the offensive line, they've gotten better, and
Speaker 1: it's like, I guess to me, I guess the big
Speaker 1: question is I look at quarterbacks and is Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: better than Sam Howell right now? I would say probably,
Speaker 1: And usually usually that's not one hundred percent accurate, but
Speaker 1: usually that's a good indicator of a team that's probably
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit better now. I think
Speaker 1: I think the defense here is significantly better than them,
Speaker 1: and I think they can. The ceiling for them is
Speaker 1: incredibly high. I'm talking about Washington now, but they do
Speaker 1: have some pieces on that defense that are pretty talented.
Speaker 1: The offense, I think it feels a little bit piecemeal,
Speaker 1: but it's getting better. So it's just it's hard to
Speaker 1: know what the Giants because it was the marge Vera
Speaker 1: was like, so.
Speaker 5: You want to feel that way about Dania Jones because
Speaker 5: he just has a a big a book of work
Speaker 5: than Salem.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly right, because if I ask you to compare.
Speaker 5: To him and say, is his arms strong and his Sam,
Speaker 5: I'd be like, nah, they they own arms comparable with
Speaker 5: Daniel Jones can run with Sam can run also, Like,
Speaker 5: so it ain't the only thing that stopping him is
Speaker 5: one got three thousand plays under they built, the other
Speaker 5: one got nineteen.
Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of like what we're talking about today,
Speaker 1: Fred with Jacoby Verssett. How Jacoby looks a little bit
Speaker 1: better in certain situations just because he's more experience. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Sam's potential isn't better. But right now, Sam
Speaker 1: is you know, he's a second year player one start
Speaker 1: to his name, So that's a rookie. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But so so Giants, what's the thought I mean, they
Speaker 1: drafted the Banks in the first round. He's a pressman
Speaker 1: corner that fits with what they want to do defensively,
Speaker 1: they drafted John Michael Schmid's the center from Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I love Michael Smiths.
Speaker 1: And then is does Evan Neil kind of take the
Speaker 1: same level of improvement this year? Right, there's some pieces
Speaker 1: there they make you go, well maybe, and then Darren
Speaker 1: Waller again, I am so high on Dyla wrote to me.
Speaker 1: When he's healthy, he's maybe the best tight ending football,
Speaker 1: best best offensive weapon. Yeah, and put him, put him
Speaker 1: in that offense with with day Ball and uh Kafka,
Speaker 1: Like what is the result there? Like? Can he be
Speaker 1: a thousand yard receiver? Can he add an explosi development
Speaker 1: to that?
Speaker 2: Only if Daniel Jones take another step?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: If Daniel Jones don't take another step, they will take
Speaker 2: a step.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's that's something that we don't give
Speaker 3: that guy enough credit for. Daniel Jones have for the
Speaker 3: years I've been watching him, y'all understood that.
Speaker 4: You know a few years ago he.
Speaker 3: Fumbled the ball a lot, but his office the line
Speaker 3: wasn't blocking worth nothing, So he was always in scramble
Speaker 3: mode and trying to do more.
Speaker 1: Than he needed to do.
Speaker 4: But he's been accurate when he throws the ball.
Speaker 3: He's been a guy that knows how to allow the
Speaker 3: defense to get up here and then he finds that
Speaker 3: crease to run through there and get those hitting yards
Speaker 3: with his legs. So you know, he's that scary good
Speaker 3: to me, Like, he's not one of those guys that
Speaker 3: you sit there and say we got to serve him
Speaker 3: on our paper that week and say we got to
Speaker 3: get ready for him, but we always got to say
Speaker 3: and went in doubt this guy here can beat us.
Speaker 3: But he's been precise and been accurate at time. So
Speaker 3: adding Waller's gonna be scary because now he has that
Speaker 3: safety and that he has a guy and that he
Speaker 3: can remember that a couple of years ago they wanted
Speaker 3: they wanted that other tight end to be that guy,
Speaker 3: and he ended up going to Jacksonville and Ingram and
Speaker 3: he having a phenomenal time out there, you know, playing
Speaker 3: in Jacksonville. But the Giants has always had our number.
Speaker 3: So we have to find a way that a way
Speaker 3: to beat him. We gotta beat these guys. This is
Speaker 3: that those coaches just know how to coach better against us. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what it is because we always had the players.
Speaker 2: The question is when we play the Giants, is it
Speaker 2: the Xes and O's are the Jimmy and the Joe?
Speaker 5: Like this, this is what we're gonna have to figure
Speaker 5: out because right now, I think with the Exes and
Speaker 5: the os, we got a group that can adapt to them.
Speaker 5: So now it's the player of the player, right, and
Speaker 5: that's gonna be the key. But when I look at
Speaker 5: this division as a whole, everybody has a dominating D
Speaker 5: line all four teams.
Speaker 1: They might have the best defensive lineman in the division,
Speaker 1: Exel Lawrence, right, So like it's it's a it's I
Speaker 1: will say on the edges, they're not super strong.
Speaker 5: I Thoughteau if the year came year, he came on
Speaker 5: and Lyonnel Williams on the other side, like they have they.
Speaker 1: Got some dudes. They got some dudes. I agree. So
Speaker 1: one thing I wanted to ask you before we kind
Speaker 1: of move on to the Cowboys is tak on Barkley.
Speaker 2: Right, Barkley is God's hell to running back listen, but also.
Speaker 1: He's another weapon and right, yeah, yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: you know, I would say Daniel Jones was at the Helm,
Speaker 1: but definitely, you know in the passenger seat, navigating all
Speaker 1: the directions.
Speaker 5: And when you a defensive coordinator, you're about to play
Speaker 5: the New York Giants, your first thing you want to
Speaker 5: do is stop Saquon Barkley and make them one dimensional.
Speaker 1: That's how you and you know because like one of
Speaker 1: the things about them last year is they were not
Speaker 1: able to find a lot of explosive plays. Like we
Speaker 1: talked about the top, but Saquon was a guy that
Speaker 1: would bring explosive plays to the offense. Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: was their only avenue of explosives. Yes. So now they've
Speaker 1: got Waller, they've got Saquon, they've got Hodges, who's playing
Speaker 1: better than receiver. That's pretty good. They brought in from Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and they've got some faster, kind of underneath guys with
Speaker 1: Hyatt and some other guys.
Speaker 5: So and they get Stirling back, they get they get
Speaker 5: so they got guys coming back.
Speaker 1: I agree. So what's the consensus. If we had to
Speaker 1: kind of put a bow on it, they go as
Speaker 1: far as Daniel Jones.
Speaker 5: Basically, I think this divis is gonna look a lot
Speaker 5: like it did last year, Like I really, and it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a two to three game gap between the
Speaker 5: third and fourth teen to see who.
Speaker 2: Is gonna try to sneak in their playoff again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Right, So let's talk about the Cowboys real quick.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys are always funny to talk about to
Speaker 1: me because they're so over I don't say overhype, but
Speaker 1: there's so much hype around the team.
Speaker 2: They over reported.
Speaker 3: What it is that makes these guys the I mean,
Speaker 3: every camp, every year it's Cowboys, Cowboys over.
Speaker 5: Reported because she's that miss America? Like, that's what cowboys?
Speaker 5: I miss America with a dead tooth in the.
Speaker 2: Who it is? You don't know?
Speaker 3: It's too I'll tell you one thing. You gotta get
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones his credit man, because he knows something.
Speaker 2: He knows how to have his team.
Speaker 4: He know how to have his team front and center.
Speaker 1: Each year.
Speaker 4: Man, they the most talked about, it the most criticized.
Speaker 4: And if they come out of that thing playing good,
Speaker 4: and then they're like, oh, well see the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Everybody channel it's it's like I get tired of turning
Speaker 5: my TV on and it's a cowboy on every Channel's
Speaker 5: Tony Romo, Mike this Cowboys, Cowboys, Cowboys, even Lawrence Lawynch.
Speaker 2: Showed up at the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: Nobody want to talk about him, butchering the national listen, Ohkersworth, Yes,
Speaker 5: the market well showed up at the I was like,
Speaker 5: just get your yellow jacket, man.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know he feeling good boy himself. Boy,
Speaker 3: but I would not got up there and sound like that.
Speaker 3: Ifody knew I sounded lady. He got up there signing
Speaker 3: like Willie Van Dras. It was terrible, and nobody.
Speaker 5: Want to report the news because I was sitting down
Speaker 5: asking my kids and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: To hear it.
Speaker 3: It's the worst now, man, I turned mine down. I said,
Speaker 3: I didn't want to see him do it to trying
Speaker 3: it down little I felt back. I was like, I
Speaker 3: was looking on TV and see if anybody gonna start smirking,
Speaker 3: and see if the players start looking at you, you
Speaker 3: know how.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I was doing it. I was texting people.
Speaker 2: I only one cannot be listen football players, listen to me. Now,
Speaker 2: we're not great at everything. We are not great at everything.
Speaker 4: That boy had his eyes closed.
Speaker 1: But if you try the Cowboys stuff, we got shows right,
Speaker 1: you know you can watch. Yeah, we dance centers like
Speaker 1: make sure you turn the YouTube page for only Commander's content, right,
Speaker 1: So that's what I know. You get tired of that friend. No,
Speaker 1: that's where you can go Fred if you don't.
Speaker 5: Want to watch, But you could also go to my
Speaker 5: new podcast with Michael Jing. Let's get that out, because
Speaker 5: you know what I want to learn about how your
Speaker 5: life tolerant? They have a whispering in class, So how
Speaker 5: do you try to cheat on the test? What's the
Speaker 5: number one to number ten? And to teach hearing you
Speaker 5: back then? Because I couldn't whisper. So I've been getting
Speaker 5: laughed my whole life, so I understand what it is there.
Speaker 1: We go, good job, all right, So let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys actual roster and how not how good they're
Speaker 1: singing the national anthem, which tear.
Speaker 2: Okay, we can give you nine thumbs down.
Speaker 1: So Receivers, Michael Gallup, Brandy Cook's CD LAMB. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty good group, right it is. And I know you
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of love for Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 5: But you do have love for CD Lamb. I just
Speaker 5: think he's a one B. I don't think he's a
Speaker 5: one A. He doesn't take the top off that's his
Speaker 5: thing now. He does make contested catches. He is very
Speaker 5: quick in and out of his cuts, very good in
Speaker 5: the slot. I just think, if I take the top
Speaker 5: five corners in the league, I'm not afraid to leave none.
Speaker 2: Of them one on one with CDE lamp All.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, Ceede Lamb might feel differently about that, but
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying, Like he's not like this
Speaker 1: explosive threat. He's like a threat, good route runner, he
Speaker 1: catches the ball like he does, find explosive plays. It'll
Speaker 1: be That's something we should also talk about. Michae McCarthy
Speaker 1: calling the offense. Yeah, right, that I think is gonna
Speaker 1: be a little bit of aggression in my opinion.
Speaker 5: The last time he called the offense, you remember in
Speaker 5: Green Bay, it did not go well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's a very stagnant offense. It's a
Speaker 1: very traditional offense.
Speaker 3: To me, I think it's Dak though. I think I
Speaker 3: don't care what goes on. I don't care who's calling
Speaker 3: what plays. It's all Dak is. If that gonna be
Speaker 3: in his head this year, he's already here to be something.
Speaker 3: I'm never gonna have a season like that again.
Speaker 4: You don't know what.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, he shouldn't have came back. He
Speaker 2: broke his hand.
Speaker 5: He should can We watched Russell do it the year
Speaker 5: before that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I think everything is predicated
Speaker 3: on how DK plays. I mean, trust me that the
Speaker 3: Cowboys finds the way to play.
Speaker 1: They play great.
Speaker 4: Defense, they can move the chains, and then that do
Speaker 4: things that that do.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: He tried and you got to think about it since
Speaker 4: he broke that whatever ankle or.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is, Yeah, he ain't. No, a lot of
Speaker 3: his game was running, running the ball. He was doing
Speaker 3: something with them.
Speaker 4: Get he's so.
Speaker 2: Strong, he's like a mule. He's a huge nap kind
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he gets those five ten yards with ease,
Speaker 3: and now that's part of his game that he hasn't
Speaker 3: went me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right about it.
Speaker 4: I think that to me is gonna be on him
Speaker 4: if he tried to sit back there and show the
Speaker 4: world that I can dice you up.
Speaker 3: See what people fail to realize a lot of times
Speaker 3: when we talk about quarterbacks, say, well, a lot of
Speaker 3: those balls was ricocheted off his.
Speaker 4: Players, But you know why it was ricochet right throwing
Speaker 4: the ball too hard. You don't need to throw the ball.
Speaker 3: And trust me, fired up, I've been there, bro, when
Speaker 3: you got a quarterback that don't know how to give
Speaker 3: you a pass when you're not that far a catchuple pass.
Speaker 4: Bro, He's going to have those deflections. You're going to
Speaker 4: have those balls that we love, we love.
Speaker 3: So to me, it's going to be on deck and
Speaker 3: that can you could be accurate that, but put it
Speaker 3: in the chest, don't put it up here in the head,
Speaker 3: and it's going a thousand miles you know, per hour.
Speaker 1: No, I totally agree with that. And so to me,
Speaker 1: it's Mike McCarthy Dak Prescott that relationship because the thing
Speaker 1: about watching that offense last year, it's really, you know,
Speaker 1: with more right Kellen Moore, very play action, heavy, easy reads,
Speaker 1: finding good matchups and McCarthy that's not a characteristic of
Speaker 1: his offense. It's like, here's the picture pre snap and
Speaker 1: I don't know if that Dak's not Aaron Rodgers in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and that offense goes because it is, you know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers was the guy.
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb already stated that it's going to be on deck.
Speaker 3: He's going to be able to run the offensive that
Speaker 3: the office is in his hands.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's a quarterback man. You know, everything falls
Speaker 5: into quarterback left. But I can say this the only
Speaker 5: thing I can say about Dallas. They do have the
Speaker 5: best defensive player in the Hall Division.
Speaker 1: And maybe the best defense.
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm just saying, Michael Parson, but I think
Speaker 2: what I'm.
Speaker 1: Saying take strap plate on that. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: But I'm saying that defense when they are rolling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they do some really cool diskise stuff. They bring
Speaker 1: great pressures, they run with great line games like they
Speaker 1: are a Dan risk.
Speaker 2: They got a great link.
Speaker 4: We want to give credit to the Eagles.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys defense deserve all that crowd from last year
Speaker 3: they played the game.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, maybe the best defense. I mean, so,
Speaker 1: I don't want to cut you off town, maybe the
Speaker 1: best defense in the division, like not.
Speaker 3: The vision No right, yeah, I think so because because
Speaker 3: we haven't we haven't played as well as we should play.
Speaker 1: In the back end, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I think they have both that front end, the lineback
Speaker 4: and in the back end.
Speaker 3: Look the back end last year they had a guy
Speaker 3: that played better than Diggs and he wont get't no
Speaker 3: credit for it.
Speaker 5: Oh, this is what I was about to say. These
Speaker 5: gave up a thousand yards last year. They do have
Speaker 5: some dudes back there. But the only reason they got
Speaker 5: the slight edge on us they becking good I beckon
Speaker 5: good linebackers.
Speaker 2: Is where they got just where everything splits it on
Speaker 2: the defensive side.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, and you know, obviously they drafted Maszie Smith
Speaker 1: out of Michigan first round defensive tackle, kind of shore
Speaker 1: up that run run defense, which wasn't very good for
Speaker 1: them last year. But I really think it's yeah, Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons that they just have such good team speed. Those
Speaker 1: strong stageties they have like are just hook Yeah, they
Speaker 1: they just paid him. Yeah, big box players they cover
Speaker 1: like their cam curls are really really good and get
Speaker 1: a lot of flexibility. So Curst and the rest of those,
Speaker 1: I think we're in agreement here, like just to put
Speaker 1: a bow on it real quick. So maybe the best defense,
Speaker 1: maybe the best defensive coordinator of the division. I think
Speaker 1: Jackson have something to say about that at the end
Speaker 1: of this year. But it's really Mike McCarthy, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: how good that team is going to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, YouTube day out of define the factors with Philadelphia,
Speaker 5: it's really offensive coordinator defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: New York is more player based. Yes, so here we
Speaker 2: got a miss of coach and player. So it's Jamie
Speaker 2: David's gonna take that next step.
Speaker 5: It's coach b enemy's offense, gonna take the offense to
Speaker 5: another level on those ends, finally gonna get double digit
Speaker 5: sex right Uh, and practice they look like it's Curtis
Speaker 5: Sam You want to put his name in the head
Speaker 5: is I'm a good call? I mean I'm a good
Speaker 5: wide receiver. Also, I know that Johann Dawson say with
Speaker 5: a full year, I'm the top fifteen hours. So it's
Speaker 5: so many story lines that we got in the division.
Speaker 1: Right now, I agree, And I think for us, let's
Speaker 1: talk about us or the commanders, excuse me. So for
Speaker 1: this team to be to get where, for this team
Speaker 1: to get where it's got it wants to go, let's
Speaker 1: say that let's say winning the division is the goal.
Speaker 1: It's a lofty goal. What needs to happen for this team.
Speaker 2: Coaches need the coach and players need to.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, it's one of those things where I think
Speaker 5: for a long time we didn't have a pensmanship.
Speaker 2: We couldn't beat people with the pen.
Speaker 1: People you're talking about, all right, all right.
Speaker 5: When I played for Greg Williams, the one thing I
Speaker 5: could always say was we won. We was always prepared.
Speaker 5: We watched enough film that we diagnosed you and know
Speaker 5: what you was doing. But mainly I knew what Greg
Speaker 5: want it need to do, all right, and I trusted
Speaker 5: in what Greg wanted us to do. So when Greg
Speaker 5: was like, this is their favorite play, well this is
Speaker 5: what we're gonna run. We're gonna run these two plays
Speaker 5: against their favorite play because we finish steal that out
Speaker 5: route because they love to do it, and we're gonna
Speaker 5: steal it from the outside. Going in this beating somebody
Speaker 5: with the pen. That means my players don't matter right now.
Speaker 5: I am gonna go in here and I am going
Speaker 5: to whoop you with the pin. We need good quarterback
Speaker 5: play because I'm not gonna even bring the defense in
Speaker 5: because the defense proved that they was a top five defense.
Speaker 2: I just need you to be that again, all right.
Speaker 5: So it's all about offensive coordinator, meet your quarterback. That's
Speaker 5: the story of the man this season.
Speaker 2: This year.
Speaker 3: It's to me, I think It all lies on the offense.
Speaker 3: I think we need to protect. I think we're gonna
Speaker 3: be able to run, you know Washington practice. But you
Speaker 3: have to have both, you know what I mean. You
Speaker 3: have to because you know, and then you don't want
Speaker 3: teams tea and off on you.
Speaker 4: They can do is run.
Speaker 3: We ain't scared of them the past, so I think
Speaker 3: we have to be able to and even if we're not,
Speaker 3: you know, because I don't, I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 3: I'm not solely sitting here and saying that Sam need
Speaker 3: to be one of the best, you know, top ten
Speaker 3: quarterbacks when it comes to passing the football down the field.
Speaker 4: You have the skill guys where you can just dink
Speaker 4: and dunk the ball and allow them to be.
Speaker 2: Do what they do for you.
Speaker 3: But we have to know how to disguise things in
Speaker 3: a manner with that offense, with what eb have shown
Speaker 3: us that they can do over there in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: That gets teams to second guess theirself. You don't want
Speaker 3: them to say, well, we know this is a run.
Speaker 3: You want them to say see pass and say, oh man,
Speaker 3: they ran out of that, or they did a slip screen.
Speaker 4: That counts as a run you.
Speaker 1: Know thatmanship that yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree, And so
Speaker 1: I think it's so if I was going to kind
Speaker 1: of say some couple of things one Eb Sam Howe. Offensively,
Speaker 1: we've talked about that a ton on right, a ton
Speaker 1: on this podcast, like is the offense good to Sam?
Speaker 1: Pick it up? And can can Eb's offense elevate this
Speaker 1: group of playmakers the way that day Ball and Kafka
Speaker 1: did in New York last year quite frankly, like they
Speaker 1: elevated a bad group of players yea, and got the
Speaker 1: most out of that. And I think we have a
Speaker 1: better we have We definitely have a better skill position group,
Speaker 1: and our offensive line is probably coming together in a
Speaker 1: nice way. But can they elevate them to kind of
Speaker 1: take that next step? That's a big question for me. Offensively. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I think it's twofold. I think one is is Chase
Speaker 1: Young going to be Chase Young or a version of
Speaker 1: Chase Young that's dominant because if he's dominant, like, why.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you something load.
Speaker 5: Yeah, as a player, I ain't we out dominating in
Speaker 5: that country years.
Speaker 2: So it's so fun to have dominant we are, like.
Speaker 1: You talk about you talk about being dominant, like Monteze
Speaker 1: looks I'm not even kidding, looks unblockable when he like
Speaker 1: when he wants to in practice, that bulldog is taking
Speaker 1: a step up there.
Speaker 3: I think he also understand too that he needs to
Speaker 3: be that guy this year because I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: last year played well, he played great, especially not having
Speaker 3: Chase Oh when he was around these Yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be his showy because these guys, you gotta think, team's
Speaker 3: gonna say, you know what y'all do every week when
Speaker 3: we get ready to play that guy on offense, you
Speaker 3: circle them.
Speaker 4: You see we need we need two, three.
Speaker 2: Four five guys stop him and see what else they
Speaker 2: got for us.
Speaker 3: You gotta say on our d line, you gotta play
Speaker 3: even who were gonna double and who we're not gonna double.
Speaker 3: And then you to say, you know what, we gotta
Speaker 3: let these guys in the back end just show us
Speaker 3: that they gonna pick everything off because we can't double nobody.
Speaker 3: We gotta let these guys run the Bobbie, I get it.
Speaker 3: I think Chase, Chase is gonna be chased this year
Speaker 3: because he has a lot to prove. But Mantez is
Speaker 3: gonna he's going to benefit so much this year from
Speaker 3: having chased back.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. So that's my one and my
Speaker 1: two is the back end. Can they play as consistently
Speaker 1: and as together as they've been playing out here in practice, right,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Forest and just say juice it'll fulur look great.
Speaker 1: Cam looks like he's taking that next step getting his
Speaker 1: hands on the football contract here for him too. Forrest
Speaker 1: has been super consistent, love Percy Kwan. They've got the pieces.
Speaker 1: Can they continue to just make it tight? Window?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Hey, that's a great Christmas
Speaker 4: because if they.
Speaker 1: Do, it's a scary thing.
Speaker 2: Nice soneys, But we gonna be set up here. We can't.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to go to order these guys out here,
Speaker 1: and do we had to give an order? What's the order?
Speaker 1: What's the order for the division? Real quick order for
Speaker 1: the division?
Speaker 5: Hey, listen, I'm gonna go with the I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: with what I know from my old division, my division.
Speaker 5: Philadelphia can't win the division because they won it last year.
Speaker 5: Ain't nobody to repeat it in seventeen ball claim. I'm
Speaker 5: just telling you all right now, do that mean the
Speaker 5: Cowboys win it.
Speaker 2: I hope not. I hope not. I know who it
Speaker 2: ain't gonna be. It ain't gonna be the giants.
Speaker 1: It's talking to me the giants.
Speaker 2: So so it's cowboys or us or us.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a pretty bold claim. Yeah all right, so
Speaker 1: Tannel like jump the gun here it were.
Speaker 2: It was told me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Tanna took a fight. We were jumping to
Speaker 1: farmer friend's uh watermelon here took a bite. It doesn't
Speaker 1: look that juicy? Is it juicy?
Speaker 2: I say, you smell if a vestments coming up?
Speaker 1: Don't you get the probably saying that professs like that?
Speaker 1: Who cut these pieces? Man? It looks like like like
Speaker 1: the biggest piece I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Here, we got sowing, we cut. Then what it is?
Speaker 2: I taste it? Tell me what you think? Got some beeries?
Speaker 2: I grew in it?
Speaker 1: That is nice, man, that's very nice.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just home. They were just sitting there.
Speaker 2: This is a red watermelon I have. This is a
Speaker 2: strawberries I have right here.
Speaker 5: Strawberryes are the easiest thing to grow, but they attract
Speaker 5: a lot of insects.
Speaker 2: So this is why I make sure I grow red
Speaker 2: peppers around du I love.
Speaker 1: The little This was really good. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I thought I was gonna taste, like.
Speaker 4: I knew it's gonna be good because from weakness, you
Speaker 4: know what he said, he grew.
Speaker 5: But I wouldn't waken none of my money, not for
Speaker 5: not for stuff that I can grow now, stuff that
Speaker 5: I can't grow. Main goals and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I get them from the stop.
Speaker 1: So what's the key. You're growing a good watermelon?
Speaker 5: Well understanding what it's made from water, simply that, and
Speaker 5: it needs to be raised, like the one thing about
Speaker 5: part of it, Like I boxed them in because the
Speaker 5: one thing about these watermelon is they need to lay
Speaker 5: on the ground and that's how you get the south
Speaker 5: the yellow spots and stuff on them, and they'll let
Speaker 5: you know if it's sweet or not. You see how
Speaker 5: yellow the bottom of it was. That was the signal
Speaker 5: that it was a sweet water and that it had ripened.
Speaker 5: So the one thing about it is if you take
Speaker 5: them off the vine, they still rip they don't.
Speaker 2: Get ripe anymore. It's over with.
Speaker 1: Oh it's over.
Speaker 5: I have to let them get ripe on the vine
Speaker 5: because I'm gonna bring you out a yellow one but
Speaker 5: they still need to be on the vine for like
Speaker 5: a week and a half or.
Speaker 1: Two mad and everything, you know everything, But were gonna
Speaker 1: talk anymore. This is pretty listen.
Speaker 2: I grew it in the garden.
Speaker 4: They sorry jump the gun, but they will call them.
Speaker 2: That watermelon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think that's going to do it. On
Speaker 1: this beautiful watermelon day. We'll try the strawberries aurn a
Speaker 1: little bit. But thank you all for joining. We really
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