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Speaker 1: It is time to talk to Amari Cooper and you're

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Speaker 1: now joined by the route runner himself, Cowboys wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Amari Cooper. As we are every Thursday right here in

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Speaker 1: the gbag nation. Amari, how are you? I'm good man,

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Speaker 1: I can't complain. How are you? I am doing well? Hey?

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Speaker 1: Is there a book you would recommend to learn how

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Speaker 1: to play chess? Because I want to beat you at it?

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Speaker 1: But I don't want to play you at it because

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I know how the pieces moved,

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Speaker 1: but I'm awful. Um, so that's a good question. Actually,

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Speaker 1: Uh so, chess books is actually, like, um, nowadays, an

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Speaker 1: archaic way of learning how to play chess. Dang it. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's still very effective and a lot of people who

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Speaker 1: learn how play chess bar are reading chess books. But

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Speaker 1: it's just technology is so advanced that people people people

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Speaker 1: nowadays learn on apps. So you got chess dot com,

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Speaker 1: you gotta he actually got a lot of different apps. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then like once you start getting better, people usually

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Speaker 1: get like chess teacher teachers, depending on how serious they are.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Amari, last week we had you power

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Speaker 1: rank when things hurt? Which one's the worst, and you

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Speaker 1: went with the high ankle sprain this week. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to see if you wanted to update. Where does cracked

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Speaker 1: rib rank on the Power Rankings of discomfort depends on

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Speaker 1: It's not that bad. Actually, not that one. Not bad,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Though, I didn't know if you

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Speaker 1: had a word with the coaching staff though I was

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Speaker 1: watching the tape after the game. They had you come

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Speaker 1: down in motion and kind of block inside there. Man,

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Speaker 1: I know you love to kind of mix it up

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Speaker 1: with guys and stuff like that, but did you kind

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Speaker 1: of walk back there and say, hey, guys, I'm out

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Speaker 1: here to catch footballs today, but if I have to block, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: but don't bring me down inside and make me have

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Speaker 1: to block with those guys. Right. Uh. Yeah, there was

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Speaker 1: definitely a talk about that. I saw your reaction. I

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Speaker 1: saw your reaction. I'm like, I'm like Amor in motion

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Speaker 1: always a good thing here. He's gonna come sprinting across

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Speaker 1: here and get open and the next thing I know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's up inside blocking on linebacker. Something like, please

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Speaker 1: don't do that to Amari. Please don't do let that

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Speaker 1: happen anymore. So I didn't see it. The rest of

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Speaker 1: the game, Amari. So I just kind of saw you

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Speaker 1: to kind of help in some of the running game stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to be to set the straight. I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 1: we just bust on it. But he, uh, he kind

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Speaker 1: of like, yeah, you probably shouldn't be like the one blocking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah like that. So, yeah, that's why you probably didn't

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Speaker 1: see it the rest of the game. List the coach,

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Speaker 1: Noah's on this, rostering him. Let him do the blocking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Noah is not wearing rib protectors right now. Let's go

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Speaker 1: out and let him block, now, Amari. When it comes

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Speaker 1: to game planning going into these things, I would imagine

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Speaker 1: obviously you guys spend all week coming up with a

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Speaker 1: game plan and what you think is going to happen

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Speaker 1: in the game. Week one, it was kind of slinging

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Speaker 1: around really good run defense. Week two and three, you

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Speaker 1: guys were able to run the ball really well. When

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Speaker 1: you go into this thing, does Kellen Moore and you

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Speaker 1: guys have a good handle on if it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a run week or a past week, or is

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Speaker 1: it more or Look, we're gonna get there, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: see how they line up, and we're ready. Yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, it depends on a couple of different factors.

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Speaker 1: I think the factors that went into the past two weeks.

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Speaker 1: It's just a simple fact that these guys played a

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Speaker 1: a really a lack of respect for a team's run game,

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Speaker 1: just because the league has really passed heavy now as

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Speaker 1: opposed to it was back then. But because we have

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Speaker 1: such good runners, such great blockers, it was it was

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Speaker 1: obvious that we should run the ball against those two teams. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you don't have to give away anything game plan wise.

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Speaker 1: But I was watching the Panthers tape this morning, and

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Speaker 1: I refused to watch them against rookie quarterbacks because I

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Speaker 1: the Saints. Do you guys think you might have an

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Speaker 1: they played more man and man than the two the

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Speaker 1: two teams we previously played played a lot of man

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Speaker 1: right here on one h five through the fan, Amori,

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Speaker 1: give us your scouting report on Jeremy Chen, Dante Jackson,

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Speaker 1: the two corners for the Carolina Panthers, and what are

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Speaker 1: you looking to diagnose when you're looking at them on table?

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Speaker 1: What you see for them coming this week? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: Dante Jackson, he moving real fast guy like four two. Um,

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Speaker 1: Chan's a really good player. I mean, they're a good player.

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Speaker 1: I listen to three and no for a reason. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're just trying to go out there, um and and

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Speaker 1: play our best football and come away victorious. But they

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Speaker 1: definitely have a good secondary back there, and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: bet a challenge for us. Maria you said today when

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Speaker 1: dak in the way he's the ability to get rid

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Speaker 1: of the football. You know, the two point four seconds,

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Speaker 1: two point three seconds whatever. As a route runner and

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Speaker 1: you know the ball's coming out quick? Does that speed

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Speaker 1: up your route a little bit? Do you know the

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Speaker 1: to make adjustments along the way, or is this something

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Speaker 1: that's hey, whether he's throwing it at two point four

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Speaker 1: the same way that I always run these routes. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: And it's not like that at all. Obviously, if I

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Speaker 1: right in two seconds. You know he's gonna he's gonna

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Speaker 1: wait for me to break, So I don't. I don't. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't have to speed up any route at all.

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Speaker 1: He's just getting the ball out. Fact the things either

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Speaker 1: thing is with d he's such a fearless quarterback, Like

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Speaker 1: him full speed, and he's stepping into throws. Typically quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: like if they see an unblocked defensive lineman coming at him,

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Speaker 1: He's stepping into all these throws because that's how that's

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Speaker 1: But it's like he's so fearless that he doesn't mind

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Speaker 1: don't want to get hit for real, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: And so that fearlessness in the past could probably be

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Speaker 1: just because like, hey, I don't mind getting hit, you

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Speaker 1: And so now he's just he's in all that um

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Speaker 1: combined with his fearlessness, which is all which is still

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Speaker 1: it in a better way. I would say, Okay, is

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Speaker 1: this a fearless guy admiring a fearless guy, because I've

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Speaker 1: and you know, no, you're gonna get hit, but you concentrate,

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Speaker 1: you secure the ball, you take the hit. Is that

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know when when my quarterbacks out there

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Speaker 1: take the hit along with him too. Uh Well I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't I want to a get it from him.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I would answer your question, yeah to a

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Speaker 1: fearless guy. Mayron, another fearless guy. Um, you know I learned.

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Speaker 1: You gotta think I've been playing receiving my whole life

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Speaker 1: better to get hit and catch the ball. Didn't you

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Speaker 1: learned that, that's when I that's when I became more phillies.

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Speaker 1: I would say, which quarterback in your career? This could

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Speaker 1: sophomore year Alabama? Man, Nah, I always had good quarterbacks, man.

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Speaker 1: You know, Teddy was my tedd Bridgewood was my quarterback

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Speaker 1: not throwing, not throwing the receiver into danger. Yeah, do

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Speaker 1: you have a favorite route to run? Everybody knows that

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Speaker 1: you're an outstanding route runner, But is it one of

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Speaker 1: the ones where like you've sort of run it a

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Speaker 1: million times where it's just like a slant, or is it, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm about to score. Do you have a favorite route

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Speaker 1: to hear get called? I mean, obviously the double moves

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Speaker 1: are are favorable just because like it's a built in deception,

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Speaker 1: But aside from the double routes, the double moves, I mean,

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Speaker 1: because I mean I like all of them that out

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Speaker 1: and ups, the stop and go, the slant and go

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Speaker 1: like I like, I like all of them equally. But

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Speaker 1: just a normal route, I would say, I mean every

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Speaker 1: gonna leave that. I would say. I would say a slant. Man,

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Speaker 1: I would say a slant because there's a lot it's

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Speaker 1: so many different ways to run the slant, Like I

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Speaker 1: open um. And also you can take those slants to

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Speaker 1: So right now I would say as slant, but tomorrow

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Speaker 1: it'll probably be different, Okay, Maori. On that we were

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Speaker 1: talking about watching tape on Schultz's touchdown, your responsibility was

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Speaker 1: the post to carry to the safety, right to hold

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Speaker 1: you're route that was a beautiful route to keep that

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Speaker 1: of people. So it's a MARII Cooper. You get him

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Speaker 1: one or five three, the fan of Mari. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time as always, and good luck this weekend. We

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