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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode of The Break. I believe
Speaker 1: this is our last one for a few days. Right,
Speaker 1: we won't be back here on Derek, do you know
Speaker 1: the schedule? We will not be here on Monday. We
Speaker 1: will not be here on Tuesday. We'll do shows on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday we go. I believe Monday we are
Speaker 1: joint show. This joint show, one joint show. And I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be Dave. I don't think so, Amber,
Speaker 1: I don't definitely. Yeah, And uh, maybe somebody's like the
Speaker 1: best chance for anyone to be to be here a while,
Speaker 1: you know, that is right Dixon Dixon safety from Alabama.
Speaker 1: He but you know what, Tony Dixon was the last
Speaker 1: player picked from Alabama. Almost Boscarborough absolutely, yeah, which is
Speaker 1: kind of interesting that they have for those people listening.
Speaker 1: He just walked past behind us. Yeah, Calvin Hill, Calvin Hill,
Speaker 1: you know a former player who play You know, this
Speaker 1: is such a sporty of the year bla blah blah.
Speaker 1: You know. But but then Tony Dixon, this is our
Speaker 1: lives though, right, I like it. The best chance for
Speaker 1: a guy to be on the show Monday would be
Speaker 1: you really yeah, I think so. That's interesting. I think
Speaker 1: so because this guy's out of town going home, don't
Speaker 1: get to go home often, and is gonna take advantage
Speaker 1: one of New Orleans. You're gonna bring some food back.
Speaker 1: Maybe I could. My mom's making Mom's making gumbo on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. Yes, Dave, you would be my best friend
Speaker 1: in the world. If you bring me back a bowl,
Speaker 1: I'll try. Dave is going to New Orleans three times
Speaker 1: in three weeks. Maybe I'm called baby, he's calling it home. Oh,
Speaker 1: then got a wedding on home for Christmas. I'm in
Speaker 1: a wedding on Wildcards Saturday. That's a Sunday. Really, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a Sunday. You use the Cowboys playing on
Speaker 1: a Sunday, and then if the Cowboys win, they would
Speaker 1: more than likely be going to New Orleans. To play
Speaker 1: the Saints, so three times, three times, and I can't complain.
Speaker 1: It'd be nice if it all works out that well,
Speaker 1: I can't complain. It would be nice if you're a
Speaker 1: friend or whoever's getting married, would have just pushed that
Speaker 1: one week and you're already gonna be there, right, might
Speaker 1: just do wedding and in game, right, it would be nice. Nice.
Speaker 1: Life is never that convenient. You're right about them, It's okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh well, first world problem. Oh well, oh well, let's
Speaker 1: make this a good show since we won't be here
Speaker 1: for a while, so Nick, don't mess it up? All right,
Speaker 1: all right, let's start off with inactives for this. Don't
Speaker 1: let you read this, help me, all right? Inactives, let's
Speaker 1: just go for it. Um. Apparently sak Marian is looking
Speaker 1: pretty good. He seems like he's gonna acting ready to go.
Speaker 1: Could be as tough this week as they've been in
Speaker 1: a while because of how much everybody's rounding into good health.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, because I was at practice a few
Speaker 1: minutes ago, and I mean it's just Irving and Swain.
Speaker 1: Those are the only two guys that are Those are
Speaker 1: those are two. Mike White'll be the third. But then
Speaker 1: is Tavon Austin healthy enough to be active for this game?
Speaker 1: Do you want him active for this game? Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: I would bet my life he's gonna play. But do
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable sitting Bob has Tavon Austin being at practice.
Speaker 1: He's been using He's been limited all week, Like we
Speaker 1: said yesterday, he was part of the pre practice walk
Speaker 1: through yesterday. I don't know about today, but they're listing
Speaker 1: him as limited. He ain't playing. I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like he sits this week too, which I know that's
Speaker 1: frustrating for people to hear at home, but you know,
Speaker 1: you work him back deliberately, you more than likely are
Speaker 1: going to play a playoff game, so you got that
Speaker 1: to look forward to as well. So John Lee showed
Speaker 1: up as limited again. I think hamstring, Mike White, Tavon Austin,
Speaker 1: Jeff Swains Irving was driving today, driving a golf cart.
Speaker 1: That's what he was doing today. Fascinating. You should have
Speaker 1: seen the scene at practice real quick. Yeah, no, go ahead.
Speaker 1: They do a thing. I don't know where this started,
Speaker 1: but they do a thing where the coaches or staff
Speaker 1: members will catch an on sidekick. Okay, like the whole
Speaker 1: team's around and they'll just on site kick and Ben
Speaker 1: Bloom linebackers coach. He does it most of the time,
Speaker 1: but they have another other guys to do it, and
Speaker 1: you watch more of these. This is a Friday thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a Friday tradition. Yeah, well today it was. Usually
Speaker 1: it's just like, hey, Ben Bloom's gonna do it. He
Speaker 1: comes over and catches us on sidekick. Everyone goes crazy. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Today Ben Bloom, they said, is gonna do it. Well,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there, Like where's Ben. He's up up in
Speaker 1: the like in the stands, and he comes down and
Speaker 1: they've got a golf cart over there, and then he
Speaker 1: like the linebackers are all dry. He's driving a Sean
Speaker 1: is and that he gets like kind of like a
Speaker 1: wrestling entrance. He comes in and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: not really but no no, then no better than that.
Speaker 1: Then they huddle up and all of a sudden, lebron style,
Speaker 1: just like the powder just comes flying in the air
Speaker 1: and Ben's ready to do this. He gets it. I
Speaker 1: hope I caught it. After Oh yeah, he really couldn't
Speaker 1: see for a second because all that was in the
Speaker 1: way and he's like, hold on and then he kicks
Speaker 1: it right to him. He catches it. Yeah, good for
Speaker 1: him and you. And I looked over at Rob and
Speaker 1: I was I just remember the one quote from Dak
Speaker 1: yesterday and he was like, you know, we're hungry and
Speaker 1: we're humbled by what happened last week. And I'm just
Speaker 1: like humbled, Yeah, kidding. You want them And they look
Speaker 1: ready to I mean, they look very upbeat and having
Speaker 1: a good hopefully I have a good practice. And I
Speaker 1: think this needs to be sick because there's some fan
Speaker 1: up there right now there saying, oh my god, they're
Speaker 1: so not understand that when you have a team, and
Speaker 1: you have a team for how many weeks not only
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks season, but you've had them since training camp,
Speaker 1: you have to do things like this to keep guys engaged,
Speaker 1: to keep it light so that they're not so so
Speaker 1: focused to where they're they're too much in their own hits.
Speaker 1: So you gotta you gotta build camaraderie, you gotta build
Speaker 1: team like. All that stuff's a part of it. So
Speaker 1: don't get don't get nervous, guys. It's okay, it's a game, right,
Speaker 1: It's a really important game that's worth a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but it's a game, and fun stuff like that is
Speaker 1: supposed to happen. It needs to happen. All I could
Speaker 1: think about was Ben Bloom, and I'm thinking he's got
Speaker 1: both feet right in the building. Yeah, yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. There was a time when we didn't know
Speaker 1: what Ben bloom and he's had eighteen different titles here
Speaker 1: moving around. Now he's the linebackers coaching, and the linebackers
Speaker 1: are pretty good, and not just not just those two.
Speaker 1: Sean's good, of course, and Damian Wilson's played well and
Speaker 1: you know, and that's a good group. It's probably one
Speaker 1: of the better groups to have. And that was one
Speaker 1: of our biggest worries they have. Do you think it is?
Speaker 1: And top to bottom? Yeah, And that's really a great
Speaker 1: point because one of the things we've talked about with
Speaker 1: the quarterback coaches is lack of experience with an experienced quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of linebackers on that crew that
Speaker 1: are not as experienced. He's not as experienced, yet they're
Speaker 1: still being able to kind of figure that out. May
Speaker 1: it's because of his coaching, Maybe there are other things
Speaker 1: that play there. Maybe Sean helps a little bit there
Speaker 1: as well, but it is I think it does deserve
Speaker 1: to be pointed out that he's doing a good job
Speaker 1: even with limited experience. Yeah, let me give you one
Speaker 1: player to watch, and is Anthony Brown. Anthony Brown didn't
Speaker 1: practice much today and he's not practicing right now back spasms.
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis is going to get a lot of playing
Speaker 1: time in this game, and spasms will be one of
Speaker 1: those things that you see Sunday. Maybe he gets a
Speaker 1: chance to do some stuff. But are you starting to
Speaker 1: feel a little more confident with what Jordan Lewis can
Speaker 1: bring for you or like do for you on the field?
Speaker 1: You know? You know? I said before the season started,
Speaker 1: I said, my bold prediction is that at the end
Speaker 1: of going into next year, you'll have NFL will have
Speaker 1: the best cornerback duo in the league will be in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And I thought Cheeto and Jordan Lewis would be the guys.
Speaker 1: Not the case Byron and Cheeto, And I may not
Speaker 1: be that wrong. Best best duo in the league one
Speaker 1: two punched cornerbacks. I don't think you're Chicago. Don't they
Speaker 1: have Mukamara. I mean they're I'm trying to think. I
Speaker 1: think Cheeto has had a really good year. I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's doesn't have any one interception. I think he
Speaker 1: had one, Yeah, I mean he almost had one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he almost had three in that Washington game. I think
Speaker 1: he has going up to the season. You would have
Speaker 1: said Kansas City, but Peters is not played up to
Speaker 1: his Peters is gone. Now I'm sorry I would have said, actually,
Speaker 1: I was meaning the rets. I was getting there. You go, well,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't played up to what the expectations were
Speaker 1: he and yeah, they were expected I think by most
Speaker 1: people to be the best. It's been a good it's
Speaker 1: been a good group. And Anthony Brown has played well.
Speaker 1: So to answer your question about Jordan Lewis, when he
Speaker 1: does little niche rolls and stuff like that, he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But you know he's gonna have his handsful. Somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: have to go with the Shawn Jackson a lot. And
Speaker 1: like Evans and I'm freezing, Humphreys got Brown can't play,
Speaker 1: then Lewis is going to have to deal with that,
Speaker 1: which I have confidence in him to do it. But
Speaker 1: that's a tough draw. This this passing attack is a
Speaker 1: tough draw. It's the only thing the Bucks do well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can say, well he stick with with Kamara
Speaker 1: and all that, but Kamar is not a route runner.
Speaker 1: I mean he can do it. But I mean Humphreys
Speaker 1: is in this league because he can stop on a
Speaker 1: diamond cut and do what Beasley does and all that.
Speaker 1: It was eight snaps. He played great against the Saints.
Speaker 1: He played eight snaps. So now you're talking they didn't
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, you're talking forty to sixty if if
Speaker 1: prep and eye on that with Anthony Brown. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you have three inactives right now. Covington, I mean, Mike White, Tavon,
Speaker 1: Austin Covington is probably a good Austin think definitely. I think.
Speaker 1: So that's just a I mean, somebody's got to sit.
Speaker 1: And Tavon's still coming back from that growing he's limited,
Speaker 1: and like I said, like you you're probably get in
Speaker 1: a playoff game out of this. So I think I
Speaker 1: think Tavon sits. I could be wrong Covington if not,
Speaker 1: if that's I don't know, though, I mean, do you
Speaker 1: trust and I don't think you're going if you can,
Speaker 1: if you can figure out a way to get Martin active.
Speaker 1: You still feel like you need Redmond jet How many
Speaker 1: times I mean, how many times has it happened where
Speaker 1: sag has needed to come out the field. That's like
Speaker 1: three times, right, or two? Or you don't know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That could be a situation where nothing about Suafilo, though,
Speaker 1: is either you can or can't play. It's not something
Speaker 1: where he starts playing in it's like, oh I really
Speaker 1: can't play, Like take a hit to the head and
Speaker 1: you've already got issues there and you can't. I'm going
Speaker 1: with eight. I'm I would never know about Tyring. I
Speaker 1: think with Martin for sure, that makes it where you should.
Speaker 1: I don't want to sit an offensive line. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: expect Tacco to be active. After Jerry Jones's comments this week,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see. Yeah, Karn Reid probably only guy
Speaker 1: that made a play on defense last week, but he's
Speaker 1: probably going to be an active Covington could sit. Uh
Speaker 1: if Anthony Brown can't go, then he would sit. Does
Speaker 1: that get us to seven? Like this is? It's it's
Speaker 1: been very clear cut for about a month now because
Speaker 1: there have been so many guys getting ruled out on Fridays.
Speaker 1: But it should be a little bit of a debate
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, Darius Thompson's a guy that could get
Speaker 1: yeah yeah if if yeah, yeah yeah. All right, well
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take an early break this time. Um,
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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. All right,
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Speaker 1: football Back to the break. Okay, you want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and get that started there? Sure, end it off
Speaker 1: to your game day prediction. Let's get this over with.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Okay, So Cowboys are playing the Bucks, right? Yes? Um?
Speaker 1: I think so? This this Bucks team? For the record,
Speaker 1: real quick. Derek wasn't here last week, so we just
Speaker 1: assumed Oh no, no, no, no, you assumed no for
Speaker 1: Derek that whose record at the time was eight. I
Speaker 1: was right, no, and we said, Derek, he'll pick win. Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: And then what I tell you guys, right, have the show?
Speaker 1: Why are you lying to fans? I'm not show the show.
Speaker 1: He told us on Friday that he was going to
Speaker 1: pick a loss. And why did I say they that
Speaker 1: was gonna pick a loss? You remember, not really because
Speaker 1: you said something about being hungry and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Need more. Yeah, I believe in the desperate theory, and
Speaker 1: you have two evenly matched team that seemed this more desperate.
Speaker 1: I think tends to win more often than everything is
Speaker 1: lining up where on the road. I'm just saying like
Speaker 1: that was my thought on Friday. And he also said
Speaker 1: I if they lose this game, make sure and bring
Speaker 1: that up on Monday. If they don't lose, no word,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to bring that. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: I'll go to my grave believing that if Derek had
Speaker 1: sat down in front of the microphone on that Friday,
Speaker 1: he would have wound up picking a win. No. I
Speaker 1: made up in my mind that Monday. I was hold
Speaker 1: on to that for the next seventy five years. Dave, Wait, why,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. You're gonna live He's gonna live
Speaker 1: it up five years. Damn on, he's one to five,
Speaker 1: make it to one hundred and five. Let's do it,
Speaker 1: not the way. I'm not betting on that. Ya, that's
Speaker 1: not no, I don't. I'm with you. Yeah, you've probably
Speaker 1: not been with me on you happy to make it
Speaker 1: to eighty anyway, that's convenient. But let me guess you're picking.
Speaker 1: But well, I was about to say, it's the hungry team,
Speaker 1: It's it's the Buccaneers, Like, seriously, are we having this guy?
Speaker 1: It's the bucket. If they can't win this game. I
Speaker 1: don't even believe it was the Titans, then it's the Titans.
Speaker 1: If they can't win this game, silent team, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever tends. If you're gonna pick a game, this is
Speaker 1: like a game that's just too easy to pick. Like
Speaker 1: I'm actually in our Survivor. I'm picking the Cowboys this week.
Speaker 1: I'ming about that. Still, I'm having nightmares about DeShawn Jackson
Speaker 1: just streaking past the Dallas defense. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he might not do but I still don't think that overall.
Speaker 1: They might bust a few plays. I just don't think
Speaker 1: they can sustain it enough to beat this team. The
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's the best quarterback on the field. I agree
Speaker 1: with that that is not always the case. You know what,
Speaker 1: we haven't done like a crazy prediction in a long time.
Speaker 1: How about you give me one if you're crazy prediction.
Speaker 1: All right, let me think, let me think, let me think.
Speaker 1: All right, This week, Cowboys will have three interceptions. About that,
Speaker 1: three interceptions. This is a quarterback that gives them away.
Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't great a pick in the ball, but they
Speaker 1: will have three interceptions this week. Heath is a Winston like, yeah,
Speaker 1: pick machine, three career picks against Jabu. I'm good with that,
Speaker 1: all right, Nick, victory win Cowboys? Did you have a
Speaker 1: Cowboys gotta score, Derek, Yeah, you gotta score. O. Uh
Speaker 1: Cowboys win? Uh twenty seven? Uh no, I'm sorry, twenty
Speaker 1: six to twelve. Got that sounds like a boring score,
Speaker 1: all right. I got Dallas thirty to twenty one. I
Speaker 1: think there'll be some field goals in this game. It's
Speaker 1: an important game from our. Um. I think, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think Dak is a better quarterback on this game
Speaker 1: because Winston. Winston is a little bit more reckless with
Speaker 1: the ball. He'll make better throws, but he'll also make,
Speaker 1: you know, some bad throws. I think you look at
Speaker 1: Dak at some of the interceptions, and some of them
Speaker 1: have been bad. Some of them haven't necessarily been on him. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they I think they do better. My crazy prediction,
Speaker 1: they will be one hundred percent touchdown percentage in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Wow, that's how many? How many trips? I
Speaker 1: don't care. One for one is okay, but right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait till they get down there the first
Speaker 1: time and everybody's just looking over at you. I don't like. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one hundred percent two two, two for two.
Speaker 1: That's I got three touchdowns in the game. One of
Speaker 1: them will be um, kind of a longer one. Uh
Speaker 1: for Gallop, They're gonna connect. The time might be crazy too,
Speaker 1: but Gallop connects with a long touchdown. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go two for two down there, and not that crazy
Speaker 1: because again, Tampa Bay. I mean, it's not even Swiss
Speaker 1: cheese in there. It's it's worse than that. If they
Speaker 1: can't score touchdowns in the red zone against these guys,
Speaker 1: just give up. Just stop. Uh yeah, no, I mean
Speaker 1: what Derek scared me, but I pretty much I agree this.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't lose to this team at home. They've been
Speaker 1: good at home, Um, and they've been in Tampa. Has
Speaker 1: been bad at Tampa, has been bad on the road.
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston has not won a road start in more
Speaker 1: than two years. Is that what our friend Taylor Stern
Speaker 1: told us that they whipped the Saints first game of
Speaker 1: the year, not whipped them, but they controlled that game.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Jamis, No, No, I'm just saying. And then
Speaker 1: they haven't won a road game since. Yeah, it's bad
Speaker 1: and they're bad the Cowboys. They should they have to
Speaker 1: win the takeaway turnover battle. They haven't had more than
Speaker 1: one turnover since Thanksgiving. I think that changes this week
Speaker 1: that you gotta you should be able to get at
Speaker 1: least two off these guys. Um, regardless of what Marlon
Speaker 1: Mac did, I think they they will stop the run
Speaker 1: better against this team. UM, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: they They're too inconsistent to be one hundred percent in
Speaker 1: the red zone, but I think I think three or
Speaker 1: three out of four is manageable and that'll get the
Speaker 1: job done. UM multiple takeaways better in the red zone.
Speaker 1: I think they hit thirty points. My bold prediction. I
Speaker 1: think dak is gonna respond on I think four four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He will have a hand in. Well, however you want
Speaker 1: to divvy that up. Maybe it's three passing and a rushing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's two and two. But big big day for
Speaker 1: him and nice say, thirty four thirty four, twenty four
Speaker 1: still won't be super duper comfortable because this team doesn't
Speaker 1: play super duper comports. Yeah that okay, Which that's the
Speaker 1: only time they do. Is that the only game this
Speaker 1: year where fourth quarter is just kind of like Nick,
Speaker 1: write your story, you could be done middle in the
Speaker 1: good I mean no colts. Well, yeah, on the positive side,
Speaker 1: because we've known Carolina, Seattle, UM, I think, and Indy obviously,
Speaker 1: and I think there's even one more where you were like,
Speaker 1: we know it. Oh yeah, they lost this game Carolina
Speaker 1: in Seattle, like when we were down on the field
Speaker 1: they were still drying me. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't could have thought. I had no confidence whatsoever they
Speaker 1: would against Carolina and then Seattle. I know, like when
Speaker 1: when they got picked off the second time, but it
Speaker 1: was I think it was twenty four to thirteen at
Speaker 1: that they were two scores down with like six minutes
Speaker 1: to play. It didn't Carolina was a one score game
Speaker 1: all the Deonte Thompson, Yeah, I would just the fact
Speaker 1: that you didn't think they could, which we all probably
Speaker 1: would kind of like I don't think this is gonna
Speaker 1: work out. That's different than actually writing the story and
Speaker 1: being like, hey, go and send it in. We're good,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right. But I would have bet my
Speaker 1: entire life savings that they weren't scoring against the Panthers. Um, anyway,
Speaker 1: it won't be. It won't be that they're not. If
Speaker 1: they win this forty to seven, then good for them.
Speaker 1: That is an encouraging sign for what that means for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, but I just I gotta see to
Speaker 1: believe my crazy prediction. I'm gonna say, and this is
Speaker 1: kind of crazy because they haven't been utilized in Rico
Speaker 1: in the red zone really, they kind of stopped doing
Speaker 1: that after a few games. But I'm gonna say they
Speaker 1: find a way to kind of throw Rico in there
Speaker 1: and he will catch his first touchdown. So if he
Speaker 1: does three this one in two next week, nah no,
Speaker 1: nah nah, we're not gonna get the plot. Is that
Speaker 1: out of the question. I mean, good, that's a good prediction.
Speaker 1: That's a good crazy prediction. But it's crazy just I mean,
Speaker 1: because at some point you've got to do something different, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you would think like, okay, well let's let's
Speaker 1: trick this up a little bit somehow. That's not really
Speaker 1: what Jason Garrett does though. It's more just like we
Speaker 1: gotta do we do better. I'm gonna go to this
Speaker 1: press conce But what they do like that need to
Speaker 1: be able to run the football there that run the
Speaker 1: football and do your little Wagon's funny because they really don't, right,
Speaker 1: that's the point, Like they don't even do that. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't I don't know what. I
Speaker 1: don't know what their goal really is. I shouldn't say goal.
Speaker 1: What they're it tended best strategy is when they get
Speaker 1: down to the reds and I have no idea, I
Speaker 1: have no feel for what they think they do. I
Speaker 1: just want to power, just quick, quick hitting, run to
Speaker 1: zeke right up the middle. Just see what happened. Okay,
Speaker 1: with that, he's gonna collide with someone and he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna win. And okay, with a little bit more, and
Speaker 1: then do it again as long as the dude that
Speaker 1: he's hitting isn't already in the backfield. Yeah, because that's
Speaker 1: no I mean, I mean being serious, I'm not being facetious. Yeah. True.
Speaker 1: If the line can keep intact enough for him to
Speaker 1: get to the line of scrimmage, I trust him to
Speaker 1: win way more often than he's gonna lose. True. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm also peaking Dallas to win. I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 1: like something weird, like twenty seven, twenty three, something like
Speaker 1: that weird, not all that weird, that weird. That's that's
Speaker 1: I like even numbers got you know, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of when I see odd numbers twenty three. But yes,
Speaker 1: now we have Sean on the line waiting his Tennessee, Sean,
Speaker 1: are you there? Yeah, I'm here. What's up, Sean? Doing good?
Speaker 1: Doing pretty good, just you know, working delivering the very
Speaker 1: important appreciate the line, that's very important job. That's what
Speaker 1: they call us, you know. Yeah. Um, I was just
Speaker 1: wandering on the on the rib zone, like we're within
Speaker 1: the five long line. You think maybe we should do
Speaker 1: some miss direction stuff too, like Martha's time when we
Speaker 1: run the balls just like straight up the middle, like
Speaker 1: everybody is wanting you know, everybody's attacking the middle because
Speaker 1: they know it's coming. But like do some in the
Speaker 1: round stuff right there. I think would would especially with
Speaker 1: like a Maraid when he had that leven yards run
Speaker 1: the other day. I think when we did that in
Speaker 1: the rid Jard, I think that would you know, give
Speaker 1: us a little more comfort in the ribs zone two
Speaker 1: and then like uh, defensively, I just I just hope
Speaker 1: we don't have a collapse and defense on the run
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to see that Mary Christmas drivers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think about there is like if we mess up
Speaker 1: our job, we can maybe fix it or do something.
Speaker 1: But like right now he's about end a round reverse
Speaker 1: to Mari Cooper on the goal line or whatever, and
Speaker 1: very easily could just put the package in this house,
Speaker 1: but it really is supposed to go to this one,
Speaker 1: and that can change the entire scope of Christmas and
Speaker 1: that house. That just kind of worries me a little bit,
Speaker 1: like a lot of pressure on Sean. I really did
Speaker 1: that guy. That guy's great at his job. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be awesome. I'm just saying, though, this is the time
Speaker 1: of year when, if you you know, a lot us
Speaker 1: to everything is in this day and age like they're
Speaker 1: the MVPs of Christmas. I haven't gone to a store
Speaker 1: or to do Christmas shopping in five years. I haven't,
Speaker 1: straight up, like literally at my front door right now,
Speaker 1: there's like this pile of boxes because me and my
Speaker 1: wife have done most of our shop actually inside the door, No,
Speaker 1: just inside the door. But I'm just just a pile
Speaker 1: of boxes come from you know all the place. Had
Speaker 1: a pile of boxes at my desk since Thanksgiving. I
Speaker 1: know you've been you've been accumulating stuff for a while.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, about the misdirection. The one
Speaker 1: thing you have to be a little bit careful of.
Speaker 1: Let's say it's a mari and you're trying to send
Speaker 1: him on an end around in the open field the defense.
Speaker 1: What you're hoping to do is help catch him in
Speaker 1: in a misdirection where they start flowing one way. When
Speaker 1: you're down on the goal line. They don't have as
Speaker 1: much ground to cover. It really is north east and
Speaker 1: west more than north and south, and so it's harder
Speaker 1: to really get on a play that develops so slowly
Speaker 1: like that. It's hard to trick them into not going
Speaker 1: the right way because they don't have as much ground
Speaker 1: to cover behind them. It really needs to be and
Speaker 1: this sounds weird when you're talking about a receiver, but
Speaker 1: it needs to be a run pass option in that case,
Speaker 1: because you see those plays like the Philly Special where
Speaker 1: that's a reverse and there's a guy sitting there. There
Speaker 1: needs to be maybe a shoult to somebody blocking there
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get his guy turn around, because that's
Speaker 1: where you saw Dez actually, you know, throw the ball
Speaker 1: to Witten, and I think that was designed all the way.
Speaker 1: If anybody on this team is left handed a receiver,
Speaker 1: you don't really know that. I think I said that
Speaker 1: to you the other day. I mean reverses with a
Speaker 1: guy that's left handed. Norm will ever expect that coming. So,
Speaker 1: but I would like to see maybe a shovel pads pass.
Speaker 1: I think that's a similar thing, and I think if
Speaker 1: you can just get it right, it does create this
Speaker 1: this opportunity for you then to be able to just
Speaker 1: kind of get you guy in. I think that ever
Speaker 1: worked for the team that I'm actually well my dream.
Speaker 1: I see it work against around the NFL every Sunday,
Speaker 1: and it's just like, you're right, the Cowboys don't see
Speaker 1: then the Cowboys do it with Schultz, they do it
Speaker 1: with somebody. They've had a play in the playbooks since August.
Speaker 1: It's a fake, fake end around a Tavon and a
Speaker 1: shovel to Zeke, and they've run it two or three
Speaker 1: times in games and it always looks like it's gonna bust,
Speaker 1: I mean in a good way, and then somebody makes
Speaker 1: like a shoe string tackle. My want and my hope
Speaker 1: for this team is since they brought him here, is
Speaker 1: what Tavon can do in situations like that. And for
Speaker 1: the millionth time, it's not even giving him the ball.
Speaker 1: It's just that little bit of hesitation where the linebacker
Speaker 1: takes a half step to his left when Tavon motions across.
Speaker 1: I think it would make such a huge difference. He
Speaker 1: just doesn't shoot the gap, right. Yeah. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: key on it because you have to make dead sure
Speaker 1: that he's not getting the ball, because if he does,
Speaker 1: you're screwed. And it just it hasn't materialized. I don't
Speaker 1: think they used him enough when he was healthy. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been healthy for two months. Um so I already
Speaker 1: said I don't think he's gonna play. But if he does,
Speaker 1: I sure hope that is something that they would incorporate
Speaker 1: into the game. Yeah, and I agree. If I was
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, you guys know, I'd be running fleef
Speaker 1: Flicker at least once a game. But I for this, No, no,
Speaker 1: the reds on, but person go up to five Fleeflicker
Speaker 1: would love to finish the sentence. But which is yeah
Speaker 1: coming from me, I get it, I get it. But no,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is even more even more than that. Like,
Speaker 1: my number one thing I would do with this team
Speaker 1: is put Antoine Woods at fullback. I really would. I
Speaker 1: would put him in there. Human law, that's what they need.
Speaker 1: They don't have a true fullback and lead blocker like
Speaker 1: that A Koran reads somebody, even Connor Williams, somebody that's
Speaker 1: a little bit athletic, got some size yep, antoine woulds
Speaker 1: I think would really? I mean that would push the pile.
Speaker 1: How william would be a good one. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: as a as a kind of an athletic fullback. Right there,
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Yeah, let's go ahead and take our
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Speaker 1: we Steve from New York. Stevie, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 1: Quick question? Well, I'm obviously hoping the Cowboys take care
Speaker 1: of business like they should, But I want to play
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate for a second here and ask everyone's opinion
Speaker 1: on this. If this team loses the next two games
Speaker 1: and they missed the playoffs, which would be an epic collapse,
Speaker 1: is the head coach back in twenty nineteen, Absolutely no chance,
Speaker 1: no way, And I would be so shocked if if
Speaker 1: I cannot imagine, I cannot imagine this scenario where Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett would not be the coach at any point in
Speaker 1: the year of twenty nineteen, and the date of that
Speaker 1: game is what December? He will not be the head
Speaker 1: coach at any point in January. If that happened, you
Speaker 1: think you one a on the plane and then that's it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely what if they what if they lose both of
Speaker 1: these games? But the Eagles and Redskins both lose and
Speaker 1: you're still win the division. Well, then then you are
Speaker 1: the coach. Then if that if that's the case, then
Speaker 1: you see how the playoffs go. Right now, it's still
Speaker 1: the same thing. If they win this weekend, I think
Speaker 1: it's still you see how the playoffs go because they
Speaker 1: go into the playoffs. Even if they earn it this weekend,
Speaker 1: they go into the playoffs, and that first weekend, let's
Speaker 1: say they play Seattle at home and and Seattle just
Speaker 1: runs through them. I don't think there's any I don't
Speaker 1: think there is a good chance that that he's gonna
Speaker 1: be there. I'm gonna stand by this, like it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where when, what if the playoffs end, if the
Speaker 1: season ends an utter disappointment, so that even means going
Speaker 1: to the championship game and having a twenty one point
Speaker 1: lead and you lose or whatever. I mean, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if the ends and utter disappointment, then I think I
Speaker 1: don't know if I just I kind of disagree with you,
Speaker 1: like a surprised I mean it's because if they're if
Speaker 1: they're in the championship game or the super Bowl and
Speaker 1: they play a horrible game, Yeah, I don't think that
Speaker 1: necessarily means he's gone. Now that may mean something for
Speaker 1: some of the other coaches on the staff. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means that you get rid
Speaker 1: of so. Yeah, but I mean if he wins a
Speaker 1: division title and let's just say first round lose, you're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna fire me think based on that, I
Speaker 1: think so, I don't, but I think I will it
Speaker 1: lose it. Home think it depends on how it looks.
Speaker 1: Depends on how it looks if they lose the way
Speaker 1: they lost the Cults. Sure, if if Russell Wilson Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is them, then you know, just maybe not leads
Speaker 1: him down there with no and it's just Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: has a deslike catch non catch in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah. Yeah, I think it depends. And I also
Speaker 1: if they get to the NFC title game and get
Speaker 1: their doors blown off, I don't think he would be
Speaker 1: fired because it would be their first NFC title game
Speaker 1: appearance since nineteen ninety six. Yeah, he won't get I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that they'll haven't gotten one. Sorry guy, the
Speaker 1: elusive championship game. Sorry, guys, experience it? What experience it?
Speaker 1: They give it? We one of the per because we
Speaker 1: get here is to see a package of season tickets,
Speaker 1: not that we ever get to use them, but families
Speaker 1: are will take Oh yeah, no, absolutely, Um, but those
Speaker 1: tickets are in there, and so you only need to
Speaker 1: right because you're never gonna play three playoff games at home.
Speaker 1: You either have a buy or you're going on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So the NFC Championship game ticket is sitting in that package,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, oh, what if? What if? So nice? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Um No, I mean, I really it's I don't think
Speaker 1: you can definitively answer that question, even right here on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve ish time. I think the one thing that
Speaker 1: we all agree on that is in our at least
Speaker 1: in our opinions, is definitive is if they manage to
Speaker 1: lose both these games, and if they're not in the playoff,
Speaker 1: Philly or Washington squeaks in to that to win the division,
Speaker 1: then I think it's gonna be hard for me to
Speaker 1: imagine a scenario where the Ultiman price is at the
Speaker 1: head coach is gone. I can't. I cannot imagine them
Speaker 1: seeing the playoffs when you, I mean, you run the
Speaker 1: math on how near a certainty it was yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine, but it would be that would mean that
Speaker 1: it was an epic collapse, one of the worst collapses.
Speaker 1: That would mean two of those final three losses were
Speaker 1: against teams that aren't even in the playoffs and are
Speaker 1: far from the playoffs that you lost, and one of
Speaker 1: them being at home. I just that would be an
Speaker 1: epic collapse. And I just think that would be why
Speaker 1: it would be so hard for him to imagine a
Speaker 1: scenario where he would be back depending on what plays
Speaker 1: out with the Colts. Who could have all three of
Speaker 1: those losses come to non playoff teams. I know the
Speaker 1: Cults are hot right now, but they're not in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So let's see. Here's a different question from Justin Farrell
Speaker 1: through Twitter. What is the key matchup the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: to win in order to beat the Bucks? The O
Speaker 1: line versus the D line or Dallas secondary versus Tampas
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I'm gonna give I'm gonna give the O
Speaker 1: line the benefit of the doubt because I expect the
Speaker 1: two starters to be back. I think Superphilo and Zach
Speaker 1: will be there, so I think that will be better.
Speaker 1: And I mean, the only thing Tampa does well is
Speaker 1: throw the ball, and so I think this is big
Speaker 1: for Byron Jones. Think he's going to see a lot
Speaker 1: of Mike Evans. Obviously, Deshan Jackson's going to play in
Speaker 1: this game. He has caught a lot of long touchdowns
Speaker 1: against this team in the past. So that's the big
Speaker 1: one for me. If you can even just have moderate
Speaker 1: success against those guys, you should be fine. I think,
Speaker 1: with only two games left in the season, what are
Speaker 1: realistic flaws they can rectify over these next two games
Speaker 1: to give them confidence going into the playoffs. The one
Speaker 1: they need to rectify is the red zone. We'll have
Speaker 1: to wait and see if they can. But to me,
Speaker 1: of all the issues you would point at for the two,
Speaker 1: to me, that's the one that if you get that right,
Speaker 1: if you get that right, you change the complexion of
Speaker 1: your team, because that's been their biggest achilles heal. All
Speaker 1: sees how many times we've seen them being able to
Speaker 1: move the ball in games up and down the field.
Speaker 1: It was a Coast game at the beginning first half.
Speaker 1: They were moving the ball well, they just couldn't score.
Speaker 1: And so if they can get that part fixed, I
Speaker 1: think everything else that you see as a problem, I
Speaker 1: think becomes a much less problem because then your defense
Speaker 1: is playing well, you're scoring, that's what you need. Imagine
Speaker 1: what it would do for their confidence to have Like
Speaker 1: if Nick's right and they go four for four in
Speaker 1: the red zone, score thirty four points. We've touched down
Speaker 1: every time you go down there, even if I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the Bucks are bad at it, but I
Speaker 1: just think that would do wonders for the confidence of
Speaker 1: the play caller, the quarterback, the running back, everybody, if
Speaker 1: if they had a game that that good. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun question. What existing players seem to be misused,
Speaker 1: like Byron was that could transition to a different role
Speaker 1: next year. Antoine Woods could be playing full kidding the
Speaker 1: obvious one is and I can hear the fans screaming it,
Speaker 1: which something to keep an eye on. But Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: back to guart Connor Williams, I did I mean? And
Speaker 1: that's you know, people people will yell at us because
Speaker 1: we you know, I sit here and tell you, like, well,
Speaker 1: Byron's the safety, He's not gonna play carn Like I'm
Speaker 1: not trying. I'm not an analyst. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: tell you what I think is best. I'm saying that's
Speaker 1: what they think, and so you never know these types
Speaker 1: of things until the coach has come around on it. Basically,
Speaker 1: like if you ask Jason Garrett about Lyle Collins right now,
Speaker 1: he'd say, well, we think he's he's best suited to
Speaker 1: play tackle in March. It could be a whole other story,
Speaker 1: and then they'll act like it was their idea all along.
Speaker 1: That's We've talked about that before with Connor. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't I don't know that Lyle will move.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Connor will move, but it is
Speaker 1: something that I would have my eye on. With the
Speaker 1: way this line has struggled this year and trying to
Speaker 1: find a home for Connor long term, it's just something
Speaker 1: that I would consider the only other choice. And this
Speaker 1: list would have to take a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: weight room work and all that. But the only thing
Speaker 1: I could think of would be Noah Brown, maybe a
Speaker 1: tied end, but he just doesn't seem like he's huh,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you have to gain it? That's a lot more weight.
Speaker 1: He's self tall, he's six two, he's forty pounds underweight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd have to gain him. I don't wait. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a big he's a big receig. He does a
Speaker 1: lot of things that are similar to a sighting. I
Speaker 1: mean him being on the team. To me, I think
Speaker 1: next year, you don't need four tight ends if you're
Speaker 1: going to keep him at all. So they got to
Speaker 1: figure out the tight end situation. So he may not
Speaker 1: be a tight end, but he might be the type
Speaker 1: of player that keeps you from having to go along there.
Speaker 1: Those are the only ones that come to mind for me, though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm forgetting somebody. But I was thinking. I was
Speaker 1: talking about this yesterday on the Spanish podcast, and it's
Speaker 1: crazy to think that several months ago we were all
Speaker 1: talking about the possibility of releasing Byron Jones or people asking,
Speaker 1: you know, are saying wanting the Cowboys to cut Byron
Speaker 1: and move on from him. And look at where he
Speaker 1: is now, making the Pro Bowl at a cornerback. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: I can't believe they gave him the fifth year option. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're very they're very happy with themselves for doing that.
Speaker 1: Now they have to sign him. But isn't that all
Speaker 1: about Christmas? Shark? All about coaching man, it is, but
Speaker 1: but I think he laid down the foundation and I
Speaker 1: don't think if he leaves it's not gonna no, no, no.
Speaker 1: What I mean is the decision to go with the
Speaker 1: fifth year option because he saw a vision for the
Speaker 1: player that was different maybe than what they were seeing.
Speaker 1: I'll give you know, I'll get Tim Tamble is really bad. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but that happened after Chris Rushard was already hired. It's
Speaker 1: a great remember. Oh well, it's like May May for
Speaker 1: the next year. Yeah, yes, May, yeah, yes, he was
Speaker 1: already here and then they made the decision. I love
Speaker 1: the dichotomy. But you know, I asked Jason Garrett. I
Speaker 1: asked Jason Garrett point blank. I said, what was Chris
Speaker 1: Rashard's role in the decision to move Byron Jones the corner?
Speaker 1: He said, well, it's a collect it's a collective decision
Speaker 1: we all talk about. Of course, as the defensive backs coach.
Speaker 1: Chris had a really big part in that, but that's
Speaker 1: we all get together and YadA YadA, YadA, kumbaya um.
Speaker 1: And then I asked Rod Marinelli on Thursday, and he
Speaker 1: was like, day one, Chris Rashard walked in here and said,
Speaker 1: this guy's got the length, this guy's got the athleticism,
Speaker 1: this is my kind of corner. We need this guy
Speaker 1: playing corner. And I was like, thank you, Rod, thank
Speaker 1: you for answering the question. And it has goodness gracious,
Speaker 1: what a what a call on Christoph Shard's part. And
Speaker 1: think about it, all these years, they had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to say that long time ago that he needs to
Speaker 1: be playing corner. They did not, So you could say
Speaker 1: it was a group decision, but that group decision hadn't
Speaker 1: been made up until this year when Christoph Shard got
Speaker 1: here and said, that's the kind of guy. You know.
Speaker 1: The thing about it was is that, I mean, he
Speaker 1: wasn't playing well at safety. In fact, Cavan Frasier was
Speaker 1: split in time with him at the end of the
Speaker 1: season there at safety, so like he kind of needed
Speaker 1: a home and he was a he founded average average
Speaker 1: safety to a Pro Bowl corner. And you know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys he's got another year on his deal. It's worth
Speaker 1: noting and and I'm sure the Cowboys are interested in
Speaker 1: bringing him back. But either way, just from Byron standpoint,
Speaker 1: like he's going to make a ton of money somewhere
Speaker 1: because of that decision, So like, you know, send Chris
Speaker 1: Richard a Christmas card basically, and he's really good on
Speaker 1: No Moss. J Yeah, well he's I mean a g
Speaker 1: and Bayern her thickest thieves, like they're the homies. Yeah
Speaker 1: for a moment, but he's got a little bit well
Speaker 1: he's into art, so that closer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you guys do know what I mean, there's a show
Speaker 1: called No Moss. We do that, Amber does, um and
Speaker 1: she's got you had Byron Jones with Rico this week.
Speaker 1: Really good episode, I thought, so if you guys check
Speaker 1: it out. Why an't we publishing that today? Yes? Yesterday? Yesterday?
Speaker 1: Makes you go check that out? Really? Thanks Derek. I
Speaker 1: saw it at my desk. I didn't watched it, so
Speaker 1: but yeah, you guys go check it out. A really good,
Speaker 1: really good episode. Thank you. Well here's I don't know
Speaker 1: if we have time, I guess not. One last question, maybe, UI,
Speaker 1: what is the ceiling for Blake, Jarwin and Dalton shots
Speaker 1: We've seen them kind of progress in the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Do you see them having a good future
Speaker 1: here in Dallas? It's a good question, Um, I think
Speaker 1: the answer to each of those questions is yes. I
Speaker 1: think the answer to both of them him is no,
Speaker 1: I don't need I don't need Jarwin and Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: both here. Why not? Because they're both just okay, and
Speaker 1: I need someone better than that, and I'm gonna draft
Speaker 1: someone that's gonna be better than that, and I gotta
Speaker 1: keep swaying and one of those two guys, I don't
Speaker 1: need them both. Let me ask you this. You look
Speaker 1: around the NFL and they are only a handful of teams,
Speaker 1: three or four teams that have a dominant tight end.
Speaker 1: Most of them, and these are even good teams. Most
Speaker 1: of them have a tight end that's kind of in
Speaker 1: that same boat. Yeah, average guy, use him as you
Speaker 1: need to use him, especially if you have a lot
Speaker 1: of talent at wide receiver and or running back. Then
Speaker 1: the tight end is just a guy that can catch
Speaker 1: a few passes here and there for you and can block.
Speaker 1: So if you do you draft the tight end this year, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I'm less and less thinking it has
Speaker 1: to be my second round picking. Okay, let's say you
Speaker 1: draft the tight end in the third or fourth round,
Speaker 1: and he's pretty good and he's got some athleticism. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's making the team and Swam comes back and he's
Speaker 1: gonna make the team. You need you're right, Well, I
Speaker 1: get not a lock to be here. It's not a
Speaker 1: lock either. I get all that. I'm just saying, though
Speaker 1: my opinion has changed. Oh, you know how they were
Speaker 1: talking about before the season, do you need to have
Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver. I think that's been proven.
Speaker 1: You need somebody that can take that pressure off your
Speaker 1: your running game. But I don't know that it's been
Speaker 1: I don't know that I believe right now that you
Speaker 1: have to have a tight end the caliber of Jason
Speaker 1: Witten in order to be you kind of do I
Speaker 1: mean it's been I mean, based on what you've watched
Speaker 1: right now, Dac needs doc kind of help. He needs
Speaker 1: a tight end that he can trust, that he can't
Speaker 1: rely on, that can catch the ball and make I
Speaker 1: mean that's nice, that's nice, But I don't know if
Speaker 1: that necessarily is gonna make dak Okay appreciably that the
Speaker 1: question of those two guys, My answer is, I just
Speaker 1: don't know how many average tight ends you need, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if I need them both. Although I
Speaker 1: will say I if they get better, that's fine, and
Speaker 1: I think Schultz can maybe get better. We are seeing
Speaker 1: exactly why Schultz was picked, and obviously it's delayed. You
Speaker 1: would have preferred to see it from day one. That's fine.
Speaker 1: But he's a smart guy. He's a better seven. He
Speaker 1: gets credit for. He has shown he's grown leaps and
Speaker 1: bounds because in the month that he's been active, much
Speaker 1: like Connor Williams, give him a year or two in
Speaker 1: an NFL weight program, like I absolutely believe he could
Speaker 1: be a starting caliber tight end. I still disagree just
Speaker 1: because I think your second or third round pick should
Speaker 1: be a tight end this year, just in the interest
Speaker 1: of increasing the talent level. Yea, but I'm happy with
Speaker 1: all three of those guys, really, and I don't know
Speaker 1: nothing against Rico. He just hasn't shown as much. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: let's come in this weekend. Let's go. He's gotta get
Speaker 1: five gets going this weekend. But at least now you
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