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Speaker 6: Hello, guys, welcome back to another episode of The Break
Speaker 6: presented by LG. Derek is not here today, but we
Speaker 6: got Nick, we got a watch, and then we got
Speaker 6: Brian in studio. A lot of excitement this morning, welcome
Speaker 6: to the Big News. A lot of fans seem very
Speaker 6: very happy about this recent trade that the Cowboys made.
Speaker 6: They've gone out and gyan wide receiver George Pickens. And
Speaker 6: this was a deal that they make with Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 6: They basically got Pickens and at twenty twenty seven six
Speaker 6: round pick for the draft in twenty twenty seven in
Speaker 6: exchange for a twenty twenty six third round pick and
Speaker 6: at twenty twenty twenty twenty seven fifth round pick from
Speaker 6: the Dallas Cowboys. So how are you guys doing, How
Speaker 6: are you feeling? Tell me your initial reaction to these
Speaker 6: late latest news that the Cowboys did.
Speaker 7: If I could explain my twelve hours in the in
Speaker 7: two words, it would probably be extremely exhausting. But it's
Speaker 7: it's it's a good it's a good trade man, it's
Speaker 7: it's fun. We're gonna have a lot to talk about,
Speaker 7: especially not even on the show, I mean throughout the
Speaker 7: course of the next couple of years. It's this is
Speaker 7: a high risk, high reward type type type of ordeal.
Speaker 7: I want to get these guys thoughts on it before
Speaker 7: I go too far into it, but I can't. I'd
Speaker 7: be remiss if I did not mention the parking hell
Speaker 7: that is the star this weekend. If you plan on
Speaker 7: coming down here, be ready to find a parking spot
Speaker 7: that ACMs have this place as an absolute zoo. So
Speaker 7: that's why I was late. Chris Beam, you can donk
Speaker 7: me for that. But other than that, it's been a crazy,
Speaker 7: crazy last twelve hours.
Speaker 4: You know, Cowboy fans get a gift waking up this morning.
Speaker 4: You know, the past few weeks, months or so, we
Speaker 4: were thinking, all right, it could be a thirty year
Speaker 4: old wire receiver. You know, maybe somebody's at the end
Speaker 4: of their prime or maybe we'll get lucky with a
Speaker 4: fifth round guy that we drafted something like that, and
Speaker 4: Cowboys say, no, hang tight. And then you get this
Speaker 4: wire receiver one B. I'm not gonna call him a
Speaker 4: wire receiver. To this wire receiver one B that Woo's
Speaker 4: top tier corners by himself. You pair him with the
Speaker 4: guys you have in the quarterback you have. I don't
Speaker 4: want to take too many talking for us and be
Speaker 4: like Nick Brian please, I'm just I'm just thrilled right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this one was done without a safety net. You know,
Speaker 8: if you look at it, really it's a one year
Speaker 8: deal right now, and then with the Cowboys with some
Speaker 8: of the contracts that they have coming up. But it
Speaker 8: is a bold move. It is there, you know, to
Speaker 8: lay out a third and a fifth for a player
Speaker 8: that you might I just only have for one year.
Speaker 8: But you know, you got to like the excitement of it.
Speaker 8: You know, we've we're all kind of talking about we're
Speaker 8: thinking about maybe a veteran receiver. Maybe it was Amari Cooper,
Speaker 8: you know, but they were talking. They were thinking bold.
Speaker 8: They were thinking to go out and get a guy
Speaker 8: that could absolutely help him in this particular player Ambart
Speaker 8: he can help this football team.
Speaker 7: Can we start there with the contract thing, please, because
Speaker 7: that's that's I think is the most fascinating piece of
Speaker 7: it immediately, right is because I spent probably an hour
Speaker 7: last night talking to somebody in Pittsburgh. I have a
Speaker 7: really a good friend of mine that I grew up
Speaker 7: with that plays for the Steelers.
Speaker 9: I called him this morning.
Speaker 7: I've talked to a few people about what George Pickens
Speaker 7: situation is or was I guess in Pittsburgh they were
Speaker 7: fully expecting him to make their life hell this offseason.
Speaker 7: They were saying he was going to hold out for
Speaker 7: a contract. That's what they were preparing for. That's why
Speaker 7: that they wanted to go ahead and deal them. That
Speaker 7: came from the source, now, from the players, like this
Speaker 7: is kind of one of those guys in your locker room. Yeah,
Speaker 7: he's the bad kid in class. But with the bad
Speaker 7: kid in class that all the kids love and all
Speaker 7: the team and you know, I think that could be
Speaker 7: a fascinating dynamic in the locker room. You know, how
Speaker 7: does that exactly work for the teachers here in Dallas?
Speaker 7: But it's gonna be fascinating. But I want to start
Speaker 7: with that contract part because if they are not signing
Speaker 7: him to a deal now, and they're basically saying, hey,
Speaker 7: one year rental, prove it, you have to play worst
Speaker 7: case scenario in that same instance as well. In the
Speaker 7: worst case scenario is either one of two things. One,
Speaker 7: he doesn't work out, he's a bad apple, and it
Speaker 7: becomes a situation where you look back at this trade
Speaker 7: and you're like, man, Pittsburgh dealt with a lot of
Speaker 7: hell that they didn't really show on the surface. A
Speaker 7: La Antonio Brown or the other worst case scenarios that
Speaker 7: he absolutely balls out. He gives you fourteen hundred yards
Speaker 7: and ten touchdowns and you can't afford him next time,
Speaker 7: and he moves on and you're out a third and
Speaker 7: a fifth round pick. If it were me, I'd get
Speaker 7: the deal done now. I'd be like, hey, George Pickens,
Speaker 7: you want twenty twenty five million, Sure, let's do it.
Speaker 9: Let's get it done right now.
Speaker 7: Pickens doesn't want to do it, then you figure out
Speaker 7: a price that works for both sides. That would be me,
Speaker 7: But I do know that you also have to factor
Speaker 7: in that it might not work out with him from
Speaker 7: a risk standpoint, But that I think is the most
Speaker 7: fascinating part of this immediately, Well.
Speaker 4: It's a third though, so you would imagine that the
Speaker 4: Cowboys have to walk into this thing with some good
Speaker 4: vibes and some possibility that them thinking that this could work.
Speaker 4: It's like this isn't some throwaway fit for like they
Speaker 4: love their their third round picks, they don't play about
Speaker 4: third round picks. So in my mind, I think the
Speaker 4: Cowboys are ready to extend him. Maybe not today, maybe
Speaker 4: after tomorrow. They probably want to wait around to see
Speaker 4: a little bit. But I think the Cowboys just rolling
Speaker 4: dice again. Hey man, we got a leader in here,
Speaker 4: we got number four up in here. We got a
Speaker 4: number one receiver that can make his life a little
Speaker 4: bit better. We're gonna win some games. We ain't got
Speaker 4: to worry about Kenny Pickett walking around here. You know,
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson, will you know you earn you earn, You
Speaker 4: earn all of this respect in different ways. You don't
Speaker 4: just roll out and say, hey we're Pittsburgh, We're this
Speaker 4: prestigious organization and you're gonna respect us. You get respect
Speaker 4: wins and dues that demand respect. I think four as
Speaker 4: a guy that can then you have a master's in
Speaker 4: like leadership or something. Somebody he knows how to deal
Speaker 4: with guys like this. Lamb Lamb is already cool when
Speaker 4: right there their friends are right. I think this is
Speaker 4: a better homey vibe than we're prestigious Pittsburgh and you
Speaker 4: better do x y z no.
Speaker 8: I think that Nick's absolutely right. And talking to people
Speaker 8: in Pittsburgh, you know they they talk about him in
Speaker 8: the locker room. That's not a problem about him. And
Speaker 8: it always reminds me though, if people start to say,
Speaker 8: and I know there were some people on Twitter that
Speaker 8: we're making some comments I know in my direction, were
Speaker 8: about well, there goes culture, there goes all the things
Speaker 8: that we talked about in the draft that Brian Schottenheimer
Speaker 8: and all that. Let me remind you that one time
Speaker 8: Jim Garrett, Jason Garrett's father, said in the draft room
Speaker 8: and talking about Randy Moss, guys, this is the NFL.
Speaker 8: It's not the boy scouts. You know, this culture. It's
Speaker 8: if they're building some things, it's really about getting great
Speaker 8: football players. It's about trying to find great football players.
Speaker 8: Add great football players so you can heat with the
Speaker 8: teams in the NFC and hopefully you can go through
Speaker 8: the playoffs and hopefully you can get to a super Bowl.
Speaker 8: But you don't do that without great players. This guy
Speaker 8: is a great player, and you're willing to put up
Speaker 8: with You're willing to even put up with the having
Speaker 8: to maybe part with a third fifth round pick, and
Speaker 8: you might not get this deal done, you know, but
Speaker 8: that there, there is your there is you're all in
Speaker 8: move in my opinion, you know, we've kind of given
Speaker 8: Jerry Jones a lot of grief about that, that like, oh,
Speaker 8: we're all in? What's this all in? No for you
Speaker 8: to you know, as much as his team loves draft
Speaker 8: picks for them to part with, and you know, people say, well,
Speaker 8: Dan brought us they part with a fourth round pick
Speaker 8: all the time. Okay, you know that's their way of
Speaker 8: trying to maybe address address and need here. But to
Speaker 8: to to throw out a third and a fifth for
Speaker 8: a player that doesn't have a contract or for next
Speaker 8: year or after this year, I think is a very
Speaker 8: bold move because I think this guy is going to
Speaker 8: come in and play very very well for you.
Speaker 4: Plus, Brian, what's the point of having leaders then and
Speaker 4: not lead guys like this?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 4: You don't just bring in leaders to lead of the leaders.
Speaker 4: You you bring in leaders just in case you.
Speaker 8: Have some immaturity problems with this guy. I don't think
Speaker 8: there's some immaturity problems with this guy. And you know,
Speaker 8: but and he's a very fiery, emotional player. When you
Speaker 8: watch him play, you could see how important it is
Speaker 8: to him. And there's going to be some times where
Speaker 8: probably body language is not great and things like that.
Speaker 8: But you just got to find a way to be
Speaker 8: able to deal with that. And people will probably say, well, damn,
Speaker 8: Mike Tomlin was one of the best in the league,
Speaker 8: you know, having to deal with these these problematic receivers.
Speaker 8: But they've kind of moved on when they felt like
Speaker 8: they needed to move on from a guy, they've moved on.
Speaker 8: So they have to feel good about the deal, just
Speaker 8: as good as Dallas feels about getting the player. You know,
Speaker 8: we'll see which side of this actually wins out. But
Speaker 8: I have no problem with going out and getting a
Speaker 8: player like this.
Speaker 9: To him, maybe all right, no, you're good.
Speaker 6: No, I was gonna say, I don't think going back
Speaker 6: to the contract situation. I don't think you were the
Speaker 6: Cowboys and make a decision a trade like this without
Speaker 6: a plan in mind. I think they do have a
Speaker 6: plan in mind, and we'll see how it takes to
Speaker 6: effect later on. And I do have in my rundown
Speaker 6: for today Brian Schottenheimer and the culture that he's implementing
Speaker 6: trying to implement here. We'll touch and we'll get back
Speaker 6: to that later and talk about how a guy like
Speaker 6: him coming in to hear how that could change things around.
Speaker 6: But in the meantime, I want to go back and
Speaker 6: talk about what kind of player he is in the
Speaker 6: last two years, what you guys have seen around the league,
Speaker 6: and what he's done over there in Pittsburgh. We know
Speaker 6: he's been with different quarterbacks. How does he look, what
Speaker 6: does he do, and how would he work alongside ceedy Lamb.
Speaker 4: Throw the ball to him, He'll find it. Just throw
Speaker 4: it down there somewhere he'll find it. His ability to
Speaker 4: find the ball in the air, whether it's somebody latched
Speaker 4: on to him, whether he's wide open him tracking the ball,
Speaker 4: that's where he really gets busy there, and whether it's
Speaker 4: accurate or not. You know, whether he's tracking hands up, slow,
Speaker 4: you know, trail technique, whatever you want to do. He's physical.
Speaker 4: He's a yat guy with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 4: I just can't say enough. And if you watch him
Speaker 4: and you know y'all can do the little filters, you know,
Speaker 4: deep pass, he's the best deep ball receiver in the league.
Speaker 9: And that's not my opinion.
Speaker 8: Metrics will tell you that. The metrics tell you all that.
Speaker 4: That's the metrics and the numbers saying there, right. So
Speaker 4: I think if you're Dak and you're used to throwing
Speaker 4: the ball to five nine receivers or five eleven receivers deep,
Speaker 4: now you get a six three catch ratis dude that
Speaker 4: that tracks it and just catches everything, jumps over guys
Speaker 4: sometimes I think it's a slam dump.
Speaker 7: The physicality jumps off the page, no doubt. And this
Speaker 7: is a stat that was thrown out by a guy
Speaker 7: on Twitter this morning named ray Gie.
Speaker 9: I'm Sorrygie, I don't know who you are.
Speaker 7: We're giving you credit here from twenty twenty two to
Speaker 7: twenty twenty four, so over the course of the last three.
Speaker 4: D I love Raggie, Nick.
Speaker 7: Please, he's a cube, by the way, so Derek would
Speaker 7: have loved Reggie so exactly.
Speaker 8: Uh O, ragg Sorry, it's not ray j about you
Speaker 8: say a video involved here?
Speaker 4: Please? Nick finish what hellge saying.
Speaker 7: George picked his his three most success full routes over
Speaker 7: the course of the last three seasons in order go route,
Speaker 7: hitch out out route, Dak Prescott's three most successful routes
Speaker 7: in order hit trout out route, go route. I mean
Speaker 7: this is a perfect combination, or a perfect marriage, I
Speaker 7: guess you could say from a Dak to Pickens perspective.
Speaker 7: And Dak hasn't had that true outside presence since early
Speaker 7: in his career when Does Bryant was still around, and
Speaker 7: this is a guy that he can rely on. I mean,
Speaker 7: we saw it briefly with Michael Gallup, but I think
Speaker 7: George Pickens is going to give you a different element
Speaker 7: here because he's he's got the speed, he certainly has
Speaker 7: a physicality, and he's going to open up so much
Speaker 7: for ceed Lamb. Honestly, though, if I'm looking at the
Speaker 7: receiver room, yes this benefits Cede Lamb. Yes, it benefits
Speaker 7: George Pickens too. I think he's gonna end up having
Speaker 7: a better career. This is gonna benefit Jonathan Mingo so much.
Speaker 7: I think going into twenty twenty five, this is a
Speaker 7: guy that you know before this trade, you were saying gosh,
Speaker 7: they need Jonathan Mingo to step up. Now, it's hey,
Speaker 7: Jonathan Mingo can develop and do what he needs to do.
Speaker 7: And let's say worst case scenario doesn't work out for
Speaker 7: George Pickens, then they have a year of development with
Speaker 7: Jonathan Mingo without the need the pressing need to continue
Speaker 7: to develop him.
Speaker 9: I mean, from a football perspective, this is.
Speaker 7: A slam dunk home run, grand slam, whatever you want
Speaker 7: to call it, whatever other pseudonym you want to call it,
Speaker 7: but it's it's the off the field stuff that's gonna
Speaker 7: make it so so polarized.
Speaker 4: Don't worry about the off Just think positive things right now,
Speaker 4: back to Mingo, real fast. Mingo doesn't even have to
Speaker 4: be wire receiver. Three Ferguson is going to be the
Speaker 4: first guy to celebrate that. And then, like jay N,
Speaker 4: I'm blue. If you want those one on ones with
Speaker 4: linebackers and safeties, eat them up.
Speaker 2: Play you.
Speaker 4: If you Mingo, you're really like fifth or sixth that
Speaker 4: some team will really worry about. Come on, man, come on, please, man,
Speaker 4: this guy.
Speaker 8: Is not gonna make you ever forget about Amari Cooper
Speaker 8: running routes. That's just not his game. He's not a
Speaker 8: route runner. This guy is a there's some a there's
Speaker 8: some playground element to the way he plays football. And
Speaker 8: if you embrace that, you're gonna get the best version
Speaker 8: of this player, because when you do watch him, if
Speaker 8: you think he's gonna plan it twelve yards and make
Speaker 8: the outcut. Yeah, we talked about the vertical route. His
Speaker 8: ability to separate is his his physicality. Nick brought that up.
Speaker 8: His ability to get his hands inside or get his
Speaker 8: shoulder inside, and to push and to gouge for space.
Speaker 8: This is what this guy does. And I think Vatch
Speaker 8: made an excellent point about this guy. His ability to
Speaker 8: track the football I think is rare. He never loses
Speaker 8: side of the football. And I think the routes that
Speaker 8: he ran at Pittsburgh, and maybe it had a little
Speaker 8: bit to do with the quarterback situation there, that they
Speaker 8: didn't really have a bunch of route combinations. But you
Speaker 8: put this guy in bunch cover or in bunch formations,
Speaker 8: let it scatter, let him run across the routes, let
Speaker 8: him catch the ball on the move, bring him in
Speaker 8: motion out out of the slot on third down, and
Speaker 8: throw him the ball in the flat and watch him
Speaker 8: get a first down. Now, this guy with ball in hand,
Speaker 8: he could be a pain in the ass to deal
Speaker 8: with because of his ability and his desire to want
Speaker 8: to get every yard he can out of the play.
Speaker 8: So this guy's got an element to him. Like I said,
Speaker 8: it's got a little playground to it. But man, he
Speaker 8: is a fun guy to watch play when it's when
Speaker 8: he's got it rolling.
Speaker 9: They really just did get their gen z, does Bryant?
Speaker 9: I mean that's I think that is exactly.
Speaker 8: I think they absolutely.
Speaker 9: I think they.
Speaker 8: I think they. I think they did. Uh. You know,
Speaker 8: you watch him and you're like, going, man, that route,
Speaker 8: I you know what? What was that? You know what?
Speaker 8: But but he finds a way to get open. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and no, yeah, he's he's he's working Certan, he's working
Speaker 8: the guy in Atlanta, the Jets, the Jet He's working
Speaker 8: all those guys. And he's doing it not because they're
Speaker 8: scared to death of him, because they know how physical
Speaker 8: he plays, the top of the route and his ability
Speaker 8: to drive them off the ball, and all of a
Speaker 8: sudden they're thinking he's going deep and then he plants
Speaker 8: and comes back to the ball. You know, the comebacks,
Speaker 8: the curls, the things like that you know, and and
Speaker 8: he's and he's and he's got that ability to wherever
Speaker 8: the ball is, high, low, wide on the ground, on
Speaker 8: top of his shoes, wherever it is, he can go
Speaker 8: low and get the football. This guy's got that kind
Speaker 8: of ability. It's it's it's impressive to watch and play.
Speaker 6: Let's go ahead and take our first break. When we
Speaker 6: come back, we're going to dive into a little bit
Speaker 6: deeper the whole culture thing that Brian Schottenheimer is trying
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Speaker 6: like him, with that type of personality and everything that
Speaker 6: we've been hearing how he's been over there in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6: What that can mean for the Cowboys in bringing in
Speaker 6: a guy like him.
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Speaker 6: All right, guys, we you guys already hinted at the
Speaker 6: fact that was you you said in the first segment
Speaker 6: you said hell like three times?
Speaker 8: Did yeah?
Speaker 9: Oh my bad God?
Speaker 6: Probably since that is like, hey, hey, got out of
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you guys are really hinted at the fact
Speaker 6: that he's shown some behavioral issues over there that might
Speaker 6: be a little hard to work with when you're a coach.
Speaker 6: So as far as culture, we've seen a whole lot
Speaker 6: of what Brian Schottenheimer is really trying to build here.
Speaker 6: He's a very player coach. He builds those relationships. But
Speaker 6: he's also shown in the way that he's spoken to
Speaker 6: the media that he's not afraid to discipline people and
Speaker 6: be tough and hard on people to make sure that
Speaker 6: everyone's doing what they are supposed to do and asked
Speaker 6: to do. With a guy like him, again, what are
Speaker 6: you guys expecting this merge to be? Is he going
Speaker 6: to be a type of player that you see? Okay,
Speaker 6: he takes this as a new opportunity into Okay, now
Speaker 6: I'm here in this new environment. I'm gonna do what
Speaker 6: I'm told and not behave this or that way or
Speaker 6: are you guys expecting in the long term because of
Speaker 6: the personality that this might turn out to be a problem.
Speaker 7: I don't think I have expectations right now. I think
Speaker 7: there's a wide range of things that could happen, and
Speaker 7: you know, you take what you get in any sense.
Speaker 7: We were talking in the break and I think Brian
Speaker 7: made a good point. He's like, if it doesn't pan out,
Speaker 7: at least they tried. And I think this is definitely
Speaker 7: a talent worth trying on, you know, from a character standpoint. Again,
Speaker 7: talking to that player that played with Pickings on the
Speaker 7: same team over the course of the last couple of
Speaker 7: years the locker room, they like this guy. He is
Speaker 7: a likable player amongst his peers. It's just he's kind
Speaker 7: of the bad kid in class that the teachers really
Speaker 7: hate seeing walk through the door every day. So it's
Speaker 7: going to be a fascinating situation. However, given what Brian
Speaker 7: Schottenheimer has shown over the course of the first couple
Speaker 7: of months on the job, what he said over the
Speaker 7: first couple of months on the job, I think this
Speaker 7: is a challenge he's going to be facing head on,
Speaker 7: and I'm sure this is going to be one that
Speaker 7: you know, Schottenheimer takes under his wing to get ahead
Speaker 7: of problems before they before they manifest. This is nothing
Speaker 7: to gets Mike McCarthy, But if Mike McCarthy was still
Speaker 7: in the building, I would have a lot more concerns
Speaker 7: about how this would pan out.
Speaker 9: Still have concerns, but I think Brian Schottenheimer is better
Speaker 9: equipped to deal with the deal with the player like this.
Speaker 4: Honestly, whide receivers have been divas my whole life. I've
Speaker 4: been around football for a long time. They've always been
Speaker 4: this kind of guy. As as long as Pickings isn't
Speaker 4: hitting people, getting arrested, robbing banks, speeding, as long as
Speaker 4: he's not doing stuff like that, I mean, just keeping
Speaker 4: it in football. Like, if the worst you have to
Speaker 4: deal with is him complaining or you know, publicly saying, hey,
Speaker 4: can I get some more catches here, then the easy
Speaker 4: fix of that is just throw the ball to him.
Speaker 4: Thought the ball to him. He's I think as a talent,
Speaker 4: he's worth the possible small, possible headache that you would
Speaker 4: have to deal with. He's not gonna be the guy
Speaker 4: that you could just trust to just get it done
Speaker 4: on his own.
Speaker 9: Cool, Fine, just do.
Speaker 4: A little more, Daniel Jones is hired somebody to follow
Speaker 4: Dave's around and make sure he didn't get introuble. I
Speaker 4: don't even think this is that that kind of situation.
Speaker 4: I just think he wanted football. I think he'll loudly
Speaker 4: in front of media tell you that. But I don't
Speaker 4: think he's like a trouble I don't know if he's
Speaker 4: going to show up kind of guy. I don't think
Speaker 4: he's that kind of dude. Plus, I think he loves
Speaker 4: football and as long as he's willing to work at
Speaker 4: it and and get better.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 4: But if he's not driving the ship, I don't have
Speaker 4: a problem with this. He's not wide receiver one here.
Speaker 4: See that's the guy here. Then Dak is the guy here.
Speaker 4: And if Schottenheimer is is people person and he can
Speaker 4: bring those kind of guys in, it'll be it'll be
Speaker 4: some some bumps in the rows and headlines. But I
Speaker 4: don't think he's going to be a huge.
Speaker 8: Issue, Like you're going to imediately see what kind of
Speaker 8: coach Junior Adams is here for the receivering group. You're
Speaker 8: going to immediately see I mean here he is. He
Speaker 8: goes from being in the college ranks and working with
Speaker 8: with personalities, you know, these college kids. I mean, he's
Speaker 8: been in some really some fine schools with some big
Speaker 8: time egos with wide receivers and stuff like that. And
Speaker 8: I'm saying this in a positive way. But this is
Speaker 8: one of those moments where he probably when you know,
Speaker 8: he found out that he is you know he was
Speaker 8: going to get George Pickens. He's like, Okay, I got
Speaker 8: to figure these things out. You know. As a receiver's coach,
Speaker 8: I mean, that's the one room that has those types
Speaker 8: of guys with the personalities. So he's probably used to this,
Speaker 8: but this is a big personality. I'm saying this in
Speaker 8: a positive way. I'm not saying this guy is a
Speaker 8: male content or a problem in that way like Fox
Speaker 8: was talking about, did you have to worry about him
Speaker 8: off the field. He just is super competitive and he
Speaker 8: wears that every single day that he goes out there.
Speaker 8: You can watch his tape, you can watch every play
Speaker 8: with the ball and you could see how much it
Speaker 8: does mean to him. But we're going to find out
Speaker 8: right off the jump, what kind of relationships that a
Speaker 8: junior Adams the wide receiver coach, can build with this
Speaker 8: guy and then keep him on the path that they
Speaker 8: need to go for the season.
Speaker 7: The first availability that Brian Schottenheimer has during OTAs is
Speaker 7: going to be very fascinating because there's gonna be a
Speaker 7: lot of questions about, all right, how do you plan
Speaker 7: on handling this guy? Yeah, and how's he going to work?
Speaker 7: How is it already, you know, fitting in. One thing
Speaker 7: that I thought was interesting, and I noticed it last
Speaker 7: week when we were in the locker room talking to rookies,
Speaker 7: is that there's an open locker next to Dak Prescott.
Speaker 7: And I noticed that, and I was like, that's wide
Speaker 7: receiver too. Whether it's a Marii Cooper or a George
Speaker 7: Pickens or somebody else that was on the trade market,
Speaker 7: it makes sense for that guy to have that locker.
Speaker 7: It makes even more sense for George Pickens to have
Speaker 7: that locker.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 6: Well, nonetheless, this guy, this move is very exciting and
Speaker 6: it's been a while since I've seen fans have such
Speaker 6: a positive and exciting reaction and giving props to Jerry
Speaker 6: Jones and the moves that they've done this year.
Speaker 8: He said he was going to go for a substantial move. Yeah,
Speaker 8: he was saying, Hey, we are working on and then
Speaker 8: sometimes you know, Ambar, it's okay, thank you, we hear
Speaker 8: your talking again, and you're thinking he's just kind of just,
Speaker 8: you know, setting us up for something. But in fact
Speaker 8: they really did. I mean the more like I say,
Speaker 8: And I know Nick and all of us were working
Speaker 8: on this and is in the coming days and we
Speaker 8: reached i know, reaching out after the draft. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 8: he's still working on receivers, and I did I heard
Speaker 8: crickets and I'm thinking, wait a minute. My sources, who
Speaker 8: are usually pretty good on these things, were not saying anything.
Speaker 8: So they were working on this thing. They were living
Speaker 8: up to what they were trying to do, and they
Speaker 8: knew they needed to get something done like this. And
Speaker 8: again I have to applaud him for doing.
Speaker 7: It in the context here, and Brian, feel free to
Speaker 7: build on it if you have more. Is they They
Speaker 7: did have conversations with Pittsburgh during draft weekend picks. The
Speaker 7: price around that time was something different than what it
Speaker 7: ended up being at the end, and they went through
Speaker 7: the draft looking for a couple of options, couldn't find any. Obviously,
Speaker 7: didn't draft any guys. Trae Saon Holden's not going to
Speaker 7: be your wide receiver too. And as the week following
Speaker 7: we're talking about last week started to come about, they
Speaker 7: really started to expand their their net like okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: what all is available to us? They were intrigued by
Speaker 7: Amari Cooper. I reported on that on that there is
Speaker 7: team interest there and there was there still is team interest. However,
Speaker 7: I think as they as they talked more with Pittsburgh
Speaker 7: over the course of the last forty eight to seventy
Speaker 7: two hours, the price started to become a little bit
Speaker 7: more palatable for both sides.
Speaker 9: And here we are.
Speaker 8: This might have been something too that got set up
Speaker 8: because of Aaron Rodgers. I think that Steelers might be
Speaker 8: in the mix now of going to get Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 8: signed up. And maybe this was the we're going to
Speaker 8: move on from one to get another kind of a
Speaker 8: thing that it's just.
Speaker 9: Move on from one headache to get another.
Speaker 8: Just kind of some speculation going on in the league
Speaker 8: right now that the Steelers are on that path and
Speaker 8: this was the first move that they knew they had
Speaker 8: to make a move, and you know it listened Dallas,
Speaker 8: that you're right, Nick, Dallas made a lot of calls
Speaker 8: and when I reached out to some guys in the
Speaker 8: front office. They were like, we're looking at a lot
Speaker 8: of wide receivers, Brian, a lot of wide receivers. So
Speaker 8: I was like, going, oh, okay, well, you know, maybe
Speaker 8: this is actually going to come about. But yeah, and
Speaker 8: it did, and it did, and late last night they
Speaker 8: got everything done and buttoned up and we'll see how
Speaker 8: it does play out. But I will go on record
Speaker 8: right now, as Ambar said, I'm going to go on
Speaker 8: record and say that you know that I can do
Speaker 8: nothing but say, hey, this is the type of move
Speaker 8: that I would have absolutely made. I would. You know,
Speaker 8: you need a player like this to compete within your
Speaker 8: division and and hopefully he helps you with the season
Speaker 8: and he helps you as you get into the playoff
Speaker 8: runs as well. Well.
Speaker 6: During my time here, I've been what like eleven years
Speaker 6: here now, and during this whole time that I've been here,
Speaker 6: this is the first time that I've seen the Cowboys
Speaker 6: make this many moves. And I'm taking into consideration all
Speaker 6: the moves that they see, the off season moves, the trades,
Speaker 6: the amount of trades that they made, plus top it
Speaker 6: off with this one, the most recent one that is
Speaker 6: the most significant one. So they're they're changing things around
Speaker 6: this this time and they're making moves and we'll see
Speaker 6: how it all pays out for this upcoming season. But
Speaker 6: it's at least you're not sitting around, you know, waiting
Speaker 6: and waiting. This is it feels different this time around.
Speaker 7: I feel like I was one of the first to
Speaker 7: criticize how they went about last offseason, and I want
Speaker 7: to preface that before I say my next statement is
Speaker 7: because I feel like I gave out criticism when it
Speaker 7: was necessary. This front officer deserves a lot of credit
Speaker 7: for how they they weren't about their business this offseason.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think there was an expectation heading
Speaker 7: into the offseason that there wasn't going to be a
Speaker 7: lot of movement.
Speaker 9: Allowed via salary cap or other issues.
Speaker 7: But they have really set up Brian Schottenheimer for success
Speaker 7: and now it's up to Brian to be able to
Speaker 7: produce on the field.
Speaker 9: I mean, he has his pieces.
Speaker 7: I mean, i'd be very curious to think about what
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy's thinking about right now. I but nevertheless, it's
Speaker 7: Brian Schottenheimer and he has the tools in front of
Speaker 7: him to make it happen.
Speaker 4: Do you guys think that this is going to lead
Speaker 4: to the Cowboys saying all right, you know we've been
Speaker 4: saying run game, run game, run game.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: Do you think that this is going to lead to
Speaker 4: them truly saying all right, we're gonna run the football.
Speaker 9: Is whatever happens happens?
Speaker 4: Or do they see these wide receivers here and go, man,
Speaker 4: Deck's going to have forty pass the game fifty pass
Speaker 4: a game, which I'll think.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a tough one. That's a tough one you
Speaker 9: got to do now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's gonna need catches.
Speaker 8: We were we we went into the whole the hiring
Speaker 8: of the coaches and stuff and the building of the
Speaker 8: staff and started kind of connecting dots and talking about
Speaker 8: and they talked about running the football. I think they're
Speaker 8: still going to be committed to trying to do that.
Speaker 8: And I think with you know, with the drafting of
Speaker 8: with Booker, you know, we'll see what happens at left tackle.
Speaker 8: That now becomes my my vision goes from you know,
Speaker 8: other positions to left tackle and the potentially what's going
Speaker 8: to happen at corner. But I do feel like now
Speaker 8: that the thing and when we had a chance to
Speaker 8: interview you know, Clayton Adams and those guys. Before Day
Speaker 8: three of the draft, they you know, we were saying
Speaker 8: pen and poll this and that, the O they're outside
Speaker 8: zone and all that, and he basically said, listen, if
Speaker 8: we don't have the players to do it, we're not
Speaker 8: going to do it. So I think that they're going
Speaker 8: to go in with the idea of like, hey, gusad,
Speaker 8: we're going to we're going to work to run the football.
Speaker 8: We know we could, we know we're going to figure
Speaker 8: out ways. I mean, you got a guy and Williams
Speaker 8: is a really good pass protector in the back. Feel,
Speaker 8: you know, if they have to throw the football multiple times,
Speaker 8: I think that you know, it doesn't always play well
Speaker 8: for Dak, but at least they have the weapons to
Speaker 8: make that happen. I'd love to see Jake Ferguson and
Speaker 8: schoon Maker and all those guys, and you mentioned Blue,
Speaker 8: if they're going to have to throw the ball, at
Speaker 8: least they've got some bodies that are capable of making plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think their focus says the same as far as
Speaker 6: at least finding that balance between the running game and
Speaker 6: the passing game, creating that balance that they didn't necessarily
Speaker 6: have last year, And I think at the end of
Speaker 6: the day, yeah, yeah, way too late into the season,
Speaker 6: But I think at the end of the day, you
Speaker 6: go with wherever the talent is essentially better. If that's
Speaker 6: a wide receiver, you use it, you use your best players.
Speaker 9: But I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 6: I'm not mad about what they're trying to do right now.
Speaker 9: And Barbrian, do either of you know what a shisty
Speaker 9: mask is? By chance?
Speaker 4: You just go to assume I know what it means?
Speaker 9: Yes, it is it.
Speaker 6: Well, you don't want to know what pumped into my head.
Speaker 7: That's you could go anywhere, you could go anywhere. Soaking Brian, though.
Speaker 8: Is it is? It?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 8: It? Is it like a full.
Speaker 9: It's a ski mask?
Speaker 8: Ski mask?
Speaker 7: Yeah, George Pickens wears a pre game and it was
Speaker 7: when he was drafted.
Speaker 9: He had it on Yeah TV.
Speaker 6: This was like people out dressing black.
Speaker 7: I mean they are typically black. They are typically black.
Speaker 7: The shicty masks a shisty mask.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So the type of uh, you know, we say
Speaker 4: character guy that pickings is the complaining about catches and
Speaker 4: all this CD also at one time kind of complained
Speaker 4: about his catches, right, So let me just ask this
Speaker 4: for sure. So I'm just asking y'all, stars, we don't
Speaker 4: know for sure? Is Pickings the guy that complains about
Speaker 4: not getting targets when you win? Or is he the
Speaker 4: guy that's complaining because he wants to win so bad
Speaker 4: but Kenny Picking and Russell Wilson aren't throwing him the
Speaker 4: ball and he's the best target for you. You know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I'm saying, like, is he it is
Speaker 4: so frustrated that we're not winning, Hey, throw me the
Speaker 4: ball because on the fresh roun, I'm mad. Or if
Speaker 4: you're blowing out somebody by forty and he got three catches,
Speaker 4: he go, you know what, We're winning by forty, but
Speaker 4: I could sure use five catches. I'm I'm gonna complain.
Speaker 4: I think that's two different types of complaining there. So
Speaker 4: where would you guys assume? We don't know? But like,
Speaker 4: what would you think?
Speaker 7: I don't have enough context to give you that right now,
Speaker 7: although I do think you bring up a solid point
Speaker 7: about the quarterbacks that he has dealt with through his
Speaker 7: first three years and if you just look back to
Speaker 7: if you just look back to last season and kind
Speaker 7: of the struggles that he had to deal with at
Speaker 7: times from a target to reception ratio perspective, and there
Speaker 7: were some issues there. I think there was a lot
Speaker 7: of miscommunication, whether it be justin Fields, Russell Wilson, Kenny Pikett,
Speaker 7: Mason Rudolph, Mitchell, Trubisky. I mean, there's he's dealt with
Speaker 7: a lot of different signal callers. But I don't have
Speaker 7: enough context to give you that answer. Watch, but I
Speaker 7: think it's I think it's a valid point because there
Speaker 7: are some in the league that want they want the
Speaker 7: targets and receptions no matter what the final score is,
Speaker 7: and there's some who as long as they're winning, hey,
Speaker 7: it's fine.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 7: I think there's a couple of people in his locker
Speaker 7: room though, when they don't get the stats in a
Speaker 7: big win, they feel the type of way. And uh,
Speaker 7: we've talked about a few of those guys, So you
Speaker 7: wonder if he's one of them.
Speaker 8: The reason why, as I'm an a.
Speaker 4: Right like this publicly said, hey man, we win it,
Speaker 4: i ain't got to have all the catches.
Speaker 8: We win it. I'm gonna be real reckless here because
Speaker 8: Nick's trying to be professional. I'm not professional. I'm just
Speaker 8: gonna say it. I think this guy. I think this
Speaker 8: guy loves to play football, and I think that doesn't
Speaker 8: matter whoever he's going up against, he can find a
Speaker 8: way to win, you know. And if the game plan
Speaker 8: then maybe calls to go another direction, you know, and
Speaker 8: they're not winning, I think that really bothers him. I
Speaker 8: think I think football is very very important to this guy.
Speaker 8: And you can watch him play in college, you can
Speaker 8: tell it. Then you can watch in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, I would rather have a guy that loses
Speaker 8: his mind because he's not You're not I'm not helping
Speaker 8: you try and win this game, you know, please. I mean,
Speaker 8: we we've all been there. We've seen the desks on
Speaker 8: the sidelines and stuff and does it more's body language,
Speaker 8: but he was always trying to be kind of encouraging, Hey,
Speaker 8: I can win. Just get me the ball, find a
Speaker 8: way to get And I think this guy's that. I
Speaker 8: think he's a similar type player. I think every catch
Speaker 8: that he made that I watched this morning that resulted
Speaker 8: in a first down, you could see the emotion of
Speaker 8: like first down and like he was kind of you know,
Speaker 8: and you get the tawning and you get a little
Speaker 8: bit of this, you know, he is so competitive that
Speaker 8: he honestly believes that if you throw him the ball
Speaker 8: sixteen times, he is going to make sixteen receptions. And
Speaker 8: so he wants that opportunity because he's That's just how
Speaker 8: he I think that's how he's wired. So, yeah, is
Speaker 8: it something that maybe you're going to have to tone
Speaker 8: it down a little bit? Man, I would rather have
Speaker 8: the guy that wants the ball, that wants to make
Speaker 8: plays as opposed to the guy that's terrified. Please don't
Speaker 8: hit the ball to me, Please don't throw me the ball,
Speaker 8: Please don't draw up the last shot for me, you know.
Speaker 8: I think I think Pickens is a guy that wants
Speaker 8: to compete at a high level. And it comes off
Speaker 8: as sometimes this maybe complaining, but he he just in
Speaker 8: his heart believes that he can win on every single play.
Speaker 8: I'll take that guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And sometimes I think it's easier for you to
Speaker 6: pull someone back rather than have to push them forward.
Speaker 6: And with the right kind of voice and the right environment,
Speaker 6: I think he can thrive in this and see that hey,
Speaker 6: we're not going to be dealing with that kind of behavior.
Speaker 6: And I think that what Schottenheimer brings is that there
Speaker 6: will be consequences to the way you act, and if
Speaker 6: you decide to act right, then you're gonna be that's
Speaker 6: gonna be reflected on the field and how many times
Speaker 6: you get to touch the ball. I that's at least
Speaker 6: what I'm getting at. Before we end the show, time
Speaker 6: is running out.
Speaker 7: Could I throw ahead one thing in there? Because you
Speaker 7: did bring up one thing?
Speaker 9: Did you say?
Speaker 7: Shottenheimer has shown that, like there will be consequences. Yes,
Speaker 7: that is a question I have. It's like when when
Speaker 7: there are issues that will come about with certain players.
Speaker 7: Just think back to Trayvon in San Francisco last year.
Speaker 7: How is Shotenheimer going to handle that? Because he has
Speaker 7: shown yes that he's trying to build high character and
Speaker 7: if you're not about it, then you know, well, we'll
Speaker 7: figure out how to make sure that that's not here.
Speaker 7: But I do wonder when he is faced with that
Speaker 7: situation mid season, how does he handle that? Whether that's
Speaker 7: Trayvon Dicks or George Pickens or Micaeh Parks, whoever. That's
Speaker 7: gonna be one of his bigger questions. Our biggest I
Speaker 7: think at adversity points is like, Okay, how does he
Speaker 7: respond to this?
Speaker 9: That's going to be a big question of mind for.
Speaker 6: Right now, he's saying all the right things for sure,
Speaker 6: absolutely so. But yeah, just like you said, we'll wait.
Speaker 6: We'll have to wait and see because we haven't seen
Speaker 6: it in action just yet. But everything he said so
Speaker 6: far and the way that he's talked to the media,
Speaker 6: what he said the other day recently, that he's been
Speaker 6: paying attention the veterans who are talking to the rookies,
Speaker 6: the people that have come in. He's looking for those
Speaker 6: type of behavior in veteran guys. Be a leader, be
Speaker 6: that voice, be an example for everybody else. Okay, going
Speaker 6: now to rookie the rookies, we have Rookie Meedicamp happened,
Speaker 6: and I don't want to end the show before going
Speaker 6: around and asking you guys, while were your first impression.
Speaker 6: We got to see these guys in person. We don't
Speaker 6: get a lot of big action happening in Rookie Meedicamp,
Speaker 6: but we got to see their full presence and body boy.
Speaker 4: Tyle, the book is going to be haby that George
Speaker 4: Piggins is here and Man Jay and Blue's gonna get
Speaker 4: a bunch of pasts because George Piggins is here, and
Speaker 4: Tray suhnhold and go ahead to compete a little bit
Speaker 4: harder boy, because George Piggins is here.
Speaker 9: That's all I got on.
Speaker 8: The room, Yeah, I think to me though, physically it's
Speaker 8: nice to see them. There used to be a time
Speaker 8: in Ambar. You'll remember this when like under the Jason
Speaker 8: Garrett administration, they used to like practice, we like we'd
Speaker 8: see them out there. Really kind of Now it's more
Speaker 8: about hey, locker room's over here, training rooms over here,
Speaker 8: dining hall's here. When you park, you park over here,
Speaker 8: so you know where you get the You get to
Speaker 8: physically see how the players look, and you know, you
Speaker 8: get to kind of get the idea uh name with
Speaker 8: a face kind of thing. You get to talk to
Speaker 8: them a little bit, and those kinds of things, which
Speaker 8: is cool. Where the where to me, where this will
Speaker 8: be the most important is the training camp aspect thing.
Speaker 8: But those mandatory mini camps when you have the veterans
Speaker 8: with the rookies, that's where you're gonna tell me where
Speaker 8: these coaches feel like these rookies can fit in, you know,
Speaker 8: And I Wotch will say this, listen, don't tell me
Speaker 8: that Booker needs to be over on field three working
Speaker 8: with the threes and the fource. He needs to be
Speaker 8: over there playing right guard right off the jump. You know,
Speaker 8: don't try and make it. You got to earn your thing. No,
Speaker 8: you've got to. You know, you drafted these guys for
Speaker 8: a reason.
Speaker 4: Figure it out also too, Brian, Sorry, Nick, you got
Speaker 4: I don't want to see Booker lining up at lift
Speaker 4: guard just to see if he can play left guard
Speaker 4: clean may right because that's where he's going to be
Speaker 4: in and let him start to work on that right
Speaker 4: side footedness and handedness because he's been playing the lift
Speaker 4: side the whole time.
Speaker 9: Abandon, So you're good.
Speaker 7: These guys have said plenty about the rookies. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, we won't really get a good feel these
Speaker 7: rookies until training camp and how they fit in with
Speaker 7: the rest of the veterans. But I will say one
Speaker 7: thing that really did stand out to me from rookie
Speaker 7: mini camp energy and it was our first time to
Speaker 7: be able to see a Brian Schottenheimer led practice.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and that was it.
Speaker 7: I've only been here since the start of the Mike
Speaker 7: McCarthy era, but it is notably different than a McCarthy practice.
Speaker 7: Music was playing the whole time which is unlike a
Speaker 7: McCarthy practice. We'll see if that carries into the season.
Speaker 7: Yelling energy, I mean, and that's that's what all the
Speaker 7: players said coming off the field.
Speaker 9: Energy.
Speaker 7: This is a very energetic practice. Energetic coaching staff. You
Speaker 7: know what they talk about off the field, at least
Speaker 7: in one rookie mini camp practice that we've seen with
Speaker 7: their own eyes, it's at least translated onto the practice field.
Speaker 8: See real quick though. Ambar two is that we kind
Speaker 8: of get a little bit of a taste of the
Speaker 8: energy of the coaching staff when we heard the secret
Speaker 8: audio calls and how like pumped up guys were and
Speaker 8: guys passing the phone and hey man, you're in just
Speaker 8: trying to and the players were kind of like, I
Speaker 8: think the players were shocked to how how energized the
Speaker 8: coaches were on the phone. They're like, yeah, coach, ready
Speaker 8: to work. Well man, we got to come in here.
Speaker 8: We got it.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 8: The coaches were more excited about the player, you know,
Speaker 8: being the pick and having the players. So yeah, this
Speaker 8: this staff does have a lot of energy too, because
Speaker 8: they're young.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, Mike, Mike was with like seventy I'm
Speaker 4: not being fun I really know how part sixty one you.
Speaker 8: Know, he he you know he's nothing wrong being sixty
Speaker 8: one man. You work for the guy every night.
Speaker 4: My fuck, my fun man. But you know, Mike, Mike
Speaker 4: was older man. Mike has done this before. Mike has
Speaker 4: had coaching jobs before.
Speaker 8: We needed the shit.
Speaker 9: You get someone photo shop up the shisty basket.
Speaker 4: Ryan Shottenheimer.
Speaker 9: This is his first job as a head coach.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: He's a young dude, so of course he'll have a
Speaker 4: lot more in it.
Speaker 8: Heck yeah, it was old man. Man as old. This
Speaker 8: old man had a lot of energy too. Is a
Speaker 8: good coach.
Speaker 9: I was born ninety two.
Speaker 8: I ain't I ain't see him too much.
Speaker 6: I saw the second day of Fricking Me Me Camp.
Speaker 6: I saw Will McLay. He was walking out and he's
Speaker 6: just like, man, all these coaches running around the whole field,
Speaker 6: like you see them running and he's like, I said,
Speaker 6: they better be careful before they pulled something or hurt themselves.
Speaker 6: But that just goes to show again what we saw
Speaker 6: and what you guys are talking about it. There's are
Speaker 6: so full of excitement and energy. They're out there moving around,
Speaker 6: running around with the players, so that's super exciting. And
Speaker 6: also the players everyone I I got to talk to,
Speaker 6: I love their personalities, Like the vibes right now are
Speaker 6: all so positive. So we'll see, we'll see. We'll keep
Speaker 6: waiting and seeing how everything because everything exactly now.
Speaker 7: So one final question out there, go ahead, George Pickens,
Speaker 7: Let's say it works out from a football perspective, how
Speaker 7: many added wins do you think this this this move makes.
Speaker 8: His red zone ability probably probably gonna help you with
Speaker 8: three three.
Speaker 4: I don't want to sound like a Homer man. I
Speaker 4: think the Cowboys are a twelve win team.
Speaker 8: Now, Oh how many more wins added under the current
Speaker 8: or how many? How many wins total?
Speaker 9: Answer?
Speaker 8: No, I think his ability probably buys you three more.
Speaker 8: This is the way his ability to make plays, red zone.
Speaker 6: Plays, and you were so close in so many games,
Speaker 6: so without a lot of your starters.
Speaker 9: I I thought this was a ten win team before
Speaker 9: this this edition. I think I'm with you.
Speaker 7: Watch I think the ceiling for this team is certainly
Speaker 7: twelve wins, but that you'll got to schedule. It's tough.
Speaker 7: It's a tough schedule. Still, wouldn't surprise me if this
Speaker 7: ends up being a ten and seventeen. But I think
Speaker 7: you'd feel a lot better about this ten and seventeen
Speaker 7: than you would without a George Pikins.
Speaker 4: Find another wide receiver, find another running back, get another one.
Speaker 4: Take to go in there and just compete and be
Speaker 4: old and let's go running. Miane.
Speaker 7: See now I'm about to get on this one text
Speaker 7: soap bucks. Bro's it for another day?
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Speaker 9: Lombard. Can I say in Spanish? Please Lombardi?
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