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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are

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Speaker 1: you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so

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Speaker 1: much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar

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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December sixth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number seventy two. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break. We are live from

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Speaker 1: that WBC Morgat studios at the Star, coming off a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a weekend here where we didn't have

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Speaker 1: a football we had to cover, got to watch a

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Speaker 1: do today about this team. We're gonna actually take this

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Speaker 1: data to count today. Innimi actually to take a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions. I have some questions lined up for this

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Speaker 1: you guys. I know you've already been sending them on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I've got lots of questions there, and you guys can

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Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven. You should take advantage

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Speaker 1: of this. It's not very often that we allow you

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Speaker 1: guys to send us questions and we actually get to them.

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Speaker 1: So take advantage there it is. Yeah, there's got You

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Speaker 1: advantage of it. We'll try to answer as many questions

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Speaker 1: as we can over these next couple shows. Uh, Nick,

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Speaker 1: give me a seventy two. I was gonna give you

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Speaker 1: the translation of what that really meant, that we're taking calls.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't really feel like doing a rundown.

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Speaker 1: Not true, because I got a list of questions here

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Speaker 1: that I got. There's only one seventy two. It's two,

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Speaker 1: it's all Jones. Is there only one to No, there's

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Speaker 1: probably Travis Frederick. I think we're seventy two. Maybe in

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Speaker 1: Travis will take offense to that. He did good, all right,

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Speaker 1: he took offense to a lot of thing. That's good.

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Speaker 1: He's a great center, a great player. They need him,

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Speaker 1: they miss him. But Tutam Jones seventy seventy two, I

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Speaker 1: mean that he played for fifteen years. Let me ask

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Speaker 1: you a question, as a guy that covered a deep cover.

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Speaker 1: But you watched the Cowboys a long time? Was he

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Speaker 1: like for for an outside, I wasn't a Cowboys fan.

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Speaker 1: Was he ever as big as his persona? Because of

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Speaker 1: course as a as a non Cowboys fan, you hear

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Speaker 1: two Tall Jones, he's big. You know, you always thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: with a true false question. The defense is the most

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Speaker 1: morning after why the most reliable? What's what's reliable mean?

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Speaker 1: Like reliable to not piss you off, Reliable to do

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Speaker 1: I don't like questions like that because it's like, you know,

425
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Speaker 1: we talked about it all the time. You you you

426
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Speaker 1: say it to us every time we come into your

427
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Speaker 1: office about something. You're like, okay, I hear you. But

428
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 1: but it's a solution. So I mean, that's that's what

429
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I mean, if you had somebody sitting there

430
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Speaker 1: that was way better, you would do it. But I

431
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 1: mean Luke Gifford, who who Gifford? And Francis Bernard. No,

432
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 1: it's a sneaky, brutal loss that Jabril Cox towards a

433
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Speaker 1: clum and that's not this. I doubt he would be

434
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: playing all of the snaps right now, but they gave

435
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,719
Speaker 1: him maybe be playing a significant him out by now.

436
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 1: They won't say. It's hard to say the number, but

437
00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 1: it's bigger than sneaky. You're well, you're right, I mean,

438
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 1: I agree, I've been talking about it for weeks. I mean,

439
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 1: they would have been increasing his role this whole time,

440
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: right they started with goal line. If he answers that

441
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 1: it gets bigger and bigger. And oh, by the way,

442
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 1: Kean O'Neill and Layton Vanderesh, neither one of them is

443
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,400
Speaker 1: really looking like a guy that you want to be

444
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 1: part of your long term future. Jabril Cox is. And

445
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: he would be that much more ready to assume a

446
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: bigger role next year if he was healthy right now,

447
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 1: and they'd have a better idea about him. Right you know,

448
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,919
Speaker 1: then you're like, Okay, well Jabrill can do this, this

449
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: and this, but right now, he don't really know. Now,

450
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: what you do know is that he can chase down

451
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,200
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and like smack the heck out of him.

452
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 1: At the one, it's going like you're going into the

453
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Speaker 1: draft saying we have two studs who are only one

454
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 1: year into their contract at linebacker. Verse, Well, we got

455
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 1: Micah and we feel good about Cox about We don't

456
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Speaker 1: really know it's there'd be a domino effect there or

457
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 1: those decision making because it's like, okay, let's start instead

458
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 1: of linebacker, let's start at defensive end. What are we doing?

459
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: We were signing Randy if we do for how much

460
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Speaker 1: can we keep both of these guys? Is Mica gonna

461
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Speaker 1: play defensive end? You know that there's just a lot

462
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: of what's takes long term out exactly and then you

463
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 1: then you figure all this out. So it's it's an

464
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 1: interesting thing. But so go back to Layton. I mean,

465
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Speaker 1: I yeah, he's not playing like the guy we thought

466
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 1: he was, But I don't know if you have another

467
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: option right now. So see him just making plays that

468
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: are just getting I mean, he's making bad plays, making

469
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,440
Speaker 1: some he's making some bad plays, but I mean I

470
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Speaker 1: think he's just not standing out as a linebacker. You

471
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Speaker 1: should stand out more than I want to try to

472
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Speaker 1: understand the how how did we get here to this

473
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: point of us talking about him in this way. I

474
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 1: know previous years he's been dealing with the injuries and

475
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 1: the times that he would go back on the field.

476
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 1: You know, you can blame the injury and say and

477
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: he would still make certain place here and there and

478
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: definitely looked better than what Jalen did at the time,

479
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Speaker 1: But then you never had him be fully healthy like

480
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 1: this year, he hasn't been out right. He's been playing

481
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: the whole time. I don't think he's missing, But but

482
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Speaker 1: you know something that I don't. I don't look at

483
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: him like I don't think he has played like he

484
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: did his rookie year. So no, never even in times

485
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 1: he came back from injury, like he could get a

486
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: player two here or there, But overall, I don't think

487
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 1: he's been back to that level, which does seem a

488
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: little curious that you could play as well as he

489
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: did his rookie year. I mean, god, was an All

490
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 1: Pro as a rookie and then just completely fall off

491
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: the map. Yeah, you go back to the game Thursday night,

492
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Speaker 1: I mean, where was Taysom Hill running a lot? Like

493
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Speaker 1: a lot of it was right up the middle. I'm

494
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 1: gonna between the tackles. I mean, so when they ran

495
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: the ball with Ingram, he was running up the middle.

496
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: You know they won't really going sideline to sideline that much. Yeah,

497
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: that's you should get four or five tackles just just

498
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: by doing that, you know. Like, and I gotta go

499
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: back and see how many snaps he had. But he

500
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,120
Speaker 1: was out on the field. It's just he just wasn't

501
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: around the ball. And that's just odd for for him

502
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 1: and his style. I mean, because he's up there in time,

503
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Speaker 1: I would imagine I don't know this, he's probably fifth

504
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 1: on the team and tackles. Maybe it's not great for

505
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: a linebacker. No, no, you would, you know. I mean

506
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: this team is built differently. I mean Jayron curses leading

507
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: the leading the team and tackles, but they playing him

508
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,239
Speaker 1: around there, um you know, and Barry Church will let

509
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: you know that too, because Barry Church, he's about to

510
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: be the first player since Barry Church. No, he's not

511
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: gonna catch him, but the first players Burry Church, you know,

512
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: for safety to lead the team and tackles. And he's like,

513
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: well he's playing like a linebacker. Barry asked me different

514
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 1: He's like, how many does he have? It was like

515
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: playing seventy five. He's like, oh, hen't catch me. I

516
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: had one third. He said he had one thirty five,

517
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: one thirty five. I don't remember. I remember one thirty five.

518
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: I know I know Barry a bad team. I can't

519
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: say I know Barry played in the box a lot.

520
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: But a safety with one thirty five times, Yeah, it

521
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: wasn't good. It's not a good thing. That means your

522
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 1: linebackers are really bad. Lay Layton played fifty six percent

523
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: of the snaps, so I mean he was he was

524
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: getting rotated a lot, but still one who was who

525
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 1: was Was it just Jayron playing that other linebacker spot

526
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Speaker 1: when he wasn't in there? If he's only playing fifty

527
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps, Yeah, it had I mean yes,

528
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: because Kean O'Neill played even less than that. He played

529
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Speaker 1: thirty three. J Ron curse is he he is a linebacker.

530
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: He is there nickel and dime personnel box guy. It's

531
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: a different way to do it, but that's what he's

532
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: been doing. Ninety three No, yeah, nine sixty five snaps

533
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: and how many I mean he rushed a lot? Right? Yeah? Well,

534
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: I don't know about that because he played he was

535
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Speaker 1: at linebacker most of the game. He might have he

536
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: was on the line some, but he was at lineback round.

537
00:25:54,640 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: If he was good with that, then then that's that's perfect. Um.

538
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: You know. Here, here's a couple of things about about

539
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: his game. You always say this, Derek about DeMarcus Ware

540
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: guys that rushed the passer. There's two different types. There's

541
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: a guy that gets a lot of sacks and then

542
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: there's a guy to get the sackling when we have

543
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: to have it. Last two games, in overtime, he made

544
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: a play that you know, you would think that would

545
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: get you off the field set up a third and eighteen.

546
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: It just didn't work and they lost to the Raiders.

547
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: But he made a huge play in that game, and

548
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: he made one made the play of the game to

549
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: start the fourth quarter and they got him out of

550
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: field goal rings. He kept it a two score game

551
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 1: because it's a two score game for Taysom Hill. Guess

552
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: what it means. He has to throw it and guess

553
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: what The Cowboys caught just as many as the Saints

554
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: guys did. I think in the fourth Unless you have

555
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts or Lamar Jackson. I think you gotta consider

556
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: not running boots against this defense. It's just doesn't work. Yeah,

557
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: he's not the one to get fooled. He closes too. Well,

558
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: he doesn't get fooled, and he's gonna catch you. I

559
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: mean if he catches, if he can catch Taysom Hill

560
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: the way he did. I mean he did it to

561
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert too, who's one of the more athletic quarterbacks

562
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: in the league. Like, unless you have a sprinter playing quarterback,

563
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: it's probably not worth the risk. All right, we're gonna

564
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: go to the next question. The biggest problem for the

565
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: Dallas offense is offensive line. Yeah, center guards. He's a

566
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl vot vote getter. He plays for the Cowboys. Well,

567
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold been there for three weeks,

568
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: hold on, the last month of the season. Let's be fair.

569
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,360
Speaker 1: He's been a lot better, a lot. I haven't seen

570
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: a whole lot of issues really with him. Snaps have

571
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: been good. He's played a full season. He has one season.

572
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: All right, he should be better. Right, that's kind of

573
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: what you're expecting. He I hate playing these games, and

574
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, because that like it all works

575
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: in harmony or disharmony, like Dak is pressing. I think

576
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: Dak is pressing. He's he's played better than a lot

577
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: of haters want to give him credit for. He had

578
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: three or four I meant to say that I was remote,

579
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: so I didn't want to like push the issue. He

580
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: had three or four of the best throws of his

581
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: season in New Orleans, like the one to Lamb that

582
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: kind of arcd through the slot over the guys. That

583
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: was incredible he had. Um, I know it was incomplete

584
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: and that you know, nobody cares about that. But the

585
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: one that Lamb caught in the back corner of the

586
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: end zone out of bounds, incredible, more by Lamb than Dak,

587
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: but still um yeah. He that was training camp. Lamb

588
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: like that the same play, similar play in training camp

589
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: where he was out of bounds. We were like, I

590
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: don't care, but it was such a great case, you know, right,

591
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: yeah put it up, so forget we're not posting that

592
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: that he was out of bounds. Like, no, it's a

593
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: great kids, you put it up. But fans want to

594
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: see that through like three or four laser beams in

595
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: that game. So it was like a lifetime ago. It

596
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: does it really does um, But I think he's pressing.

597
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: I think the offensive line has one day. The reason

598
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: that he's pressing, yeah, well, I mean are the receiver's

599
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: The reason that he's pressing is not having Amari Cooper

600
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: played Thursday, but it was like eighteen snaps. He was

601
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: basically a third and fourth down guy. Again, does not

602
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: having him to take pressure off of everybody else? Does

603
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: that make it harder to find the throwing? I mean,

604
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: and that is the question, what is the biggest problem.

605
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: I think it's I think they all connect. I mean yeah,

606
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, like this is all taut. I've never

607
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: said this before, but the neckbones connected to the calf bone. Seriously, Okay,

608
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: it all I mean, I'm talking about Tyrant's issue that's

609
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: related all the way down and relates to Dak and

610
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: all and then Dak and then receivers they just have

611
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: they've been out of scene. Okay, So let me rephrase

612
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 1: the question. If you could fix one thing, what would

613
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: have the biggest impact. If I could fix one thing,

614
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: I just want this full compliment of receivers and everybody

615
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: that plays the skill position as healthy and available as possible,

616
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: because well, health is the biggest issue. I get to

617
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: fix one thing. Yeah, I'm Tyrant Smith is feels the

618
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: best he's ever felt for real. I mean he said

619
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: it before, but I'm talking about Do you think he's

620
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: not playing at the level that he was playing earlier

621
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: in the season. Probably not. I'm just saying I get

622
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: to fix one thing. I'm making him twenty fourteen Tyrants Smith.

623
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: That's why I'm making that would be that would be fun.

624
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: That would be fun. I mean he'd be like, I

625
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: don't know that's fixable, which is I'm just mister, I'm

626
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: dealing with the whole thing. I'm dealing with reality here,

627
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: which is the offensive line wasn't bad in New Orleans?

628
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: Were they? I mean they couldn't run the ball. They

629
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: couldn't run and that can't run the ball? Yeah? Um,

630
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: But like Dak had time. I think he got sacked

631
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: one time, and I know I know he got pressured

632
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: a few times, but like it wasn't just like that,

633
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: he had a lot good time. I I think that

634
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: highly of Amari Cooper that I think he opens things

635
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: up that much. If you're just telling me I can

636
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: have one thing, I just want him as healthy as possible.

637
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: Scaring the hell out of somebody on one side of

638
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: the formation and letting everybody else work off of that,

639
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: I think. And the beautiful thing is they can have

640
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: that as early as Sunday afternoon. So that's what I

641
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: would say, all right, cambelling that, I mean, I would

642
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: just go with the O line in general. You've seen

643
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: the passing game be affected by it. You've definitely seen

644
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: the running game. And I get it that when Nick

645
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: pulled up the stats, WHOA, Yeah, they made it sound

646
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: like they were actually kind of successful a little bit

647
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: in the running game last game. But to me, it

648
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: was a complete mess. And I get it. You can't

649
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,959
Speaker 1: take away those two plays because they do count at

650
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: the end of the day. But at the same time,

651
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: looking back at other games in the season, you just

652
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: haven't been successful at the runs and you see them

653
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: unable to create holes for sig and that's a problem,

654
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: especially when you got a guy that has been dealing

655
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: with an injury himself. So to me, it's creating that balance,

656
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: a no line that's able to allow you to run

657
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: the game, to run the ball somehow kind of balance

658
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: both and not turn you one dimensional. Is that you're

659
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: saying in English? Yeah, not turn you one the dimensional.

660
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: And obviously we've seen Dak struggle at times. Like Dave said,

661
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: they got they oh my god, not speak English today.

662
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: They did get better last week. But I need them

663
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: to become more solid to where they can compliment each

664
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: other and allow them to do both things. And going

665
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: back to the running game, I think my point there

666
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: is anybody who's ever won a lottery ticket before, how

667
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: many of do you think that they've lost? How many

668
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: how much of that little shavings you think are on

669
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: their ground right there because they're doing it all the time,

670
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: and they do it all the time, and that's what

671
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: they think. But you gotta keep doing it if you're

672
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: gonna win. People say, well, I haven't win the lottery

673
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: one day. It's like, okay, but do you play? No,

674
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: you don't. You have to play. And so that's the

675
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: thing about running the ball, like you're gonna keep doing it.

676
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: You gotta stick to it. You gotta keep running because

677
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: every once in a while you're gonna get that ticket.

678
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: And that's what Tony Poler did. But you gotta keep

679
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: doing it, and that's what you and that's why I

680
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,720
Speaker 1: think it all factors in that they didn't lose the

681
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: commitment to do it all right, Speaking of the running game,

682
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: next question, the running back that gives Dallas the best

683
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: chance to win as we sit here today is blank

684
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: seek Pollard, Why are you doing? What year is this there?

685
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: Because that's what we're doing. What years? I twenty twenty one.

686
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: That's the year that we're in, and that's the that's

687
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: the running back combination that helps this team twenty twenty one.

688
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: Tony Tony Pollard is better with the ball in his

689
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: hands right now. Zeke Elliott is a well rounded enough

690
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: running back that he needs to be part of the

691
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,479
Speaker 1: offense too. How how many, like I can't count, how

692
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: many times Zeke has absolutely smashed somebody that would have

693
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: killed Dak. You can't take that out. You can't discard

694
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: it because Zeke's not dangerous as a runner, and he's not.

695
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure he feels like crap, his knee hurt and

696
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: it sucks. It sucks for him that he's dealing with that.

697
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: I'm but I need him both. I said it going

698
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: into that game, and you do have to have them both.

699
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: My question becomes if if we all agree, it sounds

700
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: like we all agree that Poller is a better runner

701
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: at this at this point. And again that could be

702
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: because of injury, That could be he has of a

703
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: lot of things. But if we think he is a

704
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: better runner, should he not be getting more carries? Well? Sure, yes,

705
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: and unless I mean see how Zeke feels. We talked

706
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: for weeks about this break. I mean they've been off

707
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: since they landed in Dallas on Friday morning. Ten days

708
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: is a good amount of time to get get some

709
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: stuff right. If if he feels significantly better, then I

710
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: would keep it the same. But if this is still

711
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: an issue, then yes, I would prefer them not bury

712
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: their head in the sand about who is a more

713
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: valuable runner? All right, So we got fast forward to Sunday,

714
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: three minutes and thirty five seconds to go in the

715
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 1: game Rights Washington, whatever, has two time outs, Cowboys have

716
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 1: a lead twenty four to twenty one. You got you

717
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: gotta run the ball, you gotta get you run this

718
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: clock out. And I know it's hard to answer that

719
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: because you don't know how the game has gone on.

720
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: But do you think Zeke's the guy? I mean, Zeke?

721
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: Or do you want Pollard running the ball when you

722
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be a stack front? Who do you

723
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: want running the ball right there. Based on what I've

724
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: seen over the last I don't know, four to six games,

725
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: I think i'd rather have running the ball again. The

726
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: only reason is because I think they're both gonna get

727
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: stopped a lot. Two yard game, one yard game maybe negative.

728
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: I think that's going to happen because this offensive line

729
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: isn't blocking very well in the run game. Here's the difference.

730
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: The difference is if Pola gets that crease, he might

731
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: go fifty. I don't think Zeke's gonna do that, And

732
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: so that's where I think they're about that. There was

733
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: a time you get don't get me wrong, there was

734
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: a time when even though I thought Paula had the

735
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: home run ability, Zeke was still going four, six, seven.

736
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: You know that's not really happening as much right now.

737
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: And that's why I think i'd rather go to Polar.

738
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: I hear, I hear that, But I don't need fifty

739
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: so much there, You know, you need ten or eleven.

740
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: What I wonder is and I haven't seen Polar do

741
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: this a lot. I haven't seen Zeke a lot either,

742
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: But like I'm talking about, when you get hit one yard,

743
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: do you make it three? Are you making it? But

744
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: that's my point. I don't think Zeke has been doing

745
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: that much recently, like and I haven't been seen that

746
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 1: from Zeke. I think Pollard's better at that than he

747
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: gets credit for it. People like to say he can't

748
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: he doesn't run between the tac He absolutely run. He

749
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: is not like he's not a dainty back like he'll

750
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: yeah he can do that. Uh me. Personally, he's like

751
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 1: Tony Dorset. Honestly, we compared Michael Lawrence Taylor. But Tony

752
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: Dorset was big, but he was fast and he could

753
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: get through and all that. I mean, oh my god,

754
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: I can't believe that Tony po I would just I

755
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: would motion CD out of the slot, give him a

756
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: jet sweep and have him get nine and then it

757
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who gets the last one. That's what I

758
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: would do. But shouts out Kellen, maybe see more of that.

759
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: That's and that's what that's what Bob. You're right, you

760
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: do have to have patience and commitment to the running game.

761
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: But again, they ran six They ran for more than

762
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: three yards six times out of twenty four. Mix it up.

763
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: They got athlete and run to the side. That's what happened.

764
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: Their running game was outside the tackles, and that's maybe

765
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: what they have to do. And you're not going to

766
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: run a toss. You're not gonna run a toss sweep

767
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: every time you run it. I get it, But there's

768
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: got to be more ways you can vary up what

769
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: you're doing than like, here we go a dive. Right, Damn,

770
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: it didn't work again. All right, let's try it to

771
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: the left this time. Now, be a little more original

772
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: than that. All right, final question before we get to

773
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: some fan questions. When Terrence still returns from COVID protocol,

774
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: who should start at the right tackle again? Should this

775
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: is your opinion, not what you think will happen. Who

776
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: should be your starter at right tackle? I'm like whatever,

777
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: at this point, you're still you're gonna do whatever? Have you?

778
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 1: Have you noticed and have you noticed a noticeable difference

779
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: between the two of them? Honestly, I have no. I

780
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,839
Speaker 1: can't sit here and tell you that I have. And

781
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: the only way, the only way I think there could

782
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 1: be a case made for one it would be if

783
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: you wanted to move the other to another position. Yeah,

784
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: if you thought we're still having problems at left guard,

785
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: which I think they are, and you thought Ile Collins

786
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: is a better option than either of the two guards

787
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: we have played, either either of the two guys we

788
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: have playing left guard, then I say, still returns at

789
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: right tackle. You move I all Collins to left guard

790
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:01,919
Speaker 1: and see what you can get out of that. Yeah.

791
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a way to answer this without

792
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: bringing in the politics of football that everybody wants to

793
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: pretend don't exist. But if you're moving, if you put

794
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: Terrence Steel back there, then I just assume you're making significant,

795
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: big term decisions like that means something for next year.

796
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins I assume won't be here if he's not

797
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: your starting right tackle. Like I doubt he wants to

798
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: play left guard permanently. The money's at tackle. He's always

799
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: said he views himself as a tackle, and so I'll

800
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: just say I think he should be the starting right

801
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: tackle unless you are committed to shuffling things up in

802
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: the offseason, which that's fine if you are, but you're

803
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: just I don't think you're making that move unless you're

804
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: comfortable making big decisions about that later on. Yeah, I mean,

805
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: I would just keep things the way they are unless

806
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: you're deciding to do that. Yeah, and you said, what's

807
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: the most significant difference between the two, and there it is.

808
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,479
Speaker 1: I mean I just looked it up. Six point one million,

809
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty thousand. That's their cap hit when

810
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: it steals deal up. It's an undrafted free agent, so

811
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: he should have one more. He'll be restrict got time

812
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: with him at this amount of money, he'll be restricted. Yeah,

813
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: that's true. Three year deal and you're restricted. So I

814
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: mean it's very easy to hang on to. On the field.

815
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: You guys have said there's not a significant difference. But

816
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: if we go back to the time that Dale was

817
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: brought by, can I think that since then the old

818
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: line has not played as good as they were playing

819
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: prior to that change. Fair So, however, you put it

820
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: aside from Connor Williams making the mistakes that he was

821
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: making and all that, I think that the offensive line

822
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,720
Speaker 1: did become worse after that. I'm going back to Connor Williams.

823
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: If we were asking questions, that's would be what I

824
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: would do. I don't know about the right tackle. I'll

825
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: tell you I'd go back to Connor Williams at left guard.

826
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: I think I picked your penalties and and and play

827
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 1: it life. You think he's been He was better earlier

828
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: this season then than what we've seen from a The

829
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: running game has been better. I mean, it's still her point.

830
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're right about that. That also was

831
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: happening around that time. I think that they ran the

832
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: ball better with him, and now the penalties a certainly

833
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: a problem, but you know, I mean, Connor has Sam

834
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: McGovern has some not not to that level, but I

835
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: think that he was blocking better too, So I think

836
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: I would go back to that. I don't I don't disagree,

837
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 1: and I don't know that Connor McGovern has been awful,

838
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm not hasn't known him under the bus.

839
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: He hasn't improved anything. But point that you're like, yes,

840
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: this was a gay call, but same thing. I'm not

841
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: going to look that up. But it's the same type

842
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: of deal we're talking about next year. If it's that

843
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: close on the field, Yeah, one guy you think is

844
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: not going to be here, one guy is. Then it

845
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 1: goes back to the Jabril Cox thing. It's like, God,

846
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: I wish when it comes time to making decisions, what

847
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: do we know about this guy? And if you never

848
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: played McGovern, then you're like, how how are you going

849
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: to sit there and fight for him if you didn't

850
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: play him. So that's a really good point. And I

851
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 1: think anybody anybody knows by now that I'm an LC

852
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: stand he went to LSU. We get it. But like,

853
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: this is a business and for a team that's kind

854
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: of going to be close up against the cap if

855
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: you think, I mean we just said, we don't think

856
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: there's that big of a difference. But except for the money,

857
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,879
Speaker 1: and so Terrence Steele could be a way to get you.

858
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: You're like, wow, we're only paying our starting right tackle

859
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars. That could really help us out

860
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: in the spring. So that's something you have to consider.

861
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: And to be fair, I don't know, I don't know

862
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: if you saw this, but I don't know how much

863
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: it would cost to release or trade Lyle. I don't

864
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: know that stuff. But yeah, I'm sure there would be

865
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: a pretty sizable dead cap hit. Yeah, but all right,

866
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: I would make a big change and go back to

867
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: what you had before where you were le bench. You

868
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: got Connor Williams back in. Connor McGovern used him the

869
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: way you were utilizing him. That was very creative. I

870
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: think that added an extra spice to the offense. So

871
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: do it that way. And I mean I think you

872
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,479
Speaker 1: get more out of both players in that kind of role.

873
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: You get more out of both connors like Connor Williams

874
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: kind of my gover. Yes, But anyways, I would go

875
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: back to that. I love the way you make it

876
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: so simple. Actually think we ought it is. People like

877
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: to over um what's the opposite of simple? Complicate? Complicated?

878
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: See I cannot speak today what my vocabulary there is?

879
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: There is something the fact that, like, you still are

880
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: dealing with human beings, so you do have to deal

881
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: with emotions and you have to deal with you know,

882
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: you don't want to create division, you want to create unities.

883
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: There are a lot of things to factor in when

884
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: you start talking about how you make decisions with a

885
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: group of people hard business. I know it is going

886
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: back to that aspect. I mean, if their hell bents

887
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: on doing it, I guess they could. But like getting

888
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: rid of vile doesn't really do anything for you, Like

889
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: it's a fourteen million dollar cap hit and a one

890
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: point three million dollars savings And even if you did

891
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: it as a June one, you'd just be spreading that

892
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: out over two years, so it wouldn't hit you wow.

893
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: Now yeah, okay, you would save ten million if you

894
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: made them a post June one. Again, I'm not doing

895
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: that deep in the weeks here, but Tyron Smith hasn't

896
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 1: proven to me that he can just completely stay healthy.

897
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: Point and with all the problems you gotta tax here, absolutely,

898
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: and I'm maybe drafting one. And yeah, we're all we're

899
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: all frustrated that the running game has disappeared, but it's

900
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: still a good thing to have three tackles, Like that's

901
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: not a problem you have to solve. And to be

902
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: quite honest with you, I think the Cowboys are now

903
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: at the point where they were years ago when they

904
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: drafted Travis Frederick and they meet the remade their offensive

905
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: line over the next several years. That's where they are

906
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: right now. If there's this offseason, they need to start thinking,

907
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: we need to focus on our offensive line because although

908
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: Tyren still plays well, time's at an age where his

909
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: health is failing. I'm getting the next Zach Martin um

910
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: slash Connor Williams in between them, because that's probably where

911
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna be picking. You're not gonna picking them at fourteen.

912
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be you know, fifty, A guy that

913
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: played guard or tackle, that can play guard and projectiment guard.

914
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: That's the guy that I'm taking in the mid twenties

915
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: or wherever, thirty, wherever you're picking out. Well, sobody's gonna

916
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: be playing soon though. That that Chargers left tackles pretty badass,

917
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: just saying no, you can't and you can't sit there

918
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: and compare him to ld and yeah, I'm not he's nice,

919
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: but the Chargers are not. I'm not saying I'm not

920
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 1: saying ah, I'm not saying they made a mistake. But again,

921
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: this is what we were saying, This is what we

922
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: were talking about a month ago. If for Shawn Slater's

923
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 1: and All Pro for the next decade the way Tyron

924
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 1: Smith has been eight years from now, you might rethink that,

925
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: although right now, no way in hell Mica is as

926
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: dynamic a defensive player as he's shown himself to be

927
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: so far, for the next eight years, I think every

928
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: team would take him over that. Let me ask you this,

929
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: this is this is kind of similar. In two thousand

930
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: and eleven, the Cowboys had a chance to draft J. J. Watt.

931
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,479
Speaker 1: They didn't. They drafted Tyron Smith right. Do you think

932
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: that and this is close, I mean, do you think

933
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 1: that they regretted that or do you think Houston was like, Man,

934
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: I'm glad because that's one of what we're talking about,

935
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: and I think there could be him again. Everybody always

936
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: wants to be right. I this might be a situation

937
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: where there's no wrong. Both they're both and both teams

938
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: might be like, yeah, we did the right And it

939
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: kind of depends on what you need from your team. Right,

940
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: if you want that dominant defensive player, then you want that.

941
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: If you want that and I'm there forever, then that's true.

942
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: You know, it's just what your flavor is. Not trying

943
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: to suggest they're wrong for drafting Mica. It's just interesting.

944
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: And that's what makes the draft so great is he's over,

945
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: he's balling out, he's playing. I mean, he could win

946
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year. I doubt it because that's

947
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: always going to go to like a quarterback. But but

948
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: he's played well playing that well, Yeah, there's there's gonna

949
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: be a tough, tough one there because the receiver for

950
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: the Bengals, Oh, he's getting there. Mac Jones. Mac Jones

951
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: has done a really good job too. Chase screwed Burrow

952
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: over yesterday. I'm mad at him. Drop the drop that

953
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: turned into a pick Hea MARII coopered him. If you

954
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: remember from the twenty nineteen Packers game. Yeah, if a

955
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: Marie catches that ball, I think they win that game.

956
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: That's one of you love you love Burrows more like

957
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: you can't you can't do anything to Burrows like you

958
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: there's no Burrow whatever. Yes, Joe Burrow must be protected

959
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: at all costs, even Jamar Chase, like nobody's nobody's free feeless.

960
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: I'm and the guy that that ran that whole thing.

961
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just gonna cut him in Carolina, like

962
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: hopefully he comes back to las U. Jeez, go y'all

963
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: could use it. Yeah, we couldn't want to give him

964
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: a better quarterback exactly, figure out the quarterback spot before

965
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: you just cutting him off like that. I com mad,

966
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: And I don't even know the guy, but I'm like, okay,

967
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: it's not like you didn't. Oh you couldn't fix Sam Darnel.

968
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: Who could? Hey, good point. All right, we're gonna say

969
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970
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971
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1018
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Speaker 1: question here from Art Van Delay on Twitter. He says,

1019
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: all across the league, when things break down, quarterbacks are

1020
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: making plays with their legs. Dak before injury, averaged one

1021
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: point six first down to a game with his legs.

1022
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: This season, he only has two total. When the offense

1023
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: is struggling to make first downs, should he look to

1024
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: run more? Yeah, that's definitely an element that's been missing

1025
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: from his game, And I think it was. He had

1026
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: like a pretty nice scramble against the Giants, I think,

1027
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: and it scared the crap out of everybody because it

1028
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: was like a similar part of the field that's where

1029
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: he got hurt. It certainly looks like he's got all

1030
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: the same amount of mobility as he did before. And

1031
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: people have asked about the calf injury. Football players are

1032
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: always dealing with something, but like nothing about the way

1033
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: that he's moved in any of these four games since

1034
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: he came back leads me to believe that he's significantly

1035
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: hampered by it. And so yes, the answers yes. And

1036
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's his own reluctance or you know,

1037
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,959
Speaker 1: organizational pressure like hey, you gotta be available, or maybe

1038
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: a combination of all of the above, but it's a

1039
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: useful element of his game that has been lacking. Yeah,

1040
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: I mean, he said everyone said it in the offseason.

1041
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: He's got to be smart about it. He's gonna got

1042
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: to run some he's you know, and this is what

1043
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: we're seeing him being smart about it. That's what that's

1044
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: what that is. He's not running as much. I definitely

1045
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: believe it has something to do with what happened last

1046
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: year that costs the team. That didn't cost him anything

1047
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: money wise, but that costs the team. The team wasn't

1048
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,439
Speaker 1: the same. He knows that he's got to be there

1049
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: for his team. So it's a it's a tough balance.

1050
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: It's not easy to sit there and say that that's

1051
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: a good and to be fair, I mean, he ran

1052
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Speaker 1: for a touchdown against Atlanta. He bowled a guy over.

1053
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: It's not like I don't think he's like afraid to run.

1054
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: I just think that probably weighs heavily on you. I know,

1055
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: he was getting killed on Twitter. It was the first

1056
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: series of the Saints game. He had like an open

1057
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: pocket of grass on the left side and he scrambled

1058
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: and he threw it instead, and everybody was yelling at

1059
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: him that he didn't run. And from where we were sitting,

1060
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, there's like an end tailing the play,

1061
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: and two linebackers sick, like maybe he gets four yards,

1062
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 1: Like maybe he gets five or six best case scenario,

1063
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna take a shot. Is it worth it?

1064
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: I mean, if he gets concussed doing that, is that

1065
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: was that worth it? So yeah, that's a tough spot

1066
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: to be in. Yeah, And if you go back and

1067
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 1: watch that New Orleans game, you'll notice that there were

1068
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: quite a few plays, especially on those third downs, when

1069
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: they were spying deck, like they literally had a lineback

1070
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:37,919
Speaker 1: staying right in the middle of field, waiting to see

1071
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: if he tried to take off. And I mean that

1072
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: speaks to the fact that other teams, I think recognize

1073
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: that in those critical downs he can be a problem

1074
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: with his legs. Now, Dad's not the kind of guy

1075
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: you know you got Lamar Jackson. Even if you got

1076
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 1: somebody spying him, he's gonna make some opportunities out of running.

1077
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: That's not dak. Dad can run when nobody's paying attention,

1078
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: and now he can pick up some yards from it.

1079
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: But you got a guy spying him, Dad's not going

1080
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: to get a lot out of that. That's not a

1081
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: particularly fast or elusive runner. He's a powerful runner, but

1082
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: he's not a particularly fast or elusive runner. So when

1083
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: it all comes down to it, I just don't think

1084
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,919
Speaker 1: he's had as many opportunities. I do think there's sometimes

1085
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: he's been a little hesitant, but I also think there

1086
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 1: are sometimes you're recently when teams are basically saying you're

1087
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: not going to do that to us on specific downs,

1088
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to throw the ball if you're gonna

1089
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: get this first down. I definitely I don't think that's

1090
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: the reason why the offense has been kind of herky

1091
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: jerky recently. I mean, he hasn't really been doing it

1092
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 1: all year and they were rolling. But there's but there's

1093
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: stats out there from his whole career that when he

1094
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: runs like it's like thirty yards, it's not why it's like, no,

1095
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 1: thirty yards are more. They're way better than he doesn't.

1096
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,720
Speaker 1: I mean, if if he runs three times for fifteen yards,

1097
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: two of those probably picked up first downs, and that's

1098
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: the difference between converting thirty percent and converting you know,

1099
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: sixty five percent or whatever. So I don't want to

1100
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: overstate it, but I do think it's it's a useful

1101
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: thing that he just hasn't been doing this. There's been

1102
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback he's not no longer here, and he's not

1103
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 1: he didn't start a lot of games for the Cowboys,

1104
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: So it's not who you think. But he said before, well,

1105
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: why would you run when you can throw it? That

1106
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: doesn't help your quarterback rating. I mean it's gonna help

1107
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: your quarterback. It doesn't help your quarterback rating to get

1108
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 1: twelve yards, whether you can throw it, complete the pass

1109
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 1: and get twelve yards and that helps your rating. I'm

1110
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: just saying, like, well, like people say that kind of stuff,

1111
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't know if that's right. I

1112
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 1: don't think that. I don't. I don't think he's that.

1113
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: We hit all in twenty twenty one. We have EPA too,

1114
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: So there's ways we can I'm sorry, what is that?

1115
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 1: We can talk about it off the air, but you

1116
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: can quantify a quarterbacks rushing ability in twenty twenty one.

1117
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: It should be to me, that should be a part

1118
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: of your right. Absolutely, it should be. It's like, oh,

1119
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's twenty third or whatever. It's like, Okay, who's

1120
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: who's worried about him at night? You know? Defensive coordinators?

1121
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: I mean, every team's about to play, right, so that matters.

1122
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a question for Brian. I'm going

1123
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: to change this question a little bit. He's asking what

1124
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: are the highest positions of need he wants to go

1125
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: to draft. I don't think we talked about draft just

1126
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: in general. Like if you look at this team, we

1127
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,959
Speaker 1: talked a little about lineback, we talked about offensive line.

1128
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: Give me specifically, like, what are the positions where you

1129
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 1: think Dallas really needs some help? Man, they're gonna be sitting.

1130
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 1: I don't like to do that where they're sitting, but

1131
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in the They're gonna be past twenty

1132
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: five probably, Oh god, they'll twenty two to thirty two.

1133
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, all right. I mean, anybody other than

1134
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback should be on the table. Don't you think

1135
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: anybody tight end? Well, what if it was a tight end,

1136
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: a pretty good tight end. Yeah, you think about this,

1137
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: left tackle, So do you think about it? Center guard? Yes,

1138
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: running back. I think you should take a running back

1139
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: every year in the first four rounds. In my opinion,

1140
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: that's just first. I think that's in one of the

1141
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:54,839
Speaker 1: first one of your first four round picks. I would

1142
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: take a running back at least every other year, Okay,

1143
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: I absolute would, because you're because about the likelihood is

1144
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one of those start a fourth round players.

1145
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:03,879
Speaker 1: It turned into a really good running back. But those

1146
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: guys too, they tend they don't tend to have long careers.

1147
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: You give them four or five years and you ready

1148
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: for the next, so you always want to keep recycling

1149
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: them through. I don't think you go high with the

1150
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: pick running back. No. I was thinking lower, honestly, like

1151
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: fifth round, six round. Yeah, but that's fine. I just

1152
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: think every position should be on it. Now let's let's

1153
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: let's get a little bit more pressing. I mean, okay,

1154
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: let's think about and then and then get quiet like well,

1155
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: I thought he was about to say, well, let's think

1156
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: about that one of the draft guy interior interior offensive

1157
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 1: line is something that you could look at a because

1158
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: of contract situations and be because you're not getting elite

1159
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 1: level play out of a few of them. I can

1160
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,760
Speaker 1: see which I also would make it a the value

1161
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 1: that you get at guards center y number twenty three,

1162
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: twenty four, you're talking about one of the better ones there.

1163
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: The problem the cow The Cowboys are too good probably

1164
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: to have a shot at the Iowa Center that everybody's

1165
00:55:55,840 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: gotta about. But that would be fun um linebacker. I think.

1166
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,839
Speaker 1: I know that sounds weird, but we kind of talked

1167
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: about it in the first segment, especially if Mica is

1168
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: gonna kind of freelance, which I want him to do.

1169
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: Jabril Cox is there, but we're not one hundred percent

1170
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: sure what they have. So yeah, I think they need

1171
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: to draft a linebacker in the top one hundred picks

1172
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: next year because I'm I'm not resigning Layton and probably

1173
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: not Keano that's just me. Safety jay Ron Curse is great.

1174
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: He might price himself out of here. Honestly, that's something

1175
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 1: you gotta consider. But I would I would pay for

1176
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,439
Speaker 1: it to keep him. What what what if you don't

1177
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: know the price? I mean, what if it means Yeah,

1178
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna get it. He's gonna get more money he

1179
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: would have gotten last year than he got last year.

1180
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's at a point now where

1181
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: people are like, oh my god, we got to make

1182
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,800
Speaker 1: him the highest paid safety in the league on one production.

1183
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: So I think I think it's gonna be more, and

1184
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: I would be comfortable with paying him more. Let's see

1185
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: what else you got. I would rather even though he's

1186
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: playing linebacker. I would rather first out what I'm gonna

1187
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: do with Randy because I might have to franchise when

1188
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: I got it, I got the tag from ninety four.

1189
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: But he's he's gonna be here on end and could

1190
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 1: be again. What's gonna happen with Michael, What's gonna happen

1191
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: with Randy? What's gonna happen with Tank? Keep getting rushers

1192
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 1: us unrestricted? About how many guys would you say are

1193
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: about to become free agents? I mean any in any

1194
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 1: given year. It's between like eighteen. They got some guys

1195
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: that are actual players that are going to be free

1196
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:20,640
Speaker 1: atives this year. That's the interesting part about it. I

1197
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: mean yeah, I mean yeah, Randy Schultz, Gallop, Connor, Shoot.

1198
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 1: People probably don't want to hear me say this. I'd

1199
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: draft a receiver highly. Just keep that thing, keep a

1200
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: strength to strength. I'm not saying first round, but if

1201
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: you get one, if you find one that you really

1202
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: like in the second, third round, I wouldn't be against.

1203
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Michael Gallup was pick eighty one and he

1204
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: had a decent rookie year, but it took him time

1205
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: to get going. Like you can't wait until it's a

1206
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: drastic need. At least you shouldn't not if you're doing

1207
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: your job the right way. That's also why the offensive

1208
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: line is so critical, I think is because they have

1209
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: waited I think a little too long to now start

1210
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: because now they got to rebuild this thing. Because you

1211
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: know a lot of these guys that I would go

1212
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: first and second round. Honestly, you keep rebuilding that. Yeah,

1213
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: then then your fifth round running back is still effective

1214
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: In a system like this, you can find that I

1215
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: want to say Joseph Randall. But Joseph Randall was a

1216
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: fifth round back and he wasn't bad. Tony Pollard is

1217
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick. That's awesome. You can get good bad,

1218
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: and that's my thing about backs, like you can. Just

1219
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: that's why I always in drafting ones because I just

1220
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: want to keep them in the pipeline. But if you

1221
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: got that line, build it with that exactly right. Yeah,

1222
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: I are center, an offensive lineman and a off ball

1223
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: linebacker are right now and that it'll obviously change, but

1224
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: that's what I think about. And throw safety in there

1225
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 1: just because that's what we do. Everything is stressful. I

1226
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: think I hate that time of the year because it's

1227
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 1: so stressful. It's like it's easy when it's a bad area.

1228
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: This is why I do this job. That's my favorite

1229
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 1: thing to talk about. Yeah, so, well, when you lose

1230
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: guys are decent, you're like God, and now we got

1231
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: to rebuild this whole thing because it's easy. When you're

1232
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: losing guys that suck, it's like, okay, we can. Here's

1233
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: here's why mock drafts can be kind of tricky. People

1234
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: like to get on the mock drafts and they're always

1235
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: done by somebody you've never heard of. I looked at

1236
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: three mock drafts the other day, mainly for different reasons.

1237
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: I was trying to see where certain players are going

1238
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: to be, players that I follow. But they all have

1239
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: the Cowboys taking a corner because they wanted a corner

1240
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: last year and they didn't get one, so they obviously

1241
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 1: want one now. And the narrative on Drown is that

1242
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 1: he ain't that great Anthony Brown. Yeah, I'm sure that's

1243
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,959
Speaker 1: the narrative. Yeah, I mean, he's not He's not that great,

1244
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: but they're not great. The narrative is wrong. Good, The

1245
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: narrative is wrong. There's a narrative that he is a

1246
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: bad cornerback. He's not a bad corner, and he's not great.

1247
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: And in this world, everybody wants to find you know,

1248
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: plug holes, digs, is this and that, Joe. But I mean,

1249
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: and they could take a corner if there's one that's there.

1250
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: I mean, why not you always want to take a corner.

1251
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's this pressing of a

1252
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: need and that draft second and third rounder and hoping

1253
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: that they would play something they haven't yet. Even the

1254
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: really informed draft gurus only have time to keep like

1255
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: a surface level in my They don't know the ins

1256
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: and outs of every roster the way that we do.

1257
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 1: But I would if the right corner felt to me

1258
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: in the first round, I would do it anyway I don't. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: But that goes back to the original point is there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of There are a lot of positions

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Speaker 1: here where if you could upgrade the position, you take it.

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Speaker 1: There are very few rere like I just wouldn't take it.

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Speaker 1: I don't care who the players. I'm just not taking

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Speaker 1: a player at that position, quarterbacks, really it Other than that,

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Speaker 1: you're probably taking a guy if he's a better player

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Speaker 1: than other position. They resigned Michael Gallup and they have

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Speaker 1: that receiver, those three, I doubt you would do that.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna do that if you resign Gallup. If

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Speaker 1: you resign gall If, you're not going to take a

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Speaker 1: receiver in the first round. He just can't help you

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Speaker 1: as much as some other position I would throw. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't draft a running back in the first round. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if any time after that, that's fine, but not in

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Speaker 1: the first round. Not. I think I've done enough of that.

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Speaker 1: Just yeah, and I mean, I mean, Zeek's not going anywhere,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know what's going to happen. Tony does

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Speaker 1: still have one more year, so I mean you can

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Speaker 1: and if there is if there's one position where you

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Speaker 1: can wait until it's critical, it's running back, especially like

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Speaker 1: we said, if the offensive line is good, if the

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks could whatever, draft Alvin Kamara in the third round

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Speaker 1: and have him be Rookie of the year immediately. Perfect,

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Speaker 1: It's exactly right. All right. We appreciate you guys. You

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Speaker 1: want to sweep back Tomorrow, We're gonna take some more questions.

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Speaker 1: You guys hit us up on Twitter. You're welcome. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: we'll get some more calls, some calls tomorrow during the

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Speaker 1: show till then for Nick Even, Dave helm and Amber Garcia.

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