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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. Today is gonna
Speaker 1: be an exciting show. Hopefully. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: things to talk about. We're gonna break down the Buccaneers offense.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do some updates on the injuries. We're gonna
Speaker 1: start off with the Pro Bowl the NFL. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that happened last night. Last night, the NFL announced the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl guys, five of them being the Cowboys, Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith, Sick Martin Zeke, Marcus Lawrence. First impressions, were
Speaker 1: any of these comments or surprise for you guys? Were
Speaker 1: you surprised? Yes, there's a couple of yeses. I'm absolutely
Speaker 1: surprised that Byron Jones made the Pro Bowl in a
Speaker 1: good way and shocked at a way to put it.
Speaker 1: He should be there. He has had a phenomenal season.
Speaker 1: He's been locking guys down all year and it's really
Speaker 1: encouraging that that got noticed because he doesn't have any interceptions.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a really encouraging sign that people
Speaker 1: are paying attention and even if they're not watching the games,
Speaker 1: they're doing their research. At least I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: go back to the entire league. I didn't have enough time,
Speaker 1: but I did go back the entire Cowboys franchise history,
Speaker 1: and no defensive back has ever made the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: without getting a pick. So I mean, that's just what happens.
Speaker 1: But I think Dave said it best. I mean the
Speaker 1: fact that you're you're starting to see stats that aren't
Speaker 1: just about getting interceptions. But I mean he's had a
Speaker 1: couple of opportunities, you know he has, But I mean
Speaker 1: for the most parties, he does his job. And that's
Speaker 1: it's a lot like offensive line play. Like if you're
Speaker 1: not paying close attention, there's not a lot of stats
Speaker 1: that can tell you, but I do. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we said that yesterday. I think it's a it speaks
Speaker 1: to the rise of analytics and football that you know,
Speaker 1: Pro Football focus and there you know there's these companies
Speaker 1: that chart every play and they can give you a
Speaker 1: greade for how you're covering your guy. There's bloggers out
Speaker 1: there that are putting gifts of the All twenty two
Speaker 1: on Twitter for people to look at. And you know,
Speaker 1: even if you're not watching the Cowboys every week, you're
Speaker 1: seeing what he's doing. I think that matters, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: not that played a role in him getting the nod.
Speaker 1: And I think the other thing that consider here is
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are I mean, I'm not the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but the league is doing a third of the votes
Speaker 1: come from players, a third of votes come from coaches,
Speaker 1: third of votes come from fans. I think the more
Speaker 1: that players and coaches are kind of thinking about it
Speaker 1: and thinking about who do we play that was tough,
Speaker 1: and who who gave us a problem and who really
Speaker 1: played well, and they don't they don't necessarily look at
Speaker 1: the numbers necessarily to make their decisions. They're based on
Speaker 1: who do we play that was tough? And I think
Speaker 1: that's probably a big nod to the fact that teams
Speaker 1: that have played the Cowboys have probably come out of
Speaker 1: that game thinking that cornerback's pretty good. And so I
Speaker 1: think I like you said, Dave, I was. I was
Speaker 1: shocked by it, but I was pleasantly shocked because I
Speaker 1: thought that he's played extremely well and I was very
Speaker 1: happy to see that it didn't have to come down
Speaker 1: to just interceptions, because a good cornerback can be a
Speaker 1: good cornerback regardless of whether he gets interceptions. Not be nice,
Speaker 1: It would be nice, and that's one of the knocks
Speaker 1: on this defense is they don't get enough turnovers, so
Speaker 1: it would be really nice if he could get it.
Speaker 1: But I still will say that, especially when you look
Speaker 1: at where he was a year ago this time. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is a great story of what he's turned into
Speaker 1: here this year. You know, I'll be honest. When I
Speaker 1: saw Byron Jones name, I'm like, oh, that's great. It
Speaker 1: wasn't so much as a surprise as the surprise I
Speaker 1: felt personally when I saw Tyrn Smith's name, because I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no denying his talents and what he still is,
Speaker 1: but in our eyes, what he's done this season a
Speaker 1: lot of struggles, and it's just refreshing to see what
Speaker 1: everyone else around the league thinks of him and sees
Speaker 1: sees him. Ask. Yeah, me and Nick and I had
Speaker 1: a healthy back and forth about that last night. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a testament to how good of a player he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has has been well you're well, he's
Speaker 1: still a good player. No, no no, I'm saying, but it's
Speaker 1: also a test yet player. He has been absolutely effortlessly dominant.
Speaker 1: That he has played pretty good this season and that's
Speaker 1: still good enough to be in the Pro Bowl. And
Speaker 1: you know, to your point, I mean, you know, Tron
Speaker 1: Armstead with the Saints has had a great season. I thought,
Speaker 1: I don't think Andrew Whitworth made it, and that surprised me.
Speaker 1: He's been really good or maybe he's the backup or alternate.
Speaker 1: But there aren't a lot of other you know, at
Speaker 1: least in the NFC, Like you're not looking around like
Speaker 1: in there who's tackle in New Orleans to Armstead? Yea um,
Speaker 1: but there there's not a long list of other guys
Speaker 1: you know that that Tyrant beat out. And so I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here like he really hasn't played up to his standard,
Speaker 1: which I still believe, but that that's how good his
Speaker 1: standard is, that he's still a Pro bowler having yeah,
Speaker 1: arguably his worst this is his worst season since he
Speaker 1: started making Pro Bowls, I think, and he's still playing
Speaker 1: like a boss, so good for him. Was there anyone
Speaker 1: that you feel that was kind of left out that
Speaker 1: you think would have been deserving? You know. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are gonna probably say Layton vander
Speaker 1: esh but but Keikley and Wagner are really really good
Speaker 1: and you just can't jump into to that spot. And
Speaker 1: it's just it's gonna be it's gonna be hard to
Speaker 1: do that. I know, back and then back in the day,
Speaker 1: or Lacker you know, had had all the you know,
Speaker 1: or Lacker had the spot every year, you know, and
Speaker 1: then it's just hard to jump in there. So it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be easy. But when you look at snubs
Speaker 1: around the league, way more really good players were getting
Speaker 1: snubbed than the Cowboys. I you know, I there's some
Speaker 1: there's some guys like Kamara and and and then Leonard
Speaker 1: from the Colts and Juju Schuster, yeah, or Smith Schuster.
Speaker 1: But I think when you do that, though, you gotta
Speaker 1: say who's a guy that should be out? Because I
Speaker 1: agree with you, there were some snubs. I'm having a
Speaker 1: hard time figuring out where Kamara gets. Kamara gets in,
Speaker 1: he gets in on the A team, right, he can't
Speaker 1: put him, but you can't put him on the NFC.
Speaker 1: I mean, he think he's ANFC guy. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is one of those years where they might have
Speaker 1: to reconsider is this the best option? Again? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the NBA toys with it every single year.
Speaker 1: Is the NFC versus AFC really the best option for
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls? Because you got running backs like McCaffrey and
Speaker 1: Kamara that and you knew this was gonna be a
Speaker 1: problem because Girly, Barkley and Zeke all needed to be in.
Speaker 1: I heard someone say this, uh, I think it was
Speaker 1: this morning. I thought that's actually a good idea. You know,
Speaker 1: they have some of these specialty positions that they that
Speaker 1: they put in the Pro Bowl. Now, why don't they
Speaker 1: put in kind of that um, you know, they call
Speaker 1: him a joker, but it's kind of that running back
Speaker 1: because people like Kamara and McCaffrey for sure, like that's
Speaker 1: made for guys like that that aren't necessarily your best
Speaker 1: running back, but you look at all their skills all
Speaker 1: the way around. I mean they are they certainly deserve
Speaker 1: a not to be at the Pro Bowl, and fans
Speaker 1: would love to see him at the Pro Bowl and
Speaker 1: the Probo. You're right, the Pro Bowl would be a
Speaker 1: great spot to have those guests out there. Cowboy wise though,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I mean Layton m I bet you.
Speaker 1: And I was told by someone that might kind of
Speaker 1: know that he thinks Jalen and Layton would be alternates
Speaker 1: and he shouldn't know. He should actually know if they
Speaker 1: are or not, and I would imagine that they are.
Speaker 1: The problem is is I don't Carolina and Seattle is
Speaker 1: not going to be in the Super Bowl, so I
Speaker 1: don't know, well, because they're not keeping keeping minds Carolina's
Speaker 1: last sixth straight. Carolina is definitely attles losing the first
Speaker 1: playoff game when they come to EIGHTEENC Stadium, so there's
Speaker 1: no chance we'll see different a different topic, but and
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to be the guy that
Speaker 1: gets riled up about the Pro Bowl because it's stupid
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. But I would like
Speaker 1: to see them figure out a way to They need
Speaker 1: to reconfigure that because Layton vander esch is, you're naming
Speaker 1: pass rushers as linebackers and so that's taking away votes
Speaker 1: from guy. And we saw that. I mean, Sean Lee
Speaker 1: almost got screwed because they classified him as an outside
Speaker 1: linebacker and he was. So you're going up against von
Speaker 1: Miller for outside lineback and I would imagine technically Layton
Speaker 1: is an outside linebacker. So if you list him as
Speaker 1: an outside linebacker, then he's going up against um who's
Speaker 1: he going who at least one edge rusher for the
Speaker 1: NFC I've already forgot. I think Bar, Carrigan, Bar and
Speaker 1: Mac are all line linebacker. I mean, come on, but
Speaker 1: if you listen him as an inside linebacker, then he's
Speaker 1: going up against Wagner and Keekley, who are two of
Speaker 1: the best to play the position. In the last I
Speaker 1: really think they should classify him as defensive lineman. Pass rushers. Yes,
Speaker 1: linebacker pass rushers all go in there together. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I also, but then you're gonna have a problem and
Speaker 1: then DeMarcus Lawrence might because there's some really good pass
Speaker 1: rushers now that now are going to get edged out
Speaker 1: by you know what I'm saying. The way, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have some guys that aren't going to be there. There's
Speaker 1: no great way to do it. But Layton vander esh
Speaker 1: does a very, very different job than Khalil Mack and
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be losing votes. Also, I think it's weird
Speaker 1: that only two inside linebackers make the Pro Bowl team
Speaker 1: when three quarterbacks make it, Like, yeah, it's it seems
Speaker 1: like a kind of skimping on that position a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what they do. And this is I used
Speaker 1: to we used to see this with other guys, like
Speaker 1: I saw with DeMarcus Dove, guys that aren't used to
Speaker 1: really playing linebacker that at the Pro Bowl they're standing
Speaker 1: up as outside linemen, not in the three four, at
Speaker 1: a traditional four to three, and they're stand up linebackers
Speaker 1: and it looks really weird because they're used to usually
Speaker 1: have their hands in the ground because they play in
Speaker 1: a four to three at defensive end. So it's just
Speaker 1: all the whole thing gets a little bit weird. One
Speaker 1: other thought too, I mean, even if Layton Vanderesh did
Speaker 1: get snubbed, Cowboys are not the team that should be
Speaker 1: complaining about that, like the power of the Cowboys. Like
Speaker 1: I looked it up, the only teams that have more
Speaker 1: players in the Pro Bowl than the Cowboys are like
Speaker 1: the thirteen and win teams like the Chiefs and the
Speaker 1: Rams and the Saints Charges have the most. They have seven,
Speaker 1: they're they're eleven and three. Yeah, I don't know nout Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're also but they're also considered one of the
Speaker 1: teams people forget about. True, but I don't have any
Speaker 1: fans the count and then nobody forgets about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: any fans. They don't. But that's also remarkable that they
Speaker 1: have the most number of that make that. Sorry, if
Speaker 1: the if the AFC title game is played in the
Speaker 1: stub Hub Center, that's gonna be bizarre because they'll be
Speaker 1: outnumbered in their building most in a playoff game in
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship, Like if they play the Steelers and
Speaker 1: the stub Hubs, it's it'll be I guarantee, you'll be
Speaker 1: black and gold every there will be there will be
Speaker 1: fans that come out of the woodwork that are now
Speaker 1: back on the train with the Chargers Superchargers point. But
Speaker 1: it's fine because they have them. You know, San Diego,
Speaker 1: I get it, But you know how it is. You
Speaker 1: win and all of a sudden you get all these
Speaker 1: fans that you never saw before there now fans. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do that. I would hop right
Speaker 1: back on the bandwagon, especially if it's only been like
Speaker 1: two years since you were on the bandwagon. You're like,
Speaker 1: I left for a reason, but I'm kind of back.
Speaker 1: This is fun. I'll tell you what. One more guy
Speaker 1: to mention is a Ezekiel Elliott. Like just the fact
Speaker 1: of what everything he's gone through. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: everybody here is excited about what he's done. He's he's
Speaker 1: he's done, you know, just just basically for a whole year,
Speaker 1: just kind of been you know, beaten down by by
Speaker 1: everything that was happening with the NFL and all that,
Speaker 1: and to come back the way he did. He got
Speaker 1: his body in shape, he got he got his mind right.
Speaker 1: He's been a better teammate, he's been a better player,
Speaker 1: a better leader and all around player. He's catching the
Speaker 1: ball and he's doing things. You know, he's saying the
Speaker 1: right things. I mean, I'm I'm really happy for him,
Speaker 1: probably more than anybody. It's been. Yeah, And i mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he was coming back from his suspension around
Speaker 1: this time last year, and it's remarkable where he is now.
Speaker 1: You knows, hasn't been a negative storyline about him since then. Really, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's he has taken possession of this team, and even
Speaker 1: during the season, like you have seen him grow and
Speaker 1: change and kind of take a hold of the team.
Speaker 1: It's been it's been cool to see. And obviously he's
Speaker 1: having a great year as a player too, So I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of him. I'm not his mom or anything.
Speaker 1: That's why it feels like when you see somebody grove
Speaker 1: that way and do so well. Even in his attitude,
Speaker 1: the way he walks around now he says high to people, smiling,
Speaker 1: big deal, and yeah, I like it's amazing. It feels
Speaker 1: weird to be proud of something like I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not related to Zeke, Like you know, we have a
Speaker 1: very loose relationship, you know, like we're not friends. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool to see. I can't. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say that. I was about to say he asked you
Speaker 1: if you wanted something, but I'm not going to say that.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, locker, he asked me if I wanted to
Speaker 1: dip and I was like, no, I'm good, thank you,
Speaker 1: But find offer, that's an odd offer. I should have
Speaker 1: taken it, just for the story. I should have been
Speaker 1: you would have thrown I probably would. That would have
Speaker 1: been a bad. I should add I should have done
Speaker 1: It would have been a bad But you know, even
Speaker 1: when and we talk about this a lot, just being
Speaker 1: in the media, Um, those guys that are willing to
Speaker 1: step up good times and bad times. And one thing
Speaker 1: I've noticed about him this year, every single game when
Speaker 1: lose doesn't matter, there he is the first one to
Speaker 1: walk in that locker room and say what do you
Speaker 1: guys need? And he handles his responsibility and to me,
Speaker 1: that is a responsibility and of being a professional athlete,
Speaker 1: sets the tongue accountable to fans, drew the media. He
Speaker 1: sets the tone too. I mean he Dad gets all
Speaker 1: the credit for saying backs against the wall. Zeke was
Speaker 1: the first guy to say I'm I'm sure. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, was the first guy say, probably stayed about
Speaker 1: ten times before they caught on. He was the first
Speaker 1: guy to take it to us, to take it to
Speaker 1: the outside world. And he was the guy standing there
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis like that sucked. We're not doing that again, right,
Speaker 1: that's piss poor He Yeah, he has become And I
Speaker 1: asked him about that a couple weeks ago, just you know,
Speaker 1: has it been easier to be that guy because of
Speaker 1: you know, Jason Witten's gone and Deaz is gone. He's like,
Speaker 1: I don't think it made it easier. It just I
Speaker 1: didn't have a choice and step up. And he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, who's gonna be that guy when Jason Witten's
Speaker 1: ten feet away? But he's not here, and so somebody
Speaker 1: had to do it, And that's not a great job.
Speaker 1: He could he could walk around and be like God
Speaker 1: jacket with you know, go with you know, he could
Speaker 1: be playing around and be playful zeke. When Whitten was
Speaker 1: the one handling the responsibilities of talking to the media
Speaker 1: every game. Now he's that guy and those young guys
Speaker 1: are looking to him to be the leadership and still
Speaker 1: plenty playful, absolutely, and that's okay, Yeah, that's okay. But
Speaker 1: he has a he has a responsibility too, and he's
Speaker 1: taking that responsibility seriously. This the twelve months since you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: this time last year they were getting ready to play
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. It was do or die. That was his
Speaker 1: first game back, right, Yeah, And I never these twelve
Speaker 1: months have been perfect for him. I never would have
Speaker 1: guessed it would be as smooth as it's been. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of him. And the great thing. You also
Speaker 1: see him do so good on the feeling, yet he's
Speaker 1: not walking around like a diva, like it doesn't get
Speaker 1: to his head. And when he talks to me, one
Speaker 1: of the things I really appreciate from him, it's how
Speaker 1: real he is. He will tell it how it is
Speaker 1: without being disrespectful, just keeping it very professional. But give
Speaker 1: you something that's real and not. I mean, Dak is
Speaker 1: a great speaker and stuff, but sometimes it's kind of coded,
Speaker 1: kind of like what Jason does and has to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has to be. But yeah, you know like last
Speaker 1: week when last weekend, when Zeke talked, he's just very honest.
Speaker 1: You know, that was embarrassing. We shouldn't be playing like that.
Speaker 1: So as someone that you're listening, and whether you're a
Speaker 1: reporter or a fan, you really appreciate when someone is
Speaker 1: just being honest and real. All right, let's take our
Speaker 1: first real quick before I don't I don't want to
Speaker 1: just leave out anyone. I mean, Zach Martin always gets
Speaker 1: kind of left out of stuff the Pro Bowl as well. No,
Speaker 1: no he didn't, he didn't. We just kind of gloss
Speaker 1: over real quick, mel renfro Ye, Emmett Smith Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: the only players in the history of the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: start their career with five straight Pro Bowls. Those guys
Speaker 1: were good. Renfro did it, ten Emmett six, Zach five.
Speaker 1: And I bet he keep honor Haul of Fame, best
Speaker 1: player on this team, best guard in football, and absolutely
Speaker 1: is laying the foundation for a Hall of Fame. And
Speaker 1: like one way, and I didn't even look, hadn't even
Speaker 1: nothing has been hard for him, Like and that's not
Speaker 1: obviously he works hard all but like, yeah, all pro
Speaker 1: from the day he got If you wonder how good
Speaker 1: he is, just watch the Colts game and watch Adam
Speaker 1: Redman and those guys struggle. And you know, here's the
Speaker 1: interesting part about him. You think about it, and I
Speaker 1: can maybe I can maybe remember three or four times
Speaker 1: since he's been with the Cowboys where I've seen him
Speaker 1: get beat. Yeah, think about that. Yeah, of all those games,
Speaker 1: like three or four times I have in my mind,
Speaker 1: like I have a mental image of him getting beat.
Speaker 1: And the ones that's not very often, the ones that
Speaker 1: stand out at least, the ones that come to mind
Speaker 1: are from this year when he's been hobbled right exact
Speaker 1: when he's not at full strength exactly and last week
Speaker 1: and was the first game for him to ever miss
Speaker 1: in his career, which is amazing so much that it
Speaker 1: was in his hometown. Yeah, it's like you said, Nick,
Speaker 1: the likelihit, he'll be around when that happens again. He
Speaker 1: won't eight years from now. He's a Hall of famer.
Speaker 1: He's probably still playing a name baby Treen Spitz is
Speaker 1: a good example. Yeah, he's a really good player. But
Speaker 1: anybody willing to say Tyrant has another six years, he
Speaker 1: hasn't had the same kind of injuries, not yet. But
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Speaker 1: is a second segment of the We're gonna get into
Speaker 1: some of the guys that wear a practice, some of
Speaker 1: those who weren't yesterday. You guys talked a lot about
Speaker 1: David Irving on the show. We heard Jerry Jones basically
Speaker 1: say that he expects him to be back on the
Speaker 1: field pretty soon or this year sometime, who knows. But
Speaker 1: we've also talked about the amazing, incredible talent that he has. Now,
Speaker 1: when you see a guy that hasn't been practicing all
Speaker 1: this time and being away from football all of this time,
Speaker 1: where does that leave that? Do you actually see this
Speaker 1: as being a possibility for him to get back on
Speaker 1: the field despite all of the time that he has missed. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's right now. He's back here
Speaker 1: working with the trainers. From what it sounds like around
Speaker 1: the building, he's not really close to getting there conditioningwise,
Speaker 1: and you expected that. You didn't expect that he would
Speaker 1: be gone from the team and doing all this great
Speaker 1: conditioning work, because when you have a high ankle sprain,
Speaker 1: that's I mean, it's really hard to do. A lot
Speaker 1: aren't even a condition. Yeah, I mean bike, I guess,
Speaker 1: I mean you could do that, but they got like
Speaker 1: the pool thing, you can be underwater and take pressure.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was doing that at all, and
Speaker 1: I think he was. He's getting back into football shape
Speaker 1: right now, and that's gonna be tough for him now.
Speaker 1: Like you said, he's he's a freak, and you know
Speaker 1: he could kind of get back out there. I don't
Speaker 1: think he plays this week. I don't know. Jason talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about him. Yeah, he's still always off.
Speaker 1: And that's that's always the difficulty when when Jerry says
Speaker 1: something like that, you kind of I dialed down my
Speaker 1: optimism somewhere between twenty five and fifty percent from what
Speaker 1: Jerry usually says. So if he I don't want to
Speaker 1: rule it out because he's a freak and they you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna play beyond Week seventeen most likely, and but
Speaker 1: I don't I wouldn't bet on it until the playoffs.
Speaker 1: If that, even in the shape that you think is
Speaker 1: in right now, would you still consider him better this
Speaker 1: Some of the guys are on the defensive line right now.
Speaker 1: No thing about it is I don't think you can.
Speaker 1: I don't think you would replace one of the guy,
Speaker 1: one of those guys that's playing regularly with him. You
Speaker 1: might add him in, and then what you do is
Speaker 1: you'd say, Okay, we'll give you ten snaps and and
Speaker 1: then you you kind of mitigate the fact that he's
Speaker 1: not that he may not be in the best shape,
Speaker 1: and you try to work him back into shape playing
Speaker 1: a couple snaps. What I would all you can do, sorry,
Speaker 1: but I would like to see and then sure the
Speaker 1: Cowboys would love this luxury. He probably won't play this week.
Speaker 1: Go out there, win the game, get your hats, win
Speaker 1: the division, do that, go to New York. Now you
Speaker 1: got admit the decisions to make on how you handle
Speaker 1: certain players, certain injuries. Whatever I would play him, I
Speaker 1: would I would play him in that game. I would say,
Speaker 1: what would you play him? A lot? Though, I would
Speaker 1: play him till you know Joe's tongue just yea hanging
Speaker 1: on the ground, which right now could be for you're
Speaker 1: going the hart u of how you teach somebody out,
Speaker 1: So let me you just throw him in like well,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, I'm just gonna get you in shape
Speaker 1: by running you to death in a game. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean I think you know he's gonna be working all
Speaker 1: this week. I'm with you. Amber loves the tough love strategy.
Speaker 1: No way. Can you imagine poor Diego? This life is God.
Speaker 1: She's the closest thing to Bear Bryant. She doesn't even
Speaker 1: know really about Bear Brown. But that's hardcore. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go read up on the Junction Boys. Yeah, I'm better
Speaker 1: because of that. You know what, they were harder? You
Speaker 1: said they were hard Yeah, yeah, I hated them at
Speaker 1: the time, but then eventually, what I'm mature, that was
Speaker 1: very thankful. What are we talking about here? I mean
Speaker 1: what three years ago was like? How much you know football?
Speaker 1: Not really anyway, go go cover the Cowboys. So pretty
Speaker 1: much what's happened pretty much got hazed, done the job
Speaker 1: pretty much. Yeah, that's good. The beauty of the d
Speaker 1: tackle spot. It kind of reminds me of line the line,
Speaker 1: you know, the Shawn Lee Layton vander esh argument. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you can get him in a spot to play
Speaker 1: ten snaps, could he bring and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: dog Karan read, but could he give you ten snaps
Speaker 1: that are better than what Karan Read's doing because that's
Speaker 1: I don't have his snap county, but it isn't high,
Speaker 1: you know, And so if you can get him in
Speaker 1: that spot, he could do some work with ten snaps.
Speaker 1: I mean, his first snap back after a four game absence,
Speaker 1: he got right in Blake Bortle's face, so that I
Speaker 1: would he could do it. He's gonna, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: setting my expectations real, real low, but if he could
Speaker 1: get to a spot where he could give you ten snaps,
Speaker 1: it's fine with me. But I just I would ease
Speaker 1: him back more because I think tired players tend to
Speaker 1: get hurt, and I wouldn't want to risk him getting
Speaker 1: hurt because he's so tired that his technique is all
Speaker 1: off and he's not as aware and he's just trying
Speaker 1: to survive and then you end up with another injury.
Speaker 1: So for me, if you're gonna try to play him
Speaker 1: that last game, I would ease him back, give him
Speaker 1: a couple of snaps, and just see how it goes,
Speaker 1: See how he feels after the game, because that helps
Speaker 1: you see if you get any swell and get see
Speaker 1: if you know all those kind of things that you
Speaker 1: just kind of want to check, you want to see
Speaker 1: before you just give him a full load, and you
Speaker 1: give him a chance just to kind of start working
Speaker 1: his way back into shape, because that's hard when you're
Speaker 1: sitting and you have an injury that doesn't allow you
Speaker 1: to really really keep your your wind up as much
Speaker 1: as you want. You know, you got a leg injury.
Speaker 1: It's hard to keep your wind the way you want
Speaker 1: to keep yourself in football shape. So you have to
Speaker 1: find a good battle. Yeah, I think i'd give him.
Speaker 1: I'd gi him a little bit of time now, sag Martin,
Speaker 1: he was back at practice. Xaviers to a Philo, Zach
Speaker 1: Martin is not back at practice. I thought he was.
Speaker 1: He's working with the training staff. He's not practice, so
Speaker 1: he's out there, but not with the team. He's like
Speaker 1: over to the side. Yeah, on the side, which that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know where I saw that. In my mind,
Speaker 1: I thought he was like doing well. I guess that
Speaker 1: just doing which to the side. Jason Garrett said, Xaviers
Speaker 1: to a Philo, probably wasn't going to practice, and he
Speaker 1: still might not, but he was out there in uniform,
Speaker 1: so he might still be working with the trainers. We
Speaker 1: don't get to see all a practice, but wearing a shield. Yep,
Speaker 1: he's got a shield, as I would I would assume
Speaker 1: for the rest of his career. He probably I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I know, I'm gonna wear a shield. Just didn't regular
Speaker 1: life all gonna wear shields that in the press box.
Speaker 1: I don't think if they can. I think it's an NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can just do that. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's just the No, it's just the dark ones.
Speaker 1: Like if if you just want to wear a clear visor,
Speaker 1: think you can do whatever you want. It's the mirrored
Speaker 1: ones and the dark the joker one that Odell has,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. But uh yeah, so they're they're
Speaker 1: working their way back, encouraging that. You know, it's Wednesday
Speaker 1: and they're doing stuff. So, um, anybody else that's stood
Speaker 1: out as far as Swaying. Swayin's gonna be gone till
Speaker 1: maybe playoffs, right, Like, yeah, he didn't have a chance
Speaker 1: in the regular season. I wouldn't think cast is off though, correct,
Speaker 1: it's different. I know he's still he's wearing something. I
Speaker 1: think it's different than it was, but he's still wearing something, right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a little ways to go. He doesn't even
Speaker 1: have the cast off. That's that um And you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's it's not hurting you because
Speaker 1: you have four tight ends. But like that almost seems
Speaker 1: like wishful thinking to me, kind of like the Travis
Speaker 1: Frederick deal. But I'm you know, if he can get
Speaker 1: back for a playoff game, I guess that's something. And
Speaker 1: I will say this the way the tight end in
Speaker 1: my opinion, f played these last couple of weeks, I
Speaker 1: feel like they're getting a little bit of production, a
Speaker 1: little bit more production. Yeah, they're tight ends, and they
Speaker 1: probably were getting earlier in the season. So I'm a
Speaker 1: little that doesn't Again, I would love to have Swaying
Speaker 1: back because he just adds another piece. But I think
Speaker 1: right now I'm not as worried about the tight end
Speaker 1: position as I as I once was. But the only
Speaker 1: the only guys that just absolutely were not at practice
Speaker 1: were Zach Swam and Irving, which for mid December, that's
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. I'm sure the injury would be like the
Speaker 1: Rams and have no injury report as they were this
Speaker 1: last game. Seriously, somebody made mention of that going into
Speaker 1: that game, Like nobody on their injury Well they probably
Speaker 1: do now really. Yeah, well that's interesting. He wasn't on
Speaker 1: there because they said that that was an injury that
Speaker 1: was there before the game, right, so we'll see why
Speaker 1: he wasn't on the injury report. CJ. CJ. Goodwin is
Speaker 1: back to practice. He's not off of IR. But much
Speaker 1: like that about him? Well, literally, no, no, no, this
Speaker 1: is important. No, No, I know he played super well
Speaker 1: they I mean he was a gunner for about three
Speaker 1: weeks here ye special team's boss. But I mean in
Speaker 1: the ebb and flow and the craziness of a season, like,
Speaker 1: I had to remind myself who he was. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure I just forgot he was. I forgot that he
Speaker 1: was on a high. Yeah, I just completely forgot. Broke
Speaker 1: his forearm in in wash Hington. They put him on IR.
Speaker 1: They have not brought him back, so they have They've
Speaker 1: already brought one guy back, right, which is what So
Speaker 1: it's a brown. Yes, it's important to designate that they
Speaker 1: haven't brought him back because they are out of IR
Speaker 1: spots if they do that. So I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: let him practice. Do they have on parents? Terrence Travis
Speaker 1: uh No, And with somebody Terrence Williams. I forgot about Terrence.
Speaker 1: Did you tell me somebody on IR? That's even a
Speaker 1: possibility because I don't know they got anybody else on IR.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much CJ. Because Travis and Terrence aren't coming.
Speaker 1: It ain't come they happen. Yeah, Cedric Wilson, Uh, he
Speaker 1: ain't coming back either. He can't. He can't come back.
Speaker 1: Daytone is interesting. Yeah, I guess theoretically you've never even
Speaker 1: seen him. He got hurt, like heading into the I
Speaker 1: see him at practice all about king about it in
Speaker 1: the caft Parker who Tony Parker? He plays for the Bobcats.
Speaker 1: Now not the Bobcats, the Horns. Wow, Parker, can you
Speaker 1: tell I'm not an NBA fan? Anger? What? Oh? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the the offensive lineman, the guy they traded for, who
Speaker 1: was here for like maybe eight or nine hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: before you go, I was the guy they traded for
Speaker 1: while we were in Houston. Oh no, I remember Parker?
Speaker 1: Inger forgot about him. Yeah, that's a good one. Now,
Speaker 1: that's that's a definitely. It's it's fun to go back
Speaker 1: and like really try to remind yourself everything that happens
Speaker 1: over the course of Marcus Martin. Yeah, forgot about him
Speaker 1: to He's gonna be ready kind of shape. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was about to say that he could actually put again.
Speaker 1: Didn't He went to IR before training camp? Right, he
Speaker 1: went to IR before the season started. I thought, which
Speaker 1: if you go to if if you're not on the
Speaker 1: roster when they cut it, you can't come back, which
Speaker 1: is why Cedric will O the mill showers. Yeah. CJ.
Speaker 1: Goodwin is a guy that I know. Special Team's coach
Speaker 1: Keith the Quinn loved what he did. And and you know,
Speaker 1: you get to this point in the season, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have games where you gonna have to punt and it's
Speaker 1: you know, I guess I would say colder whether maybe not,
Speaker 1: because if you get to the playoffs, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: the first game is gonna be at home. A bunch
Speaker 1: of don't unless and the Chicago does something. Chicago's the
Speaker 1: only is that the only team that that's a real
Speaker 1: cold weather city that that would be in the playoffs
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a dome Seattle, but they are. It's
Speaker 1: not a cold weather so yeah, it can it can be.
Speaker 1: They're not It's like Dallas to me, They're not in
Speaker 1: position to play a playoff game. I don't know, Well,
Speaker 1: don't ask amber. It looked it would be cold. The
Speaker 1: temperature the night of the Romo game. I mean that's
Speaker 1: a great exact. Was it in the forties? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I don't think Seattle gets a lot colder than that.
Speaker 1: Don't get a ton of snow, get a little bit.
Speaker 1: You actually are on record of saying that if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys open the roof that in a game this year,
Speaker 1: that it's going to be affecting, like the team that's
Speaker 1: he that's not cold, but the heat there's a very
Speaker 1: big difference. But it wasn't It's not cold, it wasn't hot. No,
Speaker 1: this was like two weeks ago. You're like, it's roof open,
Speaker 1: because that's gonna make it for athletic. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: eighty is it. Go go do some research on temperatures
Speaker 1: and how how people perform in warmer temper telling you
Speaker 1: the temperatures very serious. There is, seriously there is research
Speaker 1: around where performance declines based upon temperature. I'm just telling you,
Speaker 1: the warmery gets the more performance to climb. Where do
Speaker 1: you think what affects the game the most? Seventy two
Speaker 1: is room temperature and eighty degree weather or forty degree
Speaker 1: weather with possible rain and Seattle rain is definitely rain.
Speaker 1: Rain is different. Rain is different because then you got
Speaker 1: to deal with slipperiness. But if you're talking about forties
Speaker 1: versus eighties, forties is much better for athletic performance in eighty.
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Speaker 1: I actually I actually don't do that for game day anymore.
Speaker 1: I did it for game day one year and it did. No,
Speaker 1: we're running out of time. I'm like Ambers trying to
Speaker 1: what I'm trying. You don't care about the Bucks. You
Speaker 1: don't care, No, no, the Bucks exactly. We're getting there.
Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm just saying Nick talks about me, making
Speaker 1: comments about tell me John, but he is the worst.
Speaker 1: He just keeps it going. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: do we need to push the Bucks offense to Lamar
Speaker 1: and do offense and defense in one day. We can
Speaker 1: do that. It's fine. I don't know. You're running the show,
Speaker 1: so feel free. What else did we not hit on? Hey,
Speaker 1: if you want to do that, it's fine. I got
Speaker 1: other questions. Yeah, let's tell you what. Let's do that.
Speaker 1: Let's do offense and defense. So do you have any
Speaker 1: show tomorrow? Exactly right? We got we got to do it.
Speaker 1: We got the we got stuck with the rain. You
Speaker 1: know the rain forecast in Seattle. We went a little
Speaker 1: talk today. I love it all right. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: there's an interesting question. And I've been seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of pants kind of save this. And we heard what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys talked about after the loss, making comments in
Speaker 1: regard to well this is it kind of shows you
Speaker 1: that you're not entitled to things, and you kind of
Speaker 1: you need to win, you need to get it for yourself.
Speaker 1: And I've seen comments saying the Cowboys needed this loss.
Speaker 1: Do you guys agree with this or disagree? And if
Speaker 1: you do agree with this, what would be the mentality
Speaker 1: about around that whole thing of saying maybe they did
Speaker 1: need this kind of loss. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: answer that right now. I really don't because I think
Speaker 1: if they lose the next two games, you're gonna say, like, now,
Speaker 1: they went to Indianapolis, they were you know, there were
Speaker 1: two you know, big for themselves, whatever you want to say,
Speaker 1: and they got beat and they could handle it. If
Speaker 1: they come back and smashed the Bucks, then you can
Speaker 1: say that. But I think it's a little early to
Speaker 1: say that right now. Yeah, very Rowan Like, no, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: riding the fence is okay sometimes if it makes sense. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a nice little line. And if
Speaker 1: that makes them feel better than great, and yeah, especially
Speaker 1: if it helps him bounce back. Like if if that's
Speaker 1: what they want to tell themselves, then I'm all in
Speaker 1: favor of it, But I don't really necessarily buy it
Speaker 1: because we've seen you know, the twenty sixteen team didn't
Speaker 1: need for that to happen. I mean, I know they
Speaker 1: lost to the Giants, but they lost basically two meaningful
Speaker 1: games all year, which flip side is that they went
Speaker 1: one and done in the playoffs. But I just I
Speaker 1: you don't need for that to happen to keep your
Speaker 1: focus and keep doing things the way you're supposed to.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, I give Jason Garrett credit for that
Speaker 1: all the time. It's like he keeps his guys on task,
Speaker 1: which it's unusual to see them get shot I mean
Speaker 1: obviously shut out, but lose by twenty plus points. It
Speaker 1: doesn't happen all that off and under his watch. So
Speaker 1: and I knew he was going to take issue with that,
Speaker 1: which he was like, No, I don't don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: We sucked like we didn't do our jobs. So, like
Speaker 1: I said, if it makes them feel better than fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't buy that they needed it. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I agree with everything you guys are saying. The one
Speaker 1: thing I will out though, is I do think that personally,
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot of marketing going on
Speaker 1: last week, and I think sometimes when you have a
Speaker 1: young team, they start getting some success and they start
Speaker 1: maybe they do get a little bit unfocused and not
Speaker 1: not not to say they didn't practice or worried about
Speaker 1: how they're going to sell their T shirts, but maybe
Speaker 1: they're spending a little more time away from you know, football,
Speaker 1: kind of getting into that kind of stuff, and maybe
Speaker 1: it can kind of help you kind of you're too
Speaker 1: focused on too many things rather than being singularly focused
Speaker 1: on just football, and at this time of the year,
Speaker 1: you want your guys singularly focused on football. So I
Speaker 1: think for a young team, and it remains to be
Speaker 1: seen whether this will be the case here, but it
Speaker 1: could be a situation where it makes them say, you know, guys,
Speaker 1: let's chill out on the hardasts for a minute. Let's
Speaker 1: let's chill out on all the T shirts and the
Speaker 1: eyeglass line and all that. Let's just chill on that
Speaker 1: for a second. Let our agents handle that stuff. Let's
Speaker 1: just worry about football for now. Let's get ourselves rey
Speaker 1: focused and let's do what we gotta do. And if
Speaker 1: and if that was the case and they did get
Speaker 1: a little bit unfocused, and this has a way of
Speaker 1: refocusing them. Great not saying that's necessarily what happened, but
Speaker 1: if it did, then this that could be a good thing,
Speaker 1: and that could be something that could refocus them. Going
Speaker 1: to who do you think is the greatest team of
Speaker 1: all time? Like one of the greatest teams of all time?
Speaker 1: Bears eighty five bucks about them all the time. Eighty
Speaker 1: five Bears. They they were, you know, steamrolling everybody. About
Speaker 1: midway through the season, they came up with the idea
Speaker 1: to do their Super Bowl bull shuffle, and they went
Speaker 1: and they did that. They didn't studio probably on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and they did their and didn't affect the practice time.
Speaker 1: Guy has had parts on that. They lost the next game,
Speaker 1: that sucks, and then they won the rest and they won.
Speaker 1: Everyone now the great one of the greatest teams. And
Speaker 1: again it doesn't say that that's the way it happens
Speaker 1: for every team. I'm just saying that sometimes you start
Speaker 1: getting some success and you start thinking about other things. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: and this has sometimes a loss has a way of
Speaker 1: making you say, maybe let me slide away from that
Speaker 1: stuff for a minute. I'm just not I'm not going
Speaker 1: to apologize for it because it's our job. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we made we made the playoffs scenario video,
Speaker 1: and you know we're having meetings gearing up for what
Speaker 1: a playoffs we do though no exactly, and I'm not
Speaker 1: apologizing for that, but that that gets noticed, you know,
Speaker 1: like when you know, the buzz in this building was
Speaker 1: about the playoffs and I would not be surprised if
Speaker 1: some guys got caught up in that. So if this
Speaker 1: helps them refocus, yeah, like you said, more power to you.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think you need it, right because
Speaker 1: good teams can do that without any definite but sure
Speaker 1: veteran teams can. Again, don't forget that this is a
Speaker 1: young team. Yeah, some of these guys this is their
Speaker 1: first bout with success because they've only been here a
Speaker 1: year or two and they're just this is their first
Speaker 1: experience with having NFL success. So for them it may
Speaker 1: feel very different than a guy who's been ten You've
Speaker 1: been around ten years and knows and you can't accomplish nothing.
Speaker 1: Yet you know, it's it's a perfect setup for him too.
Speaker 1: I mean, they did face a tough team in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: that we've had a lot to play for and they
Speaker 1: were they were surging as well. You know, they're just
Speaker 1: as hot as the Cowboys. And then now they're facing
Speaker 1: a team with Tampa Bay that just keeps flipping a
Speaker 1: coin on which quarterback they want to play, and you know,
Speaker 1: and they're not very good and they got some good players.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about their offense and defense tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is a good team to come
Speaker 1: into at and T Stadium for him and saying, you
Speaker 1: know what, you're way better than this team. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't they're not very good. Let them know early
Speaker 1: and then you know, I just saw a stat that
Speaker 1: Caboys are seven to oz when they're when they're leading
Speaker 1: at halftime. So get the ball, take the ball on
Speaker 1: when you when the Bucks win the toss to take
Speaker 1: the ball, go down there. We're gonna take the ball
Speaker 1: and we're gonna score. Yeah, mad assback, careful, careful with that,
Speaker 1: all right? Well, before I know, I know what the
Speaker 1: everything that you guys said after seeing that kind of loss,
Speaker 1: but before, since the moment the guy stepped off the bus,
Speaker 1: was your perception of how this team was becoming, of
Speaker 1: what this team was becoming, was they kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe they do need to kind of chill out a
Speaker 1: little bit or um, I'm not sure how to word it,
Speaker 1: but when I saw the hard hats, um, I wasn't
Speaker 1: And this was the first time they wore the hard hats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: coming off the bus, like I thought, I was just yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought the Cowboys were gonna work. I said on
Speaker 1: the pregame show that the Cowboys were gonna blow them out.
Speaker 1: So I'm come. You said it before the pregame show,
Speaker 1: during the pregame show and after the pregame, yeah, completely wrong.
Speaker 1: So when I saw the hard hats, though, my thought was, oh,
Speaker 1: this looks bad. I just was like, maybe we were
Speaker 1: a little too this is getting a little too far,
Speaker 1: but not to the point where I thought I would have. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course. And I don't think that did affect the team.
Speaker 1: I just you know, but I was surprised by that
Speaker 1: that performance. I really thought the Cowboys were gonna go
Speaker 1: out there. I thought their defense was gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they say defense travels, and I didn't. I think it
Speaker 1: was back in first. I mean, I saw the hard
Speaker 1: hats and I didn't travel with you guys too Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: I met you guys there and I didn't see so
Speaker 1: I didn't see the hardhats until game day. We were
Speaker 1: walking off the bus and I was like, ohh that's new,
Speaker 1: that's different. And my first reaction was not anything negative,
Speaker 1: was that, Okay, there's there because all we hurt this season,
Speaker 1: all we've seen this season is that DeMarcus is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play ball, and then they go play ball, right,
Speaker 1: and so I just expected that was gonna be more
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, they're they're putting this hot boys thing
Speaker 1: in your face. And they're putting it out there, but
Speaker 1: they're backing it up, so keep doing it. I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's great. They just didn't perform like that. And this
Speaker 1: is really, in my opinion, the first time the season
Speaker 1: when they didn't perform back to you, yes, which yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean it's hid insight and that and like
Speaker 1: I said, if it helps him refocus, that's fine. I
Speaker 1: love it when guys are interesting, So I'm not going
Speaker 1: to kill him for that. I love him. Keep it
Speaker 1: going if you're if you're winning, I agree with you there,
Speaker 1: And I think it's been a great thing. I think
Speaker 1: what DeMarcus has done, he's brought and I always say this,
Speaker 1: he brought guys like Woods and Antoine Woods, Karan read Uh,
Speaker 1: Daniel Ross. These guys have a I don't want to
Speaker 1: say they have a purpose that I mean, of course
Speaker 1: they have a purpose, but but I mean they're on
Speaker 1: the team and they're getting talked about, but they've got
Speaker 1: to be hungry. And those Ross and Woods, they got
Speaker 1: to this point. They've been cut before by other teams,
Speaker 1: by this team. Now they're they're here and this is
Speaker 1: their moment and like they gotta those guys, they gotta
Speaker 1: be the ones making sure you don't leave it for
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they did. I'm saying players in general,
Speaker 1: make sure that you're not leaving early to go when
Speaker 1: you really have more tape to watch. You gotta stay
Speaker 1: focused there what's funny. And so we're all pretty much
Speaker 1: in an agreement about that, but it just depends on
Speaker 1: who you ask. Like old school, hard nosed football guy
Speaker 1: Brian brought us like he probably hates it well weeks
Speaker 1: before the hard hats even showed up, Like I'm talking
Speaker 1: weeks ago, like after three wins. You just hear Brian
Speaker 1: like a lot of people acting a little too happier
Speaker 1: around here and like nothing's been accomplished yet. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: chill out, you old. That's the thing about veterans kill,
Speaker 1: and that's what a veteran ads to a locker room,
Speaker 1: right when you got those old heads in there that
Speaker 1: are like, dude, I've been through this before and I've
Speaker 1: gone on these kind of runs and then we end
Speaker 1: up doing nothing. Yeah, I understand we haven't accomplished anything.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like, because when did the boys really
Speaker 1: come out? Like No, I mean like this since training camp, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: do you feel like this is something last year? They're like,
Speaker 1: we should call we should be like the hot boys.
Speaker 1: We should last year, And all of a sudden, Witten
Speaker 1: came over, like what's going on? No, no, no, not
Speaker 1: like wait till he's gone. Whenever he's gone, We're gonna
Speaker 1: do it at the press conference. They're like hot hot boys.
Speaker 1: The irony is that the guy that came up with
Speaker 1: the name hasn't gotten a jersey the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. It's Demrcut. It's Demarcus's group now anyway,
Speaker 1: it is absolutely his gap. All right, well, guys, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us today. Tomorrow Dave is
Speaker 1: gonna fully dissect double dip five and nine Buccaneers team
Speaker 1: for Derek Eagleton, Nick, what's your last name? Am David Hillman.
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