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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, September first, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number fifteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star, got Dave and Nick with me, and we
Speaker 1: got a special guest with us. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: him in just a second. Just know, during the show today,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to talk about. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster, see if there were
Speaker 1: any notable cuts that these guys need to point out.
Speaker 1: We might even talk a little bit about one Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: who is sitting out there as a free agent right now.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that a little later in the show.
Speaker 1: And of course we're going to start getting you guys
Speaker 1: ready for Cowboys Versus Buccaneers. That happens next Thursday night.
Speaker 1: It opens the NFL season, and that is why our
Speaker 1: special guest is here once again this season. We're very,
Speaker 1: very proud and excited to have Bucky Brooks of NFL
Speaker 1: Network joining us twice a week every week to walk
Speaker 1: us through his thoughts on the opposing matchup and give
Speaker 1: us his scouting expertise. What's going on, Bucky, Hey was
Speaker 1: going on, Gus, how you doing, We're doing, We're doing well,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna start this thing. Obviously the Cowboys have.
Speaker 1: They opened the season against the defending Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: And what most people I wouldn't say, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say most what a large number of people believe maybe
Speaker 1: one of the greatest quarterbacks or the greatest quarterback in
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL and Tom Brady. Check this out.
Speaker 1: I was looking at some of his numbers. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: last year was third in passing yards. He was second
Speaker 1: in attempts. He was tied for second in touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: was third in twenty plus yard passes, He was four
Speaker 1: in forty plus yard passes. Is there anything that was
Speaker 1: that you saw in his game that would suggest he
Speaker 1: was declining even a bit that maybe in some alternate
Speaker 1: universe the Cowboys could exploit. Well, No, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think anytime you're forty four, forty five years old, you're
Speaker 1: having to deal with different issues because you're older, you
Speaker 1: need more rest and recovery, covery to be able to play.
Speaker 1: But he's playing at a high level, and we just
Speaker 1: don't see players at this age play at a high level.
Speaker 1: When I think about the Buccaneers offense and how they
Speaker 1: liked to push the ball down the field under Bruce Arians. Look,
Speaker 1: it's it's a tough matchup because it's not just him,
Speaker 1: it's the pieces around him, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and on.
Speaker 1: You you then have Rob Grenkowsky and Oj Howard in
Speaker 1: the middle. They've done a really good job of surrounding
Speaker 1: him with the right kind of playmakers to allow him
Speaker 1: to play at a high level at his advanced age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's awesome. What have you, hey, Bucky? What have
Speaker 1: you seen from the Cowboys defense? Though, like from their
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, defensive end rotation, from what Dan Quinn is
Speaker 1: trying to do, that's gonna maybe get after him at all. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the one thing is we really get a
Speaker 1: chance to see what Dan Quinn wants to do because
Speaker 1: he was on the sideline due to COVID stuff. But
Speaker 1: based on what I got a chance to see in
Speaker 1: training camp, they'll have some unique packages where they can
Speaker 1: kind of throw some different things at Tom Brady to
Speaker 1: try and get him off his game. I think it
Speaker 1: will be interesting to see what does it look like
Speaker 1: when we finally get a chance to see Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Smith, Layden Van Dersh on the field at the
Speaker 1: same time. How many of these subpackage sets and formations
Speaker 1: where they use where they have guys standing up and
Speaker 1: moving around and trying to disrupt the rhythm of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm gonna say this,
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons might end up being the lynchpin of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys defense based on his versatility. How does day
Speaker 1: Quinn utilize his vast talents in his unique skill set
Speaker 1: to throw off with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers want
Speaker 1: to do? Okay, Buck, I mean, tom Brady's great, He's awesome.
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to be showing any sign of decline.
Speaker 1: But I can't help but think about how heavily the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers leaned on their running game during their run through
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and playoff Lenny was that was
Speaker 1: that an aberration because I don't remember their rushing attack
Speaker 1: being really all that impressive through most of the season.
Speaker 1: Did they just get clicking at the right time. I
Speaker 1: know their offensive line is fantastic. Just what's your opinion
Speaker 1: of that and where they go from here? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think if you follow Tom Brady and you look
Speaker 1: at how they play how he has always played in
Speaker 1: New England, they basically morphed into the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. When you watch the
Speaker 1: Patriots played throughout the year, you see them start out
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will sling it all over the yard, but
Speaker 1: then come November December they kind of undergo a metamorphosis
Speaker 1: and become a power football team. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: basically followed that blueprint and down the stretch, more traditional
Speaker 1: old school heavy sets, running the football a lot of time,
Speaker 1: Brady to throw off play action, which is why he
Speaker 1: was able to take those shots, and then if they
Speaker 1: needed to, they could spread it out. I believe Tampa
Speaker 1: will kind of pick up where they left off. They'll
Speaker 1: try and run it, They'll try and grind it because
Speaker 1: it sets up play action shots for Tom Brady. But
Speaker 1: then at the end, if you're stopping that, they'll open
Speaker 1: it up and they'll let Tom Brady do what he
Speaker 1: always does. I'm gonna ride off that question a little bit, Bucky,
Speaker 1: And I know obviously you know of Geo Bernard he
Speaker 1: was a pickup for them as a free agent. How
Speaker 1: much do you anticipate that he will factor in what
Speaker 1: they want to do from a passing standpoint? Because he's
Speaker 1: a guy that has averaged forty three receptions per season
Speaker 1: with Cincinnati over the eight years that he's been in
Speaker 1: the league. Had forty seven receptions last year, So a
Speaker 1: pretty productive guy coming out of the backfield. That's more
Speaker 1: than the type of production that they were getting out
Speaker 1: of the two backs they had last year. How do
Speaker 1: you think he factors in and adds that extra dimension
Speaker 1: to that Tampa Bay offense it's running because the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay offense is really the old New England Patriots offense
Speaker 1: except Bruce Arians has signed off on it. So Geo
Speaker 1: Bernara will play the James White, Shane Vereene Rex Burkhead
Speaker 1: role in this offense. Many you will see him screens,
Speaker 1: slip out option routes. They'll go empty and put him
Speaker 1: on the backside and let him work one on one
Speaker 1: against linebackers, and then occasionally he may touch it on
Speaker 1: a draw or delay or mister direction run. But he
Speaker 1: gives them that true pass catching back out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: something they didn't have a year ago. When you were
Speaker 1: at training camp, did you see Trayvon Diggs making plays
Speaker 1: or do you see him getting beat up by a
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb because he covered him a lot? And if so,
Speaker 1: do you feel like he's the guy that has to
Speaker 1: match up with Evans or you just keep him on
Speaker 1: his side because there's gonna be a good player over there. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can match up and travel against
Speaker 1: the tam Bay Buccaneers because if you travel him, there's
Speaker 1: still two other guys that can make plays. And Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin is terrific on the backside. He's been a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl player. But i'mnna be honest with the guy who
Speaker 1: has the toughest matchup is the nickelback whoever has to
Speaker 1: check Antonio Brown is in for a long day. Because
Speaker 1: the Antonio Brown that I'm hearing When I talk to
Speaker 1: people down there, they're talking about, Oh, this is the
Speaker 1: old AB, the AB that used to get loose and
Speaker 1: used to dominate the league. The quickness is back. He
Speaker 1: had an offseason surgery to kind a clean up some
Speaker 1: issues he was having with his lord byty his legs.
Speaker 1: If that AB shows up, good night. Trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how you're gonna cover to Tampa Bay Buck and
Speaker 1: using space because each of their wire receivers can win
Speaker 1: their individual matchup. Cowboys got their own AB. They'll throw
Speaker 1: on him. Yeah. I just asked you about the offensive line, Buck,
Speaker 1: But you know, if I'm looking for a weak point,
Speaker 1: it's certainly not the quarterback. We already talked about the
Speaker 1: running backs. It's certainly none of their pass catching options.
Speaker 1: Donovan Smith and Tristan Worth's are obviously great. But do
Speaker 1: they have a weak point on their offensive line? And
Speaker 1: is there a guy on the Cowboys front that you
Speaker 1: think can exploit it? Because I don't think I love
Speaker 1: the matchups at offensive tackle. No. I mean I think
Speaker 1: the same blueplant and recipe to deal with Tom Brady exists.
Speaker 1: You have to pressure Tom Brady up the middle. It
Speaker 1: has to come up the gut because Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: a mobile and so when you bring pressure up the gut,
Speaker 1: what it does is it forces him to get off
Speaker 1: his spot. It makes him uncomfortable, and he tends to
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball sooner than he wants to
Speaker 1: because he doesn't want to get hit. So it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily an individual matchup. It's more dan Quinn bringing pressure
Speaker 1: through the a gaps, finding a way to create overloads,
Speaker 1: and one on one matchups where you can attack Ali
Speaker 1: Marpett and Alex Kappa and see if those guys are
Speaker 1: up to the task. You have to bring the pressure
Speaker 1: up the middle where Tom Brady can see it and
Speaker 1: also feel it to disrupt his rhythm as a passer.
Speaker 1: All right, one more question for you here, Bucky. You
Speaker 1: are out there training camp. You got a chance to
Speaker 1: watch the Cowboys based upon all you've seen that they've
Speaker 1: done in the off season and the development of the
Speaker 1: players that were here last year that are still here.
Speaker 1: Outside of Parsons because you already mentioned him, what area,
Speaker 1: player specific thing that they're doing gives you any reason
Speaker 1: to believe that this defense will be better than they
Speaker 1: were last year. Number one thing is they're connected. Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn is holding those guys to a standard, and you
Speaker 1: can tell when you watch them practice. There's certain things
Speaker 1: are being communicated in meetings and they continue to be
Speaker 1: communicated on the practice field. I see more effort, I
Speaker 1: see better execution because the defense appears to be simpler,
Speaker 1: and I see guys playing fast. Also, because it's really
Speaker 1: a mix of zone and man. I saw a ton
Speaker 1: of Cowboys getting their hands on the ball for a
Speaker 1: very young secondary. It's really important that you're very clear
Speaker 1: in your communication. I think dan Quinn has clearly communicated
Speaker 1: the expectations. He's pared down the scheme to allow those
Speaker 1: guys to play fast, and with the assistance of Joe
Speaker 1: Wick Jr. I think everyone is a little more detailed
Speaker 1: and that should produce better results. All right, buck Well,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Man. We'll be back with you on Friday
Speaker 1: so that we can talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense versus the Bucks defense and get your predictions
Speaker 1: of what you think is going to happen opening night
Speaker 1: night next Thursday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take an early break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into the fifty three man roster and talk
Speaker 1: to you guys about what we saw, what we think
Speaker 1: about the cuts that were made, and what we think
Speaker 1: might happen today as a result of some of those moves.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Second segment of The Break live from the
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We just finished our
Speaker 1: segment segment with Bucky Brooks. We're gonna get back to
Speaker 1: a little more Cowboys Buccaneers talk a little later in
Speaker 1: the show, but now I want to talk about the cuts.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was cut day in the NFL. Not a popular day.
Speaker 1: It's a tough day for a lot of players. It
Speaker 1: for a lot of players is it signifies the end
Speaker 1: of their career and so it's not a positive day,
Speaker 1: but something that teams have to do obviously to get
Speaker 1: down to that fifty three man roster. My first question
Speaker 1: for you guys were. Was there anything that was notable
Speaker 1: or even surprising as you saw the names that were
Speaker 1: on the list of cuts surprising? No, notable, Yes, just
Speaker 1: in the sense that it's the most disjointed and unfinalized
Speaker 1: roster I've ever seen them put together, Just in the
Speaker 1: sense of everything that is still to happen, which is probably, yeah,
Speaker 1: a solid fifteen percent of the roster. There's six injury
Speaker 1: guys that they've got to find something to do with,
Speaker 1: five COVID guys that have to come off at some point,
Speaker 1: and a handful of other things they got to do. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really just the jumping off point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the league has changed to the point where it's
Speaker 1: just a two day thing now. I mean it's really
Speaker 1: more than that. It's three or four days because of
Speaker 1: what's happened with the COVID list. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I'm not saying they're using the list, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, but because of the way it's stands right now,
Speaker 1: they'll probably go up until Wednesday or Thursday before we
Speaker 1: really get an idea what this roster is gonna look like.
Speaker 1: That there are guys not on the roster that that
Speaker 1: are going to go in your first two rounds of
Speaker 1: your NFL fantasy draft. I mean that that's how good
Speaker 1: that they are. They're not even on the roster right now.
Speaker 1: And then then there's guys that are on the roster
Speaker 1: that will probably be on the practice squad. So it's
Speaker 1: just it's just kind of a tricky thing to figure
Speaker 1: it out. But like surprise, like yeah, I mean you'd
Speaker 1: like to. I mean you'll see a deep snapper on
Speaker 1: the tammy that they're gonna snap the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: this year and you know, Matt Farneyack Kamara can't imagine
Speaker 1: them being on the fifty three they are as of
Speaker 1: right now, and maybe they are. I don't. I don't know,
Speaker 1: they might be, but it's yeah, there's there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that's gonna so I mean, just to
Speaker 1: break it down a little more clearly, um Sean mcun's
Speaker 1: gonna go to injured reserve. Josh Ball is gonna go
Speaker 1: to injured reserve. Francis Bernard is gonna go to injured serve.
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore. I think they're six in total, Elite Turner
Speaker 1: and Calvin Joseph probably as well. So that's six guys
Speaker 1: that are going to come off, and there's about five
Speaker 1: COVID guys, so that makes sense. But then they're going
Speaker 1: to come on that four will come on probably this weekend.
Speaker 1: Noah Brown just went on that was that they just
Speaker 1: kind of snuck that in there on roster day, So
Speaker 1: no will probably be gone longer than everybody else. Everybody
Speaker 1: else should be back by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: Here's the surprise that I saw in the list, because
Speaker 1: there's there's used to just be here are the cuts
Speaker 1: and that's yeah. Now there's twenty six lists, not a
Speaker 1: different list that you go on it. The one that
Speaker 1: that kind of surprised me was just, uh, johncy Golston
Speaker 1: passed his you know, physical and he's on the team,
Speaker 1: just like that. He's here. He's back, yeah, which I
Speaker 1: leaped into this. I thought maybe they could put him off,
Speaker 1: take him off PUP and put him right on IR.
Speaker 1: Apparently they can't do that. Yeah, so he's just he's there.
Speaker 1: They thought, you know, they can bring um. They thought
Speaker 1: he'd be ready faster than the six weeks he would
Speaker 1: be gone if they put him on PUP. But I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and guess we can write him
Speaker 1: onto the game day and guaranteed for like a month.
Speaker 1: But he's on the team. But I'm curious. I think
Speaker 1: there's seven d ns on the roster right now, and
Speaker 1: so I'm I got my eye on Bradley and I
Speaker 1: I got my eye on a Zoo Kamara. Which it's
Speaker 1: a really cool story for him that he made the
Speaker 1: initial fifty three, but I won't be surprised if that's
Speaker 1: not the case by the end of the week. Like
Speaker 1: just a lot of moving parts. Yeah, I was telling Nick,
Speaker 1: you were mentioned that you were a little surprised about
Speaker 1: Kamara as well, But my thought was, you know, he
Speaker 1: has his body is to me, seems a little different
Speaker 1: than a typical defensive end, looks a little leaner. You
Speaker 1: could maybe see him running down on special teams. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's a role for him there and and maybe they
Speaker 1: needed that with some of the guys that maybe they
Speaker 1: won't have that they thought they were gonna have running down.
Speaker 1: So who knows how they're gonna use him and how
Speaker 1: they evaluate his special teams play and how that may
Speaker 1: have may have contributed to him being on the roster
Speaker 1: right now as opposed to being off the roster right Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: that being said, Um what what guys I guess that
Speaker 1: are not on the roster right now, are you expecting
Speaker 1: will be back come tomorrow or whatever? Whenever they make
Speaker 1: those final moves for practice, like the release, get like
Speaker 1: a Darians like and Darian Thompson. Those kind of guys
Speaker 1: could see Thompson, I could see Hamilton maybe justin Hamilton, well, Jake,
Speaker 1: first one problem they need along a long snapp Yeah right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wonder how that is for a veteran guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, to just be released, you know, like it
Speaker 1: probably doesn't sit well. Nobody wants that, even if they're
Speaker 1: coming back, even if it's a technicality, just depends on
Speaker 1: how it's approached, like if if if there's a sit
Speaker 1: down and it's like, okay, man, we're gonna cut you,
Speaker 1: but this is just procedural back at the end of
Speaker 1: the week. Yeah this, you know, I think it's probably
Speaker 1: like all right, I'm fine, right, I'm fine here, I'm good.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, if you're if you're the sensitive type,
Speaker 1: it might yeah, it might not feel good. I think
Speaker 1: for a long snapper, maybe it feels better than if
Speaker 1: you're like Dari and Thompson. You know, it's like, well
Speaker 1: they would they didn't cut Jeron Curse. They could have
Speaker 1: done that just as easily, but they think maybe they
Speaker 1: think the least of me, where with a long snapper
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we need you, we know we
Speaker 1: need you, like there's not other yea, or the flip
Speaker 1: side of that, you could just be happy that they're
Speaker 1: going to bring me back, so I'm going to have
Speaker 1: a job like that. That part of it probably is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good now. You're probably sitting on pins and needles
Speaker 1: a little bit until they actually do it, because you're like,
Speaker 1: you just never know in the NFL what will happen.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, I think you're probably a little probably
Speaker 1: a little bit grateful that you're at least going to
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to come back. That all being said,
Speaker 1: let's talk about one player in particular that was cut,
Speaker 1: That is, that was not cut from the Cowboys roster.
Speaker 1: But my question for you guys is shit that Cowboys
Speaker 1: maybe consider taking a look at him? One Cam Newton
Speaker 1: cut from New England. We have talked probably more than
Speaker 1: any other not more than any other position, but it's
Speaker 1: been one of the major positions we've talked about particularly
Speaker 1: to the backup quarterback. Um, do you think the cowboy
Speaker 1: should go out and take a look at Cam Newton? Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: take a look for sure, should definitely take a look
Speaker 1: at his Should they sign him? They quiet? Then depends
Speaker 1: on the look because to me, to me, it depends
Speaker 1: And I we answered, both of us answered this mail
Speaker 1: back question, and I think you got completely different answers.
Speaker 1: So you're you're gonna that doesn't shock me, Well, no,
Speaker 1: but but you're gonna get different aspects of it. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at, like what the question that I'm asking
Speaker 1: is is are you ready to be a backup? Because
Speaker 1: it looks like he tweeted some things about QB one
Speaker 1: and all this stuff which didn't really you know, I
Speaker 1: guess Belichick didn't like that on his Twitter or whatever,
Speaker 1: because you know, it doesn't doesn't matter what they think.
Speaker 1: He's not a QB one. There is he going to
Speaker 1: be a QB one? Does he still feel like he
Speaker 1: can be? And is this a good role? Because to
Speaker 1: be in the backup is not just being ready, it's
Speaker 1: also being supportive of the guy in front of you.
Speaker 1: And you know, they always have to decide is it's
Speaker 1: a good situation for him to be in. Is this
Speaker 1: good for the whole team? If Dack feels an interception,
Speaker 1: are we we're looking at we're looking at goal line
Speaker 1: packages for him to I don't know. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying I don't know if it's a great fit
Speaker 1: and for And we always frame this in terms of
Speaker 1: like should the Cowboys do it? Does Cam Newton want
Speaker 1: to do that? Like that? Cam Newton is a league MVP.
Speaker 1: He's been a star in this league for a decade.
Speaker 1: His whole thing is superman. He was the man. He's
Speaker 1: arguably the greatest college quarterback I've ever seen. Uh when
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Texas whatever. Um He's he's been the man
Speaker 1: since he was like eighteen years old, is right? Is
Speaker 1: he ready to just be like, yeah, I'll stand on
Speaker 1: the sideline and clap for Dak and help him game plan.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. He might he might say
Speaker 1: retirements better than that, or you know whatever, whatever situation
Speaker 1: might exist in the league where he could conceivably be
Speaker 1: a starter again. And it's not here unless Dak gets hurt.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if he's ready for that. UM.
Speaker 1: On my from my standpoint, as he vaccinated. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: if people, you know, it's none of my own business
Speaker 1: to ask or whatever, it's the cowboys business to ask.
Speaker 1: It's the cowboys business to say. Is it a good
Speaker 1: idea to be bringing you around the most valuable asset
Speaker 1: in our franchise and having you sit in meetings room
Speaker 1: with some meeting rooms with him all day every day?
Speaker 1: I think that is paramount. Do you think that's going
Speaker 1: to affect his ability to get a job anywhere? Yes,
Speaker 1: and it'll be you know, yeah, I mean teams are
Speaker 1: gonna well I should take that back because urban Meyer
Speaker 1: had no problem saying that it was. Well, he's recinded
Speaker 1: it that yes, more yeah, quickly reccandid that rookie mistakes.
Speaker 1: But privately, away from microphones, everybody in the league is
Speaker 1: going to check the vaccination status of everybody that they're
Speaker 1: going to bring in. And again, like, the fun part
Speaker 1: about the way that the NFL has designed all of
Speaker 1: this is we don't even have to get into the debate,
Speaker 1: the stupid debate of whether or not it's a good
Speaker 1: idea to take the vaccine and blah blah blah. The
Speaker 1: rules are what they are, regardless of what you think
Speaker 1: of it, and the league has made it drastically harder
Speaker 1: for unvaccinated players the waiting time to get into a team.
Speaker 1: You know, we saw that with Malie Cooker, the protocol
Speaker 1: that he had to go through. He wasn't available to
Speaker 1: do stuff for a week after he signed. The frequency
Speaker 1: of testing. Um, what you're like, the traveling you're allowed
Speaker 1: to do. This whole snaffoo with New England started because
Speaker 1: he went to Atlanta to get his ankle checked out.
Speaker 1: But there's way more involved in that if you're not
Speaker 1: vaccinated in terms of how hard it is to do that.
Speaker 1: So life is just a giant pain in the ass
Speaker 1: if you're not vaccinated. And then you get into the
Speaker 1: fact of and I know the vaccinated people can pick
Speaker 1: it up and spread it as well, but it's way harder,
Speaker 1: like all of the numbers suggest that. So on top
Speaker 1: of it being a pain in the end, by the way,
Speaker 1: you also don't end up in hospitals and most instances,
Speaker 1: sure that's also good thing. And so do you do
Speaker 1: you want to invite all of that into the quarterback room.
Speaker 1: The extra pain in the butt, the thought that Cam
Speaker 1: could be gone for ten days at a moment's notice,
Speaker 1: and that it's substantially easier based on everything we know
Speaker 1: for him to potentially contract it and maybe spread it
Speaker 1: to your best player. Uh no, thanks, sorry, Yeah, if
Speaker 1: he if he's vaccinated, if he if he has gotten
Speaker 1: it since camp started, or if he decides to absolutely
Speaker 1: if he's ready to come in and be a backup.
Speaker 1: But that's that's line one for me quote Jason Garrett.
Speaker 1: To be honestly, I think it's kind of a moot
Speaker 1: point for the Cowboys just because I will be shocked
Speaker 1: if we get four or five weeks into the season
Speaker 1: and Cam Newton isn't a isn't on a team and
Speaker 1: looking at the possibility of being a starter. And the
Speaker 1: reason why I say that is because, as we all know,
Speaker 1: in the game of football, they're going to be injuries.
Speaker 1: We know that that is a certainty some team is
Speaker 1: going to lose their starting quarterback here in the first
Speaker 1: few weeks of the season. When that happens. You look
Speaker 1: around right now and the quarterbacks that are out there
Speaker 1: on the on the free agent list, he's one of
Speaker 1: the few that actually have the credentials that he as
Speaker 1: So to me, I don't see a scenario where he
Speaker 1: would where he would subject himself to being the backup
Speaker 1: yet because they're still going to be opportunities for him
Speaker 1: as a starter. I love when this happens. We can
Speaker 1: actually we can solve this live just like that. Tom
Speaker 1: Pella Sero has is one of the reporters that has
Speaker 1: access to the waiver claims as they happen. Dallas has claimed,
Speaker 1: Will Greer, here we go the third round. You mentioned
Speaker 1: that third round to day you did? You came off
Speaker 1: as I mentioned it, I meant heard of the gay.
Speaker 1: Well maybe it was you. I could used all the time.
Speaker 1: I look kind of like, go ahead where I don't
Speaker 1: remember him at all. I love, I love connecting these dots.
Speaker 1: He was the West Virginia quarterbacks, West West Virginia by
Speaker 1: way of Florida. Oh, he came to Florida where I
Speaker 1: kicked our butts, where his offensive coordinator was who for
Speaker 1: a year, Doug Nesmyer. So you love to see the
Speaker 1: way that these dots get connected. He was a top
Speaker 1: one hundred pick for the Panthers from what I heard,
Speaker 1: did have a great camp. Obviously, he got waived in
Speaker 1: favor of their backup whose name escapes me right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sitting here telling you he lit the
Speaker 1: world on fire, or he wouldn't have been available. But
Speaker 1: but I like him as a development guy. He had
Speaker 1: he had top one hundred talent. This will be his
Speaker 1: third year in the league. He's got experience with nuss Meyer,
Speaker 1: which I bet plays a factor into this. So yeah,
Speaker 1: now Cam Newton coming here seems even less likely than
Speaker 1: it already did. Ye, But I don't think that was
Speaker 1: going to happen anyway. Yeah, I look at that more
Speaker 1: as that sign signing to me or that claim to
Speaker 1: me is really more about replacing the role that maybe
Speaker 1: de Nucci had where he may be. Now, now you
Speaker 1: don't bring back a Denucci to your practice squad. He
Speaker 1: becomes the guy that's on your practice squad that you
Speaker 1: try to develop and you see where it goes, and
Speaker 1: maybe even in a few years you see if he's
Speaker 1: actually developed into a player. Well, but when you claim
Speaker 1: a guy off waivers, he's on your roster, he doesn't
Speaker 1: go to well, but I'm saying they could still move
Speaker 1: him around. Like my assumption is my assumption is, well,
Speaker 1: I'll put it like this. I would be again, I
Speaker 1: would be shocked if they roll in two week two
Speaker 1: three four, with three quarterbacks on the active roster, would
Speaker 1: you guys not be with Will Greer being here? Now?
Speaker 1: I think that seems like a certainty, because if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, if you claim a guy, you have to
Speaker 1: keep him for three weeks, right, three weeks so they
Speaker 1: can't do anything with him, and I don't think he's
Speaker 1: not ready to know and then yeah, yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna really do anything for you, That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like long time. Maybe he has to stay there for
Speaker 1: three weeks. I would be shocked they held him there
Speaker 1: all season, right, doesn't that seem a little bit? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect three quarterbacks on the roster all year,
Speaker 1: especially if you get to a situation where you need it.
Speaker 1: But as it stands right now, I mean, they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of things working for them that they can
Speaker 1: they can have three quarterbacks on the roster right now.
Speaker 1: I would bet they keep I don't I think they
Speaker 1: keep three for at least the first half of the
Speaker 1: season or so, Like, you're not even gonna know what
Speaker 1: you have in Greer for a month or more. He
Speaker 1: just got here. He's gonna need and he's not gonna
Speaker 1: get a ton of practice time. Anyway, you have to
Speaker 1: keep him because of the waiver claim, and I assume
Speaker 1: they claimed him because they thought they wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to get him otherwise. So I just I would imagine
Speaker 1: they'll be going with three quarterbacks for a while at least.
Speaker 1: I'll be interesting. It'll be interesting to see once this
Speaker 1: all shakes out. You're right, it was like, this is
Speaker 1: not what typically happens on cut day. You kind of
Speaker 1: know that what happened is what's going to happen other
Speaker 1: than obviously filling in your practice squad. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts still. Yeah, well, and anything can happen.
Speaker 1: But it kind of seems like if they're going to
Speaker 1: do that, then that's probably it because for now, because
Speaker 1: you sign any of these other you know, we have
Speaker 1: a list of what ten twelve veteran guys that were cut.
Speaker 1: Sez he was he was waived, which means he you know,
Speaker 1: they claimed him off waivers, but there was veteran quarterbacks
Speaker 1: probably ten, ten or twelve that were released. And if
Speaker 1: you're going to bring one of those guys in and Greer,
Speaker 1: now you've got two guys that don't know the offense
Speaker 1: and all that, so it doesn't seem likely now that
Speaker 1: they're going to do that. Seems like Cooper Russia the backup,
Speaker 1: And Jerry actually mentioned that on his call yesterday with
Speaker 1: the Fan He said, you know, the way you have
Speaker 1: to think about it is Cooper Rush has been here
Speaker 1: for a while. He knows this offense. So if you're
Speaker 1: replacing him, you're kind of setting yourself back, at least
Speaker 1: in the beginning with regards to having somebody really ready
Speaker 1: to step in and take over. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's probably the general theme at this point is that
Speaker 1: what you have a quarterback is probably what you're gonna
Speaker 1: have for the foreseeable future. If they were gonna if
Speaker 1: they were going to replace Cooper Rush as the backup,
Speaker 1: it would be with a Cam Newton type of player.
Speaker 1: And even then you probably want to give Cam a
Speaker 1: few weeks to get up to speed on a completely
Speaker 1: new offense. But and so I think this only emphasizes that,
Speaker 1: you know, when Cooper Rush is the backup at least
Speaker 1: for I think probably the first half of the season realistically,
Speaker 1: and they have to make a roster move and it
Speaker 1: hasn't been announced yet. I mean that claim has gone
Speaker 1: through we're kind of talking with our you know, PR
Speaker 1: department right now to figure out what the what the
Speaker 1: corresponding move is, and they got to do something, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have turned it in to the league.
Speaker 1: We just were not aware of what they've done just yet.
Speaker 1: So that's you know, it could be one of those
Speaker 1: guys getting released. It could be you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a lot of things, you know,
Speaker 1: that they can do with this roster, and so I
Speaker 1: would think three o'clock today, we're gonna have a much
Speaker 1: better idea of what this roster will look like. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit more about Tampa Bay's
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Speaker 1: Cowboys that happens this third next Thursday night kick off
Speaker 1: the NFL season. On paper, you look at this Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay offense, you look at this Dallas defense, and it
Speaker 1: seems like it's gonna be a very very daunting task
Speaker 1: based upon what you saw from both units last season.
Speaker 1: That all being said, based and I asked Bucky this
Speaker 1: question earlier, I'm interested to see what you guys have
Speaker 1: to say about it based on what Dallas has done
Speaker 1: this offseason. How convinced are you that they will be
Speaker 1: better this year? I'm not convinced. I'm just not. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know why we would we would be convinced.
Speaker 1: I mean really, because convinced is a strong word, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm just not. I've seen I've seen this
Speaker 1: play out too many times. I've seen the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: that's like, oh man, this guy's good, this guy's got it.
Speaker 1: He figures it out, and you know, I mean, it
Speaker 1: looked better than what we've seen but you know, like
Speaker 1: Bucky said, from what we saw in the and then
Speaker 1: you know training camp and the guys getting their hands
Speaker 1: on the ball and all that stuff. Did they did
Speaker 1: they face a numb umber one quarterback at all? I
Speaker 1: mean a few days of DAK and then that's it.
Speaker 1: They didn't face one in the preseason. They didn't face
Speaker 1: any starting quarterback other than Trevor Lawrence. And that didn't
Speaker 1: look good. But they had they didn't have the starters
Speaker 1: in there, but they the starters have not faced they
Speaker 1: number one quarterback, and now they're going to face the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the history of the of the league.
Speaker 1: So now I'm not convinced of anything. I am convinced
Speaker 1: that they'll be better in the sense that it's almost
Speaker 1: impossible for them to be worse. I mean, how many
Speaker 1: times in all of your years watching football have you
Speaker 1: seen a pro defense surrender two separate three hundred yard
Speaker 1: rushing performances, which they did. Um I went to I
Speaker 1: didn't say, I didn't say, it's never happened. That was
Speaker 1: pretty bad, And yeah, she was pretty bad. It was
Speaker 1: Was it better? No? One? That's the thing is probably
Speaker 1: like a little better, but not like they were they
Speaker 1: still bad, Yeah, but they that draft, like, I don't
Speaker 1: think they got a player even close to what they
Speaker 1: got right this. It would just it would be statistically
Speaker 1: hard to be worse. And but that's that's as much
Speaker 1: as I'm willing to say. You know, I'm excited about
Speaker 1: Micah some of the you know, I noticed this yesterday.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they're good. Does not mean they're good. But
Speaker 1: they didn't cut any of their free agent signings. You know,
Speaker 1: there was no Haha, Clinton Dicks, there was no Jasper Brinkley.
Speaker 1: The guys that they've brought in they think can have
Speaker 1: a role, Brent Urban, Carlos Watkins, Jay Ron. I know,
Speaker 1: but Poe and Whorley made the team last year. So
Speaker 1: does not mean that they're good, right right, right point
Speaker 1: does not, But it's at least a step in the
Speaker 1: right direction that they didn't have to cut any of
Speaker 1: the not yet. I think that could still happen. It
Speaker 1: could happen. No, all eleven made the team with Charney.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm still surprised Semifohoko made the team. I am.
Speaker 1: I just I didn't see make a play or anything.
Speaker 1: I actually looked this up. We know, we know that
Speaker 1: they like to protect their draft. But I was actually stunned.
Speaker 1: I'm I was stunned when I looked it up, how
Speaker 1: much the length that they really go to to protect
Speaker 1: their draft. Will took over in twenty fourteen Will McClay. Sorry,
Speaker 1: if you listen to this show, you know who Will is, Well,
Speaker 1: we just signed We just say Bill, oh boy, okay, sorry, um,
Speaker 1: he took over eight seconds ago. They've made seventy picks
Speaker 1: with Will running the draft process, and all but ten
Speaker 1: have made the team as rookies. And of the ten
Speaker 1: that they have cut in that time span, seven of
Speaker 1: the ten or seventh round picks. Okay, so three the
Speaker 1: other three sixth round pick Rico Gathers, who they gave
Speaker 1: a lot of money to to keep him around. That's right,
Speaker 1: So that's that's almost like cheating. Yeah. Uh, sixth round
Speaker 1: pick Marquez White from a few years ago. Hang on,
Speaker 1: I put this in a tweet lost. It's got to
Speaker 1: be the fifth round. It's gotta be a Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, Yes it was he yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: who they wanted to bring back on the practice squad
Speaker 1: and he's one of the very few guys he made
Speaker 1: it to the practice. I looked this up at his name.
Speaker 1: He got claimed off the practice squad later in the season,
Speaker 1: but he did make it initially, Michael Jackson, and then
Speaker 1: there were five Chaz Green, Martin Zacha, Jalen Smith, Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: and Connor McGovern. All were placed on season ending lists
Speaker 1: like they didn't have rookie seasons, but they were obviously
Speaker 1: still on the team played. If you get drafted, if
Speaker 1: you get drafted before the seventh round, they're gonna do
Speaker 1: their best to keep you. But here's great. But here's
Speaker 1: what But here's what I think is missing from that
Speaker 1: great story. But here's what I think is missing from
Speaker 1: that is you didn't normalize it for me. What is that? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have time to look at
Speaker 1: the other but my point is. But my point is,
Speaker 1: if if that number, that number is what it is.
Speaker 1: But what we don't know is our teams out there,
Speaker 1: do they keep more than that? Do they keep less?
Speaker 1: Is this right there at the average? And this is
Speaker 1: what typic happens with teams because you're trying to infuse
Speaker 1: yet you're trying to keep young talent around to develop them.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to normalize it because we're not
Speaker 1: worried about them. Well but no, no, but when we'm
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is when we get to the training
Speaker 1: camp and we're talking about guys, we need to put
Speaker 1: more emphasis on that number because it's this team. But understood, understood.
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying and what I was trying
Speaker 1: to glean from, that's just from my own personal knowledge.
Speaker 1: Like do the Cowboys protect their draft more than other teams?
Speaker 1: That's where I was going with that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think the whole league protects their drafts because that's
Speaker 1: how you keep salary downright. But and that's why you
Speaker 1: know when a guy I'll first, this has burned into
Speaker 1: my brain because he wound up here. Vince Mayley was
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick for Cleveland a few years ago
Speaker 1: and they cut him as a rookie, and it was
Speaker 1: like headline news. That just doesn't happen, Like if you're
Speaker 1: picked in the like it's rare to see a guy
Speaker 1: pick that early get cut as a rookie, Like fourth
Speaker 1: round picks make the team because you don't want to
Speaker 1: admit that a guy you took that highway he sucks.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the numbers for the rest of
Speaker 1: the league. But to Nick's point, I said it all
Speaker 1: throughout the offseason. I was like, if you're a fifth
Speaker 1: round pick, that doesn't mean you're safe. History indicates that,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean we're gonna We're gonna write that story
Speaker 1: at some point, you know, like going into like next
Speaker 1: year or whatever. I mean, it's it's really it's it's
Speaker 1: really good to know that because but but to me,
Speaker 1: the second year, I mean, like all bets are off,
Speaker 1: But but but are they like this is what I
Speaker 1: want to know, was was Bradley and I is he
Speaker 1: that much better than Rondelle Carter or is he better
Speaker 1: at all? You know, I hope you know, if it's close,
Speaker 1: they'll probably go with with the you know, the draft pick.
Speaker 1: But I mean they're probably very happy to put Reggie
Speaker 1: Robinson on IR for the season because they didn't want
Speaker 1: to have to cut a fourth round pick who wasn't
Speaker 1: going to make this team. Yea, he was at the bottom.
Speaker 1: He was nearly of your depth chart there, yeah, that
Speaker 1: position yet but now you know, he comes back, he's
Speaker 1: goes to training camp, he gets cut next year, you know,
Speaker 1: it's three years removed from the training from the draft,
Speaker 1: and it's like, man, it's too small of a sample
Speaker 1: size because it's only two years. But since McCarthy got here,
Speaker 1: they kept their whole class last year, including Ben de Nucci,
Speaker 1: and they kept this which they might still cut Farniac
Speaker 1: or they could maybe they could cut Simmy. I kind
Speaker 1: of doubt it. But that's so eighteen straight rookies making
Speaker 1: the team interesting. Yeah, definitely getting back to the conversation
Speaker 1: on the Bucks and the Cowboys. No, that's fine. That
Speaker 1: was a good detour. That's a detour we're taking outside
Speaker 1: of Michael Parsons, though, what's the most convincing thing that
Speaker 1: you can give fans hopes that the Cowboys will be better? Like,
Speaker 1: name a player or a position or something. Looking at
Speaker 1: me like I've got something to say, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I can give fans a reason to believe that maybe
Speaker 1: they are better than they were last year. What player
Speaker 1: other than Michael Parsons on defense are you excited about?
Speaker 1: I think it's Randy Gregory. I mean I am. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited about Randy, but I'm not ready to just
Speaker 1: to sign him that status, you know, like they're gonna
Speaker 1: be going against JP. He and Shaquille Barrett. Tampa fans
Speaker 1: have every reason to believe that that is a fearsome
Speaker 1: duo among the best in the league. I'm excited about
Speaker 1: Tank and Randy. I'm not ready to be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: especially Tampa's tackles are great Donovan Smith and Tristan Worths.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tristan Worf's was like all pro as a rookie. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to just be like, yeah, Brady's going
Speaker 1: to spend the whole night on the ground. I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to say that at all. Well, you're forgetting Dan,
Speaker 1: of course, by the way, I'm not. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not expecting I don't think And that's why I've been
Speaker 1: wording these these questions the way I have. It would
Speaker 1: be foolish not to recognize the fact that this defense
Speaker 1: is coming off one of the worst performances in club history.
Speaker 1: So to think that they're all of a sudden gonna
Speaker 1: be among the best defenses in the league, I think
Speaker 1: is foolish. But I don't think that that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: they can't be improved. And that's where I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, is where are the areas where you can
Speaker 1: see some level improvement. You talk about players that you're like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe that could be Like I look at a Treyvon
Speaker 1: Diggs and I'm like, if he's better, which we see
Speaker 1: the trajectory that he could be better. If he's better,
Speaker 1: maybe that's an area where you could see something. I
Speaker 1: do think the safeties. I think the safeties are better
Speaker 1: than your safeties last year. That doesn't mean they're great.
Speaker 1: It means I think they're better than they were last year.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm looking for, is what are those
Speaker 1: areas where you could see areas where they could be better.
Speaker 1: I got I got one on third and seven, third
Speaker 1: and eight on Then when they get to the nickel,
Speaker 1: I think that Kean O'Neill and Micah Parsons will be better. Uh,
Speaker 1: in the linebacker position, those guys will be better. I
Speaker 1: think with having Randy Gregory on the outside, I think
Speaker 1: some of the past rushing combinations that they have Dorance
Speaker 1: can help with their With that, I think you put
Speaker 1: your safeties back there. I think they can get off
Speaker 1: the field better than they have before. Mainly because of
Speaker 1: those linebackers on nickels. We don't have to pile on
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith it's it's a dead horse, no point to it.
Speaker 1: But um Prescott Pylon, I don't Pilon Prescott. Don't like
Speaker 1: that nickname at all. Doug Nasmyer, go back to the
Speaker 1: well and try again. I just um all, I can
Speaker 1: remember running Ram through the building over the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: I think. But um, I this defense, they're going don't
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna better. They're gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: faster and a lot more athletic. When you add Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons to the mix and Kean O'Neill, a former safety
Speaker 1: playing linebacker, and you hopefully take a guy who's not
Speaker 1: fast enough to be a star at this level take
Speaker 1: him off the field more often. That's that's gonna make
Speaker 1: a big difference. I think. So. Yeah, Like I think
Speaker 1: I said that. That was our other mail back question.
Speaker 1: I was like, just get to the ball quickly and confidently.
Speaker 1: That's really like that is like the baseline expectation for
Speaker 1: this defense, and if they do it with more regularity
Speaker 1: than they did last year, they should be a lot better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot better, meaning middle of the pack
Speaker 1: instead of just absolutely the worst. You can be middle
Speaker 1: of the pack if your offense is special. If the
Speaker 1: offense is special, like we think it can be, your
Speaker 1: defense can be considered middle of the pack. That could
Speaker 1: be good enough if your offense a special. Well, I
Speaker 1: will say this though, I think a lot of the
Speaker 1: things I saw last year, the problems with this defense
Speaker 1: were just basically mistakes, mental mistakes, guys not being where
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be. I don't think it was a
Speaker 1: lot of I was in the right spot, I just
Speaker 1: got run over, or I just missed the tackle, or
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it was and guys are
Speaker 1: just out of place. And so I think if you
Speaker 1: can get that part right, I think this defense takes
Speaker 1: a jump. Like now, if you're at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the legue, that jump might get you to twenty two.
Speaker 1: You're still out at the top half of the league,
Speaker 1: but you're better. And that's where I think there's room
Speaker 1: to grow here. Regardless of what what else you think
Speaker 1: of this defense and what they've done. I just laugh,
Speaker 1: and I you know, some listeners give me flak because
Speaker 1: and I agree, like sometimes I tend to like over
Speaker 1: inflate the opposition, like I just always think that the
Speaker 1: opponent is way better. Yeah, yeah, I am, Well, they
Speaker 1: especially when you don't give me a reason to be honest,
Speaker 1: you're a pessimistic kind of part I am. I think
Speaker 1: of myself as a realist, but sure, um, but the
Speaker 1: opponent is funny, Like, this isn't college football where you
Speaker 1: get too up against little sisters of the poor, right,
Speaker 1: But there are opponents on this schedule that I'd feel
Speaker 1: way better, particularly on defense. You know, like if the
Speaker 1: Dallas defense, if you were getting Carolina in Week one,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, yeah, let's see where this goes,
Speaker 1: and maybe they'll do this better. You just look down
Speaker 1: Tampa's depth chart and you're like, that's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a problem. That's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: And Tampa's got a great defense too. Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: a lot more maybe even better than the offense. I'm
Speaker 1: a lot more optimistic about the Dallas offense being able
Speaker 1: to get some wins, whereas I'm just like, well, we
Speaker 1: don't feel good about the secondary, and this is the
Speaker 1: probably the best receiver cords in the league. I know
Speaker 1: Dallas has something to say about it, but if Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown is really back to who he was, that's terrifying.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady speaks for himself. The line speaks for itself,
Speaker 1: like just if you did it player by player, you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think you would take a Dallas player across
Speaker 1: the entire matchup. Probably. Yeah, So that's just this is
Speaker 1: as tough as it it's in terms of opening the
Speaker 1: season with a brand new staff and a brand new everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a rap for us for today. It's
Speaker 1: a good way to wrap it up. Sorry, sorry to
Speaker 1: bring the mood down. We will be back on Friday
Speaker 1: and we are going to talk about the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: versus the Tampa defense and all that. Although that defense
Speaker 1: is really good, I agree with you. I think there
Speaker 1: are some matchups where maybe the Cowboys can find some
Speaker 1: some ways to move the ball and hopefully and generate
Speaker 1: some points because this might be a game where they
Speaker 1: have to generate a lot of points in order to win.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on Friday. Till then for Nick
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