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Speaker 1: safety's Barry Church, who's in studio right now with me
Speaker 1: and Danny McCray, the Ultimate Survivor. Danny was on Survivor
Speaker 1: last night. He's got the day off. He's doing some
Speaker 1: work on assignment here, so he's down there in Houston.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he got to go watch the
Speaker 1: Astros get gained two of it. They ended up getting
Speaker 1: out once, so I know he was banging on some
Speaker 1: trash can after that victory. Man. I know, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the Astros are trying to get this thing done. I
Speaker 1: am if Dusty Baker wins the manager. I'll be happy
Speaker 1: for Dusty, even if he's winning with them. I said,
Speaker 1: it's I don't care about the Astros. I like Dusty
Speaker 1: Baker a respect who's gone through some things, and man,
Speaker 1: what about your boy with Ron? And that was the
Speaker 1: next thing was out of my mouth is if Dusty
Speaker 1: doesn't win, then I'll be happy for Ron Washington, third
Speaker 1: base coach of the Braves, who was a manager with
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers and hopefully can be the man next
Speaker 1: manager of the San Diego Padre. So either way, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be happy. You win it for two long time
Speaker 1: guys who who deserved rings. All right, So Shaun Lee, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got the man in him. Okay, Shaun Lee number
Speaker 1: fifty with the Dallas Cowboys. When you just talk about professionals,
Speaker 1: that's the word I think of Shaun Lee without a
Speaker 1: doubt when he played for the Dallas Cows. It's just
Speaker 1: a pure professional. And you say that word, but church
Speaker 1: you look at a guy like Ben Simmons, Okay, professional
Speaker 1: there last year, James Hard with what he was going
Speaker 1: through with the right profession there's a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: That word doesn't apply to very talented people. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that word applies to Sean Lee one hundred percent fold.
Speaker 1: I mean this, dude, when you talk about a constant
Speaker 1: professional and just a student of the game, I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever been around anybody who's been quite like
Speaker 1: him when it comes to study in this game. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy put so much pressure on himself to be
Speaker 1: that guy, to be the leader of his defense, to
Speaker 1: be the key playmaker of his defense. And when he
Speaker 1: was healthy, I mean, I would say he was arguably
Speaker 1: one of the top linebackers in the NFL. Win healthy.
Speaker 1: The only thing that kind of drew him back a
Speaker 1: little bit was those injuries that you know, seemed to
Speaker 1: happen throughout the end of his career, towards the middle
Speaker 1: of the end of part of his career. But while healthy,
Speaker 1: this guy is one of the best linebackers I've ever
Speaker 1: seen a student of the game. The way he dissected things,
Speaker 1: it was very Peyton Manning Drew Brees like, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: would he would know exactly all right, when all right,
Speaker 1: that guard's pulling this way or doing the pitch. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of the tackles I made was just
Speaker 1: from listening to this guy, it's coming your way, Church
Speaker 1: is coming your way. I'm like, oh, all right, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Then let's get it going. So that guy
Speaker 1: helped my game out a ton, and he helped everybody
Speaker 1: around him a ton, and there was defenses where we
Speaker 1: had no business even being on the field. But that
Speaker 1: guy just had everybody going in the right direction. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you just can't say enough about this guy.
Speaker 1: I think of linebackers who vocal leaders and guys who
Speaker 1: who performed well on the field. I think Ray Lewis,
Speaker 1: I think Luke Keithley, Bobby Wagner and Sean Lee was
Speaker 1: up there in that same ilk in terms of just
Speaker 1: being able to make a defense better, know what whatever
Speaker 1: I need to do? All right, it sounds like we
Speaker 1: could hear hear the birds chirping in uh in Santa Barbara, beautiful,
Speaker 1: I can hear you, guys, can you hear me? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got you, man, we got he made it to
Speaker 1: what's up? What's up? I think let's go. Let's go. Man.
Speaker 1: It looks amazing, right are you? Are you in Santa
Speaker 1: Barbara right now? It looks amazing in the background. Man,
Speaker 1: I am in Santa Barbara right now. And I've become
Speaker 1: spoiled being out here. Believe me, I can believe that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I have gotten spoiled. I've got
Speaker 1: spoiled with the weather and Um, listen, lost all my
Speaker 1: street cred coming out here. He lost a little bit
Speaker 1: of the street cred, brother, and I'm stuck. I lost
Speaker 1: a lot of my street cred, you know that. And
Speaker 1: you've lost some of yours too. Don't like like you
Speaker 1: have any of this is true. This is true. I
Speaker 1: lost the tad been out there, man. So so what's
Speaker 1: what you've been up to? Man? Since since your playing
Speaker 1: days have been done? What you've been up to? Um?
Speaker 1: You know what. I've been playing some basketball at the
Speaker 1: y n C. A UM. My game is slowly getting
Speaker 1: to get back to that high school form. But that's
Speaker 1: been my competitive outlet. Um, working out a lot, a
Speaker 1: little bit of work for the scouting department, having a
Speaker 1: lot of fun learning from those guys at different perspective
Speaker 1: on football and seeing all the work they put in,
Speaker 1: the level of detail that they work with, you know,
Speaker 1: not only in the pro side of it, but the
Speaker 1: college side of it. Finding guys going get different colleges,
Speaker 1: searching things out and learning the tricks of the trade
Speaker 1: from those guys. Has been a lot of fun. So
Speaker 1: still a football a little bit and it's been great.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. So so you're doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of scouting for the Cowboys here, you're grading the linebackers.
Speaker 1: What to me has what to you has stood out
Speaker 1: about this this linebacker corps. I mean, I know we
Speaker 1: got Parsons in there, Keyan O'Neil in there, and they
Speaker 1: seem to be able to turn this defense around. You know,
Speaker 1: what have you seen from this linebacking corps so far
Speaker 1: this season? I mean when you start with Mica, first
Speaker 1: thing as a rookie, to make as many plays and
Speaker 1: handle I know, Church we can talk about as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I mean we got in the field, you were just
Speaker 1: trying to get lined up, do your job exactly, and
Speaker 1: just not making mistake. I mean, making plays was another thing.
Speaker 1: You were just trying to not make mistakes. And for
Speaker 1: a young guy to come in and play on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, to play middle linebacker, to play outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: and do all the things he's done, it's incredible. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's obviously an outrageous athlete and having that type
Speaker 1: of speed at that size is almost unheard of, you know,
Speaker 1: And and they've asked him, like I've said, they've asked
Speaker 1: them to do a lot to be able to go
Speaker 1: to the become a defensive end, and really, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's rushed consistently as a defensive end since high school.
Speaker 1: And to come in and be able to make plays
Speaker 1: and dominate that position, I mean, it really is absurved
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do. And I love watching
Speaker 1: him on film with the intensity, the hustle, the speed
Speaker 1: he plays with. And then they you know, Keano is
Speaker 1: obviously another great athlete who's played safety but moves extremely well,
Speaker 1: plays with such physicality, toughness, instincts. You know, he's been
Speaker 1: fun to watch. And then you know my guy Layton,
Speaker 1: who is an unbelievable football player in all Pro. A big,
Speaker 1: long guy who can cover so much ground, plays with instincts,
Speaker 1: plays tough. So you put all those guys in there,
Speaker 1: the type of athleticism, some of the experience along with
Speaker 1: the whole defense man, they're playing the right way. If
Speaker 1: I don't know what you think, Church, but that it's
Speaker 1: one thing to make plays. It's another thing weekend and
Speaker 1: week out to play with a certain type of effort.
Speaker 1: And they've done that. Yeah, they're they're flying around the
Speaker 1: football right now. And another guy wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit as a guy at know we played
Speaker 1: with in his earlier years and he had a little
Speaker 1: he had a rocky start in his earlier years. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Randy Gregory. What type of transformation have
Speaker 1: you seen from this guy? Because he you know, we
Speaker 1: were there in an early stages when it was a
Speaker 1: little bumpy, But now he seems to have gotten his
Speaker 1: stuff together and he's proven on his football field that
Speaker 1: he can be dynamic at the defensive end position. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on Randy Gregory going forward. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy for him because you know, we've all you know Randy,
Speaker 1: he's such a great guy who's always loved football, and
Speaker 1: he dealt with some stuff early in his career, but
Speaker 1: he always was trying to be proactive handling it. And
Speaker 1: you got to give him credit for reaching out, working
Speaker 1: on himself consistently, trying to come back and improve. But
Speaker 1: I've known since the day one put him on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Is there a guy with a get
Speaker 1: off like him who can bend with the flexibility and
Speaker 1: plays with that type of motor. I mean, he is
Speaker 1: a rare guy and he's showing it right now. I
Speaker 1: mean he's dominating. Last game last week, I mean the
Speaker 1: type of game he had against New England. He has
Speaker 1: the two sacks, he has a holding call that that
Speaker 1: brings back a touchdown, and then the next play is
Speaker 1: that is a strip sack that changes the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a complete game changer. He's one of the
Speaker 1: best defensive players in the league right now, and he's
Speaker 1: a catalyst for this defense. And listen, if you had
Speaker 1: told us that a couple of years ago, you would
Speaker 1: hope for that because of the type of player in
Speaker 1: person he is. But I mean, you know, he took
Speaker 1: there was a lot of time off, and it's not
Speaker 1: easy to take time off and come back and to
Speaker 1: see him do what he's doing, Man, it's incredible. He's
Speaker 1: a great guy and he deserves all the credit in
Speaker 1: the world. This is the player's line body by Hotels
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Speaker 1: which to Western Pennsylvania YUS. Oh yeah, whip your baby.
Speaker 1: Both deciding they don't want to live in a winner
Speaker 1: in their retirement years. They want to live in Western Princi.
Speaker 1: Baba want to be nice weather here and so you know,
Speaker 1: Sean the background over there Santa Barbara looks great and
Speaker 1: it just made me think, since we saw Survivor last
Speaker 1: night with Danny mccraig, maybe that next challenge for you man,
Speaker 1: get you. Oh Danny, Danny's made for Survivor. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's slicked. Danny knows how to dan, he knows how
Speaker 1: to maneuver. He knows work room, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: he goes out a working room. I can't do that
Speaker 1: like him. Man, I think i'd be, I'd be. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't make the cut after week one. They filled me
Speaker 1: off the island quick, you know. Oh Man, So you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm rooting for Danny. I love Danny and he's,
Speaker 1: you know, great football player. I think back when we
Speaker 1: were rookies and we were playing special teams together and
Speaker 1: watching you and Danny as rookies just completely dominate and
Speaker 1: me just really struggle on teams, especially in preseason. And
Speaker 1: does YouTube just making it easy and and and talk
Speaker 1: about two guys that I loved playing with and you
Speaker 1: know him and then you as an inspiration. I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't give yourself enough credit for getting people lined up,
Speaker 1: the instinct you played with the leadership you displayed you know,
Speaker 1: I hoped you make some place where you you helped
Speaker 1: me make a ton of plays. And the confidence that
Speaker 1: I had knowing you were behind me Church and knowing
Speaker 1: Danny was was playing shafety and running on special teams
Speaker 1: was fun. Fun to play with both you guys. Man. Man,
Speaker 1: I loved every bit of it. Man. But you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't realize about this about Sean, but he
Speaker 1: was a hell of a basketball player in high school
Speaker 1: and whip you in the in the Western PA he
Speaker 1: was well, he was a twenty one in ten guy
Speaker 1: coming out of high school. Right, Yeah. I mean there's
Speaker 1: an argument to say that Western PA basketball is not
Speaker 1: that good, and it's a hard argument to win for me.
Speaker 1: So but I loved playing I loved I loved playing basketball.
Speaker 1: You know. When I was fifteen years old, I you know,
Speaker 1: I was trying to be on the AU circuit, trying
Speaker 1: to play I mean, I wanted to play play basketball
Speaker 1: in the worst way. But um, you know, my game
Speaker 1: didn't really match up to my height. You know, six two.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be at least six
Speaker 1: to five, and it just did. Gotten came around, So
Speaker 1: I didn't come around, So I started. I started getting
Speaker 1: the weight room. I started getting in the weight room,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of focus on Yeah. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny how you get older and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: everybody keeps growing and you don't. And they can shoot
Speaker 1: as well as you can and dribble in their six seven.
Speaker 1: You know, you got problems. Okay, I got a question
Speaker 1: for both them. Yeah, but I loved it during your
Speaker 1: time with the Cowboys. Question for both of you, who
Speaker 1: was the best basketball player on the team. Oh hey,
Speaker 1: so you take that one first, man, take that one first?
Speaker 1: I would I mean, I think bees was pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was. I mean Beasley was crazy quick and
Speaker 1: could shoot, could handle, and he could sky for you know,
Speaker 1: he's not a tall guy, but I mean he could.
Speaker 1: He could get up and play about the rim. So
Speaker 1: just I mean, pound for pound, I would have to
Speaker 1: argue him now, being that I, you know, was tearing
Speaker 1: AHL's and pulling handstrings left and right. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot of I didn't play a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball in the offseason until now, so so I
Speaker 1: didn't get to actually play. I didn't get to play
Speaker 1: against guys A lot um. But I just know from
Speaker 1: from hearing things Beasley, I know, I know Dez was great.
Speaker 1: You know, we would play a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: back in Oxnard, they had the hoop, and so we
Speaker 1: would play a little bit out there in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: And you know, Dez had that lefty shot and could
Speaker 1: shoot um and there are a couple of guys who
Speaker 1: could really play and and they ended up moving that hoop.
Speaker 1: I think things got could two gets too competitive out
Speaker 1: the yeah yeah, dead dead legs on after after a
Speaker 1: off day shouldn't happen. And half the reason why we
Speaker 1: were playing basketball in that court out of doubt. What
Speaker 1: about Romo? Because I keep hearing things about Romo Romo,
Speaker 1: I should He's gonna He's not gonna be happy. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna be happy. That ever bring Roma could play,
Speaker 1: I mean, super super slick, great shot. I mean when
Speaker 1: it comes to hand eye coordination, I don't know, he's
Speaker 1: one of the best I've ever seen. I mean, can
Speaker 1: play pinball, can play golf, can shoot the basketball, can
Speaker 1: shoot the basketball, playing pull basketball. I mean unbelievable set
Speaker 1: of hands on him, and and crafty like a crafty athlete,
Speaker 1: like sneaky uses his body well, was quick and um
Speaker 1: great body control. So no, he can play too. Definitely,
Speaker 1: he definitely got some game to him as well as
Speaker 1: Marty B. Marty B had a he had a little
Speaker 1: game to him as well playing at Tess and he
Speaker 1: had a little game to him as well. But I
Speaker 1: gotta ask this question before we let you get up
Speaker 1: out of there. Man. So the guy at corner right now,
Speaker 1: Trey Von Diggs. I mean, he's playing some of the
Speaker 1: best ball that I've seen in a long time out
Speaker 1: of a corner. To you, what makes him so special
Speaker 1: at that corner on the outside, because not a lot
Speaker 1: of guys can do what he's doing so far. I
Speaker 1: think Number one, if he gets a great break on
Speaker 1: the ball, it's not just a PBu it's a pick.
Speaker 1: So go ahead and throw the ball near him. If
Speaker 1: he gets anything close to a great break, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be an interception. He's got unbelievable speed
Speaker 1: to make up. To make up if he's behind. You've
Speaker 1: seen him a bunch of times, whether it's on an
Speaker 1: over route, whether it's on a deep post. He's been
Speaker 1: behind a couple of times. But he's got that makeup
Speaker 1: speed to be able to go and get the ball,
Speaker 1: and then just his footwork and technique. I mean he
Speaker 1: gets better and better. His toughness, how he plays with
Speaker 1: you know, the tenacity of Hey, maybe he gives up
Speaker 1: one play, but the next thing he is covering as
Speaker 1: hard as he can. I mean we talked about this
Speaker 1: last year. Church Washington him in training camp. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this guy is something special. Yeah. I mean he had
Speaker 1: this one practice in training camp last year or he
Speaker 1: had four or five picks and I'd never seen a
Speaker 1: rookie play like that. And I'm like, wait, he was
Speaker 1: the second round pick. How he's as good as I've
Speaker 1: ever seen as a rookie, and he got a little
Speaker 1: banged up. I think he got a little banged up
Speaker 1: early in the year, and I think he was playing
Speaker 1: with a brace and still playing great, still still covering
Speaker 1: receivers really well. I mean that you know, had a
Speaker 1: couple of interceptions or came close, and then when he
Speaker 1: got healthy. I mean, I think it was a game
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, we had two picks. One way, he ran
Speaker 1: all the way across the field, dove out of bounds
Speaker 1: in the end zone and made this incredible play. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just saw last year these incredible plays and as
Speaker 1: the consistency grew, I mean, the guy has just been incredible.
Speaker 1: And we talked about it last year Church, We said,
Speaker 1: we think he's going to be one of the best,
Speaker 1: not only corners, one of the best players in the league.
Speaker 1: And he show he's shown it this year. He's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: it would out of doubt. My last question for you,
Speaker 1: Sean is looking at the Vikings game on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: There's a good stat I heard on Hanging with the
Speaker 1: Boys podcast right before us fifty three percent of Minnesota's
Speaker 1: runs have been up the middle. So what are the
Speaker 1: linebackers have to do? Is they face Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison in this football game. And Kirk Cousins, by
Speaker 1: the way, only has two interceptions right now, thirteen touchdowns play.
Speaker 1: They're they're they're doing it very well when it comes
Speaker 1: to running and passing the ball. But what are the
Speaker 1: linebackers needs to focus on and how did they get
Speaker 1: this stop this run stopped? Well, they're talented on They're
Speaker 1: talented on both sides of the ball. I mean, offensively,
Speaker 1: they have you know, two a couple receivers that they
Speaker 1: can go to. Kirk cousins Man is a really good
Speaker 1: quarterback who when he is hot, he can get really hot.
Speaker 1: And he's tough to play against. And the running game
Speaker 1: is tough. You know, the zone Dalvin is unbelievable. He's
Speaker 1: got great footwork. He's really hard to bring down. He's
Speaker 1: when you could have him in a tight area and
Speaker 1: his feet are so good and his hips are so strong.
Speaker 1: You got to do everything you can to bring him down.
Speaker 1: He runs that zone you cut back running scheme as
Speaker 1: well as anybody. And the whole offense is hard hard
Speaker 1: to play against. When they're rolling, um, you know, you
Speaker 1: get the boots, you get the play action, you get
Speaker 1: the run. They can do it at all levels and
Speaker 1: they're really good at it. And then defensively they have
Speaker 1: two really good linebackers, a great safety, two defensive ends
Speaker 1: with a ton of speed and so um, you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't get off to a great start, but I
Speaker 1: still think this is a really good football team. Is
Speaker 1: gonna be huge test. I mean this is you know,
Speaker 1: don't sometimes you say you play a team and you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the tape and you're like, sometimes their
Speaker 1: record doesn't match up and it's and I believe that
Speaker 1: with this team, this is gonna be a tough test.
Speaker 1: Sean Lee, the Great, the General Number fifty Penn states
Speaker 1: fin As. We appreciate you coming to the players lunch
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. S Hey, I appreciate that. Hell do you guys?
Speaker 1: Let's talk soon, all right, we'll do all right, Sean
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Speaker 1: All right, Barry Church here players lounge. Lele Collins is
Speaker 1: not going to start right right tackle. He's not going
Speaker 1: to start uh yesterday he worked at guard and tackle.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played guards his twenty sixteen. That was Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's rookie year. Head coach Mike McCarthy said, quote looked
Speaker 1: like he was riding a bike in quote at the
Speaker 1: guard spot. So sounds like they want and that was
Speaker 1: my next thing. Where do you think Lele Collins starts
Speaker 1: next for the Cowboys right guard? I mean I should
Speaker 1: say right tackle or left guard. If we're talking about
Speaker 1: starting on a you know, on the offensive line, snap one,
Speaker 1: play one, and we're talking about this week or going forwards,
Speaker 1: going forward whenever. I feel like he's gonna end up
Speaker 1: playing at that guard position. I mean we are. He
Speaker 1: had the riding on the wall, you know, McCarthy talking
Speaker 1: about Yeah, it's like he was riding the bike out there.
Speaker 1: He's great at that left guard position. And we know
Speaker 1: we've given up some pressures on that interior part of
Speaker 1: the offensive line between Connor Williams and be Idish, they've
Speaker 1: had some struggles in there. So I think what they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to do is they're gonna try to put
Speaker 1: them put their best five out there. And I feel
Speaker 1: like they believe that if with the position flex that
Speaker 1: lay all Collins has, he can move in there into
Speaker 1: that guard and he could be an upgrade from mcconnor Williams.
Speaker 1: And you know that's no slight towards you know him
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But still has been playing pretty
Speaker 1: well at that right tackle spot. I mean, he has
Speaker 1: that momentum going on. And I'm not so entirely sure
Speaker 1: this isn't a this is a slap on your wrist
Speaker 1: because we're mad at you on how you you know,
Speaker 1: how you got into the whole situation of five games suspending.
Speaker 1: So we're just gonna move you inside. If it's like that,
Speaker 1: or if they're really thinking that Terrence Steele could be
Speaker 1: their next solidified right tackle, we're gonna keep him there
Speaker 1: and will move you around. But I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: which direction that one's going in because I feel like,
Speaker 1: like we talked about the other day, I feel like
Speaker 1: if Lyell's help and he's in his back, his condition,
Speaker 1: in his back on, I feel like he is a
Speaker 1: better player than Terren Steele when it comes to blocking
Speaker 1: at that right tackle position. But maybe they feel till
Speaker 1: Darren Steel is better, or they're saying, look, we didn't
Speaker 1: like how you handled that whole situation, and we're moving you.
Speaker 1: You go on the left guard. Let's put it in
Speaker 1: this aspect. What if it is simply we think we've
Speaker 1: got a better offensive line if we keep Steal in,
Speaker 1: put Collins in, take Connor Williams out. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's what they're They're thinking that we have a better five,
Speaker 1: that's our best five, knowing that you know it ain't
Speaker 1: like this is a new thing for Collins to go
Speaker 1: out there and play the guard position. Like you just mentioned,
Speaker 1: he was there all of twenty sixteen. He played at
Speaker 1: a high level, you know, relatively so. But for him,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I feel some type of way. One,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to get another bag. We all know
Speaker 1: tackles get paid more than guards, so that's one thing
Speaker 1: going into it. But I mean he worked and grinded
Speaker 1: to get his way up to that right tackle spot
Speaker 1: and be able to be solidified as one of the
Speaker 1: better tackles in the National Ball League, and then to
Speaker 1: have this happen where he gets bumped down into the
Speaker 1: guard position. I mean he would feel some type of way,
Speaker 1: But he also has to feel like, you know, this
Speaker 1: is my there's my responsibility. It wouldn't have happened. Self afflictable, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have happened, if you know, if I didn't
Speaker 1: handle that situation wrong. I mean, we had never heard
Speaker 1: of Terran Steel. We'd have still thought Terren Steel was
Speaker 1: the guy from last year who struggled a lot. We
Speaker 1: had never had another He would have never had another
Speaker 1: opportunity to go in there and Wally Pit my guy.
Speaker 1: But once again he was able to do that. He
Speaker 1: showed great against some of the best premier defensive ends.
Speaker 1: He played pretty well and now he's giving himself a
Speaker 1: shot to go out there and right tackle, and Lyle
Speaker 1: has nobody to blame but itself. When they talk best five,
Speaker 1: that was something that we were constantly talking about last
Speaker 1: year playing fantasy football with it. We're gonna move Martin here,
Speaker 1: We're gonna move him to tackle, We're gonna move the
Speaker 1: left guard. But when you talk, when you look at it,
Speaker 1: there has been struggles and then that's tear. You're part
Speaker 1: of the offensive line. So do you feel like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, I know we got this chemistry going with
Speaker 1: these five guys right here, but we got an unbelievable
Speaker 1: talent who can play guard and tackle. Do we just
Speaker 1: plug him in at the guard and then let him
Speaker 1: grow over time with this new offensive line or do
Speaker 1: we keep that chemistry that they have going these past
Speaker 1: five or six games. That's the question that they're going
Speaker 1: to ask, And is Connor Williams that big of a liability,
Speaker 1: Like I know we've given up pressures, but is he
Speaker 1: that big of a liability to pull Collins back in.
Speaker 1: Let's put it this way, and I've seen this on
Speaker 1: social media line where if you're talking who's the weakest
Speaker 1: link on the offensive line right now, you could say
Speaker 1: it's the center. That's where I would have gone with it.
Speaker 1: But you don't have a replace the center. You don't.
Speaker 1: That's that's a delimited internation. So you're going center, weakest link,
Speaker 1: second weakest link, left guard, and you have a valuable
Speaker 1: backup at that can come into that left guard position
Speaker 1: and play where between those two you can upgrade at
Speaker 1: the left gulf guard position. You don't have anyone who
Speaker 1: can upgrade you at the center right now, noah, So
Speaker 1: and at that center, I mean you can. You can
Speaker 1: put these two guys beside him, and I'm sure it'll
Speaker 1: it'll help, you know, stop the leakage a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he's still gonna have to snap
Speaker 1: the ball and you're gonna have to block somebody. But
Speaker 1: if you got Layel beside you as well as a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer and Zach Martin, I think that you
Speaker 1: know pretty much solidifies it that you know that he
Speaker 1: won't be as that much of a leak as he
Speaker 1: is right now. So if you're a defensive coordinator and
Speaker 1: you say, okay, look right there, here's our gap between
Speaker 1: this guard and center. Let's let's go. You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta try him and les go. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: his first game. He didn't play Collins I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: He didn't play all of twenty twenty, all of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Then he just came back in twenty twenty one, played
Speaker 1: this season opener and missed all I mean and suspended
Speaker 1: the next five games. And we noticed that, you know,
Speaker 1: the only way to get better, or at least maintain
Speaker 1: that skill level what you got to actually play the game.
Speaker 1: You're not just gonna come out here and just cold
Speaker 1: turkey and be good. So if I was Zimmer, I'm
Speaker 1: going straight at those boys, right at them, see what
Speaker 1: they got. By the way, do not look at Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus, no that and try to make a justification
Speaker 1: based off that. You can't do it. I've never been
Speaker 1: a fan of the coaches and what they're asking for.
Speaker 1: Every team's different. I think Pro Football Focus does a
Speaker 1: good job that what they're trying to do with their analytics,
Speaker 1: and that's good stuff, but every team is different, and
Speaker 1: how they're looking what they're looking for. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just so it's not the be all indo because I was.
Speaker 1: Some people try to put it that we'll look at
Speaker 1: Connor Williams just rating it. Don't do that that you
Speaker 1: can't just because that's what pro football. That's not the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Yes, and what Joe Philbin is grading in
Speaker 1: what he and Mike mccarthur are looking for and wanting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and obviously they feel like Williams must be, must be
Speaker 1: the weak link because they're not saying anybody else when
Speaker 1: you have to put them at left tackle or we're
Speaker 1: trying I'm over here, and now they're talking about we're
Speaker 1: trying them at guard and at right tackle. Well, if
Speaker 1: I'm looking between the center and the guard, I would
Speaker 1: think to me. And this is also just you know,
Speaker 1: in conversations with Nate Newton, former three times Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champion with the Dallas Cowboys, here, your center's too light.
Speaker 1: He ain't got enough bricks in his podcast, the centers
Speaker 1: too like, but you don't have an upgrade option at
Speaker 1: the center. We don't. You could have an upgrade option
Speaker 1: at the guard, Yeah, you do, and that center position
Speaker 1: it's just too valuable. It's just too valuable because they're
Speaker 1: snapping the ball or getting they're getting the play started.
Speaker 1: You can't have a guy just Willie niely all Man.
Speaker 1: He's he's a great guard. Let's try him a center.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work out that way. So think of
Speaker 1: it this way. If you bring Collins in, who's bigger
Speaker 1: than than Connor Williams, and you've got so Car replace
Speaker 1: Carnar on the left side with with with Collins on
Speaker 1: the right side, you've got the all pro Zack Martin
Speaker 1: that allows you to help your center. But one of
Speaker 1: these two places that helps you. And so when you
Speaker 1: talk about the whole best five concept, that's where a
Speaker 1: pro football focus rating does not really work. Doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Don't look at a rating. What they're gonna be looking
Speaker 1: at is how do we make ourselves better? Also, how
Speaker 1: do we make it harder all the defense, because the
Speaker 1: defense is right now, are trying to say, look, that's
Speaker 1: where that's where to go, that's where to go, and
Speaker 1: this is where we want to try and get. And
Speaker 1: if I'm Zimmer, I'm still with that approach. I'm like, look, Collins,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to prove to me that you can
Speaker 1: beat this guy at the garden. We're gonna steady attack
Speaker 1: you because I mean, like I said, he missed out
Speaker 1: all last year five games. This year, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little rusty out there. So I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they're sending Kendricks, if they're sending in Bar, if
Speaker 1: they're doing some type of stunts or et stunts or
Speaker 1: games to try to get after Collins, because that's you
Speaker 1: only get better at those type of things with reps
Speaker 1: and you got to see the type of stunts and
Speaker 1: what the defenses are going to try to do to you.
Speaker 1: And he hasn't had a lot of reps um in
Speaker 1: the recent in this recent time, so they're definitely gonna
Speaker 1: try them. If I was Zimmer, I go at him.
Speaker 1: I thought the kitchen sink at him. I just think
Speaker 1: in terms of let's say you had to play the
Speaker 1: Rams again in the playoffs, I look there's Aaron and look,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald's a handful for Zach Martin. So just imagine
Speaker 1: if you got, you know, be honest or or Collins
Speaker 1: out there having to handle an Aaron Donald, and that
Speaker 1: that situation is gonna be tough. Now before everyone wants
Speaker 1: to just ride off Carter Williams, which you should not do.
Speaker 1: Um the the health of Tyrant Smith we saw just
Speaker 1: in the last game, which wasn't Tyrants fall. It got
Speaker 1: rolled upon. But you know there's there couldn't become a
Speaker 1: situation where you need to have maybe Steel go left
Speaker 1: tackle and then put Collins at right. I mean, so
Speaker 1: Williams back. I wouldn't get rid of them. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not even saying a seventeen game season, no, right, And
Speaker 1: and for the people who talk about trading Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: I've already said no, no, no, seventeen game season. You're
Speaker 1: gonna You're right, You're gonna need guys. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying in terms of do not ride off Carnal Williams
Speaker 1: because there are so many other things that can continue
Speaker 1: to happen. Cowboy's gonna play eleven straight football games back
Speaker 1: to back the backs and is it gonna take any
Speaker 1: type of break either, Right, So, so I just see
Speaker 1: this move in terms of trying to possibly improve your five.
Speaker 1: It's so legitimate. But the juggling may not be done
Speaker 1: last year at this time, You're you're thinking Kansas City,
Speaker 1: not just in the Super Bowl Kansas City repeating as
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions. But by the time they got to
Speaker 1: the first weekend in February, they had three offensive starters
Speaker 1: going gone. And we saw what happened in that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They got after Patrick Mahomes. So the Cowboys, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: when's the last time they were this deep and across
Speaker 1: the board? And we look at the offensive line? You
Speaker 1: got you know, you got Collins coming in, you got Steel,
Speaker 1: you got the last time they were this team because
Speaker 1: when you had a John Geesick and Kevin Gogan on
Speaker 1: the bench and he still got Na Seki, who you know,
Speaker 1: he's now terrible, but he can provide depth in there
Speaker 1: as well. So this is like, I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: good problem to have, but like, but you're right, you
Speaker 1: gotta keep everybody in there. You can't write off anybody because,
Speaker 1: like you said, we got eleven games left, it's a
Speaker 1: long season, and then you add playoffs on top of that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna need it every like Wallim McCarney is every
Speaker 1: seventy seven we need all seventy seven players. We're gonna
Speaker 1: need them all to make that run. So I'm not
Speaker 1: one of those who just thinks in terms of trading
Speaker 1: way your depth. This is if this is the type
Speaker 1: of team you think it can be, keep everyone around,
Speaker 1: keep the depth. You've played the game long enough. Nobody
Speaker 1: who started in August is the same way in January.
Speaker 1: When the season is bad, feet starting to hurt, muscles
Speaker 1: start to hurt. Of it. You start to feel all
Speaker 1: types of things that you know during camp and everything
Speaker 1: you just kind of brushed off. I'll get I'll shake
Speaker 1: back real quick, but it's that recovery towards the end
Speaker 1: of the year. It's just your body's beat up. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of rest. You're going at it every
Speaker 1: single day with your teammates. Then you gotta turn around
Speaker 1: and go one hundred percent in the game. So it's
Speaker 1: a long season, eleven games left. A lot of things
Speaker 1: can happen. As long as you have a as long
Speaker 1: as you're as deep as this team is, you should
Speaker 1: be successful. But like you said, you're gonna need everybody
Speaker 1: out there to make the run that we think we're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to make. Okay, I'm out tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I gotta give you my prediction for the game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: since I'm out tomorrow, let me go ahead and give
Speaker 1: you my prediction. Let me know, Cowboys win thirty six
Speaker 1: thirty three. I think we see a lot of points
Speaker 1: being scored here. This is Greg the Leg time, Greg
Speaker 1: the Leg coming through like Tampa Bay. But he's gonna
Speaker 1: come through this time, like saying like the Charger game
Speaker 1: out in lost Angere we go, there we go. You're
Speaker 1: gonna need Greg the Leg to do his thing one
Speaker 1: more time here. I just believe that this is in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways these teams mirror each other. They
Speaker 1: do where they've got some high powered offenses, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: the running games are really good. Cowboys number two in
Speaker 1: the NFL, Vikings number eight. So I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying, Okay, this is going to come
Speaker 1: down to me to two things. One turnovers game put
Speaker 1: it right there, turnovers where the Cowboys have to win this.
Speaker 1: And then number two, the self inflicted wounds. The penalties
Speaker 1: can't be like, can't be like the Pagriots. We won't
Speaker 1: win if it's like the Pagriots. I'll tell you that, right,
Speaker 1: And I go back in the Vikings ended up losing
Speaker 1: a game they should have won against the Bengals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should have been awesome. On the last second field goal, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: he Cook fumbled and then they and that's what happened.
Speaker 1: So the Arizona game, you know, they didn't play sound football.
Speaker 1: They didn't too many self inflicted moves here. So Minnesota
Speaker 1: will shoot themselves. They will Kirk Cousins. We've we've known,
Speaker 1: we've known Kirk Cousins to shooter sud but this they
Speaker 1: not be the same Kirk Cousins we've used to play.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been him. Yeah, that's the same. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: this is why I say I think it'll be a
Speaker 1: high scoring game. But this is going to put the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You got to figure out how to win the turnover battle.
Speaker 1: Will Digs get another turnover again? Will there be another pick?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if he's on if he'll
Speaker 1: get some opportunities because if he's on Jefferson, they're gonna
Speaker 1: throw him the ball, so he'll get some opportunities. But this, this,
Speaker 1: this game scares me a little bit. Well see, and
Speaker 1: this is an interesting thing. And this is why, this
Speaker 1: is what I do enjoy about playing fantasy football is
Speaker 1: when you've got a receiver I have Jefferson, You're constantly
Speaker 1: looking at the box score. And one thing we noticed
Speaker 1: Jefferson's so good feeling gets himself a lot. You're a ten.
Speaker 1: You know he's had several days we getting hearing at
Speaker 1: seven eight, ten catches a game because teams have decided,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna go over here at Jefferson. Well,
Speaker 1: just and boom, next thing, you know, Kirk and say,
Speaker 1: all right, feelings, he's ready. He's the guy. He's the
Speaker 1: guy right now. And it is. This offense is scary.
Speaker 1: It's like you said, it's very similar to our offense
Speaker 1: because it's the pick your poison type because they've got
Speaker 1: so many options out there, healthy options. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got these both of these receivers on the outside, somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna get doubled and another one is gonna have to
Speaker 1: fend for themselves. And then you got that man in
Speaker 1: the backfield, Dalvin Cook, who these last two seasons, I
Speaker 1: think he's forced the most mistackles out of any running
Speaker 1: back out there. He does it between the tackles, he
Speaker 1: can do it outside the tackles. And that's the scary
Speaker 1: part to me is that's what we kind of showed
Speaker 1: a chink last week or that last week against the
Speaker 1: Patriots running up the gut was they were they were
Speaker 1: having success with that, and this is a different type
Speaker 1: of back than Harris. Fifty three percent of the Minnesota's
Speaker 1: runs are up the middle. But you talk Cook as
Speaker 1: you should, but they've got Madison the same way. There's
Speaker 1: a Tony Pollard. Yeah, so there's no breath there's no breather.
Speaker 1: It's not like you can go out there at heights.
Speaker 1: Cook's out of there. We can either do this or that. No,
Speaker 1: because Madison's you know, he's just as effective as Cooked.
Speaker 1: He runs just as strong and just as hard, and
Speaker 1: I could wear it down the defense similar to what
Speaker 1: Pollard and Zeke Dude. I'll say this right now, I
Speaker 1: would not be surprised if Alexander Madison is a starting
Speaker 1: running back for someone in two years. Yeah, after he
Speaker 1: gets out of his rookie deal. Man, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a guy that you could pay
Speaker 1: a nice salary to and give turn around and give
Speaker 1: this guy the ball twenty times a game. He's filled
Speaker 1: in for Cook, And I said, go back to the
Speaker 1: whole fantasy football thing. I've had to fill in Madison
Speaker 1: for Cooking, and Madison has gone out there and been
Speaker 1: able to be productive just like Dalvin Cook. So this
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense is going to have have their hands full
Speaker 1: in this football game and trying to run the football
Speaker 1: down here covering their wide receivers. But I do believe
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a better football team. Yeah, without a die.
Speaker 1: I think. So if you look at Minnesota and you
Speaker 1: see three and three, I would tell you right now
Speaker 1: you're not looking at the proper context going there and
Speaker 1: look at some of the games that they play. They've
Speaker 1: lost to a Cleveland, You've lost to the Bengals, which
Speaker 1: was and then Zone which was a close one as well.
Speaker 1: So these are you know, so you're talking about good
Speaker 1: football teams that they've lost barely too. Like it ain't
Speaker 1: like you said, it ain't like getting blown out and
Speaker 1: they're just Kirk Cousins just turned the ball over all
Speaker 1: over the places. Because that's what we've seen before the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got his number. They've been seven and two since
Speaker 1: they've played against Kirk Cousins. But it's like I said,
Speaker 1: this ain't the same one. This guy isn't just throwing turnovers.
Speaker 1: So he's not just willy nilly with the ball in
Speaker 1: the pocket. He's taking care of the pocket or taking
Speaker 1: care of the ball and he's distributing the football well
Speaker 1: out there, especially when they get to the red zone.
Speaker 1: I think they're one of the higher scoring teams when
Speaker 1: they get to the red zone. So this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough contest for this Dallas Cowboys football team,
Speaker 1: especially defensively. It may be their toughest contest of the
Speaker 1: year so far. I mean, they haven't played KC, they
Speaker 1: haven't played Arizona yet, but these guys present some problems.
Speaker 1: It's a picker poison type offense, so they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be on their ps and questro off this entire game.
Speaker 1: Games against Minnesota are always tricky. Last time they played
Speaker 1: like season, the Cowboys ended up winning. Um, I was
Speaker 1: Wilson's coming out party. It was, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a thirty one, twenty eight win. And then um,
Speaker 1: the last time they played down at Jerry World, Minnesota
Speaker 1: ended up winning. So these two teams through the years,
Speaker 1: you know, between Dak Prescott and Kirk Cousins, they have
Speaker 1: they founded battle to battle each other. One thing that
Speaker 1: if your cowboy face should be concerned with, yesterday's practice
Speaker 1: wasn't good. Dalt Schultz came out and said they weren't
Speaker 1: where they needed to be. Randy Gregory said so as well.
Speaker 1: So when we're done here, Um, the players are gonna
Speaker 1: meet the media at one thirty, so bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go out there and and try and
Speaker 1: see exactly what today's practice was. I think that was
Speaker 1: just coming out of a funk of the bye week.
Speaker 1: Just you know, we'll see that at the time. Those
Speaker 1: are the questions I'm definitely gonna ask. So, um, you
Speaker 1: got Schultz's quote here, Chris Bean so, Um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got it, you want it? Yeah, Yeah, definitely felt like
Speaker 1: going through the motions just a little bit um. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously in and out of the huddle, just wasn't as
Speaker 1: crispy usually is. Um, just little things like that after
Speaker 1: a bye week, I think guys are kind of knocking
Speaker 1: the rough the rust off a little bit. Um. At
Speaker 1: this point in the season, we just can't really afford
Speaker 1: to have a day like that. Um. So obviously I
Speaker 1: think guys are gonna come out and attack tomorrow the
Speaker 1: right way. So She'll said yesterday, Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: that's definitely coached talk. You know, after after practice, coaches
Speaker 1: probably got after him a little bit saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta pick our you know what up. You know,
Speaker 1: you know we can't rest on our laurels. I know
Speaker 1: you guys are come out of a bye week, so
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely um, you know, coaches trying to
Speaker 1: motivate them to get back into the momentum that they
Speaker 1: were in before they had this bye week, just to
Speaker 1: snap them out of it. So I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: how they how they you know, talk after this practice
Speaker 1: coming out. I think this is their full padded practice,
Speaker 1: I want to say on Thursdays, so we'll still get
Speaker 1: a better understanding how they are coming out of this practice. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's Randy Gregory, Cowboys defensive end on yesterday's practice. Starts today,
Speaker 1: you know, come out here with good energy. Um. I
Speaker 1: think we did at parts. Um As a whole, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we had the kind of day we
Speaker 1: wanted to UM, But you know, it gives us a
Speaker 1: chance to come back and have a better day, keep
Speaker 1: the energy, lock in on some of our mistakes, and
Speaker 1: what is he good to go come game day? You know,
Speaker 1: I think they're both we're both off a bye week,
Speaker 1: so I think that's kind of a plus that they're
Speaker 1: off one too, but um, yeah, we got worry about ourselves.
Speaker 1: Come back better tomorrow and the next day and the
Speaker 1: next and then you know, go out there and have
Speaker 1: a good game. Right, So that's what I want to
Speaker 1: find out here, the bottom of the hours. How was
Speaker 1: the Thursday practice and where guys were One of the
Speaker 1: things that I do like, there's self a recognition they're
Speaker 1: not licking, just that wasn't our best efforts. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's pretty pretty cool. And keeping each other accountable
Speaker 1: and that's huge when you're in the locker room. If
Speaker 1: you can keep each other accountable, I mean, nobody thinks
Speaker 1: they're better than the team, and that's a huge thing.
Speaker 1: The real question I got is, you know how it
Speaker 1: was four doing out there? You know he did he
Speaker 1: practice yesterday, so good question. He was rolling out today
Speaker 1: a little bit and throwing with these so four talks,
Speaker 1: so today's throwing out so so Dak Prescott is going
Speaker 1: to talk. And that's another reason why I'm going to
Speaker 1: go out there and listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 1: Is they get ready to face the Minnesota Vikings and oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's tough building, man, it is. They're
Speaker 1: going up to Minnesota, right, so it gets loud. It's
Speaker 1: like a mini Jerry World up there. It gets loud
Speaker 1: in there. I mean I played there multiple times, so
Speaker 1: it gets loud. It's gonna be a tough contest. So
Speaker 1: that's another reason why you really want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you don't allow them in the game. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't give them momentum. But at the same time, it
Speaker 1: couldn't be in the game because they've got right, they've
Speaker 1: got a good team, they've got a good offense. So
Speaker 1: I'm very eager to see exactly how the Cowboys play
Speaker 1: this this Vikings team. And as I said, the three
Speaker 1: and three record is not the context that you could
Speaker 1: just really look at here judge this team off of it.
Speaker 1: And I even go back to New England and people
Speaker 1: were just, oh, New England hadn't won a home game
Speaker 1: at all. You know, they made it tough. This is
Speaker 1: the National Football League, folks, they get paid too, not
Speaker 1: college football where you just go rolling here and throw
Speaker 1: And it looked like it last week because so many
Speaker 1: blowouts last week. It was rough last week. Mike McCarthy's record,
Speaker 1: by the way off bye weeks, it's pretty outstanding. So
Speaker 1: Mike's really good at having his teams ready to go,
Speaker 1: ready to play off bye weeks. It's it's Andy Reids
Speaker 1: right now. I think he's got the best record in
Speaker 1: the league, but I think Mike's got one of the
Speaker 1: top five when it comes to what his team's right
Speaker 1: so fight week. So far, Mike's been doing a great
Speaker 1: job of getting his team motivated. They're saying all the
Speaker 1: right things. I mean, they're not they're not going too
Speaker 1: much into stuff. When that Philadelphia coach came in with
Speaker 1: the beat Dallas shirt, all you heard, all you heard
Speaker 1: it now, all you heard from the Cowboys was we're
Speaker 1: not worried about that, worried about what do you have
Speaker 1: to say? Oh, I know, Nick wasn't talking talking. Nick Sirian.
Speaker 1: He got out there and said, you know, nobody wants
Speaker 1: to win more than we do right now. But it's
Speaker 1: like it's like a flower right now and the roots
Speaker 1: underneath and they're growing and you're not acting seeing that
Speaker 1: they're growing. But you gotta water it and fertilizing every day.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're all trying to do. Are you
Speaker 1: watering and fertilizing? That's her guys. You know if they
Speaker 1: do it, and it was just it was they had
Speaker 1: to be killing them in Philly radio. They had to.
Speaker 1: They just go to Twitter. I gotta check it out
Speaker 1: to see this guy talking about flowers and fertilizing in
Speaker 1: the talk. And then of course somebody was like, you
Speaker 1: can't fertilize every day, and then Scott's the fertilized This
Speaker 1: is true, you cannot fertilize every day. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean this. You gotta be better than that. He has
Speaker 1: to be better than that. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what Jeff Lurie, the owner, and how
Speaker 1: he rose him the GM get because you wanted a puppet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wanted somebody, right, somebody you can control and do
Speaker 1: what you want to do. And Philly fan is absolutely
Speaker 1: apoplectic of what they're seeing from their head coach. It's goofy,
Speaker 1: it's collegiate. It's just not what they want to see.
Speaker 1: That he's not inspired any confidence at all. And look
Speaker 1: at their team. They look I mean, they look like
Speaker 1: they're they're outclassed in every single game they go against.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't look even look right. You hired a
Speaker 1: guy who didn't call plays. That was a mistake. Right there,
Speaker 1: and he's calling the plays now though, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: when Oh, by the way, you could have hired a
Speaker 1: guy here who called the plays. They interviewed you see
Speaker 1: what he's doing out here. I mean, think about what
Speaker 1: they could have had. You could have had Kellen Moore,
Speaker 1: you kind of Eric being I mean, but the Goals
Speaker 1: wanted somebody they could control. So Nick Si Rannie's a
Speaker 1: guy they can control exactly what they're getting right now.
Speaker 1: But oh oh well, as Bill Parcells said, just trying
Speaker 1: to keep my own house and Fernie, I'm just here.
Speaker 1: I don't get fine. Cowboys, uh, Cowboys Viking Sunday Halloween Night.
Speaker 1: I'm done for the week. I'll be back Monday, Church,
Speaker 1: I'll be here for the players lounge and then Sunday
Speaker 1: check us out pre impost game for the Sunday night
Speaker 1: football game. So we got we'll have some exciting things
Speaker 1: for y'all. So check us out over there, and uh,
Speaker 1: like Neuis said, you'll be back Monday though, right, yes,
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