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Speaker 1: The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you

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

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: January sixth, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen, Episode number ninety two.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break Life from

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Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we are presented

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Speaker 1: by Geico and we've got a show full of a

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Speaker 1: lot of different topics. We're gonna hit a lot of

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Speaker 1: different things today, everything from Jerod Jerry had to say

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Speaker 1: in his press converse to what Mike McCarthy had to

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Speaker 1: And in the final segment, we're gonna get you guys

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Speaker 1: ready for some playoff football. The Cowboys won't be involved,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna pick some of the games that will

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Speaker 1: be happening this weekend. A lot of football happening this week.

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Speaker 1: You will be six playoff games between Saturday and Sunday

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. We're excited about it, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you guys will be as well. Let's jump in and first,

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Speaker 1: what are you gigging about, Nick, Because don't speak for

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Speaker 1: me that I'm excited. You're not excited about the NFL playoffs? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but excited about it. Okay, my bad. I didn't mean

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Speaker 1: all excited about the NFL playoffs. Yes, like videolutely two

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Speaker 1: Sign me the hell out. I'm in. Yeah, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: thought you were a bigger sports fan than that. Like

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Speaker 1: and so for playoff NFL football, I thought you'd be

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Speaker 1: So I'll watched, but I'm not gonna be like, oh

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Speaker 1: he he's he's an Arkansas fan, so he doesn't know

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Speaker 1: much about that playoff world. Jesus never been in the playoffs. True, well,

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Speaker 1: You know, had a ball game scheduled until Oh, here

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Speaker 1: we go with that. Nick's not happy about that ball game. Cancel. No, not,

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Speaker 1: but you know you don't want you want to take

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Speaker 1: You're good? That's all right, all right, let's jump in.

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Speaker 1: I can feel that, I can feel the attention here.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I hated that before they out of the game.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I know, I know that whole program, the

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Speaker 1: whole thing, like cool Town program, Color Scott everything. Yeah, Lord,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Let's ta a little Cowboys football. Um.

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Speaker 1: I want to start first with with just kind of

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Speaker 1: uh that had things to say about the season. Let's

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Speaker 1: when it comes to finances around the NFL right now,

427
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Speaker 1: So I don't know what's going to happen there, Dave.

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Speaker 1: I can think of one way Dak Prescott could have

429
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Speaker 1: more leverage, and if it was, it's if he wasn't

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Speaker 1: using crutches to get around right now. I mean, that's

431
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Speaker 1: just kind of the unfortunate reality of the situation. But

432
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Speaker 1: I do think he's got a lot of leverage. And

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Speaker 1: I also think that Amber makes a good point. But like, again,

434
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Speaker 1: that's not Dak Prescott's problem, and we know that, yes,

435
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Speaker 1: the salary cap is going to be impacted right now,

436
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Speaker 1: but it's going to go up. The NFL is going

437
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Speaker 1: to negotiate new TV deals for lots and lots and

438
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Speaker 1: lots of money. And if I was Dak and his representation,

439
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, that's that's tough. You're gonna have

440
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Speaker 1: a cap crunch this year, But it won't be there

441
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Speaker 1: for that long because it's gonna skyrocket when they signed

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Speaker 1: those new deals next year or in the next you

443
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Speaker 1: know what, next twelve eighteen months whenever that is. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if Dak has the

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Speaker 1: maximum leverage, but I think he's got a lot of it.

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Speaker 1: And me personally, I don't disagree with y'all that maybe

447
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,880
Speaker 1: this is a negotiating tactic. But to me, I think

448
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones recognizes that if he wants Dak Prescott to

449
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Speaker 1: be his quarterback, he's gonna have to pay a premium

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Speaker 1: for it, and there's just not really a way around that.

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Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting that maybe he doesn't

452
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Speaker 1: mean every word of what he said, but to me,

453
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Speaker 1: it says he recognizes that. And maybe I'm just being optimistic,

454
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Speaker 1: but I hope it means it leads to them getting

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Speaker 1: a deal done sooner rather than later. Yeah, I do

456
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Speaker 1: kind of agree with that because and I a little

457
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Speaker 1: disagree with you a bit nick on that because I

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Speaker 1: think the leverage really is on Dak's side. Now, I

459
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Speaker 1: don't I know Jerry and Steven, and I've been in

460
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Speaker 1: negotiate with players. I've been in negotiating with them on

461
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 1: business things. They're very shrewd negotiators, so they don't say

462
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Speaker 1: anything that doesn't have that they're not going to use

463
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Speaker 1: at some point. So this is all a part of

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Speaker 1: their negotiations, like it all goes into it. But I

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Speaker 1: will say this, I think time is on Dak's side.

466
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Speaker 1: The longer this thing goes on, the more leveraged Dak has.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why is because after this next season,

468
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, we all agree. I think we all

469
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Speaker 1: agree that there is a likely chance that the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are gonna franchise tag him even before they get a

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Speaker 1: deal done going into this offseason. If they're going to

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Speaker 1: franchise him, then basically Dad could sit there and say, okay,

473
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Speaker 1: so they're one of two options. You can either give

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Speaker 1: me a long term deal of what I want, or

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Speaker 1: I play on the franchise tag this year, which means

476
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make what thirty I think it's thirty eight

477
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Speaker 1: thirty nine something like that this year, and then next

478
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Speaker 1: year it's gonna be cost prohibitive for you to franchise

479
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Speaker 1: me again, so I become a free agent and I

480
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Speaker 1: can go in as long as there are other teams

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Speaker 1: out there that are willing to pay him what he's

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Speaker 1: asking for in a contract demand. He owns the leverage.

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Speaker 1: He just plays this year at that thirty eight thirty nine,

484
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Speaker 1: whatever that number is, it's the franchise tag this year,

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Speaker 1: and then he's free right so to me. The more

486
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: time goes on, the more leverage, leverage he has if

487
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't want to risk losing him because he

488
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Speaker 1: can determine what he does after this next year. I

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Speaker 1: don't agree with that. Why because because what if he

490
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Speaker 1: goes I mean, he went eight and eight the year before,

491
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Speaker 1: he went one, two and three this year if he

492
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Speaker 1: doesn't do if if he has another year where he's

493
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Speaker 1: got his team in the playoffs, then and what if

494
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: he gets hurt against he before he has never gotten hurt.

495
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: Now he got hurt and he didn't play that well

496
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 1: or his team didn't play that well beforehand. So the

497
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: more time goes on, I think the price tag actually

498
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Speaker 1: goes down. And I'll actually say something you guys will

499
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Speaker 1: all disagree with. I think it is Dak's problem. You

500
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Speaker 1: say it's not Dax's problem to figure it out. I

501
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: think partially it is his problem. He's the leader of

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Speaker 1: the team in the quarterback, so he can sit there

503
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Speaker 1: and you can beat Deshaun Watson and get forty million

504
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: a year, but who's around. So I think in this

505
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: weird year in yes, the cat might go up work

506
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Speaker 1: with the team. They'll work with you. You want to

507
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Speaker 1: be the quarterback of the team, you know, you got

508
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Speaker 1: more money in your pocket because you are the quarterback

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Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboy. With that as a fact, nobody

510
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: can argue that. But work with the team here and

511
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: let them and let them figure out this thing as

512
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Speaker 1: they get by this unique year. I think it is

513
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: his problem. Let's go back to that winning argument. I

514
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: have two words for you, Kirk Cousins. You don't have

515
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Speaker 1: to be a winning quarterback to make a ton of

516
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Speaker 1: money in the NFL. All you have to do is

517
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Speaker 1: be a quarterback that has promised to be a quarterback

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Speaker 1: that teams look at and say, is he better than

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Speaker 1: what we got number one and number two? Is he

520
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: good enough where if we if we can do certain

521
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Speaker 1: things that we can, he can take us championship. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any doubt that Dak Prescott is

523
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Speaker 1: that kind of quarterback, regardless of whether they go eight

524
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Speaker 1: and eighth this year or not. I've never been in

525
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Speaker 1: a fight, but if I got hit in the face twice,

526
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Speaker 1: I think the third time I'd have my hands up.

527
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: So at some point the league's gonna have their hands

528
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Speaker 1: up and they say these guys are not worth it.

529
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Speaker 1: And the Cowboys are trying to do that right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The difference is the difference is you're talking from a

531
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Speaker 1: standpoint of a frame chise, it's had a quarterback for

532
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, go back, go back and be that

533
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,160
Speaker 1: franchise that you were back in two thousand and two,

534
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: two thousand and three where you were sitting there without

535
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback and every Sunday it was like, I don't

536
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: know how we're gonna win because our quarterbacks not better

537
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: than their quarterback. You do that for ten years, like

538
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: some of these franchises have, and and you're a lot

539
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: like that. You're that starving man that takes that salting

540
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: cracker and thinks it's a ritz. Like you take, you

541
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: will take whatever you can get because you have been

542
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: dealing with really really bad quarterback play, and you know

543
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: you can't win with really really bad quarterback play. I

544
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: would also like to throw in there. I feel like

545
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: there's a lot of hand ringing about. You know, you

546
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: pay Dak, you can't surround him with any talent. How

547
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 1: the talent's all already here, Like I mean, you know,

548
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: the tackles got hurt this year, that's bad luck. But

549
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 1: there are great players that are under contract. The running

550
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,239
Speaker 1: back is under contract. Two of the three receivers are

551
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: under contract for the foreseeable, foreseeable future. You've got an

552
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: all pro defensive end. Yeah, like the defense needs a

553
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: lot of work. That's what you have draft picks for.

554
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, when they were paying Dak

555
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars a year, they weren't bringing in

556
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: all this crazy talent. They were just resigning their own guys.

557
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 1: Like you had the cheap quarterback play and you didn't

558
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: do anything with that cap space while you could. So

559
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: where where is all this concern about not adding talent?

560
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: Like the cornerstone pieces that you need to be successful

561
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: are here, and you use the draft to fill in

562
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: the rest. But Dave, are you are you talking? Are

563
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: you kind of talking out of both sides of your

564
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,479
Speaker 1: mouth a little bit there? Because if you're saying they

565
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: already got the talent here, then that means they did

566
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Speaker 1: take advantage of those years to bring all that talent in.

567
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: They couldn't have built all the talent you're saying they

568
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: have right now if they didn't take advantage of those

569
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: years to get the talent, right. No, they will. They

570
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: use their cap space, Well, they use some of their

571
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: cap space to retain the guys that they had. But

572
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: this is not a team if they have talent out.

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Speaker 1: This is not a team that's been caps apped in

574
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: the last five years though, Like they have had money

575
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: that they could have spent to make the team better

576
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: in other ways and they didn't do it. And and

577
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's an organizational philosophy. That's they don't

578
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: want to they don't want to be big spenders in

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Speaker 1: free agency, and that's okay, but to act like, you know,

580
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: like people are like, oh my god, if we didn't

581
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: pay dec we'd be able to get all these guys,

582
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Speaker 1: Like they're not going to do that. They haven't in

583
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: almost a decade. But you said they weren't cap strapped.

584
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Speaker 1: That's because their quarterback was making less than I mean,

585
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm making about a million. Well, I mean, now he's

586
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Speaker 1: gonna now he's gonna make I mean, but there are

587
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Speaker 1: they made. He made thirty one million this year, and

588
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: and they weren't, you know, they were they weren't a

589
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: deep football team. They didn't have a lot of depth,

590
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: and they got a lot of injuries and stuff like that.

591
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Speaker 1: But I don't know, thirty one million. Now he's maybe

592
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna make forty. That's a nine million dollars difference.

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Speaker 1: Do you know anyone that makes nine million? I know

594
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Speaker 1: a few people on the other side of the building,

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Speaker 1: not really know anybody on this show make the other

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Speaker 1: side of the ball. Uh, nobody. See you're saying, you're

597
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Speaker 1: saying you can solve one problem by getting rid of another.

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Speaker 1: About nine million, I couldn't think. You know, well, you

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Speaker 1: final segment of the Break. We're gonna go full thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes here with no commercial breaks. We got some things

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Speaker 1: we still got to finish talking about. From the what

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Speaker 1: that was nothing? I was cheering? Oh, from the press conferences.

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Speaker 1: And then at the end of the show, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Jason Garrett, who sounds like

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Speaker 1: he might get an opportunity to be a head coach

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Speaker 1: sooner rather than later. We're also gonna pick some of

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Speaker 1: the NFL games that Nick's not excited about this weekend,

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Speaker 1: but David and I are extremely excited about. We can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see what all's gonna happen this weekend. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, whatever, I don't care. Um, so let's

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Speaker 1: let's get back into this whole thing on Dak Prescott stopping.

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarty says his press confidence, he was very confident

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Speaker 1: that Prescott's contract. I was me clapping. He mentioned Garrett,

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Speaker 1: and I was clapping. Yeah, I can't see me. We're

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Speaker 1: so far off the rails, guys, I get it now.

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Speaker 1: We have thirty minutes to get Sorry, sorry, all yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got it. We got way more time than normal.

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Speaker 1: We got all the time in the world. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's sure. Okay. So so Mike McCarty says he's very

665
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Speaker 1: confident that Dak Prescott's contract will get settled. The question

666
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Speaker 1: is simple for you, guys. Are you that confident? Amber,

667
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: We'll start with you. I'm not super confident. I mean,

668
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Speaker 1: based on the things that we just talked about, but

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Speaker 1: I had a question that I wanted to ask you guys,

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Speaker 1: if everything had happened the same exact way as far

671
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Speaker 1: as injuries on the team, except that Dak Prescott had

672
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Speaker 1: stayed healthy and still be the quarterback this past season,

673
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Speaker 1: how different do you think the record would have been

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. I think they would have won the division,

675
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Speaker 1: almost won. That's two wins. Yeah, and that's my point, right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: so Philadelphia on the road, Okay, I mean the would

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Speaker 1: have gotten one of the games against Washington at least,

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Speaker 1: I think maybe both Just just look at the play

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Speaker 1: where quarterback fail the play failed them Philadelphia on the

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Speaker 1: road and Pittsburgh in New York to finish the season. Yeah,

681
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: that wasn't a good day for any wasn't I think

682
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Speaker 1: he started playing like Dak at the end of like

683
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Speaker 1: running and doing those kind of things. But he Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't a good nay struggling. Yeah, three or four

685
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Speaker 1: more wins? So I can think of four games. Yeah, yeah,

686
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Speaker 1: So I guess my question leads to Okay, and don't

687
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, like I absolutely love Dak Prescott and

688
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Speaker 1: I think he's trending upwards despite the injury. I think

689
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Speaker 1: that he's a really good quarterback or getting there. But

690
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: do they really need to pay someone like Dak or

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Speaker 1: can they if they get all these other guys help

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Speaker 1: you fix their defensive issues, can they just get by

693
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Speaker 1: or make it? You know, not really miss much with that.

694
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Speaker 1: And I know Dave is gonna is hating this question already,

695
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: but it's the truth. I mean, you gotta look at

696
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Speaker 1: it that way as well. Go look at the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: look at the quarterbacks that are in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: then look at the quarterbacks that are in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: by next weekend, and then you answer that question, can

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Speaker 1: you get by with just a average to less than

701
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: average quarterback? I don't think you can. If you're if

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Speaker 1: you're if your goals are to be a playoff contender

703
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Speaker 1: or Super Bowl contender, you just look at the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You go back to look at the last years of playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and you tell me how many times you see a

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Speaker 1: team with that kind of quarterback deep in the playoffs

707
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Speaker 1: unless you've got a transcendent defense. And we definitely don't

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Speaker 1: have a transcendent defense unless you're looking at it from

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00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: the other side, We're far from that, right that goes Actually,

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Speaker 1: that kind of ties into the point that I was

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Speaker 1: trying to make in the previous segment, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: very fair. I mean, the Cowboys have spent money to

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Speaker 1: keep their own players here. But again, to win the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you either need a transcendent quarterback or you

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Speaker 1: need a roster that has no deficiencies whatsoever. And like

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Speaker 1: you know, a great coach. San Francisco last year is

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Speaker 1: a perfect example. Jimmy G's not this amazing, We're great

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Speaker 1: everywhere else. How did they build that team? They did

719
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Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. They had top five draft picks,

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Speaker 1: They spent big money in free agency to bring in

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Speaker 1: guys like Kwan Alexander and Richard Sherman. And have the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys ever been that team? Do they want to be

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Speaker 1: that team? So? And for that matter, people love to

724
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: hey Jerry Jones for being this bad general manager who

725
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: doesn't evaluate talent the right way. And so, what do

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00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,479
Speaker 1: you think is more realistic that Dak grows into being

727
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback that can carry you there or that the

728
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: Cowboys hit on every single note that you have to

729
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: hit to have a great team without a great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I'll take my chances with the great quarterback, and I

731
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Speaker 1: legitimately think the sixth best in the league right now.

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Speaker 1: And two or three of the guys above him are

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Speaker 1: closer to the end of their career. So I'm taking

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Speaker 1: my chances with Dak Prescott every time. I agree with

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Speaker 1: your premise. Dave, I don't know if I agree with

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Speaker 1: how it played out with San Francisco, though. I think

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Speaker 1: that San Francisco did what they did last year primarily

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Speaker 1: on the strength of their front seven, and even more

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Speaker 1: primarily on the strength of their front four, And to me,

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Speaker 1: that was all about the bad, the idea that they

741
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: were bad for so long that they were able to

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Speaker 1: stockpile some really, really great first round talent that was

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Speaker 1: along that front that gave teams fits last year, and

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00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: you're seeing the difference this year. They lost a ton

745
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: of those guys this year, either an injury order free agency,

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00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: and you see that team is completely different this year

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Speaker 1: than they were last year. And so that that goes

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Speaker 1: back to my original point though that I was getting

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Speaker 1: to when Ambery asked the question, you have to have

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Speaker 1: a defense that's just so much better, and then even

751
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: that defense, as good as it was last year, still

752
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough to put it on Mahomes, who was

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Speaker 1: a better quarterback, a transcendent quarterback, in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to have either a transcendent defense,

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00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 1: I'm talking a really really great defense, or you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to have a quarterback that can outscore the opponent.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think there's an in between. I really don't.

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Speaker 1: You look at the history of the of the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: There's not really an in between. No, No, the in

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Speaker 1: between is team that sits there at eight and eight,

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Speaker 1: seven and nine. Here you go. That's what this team is.

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Speaker 1: Because I'll creep up to maybe a thirteen and three

763
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Speaker 1: season every once a while, but they don't get to

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I don't want to go down this road.

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Speaker 1: But the problem is it's just that I just don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this team is close to having that

767
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: bass defense at all. And they just they're just bad. Really,

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00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: they don't have then don't have another part yet, or

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00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: they the second part and they don't have the first part.

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Speaker 1: They're either bad or they're asked, but they're not the same.

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00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,959
Speaker 1: They're not together. I don't know, didn't mean to go there,

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00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: but I feel a column coming. No, no, no, I

773
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: feel a bleep out on the on demand version. No,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like they're not. They're not a badass defense.

775
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if that Dak is that elite

776
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: quarterback that's gonna just carry this team. I don't think

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00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: he's good enough for that. And I don't it's a

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00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: shot against Dak. I don't think he's good enough to

779
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: lug this this bad team around. But do you know,

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00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: but do you think that that's also because he hasn't

781
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 1: gotten to that point yet, Because I believe that if

782
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: you look at how his trajectory has been. Again I

783
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: say this all the time and now starting to sound

784
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: almost like a c A cliche. Yeah, but it is

785
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: very Russell Wilson life. But he is. So are you

786
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: looking at are you looking at his stats? Are you

787
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: looking at his wins? I'm looking at his play, I'm

788
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: looking at how he plays. I'm looking at this year,

789
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Speaker 1: the games he played this year. That offense was on

790
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: a their trajectory was on a level where they were

791
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Speaker 1: heading toward like one of the best offenses in the league.

792
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Speaker 1: And that's in the league with those other quarterbacks that

793
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Speaker 1: we're talking about. The difference was they couldn't hold on

794
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: to the freaking ball and that was not on deck.

795
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: That was on a bunch of other guys who couldn't

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Speaker 1: hold onto the ball. Here's a stat that helps Dak.

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Speaker 1: Um he you know, I think when he started five games, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Dalton started nine games. Dalton played three playoff teams, Um,

799
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: and so did and so did Dak. You know that

800
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: they lost to those games. But I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: actually can't think of the third playoff Oh, I can't

802
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: think of the third playoff team that Dalton played. But

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00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:50,720
Speaker 1: were you thinking about Dealers Baltimore, Baltimore, Washington and Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: That's what it was to Washington Baltimore and Dad played

805
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: the Browns, the Rams and the Seahawks and a lot

806
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: more competitive games over there. Anyways, that just kind of

807
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: it goes to show that the yeah they were one

808
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: and four, sorry my bad, two and three, but they

809
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: played much better teams and they were in the games

810
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: a little bit. But those games they lost, was it

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Speaker 1: Dak's fault. I don't think Dak was the primary blame

812
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: as to why they lost those games. I think the

813
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: defense felled them and I think they turned the ball

814
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: over too much, and that was not on Dak, in

815
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: my opinion, goes back to that interfseason playoff game. Against

816
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: the Packers. You know, he brought him back, but he

817
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 1: also there's a reason why they were in hand twenty

818
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: four points. You know, there's reason why Cleveland was up.

819
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Speaker 1: It's not just everybody else, not just the defense. There's

820
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 1: a reason why it was not the turnover. So well,

821
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Speaker 1: some of it's on Dak. I mean you have to

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Speaker 1: put some of it on Dak. You have to, like

823
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: they were. They didn't just lose every game for all

824
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: everybody else like that. Dak could play a little bit

825
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: better in those games and his stats were great, But

826
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it wasn't just Dak. Yeah, I get that.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying though, if you look at Dak and how

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Speaker 1: he played this year, I think in those games that

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Speaker 1: he lost where he started. I don't think the primary

830
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: reason they lost was him. I think he's way down

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Speaker 1: the pecking list. If you want to talk about it.

832
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: If this went right, that game changes, If this went right,

833
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: that game changes, I think Dak's way down that list.

834
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: I think you can get to a lot of other

835
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: players before you can get to Dak on that one.

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00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: So my point is, I just think his trajectory is

837
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: pointing up, and I think if you keep rolling with

838
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: him within another year or two, I do think this

839
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: offense can be completely and totally. Dak will be the

840
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: best thing that you do. They were on the road

841
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: to that this year. I think Dak by next year,

842
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: the year after that, I think Dak will be the

843
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: very best thing this offense does, maybe the best thing

844
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: this team does. That's not always Also, what's uh, what's

845
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: the what's what's the alternative? What's the alternative? What are

846
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: you doing if you don't want Dack? You want to

847
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: start over and build that defense? And Nick has been

848
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: talking about, now you take one of those guys that

849
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: are that are going to be available from you know, Hey,

850
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: I'm still still was left wanting to see Garret Gilbert.

851
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was my mind. I'm gonna lose it,

852
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: we jep. I mean, if you want to draft the guy,

853
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: that's if you want to If you want to draft

854
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: the guy, that's fine, that's totally fine. I Mean the

855
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 1: track record over the last like six years is not

856
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: great for every Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen. There's a

857
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of Blake Bortles, Jared Goff, Carson

858
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: wentz Uh, you know a lot of that. So in

859
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: a sure thing, by any stretch of the imagination, are

860
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: you saying you don't think that Dak is capable of

861
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: taking a team to the super Bowl, Because if you've

862
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: got a quarterback in the building that you think is

863
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: capable of taking a team to the super Bowl, you

864
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: definitely aren't going back to the well. If you got

865
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: a guy that you think is ascending in the direction

866
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: where he will be able to be able to take

867
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 1: a team to the super Bowl, again, you're not going

868
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: back to the well. You're sticking with what you got.

869
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: Are you saying you don't think that that's the case

870
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott M I mean not really not the

871
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: talent that that there is. I don't think he's No,

872
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: I don't. I haven't seen it yet. I mean, and

873
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: of course he because I haven't made to the super Bowl.

874
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: I get it, and they've been they've been close. But

875
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm just saying the talent around him. I think he

876
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: does need the talent, And the problem is is that

877
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: you're going to pay him forty billion a year. It's

878
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: hard to get those guys around him. So it's okay, though,

879
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean, like there's there's only there's twenty seven, twenty

880
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: eight teams that aren't good enough to go to the

881
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: super Bowl. You know, you just said he would be

882
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: the best thing they do. Romo was the best thing

883
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did. It wasn't good enough. Stafford is the

884
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: best thing the Lions have had for years. It wasn't

885
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: good enough. Some teams, it's just not good enough. But

886
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: that's okay. That doesn't mean you can't catch lightning in

887
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: the bottle, get to the playoffs, get hot, get rolling,

888
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: get in there. The best team doesn't always go to

889
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. So I mean, I think I think

890
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: that's think they can compete. I mean, let me just

891
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: say this. I think he's good enough to get this

892
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: team to compete past the first round of the playoffs.

893
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: You get to that point, anything that's well, then that's

894
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: that's one question, right, that's my question, because honestly, I

895
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 1: think if you feel like he is that caliber quarterback,

896
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: you don't go back to the way. You don't you

897
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: don't go back to the well hoping that by the way,

898
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: unless you're getting the top pick in the draft. It

899
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: and that's even somewhat of a of a of a gamble,

900
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: of course, but everybody else like you are really taking

901
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty proposition on this thing. Why would you

902
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: go back to the well when you find you already

903
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: got a guy who can get you at least at

904
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: that point. I'm not going back to the well to

905
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 1: answer her question, I'm not going back to the well.

906
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sign Dack and we're gonna try to make

907
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: this thing work. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough.

908
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,399
Speaker 1: But that's that's it's tough for all those teams. See

909
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: what happens when you know, I mean, it's it's a

910
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: tough league. Yeah, that's why go back and look at

911
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,839
Speaker 1: what my homes did. My homes gave it. You know,

912
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: he got a it's a friendly deal, even though it's

913
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: fifty million years friendly, it's a friendly deal. He worked

914
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: with them a little bit. He worked with them. That's

915
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: the difference. DA's already looking at the next contract, you know,

916
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: And I think that's where some of the some of

917
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 1: the issues have been. So let me complicate this a

918
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: little bit more, um and ask you guys from the

919
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: standpoint of Mike McCartney said that Dak's ankle rehab is

920
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: right on course. My question for you, guys, is how

921
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: much are you concerned about Dak's return from this brutal

922
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: injury after seeing the decline of Carson Wentz, who before

923
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: his injury, Carson Wentz was, in my opinion, on his

924
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: way to being one of the very best quarterbacks in

925
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: the league. He has not played to that level since

926
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: that injury, and I don't know if the injury is

927
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: the reason why, but he certainly hasn't gotten back to

928
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: that level. Does that give you any reason to be

929
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: concerned with Dak coming off this type of horrific injury.

930
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Dave. I'm very, very concerned, and

931
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, I feel guilty saying that because obviously, you know,

932
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the Dak Homer fan club president, and that's fine.

933
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:42,799
Speaker 1: But people people lie about injuries. They have every reason too.

934
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: You know, you don't you don't want to admit that

935
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: type of stuff, And you know they spent the whole

936
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: summer saying, lyle with reason, that type of stuff happens

937
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: all the time. So I cannot take it at face

938
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: value that everything's hunky dory. I need I need proof,

939
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: and like I'm probably not gonna get it. But the

940
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: Cowboys need to do everything in their power to make

941
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: sure that they feel confident about it. You know, he's what,

942
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: he's almost three months removed from surgery, so you know,

943
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: I would imagine you can start checking in on that,

944
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: seeing how it's responding, seeing if there's any damage that

945
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: you missed or that isn't healing properly. But that's between

946
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: now and like March, I really hope that they can

947
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:29,280
Speaker 1: get a handle on how they feel about it, regardless

948
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: of whether they talk about it publicly, because you know,

949
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: going back to Nick's point, and so I guess none

950
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: of us want to go back to the well, but

951
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: I think they need to have if they feel good

952
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: about it, they need to have Dak signed long term

953
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: before the draft because you never know next time you're

954
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: going to be in the top ten, and there's a

955
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 1: lot of good quarterbacks in this draft class, so they

956
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: need to know. They got to know how they feel

957
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: about it, and if they feel good, they need to

958
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: get him signed. And if they feel bad, then they

959
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 1: can start talking about alternative options. But that's priority number one,

960
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: is making sure that they're confident about his foot. Nick, Yeah,

961
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: what was the question, are you concerned? How sir, are

962
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: you about about the injury and looking at what happened.

963
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: That's a great point with what Dave just made about

964
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: the draft. I mean, and that's why maybe Deck doesn't

965
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: have the leverage that you would think. You know, but

966
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: but it just all depends. Leverage is all how you

967
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: how you view it. And also like if he's okay

968
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: saying you know what if I don't play here, I

969
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: play in Jacksonville. And three, if he's okay, that's like

970
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: if if his whole thing is am I gonna get

971
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: paid by somebody? Then he has a ton of leverage.

972
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: You're right, absolutely right about that. And that's a tricky

973
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: that's another conversation too, you know what I mean. But

974
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: but second contracts are huge for all NFL players to

975
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: get it. Um, you know, fans don't want to see that.

976
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: They want a little bit more loyalty there. That's just

977
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: the way it is. That's reality that uh for that.

978
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:56,280
Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna make it work. Um. Carson

979
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 1: Wentz is a different thing. I think right now it's

980
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: it's between the ears with him. I don't know that

981
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, But the question would be did the

982
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: injury contribute to what's happening between the well the city

983
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: also doesn't help him. I mean, that's a tough city

984
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: to play and I think it's just a lot of

985
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: things involved there. They view him as the savior. He

986
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 1: certainly isn't. They had a lot of issues. I think

987
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: he's I think he's got good football in front of him.

988
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: Though he's a good player. I know he's not playing

989
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: well and I'm not going to compare him to Dak

990
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,319
Speaker 1: because he doesn't play as well as Dak and all that,

991
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: but like I in the fourth quarter when he's when

992
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: they're driving, like, I don't like him with the ball, honestly,

993
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: I've just seen it too many times to feel like

994
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: So I think he'll I think he'll go to another team,

995
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: get a fresh start, and I think he'll be a

996
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: good player. I actually interested to see if if the

997
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: rumors are true that that Indianapolis would want him where

998
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: he's back with Frank Reich, who was his offensive coordinator

999
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: when that year when he was in Philadelphia, and they're

1000
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: they're like, you know, they got Philip Rivers right now,

1001
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: who's older. It'd be a nice little transition to just

1002
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: put Wins right in there. Let me tell you the

1003
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: difference between Indianapolis and Philly if you need, Oh, there's

1004
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: a lot when we go to the buses. Yeah. I

1005
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: remember our first year in nineteen ninety nine we played Indianapolis.

1006
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: We're there and we got about six or seven people

1007
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: out in the parking lot giving us that brutal thumbs

1008
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: down like boom, Yeah. Philly. A couple of weeks later, eggs, birds, moons.

1009
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: They threw birds at us. They oh that kind of bird. Yeah,

1010
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: come on, different Philadelphia Indianapolis A little bit different. Sorry, yeah,

1011
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: it is a little bit different, all right, Amber, What

1012
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: do you think? Well, As someone that absolutely freaks out

1013
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: about any little injury, for some reason, I don't feel

1014
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: ass concerned about his recovery. I think that he's going

1015
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: to recover well and be able to play well. But

1016
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 1: my question, or my worry would be his running game.

1017
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be able to run? And that's one

1018
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: of the things that adds value to his game is

1019
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: his ability to use his legs. And I don't mean

1020
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: to sound like a broken record because I mentioned the

1021
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 1: red zone a lot, and that is still a big

1022
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: area of concern for me and the Cowboys. Inability or

1023
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,320
Speaker 1: inability to find some kind of success in the red zone,

1024
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: And that's my biggest question. I mean, Dad has been

1025
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: able to be a weapon, a big weapon in the

1026
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: red zone, and some of the times that they've been

1027
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: able to get in there in the end zone has

1028
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: been because of Dak's ability to use his legs and

1029
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: run in there. So that would be the area that

1030
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: concerns me, and that would be in the back of

1031
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: my head. Can he still run? Can the Cowboys still

1032
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: utilize that side of the game, because I think that

1033
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: one of his biggest values is in his legs and

1034
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: his ability to run, So that would be the area

1035
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: of concern. But as far as recovery overall and him

1036
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: still being in the pocket and being able to throw

1037
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: the ball, well, I don't think that's going to be

1038
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: an issue. Yeah, I think that's a great point, Amber,

1039
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,879
Speaker 1: And I actually I actually think of it more. Will

1040
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys try to limit him from running more than

1041
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: him trying to stop himself or not being able to run.

1042
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: We heard Jerry talk several times after the injury about

1043
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: just how much danger you put a quarter back in

1044
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: when you when you use him in that way. I

1045
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: really do wonder if they're gonna try to take a

1046
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: step back with how much they decide to use him.

1047
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 1: And I think that is such a critical part of

1048
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: his game. If you take it away from his game,

1049
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the same quarterbacks. I think they're

1050
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: gonna have to keep it in while trying to be

1051
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: smart with him and maybe teaching him how to slide

1052
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more and know when the ride's over,

1053
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 1: but rather than taking some of the hits that he takes. Yeah,

1054
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: there's no doubt though the team is better when he

1055
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 1: runs the ball down and and I think she's right.

1056
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the red zone that's the biggest difference.

1057
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Dalton did okay at times. I mean he

1058
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: was he was what you thought he would be come

1059
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: in there. If he had the offensive tackles, I think

1060
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 1: they would have been better, Zack Martin, he would have

1061
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: been a little bit better. But I think during the

1062
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: red zone issues, I mean, that's where Dack's value is

1063
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: really enhanced. So um, I hope he's still that guy

1064
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: that still will will run and not even think about it.

1065
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: And I think he will be. I think he'll be thinking,

1066
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's go. We already we already know

1067
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: he's good. Sorry. I mean he's got a quarterback, he's

1068
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: got a quarterback coach that he spends the off season with.

1069
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: Just hire a base running coach while you're at it,

1070
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson runs all the freaking time, and he never

1071
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: gets hurt because he never gets hit, because he slides

1072
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,359
Speaker 1: like a baseball player, because he played baseball. So you

1073
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: can learn that stuff. Just go spend you know, once

1074
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: you're able to move around, go spend the off season

1075
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: with the base running coach. You're gonna say something else.

1076
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: He slides like a baseball player. I thought it was.

1077
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: I know, that's what I say. I'm not criticized, you know,

1078
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: I think you should. If I'm like the Jason Committee,

1079
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: that that's the first thing that's going out. It's the

1080
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: slide out. All right, Let's let's go up to the NFL.

1081
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jason Garrett. Reports are that Jason Garrett

1082
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: that the Chargers have requested an interview with Jason Garrett

1083
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: for their Hit Open Hit head coaching job. My question

1084
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: for you guys is, after all the years you guys

1085
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: spent covering Jason Garrett, do you think Jason will be

1086
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: a successful head coach Head coach somewhere else. Stop it, Nick,

1087
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: We'll start reolutely. Absolutely. I just wanted to use his

1088
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: term been good. You know, he's he's Jason Garrett is

1089
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 1: a good is a good football coach, and he has

1090
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: been for a long time. And I think that he

1091
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 1: will do a good job there. I think he'll have

1092
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: a quarterback if that's if that's the route for them, Yeah,

1093
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: I think I think that would be good. Um, you know,

1094
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: is he going to excite the fan base? No, But

1095
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: do they have fans? Yes, they have fans. I mean

1096
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: not a lie, not a ton not. I mean, they

1097
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: got some fans, all right. They don't own their city.

1098
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: They pissed off another city. I'm just saying that they

1099
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,919
Speaker 1: don't own the state. There's not a ton to charge

1100
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: your fans in whatever, but there's some doesn't matter. He's

1101
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: an efficient, prepared coach. They'll do a good job with

1102
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. He's done well with Romo when he

1103
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,560
Speaker 1: was offensive coordinating Romo's early years. He did well with

1104
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: Dak I think you could say he did well with

1105
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, but I mean there's injuries and stuff there

1106
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: in different issues. I think he'll do well with the quarterback.

1107
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: If he's there, I think it'd be a good move,

1108
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: all right, Amber, you know what, I think that he

1109
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: will be able to find some kind of different success. Obviously,

1110
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: you got to have a good players and all that,

1111
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: but just as a head coach overall, I think that

1112
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 1: him becoming an offensive an offensive coordinator over there in

1113
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,240
Speaker 1: New York kind of helped him take a step back

1114
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: and kind of self review and evaluate himself. Honestly, I

1115
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 1: was very impressed with what he did in that first

1116
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: encounter with the Cowboys this year, the first game we

1117
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: played against them. It impressed me because he did some

1118
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: things that were unusual that we didn't see the cow

1119
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: and I know his role was different, but at the

1120
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: same time, there were things that were creative. There were

1121
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: plays that were not something that you would predict from

1122
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett. So I feel that he has been able

1123
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: to get out of his comfort zone a little bit

1124
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 1: and just kind of be more with up to date,

1125
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 1: up the time, like what's happening currently now in the NFL.

1126
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: So I think that that helped him take a step forward.

1127
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: And if he does get a head coach job, I

1128
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: believe that he would do better than what he's done

1129
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 1: here in the past, all right, Dave, I do think

1130
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: I mean Jason Garrett is He's not awful obviously. I

1131
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: mean he was here for a decade, they made the

1132
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: playoffs regularly, and they were always relevant, Like they only

1133
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: had one legitimately awful season during the time that he

1134
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: was here. But I just I think the Chargers could

1135
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 1: do better in terms of making an inspired hire, especially

1136
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: because if I was going to hire Jason Garrett, I

1137
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: would probably I would do it if I was a

1138
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: team that needed a total culture revamp, like doesn't know

1139
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 1: how to win, doesn't know how to be successful, doesn't

1140
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: know how to be professional, like you know, the Browns

1141
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: before they got Baker, when they were like one in

1142
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: thirty five, I would hire Jason Garrett to turn a

1143
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,840
Speaker 1: franchise like that around. I don't think the Chargers need that,

1144
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 1: like they were twelve and four or two years ago.

1145
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: They've got really good veteran players on that team. Joey Bosa.

1146
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what Melvin Ingram's contract status is, but

1147
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,440
Speaker 1: he's a hell of a player. Derwin James Keenan Allen,

1148
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: and then I mean Justin Herbert is probably gonna win.

1149
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. He's a badass. I and I

1150
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: just I don't know. Jason Garrett would bum me out

1151
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 1: if I was a Chargers fan because he's just gonna

1152
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: come in and like he's an old school guy. You're

1153
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: probably not gonna get the bells and whistles that you

1154
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: want for a hot shot, young quarterback. I'm trying to

1155
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: hire a young, energetic guy who can be the Sean

1156
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: Payton to my Drew Brees for the next fifteen years.

1157
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: Like that's ideally who I would try to hire. So

1158
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: I think, I mean sure, Kellen Moore is a great

1159
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: example of what I'm talking about. It it's not gonna

1160
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:52,960
Speaker 1: be him, But so you know, Jason Garrett will maybe

1161
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: get another shot in the NFL, and I think he

1162
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: could do well with it. But that would bump me

1163
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: out if I was a Chargers fan, to be honest, Yeah,

1164
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: maxic out with you on that, Dave. I actually was

1165
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: thinking like a franchise like Detroit right now, I think

1166
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: would be the kind If I were Detroit, I would

1167
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: be looking at somebody like Jason Garrett, somebody I wanted

1168
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: to bring in. I got a team that doesn't really

1169
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: know who they are right now. What they're doing. You know,

1170
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: their quarterback probably is going to be gone, a quarterback

1171
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: that's been there forever, So you kind of have to

1172
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: rebuild things. And I think that's where Jason would be

1173
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: at his best, in a situation where you kind of

1174
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: take rubbles and you kind of just start creating this

1175
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: base and this building block. Now, he may not ever

1176
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: get you to the Promised Land, but he can at

1177
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: least establish something for you that then you're ready to

1178
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: go get another coach that maybe can't get you there.

1179
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: And by the way, there's still a possibility that he

1180
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: actually may end up being a kind of coach that

1181
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: could get you to the Promised Land. He just couldn't

1182
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: do it here. I think he's a good enough coach

1183
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: where if the pieces all the line, I do think

1184
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: he could possibly do it. But I agree with you, Dave.

1185
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: I think it's a different kind of situation where I

1186
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: think he flourishes best. All right, real quick, before the

1187
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: end of the show, I got a round table, and

1188
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna pick all the games that are gonna happen

1189
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: this weekend. There are six of them. Nick's not excited,

1190
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: Amber's not excited, But me and Dave we are over

1191
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: the moon excited, So let's go. We're gonna pick Also, okay,

1192
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: my bad, you're neutral. Nick's on the other side and

1193
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: me and Dave are sitting over here just excited. So

1194
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna pick off that watch more games than her

1195
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: this weekend. I'm I'm betting so. But that's also why

1196
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: I thought. That's also why I was saying, you were excited,

1197
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: but you're not excited. So hey, there's a lot of

1198
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: things that are on my TV I don't get excited about,

1199
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: but they're on the TV. So that's what it's what happens.

1200
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: That's also you got like a wife. I'm just saying,

1201
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: you just will watch it and it'll be it'll be good.

1202
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's let's all right, here we go. We're

1203
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 1: gonna go around. We don't have to give scores as

1204
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: we do with the Cowboy game. We're just gonna pick winners.

1205
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: Indianapolis versus Buffalo. Let's start with Nick, Buffalo, Buffalo, Amber Buffalo.

1206
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, I'll be supremely disappointed in Buffalo if

1207
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: they don't make the AFC title game. So I think

1208
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: they kicked the Colts butts honestly, yep, I agree with

1209
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: all you guys, Buffalo wins. That's gonna be a fun one.

1210
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a fun one to watch. It will

1211
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: because Indianapolis is, in my my opinion, one of the

1212
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,800
Speaker 1: most underrated teams that are in the playoffs. So I

1213
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,800
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be interesting. It'll be a physical football,

1214
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: it absolutely. Goldson sales that there's two teams that really hit,

1215
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, no doubt about it. All right,

1216
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams versus Seattle Seahawks. Nick don't know the

1217
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: status of the quarterback. It sounds like he's not playing

1218
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: this weekend from what I heard last David, you heard

1219
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: about that, then I'm gonna I'm gonna go Rust then,

1220
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: because not off the top of my head, I'm sorry,

1221
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: you'll be a tough game. I was thinking, maybe go

1222
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: with that upset. I'll go with Russ. I mean rusted,

1223
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: I say at home, but whatever, I mean, I've been there.

1224
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: It's very it's not really home. But yeah, but I'll

1225
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: go with Russ. Okay, Amber Seahawks can't pick against Russell

1226
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 1: unless they're playing against the Cowboys. So I'm gonna go

1227
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: to Seattle, Dabe, you know what, Like I joke about

1228
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: a lot how Nick kates Matt Stafford, And that's how

1229
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: I feel about Jared Goff. Like I don't care that

1230
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: he's been to a Super Bowl. I don't like whatever.

1231
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that good and he might not

1232
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: even play, so I can't. Yeah, I'm not picking against Seattle.

1233
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: You know the interesting thing here, I actually had a

1234
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: lot of thought about this game because I think this

1235
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:10,480
Speaker 1: is the kind of game with the coach that they have.

1236
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: I actually think he could probably take a backup quarterback.

1237
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: Because again, I don't think I agree with you, Dave.

1238
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: I'm not a big golf fan, like I think golf is. Okay,

1239
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't think he's great. I think this year they've

1240
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: done a lot of what they've done defensively, and that

1241
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: defense is still going to be in tact. So it

1242
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: I really went back and forth on this, but at

1243
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I still have to go

1244
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,439
Speaker 1: back and say, he's still got to go and beat

1245
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and I don't think they'd beat Russell Wilson.

1246
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: So I think Seattle gets to win here, all right,

1247
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay versus Washington, Nick Washington, no doubt, Okay, are

1248
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: you being serious, that's serious. I think I think the

1249
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,720
Speaker 1: teams that give him Tom Brady the problems are the

1250
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: ones that really get up in his face and give

1251
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 1: him a great point. And I just think that. I

1252
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: just think Washington will will win the game. I mean,

1253
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tampa. I know they've won a Super Bowl

1254
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: that in the past, and Tom Brady, I just think why.

1255
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: I just feel like the teams that sneak in like

1256
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: this seven and nine, eight and eighteen that shouldn't be there,

1257
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: there shouldn't be they win. I've seen it happen a

1258
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: couple of times. I think I'm gonna go Washington, all right, Amber,

1259
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to pick a playoff game against Brady,

1260
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I just have a feeling

1261
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,760
Speaker 1: in that at Washington my actually sneak in there just

1262
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: because it's gonna make Cowboys fans even more miserable than

1263
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: what they are really are. So just for the sake

1264
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: of that, I think it could end up playing out

1265
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: that way with Washington winning, just so we can feel

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01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 1: even worse about the twenty twenty season. All right, Amber, Okay, Dave, Hey,

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01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: I need to shave I guess not well, Okay, Age

1268
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: first of all, like I mean, they're different matchups, Like

1269
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 1: Dallas doesn't have the pass rush to mess with Brady.

1270
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Brady would give Carved the Cowboys up.

1271
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: But I agree with y'all. I feel silly that all

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01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: three of us think that. But Brady turns into a

1273
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 1: pumpkin when he's got pressure in his face. That front

1274
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: is disgusting. It's gonna be like near freezing on Saturday

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01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: night in Landover. I think Washington's gonna win too. That's

1276
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: the crazy thing is I came into the show thinking

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01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: I was gonna go Tampa Bay, and then Nick made

1278
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: that point. I was like, that's an excellent point. It's

1279
01:03:20,760 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: so true, like that is who Brady is. And by

1280
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 1: the way, that's how this year, that same thing is

1281
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: played out early in the season when they had their struggles.

1282
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: This year, it's been when Brady was getting pressured before you,

1283
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: before you make this pick. Dave has made it clear

1284
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: all year he's like the whole the whole tables, So

1285
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,680
Speaker 1: the whole tables should not you're I mean against Tom Brady.

1286
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:45,400
Speaker 1: It all no sense. Nick, w on all of us

1287
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 1: here and get and take this. Okay, all right, all right, yeah,

1288
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: you talk, the Bucks are gonna I'm gonna go. I'm

1289
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,320
Speaker 1: gonna go with the Bucks. You guys went with Washington,

1290
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: I'll go with the Bucks, all right. Baltimore, Tennessee. Nick,

1291
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: Who oh God, Baltimore. I guess okay, Superman, I mean

1292
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: it goes, I mean goes to the locker room, number two,

1293
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: comes back, wins the game. I mean he's he's the

1294
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 1: man Lamar for Lamar Amber. Um. Actually I actually wrote

1295
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: down the Ravens as well. Um. I don't know, honestly,

1296
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: there's no reasoning behind it. I just see them. I

1297
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: don't know their little logo and they're little beak and thing.

1298
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: Just like for some reason, he just calls my attention

1299
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:41,120
Speaker 1: and intimidates me a little bit more than the other team.

1300
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with the Ravens for absolutely no

1301
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: reason before Dave steals mygo before he steals my point.

1302
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: The reason why is us I think that they have

1303
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: a strong enough defense that will limit big boy in Tennessee.

1304
01:04:52,400 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he can go off, but I think Baltimore's

1305
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: team can be a defense that can kind of control him. Dave,

1306
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: I think this is the matchup of the weekend Honestly,

1307
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,360
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a hell of a lot

1308
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:08,520
Speaker 1: of fun. The Ravens have rushed for eleven hundred yards

1309
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: in the last month of the season. You know, they

1310
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: went for three hundred against the Cowboys. They've been running

1311
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: over everybody. Tennessee is quietly not very good against the run.

1312
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: I think people think that they are because they're physical

1313
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: and Mike Rabel, but they're kind of leaky against the run.

1314
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: So give me the Ravens offense against Derrick Henry trying

1315
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: to do it all himself. All right, I think we

1316
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 1: all agree on that. I'm also on the train of Baltimore.

1317
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: I think they get to win this weekend Chicago versus

1318
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: New Orleans, New Orleans Amber just easy, yep, all right, Dave, Okay,

1319
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: this is I don't have the guts to pick Chicago

1320
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: because it's in the Superdome, it's indoors, but you know,

1321
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: the spread is ten. Everybody just assumes the Saints are

1322
01:05:54,600 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: gonna roll. This game went to overtime in the regular season.

1323
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is not the Drew Brees of years past.

1324
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't throw the ball as well as he

1325
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,560
Speaker 1: used to. This offense has had stretches where it's very

1326
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: stop and start. I think this is going to be

1327
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: a dog fight. I'm gonna pick the Saints to win,

1328
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 1: but I feel like people are writing off Chicago, Like

1329
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: Chicago's played pretty well over the last month, and They've

1330
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 1: got a nasty defense that's gonna get in Brees's face.

1331
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 1: I bet I bet the Saints win by like six

1332
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: or less. Yeah, I will say this. I think New

1333
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: Orleans has a nastier defense, and I think they'll be

1334
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 1: I mean, like Chicago's offense is much worse than New Orleans.

1335
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: I think that's the difference. I think this is a

1336
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: defensive game. I don't think it's a high scoring game,

1337
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: but I do think New Orleans wins this game. Bears

1338
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: are one of the two teams in the NFL history

1339
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 1: to have a six game losing streak and still make

1340
01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 1: the playoffs at some point in the year. I mean,

1341
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: that's that's turned in and around. I mean that's like

1342
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: six games. You're thinking Draft show, Yeah, you know, but

1343
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 1: damn it's amazing. All right? Final game Cleveland versus Pittsburgh.

1344
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: Where do we go? Nick? I go to Pittsburgh. Cleveland

1345
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: I think is a mess right now? I mean, the

1346
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 1: coach isn't going to be not be able to coach

1347
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: this weekend, or I think he's play caller isn't. Yeah,

1348
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 1: and Cleveland, if you go back and look early in

1349
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: the season, I know things have been different than but

1350
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: Cleveland with Roland Pittsburgh stomped him. Even last week. They

1351
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 1: weren't even playing a lot of their guys and it

1352
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: was a pretty close game. I like Pittsburgh on this one,

1353
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:25,920
Speaker 1: all right. I really really really want to pick the Browns,

1354
01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: but it's just hard given their current situation and you know,

1355
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: them not being able to really practice this week in

1356
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:35,919
Speaker 1: person and all that. So uh man, I I wanted

1357
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 1: the Steelers to lose, but I think that this game

1358
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a win for the Steelers, all right, Dave,

1359
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: I kind of think the Steelers are frauds, But I

1360
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:50,080
Speaker 1: also kind of think the Browns are frauds. And not

1361
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: only are they frauds, but like they're not used to

1362
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 1: the spotlight, Like, hey, good for them. I mean they

1363
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: want eleven games obviously, like they've come so far. They

1364
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: deserve a lot of credit for that, but they're not

1365
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: used to playing in games like this, Nick, I mean

1366
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: they barely beat Pittsburgh last week with Mason Rudolphin at quarterback.

1367
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: They've gotten stomped by a lot of the better teams

1368
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: they've played. They lost to the Jets a couple of

1369
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Oh, and they're not going to have their

1370
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: head coach. So I mean, I'm not a big believer

1371
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, but I just I don't believe in the

1372
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: Browns at all. Yeah. I couldn't have said it even

1373
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 1: any better day. I think the exact same thing. All right,

1374
01:08:23,400 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: so we all picked Pittsburgh as well. We'll see all

1375
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: this plays out. There'll be a lot of really good

1376
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,679
Speaker 1: games this weekend. Was there any game where we differed

1377
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Washington? I picked Washington and everybody else picked

1378
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. I picked Tampa BA, everybody picked Washington. Yes,

1379
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,720
Speaker 1: all the other games were we were all all four.

1380
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:41,640
Speaker 1: All right. That ain't a good sign, No, it's not.

1381
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: It's not a good for the teams that we picked against. Yes,

1382
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:45,600
Speaker 1: that's not a good sign. But we'll talk about that.

1383
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: We'll talk, we can see where we landed, and we'll

1384
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 1: get you ready for the games the following week. All right,

1385
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys. John super back next week till

1386
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: then for Nick Even, Dave Hamble, Hellman, Ambergarcia. I am

1387
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. This has been the Break live on Dallas

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01:08:57,040 --> 01:09:03,280
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