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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. I'm Kurt Daniels. I'm joined by the
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Speaker 1: least the first segment. Special guests, the great scouting guru
Speaker 1: here at the Stars, Will mc hey, thanks with coming
Speaker 1: or who that's a there's a connotation to that many
Speaker 1: for us. You are, You're the man all things scouting
Speaker 1: here at the Stars, and I know you don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of times. We'll get right to it. Um.
Speaker 1: First off, just easily, what what are you impression so
Speaker 1: far with this rookie class. I'm enjoying watching them play
Speaker 1: and grow. Um, we we got guys that we felt
Speaker 1: like could fit in certain spots and do certain things.
Speaker 1: And then they're a very mature group, so they've been
Speaker 1: able to handle the things that you know, come with
Speaker 1: the NFL, and they've been able to handle them well.
Speaker 1: So seeing Dorn's armstrong coming and contribute, Layton, vander ass, Gallop,
Speaker 1: you know, all of those guys coming in and doing
Speaker 1: some things to help us. With Connor starting and it's
Speaker 1: in the NFL starting at a guard coming out of
Speaker 1: college with some of the stuff that he's grown men
Speaker 1: due to you, it's a learning experience. But he was
Speaker 1: better last week than he was the first week, and
Speaker 1: we hope to continue that growing through. You know, with Layton,
Speaker 1: I said this off air. I thought by him being
Speaker 1: a little injured, you know, doing training camp, that we
Speaker 1: wouldn't see much him. I thought it would be Thompson,
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, Joe Thompson or Thomas Thomas. But he's been
Speaker 1: playing talk about about Layton. I mean, we haven't blowed
Speaker 1: him up since we got from training camp. What are
Speaker 1: you seeing Layton? I think the most uh, the most
Speaker 1: important or his biggest feature is the fact that he's
Speaker 1: big and he can run, and he covers up lanes. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he reacts very well to things in front of me,
Speaker 1: closed the space, like he made tackles last week on
Speaker 1: Barkley where you know it was taking two or three
Speaker 1: because he's so long, because he's big, he's athletic, he
Speaker 1: can make those tackles. And then his ability to pick
Speaker 1: up the defense and know all three spots and also
Speaker 1: playing sub packages. You have a comfort with a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna do the right thing, is gonna do that
Speaker 1: at a high level. Wow, man, I just I'm telling
Speaker 1: I'm telling everybody what I saw. I'm thinking Joe was
Speaker 1: gonna be backing up all three spots. But when I
Speaker 1: when we had a little hiccup with Sean, he was
Speaker 1: in there. He was he was doing his job. He
Speaker 1: mightn't even start over Wilson. Wilson had a good game, said,
Speaker 1: Damien's playing really, really well, and we're very fortunate to
Speaker 1: have six linebackers and seven when Covington hadn't played yet
Speaker 1: that can play on special teams but really help us
Speaker 1: on defense. And we have a plan for him. We're
Speaker 1: rotating guys through to keep Jalen uh you know healthy
Speaker 1: and um you don't even word about that normal. But
Speaker 1: the number of players. Yeah, there's a lot of plays
Speaker 1: in football games. And to play the way that we play,
Speaker 1: where you have to run to the ball and it's
Speaker 1: vitally important that they we get around the ball. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to rotate those guys through man Jalen. And
Speaker 1: last year, like I told these guys, I'm not greating
Speaker 1: these kids because I thought it was unfair to try
Speaker 1: to grade a guy who's not there yet, even though
Speaker 1: he was getting reps. But this year here, man, he
Speaker 1: is growing by leaps and bounds each game. You know
Speaker 1: he's getting better and better. But now move on to
Speaker 1: my man. Darren's arm strong. You love him. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: got violent hands. Did you see him want to run?
Speaker 1: Play man? When he did, got to hold it on
Speaker 1: him out he stuck his hand in his kid's chest.
Speaker 1: That's that's really the most incredible thing about him, is uh.
Speaker 1: And in Rod's defense, you gotta play tough, you gotta
Speaker 1: fit where you're supposed to fit, and you gotta play
Speaker 1: with some fortitude. And it's a young kid that you know,
Speaker 1: he's outweighed by twenty five thirty pounds sometimes and he
Speaker 1: plays with that natural leverage. He plays with instincts and intelligence,
Speaker 1: and he does exactly what the coaches asked him to
Speaker 1: do at his own way. He's got to bend about him.
Speaker 1: He's able to bend, he's able to use his length.
Speaker 1: And then when it comes to pass rush, he's just
Speaker 1: he's always he's he's getting there, Yes he is, you know.
Speaker 1: It's he just needs that step and the reps that
Speaker 1: he gets an understanding how the game is played in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's gonna be a big piece for us
Speaker 1: going down the stretch too. What on the on Gallup?
Speaker 1: You know, he's I've always heard the receivers one of
Speaker 1: the toughest positions for a rookie to play. And here
Speaker 1: he's surrounded with all new guys. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of It's kind of a wide
Speaker 1: receiver by committee and someone respects. Is that good for
Speaker 1: him to give him more chances? I guess I think
Speaker 1: it does. It gives him more chances, he has more reps. Well,
Speaker 1: there's not all this weight on his shoulder. So if
Speaker 1: you know Cowboys need receivers, you draft a Gallup, put
Speaker 1: him in there and let him fail, or you know,
Speaker 1: it's all on him. Now he's in the mix with
Speaker 1: the other guys. He's fitting in. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the most incredible thing about him is, while yeah, he
Speaker 1: didn't have an overproductive game catching the ball, he had
Speaker 1: three pancake blocks as a receiver in the run game.
Speaker 1: And so that's part of the identity that we're building.
Speaker 1: But him buying into it as a receiver as a
Speaker 1: young guy, that only tells that that ceiling is gonna
Speaker 1: be very high because once you get that part down, now,
Speaker 1: the routes and everything is gonna come a lot easier.
Speaker 1: The dbs are gonna be Wait a minute, this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna come after me and it's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit different. So he's learning every day. Great. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what's amazing is and see, I have a little
Speaker 1: different deal because we are a young team and we
Speaker 1: kind of started that last year by the guys that
Speaker 1: we drafted. It's just I'll be wanting them to play.
Speaker 1: Whether they fail or not. Don't bother me as much
Speaker 1: as most people. But you know, Michael Gallup, and what
Speaker 1: I'm leading to is we went out and got Bryce Butler.
Speaker 1: Does that take away from some of the other reps.
Speaker 1: So y'all just trying to see where Bryce fit. Trying
Speaker 1: to see where Bryce fits. I mean, we're always, you know,
Speaker 1: the NFL is you're always trying to improve and you're
Speaker 1: trying to find the pieces that can help you continue
Speaker 1: to grow. And you know we're in game two. It's
Speaker 1: a long season, so let's find out as we continue
Speaker 1: to go through and find out what fits best for us.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take anything away from Gallup because we're committed
Speaker 1: to Gallop Gallop playing and Gallop being here and being
Speaker 1: productive for us for a long time. Now. You constantly
Speaker 1: are bringing guys in for tryouts and nothing on the
Speaker 1: pro side of things. Is that a situation where the
Speaker 1: coaches say, hey, we need we're weak here, we need
Speaker 1: some look at somebody, or is it where the scouts say,
Speaker 1: we think this guy can play, you need to come
Speaker 1: see him. I think the number one thing is knowing
Speaker 1: what's out there when something happens, and we're always trying
Speaker 1: to improve the roster. That's competition. If those guys know
Speaker 1: that um our department's objective is to bring the best
Speaker 1: guys in and then it's on them to stay on
Speaker 1: top of things and do that. I'm we're always going
Speaker 1: to try and get better. Now, the coaches, you know,
Speaker 1: there are guys that have been on the team and
Speaker 1: they know what we're doing and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: But what I'm always trying to find guys that can
Speaker 1: make this team a little bit better and make the
Speaker 1: competition a little bit tougher. I'm gonna tell you, Jimmy Man, Well,
Speaker 1: Jimmy you man. I mean, we'd be fifteen weeks into
Speaker 1: the season. You you may come in. It's a old veterans.
Speaker 1: You come in, manduce in your locker. Real you'd be
Speaker 1: like hating to do Hayes Houston Man, just you and
Speaker 1: you lock them working out and make so bad be
Speaker 1: offensive line. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. He did
Speaker 1: he know I was hanging out at the local Barlow.
Speaker 1: Then today's NFL is Darwin doesn't matter, purists, vival of
Speaker 1: the fittest and and um, we want to put ourselves
Speaker 1: and situations to never be Oh we don't have anybody.
Speaker 1: I want to know who's out there on the street,
Speaker 1: what do they like? Give our coaches the opportunity experience.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's you know, if we need to upgrade,
Speaker 1: we will now tough question. Three quarterbacks and you don't
Speaker 1: have the answer, but I'm gonna answer. I don't like
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks. Four tight ends. I don't like four tight ends.
Speaker 1: Seven wide receivers. I don't like it. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you why, coach, because they don't play special teams. If
Speaker 1: they all play special teams, I would be happy because
Speaker 1: the more guys that can play special teams, that are backups,
Speaker 1: that alleviation starters and get and keeps them fresher. Just
Speaker 1: I don't understand the theory behind it. I think it's
Speaker 1: part of building a roster, and building a roster the
Speaker 1: way that you have to based on the conditions that
Speaker 1: you have. We don't have a number one receiver. People say,
Speaker 1: so you've got a file that number one receiver. Then
Speaker 1: the other guys have to find their roles. We do
Speaker 1: have to make receivers play on special teams. We do.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're very fortunate that we have, as we
Speaker 1: were talking before, six seven linebackers that can play on
Speaker 1: special teams. We have corners and safeties that play on
Speaker 1: special teams. And they've changed the rules a little bit
Speaker 1: to take some of that stuff out of it. You know,
Speaker 1: if you had you need a special teams receiver, linebacker dB.
Speaker 1: Because of the kicking game, that's kind of taking that
Speaker 1: out of it. But once we find the mix that
Speaker 1: we have to make the roster healthy based on numbers
Speaker 1: at different spots and what we have to do. So
Speaker 1: it's part of the finding out phase and we have
Speaker 1: quality players there. Now guys have to get in where
Speaker 1: they fit in. If you're the fifth receiver, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to play on special teams. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: do that. And as the season moves forward, I think
Speaker 1: we'll continue to find out who can do that right.
Speaker 1: The hardest for me before you out, I'm gonna give mine.
Speaker 1: I want him to get the hardest spot to find
Speaker 1: players once the season started, even in training camps, I
Speaker 1: believe the hardest position to find this offensive linemen. For you,
Speaker 1: which I have to take your you're an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: the hardest. What is the hardest spot to find? It's
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive lineman. Offensive lineman more so because when
Speaker 1: you look at college football today, the way they play
Speaker 1: doesn't prepare them for the NFL. So if you get
Speaker 1: a guy coming in and you're trying to find they
Speaker 1: don't know what you do. They don't know how to
Speaker 1: play it. In to play the NFL game at a
Speaker 1: high level, you have to have a number of reps
Speaker 1: and you got to have a lot of ability. So
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of offensive linemen out there. Everybody's
Speaker 1: playing seven on seven in high school. Nobody's playing five
Speaker 1: on five, So you don't have guys to develop those skills.
Speaker 1: And that's the hard And I'm I come from the
Speaker 1: old school. Hey, I went up front with offensive and
Speaker 1: defensive line, so you're always trying to find those guys. Wow,
Speaker 1: I do before you leave, I do want to ask
Speaker 1: you about the amateur side of the scouting that's obviously
Speaker 1: blowing and going right now. It's huge, how crazy it's.
Speaker 1: It's the college scouts. We got six areas. Guys, they're
Speaker 1: on the road. They're going to schools and games. They
Speaker 1: started right after training camp. They were there for a
Speaker 1: week and a half, two weeks. Then when colleges started
Speaker 1: hitting two days, they started hitting the road and they
Speaker 1: go to campuses, they go to games. We're sending in reports.
Speaker 1: Now we're starting to get a feel for who the
Speaker 1: guys are and then starting to put a board together
Speaker 1: a little bit now at least on very general terms,
Speaker 1: and continuing to find out where they are, and it's
Speaker 1: a long season and staying update with all that. At
Speaker 1: this point, it's you're obviously I wouldn't think you're specifically
Speaker 1: targeting guys that you're still just just overall. It's it's
Speaker 1: fact finding. You want to find out where especially you
Speaker 1: want to know where the seniors are. And so much
Speaker 1: of this draft now as juniors that we don't talk about.
Speaker 1: We can't talk to them, but you know, if schools
Speaker 1: will mention them, it kind of gives you a headstart
Speaker 1: on them. But you ask about the seniors, the guys
Speaker 1: you know that are coming out, start gathering that information
Speaker 1: and we find out who they are, and then you know,
Speaker 1: whatever juniors you can. But we're just trying to evaluate
Speaker 1: the country and the best players in the country before
Speaker 1: we put the board together. But you got to start
Speaker 1: so we can say, okay, who's being cross check, where's
Speaker 1: the strength of the draft. We want to start ahead
Speaker 1: of time to kind of look at where we are
Speaker 1: getting into free agency and everything else. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a you know, three hundred and sixty five day a
Speaker 1: year job. Now one one more questions before we take
Speaker 1: these break and let you go. And this just don't
Speaker 1: you have to draft a offensive linement if it only
Speaker 1: the fifth a sixth round every year? Now, I really
Speaker 1: think you have to because you know the way that
Speaker 1: salaries go in the salary cap, and you have guys
Speaker 1: that are starters, Well, you got to have depth. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't play everybody, so the young guys have to grow,
Speaker 1: So you have to draft. You know, it's you know
Speaker 1: your question about the quarterbacks. You have to have those
Speaker 1: people understand, Yeah, do that end up costing you money
Speaker 1: in the long run. You have to draft them and
Speaker 1: then keep them to build so that you can have
Speaker 1: backup depth. It doesn't cost you a lot of money
Speaker 1: or else you're going out and paying two and a
Speaker 1: half three million dollars for a backup quarterback. You're going
Speaker 1: to get a three million dollar backup guard. That's you know,
Speaker 1: you know Jonathan Cooper left here in bad five million dollars,
Speaker 1: Yes he did, who was injured? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So that that's that's really how we have to build it.
Speaker 1: The right way. The long way is doing that and
Speaker 1: playing the guys that we draft. Now, you're always pushing
Speaker 1: those offensive linemen. You're well. The thing about it when
Speaker 1: the first time you get into three point stands is
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, that's bad. Yes, that's bad man. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you've got some angry men coming. Well, we know
Speaker 1: you've got a lot going on today. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: taking a few minutes with you. We're going to take
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Speaker 1: you think old will there like what he had to say? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And he don't one thing I like about this administration.
Speaker 1: And Jason is not in this because Jason is a coach.
Speaker 1: Garrett is not in this. What I'm goin to say,
Speaker 1: I've never seen mister Jones with Stephen Jones and Miss
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Speaker 1: could have got tougher and tougher with the questions they
Speaker 1: won't show away and that you know I didn't bring
Speaker 1: him here. Asking about what's happening with with Dak You
Speaker 1: know you didn't bring We want to know what this
Speaker 1: class is about, what what what what this draft is about,
Speaker 1: what our players to come is about? In little situations
Speaker 1: like I want to know tight ends? You got four
Speaker 1: of them? Interesting? Was the roster construction? Yeah, we'll necessarily
Speaker 1: talk about a whole lot, but um, you got a
Speaker 1: question kind of how this rostam and you brought it
Speaker 1: up receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks, And the thing about it is,
Speaker 1: I understand why they brought if if you feel good
Speaker 1: about your receivers, you don't need an extra right, so
Speaker 1: they're bringing him in to see where he's at and
Speaker 1: how can he help if at all? If not, he
Speaker 1: may not be here long are they made got something
Speaker 1: long term. They're looking at the tight ends. Dalton shots
Speaker 1: enhanced Cold Gathers by him not being where they thought
Speaker 1: he would be as a blocker and as a pass catcher.
Speaker 1: That enhanced Rico Gatherings. I understand what's going on. And
Speaker 1: the three quarterbacks, that's true to understand. It's like we're
Speaker 1: not bringing in another veteran, pay him four million dollars
Speaker 1: and we and something having to dock and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we were still gonna be uh five and whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, and what that quarterback gonna give us a
Speaker 1: six one one more win or were able to keep
Speaker 1: our low place in the draft high place in the draft,
Speaker 1: and they had that one more wine. But you did,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned the domino effect where the special teams
Speaker 1: takes a hit. Oh yeah, when you when you have
Speaker 1: linebackers like our linebackers, you got all of these guys
Speaker 1: can play special teams. But now that we have Covington,
Speaker 1: we have Wilson, uh Leyton, the backup guys can actually
Speaker 1: get out there and beep effective special team players. Last
Speaker 1: year we didn't have that. Durant didn't play special teams,
Speaker 1: Sean Lee didn't play special teams. But also the guy
Speaker 1: that we lost that went to the to the Raiders, uh,
Speaker 1: a good outside linebacker, Wilber. Wilber, he couldn't. They didn't
Speaker 1: want him on the field as a linebacker. So that
Speaker 1: that was a waste. Because when you when you when
Speaker 1: you can have one or two or maybe three starter,
Speaker 1: specially guys that impact starters, not worrying about those fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty plays. A special team. Now they're even fresher
Speaker 1: with the rotation, they're even fresher. So when the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter come, you ain't gotta be like how you feel.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, let's line up and go get them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man't worry, I guess. Yeah, you're gonna have guys that
Speaker 1: can cover special teams. But then you're just wearing out
Speaker 1: your you win out to start you win. See we
Speaker 1: had when when we played it was a select few,
Speaker 1: you guys that were starters and played all four. Darren Woodson,
Speaker 1: you know he's played all regardless, he played all four. Uh,
Speaker 1: Moose Johnson, he played all four. You know. But these
Speaker 1: were unique guys. Jimmy tried to limit. Okay, if you
Speaker 1: got my guys started, I don't you know two you know,
Speaker 1: one of them on two special teams. Pick you two,
Speaker 1: He'll give you all he got for these two, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh backups truly had to not only be a
Speaker 1: special team guy, but an outstanding special team guy like
Speaker 1: Kenny Gant. You know, he made this team because he
Speaker 1: can I only could play the slot safety, but he
Speaker 1: could also be just a hellacious player and special teams
Speaker 1: and that kept him in the league a year or
Speaker 1: two extra because he could do that. I hope we
Speaker 1: have a few of those guys. They'll show up. Cavn Frasier, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got a sack last week. Maybe two. Yeah, come on, now,
Speaker 1: you know heath Man, he you gotta tack a little better, baby.
Speaker 1: Come on. Well, Douglas, I think you said we had
Speaker 1: a caller, and I'm sorry I missed the name. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: are you there. I'm sorry I didn't get I didn't
Speaker 1: catch your name. I missed Douglas. I'm sorry. James in
Speaker 1: New York, James, All right, how are you doing? James short? Today? James,
Speaker 1: we got to get into the offense defense. Actually, my
Speaker 1: name moam James from West Virginia. Okay, Ja, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had a question for Nate. I think Joe Looney's doing
Speaker 1: a fairly decent job, you know, for what he's been
Speaker 1: put into and have to do a specialist, somebody as
Speaker 1: good as you are. What do you see from him
Speaker 1: do you think could make him get to the second
Speaker 1: level that we need to make our running game a
Speaker 1: little more productive than just secure the down block of
Speaker 1: him in the left guard. Our right guard can secure
Speaker 1: the down block on a linement. Secure that first and
Speaker 1: then uh then then go up to the next level.
Speaker 1: A lot of times guys a seal linebacker and think
Speaker 1: that he's going to the left side and taking that
Speaker 1: instead of taking that extra step, you know, to make
Speaker 1: sure he's going to the left side. They come off
Speaker 1: and both guys come off thinking and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden that that down guy gets through a leaks through
Speaker 1: and that districts to look for the running back. Whereas
Speaker 1: you secure that down block first, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they make that linebacker commit that you just get
Speaker 1: a piece of him because the back of run through
Speaker 1: the rest. I'm guessing that's thanks for the call, Jay,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm guessing that's the biggest you too. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that's the biggest difference between Looney and Frederick is
Speaker 1: Looney can probably handle his man one on one just
Speaker 1: like Frederick. But it's the other, like you said, moving
Speaker 1: the next level or or whoever the thing is. Uh,
Speaker 1: we've played some good uh snacks Harrison, h K one
Speaker 1: Short and Dontario Poe. Man. It ain't too many that
Speaker 1: you can you can you can't call three other guys
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about versus the run. Yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be that much better than what they have just faced.
Speaker 1: All they gotta do is keep that in them, in
Speaker 1: their memory of how hard it was and give that
Speaker 1: same great effort on the rest of the league, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna move most of the people. Well that that
Speaker 1: brings us to the Seattle Seahawks defense. Then they've got
Speaker 1: a pretty good John Reid defensive tackle six three three
Speaker 1: or six? Yeah, what's his number? What's his number? He
Speaker 1: is number ninety. Yeah. A good player, good player, solid player.
Speaker 1: Uh these guys. Arena has got two two guys, two
Speaker 1: guys coming back. Uh you said, uh right, Bobby Wagner
Speaker 1: and kJ Right have missed both of their first two games,
Speaker 1: and that's two big key. Oh my god. They are
Speaker 1: They never leave the field. They can rush the passer,
Speaker 1: they can stop the run and they can cover. So
Speaker 1: these two guys going to be a great impact on
Speaker 1: this team. But I still think with our offensive line,
Speaker 1: with our ability, with our back and our offense not
Speaker 1: we still should be more than enough for this team
Speaker 1: if we play our game right and don't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over when you go on the road. This is
Speaker 1: where this is where I tell people, this is where
Speaker 1: you they're smart customer, and that's the fan say this.
Speaker 1: We win this game because we have number one, a
Speaker 1: quarterback that don't turn the ball over. Seattle in order
Speaker 1: to be in any and it's just my belief. In
Speaker 1: order for Seattle to be in any game this year,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to have turnovers. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: defense have five. I've up until this point that they
Speaker 1: had two intercessions, but she killed. Uh what's the young
Speaker 1: Griffin should Gil Griffin two interceptions last week? Fell into
Speaker 1: this and they have to have turnovers to win because
Speaker 1: their offense is not going to generate those many points.
Speaker 1: At least it hasn't happened yet. Uh. If we get
Speaker 1: some turnovers, it's gonna be ugly. But if we just
Speaker 1: continue to grind offensively and don't turn that ball over.
Speaker 1: We we we we we beat this team. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what worries me about this game. I was looking at
Speaker 1: last year's game. You know, Seattle came in here week
Speaker 1: sixteen and beat US twenty one to twelve. They had
Speaker 1: with largely the same group on defense. They had four sacks,
Speaker 1: two interceptions, and then recover the fumbles those turnovers that
Speaker 1: were the difference in the game. Yeah, touchdowns to four
Speaker 1: field goals. Yeah, that's how I broke down. I mean
Speaker 1: that was and again it's other than Michael Bennett's gone,
Speaker 1: but you look at the rest of the group, it's
Speaker 1: pretty much as what they what they are truly missing
Speaker 1: is their playmaking pass rushers. April is gone, Ben in
Speaker 1: his gone. Those were the playmaking guys. Now they have Clark,
Speaker 1: young guy Clark, he is left somewhat of a pass
Speaker 1: rusher like kJ Wright and uh and Wagner. They can
Speaker 1: get out of the path they maybe but linebackers, but
Speaker 1: they can get out of the past or two. And
Speaker 1: that's that's that's really I think gonna be the kids
Speaker 1: if those two guys playing, And I guess Carol, their
Speaker 1: head coach, said it's possible they'll come back this week
Speaker 1: and that Yeah, that's gonna be a huge difference. I mean,
Speaker 1: how how does the team prepare, not knowing if they're
Speaker 1: gonna play or not prepare to You always prepare for
Speaker 1: the better player because in this league you rarely have, Uh,
Speaker 1: we don't have two shann Lee's. As much as Jayalen
Speaker 1: Smith is coming to the forefront, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: have when you have to to. That's say Jayleen becomes
Speaker 1: an equal or better than Seann Lee, and Sean Lee
Speaker 1: can get this tackling form back at what That's hell?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know that that's rare.
Speaker 1: You know these two guys right, and that's round brother,
Speaker 1: that's rare ar and didn't have a safety like you
Speaker 1: know who we didn't get So that's rare air that
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the like eight of these crazy men
Speaker 1: running around. So but now they only got three Clarks
Speaker 1: trying to make a difference. Uh, Juran Reid trying to
Speaker 1: make it diff Did he come from Bama? I'm not
Speaker 1: sure where to read come from cause this name is
Speaker 1: so familiar for me not to see it a lot.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, that Frank Clark. He was one of
Speaker 1: the guys that had a sack against the slash trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah and he had, Yeah, he had. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: the Bama guys come to my mind, bro, because you
Speaker 1: know I'm about I tell my wife this. You know,
Speaker 1: I like to look at I like to look at
Speaker 1: winning programs and try to figure out, besides the great athletes,
Speaker 1: why are they winning like the Rams. It hurts me
Speaker 1: to miss the game watching the Rams play, you know,
Speaker 1: because besides having great players, because people say, hey, and
Speaker 1: I know I'm a little off key, but people say, God,
Speaker 1: that coach is so innovative. And when I saw the
Speaker 1: running back motion out to the slot then come back cross,
Speaker 1: and they gave him the sweet. We call it the
Speaker 1: jet sweet, but they call it the philosophy. And they
Speaker 1: given the ball and they say that's so innovative. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's just so todd. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. So I'm like, let's
Speaker 1: run Zic out that's to the slot, then come back cross.
Speaker 1: You know. But the only difference in this play is
Speaker 1: they got who outside, they got cook, they got to
Speaker 1: get a call and they got another. So you can't
Speaker 1: say oh man, I'll put an eighth guy in the box. Right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I tell people, you can be as it innovative,
Speaker 1: is as you want if you have the talent to
Speaker 1: put it there, right, you know. So I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: go there. But anyway, five two ninety seven, but you
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying, Kurt do Yeah? Agree again. We
Speaker 1: got James back in New York. James and New York. Okay,
Speaker 1: keep it short now we're talking. I'll keep it shot point.
Speaker 1: Thanks just taking the call. I just had three quick
Speaker 1: points in the game. I'll get to him real fast.
Speaker 1: One is I think the Cowboys need to survive this
Speaker 1: first quarter. I think Seattle is going to come out
Speaker 1: with everything that got seasons on the line. Oh and
Speaker 1: two that crazy crowd, you know, I think if they
Speaker 1: can take that first punch, I think will be in
Speaker 1: good shape. The second point in this game is Mickey
Speaker 1: brought up I say on the show. It's something that
Speaker 1: call Banks always says. Two when he does a little
Speaker 1: show in New York, talks about lane discipline and gap integrity.
Speaker 1: You can't let this guy shake loose and you know,
Speaker 1: slide in that pocket and extend plays because if he
Speaker 1: does that he can kill guys and down the field,
Speaker 1: guys shake loose. And that's one thing I'm worried about
Speaker 1: this office. I think if we play disappoint on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, we should be fine getting pressure on him.
Speaker 1: And I think the third thing, and they were talking
Speaker 1: about this about not turning the ball over. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a recipe to say, you know, for winning when
Speaker 1: you don't turn the ball over. You can pack a
Speaker 1: running game and a pass rush on a road trip
Speaker 1: and just play a game. You know, Cowboys playing some
Speaker 1: good special teams pinning them back play that long game.
Speaker 1: I think we will be fine. As long as we
Speaker 1: don't turn the ball over, we should easily, you know,
Speaker 1: come away with a victory up in Seattle this weekend.
Speaker 1: So great points, James appreciate the call man. Thanks, Thanks
Speaker 1: when you when you when you you know what I
Speaker 1: was going to say to me is so simple. Now,
Speaker 1: if if my team was playing, it would be simple.
Speaker 1: If if the nineties Cowboys playing, it will be simple.
Speaker 1: But but I don't want to insult nobody. And because
Speaker 1: I made a few guys mad this morning when I
Speaker 1: when I said it on the show that were doing
Speaker 1: the Insider it's eleven to one, and I know we
Speaker 1: sped be talking. It's one guy named Russell Wilson, eleven
Speaker 1: guys on our defense. And I will get back to
Speaker 1: all you know up here, but we'll get back. Let
Speaker 1: me say this right here about we changed our whole
Speaker 1: coaching staff and kept our defensive offensive coordinators. They changed
Speaker 1: their defense and offensive coordinators. Bevill and our guy that
Speaker 1: we have here with us. Our coach was there, Chris Shark.
Speaker 1: We Shar was their defensive coordinator. He's with us now, Beville.
Speaker 1: I don't know what coach Beville at Marty Schardenheimer's kid
Speaker 1: is their offensive coordinator. For some reason, they haven't clicked yet,
Speaker 1: getting a lot of complaints about play calls up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't clicked yet. So but it's amazing that we're
Speaker 1: similar teams and that they have, through their choice, like us,
Speaker 1: gotten rid of a lot of older guys, whether it
Speaker 1: be the money or whether it just be a locker
Speaker 1: rooms disruption. They had the same thing up there, but
Speaker 1: they did it by keeping a lot of their assistance
Speaker 1: and getting rid of their coordinators. We got we got
Speaker 1: rid of a lot of our assistant and kept our
Speaker 1: coordinator and we're trying to figure out. They have a
Speaker 1: virtually new defensive line, whereas we have virtually a new
Speaker 1: wide receiving call. So everybody's going through their growing pains.
Speaker 1: They're ow in two. The league did them an injustice
Speaker 1: by having I didn't know that two road games. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they did that somebody else when they had in
Speaker 1: these bad which is climate and all that, and then
Speaker 1: you and this is one other team they had two
Speaker 1: that the Houston Texans two road games. How do you
Speaker 1: do that? Well? That that that's one of my words
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about this. As far as
Speaker 1: our offense, Um, I agree with James. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're desperate. Seattle's desperate. That are home in front
Speaker 1: of a crazy opening opening day crowd. How do you
Speaker 1: withstand that initial push? How does the offense deal with? Man,
Speaker 1: they're gonna come out firing. But but see this is
Speaker 1: I understand that totally. You're gonna come out firing. And
Speaker 1: Jimmy would tell us, Okay, we we we they're gonna
Speaker 1: come out firing, but we're gonna keep We're gonna be
Speaker 1: us right. We play hard and we play smart, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be us because by the middle of the
Speaker 1: first half and all this rush ain't happen, and all
Speaker 1: these great players ain't happen, then they settle down and
Speaker 1: become who they are. Yeah, they are a team that's
Speaker 1: trying to find themselves too. We are too, But I
Speaker 1: think we just a little bit ahead because we got
Speaker 1: that win and that confidence. Don't don't buy into eventually
Speaker 1: they're gonna win a game. Don't buy into that. You
Speaker 1: let I was gonna call the fans idiot, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do. You let those in the street buy
Speaker 1: into that. Don't. Don't as a player, And that's one
Speaker 1: thing I respected by coach Landry, and that's one thing
Speaker 1: I spect a boy coach Coroach Johnson. We are a
Speaker 1: better team. We know who we are. Just because they
Speaker 1: don't lost four in a row. It's gonna be five
Speaker 1: in a row, and it's gonna be worse because we're
Speaker 1: gonna beat you so bad. You're gonna have six in
Speaker 1: a row to the next week. Yeah, it's just I
Speaker 1: don't buy when I hear people say that, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: so nervous because even in my house, my wife and
Speaker 1: I ain't What are you saying in this house. What
Speaker 1: are you saying? Yeah, what are you saying? So that
Speaker 1: means that Alabama should never win two in a row.
Speaker 1: That means that Clemson should never win in two in
Speaker 1: a row. And that definitely means that the Rams should
Speaker 1: not be two and old because that team that they
Speaker 1: beat lost last week. Come on, man, come on? Does
Speaker 1: the crowd noise though? I mean that's how that hurts? Yeah? Now,
Speaker 1: how how do they deal with that? Is it? I
Speaker 1: guess they're just practicing hand signals out there? Hand signals. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's where your run game have to be, even you know,
Speaker 1: one or two yards. You know that won the lost
Speaker 1: because you don't want to be in the past. Pass
Speaker 1: the situation unless it's it's third and two, third and four,
Speaker 1: third and five. Okay, you can handle that a little better,
Speaker 1: But you don't want to be third nineteen, third and twelve,
Speaker 1: you know, because that crowd gets that. The offensive line
Speaker 1: is legitary. Now, even though you don't work on your
Speaker 1: silent count, you don't working on holding hands, you don't
Speaker 1: working on you know, whatever the center calling the snap count,
Speaker 1: it ain't the same. So you have to be smart.
Speaker 1: And that's where the smartness come in at when they
Speaker 1: call a run play, get that running back at least
Speaker 1: back to the line of screamings. Do not have no, no,
Speaker 1: no that Tony Wise and coach Hey, we will not
Speaker 1: have any negative plays on first and second time. You
Speaker 1: never want to be behind the chains, but it's even
Speaker 1: worse when you've got to deal with that count. Yes,
Speaker 1: yes it is. Hey, all right, we got Tim and
Speaker 1: Boston on the line. Tim, how are you to do today? Sir? Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks taking my call. I appreciate Hey, I'm one hundred
Speaker 1: percent with Nate too. You remember, and Nate told us
Speaker 1: two things to travel, a running game and a defense.
Speaker 1: Also told us the first four games, we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out what we're gonna be. Now, this is a very
Speaker 1: young team. We had one of the highest percentage turnover
Speaker 1: on our roster. I think we're gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: maybe five hundred going into the earlier. Told buff then
Speaker 1: we're gonna let the clutch out and we're gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: But I I'm a little nervous about Seattle as far
Speaker 1: as that desperate team. But I also agree that first
Speaker 1: quarter they're gonna come out, theyre gonna punch us in
Speaker 1: the mouth. They're gonna try to do those things. But
Speaker 1: I think we're a better team. We have a great defense, Um,
Speaker 1: we're healthy. I think our offensive line is gonna do something.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start doing pulling things like that. I just
Speaker 1: the only thing that makes me nervous is if our
Speaker 1: defense is too aggressive on Russell Wilson, will he make
Speaker 1: us pay? All right, guys, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Everything you do, I listen back in. All the back
Speaker 1: at gotta do is understand that they gotta cover. Don't
Speaker 1: don't come up even if Russell scrimmage, break the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Make sure he's six yards down the field
Speaker 1: before you come off, you man, because he'll run like
Speaker 1: he's gonna broke louse. He'll come out here black. So
Speaker 1: you come running up and you just throw how many
Speaker 1: times have you seen him done? So sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to give up that little run in order to make
Speaker 1: sure that everybody's covered. Because what the Bears did was
Speaker 1: they were all out, they lane shoe, they were, They
Speaker 1: was all over the place too, but they would not
Speaker 1: come out of coverage. And eventually, when when when when
Speaker 1: when When Cleo macnam finally got it tapered down the
Speaker 1: way they could figure out where he was gonna be
Speaker 1: he threw that big interception. I it's nowhere in the world.
Speaker 1: You can calling him what every theory you need, it's
Speaker 1: nowhere in the world. And I Okay, the Cowboys lose
Speaker 1: to them, but that'd be a bad loss. That would
Speaker 1: be a terrible, terrible loss. That would be a turl Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. I was talking to Broadness and other guys
Speaker 1: on the half hour, and Broadest was telling me, you know, well,
Speaker 1: you gotta be weary. We're real what I'm serious. Tell
Speaker 1: me from the next callers, from the callers that we
Speaker 1: have in these next few minutes, tell me what should
Speaker 1: I be scared of? Tell I want to know what
Speaker 1: calling him. Tell me, Nate, this is why you should
Speaker 1: be scared. Well, I think you do have a caller. Okay, well, okay,
Speaker 1: well Douglas before we get the caller, tell me what
Speaker 1: I should be scared of. Douglas as far as Seattle, Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me the crowd. Tell me I need to know.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. You'd be scared of beating yourself. There
Speaker 1: you committed in game one. You know, don't let Dak
Speaker 1: be a football player. As you said last week. Let
Speaker 1: him be a football player. Don't make him feel like
Speaker 1: he's seat belted into the pocket. Now. I don't want
Speaker 1: to expose him to brutal hits, injuries or anything. But
Speaker 1: I think he can navigate that. I truy steam. So yeah,
Speaker 1: don't beat yourself. Okay, now, now you've been chopping at
Speaker 1: the bit. I mean, I'm not scared of their offense,
Speaker 1: and you know, Wilson, I think you cover hid, but
Speaker 1: their defense again, this if right, if right, and Wagner
Speaker 1: a bag that's a you know, you got a pretty
Speaker 1: good inside when you got Thomas and which so which
Speaker 1: there is some concerns, Yeah, going into their field and
Speaker 1: play playing that defense or those are my concerns too.
Speaker 1: If going on with what Doug said, if we going
Speaker 1: there and give up a bunch of penalties, yeah, and
Speaker 1: turn that ball over, we're gonna be in trouble because
Speaker 1: they're gonna feast because they do have a great fan
Speaker 1: base that's gonna be very loud, gonna be very desperate hard.
Speaker 1: I think the fans gonna be more desperate and hunger
Speaker 1: than the play. Okay, that's on to the college. I
Speaker 1: want to see how we got on the line. We
Speaker 1: have Ernesto in Virginia beach a. How are you today? Hey?
Speaker 1: What's going on guys? First of all, Kurt, much love
Speaker 1: here for yeah, U time listener for you guys for
Speaker 1: quite some time before you've changed to hanging with the boys. Awesome.
Speaker 1: So you know I'm a big time Cowboys fan. So
Speaker 1: I gotta go with what how you knowing? How young
Speaker 1: cats don't know who number sixty one is? Man? It
Speaker 1: was young, I hear my friends for you, dude, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: So big NERD is right though, we ain't got nothing
Speaker 1: to be scared about on the SUPERD side. We just
Speaker 1: got to be scared of ourselves, you know, penalties, shooting
Speaker 1: myselves in the foot, you know. Lyle Colins, he's kind
Speaker 1: of worrying me a little bit. I thought he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been. He's been shaking nerves on me too. Now
Speaker 1: you you got me there. I was for to cut
Speaker 1: you off, but you brought out these shook me a
Speaker 1: little bit over that. I mean, I expect Floa come
Speaker 1: into in the shape though, but he's still better than
Speaker 1: what these these last few guys have seen. I promise you, oh,
Speaker 1: I agree. I fully expect lying out of bounce back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he's definitely no chance, that's for sure. Wow wow,
Speaker 1: he should man cutt this dude off, get man. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna bounce back. You know, I'm Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: He had a nice sweet two you know, playing against
Speaker 1: snacks that ain't no small feats. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think we'll be fine. Just you know, we can't shut
Speaker 1: himself in the foot and take whatever defense gives us.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate it. You have a good day. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know it's only baby two or three times a year.
Speaker 1: You hear me say why, why tell me why? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm always very respectful. I love Carol. I think he's
Speaker 1: a good coach. I see what he's trying to do
Speaker 1: with his offense and defensive coordinators. He's thinking people tied
Speaker 1: him the same voices or whatever. I understand what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do. He's trying to bring in young players
Speaker 1: and but he's But the one issue I have is
Speaker 1: you're not covering your quarterback. If you if you have
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback, you cover him either by great weapons
Speaker 1: like New York trying to do, or a great offensive
Speaker 1: line like we are trying to do. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Dak is a franchise quarterback now. But if
Speaker 1: you do become a franchise quarterback, you're talking about sinking
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars in a guy. And you got
Speaker 1: and you got a twenty five line, I mean a
Speaker 1: blowpop line. Keep second art inventure, you're gonna get to
Speaker 1: the middle and it's very soft. Come on, man, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Dug Well? I was gonna say
Speaker 1: that you've got another caller and this we've got Phil
Speaker 1: and Lafia Louisiana who is cheating on Shannon fellow Louisa Louisiana. Right, Phil,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Man? Pretty good? Great? Great, I'll
Speaker 1: be I'll be quick because I know it's getting near
Speaker 1: the bottom of the yard. But Nick, I'm with you
Speaker 1: on there's no reason we should lose this game. But
Speaker 1: I think what's happened Nate, And I know that sounds
Speaker 1: like a little too philosophical, but for twenty three years,
Speaker 1: it's almost like, after all the inconsistent seasons of victories
Speaker 1: and losses, there's like, on paper or in theory, we
Speaker 1: should we should win this game, But the fear that
Speaker 1: people have because they didn't know that the team that
Speaker 1: you played on, and the and the greatness of that
Speaker 1: era they y'all got. You guys went on the field
Speaker 1: expecting to win, and I sat in front of the
Speaker 1: tube expecting to win even if you were down at
Speaker 1: the halftime. That's the difference I think. I think the
Speaker 1: culture and the mindset of the fans now is, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, there's a chance we might lose, rather
Speaker 1: than Hey, we're gonna win this game. And I know
Speaker 1: that sounds simplistic, and that's how most fans feel. I mean,
Speaker 1: we do radio shows, we do hits. All of us
Speaker 1: guys run and and and you know, I had to
Speaker 1: literally talk a few people off the ledge because that
Speaker 1: didn't throw for three hundred yards, right, you know? And
Speaker 1: so uh you know, one guy said, hey, man, well
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like that can throw us back
Speaker 1: in the game. Well what about the Eagles game two
Speaker 1: years ago? What about throwing us back into a game
Speaker 1: that we lost at the wire with Green Bay. I
Speaker 1: think this team is capable of doing what it needs
Speaker 1: to do. Yes, question Mark, I give you one. It's
Speaker 1: Connor Williams gonna be better. He's shown to be better?
Speaker 1: Can can can backup? Center? Hold up? He's showing to
Speaker 1: get better every week. Is our wide receiver is gonna
Speaker 1: be a threat? Okay, they've shown to have prospered from
Speaker 1: one week to the next. Now who is gonna be
Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna step up and give us that consistency?
Speaker 1: Where that seems to be Thompson at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. I mean they keep, you know, giving him opportunities.
Speaker 1: Now my question is tight end. We gotta tight end
Speaker 1: in Jeff Swain. Now, whether they want to throw on
Speaker 1: the ball or not, that's up to them. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Blake gonna do. I don't know what Rico
Speaker 1: gonna do, and I don't know what Show's gonna do.
Speaker 1: But we do have one tight end that service. But
Speaker 1: that's more than service. I think he's a good athlete
Speaker 1: and a good player. But you know what n can
Speaker 1: I say? Can I? Yeah? Real quick? Brother, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: about to run out come home? Okay. Yeah. This morning
Speaker 1: brought us brought up what players would what position would
Speaker 1: you want? What your position would you trade for if
Speaker 1: you could? And he said tight end? And I agree.
Speaker 1: I think what we're missing is a Jay Novachek kind
Speaker 1: of tight end, not necessarily one that's going to bruise
Speaker 1: in blocking, the one they can go out and catch passes,
Speaker 1: and we just don't have that right now. I think
Speaker 1: that's the missing ingredient. I agree with you than they
Speaker 1: Blake has not came. They thought Blake was really that guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah and uh, and they don't have the all around
Speaker 1: tight end. They can do both. You don't you know
Speaker 1: what that is? Overplayed? Think? So? Yeah, because if a
Speaker 1: guy serviceable as a pad as a blocker and he
Speaker 1: and he's great as a route runner, you give up
Speaker 1: a little something, but you gain greatness. Yeah, you get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. When Hernett before Hernandez went crazy and
Speaker 1: remember Hernandez and and Grunk and h there was like
Speaker 1: take pick your paws even though Grunk is a great blocker,
Speaker 1: Hernandez was okay, but you put him in that semi slot.
Speaker 1: What was you gonna do? And so that's what they're
Speaker 1: hoping Blake, what what round in two? But when you
Speaker 1: don't play together, he's he came off of the practice
Speaker 1: squad last of last year. When you don't play together,
Speaker 1: when you don't have reps running on an auto bun
Speaker 1: at one hundred miles an hour. What you've been doing
Speaker 1: out there at thirty five miles an hour ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. And and my man was
Speaker 1: so right. That's what I'm saying. If you got four
Speaker 1: tight ends, how many do you really have? Right? You know?
Speaker 1: That's about you know that. That's like the quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: college Unlessue Clemson Dogs, we do. We have to take
Speaker 1: another break now. I think we can just yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: we got Oh Christopher in Tennessee. He says he was
Speaker 1: at the ball game on Sunday. All right, are you
Speaker 1: doing the right today? Yeah? I'm good. I'm good, man.
Speaker 1: My wife was there at the game. Uh dial heard
Speaker 1: Cowboys your first game at at and T Stadium's first game,
Speaker 1: which you think, sir, Oh man, it was awesome. It was.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable to actually be there, man, and and
Speaker 1: just see see the action, and I mean, I was
Speaker 1: just overwhelmed. It was. It was great. It was a
Speaker 1: great feeling. I wanted to see the offense open up
Speaker 1: a little bit more. I mean, I was excited to
Speaker 1: see them come out and and uh open up the
Speaker 1: way they did. And I was hoping they just keep
Speaker 1: keep the hammer down. Uh. But I'm I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: a little concerned that that they're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: the old ways man. But I just hope they they
Speaker 1: keep I just hope they keep the hammer Down't ain't
Speaker 1: no old ways, ain't no old ways, man. Uh we
Speaker 1: from the ball man. Like I said that, in but
Speaker 1: two three times a year, you'll see me sitting in
Speaker 1: this chair. And like I said, I can't guarantee you
Speaker 1: no win. I don't do that because I respect the
Speaker 1: other teams. But I and tomorrow my whole mantra gonna
Speaker 1: be atleven to one. Really, I love the feeling good
Speaker 1: about this one. I love them to one. Come on,
Speaker 1: we we have a player that it's not Cleo Mac,
Speaker 1: but our player is just that one year away from
Speaker 1: having those same type of stats in d Law. What
Speaker 1: Kleio Macs done for the Chicago Bars is opening it
Speaker 1: up in Chicago. Barts got a number, a nice player
Speaker 1: in number ninety nine. I can't think of big inside
Speaker 1: typing but que Jefferson. Yeah, but now no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about for the for the Bears. The uh uh,
Speaker 1: you gotta stand. The Bears were a nice defense. But
Speaker 1: Muka Hamara, whoever prints whatever. He came from back three teams,
Speaker 1: starting with the Giants as the first round pick out
Speaker 1: of the brows. He wasn't he won special. But guess
Speaker 1: who closed out the game the other night? He the
Speaker 1: Prince closed out the game. It's the first time at
Speaker 1: forty one games he's got the interception. Why because he
Speaker 1: got clear, old Matt? Why because we got d long baby?
Speaker 1: All right? May nine gets one? Nine gets love and
Speaker 1: come on, man, I ain't trying to hit. I ain't
Speaker 1: trying to brother Bob Man nine again, love and give one.
Speaker 1: Come on man, all right, So I gotta before we
Speaker 1: get out of here, you gotta attack. I gotta attack now. Okay,
Speaker 1: we you know the elephant in the room back there
Speaker 1: at the back end, Earl Thomas. How do we neutralize
Speaker 1: this guy? He's he's rated right now by prof Focus
Speaker 1: the number one safety in the league, and Bradley McDougall,
Speaker 1: the other safety is like in the top five. The
Speaker 1: way we mess with him is, don't make a mistake. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't make a mistake. Make a mistake, ain't gonna make
Speaker 1: you bad. Yeah, Well that's what I'm saying. The smart players.
Speaker 1: And this is what Dak is. If Dak see that's
Speaker 1: safety leaning over that way, he want to throw that ball.
Speaker 1: He know even if he he know, even if he
Speaker 1: looked right, he knowing he come back left. You better
Speaker 1: pack that ball before he turning loose, because that dude
Speaker 1: is sitting there saying, I know the route tree and
Speaker 1: I know what player is likely to be thrown against
Speaker 1: his coverage. So if you ain't one hundred percent shore
Speaker 1: that you ain't going over in this right tis left
Speaker 1: waiting on you. So just smart play would keep you honest.
Speaker 1: When we faced them last December, Thomas led the team
Speaker 1: with the eleven tackles. He was he was a beast
Speaker 1: on Yeah. Yeah, but don't turn the ball. Yeah, last year,
Speaker 1: last year we had two turnovers right to two interceptions
Speaker 1: in the fumble. Yeah, we can't have that. We cannot
Speaker 1: have that man. How big is he in the run game?
Speaker 1: Obviously the passing game, he's all everything. Yeah, and now
Speaker 1: that camp Chancellor's now back there, that's stressing. Let's make
Speaker 1: him out to cover the run in the pass that's
Speaker 1: that's makes you. He tired. He missed all the training camp.
Speaker 1: That wonder he wants a pay raid. I've been reading
Speaker 1: they've been running three safeties out there and using him
Speaker 1: as a slot corner sometimes. Oh he good, he this
Speaker 1: this dude is special, man, and uh, I want to
Speaker 1: be surprised they find a way to keep him next year.
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't. He's special now. See see this is
Speaker 1: what's amazing this year. Here Who is Seattle Pan beside him?
Speaker 1: And Wilson? Yeah, I don't know who they paying nobody else. Bro, No,
Speaker 1: they don't have anything. They're gonna they're gonna be up
Speaker 1: under the cap like you would not believe out of
Speaker 1: this year. You know, they got a lot of dead
Speaker 1: money because they got rid of guys early. But man,
Speaker 1: in another year or so, man, they're gonna be floating
Speaker 1: the hot cotton and anybody the free agent that's got something,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be trying to get to them. We need
Speaker 1: to go up there. See, we need to beat them,
Speaker 1: make them. Oh three, yeah, they'll be done, that's right,
Speaker 1: and then we get we trade for Earl Thomas. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're giving them up man, even after that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but see I want I'm off in the three nine.
Speaker 1: I'm off on the two hey, man, y'all ain't doing that. Yeah, yeah, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all garbage man. You know, after this game, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they win this game, I don't know what
Speaker 1: they are. If they win this game and be like wow,
Speaker 1: really that changes things a little bit. But one against eleven, really,
Speaker 1: I got another one more question for you here. This
Speaker 1: is probably a simple one. We just came off the
Speaker 1: Giants who played a three four. These guys play a
Speaker 1: four three? Is that change much as far as the
Speaker 1: read option and that kind of thing with what they're trying,
Speaker 1: not not for the quarterback. You're still reading in man
Speaker 1: on the line and seeing where he's going and making
Speaker 1: his determination, but uh, it puts an extra guy right
Speaker 1: on the line for your linement of block from Zeke
Speaker 1: that way. I don't know. I don't know, because we
Speaker 1: used to struggle with the three four, like especially Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: with all these different angles they used to come and
Speaker 1: different lines handled it different ways. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what what I'm never asked them what do they like
Speaker 1: to run against the most? When you lined up a
Speaker 1: four four man line against it, I loved it. I
Speaker 1: knew what that dude was gonna be stripped there in
Speaker 1: front of maybe you right him, let me let me
Speaker 1: gobble you up there. Weren't that many three fours back
Speaker 1: in your day? Where now it was Pittsburgh or maybe
Speaker 1: one or two others wherever Wade was. Yeah, probably where
Speaker 1: was he back then? No, no way, it was Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I mean Scuben Houston. He was running around, you know what,
Speaker 1: diapers on with his dad. But we haven't. We didn't
Speaker 1: really get into our running game much. I mean, Zeke
Speaker 1: had ninety seven yards against him last year. I mean
Speaker 1: you new year, New time, and this is this Zeke
Speaker 1: third game? Is you the way his feet done got
Speaker 1: up under pretty good and he's shaking and Bacon has
Speaker 1: been a stand up and run tall with. Before he's
Speaker 1: shaking the bacon, he would get two yards and fall.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, ain't trying to rhyme and that,
Speaker 1: and I'm just letting you know, you see what I'm
Speaker 1: saying though, to lie crew, baby Bud, He's say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know Zeke when he was a rookie, that
Speaker 1: was kind of his statement game before a real game began.
Speaker 1: He yeah, he you know, he took on Cam Chancellor
Speaker 1: head on in that game, even though it was preseason.
Speaker 1: It might not have been the smartest thing. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that not Cam anyway beginning, I guess and and was
Speaker 1: last season. Was that his first game back after suspension,
Speaker 1: when yeah, I think it was so and that didn't
Speaker 1: go as planned. So maybe he's got something to prove
Speaker 1: heading back up. There's hope so well. I liked their
Speaker 1: you know, I liked their chances with him and Seattle's
Speaker 1: defense is twentieth in yards per game, they're tieder twentieth
Speaker 1: and points per game. I mean, they're just they're not
Speaker 1: they're not clicking, right, Yeah, they only have three sacks
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, they're just But they got five turnovers. Yeah, turnovers.
Speaker 1: That's what Kevim in the game with the bars. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you now, yeah, but I just think now again,
Speaker 1: if you've got kJ right and Bobby Wagner especially in there,
Speaker 1: that could change things a little bit. But this is
Speaker 1: a team. They will it will, it will. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be pumped, they're gonna be hyped, but we
Speaker 1: gotta stress them. We gotta make it. We don't let
Speaker 1: them see in the fourth quarter. These guys have them play.
Speaker 1: I don't care stress them keep them on the field.
Speaker 1: Make it where when they put the other guys in,
Speaker 1: we just grind them up. Keep them on the field.
Speaker 1: We will stress them out, and that's where the soft
Speaker 1: tissues get to pop. Yes, sir, well, I guess our
Speaker 1: soft tissues out to wrap this thing up again before
Speaker 1: you do, skip that last break? Did you have another
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Speaker 1: of here. I appreciate it. Thanks for putting up with
Speaker 1: me today. We rocked it. Shannon was out of town
Speaker 1: spouting his wisdoms to some kind of conference, so he'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. Douglas, thank you. For your working your
Speaker 1: magic back behind the scenes. Will mcclay's big special thank
Speaker 1: you for him. He's a busy man. It's nice to
Speaker 1: have him come out here today. Yes, it is KNT
Speaker 1: and all the other boys back there pushing buttons. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. I'm Kurt Daniels. We'll be back here tomorrow,
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