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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray and Knew He Scrugs.

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Speaker 1: Here we are a Friday. Everybody, Welcome to the Players Lounge,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Hotels dot Com. I'm knew He Scruggs,

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Speaker 1: a longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by Danny McCray, former Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys safety or other running buddy. Barry Church has decided

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna take a little getaway vacation. Man. You know,

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Speaker 1: Barry just rolling outlet like that. Send us to emails wanting, hey,

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Speaker 1: fellas out hey when you when you listen listen when

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Speaker 1: when when you get paid? How Jacksonville pay them? You

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Speaker 1: could take a vacation anytime you want, first any time exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean he just you know, he rolled around like

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Speaker 1: ti telling his wife you can go wherever you lie.

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, Church and the Church gone. You

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Speaker 1: know what he was really doing, He said, he was

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Speaker 1: trying to celebrate that one win that he got last night.

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Speaker 1: He's he's officially won and oh on this on the

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Speaker 1: straight up picks, but he's on one on his cover

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Speaker 1: and the spread picks, and he just trying to celebrate

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Speaker 1: any win he could get it. And I understand because

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Speaker 1: it's been rough for him, all right. So so follow

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter. I'm at NEWI Scruggs. It's n E

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Speaker 1: w Y Scruggs. I tweeted it out yesterday. I'll retweeted again.

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Speaker 1: So I make picks every week in the Dallas Warning

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Speaker 1: News with several other people, and this week I decided

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Speaker 1: that I would have Barry Church do all my pics.

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Speaker 1: So we did it on the show. So we can

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Speaker 1: go back and check out yesterday's show. So Barry did

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Speaker 1: all the picks for me, and or it's Wednesday. I

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Speaker 1: did it was Wednesday, and so Barry did all the pics.

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Speaker 1: So it's there in the paper. So I retweeted it

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Speaker 1: and I had a media remember hit me up and

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Speaker 1: D and me says, really, you were going with the cowboys.

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Speaker 1: You still believe in the hot boys, and and so

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Speaker 1: I sent him the D and back, I said, you

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Speaker 1: didn't see my tweet. Barry Church did the picks this week.

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Speaker 1: I've already made my pick, I said, and then I

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Speaker 1: sent him the link to my TV pick. I said. So,

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Speaker 1: so here's where where I went, and just so you

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Speaker 1: all know, and let's just get the predictions right out

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Speaker 1: of the way. Church went twenty eight seventeen Cowboys to

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Speaker 1: beat Washington. The Cowboys are one point favorite. I went

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Speaker 1: with Washington to win twenty four twenty three. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I did. So so Dmac, let's get it out

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Speaker 1: of the way right away. Let'stop wait till the end.

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Speaker 1: Let's go ahead, get your prediction right here for this

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Speaker 1: football game between the one in five Washington football team

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Speaker 1: and the two or four Cowboys. Man, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be one of those games here. Then

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Speaker 1: was a lot of field goal kicking. So I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at low scoring, something around the twenty three to twenty

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Speaker 1: range for the Washington Oh sorry, the Washington football team.

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Speaker 1: Make sure I get that right, so so we don't

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Speaker 1: get in trouble here. So yeah, I'm going on Washington.

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Speaker 1: I just don't believe that we'll be able to stop

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Speaker 1: went back and watched something that that last played by

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Speaker 1: just could not figure out why they were aligned the

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Speaker 1: and he's still a little frustrated and mad because he

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Speaker 1: doesn't understand leither and that is a big issue. If

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Speaker 1: he doesn't if he doesn't know what went wrong, that

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Speaker 1: twenty three twenty Washington. Yeah, okay, So you and I

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Speaker 1: And I'll give the folks who are checking us out here.

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Speaker 1: My biggest reason, which is what I said on my

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Speaker 1: second start. There's just a lot of things that you're

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Speaker 1: looking at here from a continuity standpoint that hurt the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: code words. He's not playing. Okay, So you're not going

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Speaker 1: You don't even have your former starting center Joe Looney.

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Speaker 1: the strength of Washington even though they're wonder five football team,

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Speaker 1: I will say this. You know you listen. You know

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Speaker 1: blitzed all night. They will test our offensive line, and

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Speaker 1: we have not shown that we can pick up those blitzes.

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Speaker 1: in terms of trying to establish the run and using

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Speaker 1: hammering away on this Washington football team. So I went

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Speaker 1: and I checked it. Danny Washington Is got sixteen sacks.

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Speaker 1: So they got sixteen sacks and that's by nine different players.

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Speaker 1: No matter what we have on offense, no matter who's

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Speaker 1: that's why we're sitting here, you know, movie a second

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Speaker 1: And it's I think it's ironic that we can't see that.

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Speaker 1: And we look at the production of Zeke and and

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Speaker 1: somebody that we pay ninety million dollars and you don't

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Speaker 1: get this guy to Bostimore and get them involved in

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Speaker 1: and the so called analytics guys um that all throw

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Speaker 1: the ball. Throw the ball. Okay, Andy Dalton, throw the

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Speaker 1: I mean, you have to play complimentary football. You've got

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Speaker 1: doing in the locker room where you would have to

429
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Speaker 1: answer for it. So I'm absolutely proud that that Vanderess

430
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 1: did that, and hopefully some other guys can can step

431
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,600
Speaker 1: up and say something, say something toward the two. Okay,

432
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Speaker 1: So having been a player how is this addressed amongst teammates? Man,

433
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,280
Speaker 1: it's listen, I hadn't been in that situation because we've

434
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: never had that that I've known of guys who would

435
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: actually go out and do something like that and be

436
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 1: anonymous source. But if I was in there, um, it's

437
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,360
Speaker 1: just a tough thing. You have to call the entire

438
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 1: team in there, have one of those team meetings again,

439
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 1: and you're pretty sure that the person's not gonna stand

440
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 1: up and said was them, But you have to let

441
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 1: it be done that that is unacceptable and everybody should,

442
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 1: you know, speak out against it. If they're asked about it,

443
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,800
Speaker 1: then they should knock it down, just like Lake Vendor

444
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 1: is this so you don't have this issue because like

445
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,440
Speaker 1: we said earlier, this like creates a whole bunch of

446
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: distrust within the locker room, and that's one of the

447
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 1: things you don't want within your team, especially in a

448
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 1: situation where the sink is shipping the sink. The ship

449
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 1: is sinking a little bit and you're trying to get

450
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:48,879
Speaker 1: these guys on the same page so they can finish

451
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 1: out the season with a running record, hopefully and make

452
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. What does this say about Mike McCarthy and

453
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Speaker 1: his staff that this early on they have guys who

454
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 1: have that little amount of respect for them that are

455
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 1: going this route. In Jason Garrett ten years here, we

456
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 1: hadn't seen anything like that. Yeah, listen, I really won't

457
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: say it's that bad, just because of the situation that

458
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: we're in with COVID, and these guys hadn't been able

459
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 1: to be around Mike McCarthy as much as they had

460
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 1: hoped to have him and kind of get that relationship

461
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Speaker 1: with him and see, you know, how he is and

462
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: how he wants to run things. So they only got

463
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: there I think maybe at the end of ju Lot

464
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: beginning in the August, so they'd been there for maybe

465
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: a month and a half or two before they really

466
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 1: got started on football. So they don't really know him.

467
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 1: So I don't really take that much from them now,

468
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: But at this time, if it happens again, then it

469
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 1: shows that they hadn't learned from them and they really

470
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 1: don't have that much respect for him. It can happen

471
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 1: once just because of this situation is a very extreme

472
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: and different situation than we're in. But if this continues,

473
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 1: then the respect lovel is very low for the coaching

474
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: staff or whatever coaches they are actually talking about now.

475
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Speaker 1: Mark Arthey has spoken about, you know, trying to to

476
00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: you know, have a new coaching staff and and you

477
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: know learning that and then also you know, being new

478
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: here with these players in the locker room. How much

479
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: of that is a legitimate reason versus an excuse Because

480
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: I look at the Carolina Panthers, who I expected to

481
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: be one of the worst football teams in the NFL.

482
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: That has not happened. They've been a good team in

483
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: the factor. They handled Arizona and Charlotte about two weeks ago.

484
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,239
Speaker 1: And then I look at Cleveland. Cleveland came in here,

485
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefansky, brand new coaching staff, and they punched the

486
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys right in the mouth. And they look like a

487
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: totally different organization from what we've seen in the past

488
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: two seasons. So that's why I come back to Mike McCarthy.

489
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Speaker 1: You've got some issues here, but you have something that

490
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: Cleveland and Carolina what we felt at the beginning of

491
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: the year. You had the better you had the better squad,

492
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: you had more talent. So how is it that they're

493
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: looking more competitive? They're not turning the football over the

494
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: way you guys are, So how do you see it, Danny, Well,

495
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: that's the thing about football, man. You know, a lot

496
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 1: of rosters look great on paper, but once they get

497
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: together and start playing as a team, things are a

498
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: little different and these type of things come up. Man.

499
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, turnover margin, it's a huge thing, but sometimes

500
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: you know, those things do come in bunches and the

501
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: team isn't playing as well as they should. I think

502
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for us is that the coaching issues right,

503
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: because if your players don't have trust and the coaches,

504
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: then that's a bigger issue. Then then you turn the

505
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: ball over. Because you can get those turnovers fixed, guys

506
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: can focus on a little bit more through the rest

507
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: of the season. You could possibly not see Zeke fumble.

508
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 1: You could, you know, tone down on the interceptions. But

509
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: the trust and the coaches, especially now that the difference

510
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: between Cleveland and what was the other team that you mentioned,

511
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: the difference between when them and Cleveland and Carolina, we're losing.

512
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 1: Carolina went on to win three straight at one point,

513
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: Cleveland's four and two. We, on the other hand, we

514
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: haven't been able to get this thing together, and only

515
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: two teams that we beat, our teams that were bad

516
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,959
Speaker 1: and we almost lost to so you know that had

517
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 1: no wins, They had no wins the TP. Yeah, it's

518
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: it's it's different, different circumstances here, and we could have

519
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: easily lost those games playing over six. So it's just

520
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: a different circumstances for us. Uh. And when you're losing that,

521
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: those things start coming out a little bit more. Okay,

522
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: So what's the hope really at this point in time?

523
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: If you're if you're the if you're the coaching staff,

524
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: you're the team, what is the hope for you right now?

525
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: What do you hang your hat on? You know, how

526
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: do you try? How do you try and fix this thing?

527
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: Because it's it's bad from several reasons. It's bad because

528
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: the scheme clearly the guys on defense haven't figured it out,

529
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: and then the injury factor has hit this team on

530
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: both sides of the football. Listen in football, in every

531
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: locker room, no matter what your record is, no matter

532
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: how bad you're playing, how good you're playing, a win

533
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: can fix all, no matter who you're playing against. I

534
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: guarantee you this. If they come out and they beat Washington,

535
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: they will have a whole different attitude about themselves. If

536
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: they play well, and then you might see a whole

537
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: turn different turn to the season for us. If we

538
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: come out and lose, then the hope for this is,

539
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully these guys can stick together and you

540
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of infighting in there and guys

541
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: starting to play for themselves, worried about, you know, their

542
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: their own food futures and you know, trying to make

543
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,239
Speaker 1: these plays outside of the system, just so they can

544
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 1: make sure that they paid their stats and they're prepared

545
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 1: to go on to another team, because that's something that

546
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,239
Speaker 1: players do worry about. You know, you come out here,

547
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: you got a new coaching staff, and then all of

548
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: a sudden, the record is bad and the stats are bad,

549
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: and then you hit the free agent market and they're

550
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: saying that you sucked just because you know, you played

551
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: on that bad team and it was it was a

552
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: bad year for you. So when you start playing this

553
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 1: way and you start having to lose the record, those

554
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: type of things seep in the minds of the players.

555
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: So that's one thing that you want to try to avoid.

556
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: A win can fix it off. Although I still don't

557
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 1: think we will beat Washington, Okay, Danny, I'm looking at

558
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: this next five game stretch for the Cowboys. It's really

559
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 1: the critical point of this season here. So at Washington

560
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: this week at Philadelphia, and that's a Sunday night football game,

561
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: so the nation's going to be able to watch this

562
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: game here. And then it is a home game against

563
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh Steelers, a road game against Minnesota, and then

564
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: a home game against Washington. So you're looking at Washington, Philadelphia, Minnesota,

565
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: and then another game against Wash. So four the five

566
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: next game four five next football games or against teams

567
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: that have issues that are losing football teams. And if

568
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: they can't figure out how to beat these losing football teams,

569
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: it can get rough the rest of the way because

570
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: after Washington, these are the next five games the end

571
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: the season at Baltimore, at Cincinnati home against the forty

572
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: nine ers on Sunday night football home against the Eagles,

573
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: and then on the road against the Giants. So I

574
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: gotta say, man, by December, we're gonna know exactly where

575
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: this team kind of is in terms of of any

576
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: hopes or what's going on here. And you know, I'm

577
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 1: scratching my head right now. Maybe they figure out how

578
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: to turn it around. Maybe they do, but but right now,

579
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: and I just have so many question marks about the

580
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: football team. No, listen, when when you think about this team,

581
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 1: like I said, like we talked about earlier, you have

582
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: to be really really honest with yourself and believe in

583
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: what you're seeing. Without Dak Prescott having an MVP type

584
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: performance for those games, we are O and six, like

585
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: we don't win a game, So we're really starting at

586
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: the bottom here. And the thing is we're lucky enough

587
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 1: to be playing some of these teams. We got Kirk Cousins,

588
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: we got and like I said this early, I'm not

589
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: counting Philly out because somehow they always find a way

590
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: to get back into at the end of the game,

591
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: and then sometimes they win, sometimes they lose, but they're

592
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: always fighting and close at the end of the game.

593
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: So we gotta play Philly twice, and we got Washington.

594
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: All right, those are teams that we can beat, and

595
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: we would say if we had that we should be.

596
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: But it's possible for us to not be any any

597
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: one of those teams, and this season could be be

598
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: worse off than it is. So from what I'm seeing,

599
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: I don't have much faith in it, but hopefully we

600
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: could pull off at least the two wins against Washington, Oh,

601
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: at least. But it's it's listen, you believe believe what

602
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: you see. Man, you gotta believe what you see, believe

603
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 1: what they showing you. Six games in they showed us

604
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: that that they've gotten lucky and one of those two

605
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: games and they fought off or a six, but it

606
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: was mainly because of the heroic player of Black Prescott

607
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: and he's not here. So we have to see Andy

608
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: don't do something serious and Kellen Moore really come up

609
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: with a creative play sheet and stick to the ring

610
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: game and base everything off that if we go any

611
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: any way outside of that, we're not going to win.

612
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: For many years, people have told you how basic football is,

613
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: that it's won in the trenches. And going back to

614
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: what you said, just what are you seeing? Well, the

615
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: Cowboys are not good up front on the offensive line

616
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: or defensive line. And if you can't control those areas,

617
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: you can't win football games. And when I look at

618
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: Washington said it earlier, start to show their defensive line

619
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: is a concern. They've got five first round picks there.

620
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: You look up, they've got six sacks by nine different players.

621
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: You know what Jack del Rio is going to do.

622
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: If you've watched these Philadelphia games, yes they are two

623
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: four and one, but they gave Pittsburgh all they wanted.

624
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: You know, you go and you look at some of

625
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 1: these losses here um, even in the games where they

626
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: were behind, I mean, I thought Baltimore had these guys handled, okay,

627
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: but they came back and they fought against Baltimore here. Um.

628
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: Look there, their schedule gets a lot easier and defensively

629
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: right up front, I don't think the Cowboys can beat them.

630
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: And so for me, at this point in time, and

631
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: I've said it weeks ago, I think Philadelphia is going

632
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: to win this division. It maybe a losing record, but

633
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: I think Philadelphia will win this division because the Cowboys

634
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: have yet to show us from a defensive standpoint that

635
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: they can stop some folks, and they got to show

636
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: us they can win also win a game on the road.

637
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: This is a team that has not won a road

638
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: game this year. Both wins came at home, and as

639
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: we talked about, they would come back wins and a

640
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: couple of gifts along the way that the Cowboys you know,

641
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: in some ways created their own luck. But still you

642
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: needed some heroic to happen in dak Prescott. The hero

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Speaker 1: But right now, man, if we're just as you said,

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Speaker 1: It is as simple as that. And they didn't get

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Speaker 1: Danny m Create, a long time former Dallas Cowboy player

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Speaker 1: just merely a reporter who covers the team mills analytics,

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Speaker 1: and this is something where I am not against analytics

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Speaker 1: at all, but I also don't look at analytics and say, well,

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Speaker 1: this is how it has to be done. I think

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Speaker 1: you've got to use your eyes and you take the

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Speaker 1: information analytics gives you, and it can help you form

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Speaker 1: an opinion. But I don't believe that you have to

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Speaker 1: go by what the math sheet says, because numbers can

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Speaker 1: be twisted and turned into anything that you wanted to be.

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Speaker 1: I bring that up because Pro Football Focus is something

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Speaker 1: a lot of people like the reference. When I talk

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Speaker 1: to different scouts and different coaches at times, they'll tell

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Speaker 1: they'll look at me sideye, they'll just start rolling, you know,

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Speaker 1: roll when you started talking about these analytics, aid pro

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Speaker 1: football Focus comes up with because they are also talked

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Speaker 1: about situation. He's like, what does the situation call for?

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Speaker 1: When they came up with these numbers. So they came

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Speaker 1: out with something this week called pass rush win rate,

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Speaker 1: and they had their top four guys. T J. Watt

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Speaker 1: of the Steelers was number one at twenty six percent.

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett of Cleveland number two, at twenty three percent.

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Speaker 1: You had Khalil Mack of the Chicago Bears number three

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Speaker 1: at twenty two percent, and then you had Tank Lawrence

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Speaker 1: number four at twenty one percent. So pass rush win

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Speaker 1: rate and you had a lot of people, including our

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Speaker 1: own Kyle Yeoman's here Dallas Cowboys dot com. You catch

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Speaker 1: out his his went of his podcasts talking cowboys and

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Speaker 1: he was like, hey, look, Tanks are doing well. We

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Speaker 1: shouldn't beating up Tank. And I come to this and say,

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Speaker 1: all right, let me check with Danny and you give

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Speaker 1: me your take on this. TJ. Watt, Miles, Garrett, Kalil Mac,

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Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence all top four in past rush. When rate

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Speaker 1: your thoughts, Uh man, you look like you said numbers

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Speaker 1: numbers can be misconstrued and put together to show anything

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Speaker 1: that you want. I think we all know that, uh

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Speaker 1: And Tank himself knows that he hasn't played up to

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Speaker 1: his capability and he needs to play better. And so

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Speaker 1: I don't really understand, you know, what goes into that

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Speaker 1: and how he could be top four, especially with how

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Speaker 1: our defensive playing is playing. We haven't stopped the pass

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Speaker 1: and we haven't stopped to run. So I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't really understand how that how that can be. With

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Speaker 1: that being said, um there, maybe there's something to it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's playing as bad as um as

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Speaker 1: we think he's playing. I think he's playing okay. But

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Speaker 1: the same thing I said about the Mark Cooper, the

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Speaker 1: same thing I said about Zeke the same is the

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Speaker 1: same thing I'll say about Tank. And you're making a

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. Uh, you know that that's not good enough?

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Speaker 1: Like the stats have to be how many sacks do

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Speaker 1: you have? How many teams? How many games as your

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Speaker 1: team winning? Are you a guy that's that the offense

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Speaker 1: is focusing on to stop? Are you wreaking having? If

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Speaker 1: you're not doing that, then then you're not living up

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Speaker 1: to your price tag? Are you potential? So he needs

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Speaker 1: to play better. I come to this conclusion when for

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Speaker 1: the people who are trying to say, hey see it's

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Speaker 1: more than sacks, it's more of this and more that,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, No, I don't care about the pass rush

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Speaker 1: win rate. I want to see what is the pass rush?

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Speaker 1: What is the pass rush finished rate? You t J

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Speaker 1: Watt number four, I should say he's number nine in

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Speaker 1: sacks in the NFL with four to a half. Miles

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Speaker 1: Garrett number two in sacks right now with seven. Khalil

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Speaker 1: mac number nine, tied with t J. Watt in sacks

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Speaker 1: with four and a half. Tank has one that makes

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Speaker 1: him number one thirteen in the NFL. I'm sorry they

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Speaker 1: didn't pay you to be Anthony Spencer to almost get

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback. They paid you to be DeMarcus Ware

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Speaker 1: and get to the quarterback. The same thing that I

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Speaker 1: argue with people about Byron Jones. A lot of these

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Speaker 1: analytics people will look at Byron Jones's numbers here and

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Speaker 1: they're like, look, you don't pay a dude at the

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Speaker 1: highest ranked corner in the game if you don't get

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Speaker 1: if you don't take the football away, that's what you

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Speaker 1: pay these guys. And this is this is once a

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Speaker 1: getting it. This is my opinion. When I'm paying guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm paying Tank Lawrence, I need you to sack the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: If I'm paying a quarterback, I'm paying you to get

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Speaker 1: your hands on the ball. That's how I'm paying these guys.

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Speaker 1: If I'm paying a quarterback, I'm paying you to put

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Speaker 1: a team on your back. That's what I need you

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Speaker 1: to do. That's how I'm looking at paying guys. You

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Speaker 1: go ahead, so so you get So this is this

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Speaker 1: I think he had like one career interceptions or no

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Speaker 1: career in the suptions that he became the highest paid

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Speaker 1: safety in the league. And then we watched him play

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Speaker 1: against us and we're like, oh, man, that's the guy

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Speaker 1: that what we see why Because it's more than just

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Speaker 1: getting interceptions for him. He did end up getting getting

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Speaker 1: the pick in the game, but he changed the whole

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Speaker 1: dynamic of the game by what he was able to do.

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Speaker 1: And I think the same thing goes for Byron. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you say, look, do we want picks

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Speaker 1: And Byron was the guy who was was was locking

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Speaker 1: down of the opposing the number one receiver, and although

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Speaker 1: he wasn't getting picks, he was a guy that you

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Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about like we were worried about. Now.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you can you can pick either one.

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Speaker 1: But if i'm pick in the corner, I want a

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Speaker 1: guy who's going to eliminate the opposing team's number one

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Speaker 1: receiver and we don't have to worry about him. That way,

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Speaker 1: we can focus our defense on everybody else. So I

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Speaker 1: think Byron deserved to be one of the top paid

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Speaker 1: corners in the league, even though he didn't get a

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Speaker 1: lot of in the sessions, the same way Buda Baker

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Speaker 1: deserved to get paid like he did because we see

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Speaker 1: it in the way that he changed the game for us.

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Speaker 1: And see that's where you and I different. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to pay for that. Um Now, I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure I say this clearly. I'm a fan of

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Speaker 1: Byron Jones the player, and I'm an even bigger fan

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Speaker 1: of Byron Jones demand. I feel like the Cowboys messed

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Speaker 1: this thing up because they should have locked him up

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Speaker 1: at a much better price. But they allowed him to

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Speaker 1: go to the marketplace because they were still trying to

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Speaker 1: make sure they can get the receiver quarterback signed, and

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Speaker 1: so they didn't have enough money to sign him, and

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Speaker 1: of course he got paid the highest, got the biggest

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Speaker 1: years ago, they could have got him at a much

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Speaker 1: better price, it would have made sense. But once they

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Speaker 1: let him go to the free agent market, you knew

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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be one of the guys that says, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make him the highest paid guy in the game.

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Speaker 1: That's how I felt about him, which is where from

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Speaker 1: a money standpoint, the kesse the Cowboys messed that up.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Cowboys were ill timed on Byron Jones.

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Speaker 1: I thought they were ill timed on Amari Cooper. Thought

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Speaker 1: they were also ill timed on Tank Lwins. These are

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Speaker 1: deals that they should have got done a lot earlier.

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Speaker 1: They waited till the end, and they couldn't get these guys,

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Speaker 1: and at the price tag for oh yeah yeah, Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott too. But I was gonna say for all three guys,

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Speaker 1: if you look at the deals they signed right now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think the Cowboys. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Cowboys won even in losing, you know,

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Speaker 1: losing Jones, you didn't win because you lost a good player,

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Speaker 1: but you didn't sign it in Tank. You gave Tank

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Speaker 1: all that money, and look to me, the with the

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Speaker 1: whole Tank deal was. Had you taken t J. Watt

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Speaker 1: instead of Taco Charlton, you'd have been in a better

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Speaker 1: position where you could have done one or two things.

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Speaker 1: You could have seen the potential of t J. Watt

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Speaker 1: and said, you know what, Tank, this is our number

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Speaker 1: and if you don't want it, we'll let you go.

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Speaker 1: And then you had t J. Watton, you could have

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Speaker 1: replaced him, but they had nowhere to go, so they

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Speaker 1: had to pay the twenty million dollars number to Tank.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's that's not getting it right from in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, from a salary cap standpoint. And then the

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Speaker 1: same thing with Cooper when you trade it for Cooper,

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Speaker 1: why did he have a the owned place? Why did

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Speaker 1: you wait for him to hit the free agent market?

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Speaker 1: And then with Dak Prescott should have taken care of

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Speaker 1: him that that training camp before he went into his

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Speaker 1: rookie year. So these are issues where they have failed.

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Speaker 1: But I just would not have paid Byron Jones as

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Speaker 1: the highest paid corner in the game. Okay, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have done it. Okay, so tell me this how and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna add one player. But I think Byron is

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Speaker 1: this important? How different do you think that this defense

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Speaker 1: looks with Byron Jones and Jeff Heath in the lineup. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's different. I mean, we can't even act like it's not.

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Speaker 1: It is different. I mean these are two players that

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Speaker 1: that in my opinion, these are two good football players.

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Speaker 1: But it's all about the price tag and the way

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Cowboys approached these things and and they

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Speaker 1: let can't forget they let Zeke jump out of line

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Speaker 1: of what they thought they were going to pay. But

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Speaker 1: these were mistakes that were made by the team and

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Speaker 1: in the timing of how they paid the guys. And

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Speaker 1: at the same they were late. Every time you're late,

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Speaker 1: the price tag goes up. And in Byron's case, the

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00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: price tag was going up so high that you aren't

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Speaker 1: going to be able to pay it. And it really

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Speaker 1: kind of came down to two things here, Cooper Jones,

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Speaker 1: when you say I'm write about that, it kind of

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Speaker 1: came down to one of the one of the two players. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they took and they took and they took Cooper.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's crazy because they, like you said,

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Speaker 1: they watched the price go up each year on Byron,

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Speaker 1: they watched him become a better player from playing safety

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Speaker 1: to play corner. They watched this with their own eye

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Speaker 1: and didn't figure out the way to get this thing done.

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Speaker 1: They could have made him one of the highest play

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Speaker 1: corners and not have to do what Miami did to

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Speaker 1: do that if they would have paid them on time.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that made sense. But I think

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Speaker 1: right now that they regret not having him on the roster.

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Speaker 1: I think they regretting not having Jeff Heath on the

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Speaker 1: roster because those are two leaders in the locker room

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Speaker 1: who probably wouldn't have put up with some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff that's going on, and I think for them some

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Speaker 1: type of price tag would have been worth it for

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Speaker 1: what they're seeing right now. Can I give you a

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Speaker 1: name of another guy that I have to look at

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Speaker 1: now and say, you know I was wrong about that's

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Speaker 1: Malie Collins. Mallie Collins was a guy they allowed to

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Speaker 1: go to the Raiders and I will be I raised

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Speaker 1: my hands those guys like, yeah, now you can let

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Speaker 1: him go. Um, you know what Malie Collins Malick comes

929
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Speaker 1: was that hed come a lot better than than what

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Speaker 1: I'm watching out here from Don Terry Poe and what

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Speaker 1: we saw from Tristan Hill and even from what we've

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Speaker 1: seen from Tyron Crawford. Um, and you know, I look right,

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Speaker 1: then there's a guy. There's a guy they paid and

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Speaker 1: you talk about just regretting the money. It's Tyrone Crawford

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Speaker 1: who's through injuries and just it's not been what he's

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Speaker 1: he's been. So they've been to missus here and how

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Speaker 1: they've taken care of their roster with some of these

938
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Speaker 1: guys giving them contracts extend. And I'm still putting a

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Speaker 1: lot of this on the effect of Rod Marinelli because,

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Speaker 1: like I said, a lot of these guys look so

941
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: bad because they are not putting forth one hundred percent

942
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Speaker 1: effort for the entire game. And it's it's standing out,

943
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Speaker 1: especially when you have a guy next to you that's

944
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: going harder than you are and you watch somebody on

945
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: the previous play give one effort. It shows, and it

946
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Speaker 1: shows in their playing. It shows and their ability to

947
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Speaker 1: make those plays and make those tackles. All of a sudden,

948
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Speaker 1: if you're jogging and a guy breaks a fifty yard run,

949
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Speaker 1: it looks more obvious because you're jogging, but you could

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Speaker 1: have made that play. You could have looked like a

951
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Speaker 1: top notch player. But because of your effort. You look

952
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: like a subpart player. And that's what I think. That's

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Speaker 1: what's happening with a lot of the players on our defense.

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Speaker 1: So let me come back to this, Danny, and yes,

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Speaker 1: Mike Nolan gets a big hit on this from a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. But you're a guy in the room.

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Speaker 1: You guys are in the meeting room together in a

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Speaker 1: position group. Don't people say something to each other to

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Speaker 1: the standpoint of, Hey, I'm not here giving mine effort.

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Speaker 1: That's not your best effort. Man, If you're gonna come

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Speaker 1: out on this football field with me, I need your

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Speaker 1: best effort. Is that not set in the locker room

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Speaker 1: when we see the kind of performances we're seeing on

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Speaker 1: take Well, yeah, we didn't have those issues though, right

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Speaker 1: because you gotta remember I played with d Ware, I

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Speaker 1: played with Jason Winden. I played with some guys that

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Speaker 1: go out there and say, hey, they say follow me,

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Speaker 1: and and the thing the sad part about it is

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Speaker 1: Sean Lee is that guy. But he's not able to

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Speaker 1: be on the field at the time. I believe he

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Speaker 1: was out there on the field, and once he is

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Speaker 1: able to get back out there, I think things will change,

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Speaker 1: you know. But like I said, when him being on

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Speaker 1: the sideline, it's kind of hard for him to be

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Speaker 1: that that leader out there on the field. I think

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Speaker 1: they'll change once he gets out there, but they got

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Speaker 1: to follow somebody and somebody has to be that guy

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Speaker 1: to step up. And I'm still waiting for but I

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Speaker 1: think Tank can still be that guy. Jalen said he would,

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Speaker 1: but then I saw him, you know, turn around and

981
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Speaker 1: do something opposite the week after that. So we were

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Speaker 1: just waiting for Sean Lee to back to show that leadership.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, So let's end the show by going

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Speaker 1: back over our predictions. Here as the Cowboys getting ready

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Speaker 1: to go to Washington. Church says Cowboys twenty eight seventeen.

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Speaker 1: McCray says Washington twenty three twenty I have Washington winning

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Speaker 1: by a point twenty four twenty three. That is the players. Lads,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you on Monday. I'm newly scrugs. He's

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Speaker 1: Danny McCray. We'll have buried Church rejoin us on Monday.

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