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Speaker 1: time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with

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

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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, December fifth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number eighty four. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys take it some time with us.

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Speaker 1: I know it's been a while since we've been on

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Speaker 1: the air together. We've been on in mixed groups, but

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Speaker 1: we're back in the studio. How's everybody feeling this morning? Awesome? Awesome,

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Speaker 1: so good, greatness, good good. All right, let's talk some

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Speaker 1: Cowboys football. We're gonna do a couple of things today.

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Speaker 1: I first want to talk a little bit about the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and the playoffs. I know on our joint show

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Speaker 1: yesterday we talked a little bit about that, but I

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Speaker 1: want to nail you guys down on some specifics about

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Speaker 1: the teams that are ahead of the Cowboys right now

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Speaker 1: and looking at what they've got coming up and what

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Speaker 1: they have to do in order for the Cowboys to

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Speaker 1: be able to even winning out, because I think that's

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Speaker 1: the first part that has to happen. But with that happening,

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Speaker 1: what the realistic likelihood is in each of your opinions

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Speaker 1: have to do in order for the Cowboys to jump

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Speaker 1: past them. And we'll do that. But before we get

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Speaker 1: to that, I did want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: first about an injury concern Orlando Scandric. What do we

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Speaker 1: know at this point about Orlando's injury and what his

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Speaker 1: possibilities are as far as time that he may miss. Well,

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Speaker 1: they're just gonna take it day by day with him,

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Speaker 1: sounds right. And transfer transverse process and the same thing

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Speaker 1: as romo Yes, yeah, okay, So it's amazing the stuff

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Speaker 1: you learn about injuries because of football. You're like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're transversal process. I know I've heard that before. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you, couldn't tell you really where it

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Speaker 1: the romo bone. And you are the offspring of a

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Speaker 1: doctor it's true, so you should know those things, right,

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Speaker 1: not the same at all. Yeah, yeah, that um. But

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Speaker 1: Jason Garrett made it sound yesterday like they're not ruling

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Speaker 1: what it's worth. I mean, Jason Garrett wouldn't rule a

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Speaker 1: Romo missed one game in twenty fourteen with the same injury,

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Speaker 1: it depends on the position. I mean, cornerback. You're not

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Speaker 1: be kind of surprised if he plays this week, right,

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Speaker 1: But you still have a cracked, slash broken bone in

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Speaker 1: it's a difference for them to be ready to play.

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Speaker 1: what happens when you fire your coach and you go

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Speaker 1: Zeke comes back the Christmas present comes back. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: But I bet he's pissed right now. He's been tweeting

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Speaker 1: and wonder who that was about? Roy? I was thinking

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Speaker 1: Roy could have been Marcus Spears. He called Marcus Spears

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Speaker 1: Fats Domino. You know I saw last night this is

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Speaker 1: But Dave, you're the only one saying that right now

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Speaker 1: I mean at all. I mean, it doesn't. There's no

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Speaker 1: Right Yeah, guys, Yeah, the Cowboys went out and the

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Speaker 1: At the start, we're talking about playoffs. What the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: chances are getting into the playoffs. We're going through and

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Speaker 1: looking at each team, um and trying to decide if

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Speaker 1: we think it's a realistic chance. What? Why is that

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Speaker 1: funny laughing? Because I I'm thinking of the Jerry drop

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Speaker 1: to open the show. I guarantee that if they lose

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Speaker 1: one of these games, you're just gonna hear that drop. Well,

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Speaker 1: so much for that. Yeah, that's why it was. All

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Speaker 1: could go away very quickly if you take one loss.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's but I understand we haven't done a

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Speaker 1: show in a week. We need to talk about all

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Speaker 1: these we do but nothing, nothing really matters if you

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Speaker 1: don't go out and win these games. You gotta go

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Speaker 1: beat Eli Manning. Yep, let's put Nate and Nick on

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Speaker 1: the nothing matters if they don't win the show and

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Speaker 1: they can talk about that. Yeah, I'm okay, All what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is is that they have to take care

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Speaker 1: of them. For sure, they have to win. I mean

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Speaker 1: it's still kind of early because there's gonna be some

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Speaker 1: something that you just don't expect. You just don't I mean,

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Speaker 1: you don't expect some of these teams to to you know,

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Speaker 1: get hot or you know, lose two or three in

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Speaker 1: a row. The Eagles to lose two in a row.

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Speaker 1: So they got one more loss and they're gonna lose.

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Speaker 1: You did say that they'll lose some Yeah, they got

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Speaker 1: the Rams next, So all right, so let's get to Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Carolina right now is at eight and four, two games

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Speaker 1: ahead of the Cowboys. UM. Their schedule is pretty tough

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. They've got Minnesota this week. UM, and

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Speaker 1: then they've got Green Bay, presumably with the return of

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Then they've got Tampa Bay. Then they've got Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Three of the four teams or playoff contention type teams. Uh,

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Speaker 1: do you think they can win? You think they will

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Speaker 1: lose two games to give the Cowboys a shot here.

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Speaker 1: I do not respect the Panthers and and that's a

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Speaker 1: that's that's on me. I just don't like their game.

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Speaker 1: I don't that. I would never really think that they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win. They obviously do. They're eight and four, it's

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Speaker 1: really good record. I don't think they have offensive playmakers

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Speaker 1: that are that great. I don't really love the quarterback

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Speaker 1: at all. I don't know. I just feel like they're

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Speaker 1: always gonna lose. But they don't. They don't scare me.

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Speaker 1: They're just so they're so Jekyll and Hide, like they

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Speaker 1: can be so good and so bad. Yeah, defense is awesome.

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Speaker 1: I got a chance to watch a good part of

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Speaker 1: that game against the Saints, and they got awesome players

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Speaker 1: at like every level of their defense. And then but base,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Nick's right, like there's nobody really on that

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Speaker 1: offense that terrifies me. Christian McCaffrey's all right. Bertis Samuel

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Speaker 1: was having a good season until he wunches. Is their

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Speaker 1: best receiver. Yeah, it like it based like if Cam

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Speaker 1: balls out, they win, and if he isn't awesome, they lose.

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Speaker 1: That's and he is not consistent at all, So it

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Speaker 1: just kind of depends on what Cam you're getting. Really like,

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Speaker 1: I think that ultimately is what it boils down to,

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Speaker 1: Like if he's if he's on his game, they're pretty

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Speaker 1: tough to beat. And if he's not, I mean, like

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Speaker 1: they kind of I mean for being eight and four

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Speaker 1: were they were eight and three going into it, like

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Speaker 1: they kind of got their butts kicked yea by the Saints,

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Speaker 1: And I mean, I know if you watch the game,

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Speaker 1: it really felt like they got their bus kid for sure,

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Speaker 1: and the Saints ran all over him. Which defense is

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Speaker 1: their calling cards. So I think linebackers and the speed

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Speaker 1: at linebackers is really the key to beating beating them

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Speaker 1: because you got to be able to somewhat spy him

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Speaker 1: and not let camp just go crazy and run the ball.

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Speaker 1: If he has to sit sits in there and you know,

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Speaker 1: make those throws from the pocket, that's not his strength.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he needs to be kind of out running.

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Speaker 1: So to me, if you have a good fast defense,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I guess the Saints kind of you

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Speaker 1: would say have a fast defense somehow the Saint like

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Speaker 1: the Saints went from laughing stock to respectable defense overnight.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I personally I think that they'll they'll

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Speaker 1: kind of be what are they eating for? It smells

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Speaker 1: like ten and six to me, Okay, they would lose

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Speaker 1: two in that scenario and you think they're they're down

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Speaker 1: there where that gives Cowboys a chance. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: you kind of need to be in a three way

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Speaker 1: tie with somebody that you didn't you didn't play, Yeah, Amber,

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Speaker 1: what do you think? I agree? But I mean the Panthers,

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Speaker 1: it is a team that I just I'm on Nique

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Speaker 1: side on this one. I just never know, like I

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Speaker 1: really don't like them. But then again, they are winning

561
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Speaker 1: and they are better than the Cowboys right now. So

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Speaker 1: it's one of those that you just hope to see

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Speaker 1: them lose, but they just keep winning. So I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I think they could definitely win all of that all

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Speaker 1: of those games. So you know, you get to the

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Speaker 1: point in the season two where you know you're talking

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Speaker 1: about what they've done and you think, well, you know

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Speaker 1: this is this is the type of team they're going

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Speaker 1: to be. But you gotta remember, you gotta just look

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Speaker 1: no further than the Cowboys. Some of these really good

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Speaker 1: teams that Cowboys have had, even back to two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven. You know, it's different in December. It gets

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Speaker 1: it's tougher to win, it's tough for throw it's tougher

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Speaker 1: to do the same type of things that you normally do.

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Speaker 1: So I think those teams that are kind of built

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Speaker 1: for a cold weather are gonna, you know, have a

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Speaker 1: chance to maybe you know, keep this thing going. But

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Speaker 1: because just because of what you've seen and through the

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Speaker 1: first three months doesn't mean you'll see it in the

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Speaker 1: final month. You wonder about a team like Philly, you know,

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Speaker 1: but I mean I think I think Carson Wentz, you know,

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Speaker 1: will be fine throwing the ball whatever. But you know,

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Speaker 1: some of these teams that maybe throw the ball a

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Speaker 1: little bit more that maybe not as good. Well, the

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Speaker 1: other thing I'll point out here too, is that you

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Speaker 1: actually kind of want them to win some of these

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Speaker 1: games because you kind of want them to put that

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Speaker 1: loss on Atlanta, and you may even want them to

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Speaker 1: put that loss on Green But I kind of feel

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Speaker 1: like Green Bacon can maybe lose to Minnesota if you

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Speaker 1: buy into that, and so that gets them the loss,

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Speaker 1: and then you want Carolina to lose the other games.

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Speaker 1: But but yeah, you do want them to win that

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Speaker 1: Atlanta game because you need to put losses on Atlanta

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Speaker 1: as well. So that's the other part. And you guys

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Speaker 1: set this at the beginning. It's so true. These teams

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Speaker 1: are all going to play each other, and so what

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Speaker 1: you don't want is you don't want these teams that

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Speaker 1: are playing each other to kind of win and lose.

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Speaker 1: You want somebody to get on a role and just win,

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Speaker 1: and you want the other ones to just get on

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Speaker 1: a role and just lose, so that yes, maybe one

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Speaker 1: spot is taken as a wild card, but that other

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Speaker 1: spot gets vacated because all these other teams are taking losses.

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Speaker 1: That's really what you want to see. You don't want

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Speaker 1: them split in these games? Could you split them? And

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Speaker 1: then everybody kind of still stays right there above the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the last team that's in

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Speaker 1: that mixed Seattle eight and four Cowboys will play them.

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Speaker 1: And so if we're assuming the Cowboys are gonna win,

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Speaker 1: that would be one loss. They'll need one more against Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Seattle has on the remaining on their schedule. They're at

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville this week, they play the Rams, then they're at

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and then they finished the season against Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Likelihood that they get another loss other than the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: pretty good, yeah, pretty good chance. Who do you think

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Speaker 1: can get them? Well? Jacksonville this week? Any of those three.

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Speaker 1: Really are you buying Jacksonville? Yeah, I'm buying that defense.

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Speaker 1: A defense is good, and you know the way Seattle plays,

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Speaker 1: I mean those games, that game will be close. It'll

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Speaker 1: be a close, tight game. I mean, Russell Wilson's playing great. Yes,

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Speaker 1: thing is he put he's putting up. They're putting up

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Speaker 1: a pretty good amount of points. And I mean that

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Speaker 1: was that wasn't a bad defense that they beat up

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Speaker 1: on last week. Philadelphia has a good defense. So does

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Speaker 1: make me wonder against the Jacksonville team where you know,

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Speaker 1: offensively they're pretty inept, like they don't have the greatest offensive.

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Speaker 1: If they can't run the ball, you can shut them down.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll be enough to be able

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Speaker 1: to beat a team like Seattle. Let's let's have a

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Speaker 1: conversation here. Like my love for Aaron Rodgers as well established,

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is entering into that territory. I was having

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Speaker 1: this conversation with somebody the other day like he is

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Speaker 1: he is in that category or is rapidly climbing into

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Speaker 1: that category where you're just like he's on the field,

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Speaker 1: all right, they got a shot. I don't care who

637
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Speaker 1: they're playing. I don't care who's on their injury report.

638
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: I don't care where the game is. They got a

639
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Speaker 1: chance because he's awesome. He is in right now in

640
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Speaker 1: the NFL. He is my favorite quarterback to watch. He's

641
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Speaker 1: oh my god, it's so fun to watch him because

642
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 1: you it's like Romo when Romo kind of got into

643
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: the league and he's spinning in Whirland and you don't

644
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: know where he's gonna go, and guys think they got

645
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,239
Speaker 1: him sacked, and then all of a sudden he's out

646
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Speaker 1: of it, and it's just fun to watch. It is

647
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: really fun to watch. I was not under the impression,

648
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't have put him in that category when

649
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: when the season started. But I mean, Brady Rogers not

650
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: even like I mean, like Drew Brees is capable of

651
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: playing that way, but like the way they're playing, it's

652
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,719
Speaker 1: they don't even lean on him that way. But like

653
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is one of those three or four guys

654
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: where he just they have a chance because he's there.

655
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Speaker 1: I mean, how many games this season has he accounted?

656
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Speaker 1: You know, Seattle will put up three hundred and eighty

657
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Speaker 1: yards of offense and three hundred and fifty of them

658
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: are his, you know, like they don't even bother running

659
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: the ball anymore, and think about it for that standpoint,

660
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: like the running, the running backs aren't great. Offensive line

661
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: literally average at best. Thing is great. Baldwin is the

662
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: best receiver that they got, and that's not great. Right,

663
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: Graham's coming along, But I was gonna say as a

664
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Speaker 1: tight end, Graham is actually catching a lot of touchdowns

665
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: and that's that's a good thing. But even their defense,

666
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: where that's been their calling card, they've lost two of

667
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: their best defensive players and still haven't seemed to miss

668
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Speaker 1: a beat. So all that being said, I think they're

669
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Speaker 1: putting a ton on the shoulders of Russell. Of of Russell,

670
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Speaker 1: and he's still managing to play extremely well. They can

671
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Speaker 1: get him win the way he's playing, and nobs like

672
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: this would involve them beating the Cowboys, which renders the

673
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys playoff chances moot. But I would not be surprised

674
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: if they wind up winning the NFC West. I agree

675
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: with them if they beat the Rams that they win

676
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: out like and then you could find yourself in a

677
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: situation where the Rams are the wild card, which that

678
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: ain't good for the cow They have a tiebreaker over

679
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: you as well. So, like I mean, if you're listening,

680
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: it's very evident just from hearing all that, like a

681
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: lot of stuff has to go the Cowboys way over

682
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: the next month on top of them winning all their games. Ye.

683
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Speaker 1: So I'll finish that with that question, how likely do

684
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Speaker 1: you think it is the Cowboys win all four of

685
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: their final games? Not likely. This team has not shown

686
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: any kind of consistency other than to be inconsistent. That's

687
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: the only consistency that we've really seen from them. So

688
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just with Zeke, I mean they

689
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: didn't they were five and three, so, but they were

690
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: getting on a roll when he went out, they were

691
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 1: kind of getting You could feel that they were starting

692
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: to get there, starting to roll, right, I mean three

693
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Speaker 1: games in a row, right, But just the way they

694
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: were playing offensively, the way they were playing, it seemed

695
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,239
Speaker 1: like they were starting to find their rhythm and they

696
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: were starting to get on a role to where the

697
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: yards were coming a lot easier than they were earlier

698
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: in the season. Right, you guys agree with that? Yes? Yeah,

699
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: Which that's honestly, this all sounds like a tough task

700
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,239
Speaker 1: and I've used this cliche a few times already, but

701
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: like it's it's a two game season, because the whole

702
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: thing changes if you're if you can get to Seattle

703
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: at eight and six, Yeah, I give him. I mean

704
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: I think you got a puncher's chance. You see what

705
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: happens if that comes to pass. Obviously, I mean that's

706
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: a tough task going on the road twice and getting

707
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: two wins without him. I mean there's you know, they're

708
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: six and six and they have not beaten a team

709
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: with a winning record. So but that's you know, that's

710
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: not really doesn't really matter at this point. You know,

711
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna play the Giants. The Raiders might have a

712
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: winning record if you play them. You know, Seattle probably

713
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: will if you get to play them, And then you

714
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: gotta beat Philly and they definitely will, so you know,

715
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: but my point is is that the wins those three

716
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: games on a role you're talking about. They beat the Redskins, Okay,

717
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: that was a pretty good game. And they beat the

718
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Chiefs now look horrible, verrym mortal. And

719
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: they beat the forty nine ers, which I think Clemson

720
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: could too. Yeah, wouldn't put it past maybe, but I

721
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: don't know. I just I look at the Niners be

722
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: in the final four. The Niners would just absolutely roll

723
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,439
Speaker 1: to the night. I'm king, of course they would. But yeah,

724
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be tough. But I do think it's doable.

725
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: And I've said this at the beginning of the season.

726
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: I still believe it. I think if the Cowboys have

727
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, and certainly if they have Tyren Smith and

728
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: they have Sean Lee and these guys that have been

729
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: kind of banged up throughout the year, if they are

730
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: at eight and six heading to to play set the roster,

731
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: getting ready to play Seattle, and they've got there, they

732
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: got all those guys in, then they will be among

733
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: the healthiest teams in the league. When you started looking

734
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: at it from that perspective, Um, and that does give them,

735
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: like you said, David, does give them a puncher's chance. Again,

736
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: a lot of things have to work out their way,

737
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: but I think this is far from over. It's just

738
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, obvious. This is so obvious. But like you know,

739
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: back in October, You're like, this loss of the Rams

740
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: is gonna come back and haunt them. Yeah, it sure did.

741
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: There could you feel a lot better right now if

742
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: you were seven and five doing this whole thing and

743
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: had that tie breakover, Yeah, the Rams who could find

744
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: themselves being a wild card. Um, if if Seattle keeps winning,

745
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: if you could just have one, would you take that one?

746
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: Or Atlanta? Even though the Atlanta it was not even close. Well,

747
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: you have to take Atlanta because right now Atlanta is

748
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: a wild card? Or would you They're firmly planted as

749
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: a wild cart. They're not gonna win a division. I know,

750
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: well wild card contender, they wouldn't playoffs. Know what I

751
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: mean is like there you're gonna be battling with them

752
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: for a wild card. They're not gonna win their division. Rams,

753
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: They're still up there and possibly win their division. I

754
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: would take Atlanta because it means that you played a

755
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: decent game against them without Zeke, which is I mean,

756
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: I know, they just makes you feel better, Yeah, I mean,

757
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: they beat the crap out of the Redskins. Kudos to them,

758
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: good job, but like the offense still wasn't really that

759
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: great like they I mean, they got it done mainly

760
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Speaker 1: because the takeaway is an awesome special teams play like

761
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: that was the catalyst for that win. So if they

762
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Speaker 1: had managed to find a way to beat Atlanta, then

763
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: I would assume that meant that they were playing better

764
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: on offense, and that would give me more hope that

765
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: they can win these next two games without him. All right,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Nick boom Amber. You got some questions for

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Speaker 1: So I'm a Cheeto fan. I'm ready to ride with that. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: much sense. I know, um, Georgy love you. I think

847
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,919
Speaker 1: he likes me more than most people that come into

848
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: the locker room. I thought, you say, just most people

849
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: in general. He's like he was being a jerk to

850
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 1: me one time recently and I was like, leave me alone,

851
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: and he was like, you know, like the fact that

852
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: I bother messing with you at all means I like you, right,

853
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, okay, he's still annoying. He

854
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: does stop buying, kind of have a little conversation with

855
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: you from Thomas out on the plane, I think he

856
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: I think he likes you. We're home. Is it just

857
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 1: Dave and like, is he having the conversation with Dave?

858
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: Well sometimes yes, but there's also sometimes but the whole plane. Yeah,

859
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: he's just talking out loud and hoping somebody bites on

860
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: whatever he's saying. Yeah and see where it goes. Right,

861
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: He's a Fisherman conversation guy, just like, hey, cheet on

862
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: this one, cheeto, Jordan Scandrick, Um, Hey, let's I mean

863
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: let's just ride the hot hand here, Cavan get out there,

864
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: um and then whatever I mean by want the other one.

865
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I've been saying that since July, Like

866
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: just it they rotated anyway, Just whatever combination you got.

867
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: It's not great, but it is what it is. Like, Yeah,

868
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: they're all gonna play. Thing about Heath is that Heath

869
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: is better than Byron Jones and he's worse than Byron Jones.

870
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: Like Byron Jones doesn't have a lot of bad, bad plays,

871
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: Heath will have some bad plays, but he has some

872
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: good plays. The play the other night where Crowder fumbled

873
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: and it was calf was touching the ground and they

874
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: called it you know, him down and ball went to Heath.

875
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: I mean, Heath is the one that picked it up.

876
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: He also got the interception. He's got another interception. He's

877
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: picked off Aaron Rodgers twice in a year when no

878
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: one was doing that. The ball kind of finds him

879
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: the Bucks game, two interceptions, but he also lost the

880
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: game because he had a holding penalty that you know,

881
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: when they had the game won. So Heath is just

882
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: kind of you know, he's very up and down, and

883
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: Byron Jones is just kind of there and didn't really

884
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,760
Speaker 1: do anything. So does that answer anything? Yeah, about Xavier Woods,

885
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: I think he's I've there, You've seen flashes of potential

886
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: from him, but he's the classic case of like if

887
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 1: you were to throw him out there for sixty snaps,

888
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not convinced they would look good. Is that

889
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: just youth an inexperience. Absolutely, he's a rookie. He's a

890
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: But you got two other rookies out there also, Okay

891
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: with those guys, two other rookies, one in the corner. Yeah,

892
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 1: they were drafted much higher. I mean, I know, like

893
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: we were really high on Xavier Woods during the draft process.

894
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: He was still a Day three pick. A Cheeto was

895
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 1: his top sixty. Jordan Lewis would have been a first

896
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: round pick if not for the off the field stuff.

897
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: So I think that's a little bit different. Okay, Von Frasier,

898
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: great game showed some you know, physical nature. That's awesome,

899
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: But let's see how Let's see what happens when he's

900
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: asked to do everything that a safety needs to do.

901
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: Because I've seen a safety around here that was a

902
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: five time Pro bowler that once the team's figured him out,

903
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: he was nothing, and so let's see if he has

904
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: to go and do those things. So if he can

905
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: play closer to the line of scrimmage like Barry Church

906
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: did a lot of times, great because I think that's

907
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 1: that's what he's good at. But if he has to

908
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: go back and cover, we'll see if he can handle that.

909
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: And that kind of plays into my point, which is

910
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: between the four main candidates to play safety, you can

911
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: kind of get it done moving them around and getting

912
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: them all out there and give them all a role

913
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: like there's no two guys that you're just like, these

914
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,240
Speaker 1: are the guys that need to be playing eighty snaps

915
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 1: a game like they don't have that. And that's why

916
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I think safety is one of their top

917
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: two or three draft needs because of that. Well, the

918
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: other thing I'll say about Cavon Frazier and I mentioned

919
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: this on the show yesterday, is he does give them

920
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: an attitude that I think right now is sorely missing

921
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: on this defense. I don't think you have a lot

922
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 1: of guys on this defense deal really pop a guy,

923
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 1: and I think he will, and I think that's something

924
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: that even though today's NFL, you're not going to get

925
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: away with the stuff you would have gotten away with

926
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen years ago. I still do think having

927
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: a safety who is a short tackler and attacks with

928
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 1: a thud, I think there's something to that, and I

929
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: think he provides that for you. None of your other

930
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: safeties provide that. Yeah, it's one of the worst positions

931
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: in the NFL for a guy to play because it's

932
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: really a no wins because it's changed so much yet.

933
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: I mean, that game last night was atrocious, and you know,

934
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: you feel for a lot of those players because they're

935
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: trying to be in a physical situation and you know,

936
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: the game happened so fast, and then next thing you know,

937
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 1: you know they're getting fined because the super SlowMo you

938
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: just see helmet to helmet, you know. But then if

939
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: the guy backs off in the end zone and doesn't

940
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 1: hit helmet the helmet, then he looks soft and he

941
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: give it protucts down so they have no no shot. Well,

942
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: you guys brought up um Byron Jones. How committed do

943
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: you guys think that the Cowboys are with him long term?

944
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: Like financially? Yeah? Like moving forward? Like how committed? Well,

945
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: he's got it entering, He's entering his fourth season, so

946
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: you got to make your decision on a fifth year

947
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: option win May and it's coming me. I don't think

948
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: they do. I would not either. I can't. I can't

949
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: see what justifies it right now. I think they moved positions.

950
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: I think he moves to corner I would do. Does

951
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: a corner is ead any better? I mean, like, no,

952
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 1: he's not. But I mean he is not very big

953
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: to play safety. He he's always on some I mean,

954
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: but it's not softy back ride king. But does does

955
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: the size really matter as much as just is? Or

956
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: is it just his ability to tackle isn't as as

957
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: good as it needs to be in order to play safety,

958
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: because there have been some safeties in the league that

959
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: aren't big guys that are good safeties, right I just

960
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: Eric Weddle is a good one that comes to mind.

961
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: Like he's a shorter guy, but he's a good safety.

962
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: In a perfect world, I would spend my first or

963
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: second round draft pick on a starting caliber safety, and

964
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: I would have Byron play the final year of his

965
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: contract as like that dime tight end guy, like the

966
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: extra defensive back. Is that what you want from a

967
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: guy you draft in the first round? No, but basically

968
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: you're about to make him JJ Wilcox type just that

969
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 1: kind of number snap and I think he's he's really

970
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: he would be really good in that role. He has

971
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 1: been before, and I think it works for him. That

972
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: allows him to find the balance between his size and

973
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: his his athleticism. Like he's not out there playing corner.

974
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: He's not that great at safety, but he can cover

975
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: and you know, deal with tight ends and do stuff

976
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: like that. Like I said, it's it's a role playing job.

977
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: It's not what you want from a guy you drafted

978
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: in the first round, but that's where you're at. That's

979
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: what I would do. Like I I'm not trying to

980
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: go into twenty eighteen with him as one of my

981
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: primary defensive starters. That's I wouldn't do that. But the

982
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: Ryan Switzer earn his swagger, I think that might have

983
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 1: been directed at me. Maybe I need a few more

984
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: games that do that every game for the rest of

985
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: the year, how about it, and then you can have swagger. Hey,

986
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: that was pretty badass. If he wants to swagger walk around,

987
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: I think he earned it. But you know the thing

988
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: about it is we and we said, we talked about this.

989
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: I think it was the last week of the week

990
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: before he had started showing that he's gonna break one

991
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: of these, Like he started having some some returns where

992
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: you were you were saying, like he's in position in

993
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: some of these instances, he makes one different cut here

994
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: or there, and he could take that to the house.

995
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 1: And so I think I don't think it's just about

996
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: what he did last weekend. Obviously scoring makes a difference,

997
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: but really what he's been doing the last few weeks

998
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: suggests that he's starting to get it and it's starting

999
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: to get to a point where he is becoming a

1000
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: bit of a threat in the return game. Yeah, he's

1001
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: got existently, he's gotta get up the field. And then

1002
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: when you get up the field, that's where things will

1003
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: start breaking down, you know, and you're gonna take some

1004
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: big hits. There's gonna be sometimes when you you guess

1005
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: wrong and you're gonna get hit by a guy going,

1006
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: you know, fifty yards down the field and he's obviously

1007
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: gonna be bigger than him. So you know that you're

1008
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: gonna take some big shots. But I think it's a

1009
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: risk reward thing, and um, he's definitely done better, and yeah,

1010
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: he's took him a while, but he's getting there. I

1011
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: thought he would be more involved in the offense, especially

1012
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: as stagnant as it is. I thought he would be

1013
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: involved in it, but he hasn't been. Well, Cole hasn't either,

1014
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:34,720
Speaker 1: So it's hard to get two of those guys involved

1015
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: when you can't even get one in it. So that's

1016
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: the next question. If I mean, based on what we've

1017
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: seen with him and the speed he has and all that,

1018
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: would you guys want to see him more involved in

1019
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: the offense? Give me this? Yeah, give me this one, right?

1020
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 1: I was thinking same thing. Here's the here's the problem.

1021
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 1: This guy's not going anywhere. It doesn't want to go anywhere,

1022
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: and it's really hard for the coach and staff to

1023
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: do anything. And that's the he's the I hate to

1024
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,359
Speaker 1: say this, but when it comes to Switzer, hears they

1025
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: progress stopper. But they could use him on things like

1026
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: the Jets sweep, which I think the way that they

1027
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: used Lucky, there's no reason why they couldn't use Switcher

1028
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: the same way. And they were getting there was a

1029
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: point last year when they had a stretch of five

1030
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: or six games, well they were doing that every game

1031
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: and getting ten twelve yards every time they tried it.

1032
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: And I think that again, when you have a team

1033
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: where you're trying to figure out ways to run the

1034
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: ball and move the ball, but you want to be

1035
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: able to run the ball, that just creates one more

1036
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 1: dynamic that you have to pay attention to. You can

1037
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: buying Alfred Morris with the jet sweep, with Dak being

1038
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: able to run. Now, there are a lot of different

1039
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: ways you can run the ball, and the defense has

1040
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: to count for every single one of them, and I

1041
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: think that only helps you. I just I'm a little

1042
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: bit surprised that they haven't started doing that more, especially

1043
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:52,280
Speaker 1: with Zeke out of the lineup. Yeah, you're right, especially

1044
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: now that Zeke's not there. It seems like something that

1045
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: would make sense. It doesn't seem like it should be

1046
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: that hard, even with Jason Witton out there, to get

1047
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: him two to four touches a game, or like you

1048
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: could do that with twelfth personnel, give him, give him

1049
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: a package. I don't know. Um, I think that I

1050
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: think these these guys are they I think of it

1051
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: as stubborn, and they think of it like they're they're

1052
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: committed to their philosophy and who they are and blah

1053
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 1: blah blah, and I think they're stubborn. I don't, they don't.

1054
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: It's a thin line between commitment and stubbornness, right, I mean,

1055
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: it's one of those questions where like, I don't, I

1056
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: don't have a great answer because I don't. I think

1057
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: it's weird too. So I know we talked about this

1058
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: several weeks ago, and I don't really want to get

1059
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: into it too much, but people are asking Randy Gregory,

1060
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen with him? Is it looking like a

1061
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: possibility of coming back? I know that I heard Brian

1062
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: the other day to kind of mentioned I guess you

1063
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: have to like sign something, you have to petition the

1064
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: league for reinstatement. He hasn't done that from what I hear. No,

1065
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: he was supposed to have a hearing back to the

1066
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: beginning of November. I don't know if anything came of that.

1067
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: He hasn't been reinstated. Even when he is reinstated, he

1068
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: can't come back to the team until January. It's a

1069
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: moot point for this season. We explain that to me,

1070
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: he can be reinstated but not allowed to come back

1071
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 1: to the team, or not allowed to play. He's serving

1072
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: a suspension right now. Right, what I'm saying is you

1073
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: said he could be reinstated and not be allowed to

1074
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: come back. If you think about like being like you're

1075
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,919
Speaker 1: not well, you're not banned from the league or whatever

1076
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: when you're suspended, you know what I like not Zeke

1077
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be reinstated. Randy was suspended enough times

1078
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: or had enough problems that that's a whole different thing.

1079
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: You say reinstated, your meaning be reinstated as a as

1080
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: an NFL player that's still suspended. Yes, got you. And

1081
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 1: it's a year long suspendon, Like, it's not games, it's

1082
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: a calendar year, and so he's not eligible to actually

1083
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: come back from suspension until January, right, so you won't

1084
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: see him this year. I don't honestly like to be

1085
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: one hundred percent reel like, I don't know where it

1086
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 1: sits one hundred percent right now. I know he's still

1087
00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: got to deal with that. I've heard that there's reason

1088
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 1: for optimism that maybe that can all work out in time,

1089
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,640
Speaker 1: but it won't. I hope it's I hope those reasons

1090
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: for optimism or things happening in Dallas and not Cleveland.

1091
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: That's what I hope, Oh not while you're talking about John,

1092
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: about Joshua Gordon, who you never thought would come back

1093
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: to the league again, and he has and had a

1094
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: pretty decent data other. Yeah, that's great. No, that's a

1095
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: that's an awesome story. But I mean, like, just the

1096
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 1: reason for optimism based on what's going on in Randy's

1097
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: Gregory's life. I hope so. And there's also a big

1098
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: difference to josh Gordon lit up the league. Randy Gregory still,

1099
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: I mean before all of this was not a great

1100
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: pass rusher. I mean, that's a young needing to develop

1101
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: pass A choice of words there, lit up the league. Sorry,

1102
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: good point. I was like to be like that, but

1103
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: I was like, ring it up. I'm like, what's wrong

1104
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: with that? He had a great year and oh that's

1105
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: what he's talking about. So let's just hope this doesn't happen.

1106
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: But if the Cowboys are mathemlodically got it, Yes, I

1107
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: got it slowly close enough. If they're math, yeah, out

1108
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: of the playoff, would you guys expect the Cowboys to

1109
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:11,479
Speaker 1: sit out Shaun Lee, Janalen Smith and even seek would

1110
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: you want them to do that? Play football? You get

1111
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 1: sixteen games a year play football. That's yeah, and my thing,

1112
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: that's what they'll say. Yeah, I mean sixteen games. You

1113
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: only get sixteen games, so it's not like basketball or baseball,

1114
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: well you got hundreds or you know, eighty something games,

1115
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: hundred games, whatever it is. I understand the point those

1116
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: might not be the best three. What about Tyrant Smith

1117
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,760
Speaker 1: if he's already got an injury that he's been playing

1118
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: through and he's gonna need to have surgery, and going

1119
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 1: ahead and doing the surgery gets him back a little sooner. Yeah,

1120
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: maybe Shaun Lee has been dealing with hamstrings all year,

1121
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: gon need surgery. That's my point. I'm talking about surgery.

1122
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: Like if you if there's gonna need to need to

1123
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: be a surgery in the off season for particular injury

1124
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: you already have, and if you go ahead and do

1125
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: the surgery, now it just speeds that timeline up a

1126
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,080
Speaker 1: little bit so that you're back and maybe get some

1127
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: of the offseason work. Then I say, go ahead and

1128
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: do it. But absent to that, let him play. And

1129
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: you know what they would want to play, like Sean

1130
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: Lee wants to play every game that he's able to

1131
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: affect his money too. Yeah, I mean and I get

1132
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: that they're professionals. They're gonna want to do their jobs

1133
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: whatever I'm It's my same thing with preseason games, honestly,

1134
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: Like and I get that I'm in the minority and

1135
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: that if they're mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, if you've

1136
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: ever made a Pro Bowl, by if you've ever made

1137
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl or an All Pro team, you're done

1138
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, because right now, if you're

1139
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: the Giants, that's what you would do. You would you

1140
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: would take all those guys they're mathematically eliminated. You would

1141
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: take all those guys that are your best players and

1142
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: you sit them down for a month. You can't do that, Dave.

1143
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: It's a little bit different in a situation like that

1144
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 1: where I'm with the Cowboys. We're probably talking about two games.

1145
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: We're probably like, we're not talking about a whole month.

1146
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: Like if you're yeah, if you're one in ten, you

1147
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: got to evaluate your team moving forward for the next season.

1148
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: There's a new regime coming in that wants to see

1149
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: that type of stuf. You're probably talking about a game

1150
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: or two here. If the Cowboys are out, I wouldn't

1151
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: play them. This is a callous thing to say. But

1152
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: these guys are assets, that's what they are. Why are

1153
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 1: you subjecting them to needless rich Your fans are assets too.

1154
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: The fans are the ones to pay them. And then

1155
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 1: and somebody's go opening up a Christmas present that says, Hey,

1156
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: I get to go to the game to watch the

1157
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys play the Seahawks, and because they're mathematically eliminated, I

1158
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: don't get to watch Dak, I don't get to watch Zeke,

1159
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: I don't get to watch Russell Wilson, I don't get

1160
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: to watch Richard Sherman because everyone's math. You know, I'm

1161
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: with you. That's a tough one. And I go back

1162
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 1: to the sixteen games thing. You know, it's about playing.

1163
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: And I get your point. I mean, I know what

1164
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: you're saying about, you know, protecting them from next year,

1165
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: But there's not that many injuries that would happen there

1166
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: that prevent them from the next season. Not really. I

1167
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: mean it's torn achilles or something like that. Those injuries exist, exist, exist,

1168
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: But I get your point. Hit by the bus by

1169
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: because they were inactive, Well, well that's it goes back

1170
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: to the whole I mean, that's what get hits by

1171
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: but it goes back to the whole argument I had

1172
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: with Mickey in the summer though. He's like, Wow, they'll

1173
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: just get hurt in the regular season game instead of

1174
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 1: the preseason game. And I say, well, let him get hurt.

1175
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm get hurt in a game that matters. That's what

1176
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: I think. And I get I get what you're saying.

1177
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: The preseason thing is it makes Yeah, that makes a

1178
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: lot more sense to me. But sixteen regular season games

1179
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 1: is all you get. And these guys think about they

1180
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: practice all year long, except for maybe a couple months off,

1181
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: just to be able to have sixteen games. And I'm

1182
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: I'm like I said, I think they would all want

1183
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: to play. Like I'm not suggesting that they're trying to

1184
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: get out of games. I'm saying I'd say it. I'd

1185
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: be like, that's great, you want to play. Awesome. We

1186
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: weren't good enough before and now there's no points to

1187
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: put you at risk. So would you say, Sean, if

1188
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: you've made a Pro Bowl, I would sit you. That's

1189
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:49,399
Speaker 1: if I mean. And again, and it's do you even

1190
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 1: have enough offits of time in to play? We have

1191
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,120
Speaker 1: to go for two because Bailey, he's not playing, make

1192
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: it work. We'll make it work again. Heat we're talking

1193
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: about we're talking about like one maybe two games, not

1194
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: like six if you're the San Francisco forty nine ers, Like, yeah,

1195
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: I'm with Nick. I don't. I don't want a little

1196
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: Johnny opening his present Christmas morning and I get to

1197
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: go to a football game and none of the players

1198
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: are playing like that, there's something fundamentally it's it's my

1199
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: whole complaint with the NBA and kind of how they

1200
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: and I understand why they do it, but I think

1201
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: for fans, the fans are the ones that get jilted

1202
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: because if you save your money to take your family

1203
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: to this one game of these two games, because you

1204
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: want to see your favorite player, and there's no other

1205
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: reason that that your other your player isn't playing other

1206
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 1: than just coach's decision. To me, there's something something fundamentally wrong.

1207
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: And you know what, that's probably why it makes sense

1208
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: to have like diverse voices in your power structure between coaching,

1209
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: front office ownership, because you need to have a voice

1210
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: that'll be like, uh no, like fan, we got fifty

1211
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: thousand people wearing Zeke jerseys that are going to be here,

1212
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: like he needs to play because you know, again I'm

1213
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: thinking about this purely from a football standpoint, like if

1214
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 1: the coach has had their way, they do stuff like

1215
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: that all the time. Yeah, and you have to remember

1216
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff because guess what, at the end

1217
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: of the day, and I know the guy here says

1218
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: it a lot. We're in the entertainment business and if

1219
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: you're not considering the fact that how are you going

1220
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: to entertain your fans, then you're missing the point to somebody.

1221
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: If you won't, if you won't let me sit everybody

1222
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: that's made a Pro Bowl, what I would I would say, Oh, Sean,

1223
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: your hamstring has been terrible, Like, you probably need surgery

1224
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: on that, right, you can do the Papa Vitch route, Yeah, Sean,

1225
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: anybody all right, anybody that's battled an injury, you're done surgery.

1226
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: Which I'm a little bit more okay with that. I

1227
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: know I was wondering that too. I'm like, hamstring surgery.

1228
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: Oh no, Sean, you have a hangnail. You need to

1229
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 1: have surgery. Right, you can't play this week. Zeke lost

1230
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: so many potential incentives because with the six games, you know, suspension.

1231
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: You wonder if there's anything he can collect makeup. You know,

1232
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: he needs what two thirty seven to get to a thousand.

1233
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: But Zeke, that's the thing. Zeke hasn't played six games,

1234
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: so you know, he wants to play football. So those

1235
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: two games, I don't think you sit him. That's that

1236
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: just wouldn't be. I don't think fair to him to

1237
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: then take another two games from him where he can

1238
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: be out there five minutes talking about the fact that

1239
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna win four straights. So they're playing a good point.

1240
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: We're playing all right, Thank you guys for joining us.

1241
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We're gonna get back to our normal format.

1242
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're gonna jump into the Giants. Dave's gonna give

1243
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: us a scouting report and tell us all about these

1244
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: New York Giants. Will do that tomorrow until then, for

1245
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: Nick Even, Dave Helmett, amber Garcia. I'm Derek Hilts and

1246
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,560
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1247
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:32,520
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