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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Label,

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star.

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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, Rick Johnson, and

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Speaker 1: Nui scrugs. That is what I'm talking about. Okay, my

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Speaker 1: name you guys said it took months and months for

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Speaker 1: you guys to get your name in the intro. I

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Speaker 1: say it one time bad. That's how did you know?

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Speaker 1: I just pay people off that They probably never cried

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Speaker 1: about it. That's probably what happened. We didn't give him

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Speaker 1: just like, Dan, can I get in the intro? And

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Speaker 1: I got there? Will you making stuff happen? So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm welcome to at the Player's

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Speaker 1: Lounge Friday Edition Post game Edition. I'm Brett Johnson. I'm

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Speaker 1: here with Danny McCray, Barry Church, and new We are

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Speaker 1: both out today, but we have the boss man himself.

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Speaker 1: My boss is here. Just you know, you're just going

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Speaker 1: to be here reviewing, judging everything that I do. I

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Speaker 1: guess feel it. Well wait, wait, wait, wait, before get

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Speaker 1: before we get too deep into this, I gotta make

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Speaker 1: sure I put this on camera. Okay, because once again

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Speaker 1: I'm here, Barry's not here, and New he's not here.

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Speaker 1: All right. They made sure to make a big moment

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Speaker 1: of it, of the fact that I had been out,

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Speaker 1: I was on vacation. They held it down while I

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Speaker 1: was gone, Nui wasn't here on a previous show, and

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Speaker 1: then Barry and New we aren't here for this show.

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Speaker 1: So that's on camera, and I want everybody to know

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Speaker 1: that I'm here and I'm wrong, and I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: Barry is partying right now here. You are on a

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Speaker 1: flight I saw. I saw New at in Tampa, so

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Speaker 1: I kind of understand maybe why he wasn't in the

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Speaker 1: last two shows. You know, I'm just at the game,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know about you. You were in Tampa, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: because you're on the show. Yeah yeah. So but I

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Speaker 1: will say this, I did get to fly the charter

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Speaker 1: home last night. They didn't get that out. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: if he would have had that option, he definitely would

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Speaker 1: have taken it. It's okay, man, I got live of

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Speaker 1: you and stuff, but I'm gonna get off. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get off. It's okay because I'm here. I love the

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Speaker 1: team that we have here is gonna be an amazing show.

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Speaker 1: So shout out. I worked my first game yesterday and

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Speaker 1: I didn't travel and I'm really tired. So I congratulations

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Speaker 1: for being here today, Nick, because I don't know how

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Speaker 1: y'all do it. I don't know. I got home at

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Speaker 1: like twelve thirty and I'm like, I'm so tired. What

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Speaker 1: his life? What his life? M the game yesterday? You know,

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Speaker 1: I've always been a fan of Too Short, but yesterday

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Speaker 1: I was not because we lost by two points final

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Speaker 1: score thirty one to twenty nine. Bucks win the game

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Speaker 1: that headline though, didn't you know? Yeah? Thank yeah, And

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Speaker 1: I was like, you know what that's like, too Short?

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Speaker 1: Like from California. You know, I got to do a

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Speaker 1: little West Coast Best Coast um next game is against

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Speaker 1: honestly kind of sad that I will not be at

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Speaker 1: that game because I've been seeing so far being built

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Speaker 1: for years, last two years, and I have not gotten

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Speaker 1: that one. But that is on September nineteenth, so the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have a little bit of time to kind of

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Speaker 1: work on some things from now till then. Um, but

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Speaker 1: just before we get into depth of more stuff, what

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Speaker 1: was your guys's just first initial thought after watching the game,

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Speaker 1: about two. You did knew that we're going to come

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Speaker 1: out and throw the ball all over the place. I

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Speaker 1: Dak looked great, offensive line looked way better than I

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to see them be a better football team,

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Speaker 1: don't know if they're a good team, you know, a

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Speaker 1: great team, but I do think that they're better than

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Speaker 1: what we saw. And because Tampa is a perfect benchmark

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Speaker 1: to start this off. You know tom Brady's going to

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Speaker 1: they're a well old oiled machine. They got twenty two

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Speaker 1: starters back. Everyone's been talking about that, and they came

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Speaker 1: That's what you want to be a really good team.

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Speaker 1: You got to take that step. And they weren't there.

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Speaker 1: They left tom Brady too much time and that's what happened.

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Speaker 1: But if if that, if you play like that, you're

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Speaker 1: going to beat a lot of teams on your schedule

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Speaker 1: third easiest schedule according to ESPN and NFL, and we

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. So hopefully with those stats out,

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Speaker 1: don't buy buying two because the last year was last year.

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Speaker 1: Teams are totally different coming into a new season. Like

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Speaker 1: This is the second year of Herbert and he's going

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Speaker 1: And also, I mean, think about it from the flip side,

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Speaker 1: They didn't make the playoffs, but from what they saw

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Speaker 1: It started off good but didn't turn out the way.

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Speaker 1: But we'll talk about that later a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: to go back to your point, you kind of made

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Speaker 1: that that happened. I mean, listen, this trend has been

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Speaker 1: Even if the game dictates that we're not going to

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Speaker 1: I think there's still some other career the ways that

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Speaker 1: we can get Zeke the ball um. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: I think that Zeke should still be in the game

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Speaker 1: And I think last night, you know, besides him being

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Speaker 1: I don't really have confidence in seeing seeing that many changes.

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Speaker 1: especially on Darwin. Like, yeah, that that play, we saw

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Speaker 1: and he didn't. He just barely got a hand on it.

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Speaker 1: And that's a block in space. It will so not

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Speaker 1: game changing play for them. Being in this building yesterday

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Speaker 1: seeing that play, all the guys in the room were like,

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Speaker 1: you not do something there to kind of at least

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Speaker 1: I'm never going to be happy with how we usually

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Speaker 1: last night, just just just to be clear, eleven rushes,

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Speaker 1: why I say when Tony Polar got in the game,

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Speaker 1: we went first down, second down, I believe, in the

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Speaker 1: We ran like a draw, didn't get it and we

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Speaker 1: do it that way, right. I didn't understand that that series. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they didn't just try to run behind them. They knew

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Speaker 1: believe that's gonna happen. Well, we could talk about the

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Speaker 1: Tellgate just got jealous? Well, de Law said earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: you guys that he was excited to get back to

490
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Speaker 1: the way that he knows how to play defense and

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Speaker 1: the way he likes to play defense. Maybe a little

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Speaker 1: shade thrown there. I don't know. We're not here to

493
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Speaker 1: talk about that. Oh yeah, we all know we didn't

494
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Speaker 1: have been at three four man. We want to do.

495
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Speaker 1: We know what he's best at. Besides that miss on

496
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Speaker 1: Gronk for that touchdown in the game, I thought he

497
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Speaker 1: played great. I think the defensive line looked great. Um,

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Speaker 1: that is my opinion. Though I'm a defensive girl. I

499
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Speaker 1: love defense. What were your thoughts? Just let's talk about

500
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Speaker 1: the line first. Let's not get into the secondary because

501
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: that's a totally different story for me. Yeah, I thought

502
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Speaker 1: the d line did did Okay? I mean Tampa Bay

503
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: is not really known for being a great running team.

504
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Speaker 1: We know that Tom is going to read the defense

505
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Speaker 1: and get you into whatever whatever he thinks is best

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Speaker 1: at that time. So I didn't really expect Lenar Fournette

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Speaker 1: and Ronald Jones to go crazy. Um, I thought d

508
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 1: Law came and brought some some crazy energy last night.

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Speaker 1: The dude was all over the place force fumble, He's

510
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Speaker 1: he's tracking guys down from the from the other side

511
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Speaker 1: of the field. He came to say, hey, man, y'all

512
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Speaker 1: look at me. Y'all follow me, and I'll show y'all

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Speaker 1: how to play. And I loved it. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: I thought I thought he set the tone on our

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Speaker 1: defense and I thought it was really really good. Um.

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Speaker 1: Another thing is, we know Tom Brady is going to

517
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Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands quick, so you know,

518
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Speaker 1: planning to get a bunch of sacks on that dude.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just not good. It's not good. It's

520
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Speaker 1: not gonna work out for you. So for for the

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Speaker 1: chances that we had and the opportunities that we did

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Speaker 1: to have to make plays, I think we did a

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Speaker 1: really good job, especially compared to last year. Yeah. I

524
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Speaker 1: don't know who's got the record for quarterback to receiver touchdowns,

525
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Speaker 1: Like you know, Montana and Rice and Young and Rice

526
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Speaker 1: and Marino and Clayton but I guarantee you Brady to

527
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Speaker 1: Gronk is up there and it was that touchdown that

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Speaker 1: you were talking about with d Law. I mean they

529
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys tried to be cute, and they were cute her.

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Speaker 1: I mean they did a nice I mean, that was

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Speaker 1: a heck of a play there, because if they were

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, oh, we're gonna confuse you sending the

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Speaker 1: safety and put and then Gronk blocked for a second

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Speaker 1: and then took off, it's just those two guys connecting.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was an amazing play that was absolutely

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Speaker 1: just them. Yeah, that was something that they hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: time and time again, and it was like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: they do this all the time, right, because they trying

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Speaker 1: to get a closer run to the quarterback by hitting

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Speaker 1: the sea gat and it was like as soon as

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Speaker 1: they saw it, it's on. I have to ask this

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Speaker 1: what fan base was the most pissed off last night?

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Speaker 1: Because the Cowboys fan base doesn't seem to be that pissed.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're excited about what could happen. Of course,

545
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Speaker 1: the Bucks won the game. Patriots gotta be out there, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're like, Gronk, you said you were done,

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Speaker 1: and then like doing this, and then all these back

548
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Speaker 1: surgeries and all this stuff. You were injured half the

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Speaker 1: time you were here, and now you're just healthy as

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Speaker 1: can be. Washington was maybe up there too. This now listen,

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Speaker 1: this is the players lounge, and I am petty, so

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to this. The most upset

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Speaker 1: fan base are the people who picked Ezekiel Elliott in

554
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Speaker 1: their fantasy football draft with their their first round pick.

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Speaker 1: I picked them, and then the person who picked Dalvin

556
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Speaker 1: Cook said, hey, man, I picked them on accident. I

557
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Speaker 1: really wanted to get Zeke, so we traded one for one.

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Speaker 1: So now I got Dalvin Cook, they got Ezekiel Elliott.

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Speaker 1: But that's the most upset fan base right now. Well,

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Speaker 1: and also the people who one of the guys I

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Speaker 1: think it was Isaiah had benched Amari Cooper. I'll pass them.

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Speaker 1: I'll pass some of this year. How do you benchmark?

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Speaker 1: I didn't benching my past, and I just didn't. I

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Speaker 1: think it was Isaiah. Somebody yesterday or no, somebody somebody

565
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Speaker 1: yesterday said that they had benched Amari Cooper for this week.

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Speaker 1: So I think they're pretty upset too, And I can

567
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Speaker 1: I can throw my story in there too, which can

568
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Speaker 1: segue to the secondary because I've benched Antonio Brown. I didn't. Yeah, yeah,

569
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: but um he made sure Anthony Brown knows a little

570
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Speaker 1: bit about him, and yeah he was. He was outstanding.

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Speaker 1: And we've been hearing reports from from people in Tampa

572
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Speaker 1: that like, this guy looks looks God, looks amazing. He

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Speaker 1: looks like back to Pittsburgh for him from three or

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Speaker 1: four or five years ago. And he did. He certainly did.

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Speaker 1: He's got a great quarterback that knows how to well

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Speaker 1: you think about it, him and Gronk, Right, it's like,

577
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: so they got in late. You know, Gronk had been retired,

578
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: he was still trying to catch up. He had been

579
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Speaker 1: out of the game for a while. Antonio Brown same thing.

580
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: He had have been out of the game for a while.

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Speaker 1: And now that they are playing, you know, full offseason

582
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Speaker 1: training camp, and they're looking like the guys who were

583
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: at their previous teams. It's it's a real, real there's

584
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Speaker 1: some trouble out there. So when you say ab once again,

585
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is going to be giving a lot of

586
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Speaker 1: good cornerbacks problems this season because when he was at

587
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: his best, nobody could touch him right, Nobody could touch him.

588
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: So that was just you know, a notice to the

589
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Speaker 1: rest of the league, like, hey, you better figure out

590
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: the way to start double teaming me again like y'all

591
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: used to, or this is gonna this. Hou's gonna look

592
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: for y'all once when I when I come to town.

593
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: Brady's made it. Guys a lot of money that aren't

594
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Speaker 1: very tall, that are quick, that know how to run routes.

595
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he's done it with Wes Welker, he did

596
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: it with Amondola. He's done it and that's what he does.

597
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: And so Antonio Brown was already a star and then

598
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: now to come in. You know, he's got a perfect match.

599
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: How up, said are you? If you if you're Mike Evans,

600
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, yeah, number one guy yesterday

601
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: he was the third absolutely yesterday ground ground. You know,

602
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Speaker 1: Oh no, he will he will get his because he's

603
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: he's a I mean, he's a big, big target and

604
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: they'll bet miss matches. That's why I think about the

605
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: same with this cowboy receiver, like it'll piss off Fantasy on.

606
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: But like you know, it wasn't Gallops game. You know,

607
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: he got he got banged Up. I think it'll be fine,

608
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: But then there'll be another game where he gets one

609
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty right and Cooper may not get that,

610
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be you know, it'll go back and forth.

611
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Speaker 1: I think it was a quiet through team catch for

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Speaker 1: Cooper relatively, Yeah, I think it was. It was a

613
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Speaker 1: lot of I mean not quiet. It was quiet because

614
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Speaker 1: what we've grown to know Cooper as in the last

615
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: two years has been slants, uh, some comebacks, you know,

616
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Speaker 1: some quick stuff to get the get the chains movement.

617
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Speaker 1: So when he gets sixteen catches and they're like eight

618
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Speaker 1: nine yards apiece, then they quietly start racking up right.

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Speaker 1: And then versus some of those other receivers where you

620
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Speaker 1: see him catching forty and fifty yard bombs. That's not

621
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Speaker 1: Cooper's game right now. But what he did for us

622
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: last night was the Mary Cooper that I say deserves

623
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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars because he changed, he changed the game,

624
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: and he's that that guy for Dak Prescott when when

625
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: he needs one, uh, and not even just in his receptions.

626
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: There were like two pretty big blocks he did forget

627
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: for Gallup that I thought were amazing. I thought, literally,

628
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Speaker 1: hands down, all around if I'm looking for a guy

629
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Speaker 1: that I want to pay to be on my offense

630
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: to you know, actually make the blocks, catch the ball,

631
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Speaker 1: do whatever I need to do, get in whatever space

632
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: I need to be in to make this team win,

633
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: I'm paying Cooper. Like I thought he played great yesterday.

634
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Speaker 1: He had one hundred and thirty nine yards thirteen receptions,

635
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Speaker 1: and I just thought it was amazing. And people don't

636
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Speaker 1: really talk about his blocks that he had yesterday, and

637
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Speaker 1: I think if he wasn't catching the ball, he was

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Speaker 1: blocking for somebody. And I really enjoyed what I saw

639
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Speaker 1: yesterday from him. I think he is going to do

640
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Speaker 1: his best to try to prove that he is that

641
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Speaker 1: receiver that he's saying that he is, because we don't

642
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: really know him to talk about to talk about himself

643
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Speaker 1: like that. So I feel like if he was going

644
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Speaker 1: to put himself in that position to be like, yeah,

645
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Speaker 1: I'm the best receiver and YadA, da YadA, like I

646
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Speaker 1: think he really is putting himself in a place like, no,

647
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna believe it. I'm

648
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Speaker 1: gonna do my Muhammad Ali, I think I'm the best

649
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Speaker 1: until you know I'm gonna say I'm the best until

650
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Speaker 1: I am, and that's what he did. And I thought

651
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: he looked great yesterday. Not listening, but I'm not going

652
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: to fall for this. It's week one and and he

653
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Speaker 1: came through on a road game. No no, no, no, no, no, dame.

654
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: This is my guys. This is Barry's thing about the

655
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Speaker 1: Mark Cooper and away games, and the stats will show

656
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: that that year. I think if Jason Garrett's last year,

657
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Speaker 1: that he would He didn't show up for the road games,

658
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Speaker 1: all right, not all bit. He was going up against

659
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Speaker 1: like Steph, like guil Moore, some other some really good corners,

660
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: but he wasn't showing up. But I've also had a

661
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper on my fantasy team and there have been

662
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Speaker 1: a lot of times where sixteen catching sixteen targets, and

663
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Speaker 1: then there's been some time when I was like, where

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Speaker 1: is this do that? So he has to be consistent

665
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Speaker 1: as what he did last night. If he could continue

666
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Speaker 1: that for the rest of the season, he could be

667
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Speaker 1: in that conversation for the top receiver in the league. Okay,

668
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: well we got a little off track talking about offense again.

669
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Speaker 1: But the offense did get everybody excited. Let's get back

670
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: to the secondary because my guy, Jordan Lewis said, if

671
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Speaker 1: you guys don't remember on the show on Wednesday, I

672
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Speaker 1: said the matchup that I wanted to look at most

673
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Speaker 1: was Chris Godwin first, Jordan Lewis. I thought they were

674
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Speaker 1: both physical guys. Jordan Lewis actually started the game off

675
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Speaker 1: really well. There was like a really big play at

676
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Speaker 1: the very beginning of the game. I was like, see,

677
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: this is the matchup I'm talking about. And Barry even

678
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: said it too, He's like, that's that's your matchup, Britt

679
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Speaker 1: And I was like, see, that's what I'm talking about.

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00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: And then it kind of went downhill from there. He

681
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: did end up having you know, that return on the

682
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Speaker 1: pick for sixty six yards, but I almost feel like

683
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: that was just the right place, right time kind of

684
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Speaker 1: thing in that situation. What were your guys thoughts on

685
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Speaker 1: the secondary? How did you feel? Are you excited to

686
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Speaker 1: see these young guys come up now, because you know,

687
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: we still had some guys that were not able to participate,

688
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: especially Calvin Joseph, which I do really want to see

689
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,959
Speaker 1: and I do think he'll end up winning that starting

690
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: spot for a corner. But what are your thoughts? Nick?

691
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: I thought Anthony Brown had a rough night. I mean

692
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Speaker 1: I thought he was exposed a few times, especially on

693
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Speaker 1: the deep ball. The deep ball wasn't really anything fancy

694
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Speaker 1: out of Antonio Brown. He just kind of get a

695
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a stutter and it was gone. But

696
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: his hand up said I've got him, and he did

697
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: great throw by Tom to get him there. But I

698
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: thought Diggs was, you know, was kind of what we've

699
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: seen in camp. I thought he did a nice job.

700
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Speaker 1: And Jordan Lewis is a battler. I mean he's not

701
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: gonna win them all, but I mean he's he's scrappy.

702
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 1: The ball finds him, he finds the ball, um and

703
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: he did. He did a good job. Jayron Curse to

704
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: me was a player that really stood out. And I

705
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: know I felt weird talking about the defensive backs before Danny.

706
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: Danny actually has done it here on the players lounge.

707
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: But I just think big physical safety, you know something

708
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: about that you and Barry both And I thought Jayron

709
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: Curse did really a nice job. Yeah. I thought the

710
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: secondary um, you know, for the points that we gave up.

711
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: Like I said, I didn't expect us to be great

712
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: because I knew what we were going up against um,

713
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: so I think this was a big It was a

714
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: good test for us. You know. So guys are gonna

715
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: go in and they're gonna be able to see what

716
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: they did on film, and they're gonna say, this is

717
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Speaker 1: what we need to fix. Like I'm gonna I'm gonna

718
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: continue to say, Anthony Brown had a very tough matchup

719
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Speaker 1: last night. He Antonio Brown is poised to be one

720
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: of the top receivers in the league this year, and

721
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Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, you know, had the misfortunate of going up

722
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Speaker 1: against him for the first game of the season. I

723
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: think that he can play better. I think he will

724
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Speaker 1: play better. Last night just wasn't his night. Trey Von Dix,

725
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: I'm liking it. I'm liking it. I like him getting

726
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: his hands on the ball. I like the way that

727
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: he's challenging guys. I saw him on the play that

728
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 1: I think a guy when caught and we thought was offensive. PI.

729
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: He's shutting Mike Evans down. If you see it, Mike

730
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: Evans running the out route, He's right in front of him,

731
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: righting on him, like White don't write. So I'm like,

732
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,959
Speaker 1: I like to see it. I will say this some

733
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: things that you watch and you think that it's on

734
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: some of the guys in the secondary. You'll see Michael

735
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: Parsons out of position a couple of times where he's

736
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: supposed to be underneath some of those in cutting routes,

737
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: and it looks like it's on the cornerback. But he's

738
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: supposed to have help there. It's not supposed to like

739
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's not supposed to be able to throw a

740
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: bullets supposed to have to go over somebody's hands, and

741
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 1: we saw that happen a couple of times. Michael Parsons

742
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: will learn from that and he will be in the

743
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: correct position moving forward in the season. So I think

744
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: it's positive. I think it's positive. I think we can

745
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: look up. Like I said, I'm gonna that an Tonio

746
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: Brown thing is a mix up him and Tom Brady

747
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: on the same page. Gronk and Tom Brady are. They're

748
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: gonna do that to a lot of guys. But I

749
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: think if you're looking for us to battle and not

750
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: blow coverage just like we did last last season, I

751
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: think we're all right. I mean, what if if trey

752
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: Ron Diggs gets that interception at the end of the game, right,

753
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: Like I mean it would have been an amazing play,

754
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: just flying in the picture. Like everything's different about this

755
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: whole team that they I mean the secondary, Like, well,

756
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: that would be about five turnovers we tackled last night.

757
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: Yeah right, we we we broke on the ball. We

758
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: we I'm gonna say we minimized it. But it wasn't

759
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: crazy yards at the catch, all right, So they saw

760
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: the quarterback throw it, they broke on it. They made

761
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,319
Speaker 1: those tackles. We got some three and outs, Like, we

762
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: got turnovers. We've been talking about turnovers since I played.

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00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: We have now twenty ten, right, so and we came

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00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: out and we get with three four night, we get four.

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00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: You know, the last one counts, I mean before halftime counts.

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00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, the ones that I'm really talking about are

767
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: the ones that we on my fantasy team, Brady. But

768
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: but as far as us being able to create those

769
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: type of turnouts, punching the ball out, getting into sceptions,

770
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 1: we we did that in Game one against Tom Brady

771
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: last night. So I think it's on the up and up.

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00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: We're not perfect, um, but I think you know, we

773
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: got a lot of room for growth, and I think

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Speaker 1: dan Quinny get us right. Okay, Well, we got to

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848
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: and then switch when I'm going on camera. Now I'm

849
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: not changing if she wants if she wants me to

850
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: nominate her for Fan of the Year yet, well I

851
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: can't even wait now anyway, So forget it. I'm not.

852
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep my stuff at home in

853
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: the closet cool. I don't like washing a lot of clothes, Okay,

854
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't have maids and nannies and all of this

855
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:33,239
Speaker 1: stuff to do my laundry for me. It's okay, it's okay.

856
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: You're not getting fan of a year, all right? Special teams?

857
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: Special teams? Are they going to be able to get

858
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: us through this season? Because clearly it seemed like, um

859
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: most of the blame was put on them for our

860
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: last yesterday against the Tampa Bay Bucks m four points

861
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: left on the field, and I honestly would argue more

862
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: because I even feel like that sixty yard or originally

863
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: that wasn't a special teams problem, but Dak took that

864
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: ball of yards sack and then there was a penalty

865
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: right after that which pushed us back even more, and

866
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: we ended up at the sixty yard field goal that

867
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: of course we did not make as well, but we

868
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: missed a thirty one yard field goal, we missed an

869
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,439
Speaker 1: extra point. We lost by two. What are your thoughts? Yeah?

870
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: Those I mean, I'm not good at math, but I

871
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: know that's not good. This is what I will say.

872
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: We are not guaranteed to win the game. And we

873
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: have those four points, but Tom Brady has to go

874
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: to score a touchdown different, which is totally different, totally different, GIOE.

875
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: Bernard for four Yeah all day. I'm not worried if

876
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: you keep on throwing that, keep on throwing that. So

877
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: the defensive calls would have been totally different if we

878
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: have to keep Tom Brady from scoring to touch. Now,

879
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: those four points were huge, and we are going to

880
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,479
Speaker 1: depend on those points the entire season, right, So he's

881
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: going to have to be comfortable with making kicks consistently

882
00:42:57,719 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: like that. That's what you need to do. And this

883
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: is bones this guy. So we have to have confidence

884
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: in him, and your coach has to have confidence in

885
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: you too, to make sure that he feels good, good

886
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: with you making those kicks. Oh, I think he's got confidence.

887
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: I mean, oh yeah, well he's okay. Well, what's happened

888
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: was their line? Well, he missed an extra point and

889
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: he's also hit the worst field goal you've ever seen,

890
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: which is earlier, you know, less the extra point, So

891
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: let's give him a sixty yard yarder. You know, but

892
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right bred on that. There had first intent

893
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: on the twenty one yard line and dat got a

894
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: sack and then depend only on Connor Williams and you're

895
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: kicking sixty yarder, Like that's three points that probably should

896
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: have been there. The other field goal as well, the

897
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: extra point. I mean, now you're looking at seven points. Yeah,

898
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different game. We get it

899
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: was a forty one yard kickoff return. Ye that that

900
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,479
Speaker 1: can be fixed. Like those things, they don't really bother

901
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: me that much. Is week one. Like I said, a

902
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, this is the first time that

903
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: they're playing as a full special teams unit in this

904
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 1: type of situation, so they're still learning it, and I

905
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: think they got better as the game. Yeah, they got

906
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: some positives out of it. Brian inger Is I mean,

907
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: I think he there's a reason why that they really

908
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: loved him coming out. I mean because he's I mean,

909
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: he had a really nice game. I mean that that

910
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: punt they didn't win the game, but if they would

911
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: have won it, I think he would point to that

912
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: play he flipped the field position on them. C J.

913
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: Goodwin is a beast like her. He can absolutely run.

914
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: Don't know all the skills that he can do. He

915
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: can run him and Cedric Wilson did a nice job

916
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 1: because that was a moment where you know, they really

917
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: flipped the field. There a good job with Brian Ingers.

918
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: So I think there's some positive things. I mean, the

919
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: kicker missed, he had to correct himself, he kind of

920
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 1: got himself back going again. I feel better about him

921
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: than I did. You know, now, I asked this on

922
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: the other show. If he misses the kick the one

923
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: did to take the lead with a minute twenty four,

924
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: he misses that kick, is he is? He? Is he gone?

925
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't he be? Yeah, I'm not talking about right,

926
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: I'm not even run right now. I believe so, yeah,

927
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: I believe. So that's that's that's two big moments, which

928
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: means he's been hurt. We could guys for being hurt

929
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: and missing kicks. So yeah, so yeah, I think so.

930
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: But I mean that's bones this guy, so he has

931
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: a little a little bit more leeway than some of

932
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: other guys would. So I'm not really sure, but yes,

933
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: the good things. I had CJ as my defensive MVP

934
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: last season. Yeah, that's how good he played to me

935
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: last year special teams. But he's you know, but he's

936
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: a cornerback. So I just gave him defensive MVP because

937
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: our defense was not really good, you know, so somebody,

938
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: somebody had to get it. But I think that's every

939
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 1: every game, he's going to be a standout guy. He's

940
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: he's super fast, he knows where to be, how to

941
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: get there, he's savvy with getting off some of those gunners.

942
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: He's always gonna make those plays. Um. So like I said,

943
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at coverage. I'm not mad at our

944
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: point return. I think Ceede Lamb made a very good

945
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: play one. I think it's like eleven yards he gets

946
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: on that on that proNT return. UM. But you know

947
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: those miss field goals, man, that also counts the special teams,

948
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: So it's you know that that's what knocks you down

949
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: a little bit. So we just we just got to

950
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: make those kicks. And I think because he you know,

951
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: he did have his I believe he had back surgery

952
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: during the offseason and so we didn't really see him

953
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 1: most of preseason. He comes in that final preseason game,

954
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: misses a fifty six yard or then, and then comes

955
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: into this situation and is missing more and you know,

956
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about, Oh, it's just the first game. It's

957
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: about like when does preseason like in those conversations, because

958
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe we should start having starters and

959
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: guys playing preseason again. I know, the whole Adrian Peterson

960
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: when he you know, tears his acl and preseason and

961
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: everybody's like, no, no starters in preseason anymore. But we

962
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: can't start keep using the excuse as the first game, Oh,

963
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: it's the first game, so blah blah blah. No, that's

964
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: what preseason's for, Like, we need to figure out if

965
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: this guy is consistent, if he can do this that

966
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: in the third and get it out of the way

967
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,760
Speaker 1: before the season starts, because it could, Like I said

968
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: last episode, NFC East is always a close division. We

969
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: either even last year, as terrible as we were, you know,

970
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: we were four and you know, I think ten at

971
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: a point in time, and we were still in it

972
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: to win it, Like we still we literally still came

973
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: down to the last game to determine if we were

974
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: going to like win or not. You know. So I

975
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: think these one game does matter at the end of

976
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: the day. It can matter. So like we can't just

977
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: take this first week one as like, well, it's the

978
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: first game, Oh, it's against the defending Super Bowl champs,

979
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: like I don't feel like we can do that. Like, okay,

980
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: then let's start getting guys back in preseason and start

981
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: playing at least the final game, at least the first

982
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: quarter of the final game like they used to do well.

983
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,879
Speaker 1: I will say this with Gregg. You have a vet.

984
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: You have a guy who's familiar with years. I don't,

985
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: but you have a guy who's familiar with the coach.

986
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: So just like any quarterback or any veteran running back,

987
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: the assumption is, you know, we know these guys, We've

988
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: seen what they could do preseason. A lot of times

989
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: is when you're trying, especially with losing the game, you're

990
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: trying to see what these other guys who haven't got

991
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: NFL experienced, how they're gonna play and if they're gonna

992
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: make it, gonna be able to make the roster and

993
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: help your team. I said, we go back to the

994
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: old way, you know, where it used to be. The

995
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: guys that are barely trying to make it play the

996
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: first couple of games. There's a big cut after that,

997
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: and then there's another big cut. Like I don't like

998
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: everybody's staying on the roster pretty much and only cutting

999
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: like five to ten guys right off the back or

1000
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean throughout and then waiting till

1001
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: the end to do this monster cut of fifteen people.

1002
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: Well you can have to talk to Yeah, I know,

1003
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I got a game we should watch. It's

1004
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen preseason game with between the Cowboys and

1005
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: Seahawks because they're starting crunched over and you know, now

1006
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: what happened though, you gotta think about it. Jacksonville lost

1007
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: eat end for from a season and you know, so

1008
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,799
Speaker 1: it's you're taking a risk. I think the risk I

1009
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: think that the zert line thing is you expected to

1010
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: make those kids. He's a vet. You've seen him do

1011
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: it before, and it didn't happen for him last night. Well,

1012
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen for him the last Pieceason Gaming

1013
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: played either. Is it just all the injury that you think? Listen,

1014
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: sometimes that happens. We saw this happen to Dan Bailey. Yeah,

1015
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't, and then he's out there. I don't

1016
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 1: judge kickers. Maybe best ship, but I don't judge kickers

1017
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: for fifty yard field goals or you know or more.

1018
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: I mean, like if you miss you me, I mean, yeah,

1019
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: but this is a thirty one at action. I know,

1020
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: but the preseason. You said that about the preseason and

1021
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: then I was like, did it get there? I mean

1022
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 1: did it? Did it? Look? Okay? It was missed a

1023
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm okay with that. You gotta make some

1024
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: you can't just miss all of them. But thirty one

1025
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 1: not even hitting the net? I mean, but that was

1026
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: also Remember that he's probably making these kicks in practice,

1027
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: all right, So they're not just out here watching talking

1028
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: about practice. Yes, but I'm saying, you gotta got coming

1029
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: off an injury, and you got vets and all this stuff.

1030
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: They're not watching them sit out here and miss thirty

1031
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: one thirty one yard field goals in practice. He's he's

1032
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 1: nailing them that He's going to the timeline and what

1033
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: are we, like, how many games? And if he continues,

1034
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: if he has another game like this, do we cut

1035
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: him then? How? Like what's the timeline for that? Like?

1036
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: What would you guys think? It looks like? Nick? You know, like,

1037
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: I know, it's difficult when when this is your guy,

1038
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult him and bones are together.

1039
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: So usually when you have somebody pulling for you like

1040
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: that you got a little bit more leeway. No, I'm not.

1041
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying my decision. I'm just I'm just telling

1042
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: you that that's that's how it goes. The Nucie still here,

1043
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:35,439
Speaker 1: who pulled for That's the way I love guy, Mike McCarthy. Yeah,

1044
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. I just I've said this before.

1045
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: Why why are we going to have the Rams farm squad?

1046
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: When it comes when it comes to like, why are

1047
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,280
Speaker 1: we the Rams triple A team for their special teams?

1048
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Everywhere. They didn't want the airline,

1049
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: they didn't want McQuaid, they didn't want fossil. So I mean, like,

1050
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: but the cowboys get them and they're like oys put

1051
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: them all together. I mean, you want to Joe d

1052
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: they want to stop talking. You know. I feel about

1053
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, yeah, this whole my guy, my guy,

1054
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: I think that's cool for a while. But I mean,

1055
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: make your kicks. It's real simple, make your kicks. And

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Speaker 1: that was the ugliest. That wasn't just a mess that thing. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm not vouching for the guy. I'm just telling you

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Speaker 1: how it works. He kicked at the South Beach. I

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Speaker 1: think when it's when it losses you, we can't be

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Speaker 1: doing this my guy stuff anymore, you know, like this

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Speaker 1: is this is going to be detrimental to my team,

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Speaker 1: to people's fantasy teams, to whatever you have. But that

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Speaker 1: is our show for today on the Players Lounge. We

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Speaker 1: will be back next week Monday through Friday at twelve

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Speaker 1: thirty pm pm. AM. I'll be here at twelve thirty am. UM. No,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for tuning in. We will

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Speaker 1: see you guys next time. I'm Britt Johnson. My boss

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Speaker 1: man Nick kind of fire me after this episode. The

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