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Speaker 1: doing today? Fantastic? All right? Nick? All right? Good? You sure? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean as good as you could be. Honestly, as

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Speaker 1: sounds like you're right there with all the other Cowboys

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Speaker 1: first talking about a couple of injuries. There were some

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Speaker 1: guys that did not practice yesterday to Marcus Lawrence, shan Lee,

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, and Tyren Smith. Are any of those injuries

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Speaker 1: Or is this one of those situations where again guys

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Speaker 1: And now this week this is kind of the same plan.

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Speaker 1: he get hurt again? That's so strange. It's a great point.

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Speaker 1: That's I said earlier today, Like it felt kind of

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Speaker 1: us off. No, they're they're gonna be okay, Like it's

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Speaker 1: a big diff prince there between her Dak and these

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Speaker 1: just like it would it have helped? Sure? Is Like

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Speaker 1: should a professional football team be able to overcome that?

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Speaker 1: I think so, Like, of course it's better if Dak

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Speaker 1: in college, Well, then go make the place right exactly.

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Speaker 1: himself with them? With its contract? You know, if he

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Speaker 1: no matter what, whether he gets that record or not,

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Speaker 1: If he doesn't, you know whose record he's gonna break.

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Speaker 1: His Romo in twenty twelve eight and eight eton eight

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Speaker 1: and eate. He threw a terrible pick against the Redskins

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Speaker 1: not play. Wow, he's got a concussion. You yeah, exactly. Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean you want to talk about Eric Flowers playing

423
00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,960
Speaker 1: left guard? They're down to I mean Jeremy Sprinkles, Yeah

424
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Speaker 1: he does. Speaking of the Hogs, Jeremy sprinkle is the

425
00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:26,199
Speaker 1: starting tight end for this game. Adrian Peterson and Chris

426
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 1: Thompson are there. We were very familiar with what they

427
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Speaker 1: do there's definitely still talent on their front. Jonathan Allen,

428
00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 1: dron Payne, matt Ianitis, sneaky good player, eight and a

429
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Speaker 1: half sacks this season, playing three to four end, which

430
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Speaker 1: is I mean, that's impressive. Yeah, um monted sweat the

431
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 1: Mississippi State pass rusher. They stole him in the first round.

432
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Speaker 1: Um So they still got some pretty decent players up

433
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 1: front on the defense. Yeah they do. But and again, okay,

434
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Speaker 1: in the league and or second to last in rushing

435
00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,400
Speaker 1: on defense rush defense, Yeah, which is surprise. You would

436
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 1: think they would be able to loose control that. But

437
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 1: they're getting smashed up front and then even among guys

438
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 1: that are not on IR Okay, I wrote the So

439
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 1: Donald Pin's not practicing right now. They signed him because

440
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: they're a regular left tackle. Trent Williams hates him and

441
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,680
Speaker 1: he's not basic. Donald Pin's got a knee injury, not practicing.

442
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 1: Morgan Moses their right tackle, knee injury, not practicing. Terry

443
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 1: McLaren is can cussed um Fabian Moreau. They're a cornerback.

444
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: One of their cornerbacks has a hamstring. Landon Collins and

445
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 1: Monte Nicholson their starting safeties, not practicing. Right now. Again,

446
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 1: some of these guys will upgrade as the week goes,

447
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,439
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but like this is, this is and I

448
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: know we just played the Eagles, but this is like

449
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: as banged up of a team as I've ever seen.

450
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to speak for all the people out

451
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Speaker 1: there listening right now. I know you know what I know,

452
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 1: which I even wrote and we wrote a PA was

453
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 1: the same scoutter report last week when you were playing

454
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,120
Speaker 1: an Eagles team that was completely banged up and nobody

455
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 1: was playing and and Cowboys still late at went out

456
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 1: and couldn't really do much. One big difference at the quarterbacks. True, absolutely,

457
00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: And I get that. I'm just saying. I know there

458
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: are people out there listening right now that are saying, yeah, okay,

459
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. But we also face the

460
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 1: mash unit of a team last week, and and we

461
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: didn't The Cowboys didn't look like they took advantage of that.

462
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: Right With everything that that team is currently going through

463
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 1: right now and this being the last game of the

464
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: season makes me wonder, I mean, do they go out

465
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 1: there still like trying to win a game or do

466
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,520
Speaker 1: they just go out there all Let me just do

467
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 1: my job. Get this season. We've talked about that one

468
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: hundred times and then and I'll say it again. Yeah,

469
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,399
Speaker 1: but I mean they'll play hard. They'll play hard on Sunday.

470
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,600
Speaker 1: Everybody plays hard on Sunday. They you know, the guys

471
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,840
Speaker 1: at the rect League are playing hard on ten am

472
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Speaker 1: on Saturday mornings. But it's what are they preparing this week?

473
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: Did they get distracted about Christmas? Did they get distracted?

474
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: Are they really looking at film or the Cowboys doing

475
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: the same. That's the question goes both ways. Yeah, it's Wednesday, Thursday,

476
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: Friday reparation, and especially this week of preparation. It's it's

477
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: tough to figure that out. That's kind of going back

478
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 1: to my other point. It's like as mediocre and frustrating

479
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys have been at times, like it's been

480
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: a while, I mean, I guess twenty fifteen, but like

481
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: it's been a while since you've really known how that feels.

482
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: Like I am impressed if anybody that plays for a

483
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: team like this where you've been out of it since October,

484
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: it's just misery everywhere. Like if you can show up

485
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: to work and really dedicate yourself in light of all that,

486
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: Like that's really impressive and is obviously like the mark

487
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: of a true professional. Like trying to put myself in

488
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: that situation, I don't think i'd be very good at it. Yeah,

489
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 1: that's just I mean, that's a tough thing to do.

490
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you start thinking about it, you can easily

491
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: rationalize in your mind, Okay, we're playing kind of a

492
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: meaningless game. My kids are sitting here on a Christmas Day.

493
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: I can need to put in that extra little bit

494
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 1: of film work, or I can sit here and play

495
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 1: with my kids literally, right, I mean, it's just like

496
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: those are the kind of things where as a professional

497
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,479
Speaker 1: you know the right answer, but you also as a person,

498
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: you're like, I know the right answer, right. My tape

499
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: study would have been way more extensive if the Cowboys

500
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 1: were really gunning exactly, that's exactly right. The number one

501
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: seeds on the line. Why would have been like, babe,

502
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: go do your your study. And when I got the kids, like,

503
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: when you're not doing that, then it's kind of like

504
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: well watching what's you know? What you know? I mean,

505
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 1: there's a solar lining and everything, and so for when

506
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 1: I started here and in my first four seasons with

507
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, that were eight and eight made the playoffs,

508
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: but eight and eight five and eleven five to eleven,

509
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: five and eleven. And I think that that helped me, honestly,

510
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: because I didn't know any other way about how Christmas

511
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving, December and games like that, you know, and

512
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 1: so like I That's why it's kind of weird to

513
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: me when you when you I I hear what you're saying.

514
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 1: You're like, I could my kids, I could play with

515
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,679
Speaker 1: my kids and all that, but but the toys that

516
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 1: he has, and the and the the playroom that he's playing,

517
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: you know with, and all that are all provided because

518
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: of the job that you have. Right But you're thinking

519
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: right now as a forty something year old guy, when

520
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: you're a twenty five year old guy, when you're a

521
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: twenty eight year old guy, are you still thinking the

522
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: same way? Do you have that that kind of perspective?

523
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not saying that anybody's doing anything that

524
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: like anybody. I'm not trying to paint this picture that

525
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: the Cowboys just taking the week off. All I'm saying

526
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 1: is it does become a tougher prospect and you have

527
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: to be way more disciplined and way more mentally tough

528
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: to be able to force yourself to do it when again,

529
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 1: you can, in your mind rationalize a good reason why

530
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. Yeah, but the reason why you should is

531
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: that they have a chance to make the playoffs. They

532
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: really do. Like this isn't like they got six things

533
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,919
Speaker 1: that need to happen. They don't. They have to go

534
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: run their game, and the question becomes, to the Redskins

535
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: do that when they don't? Yeah? Also the flip side

536
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: of that, do the Giants do that when they don't? Right?

537
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: This week is going to be easy for the Giants

538
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,840
Speaker 1: and Redskins in my opinion, because they have a chance

539
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 1: to make life absolutely miserable for a division rival. And

540
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a hell of am monovator. And we

541
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: we always think, you know, as cowboys and cowboy fans

542
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: think the Giants are gonna want to help us, that

543
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: the Redskins don't want to help. You know, there's hatred.

544
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: We don't think about it. We don't think about the

545
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: Giants Eagles hatred or the Giants Redskins or the Redskins

546
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: Eagles and all that. But they hate each other all

547
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: the same, all equally hate around the division. So It's

548
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: not like, let's just lose to the Eagles, so the

549
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't get in that's dumb. They're gonna play, They're

550
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: gonna play hard. And you know, I think the NFL

551
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: did a really really good job this week that that

552
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: was a very smart thing that they did, waiting like

553
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: they do and then picking the games. If you go

554
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: look at what the AFC four o'clock games are, every

555
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: one of those games is about teams that are playing

556
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: for that final wildcard spot, and then the early games

557
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: are teams that are playing within them. You know, the seating.

558
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: You know, somebody opened a president yesterday that had tickets

559
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: to the Redskin Cowboy game that costs four hundred, five

560
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: hundred dollars whatever. They deserve the right to have a

561
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: good game, and the NFL did the best that they

562
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: could to get that. It's one of the it's one

563
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: of the smartest things the NFL has done in the

564
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: last ten or so years is backloading the schedule with

565
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 1: division games because it just guarantees that the majority of

566
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: the games are going to mean something and if they don't,

567
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: it's still Cowboys Redskins and that might mean something to somebody.

568
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: Um I expect the Redskins to utilize their running backs

569
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: a lot because it's the most it's the healthiest position group.

570
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson's a good receiving back, and the coach yeah

571
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: and and and they will run it. Uh. They're actually

572
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: surprisingly good at forcing takeaways and getting sacks. They're top

573
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: ten in sacks with forty three sweats. A guy to watch,

574
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: Um Ryan Anderson if he can play, and then Unitas

575
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: is their leaders prising with that shoulder that bum quarterback

576
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: Um and they have. They have twenty one takeaways on

577
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: the year, which is five more than the Cowboys, even

578
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: though they're supposedly like the worst team in the league.

579
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: So it says a lot about how good the Cowboys

580
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: are getting the ball, or there m anyway whispering going on.

581
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: They can't get the football, they can't get any turnovers,

582
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: they get short feeling. I fully expect this to be

583
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: a dramatic game, win or lose. I kind of like,

584
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: if you think the Redskins are roll they haven't rolled over,

585
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 1: they haven't gotten their doors blown off in weeks. Yeah,

586
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: this won't be a I don't think this will be

587
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: a Cowboys blow them out kind of game. Like this

588
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: is a game. It's going to be close, and it's

589
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: actually let's take a look. I'm they lost by They

590
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: lost by six to New York in overtime. They lost

591
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: by ten to Philly, which is really three because the

592
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,880
Speaker 1: last play of the game was a defensive touchdown. They

593
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: pushed Green Bay to the brink in at Lambeau. Lost

594
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: by five, beat Carolina by eight, beat Detroit. They got

595
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: whooped pretty bad by New York by the Jets. But

596
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: that was all the way back on November seventeenth. Like

597
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: the last month and a half, they've either been winning

598
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: or playing really tough. So they're gonna play. It's gonna

599
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: be a hard fought game. It'll be impressive. If the

600
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: Cowboys can whip these guys well the way they did

601
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: in Week two, I don't expect to see that. And

602
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: they won by ten. Yeah, but they were up by

603
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: seventeen with like four minutes to play. Yeah, but you

604
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: know the Redskins have. That's what they do, that's what

605
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: case keenom does. You know. I think the Deacon dunk

606
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: stuff that the Eagles had success with, I think you're

607
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,239
Speaker 1: gonna see that in this game. Agreed, all right, We're

608
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break. We'll come back. We'll get

609
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: some calls. Eight eight eight eight five five two two

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Speaker 1: nine seven is the number. We'll take a call from

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. It is the final segment of the Break

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Speaker 1: Life in the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get some questions you guys can call us the

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Speaker 1: numbers eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven,

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Speaker 1: and we'll start with for us in Atlanta, for us,

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Speaker 1: what up? Hey? What's up? Guys? Hey? Up doing break? Guys? Hopefully?

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Speaker 1: How to merry Christmas? Hey? I was listening to you

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Speaker 1: all earlier, I guess the show before the holidays in

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Speaker 1: your whole question or whether or not you should extend that,

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Speaker 1: and I think it would be ludicrous if you didn't,

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Speaker 1: or even create an issue where you wouldn't want to

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Speaker 1: pay the man. I mean, he's you know, earlier. I remember,

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Speaker 1: earlier in his career, Nick would bring up the point

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Speaker 1: that his average per pass wasn't as high as some

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Speaker 1: of the other quarterbacks, and now it's one of the

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Speaker 1: highest in the league, and that's not good enough. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of ludacrous. And I think that

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Speaker 1: someone who is now leading the lead in passing um

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Speaker 1: still isn't I guess, getting the getting your approval to

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Speaker 1: extend to him or or give him the money that

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Speaker 1: I guess most of the other average of the upper

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Speaker 1: echelon quarterbacks are making. Can you can you name for

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Speaker 1: me real quick the other like if you were to

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Speaker 1: name the top five guys that are leading the league

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Speaker 1: in passing right now? You know those other guys are

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Speaker 1: All of those guys are not in the playoffs, James Weston,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan that and there's a couple of a couple

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Speaker 1: of the guys. I can't think, but yeah, how does

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Speaker 1: that really matter? I guess the reason I'm asking that,

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Speaker 1: I want to know for you, for you to bring

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Speaker 1: that up, what do you think that really means? When

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Speaker 1: you say he's leading the league? So that means so

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't you pay him? What does that really mean?

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Speaker 1: I would have paid him a long time ago. I

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Speaker 1: would have. I would have. I didn't feel like he

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Speaker 1: needed to lead the league in passing. I felt like

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Speaker 1: you guys made the point. And I mean you guys

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Speaker 1: like Nick and some of the other guys. Brian had

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Speaker 1: mentioned that he hasn't had the average yard for passing

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Speaker 1: that some of the other quarterbacks that had, like the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and all of them when they were doing that.

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Speaker 1: And now Aaron Rodgers is his career stats are mediocre

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Speaker 1: at best, but his team is winning. But it's okay

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Speaker 1: because he's Aaron Rodgers and he's winning. I mean, like

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Speaker 1: I think the winning part of it is the big deal.

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Speaker 1: I really don't remember making the big deal about that

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Speaker 1: that stat the passing yards per play. That might be

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Speaker 1: more Brian than me. Okay, and uh, but I know

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Speaker 1: that he is. He has garnished a lot of your

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Speaker 1: criticism and and is he still has a high completion rate,

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Speaker 1: you know. And you can't have a high completion rate

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Speaker 1: if you're not completing passes, So you have to be

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Speaker 1: accurate enough to be completing passes. Where would you pay him?

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Speaker 1: You say, you would definitely think of ludicrous if you wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: What's the range that you would you would be shooting

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Speaker 1: for that you'd be willing to pay well if he,

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Speaker 1: like he said he came down to I guess what,

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Speaker 1: saying thirty five million or something like that, which which

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Speaker 1: I would say, I believe I heard that the last

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Speaker 1: time that they were talking about negotiations that he had

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Speaker 1: brought hit him and his team and said they had

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Speaker 1: came down and were willing to meet them at like

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Speaker 1: thirty five or something like that. I would definitely do that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks for one more thing. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask if I could you know, um, I looked at this,

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Speaker 1: and I was looking at the twenty fourteen game win.

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Speaker 1: We were fourth and two against Green Bay and our

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Speaker 1: best play was a fifty fifty ball to Desk Bryant.

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Speaker 1: And then we come back, same coaching staff, different roles,

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Speaker 1: of course, but then a fourth and eight and our

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Speaker 1: best players a fifty fifty ball, almost the same kind

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Speaker 1: of pass. What is it that we do? What is

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Speaker 1: it that you feel that we do best? And why

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Speaker 1: doesn't this team do that when they need eight yards

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Speaker 1: or two yards? I don't see why we can't get

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Speaker 1: eight yards and keep that drive going versus trying to

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Speaker 1: throw up a fifty fifty ball. Yeah, I oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with that last part. More. Jason Garrett

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Speaker 1: said so many times after the game that they got

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Speaker 1: the look they wanted. Why is the look you wanted?

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Speaker 1: A jump ball to Michael Gallup, who has had a

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Speaker 1: really nice season, But I would not classify that as

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Speaker 1: his forte and it's not fifty. He was the best

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Speaker 1: receiver he had on play he was, which is also

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Speaker 1: part of the problem. But I mean, like when you

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Speaker 1: threw the ball up to Daz it was not even

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty. He could he would go get it, and

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Speaker 1: he went and got that one. Everyone knows he caught

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Speaker 1: that ball, so like he caught it, and it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, just an unfortunate call against him. But like

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Speaker 1: I think he could have gone to Beasley underneath on

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Speaker 1: that play. Yes, And and you know, I think Romo

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Speaker 1: saw he finally got one on one. He threw it

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Speaker 1: up des made the play. But I don't think Gallup

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Speaker 1: goes and makes that play all the time. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's fifty fifty anymore he does. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: this year, but he dropped a ball like that five

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Speaker 1: minutes prior. He should have had that. I the best

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Speaker 1: thing they do is, honestly, probably the RPO slant to

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Speaker 1: I mean to Cooper, which even that didn't work on

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Speaker 1: Sunday nothing. For they should have called the timeout. They

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Speaker 1: should have completely us and just say let's get our

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Speaker 1: best player, let's get our best call. And if if

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Speaker 1: we don't like what Callen's gonna call, then you jump

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Speaker 1: in and say something. And you know what, you better

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Speaker 1: make the right call because you only have two timeouts now,

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Speaker 1: and if you don't make this then obviously it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be really, really hard. But but do that, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be just as hard to try to get Jarwin and

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Speaker 1: Witton open on, you know, for eight yards. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to parse through the whole Dak thing, which,

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Speaker 1: just for the record, everybody knows I'm the Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: fanboy here. Like his stats are not mediocre, they're not

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Speaker 1: He's not leading the league, and he has definitely taken

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Speaker 1: a backseat to his defense this year. There's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. He played poorly on Monday Night, but he's

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Speaker 1: thrown twenty four passes, twenty four touchdowns, and three picks

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Speaker 1: all year. He's he's doing Dak twenty sixteen at a

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Speaker 1: higher level than what Dack did in twenty sixteen. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that, and yeah, if you win games,

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Speaker 1: that's all that matters. And just to be clear, when

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Speaker 1: he says that that, you know, we were talking last

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Speaker 1: week about not wanting to pay him. I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody was saying they wanted to let Dak go. The

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Speaker 1: argument was do you sign him to a long term

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Speaker 1: deal or do you franchise him? That was the argument,

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Speaker 1: because I think we all agree that needs to be

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Speaker 1: back here because the Cowboys don't want to go back

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Speaker 1: into quarterback a bits. I don't care, that's the point.

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Speaker 1: But but and my argument was, I'm not willing to

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Speaker 1: overpay him. So if his camp is really hardcore sitting

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Speaker 1: there at to be honest with you, if they're anywhere

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Speaker 1: above thirty five, I mean even at a hair over

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Speaker 1: thirty five, I'm holding out like that. And that's where

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Speaker 1: I would use the franchise tag if I needed to.

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Speaker 1: But that's my ceiling as far as what I'm willing

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Speaker 1: to pay him, right That's where I can see this

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Speaker 1: being frustrating. It's it reminds me of DeMarcus Lawrence, where

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Speaker 1: it seems pretty obvious. You're like, you're one of the

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Speaker 1: best defensive linemen in the game. You do this, this

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Speaker 1: and this, but you have not displayed an ability to

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Speaker 1: completely wreck a game like a Khalil, So why are

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Speaker 1: you asking for more money than Khalil Mack Like Dak,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you are well deserving of this pay day.

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Speaker 1: You slot right in there somewhere between like you know,

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Speaker 1: four and eight, and we feel great about your upside

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Speaker 1: everything you do off the field. You got some developing

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Speaker 1: to do, but we feel confident you'll do it, So

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Speaker 1: let's pay you thirty four or a year and call

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Speaker 1: it a day. Right, better than wins and golf by

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Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, who you know, arguably people can say

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Speaker 1: wins might be they're right there neck and neck, but

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Speaker 1: I won't tell you more. Do the Cowboys agree with

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Speaker 1: what I just said? Like are they willing to meet that?

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Speaker 1: And does Dak agree that that's the assessment of his game?

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Speaker 1: And are he and his people willing to meet that?

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Speaker 1: Like it should be that easy, But so many times

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Speaker 1: we've seen that's not the case, because everybody's trying to

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Speaker 1: maximize in their favor. And I don't blame him for

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Speaker 1: doing that, but that's why we're gonna wind up with

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Speaker 1: it being made eighteenth and Dak's still on the tag

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Speaker 1: and everybody's pissed off, and I'm already dreading having to

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Speaker 1: talk about it. Yeah, all right, think that the Cowboys

807
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: definitely have the upper hand here in every single way. One,

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00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: you're changing your coaching staff, that's basically gonna happen, and

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Speaker 1: you don't know what's gonna come with that, but you're

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Speaker 1: hoping something better. And the fact, again, the whole sponsor

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Speaker 1: thing that really changes a lot. Dak is not gonna

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Speaker 1: get that much attention in any other team that he

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Speaker 1: would land on, and that changes everything. And I think

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Speaker 1: he's a smart guy too, So the way the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: go about this and my problem with that guy and

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Speaker 1: I like him. I think he's evolving and getting better

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Speaker 1: and all that, but is he a guy that can

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Speaker 1: win games on his own? You know, he needs those

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Speaker 1: other guys to help him. And that's where my problem

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Speaker 1: comes in to question. It's like, okay, now, when you're

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Speaker 1: needing so and so and then this other guy or

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Speaker 1: this other guy to help this one guy win games,

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Speaker 1: that changes things for me as far as how much

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Speaker 1: money or how elite do you think a player is. Well,

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Speaker 1: Dave just been saying, one of the best in the

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Speaker 1: league Aaron Rodgers. That's what they're doing this year, and

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Speaker 1: they're getting back to the level of success that they

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Speaker 1: got earlier in his career when he was when he

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Speaker 1: did have everything on his shoulders. But this year they're

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Speaker 1: they're playing a he's playing a very efficient brand of

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Speaker 1: football and they're relying on their defense, they're relying on

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Speaker 1: their running game. And I do believe that in this NFL.

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Speaker 1: I think if you have a really good quarterback, being

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Speaker 1: able to have other pieces around them and being able

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Speaker 1: to use those other pieces and let the quarterback just

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Speaker 1: be the quarterback, I think it's actually the best way

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Speaker 1: to be able to do it. Sometimes you can't do

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Speaker 1: that financially because the amount of money that you have

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Speaker 1: to pay for them. But they don't have those those pieces.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like when when those guys get hurt, the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't the same. I mean, look at last year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, didd was he that much better in the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, And when Lamari Cooper came in,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, and they go to the

845
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: Jets and then Cooper's out of that game, and the

846
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: tackles are out of that game, and then the offense

847
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: just falls apart. Like that's not happening with other guys.

848
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: It just it just doesn't. So I agree with that

849
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: they get thrown off very easily with anything that happens.

850
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: And like I'm think about, Okay, what's gonna happen this

851
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: weekend with Sue Philo now being out, you know, he

852
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: was the one replacing Connor Williams. And then it's like

853
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are unable to figure things out. As soon

854
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: as you take one little piece out of their game

855
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: and throw them off, they're like, oh my god, what

856
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: do we do here? And and those are the situation

857
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: where I would expect the quarterback to be able to

858
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: take the bigger load on his back, but haven't. We

859
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: also said on this show that a lot of that

860
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: is about the philosophy of the head coach. When you

861
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 1: got that next man up mentality, then you can't necessarily

862
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: absorb those because you don't. You don't necessarily change up

863
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: what you're doing to account for the fact that this

864
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: guy's gone. You just say, well, the second guy that's

865
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: coming in should be able to handle the job, and

866
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: he can't always handle the job. I don't even know

867
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: if that's what next man up means entirely. I think

868
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: next man up doesn't necessarily mean looney for through a

869
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: philo and then it's all good. I think it means

870
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: play better Travis Frederick, play better Tyrants. But that's not

871
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: the way it's been happening. It doesn't seem like it doesn't.

872
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: So the example I'll give you is, Okay, you know

873
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: you're starting left guard is out and you bring in

874
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,799
Speaker 1: the next guy. Well, there would be a lot of

875
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: coaches that may go the route of saying, Okay, we

876
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 1: need to protect that left guard a little bit because

877
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: that that guy's not as good as the guy that

878
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: was there before. It doesn't seem like the Cowboys take

879
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: that approach all the time. It's sometimes they take the approach, well,

880
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: the guy should just be able to play, he should

881
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: just be able to step up and be that good,

882
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,439
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, he's not, because if he was, he'd

883
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: be the starter. And that's where I get back to.

884
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna have that argument, my question becomes,

885
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: is that more about the coach and them not trying

886
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: to hide the deficiencies more or is it really about

887
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: the fact the quarterback isn't doing enough for them to

888
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: be in spite of it. I think you have a

889
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: decent point, But I mean, I've just watched Russell Wilson

890
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: win way too many games where like nobody was helping

891
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: him at all. Like you're talking about hiding the fact

892
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: that you're left guard's not good. He's won games where

893
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: his whole offensive line was a rat. But that's not

894
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: that No, that's my point, But too, I mean Seriously,

895
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: if if you're sitting there and you're telling me you're

896
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: scared that Dak is not on that level of a

897
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: guy who can elevate you too, will win no matter

898
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: how bad things are. I mean, look, Aaron Rodgers has

899
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 1: Davante Adams who missed half the season and like not

900
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: a whole lot else in terms of and and he's

901
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: still making it work. Aaron Jones is great, but I'm

902
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: talking about pass games. Winch is making an argument right

903
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: now in the same way, like if you're I mean,

904
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: if you're gonna tell me reverse those roles and you're

905
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: just like, Dak is going to go into this game

906
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: without his starting right tackle, both of his starting receivers,

907
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: his starting his week one starting running back, all that stuff,

908
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: and find a way to win the game. You feel

909
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: good about that right now? Can you say to a

910
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,959
Speaker 1: certainty that's going to happen? And I think the world

911
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: of Dac. I think he can grow into that type

912
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: of quarterback, which is why I'm comfortable paying him. He's

913
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: not that guy right now, and I get why that

914
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 1: scares people, and that yeah, and that's that's a good

915
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,879
Speaker 1: way to say it. He's just not the guy right now.

916
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: But we're not saying not to pay him, because those

917
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: guys get paid. I mean they get paid. Derek Carr

918
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: got paid, and Matthew Stafford got paid, and Kirk Cousins

919
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: got paid. I mean, those guys got paid and they

920
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: haven't won anything really yet. So that that happens, that's

921
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: one a little bit more than them. I'm not starting

922
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: over with Dak. I'm gonna pay him. I'm trying to

923
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: get the best deal that I can get him, and

924
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pay him and not franchise him because

925
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: I think you need that franchise for other people. And further,

926
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, Mary, Hey, there you go. Maybe I mean

927
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: not that it would happen. Check out the road games

928
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: and see where we're playing on the road and see

929
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: how that's going to work. Well, he's not playing well

930
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: on the road. He sucks on the road this year,

931
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: and he's pretty good at home. Well, that they got

932
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: a shot at him, they gotta play. They gotta play

933
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: eight of him next year too. Last year, you know what,

934
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: it wasn't just like I mean, he played one of

935
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: his worst games indoors against the Saints, So it's not

936
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: like it was just an outdoor cold thing. I don't know. People.

937
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: People maybe they can always fly him out the morning

938
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: of the game. Just let him sleep in his own

939
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: bed at night and then fly him out and see

940
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: if that hapens. It's twenty million a year. You can

941
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: have a house in every place, and then he can

942
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: get home all over the place. Point to that point,

943
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: great point. People have been tweeting me a lot because

944
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: I root for LSU. They're like, we gotta go after

945
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and I'm just like, like, entertain this idea

946
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,479
Speaker 1: where Dak isn't the future of your quarterback position even

947
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: for a second, And you're like, all right, what are

948
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: we giving up to get into a position where we

949
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 1: can get him? How long is it going to take him?

950
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: The odds that the odds that any quarterback you draft

951
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: is going to be ready to be the guy right away,

952
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: and even that he turns out to be a good quarterback,

953
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: Like it's a crapshoot getting quarterbacks no matter where you

954
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: draft him, right yeah, even I mean Baker Mayfield has

955
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: had a year to forget and people were telling me

956
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: he was better than Dak at the start of the season,

957
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,439
Speaker 1: after Rookie of the Year, Right, so that he didn't

958
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: get off Barkley. He got did. Yeah. I just however

959
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: you feel, however you feel about Dak, I think it's

960
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: a better chance he finds his way under that salary.

961
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: Then you go back to the well and do what

962
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: you would have to do to make that one thing

963
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: real quick. Because I was gonna tease this early. I

964
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are like, I don't want the

965
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys to win because I don't want Jason Garrett to

966
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: be the coach. Jason Garrett is not going to get

967
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: an extension for beating the Redskins and the Eagles losing

968
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: and you back in at eight and eight. He's not

969
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: getting an extension for that. If they beat the forty

970
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: nine Ers or Seahawks, he's not getting an extension for that.

971
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: And even if you win the divisional game, I don't

972
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: know if that'll do it either. I don't know that,

973
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying they went ten and six down

974
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: the stretch last year and he didn't give him another deal.

975
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get it. If Jason Garrett gets an extension,

976
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,479
Speaker 1: it'll the fans will probably be okay because of what

977
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: that meant for the team. That meant I mean, all

978
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: your perceptions of him would change because if they just

979
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 1: went to a level you didn't think he could go to,

980
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: Which is that going to happen? Probably not, But I'm

981
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: just saying, don't don't think that that's gonna do anything.

982
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: I don't think winning getting into the playoffs is going

983
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: to affect it. It's gonna have to be a deep,

984
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: deep run and if that happens, and your perceptions of

985
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: him might change. If this thing went to the super

986
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: Bowl right now, I just had an argument with this

987
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: an hour ago. It's like, well, he went to the

988
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: super Bowl. We don't want him to win because I'm

989
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: tired of the clapping. I'm tired of saying all I'm

990
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: tired from saying he's a good football player and he

991
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 1: has been for a long time. Tom Landry was stow

992
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: it for thirty five years and it was fine because

993
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: they were winning. No one cares about the clapping, No

994
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: one cares about his press conferences, No one cares that

995
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: he wears blue every day because it's the fact that

996
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: they don't win always. Right, if he did something to

997
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: change all that, which I don't believe is going to happen.

998
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: But if he does, those things are kind of petty

999
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: now and you don't care as much, but they are

1000
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: the reasons now because they're eight and eight, you know. Yeah,

1001
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: But and you know if they were to pull that off,

1002
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: if they were to go on a run like that, obviously,

1003
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: like you're going to root for him in the Super Bowl.

1004
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: But I'm playing Devil's advocate with you. But I think

1005
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: people would say, we've got ten years of evidence that

1006
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: suggests he's not that great of a coach, not anymore,

1007
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 1: because he just showed you. But then that's a four

1008
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: game sample size. And even though I mean it would

1009
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: be one of the most impressive things has happened in

1010
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: recent NFL history, that's an interesting conversation that we would

1011
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: need another show for it. Should four unbelievable games offset

1012
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 1: ten years of not so much, Well, you can take

1013
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: his name. You would be able to take his name

1014
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: off that graphic that everybody's seeing where you've been coached

1015
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: for that long and haven't gone to a super Bowl. Right,

1016
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: then he now becomes a part of that group of

1017
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: guys that have been as tenured as he is and

1018
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: being able to take their team to a super Bowl.

1019
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: So I don't think it changes a bit. I do

1020
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: think there'll still be some people that will be like

1021
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: unless he wins, and even some that might even if

1022
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: he wins, are like I just I'm tired of his stick,

1023
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: like I'm tired of what he represents. That's all fine

1024
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: and dandy, but they're still going to be rooting for

1025
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: the Cowboy, right So, and that changes if you get

1026
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: to the to the sup Bowl and that conversation we

1027
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: just had five minutes ago about that, that changes too,

1028
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: because if all that stuff happened to go Super Bowl,

1029
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Sorry, I know we're trying to end the show,

1030
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: but I said this on Twitter. It's not like getting

1031
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 1: the music. This thing could end in disappointing fashion in

1032
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: five days, or we could be here five weeks from now.

1033
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen, but the fact

1034
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,479
Speaker 1: that both things are in play at the same time

1035
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: is very weird. Crazy. How often, like how many times

1036
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: as a head coach had a shot at the playoffs

1037
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: and we're sitting here thinking he might not be the

1038
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: coach a week from today. That's weird, but here we are,

1039
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: like I mentioned upstairs day, in five weeks, how many

1040
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: games have the Cowboys one one in five weeks, only

1041
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: one game, so there's that. Thanks for having us back

1042
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: to reality again. You appreciate you, guys, John us from back. Tomorrow,

1043
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you know what we think is gonna

1044
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: happen this weekend, Cowboys versus Redskins. Still then for Nick Eatman,

1045
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: Dave Hellman, Ambergarcia, I'm Derek Eaguibson. This has been The

1046
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:44,960
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00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,800
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