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Speaker 1: Nui scrugs. That is what I'm talking about. Okay, my
Speaker 1: name you guys said it took months and months for
Speaker 1: you guys to get your name in the intro. I
Speaker 1: say it one time bad. That's how did you know?
Speaker 1: I just pay people off that They probably never cried
Speaker 1: about it. That's probably what happened. We didn't give him
Speaker 1: a hard time, you know, we you know, we were
Speaker 1: okay with mine was not a hard time. I was
Speaker 1: just like, Dan, can I get in the intro? And
Speaker 1: I got there? Will you making stuff happen? So yeah,
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Speaker 1: Lounge Friday Edition Post game Edition. I'm Brett Johnson. I'm
Speaker 1: here with Danny McCray, Barry Church, and new We are
Speaker 1: both out today, but we have the boss man himself.
Speaker 1: My boss is here. Just you know, you're just going
Speaker 1: to be here reviewing, judging everything that I do. I
Speaker 1: guess feel it. Well wait, wait, wait, wait, before get
Speaker 1: before we get too deep into this, I gotta make
Speaker 1: sure I put this on camera. Okay, because once again
Speaker 1: I'm here, Barry's not here, and New he's not here.
Speaker 1: All right. They made sure to make a big moment
Speaker 1: of it, of the fact that I had been out,
Speaker 1: I was on vacation. They held it down while I
Speaker 1: was gone, Nui wasn't here on a previous show, and
Speaker 1: then Barry and New we aren't here for this show.
Speaker 1: So that's on camera, and I want everybody to know
Speaker 1: that I'm here and I'm wrong, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: Barry is partying right now here. You are on a
Speaker 1: flight I saw. I saw New at in Tampa, so
Speaker 1: I kind of understand maybe why he wasn't in the
Speaker 1: last two shows. You know, I'm just at the game,
Speaker 1: but I don't know about you. You were in Tampa, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: because you're on the show. Yeah yeah. So but I
Speaker 1: will say this, I did get to fly the charter
Speaker 1: home last night. They didn't get that out. I'm sure
Speaker 1: if he would have had that option, he definitely would
Speaker 1: have taken it. It's okay, man, I got live of
Speaker 1: you and stuff, but I'm gonna get off. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get off. It's okay because I'm here. I love the
Speaker 1: team that we have here is gonna be an amazing show.
Speaker 1: So shout out. I worked my first game yesterday and
Speaker 1: I didn't travel and I'm really tired. So I congratulations
Speaker 1: for being here today, Nick, because I don't know how
Speaker 1: y'all do it. I don't know. I got home at
Speaker 1: like twelve thirty and I'm like, I'm so tired. What
Speaker 1: his life? What his life? M the game yesterday? You know,
Speaker 1: I've always been a fan of Too Short, but yesterday
Speaker 1: I was not because we lost by two points final
Speaker 1: score thirty one to twenty nine. Bucks win the game
Speaker 1: that headline though, didn't you know? Yeah? Thank yeah, And
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what that's like, too Short?
Speaker 1: Like from California. You know, I got to do a
Speaker 1: little West Coast Best Coast um next game is against
Speaker 1: West Coast team Los Angeles Chargers at SOFI Stadium. I'm
Speaker 1: honestly kind of sad that I will not be at
Speaker 1: that game because I've been seeing so far being built
Speaker 1: for years, last two years, and I have not gotten
Speaker 1: to go in the stadium. Last year they did not
Speaker 1: have fans in the stands, and I'm really sad about
Speaker 1: that one. But that is on September nineteenth, so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a little bit of time to kind of
Speaker 1: work on some things from now till then. Um, but
Speaker 1: just before we get into depth of more stuff, what
Speaker 1: was your guys's just first initial thought after watching the game,
Speaker 1: just your first kind of instinct. Yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was a little tough, just because I had actually thought
Speaker 1: the game was going to go that way. I said
Speaker 1: that we would we would lose by four. We lost
Speaker 1: about two. You did knew that we're going to come
Speaker 1: out and throw the ball all over the place. I
Speaker 1: did not expect us to run the ball as little
Speaker 1: as we did. I thought that we would try a
Speaker 1: little bit harder or get Zeke more involved in the
Speaker 1: passing game. I think he caught two passes, so that
Speaker 1: was a little difficult. The special teams play was a
Speaker 1: little shaky, miss some field goals. I've watched kickoff, I
Speaker 1: watched punt. You know, we gave up some yardage there.
Speaker 1: Some of the kickoffs were a little strange. But it's
Speaker 1: week once. We got some stuff that we can fix. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of positives coming out of the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: Dak looked great, offensive line looked way better than I
Speaker 1: thought they would look. And we went toe to toe
Speaker 1: with the defensive Super Bowl champions. No moral victories here,
Speaker 1: but if you're looking for good things to pull out
Speaker 1: of this game, there there are a few of them. Nick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see them be a better football team,
Speaker 1: I mean than what we saw last year. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're a good team, you know, a
Speaker 1: great team, but I do think that they're better than
Speaker 1: what we saw. And because Tampa is a perfect benchmark
Speaker 1: to start this off. You know tom Brady's going to
Speaker 1: be Tom Brady, and he was, and you know that
Speaker 1: they're a well old oiled machine. They got twenty two
Speaker 1: starters back. Everyone's been talking about that, and they came
Speaker 1: out there, like you said, Danny, then went toe to
Speaker 1: toe and they didn't win. And that's the next step.
Speaker 1: That's what you want to be a really good team.
Speaker 1: You got to take that step. And they weren't there.
Speaker 1: They left tom Brady too much time and that's what happened.
Speaker 1: But if if that, if you play like that, you're
Speaker 1: going to beat a lot of teams on your schedule
Speaker 1: in my opinion, Yeah, especially considering we have what the
Speaker 1: third easiest schedule according to ESPN and NFL, and we
Speaker 1: don't have another playoff team that we're going to be
Speaker 1: playing from last season until Week eleven, which will be
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. So hopefully with those stats out,
Speaker 1: don't buy buying two because the last year was last year.
Speaker 1: Teams are totally different coming into a new season. Like
Speaker 1: you think about the Chargers who were going to play.
Speaker 1: This is the second year of Herbert and he's going
Speaker 1: to be we assume he's going to be better than
Speaker 1: he was last year. They had some things go wrong
Speaker 1: for them last season, so I expect them to be better.
Speaker 1: And also, I mean, think about it from the flip side,
Speaker 1: if someone was talking about the Cowboys the same way.
Speaker 1: They didn't make the playoffs, but from what they saw
Speaker 1: last night, I guarantee you the Giants watching the Eagles
Speaker 1: are like dang. I mean, they have to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more worried about it because of what they saw. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm excited from watching the game yesterday. Obviously sucks that
Speaker 1: we lost, but I after watching preseason, I had no idea,
Speaker 1: what was going to happen, you know, with the squad
Speaker 1: this year, and you know, even just looking at like, okay,
Speaker 1: who are they cutting? Who are they keeping? I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is going to work. You know, we
Speaker 1: had what six or seven guys make their NFL debut
Speaker 1: last night played in the game. So I was excited,
Speaker 1: especially to see what these young guys are going to do.
Speaker 1: I was not excited about my Chris Godwin and Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis matchup that I had thought was going to be great.
Speaker 1: It started off good but didn't turn out the way.
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about that later a little bit. But
Speaker 1: to go back to your point, you kind of made
Speaker 1: it a big point of saying you hope the pass
Speaker 1: and run game is split and Dak doesn't have to
Speaker 1: do as much, you know typically I think people kind
Speaker 1: of wanted it to stay around. Maybe he passes for
Speaker 1: thirty five attempts or whatever, and he passed for fifty eight,
Speaker 1: which was tying his career high. Zeke, we didn't see
Speaker 1: him used a lot. He rushed eleven times for thirty
Speaker 1: three yards and then caught three passes for nineteen yards.
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts on that? Why? Do you think
Speaker 1: that that happened. I mean, listen, this trend has been
Speaker 1: going on since last year, and Mike McCarthy is not
Speaker 1: known for, you know, utilizing to run that much in
Speaker 1: his offense, and I think we're going to continue to
Speaker 1: see that go the same way. I'm still going to
Speaker 1: say that we have a ninety million dollars running back
Speaker 1: in the backfield. I would like to see him use more.
Speaker 1: Even if the game dictates that we're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to run off tack or run up the middle.
Speaker 1: I think there's still some other career the ways that
Speaker 1: we can get Zeke the ball um. I don't. I
Speaker 1: think if you're gonna use him like you use him
Speaker 1: last night, then Tony Pollard should not be getting full series.
Speaker 1: I think that Zeke should still be in the game
Speaker 1: getting some of those touches that Tony Pollard got because
Speaker 1: he needs to be feeling like he's involved in the game.
Speaker 1: And I think last night, you know, besides him being
Speaker 1: a blocker, he was kind of a non factor. So
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that we can continue to
Speaker 1: go that way. I think we're gonna need Zeke to
Speaker 1: carry us through the rest of the season, but you know,
Speaker 1: I don't really have confidence in seeing seeing that many changes.
Speaker 1: I kind of appreciated the fact that that Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: didn't try to just you know, run the ball, just
Speaker 1: because we've seen that here before, Like it's not working.
Speaker 1: But let's just we do what we do big on
Speaker 1: big and it's like, well, you're not big enough, you know,
Speaker 1: big enough to go big on big and that happens
Speaker 1: too many times. And so I like the fact that
Speaker 1: they went sideline to sideline and they try to you know,
Speaker 1: stretch it out. Now you know, the run to Zeke
Speaker 1: at the goal line. I mean, I've said this for
Speaker 1: a long time. The tight ends can catch the ball,
Speaker 1: but they're they're a problem when it comes to blocking,
Speaker 1: especially on Darwin. Like, yeah, that that play, we saw
Speaker 1: that in the preseason though we did see a play
Speaker 1: and he didn't. He just barely got a hand on it.
Speaker 1: And that's a block in space. It will so not
Speaker 1: even just you know, somebody on the end of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And this is a safe game in
Speaker 1: a linebacker, so you know you need to just just
Speaker 1: chuck them just a little bit, get him off, and
Speaker 1: then you would think that that Zeke would could do
Speaker 1: the rest, but I mean, the guy, you gotta give
Speaker 1: him credit. The guy made a great play, made a
Speaker 1: great play, and that that I mean, that was a
Speaker 1: game changing play for them. Being in this building yesterday
Speaker 1: seeing that play, all the guys in the room were like,
Speaker 1: what how do you miss that? Tac Like, how do
Speaker 1: you not do something there to kind of at least
Speaker 1: get him a step back to whereas Zeke has a
Speaker 1: little bit of time to you know, get into that
Speaker 1: end zone. Um. I thought it was unfortunate, it was sad.
Speaker 1: I'm never going to be happy with how we usually
Speaker 1: last night, just just just to be clear, eleven rushes,
Speaker 1: two past two catches, never gonna be happy with. That's
Speaker 1: why I say when Tony Polar got in the game,
Speaker 1: we went first down, second down, I believe, in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, and on the third down we ran it.
Speaker 1: We ran like a draw, didn't get it and we
Speaker 1: had to punt. And I'm just like this, the flow
Speaker 1: of that just doesn't make sense. You best, well, just
Speaker 1: going to throw it all three downs and you're gonna
Speaker 1: do it that way, right. I didn't understand that that series. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like this, And then it's a whole
Speaker 1: series of Tony Poler. So you got Zeke in here
Speaker 1: blocking for for six seven downs, you know, picking up
Speaker 1: these rushers, and then you put Tony Poler in there.
Speaker 1: He gets a screen pass, he's pitching and doing all
Speaker 1: type of stuff, and then Zeke is you know, he's blocking.
Speaker 1: I mean he also ran them from the fullback position.
Speaker 1: I was like that, I had never seen that one before. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's literally confusing that you would. He's slimmer, he's faster,
Speaker 1: he's quicker, so you assume that he's going to get
Speaker 1: a screen maybe lining up at the one and catch up,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever didn't happen. You see Leona Fournette out
Speaker 1: there catching screens and running too the flat. You've seen
Speaker 1: the same thing Ronald John, Giovanni, benr And they still
Speaker 1: got their running backs involved in the game. And I
Speaker 1: feel like we totally took Zeke out besides him being
Speaker 1: used as a blocker. Right, I agree, But I think
Speaker 1: you know, the Bucks run game yesterday kind of reminded
Speaker 1: me of that old school Giants team that had like
Speaker 1: they called him Earthwind and Fire with a mod Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Derek Ward, and Brandon Jacobs because you do have like
Speaker 1: the different sizes and speeds, and they all can do
Speaker 1: different things. And I want Tony Pollard to do what
Speaker 1: he does, and I want Zeke to do what he does,
Speaker 1: and I want to be able to utilize both of them.
Speaker 1: I think both of them should be able, you know,
Speaker 1: to be in the game even at the same time,
Speaker 1: doing different kind of things. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: that necessarily is being done. But I like Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: a lot, and I think he's a great running back.
Speaker 1: And I know everybody's like, oh, give Zeke the ball,
Speaker 1: feed Zeke because we're paying him, you know, But I
Speaker 1: like Tony Pollard a lot, and I liked the way
Speaker 1: and more kind of honestly confused everybody a little bit.
Speaker 1: He had so many different unique play calls and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed watching it. I thought it was just
Speaker 1: from a fan perspective, it was really fun to watch
Speaker 1: the game. Even though you know, there were times whe
Speaker 1: were like what is happening here? Like oh, why did
Speaker 1: we miss that? And whatever? I thought it was really
Speaker 1: fun and exciting and it wasn't something so left fill
Speaker 1: that you're like, bro, like, don't do that. Because I
Speaker 1: feel like last season, we took maybe more chances in
Speaker 1: certain times where we shouldn't have, like you know, going
Speaker 1: forward on fourth down or whatever, different things like that,
Speaker 1: And I don't think we did that. I think we
Speaker 1: played smart still and we were just trying to figure
Speaker 1: out because we didn't get that in preseason. We did
Speaker 1: not get those opportunities to kind of play with stuff
Speaker 1: as much because a lot of the starters weren't playing.
Speaker 1: And so I was excited to see all of the
Speaker 1: stuff that we did yesterday. Yeah, I mean, you're right
Speaker 1: about the Pollard and Zeke and mix it up. And
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore did a nice drop. He really did, because
Speaker 1: because again, like I said, I don't I just don't
Speaker 1: think he looked at that matchup and said we're not
Speaker 1: gonna win this one. Not not right now Zack Martin
Speaker 1: comes back, it could be, it could be a different
Speaker 1: story somewhat, But but still think you know, when and
Speaker 1: I said this on the last show, when you get
Speaker 1: down in the red zone, you still have to be
Speaker 1: able to knock them back, and they that is going
Speaker 1: to be a problem, and I think that they need to.
Speaker 1: I mean, why why do the Bucks put Vita v
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle why don't think Cowboys do something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, if you need some beef in there in
Speaker 1: the middle, do something different. And that's one thing I'd
Speaker 1: like to see them on the red zone. So so so
Speaker 1: if you go like, I'm going to go back and
Speaker 1: watch all eleven of Zek's runs because I don't feel
Speaker 1: like we were getting killed. You can do that in
Speaker 1: the break well, but I don't feel like we were
Speaker 1: getting killed in the ring game like that. Like he
Speaker 1: broke for a thirteen yard run. One of his runs
Speaker 1: was from fullback. He was falling forward on some of
Speaker 1: his runs. You're not going to break every single one,
Speaker 1: but he was making something happen. I feel like if
Speaker 1: you give him a little bit a few more opportunities,
Speaker 1: then you also have the option when you get in
Speaker 1: the red zone, which is holding us back. Again, you're
Speaker 1: saying that you think that they kind of just gave
Speaker 1: up before they even started, like they just went in
Speaker 1: saying they were not I think it was more like
Speaker 1: a third and fourth thought to run the ball. I
Speaker 1: think it was like, oh, yeah, we haven't rented a
Speaker 1: long time, let's go ahead, and let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get a running. I feel like they did what they
Speaker 1: had to do. I mean, you could clearly see pass
Speaker 1: protection was on point. I you know, I was the
Speaker 1: only one actually on the show on Wednesday that gave
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern like a little bit. I'm like, you, guys,
Speaker 1: he should be getting better from last year. He was
Speaker 1: already getting better towards the end of last year. I
Speaker 1: get preseason he wasn't the greatest, but I had faith
Speaker 1: in him, and he, I believe showed up very well.
Speaker 1: I think our offensive line as a whole did very well.
Speaker 1: But our run game, I don't know. Our run protection
Speaker 1: just was not there for me. I didn't even just
Speaker 1: watching and just re looking back at like when they
Speaker 1: would show different angles of the plays and stuff. I
Speaker 1: didn't see even space to go. I didn't see openings
Speaker 1: very often. And vitave I had people literally doing the matrix,
Speaker 1: you know, like he people were all the way back
Speaker 1: trying to like stop him, and he was just unstoppable
Speaker 1: past protection, good run. I just think it was a
Speaker 1: little stretch to try to do something there. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if we find if we if we find
Speaker 1: a team that we can run against, I don't think
Speaker 1: that we're going to run the ball. We saw this
Speaker 1: last year as well, when we thought that there were
Speaker 1: teams that we can that we can out muscle on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, take advantage of zeeking the run game,
Speaker 1: and we didn't do it in those games either. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna keep saying that we got the
Speaker 1: same offensive coordinator and his coach. The call it's the same,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not going to change. It's not going
Speaker 1: to change. But you know, like I said, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we lost, and if we would
Speaker 1: have played a little bit more keep away, I think
Speaker 1: we we would have been okay. But it's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a good game. When you say keep away,
Speaker 1: you mean at the end of the game. I really
Speaker 1: think that if we shortened the game by establishing the run,
Speaker 1: then we have a better chance of winning that game. Well,
Speaker 1: even at the end of the game, I didn't like
Speaker 1: on that last drive that that first even though it
Speaker 1: was in complete pass, that shouldn't have been a pass.
Speaker 1: It should have been a run right away that first
Speaker 1: on the first drive, their first play was and you know,
Speaker 1: Felled attempted to throw it, but it wasn't that back
Speaker 1: on their eight yard line. You're talking about like after
Speaker 1: they got the fumble like or you or you mean
Speaker 1: once they got past midfield and we're really like in
Speaker 1: field goal range because I know it's I know it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to all these plays. Kind yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: remember it, but I'm still going to be the one
Speaker 1: banging on the table to say, hey, run it a
Speaker 1: little more, especially when you're going up against a team
Speaker 1: like that and you know your defense is giving it
Speaker 1: up at that point because Tom Brady hasn't figured out
Speaker 1: figure out a way. I have you established the run
Speaker 1: at the beginning, and then you kind of have something
Speaker 1: in your back pocket to go to and I don't
Speaker 1: think we had that. And I'm you know, I'm still
Speaker 1: sitting on the price tag right. Zeke's making ninety. I
Speaker 1: know Zeke is great. I've seen him carry us for
Speaker 1: a lot of years, and I still think that he
Speaker 1: has that in them, especially when you're in training camp
Speaker 1: and everybody's saying, hey, he's he's bigger. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a slimmer, he's faster, he's quicker. We saw none of
Speaker 1: what we expected to see from z And yes, we
Speaker 1: stayed in the game and we passed the fifty eight
Speaker 1: times and all that I don't think that's a recipe
Speaker 1: for us to get to the super Bowl. Well, what
Speaker 1: do you think about this offensive line? Let's get let's
Speaker 1: get into that a little bit more. And you know,
Speaker 1: that's what we were talking about all weeks. Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be there. He's I thought Connor
Speaker 1: did great in place of him. Yes, it's you're not
Speaker 1: replacing Zach Martin. And I would never say something like that,
Speaker 1: but I do think that he did his job. Obviously,
Speaker 1: um Connor Williams had a couple penalties, but to me,
Speaker 1: I feel like, pick your poison, take the penalty instead
Speaker 1: of getting your quarterback hurt. And I think that it
Speaker 1: was he was in that position where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well if I don't do a holding call here, they're
Speaker 1: getting to my quarterback. So to me, that's I'm fine
Speaker 1: with both with both of his penalties that were called
Speaker 1: on him. But what are your guys's thoughts? Nick? On
Speaker 1: the offensive line yesterday? I thought I thought they protected him,
Speaker 1: Like I said that, they protected him pretty good there.
Speaker 1: They didn't even try to just you know, run the
Speaker 1: ball behind them. But but McGovern and what it looked
Speaker 1: like to me that he was doing like a lot
Speaker 1: of the calls. I mean, I guess that's what happens
Speaker 1: when he puts his hand out there and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, be out of snaps it, so it
Speaker 1: looks like he's the one making a lot of the calls.
Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job, and they think
Speaker 1: he possibly could be in their top five as as
Speaker 1: as their lineman when Zach comes back, and so, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets more work at center. Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: guy that eventually is the center, or you know, Connor
Speaker 1: Williams is on a one year deal. I'm not one
Speaker 1: year deal, but this is his last year of his contract,
Speaker 1: so maybe this is a good opportunity for McGovern to
Speaker 1: kind of show that he's the future here as as
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. But it was a great test, and
Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: the offensive line play will They played better than I
Speaker 1: thought they would. I'm so happy that we held up
Speaker 1: on a tackle position. I was worried about Leo with
Speaker 1: the stinger. I was worried about tiring just a little
Speaker 1: bit because he was coming off the year head with
Speaker 1: the surgery and stuff. I think they held up. Will
Speaker 1: kept that clean for the most partum and listen, Vita
Speaker 1: Vea is going to be doing that to a lot
Speaker 1: of great offensive line in the season. So I'm taking
Speaker 1: nothing away from those guys. They did what they could
Speaker 1: the whole to stop him from getting the deck. So
Speaker 1: I'm actually really really proud of the offensive line too.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I'm like, yeah, I'm proud of them.
Speaker 1: I think I think they played well. That throws the
Speaker 1: ball fifty eight times. He's not getting killed back there,
Speaker 1: so he's doing a good job. Because we all know
Speaker 1: who the Russians are opposite of them, and Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: had some guys and Todd Bows was bringing the pressure,
Speaker 1: so I think they did good. I think that we
Speaker 1: kind of overlooked beyondest a lot because McGovern is the
Speaker 1: guy that replaced Zack Martin on the fly, and you
Speaker 1: know he's gonna play as he's not it's gonna be McGovern.
Speaker 1: But I mean he has eight starts, I mean, be honest,
Speaker 1: had four going in. There's still a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks there. So you know, he comes in the game
Speaker 1: and together the three of them in the middle of
Speaker 1: the line, I thought held up pretty good. But but again,
Speaker 1: they didn't just try to run behind them. They knew
Speaker 1: that wasn't going to be a favorable matchup. I know,
Speaker 1: I just don't. I know, we keep going back to
Speaker 1: this even if it's not favorable. You got, you got?
Speaker 1: This is why you paid this man this much money
Speaker 1: because you believe, even in those situations, that he should
Speaker 1: be able to do something. Because it seems to be
Speaker 1: like like some people are believing that this is going
Speaker 1: to change after this game. Right, So if we if
Speaker 1: we play a defense who we believe isn't as good
Speaker 1: against the run, then all of a sudden, Ke's gonna
Speaker 1: get twenty five thirty carries. And I don't I don't
Speaker 1: believe that's gonna happen. Well, we could talk about the
Speaker 1: offensive line, probably the whole show. We could dedicate a
Speaker 1: show to it. But I want to talk about Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: but I will wait till after the break to do
Speaker 1: that because I was actually very proud of him. Will
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Speaker 1: Tellgate just got jealous? Well, de Law said earlier this week,
Speaker 1: you guys that he was excited to get back to
Speaker 1: the way that he knows how to play defense and
Speaker 1: the way he likes to play defense. Maybe a little
Speaker 1: shade thrown there. I don't know. We're not here to
Speaker 1: talk about that. Oh yeah, we all know we didn't
Speaker 1: have been at three four man. We want to do.
Speaker 1: We know what he's best at. Besides that miss on
Speaker 1: Gronk for that touchdown in the game, I thought he
Speaker 1: played great. I think the defensive line looked great. Um,
Speaker 1: that is my opinion. Though I'm a defensive girl. I
Speaker 1: love defense. What were your thoughts? Just let's talk about
Speaker 1: the line first. Let's not get into the secondary because
Speaker 1: that's a totally different story for me. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: the d line did did Okay? I mean Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: is not really known for being a great running team.
Speaker 1: We know that Tom is going to read the defense
Speaker 1: and get you into whatever whatever he thinks is best
Speaker 1: at that time. So I didn't really expect Lenar Fournette
Speaker 1: and Ronald Jones to go crazy. Um, I thought d
Speaker 1: Law came and brought some some crazy energy last night.
Speaker 1: The dude was all over the place force fumble, He's
Speaker 1: he's tracking guys down from the from the other side
Speaker 1: of the field. He came to say, hey, man, y'all
Speaker 1: look at me. Y'all follow me, and I'll show y'all
Speaker 1: how to play. And I loved it. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought he set the tone on our
Speaker 1: defense and I thought it was really really good. Um.
Speaker 1: Another thing is, we know Tom Brady is going to
Speaker 1: get the ball out of his hands quick, so you know,
Speaker 1: planning to get a bunch of sacks on that dude.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just not good. It's not good. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna work out for you. So for for the
Speaker 1: chances that we had and the opportunities that we did
Speaker 1: to have to make plays, I think we did a
Speaker 1: really good job, especially compared to last year. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know who's got the record for quarterback to receiver touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Like you know, Montana and Rice and Young and Rice
Speaker 1: and Marino and Clayton but I guarantee you Brady to
Speaker 1: Gronk is up there and it was that touchdown that
Speaker 1: you were talking about with d Law. I mean they
Speaker 1: the Cowboys tried to be cute, and they were cute her.
Speaker 1: I mean they did a nice I mean, that was
Speaker 1: a heck of a play there, because if they were
Speaker 1: gonna you know, oh, we're gonna confuse you sending the
Speaker 1: safety and put and then Gronk blocked for a second
Speaker 1: and then took off, it's just those two guys connecting.
Speaker 1: I thought it was an amazing play that was absolutely
Speaker 1: just them. Yeah, that was something that they hadn't seen
Speaker 1: time and time again, and it was like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they do this all the time, right, because they trying
Speaker 1: to get a closer run to the quarterback by hitting
Speaker 1: the sea gat and it was like as soon as
Speaker 1: they saw it, it's on. I have to ask this
Speaker 1: what fan base was the most pissed off last night?
Speaker 1: Because the Cowboys fan base doesn't seem to be that pissed.
Speaker 1: You know, they're excited about what could happen. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Bucks won the game. Patriots gotta be out there, right,
Speaker 1: I mean they're like, Gronk, you said you were done,
Speaker 1: and then like doing this, and then all these back
Speaker 1: surgeries and all this stuff. You were injured half the
Speaker 1: time you were here, and now you're just healthy as
Speaker 1: can be. Washington was maybe up there too. This now listen,
Speaker 1: this is the players lounge, and I am petty, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to this. The most upset
Speaker 1: fan base are the people who picked Ezekiel Elliott in
Speaker 1: their fantasy football draft with their their first round pick.
Speaker 1: I picked them, and then the person who picked Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook said, hey, man, I picked them on accident. I
Speaker 1: really wanted to get Zeke, so we traded one for one.
Speaker 1: So now I got Dalvin Cook, they got Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: But that's the most upset fan base right now. Well,
Speaker 1: and also the people who one of the guys I
Speaker 1: think it was Isaiah had benched Amari Cooper. I'll pass them.
Speaker 1: I'll pass some of this year. How do you benchmark?
Speaker 1: I didn't benching my past, and I just didn't. I
Speaker 1: think it was Isaiah. Somebody yesterday or no, somebody somebody
Speaker 1: yesterday said that they had benched Amari Cooper for this week.
Speaker 1: So I think they're pretty upset too, And I can
Speaker 1: I can throw my story in there too, which can
Speaker 1: segue to the secondary because I've benched Antonio Brown. I didn't. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but um he made sure Anthony Brown knows a little
Speaker 1: bit about him, and yeah he was. He was outstanding.
Speaker 1: And we've been hearing reports from from people in Tampa
Speaker 1: that like, this guy looks looks God, looks amazing. He
Speaker 1: looks like back to Pittsburgh for him from three or
Speaker 1: four or five years ago. And he did. He certainly did.
Speaker 1: He's got a great quarterback that knows how to well
Speaker 1: you think about it, him and Gronk, Right, it's like,
Speaker 1: so they got in late. You know, Gronk had been retired,
Speaker 1: he was still trying to catch up. He had been
Speaker 1: out of the game for a while. Antonio Brown same thing.
Speaker 1: He had have been out of the game for a while.
Speaker 1: And now that they are playing, you know, full offseason
Speaker 1: training camp, and they're looking like the guys who were
Speaker 1: at their previous teams. It's it's a real, real there's
Speaker 1: some trouble out there. So when you say ab once again,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is going to be giving a lot of
Speaker 1: good cornerbacks problems this season because when he was at
Speaker 1: his best, nobody could touch him right, Nobody could touch him.
Speaker 1: So that was just you know, a notice to the
Speaker 1: rest of the league, like, hey, you better figure out
Speaker 1: the way to start double teaming me again like y'all
Speaker 1: used to, or this is gonna this. Hou's gonna look
Speaker 1: for y'all once when I when I come to town.
Speaker 1: Brady's made it. Guys a lot of money that aren't
Speaker 1: very tall, that are quick, that know how to run routes.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's done it with Wes Welker, he did
Speaker 1: it with Amondola. He's done it and that's what he does.
Speaker 1: And so Antonio Brown was already a star and then
Speaker 1: now to come in. You know, he's got a perfect match.
Speaker 1: How up, said are you? If you if you're Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, yeah, number one guy yesterday
Speaker 1: he was the third absolutely yesterday ground ground. You know,
Speaker 1: Oh no, he will he will get his because he's
Speaker 1: he's a I mean, he's a big, big target and
Speaker 1: they'll bet miss matches. That's why I think about the
Speaker 1: same with this cowboy receiver, like it'll piss off Fantasy on.
Speaker 1: But like you know, it wasn't Gallops game. You know,
Speaker 1: he got he got banged Up. I think it'll be fine,
Speaker 1: But then there'll be another game where he gets one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty right and Cooper may not get that,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be you know, it'll go back and forth.
Speaker 1: I think it was a quiet through team catch for
Speaker 1: Cooper relatively, Yeah, I think it was. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of I mean not quiet. It was quiet because
Speaker 1: what we've grown to know Cooper as in the last
Speaker 1: two years has been slants, uh, some comebacks, you know,
Speaker 1: some quick stuff to get the get the chains movement.
Speaker 1: So when he gets sixteen catches and they're like eight
Speaker 1: nine yards apiece, then they quietly start racking up right.
Speaker 1: And then versus some of those other receivers where you
Speaker 1: see him catching forty and fifty yard bombs. That's not
Speaker 1: Cooper's game right now. But what he did for us
Speaker 1: last night was the Mary Cooper that I say deserves
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars because he changed, he changed the game,
Speaker 1: and he's that that guy for Dak Prescott when when
Speaker 1: he needs one, uh, and not even just in his receptions.
Speaker 1: There were like two pretty big blocks he did forget
Speaker 1: for Gallup that I thought were amazing. I thought, literally,
Speaker 1: hands down, all around if I'm looking for a guy
Speaker 1: that I want to pay to be on my offense
Speaker 1: to you know, actually make the blocks, catch the ball,
Speaker 1: do whatever I need to do, get in whatever space
Speaker 1: I need to be in to make this team win,
Speaker 1: I'm paying Cooper. Like I thought he played great yesterday.
Speaker 1: He had one hundred and thirty nine yards thirteen receptions,
Speaker 1: and I just thought it was amazing. And people don't
Speaker 1: really talk about his blocks that he had yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I think if he wasn't catching the ball, he was
Speaker 1: blocking for somebody. And I really enjoyed what I saw
Speaker 1: yesterday from him. I think he is going to do
Speaker 1: his best to try to prove that he is that
Speaker 1: receiver that he's saying that he is, because we don't
Speaker 1: really know him to talk about to talk about himself
Speaker 1: like that. So I feel like if he was going
Speaker 1: to put himself in that position to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the best receiver and YadA, da YadA, like I
Speaker 1: think he really is putting himself in a place like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna believe it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do my Muhammad Ali, I think I'm the best
Speaker 1: until you know I'm gonna say I'm the best until
Speaker 1: I am, and that's what he did. And I thought
Speaker 1: he looked great yesterday. Not listening, but I'm not going
Speaker 1: to fall for this. It's week one and and he
Speaker 1: came through on a road game. No no, no, no, no, no, dame.
Speaker 1: This is my guys. This is Barry's thing about the
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper and away games, and the stats will show
Speaker 1: that that year. I think if Jason Garrett's last year,
Speaker 1: that he would He didn't show up for the road games,
Speaker 1: all right, not all bit. He was going up against
Speaker 1: like Steph, like guil Moore, some other some really good corners,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't showing up. But I've also had a
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper on my fantasy team and there have been
Speaker 1: a lot of times where sixteen catching sixteen targets, and
Speaker 1: then there's been some time when I was like, where
Speaker 1: is this do that? So he has to be consistent
Speaker 1: as what he did last night. If he could continue
Speaker 1: that for the rest of the season, he could be
Speaker 1: in that conversation for the top receiver in the league. Okay,
Speaker 1: well we got a little off track talking about offense again.
Speaker 1: But the offense did get everybody excited. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to the secondary because my guy, Jordan Lewis said, if
Speaker 1: you guys don't remember on the show on Wednesday, I
Speaker 1: said the matchup that I wanted to look at most
Speaker 1: was Chris Godwin first, Jordan Lewis. I thought they were
Speaker 1: both physical guys. Jordan Lewis actually started the game off
Speaker 1: really well. There was like a really big play at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the game. I was like, see,
Speaker 1: this is the matchup I'm talking about. And Barry even
Speaker 1: said it too, He's like, that's that's your matchup, Britt
Speaker 1: And I was like, see, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: And then it kind of went downhill from there. He
Speaker 1: did end up having you know, that return on the
Speaker 1: pick for sixty six yards, but I almost feel like
Speaker 1: that was just the right place, right time kind of
Speaker 1: thing in that situation. What were your guys thoughts on
Speaker 1: the secondary? How did you feel? Are you excited to
Speaker 1: see these young guys come up now, because you know,
Speaker 1: we still had some guys that were not able to participate,
Speaker 1: especially Calvin Joseph, which I do really want to see
Speaker 1: and I do think he'll end up winning that starting
Speaker 1: spot for a corner. But what are your thoughts? Nick?
Speaker 1: I thought Anthony Brown had a rough night. I mean
Speaker 1: I thought he was exposed a few times, especially on
Speaker 1: the deep ball. The deep ball wasn't really anything fancy
Speaker 1: out of Antonio Brown. He just kind of get a
Speaker 1: little bit of a stutter and it was gone. But
Speaker 1: his hand up said I've got him, and he did
Speaker 1: great throw by Tom to get him there. But I
Speaker 1: thought Diggs was, you know, was kind of what we've
Speaker 1: seen in camp. I thought he did a nice job.
Speaker 1: And Jordan Lewis is a battler. I mean he's not
Speaker 1: gonna win them all, but I mean he's he's scrappy.
Speaker 1: The ball finds him, he finds the ball, um and
Speaker 1: he did. He did a good job. Jayron Curse to
Speaker 1: me was a player that really stood out. And I
Speaker 1: know I felt weird talking about the defensive backs before Danny.
Speaker 1: Danny actually has done it here on the players lounge.
Speaker 1: But I just think big physical safety, you know something
Speaker 1: about that you and Barry both And I thought Jayron
Speaker 1: Curse did really a nice job. Yeah. I thought the
Speaker 1: secondary um, you know, for the points that we gave up.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I didn't expect us to be great
Speaker 1: because I knew what we were going up against um,
Speaker 1: so I think this was a big It was a
Speaker 1: good test for us. You know. So guys are gonna
Speaker 1: go in and they're gonna be able to see what
Speaker 1: they did on film, and they're gonna say, this is
Speaker 1: what we need to fix. Like I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: continue to say, Anthony Brown had a very tough matchup
Speaker 1: last night. He Antonio Brown is poised to be one
Speaker 1: of the top receivers in the league this year, and
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, you know, had the misfortunate of going up
Speaker 1: against him for the first game of the season. I
Speaker 1: think that he can play better. I think he will
Speaker 1: play better. Last night just wasn't his night. Trey Von Dix,
Speaker 1: I'm liking it. I'm liking it. I like him getting
Speaker 1: his hands on the ball. I like the way that
Speaker 1: he's challenging guys. I saw him on the play that
Speaker 1: I think a guy when caught and we thought was offensive. PI.
Speaker 1: He's shutting Mike Evans down. If you see it, Mike
Speaker 1: Evans running the out route, He's right in front of him,
Speaker 1: righting on him, like White don't write. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I like to see it. I will say this some
Speaker 1: things that you watch and you think that it's on
Speaker 1: some of the guys in the secondary. You'll see Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons out of position a couple of times where he's
Speaker 1: supposed to be underneath some of those in cutting routes,
Speaker 1: and it looks like it's on the cornerback. But he's
Speaker 1: supposed to have help there. It's not supposed to like
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's not supposed to be able to throw a
Speaker 1: bullets supposed to have to go over somebody's hands, and
Speaker 1: we saw that happen a couple of times. Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: will learn from that and he will be in the
Speaker 1: correct position moving forward in the season. So I think
Speaker 1: it's positive. I think it's positive. I think we can
Speaker 1: look up. Like I said, I'm gonna that an Tonio
Speaker 1: Brown thing is a mix up him and Tom Brady
Speaker 1: on the same page. Gronk and Tom Brady are. They're
Speaker 1: gonna do that to a lot of guys. But I
Speaker 1: think if you're looking for us to battle and not
Speaker 1: blow coverage just like we did last last season, I
Speaker 1: think we're all right. I mean, what if if trey
Speaker 1: Ron Diggs gets that interception at the end of the game, right,
Speaker 1: Like I mean it would have been an amazing play,
Speaker 1: just flying in the picture. Like everything's different about this
Speaker 1: whole team that they I mean the secondary, Like, well,
Speaker 1: that would be about five turnovers we tackled last night.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, we we we broke on the ball. We
Speaker 1: we I'm gonna say we minimized it. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: crazy yards at the catch, all right, So they saw
Speaker 1: the quarterback throw it, they broke on it. They made
Speaker 1: those tackles. We got some three and outs, Like, we
Speaker 1: got turnovers. We've been talking about turnovers since I played.
Speaker 1: We have now twenty ten, right, so and we came
Speaker 1: out and we get with three four night, we get four.
Speaker 1: You know, the last one counts, I mean before halftime counts.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the ones that I'm really talking about are
Speaker 1: the ones that we on my fantasy team, Brady. But
Speaker 1: but as far as us being able to create those
Speaker 1: type of turnouts, punching the ball out, getting into sceptions,
Speaker 1: we we did that in Game one against Tom Brady
Speaker 1: last night. So I think it's on the up and up.
Speaker 1: We're not perfect, um, but I think you know, we
Speaker 1: got a lot of room for growth, and I think
Speaker 1: dan Quinny get us right. Okay, Well, we got to
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Speaker 1: You're not getting fan of a year, all right? Special teams?
Speaker 1: Special teams? Are they going to be able to get
Speaker 1: us through this season? Because clearly it seemed like, um
Speaker 1: most of the blame was put on them for our
Speaker 1: last yesterday against the Tampa Bay Bucks m four points
Speaker 1: left on the field, and I honestly would argue more
Speaker 1: because I even feel like that sixty yard or originally
Speaker 1: that wasn't a special teams problem, but Dak took that
Speaker 1: ball of yards sack and then there was a penalty
Speaker 1: right after that which pushed us back even more, and
Speaker 1: we ended up at the sixty yard field goal that
Speaker 1: of course we did not make as well, but we
Speaker 1: missed a thirty one yard field goal, we missed an
Speaker 1: extra point. We lost by two. What are your thoughts? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Those I mean, I'm not good at math, but I
Speaker 1: know that's not good. This is what I will say.
Speaker 1: We are not guaranteed to win the game. And we
Speaker 1: have those four points, but Tom Brady has to go
Speaker 1: to score a touchdown different, which is totally different, totally different, GIOE.
Speaker 1: Bernard for four Yeah all day. I'm not worried if
Speaker 1: you keep on throwing that, keep on throwing that. So
Speaker 1: the defensive calls would have been totally different if we
Speaker 1: have to keep Tom Brady from scoring to touch. Now,
Speaker 1: those four points were huge, and we are going to
Speaker 1: depend on those points the entire season, right, So he's
Speaker 1: going to have to be comfortable with making kicks consistently
Speaker 1: like that. That's what you need to do. And this
Speaker 1: is bones this guy. So we have to have confidence
Speaker 1: in him, and your coach has to have confidence in
Speaker 1: you too, to make sure that he feels good, good
Speaker 1: with you making those kicks. Oh, I think he's got confidence.
Speaker 1: I mean, oh yeah, well he's okay. Well, what's happened
Speaker 1: was their line? Well, he missed an extra point and
Speaker 1: he's also hit the worst field goal you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: which is earlier, you know, less the extra point, So
Speaker 1: let's give him a sixty yard yarder. You know, but
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right bred on that. There had first intent
Speaker 1: on the twenty one yard line and dat got a
Speaker 1: sack and then depend only on Connor Williams and you're
Speaker 1: kicking sixty yarder, Like that's three points that probably should
Speaker 1: have been there. The other field goal as well, the
Speaker 1: extra point. I mean, now you're looking at seven points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different game. We get it
Speaker 1: was a forty one yard kickoff return. Ye that that
Speaker 1: can be fixed. Like those things, they don't really bother
Speaker 1: me that much. Is week one. Like I said, a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys, this is the first time that
Speaker 1: they're playing as a full special teams unit in this
Speaker 1: type of situation, so they're still learning it, and I
Speaker 1: think they got better as the game. Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: some positives out of it. Brian inger Is I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he there's a reason why that they really
Speaker 1: loved him coming out. I mean because he's I mean,
Speaker 1: he had a really nice game. I mean that that
Speaker 1: punt they didn't win the game, but if they would
Speaker 1: have won it, I think he would point to that
Speaker 1: play he flipped the field position on them. C J.
Speaker 1: Goodwin is a beast like her. He can absolutely run.
Speaker 1: Don't know all the skills that he can do. He
Speaker 1: can run him and Cedric Wilson did a nice job
Speaker 1: because that was a moment where you know, they really
Speaker 1: flipped the field. There a good job with Brian Ingers.
Speaker 1: So I think there's some positive things. I mean, the
Speaker 1: kicker missed, he had to correct himself, he kind of
Speaker 1: got himself back going again. I feel better about him
Speaker 1: than I did. You know, now, I asked this on
Speaker 1: the other show. If he misses the kick the one
Speaker 1: did to take the lead with a minute twenty four,
Speaker 1: he misses that kick, is he is? He? Is he gone?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't he be? Yeah, I'm not talking about right,
Speaker 1: I'm not even run right now. I believe so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe. So that's that's that's two big moments, which
Speaker 1: means he's been hurt. We could guys for being hurt
Speaker 1: and missing kicks. So yeah, so yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's bones this guy, so he has
Speaker 1: a little a little bit more leeway than some of
Speaker 1: other guys would. So I'm not really sure, but yes,
Speaker 1: the good things. I had CJ as my defensive MVP
Speaker 1: last season. Yeah, that's how good he played to me
Speaker 1: last year special teams. But he's you know, but he's
Speaker 1: a cornerback. So I just gave him defensive MVP because
Speaker 1: our defense was not really good, you know, so somebody,
Speaker 1: somebody had to get it. But I think that's every
Speaker 1: every game, he's going to be a standout guy. He's
Speaker 1: he's super fast, he knows where to be, how to
Speaker 1: get there, he's savvy with getting off some of those gunners.
Speaker 1: He's always gonna make those plays. Um. So like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at coverage. I'm not mad at our
Speaker 1: point return. I think Ceede Lamb made a very good
Speaker 1: play one. I think it's like eleven yards he gets
Speaker 1: on that on that proNT return. UM. But you know
Speaker 1: those miss field goals, man, that also counts the special teams,
Speaker 1: So it's you know that that's what knocks you down
Speaker 1: a little bit. So we just we just got to
Speaker 1: make those kicks. And I think because he you know,
Speaker 1: he did have his I believe he had back surgery
Speaker 1: during the offseason and so we didn't really see him
Speaker 1: most of preseason. He comes in that final preseason game,
Speaker 1: misses a fifty six yard or then, and then comes
Speaker 1: into this situation and is missing more and you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about, Oh, it's just the first game. It's
Speaker 1: about like when does preseason like in those conversations, because
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe we should start having starters and
Speaker 1: guys playing preseason again. I know, the whole Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: when he you know, tears his acl and preseason and
Speaker 1: everybody's like, no, no starters in preseason anymore. But we
Speaker 1: can't start keep using the excuse as the first game, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the first game, so blah blah blah. No, that's
Speaker 1: what preseason's for, Like, we need to figure out if
Speaker 1: this guy is consistent, if he can do this that
Speaker 1: in the third and get it out of the way
Speaker 1: before the season starts, because it could, Like I said
Speaker 1: last episode, NFC East is always a close division. We
Speaker 1: either even last year, as terrible as we were, you know,
Speaker 1: we were four and you know, I think ten at
Speaker 1: a point in time, and we were still in it
Speaker 1: to win it, Like we still we literally still came
Speaker 1: down to the last game to determine if we were
Speaker 1: going to like win or not. You know. So I
Speaker 1: think these one game does matter at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. It can matter. So like we can't just
Speaker 1: take this first week one as like, well, it's the
Speaker 1: first game, Oh, it's against the defending Super Bowl champs,
Speaker 1: like I don't feel like we can do that. Like, okay,
Speaker 1: then let's start getting guys back in preseason and start
Speaker 1: playing at least the final game, at least the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the final game like they used to do well.
Speaker 1: I will say this with Gregg. You have a vet.
Speaker 1: You have a guy who's familiar with years. I don't,
Speaker 1: but you have a guy who's familiar with the coach.
Speaker 1: So just like any quarterback or any veteran running back,
Speaker 1: the assumption is, you know, we know these guys, We've
Speaker 1: seen what they could do preseason. A lot of times
Speaker 1: is when you're trying, especially with losing the game, you're
Speaker 1: trying to see what these other guys who haven't got
Speaker 1: NFL experienced, how they're gonna play and if they're gonna
Speaker 1: make it, gonna be able to make the roster and
Speaker 1: help your team. I said, we go back to the
Speaker 1: old way, you know, where it used to be. The
Speaker 1: guys that are barely trying to make it play the
Speaker 1: first couple of games. There's a big cut after that,
Speaker 1: and then there's another big cut. Like I don't like
Speaker 1: everybody's staying on the roster pretty much and only cutting
Speaker 1: like five to ten guys right off the back or
Speaker 1: you know what I mean throughout and then waiting till
Speaker 1: the end to do this monster cut of fifteen people.
Speaker 1: Well you can have to talk to Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I got a game we should watch. It's
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen preseason game with between the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Seahawks because they're starting crunched over and you know, now
Speaker 1: what happened though, you gotta think about it. Jacksonville lost
Speaker 1: eat end for from a season and you know, so
Speaker 1: it's you're taking a risk. I think the risk I
Speaker 1: think that the zert line thing is you expected to
Speaker 1: make those kids. He's a vet. You've seen him do
Speaker 1: it before, and it didn't happen for him last night. Well,
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen for him the last Pieceason Gaming
Speaker 1: played either. Is it just all the injury that you think? Listen,
Speaker 1: sometimes that happens. We saw this happen to Dan Bailey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't, and then he's out there. I don't
Speaker 1: judge kickers. Maybe best ship, but I don't judge kickers
Speaker 1: for fifty yard field goals or you know or more.
Speaker 1: I mean, like if you miss you me, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: but this is a thirty one at action. I know,
Speaker 1: but the preseason. You said that about the preseason and
Speaker 1: then I was like, did it get there? I mean
Speaker 1: did it? Did it? Look? Okay? It was missed a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm okay with that. You gotta make some
Speaker 1: you can't just miss all of them. But thirty one
Speaker 1: not even hitting the net? I mean, but that was
Speaker 1: also Remember that he's probably making these kicks in practice,
Speaker 1: all right, So they're not just out here watching talking
Speaker 1: about practice. Yes, but I'm saying, you gotta got coming
Speaker 1: off an injury, and you got vets and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: They're not watching them sit out here and miss thirty
Speaker 1: one thirty one yard field goals in practice. He's he's
Speaker 1: nailing them that He's going to the timeline and what
Speaker 1: are we, like, how many games? And if he continues,
Speaker 1: if he has another game like this, do we cut
Speaker 1: him then? How? Like what's the timeline for that? Like?
Speaker 1: What would you guys think? It looks like? Nick? You know, like,
Speaker 1: I know, it's difficult when when this is your guy,
Speaker 1: it's going to be difficult him and bones are together.
Speaker 1: So usually when you have somebody pulling for you like
Speaker 1: that you got a little bit more leeway. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying my decision. I'm just I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you that that's that's how it goes. The Nucie still here,
Speaker 1: who pulled for That's the way I love guy, Mike McCarthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. I just I've said this before.
Speaker 1: Why why are we going to have the Rams farm squad?
Speaker 1: When it comes when it comes to like, why are
Speaker 1: we the Rams triple A team for their special teams?
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Everywhere. They didn't want the airline,
Speaker 1: they didn't want McQuaid, they didn't want fossil. So I mean, like,
Speaker 1: but the cowboys get them and they're like oys put
Speaker 1: them all together. I mean, you want to Joe d
Speaker 1: they want to stop talking. You know. I feel about
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, yeah, this whole my guy, my guy,
Speaker 1: I think that's cool for a while. But I mean,
Speaker 1: make your kicks. It's real simple, make your kicks. And
Speaker 1: that was the ugliest. That wasn't just a mess that thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not vouching for the guy. I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: how it works. He kicked at the South Beach. I
Speaker 1: think when it's when it losses you, we can't be
Speaker 1: doing this my guy stuff anymore, you know, like this
Speaker 1: is this is going to be detrimental to my team,
Speaker 1: to people's fantasy teams, to whatever you have. But that
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