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Speaker 5: And it's time.
Speaker 4: It's time.
Speaker 6: For that.
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Speaker 4: We have Nick her I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 4: think so.
Speaker 7: Maybe for some specific listeners car speakers at Nick Harris DC.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, that's what it is. At isaya stand back,
Speaker 4: I am stand back. We got Christopher Biemer in the back.
Speaker 4: I am Josh Rodriguez filling in for Kyle Yeomans, who's
Speaker 4: not here for some reason. I don't know why.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then we got Christopher H. Beamer in the back
Speaker 4: seven series. Actually I don't know middle h. I just
Speaker 4: made it up.
Speaker 8: What is it, Chris, It's p Peter, Paul, Paul, it's
Speaker 8: my name.
Speaker 4: All right, boys, all right, let's get to this really
Speaker 4: really quick. First, the Mavericks and the Stars are in
Speaker 4: their respective conference championship. Congrats to them, Shouts to them,
Speaker 4: Dallas teams getting to the conference championships. How's it feel, guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's I'm I'm the Stars fan. I'm not necessarily
Speaker 7: a Mavericks fan, but I am respecting the look. I'm
Speaker 7: respecting the Mavericks run and of the the heat buddy,
Speaker 7: exactly of the team's left. I am rooting for the Mavericks.
Speaker 7: So I hope they get the job done. But it's
Speaker 7: been awesome to see the Stars kind of rattle off
Speaker 7: what they've been got going on. They both have really
Speaker 7: tough matchups here in the next here in the conference finals, though,
Speaker 7: so it's gonna be really fun. I'm excited for it.
Speaker 4: How you feeling, Isaiamh.
Speaker 5: I think it's dope. Yeah, you know, I don't watch
Speaker 5: a lot of basketball. Actually, I don't watch any basketball,
Speaker 5: but I did see the ending of their game. Well,
Speaker 5: so that's pretty cool. I know everybody's really excited about them.
Speaker 5: I know Mark Cuban has been working on that squad
Speaker 5: for some years now. Is dope to see Irving and
Speaker 5: Luca really kind of finally meshing to see somebody's playing
Speaker 5: really come to fruition I think is always pretty awesome,
Speaker 5: especially from the sports management side. So kudos to the MAVs.
Speaker 5: The Stars are doing Stars things that they've had that
Speaker 5: roster for a minute. They've added a couple of young pieces.
Speaker 5: You know, I've watched the Stars over the past few
Speaker 5: years because of my Seattle cracking that are sitting at.
Speaker 7: The crib watch them get cracked.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got cracked this year. This year there trash,
Speaker 5: but we got rid of our coach, which I think
Speaker 5: was a major problem. So congrats to the Stars. And yeah,
Speaker 5: the Rangers, you know, did their thing last year. Rangers, Stars,
Speaker 5: mav Does that put at least.
Speaker 4: My first question, at least to my first question? Does
Speaker 4: that put any added emphasis on Cowboys expectations on the
Speaker 4: Cowboys for getting to a conference championship this year?
Speaker 7: I don't think it's any different. We also can't forget
Speaker 7: the Dallas Wings went to the conference championship.
Speaker 4: Oh oh them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think it's and I don't think it's
Speaker 7: any more than it's that it has been, you know,
Speaker 7: for the last twenty some odd years. Yeah, sure, there's
Speaker 7: probably a little bit more fan anks to whenever they
Speaker 7: see the rest of the teams in the city doing
Speaker 7: a reaching expectation or exceeding expectations. Someone posted a graphic
Speaker 7: that was like ten thousand plus days since the Dallas
Speaker 7: Cowboys reached a an NFC championship game, you know, compared
Speaker 7: to everybody else's now is like one day, two days,
Speaker 7: and then yeah, one hundred days for the Rangers. I
Speaker 7: don't know, man, I one of the dumbest questions, and
Speaker 7: forgive me a person on.
Speaker 4: X that said this, but h officially X now officially X.
Speaker 4: They asked, is it making the Cowboys ear relevant in doubts?
Speaker 5: Oh? No, that's silly.
Speaker 4: And I said, you're a big dummy, dumb dumb you
Speaker 4: said that. I said that harsh words. Dummy, dumb, dumb, dummy,
Speaker 4: dumb dumb, big stupid dude. No, I like, what what
Speaker 4: are you doing? You know what I mean, Like, what
Speaker 4: do you really.
Speaker 5: Think trolling that's what they're doing.
Speaker 4: Do you actually think that?
Speaker 5: No, they don't believe that. In their heart. The Dallas
Speaker 5: Cowboys are the largest sports brand in the world sports, sports, sports.
Speaker 5: I'm not just talking about football the world. So I mean,
Speaker 5: we're blessed to be sitting here talking about that, you know.
Speaker 4: That's actual football and then also the other football that
Speaker 4: nobody cares actually.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so I mean that the Cowboys will always
Speaker 5: be the Cowboys. Shout out to all the fellas from
Speaker 5: the nineties that really along with Double J for making
Speaker 5: this brand what it is. For everybody in the world
Speaker 5: being able to acknowledge what the Dallas Cowboys are. I
Speaker 5: don't care where you are in the world, they know
Speaker 5: that star and that said is a lot not only
Speaker 5: about Double J, but it says a lot about those
Speaker 5: guys in the nineties that were running on a terror
Speaker 5: for a number of years and which is hard to do.
Speaker 5: It's hard to do in the NFL, especially especially in
Speaker 5: the NFL where there's cap restrictions and all that jazz.
Speaker 5: So a lot of kudos to them.
Speaker 7: It wasn't then necessarily there wasn't cap restrictions then necessarily.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but I mean the league there's a
Speaker 5: lot more restraints on football teams and there are saved
Speaker 5: for like baseball, you know, like there's the Yankees are
Speaker 5: are a big brand, but some of it kind of
Speaker 5: goes like I don't give it some of it any
Speaker 5: credit because it's like you can spend as much money
Speaker 5: as you want to get who you want versus in football,
Speaker 5: you gotta work really hard from the managerial standpoint, you
Speaker 5: really put together your roster year after year, which is
Speaker 5: why what New England did was so incredible, right, It
Speaker 5: was so incredible because you know that you have to
Speaker 5: make things work right with a lot less, especially the
Speaker 5: more success that you have.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, it doesn't hurt that you have the greatest
Speaker 4: quarterback probably of all time.
Speaker 5: That doesn't hurt at all. I mean, but even still
Speaker 5: the Patriots, when you hear the Patriots name and you
Speaker 5: hear the Cowboys name, you want to watch the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Even with all the success that the Patriots had and
Speaker 5: all the guys who made those teams successful, whether it
Speaker 5: be the Dallas Cowboys or whether it be the New
Speaker 5: England Patriots, they're no longer in the building. Yeah, the
Speaker 5: coaches are no longer in the building, and yet when
Speaker 5: you hear those two brands, you still want to tune
Speaker 5: in for the Cowboys. So that says something.
Speaker 4: I think that's true, And I think the guy was
Speaker 4: trying to make a point where it's like irrelevant in Dallas,
Speaker 4: like specifically in Dallas with all these other teams doing well,
Speaker 4: and I like, again, I just I think that's a dumb.
Speaker 7: Question that shows along the same lines of the certain
Speaker 7: faction of the fan base this offseason. That's like, Hey,
Speaker 7: we should stop buying tickets, we should stop buying merch,
Speaker 7: stop listening to our podcast, go ahead, go ahead to
Speaker 7: try and boycott the Cowboys so that they understand that
Speaker 7: they need to do something this offseason to get us back.
Speaker 7: And it's like, well, but we're only hurting yourself.
Speaker 5: Dog. Hey, you're a.
Speaker 4: Listening to a Dallas Cowboys podcast in May by the way,
Speaker 4: just just f yi, it's an off season edition of
Speaker 4: Talking Cowboys. So it's like, and if those people would
Speaker 4: not be.
Speaker 5: Listening right now, if we've been watching, we're gonna watch
Speaker 5: YouTube a million times, just make our numbers go up.
Speaker 4: I just mean, like, it's it's a it's a question
Speaker 4: for sure, all right? Moving on the faith fight finished foundation? Uh,
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott's foundation held an event over the weekend or
Speaker 4: I guess the last Friday, right, CD was there, and
Speaker 4: then of course Dak was asked about his contract. You
Speaker 4: know again, Uh, Nick, do you want to share any
Speaker 4: updates from that? Yeah? I wasn't there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, So this was this would have been more
Speaker 7: so something for John here, but I was able to
Speaker 7: attend this event last year, and basically it's it's his
Speaker 7: foundation to UH help with breast cancer awareness as well
Speaker 7: as suicide awareness. You know, he lost Dak Prescott, lost
Speaker 7: his mother to breast cancer, lost his brother to suicide.
Speaker 7: So the faith fight finish, it's it's all kind of
Speaker 7: comes together for UH Dak Prescott's foundation and to raise
Speaker 7: money for it. There's silent auctions.
Speaker 4: There's also support for law enforcement in the community, and yeah,
Speaker 4: also assistants to families in need. Obviously a very great foundation.
Speaker 4: But to add to that, I just thought it was
Speaker 4: interesting that, you know, everyone's still talking about his contract. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's putting on this really great event.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, And if some people recall to the draft, I
Speaker 7: believe it was for the Kaitlin Carson pick in the
Speaker 7: fifth round where the International Fan of the Year went
Speaker 7: up on stage and said that Dak Prescott saved his life.
Speaker 7: He was able to finally meet Dak at that event
Speaker 7: last Friday night, which was really cool to see those
Speaker 7: two come together, and really cool moment for Eduardo Flores and.
Speaker 4: He got the star treatment. Too, he walked the car
Speaker 4: Star treat.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, I mean, I think when it comes
Speaker 7: to Dak's contract situation, there's no update until there's an update,
Speaker 7: you know, in my in my eyes, yes, every time
Speaker 7: that he comes into the spotlight and every time that
Speaker 7: he comes out into the public and he's asked about it,
Speaker 7: he's probably gonna give the same answer until there's an update.
Speaker 7: So I mean, for me, I'm I'm along the same
Speaker 7: lines of he's not trying to break into this exactly exactly,
Speaker 7: and he's not going to that's that's not his style,
Speaker 7: even if even if that would help him in this
Speaker 7: in this case, I don't think that's his style necessarily.
Speaker 7: So Isaiah is under the impression that he's going to
Speaker 7: play the season out under under the final year of
Speaker 7: his deal. I'm kind of fifty to fifty on it,
Speaker 7: you know. I think something could get done at training camp,
Speaker 7: I really do. But it was like, right, yeah, but
Speaker 7: also it wouldn't surprise.
Speaker 4: Me if we don't know anything, but just the feeling
Speaker 4: and the vibe is like if it happens, training camp
Speaker 4: is where it happens.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think now though you look at the urgency
Speaker 7: to get other deals done. Dak is not the one
Speaker 7: that's getting ready to hold out of OTAs this week.
Speaker 7: It's Ceedee Lamb and Michael Parsons. Now, Michael Parsons, I
Speaker 7: don't think that's contract related. I think that's just because
Speaker 7: you know, Mike is doing a separate offseason thing like
Speaker 7: he did last year. But you still had factor that
Speaker 7: in because you look at these big three contracts. They
Speaker 7: haven't been making moves this offseason because of these big
Speaker 7: three contracts, you know, not only to give them flexibility
Speaker 7: this year, but also to understand that they're gonna need
Speaker 7: that money in different places in twenty twenty five and
Speaker 7: twenty twenty six. And those different places are these three guys.
Speaker 7: So they need to get these things done sooner rather
Speaker 7: than later. But I mean, if you're Ceedee Lamb, why
Speaker 7: do you get it done before, Justin Jefferson, If you're
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott, why do you get it done before? You
Speaker 7: could probably have more leverage and more a bigger opportunity
Speaker 7: to get more money next off season. You know, if
Speaker 7: you're Michael Parsons, why do it now when you could
Speaker 7: have a better year next year and up your price.
Speaker 7: So I mean it's a weird limbo that the Cowboys
Speaker 7: have found themselves in. Did they put themselves in this situation?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Probably, But that's where they're at, and that's I don't
Speaker 7: think there's gonna be any movement until one of those
Speaker 7: three pops. I think once one of them do, I
Speaker 7: think that's when you kind of start seeing dominoing a
Speaker 7: little bit a little bit.
Speaker 4: And if they're waiting till next season, like next season's
Speaker 4: salary cap situation is even worse. So I think that
Speaker 4: you I would hope that the cow was want to
Speaker 4: get at least one of those done on the you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it would be even worse if they don't get
Speaker 7: them done. Yeah, it would be even worse. Now if
Speaker 7: they do, then their's flexibility to be created. But that's that's, Uh,
Speaker 7: that's where you're at with it.
Speaker 4: Well, you mentioned cd CD was at the foundation. I
Speaker 4: believe he was interviewed on I don't know if there
Speaker 4: were interesting quotes about no, nothing nothing there, Yeah, nothing
Speaker 4: there yet And he won't be at ot as the
Speaker 4: organized team activities that are going on this week. Granted
Speaker 4: those are optional, those are voluntary. Uh, we won't get
Speaker 4: into the mandatory until I believe it's next week with
Speaker 4: June four through sixth four through six with the mini camps.
Speaker 4: Isaiah coming from OTAs like do you first of all,
Speaker 4: do you miss OTAs? No?
Speaker 5: No, I don't, not one bit. But they're important. They
Speaker 5: are important in terms of just getting back into the
Speaker 5: swing of things, getting used to waking up again, getting up,
Speaker 5: going to workouts, getting outside you know, obviously lifting with
Speaker 5: the team, going outside, doing your conditioning, doing your routes,
Speaker 5: you know, all the things that you that you need
Speaker 5: to do. Your calls, you know, a little brief install
Speaker 5: type stuff. And then the meetings. The meetings, especially when
Speaker 5: you have a new coach staff on one side of
Speaker 5: the ball, is very important because you need to get
Speaker 5: up on game as soon as possible and get confident.
Speaker 5: It's not just about instilling a playbook and a system
Speaker 5: and a strategy and all that jazz, but it's also
Speaker 5: about being able to just react when you hear it
Speaker 5: right and be fully confident no matter what you see.
Speaker 5: If I see, say we're playing cover two, okay, this
Speaker 5: is a cover two. This is my shade on the
Speaker 5: defensive front versus this type of look, versus three by one.
Speaker 5: But if they come out in a two by two.
Speaker 5: What the heck do I do? You know, I need
Speaker 5: to be able to react to that. I don't want
Speaker 5: to be thinking about what did it look like on paper?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 5: Okay on page seventy seven, all right, they shifted over,
Speaker 5: you know, So you want to just be able to react.
Speaker 5: So by the time training camp comes, you're literally just playing,
Speaker 5: and now a coach can start manipulating you in positions
Speaker 5: and start playing with your strengths and how you play
Speaker 5: with somebody else. Right, we might work really well together
Speaker 5: me and they might not work that great together in
Speaker 5: this particular package. So you want to get all those
Speaker 5: things hammered out as early as possible. So when you
Speaker 5: have guys missing, it kind of sucks. But when they're
Speaker 5: those the type of players like mikeh CD, you're gonna
Speaker 5: be perfectly fine. But it's still I think, at least
Speaker 5: for defensive side of the ball, is going to have
Speaker 5: an impact on Zimber's ability to really hit the ground
Speaker 5: running immediately, but he'll work around it. By front of
Speaker 5: player's perspective, OTAs are important for majority of the players.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's something I was kind of thinking about
Speaker 7: as I was driving in this morning, Clarence Hilla tweeted
Speaker 7: out that Cedee Lamb is not here for the start
Speaker 7: of OTAs and Michael Parsons is not here for the
Speaker 7: start of OTAs, and the Micah thing was what kind
Speaker 7: of got my brain jogging a little bit. Just because
Speaker 7: they're going into the first year under that new defensive system,
Speaker 7: will Micah's role look a little bit different? Who knows?
Speaker 7: I mean, he's the most important player on the defense
Speaker 7: in my opinion, and it's I think having him on
Speaker 7: the field for these OTAs would definitely help. But you
Speaker 7: would have to assume that there's been communication, had to
Speaker 7: know that he's not going to be in the building
Speaker 7: for this week, and then you just kind of roll
Speaker 7: with the just on that maybe he comes midway through OTAs.
Speaker 7: Who knows, there's we don't know what the plan is there.
Speaker 4: And to kind of backtrack a little bit, is there
Speaker 4: kind of no concern for you for CD not attending OTAs?
Speaker 4: I mean, is it more so Mica than anything?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't have any concern for CD not not here.
Speaker 4: Is the offense is still in places.
Speaker 5: The same offense. You have to assume my understanding for
Speaker 5: what we used to do you have to assume that
Speaker 5: that CD and Dak are still throwing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Dak has said that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he has a whole field at his house, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, the dockyard the day.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure they're getting plenty of reps in. So
Speaker 5: it's it's about business right now. For CD, it's just
Speaker 5: purely about business. And anybody who's taking that personally, you'll
Speaker 5: be okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And again again it's voluntary.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's voluntary even when it becomes mandatory. It's
Speaker 5: about business. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: come back, we'll be discussing more about the schedule. We
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Speaker 4: We have the schedule to look at. We know, we
Speaker 4: got the schedule to look at. You gotta start with
Speaker 4: the preseason. Oh, we were talking about the preseason a second.
Speaker 5: We sure were.
Speaker 4: We got a Vegas game in there. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: And it's on a specific weekend.
Speaker 5: Huh oh, Bobs. So if you were ever going to
Speaker 5: have a fortieth birthday, people wanted to be on a
Speaker 5: Friday or Saturday night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, what happens We're playing on Saturday night.
Speaker 5: You're playing on Saturday night, August seventeenth. Do you know
Speaker 5: what Friday night is? Is that Friday is August and sixteenth,
Speaker 5: which was.
Speaker 7: The day that Isaiah Standback was born all the way
Speaker 7: back in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 5: So that means I am going to be in Vegas
Speaker 5: for my fortieth birthday.
Speaker 4: Congradulation.
Speaker 7: I just hope the dinner goes somewhat smoother than it
Speaker 7: did last year in Seattle. Can we tell that story
Speaker 7: really quick? Oh my gosh. Okay, So there was like
Speaker 7: what twelve people at that dinner, give or take, and
Speaker 7: at the end of the dinner about that At the
Speaker 7: end of the dinner. The waiter was gave us one
Speaker 7: ticket and he's like, yeah, if it's a party of
Speaker 7: more than four, it has to be paid on one ticket.
Speaker 7: And we're like, we're not doing that because the tab
Speaker 7: would have been like what like twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 7: So we're like, no, that's that's not gonna work. We
Speaker 7: need to break this down. So from the time he
Speaker 7: gave us that to breaking down every individual receipt, we
Speaker 7: were there like an hour for no exaggeration. Like by
Speaker 7: the end of it, I gave Haley Sutton my card.
Speaker 7: I was like, here, I don't care if I get
Speaker 7: it back, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: And that was that was that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was The dinner was great and the people
Speaker 7: were great.
Speaker 5: Community was great. It was great. All my friends come through,
Speaker 5: had all my squad from Cowboys was there. It was
Speaker 5: It was a good time. This year. This year is
Speaker 5: gonna be real.
Speaker 4: Yeah in Vegas, in Vegas? What hotel you're taken over?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know whoever wants to sponsor,
Speaker 5: whoever wants to sponsor me. I am turning up. I
Speaker 5: can tell you that I'll be fine for the game.
Speaker 5: The next day. I don't drink alcohol, so I'll be
Speaker 5: I'll be perfectly fine for the next day to call
Speaker 5: it called a game if I'm in a position to
Speaker 5: do so. But yeah, it's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 4: That's be a good one. So that's the preseason. So
Speaker 4: preseason yea, Rams, Raiders, Chargers, No surprise there. Let's get
Speaker 4: into the good stuff. We talked about the Browns last week.
Speaker 4: This first half of the schedule before the bye week
Speaker 4: is pretty insane.
Speaker 5: Yes it is. Somebody doesn't like the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Brown Saints, Ravens, Giants, Steelers, Lions in the bye week
Speaker 4: on October twentieth.
Speaker 7: So go ahead, Josh, go ahead. No, how are we
Speaker 7: feeling about it this? Whenever you were looking at the
Speaker 7: opponents going into the schedule last last week, the opponents
Speaker 7: you knew you had, you knew you were going to
Speaker 7: be kind of facing an uphill battle at some point
Speaker 7: in the schedule last year, at some point, at some
Speaker 7: point last year was on the back half. It was
Speaker 7: in December, whenever you had Buffalo, Miami, Detroit, who else
Speaker 7: was in there?
Speaker 4: At Philly.
Speaker 7: This time it's front loaded, which I think plays Seattle.
Speaker 7: Last year, I think it plays a little bit in
Speaker 7: favor of the Cowboys because then you're not going into
Speaker 7: the playoffs off such a hard run there, whereas this
Speaker 7: time you're going into the playoffs. Yes you have a
Speaker 7: Week seventeen game against the Eagles, but yeah sixteen at
Speaker 7: home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But then you got
Speaker 7: the Panthers around that, the Commanders around that. So I mean,
Speaker 7: it's not as hard as the December. This year is
Speaker 7: not as hard as it was last year. But pre
Speaker 7: bye week last year, if the Cowboys come out this
Speaker 7: season and play pre bye week like they did last year,
Speaker 7: pre bye week, they're going into that bye week two
Speaker 7: and four, and that's and then you're going you had
Speaker 7: to play the forty nine ers coming out of that
Speaker 7: in Week eight. That's when you that's when you start
Speaker 7: looking at some some potential changes that could happen because
Speaker 7: you have thirty players that are going into the final
Speaker 7: year of their contract. You have a coach and a
Speaker 7: defensive coordinator that are going into the final year of
Speaker 7: their contracts.
Speaker 4: That's where I think it could get a little bit messy.
Speaker 7: But let's say this, whether they are able to get
Speaker 7: through that early storm after week eight or not unscathed.
Speaker 7: You have week nine through Week eighteen where you only
Speaker 7: have four playoff opponents from twenty twenty three. That can
Speaker 7: give them an opportunity to either catch up in the
Speaker 7: division or to build a lead in the division one
Speaker 7: way or the other. And I think that does help
Speaker 7: them at the end of the day. But they got
Speaker 7: to get through that first, that first goblet.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't know who made the schedule, but they
Speaker 5: clearly put baby powder on their hands and just slap
Speaker 5: the cowboys in the first partner to see it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: The first three games, That's that's a hard start.
Speaker 4: Brown Saints Ravens.
Speaker 5: Brown Saints Ravens. And I'm not talking about.
Speaker 4: This not familiar opponents.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not talking about the Saints so much.
Speaker 4: Okay, But even so, that was another question I was
Speaker 4: going to ask as far as trap games go, Like, yea,
Speaker 4: you pull out one against the Browns and then play
Speaker 4: the Saints like you did the Cardinals last year. That's
Speaker 4: that's an ela.
Speaker 5: I mean, hopefully you learned from experience, But take the
Speaker 5: take those first three games. Cleveland and Baltimore are two
Speaker 5: of the best defenses in the league period pre like, yeah, period,
Speaker 5: a freaking period. And in Cleveland, to me, scares me
Speaker 5: from this. And they always talked about the too whatever. Okay,
Speaker 5: they got something, that's exactly. They got some freaking dogs
Speaker 5: over there in Cleveland, some pure dogs. And there's somebody
Speaker 5: on the offensive side of the ball who probably wants
Speaker 5: a little payback. So playing playing the Cleveland Browns at
Speaker 5: their healthiest against I'll call it what it is, the
Speaker 5: most dominating physical defensive player in the league.
Speaker 7: M yeah, I'll give you that.
Speaker 2: Give that.
Speaker 7: As far as power rushers go, there's not a better
Speaker 7: one in the league, right.
Speaker 5: The most dominant physical specimen in the league.
Speaker 4: That's fair.
Speaker 5: Michau's everybody's gonna say. Compare Micaeh. Micah Is is notch
Speaker 5: below in terms of abilities. To me, you talking about
Speaker 5: somebody is Miles Garret who literally just line up, no
Speaker 5: matter who you are, and put his hand in your
Speaker 5: chest and run you back into the quarterback. That's just
Speaker 5: one of his moves. Even Tyler God, even Tyler, well,
Speaker 5: you have a whole off season, Tyler uh soil, you're
Speaker 5: ready for this film? Is that your? I mean? The
Speaker 5: good news is he is a film buff. The good
Speaker 5: thing is Miles Garrett won't have film to watch, yeah
Speaker 5: of Tyler guy.
Speaker 4: That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 7: That is fair.
Speaker 5: So that's that's the positive. So Cleveland is a is
Speaker 5: gives me the bubble guts. Okay, the Saints Okay, back
Speaker 5: at the crib like you're good. Baltimore comes in. You
Speaker 5: know what that is? Okay, you nately know what that is?
Speaker 5: You better? You better, you better put your jockstrap Bard.
Speaker 7: Who are you spying on Lamar Marvin Orshan if he's
Speaker 7: ready to go? Yeah, which the problem expectations training camp?
Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, over showing lea foul based on whoever.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 5: Zimmer's approach. First of all, obviously we gotta get through
Speaker 5: those first handful of games, but it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: very interesting to see his approach to that team, especially
Speaker 5: with the addition of King Henry. Yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 5: that offense changes with King Henry back there.
Speaker 7: You have to have a defensive tackle for that.
Speaker 5: Game, exactly, exactly. So, I mean, I know we're getting
Speaker 5: the contest and the context of Zimmer's comments on Mazi,
Speaker 5: but Baltimore is dangerous for all the reason everybody knows. Okay,
Speaker 5: so those first three games give me the bubble gus.
Speaker 5: You'll know exactly who you are. Then you get into
Speaker 5: the Pittsburgh obviously in New York is New York Pittsburgh.
Speaker 7: On a second, this New York Thursday night game, you
Speaker 7: have to travel to New York off four days rest
Speaker 7: after most likely taking a beating against the Ravens. Physically,
Speaker 7: whether you win or lose that game, you're gonna take
Speaker 7: a beating in that not feel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I hear you that. I'm
Speaker 5: not until I see different. I'm not that concerned about
Speaker 5: New York. Obviously, every team's different going into every season.
Speaker 5: As of right now, I'm unbothered by them. Pittsburgh gives
Speaker 5: me a little bit of bubble gups just because I
Speaker 5: know they're coaching because of how well they're coached, and.
Speaker 4: Who knows where they're going to be at that.
Speaker 5: Who knows where they're going to be at that point.
Speaker 5: But I but what we do know is they're going
Speaker 5: to have a competitive quarterback play and that's something that's
Speaker 5: that's hurt them over the past few years. Right So
Speaker 5: that team with us, with the coach that they've always
Speaker 5: had and solid quarterback play. They could be a problem.
Speaker 4: May be the playoffs with Kenny Pikett exactly like so Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: So I mean, look at Cleveland Browns one of the
Speaker 5: best defense in the league. Okay, Baltimore Ravens one of
Speaker 5: the best defenses in the league, Pittsburgh one of the
Speaker 5: best defense in the league. And then you got Detroit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who wants paidback from last year?
Speaker 5: Oh, apps of freaking loutely. So that those four out
Speaker 5: of the first six games, that's tough. Man. To your point,
Speaker 5: I don't know what it may be at that point,
Speaker 5: we'll see. I'll give I'll give my statement after training camp. Okay,
Speaker 5: was I can see the squad. But there's four of
Speaker 5: the best defenses and teams in the first six games.
Speaker 4: And then you get the bye week after that cone.
Speaker 5: Which sucks because you don't want to buy week early.
Speaker 5: That's an early from a player's perspective, trust me, because
Speaker 5: your body, you're asking me now to play eleven regular
Speaker 5: season games straight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, potentilarly playoffs and then straight.
Speaker 5: Into the playoffs potentially based upon what I do during
Speaker 5: the regular season. Yeah, there's no breaks. Your body gets
Speaker 5: no rest. I would much rather have my bye week
Speaker 5: in the middle to the second half of the season,
Speaker 5: especially obviously if you have plans or realistic opportunities to
Speaker 5: go into the playoffs, because you want to be as
Speaker 5: fresh as possible. But you got your drawn. It is
Speaker 5: what it is. The other portion of the schedule that
Speaker 5: I hate, outside of those those first four out of
Speaker 5: six games is coming straight off of week eight, Week
Speaker 5: eight to week twelve, that next block, okay, after the bye,
Speaker 5: because the good thing is you get a chance to
Speaker 5: prepare for San Francisco, thank you, yes, yeah, and you're
Speaker 5: in in San fran Okay, that's gonna be that to me, obviously,
Speaker 5: everybody knows that's gonna be a challenge. Okay, San fran
Speaker 5: Atlanta young talent, we'll see where they're at. Okay, But
Speaker 5: then you go straight into Philly, straight into the Texans,
Speaker 5: and straightened to Dan Quinn, who has transformed his roster.
Speaker 5: We'll see where they're at.
Speaker 4: I believe that number.
Speaker 5: I believe he's gonna be very competitive this year. I
Speaker 5: truly believe that that team is gonna be very competitive
Speaker 5: with a bunch of just contributors, not big name guys.
Speaker 5: But guys who all know what the heck they're doing,
Speaker 5: do their job very well, and they're gonna probably sink
Speaker 5: and play very well together and communicate all those things.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be one of those teams where it's like
Speaker 5: they don't do nothing flashy, but dog on, they just
Speaker 5: they're there. They're in every game and if they get
Speaker 5: any quarterback play.
Speaker 4: I don't expect the Commanders to necessarily be a playoff team,
Speaker 4: but I definitely am expecting them to split their Eagles
Speaker 4: and Cowboys.
Speaker 5: Oh, I think they're in the conversation. I think as
Speaker 5: of right now, I think they're going to push that conversation.
Speaker 7: You think they have more of a chance with the Giants, Yes,
Speaker 7: I think that's fair.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think they pushed that conversation.
Speaker 8: That last year.
Speaker 5: Was that last year the year before, we had three teams,
Speaker 5: three out of four NFC East teams in the playoffs.
Speaker 7: Two years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, I think I can foresee I can foresee
Speaker 5: that being one of those situations.
Speaker 7: Are they closer to the Giants for the Cowboys like
Speaker 7: you have them in the middle right there? Yeah, you
Speaker 7: think they're probably better than I think they're in the
Speaker 7: third spot.
Speaker 5: I think they're in the third spot in the NFC
Speaker 5: East behind the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you think they're closer to getting to Dallas or
Speaker 7: they closer to falling more so than.
Speaker 5: I don't want to make that statement yet.
Speaker 7: I'm curious where you're at.
Speaker 5: I do believe that they're going to be very competitive though.
Speaker 5: If you look at what they've done defensively roster wise,
Speaker 5: there's there's there's You should be concerned. You should be
Speaker 5: concerned with what he's added on defense. They've literally kicked
Speaker 5: everybody off the team and just said, okay, you know
Speaker 5: what now I want you you you you when you hey,
Speaker 5: Bobby come over here? Who else we got over here?
Speaker 5: And they just started grabbing guys. Got Bobby Dog all right,
Speaker 5: They got Boby Wagner in the middle of the defense, right,
Speaker 5: So smart cerebral players that know what they're doing, don't
Speaker 5: make mistakes, right. He puts some splash players around him.
Speaker 5: Got young talent out there, k on defense from the
Speaker 5: draft right and now on offense. O, K, you got
Speaker 5: a young got a young QB. But he also has
Speaker 5: Austin Eckler's and guys like that that can go out
Speaker 5: there and cause you issues. For matchups, so he was
Speaker 5: very strategic in terms of putting his roster together, enough
Speaker 5: time spent on Dan Quinn. But I think those guys
Speaker 5: gonna be competitive. So I think that San fran K,
Speaker 5: then obviously Ato, whatever, Philly, Texans, Washington. That's another four
Speaker 5: out of five games right there. That is a problem
Speaker 5: to me.
Speaker 4: And then you just have Cincinnati coming up next, and
Speaker 4: then you just have the Eagle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that. I think that New York, Cincinnati, Carolina.
Speaker 5: I think that's kind of like if you were gonna
Speaker 5: Cadillac it. I think that's your Cadillac season right there.
Speaker 4: Just just kind of chilling.
Speaker 5: Just chilling. I think. I think if you're in a
Speaker 5: good position after those games, those three games are gonna
Speaker 5: sem like a cake walk.
Speaker 7: Cincinnati, I don't think.
Speaker 5: I think Cincinnati. I don't think Cincinnati is what they
Speaker 5: used to be. I really don't. And I think they
Speaker 5: have too many problems in the locker room right now
Speaker 5: contract you with issues. I don't think they're all one unit.
Speaker 5: I think we're I think I think I think what
Speaker 5: we saw from them a couple of years ago, where
Speaker 5: they were a complete problem, I think that's gone. And
Speaker 5: I think They're gonna have to reinvent themselves. I truly,
Speaker 5: I don't think they have that identity anymore.
Speaker 7: What's a tougher game Monday night against Cincinnati at home
Speaker 7: or Sunday night against Tampa Bay at home.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Tampa. I'm going with Cincinnati because of
Speaker 4: Joe Burr's ha haircut. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I saw that fake. That's a disappointment Tampa Bay.
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, yeah, man, Tampa's a defensive team too, right, So,
Speaker 5: I mean the offense is gonna have to step up.
Speaker 5: Offense got to step up. There's there's not a lot
Speaker 5: of teams out here that scare me offensively handful of teams, obviously.
Speaker 4: Are you more concerned about the Eagles this year than
Speaker 4: you are the Commanders?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, still absolutely, still absolutely.
Speaker 5: Yes, the answer is yes. But I don't I'm interested.
Speaker 4: You just seem very very hyped up concerned.
Speaker 5: I'm concerned. I really am concerned because I know what
Speaker 5: the energy of dan Quinn energy does and we've seen it.
Speaker 5: Yeah Yeaheta, It's not just one side of the ball
Speaker 5: that feels that. Yeah, So yes, I am. I mean
Speaker 5: I'm concerned about them. Philly, still Philly. We have to
Speaker 5: see what Kellen Moore is going to do.
Speaker 4: That's that is a new wrinkle. Yes it is this season.
Speaker 5: Yes, and we know Kellen Moore likes to throw it around.
Speaker 4: You kind of forget about that, you do forget about it.
Speaker 5: He had a little couple of stumbles down there in
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, but that but.
Speaker 4: The whole coaching situation, that whole coach.
Speaker 5: Situation was terrible. But outside of that tenure, he's been
Speaker 5: very successful at what he does, especially when he has weapons.
Speaker 7: Aside from the front end of the schedule that we've
Speaker 7: talked about many times as far as being a lot
Speaker 7: of really good defenses, a lot of physical teams. You
Speaker 7: look throughout the schedule, you see a lot of teams
Speaker 7: or just coach really well and physical teams. You're gonna
Speaker 7: need to come with a different approach than you had
Speaker 7: last year when it comes to physicality on the field,
Speaker 7: because you go into a game like Buffalo and you
Speaker 7: know what's gonna happen after the first drive. You go
Speaker 7: into a game like Green Bay, you know what's gonna
Speaker 7: happen after the first drive, and you can't have that
Speaker 7: happen this year because there's gonna be more than just
Speaker 7: the four or five games where that happens this specific schedule.
Speaker 7: You have about seven or eight games where that's the case,
Speaker 7: and you need to you need to be able to
Speaker 7: match that physicality. I mean you talk about the Bengals. Yes,
Speaker 7: they might not be the product that we've seen in
Speaker 7: yours past. Still a really physical team, still a really
Speaker 7: well coached team in my eyes. Zach Taylor does a
Speaker 7: fantastic job Tampa Bay, same way. I think Caroline is
Speaker 7: gonna be a little bit better this year. You gotta
Speaker 7: go back there again this year, Eagles twice. I mean,
Speaker 7: you're gonna have to do what's.
Speaker 5: Your most physical, physical game on the schedule.
Speaker 4: Ravens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Ravens outside, even more so Detroit and San fran.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the Ravens. Yeah, because because you have to
Speaker 7: account for what's coming out of the backfield and you're
Speaker 7: gonna be having to take that hit multiple times throughout
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 5: Who's taking that hit on everybody?
Speaker 7: Whoever's played defensive tackle, whoever playing.
Speaker 5: Who's the first of contact on the inside.
Speaker 7: If it's not a defensive tackle getting signed, it's Eric Kendricks.
Speaker 4: Ravens one hundred percent for me.
Speaker 5: I think for those who don't know what he just said,
Speaker 5: that means that he's gonna be on the second level.
Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, Uh Derrick Henry for the Ravens, that's gonna
Speaker 4: be rough, man. I don't want to see that. I
Speaker 4: don't wan to see him runing out the middle. I
Speaker 4: just don't want to see him running, period. It's just
Speaker 4: you just take that week off, man about it.
Speaker 5: I think that's a tough question, man, I truly believe.
Speaker 5: I don't know what that looks like. Cleveland physical, Baltimore physical,
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh you best believe is gonna be physical, Detroit, Detroit physical,
Speaker 5: San fran physical. Yeah. I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 4: And to think about beat up, they're going commanders, commanders too.
Speaker 4: They're gonna want to play.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, real tough.
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Speaker 4: want to talk about Mosic Smith real quick. You kind
Speaker 4: of teased it earlier in the show. His weight, more so,
Speaker 4: a lot has been brought up about his weight, his
Speaker 4: uh using weight last season whenever he got I think
Speaker 4: he started at three point thirty and then went down
Speaker 4: at about two ninety seive what I thought he was
Speaker 4: covering more so around like three twenty three when he
Speaker 4: got here. I think it was what he was listed
Speaker 4: as last year. He was subbed three hundred by the
Speaker 4: end of the season. There was no official measurement at
Speaker 4: the end of the year, but he was looking so
Speaker 4: I test. But Mike's Zimmer actually talked about his weight
Speaker 4: and basically his conditioning last week. Do you want to kind
Speaker 4: of touch on that.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's it's weird because it's depending on who you
Speaker 7: talk to, you kind of get a different answer. As
Speaker 7: far as why that weight loss happened last year, Some
Speaker 7: kind of attributed it to him having that shoulder problem
Speaker 7: towards the end of the year and him not being
Speaker 7: able to get in the weight room as much. Some
Speaker 7: would attribute it to, you know, him being more conditioned
Speaker 7: last year than what he was used to a Michigan.
Speaker 7: Some would say that it was because they were trying
Speaker 7: to fit him under the dan Quinn defense under more
Speaker 7: so as a three tech rather than a one tech,
Speaker 7: which doesn't even make sense. I don't believe that sort
Speaker 7: of thinking, but that's what Mike Zimmer had kind.
Speaker 4: Of alluded to.
Speaker 5: Juris what caused it.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter what caused it. Absolutely, it does not
Speaker 7: matter what caused it. He needs to be three twenty
Speaker 7: plus to play one tech and to be able to
Speaker 7: just hone in in the middle of that defensive line
Speaker 7: and be the guy there. He's got to do it
Speaker 7: this year. I believe they'll add another body there before camp.
Speaker 7: I'm pretty confident in that. And there's honestly, there's a
Speaker 7: couple of guys out there that I think could be
Speaker 7: better than Mazzie Smith was last year already. You know,
Speaker 7: I think there's a big concern around that position. Still,
Speaker 7: don't get me wrong, But there can be a body
Speaker 7: added to that group and it'd still be okay. But
Speaker 7: as far as Mazzie Smith goes his off season shoulder surgery,
Speaker 7: he's gonna have to come off that. He's gonna have
Speaker 7: to be able to rehab from that completely in time
Speaker 7: for training camp and be ready to hit the ground
Speaker 7: running at training camp because he's gonna have he's gonna
Speaker 7: have a couple of guys, not only Mike Zimmer, but
Speaker 7: also defensive line coach Jeff Scanina on his rear end
Speaker 7: to get him ready to go for week one.
Speaker 5: And from John Bashoda, he said, Coach Zimmer say, we're
Speaker 5: gonna start with the basics. Get him in a good stance,
Speaker 5: get him using his hands the right way.
Speaker 4: You have to do it. In John's voice though, no.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not doing that. We're gonna start with the basis,
Speaker 5: get him in a good stance, get him using his
Speaker 5: hands the right way, getting his footwork the right way,
Speaker 5: and then kind of go from there. We anticipate that
Speaker 5: he's gonna be a good player like he was in college.
Speaker 7: So he's saying that he was not a good player
Speaker 7: in your one. Correct there's an appearance something like that.
Speaker 4: Can we get him there?
Speaker 5: Yeah? There is? Yeah, that's what it sounds like. We're
Speaker 5: gonna anticipate that he's going to be going to be
Speaker 5: a good player like he was. Dude, what's up, bro?
Speaker 4: Welcome back Kyle Yeomans to the shows?
Speaker 5: What's that man?
Speaker 4: Fathers?
Speaker 2: I actually I walked in because I was doing an event,
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Speaker 2: Fine, Yeah, how's Beamer do? And in the back I
Speaker 2: haven't even talked to Beamer seventh series?
Speaker 4: He's fine, he said, you got to go.
Speaker 2: Actually, oh okay, I'm not on the clock, but I
Speaker 2: just wanted to say, hi, guys, a great job.
Speaker 4: Oh thanks man.
Speaker 2: Josh was feeling in great. I feel like I feel
Speaker 2: like we need to we need to talk about Josh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, being in here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2: The uh the kids are doing great. Yes, all three.
Speaker 4: All three are homes, which is trial baby, yeah, graduate.
Speaker 2: Mikey was the last one to get home and he
Speaker 2: had surgery last week.
Speaker 5: So how many divers are you going through per day?
Speaker 4: At least I'm trying to think.
Speaker 5: I'm trying. I can give you like an exact seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 2: So they get fed every three hours, so that's eight
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Speaker 2: twice per feeding, so that's eight times three, so twenty four.
Speaker 4: So probably thirty to forty at least. Yeah, almostaid a
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Speaker 4: Right, y'all. Well, mission bro goo to see a buddy.
Speaker 4: You guys will see you, thanks man, Massie Smith. Wait right, yeah, so.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, so I mean hearing that last sentence,
Speaker 5: we anticipate that he's going gonna be a good player
Speaker 5: like he was in college. What do you think about that?
Speaker 4: I honestly cannot speak to his uh, his play in college.
Speaker 4: It's not necessarily my abou im talking about Zimmer's statement. Oh,
Speaker 4: I think it it's probably best that he goes back
Speaker 4: to the sort of frame that he had when he
Speaker 4: entered uh the NFL draft, and not necessarily what he
Speaker 4: was doing last year. Just whatever he was doing last year,
Speaker 4: just maybe don't do that. And for Mike Zimmer's defense,
Speaker 4: I think it makes sense to keep him at a
Speaker 4: at A three.
Speaker 7: I'll say this coming out of coming out of freakishly
Speaker 7: athletic for his size still is the case. I mean,
Speaker 7: we're only a year removed from that. Let's not get
Speaker 7: too far ahead from you know, what he was whenever
Speaker 7: he arrived in the building. I if if the coaching
Speaker 7: staff was the one that wanted to experiment with losing
Speaker 7: weight with him and potentially moving him over to three tech.
Speaker 7: If that is the actual case, I see where they're
Speaker 7: coming from. Okay, Hey, this guy is freakishly athletic. We
Speaker 7: have a guy Jonathan Hankins that canmand down the one tech.
Speaker 7: Let's try to maximize this athleticism potentially at three tech.
Speaker 7: So we have two guys in the defensive interior that
Speaker 7: have this size, they had this build, and one of
Speaker 7: them is freakishly athletic. The other one just knows how
Speaker 7: to fill up running lanes. And I understand where they're
Speaker 7: coming from in that sense. Granted, you still have Osa,
Speaker 7: who I think is a freakitionly athletic guy in his
Speaker 7: own right, but maybe Mazi you see a little bit
Speaker 7: more size there and a little bit more ability to
Speaker 7: plug running lanes and maybe an ability to rush the
Speaker 7: passer as well. Dan Quinn always talked about it too.
Speaker 7: I don't love it, though, I'm not saying I'm just
Speaker 7: seeing where we were coming from. Yeah, but I could
Speaker 7: see dan Quinn having that mind mindset, yeah, because he
Speaker 7: goes after athletic guys. He wants to maximize athleticism over
Speaker 7: anything else. That's why you looked up last year and
Speaker 7: you only had one linebacker left on the rosters, because
Speaker 7: they were trying to prioritize athletic guys under the Quinn defense.
Speaker 5: Our very o JM asked him a little bit more
Speaker 5: detailed questions and Zimmer came back and said, he is
Speaker 5: going to be an attacking three technique to get up
Speaker 5: the field. But the plan for this season is to
Speaker 5: probably play blocks a little more.
Speaker 4: So they're going to play him at three tech. Who
Speaker 4: do you play?
Speaker 7: Who's who's gonna be the one tech? Who is going
Speaker 7: to be the one tech on this roster?
Speaker 4: Isaiah's looking for him?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It not mine post June one. I feel like you
Speaker 4: you find out a little more. Yeah, probably so, probably so.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's that's that's a fascinating.
Speaker 4: It remains to be seen, I think on that end,
Speaker 4: and it just they'll figure something out. It's just like
Speaker 4: it's not gonna be. It's not gonna be what That's
Speaker 4: not what the people want to hear?
Speaker 5: Josh right?
Speaker 4: I mean is that what they want to hear?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 4: There will be play, is there?
Speaker 5: It's it's players outside of free agency and outside of
Speaker 5: the draft.
Speaker 7: Is the front Maybe the front's just gonna look different.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, maybe the front's just gonna look a lot.
Speaker 5: I can go with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey man, Mike's Parsons still plays on this team.
Speaker 4: Do you have the Marcus Lawrence?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Carl Davis.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 7: What do you have more concern over defensive tackle running
Speaker 7: back the tackle, Yes, same defense. A lot of people
Speaker 7: are putting so much emphasis and focus on this running back.
Speaker 5: Why.
Speaker 7: I get why because it's it's a it's a big position,
Speaker 7: and I don't think because the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: You need to have a you have.
Speaker 5: If your offensive line is moving mountains off the ball,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter who's toting the rock. Cavante Turpin will
Speaker 5: have success as a running back. If the offensive line
Speaker 5: is moving guys off the line of scrimmage, that is
Speaker 5: where your focus has to be. That's where you need
Speaker 5: to invest your money. At no disrespect to the crew
Speaker 5: eats out there who play the running back position, but
Speaker 5: there's just very few of them left and which is
Speaker 5: why their value has gotten down. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 5: guys can't contribute, doesn't mean that guys can't catch, can't
Speaker 5: pass ball, can't run the ball for like, But what
Speaker 5: are you doing to separate yourself from the other thousand
Speaker 5: running backs around the league. There's probably small margins that
Speaker 5: are going to separate those guys. So with that being
Speaker 5: the case, that's not where my focus is. I want
Speaker 5: my old line to move anybody who steps in the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage. These defensive fronts that we just talked
Speaker 5: about Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, San France. If you can't move
Speaker 5: those guys off the ball, it doesn't matter. They don't care.
Speaker 5: If you had King Henry in the back, he's not
Speaker 5: running over three hundred and thirty pounds except for maybe
Speaker 5: get two yards. It's gonna be, you know, whatever a
Speaker 5: cloud of does. The running back position is gonna be
Speaker 5: perfectly fined by committee. You have to address the old line.
Speaker 5: And if you address the old line, trust me, you're
Speaker 5: gonna be gucci. But if you don't address the D line, yeah,
Speaker 5: you're gonna be getting moved off the ball. The same
Speaker 5: when we're talking about our office line, hoping that they
Speaker 5: move guys off this, it's.
Speaker 4: Gonna be that Green Bay game kind of over.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be worse because there's no Jonathan Hankins. Yeah,
Speaker 7: granted you have you have stability in the second level, now,
Speaker 7: which I'll give the I'll give the front office credit
Speaker 7: for that. I think they did a good job in
Speaker 7: addressing the second level this year to the best of
Speaker 7: their ability. Were their better names out there, absolutely, but
Speaker 7: based on what they wanted to spend at the position.
Speaker 7: I think they got the best guys that they could
Speaker 7: possibly get with the money they had available to them.
Speaker 7: But the defensive tackle position got to be addressed.
Speaker 5: It's got to be Cleveland's gonna run, Baltimore's gonna run,
Speaker 5: Pittsburg's gonna run, Detroit's gonna run. San Francis is gonna run,
Speaker 5: Philly's gonna.
Speaker 4: Run, Yo, Mama's gonna run, Ye, Daddy's.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. These teams, these are teams
Speaker 5: that are going to run the ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And we'll have to supplement that somehow.
Speaker 4: With that positive note, boys, we'll be back next Tuesday week.
Speaker 4: Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3: UH.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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