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Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys. This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.

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Speaker 3: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline Thursday, January The

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Speaker 3: twenty fifth off season is definitely here. Got here before

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Speaker 3: we knew it and we're expected, but now we're living

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Speaker 3: in it. Having to watch other football. If you're even

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Speaker 3: doing that, I know there's some people that are like

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Speaker 3: now not doing that, but you know, it hurts for

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Speaker 3: a little bit, But then he ended up watching it

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Speaker 3: and just trying to see where you where this team

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Speaker 3: kind of stacks up with the rest. And the thing

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Speaker 3: is is we've seen the Cowboys play most of these teams,

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Speaker 3: especially in the NFC, So you know, the Detroit game

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Speaker 3: was as close as it could get.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco was not close as it could get.

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Speaker 3: But it'll be an interesting game, probably a tough football game.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's going to be the theme that

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Speaker 3: comes out of this when you for it is for

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Speaker 3: me of what this team needs to do. You know,

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Speaker 3: last year, I remember thinking they didn't have enough weapons

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Speaker 3: on offense.

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Speaker 1: They needed more weapons.

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Speaker 3: And I think for the most part they they they

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Speaker 3: fixed that that they did get more weapons. I think

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Speaker 3: this year's theme is they got to be tougher, bigger, stronger.

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Speaker 3: They they have to be ready for a fistfight, because

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Speaker 3: everybody brings it to the Cowboys every single game, and

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Speaker 3: I think that they've got to They've got to be

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Speaker 3: a little bit more like that. I think you need

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Speaker 3: to see it in your in your linebackers, and you

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Speaker 3: see it in your offensive line, defensive line, running back,

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Speaker 3: the way you run the ball. I think bigger, tougher, stronger.

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Speaker 3: I think that, to me would be the theme if

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at this team going going in all right,

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Speaker 3: eight eight eight eight, five five two two nine seven

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Speaker 3: is the number to call. There's been a few things

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Speaker 3: happening today we can talk about. I know they they

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Speaker 3: listed the NFL Honors the finalists for that. Cowboys very

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Speaker 3: well represented in that. I don't know if that means

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Speaker 3: they're gonna get any of the winners. DAK is one

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Speaker 3: of the finals for m v P DAK and CD

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Speaker 3: finals for Offensive Player of the Year. Micah and Deron

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Speaker 3: Bland finalists for Defensive Player of the Year. That'll be

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Speaker 3: that one will be interesting. But I think for the

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Speaker 3: most part, it looks like the Cowboys probably will fall short.

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Speaker 3: That's the way it kind of looks. You know, you

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Speaker 3: look at the the All Pro teams, the All Pro lists,

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Speaker 3: and uh, you know, those are the same voters for

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Speaker 3: the most part that vote for these awards. So if

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Speaker 3: if Dak's not going to win first Team All Pro,

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Speaker 3: then he's probably you know, probably not gonna win MVP

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Speaker 3: uh to Lamar Jackson and and so on. But that's

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Speaker 3: that's the way it looks like. Uh still though, good

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Speaker 3: honor for for those guys, uh to to be there,

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Speaker 3: and we'll see, we'll see what happens. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: get started with the calls, Travis and san Antonio. Travis,

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Speaker 3: you're first, what's up, man?

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Speaker 4: Uh, what's going on? I hope, I hope I'm leading

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Speaker 4: the getting on the All Pro caller list or the

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna formulate that. And I don't know if it's

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Speaker 3: a how many is going to be on it? I mean,

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Speaker 3: all goes goes about. I'm still working on that list

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Speaker 3: right now. But last last week, the last show on Tuesday,

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Speaker 3: some of the same voices in you as well.

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Speaker 4: So what's up, Travis, Well, I just got I got

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Speaker 4: it's Jerry Well, I honestly think it's more Stephen Jones

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Speaker 4: And I don't think I think Jerry has. You know,

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Speaker 4: make moves and be aggressive and do stuff. Now, I

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Speaker 4: do think where I give Stephen Jones and uh Will

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Speaker 4: a better option. They get credit for that, But I

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Speaker 4: do think that when you look at conversely, when you

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Speaker 4: criticize his life, but I don't think he's had to

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Speaker 4: don't think he's had to make as many critical aggressive

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Speaker 4: just the way it is. Yeah, right, So I think

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Speaker 4: he's learned how to run a good business from his dad,

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Speaker 4: But I don't think he's learned how to run like

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Speaker 4: need to know their team. Well, I don't know if

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Speaker 4: he's learned knowing where his team, like the where the

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Speaker 4: hit on Dak and Zeke, that was the time back

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Speaker 4: then when they should have just people's contracts back. Let's

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Speaker 4: push it back, push it back, let's get money, and

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Speaker 4: let's go for it.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: This is this is the opening they didn't I think

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Speaker 4: if they do it now, Nick, it's kind of like

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Speaker 4: bad businesses kind of like make reactive decisions, right, good

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Speaker 4: businesses make proactive ones. Well, now we're kind of at

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Speaker 4: this is like I think, to them, I think Jerry

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Speaker 4: we're signaling to everybody this is this AIRR is kind

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Speaker 4: So I'm just curious what you think is that. But like,

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Speaker 4: for instance, free agency, right, I'm gonna circle back quick,

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Speaker 4: free agency. We've talked about this and I know you've

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Speaker 4: hit on it before, but Steven Jones a free agency.

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Speaker 4: There's the common conception out there, and I think it's true.

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Speaker 4: He wants to win every deal, right well, in free agency,

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Speaker 4: winning deals at the top of the market is not

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Speaker 4: what free agency is about. It's about identifying it, laring

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Speaker 4: a position where we maybe we haven't drafted as well,

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Speaker 4: know you want to win the deal, but that's that's

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Speaker 4: what you're paying for, Like you'd basically paying a charge

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Speaker 4: And then lastly, the Dak thing. His contract before this

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Speaker 4: has all the leverage. I think the only way I

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Speaker 4: think they can with an extension, they can create thirty

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Speaker 4: Do I think they will know? I think they need

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Speaker 4: only way you get any leverage back from Dax is

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Speaker 4: you say, Hey, this is the number we're prepared to

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Speaker 4: carry you at. This is our extension offer. Now he

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Speaker 4: can certainly say no, and I wouldn't blame him for

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Speaker 4: saying no. But I think you just proceed as is

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Speaker 4: you throw some whey a free agency and go for

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, Travis, have a good one. All right,

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Speaker 3: you two, Thanks for the call. A lot of stuff there,

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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know. I think Dak obviously has

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Speaker 3: maybe you know Yeah, you could play out this year

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Speaker 3: fifty nine million, and he could just play it out

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Speaker 3: and they always will play it out. But it's not

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Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of free agent splashes. Not a

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Speaker 3: And he knows that and the team knows that too,

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Speaker 3: so you know, he's obviously playing for the next contract

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Speaker 3: maybe maybe there there's something they can kind of work

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Speaker 3: with each other on that. As for a free agent philosophy,

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Speaker 3: I've said it too. I think it needs to change.

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Speaker 3: I really do. I think I think think every now

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Speaker 3: and again, you gotta go for it. You got to

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Speaker 3: go for some some splash moves, and you have to

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Speaker 3: kind of figure out, Yeah, I mean, there's a reason

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Speaker 3: he's a free agent. The oddist is going to be

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys doing that, and the Cowboys are probably just

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Speaker 3: gonna move on from that, just like a lot of

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Speaker 3: teams are moving on from their free agent. So you

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Speaker 3: got to figure that out. Why didn't it work there?

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Speaker 3: Will it work here? What can we get provided differently

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Speaker 3: a crapshoot. Sometimes sometimes it really works, sometimes it doesn't.

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Speaker 3: But I think this year, I mean, the Cowboys aren't

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Speaker 3: a lot of picks right now. Anyways, they're going to

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Speaker 3: have to do something, and I think free agency is

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Speaker 3: probably the best route, the best bet. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if they'll go that route, all right, Michael and Baton

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Speaker 3: Rouge's next, Michael, Oh, Michael dropped, Sorry about that. Let's

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Speaker 1: Hey, Nick, how are you doing good? I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Get get rid of it.

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Speaker 3: It's it's you know, you see how hard this guy

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Speaker 3: are you doing, Hey, Josh, how's it going?

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Speaker 7: Pretty good, surviving the off season, starting to keep back

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Speaker 7: But you know, yeah, getting there question for you. So

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Speaker 7: keep hearing people talk about the term the defense built

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't think it's a concept. I think it's

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is. I mean, you don't thank you.

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Speaker 7: It's the stupidest thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're not. You're not built this way. We're

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Speaker 7: That's it. Good example. I don't like Greg Olsen a

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Speaker 3: He's been surprisingly better than I thought honestly.

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Speaker 1: I mean I just you know, I think he's I

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Speaker 7: There, go ahead, Oh you're fine, You're fine. You're supposed

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you look like, but I mean

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Speaker 7: What kind of things would you say? Like, oh, that

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Speaker 6: It's great, but you know focused.

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Speaker 3: Sorry about Gosh, Josh.

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Speaker 3: Sure, Dak all the numbers CD had and all that,

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Speaker 1: They can fill the hold.

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Speaker 3: That way, you do that, you'll figure out your third

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Speaker 1: I think it would be really really cool to do that. Now.

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Speaker 3: or the Packers or Vikings or whatever it is. But

436
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Speaker 3: you know, as soon as you do it once or

437
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Speaker 3: twice and then there's a fight that breaks out, then

438
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,199
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you here becomes a rivalry, you know.

439
00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,119
Speaker 3: So I think it would be I think it's a

440
00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,800
Speaker 3: good idea, And maybe you do that for the eighteenth game.

441
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I think that would be great.

442
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Speaker 6: You know.

443
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Speaker 3: I'd like to see that. I'd like Dallas and Houston

444
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,800
Speaker 3: to play every year, you know, or something like that.

445
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,520
Speaker 3: And the way it is with the way it is

446
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Speaker 3: with the teams, like you know, yeah, the Patriots had

447
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 3: a dynasty. You know, forty nine has been good here

448
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 3: for a while. But you know, for the most part,

449
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Speaker 3: I don't think you would be stuck with this is

450
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Speaker 3: my team that I play every year.

451
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Speaker 1: You know.

452
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Speaker 3: Now you'd have to figure out too what happens when

453
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Speaker 3: you actually do play them that year?

454
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Speaker 1: Do you play them twice? I mean things like that,

455
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Speaker 1: but not a bad thought. I like it.

456
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Speaker 3: Another text question, this is Kyle from East Brunswick, New Jersey.

457
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Speaker 3: What's more important in the off season aspect to address

458
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,320
Speaker 3: personnel at running back or the actual running back scheme.

459
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 3: That's a good question because I think if you fix

460
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,199
Speaker 3: this game, you might have a better running back and

461
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,639
Speaker 3: I and I think both. This probably needs to be

462
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Speaker 3: addressed here, and I think both will be addressed. I

463
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,520
Speaker 3: think that they're gonna look at the actual running running

464
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Speaker 3: scheme and also though they got to get some some personnel,

465
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Speaker 3: different personnel running backs here, I don't foresee Tony Pollard

466
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Speaker 3: coming back as the number one running back. If he's

467
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Speaker 3: If he's back, then he's probably you know, we'll be

468
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Speaker 3: with you know, another back, and I think that could

469
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,879
Speaker 3: be a good role for him. But I have a

470
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Speaker 3: feeling he'll probably take a deal somewhere else, even though

471
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Speaker 3: it might be the same as what the Cowboys had.

472
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Speaker 3: It wouldn't surprise me if he's if he's moving on.

473
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Speaker 3: But I but either way, you're gonna have some different

474
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Speaker 3: running backs. All right, Let's go to Ali in Florida.

475
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Speaker 3: Next caller, what's up Ali?

476
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Speaker 7: Putty?

477
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Speaker 8: Good, buddy? How about yourself?

478
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Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. What's up with you?

479
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 8: Okay? Good? Got a few takes, you know, I don't

480
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 8: know nothing about who's get a fire and who had

481
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Speaker 8: this trag but a couple of take I had. Well,

482
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 8: I really appreciated Jerry Jones. He give us such a

483
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 8: pride and joy to the stadium all his life with

484
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Speaker 8: the Cowboys, and I think when I would love to

485
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Speaker 8: see Cowboys win the super Bowl while he can enjoy it.

486
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Speaker 8: But I think that when Steven and the family take over,

487
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 8: I think the honeymoon is gone because they're going to

488
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 8: go by the book and everything knows straight, you know,

489
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 8: and those fun things that we always free agents, Jerry

490
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Speaker 8: is going to get them. The second thing is literally

491
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Speaker 8: the game we watched all together. After the game, I

492
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Speaker 8: was thinking about you and Chris. I swear I hope

493
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Speaker 8: to god Nick and Chris Deroll had a show on Monday,

494
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 8: because I could swear you're going to get bombarded and

495
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 8: so untill it. But you showed up in a different show.

496
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 8: You didn't have a show, which was great. And second,

497
00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 8: I think they are a scouting department. They really didn't

498
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 8: be so effective this year. We could they use it

499
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 8: the players they choose. I don't know how that goes

500
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Speaker 8: in there. I know Jerry paid these people top dollars

501
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 8: and now Jim Harbaugh is in San Diego. But maybe

502
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Speaker 8: he can call him and say, hey, you want to

503
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 8: Maudia Smith and a screwermaker, you boat machiguan guy, the

504
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 8: package them and give us a couple of high draffic

505
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,199
Speaker 8: we can add up and then maybe hopefully we can

506
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 8: get them covered. Decent player this year. But as far

507
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 8: as the game, but selling him was that everybody played back.

508
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 8: There's not one single source. I can't blame it. And

509
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 8: to defend of the DAG, I think before the Tener

510
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 8: round was fourteen nothing. I remember the first two play

511
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 8: the defense played good a listen god was a stupid

512
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 8: penalty and the TV the way he showed the game

513
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 8: here sometimes you don't see where they're throwing the ball

514
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 8: to the defense rush next thing you know, love through

515
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,719
Speaker 8: middle of somewhere. I tenet rash that nobody's around this player,

516
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 8: So how the hell has happened? But I think with

517
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Speaker 8: the dan Quinn this afternoon, by tomorrow, I don't know anything,

518
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Speaker 8: but I think he's going to be in Seattle and

519
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,120
Speaker 8: the only changes you can have in defense. As much

520
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 8: as I love him and I appreciate everything he's done,

521
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 8: it would be a nice to be able to draft

522
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Speaker 8: and get to you agent combination to show up the

523
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Speaker 8: stuff that we need. That's all up with you, brother.

524
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure you know the dan Quin's situation, what's

525
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 3: gonna happen. I mean, I know everybody kind of keeps

526
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 3: assuming that with Seattle, and that makes the most sense.

527
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: I think it makes sense for them, you know. And

528
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: he's won there.

529
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Speaker 3: He's defense coordinator when they won Super Bowl, so you know,

530
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Speaker 3: and he's if you sit down with him for two minutes,

531
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Speaker 3: i mean, well thirty seconds, you like him, you know,

532
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 3: and the players like him as well, so I think

533
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Speaker 3: it'd be a good fit.

534
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Speaker 1: I mean for them.

535
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Speaker 3: Obviously, the timing of you know, the Cowboys game with

536
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 3: the defense and how they played in the playoff and

537
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 3: really how they played in the last few games not great,

538
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 3: you know, for him. But I think his body of

539
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 3: work is speaks for itself, and that even you know,

540
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 3: includes the super Bowl game. But you know, the Falcons

541
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 3: made it to the Super Bowl and you know, and

542
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 3: had a lead and had a chance to win it

543
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Speaker 3: should have won the game probably, and they got beat

544
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Speaker 3: by Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, you know, and that's yeah,

545
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was it was It was a.

546
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Speaker 1: Sad ending for him.

547
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,959
Speaker 3: But my point is is that I think dan Quinn's

548
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 3: body of work is uh, it shows that that he's

549
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 3: he's he's a really good coach. And if he does

550
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 3: go as the head coachould see I don't think that

551
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 3: would be a good fit for him. And then then

552
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Speaker 3: the Cowboys we have to figure out what happens on

553
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Speaker 3: defense and and and you know what, what kind of

554
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Speaker 3: changes they make. And I've said this before, whoever the

555
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator is my first question? I mean not even

556
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 3: how's your flight? How was how was your your tripping?

557
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's Michael Parsons. What are you doing

558
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 3: with Michah Parsons? What do you see your scheme doing

559
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 3: with him? And that, to me is the most important

560
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 3: thing for the defense this year is figuring out where

561
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 3: to play him and how he can be you know, happy,

562
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Speaker 3: and how he can be the most successful, maybe not

563
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 3: in that order successful, if he's successful, he'll be happy.

564
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Speaker 3: We know that, all right, Robin Vegas, what's up?

565
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: Rob?

566
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Speaker 8: Hey?

567
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 6: Nick?

568
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: Hey, Rob, thanks for holding You know, I heard.

569
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Speaker 2: Some people say a previous call that I you know,

570
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Speaker 2: if you changed the head coach, you're in building mode.

571
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 6: And that's not true.

572
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: I mean we changed. We went from Bill Pacell's the

573
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: way Phillips he went thirteen to three. Because when you

574
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Speaker 2: have a quarterback, and then let's say said, I don't

575
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 2: see Dak leaving, but if you have a good quarterback,

576
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 2: like what Harball is going to do with the charges,

577
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 2: he's not rebuilding, he's just tweaking it. And I think

578
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 2: Harball or Belichick could have did that here easily. But

579
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: let's talk about Dak. This team only has two options

580
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 2: with him. You can't trade him because nobody's going to

581
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 2: take him on right because they I don't think there's

582
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 2: a team out there that would be willing to write

583
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 2: a fifty five million dollar a year check to him.

584
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 2: And that's what the Cowboys have to pick about. What

585
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: is the number that makes Jerry say, no, I'm not

586
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 2: doing this. I mean, is it fifty? Is it fifty two,

587
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: fifty four, fifty five? Because to me, if it's fifty

588
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: or plus, I think Jerry should just write it out

589
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 2: the final year, eat the fifty nine million on the cap,

590
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 2: and go from there and listen, if Dak plays great,

591
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: we go to the NFC Championships, super Bowl. Okay, you

592
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: proved me wrong, and then you write the check and

593
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 2: you're you know, you're not losing much. But if he

594
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:27,239
Speaker 2: if he doesn't, well, okay, audios. But what is the

595
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 2: number in your mind that you think big Cowboy's going

596
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: to say, there's just no way I could do this

597
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 2: for this player. And then still think I'm going to

598
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 2: get Michael Parson's done, a CD LAMB done, I'm going

599
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 2: to have to build the offensive line. He's not Patrick Mahomes.

600
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 2: Mahomes does more with less. Most other quarterbacks do not.

601
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 3: Right, there's only one. To me, there's only one quarterback

602
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: on his level, and that's him.

603
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: There's nobody else.

604
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 2: And it's proven. He's the only he's the only quarterback

605
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 2: that's won a super Bowl with these max deals. I

606
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: call him, where these these fifty mili plus deals, He's

607
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 2: the only guy that's won a super Bowl, even going

608
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 2: back to Aaron Rodgers, who's that paid fifty million now

609
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 2: for a while, and to me, Joe Burrow, Okay, Joe

610
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 2: Burrow got to the super Bowl, but that was before

611
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: he got paid.

612
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, this to me is just like Brady and Belichick,

613
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: where you know, and when you look at the constance

614
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 3: of what they had. I mean, they had each other

615
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: and they had a great tied in and then all

616
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 3: the other pieces kind of changed here and there, and

617
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 3: you know, they had some really good players too. But

618
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 3: I mean, for the most part, that's kind of what

619
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Speaker 3: it is. And that's what I think Andy Reid in

620
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 3: Mahomes have with Kelsey and then they they kind of

621
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 3: figure it out, you know, running backs, you kind of

622
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 3: forget who they are now. When they had Randy Moss

623
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 3: for the New England, they were really good. I mean,

624
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 3: you know, even better, but I mean they don't need

625
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 3: all that. But but you're right going back to the

626
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 3: Dak thing, and I'm not sure I understand the question

627
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 3: you're asking about what number would Jerry say he wouldn't do?

628
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like like so right now he's he's at forty

629
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 2: and we know that Barrow's at fifty five and Jalen

630
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 2: Hurts is at fifty two. So if you're looking at

631
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 2: those two players, do I think Dak is better than

632
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts? Yeah, I mean part of your work. I

633
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 2: think I think the Eagles jumped the gun on him,

634
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 2: and I'm glad they did. But I mean, what do

635
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: you do if Dak comes to Jerry. If you're Jerry

636
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 2: Jose that Dak says, okay, my number starts at fifty six,

637
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 2: There'd be no way I could do that. I'd be like, how, yeah,

638
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 2: you haven't won. You don't win in the playoffs a's

639
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: two and five. I'm sorry, you know, and that's what

640
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: Jerry needs to do. But but I don't think he's

641
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 2: gonna I think Jerry's you know, he's I don't think

642
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: Dak press gott taken a Tom Rady deal, give me

643
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: forty five. I don't see that happening.

644
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: Not either. I don't. This makes it so hard.

645
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 3: I'd be lying if I said, yeah, this is what

646
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 3: I think is gonna happen. I think this can go

647
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 3: three or four different ways, and it'll probably end up

648
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 3: going a fifth way that we hadn't even thought of.

649
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 3: You know, that's what they're paid to do upstairs and

650
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 3: be creative about it.

651
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Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see what happens.

652
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 6: I don't know.

653
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: And I heard I heard somebody say something like I

654
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: think it was one of the shows on maybe one

655
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 2: o five. They said, well, you could trade back to Atlanta.

656
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: I was I was watching this episode and I'm like,

657
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: and you would get three number ones, let's say, and why.

658
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 2: I said, well, hell, you get three number ones and

659
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 2: they're going to take them.

660
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 6: Why.

661
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: But then the one one of the guys said, and

662
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 2: then you could go sign Kirk Cousins. And the guy goes,

663
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 2: what are you crazy? I'd be right back where I started.

664
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Speaker 2: The whole point of trading back is to go draft

665
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 2: by Caleb Williams or whoever you think. That's why I

666
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 2: would saying the other day, if you could trade Michael

667
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 2: Parsons to Chicago or to Chargers, you're only doing that

668
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 2: to get your future quarterbacks, not to get an offensive alignement.

669
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Speaker 6: Right, So.

670
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, Yeah, we'll see.

671
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: Good thoughts though, all right, Rob appreciate it.

672
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 3: Let me get a text question here from Dan and

673
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 3: Philly says the lack of consistent running game was a

674
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 3: huge problem this season. I don't see Pollard being resigned.

675
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on what they do at running

676
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 3: back free agency and the draft? Past Cowboys is Benny Barnes.

677
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot with Benny Barnes. I mean

678
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 3: that was when I was first really watching the team.

679
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 3: I think he wore thirty one. It's about all I

680
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 3: know about Benny Barnes, he really I didn't really, it

681
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: was a little bit before my time. Cornerback though, I

682
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: know that thirty one, But running back, I think I

683
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 3: think you'll see a draft pick and a free agent.

684
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 3: I think you'll see both. The man you have to

685
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 3: you have to, you have to fill the numbers there.

686
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody really that's on the team right

687
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 3: now is going to be a factored in. I don't

688
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 3: they could resign Rico Daddle just kind of just kind

689
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 3: of okay with him, you know. I'm just I don't

690
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 3: know he's He's okay, he's decent. But I mean, I

691
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: think I think you gotta you gotta get some some

692
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 3: guys with the potential to be special. And so I

693
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 3: think you'll see a draft pick and a free agent signing.

694
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 3: All right, Rob in Rio grand Valley, Bob, Sorry Bob,

695
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 3: and Rio grand Valley got hey, Bob, how are you good?

696
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 6: I need for you to bear with me today. Normally

697
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 6: I'm on and all for be durned quick, but I

698
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 6: want to get into a little bit of a serious

699
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 6: discussion here today at UH. I think uh. I think,

700
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 6: first of all, at the I'm a big supporter of

701
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 6: our head coach. I think Mike has done a terrific

702
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 6: job with the personnel that he's had, But with the

703
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 6: schedule that we've got next year, I'm afraid he's being

704
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 6: set up for the perfect storm at UH. I mean,

705
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 6: you look at who we're going to be playing next

706
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 6: year at I don't see any way in the world

707
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 6: that we're going to win twelve games unless we break

708
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 6: the mold of that of the past, particularly last year's draft.

709
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 6: We wasted a year on the draft last year. Molesey

710
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 6: Smith it hasn't He might develop, yes, but he was

711
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 6: not a plug in player. He was not a number

712
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 6: one pick, shouldn't have been. Scommaker was a complete bust.

713
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 6: He hasn't done a durned thing. And then we go

714
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 6: in the sixth or seventh round and we draft the

715
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 6: centralment midget to play professional football. That was a wasted draft.

716
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 6: I mean that was we could have used another prospect

717
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 6: that might have turned into a player. If this kid's

718
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,879
Speaker 6: not going to grow up to be five t ten

719
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 6: and weigh one hundred and ninety pounds, it's just not

720
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 6: in his jeens. He's a He was great for Kansas State,

721
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 6: but we're talking about the NFL. We've got to hit

722
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 6: it the draft this year, and we've got to start

723
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 6: out addressing the issues that need to be taken care of.

724
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: Well, hold on, hold on, let me let me cut

725
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 3: cut you off for a second here, okay, because I'm

726
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: going to defend this part that that they had a

727
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 3: fifth round grade on him on deuce Vaun and I

728
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 3: think that's disrespectful to say that what you said, because

729
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 3: they put they picked three or four other guys on

730
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 3: top of him, and you know, because they didn't go

731
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 3: the sentimental route right then. They waited to the sixth round.

732
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 3: They'd already taken another sixth round pick and Eric Scott.

733
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 3: They took a couple of guys in the fifth round,

734
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 3: and they're like, hey, this is the guy we had

735
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 3: graded highly. This isn't just because his dad's in our

736
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 3: room and we like him. This is the guy that

737
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 3: they had. You look at him in the preseason. He

738
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 3: was productive, he had people excited, they're selling jerseys and

739
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 3: all that. It's not the same in the regular season.

740
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 3: They figure that out. He didn't play a whole lot.

741
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, okay, six round pick, but this is

742
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: a guy that they graded highly.

743
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't.

744
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 3: I don't think it's fair to say that, to say, oh,

745
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 3: they just picked him. This is what Jerry's doing. They're

746
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 3: just drafting guys. This kid, all those guys have kids,

747
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 3: and then they're not getting picked. You know, John John

748
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 3: Steven Jones didn't get picked.

749
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: I mean like that. I just don't think that's fair

750
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: to say that about this just fun. I'm sorry.

751
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 6: Well, my opinion is that with a wasted pick, we

752
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 6: got to start out in the first round and we're

753
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 6: gonna need a center. We need a big, physical center

754
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 6: that can move, that can block and open up holes

755
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 6: for run backs. And we don't have that. It looks

756
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 6: like that we're gonna have the possibility to do that.

757
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 6: That first round pick needs to go right there. Second round,

758
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 6: we need an offensive tackle. We've got a left tackle

759
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 6: who is injury prone, he's older, is he's got a

760
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 6: limited future. It's time to move own. Get yourself a

761
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:08,479
Speaker 6: good tackle to put next to Tyler Smith and lock

762
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 6: up that side of the line. Third, we need a linebacker.

763
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 6: We need a physical linebacker that can play from from

764
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 6: sideline to sideline and that can fill holes and make tackles.

765
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 6: That's that's your third round, fourth round?

766
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: All right, how many rounds be going here?

767
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 6: Well, we're gonna have to skip the fourth unless something coming.

768
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: Fourth yeah, out, all right, seventh round.

769
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 6: Now, we've got to really start digging because we need

770
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 6: some help on the defense. We need some help is

771
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 6: stopping to run, and that's going to take some really

772
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 6: good scouting work. And we and the personnel department and

773
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 6: the scouting department in the home office needs to listen

774
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 6: to these scouts that are out there watching these players.

775
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 6: We need to find a gem in the rough. And

776
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 6: if we don't draft well this year, I don't care

777
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 6: what Mike McCartney does. He's gone and it's had no

778
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 6: fault of his own.

779
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 3: All right, thanks for the thing. Okay, Bob, thanks for

780
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 3: the call. It's Mike McCarthy too. You know, guys, and

781
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 3: I don't say this very often. This has been the

782
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 3: color has been awesome. But if you can't be respectful,

783
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 3: if if you don't know what words to say, we

784
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 3: don't say. I mean, please, I'm just asking nicely, don't

785
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 3: don't call. I'm sorry that that that went longer than

786
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 3: it should. I had some obviously I didn't agree with

787
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 3: with the with the take you're saying about us fun

788
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: but also the words to describe him, and it's ridiculous.

789
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 3: So I that that that can't happen. That can't happen again.

790
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: As for the draft, and and you know last year

791
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 3: like this that was these guys did not these these guys.

792
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: Did not perform.

793
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 3: I mean, we know that everyone sees that. The good

794
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: thing I think you can hang your hat on is

795
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 3: that this team does draft well. They draft well, did they?

796
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: You know what this class looks like right now now?

797
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 3: It doesn't look like a good class at all. But

798
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens because they're gonna have to lean

799
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 3: on it. But you know, this team does draft well

800
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 3: two years ago. Let's don't act like that, you know,

801
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 3: let's don't act like they don't. They got a fifth

802
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 3: round pick that's the Defensive Player of the Year finalist,

803
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 3: All Pro First first Team Deron Bland. They got a

804
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 3: tied end in the fourth round, who I'm just gonna

805
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 3: tell you right now is going to be in the

806
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl next week. He's not there right now, He'll

807
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 3: be there. That's what I think. Jake Ferguson will be there.

808
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 3: He was a really good So it's not like they

809
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 3: don't pick well, they they do, they do. This year

810
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: they did not. They did not, and at least that's

811
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 3: what it looks like so far. All Right, all right,

812
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 3: let's go to Marco and Vancouver, Washington.

813
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 9: Hey, Neck, how's it going?

814
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you?

815
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 9: I'm all right. I'll try not to be as contentious

816
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 9: all but I did. He actually kind of stole some

817
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 9: of my points. I actually talked to you earlier this year. Heck,

818
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,479
Speaker 9: trying to get through to you guys. But I called

819
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 9: in earlier this year when you asked about one one

820
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 9: player to bring back, and I brought up Travis Frederick.

821
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 9: So I kind of agree with him as far as

822
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 9: this year. In the draft pick the way I look

823
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 9: at it, at twenty four, you know, everybody's gonna talk

824
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,959
Speaker 9: about offensive linemen, you know, and everybody talks about getting

825
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 9: a tackle, and we did. We did good with Tyler,

826
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 9: but he was what the fifth maybe best, you know,

827
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 9: and that might be the best tackle on your board

828
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 9: left by the time you get down to that pick, right,

829
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 9: I'd rather have the best center, which is more likely

830
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 9: over one of the top two guards. Yeah, available, because

831
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 9: you even mentioned it on the I think the call

832
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 9: before that about uh Zach and Tyler. You know, they

833
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 9: just didn't have to open up those holes. And I

834
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 9: don't know it was in the last game of the

835
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 9: year against Washington and if you notice, but when Hoffman

836
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 9: and and uh oh.

837
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 3: The other guys, they just they were opened up poles.

838
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 9: Now I know Washington was probably they might have been

839
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 9: thrown the towel a little bit, but they just those

840
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 9: guys are kind of built a little more.

841
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 7: Stout, you know.

842
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 9: I like both Zach and Tyler and get it back,

843
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 9: but I think if they're going, you know, in the draft,

844
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 9: they just need to work up the middle. I was

845
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 9: a baseball player, you know, and baseball they always say

846
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 9: it's built up the middle, and I kind of feel

847
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 9: the same way actually in all sports really basketball but football,

848
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 9: and especially on the defensive side. I hear your take

849
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 9: there on the linebackers too, you know, they need to

850
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 9: get bigger there. And as far as the Dak situation,

851
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 9: I think the best bet to do is extend them

852
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 9: maybe two years, because in two years you got to

853
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 9: say Micah, and you're not gonna be able to pay

854
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 9: both Dak and Micah or have them, you know, by

855
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 9: the time I mean after that you think beside the

856
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 9: Dack's contract, what that's going to be is you get

857
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 9: to maybe so you can get two year run with

858
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 9: him before you have to start paying these other guys.

859
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 9: Otherwise this is going to go in a total tank

860
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 9: rebuild job after that. I mean, if he wants to

861
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 9: be competitive with this team beyond the next year, to

862
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 9: keeping some of these players, I think that's kind of

863
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 9: going to be the limit. And you think about that

864
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 9: will be ten years if if you can't do it,

865
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 9: you know, it's probably worth taking a shot and moving

866
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 9: on after that.

867
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know what, though, I agree exactly what

868
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 3: you're saying, what you're thinking about with the middle of

869
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 3: the of the team. You know, you did the Baseball

870
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 3: reference there, you know, pitchers, catchers, and obviously centerfield all that.

871
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 3: But you know, you look at the last three draft picks,

872
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 3: they've kind of gone that way. I can't remember exactly

873
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 3: what they were calling Micah Parsons. I mean, he was

874
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 3: a linebacker. I don't know if they were saying he

875
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 3: was a middle linebacker. Uh, probably more out side, but

876
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 3: then he ended up being you know, an edge rusher

877
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 3: for most of the time, but you know, still a

878
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 3: linebacker that they were going to have there sort of

879
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 3: in the middle, and then they had Tyler Smith and

880
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 3: then Mazzie Smith.

881
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 6: You know.

882
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's what's so ironic about the the

883
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 3: Mazzie Smith thing is that was out of their comfort

884
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 3: zone that pick. I mean, they hadn't drafted a first

885
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: round defensive tackle since Russell Maryland in nineteen ninety one,

886
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 3: first overall pick. And then they then Mazzie Smith. I mean,

887
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 3: that wasn't that wasn't a position that they've ever really

888
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 3: addressed like that. But they're like, hey, got to fix

889
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 3: the run. We have to fix this run. We're going

890
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 3: to resign Jonathan Hankins and then get into the draft

891
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 3: and then you know, let's get this guy strong as

892
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 3: an ox and he'll come in here here and he'll

893
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,759
Speaker 3: he'll help us. And that just did not happen. It

894
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,479
Speaker 3: did not, and that's a surprise to a lot of people.

895
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 3: But but but I mean it's a move that they went,

896
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 3: like I said, you know, out of their their comfort

897
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 3: zone a little bit. And yeah, you look at it

898
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 3: now and you can say, oh man, you know, they

899
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 3: could have taken Laporta. Of course, Laporta's probably he doesn't

900
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 3: have the year he had in Detroit, you know, and

901
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 3: Ferguson doesn't have the year he had here. So you know,

902
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: I think that it is what it is there, you know.

903
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 3: I mean I look at the Miami running back eight

904
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 3: chan that that would have been nice probably, you know. Uh,

905
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 3: And I think it's a guy that they were looking

906
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 3: at maybe in the third round, uh, maybe before they

907
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 3: took over shown and maybe speaking of him, maybe Overshown

908
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,720
Speaker 3: is a guy that can sort of save the draft class.

909
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 3: You know, you need linebacker help. Here's a guy that

910
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 3: that's coming back. You know, when I when I think

911
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 3: of the team, I think of the defense. You know,

912
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 3: you look at it and you say, they got an

913
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 3: All Pro that didn't play in and Travon Diggs and

914
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,360
Speaker 3: so we'll see what happens he comes back and and

915
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 3: where he's ready to go. And then Overshown as well,

916
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 3: I think he'll be able to help. All right, let's

917
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 3: go to uh text line Trey. He's in Charlottesville, Virginia,

918
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 3: currently resign in Louisiana. Hey, Nick, love the show and

919
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 3: your work.

920
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: Thank you.

921
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: These are my top two needs, center and linebacker. What

922
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 3: do you think you'd rather get a vet versus draft

923
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 3: to solve the need. Oh man, when I think of

924
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 3: centners though, and I think I see Jason Kelcey and

925
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 3: some guy in Buffalo, you know, and got this.

926
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,320
Speaker 1: I mean there's just just that.

927
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,959
Speaker 3: Look, you know, you got that look that center, look

928
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 3: got the beard hanging out them, you know, and the helmet.

929
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: I mean, and they.

930
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 3: Had that guy, right, Travis Frederick. I mean, he was

931
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 3: sort of that guy. That's just sort of what I think,

932
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 3: just this just strong, lumberjack type guy. And so I'd

933
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:45,479
Speaker 3: like to see a veteran, but then again, everybody wants

934
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,280
Speaker 3: to keep their center. So if he's a veteran free agent,

935
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 3: then what's the deal? You know, what's what's that's the proble?

936
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 3: I mean, just go look at be honest, is probably

937
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 3: gonna be the one of the top centers. And I

938
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 3: think the Cowboys are going to move on there, so

939
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 3: draft might be your your best bet there. Linebacker, I

940
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: think at this point, both free agency and draft with linebacker,

941
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 3: the needs just need to be there. Again, a lot

942
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 3: of this is gonna determined by what happens at the

943
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 3: coordinator position. If if Dan Quinn leaves for another head

944
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 3: coaching job, then you know who comes in and what

945
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 3: style do they play, and then that could change a

946
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 3: lot of things. Another text question Jason from Pennsylvania. With

947
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 3: head coaching positions being filled, what's your gut feeling on

948
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 3: dan Quinn being back? Well, I unless something happened in

949
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 3: the last five minutes about Seattle. I mean, I still

950
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 3: kind of think that could be the case. But I

951
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 3: think something, you know, I still just feel like dan

952
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 3: Quinn will not be back. I just think he's gonna

953
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: get get a position. That's what my gut feeling says

954
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 3: about it. But again, I don't know what's happening up

955
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 3: there and then Seattle or really any of these places.

956
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 3: Let's go to Bruce and Houston.

957
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 7: He nick, how you doing, buddy good?

958
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: How are you?

959
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 6: Hey?

960
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 10: Thanks for being kind to that caller. I've heard him

961
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 10: before too us. He had a good take. I don't

962
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 10: sounded like an older guy. You should have asked how

963
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 10: old are you? And then if he said seventy, oh

964
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 10: we shouldn't listen to seventy people because you're too old.

965
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, another story.

966
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 6: But you defend him, well, well.

967
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 3: You know those fun it didn't really work like like

968
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 3: we thought that it might. You know, I know, it

969
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 3: was kind of exciting there in preseason, but then you

970
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 3: got to remember the guys that were you know that

971
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 3: he that were not tackling him were probably not in

972
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,320
Speaker 3: the NFL. I mean, he was third, third, fourth quarter

973
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 3: to get it. But uh, you know, I mean everybody's

974
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 3: kind of excited about it. He was doing some things,

975
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 3: and he showed some things at training camp too, you

976
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 3: know where, but it just didn't. It didn't work, and

977
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 3: maybe it's still maybe it will, you know, I mean,

978
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 3: what did you do is freshman year a Kansas State?

979
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what I mean?

980
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 10: No, but if you look at his stats in Kansas

981
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 10: uh State, my god, they compared him with h B.

982
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 10: John Robinson.

983
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 8: It wasn't too far.

984
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 5: Off from it.

985
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 10: He didn't have the physical part of it. Look, he's

986
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 10: a good player, he's a gadget player. Philo deput team

987
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 10: Westbrook or whatever that guy was. Sprolls was another guy

988
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 10: that just got I hated it was hard to tackle

989
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 10: a little bit.

990
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: I don't think.

991
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 3: Let me say this about Westbrook and Sprolls. Those guys

992
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 3: there there legs, I mean, they're like tree trunks. Okay,

993
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 3: those guys are I mean, and built differently than than Deuce.

994
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 3: But you know, look at I look at a guy

995
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 3: like Danny Woodhead, you know, a few years ago, I

996
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 3: don't know if you remember him New England and then

997
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 3: also the Chargers. You know, a guy like that has

998
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 3: to develop a little bit. I don't think they're gonna

999
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 3: give up on him, but you know, yeah, but the

1000
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,879
Speaker 3: whole I mean, why why are we picking on him?

1001
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 3: I mean, Junior for Hoko, fourth round pick didn't do anything.

1002
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 3: Austome Richards fifth round pick really didn't do anything. So

1003
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 3: Jalen Brook, I mean, your best rookies were guys you

1004
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 3: didn't draft t J. Basson Hunter. Looky, those are the

1005
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 3: two best rookies. And I thought Aubrey was considered a

1006
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 3: rookie of the NFL is now saying he is a

1007
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 3: first year player either way. Either way, that was a

1008
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 3: heck of a fine too, no doubt.

1009
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 10: So my opinion on that, I agree with you, linebacker,

1010
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 10: but I think you need to go get free agents

1011
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 10: linebackers because that's a tough position to learn on the

1012
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 10: fly as a rookie, and because I think they're going

1013
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 10: to be all chips in next year. McCarthy may be

1014
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 10: called the lame duck, but you know, so what it

1015
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 10: is what it is. If they were smart, they'd say, hey,

1016
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 10: you give me one more year. If I don't make

1017
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 10: it to the championship game, you ain't got fire me.

1018
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 10: I'll quit. Of course they'll never say that, but and

1019
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 10: Dak are to do the same thing too. I like,

1020
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 10: I've been reading about redoing this contract just so that

1021
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 10: they can pay him up front. They still have to

1022
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 10: pay him, but this needs to be his last year.

1023
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 10: If he doesn't get us to the championship game, let

1024
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 10: him walk and take Trey Lance or a draft pick,

1025
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 10: and you know, at least at least we'll be done

1026
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 10: with that. I do kind of like that idea someone

1027
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 10: mentioned about Michael Parsons trading him to Chicago or somebody

1028
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 10: for a top draft pick. That might be hard to

1029
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 10: do and the fans would hate it, but might be

1030
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 10: a smart thing to do. But I would go if

1031
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 10: I was drafting, I would go offensive tackle first, because

1032
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 10: it's a big, big group in this year's draft, and

1033
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 10: if we could get that powers kid the center with

1034
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 10: your second piece tecond pick, even if you had to

1035
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 10: bump up, you know, a sixth round or to get

1036
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 10: in front of it. Then you've made your offensive line

1037
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 10: of power again. You still got Tyler Smith, uh fairly young,

1038
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 10: and then you've got a young center and a young tackle.

1039
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 10: So even if you did have to go new with

1040
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 10: a new quarterback, then in at least you'd have some young.

1041
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 9: Guys to build.

1042
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 10: But you've got a big one and put some weight

1043
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 10: back on Mazie Smith. I don't know why they made

1044
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 10: him go younger. So I kind of hope dan Quinn

1045
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,399
Speaker 10: gets the Seattle job. My last question, I'll hang up.

1046
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 10: Do you think that'll go after Quink? Is it Martindale

1047
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 10: from the Giants?

1048
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bruce, I thank you. I think he'll I think

1049
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 3: if that happens, I mean I could see a an

1050
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 3: older veteran coordinator, maybe not one of the younger guys,

1051
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 3: so I, you know his name is, would be on

1052
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 3: the list for sure. It's hard to kind of get

1053
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 3: ahead of that because it's you know, you still you

1054
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 3: know who knows because dan Quinn comes back and then

1055
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:19,959
Speaker 3: he'll be back. But either way, if he comes back,

1056
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: it means your head coach, your quarterback, your offensive coordinator,

1057
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 3: your defense coordinator are all back. Okay, I'm all for continuity.

1058
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 3: But what's going to be different? Tell me what is different.

1059
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 3: Something has to be different, you just and not so

1060
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 3: much for those guys, for you guys, you guys. It

1061
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 3: has to be different. It has to be They have

1062
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:47,479
Speaker 3: to figure out how to do something that a wow

1063
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 3: move or something to get people excited. And I think

1064
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 3: people are viewing the dan Quinn situation as much as

1065
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 3: they'd like dan last two years, they were afraid he

1066
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 3: was gonna leave. This year, I think it's just because

1067
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 3: they wanted to see something different. You want to you

1068
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 3: want to say, all right, well, at least we can

1069
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 3: bank on this. You know, maybe this year this guy's

1070
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 3: gonna do something a little different with Parsons or or

1071
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 3: have a different scheme when it comes to the run

1072
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 3: defense with the linebackers or whatever. So I think that's

1073
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 3: kind of why I hear people thinking kind of hope

1074
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 3: he takes a job, just because they want to see

1075
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 3: something different. And I don't blame I mean, I'd be

1076
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 3: great if dan Quinn came back. But all I'm saying

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Speaker 3: is something's got to change. You've got to figure out

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Speaker 3: how to make make this different, and we'll see, We'll

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Speaker 3: see what happens. All right, good show, guys, appreciate it

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Speaker 3: with less on the callers here. Uh, you guys are

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Speaker 3: talking a little bit a little bit more, which is fine.

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Speaker 3: You got things to say. But that's that's great, good stuff.

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Speaker 3: As always. We'll be back next Tuesday, for sure. Next Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not Thursday. I'm uh they'll be might be uh

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Speaker 3: in the super Bowl in Vegas for that day, the

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Speaker 3: NFL Honors Day, So I'm not sure about the Thursday show.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we'll move into a different day, but definitely Tuesday

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Speaker 3: we'll be back. We'll be talking about NFC championship and

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Speaker 3: who's going to the super Bowl, but we know who's not.

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Speaker 3: That's okay. We'll be talking about that all off season.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: For Chris Beam in the back, I'm Nick Eatman. We'll

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Speaker 3: see you next time. On Cowboys Storyline.

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