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Speaker 6: I always have trouble with this chair. I feel like
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Speaker 7: It's funny you say that, because yesterday when I was
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Speaker 5: let's let's talk a little football. We got a lot
Speaker 5: to do today. We got to talk about this upcoming game,
Speaker 5: Cowboys versus Saints. We'll start first with injury updates. There
Speaker 5: are three guys that are that remain on the Cowboys
Speaker 5: in list as non participants in practice as Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 5: Marshawn Nielan, John Stevens Junior. What are we hearing as
Speaker 5: far as the likelihood that they play well?
Speaker 8: Marsha Nieland upgraded to limited yesterday with the with the
Speaker 8: calf injuries, So there looks to be a little bit
Speaker 8: more optimism that Neiland will be able to go on Sunday.
Speaker 8: But I think when you look at the tight end situation.
Speaker 8: I think fans should start preparing for Jake Ferguson and
Speaker 8: John Stevens to not play against the Saints on Sunday.
Speaker 8: So you're looking at Luke scoon Maker to start at
Speaker 8: the tight end position. You're also looking at Brevin span
Speaker 8: Ford potentially an elevation for a practice squad member, Princeton fant,
Speaker 8: and then, like we mentioned earlier in the week, Hunter Looky,
Speaker 8: probably with some increased opportunities at the tight end position,
Speaker 8: maybe in some pass catching situations. But nevertheless, those are
Speaker 8: the three guys to keep an eye on moving forward.
Speaker 8: There was a couple of guys that rested on Wednesday
Speaker 8: that were upgraded to full on Thursday, but really those
Speaker 8: are the three guys we're looking at.
Speaker 5: When you guys looked at Princeton during during camp, did
Speaker 5: you consider him to be more proficient as a as
Speaker 5: a blocker or as a catch.
Speaker 8: For me, it was as a blocker, and they they
Speaker 8: worked him into some very lipkey like roles in training
Speaker 8: camp and in the preseason, lining up at full back
Speaker 8: and kind of being a downhill guy, but also somebody
Speaker 8: that can kind of squeak out of the backfield and
Speaker 8: get some of those pass catching opportunities.
Speaker 6: He's an athletic guy. He's a powerful guy.
Speaker 8: They call him bull in the in the tight end room,
Speaker 8: and you understand why. He's like six foot one two
Speaker 8: and thirty five two hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 6: He's exactly, He's just a.
Speaker 8: Bowling ball and he is He is not a guy
Speaker 8: you want to meet at the point of attack. So
Speaker 8: it's not going to be a significant drop off when
Speaker 8: it comes from a blocking perspective. But I think if
Speaker 8: Dak is trying to work in the tight ends in
Speaker 8: the passing game, I think that's where you see a
Speaker 8: really big drop off by not having Jack Ferguson and
Speaker 8: or John Stevens Junior.
Speaker 6: In this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing with fant Man, I just remember him
Speaker 3: in training camp. The one read that in the Rams
Speaker 3: game that Trey Lance really missed that where they ran
Speaker 3: the flat and then the up with the back. You know,
Speaker 3: they they had fan, you know, and they had it,
Speaker 3: They had the space, they had everything they needed. All
Speaker 3: he had to do was throw the ball that direction
Speaker 3: or look in that direction. He probably would have had
Speaker 3: a touchdown. But yeah, they're there. Yeah, there was a
Speaker 3: thought too about depending and I don't know, maybe not
Speaker 3: out of the woods yet. On on Nilan and think
Speaker 3: about could you get the two elevations? You know, the
Speaker 3: elevation from last week was the linebacker. Nick Vigial was
Speaker 3: the linebacker. So you only have two of these per game,
Speaker 3: so you gotta be careful. But is this one of
Speaker 3: those games we have to think about, well, if Neilan
Speaker 3: say it doesn't get worked out, is this where we
Speaker 3: see Carl Lawson? You know so? Or is this going
Speaker 3: to be about wheat? How do you guys feel about
Speaker 3: these elevation things? I mean with the running backs and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I mean, I'm kind of looking at
Speaker 3: him every week because you only get three before you
Speaker 3: have to before you have to figure out if you're
Speaker 3: going to put him on the And so people are like, well,
Speaker 3: would just be a good week to see Cook, And
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't see them using the running back
Speaker 3: elevation until they absolutely think about Okay, the guys we're
Speaker 3: playing with right now, are are you know? Okay, we're
Speaker 3: probably not going to be We're not good enough with this,
Speaker 3: let's say about Cook. But you got to be kind
Speaker 3: of careful with these. I mean, when you use them,
Speaker 3: how you use them? Did you mean did you have
Speaker 3: to use that one? Is it? You know? Because once
Speaker 3: you use that third one, once you get to that
Speaker 3: third elevation, these guys they're either going to be on
Speaker 3: the roster or gone, So you have to be careful
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 5: I get the impression that Cook is a insurance policy
Speaker 5: to some degree, or at least let's see what happens
Speaker 5: with these other backs.
Speaker 4: That's what that's That's kind of the impression you guys
Speaker 4: are getting.
Speaker 3: Is he the break glass in case of emergency guy?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Mike McCarthy did talk about earlier in the week.
Speaker 8: He was that now he talked about it in a
Speaker 8: positive way. He was like, we're going to get him
Speaker 8: a really good week of practice next week, and so
Speaker 8: that that leads me to believe that I think they
Speaker 8: will maybe start looking at elevations with Cook going into
Speaker 8: the next week against the Ravens or the following week,
Speaker 8: the following week against the Giants.
Speaker 6: But he's loved his approach so far. He loves the
Speaker 6: veteran presence.
Speaker 8: He says he fits in that room really well, and
Speaker 8: we've seen him working one on one with running backs
Speaker 8: coach Jeff Blasco every time we've been out there for practice, So.
Speaker 5: You could see a scenario where he works into the
Speaker 5: mix of these backs and not necessarily replace one, but
Speaker 5: he's just another guy that they can throw out there
Speaker 5: with with.
Speaker 2: These guys gets.
Speaker 8: That's the thing that Brian brings up a good point
Speaker 8: is how do you get those three elevations to a
Speaker 8: certain point where you know you're comfortable putting him on
Speaker 8: the roster by the end of those three elevations.
Speaker 6: And I think that's who comes off the roster. He
Speaker 6: goes off exactly.
Speaker 8: And maybe that's a situation where it's not hoping for
Speaker 8: an injury guy, but I mean, by the nature of
Speaker 8: the season and how things go, typically about six weeks in,
Speaker 8: there's gonna be one or two guys that you know
Speaker 8: you have to put on IR. And maybe it's a
Speaker 8: situation where Cook is one of those guys waiting. Because
Speaker 8: I every time that a practice squad is built out
Speaker 8: there is a top one or two guys that'd be like, okay,
Speaker 8: if and when an injury happens, those are gonna.
Speaker 6: Be our two guys to activate.
Speaker 8: Last year was brock Hoffman, and it happened a lot
Speaker 8: earlier than I think a lot of people expected. But
Speaker 8: he got those three elevations and he was immediately put
Speaker 8: on the roster. It was a couple of other guys
Speaker 8: in the same sense last year, like once C. J.
Speaker 8: Goodwin went down late and vander USh went down, it
Speaker 8: just made sense to elevate a couple of guys to
Speaker 8: the roster. So I would assume that Nick Vigil and
Speaker 8: Dalvin Cook are probably one of those top two guys
Speaker 8: that would be roster candidates.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you get to deal
Speaker 3: with Vigil. I mean, he was a Special Teams and
Speaker 3: then what happened when Kendricks went out, Nick Vigil went
Speaker 3: into the game. You know, it wasn't Leah Foul or
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 6: It was a surprise.
Speaker 3: It did me too, and maybe it's you know, it's
Speaker 3: and I know they really they trust leaf Oul. I
Speaker 3: know that, but it just seemed odd that all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, a practice squad elevation. Who you think is
Speaker 3: a Special Teams player, now he's playing Green Dot. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's like he's the guy on the field make trying
Speaker 3: to get you out of the game and stuff. So
Speaker 3: I think you have to be careful. I wonder if
Speaker 3: this and I don't mean to bring up so much
Speaker 3: about practice squad, but the running back situation. Do you
Speaker 3: think they're trying to figure out what they have and
Speaker 3: cook before the trade deadline that they're going to They're
Speaker 3: going to look at all these guys and think, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're good enough?
Speaker 7: Deadline again?
Speaker 3: What is it? I always mess this up?
Speaker 6: And it's been moved this year, right, it's been moved
Speaker 6: this year. Specifically, I knew.
Speaker 3: I was going to look this up before I even
Speaker 3: said this, and then and then.
Speaker 8: November fifth at a four pm Eastern So so it's
Speaker 8: about a week later than usually, it's about nine.
Speaker 4: That's about week nine or so week eight.
Speaker 3: So wow. I mean, I think, do you think you'd
Speaker 3: want to know what's going on with your running back
Speaker 3: situation before then?
Speaker 4: Well, here's the question.
Speaker 7: Then I would assume you already kind of know what's happening.
Speaker 7: I mean, if everyone's healthy and stays healthy, you can
Speaker 7: really evaluate, you know, who are you going to put
Speaker 7: in or who's going to be best. But I wouldn't
Speaker 7: assume by that time you can kind of know already
Speaker 7: what you do have in cook.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's after week nine, so you're halfway through the
Speaker 6: season at that point, and.
Speaker 5: In your point, Your point, Bryan, is if you're looking
Speaker 5: at it from that standpoint, you're thinking they're they're like, Okay,
Speaker 5: we want to make a decision on.
Speaker 4: Do we have the right guy here?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: We don't if we've got a really good team and
Speaker 5: all we need is a running back or the running
Speaker 5: game is just falling off a cliff, kind of like
Speaker 5: what happened when they went out and got a Maori.
Speaker 5: They say, let's just go get somebody, and we'll give
Speaker 5: up some draft capital to do it.
Speaker 3: I think, to me, I'd want to know about this earlier.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't wait till November if it was me. And
Speaker 3: maybe and that maybe that That's what I'm asking is
Speaker 3: if the Cowboys, if it turns into okay, we kind
Speaker 3: of understand what we have in Dabble, we understand what
Speaker 3: we have in Zeke. By the way, you're gonna need
Speaker 3: Zeke in this game. If the Saints, if the same
Speaker 3: questions I got on, if the Saints are gonna blitch
Speaker 3: you as much as they blitz Carolina, you're gonna need
Speaker 3: to pick up guy. But the thing about a wonder
Speaker 3: is that do you figure this thing out early like
Speaker 3: they did with Amari Cooper. You know, you got to that,
Speaker 3: you got to a point where they were like three
Speaker 3: and three and it's like, we can't do this anymore.
Speaker 5: But I'll tell you this, Brian, I'm a big believer
Speaker 5: in the fact I don't think they're gonna I think
Speaker 5: I think I agree. I think that in today's NFL,
Speaker 5: you've seen teams be very successful with a more potent
Speaker 5: passing game and runners. A group of runners that can
Speaker 5: just be sufficient, that can pick up the blitz right,
Speaker 5: that can give you a little bit of spell when
Speaker 5: you need it, that can run the ball when they
Speaker 5: need to, where if you're committed to it, they won't
Speaker 5: just be shut down, but they'll get you a three
Speaker 5: to four yards to carry and you'll make that work.
Speaker 5: And I think between the running backs they have on
Speaker 5: this team, I think they'll that will be sufficient for
Speaker 5: what they need. There will be bigger problems than their
Speaker 5: ability to run the ball if they're having problems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like you say. The thing with even with
Speaker 3: with Vaughan, I know it's small sample. Week one, special
Speaker 3: team stuff wasn't a disaster with him playing on especially
Speaker 3: matter of fact that one of the key blocks in
Speaker 3: the on the punt return was his first block. So
Speaker 3: you know all that, you're like, well he's too short,
Speaker 3: to guys like me saying, oh he's too short, you
Speaker 3: can't play them on you know, well, Okay, they're doing
Speaker 3: things with them, so you wonder. But you're right, the attrition,
Speaker 3: the injuries. I just don't know if they're gonna put
Speaker 3: four backs on a roster, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 6: Yeah, where do the carries come from?
Speaker 3: With that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, in that sense, you also have Lopkey factored in
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 5: Sure, there are several guys who are still listed on
Speaker 5: the New Orleans injury Report.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna throw these names out there, and I want
Speaker 4: you guys to tell me.
Speaker 3: The one you don't you look, Latimer's the one you're
Speaker 3: I think you're the most concerned about it.
Speaker 9: Ye.
Speaker 3: Maybe here's maybe the guard.
Speaker 4: But here's my here's my question.
Speaker 5: My question is if you were the one making the
Speaker 5: calls for the Cowboys, which of these players would.
Speaker 4: Make you change your game plan if they're there versus
Speaker 4: not there?
Speaker 5: Latimore, Matthew, Lucas Patrick, that's the guard.
Speaker 4: Kaylen Saunders DeMarco Jackson.
Speaker 5: Which of those guys would make you change up your
Speaker 5: game plan or you feel like there's a greater opportunity
Speaker 5: for the team if they're not playing and you can,
Speaker 5: you can really take advantage of something.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I'm with Brian here as far as
Speaker 8: Latimore goes, just because I think it's going to open
Speaker 8: up a lot of things on the outside. I feel
Speaker 8: comfortable with what CD Cooks and or Turpin can do
Speaker 8: from the slot. I think I think there's gonna be
Speaker 8: some opportunities in the quick game in the slot across
Speaker 8: the middle of the field. But if that can push
Speaker 8: outside the numbers as well, and you have a guy
Speaker 8: who's you know, filling in for Latimore, I think that's
Speaker 8: going to open up a lot of opportunities to be
Speaker 8: able to stretch the field and get downfield. But I
Speaker 8: think another another injury that popped up yesterday Talies Fuaga,
Speaker 8: the starting left tackle, Yeah, a back injury.
Speaker 6: He was downgraded to it did not participate.
Speaker 8: So if he cannot go, Lucas Patrick cannot go, and
Speaker 8: that's the entire left side of their offensive line that's
Speaker 8: going to be dealing with reserves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. That was the one that kind
Speaker 3: of got my attention yesterday when when he went on
Speaker 3: with the back, I'm thinking, oh, if that's something, you know,
Speaker 3: we'll see how they they how they will adjust to that.
Speaker 3: If he in fact doesn't go And you mentioned the
Speaker 3: whole left side of their offensive line would be now
Speaker 3: in a bind very similar to what you had last
Speaker 3: week with the Browns and the trouble they had. I
Speaker 3: think with Latimore is that I particularly do not want
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb running routes against him, you know, And I
Speaker 3: say this Latimore against Latimore, and to me, Taylor who
Speaker 3: plays in the slot, Alante Taylor, who plays in the slot,
Speaker 3: is a guy that gets picked on.
Speaker 6: A lot, younger guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he I mean he and he had a bunch
Speaker 3: of sacks. He might be he might be an edge
Speaker 3: for all I know. I mean, the guy had three
Speaker 3: sacks in the game the other day. But the thing
Speaker 3: that you he he gets picked on a lot and
Speaker 3: teams have success throwing the ball in it. But the
Speaker 3: thing with Marshall Latimore and I mentioned that they played
Speaker 3: against him in twenty twenty one and he limited against Lamb,
Speaker 3: but he had an interception and Lambley had one catch,
Speaker 3: So if you're if you're taking him out of the equation.
Speaker 3: Mckissory is a rookie who we all liked on the
Speaker 3: Draft show from Alabama. You know, they've got they've got
Speaker 3: some guys that are good, but not the level what
Speaker 3: you were facing last week. Yeah, last week was no separation,
Speaker 3: you know, really not much going on. You did a
Speaker 3: nice job in the first half, but this group might
Speaker 3: be a lot different if Lattim War is not playing
Speaker 3: in this football game.
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Speaker 7: What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done in front
Speaker 7: of someone? From football personnel, the Jones, any coaches or players?
Speaker 7: Mm hmm, Tint.
Speaker 8: My My natural sense is whenever I have an embarrassing moment,
Speaker 8: I just try to wipe it from my brain and
Speaker 8: pretend it never assisted. So this is tough to like recall,
Speaker 8: but I know I've had at least one or two.
Speaker 8: I know I had one at training camp that was
Speaker 8: specifically bad.
Speaker 4: Does have to be Cowboys player or coach.
Speaker 7: Uh, who do you have ownership?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 4: Tom Brady?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, So this was the year that the
Speaker 5: Cowboys went to Tampa to play to play to play
Speaker 5: the Bucks in the playoffs and uh and Nick n
Speaker 5: It was me and Nick and Patrick. I think I
Speaker 5: can't remember who else was with this, maybe one other person.
Speaker 5: We're walking along and I'm telling them and trying to
Speaker 5: show them this video that we got for after the game.
Speaker 5: The social team came up with that's basically this meme
Speaker 5: from from What's that that movie where the pirates take
Speaker 5: over the ship and they like, I'm Captain Phillips, Captain Phillips,
Speaker 5: I'm your captain, Captain Moore.
Speaker 3: And we were like, yeah, as soon as that.
Speaker 16: Was embarrassing, as soon as we win this game, we're
Speaker 16: gonna do this video and it's gonna have like Tom
Speaker 16: Brady in and literally look up and the media as
Speaker 16: I say it, we look up and there's Tom walking
Speaker 16: right towards It's just him, nobody with him, and he
Speaker 16: just looks at us.
Speaker 4: He's kind of staring at us.
Speaker 5: But here you go, No he didn't hear, but we
Speaker 5: don't know that at that point I'm just kind of like, oh,
Speaker 5: did he hear us talking?
Speaker 4: And he just kind of looks at it.
Speaker 5: He's like, what's up, guys, and just keeps walking and
Speaker 5: we all like, what's up?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, back to it now.
Speaker 3: When they beat HI, we're gonna show him this video.
Speaker 5: So that was probably the most embarrassing moment that that
Speaker 5: I've had.
Speaker 8: I think I have one of the tom My head
Speaker 8: And this is such a me story too. So Tyron
Speaker 8: Billy Johnson, he was on the practice squad last couple
Speaker 8: of years. He's a New Orleans native and he went
Speaker 8: to Warren Easton High School.
Speaker 6: And if you know me, I'm.
Speaker 8: Always on top of the you know, the high schools
Speaker 8: where these guys are from. And I did a lot
Speaker 8: of work at Warren Easton back in my day's working
Speaker 8: in college football recruiting, so I know a lot of
Speaker 8: his former coaches and things of that nature. It was
Speaker 8: the first day that he was in the locker room,
Speaker 8: and I was going to like introduce myself and uh,
Speaker 8: you know, kind of make the connection that you know
Speaker 8: I I've I've been to his high school many times,
Speaker 8: but it just slipped my brain and I was like,
Speaker 8: so you went to end a car, right, which is
Speaker 8: like their direct rival. And when it's when I say rival,
Speaker 8: these two high schools hate each other, and uh, he
Speaker 8: was like, nah, I went to I went to Easton
Speaker 8: and I was like, oh.
Speaker 6: That's what I meant. And it was just a horrible
Speaker 6: first interaction. It was awkward.
Speaker 8: He never made eye contact with me, and I just
Speaker 8: never talked to tyring Billy Johnson ever again.
Speaker 6: So that that was a tough one.
Speaker 8: That was a tough one because I really had an
Speaker 8: opportunity there and I just swung and miss.
Speaker 6: That was embarrassing.
Speaker 3: My story. We were talking about the parcels deal in
Speaker 3: the locker room. Embarrassing for whom it was embarrassed for him, right,
Speaker 3: I was embarrassed, like you know that. It's like and
Speaker 3: my man got totally nude in front of me and
Speaker 3: like he did it on purpose.
Speaker 4: That doesn't sound good and yeah, and.
Speaker 3: I'm like going and I'm like this really happening And
Speaker 3: I just couldn't I could he make eye contact, couldn't anything.
Speaker 3: And then my man gave it the Captain Morgan Po's
Speaker 3: and all that, you know, and I just I walked out.
Speaker 3: I was embarrassed. I was clarified, Brian.
Speaker 4: Yea, because the picture you're panting is I think a
Speaker 4: little different than he was talking to you about football.
Speaker 4: He had just gotten out of the shower.
Speaker 3: No, he started taking his clothes off in front of him,
Speaker 3: and he was coming from the show. He would know
Speaker 3: he was. He was It's like blue sweat top pants, grays,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, he's not doing this? Is he?
Speaker 5: When you were talking football, it was like he was
Speaker 5: talking check out these ads?
Speaker 3: It like that I was talking. He was talking f
Speaker 3: And then it got to the point where I'm like, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 3: what a? What are we doing? Like just you can't
Speaker 3: just sit there and tell me what you know. And
Speaker 3: now I'm like it's like you know sometimes old men
Speaker 3: when they go and if you're ever in a gym,
Speaker 3: old men walk around with nothing on all the time,
Speaker 3: and you're like, why why there's always walking around like,
Speaker 3: you know, with nothing on. And I was just sitting
Speaker 3: there like, I was like, going, you're really not doing it?
Speaker 17: Are you?
Speaker 3: Code? You were?
Speaker 6: You were his favorite scout, Brian.
Speaker 3: He moved after that. You didn't appreciate it. I was embarrassed.
Speaker 3: He wasn't embarrassed. I was embarrassed because I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess mine is not as funny. I guess
Speaker 7: the most recent one was at training camp when I
Speaker 7: was interviewing Zeke and mid interviewer like right off the
Speaker 7: bat and we started rolling and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 7: the fans are really happy to have you back. I'm
Speaker 7: a huge fan happy to have you back. So I
Speaker 7: know it sounds dumb, but in the moment, I was like,
Speaker 7: oh God, why did I say that out loud? Eat
Speaker 7: me Earth. I'm like, just swallow me, open up and
Speaker 7: swallow me there, because I it's just one of those
Speaker 7: things that you know, you don't it's not really professional
Speaker 7: or anything. He was fine, whatever, but I just it
Speaker 7: was one of those He's just like.
Speaker 10: Weird, like.
Speaker 3: You're kind of nervous.
Speaker 7: Last Yeah, all right, let's uh turn this off a notch.
Speaker 3: I just told a Bill Parcells neude story. That's why
Speaker 3: I said, no, this is not too bad.
Speaker 7: Who on the podcast? Who on the podcast? Across the board? So,
Speaker 7: out of all the podcasts that we produce on but
Speaker 7: not more, would you least want to be stuck on
Speaker 7: an island with Mickey?
Speaker 3: That one's easy for you Mickey and I. I respect
Speaker 3: the heck out of Mickey, but Mickey and I would
Speaker 3: kill each other. We would. We would, absolutely he would.
Speaker 3: He would, you know, he would start saying something, I
Speaker 3: would say something, and then he would jump up and
Speaker 3: hit me right in the face with his fist. Jump up.
Speaker 3: He would get it.
Speaker 4: He would jump up and hit me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 7: Away to get some speed and yeah, even launch that
Speaker 7: little Italian right my face.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he don't if he would would, If me
Speaker 3: and Mickey on a desrot would be we both die.
Speaker 7: I think he would be very resourceful, though.
Speaker 3: Is that what you said the question that I answered, Yes,
Speaker 3: you did. I don't think anyway.
Speaker 8: Just because I'm kind of thirsty, right, I'm going to
Speaker 8: drink one, I'm not going to answer this question, but
Speaker 8: I will say who I would most want to be,
Speaker 8: and it's Isaiah stand back.
Speaker 6: That man climbed a mountain.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 6: I know he's built for it, So I want he's gonna.
Speaker 3: Is this a survival thing? Is this a survival thing
Speaker 3: or somebody you just don't want to be with.
Speaker 7: You don't want to be with?
Speaker 3: Okay, you're talking about survival stuff.
Speaker 7: He just drank because he doesn't want to say. He
Speaker 7: doesn't want to give an answer.
Speaker 4: You answer this question? You No, I cannot answer this question.
Speaker 4: I have to lay out on.
Speaker 3: This burst down and say, don't answer that question.
Speaker 7: He chose to.
Speaker 16: Make.
Speaker 7: Okay, who has did you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 7: I did not?
Speaker 6: Yeah, trying to get away from this.
Speaker 3: Right, who would.
Speaker 7: I came up with the question? Is that I did
Speaker 7: not think of my answer? Who would? I? Hm? Hmm,
Speaker 7: I think this.
Speaker 3: Is this is beam counts.
Speaker 7: Really, you know what I since he's probably listening in.
Speaker 6: The back job camera.
Speaker 7: He's always just pushing my button. So I think we
Speaker 7: would just yeah, we would just fight each other. He
Speaker 7: would be on one end of the island and I'll
Speaker 7: be on the other half.
Speaker 4: Josh is out to lunch.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 7: Okay. Who has been the most difficult player to work with?
Speaker 9: Mmmm?
Speaker 3: EMMITTT. Smith? Okay, Emmitt Smith was? I think Emmitt Smith
Speaker 3: to me is a and I've it's funny because his
Speaker 3: daughter was my son's cheer buddy, and I tried to
Speaker 3: get him get to really kind of know him the
Speaker 3: family at Greenhill. He just never very friendly to me
Speaker 3: for some you know, and and even when I was
Speaker 3: in player personnel, and I would say it he just
Speaker 3: never he comes off as this really, really nice guy,
Speaker 3: but to me, he's really not very nice. So I
Speaker 3: guess I'm being honest here that I tried to be
Speaker 3: friendly and it didn't work out for me, so I
Speaker 3: kind of now keep my distance. He was a tough
Speaker 3: one to work with though, he really was.
Speaker 8: I Uh, I'm gonna give kind of a funny answer
Speaker 8: here because we just had a moment this past off
Speaker 8: season where you know, he kind of ticks me off
Speaker 8: a little bit, but we've talked about it and we're
Speaker 8: cool now. So there was a moment in the off season.
Speaker 8: Ceedee Lamb had a camp going on down down in
Speaker 8: Round Rock. It was a youth camp, and he had
Speaker 8: tweeted out the day before like hey, I'm not talking
Speaker 8: about any contract stuff, so don't come with contract questions,
Speaker 8: and I was to get in the back of my brain,
Speaker 8: I was like, there's a lot more to talk about
Speaker 8: the just contract stuff, Like I will go talk about
Speaker 8: his off season regimen. You know, what he's been up to.
Speaker 8: Where has he been for the last six months. I
Speaker 8: was like, well, okay, I'll drive down and get this story.
Speaker 8: Talk to some people had an understanding that I would
Speaker 8: go down and get an interview, and when I got
Speaker 8: down there, he declined the interview and I was like, really,
Speaker 8: like you no, I dropped down here from Dallas and
Speaker 8: he's like no, man, you know, he like didn't even
Speaker 8: make eye contact, and he's like, no, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 8: I was like okay, And so, like literally last week
Speaker 8: in the locker room, I was like, you know, you
Speaker 8: owe me one, right, He was like, yeah, yeah, my bad.
Speaker 8: You know they told me not to talk to me.
Speaker 8: I was like, yeah, they told you. I was like,
Speaker 8: but you owe me one souh But yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 8: That was probably my most frustrating moment probably since since
Speaker 8: I've been around the beat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't really answer that from the standpoint of
Speaker 5: just individual. I will answer from the standpoint of our group.
Speaker 5: I would say, probably there's been snapper, Well, yeah, there
Speaker 5: was some. Yeah, but I was gonna I was gonna
Speaker 5: say Roy Williams' safety and it's actually really cool now,
Speaker 5: but Nickel Nick Nichol need to tell you the story
Speaker 5: because he did not like our team. He didn't like
Speaker 5: what we did, the standpoint and stuff we run and stuff.
Speaker 4: Like that.
Speaker 5: And I know he and Nick had some moments and
Speaker 5: they've since had a good conversation and kind of has
Speaker 5: gotten better and uh and he actually even did a
Speaker 5: documentary with UH. So it kind of worked out on
Speaker 5: the other end. But Roy didn't like our group for
Speaker 5: whatever reason. He did not like what we did and UH,
Speaker 5: and that made it very difficult. He was one of
Speaker 5: the key players on the team at that time. So
Speaker 5: when you got a key player that doesn't really want
Speaker 5: to do stuff with you, doesn't want to kind of
Speaker 5: engage with you in that way, it's it makes it
Speaker 5: really really tough.
Speaker 3: Jay Ratliffe was hard to Yeah, I'm talking about all
Speaker 3: these older players, like when when I first started with
Speaker 3: with you guys with dot com and stuff, And you're right,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of these players that felt like
Speaker 3: that because and the way this is set up that
Speaker 3: Derek and the Jones family have it set up is
Speaker 3: you know, we report, we say what we say, you know,
Speaker 3: we're you know, we do what we see, and you know,
Speaker 3: we interact that way. And a lot of these players
Speaker 3: are like, wait a minute, we're all to be on
Speaker 3: the same team here, and and a lot of times
Speaker 3: you are, but there's a lot of times you have
Speaker 3: to be critical. Players don't They don't get that, and
Speaker 3: they just do not And it's tough because we do.
Speaker 3: We live with them every day and when you get
Speaker 3: on a plane or something like that, they look at
Speaker 3: you like, oh, here's the guy that's supposed to be
Speaker 3: on our team and he's not on our team. You
Speaker 3: know that that part of it was difficult.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes it tough, and so there there have
Speaker 5: been times when players just so like, but it's the
Speaker 5: best job.
Speaker 3: Best site in professional sports because of the being able
Speaker 3: to be objective about how the team's cover. And I
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 5: I think the way they look at it is kind
Speaker 5: of like your two faces like you're on the team,
Speaker 5: but then you're being critical and uh. And what what
Speaker 5: I've always when I've had those conversations, what I've always
Speaker 5: told him is, man, if we're ever wrong, let me know.
Speaker 5: We will retract if we're wrong, but otherwise it's our
Speaker 5: job to give you give an honest assessment of what
Speaker 5: we see.
Speaker 4: And and I know you know sometimes film, Yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean we have to.
Speaker 5: And and by the way, that puts a lot of
Speaker 5: that puts a lot of it that puts a lot
Speaker 5: of pressure on us because you have to make sure
Speaker 5: we're right.
Speaker 4: All the time.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 3: Uh oh. But Jason Witten mf me one day for
Speaker 3: being wrong. And Jason, I mean, I was on the
Speaker 3: staff that brought him here, drafted him. He came up
Speaker 3: to me and goes, when the f am I run
Speaker 3: the wrong route? And I'm like, well listen, I was saying.
Speaker 3: He goes, what do you know? And and it got in,
Speaker 3: it got where he drugged me out of the locker room,
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm like, okay, let's go. Well he goes,
Speaker 3: come on, let's go, arm around like my neck kind
Speaker 3: of like let's go, let's go. And I walked out
Speaker 3: thinking he's going to beat my ass outside of this
Speaker 3: locker room, you know, and he didn't.
Speaker 4: Kind of let see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been like showing up with blood, right yeah.
Speaker 3: But that it's in a way, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 3: exciting to be a part of all this and in
Speaker 3: a way you're just kind of but that's it's it's
Speaker 3: the best way. It's honestly the best way. Jason Garrett,
Speaker 3: Jason Garrett did wanted nothing to do with me. Now,
Speaker 3: nothing Every time he saw me hate smile, you know,
Speaker 3: like out, you know, being honest. You know, so you
Speaker 3: gotta gotta roll with it, Yetta, roll with it. Okay,
Speaker 3: these things are too honest, these questions.
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm gonna skip mine so we can get
Speaker 7: to the next.
Speaker 4: Only have a couple more minutes here.
Speaker 7: Well, you give a really long answer.
Speaker 3: I was too talking too long too.
Speaker 4: Bryan's just taking drink. Answer question and take a drink.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, what is what has been the most creative
Speaker 7: excuse you've used to get out of something or get
Speaker 7: away with something at work? Huh, we know we've all
Speaker 7: kind of don't shake your head, Derek, because I know
Speaker 7: you've this is this is just you that doesn't Yeah,
Speaker 7: this is every should start answer.
Speaker 6: The last one you should start.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you go first.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm trying to think the most.
Speaker 4: Make sure I get to take some notes for your.
Speaker 3: The most creative way to get out of work, Derek,
Speaker 3: you still always textas and say, hey, if it's icy
Speaker 3: out there, you don't have to come into work. And
Speaker 3: the weather report never called for ice, so I thought
Speaker 3: that was pretty creative a lot of the time.
Speaker 4: No, you know, me or a chance of ice on
Speaker 4: the road.
Speaker 3: I'm like, there were some days where Derek don't take
Speaker 3: any chance. Derek would say I don't feel like working today,
Speaker 3: and he would call he would call in the weather
Speaker 3: report and then like I drive in. I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: it's not.
Speaker 4: Bad, no, Brian. What Brian calls it a feats of strength.
Speaker 5: So what Brian does is Brian looks for moments to
Speaker 5: put his life in danger and he's like, I'm about
Speaker 5: to conquer this. And so he looks for ice and
Speaker 5: he's like, I can drive through this ice. He looks
Speaker 5: for bad situations, like I will go through this just
Speaker 5: because I want to prove I can go through this.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, and I want the other text. I'm like,
Speaker 5: if it's ice, I'm like, I don't want. Here's what
Speaker 5: I don't want, and this I don't want to sound
Speaker 5: too morbid. What I don't want is a whole bunch
Speaker 5: of people who report to me out on the ice.
Speaker 5: Somebody has an accident and I get a phone call
Speaker 5: that someone's been injured or worse, and and now I
Speaker 5: have to live with the fact that I didn't call
Speaker 5: it off to just don't I just might live with that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to have to deal with that. This
Speaker 5: why is a good boss me? I don't want to
Speaker 5: have to That's me. We're all here, all right. Whatever
Speaker 5: happens happens. Not everybody has the NASCAR driving skill that
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 6: I'm drinking, drink. I'm drinking here.
Speaker 7: I saw you pondering, like very serious. I think you
Speaker 7: come you came up with something in your head.
Speaker 6: I really just can't think that's really.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been so hungover you didn't show up?
Speaker 6: Well, I don't drink. That's a lot.
Speaker 3: That's right, you don't. That's right, that's right, you don't.
Speaker 6: Some late nights.
Speaker 4: Look working here, there's gonna be some times when you're
Speaker 4: gonna have.
Speaker 3: I remember some holiday parties.
Speaker 4: Just holiday parties are you know? We go to Nobu
Speaker 4: every year, but they're gonna be some days. Well, you
Speaker 4: got to come in the next day and be.
Speaker 3: Ready to let me tell you what the one of
Speaker 3: the and this is. I hope I don't get in
Speaker 3: trouble for this story. But when when we go to
Speaker 3: the combine and the one thing that Joneses are really
Speaker 3: good at is they have a good time. You know,
Speaker 3: they have a good time but you know what, when
Speaker 3: the time of day starts at eight am, they could
Speaker 3: they miss they they could be out till seven fifty
Speaker 3: five am, eight am. At eight am, they're standing there,
Speaker 3: they're they're sitting there with ball caps on and like
Speaker 3: watching guys run forties And I'm sitting there going how
Speaker 3: do they do that? How do they do this? But
Speaker 3: I say this in admiration. I don't say it in
Speaker 3: like whoa, whoa. I say it in how you're able
Speaker 3: to say. I feel like absolute garbage. But I'm going
Speaker 3: to work and they do that. They show up and
Speaker 3: they don't they don't bag out and all that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I say it in admiration.
Speaker 5: We've had we've had some times when we've gone out,
Speaker 5: like as a group, yeah to you know, we had
Speaker 5: meetings and then we'd go out to dinner and it
Speaker 5: would I'd be like feeling it. And literally the next
Speaker 5: morning when it was time to get up and we
Speaker 5: had meetings, they were first ones right there, ready to go.
Speaker 5: And it was not an excuse that we had a
Speaker 5: late night. That does not matter. You're gonna be there.
Speaker 3: You yeah, you need to show up. If they're going
Speaker 3: to show up, you show up.
Speaker 4: No doubt.
Speaker 3: That's how I always felt. I'll tell you this, man,
Speaker 3: I cannot, I cannot wave this one off. I've got
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 6: You know, whenever we.
Speaker 8: Have assistant coach availability, it's great because it's you don't
Speaker 8: get to talk to these guys very often. But it's
Speaker 8: kind of a drag because there's fifteen of them and
Speaker 8: they're all coming like a three at a time, and
Speaker 8: it's it's a.
Speaker 6: It's a lot going on.
Speaker 8: The last two times that we have had assistant coach availability,
Speaker 8: it has been the morning after an event that we've done.
Speaker 8: So two times ago, it was the retreat that we
Speaker 8: had our little department retreat and we got back, you know,
Speaker 8: early that morning, and then we walked right over to
Speaker 8: practice to do the assistant coach availability and everyone's just like,
Speaker 8: you know, kind of all disoriented. And then this last time,
Speaker 8: it was the night after NOBU at training camp, and
Speaker 8: so it's it feels like the assistants no whenever, we're great.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's get into our picks. We got about
Speaker 5: five minutes out here left on the show. I want
Speaker 5: to know who you think is gonna win, and then
Speaker 5: I would like to know your final score.
Speaker 4: Let's start with you.
Speaker 3: Brian Dallas twenty six Saints thirteen. Again, I think I
Speaker 3: did this last week. I think went twenty three thirteen.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go Cowboys twenty six Saints thirteen. I
Speaker 3: think Cowboys will play some good defense in this game.
Speaker 3: I think that the Saints were going to try and
Speaker 3: probably nickel and diming to death. They're probably gonna try
Speaker 3: and give you a lot of eye candy. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be about stopping Alvin Kamara. Chris o' lobby. You know,
Speaker 3: we'll see how he plays in this game. Foster Morose.
Speaker 3: The tight ends a little banged up. They're throwing the
Speaker 3: ball at the tight end. It's got to cover him
Speaker 3: a little bit. Their offensive line might be another one
Speaker 3: of those messes. When we get to this thing. I
Speaker 3: think Dallas at home, the offense seems to click. I
Speaker 3: bet you they get the running game going against this bunch.
Speaker 3: So I was twenty six Saints thirteen. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I see a similar structure here between the Browns last
Speaker 8: week and the Saints this week. The only difference being
Speaker 8: that there's a lot more coming out of the pack
Speaker 8: field for the Saints. So I'm gonna give the Saints
Speaker 8: a little bit more offensive credit than I gave the
Speaker 8: Browns last week, but I still have the Cowboys twenty
Speaker 8: seven to twenty one.
Speaker 6: I think the defense gets.
Speaker 8: After it, like you said, especially if the left side
Speaker 8: of that offensive line is out. But on offense, I'm
Speaker 8: definitely looking at that Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott connection.
Speaker 8: They only connected on fifty percent of targets last week.
Speaker 6: That was their second lowest in the last two years.
Speaker 8: So I want to see a little bit more connection there,
Speaker 8: a little bit more chemistry there. If those two guys
Speaker 8: can get on the same page, this offense can take off.
Speaker 7: On this defense, I have a similar score twenty seven
Speaker 7: twenty three Cowboys win. I think that after last week,
Speaker 7: they're gonna come back here at home and just have
Speaker 7: the good vibes for it They're gonna I think the
Speaker 7: defense is just gonna do the same thing right off
Speaker 7: the bat, come out strong, and go put pressure all
Speaker 7: throughout the game. I do see the running game kind
Speaker 7: of being a lot better this week than last week,
Speaker 7: so I do see that happening as well, and with
Speaker 7: a passing game, I mean, I'm expecting them with a
Speaker 7: score like that. That's not just Brendan Aubrey kicking field
Speaker 7: goals that it's actually the offense scoring points and getting
Speaker 7: into the en zone.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm interested to see this week. What we
Speaker 5: knew about or what we thought we knew about Cleveland
Speaker 5: going into that game was that they had a really
Speaker 5: good rushing attack from the previous year. They really didn't
Speaker 5: do much on the ground against the Cowboys, and I'm
Speaker 5: interested to see was that a function of the game
Speaker 5: or was that a function of this defense really having
Speaker 5: being fitzim or fixing the run defense for the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: We're about to find out in this game, because they
Speaker 5: got two formidable running backs that they will be facing
Speaker 5: this week. And I want to see if the Cowboys
Speaker 5: a defense can be just as good against the run
Speaker 5: as I think they were last week. And so I
Speaker 5: do think that'll happen. I think the Cowboys will run
Speaker 5: away with this one. I think they win thirty one
Speaker 5: to seven. Te I don't think it'll really be a
Speaker 5: particularly close game, but I think Cowboys will win big.
Speaker 3: Nothing better than a noon home game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, let me tell you, you're out of there by
Speaker 8: what six six thirty to go home at a good
Speaker 8: time in bed by you you.
Speaker 5: Can actually get to watch the Sunday night game.
Speaker 6: Great vibes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, real quick, before we end the show, I did
Speaker 5: want to ask this question.
Speaker 3: Everybody picked the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: I'd still everybody wanted to everybody picked the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: If the Cowboys, If the Cowboys don't win this week,
Speaker 4: what will be the reason why Nicholas start with you?
Speaker 8: I would say, I would say offensive consistency. I think
Speaker 8: we saw that problem kind of rear its head in
Speaker 8: the second half last week. And I think if we
Speaker 8: called back to last season, Yes, it was the first
Speaker 8: year under Mike McCarthy. Yes, there were some some things
Speaker 8: that were still trying to work out. Terrence Steele was
Speaker 8: getting back on the field for the first time since
Speaker 8: his injury, Tony Pollard as well, But there was a
Speaker 8: lot of offensive inconsistency we saw in the first six
Speaker 8: weeks last season. Was that a product of playing in
Speaker 8: the preseason as well? That's a question you might ask.
Speaker 8: And then they come out last week in the first
Speaker 8: half barrage. You know, it looked like they were just
Speaker 8: picking up right where they left off, and the second
Speaker 8: half hard stop, zero for five on third down. I
Speaker 8: believe Dak ended up with only twenty three yards in
Speaker 8: the second half four of twelve passing. Those numbers are rough,
Speaker 8: but it was around those numbers. If that carries into
Speaker 8: the first half against New Orleans, and I'm officially looking
Speaker 8: at this early season problem that they've had over the
Speaker 8: course of the last couple of years and being able
Speaker 8: to just find consistency on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 8: And I think whenever you look at the problems that
Speaker 8: this offense is facing in a vacuum in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 8: it's Ceedee Lamb getting back into a rhythm. It's trying
Speaker 8: to figure out this running game with Ezekiel Elliott, Rego Dubell.
Speaker 8: What does that distribution look like in this case, in
Speaker 8: this specific game, Jake Ferguson, if he cannot play, how
Speaker 8: did they factor that in and how do they make
Speaker 8: up for that?
Speaker 6: Just a couple of things.
Speaker 8: I think if offensively they cannot find consistent rhythm, then
Speaker 8: I think New Orleans can beat them in these games if.
Speaker 3: It turns into an Arizona game. Last year, we're all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, Arizona was making a huge place, you know,
Speaker 3: running plays, pass plays, and Dallas really didn't have an
Speaker 3: answer for that day. You know there's some big, big
Speaker 3: plays that were giving up in that game and that
Speaker 3: won it for Arizona. And if Dallas doesn't, if Dallas
Speaker 3: gives up a bunch of big plays allows car to
Speaker 3: feel comfortable a lot of they has some catches all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, that running back looks like the all
Speaker 3: Pro he can be. Then this could be a repeat
Speaker 3: of Arizona because they're capable of making some big plays
Speaker 3: in the running game and also throwing the football.
Speaker 7: I would say if there were to lose this game,
Speaker 7: I could see it because of lack of creativity on
Speaker 7: the offensive side of the ball, but also penalties, like
Speaker 7: creating some penalties that just put you in a really
Speaker 7: bad position at really bad time. So that wouldn't my answer, right.
Speaker 8: If I could two streaks to keep an eye on
Speaker 8: when it comes to this game specifically, Yes, the Cowboys
Speaker 8: did lose at home to the Packers in the playoffs,
Speaker 8: but if we're talking about regular season home winning streaks,
Speaker 8: the Cowboys have won sixteen in a row. That is
Speaker 8: only two off of the franchise record. So if they're
Speaker 8: able to get to win this week and against the
Speaker 8: Ravens next week, then we're officially starting to talk about
Speaker 8: franchise record setting numbers, but they are tied with the
Speaker 8: New England Patriots for twelfth all time, as well as
Speaker 8: the Pottsville Maroons.
Speaker 3: The Maroons were good. I'm still approgram Bulldog Turner good
Speaker 3: center for them.
Speaker 6: The other the other streak to keep an eye on.
Speaker 8: Twenty three straight times the Dallas Cowboys have lost whenever
Speaker 8: they have scored less than twenty points. The last time
Speaker 8: that they did win against the Saints thirteen to ten,
Speaker 8: that Thursday night game back at twenty eighth Lewis Yep,
Speaker 8: Jordan Lewis game. Jalen Smith had a big game in
Speaker 8: that in that one as well, but that was the
Speaker 8: last time that the Cowboys scored less than twenty in
Speaker 8: one game.
Speaker 5: All Right, we appreciate you guys joining us. I will
Speaker 5: say real quick, there are two players for the Saints.
Speaker 5: I think you got to keep an eye on Rashid
Speaker 5: Rashid Sure, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Rashid Shahed that's tough. And Chris Olave.
Speaker 5: Both those two guys for different reasons, but I think
Speaker 5: they're big play type receivers and if we I think
Speaker 5: if the Cowboys do lose this game, we will look
Speaker 5: up and those two guys will have made some big plays.
Speaker 5: Because I think right now, what we don't know is
Speaker 5: Caylen Carson looked pretty good last week. I think this
Speaker 5: is a different type of challenge this week. So we're
Speaker 5: gonna get a chance to see him against some speed guys,
Speaker 5: some guys that can get down feel real quick, and
Speaker 5: we'll find out how well he plays in those situations.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 5: We'll tell you what and right and wrong for the
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Speaker 4: I'm Derek Goton.
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