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Speaker 1: Shannon Gross. Your host, Shannon Gross. It is Wednesday night,

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Speaker 1: seven pm in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. This is

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Speaker 1: one oh five three the Fan and that can mean

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Speaker 1: only one thing that the best show of the week

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Speaker 1: is now live and on the air. Welcome to Cowboys Crosstalk.

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Speaker 1: Shannon Gross here live from the s WBC Mortgage Studio

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Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco. Joined by my co host

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Speaker 1: on Hanging with the Boys, which now is sitting across

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Speaker 1: this beautiful plexiglass from me, Nate Newton and joined from

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Speaker 1: one oh five three the Fan Studios, Sterling Daniels. How

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Speaker 1: are you doing, Sterling? Fantastic? How you gentlemen tonight? We

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Speaker 1: are wonderful. You're looking good. You blend in with the

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Speaker 1: background there. It's a good look, man, It's a really

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Speaker 1: good look, and I am going to let my co

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Speaker 1: host tonight Nate Newton introduced our special alumni guest, because

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Speaker 1: you guys have a little bit of a history. You

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Speaker 1: guys spent several several years on a championship football team

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Speaker 1: together and I just found out today you guys were roommates.

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Speaker 1: So Nate, I am gonna let you introduce our special

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Speaker 1: alumni guest tonight. Take it away, Nate Newton. Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I special guest. Man. He was a rookie. I think

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Speaker 1: he's from a pastouh. He gonna correct me once he

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Speaker 1: come on there. I think he was a fourth round pick.

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Speaker 1: He was. We were roommates for nine years. I saw

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Speaker 1: him go from one hundred and forty five pounds or

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Speaker 1: two sixty five and to knee operations, two way up

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Speaker 1: replacements and everything. Uh should have been a pro bowler

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Speaker 1: many years, but he wasn't because he had so many

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Speaker 1: great players in the league. Man run extraordinary. Wanted to

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Speaker 1: be more of a sad guy, but Jeff Coote rod

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Speaker 1: him over a few years. So without father through my

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Speaker 1: friend the Gypsid. How you doing, Yeah, I'm doing well,

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Speaker 1: and so we're doing great. Man now Sterling. You and

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Speaker 1: I are gonna have to fight for airtime. It's okay,

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Speaker 1: it's all right because I can tell where this is going.

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Speaker 1: Nate's gonna go down memory Lane, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: we might just have to let them go because this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a fun show. Hey man. As long

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Speaker 1: as we get some good stories out of this, that's

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Speaker 1: what makes it the best show of the week. You know.

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Speaker 1: Now we're here, we've got two legends together. What the reminiscent?

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, we'll work it out, work out.

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Speaker 1: So Tony, where are you living these days? What are

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Speaker 1: you up to fill us in a little bit about

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Speaker 1: what's going on? By the way, nice backdrop, nice little

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Speaker 1: mic drop over the right shoulder with the three Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl trophies or in the shot there you go sliding

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Speaker 1: a little. Yeah, everybody can be back, that can't. No.

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Speaker 1: I'm living in South Lake currently. You know, I've been

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Speaker 1: basically working out, watching my young men grow up, um

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Speaker 1: working at matter of fact, when Nate's son was in

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Speaker 1: high school, I was working on Nate's son along with

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Speaker 1: my son, yeah, my oldest son, for high school football,

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Speaker 1: and just trying to enjoy life like everybody else. He

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Speaker 1: was a way better dad than me. Yeah, he goes.

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Speaker 1: He would take the time while he was taking the

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Speaker 1: time working out the kids. I was at the local

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Speaker 1: bar drinking and I called him, Man, to you, how

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Speaker 1: did they work out? Dad had to get on a

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Speaker 1: I drink one for you, bro. Yeah, the boys are

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Speaker 1: pretty much I think they were a year behind each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they have the same qualities. Um, And it's an

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Speaker 1: easy connection since me and they, you know, were roommates,

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Speaker 1: every every nine then? Because I played on the left

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Speaker 1: was just to battle. Yeah, it's interesting because I went

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Speaker 1: it was a long damn practice. I was the easiest

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Speaker 1: the last segment. Go out with a bang. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear some stories. I want to hear some good Tony.

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Speaker 1: that I can carry over to the show that we

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Speaker 1: So save that. We'll save that for the last segment.

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Speaker 1: We'll go down memory lane. Let you guys talk about

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Speaker 1: the old days and all that stuff. Right now, Sterling,

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Speaker 1: what's happened the first half of the season. I think

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Speaker 1: we all have just you know what, this is typical

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Speaker 1: cowboy football. I got a little hope going into Minnesota

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Speaker 1: after this. I wrote them off Pittsburgh undefeated. They come in,

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Speaker 1: they have a respectable showing. We're not going to bring

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Speaker 1: up the word moral victory on this show because I

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Speaker 1: so far this year? You know, I do think the

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Speaker 1: I think Mike Nolan as a defensive coordinator starting to

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Speaker 1: don't think this team could enk with Tony. What's your

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Speaker 1: assessment of these twenty twenty Cowboys so far this season? Well, offensively,

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Speaker 1: you have great skill guys. But and then when when

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Speaker 1: just technique. If you know, you see guys running into

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Speaker 1: with Dalvin Cook coming in. Um, you think Washington was

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Speaker 1: because the conference is so bad and and and you

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Speaker 1: let go. And now you're in makeup mode. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's time to go out and do what you need

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Speaker 1: to do. Nate, We're gonna take our first break when

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Speaker 1: we come back. You've had a week and a half

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Speaker 1: When you're going up against the talent like Dalvin Cook.

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Speaker 1: Not only do you have to get there, be in position,

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Speaker 1: him first time so he's not able to break two

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Speaker 1: three tackles and really get going and be a potential

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Speaker 1: to a threat to your your defense. Last I was

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Speaker 1: watching the film against the Bears, and he had thirty

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Speaker 1: carriers for only ninety two yards maybe three point three average.

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Speaker 1: And I watched the film and I watched the run.

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Speaker 1: I remember one time they checked was running to the

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Speaker 1: weak side, but they brought there's running back to the

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Speaker 1: guys with the less guys on the side of the

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Speaker 1: field is running back to the bubble, but they blitzed

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Speaker 1: off of that backside. I'm talking about a corner. Delvin

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Speaker 1: took a step and saw that corner to the far

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Speaker 1: right and cut back behind him set the f a

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Speaker 1: hit for a loss. He got a two yard game.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, brother, that's elite to be going to

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Speaker 1: your left and to feel that pressure coming down off

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Speaker 1: that right side and the cut back underneath it and

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Speaker 1: steal gains some yards. I'm saying to myself, do not

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Speaker 1: feel your gaps this week, and you will see what

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Speaker 1: the glory looks like. All Right, We're gonna take our

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Speaker 1: next break when we come back. I may have to

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Speaker 1: put a muzzle on Nate to get this, to get

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Speaker 1: this segment over with. I don't believe we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: quarterback because Nate, it is a topic. It is a

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Speaker 1: hot topic, and I want to know what America's team. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe so, but it's still a hot topic. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get into We're gonna have some quarterback talk and

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Speaker 1: then we're gonna get into a stroll down memory lane

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Speaker 1: with our special guest, Tony Tolbert. Nate Newton Shanegroes, Sterling,

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Speaker 1: that is not true. You have never been able to

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Speaker 1: not talk, Sterling Daniels. We will be back this Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Cross Talk or the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network w to

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Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgages Cowboys Cross Talk about broadcasting live from

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star in Frisco. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the show. Shannon Gross, Nate Newton holding it

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Speaker 1: down here at the Star, Sterling Daniels holding it down

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Speaker 1: at the Flagship Station one oh five three, and our

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Speaker 1: special guest tonight, Tony Tilbert holding it down over in

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Speaker 1: south Lake with his massive collection of silver polished silver

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Speaker 1: that looks so blessed behind him. Back to it now, Nate,

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Speaker 1: just just sit there for a minute and listen, because

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Speaker 1: I need to ask Sterling a question. Sterling, Shannon, Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton or Garrett Gilbert this week. Don't let Nate influence you.

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Speaker 1: Don't latinate influence you. I'm not gonna latinate influence me.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try my hardest. But I will say this

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Speaker 1: one thing about Garrett Gilbert that I love seeing last week.

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Speaker 1: He looks very comfortable and confident back there, and when

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Speaker 1: you are going into his situation, especially with a depleted

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Speaker 1: offensive line. You need to have that confidence. You need

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Speaker 1: to let that carry over to the rest of your

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Speaker 1: team and say, hey, we're not out of this. I've

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Speaker 1: got this. Let's just get let's just go handle our

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Speaker 1: business and take care of it, and we'll get it done.

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Speaker 1: When I saw Andy Dalton out there, aside from when

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Speaker 1: he came in after Dak got hurt in the Giants game,

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Speaker 1: I haven't really seen him look too comfortable. He didn't

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Speaker 1: really look super confident. I know Arizona was bringing a

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Speaker 1: lot of different looks at him, I know that Washington

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Speaker 1: was bringing a lot of different looks at him, but

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Speaker 1: he didn't really look comfortably, didn't look confident. I think

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Speaker 1: if you're looking for a better chance to win, you

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Speaker 1: ride with the hot hand. That's you know, that's what

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Speaker 1: was the whole thing. When Dak took over for Tony Romo.

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Speaker 1: You rode with the hot hand you got. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not I'm not saying. I'm not saying Garrett Gilbert's Dak presscott,

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Speaker 1: let's pump the brakes. But until Garrett Gilbert gives you

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Speaker 1: a reason to pull him and saying no, you're not,

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Speaker 1: you're not exhibiting the confidence. We're not where we want.

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Speaker 1: You're not being the quarterback I can having the level

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Speaker 1: of play that we're looking for. I don't see why

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Speaker 1: you pull him out, especially if he seems that there's

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Speaker 1: some chemistry starting to build out there. Tony, were your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of with Sterling. I don't mind if Gilbert

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Speaker 1: plays another game, you know, starting the game. I think

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Speaker 1: if he can can duplicate that success that he had

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Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, because Pittsburgh you won't see another defense maybe

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore that has all these exotic blitzes and and

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Speaker 1: you know they come from different angles. He did a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff, you know, stepped up in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: he took off, he gave the receiver as a chance

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Speaker 1: to catch the ball. He just threw the damn ball

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Speaker 1: and gave them my opportunity to to, you know, make plays.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you want to do. You know, zimm

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Speaker 1: is gonna probably keep it simple from the standpoint. He

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Speaker 1: plays a lot of cover too. They play a deep

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Speaker 1: safety over the top, so you're gonna know where the

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Speaker 1: guy's gonna be at. Now. The problem is, you know,

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Speaker 1: like like they said earlier, they're gonna blitz one guy

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Speaker 1: off the corner, one guy up the middle, maybe two

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Speaker 1: guys up the middle. Can he move around and create

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Speaker 1: enough space and time for guys to get open. But

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Speaker 1: I like the kid, you know, Like I said, I

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Speaker 1: think if he plays against Philadelphia, they win that game probably,

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Speaker 1: you know, just looking at him, they probably win the

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Speaker 1: Washington game, you know, because of his athletic ability, and

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Speaker 1: he one thing he will not do is hold onto

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Speaker 1: that ball. He's gonna get rid of that ball. And

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Speaker 1: I like it. Yep, I'm in favor of Gilbert. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm wait, Nate, I'm with you, guys, believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, Nate, I am on the Gilbert train. I

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Speaker 1: think Gilbert made his offensive line look better. He looked comfortable,

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Speaker 1: like you said, Sterling, he looked like it wasn't too

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Speaker 1: big for him. He was composed. The team, to me,

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Speaker 1: had a little bit more swagger to it around him,

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Speaker 1: which to me is a huge deal, especially with as

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Speaker 1: banged up as they are. I think he gave them

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Speaker 1: confidence and he controlled the game. He didn't let the

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Speaker 1: game control him. It did not look like, especially with

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Speaker 1: the Steelers and the defense that they have, he never

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Speaker 1: looked like the moment was bigger than him. And listen,

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Speaker 1: I was a big Andy Dalton fan when they signed him.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think, yeah, we you know, I thought

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Speaker 1: that was obviously there was gonna be a drop off

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Speaker 1: between Dak and Andy Dalton, but I didn't think the

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Speaker 1: drop off was gonna be that extreme. I probably undervalued

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Speaker 1: what Dak was to this team, especially with the banged

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Speaker 1: up offensive line. So I am. I am team Gilbert.

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Speaker 1: And if you're gonna go with this, you know he's

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Speaker 1: an older guy, but in terms of being in this offense,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna go with this youth movement, let's just

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Speaker 1: go across the board. You know what you got in

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. You know he was probably here for a

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Speaker 1: year anyway, maybe an additional year. Let's let Gilbert ride

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Speaker 1: this out. Let's see if he's the backup quarterback of

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Speaker 1: the future. See what you got, and let's go with it. Now, Nate,

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Speaker 1: go ahead and gloat and give your thoughts. Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Let me say it's because you know, it's two guys

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Speaker 1: on this team that I ran and raved about. One's

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Speaker 1: gone and one's gone and the other one I'm against.

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Speaker 1: Now I can't Tony. I bragged, and I preached, and

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Speaker 1: I prayed and I glorified done Terry Pole and this

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Speaker 1: dude didn't even want to play. And then my second

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Speaker 1: guy was was ended up. I was just so excited.

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Speaker 1: I was just over the top. And then when I

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Speaker 1: saw him play, he was so uncomfortable. It's like he

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Speaker 1: does better if you don't have to think. If he

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Speaker 1: just like when he when when uh Dak went down,

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Speaker 1: he just went in and he and he and he

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Speaker 1: did what he had to do. But it gave him

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Speaker 1: a week to think about it, and they gave him

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Speaker 1: another week and it didn't get better. Now, the word

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Speaker 1: I get is they didn't have the right guard, so

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Speaker 1: I was what the right guard. The other guy did

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Speaker 1: out the right guard. But I'm saying he's right here man.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, we talked about it earlier on our show.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is not the guy you're gonna start and

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Speaker 1: then take it away from him. If you're gonna do that,

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Speaker 1: do that with Gilbert, let him play another game, and

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Speaker 1: then if he doesn't do well, then you put Dalton in.

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Speaker 1: And like I said, I'm not giving up on the season.

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Speaker 1: But the out of the three games, who looks the

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Speaker 1: most comfortable, and that's the that's the Billy calmer looking like, what,

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Speaker 1: what's what's the thought process behind? You? Would rather start

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Speaker 1: Gilbert and pull him for Dalton instead of starting Dalton

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Speaker 1: and Pully because if you if Dalton came here saying,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit behind Dad, I'm gonna learn from McCarthy,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick his brain to be a better quarterback

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Speaker 1: because I eventually want to start somewhere else. This is

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Speaker 1: that team, and I want to go somewhere and start.

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Speaker 1: If you start Dalton Andy Dalton and things go haywire

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Speaker 1: and they pull him, it's thirty two other scouts and

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Speaker 1: it's thirty one other teams saying, oh, oh he don't

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Speaker 1: have it no more. So now he'll be scrambling just

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Speaker 1: to be somebody's backup next year. Because, believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: teams will tell you, oh, it didn't matter, it didn't matter. Bro,

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Speaker 1: don't get don't get treated that way. The figure out

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Speaker 1: that it does matter. Yeah, offensive line, you brought the

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Speaker 1: offensive line up the right guard? What how how would

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Speaker 1: you grade this offensive line so far this season? I'm

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Speaker 1: giving him a C. I'm giving him a C or

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Speaker 1: a c plus a great great effort. These a lot

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Speaker 1: of these guys are not winning because they don't have experience.

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Speaker 1: You know. Now it's a little different for the right

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Speaker 1: tackle because he's not strong. He's not physically strong. He's

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Speaker 1: quick and he's long. He's everything that you look for

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Speaker 1: when you look at a tackle boom his picture shows up.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at the plan like whoa, he's

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Speaker 1: not strong. He is not strong. So when you're not

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Speaker 1: strong with long arms and leverage, you give a lot

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Speaker 1: of ground and people and then you you doubt yourself

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Speaker 1: and you get beat. That was That's the only guy.

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Speaker 1: Everybody else, even cam Irving who I was not how

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Speaker 1: it held his ground last week against some great pass rushers.

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Speaker 1: So from cam Irvin to even our left guard, he

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Speaker 1: looks okay. Coach Philbin I've said the weekend and week

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Speaker 1: out has done a master for job with a bunch

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Speaker 1: of twenty two year old guys who was in their

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Speaker 1: first year trying to learn how to block full grown

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Speaker 1: this this would be a year Toba where we see

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Speaker 1: the better defenses in this league. This offense if we're

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Speaker 1: seeing some and some moreis yet to come. You know this,

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Speaker 1: you know, just to add to that, this may be

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Speaker 1: one of the like he said, one of the worst

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Speaker 1: divisions to plague. You got Baltimore, you got Cleveland's got

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Speaker 1: a decent defense, You got pitch for San Francisco. The

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Speaker 1: first round. Yeah, you have four first round picks. And

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Speaker 1: this is the year that your offensive lind goes down

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Speaker 1: the toilet to do the injury or any other thing.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's really really hard to gauge what you have.

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Speaker 1: And like he said, you know, like I remember coming

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Speaker 1: into the league and the first time I got a

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Speaker 1: chance to play, and I was going against I think

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Speaker 1: it was Jackie Slater, Yes, yes, and Jackie Slater, you

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Speaker 1: know he got He had this big old head and

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Speaker 1: he was strong. It was compact, and Jackie hit me

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Speaker 1: one time. I was like, damn, you don't have to

635
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Speaker 1: scratch my head. And I really finally realized, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm not in college. I'm going against a grown man

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Speaker 1: who's paying a mortgage. And so that changed my approach

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Speaker 1: on how I started to play football and how I

639
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 1: had to work out, And like Nate said, the worst

640
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Speaker 1: thing you can do is go against the guy, get beat,

641
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: and then your confidence goals. Yeah, once you get your

642
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, once they were competitive. You saw the difference

643
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Speaker 1: in a team that believed when they were playing Pittsburgh.

644
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: Matter in fact, you saw it in Philadelphia if it

645
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: wasn't for that one play call when they did that

646
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: little reverse play. That team had established something running the

647
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: ball and they were getting behind their pads and you

648
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: saw the confidence come out. Play calling took it away

649
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh they let them be what they you know,

650
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: they let them just play the ball and do what

651
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 1: they needed to do and you can see the big difference.

652
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 1: And that's you know that. Like again, you hope a

653
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: lot of those things they did for Pritsburgh carries over

654
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Speaker 1: to this week. I'll tell you what, you guys got

655
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: me thinking I might pick the Cowboys this week. Like

656
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: I was totally off. You guys are talking me into it. Sterning,

657
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: how you feel about this offensive line? You know, I

658
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: do think the C grade is a pretty accurate place

659
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: to go, just because of the talent level what you're

660
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: looking at, and when you do have that type of

661
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Speaker 1: line or lack of talented to stay on your offensive line,

662
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: I think it does fall a little bit more on

663
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Speaker 1: the play calling to make that offensive line look better,

664
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Speaker 1: and and you know, uh, and Tony Mention did about

665
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: how when the play calling took it away from them

666
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, But I would say when you saw them

667
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: play against you know, uh, Pittsburgh, play calling kind of help.

668
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, well, let's let's try to get

669
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Speaker 1: the ball out a little bit quicker, let's do let's

670
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Speaker 1: run this, and once you are able to start creating

671
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of balance in your attack, that's going

672
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: to be the way that you're going to stay in

673
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: this type of the game. Uh. Now, the only reason

674
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: that I don't feel, you know, full confidence yet in

675
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Speaker 1: the offensive line is because I do think you still

676
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: need a few more weeks to get this line that

677
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: it seems like it's going to be the line going

678
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: forward to mesh a little bit more. But you're going

679
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: up against a Vikings team that's missing their two best

680
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: pass rushers. They're they're they're hurting on the defensive side

681
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: of the ball. So this is a good opportunity for

682
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Speaker 1: the offensive line to possibly get something going and then

683
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: build off of this success that they've had. And same

684
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: with the defense learning their personnel, the offense is now

685
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Speaker 1: learning their personnel. And if you can incorporate what works

686
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: best for your team. You're gonna set yourself up for

687
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:15,280
Speaker 1: some success. Young man Eric Wilson is playing. Kendricks is playing.

688
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 1: Am I correct, that is true. Harrison Smith is fan.

689
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: They got just enough smart ball players and playmakers. These

690
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: three guys I mentioned are playmakers, and then they are

691
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 1: technicians and disciplining what they do. And so when Zim

692
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: was losing those games earlier, I was talking to some

693
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 1: other guys and I was telling them, like Zim ain't

694
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: even worried. He got rid of a good pass. Rush

695
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: traded him because he didn't see where he fit in

696
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: his future. He went to his Jim Haymond, let this

697
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: guy go get what you can get. You have to

698
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: make a sacrifice that's unforced. You have to make a

699
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: sense the Cowboys. Once we saw that done, Terry was

700
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 1: not the guy. He stayed around here six weeks too long.

701
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: Six weeks too long, Everson Griffin. Once you decide that

702
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: you couldn't play standing up, you stayed or four weeks

703
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:17,359
Speaker 1: too long, you have to make a sacrifice somewhere in

704
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: your season. And I'm telling you, Jimmy Johnson, once he

705
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: decided tob it is my defensive end. That was nobody

706
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: else because he showed me. Once he decided to go

707
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: a pop Smith, it's over. You have to make decisions, man,

708
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: Don't let a decision make you. A decision made us

709
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: and hurt our defense. And now we're sitting here eight

710
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: weeks in, nine weeks in talking about guys. Hey, man,

711
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: they look better. They look good. If we were to

712
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: sacrifice four or five games eight weeks ago, guess what

713
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: we would be now. And I'm not saying we will

714
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: be have two more wins and three more wins, but

715
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: we'll be talking about this team in a different way.

716
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: Let's take our last break when we come back. Let's

717
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: stroll down memory lane, good old story time with Sterling.

718
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: Think of a question you can ask Tony. Maybe if Nate,

719
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: if Nata let you with the Game of Thrones, he

720
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: gonna tell us Tobert because you know this is a

721
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: little midget guy. I'm sorry, I take that back. He

722
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: was vertically challenged for correcting yourself. Nate will last break

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Speaker 1: when we come back. You're listening to Cowboys Cross Talk

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Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network to s WBC Mortgages.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys Cross Talk about broadcasting live from Dallas, Cowboys World

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Speaker 1: Headquarters at the Star in Frisco. Nate Newton in studio

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Speaker 1: with me in the s WBC Mortgage studio, and very

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Speaker 1: special guest Tony Tolbert s w BC Mortgage. These guys

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Speaker 1: right here the customized solutions to help you meet your

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Speaker 1: personal and business goals. Do like Nate did during the

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Speaker 1: break and visit SWBC dot com for more and you

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Speaker 1: might even be able to start an adventure. And speaking

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Speaker 1: of adventures, before we get to you, Nate and Tony, Tony,

734
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Speaker 1: I'm very interested to hear stories from you, Sterling. Would

735
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Speaker 1: you like to ask our distinguished guest Tony a question

736
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: I do. I would like to Sterling, and I want

737
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: to know because when you first got here to the

738
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: Cowboys not necessarily the best of situations record wise, it

739
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: wasn't the quite the successful team. But at some point

740
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: there within the next few seasons, you guys changed into

741
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: a championship team that would go on to run. Was

742
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: there a moment that you started to notice in the

743
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: locker room or within yourself or within the team that

744
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:54,800
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, this is a team

745
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: here that we're going to be able to compete for

746
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: a championship and this is going to be the new

747
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: caliber that we're We're going to have to hold our

748
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: standards too. Oh um, Well, I could tell you this.

749
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: The first year we were won in fifteen. Yeah, and

750
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: when I got drafted, I was in the defensive a

751
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: meeting room with Ed Jones, jim Jeff Coo, I think

752
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: Mark whal and Danny Newton and in that locker in

753
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: that d line meeting room, Jimmy was slowly cutting some

754
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: of these guys and I was sitting and I was like, Okay,

755
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: what the hell is grey happening here? In the middle

756
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: of the year, he traded Herschel. Now at the time,

757
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: you know, Troy was getting the crap beat out of him.

758
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: Herschel was basically our only offense. And when Herschel left,

759
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know what the hell we're

760
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: gonna do. So we accumulated all these picks and we

761
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: drafted well, you know, and met some of the other guys.

762
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: The second year we played, I think we played maybe

763
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 1: Arizona or Tampa Bay back to back like twice within

764
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: three weeks. We won two out of those games. We'll

765
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: be Tampa Bay twice and the guys started to come together.

766
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: We started getting guys off of waivers, and we started,

767
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, some of the young guys were starting to play.

768
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: And we could see, like through the experience basically baptism

769
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: by fire, we could see some of the guys, you know,

770
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: we were instead of losing games the way we did

771
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: one in fifteen years, we were starting to lose games,

772
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: you know, differently, but it was closer. We had closed

773
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: the gap within a year. And so I'm sitting him,

774
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, we got a chance. I didn't

775
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: know it was going to turn out, you know, three

776
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: Super Bowls and four years that kind of chance, and

777
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for it. But you can see the team

778
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 1: starting to change. And what's interesting, a lot of people

779
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: don't know when we won the fifteen and they could

780
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: tell you that we play Sunday on Monday, when we

781
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: wasn't on Monday. We play Sunday. Yeah, we have got Yeah,

782
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Speaker 1: we have thirty guys or forty guys outside the window

783
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: working out on a Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, he would

784
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 1: sign three or four those guys. They would play practice

785
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: with us, play on Sunday and he would cut him

786
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: and I'm you know, my first year in the NFL,

787
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is a cutthroat sport. But I realized

788
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: what he was doing. He was trying to create an

789
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: atmosphere where we had young guys. He could push us

790
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: as hard as he could and we would see some success.

791
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 1: And fortunate enough we did. That second year, we went

792
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: from I mean we went from one to fifteen to

793
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: seven and nine, I believe, and we were still in

794
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: it the last week when we even though Babe Laufenberg

795
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 1: was our quarterback at the time, we were still in

796
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: itto the last two games, and um, you know the

797
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: next year it just carried over and they kept carrying over,

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00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: so we we we saw it. Yea he And I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something, h It just amazes me the

800
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: way the Sarah capp has got a lot of teams

801
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,760
Speaker 1: strapped because the one though Sarah capped it was playing

802
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: B free agency and so the owners could spend what

803
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: they want. So I think miss Jones and did that

804
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: on purpose, like, you know what, man, we need to

805
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: cap ourselves. They explain the plan U explained that Plan B.

806
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,720
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people don't know that past twenty

807
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: five man, you know what, what I really don't remember

808
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: because I never got a chance to take advantage of it.

809
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: It was thirty five guys they protected, yes, and then

810
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: I think it was like fifteen and the practice squad,

811
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: and then like seven eight other guys they were allowed

812
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: to sign with another team. Yes they were. And when

813
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,320
Speaker 1: they signed with another team, team, you were giving draft

814
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: compensation for it. So that's what Plan B was. Yeah,

815
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you what's amazing about all of

816
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: that is the fact that, uh, the competition was always there.

817
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't no, it was no relaxing. You know. Jimmy.

818
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy would tell you I got the longest contract here.

819
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: So he would he would and he'd be like, you

820
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: know what, and if he needed to make a sacrificial

821
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: lamb of a guy, he didn't. He didn't care. He

822
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: wanted you to know that it was a certain level

823
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: that we was gonna practice. We only practice, like I

824
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: tip me, we practiced an hour and a half hour

825
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: and forty five minutes. Jimmy was like, Yeah, we're gonna hit,

826
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be only hour and forty five minutes.

827
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: We didn't stand out here longer than that. But you're

828
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: gonna give me what you got, you know, and a

829
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,839
Speaker 1: couple of times he showed like maybe side practice over

830
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: with we're in the middle of seven or seven, just

831
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,879
Speaker 1: got we got ten plays to go against Ober. There's

832
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: seven mean what it was seven or seven? Toba? Was it? Yeah? No?

833
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: And nine or nine, but they was allowed to have

834
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: safety and so it was really eleven on nine and

835
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: and we would be on it like the ninth play.

836
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: Oh this ain't this ain't working right. Oh, y'all, don't

837
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: mess him too many? Play started over? May you talk

838
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: about knuckles bleeding, dudes hating each other each time? He's right,

839
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: we have about a minute. I think Nate did this

840
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 1: on purpose. He kept talking so you wouldn't tell a story,

841
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: tell us a quick Nate Newton's story. He don't have

842
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: a little quick. Yeah I got. I mean the first

843
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: time me and Nate went out one time and uh,

844
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: you know, he was in between Luther Vandross and yell know,

845
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 1: Luther Vandro's body and you know, this was Big Nate

846
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,800
Speaker 1: at the time. And so we drove to water Burger,

847
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: Oh my god, and so Big Nate go through the

848
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: drive through. He's like, you know, I'm kind of hungry

849
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, you know, no problem, you know,

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Speaker 1: And then second I'm like, dude, you're gonna eat this

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Speaker 1: So he's like and then he looks at Me's like,

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Speaker 1: do you want anything? I was like, no, I'm good, dog.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate good man, appreciate it. Oh, fellas, this has

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Speaker 1: you for hanging out with me for an hour again

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