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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, Episode number eighty nine. Welcome
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Speaker 1: We got lots of different things that we gotta hit today.
Speaker 1: We didn't have a show yesterday, so we didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk about the latest addition to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: One t Y Hilton wide receiver spent most of his career,
Speaker 1: I actually all of his career within Indianapolis Colts. A
Speaker 1: very very successful career, I would say, and Dallas gets
Speaker 1: a shot at him now bringing them onto their roster.
Speaker 1: Uh tell me, first of all, I guess, let's let's
Speaker 1: go around the table. How much do you like to move?
Speaker 1: What do you like about it? I like that he's
Speaker 1: ready to play right now. He's ready, and he's he's
Speaker 1: and he's a veteran guy that doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of wear and tear on him this year. And I
Speaker 1: think that that should you know, he's a smart player.
Speaker 1: I think it's a guy that can come in and
Speaker 1: just sort of help them, probably gives them some things
Speaker 1: that you know that they wanted James Washington to provide,
Speaker 1: but maybe he can provide a little bit better. He
Speaker 1: has that physical aspect, the physical attributes that I like
Speaker 1: in a wide receiver. And I've mentioned James Washington for
Speaker 1: quite a bit. I'm not a fan of and nothing
Speaker 1: against him again, I just he's not my prototype for
Speaker 1: wide receipt with you. Yeah, it's just yeah, he's just
Speaker 1: too like heavy. He's just heavy, and a guy like him.
Speaker 1: I like his physique, he has the experience, he's a
Speaker 1: varying guy. Like Nick said, he can come in and play.
Speaker 1: That was a very, very, by the way, very surprising move.
Speaker 1: I did not expect the Cowboys to go out and
Speaker 1: hire and find a contract with a guy like him,
Speaker 1: a guy that we haven't even been mentioning, I think
Speaker 1: all of our attention has been on oh b J.
Speaker 1: And my understanding is that based on everything that Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones keeps saying, the doors are still open and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens in that regards. But it's exciting. It's
Speaker 1: exciting to have him come in here and see what
Speaker 1: he can do on offense, and just I would assume
Speaker 1: he would automatically take over what James Washington was trying
Speaker 1: to do in this last game and Jalen Tolber, maybe
Speaker 1: Noah Brown as well. So we'll see how he can
Speaker 1: elevate this offense. But I think it brings a breath
Speaker 1: of fresh air into the wide receiver group. He does
Speaker 1: something that he's a really good run or routes, a
Speaker 1: good zone coverages, you know, and that's something that when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last week in that game against the Texans,
Speaker 1: they saw a lot of zone and it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that kind of makes their offense a little
Speaker 1: straine sometimes when people play zone against them, their routes,
Speaker 1: the combinations of the routes, I think they're much better
Speaker 1: route running team against man coverage than there are zone
Speaker 1: coverage teams. And so you have a guy that has
Speaker 1: that ability to play underneath. He knows how to run,
Speaker 1: how to stop, how to settle down, how to get
Speaker 1: the ball and then get up to feel quick. You know,
Speaker 1: they were clearly hunting a wide receiver. They were clearly
Speaker 1: when the Odell Beckham thing, when that thing went south,
Speaker 1: then they went to plan B here and you're you're
Speaker 1: right about the You know, he hasn't there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of wear and tear on his body. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that's always kind of dealt with, especially leader in
Speaker 1: his career, with the soft tissue injury stuff. But my
Speaker 1: guys were saying, hey, listen, kind of a lightning in
Speaker 1: the bottle, kind of a signing here. But the one
Speaker 1: thing he could do is he has an understand of
Speaker 1: route running. He knows how to separate, he knows how
Speaker 1: to sit down in zones. He could catch the football
Speaker 1: and he gets up to feel quick. That's the thing
Speaker 1: that you're really going to be happy about with him
Speaker 1: being on your team. Yeah, one of the things I
Speaker 1: love about it. I women looked at some of his
Speaker 1: numbers from last year. He hasn't played since last year,
Speaker 1: so that's obviously something you got to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: How do they ramp him up, how much can he
Speaker 1: take how fast? Brian, I heard you talking on radio
Speaker 1: yesterday about soft tissue issues have been an issue for him.
Speaker 1: One of those quick twitch guys, So all that's gonna
Speaker 1: factor in. But what I loved is in his last
Speaker 1: three games last year, he had long catches of thirty
Speaker 1: three yards, forty four yards which was a touchdown, thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards which was a touchdown. He did that in
Speaker 1: the last three games last year. This year, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: only have three players that have at least one catch
Speaker 1: on both thirty three yards. Two of them have three catches,
Speaker 1: one has one even had a fifty two yard or
Speaker 1: back in Week six last year. So he does bring
Speaker 1: something to this offense. I think that maybe they lack
Speaker 1: a little bit in that ability to get deep, to
Speaker 1: be able to force defense is to respect the fact
Speaker 1: that he can go long, and I think that can
Speaker 1: help them, particularly if he's doing it on the outside,
Speaker 1: where now you take that safety out of the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, you might help that middle of the
Speaker 1: field where we've seen so many things go wrong for
Speaker 1: this offense. Maybe that's safety, getting that safety out of
Speaker 1: there and making him respect a guy like t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton actually helps in that regard. How much do you
Speaker 1: guys expect him to help and how soon, I guess
Speaker 1: is the big question and most fans probably want to know.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play this week, but as far
Speaker 1: as as far as helping helping, I mean, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be up to him and Dak and that offense to
Speaker 1: kind of see, like, you know, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: say he's really good at running routes against his own,
Speaker 1: which is which I believe, but I also think that
Speaker 1: that Dak has to understand like where he's going to be,
Speaker 1: where he's going to sit. So I think I think
Speaker 1: it's just as if they have a good week of practice,
Speaker 1: you know, and just one thing Jerry said on the
Speaker 1: radio yesterday, smart smart guy on him, So I think
Speaker 1: he'll be able to pick it up. The guy keep
Speaker 1: comparing it to is Randall Cobb's. To me, it's a
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb type of move at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: and Randall Cobb had eight hundred yards as the third receiver,
Speaker 1: so you know, with Dak and those guys on the outside,
Speaker 1: so I think if he can come in, be a
Speaker 1: smart guy and help out. I think he can help
Speaker 1: out this week. Clarify that a little bit for me.
Speaker 1: On the comparison. You're not saying he's that kind of player.
Speaker 1: You're saying he's it's that kind of signing from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of what well, I think from a slot guy,
Speaker 1: a veteran and an older guy, that's probably his best
Speaker 1: years are behind him. But but I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I don't he's probably more dynamic than than Cobb was.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying as a guy that can come
Speaker 1: in and be smart and contribute right away as the
Speaker 1: third receiver, That's what I'm saying. I don't think that
Speaker 1: they're the same type of player, but I you know,
Speaker 1: and and they've they've played with good quarterbacks over the year. Well,
Speaker 1: Cobb played with a great quarterback over the years. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, says like Hilton has done well
Speaker 1: with whoever's throwing him the ball. Well, those balls I
Speaker 1: talked about last year I was with Carson Wentz, so okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like just the narrative about him
Speaker 1: was he can't stay healthy. Yeah, that's why people, that's
Speaker 1: why he wasn't on a team. Because everybody talks about well,
Speaker 1: you know, you might you might get one here, You
Speaker 1: might have one. You know, he hadn't played the whole year.
Speaker 1: You might, you know, for one month, you might get
Speaker 1: the absolute best out of this guy. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that, like Nick said, had kind of
Speaker 1: given up on him that you know, he's just he's
Speaker 1: always too hurt to play. So that's why he probably
Speaker 1: wasn't on a team until this point in time. And
Speaker 1: you know, good for the Cowboys if he could give them,
Speaker 1: you know, if he could play these games, give him
Speaker 1: something on third down, give him something on fourth down.
Speaker 1: If they go for it. I mean, they get a
Speaker 1: lot of situations. We're in third and five, third and four,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of in between whether you want to
Speaker 1: run the ball or not. You know that maybe you
Speaker 1: don't have to run the slant, you know, to gallop
Speaker 1: and you could find a way to get the ball
Speaker 1: to get it to him, and you know the routes
Speaker 1: that he runs. Just get it to him and let
Speaker 1: him get up the field. That's what he's really really
Speaker 1: good at. Well, what's good is that you're not necessarily
Speaker 1: asking him or whoever he made have been, to take
Speaker 1: so much load, like you're just asking for a couple
Speaker 1: of plays to happen draw some attention as well by
Speaker 1: having a guy, a veteran guy like him in the
Speaker 1: experience that he has, Like you were mentioned mentioning Derek
Speaker 1: draw some attention over there, but it's not like you're
Speaker 1: asking him to be the guy the ceedee lamb of
Speaker 1: the wide receiver. So I think that benefits the Cowboys
Speaker 1: a whole lot because I don't think they have this
Speaker 1: huge gap from really elevating their offense and what they're
Speaker 1: doing in the passing game. So having him, it's gonna
Speaker 1: draw attention. He's gonna be able to make some catches.
Speaker 1: I think he would be rather quickly, and going back
Speaker 1: to Reynal Cobb, I mean he would from what I remember,
Speaker 1: he was pretty productive very quickly, And I think there's
Speaker 1: a benefit to that. When you have guys that can
Speaker 1: come in at this part of the year, sometimes they're
Speaker 1: just so fresh and ready to go, especially a veteran
Speaker 1: guy that I think it would be a similar scenario
Speaker 1: like that where he's ready. You go go out there
Speaker 1: and it's just someone that's fresh and hasn't doesn't have
Speaker 1: the amount of weight and tear down that all of
Speaker 1: these guys have had at this point because of the season.
Speaker 1: It's a long season. We're kind of heading to the
Speaker 1: last part of it. Yeah, A comfortable name out through
Speaker 1: out there is DeShawn Jackson. I think this is the
Speaker 1: kind of signing like a Deshaun Jackson, fast guy, guy
Speaker 1: that's had lots of injuries throughout his career, a lot
Speaker 1: of those soft tissue injuries. And he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that if you bring him on your team, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll use him until he's no longer helped you, right,
Speaker 1: and you see what you can get out of him,
Speaker 1: and sure enough he will. I've seen him do this
Speaker 1: on a number of teams he's signed with. He comes
Speaker 1: in fifty yard pass, forty eight yard pass, like he
Speaker 1: is the type of guy that still has that ability
Speaker 1: to get deep and still has that ability to be
Speaker 1: able to make those plays, those big plays for you,
Speaker 1: and you don't need a lot of those. If you
Speaker 1: can get that once or twice a game, it changes
Speaker 1: how defenses have to play you when that player is
Speaker 1: on the field, and just the threat of them now
Speaker 1: creates other opportunity for guys and that's what I'm that's
Speaker 1: the best case scenario of what this can provide for
Speaker 1: the cow do you think I mean, I've seen Dak
Speaker 1: make those big throws, those long throws. He got it,
Speaker 1: he can do it. But do you think that Dad
Speaker 1: can take advantage of a guy like him and make
Speaker 1: those deep throws like you're mentioning. I think so. The
Speaker 1: question will be will the offensive coordinator work that into
Speaker 1: the offense in a way to where they're using it
Speaker 1: enough to make it make a difference. That's what I
Speaker 1: don't know, because you know, we've talked about it over
Speaker 1: the years, where you have a specific player with a
Speaker 1: specific skill set and we're like, man, why aren't we
Speaker 1: seeing them take advantage of this more? Why aren't we
Speaker 1: seeing them do this particular thing or use this particular
Speaker 1: player in a specific way. That's the part I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I don't again, he may have a whole different
Speaker 1: vision for what they have for this player, right, It
Speaker 1: may not be the vision I have for him, So
Speaker 1: it may not even go that way. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: is that's what he's been throughout his career, and that's
Speaker 1: how I look at the advantage of having him on
Speaker 1: this team. We'll see if they'll use him that way.
Speaker 1: But I don't have any questions about Dak being able
Speaker 1: to hit a deep ball, don't. I really don't have
Speaker 1: that question. Yeah, it's funny the analytics. Several years ago,
Speaker 1: he was one of the top five quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: league when it came to deep ball throws. And but
Speaker 1: the analytics the last say, the last several weeks have
Speaker 1: been not so good. You know, I think he was.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's the percentage is way way way
Speaker 1: down for him. So I mean, yeah, and maybe it
Speaker 1: has to do with the, like you said, the willingness
Speaker 1: or the not the willingness of the offensive coordinator. I
Speaker 1: think they're worried about sending you know, who's the one
Speaker 1: guy that could get deep. Michael Gallup was the one
Speaker 1: guy that could get deep. You know, when you've talked
Speaker 1: about that. Maybe they're a little bit worried about throwing
Speaker 1: the ball up and him coming down with the knee
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So maybe you've lost a little
Speaker 1: bit a little bit of that. Yeah, and one other
Speaker 1: thing I'll throw out there too. I was watching, I
Speaker 1: was rewatching the last week's game, and there are a
Speaker 1: couple times when Dak was trying to throw down feel
Speaker 1: and Terence still sitting in his lap. That hurts as well,
Speaker 1: Like that hurts your ability to be able to really
Speaker 1: step into your throw, especially after week one. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I do think this may be a little more
Speaker 1: complicated than just can dact through a deep ball. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's as much that as maybe other factors
Speaker 1: that that you might be seeing that that are kind
Speaker 1: of affecting that. All right, let's let's move on. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about real quick. Um Amber you mentioned it. Jerry
Speaker 1: has talked about the OBJ deal saying it's not dead.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? What are you hearing? What do
Speaker 1: you think is going to happen? I guess at this
Speaker 1: point with with OBJ or is it completely dead at
Speaker 1: this point? What do I think it's gonna happen? Yea,
Speaker 1: what do you think? This is just your opinion on
Speaker 1: They're gonna sign him. They're gonna sign him, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna put him in and he's gonna rehab the whole
Speaker 1: time and maybe if it works out, he'll come back
Speaker 1: at some point. And they got to be deep in
Speaker 1: the season and they got to be able to trust him.
Speaker 1: But uh that he you know that he's ready and
Speaker 1: healthy to play. But I just think there's too much smoke,
Speaker 1: too much of this for there not to be the
Speaker 1: fire of it. I think that it's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and I think it could happen. I mean, at this point,
Speaker 1: if it's gonna happen, sooner the better because then you
Speaker 1: could if you really wanted him to start rehab and
Speaker 1: put send him to the best guy in the league.
Speaker 1: You know they have right here. That's what I believe. Now.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, you're saying that he's going to sign
Speaker 1: here in the next week or so, and then I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to put work out. I'm just saying, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to understand. So he's gonna sign in the
Speaker 1: next week, They're gonna rehab him, and if you get
Speaker 1: him ready for the playoffs, it's all good. That's gravy
Speaker 1: at this point, right Yeah. Yeah, if he's willing for that,
Speaker 1: If he's willing to do that, and that would be
Speaker 1: the change. The change would be that he would do
Speaker 1: a one year deal, which is really a few months,
Speaker 1: but that that's that's what you know. If he's willing
Speaker 1: to do that, then yeah, the Cowboys do it, and
Speaker 1: then they try to resign him and if it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out, then you lose them in free agency and
Speaker 1: you get a compic. Yeah. I just to me the
Speaker 1: more I kind of felt like that, you know, I
Speaker 1: understand what you're saying, Man, I really do it. Just
Speaker 1: the thing about it is, I keep and like, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be ready for eight weeks, you know, and
Speaker 1: so you're just now you're now you're up against it
Speaker 1: as far as playoffs and being ready and all that.
Speaker 1: But you're right, this guy out here that does the
Speaker 1: rehab stuff, if the players willing to work this guy
Speaker 1: will get him ready to play that Britt Brown, I
Speaker 1: wonder though, like if you know, I was thinking more
Speaker 1: long term. I was thinking more about next year's plans.
Speaker 1: But they've got so much that they have to do.
Speaker 1: Can they afford to even extend an Odell Beckham? Can
Speaker 1: they even provide him any? And that's not to say,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got all these guys you have to resign.
Speaker 1: What's going to happen with the running backs, What's going
Speaker 1: to happen with the left tackle, what's gonna happen with
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things up in the air
Speaker 1: right now that if you know, if I could see
Speaker 1: him sitting out, I honestly could see him sitting out
Speaker 1: and saying, let's do this again in March. You know,
Speaker 1: let's do this again. Let's let's go back and you know,
Speaker 1: I'll be completely healthy and you know, and then I'll
Speaker 1: see the teams that have the money that I want
Speaker 1: to go to. You know, That's that's just me. But man,
Speaker 1: it would be exciting. I mean I felt all along
Speaker 1: that he could sign a deal here, you know, a
Speaker 1: one year deal, the guy rehab him and now even
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out here, he's in better shape
Speaker 1: going on next year. You know. But it sounds like
Speaker 1: this guy kind of has his idea of what he
Speaker 1: wants to do, and people tell them, oh, you're the best, odell.
Speaker 1: You don't have to work out hard today, you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't want to do this or do that,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I don't know. If he was here,
Speaker 1: I'd say there's a chance for him playing. The longer
Speaker 1: he sits out, I feel like that's that's a next
Speaker 1: year thing for me. Yeah. How boys, I mean, one
Speaker 1: thing they are is they are really really smart with
Speaker 1: their money. But this whole situation is very confusing because
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, I think it was, we
Speaker 1: came on here after hearing Jerry Jones and we're pretty
Speaker 1: convinced on like, based on how he sounded, that this
Speaker 1: wasn't a thing that was going to work out for
Speaker 1: this year from a health standpoint. So now let's say
Speaker 1: they I'm just wondering, okay, if it does happen, because
Speaker 1: now Jerry has come on and instead of a couple
Speaker 1: of times that the doors are still open, they're kind
Speaker 1: of working on things. What has changed other than the money, Like,
Speaker 1: what else has changed? Because this whole topic was, or
Speaker 1: the whole idea was for him to be able to
Speaker 1: help this season in the playoffs. Yeah, I think for me,
Speaker 1: at least, if I'm gonna go down the path that
Speaker 1: Nick is going, then the way I look at this
Speaker 1: is what's changed is I now have the guy I
Speaker 1: think I can rely on, or at least I hope
Speaker 1: I can rely on as a veteran guy to come
Speaker 1: and give me a little relief, maybe give me a
Speaker 1: little insurance and t Y Hilton. So now it's a
Speaker 1: little less important that he that OBJ if I signed
Speaker 1: him that he plays now, like I might be able
Speaker 1: to take a flyer and get him in here and
Speaker 1: rehab him, and I might be let's say they're still playing.
Speaker 1: I might be two or three weeks into the playoffs
Speaker 1: and now he's ready to play, and now I can
Speaker 1: get him out there and kind of work him in
Speaker 1: and maybe I get a little bit out of him.
Speaker 1: Maybe if I get to a super Bowl and he's healthy,
Speaker 1: maybe I can get him out there. Maybe I get
Speaker 1: a few catches from him. Right the point is, I
Speaker 1: don't have to rely on him now. It's just gravy. Now,
Speaker 1: it's like I got the guy who I think I got,
Speaker 1: my veteran guy that I wanted to bring here to
Speaker 1: give me a little bit more. This guy would just
Speaker 1: be gravy to add to that. In the event that
Speaker 1: he happens to be healthy at that point, I don't
Speaker 1: have to rely on him going into the playoffs. It's
Speaker 1: so weird to talk about possible super Bowl and it's
Speaker 1: true and it's a real thing. Because you know, t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton wanted to come here. Odell I think wants
Speaker 1: to come here. It's because of you have a realistic chance.
Speaker 1: But to get to the Super Bowl. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to win three road games in the playoffs. And you
Speaker 1: know how many years you have to go back to
Speaker 1: get to three road wins, forty two, forty two years
Speaker 1: to get three road wins by the Cowboys, all the
Speaker 1: way back to nineteen eighty and so it just doesn't see,
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine that, right. Yeah. Well, the thing
Speaker 1: that don't Beagles this week an the thing, yeah, the
Speaker 1: thing to get the thing that gives you a chance
Speaker 1: is the fact that this conference isn't as strong as
Speaker 1: it it has been in the past, you know, with
Speaker 1: the game Bays and the quarterbacks. I mean, the absolute
Speaker 1: disaster for this football team would be to win twelve games,
Speaker 1: you know, thirteen games, and then go and get beat
Speaker 1: by an eight and nine Tampa Bay team in Tampa
Speaker 1: would be that would be that that would be I
Speaker 1: would say Dan Quinn would be your next head coach
Speaker 1: if that happened that kind of I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just that's I'm gonna say that. But that's the
Speaker 1: fear you have right now. Even if he was the
Speaker 1: reason that they lost. I think there's such I let's
Speaker 1: do this. We'll get into that we'll get into that whole.
Speaker 1: It's always no, no, but I have reasoning. I have reasoning.
Speaker 1: And if it gets the point where we have to
Speaker 1: come in here and do a show on a Monday
Speaker 1: and it's about the Cowboys went to Tampa and pooped
Speaker 1: in the bed, then you know, then then then we'll
Speaker 1: have that conversation. But it's our conversation. The thing about
Speaker 1: I think I just wish that Odell would have given
Speaker 1: this this group a chance. Yeah, I wish he would
Speaker 1: have took the deal that t Y Hilton took, at
Speaker 1: least for this year. Bro, we'll pay you while you're rehabbing,
Speaker 1: We'll give you you know, we'll pay a one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a week or more to rehab and then
Speaker 1: if you you know, and then if you know, you
Speaker 1: come back and you play, then we could talk about
Speaker 1: a deal. But he never he never gave that this
Speaker 1: team the chance. Was that anyone else bothered by the
Speaker 1: comment he made one got the playoffs? Yeah, what what
Speaker 1: was that comment? Yes, well, he basically said that, I
Speaker 1: mean there's no need to play regular season basically. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: just talking like I'll just playing the playoffs type of comment.
Speaker 1: I mean I had to, like, I've been all about
Speaker 1: old BJ bring him here, but like, just that comment
Speaker 1: just made me kind of not saying that I don't
Speaker 1: want him here. I still do, but that's not the
Speaker 1: right mentality, and that's not something even if you think that, wait,
Speaker 1: I don't think that you should voice it either, because
Speaker 1: how does that look for the team that you're trying
Speaker 1: to join, you know, and this sports it's all about team,
Speaker 1: the team, the team, the team. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was pretty bothered by that, and it made me wonder, how, huh,
Speaker 1: I wonder how they took it. I'm not gonna stare
Speaker 1: away from bringing him again, but it's just one of
Speaker 1: those things, you know. Honestly, I just looked at it
Speaker 1: as well, he can't play in the regular season. That's
Speaker 1: why he's saying, I don't need to play in the
Speaker 1: regular season, you know what I'm saying. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things where people are like, you know, people do
Speaker 1: this where if they can't do something, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't need to do that. Like of
Speaker 1: course I'm good, Like I don't, I don't need to
Speaker 1: do that. I'll be fine to do it whenever I
Speaker 1: can I want you. Yeah, I don't think he I
Speaker 1: don't think I think he knows I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be ready to play during the regular season. So I
Speaker 1: think what he was trying to point to is really
Speaker 1: the regular season isn't as important. If you want to,
Speaker 1: I can still be an asset to you in the postseason.
Speaker 1: I don't need to play in the regular season in
Speaker 1: order to be on the post. That's the way I
Speaker 1: looked at it better, ye know, But that's just the
Speaker 1: way I looked at it. And I may be wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's how when I heard it, That's
Speaker 1: what I thought in my mind. Okay, what do you think,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence? How do you think he took it in
Speaker 1: his I mean, and he's he called it a circus,
Speaker 1: yeah right, yeah, and it is. And like all I
Speaker 1: can think about when someone says that, when or when
Speaker 1: he said that, not people don't say it all the time,
Speaker 1: but when he said I just think about Oxnard. I
Speaker 1: think about the guys that are walking off the field
Speaker 1: and they got three helmets and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're like dying, and you know, in the seventy three
Speaker 1: degree whether and all that, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you think about that, and you know, Brown's been working
Speaker 1: his butt off the whole year, and then you bring
Speaker 1: a guy like him, who are you taking off the field?
Speaker 1: Probably Noah Brownlow and then it's like, okay, now we're
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But it's like you get to the
Speaker 1: where you want to be, which is the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: you're now in that stage and then you're getting So
Speaker 1: it's just it's a tough one, you know. And I
Speaker 1: guarantee fans are over there like, okay, take him off
Speaker 1: the field, let's win. You know, I've been I've been
Speaker 1: trying to win super Bowl for twenty seven years. Like
Speaker 1: you know, I get too, but uh, it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: You just don't want to say it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was just it wasn't okay. Yeah, I don't like
Speaker 1: the way he said it, though you don't have you
Speaker 1: don't have to say it because like you said, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be read right. I just the thing
Speaker 1: that bothers me overall is I don't know how much
Speaker 1: he really wants to play right now. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: thing that they can like, that's the point though he
Speaker 1: can't think if I think he would be, but there
Speaker 1: was people that were that were really quick to jump
Speaker 1: out there and proclaim November first that he was ready
Speaker 1: to go. Well, you see that those people were wrong,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But but these are people that
Speaker 1: know Odell Beckham. I get it. But we see that
Speaker 1: these people wrong, are absolutely wrong. But that's what I'm
Speaker 1: saying though it the Cowboys. The Cowboys went into full
Speaker 1: recruit mode for Odell Beckham, and then they saw what
Speaker 1: the knee condition was and they went, well, that was
Speaker 1: a damn wasted time right there. You know. I mean, hey,
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Speaker 1: All we heard was that he's been cleared, he's been cleared,
Speaker 1: and I kept hearing people say by who who's he
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Speaker 1: a good visit with the Cowboys. The Cowboys wanted him
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Speaker 1: you could play play yeah, you know, but it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm in making this. You know, I'm like, well, fine,
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Speaker 1: to kind of look at things. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys have done. Yeah, they protect himself for sure,
Speaker 1: going with a guy that they think sure something. Right now,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna check our first break. When we
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Speaker 1: let's jump into the Jacksonville offense versus the Dallas defense. Brian,
Speaker 1: this is a team that the Cowboys don't face very often.
Speaker 1: Tell me what they do best offensively, and then also
Speaker 1: tell me where they are struggling or where you can
Speaker 1: take advantage of their offense. Well, I kind of when
Speaker 1: you watch them play, it's so funny because you watch
Speaker 1: them last week and you know they have success and
Speaker 1: everything's kind of rolling along, and then you watch them
Speaker 1: against the Lions and then you're like, oh, I oh, oh,
Speaker 1: what they're back to be in Jacksonville. And then you
Speaker 1: watch them again, you know, then you watch them against
Speaker 1: Kansas City and they start the game with an onside
Speaker 1: kick and you're kind of like going, oh, and then
Speaker 1: they get a turnover in the red zone. You and
Speaker 1: they're kind of playing Kansas City toe to toe. I'll
Speaker 1: say this about the Jaguars there. They clearly their quarterback.
Speaker 1: That quarterback is going to be just fine. And I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be just fine because of Doug Peterson.
Speaker 1: And you know, I know Doug really really, really well.
Speaker 1: And the one thing that Doug has tried to do
Speaker 1: for Trevor Lawrence is every week he's tried to create
Speaker 1: some type of packages or some type of schemes that
Speaker 1: you know that they can they can incorporate and grow
Speaker 1: with and it's not something that it's not something that's
Speaker 1: so out there that Trevor like, oh, I can't function
Speaker 1: this way. You know, he's done a really, really good job.
Speaker 1: They're a team that that will they'll they'll they'll move
Speaker 1: you on offense with the motion of the tight ends
Speaker 1: or the wide receivers. It's that RPO stuff. It's the
Speaker 1: inside handoffs, It's the quarterback run, it's the quarterback power.
Speaker 1: It's the deep crossing routes. You know, it's play acts
Speaker 1: and fake it and then everybody flowing. You know, with
Speaker 1: Travis ATM, you know, trying to run the football. He's
Speaker 1: a physical back. I mean, they've got some legitimate players.
Speaker 1: When you look at ATM, when you look at with
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk who they signed, that's the deep ball, that's
Speaker 1: the crossing route, that's the screen. You know, those are
Speaker 1: all the things that they try and do. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw a name at you from the past that's
Speaker 1: actually become a really good receiver for Trevor Lawrences. Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: the Old Giants tight end, and they use him as
Speaker 1: like a wide receiver. They use him as a slot,
Speaker 1: they use him as a wing. They do the waggles
Speaker 1: the boots and okay, here we come this way, and
Speaker 1: he's the guy running the route, much like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do with Dalton Schultz. So yeah, I mean like a guy.
Speaker 1: Zay Jones is a guy that they had. Zay Jones
Speaker 1: has had games where he's been really good and then
Speaker 1: he had a run where he was really the bad.
Speaker 1: I mean I watched him against the lines drop a
Speaker 1: bunch of ball, you know, and then last week he
Speaker 1: dropped some balls and then got back into the game
Speaker 1: against the Texas. That was an impressive win for them.
Speaker 1: They never go to Tennessee and win a game, it's
Speaker 1: been like forever. But they went out and did a
Speaker 1: great job. I mean they got a little bit beat
Speaker 1: up in the you know, you know early running the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, playing defense, but their offense hung in there
Speaker 1: very very well. And I mean they're gonna watch the
Speaker 1: Texans game and they're gonna see, you know what happened
Speaker 1: with that with the you know, with the quarterback, with
Speaker 1: the read option stuff and you know and trying to
Speaker 1: make you move and you know, but that that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of where they're at right now. I Mean, it's
Speaker 1: one of those teams I mean, they get a lot
Speaker 1: of yards, and the quarterback looks like he's kind of
Speaker 1: developing every week and again talking to Doug, he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get him something he can do,
Speaker 1: just trying to get him something that he can he
Speaker 1: could focus on and we could take advantage of whether
Speaker 1: the game plan is going on. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know much about Jacksonville. I
Speaker 1: really don't. I haven't watched their games. Laughing just because
Speaker 1: I remember your classic line about fans fans. This is
Speaker 1: about eight years ago. Yeah, and I was reading some
Speaker 1: comment about something. You know, I'm done with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They lost this game to Marco Murray from blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. I'm never gonna watch another game. This just
Speaker 1: goes Jacksonville needs fans. Just tell them to go. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what Jacksonville's fearing. You know what Jacksonville's fearing
Speaker 1: right now, that the Cowboy fans are going to take
Speaker 1: that place over. Oh no, they they think they're they
Speaker 1: know that they're about. I've got a lot of buddies
Speaker 1: down there because I work there, and they're and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know what we were probably better all playing these
Speaker 1: guys in London again. I mean, they're like, but they know,
Speaker 1: but they know the atmosphere and the thing talking to
Speaker 1: them about it down there is they know this game
Speaker 1: is big for them because Tennessee's starting to slide. Tennessee's
Speaker 1: starting to slide, and so all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: get this win. They're six and eight, and if Tennessee
Speaker 1: keeps going backwards, you know that they're they gotta they
Speaker 1: gotta an opening, much like what's going on in the
Speaker 1: the NFC South with Tampa Bay and Atlanta and all
Speaker 1: that stuff like that. So this is a huge game
Speaker 1: for them, and they're and they're really they're excited to
Speaker 1: play it. They know Dallas presents a lot of problems
Speaker 1: to them, but they also are like, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's see how our team responds. Let's see how our
Speaker 1: guys respond in this football game. And they they've got
Speaker 1: some decent offensive line. Brandon Sheriff. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: guy we've seen play at the Commanders as a guard,
Speaker 1: Luke Fortner as a guy a Kentucky center that I
Speaker 1: really really liked. They're right, tackles a little bit of
Speaker 1: a liability in these in these games from what I
Speaker 1: was able to watch. But man, they've got some players
Speaker 1: I didn't even mention Jamal Agnew who was like a
Speaker 1: big time kick returner, big time punt returner, and they
Speaker 1: throw the ball to him in the flat and he
Speaker 1: could go up the field and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: they're going to test that the Cowboys. The Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: just from the aspect of all the crazy quarterback movement
Speaker 1: crap that tends to give him problems. When you when
Speaker 1: you talk about Cowboy fans on the road, I always
Speaker 1: have three factors that will will help get a lot
Speaker 1: of Cowboy fans there. It's either the team is playing
Speaker 1: really well this year, or you haven't played there in
Speaker 1: a long time, or there wasn't football in that city
Speaker 1: in the seventies in Jacksonville. In this game, you've got
Speaker 1: all three because the Cowboys are playing as well as
Speaker 1: they've played, and they haven't played in sixteen years. That
Speaker 1: is the longest drout of any team for that I've
Speaker 1: been here with the Cowboys sixteen years. I think it
Speaker 1: might be in the history of the team from one
Speaker 1: franchise to another sixteen years and then then there was
Speaker 1: no football team there, so when you're in the seventies.
Speaker 1: I guarantee there's a lot of Steeler fans. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of Cowboy fans. Are who are you gonna play? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, definitely Dolphin fans two. But those right in
Speaker 1: that area right there and then. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Jacksonville doesn't have fans, but if they had a whole lot,
Speaker 1: they'd take the tarp off. Is the tarp stool up there?
Speaker 1: Oh they have. Yeah, they've got some issues. They've made
Speaker 1: the same. But they got a swimming pool. Yeah, have
Speaker 1: a swimming pool there. You have a swimming pool. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be the fifties. I don't know how good that
Speaker 1: swing pool might be. I think I don't know. You
Speaker 1: know something every day every afternoon, every afterno about three
Speaker 1: twenty Yeah, yeah, I think I look at the weather
Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be rained this weekend the games
Speaker 1: at one. Yeah, huh okay, fourth course get rained all
Speaker 1: the time, and it's pretty field. Well, I had a
Speaker 1: question for you. Um, we know about Hankins's He's helped
Speaker 1: improve the Cowboys running defense somewhat, you know, in the
Speaker 1: little progress they've had over the last few weeks. And
Speaker 1: you talk about at Na well and and then the
Speaker 1: also Lawrence being a guy that could possibly get out
Speaker 1: of the pocket and run as well. How does the
Speaker 1: Cowboys not having Jonathan Hankins kind of change things for
Speaker 1: them on what they're doing on defense against Yeah, it
Speaker 1: hurts them in the middle because of stuff that you're
Speaker 1: gonna get with at N running inside and things like that.
Speaker 1: I think Hankins does a really good job of holding
Speaker 1: up those blocks. Like we've seen, the fourth down tackle
Speaker 1: was incredib on his park. But that's I mean, Hankins
Speaker 1: is a guy that allows the linebackers to run because
Speaker 1: he's taken up blocks. He's holding up blocks, and now
Speaker 1: these guys, the vander Eshes and those guys are able
Speaker 1: to bars able to run because guys aren't getting off
Speaker 1: into the second level. So how you how you get
Speaker 1: back to doing that? You know, when these when these
Speaker 1: linebackers have had to face guys running up on him
Speaker 1: in their lap, it's been a problem. I mean you've
Speaker 1: seen it a little bit because they're fighting blocks so
Speaker 1: fast and now the ball is to them and then
Speaker 1: now getting off blocks and then making a tackle. You
Speaker 1: think that this is a game where maybe that's an
Speaker 1: area that the cover I keep I was kind of
Speaker 1: taking a step back. I think. I think not having
Speaker 1: Hankins in there now, they did a much. They did
Speaker 1: a good job when he went out, though they still
Speaker 1: played good run defense last week. But it's just he's
Speaker 1: been really, really good because because he's so hard to
Speaker 1: move and when you get that, when they you try
Speaker 1: and run the ball in there, it's not a gash
Speaker 1: play of six to eight yards. It's a two yard
Speaker 1: run or one yard run or no game, you know,
Speaker 1: and they need to Oh so Diggisu is a different
Speaker 1: type of player, but they need somebody like Bohannah or
Speaker 1: somebody Watkins. Watkins stepped up on the fourth the fourth down,
Speaker 1: the final drive, really stepped up. They need more of
Speaker 1: that from those guys. And the thing that I've noticed
Speaker 1: is I don't know that they have another guy. Bohannah's
Speaker 1: probably the closest. I don't think Gallimore is good at this,
Speaker 1: and Watkins kind of iffy sometimes, but really holding up
Speaker 1: when you get when you're the person that's going to
Speaker 1: take on the double team. That's what Hankins provided for
Speaker 1: you is even when the double team came his way,
Speaker 1: he didn't really move a lot. He still held that
Speaker 1: that point, right, and so it allowed them in a
Speaker 1: lot of instances where now you got two guys gobble
Speaker 1: gobbling him up, but they're not moving him, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't really hurt you, right. Yeah. The problem that they
Speaker 1: had before he got here, and I suspect they might
Speaker 1: have after, is they don't really have anybody else who
Speaker 1: holds up that well against the double team. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get two bodies on him, they're gonna probably move and
Speaker 1: in that instance, that's where it creates a big problem
Speaker 1: for it. Have you guys announced that Anthony Rush was
Speaker 1: put on the practice We have not. I was actually
Speaker 1: about to go there, like, what do they do? Now? Okay,
Speaker 1: that was a guy that they picked it? Okay hearing that? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Anthony Rush was on Philadelphia's practice squad this year and
Speaker 1: then he got released. There's there's times where he could
Speaker 1: get up to like three hundred and eighty pounds as
Speaker 1: a player. And when he was in Atlanta, they were
Speaker 1: they really really liked him a lot. They liked him,
Speaker 1: and but they got mad at him because he got heavy,
Speaker 1: and then they just got rid of him. But he
Speaker 1: they I've talked to some teams that have worked him
Speaker 1: out since and he's been a little heavy still, but
Speaker 1: now he's into that three fifty range is what he is.
Speaker 1: And what you got from the scouting reports was a
Speaker 1: good power nose tackle that can play the run. He
Speaker 1: can get across the center, and he's got his range. Wise,
Speaker 1: is a good guy there. And my guys said, listen,
Speaker 1: you have a chance to sign him, get him ramped up.
Speaker 1: He can help. So that's what the Cowboys, their personnel
Speaker 1: department's looking at. A guy, a big body guy. I
Speaker 1: thought that maybe this guy played with Quinn. No, he
Speaker 1: didn't play with Quinny played with last year in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So here's a guy, like I say, if he's got
Speaker 1: his weight under control, if he's under three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty pounds, My scouting buddies around the league say, no, no,
Speaker 1: this would be a good guy to have. And so
Speaker 1: maybe to your point, Annabar, this is practice squad and
Speaker 1: then a game day and activation that yeah three times,
Speaker 1: and then you see if he's able to do what
Speaker 1: Hankins has been able to do. What we've heard from
Speaker 1: Jerry is it looks like maybe Hankins is back for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So really, you just got to stem the
Speaker 1: tide here. Yeah, it's not like this is a loss
Speaker 1: for the season kind of situation, so that should help.
Speaker 1: But my guys were around the league were excited about
Speaker 1: about that kind of a signing. If you can pull
Speaker 1: it off, we will take our final break. We will
Speaker 1: come back. I want to talk a little bit on
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons because I ever been a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: now when he hasn't been making some of the huge
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Speaker 1: want to talk about Michael Parsons this last week. I
Speaker 1: think he had one quarterback pressure and I think that
Speaker 1: was his only stat line. It was. It was not
Speaker 1: a week when he does when he was doing Mica
Speaker 1: type things. And again, I want to be careful with
Speaker 1: this conversation because I think there are a lot of
Speaker 1: things that happened with this defense that but for the
Speaker 1: things he's doing, they don't happen, they don't show up
Speaker 1: on the stat sheet, but they're important. So I want
Speaker 1: to be very careful not to say that he's not
Speaker 1: playing well, because that's not the case. I think he's
Speaker 1: playing well. He's just not having those big moments, which
Speaker 1: is something you've come to rely on. How concerned are you, guys,
Speaker 1: that he's not having those big moments in those big
Speaker 1: plays in these games over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: A little bit. Um, I think when the teams control
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Speaker 1: didn't let him become an issue until the Cowboys scored
Speaker 1: with forty seconds to go. And then they're sitting at
Speaker 1: midfield and it's no clue. I mean, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt of what's going to happen Tunsil, Parsons and Laramy.
Speaker 1: Tunsil like couldn't. He couldn't function like like twice he
Speaker 1: like jumped in a stance because Mike was sitting there.
Speaker 1: So he had an effect in the game at the end.
Speaker 1: They just need to get more situations where he can
Speaker 1: be that guy. And I think in a close game
Speaker 1: where they they're from behind, I don't. I think teams
Speaker 1: are figuring out ways to not make him a big factor.
Speaker 1: Definitely rushing against Laramie Tunsel. And you're right about what
Speaker 1: happened at the end of the game. But Laramie Tunsel
Speaker 1: played really well in that game, and there's a reason
Speaker 1: why that he is what he is. I mean, I
Speaker 1: that their whole line played well. I mean, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I mean Dallas too. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: give give their whole line credit. They had three guys
Speaker 1: that are all first round picks playing and the Green
Speaker 1: the guard. You know, we talked about him. He probably
Speaker 1: wasn't the best of the three, but they they found
Speaker 1: a way. They had a really good game plan. The
Speaker 1: quarterback shuffling thing was through Dallas off in that game.
Speaker 1: Do we rush, do we do we drop? What do
Speaker 1: we do here and teams. We saw it with the
Speaker 1: Eagles a little bit. With Parsons, team stick can freeze
Speaker 1: him to kind of make him have to deal with
Speaker 1: are they gonna run, are they gonna pass? Are they
Speaker 1: gonna you know, you really you never got no point
Speaker 1: in that game where it just turned into It wasn't
Speaker 1: until the final drive that it turned into sick him football.
Speaker 1: You know, you were you were behind in that game.
Speaker 1: You know, the Texans were dictating how the game was
Speaker 1: kind of flowing, you know, so you never That's the
Speaker 1: thing about it. When it turns into sick him football,
Speaker 1: that's when you see Micah Parsons really shine. You know.
Speaker 1: But I saw wouldn't rush him against Laramie Tunsel much
Speaker 1: because every snap if you follow guy Brian Baldinger, you
Speaker 1: know bald these breakdowns, he shows these clips and he's
Speaker 1: absolutely right, it's one on one. It's you know, the
Speaker 1: great thing about moving Mike around is you can kind
Speaker 1: of figure out who to attack. But man, give the
Speaker 1: Textans some credit for playing well up front. The thing
Speaker 1: about it is, I mean I'm starting to look at
Speaker 1: the percentage of snaps that Micah's playing and the week
Speaker 1: the well gets Tampa was one hundred percent of the thing.
Speaker 1: But then you go down to Green Babe is at
Speaker 1: ninety five. You know, now you're starting to see some
Speaker 1: like sixty seven, sixty seven, seventy one, seventy three. You know,
Speaker 1: you're starting to see that could he be wearing down
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, could he be could he
Speaker 1: be nicked up? And you know, I again, anybody to
Speaker 1: tell me that, but you know, maybe he's There's been
Speaker 1: a couple of times where the Drisco was running and
Speaker 1: there was there We've seen Michael just run down a
Speaker 1: guy run down the court. Driscoll is a good athlete,
Speaker 1: but and got a little bit of quickness to him.
Speaker 1: But you didn't see that burst from Michael Parson. You
Speaker 1: just didn't see that burst. And so, I mean, the
Speaker 1: season is hard on him because he has to go
Speaker 1: out there and everybody expects the Superman Cape to come
Speaker 1: flying on and here we go. But the way the
Speaker 1: Texans played, you you weren't sick him until the final
Speaker 1: drive of that game, you know, and that's when things
Speaker 1: kind of turned into you know, into the advantage for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a little bit. You saw what happened. They
Speaker 1: were able to get off the field, and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of things that it takes for the player
Speaker 1: itself to voice if something is bothering him physically or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, even if it's nothing, not a major injury.
Speaker 1: But he's the one guy I do not trust to
Speaker 1: say I solutely anything something. But he's not gonna say it.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna keep going because we've seen it. That's
Speaker 1: the type of player he is. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's saving those things for the playoffs. There, then
Speaker 1: let's stop the drama. Hey, don't make that face. Maybe no, no,
Speaker 1: I wasn't taught about the playoff. I was maybe he
Speaker 1: is saving I don't know, maybe maybe maybe what did
Speaker 1: he say? What did you just say? You don't trust
Speaker 1: it about Mica. I don't trust Mica to ever voice
Speaker 1: like him saying, oh, something's bothering me, like to come
Speaker 1: off Yeah, okay, because it confused me because in my mind,
Speaker 1: what I was just saying is is that I think
Speaker 1: he one thing he needs to really work on is
Speaker 1: he's got to he's got to figure out how to.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a catch twenty two because he's
Speaker 1: so aggressive on the field as a player, as a lion,
Speaker 1: as you know, wants to go get the game. He's
Speaker 1: got to be careful when he's on a microphone Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's that's just a young person that that he needs
Speaker 1: the kind of fit. I mean, he learned it last week,
Speaker 1: the same thing. I mean, he got on Twitter, starts
Speaker 1: talking stuff that he had to apologize for all this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You know, he's he's that now now
Speaker 1: he's talking about Jalen hurts me an MVP and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But but my point is is that that's
Speaker 1: just things that he's got to kind of control, and
Speaker 1: it's hard to do because his instinct is attack like
Speaker 1: he is on the field, and he's got a kind
Speaker 1: of he's got a tailor that a little bit here
Speaker 1: because he's such a big name that in a lightning
Speaker 1: rod that that's kind of stuff is going. I wish
Speaker 1: he wouldn't get as frustrated as he does. He gets
Speaker 1: really frustrated. I think, you know, he's really really hard
Speaker 1: on himself, and the harder he's on himself, it kind
Speaker 1: of I think it just it makes him try even harder.
Speaker 1: But then when he doesn't get the results that it
Speaker 1: affects him in a way. You know. I mean I
Speaker 1: just kind of feel like that you can see body
Speaker 1: language with him. I think he's an average player when
Speaker 1: he's when he's frustrated. I think he's a really really
Speaker 1: good player when he's pissed off. So he gets to
Speaker 1: that level to learn how to like channel that frustration
Speaker 1: the right way, because I mean, we've seen it even
Speaker 1: when he because there's a difference between him being mad
Speaker 1: versus being actually frustrated. He plays bad when he's frustrated.
Speaker 1: He gets to him. When he's mad, he plays freaking good.
Speaker 1: So it's just finding the right way to channel that
Speaker 1: and and just be more focused in that aspect to
Speaker 1: not allow little things to get to him and start
Speaker 1: fresh play after play. Yeah he but he went up
Speaker 1: against a good tackle the other day. Yeah, that guy blocked.
Speaker 1: He's not an average player anytime. He's not an average
Speaker 1: he's a good player. He's a good player all the time,
Speaker 1: all the time, just because he can make a difference. Well,
Speaker 1: he looks he looks okay when I say, he can
Speaker 1: look very ordinary out there. Yeah, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you going back and well no,
Speaker 1: but but I'm saying, but there's guys that can look
Speaker 1: ordinary too. I mean they're they're players that can look
Speaker 1: very ordinary when they you know, but you're so used
Speaker 1: to them playing at a high level, and then when
Speaker 1: something doesn't work out, it's like, okay, where why is
Speaker 1: he looking just okay right now? Why is he not that?
Speaker 1: You know? But the bar for him, we always say
Speaker 1: that the bar is so high that ordinary is probably great.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of people, you know his bar. His
Speaker 1: bar is so high too. That's why he gets frustrated.
Speaker 1: He gets frustrated when they win a game and he
Speaker 1: has five tackles and three pressures, they didn't get a sack.
Speaker 1: I don't think he takes it very well because he's
Speaker 1: now known as this sacker. You know, he's known as
Speaker 1: the sacker guy. And so when he doesn't get a sack,
Speaker 1: and then he starts to see others around the league
Speaker 1: at fourteen and a half and you know, and he's
Speaker 1: at twelve. He's been sitting in twelve for the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Now he's like, Okay, something, I don't
Speaker 1: like this. I want to be the guy that people fear,
Speaker 1: not Nick Bosa, you know, yeah, yeah, and he is
Speaker 1: the guy that people feared that he really is. That
Speaker 1: they fear him at Jacksonville absolutely, because they had a
Speaker 1: question of if you're if you're Jacksonville, who who do
Speaker 1: you worry about more, Prescott or Parsons. And I asked
Speaker 1: that question and they said they worry about Parsons. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably a common refrain around the league
Speaker 1: for every teams can't play the Cowboys because he can
Speaker 1: be so disruptive. All right, appreciate you guys, Jonas. We'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll get into the defense and matched
Speaker 1: up against the Cowboys offenseilling for Nick Keven. Brian brought
Speaker 1: us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagelton. This has been The
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