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Speaker 1: So all right, are we doing here? Well, Amber's watching

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Speaker 1: the show on Paris. Actually clicked on the app. Well

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Speaker 1: that during Jason Garrett's press conference today. You're fine, don't

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Speaker 1: worry about it. Speaking of the press conference, Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: are the storylines coming out of that? Oh man? That

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Speaker 1: it was an interesting morning at the old Jason Garrett

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Speaker 1: press conference? Are we looking back or forward? Both? Um?

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Speaker 1: Zach and Lyle or you know, that's stuff they've been

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Speaker 1: dealing with all year. Uh, they're not out there. The

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Speaker 1: Michael Bennett is absent today, and I don't know why

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Speaker 1: Garrett didn't mention that at his pressor or at his

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Speaker 1: bottom of that. Um. I think that's everybody of consequence.

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Speaker 1: Why isn't he starting it at right tackle over Brandon Knight.

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Speaker 1: This is Connor Williams to his davers to a Filow,

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Speaker 1: dampers like, I hope you're proud of yourself, and get

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Speaker 1: a lot of people on Twitter, like one guy even

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Speaker 1: Which so I'm like, I'm kind of regretting this because

425
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I'm gonna watch the Driscoll

426
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: game because there's no way Stafford comes back. Maybe he does,

427
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Speaker 1: though I just kind of convinced myself that he might.

428
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,120
Speaker 1: But either way, you should. You know all about Matthew Stafford,

429
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: Like he's played the Cowboys a dozen times. For my money,

430
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: he's like one A or one B in terms of

431
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: just the most rawly talented quarterbacks in the league, like

432
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,440
Speaker 1: him and Rogers both, Like I'm just talking about talent

433
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: arm talent the mobility and the different the ability to

434
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: throw from all sorts of different angles, Like there's no

435
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: throw he can't make. I actually I was kind of

436
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this yesterday. I was like, man,

437
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 1: I feel like there's some similarities to him in Romo.

438
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: Obviously not you know, one was number one overall and

439
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: one was undrafted. Not so much that, but like they

440
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 1: both wear nine. They were both like the only good

441
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: thing going about their franchise for a number of years.

442
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: Probably didn't get as much credit as they deserved for

443
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: how good they were, not a lot of playoff success

444
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: to show for it. And now the parallel doesn't quite

445
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 1: line up because the Lions aren't that good. But like

446
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,360
Speaker 1: they were having a good season and he was having

447
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: the best season of his career, and now injuries are

448
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 1: catching up to him, which is a bummer. Anyway, I

449
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: just thought that was mildly interesting. If Jeff Driscoll plays,

450
00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: I think it gives the Cowboys a hell of an

451
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to win this game because he's just he's limited.

452
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: The stats say that he played pretty well. I think

453
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Speaker 1: he threw for two sixty and a touchdown. But you

454
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Speaker 1: want to talk about dink and dunk Man like. The

455
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 1: Lions had to game plan to hide him from the

456
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: Bears basically a lot of rollouts, a lot of one

457
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: read plays like whether it's a bubble screen or a

458
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: bootleg to a guy coming across the field or thrown

459
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Speaker 1: into the flat. The only time I saw him move

460
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: past the first progression was like when the play broke down.

461
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: He was also the Lions leading rusher in that game

462
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Speaker 1: with thirty seven yards, so I believe is he a

463
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Speaker 1: rushing quarterback or is he just they didn't have. He's

464
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Speaker 1: the classic, like more athletic than you want to give

465
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Speaker 1: him credit for, but he is not Daniel Jones kind

466
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: of guy. Yeah, maybe I think Jones is probably a

467
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: little more athletic, but yeah, I mean, he can pick

468
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: up fifteen yards if you leave him on accounted for,

469
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: but you're not game planning for him to run the ball.

470
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: But the Bears didn't respect their run carry on Johnson's out.

471
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson actually got concussed three plays into that game,

472
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Speaker 1: so odds are if he can't come back, it'll be

473
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Speaker 1: McKissick and then Paul Perkins, who used to be the Giants,

474
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: a guy the Cowboys were interested in a few years ago.

475
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: They have two really good tight ends, TJ. Hockinson, obviously

476
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 1: big time draft pick, and then Jesse James who they

477
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: got from Pittsburgh, who's a pretty sneaky good player. I

478
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: like that they're both they're both big enough to play

479
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: in line, but they're both athletic enough to flex off

480
00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:00,360
Speaker 1: and they both do it. So like Will Hackinson, it's better.

481
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: I mean Hockinson, he's insane. He's like the best all

482
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Speaker 1: around tight end to come out of college and in

483
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Speaker 1: a decent bit of time he's I love his game.

484
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: I think he's already been concussed like two or three

485
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: times this year, which is yeah, he needs to watch

486
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: out for that. Um he does, He's no, he's I mean,

487
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: he's taken some hard hits this year. But it's scary

488
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: because they both will line up in like bunch formations

489
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Speaker 1: with these receivers who were already big. Marvin Jones is

490
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: six two gala days six four two fifteen, very big dudes. Um,

491
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Speaker 1: But so they'll use these guys in bunches with their

492
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Speaker 1: receivers and it's just a lot of big bodies for

493
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Speaker 1: guys to have to defend. Um. Their right tackle is

494
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: concussed two. Actually, as long as we're talking about old Cowboys,

495
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: Dan Skipper is now a Lion. He might remember him. Arkansas, Yeah,

496
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: Arkansas razor back. He's six ten, won a Super Bowl

497
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Speaker 1: with the Pats as a practice squad player. He's bounced

498
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Speaker 1: around the league, so he might have to play in

499
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: this game, depending on the health of their offensive line. Um,

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00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: how many concussions have you mentioned already? Yeah? No, this

501
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: is a banged up team, That's my god. The Lions

502
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: are They would be pretty good if they could keep

503
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: all their guys on the field, but they just they

504
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: just can't. All these guys that you're mentioning, are most

505
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: of them considered to be out for the Cowboys game?

506
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: And we don't know just what you based on how

507
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: much they've been out so far, would you expect it

508
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,239
Speaker 1: or you think it's kind of up in the air

509
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: on all I mean, other than Stafford, we're mainly talking

510
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: about concussions, and I'm always leery about Yeah, it's hard

511
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: to predict that. Um, what did I I think they're

512
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: going to They're gonna they're gonna try to use screen

513
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: passes in this game, assuming Stafford doesn't play, because it's yeah.

514
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys clearly haven't shown that they can

515
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: stop it consistently, and it is a bona fide guaranteed

516
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: way to create an easy throw for your quarterback. So

517
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: I Amondola does him. He's up there now. By the way,

518
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: Amendola does they do them with the running backs. I

519
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: expect to see that. The one thing I will say though,

520
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: in this last game, I think part of the issue

521
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys stopping those screen passes it was they

522
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: weren't tackling well. And I think part of that is

523
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: because you had such talented guys catch those screen passes.

524
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: They may not have that because they've had so many

525
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: guys out. Maybe the hell because it looks like it

526
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: looks like the Cowboys were in the right spot a

527
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: lot of times. They just as as evidence by the

528
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: fact that they had that there was one hundred and

529
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: forty four yards after the catch. I mean, they just

530
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: didn't make the tackle. So hopefully that means this week

531
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: maybe they make after the catch or sorry, after contact okay,

532
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 1: because I was like they should have after contact, Yeah,

533
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: after contract, after content, which is a huge number. We

534
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: talked about it, Yester. It's a huge numb It is

535
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: funny to me. Um sounds Sounds from the sideline from

536
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: the Vikings game came out last night. Have y'all had

537
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: a chance to watch it. It's not as much fun

538
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: to watch when they lose, but but Marinelli was on there,

539
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: and I mean it was funny to watch because he

540
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: was like on the sideline, like boots and screens, it's

541
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: all they're doing, like, let's tighten it up. And obviously

542
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. But so then I'm watching the Lions

543
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: game and it's boots and screens because you have a

544
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: deceivingly athletic quarterback who's limited in what he can see.

545
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it worked well enough all things considered, Like

546
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: this was not a pretty game to watch. The Lions

547
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: scored thirteen points. Driscoll averaged five point eight yards per attempt.

548
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the epitome of dink and dunk. I think

549
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: he maybe had two completions of longer than you know,

550
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: fifteen yards probably. I think I think I actually wrote

551
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: that down in the storylines about McKissick. I think it's

552
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: six catches for nineteen yards. Yeah, so that that didn't

553
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: work as well as the Dalvin Cook you know, no, no,

554
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: it didn't, it didn't work well. But it again it's

555
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: like it's what can you do when your quarterback is

556
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: this limited? Because again I wrote this down, I really

557
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: I don't think he went past his second read in

558
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: the whole game, like I mean, just and you can

559
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: just tell the way some of these routes were drawn up.

560
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: It was like, he's clearly looking for the this guy immediately.

561
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: But let's also say this too, because he'll be better,

562
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: not only at home, will probably be better, but also

563
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,959
Speaker 1: if he does play. He didn't find out that he

564
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: was starting until Sunday morning. Sure you get a whole

565
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, that's a really good point. You get a

566
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: comfortable than he was and that Yeah, and you know

567
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: the Bears they're not a great team, but they do

568
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: have they got a nice defense, nice defense, and they

569
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,239
Speaker 1: hit hard. Obviously everyone's can cuss, so you know, but

570
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: but they get up the field and they got arguably

571
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: the best pass rusher in the game. I expect, I mean,

572
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: I expect to see boots and screens. I Galladay and

573
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: Jones are super underrated. But I wonder how much Driscoll

574
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: can take advantage of that, which is, I mean, everything

575
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: changes as stat if Stafford plays, he's got I mean,

576
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: he can put the ball anywhere he wants to, and

577
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: he also, you know, he can find those guys and

578
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: it's more of a three dimensional passing attack when he

579
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: plays um. One thing that I watched that really pissed

580
00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: me off, understandably, like the Bears didn't honor their run

581
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: game at all. They used their fullback a lot. I

582
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: got his name right here. I'm sorry, it's Bowden, Nick Bawden.

583
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: Excuse me. He was out there, which eleven snaps. I

584
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 1: know that's not a lot, but it's fifteen percent of

585
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: the offense. And the reason it pissed me off is

586
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: I was like, every time, every time that it was

587
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: like a short yardage or an obvious run, they put

588
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: him out there and they're not going for chunks, but

589
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: there he's blowing guys up and helping the running back

590
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: pick up the necessary yardage, like they picked up a

591
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: few second, third and shorts in this game. And so

592
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: that made me think, I was like, this guy's on

593
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: the field way more than I can remember Olah Wally

594
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: being on the field. So I actually went and looked

595
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: it up. He played thirteen percent of the snaps, which

596
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: is more than ola Wally has played. Since Week one.

597
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: Olah Wally's snap count this season is sixteen. Against the Giants,

598
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: he had he was pretty active in that game, had

599
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: a pretty big role. Got me really excited. He ran

600
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: a wheel route, YadA YadA. Since then, eight snaps, nine snaps,

601
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: six snaps, two snaps, five snaps, ten snaps, six snaps,

602
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: five snaps. Let me ask you this though, um, which

603
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm going on that has nothing to do with the Lions,

604
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: but I but it's classic Cowboys to insist, insist that

605
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: they need a fullback and never use them. Right, You're

606
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: so what you're upset about is not necessarily they're not

607
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,760
Speaker 1: using him, is that they have him and they're not

608
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: using him, right, Yeah, I mean, which I'm not like,

609
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't want Jamais Olawala to be cut. I have

610
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: nothing against him, but I'm like, it's it's like Garrett's

611
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: thing that they have to have a fullback, but they

612
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: don't do anything with him. I mean, he's that's that's

613
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: the thing. He's not. He's not that guy. He's not

614
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: that guy. But Kellen Moore showed us in Week one

615
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: what he could do with them, Like he was active

616
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: in that game and did stuff and it wasn't anything crazy,

617
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,719
Speaker 1: but they have done nothing to build on that, and

618
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: it's just it kind of encapsulates some of my frustrations

619
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: with the team that they're just like, well, we we can't.

620
00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want us to do? Take

621
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Speaker 1: Zeke off the field? No, he's a fullback. You don't

622
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: have to take Zeek off the field. Just use him

623
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: at the same time, you like, do something with him,

624
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: same same thing as Tony Pollard. It's like they can

625
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: find eleven snaps for their guy, but but you can't

626
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: find ten fifteen percent of the snaps for your other

627
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: guys beside Zeke. I don't believe it. Yeah, he's just aggravating.

628
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: We wanna take our final break when we come back.

629
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Speaker 1: I did have one question more. I want to ask

630
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: you about this wide receiver group and how big they

631
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: are relative to the relative small size of Cowboys defensive backs.

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00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that when we come back. This is

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. Already okay, give us so

634
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:53,240
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, final segment of the show. Latin s WBC

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Speaker 1: no confidence in my boys. They gotta win there. You

671
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Speaker 1: can be throwing science around Oklahoma, Texas, Baylor. Really, I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's three team to I think now that

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Speaker 1: that means something crazy can't happen. But I think it's

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Speaker 1: really three teams at this point. Kind of think it's

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma Baylor in Texas at this point. The Big Twelve

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Speaker 1: needs to steal a couple of teams from somebody else

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Speaker 1: and get into some divisions. Because I had that conversation,

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Speaker 1: I actually would love for Arkansas to just kind of

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Speaker 1: slide on over there. I would love for Nebraska to

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Speaker 1: slide back. I think just the history of those brands

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Speaker 1: I think would add something. I'm down for Nebraska to

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Speaker 1: come back, but Arkansas is not given up the SEC bag.

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Speaker 1: There's I mean, I know it would be smart of

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Speaker 1: them helping them, it's just still too much my help

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Speaker 1: walk away from Yeah, I guess that's true. I'm just

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Speaker 1: tired of I don't like this Big Twelve title game

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Speaker 1: being a rematch every year because everybody plays everybody like,

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Speaker 1: well there, I think they're gonna do that anyway, And

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Speaker 1: to be honest with it, I actually like that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't want to get to I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I apologize to everyone I started three. There is the

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Speaker 1: Big Twelve Championship and hopefully, hopefully if you will be there,

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Speaker 1: if you're an ou or a Baylor fan. I would

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Speaker 1: and I would get some tickets. That's all I'm saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about Baylor. We'll see, Okay, we will

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Speaker 1: see they win Saturday against Oklahoma and there, yes, they're

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Speaker 1: going to them. If they lose, though, Texas just steps

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Speaker 1: right on. Let's go baby, all right, let's get back

699
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Speaker 1: to this. You hated them a week ago. You're like,

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Speaker 1: I'm over them. Hey, you should know as much as

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Speaker 1: anybody as well as he does. I do. Like, you

702
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Speaker 1: can love your team and hate your team, like, there's

703
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Speaker 1: a fine line between love and hate when it comes

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Speaker 1: to team. Bring it right back to the Cowboys, because

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Speaker 1: if they go up and just kick Detroit's ass on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: then everybody will be happy again. You'll ultimately never walk

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Speaker 1: away from them, No, but you can hate them while

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Speaker 1: you're there, like you'll hate the bad moments it happens.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, and I've said this several times on this show.

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Speaker 1: You don't choose who you root for. It chooses you. You

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Speaker 1: You don't choose to be a Cowboys fan the cowboy.

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Speaker 1: You have become a Cowboys fan because your parents were

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Speaker 1: and they passed it down or whatever. It is that Drew.

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Speaker 1: But now you're in, You're sucked in and you don't

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Speaker 1: get to pick anymore. Well I'm not, I'm burning all

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Speaker 1: my stuff. No, you're a Cowboy fan, you know, as

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Speaker 1: mad as they make you, as frustrating as it might get.

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, there's still next Sunday. Right, there's still

719
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,359
Speaker 1: next Saturday. Right, there's a tweet I think about all

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Speaker 1: the time that's like, no, no, no, I'm not a fan.

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Speaker 1: I hate them a lot. Actually, I just want them

722
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Speaker 1: to win more than anything. And there's a difference, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that hits home. That hits home with me.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's I didn't have a question for you, Dave.

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Speaker 1: I was talking. I was you were talking about how

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Speaker 1: big the wide receivers are in Detroit and talking about

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Speaker 1: you in their tight ends and how they'll they'll slide

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Speaker 1: out at times. Are you at all concerned about it?

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Speaker 1: And this is kind of to the group watching these

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Speaker 1: defensive backs for the Cowboys play when they've played against

731
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Speaker 1: bigger wide receivers. What have you seen and does that

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Speaker 1: give you some level of concern going up against a

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Speaker 1: receiver group that looks like everybody seems to be big

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Speaker 1: other than the A Mondola. Yeah, yeah, of course it's concerning.

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Speaker 1: I mean it gives me flashbacks to DeVante Parker, who

736
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Speaker 1: I was down on going into that game, and you know,

737
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys won that game thirty one to six. But

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Speaker 1: he definitely had some success against Cheeto A Woozier. There's

739
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Speaker 1: no way around that. Obviously, Cheeto got picked on in

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Speaker 1: this Vikings game big time, and they didn't yeah, the

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Speaker 1: tight end, they didn't even have feeling. These are big receivers,

742
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Speaker 1: you know. I feel fine about Byron Jones. I mean

743
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Speaker 1: he's only six one, but he's so long and athletic

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Speaker 1: and can jump and all that good stuff. So I

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Speaker 1: like that I have seen, you know, I like him

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Speaker 1: as a person. I haven't seen anything from Cheeto that

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Speaker 1: gives me confidence that he can handle his half of that.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, you can say what you want

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Speaker 1: about Jordan Lewis, but he is shorter than average and

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Speaker 1: these are big receivers with which you know, not so

751
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Speaker 1: much Amndola. I'm saying, you know, for the people that

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Speaker 1: want to move him outside, I don't know how much

753
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Speaker 1: you want to do that in this particular matchup. You know,

754
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: we've done talking about those receivers. Moving on, I know

755
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,879
Speaker 1: only said we'd turned the page a little bit. But

756
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Speaker 1: going back to the to the Vikings game, the last

757
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Speaker 1: play of the game, well, I mean, they don't have

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Speaker 1: anybody that can really go down there and make a

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Speaker 1: play and jump up and des like the ball. So

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Speaker 1: the two things that Byron Jones can do. He can

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Speaker 1: run and he can jump. That's why he got drafted

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Speaker 1: in the first round because he just killed it at

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Speaker 1: the combine. He's a good cover guy, but he can

764
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Speaker 1: run and he can jump. So why not maybe put

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Speaker 1: him in on offense on the hail Mary's play. Can't

766
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Speaker 1: catch the ball. I don't know if I want you

767
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Speaker 1: to catch the ball. You just wanted to be able

768
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Speaker 1: to bat it. I want you to be I want

769
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Speaker 1: your hands to be up there trying to do something.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he can catch it, maybe he bats it down.

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Speaker 1: But did you see the guy that got it from

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. That dude was huge and he went out

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Speaker 1: and made the interception. I'm just saying you don't have

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Speaker 1: a guy that can go up there and make it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he would make the catch. Are you

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Speaker 1: taking out to put him in? I don't know who

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Speaker 1: anybody like, was there a tight end? Was Lake Jarwin

778
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Speaker 1: down there? I don't remember, to be honest, I don't

779
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Speaker 1: really remember either, but anybody I mean Cobb, Yeah, my

780
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Speaker 1: question is just Cobb really helping a jump ball kind

781
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Speaker 1: of situation that has caught one for Aaron Rodgers, but

782
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Speaker 1: who hasn't It seems to do that all the time.

783
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Speaker 1: I think he did catch one in the back of

784
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Speaker 1: the kind of snuck behind him. All. Yeah, in that scenario,

785
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Speaker 1: you're sending Byron out there to jump over everybody, he

786
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: won't catch it, so he's tipping it up and just

787
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: giving the play more life for somebody else to come

788
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: down with it. You know he's gonna be down there,

789
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Speaker 1: because that's one thing that I'm surprised that they didn't

790
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Speaker 1: blitz like Sean Payton did against the Saints. They actually

791
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: kind of let that play happen. Yeah, you know he

792
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: would be down there. You know, it's just a scrum

793
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Speaker 1: at that point. But I mean, giving me my best athletes,

794
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Speaker 1: I don't have that guy. I just I know I

795
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: know he can he not catch though. This isn't the

796
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: situation of Scandrid that he makes fun of himself about it.

797
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Speaker 1: Can he not catch? He literally it was the bye

798
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Speaker 1: week Layton vander Esh went to watch his cousin play

799
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Speaker 1: for his old high school team. Kid had four picks

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Speaker 1: and Layton was bragging on him on Instagram. Byron commented

801
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Speaker 1: on the photo and was like, can he teach me

802
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: something about that? Like yeah, haha, but he's not dropping balls.

803
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: I thought there's a reason why he plays corners. Somebody

804
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Speaker 1: at somebody at training camp, maybe they were talking to

805
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Speaker 1: you Amber or somebody. Maybe it was Lindsay. They were interviewing.

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00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: I think Xavier woulds and it was sort of like,

807
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Speaker 1: you know, rank ranked the DBS by catching ability, like

808
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: who's going to get the most picks, and you know

809
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: everybody thinks they're the best. So I think Xavier was like, yeah,

810
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Speaker 1: me and Jay lose really good too, blah blah blah,

811
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Speaker 1: and somebody and were like who's the worst, and like no, hesit,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Byron like, of course it's Byron. He

813
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Speaker 1: can't catch. He can't. I mean just I like the

814
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Speaker 1: thought process because he can get up over everybody. But

815
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Speaker 1: I mean I would rather have a guy who I

816
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Speaker 1: trust to catch the ball. I'll say this, and I

817
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: just think it's to be the one he would catch.

818
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what it would need. It would

819
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: be so innovative, an outside box for Jason Garrett that

820
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: I'd be here for it anyway, Like did you see it?

821
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 1: Kind of it went many viral on Monday night, the Niners.

822
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: I think it was Mark Marky's goodwin or they had

823
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Speaker 1: a somebody who's super fast lined up even with the

824
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Speaker 1: punter in the backfield on a fourth down and played

825
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Speaker 1: Gunner from twenty yards behind the line of scrimmage and

826
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Speaker 1: like nobody blocked him because nobody does that. And he

827
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Speaker 1: blew the guy up, like he tackled him right when

828
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Speaker 1: he caught the ball, and it was super cool. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, that's the level of creativity exactly because

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Speaker 1: he can't get jammed off the right, yeah, exactly, exactly

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Speaker 1: fast enough to make up the distance and you got

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Speaker 1: all those things. He was sprinter guy, Yeah, yeah, Olympic sprinter.

833
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: So do something fun and outside the box. Yeah. But

834
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Speaker 1: you know, honestly, that's where I was going. Even more

835
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Speaker 1: than than seeing maybe putting Byron back there. I'd like

836
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Speaker 1: them to try maybe what Kansas City did to them

837
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 1: on that At the end of that half where they

838
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: kind of throw the ball underneath and let your guy

839
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: in the open field try to see what he can do.

840
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: All the defenders are back. So if you're telling me,

841
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: you give Tavon same thing happened with the punt. By

842
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: the way, you give Tavon twenty thirty yards of momentum

843
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: before anybody's gonna get to him, and he's got blockers

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Speaker 1: in front of him, I think you got a better

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Speaker 1: shot of maybe converting that than you just throwing it

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Speaker 1: into the air and saying, in this sea of humanity,

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Speaker 1: one of the cowboys is gonna come down with it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't see why more teams aren't taking their fastest guy,

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Speaker 1: the most elusive guy that they would use to return

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Speaker 1: punts and putting them in that kind of situation and

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Speaker 1: seeing what happens. I think you got a better shot

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Speaker 1: at that than Hail Mary's unless you're in Rodgers. I

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Speaker 1: basically refuse to believe that Tavon Austin is not a

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Speaker 1: useful football player. I don't know if he's. No. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: gonna argue with you on that. I think that's an

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Speaker 1: accurate statement. I'm just saying based on his career and like,

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Speaker 1: nobody's been able to find us like a consistent use

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Speaker 1: for him. And I don't think he's like this great

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Speaker 1: well rounded receiver. I don't want him. You know, they

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Speaker 1: tried to use him as one of their three primary

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Speaker 1: receivers for the first few weeks of twenty eighteen. Don't

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Speaker 1: like that. But he he's worth giving some touches to. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he had the longest run of the night

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Speaker 1: the other night, but you don't see that, like, and

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Speaker 1: it's just I wish there was more creativity in this

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Speaker 1: offense sometimes. All Right, we appreciate you, guys, Joan us.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow the normal time. Sorry, Dave Hellman and Bergarcia.

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