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Speaker 1: time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with

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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, January seventh, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number one oh eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Morgan Studios at

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Speaker 1: the Star and we got an hour with you guys today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna break down this Cowboys big win for a

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Speaker 1: full hour, well about fifty seven. Are we doing an

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Speaker 1: hour for the playoffs? Now? No, no, no, no, it's

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Speaker 1: just Monday. It's just Monday. That's what we do on Mondays.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the Cowboys big win. Cowboys get the win,

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Speaker 1: their first playoff win of the postseason this year. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: that continues a win and beat the Seattle Seahawks twenty

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Speaker 1: four twenty two in a game that although the score

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Speaker 1: was really close, I don't know that the game was

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Speaker 1: as close as that. Towards the end, I kind of

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Speaker 1: felt at the end like, okay, Cowboys kind of had

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Speaker 1: there for a second, but pretty much the Cowboys played

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Speaker 1: the kind of game that they need to play. Let's

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Speaker 1: go around the table. Let's get some big picture views

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Speaker 1: of what your thoughts are coming out of this game.

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Speaker 1: This game, Dave, let's start with you all, Oh boy,

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Speaker 1: put me on the spot. Um that that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the blueprint right there, isn't it? Like everything that

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Speaker 1: this team does well and needs to do well in

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Speaker 1: order to win games. That's what they did. Um kinda

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Speaker 1: kind of soured on how I don't know how bad

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Speaker 1: you know, to give up such an easy drive after

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Speaker 1: being so dominant, I mean, if they if they play

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Speaker 1: probably having less than two hundred and fifty yards of offense.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. M so sucks that, you know, just a

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Speaker 1: just an uncharacteristic break and coverage on the Tyler Lockett

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Speaker 1: other than that, the defense was dominant. They were physical.

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Speaker 1: The run game was clicking, and then Dak was Dak

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Speaker 1: love him or hate him, he shows up when when

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Speaker 1: it's crunch time and makes a play and he gets

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Speaker 1: he gets his first playoff wins. So that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: the run game, the quarterback being clutch in spite of

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Speaker 1: even with the seventy five yard touchdown drive at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game, Seattle did not crack three hundred

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Speaker 1: yards of offense. That's crazy. Uh So there, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: it amber well as far as the offense goes. When

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Speaker 1: But again, the defense at the beginning of the game,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, the defense started kind of slowing down a

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I get it. It's the heat of

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Speaker 1: dak Prescott specifically. I was about to talk about dak

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Speaker 1: To dust it off in the playoffs and have it

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Speaker 1: He said, what he saw back on the film study

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Speaker 1: has been And I missed the first three years that

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Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot of success in those years, I

430
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Speaker 1: feel confident saying that was the best AT and T

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Speaker 1: Stadium crowd ever for a Cowboys game. And it helps

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Speaker 1: that those two wins that they've had Detroit and now

433
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Speaker 1: Seattle is that that's not really a strong road game presence.

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Speaker 1: You know, green Bay did have some I will say,

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Speaker 1: which the does see some Saturday. The Lions game in

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Speaker 1: the Packers game definitely were great environments too. It's I mean,

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Speaker 1: the regular the regular season has always been the bugaboo

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Speaker 1: for these guys, which and that will continue to happen,

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Speaker 1: I think. But the Philadelphia this year, I mean, there

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Speaker 1: were some games this year down the stretch that I

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Speaker 1: really think that this crowd really helped. For sure, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. I've said it all. I've said it really

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Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty seven when the Minnesota Twins did it

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Speaker 1: in the World Series. You put give them a little

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Speaker 1: white flags. It's it's about six points, they go crazy.

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Speaker 1: You know, I judge a lot by the sound of

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Speaker 1: the crowd, Like I know if the Cowboys made a

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Speaker 1: play or if the opposing team made a play, went there.

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Speaker 1: You hear the different levels of the crowd this time around,

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Speaker 1: Like I would not have any idea because see, if

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00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking down and then I see some or expect

452
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 1: to hear something to see whether or hear whether Seattle

453
00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 1: made a play or not, I would not know, Like

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Speaker 1: I would have to watch the replay to make sure,

455
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that was a catch or that was a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: There was no noise like when Seattle made a play.

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00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 1: There was no noise. Like I'm talking about how powerful

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Speaker 1: the Dallas crowd was and how they literally took over

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Speaker 1: the whole at and t state from from the opposing team,

460
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: because usually you will even hear that even if it's

461
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Speaker 1: not a huge number of fans. You hear it. This

462
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: is this is something I did hear and I could

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Speaker 1: kind of see it. When Alan Hearns was laying down there,

464
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Speaker 1: you could hear something weird from the crowd. It was

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Speaker 1: a different type of noise, and I remember looking and

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Speaker 1: it's what we're way up there. I just remember thinking,

467
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: that doesn't something's not looking right. The feet don't look

468
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Speaker 1: like you normally would. And that's that's the end of

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Speaker 1: what anything I've ever seen about Alan Hearns's play, because

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Speaker 1: I'm not looking at it. I don't even know. So

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Speaker 1: real quick, real quick, before we go to break, just

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Speaker 1: give us some update on what we know. I guess

473
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Speaker 1: at this point when her status is we do you

474
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 1: had surgery? But where's he right now? And what's happening?

475
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Speaker 1: You know. It's really fun about the social media age

476
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,239
Speaker 1: is like you can just get updates without trying to.

477
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Speaker 1: Like I you know, I tweeted, I was just tweeting

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Speaker 1: about Hearns from Saturday and uh and his mom came

479
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Speaker 1: and found my tweet and tweeted and she was like,

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Speaker 1: he's home, sir turns yeah, missus, Hearns shouted. She you

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Speaker 1: know she's probably listening to this. If I hadn't guess

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Speaker 1: the shout out hope Allan's doing better, but so she

483
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: tweeted me yesterday and was like, he's home. Surgery went well,

484
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Speaker 1: he's on the road to recovery. And I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you for the update. I appreciate that. Really touching

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Speaker 1: moment on Twitter as well, one of a fan. I

487
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Speaker 1: don't know if was this the kid who he had

488
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 1: done some he'd done something with whatever, there was a

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Speaker 1: kid in my head. There was a kid on Twitter

490
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,400
Speaker 1: who just basically was, you know, kind of really distraught

491
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Speaker 1: a lot of fact and then wrote a letter to

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Speaker 1: him telling me he had been praying for him and

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Speaker 1: then four times four times, yes, four times four times

494
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Speaker 1: for you and uh, prayer works. And then he went

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00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: back and sent that information over to That information got

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Speaker 1: sent to Alan, and then Alan reached out to him, uh,

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Speaker 1: and they showed some pictures of them having a FaceTime.

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00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: Alan was talking to tell him assuring you have a

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00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: story on that later on our Cowboy. So really cool

500
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: stuff though, really cool stuff, really cool moment that came

501
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 1: out of a very gruesome moment for the Cowboys of

502
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: Alan Hern. He does appear to be doing well and

503
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Speaker 1: assuming there are new setbacks. Is hopeful that he'll be

504
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: ready for August. I mean huge. That's a big deal

505
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,199
Speaker 1: for him because this contract's not guaranteed next year. I

506
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: mean right, that's that's a big deal for him. It

507
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Speaker 1: really is a big deal, you know. And just it was.

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Speaker 1: It was really a touching moment. A lot of things

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Speaker 1: that you saw there. Um, you know, I give a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit to the Seahawks as well, classy. I

511
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Speaker 1: thought they were super glad. And I don't don't know

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Speaker 1: if they know Alan hearns that well or not, but

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Speaker 1: everyone knows that's those, you know, situations, and they were there,

514
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: just about every one of their team teammates went over there,

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Speaker 1: and just seeing Garrett and him, you know, just with that,

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Speaker 1: you know, just locked, you know, with their hands like that.

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Speaker 1: You can say what you want about Jason, but he

518
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Speaker 1: absolutely cares about his guys, probably more than a lot

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Speaker 1: of head coaches do. And it's moments like that that's evident.

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Speaker 1: Just seeing the tears down and you know, just it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a really intense scene, an emotional moment. And

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Speaker 1: that's twice the Cowboys and their opponents have had to

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Speaker 1: deal with that pretty early in the game with Crawford

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Speaker 1: going down and the same with Hearns. And it's weird

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Speaker 1: because you gotta like, Okay, that sucks. Now what well, now,

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Speaker 1: what is twenty four x two blast on three? Ready? Break?

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Speaker 1: I mean, do it again? Yeah, do it again? All right?

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Speaker 1: We're good fans too for that. I remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously it's a gruesome injury. It takes time to get

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Speaker 1: him off the field and do it. And then the

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Speaker 1: soon as that was over, which that's easier said than

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Speaker 1: were a few guys that came out of that game

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Speaker 1: a little bit banged up, and I wonder how much

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Speaker 1: be fun. Let's talk a little bit more about this

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Speaker 1: wide receiver position. I'll start first with Amari Cooper, who

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Speaker 1: had seven catches one hundred and six yards, no touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: but a really, really solid night for them. Does it

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Speaker 1: did exactly what you expect to number one wide receiver

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Speaker 1: to do, made some big catches, formats at critical moments.

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Speaker 1: That all being said, do you think that this offense

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Speaker 1: was at all impacted by the loss of and not

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Speaker 1: only the loss, but the loss and the hobbling of

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Speaker 1: a couple of wide receivers throughout the game, because it

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Speaker 1: was pretty early on when Cole Beasley had a catch

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Speaker 1: and then he ended up having the ankle injury, and

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Speaker 1: then you've got Hearns that goes out, and then even

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Speaker 1: later in the game you got Tavon Austin who who

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Speaker 1: had some I don't know if it was a reaggravation

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Speaker 1: of the groin, but all those things happening. Amber talked

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Speaker 1: about it. It It seemed like earlier were getting the ball

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Speaker 1: a lot of people that all kind of came to

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Speaker 1: an end. How much do you think that affected this offense?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it did a little bit. I mean,

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Speaker 1: but they were all able to kind of come back

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Speaker 1: on Herns, but they were all able to come back

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Speaker 1: and do some things. Um, you know, I thought I

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Speaker 1: thought that Cooper had two really big plays in that game.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that took him from about the forty

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Speaker 1: down to the fifteen or ten. Now, if they if

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Speaker 1: they would have overturned that and called that a the

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Speaker 1: incomplete pass, very similar to the Dez play, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what would have happened there. Um, yeah, that would

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Speaker 1: have been fun. Yeah, but I thought it was the

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Speaker 1: right call. I thought he was making three steps, and

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Speaker 1: that is the new rule now it's three steps. If

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Speaker 1: you have the ball for three steps, that's officially account

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Speaker 1: Like all right, we're getting into like so deep into

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Speaker 1: the semantics. But like, I know, the ball, the ball

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Speaker 1: moved when he hit the ground, but it didn't look

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Speaker 1: like he lost control of it to me, Like he

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Speaker 1: still looked like he had two hands on it. And

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Speaker 1: of course it's gonna move when you, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: running full speed and you fall on top of it.

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Speaker 1: So but I don't think he lost control. And obviously

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Speaker 1: the refs agree. And the point is it didn't matter.

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Speaker 1: He had three steps, three steps and that point, at

639
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: that point he's a runner. Yeah that's true. But then again,

640
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: it happens, you know in the in the game yesterday,

641
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: in the in the Bears game, when that was a

642
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: really weird play, you know. But anyways, to get up

643
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: to your point, I thought the receivers, I thought, yeah,

644
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: it was they were they were having some setbacks, but

645
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: they were you know, they were fine, and they were

646
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: still you know, the guy they were trying to target

647
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: the most was healthy. I mean, Noah Brown was definitely healthy.

648
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: I I don't get it, Shot, I don't understand it.

649
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I like him. He actually just for the record,

650
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: he was fourth in targets. I had one kitch the

651
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: targeted Cooper, Zeke and Gallop more than Here's my thing

652
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: about Noah Brown. I wish I could do make his

653
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: voice well. He kept he kept talking about him. He'll

654
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: be like, why is he still in there? And then

655
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: he would not like go back down to writing his

656
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: notes and notes and look back up and then realized

657
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: no I was in there, and he's like, he's back

658
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: in there, and it was hilarious. He hearns is hurt,

659
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: like he has to play. But but you know, Mickey,

660
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: you'll sit in the press box. He's got his headphones

661
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: on and he still kind of forgets how loud he is.

662
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: He doesn't really, that's the thing about headphones. Have heap phones,

663
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: you don't know how loud you are? Yeah, I don't.

664
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: Does he forget or does he just not care? Maybe

665
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of both. But I think their headphones

666
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: don't help, right, um he um. But my thing about

667
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: Noah Brown and Jason always says this. Garrett says this

668
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: about rookies and young players, is that you know, he

669
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: did a nice job. He went in there. You know,

670
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: the moment didn't seem to be too big for him.

671
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: I think the moment is too big for him right now.

672
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: I really believe what they want him to do and

673
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: the type of player they want him to be. I

674
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: don't think he's there yet, and I think they're asking

675
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: too much of him. Yes, he's a big bodied guy,

676
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean he can block everybody. Well who

677
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: somebody knocked him down. He was trying to block, He

678
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: gets knocked down, and he's just not there yet. I

679
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: think he will be. I don't think, And I just

680
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: don't understand if there's a clause in their contracts if

681
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: he catches touchdowns or whatever. It just seems weird that

682
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: they're really forced in the ball to him. Yeah. I

683
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: mean everybody knows that. I'm the president of the Noah

684
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Brown fan Club, but still yeah, yeah, I'm okay. I mean,

685
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: he hasn't doesn't cost them any games, has he? I mean,

686
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: but you can see that it's yes buzzling. I don't

687
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: blame Noah Brown. It go. I mean, it's the same

688
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: thing we always say, it's like they outthink themselves in

689
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: those types of situations. They're like, nobody'll ever see this coming.

690
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: We will. Now we're not gonna give it to We

691
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: should throw pencil, should throw it to Cooper. It's exactly

692
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: what they want us to do. Well, then we should

693
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: give it to Zeke. That's exactly what they want us

694
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: to do. Well, how about Noah Brown? Like it just

695
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: will just sneak him through the trash, Which that's what

696
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: That's what that play was like. It reminded me of

697
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: the Lucky Whitehead play in Green Bay. It is like,

698
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: but it didn't work. They're just like, well, he's gonna

699
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: engage for a minute and then we'll sneak him through

700
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: the trash and it'll be right there. And like it's

701
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: great in theory, but maybe lean on the guys who

702
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: you pay, you know. And I'm all, let's let's be

703
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: clear too. I'm all for the idea of being creative,

704
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: because the moment they're not creative is a moment all

705
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: of us and all the fans out there want to

706
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: talk about how uncreative they are calling play. So I

707
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: get it. It's I think you should throw some different

708
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: things out there. It just is puzzling to me the

709
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: amount that he ends up being on the receiving end

710
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: of catches when he's just not been to this point,

711
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: he has not been a productive receiver for them, not

712
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: only has been at practice, Like obviously they practice all

713
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: these plays. I wonder how he's been doing in practice.

714
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: I guess that he's probably doing pretty well and they're

715
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: probably go out there, we can use this, like this

716
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: is something we can use in the game. It just

717
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: hasn't transcause there are players like that that they they're

718
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: great I practice and then you throw them in the

719
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: game when the lights come on and it just does

720
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: not It just disappears and the flips. I mean, it's

721
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: the same. It's the same stories like, well it was

722
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: there and they didn't execute this. I mean, he should

723
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: have had a touchdown against Washington too, But over a

724
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: long enough period of time, a large enough sample size

725
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: when you're like, well, maybe maybe that's part of why

726
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: it's not hitting right, you know what I mean. It's

727
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: not a high percentage play for the quarterback that's throwing

728
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: it in the receiver. I am not a football coach,

729
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: but if it were up to like if I was

730
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: trying to get Noah Brown involved. I would be putting

731
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: him out on the boundary and throwing jump balls to him,

732
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: like throw the red zone fade to Noah Brown because

733
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: he's gonna bully the dB out of the way. And

734
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: I know he's got high pointability. I know he hasn't

735
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 1: showed it here, but that's what I would do anyway,

736
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: at least we're finding out at least right now that

737
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: you know. And I think I said maybe he's a

738
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: tied end type of guy. You know, he's not there

739
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: yet because he does get he gets knocked around. Now

740
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: you said bully these corners probably, but when it comes

741
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: to the linebackers and stuff, he's the one that's getting bullets.

742
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: He's not ready to kind of mix it up with that.

743
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: kJ Wright. What an outstanding player he was also, he

744
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: was great. He's a stud who like let's not Yeah

745
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: he is a great player. Yeah, where is he? Is

746
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: he a Texas guy? I don't know. I don't know.

747
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: Wagner went to Utah State. He's awesome, Like just to

748
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: make that play, just to like be running with the

749
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver and yeah, he hit him early. He had

750
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: They missed him not being there for a good part

751
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: of the season. But oh, that's right, he's a Mississippi

752
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: State guy. I forgot that. Yeah. Um, so if he

753
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: did got Dak was just throwing. He was helping him out. Yeah,

754
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: if he didn't play next to Bobby Wagner, he'd get

755
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: so much more credit for how good he is. Um.

756
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: But as a tandem, probably the best, best two or

757
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: three in the league. I would guess them Carolina, Yeah,

758
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: I mean want to throw these guys in there. Dallas

759
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: is on but inside linebackers, Yeah, I'm linebacker tandems I

760
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: phrase it. These two are better than those two you think.

761
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: I think I'm there yet They're close. I have figured

762
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: out I have figured out a great way to qualify it.

763
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: Dallas's guys are They are the most athletic duo in

764
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: the entire league. And that counts for a lot. I'll take.

765
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: You know, Wagner and Wright have just been through the

766
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: wars and see some things and can I mean, I

767
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: trust their instincts and their experience a little bit more.

768
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: But Jalen and Layton or I mean they're freaks. Yeah,

769
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: that's yeah, they're not. They don't know as much about

770
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: the position as Keekley and Davis or Wagner and Wright.

771
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: But you know they can make plays getting these guys can't.

772
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: They will be there very quickly shortly. The thing about

773
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: that calling those guys and they are they have the

774
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: freakish talent. But but I will say this, they tackle well,

775
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: they really do that. It's not just guys that are

776
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: running around. I mean, that's the impressive thing about Jalen

777
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: and vander Esh, whom I remember when Rolando McClean was

778
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: doing it. You see, you don't have to wait for

779
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: the guy to tell us on you know of who

780
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: made the play. You may don't even know who that

781
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: is anyways, but you know exactly who's you know the

782
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: tackle is just by looking from where we are, we're like,

783
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: oh wow, Like he got hit at the twenty five

784
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: and twenty five he didn't go into the yard, doesn't

785
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: go anymore yards? When when vander Esh and Jalen hit him.

786
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: I said that on Saturday Night. And Jalen Smith is

787
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: h he's a name searcher on Twitter because he'll he'll

788
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: find the stuff I tweet during a game and like

789
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: it afterward, which I would do the same thing. That's fine,

790
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: But Jalen when he made that tackle and he went

791
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: out of bounds, you know, and he was a good

792
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: play and I'm like, I was like, is he gonna

793
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: swipe it on the set now? Now we gotta get

794
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: back to the middle of the field. Yeah, is a

795
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: Promoter's definitely a promoter. That's all right, No back it

796
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: up on the field. I'm all good with that. When

797
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: you hit like a sack of bricks, which well that's

798
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: what I was just like, it is absolutely terrifying to

799
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: watch him tackle from field level. Like as physical as

800
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: it looks on TV, it is downright scary when it's

801
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: happening ten or twenty feet away from you and the

802
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: sound yeah, sound effect. I do not like it. Real quick,

803
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: real quick, before we wrap up the conversation on wide receivers,

804
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: You think the Cowboys this week are gonna have to

805
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: do something in order to shore up that unit because

806
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: you got Austin, you got Beasley, got Hearns all at

807
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 1: least will probably be on the injury report this week.

808
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: Hearns definitely out. You think they need to make a move.

809
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they need to make a move right now,

810
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: because Lance Leonor's here. I mean they have Do you

811
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: think they're going to move him up. I guess I

812
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I'm just I'm spitballing here.

813
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: Don't hold me to it. But I think Tavon and

814
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: Beasley will play. I mean they both they finished the game,

815
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: so that's a good sign that they should be able

816
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: to go. Right. Is there a free agent, you know

817
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: guy out there that and we did talk about, we

818
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: talked about before the show got like a Deonte Thompson

819
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: or somebody like that that has been here that knows

820
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: the offense um, you know, with with with twenty nine help, well,

821
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean, how much is Lenore gonna help? I mean, yeah,

822
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: but at least he has you know, dak it takes

823
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: him a while, and like the connection with receivers, probably

824
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: you have another injury. Let's say somebody down. Who do

825
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: you want to run around there? Do you want Thompson

826
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: or do you want lenor? You know? And if you

827
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: didn't have twenty nine, why can't I remember his name? CJ? CJ. Goodwin.

828
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 1: If you didn't have him, then I could definitely say

829
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: you go with Lenore and he plays special teams, but

830
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of a role he'd have

831
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: on special teams. Yeah, bringing in a guy at this

832
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: point is not so much about this week as much

833
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: as it is if you keep winning, and let's say,

834
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: for example, you sustained another injury. Who is the guy

835
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: that's going to be the guy that's farther down the

836
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: line that now has has to play a little bit

837
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: more of a role. And I think that's where you

838
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: have to think about, do you want Lenore? I'm sorry

839
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: my mentality was not a big picture here. I thank

840
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: you for bringing me back. Think that yours is because

841
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: I mean, we none of us have have gone this far,

842
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, I mean after this game, but I mean

843
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: for if not, and we've we've now done this for

844
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: twenty years and we've not gone beyond this round that's

845
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: coming up. You haven't. We haven't been able to say

846
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: those words that. How does that feel? Sucks? I want

847
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: to say it. Yeah, I hate it. I don't even

848
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: know what I don't even know what movie that's from,

849
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Speaker 1: but it's from a movie and I want to be

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Speaker 1: able to say it. Yeah. I just want to. I

851
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Speaker 1: want to get to an NFC Championship game. We're going

852
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Speaker 1: to this ship, I know, Yeah, I just want to.

853
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's from a movie. I just think

854
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Speaker 1: it's I want to see what it is from, you know. So,

855
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: but I will say this, you look at these playoff

856
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Speaker 1: and we've said this at the beginning of the playoffs.

857
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Speaker 1: This is not a situation where there is one team

858
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Speaker 1: that you're like, oh, they're definitely going to the super Bowl.

859
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: There is no team like that right now. And the

860
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Speaker 1: interesting thing somebody put that pointed this out on Twitter yesterday.

861
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys beat the team that the Eagles are gonna

862
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Speaker 1: have to play this week. The Eagles beat the team

863
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are gonna have to play this week.

864
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of mixing up well of these teams,

865
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: and there's enough there to make you think that you

866
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen this weekend when these teams

867
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Speaker 1: match up. Anything could happen. I would not be surprised

868
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: with any particular outcome. You know. I think that you

869
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 1: saw probably of the four hottest teams in the NFL

870
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Speaker 1: going into the playoffs, Colts definitely number one, and they're

871
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Speaker 1: the team that the only team that's beating Dallas and

872
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: they destroyed them. You know, they're the hottest team for sure.

873
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: Dallas is right at there. Philadelphias is super high and

874
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: Dallas is a team to beat them. And you know,

875
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Speaker 1: and I think Baltimar, you would say, was pretty hot too,

876
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Speaker 1: and then they got cooled off quick. But but you know,

877
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Speaker 1: it just it just shows that you know, you can

878
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: you can be hot going into the playoffs, and so

879
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: far it seems like it's carried over for that most part.

880
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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our final break. When we

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Speaker 1: welcome back, final segment of the break lack in the

932
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Speaker 1: SWBC Mortal. We should just take we should just take

933
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: that to the air, because I guarantee you Cowboys fans Field,

934
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: you know, feel similarly that was actually gonna be the

935
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: second part of this. But let's just go and jump

936
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: right into it. I mean, we were talking about the

937
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: you know, the matchup as you're watching the game yesterday,

938
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: and I know I tweeted about it. I want it.

939
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: I went into the game wanting Philadelphia to win that

940
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: game mainly because for me, at least, it keeps it

941
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: keeps the hope alive. And I know this is a

942
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: remote hope, but it is a hope that the Cowboys

943
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,439
Speaker 1: could actually if they can win, and then if by

944
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: some chance Philly wins as well, Cowboys would be hosting

945
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: an NFC championship game. And Nick, you're not just talking

946
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: about how we've never even experienced that. To be able

947
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: to experience that at the home stadium, I think that's great.

948
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys best shot of winning that

949
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: championship game and going to the Super Bowl will be

950
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: playing it at home because that's where they've been dominant

951
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: this year. So it wasn't so much about avoiding the

952
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: Saints because I think the Rams are a formidable opponent

953
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 1: as well. We'll talk about that later in the week

954
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: when we start talking about Aaron Donald. But the fact

955
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: the matter still is, I think being able to have

956
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: a chance at a home playoff game for the NFC

957
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: Championship that's a big deal. That's a huge deal. The

958
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: list of reasons to root for the Eagles yesterday was

959
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: like two miles long, and the risk list of reasons

960
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: to root for the Bears was just you don't like

961
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: the Eagles, Like, that's it. That's it. That's a big one,

962
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: which you're right, that is. The Rams are a formidable opponent,

963
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: but I think they are a better matchup for the Cowboys.

964
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: I know the LA Coliseum will have more Cowboys fans

965
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,280
Speaker 1: in it than the Superdome will. True, and it keeps

966
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: your chances of hosting a championship game alive, which I

967
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: hear Nick's argument that that sounds like a terrifying proposition.

968
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: Is playing one of your oldest and most hated rivals

969
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: in them to go to the Super Bowl. That sounds

970
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: at your house. You know what, though, it sounds a

971
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: hell of a lot better than having to go down there.

972
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 1: The Cowboys beat them, though, how sweet would that be? Yes?

973
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: Oh my god, absolutely yes. Maybe I'm definitely a glass

974
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: half empty person. Will Maybe I am, because because I

975
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: just look at it like the uh is there? At

976
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: this point, you really can't have a bad season. It's

977
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 1: not gonna be a bad unless you lose to the Rams.

978
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: It's not a bad season you lose to the Saints

979
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: in the championship game. It's not a bad season if

980
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: you have if you host the NFC Championship Game and

981
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: you lose to the Eagles and they are sitting in

982
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: your fifty yard line with the ropes and stuff and

983
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: they're holding trophy and all that, and then the next

984
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 1: week that's two weeks. I had a good year. Yeah, yeah,

985
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: a good year until Lenahan threw it to Noah Brown

986
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship Game. It got picked off by

987
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: Jenkins and the Eagles are celebrating their sad right. I

988
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: mean that horrible? That would be horrible. I'm saying is

989
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather go to the Superdome. And I

990
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: don't know if that's all worth going to the Superdome

991
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: because the one thing you say the Cowboys have played

992
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: really well at home this year, So I'll take my

993
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: chances on that. One is the trade that they don't

994
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: end up losing that game if they get there, because

995
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: those seven color you're you're probably thought that as I

996
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: stood on the table, and I was like, you can

997
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: beat their team three times if you're better, and they

998
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: get it to the Eagles that year they beat the

999
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: Eagles three times in a season, right, you know, but absolutely,

1000
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: hands Yeah, it's hard. It's a different Yeah, how how

1001
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,879
Speaker 1: likely is that to happen? And it's a different team.

1002
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Foles' is just different with him scared,

1003
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: scared money, don't make money, Give me the home, give

1004
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 1: me the home playoff game all the time. Every time

1005
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Speaker 1: I was scared of my Really, I'm gonna want to

1006
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Speaker 1: go to the super job. In other words, what you're

1007
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: saying is they're all scary, all the boy. I mean,

1008
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: if this you're not. That's and that's point. Yes, that's

1009
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: the flips. That's the flip side of it too, And

1010
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: obviously that's what the players are gonna say. You know,

1011
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,479
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence looked like he was offended when I asked

1012
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: him if he had a preference. He's like, I thought

1013
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna he grab you by your throat. He was

1014
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: mad at mad you back though he didn't thank you

1015
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: for He was like, who care? Who cares? Like we

1016
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: gotta go on the road and win. And I'm like,

1017
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: I know, but there's a there's a difference. I mean,

1018
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: not for him. Yeah, but that's the mentality they have

1019
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: to have, absolutely, But it's not our job. It's not

1020
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: our job to have that mentality. And I can say

1021
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: for a fact that one is better than the other.

1022
00:47:55,880 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: And it's one thing if they win, you know, like

1023
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: if you win Sunday or this Saturday night and you're

1024
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: talking about, okay, Eagles play the Saints tomorrow, that's one thing.

1025
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: But when you say it this early and you say

1026
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: I'd rather play the Rams in the Saints, well guess what.

1027
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: You go beat the Rams now. Now you gotta play

1028
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: the Saint. Good chance, you gotta go. You gotta You know,

1029
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: you don't want to ever act like you're scared of anybody.

1030
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: It's a little different if you don't have to play

1031
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: them both. You might have to play both of them. Yeah, well,

1032
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: I mean hopefully we will. Yeah, I'd be concerned if

1033
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: the players were saying they were one at one over

1034
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 1: the other, Like that's not what they shows. You'd be thinking,

1035
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: we're yeah. That's the point though, is that's what their

1036
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,399
Speaker 1: coach priest us a nameless faceless opponent, right, doesn't matter

1037
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: who it is. It's about what we do. Hope they

1038
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: believe it, right, But for everybody else, it's okay for

1039
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: us to be like I'd rather go nameless faceless opponent.

1040
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: Remember that in front of a building that's at least thirty,

1041
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: if not fifty percent Cowboys fans. Just sounds so much

1042
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: better than ninety five five, which is probably but you

1043
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 1: would get in New Orleans every year. We know they're

1044
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: out there. We know they're there because they come out

1045
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: to training. Yeah yeah, I mean, and they go out

1046
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: there and their goals to watch a little bit of

1047
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: practice and maybe get you know, Lance Dunbar to sign

1048
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: your hat or something like that. I don't know why

1049
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: I mentioned, but I'm just you know, just s I mean,

1050
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: just just hope that they get an autograph and all

1051
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: that stuff. And now you have a chance to really go.

1052
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: I don't make a difference cost it's probably gonna well

1053
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: check this out, uh right before Cody Parky lined up

1054
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: to kick. Last night, tickets tickets to the Coliseum for

1055
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: the Rams playoff game, we're one sixty and tickets to

1056
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Speaker 1: the Saints game were two eighty five. This morning, Rams

1057
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: tickets are three twenty nine and Saints tickets are one eighty. Oh. Literally,

1058
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: like the cowboys just grabbed the market and shift it

1059
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: in whatever direction they want. That's how they do. Insane,

1060
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: That's how they do. It's gonna be lit, as they

1061
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: like to say. That's the children like this in the coliseum.

1062
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking, like from our standpoint, yeah,

1063
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: we're not really going to be in a good press

1064
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 1: box either way. Oh no, no, wait, New Orleans press

1065
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: box isn't horrible. It's yes, it is worse than horrible.

1066
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: I thought you talk about the food. I'm sorry. The

1067
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: food better than the food's way better than the Rams.

1068
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: The Rams the worst food in the leak, yes, by far.

1069
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: But maybe they'll step up in them. Get luck with

1070
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: my main like, at least will be warm. That is

1071
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: a good at least will be warm. It is free.

1072
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: The like the the AC, the h the AC hub

1073
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: for the entire Superdome is right next to the press box,

1074
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: right it's like, yeah, well it's that closed off so yeah, yeah,

1075
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,879
Speaker 1: so you hear everything. That would be fun though, maybe

1076
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: we'll get just kind of feel the environment of pet

1077
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: pet peeve of mine. And I know, like very few

1078
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: people agree with me. Like if you cover college football,

1079
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 1: the vast majority of those press boxes are open, really

1080
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 1: and it is so much cooler. I love it. Yeah,

1081
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: I hate how the press boxes across the NFL are

1082
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: all closed. Like you could tell you've been to enough

1083
00:50:57,840 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: games and we go down to the field, like it

1084
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: was amazing at at and T, but we would have

1085
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: had such a cooler perspective of it if those windows

1086
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: had been opened, because you got you got a half

1087
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: inch of like plate class between you and the crowd

1088
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: and like so I can lean over to Rob and

1089
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: talk to him very comfortably, which would not be the

1090
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: case if it was open. Yeah. Minnesota has that and

1091
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: it's awesome. Yeah, and it used to be at Minnesota

1092
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: when they were in their old stadium. Not only was

1093
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: it open, but you were down like you were down

1094
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: lower so you were actually within the crowd. So it

1095
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: was really I thought those playoff games, oh my gosh,

1096
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: it was you felt the playoff atmosphere in Minnesota when

1097
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: you were playing there. It'll be a good press box

1098
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, though, it will be. I'm sitting it's open, right,

1099
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: Atlanta's open. I'm pretty sure Atlanta's open. You know what

1100
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: where might be? I might be thinking about their old stadium.

1101
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. We're just talking here. I don't know where.

1102
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: If the ten of us would actually get to be

1103
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl, I don't probably split us up.

1104
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I love that's you know, I'm sitting here

1105
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: a thing like, were we talking about the NFC title

1106
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,959
Speaker 1: game a little too much? Well, I was just jumping, Hey,

1107
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: that's what happened to me. You haven't been there in

1108
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: a while. You just gets your mind start. You know.

1109
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: One thing I did think about though this morning, and

1110
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: it was it was kind of sad. I thought, what

1111
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: if this team really gets on a roll and they

1112
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: get there. I feel for Jason wind Like, I really

1113
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: would feel for Jason all the years that he kind

1114
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: of was trying to get over that hump, trying to

1115
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: get over that hump, and then the one year, the

1116
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: year he retires, then they get on a roll. That

1117
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: would be that'd be tough, that'd be tough to deal

1118
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 1: with if if you're him, right snoozy lose. Yeah, I don't.

1119
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: I don't have I don't have it. I love Jason,

1120
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:46,959
Speaker 1: how are you kidding? I have no ill will toward

1121
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: him whatsoever. Yeah, but he retired on like during the

1122
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, like litter. I mean, the offseason program was

1123
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: already underway. I'm not saying anybody's gonna feel sorry for I,

1124
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: just I personally would feel a little sorry for him

1125
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: because I know how much that mentum and I get't know.

1126
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: We're way ahead of you, got a lot of games

1127
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:05,760
Speaker 1: to play and a lot of a lot of games

1128
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: still win to get there. But I just thought about it,

1129
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: like I wonder if he's sitting back thinking right now, like, man,

1130
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,720
Speaker 1: this team they're better than I maybe than he expected

1131
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: them to be, because I wonder if they were, if

1132
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: they were playing, if he and it's mine thought that

1133
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: they were gonna be this good, if he would have

1134
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: made that decision, I wonder maybe it would have. But

1135
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: I do. I do wonder a lot of things to

1136
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: want they're about in life. I'm just saying, what if,

1137
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: what if they're not three and five or three and four?

1138
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:35,439
Speaker 1: I mean, what if they're four and three or whatever,

1139
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean, they still make the trade for Cooper. Actually

1140
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 1: to the point now, they asked Stephen Jones about that

1141
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 1: um after the regular seasons, after the Giants game, and

1142
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: he's like, we probably would have been more motivated if

1143
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: we'd had a better record, because obviously the receivers are

1144
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: still a problem. I mean, you you know, all you

1145
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 1: need is eyeballs to see that. And I don't know

1146
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: if I believe that though, because of how much they

1147
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: care about the draft, and you know, that's a big pick,

1148
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: your first round pick. So but if you're better than

1149
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: the pick isn't as good. But that also may also

1150
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 1: tell you that maybe they didn't even believe in what

1151
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: they were saying publicly about not needing a number one

1152
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Maybe they were just at a point where

1153
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: they were like, you know, we need a number one

1154
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver, we don't have one. So you don't go

1155
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: out publicly and say, yeah, we need a number one

1156
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver, but you don't have one. We have to

1157
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: kind of sell it that way. And so maybe the

1158
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: idea was that they always thought they needed one, they

1159
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: just didn't have access to one. And then when he

1160
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: became available, it was like, Oh, we don't have to

1161
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: wait until draft and try to draft one and hope

1162
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: that he hits. We can actually go and get one

1163
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:39,760
Speaker 1: that already has proven he can play in the NFL.

1164
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: And that just kind of But had they been doing

1165
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: good at the beginning of the season, good enough, do

1166
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: you feel that they would have them intality to where

1167
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we do need a number one or

1168
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: can we just keep going and pushing it like we

1169
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,319
Speaker 1: are right now? That's my point, We're doing okay. If

1170
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 1: if they everything we've heard since they've gotten a number

1171
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: one wide receiver kind of flies in the face of

1172
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,759
Speaker 1: them really thinking yeah, like legitimately thinking they didn't need

1173
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 1: a number one. So I think they were just kind

1174
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 1: of selling what they had to sell at the time.

1175
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: They were going to get a number one at some point,

1176
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: whether it was going to be this year because they

1177
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: went after our number one this year. I mean they

1178
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: in the off season they were trying to get a

1179
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver. Didn't work out for them, so

1180
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: they ended up having to get Alan Hearns, which they

1181
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: kind of just painted him into. The teams lie to themselves, well,

1182
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: they don't lie to themselves, they lie to everybody else

1183
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:28,799
Speaker 1: and then do what they actually want to do a

1184
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: lot at the times. Yeah, yeah, this, I think this

1185
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: is just a situation where it kind of worked out.

1186
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: It fell into their lapse. They didn't have to wait

1187
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: till they got to the off season and drafted number

1188
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: one and he drafted a first round wide receiver. Let

1189
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 1: me say this too, but I mean, I get your point.

1190
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. He was a great player

1191
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: here and you know, and he is, uh, we're back

1192
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 1: on Witness the Warrior. Yeah, Jason Witten. But I'll say

1193
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: this though, you know, he I think one of the

1194
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: reasons why he didn't come back it's because he didn't

1195
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: believe in the team. He really did. I mean, I'm

1196
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 1: not trying to put him and put words in his mouth,

1197
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 1: but there's been enough people that have kind of said,

1198
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: you know that he didn't really think that this team

1199
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: with Garrett and Dak were going to do that. And

1200
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: so that's what Garrett preaches all along about buying in

1201
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 1: and it's it's about us and no one else thought

1202
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: we would. And I really believe if Jason Witten thought

1203
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: this team would do it, you know, he would have stayed.

1204
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of on him, you know, because

1205
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: he didn't. He didn't. I think he was done buying

1206
00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: in and a lot of fans have done the same thing. Yeah, well,

1207
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean probably he's never said this to me, but

1208
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: he left and he still thought he could play. I mean,

1209
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,359
Speaker 1: I don't think he thought this team could take it, tono.

1210
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: But that's my point. If that is true, then he

1211
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: still has to be he would be thinking if they

1212
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: got farther into this playoff, he would be thinking, man,

1213
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: did I make a bad decision? Although, and you know,

1214
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, and I think there's some

1215
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: validity to it. But I mean, if that's really how

1216
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: he felt, and almost good for him too, because that

1217
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: is a hell of a commitment to make if you're

1218
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: not in it, you know, right, no doubt. If you're not,

1219
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: it's written on all the signs all over this building.

1220
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: It is like, if you're not one hundred percent in,

1221
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: get out. And so obviously you would love it if

1222
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,319
Speaker 1: Jason Witten was part of this. But if you mean

1223
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: turning thirty six and you got this offer on the

1224
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: table and you're like, I don't know, man, Like I

1225
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: don't know. If I have it in me to care

1226
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: in May just as much as I would in December,

1227
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: then then you probably and he couldn't be Gates. You know,

1228
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: Gates has taken a different role Gates, especially when Henry

1229
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: comes back. For sure, he's a It's a different type

1230
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: of thing. I don't think he could have ever done that.

1231
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: He needed all the time, not even a backup guy,

1232
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: not even the startup, but just the every down starter.

1233
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: He didn't even want to rotate. So it was a

1234
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: different thing for him. Um, I'm sure he's you know,

1235
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: he's probably proud of the team at some point, but

1236
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: maybe he's kicking himself a little bit. But but but

1237
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: that's not I'm not saying anything bad about him thinking

1238
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: that way. Who in this room thought this team, you know,

1239
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: would would be at this level? I don't know, not me.

1240
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: I didn't pick him to the playoffs, so I can't remember.

1241
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: Did we pick playoffs? I think we picked records. I

1242
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't remember. I said I said nine

1243
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: and seven, no playoff trip, and that's fine. Hey, they

1244
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: proved me wrong. I can know him that that's cool,

1245
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: which maybe Jason wit And feels some regret but thinking

1246
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: about thinking about how much work it takes to get

1247
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 1: ready for a season and all of that. He might

1248
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: be a piece with it. Like, man, that's really great

1249
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: for them. But I I didn't body. Maybe it was

1250
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: just like I didn't want to do it anymore. Yeah,

1251
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: he was slowing down. So all right, we appreciate you, guys,

1252
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: John Us. We back tomorrow. We'll jump right into the

1253
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: Rams tomorrow. Dave will give us a scattering report on

1254
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: the Rams offense on Wendsay will get to their defense.

1255
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,760
Speaker 1: Till then. For Nick Eaton, Dave Elman, and Amber Garcia,

1256
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: I'm Derek. This has been The Break live on Dallas

1257
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,920
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