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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And it is a Tuesday inside the
Speaker 1: SWBC podcast studio on a beautiful day here in Frisco, Texas.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. And as I
Speaker 1: arrived here at the Star in Frisco, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: what a beautiful day it would be, Mickey, if I
Speaker 1: could look out over that practice field, frackball players on
Speaker 1: the football field getting ready for us Saturday night in Tampa.
Speaker 1: But it's not gonna be. Not so much. So here
Speaker 1: we are picking up the pieces once again. Yes, so
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Not good? Still not good? Still
Speaker 1: still not good. I got the beef, guys, all right,
Speaker 1: beef out. We can't blame the referees. We just can't
Speaker 1: a lot of those calls self inflicted bs that we
Speaker 1: put on ourselves, number one. And I gotta say I
Speaker 1: was very disappointed in Dak's little dig at the referees
Speaker 1: that that that comment after the game. You know, you
Speaker 1: just expect so much better from him, you know, but
Speaker 1: one of the classiest guys in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: the frustration was there after at the press conference. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he was still feeling it, and his reaction to
Speaker 1: the Cowboy fans, you know, throwing garbage and whatever at
Speaker 1: the referees. You know, you might want to believe it,
Speaker 1: you might want to be angry all you want, but
Speaker 1: you just can't say that. And I'm hoping that I
Speaker 1: wish he would have done it already, that an apology
Speaker 1: would be sent out, because that's just not him. And
Speaker 1: when you start reacting in these kind of situations, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody wants you to lose because your Dallas Cowboy. Everybody
Speaker 1: knows that there's nothing new. I mean, they take joy,
Speaker 1: you know, in the demise. But you can't as a
Speaker 1: leader of this team and one of the classiest guys
Speaker 1: in sports, you cannot do that as Dak Prescott the
Speaker 1: leader of this team. That's something that you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to dwell on it too much, but it's
Speaker 1: it's glaring when it comes from a guy like Dak.
Speaker 1: So that's all I gotta say. So you think he's
Speaker 1: done with the being nominated as the NFL Man of
Speaker 1: the Year is what you're telling, you know, the way
Speaker 1: he came back and played this year after that, I
Speaker 1: hope it has nothing to do you're talking comeback player,
Speaker 1: but you're talking to okay. Yeah, yeah, well even so,
Speaker 1: and you know, so he's done so much for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Yeah, that I thought. I thought initially
Speaker 1: when he said it, he was just kind of being
Speaker 1: kind of a smart alec trying to make a joke.
Speaker 1: But then he got an opportunity to walk it back
Speaker 1: and he kind of doubled down. So yeah, And the
Speaker 1: unfortunate thing is the whole thing came up wrong because
Speaker 1: the question to him initially was what is your opinion
Speaker 1: of the fans throwing stuff at you guys when you
Speaker 1: left the field? That was the first question, okay, right,
Speaker 1: and he and it was and I'm and I don't care,
Speaker 1: I'll throw the guy under the bus. It was Mike
Speaker 1: Leslie a Channel eight, And he had the question wrong, right,
Speaker 1: because the referees went under the same tunnel as the
Speaker 1: Cowboy players, And so that got corrected and he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: and then he said credit to them, and it was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: but you're right, then there is the opportunity to walk
Speaker 1: that back, and I thought he was just kind of
Speaker 1: tongue in cheek. Well, credit to them, and then he
Speaker 1: got the chance to walk it back and he didn't
Speaker 1: do it. And that when you double down on it,
Speaker 1: and it makes the apology even more different. There won't
Speaker 1: be another press conference. Till OTAs right, But we all
Speaker 1: have our social media accounts. That's yeah, well yeah, if
Speaker 1: he wants he could, yeah right, yeah, uh man. But
Speaker 1: to you, and also to your point on the officiating,
Speaker 1: I'm with you too on the you just can't blame
Speaker 1: it on the refs. You know, there were so many
Speaker 1: opportunities in that game to take business into your own hand. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: time's time. But but going back and looking at the game,
Speaker 1: first play of the game, it was a false start
Speaker 1: and they got called for offsides. And he did it
Speaker 1: again somewhere in the second quarter. And someone told me
Speaker 1: that watches the game more intimately than I do, that
Speaker 1: that's what Trent Williams does. He digs his left foot
Speaker 1: into the ground just before it's time to snap the ball,
Speaker 1: and he flinched the first time, it wasn't just digging
Speaker 1: his toes in the ground. The second time he dug
Speaker 1: his toes in the ground, and it was offsides and
Speaker 1: the member the kickoff return by Pollard got to the
Speaker 1: thirty five and then they called holding on Gifford. He
Speaker 1: didn't hold him. He pushed the guy to the ground.
Speaker 1: And I was wondering when I saw it first that
Speaker 1: Fossil was going crazy on the sideline. Well, whoever called
Speaker 1: it wasn't within twenty yards of Gifford, and they called holding.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, how do you do that? So the
Speaker 1: danger sometimes is going back and watching the game a
Speaker 1: little closer. Not the replays, but just going back and
Speaker 1: watching the plays and you pick things up. And boy,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to go on a rant here, but
Speaker 1: I thought the offensive line didn't play well. They played
Speaker 1: worse than I thought they did. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is a sign of the future, but they
Speaker 1: better not let happen that happened in twenty ten, because
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, if you remember, they went
Speaker 1: up to Minnesota and got waxed. The offense was awful.
Speaker 1: Offensive line didn't play well that game, and it was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, they're in a dome. It's hard to hear.
Speaker 1: The defense has the advantage. And then twenty ten, that
Speaker 1: same offensive line got old overnight. I mean just it
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, and then they had to
Speaker 1: reconstruct it. Right, well, they better not let that happen again,
Speaker 1: because it's time for whatever reasons. If Lale Collins did
Speaker 1: not have a good game, the guys in the middle
Speaker 1: didn't have a good game, and then even um Tyrann
Speaker 1: Smith struggled at times, and so they got to they
Speaker 1: better take a close look at that and make sure
Speaker 1: that they do what they have to do to try
Speaker 1: to not let that get old. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: year here next year and it's like there were so
Speaker 1: many plays. Dad didn't have a chance on it. He
Speaker 1: didn't have fourteen and they had a play. Um they
Speaker 1: were it was at the end of the half. They
Speaker 1: were after they got the roughing the kicker penalty, and
Speaker 1: they got another set of downs and they got a
Speaker 1: first down and they were third and seven at the
Speaker 1: forty five and he gets hit. He gets hit just
Speaker 1: as he's releasing the ball and it's incomplete and now
Speaker 1: they got a punt right and It's like, gosh, you
Speaker 1: just everybody was wow, his accuracy was bad. Well, it's
Speaker 1: it's hard. Got somebody always somebody in your face. And
Speaker 1: I just wish people would go back and look at
Speaker 1: it critically instead of emotionally as the game's going to
Speaker 1: Actually what you what you's as a fan, you you
Speaker 1: are frustrated because he seems to always be surrounded. You know,
Speaker 1: even with the four man rush, you can't see your
Speaker 1: quarterback in the pocket. He was trying to remember the
Speaker 1: one that he tried to dump off to Zeke. He
Speaker 1: was under pressure and it was high. Well there was
Speaker 1: everybody was around him and he had to get us
Speaker 1: an arm up and he had to do that many times.
Speaker 1: Bags And so what you look at is you're looking
Speaker 1: at the offensive line that we're all getting beat the
Speaker 1: same way, you know, So is it technique? I mean
Speaker 1: these guys, let me say this. We have gone up
Speaker 1: against offensive lineman I've never heard of, no Pro Bowls,
Speaker 1: no All Pros, and here they are running on our defense.
Speaker 1: It just depends on the team. Could I could pick
Speaker 1: the Broncos, you know, I could pick any team that
Speaker 1: ran well on us. I've never heard of those guys
Speaker 1: but their technique is solid and they keep all players
Speaker 1: off of their running back. And I've seen over and
Speaker 1: over again our offensive linemen are over extending it themselves.
Speaker 1: They're getting thrown out of the way, and it is
Speaker 1: no one between the D lineman and that running back
Speaker 1: to stop the collision from happening. It's not like you
Speaker 1: can go in there and say, okay, I can lean
Speaker 1: on my offensive lineman here until he gets rid of
Speaker 1: that guy can lean here, and I can have ways
Speaker 1: where I can have patience to wait for the hole
Speaker 1: to open up. No, it's not like that with us.
Speaker 1: The lineman is on the ground, the old lineman's on
Speaker 1: the ground, but D lineman is coming to attack. That
Speaker 1: is not comfortable, and that's what really It causes the
Speaker 1: big hits on my running backs. And that happens over
Speaker 1: and over against bags. It's not it's not something that's
Speaker 1: old just the last two weeks, you know this is happening. No,
Speaker 1: this has been happening for really the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. And uh, I had a feeling even if
Speaker 1: we would have won this game, come back and everything
Speaker 1: would have happened on that play, I see, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have felt good. About us, Yeah, because we should have
Speaker 1: done better the entire game. I felt that we lost
Speaker 1: the game before the clock ran out because we weren't
Speaker 1: playing well and we keep relying on this same you know,
Speaker 1: captain comeback situation and for us to be squabbling over
Speaker 1: one second referee grabbing the ball with his dumb self
Speaker 1: grabbing the ball again and again. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell he was trying to do. But we should
Speaker 1: never have even gotten today. It should not even be
Speaker 1: part of the conversation, you know. And I'll take it
Speaker 1: back to the drive. The law stop tunity late in
Speaker 1: the game was when you get the football with two
Speaker 1: forty two left, you have three timeouts left. Now you're
Speaker 1: at your own sixteen yard line. But but you're you
Speaker 1: made it to midfield. Here's here's something I haven't heard
Speaker 1: anyone talk about that I don't understand. And in Romo
Speaker 1: on the broadcast as the Cowboys, it was second and
Speaker 1: eleven and whatever yard line the Cowboys were at at
Speaker 1: that point, it's around midfield. And Romo said, well, they
Speaker 1: might be able to get a playoff before the two
Speaker 1: minute warning, and hurriedly, the Cowboys ran a play before
Speaker 1: the two minute warning. And I'm sitting there thinking, why
Speaker 1: do we care about running a play before the two
Speaker 1: minute warning? The clock is not an issue here. There's
Speaker 1: three timeouts left. Get the play that you want to run.
Speaker 1: Don't hurriedly run a play instead of a prize that
Speaker 1: they ran. And so they run a play was acted
Speaker 1: at two one, two oh one. They like, okay, they
Speaker 1: snap it, and that was what was the result of them.
Speaker 1: It was an incompa It was a sharp pass to okay,
Speaker 1: it was like a crossing route or something about five
Speaker 1: yards down field, something like that, okay, and it was incomplete. Okay.
Speaker 1: So instead of at the two minute warning, you're facing
Speaker 1: second and eleven, instead it's one fifty six left and
Speaker 1: you're third and eleven. Okay. I much prefer okay, just
Speaker 1: chill out, Okay, things are under control. Don't hurry up
Speaker 1: and run a play that you necessarily don't like. Get
Speaker 1: the play you want to run, and at the two
Speaker 1: minute warning on second and eleven, run that rather than
Speaker 1: you're faced with at one fifty six, third and eleven.
Speaker 1: And they were at the San Francisco forty seven. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't like time was a vessence. And I would
Speaker 1: say if you are going to run a play, that's
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to run the ball. To run the ball, okay,
Speaker 1: because you're getting a time out. The clock's gonna stop
Speaker 1: at one fifty six, which will give you a third
Speaker 1: and five or I mean presumably they're not thinking. They're
Speaker 1: not thinking you're gonna run the ball, and so you
Speaker 1: might be able to pop something, or at worst you
Speaker 1: don't gain anything, okay, which is what you're not getting
Speaker 1: anywhere still, right, But my preference is get the play
Speaker 1: that you want and just let it go to the
Speaker 1: two minute warning. And then on third and eleven, uh,
Speaker 1: incomplete and because he dumped it to Zeke and then
Speaker 1: Tyrn got called for holding and they declined it. Right,
Speaker 1: they could have had third and twenty one. Uh, and
Speaker 1: then you had to punt. Uh speaking of that. Uh
Speaker 1: also they were they they didn't you meant they had
Speaker 1: to punt if they took No, they did find a penalty, right,
Speaker 1: and so they went forward on fourth and eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was the incomplete path to centric Wilson. Yeah. Now, now,
Speaker 1: now having said that, if you wanted to, okay, you
Speaker 1: could have gone ahead and punt. You have your three
Speaker 1: timeouts left. And I understand this, this is goes against
Speaker 1: all analytics and everything. But if you were got from
Speaker 1: bad and if you were confident in your defense okay
Speaker 1: to stop them, you could have punted the ball. And
Speaker 1: as far as field position goes, if it played out
Speaker 1: and you stopped them and hadn't, they had to punt.
Speaker 1: Then instead of starting at your own what yard line?
Speaker 1: Did cowboys started out on the last drive, all right,
Speaker 1: at the twenty on the last drive you might be
Speaker 1: starting at with thirty two seconds left, you might have
Speaker 1: been starting at your own forty five with thirty two seconds.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I don't like it yet. I
Speaker 1: don't like taking the ball out of my hand. No,
Speaker 1: I don't either that. I'm not saying that they should
Speaker 1: have done that, but but with the three time outs left,
Speaker 1: you had enough time where you could actually do that
Speaker 1: if you were cared about it. And by the by
Speaker 1: the way, the other thing that I noticed that and
Speaker 1: no one would do that at the end of the
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, um they were
Speaker 1: facing third and nineteen and the past that Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: couldn't see. If they catch that, he's at the thirty
Speaker 1: for thirty five, thirty six somewhere in there. They would
Speaker 1: have at least because it was thirty nineteen, it wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be a first down, they would have had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to kick a fifty five yard field goal
Speaker 1: and three points. And let's at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Let's say, I am just saying and and and and so,
Speaker 1: but here's wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, lucky I know
Speaker 1: oblivious teen ever, so wait always something. So he's blinded
Speaker 1: by the sun before the snap, just about where he
Speaker 1: was trying to catch the ball. They're San Francisco's linebacker
Speaker 1: Fred Warner. He's standing right where Cedric was going to
Speaker 1: catch the ball, by the way before the stap, right
Speaker 1: and you know what he's doing. And for everybody that's
Speaker 1: not watching, he's crouched down and he's got his hand
Speaker 1: up shielding his eye so he can see before the snap,
Speaker 1: and the ball ended up right at that spot. What
Speaker 1: are the chances now, the big chances for us, because
Speaker 1: this is what happens to us when we lose. There's
Speaker 1: always these little quirky things and then you're feeling, okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, though, we're gonna get the ball to
Speaker 1: start the second half, right, the Cowboys are gonna get
Speaker 1: the ball first series. Uh it's it's uh third and
Speaker 1: four false start, third and nine false start, And what
Speaker 1: happens on third and fourteen a sack And it's like
Speaker 1: that's your offensive line. That's it. And they just I'm
Speaker 1: saying right now, we're two months and a half from
Speaker 1: the draft. They just better keep that in mind when
Speaker 1: they started looking, and they better hope they hit on
Speaker 1: Josh ball U Tarrance Steel may give them something. But
Speaker 1: and I know the money they've got spent up there,
Speaker 1: but you better look at this thing pragmatically. And you
Speaker 1: know that you gotta be a smart team too, Spacs's all.
Speaker 1: It's not just about the physicality. You know, sometimes just
Speaker 1: being smart really takes away from from these these small
Speaker 1: incidents that lead to failure. You know, you could just
Speaker 1: pick out so many things when we lose games to
Speaker 1: where you say, wow, I never thought that could happen,
Speaker 1: but it happens to us. And the other thing, they
Speaker 1: better keep their eye going forward. On linebackers. You bring
Speaker 1: that up, Yes, yes, talking about we need three linebackers.
Speaker 1: Vannoresh is a free agent. Um, okay, you you got Parsons.
Speaker 1: But what else, because when they loaded up with a
Speaker 1: fullback a tight end or a fullback in two tight ends,
Speaker 1: they got overpowered. And but spas, what a surprise, right,
Speaker 1: what a surprise. We weren't ready did we think that, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just do what for the next line? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think must have to be made. Jay
Speaker 1: Ron Curse is a boy. They got more out of
Speaker 1: him than I ever dreamed. But he's a safety. He's
Speaker 1: still a safety. And they got overpowered up front. And
Speaker 1: the other thing I noticed is it seemed like when
Speaker 1: San Francisco's offensive line had double team block, they gashing hole. Right.
Speaker 1: I didn't never see the Cowboys offensive line do that,
Speaker 1: but they it seemed like they were always outnumbered up
Speaker 1: front somehow, someway, it's an ever evolving game. And um,
Speaker 1: how many times the Rams carry the ball? Last night?
Speaker 1: They ran the ball over thirty times? Right last night
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. All Right, the Niners are a team
Speaker 1: that as much as as much as offensive coordinators are
Speaker 1: spreading it out now, they're going to come back now,
Speaker 1: well and it's getting in, They're going to come back
Speaker 1: right that, And just the game evolves. He goes back
Speaker 1: and forth. He goes to a spread and then it
Speaker 1: goes back to power football exactly right, and so you
Speaker 1: have to be able to defend either one. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you go up against a spread team that doesn't have
Speaker 1: a power running game, then you have personnel for that,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys I think have done a great job
Speaker 1: with that kind of personnel. But one of the things
Speaker 1: that happened this year, of course, is that Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: didn't play to the level that they wanted him to
Speaker 1: be playing at, or they expected him to be playing at.
Speaker 1: They had to release him. So now you get into
Speaker 1: a situation in a game against San Francisco, who likes
Speaker 1: to run the ball, and if you had the two
Speaker 1: linebackers Vander esh and Jalen Smith that you hope to
Speaker 1: have had to start the season, Parsons wouldn't even have
Speaker 1: to play linebacker in that run defense. He could be
Speaker 1: you could use him on the edge. You weren't able
Speaker 1: to use him on the edge at all in this
Speaker 1: game because you had to play him as a linebacker
Speaker 1: because of their threat to run nickel. For two years
Speaker 1: now I know, and it never works, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's we thought when we came in nickel. Is that
Speaker 1: what it's called no because but the Niners have that,
Speaker 1: they run a big nickel all the time. They've got
Speaker 1: Fred Warner and um Drey Greenlaw who just came back,
Speaker 1: and then they got a third linebacker, and so they've
Speaker 1: got three linebackers that they're confident they can play in
Speaker 1: their Warner goes out in the fourth quarter of that game,
Speaker 1: the other guy comes in and and so they were
Speaker 1: able to work it that way. Luke Gifford is not
Speaker 1: at that point in his career. Maybe Luke Gifford can develop.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know they liked him, but
Speaker 1: he was an undrafted guy. You haven't invested there. Think
Speaker 1: about how the plan was when they started the season
Speaker 1: before they had uh injuries or whatever on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: At the defensive ends art the idea was assuming Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith was going to play well, Jalen Smith was going
Speaker 1: to be the middle guy, Vander esh was going to
Speaker 1: be the weak side guy, and Parsons was going to
Speaker 1: be the strong side guy. And if you think back
Speaker 1: the training camp with him lined up on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage as the strong side linebacker can do right
Speaker 1: and teams wouldn't know is he playing linebacker or is
Speaker 1: he rushing the quarter? Quarterback? You want him as your
Speaker 1: jack linebacker, right exactly, move him around all over the place.
Speaker 1: And then it didn't turn out that well. Jayleen Smith
Speaker 1: somehow was lost. They didn't have a fourth linebacker, and
Speaker 1: so when they got rid of him, it was two
Speaker 1: linebackers and Jayron Curse who did well. But when teams
Speaker 1: decide to load up like that, boy, you're at a disadvantage.
Speaker 1: I can't see how you would expect our linebackers to
Speaker 1: all of a sudden be different from the historically bad
Speaker 1: running defense that we had. Right, So that was come
Speaker 1: in with thinking that going to be better than what
Speaker 1: he had been. Yeah, that's right. Historically bad, that's right.
Speaker 1: That was not good good forecasting to me. So you
Speaker 1: just hope when they look at this thing that, okay,
Speaker 1: let's be honest here, right, And they're going to have
Speaker 1: salary cap problems, so it's not like you're going to
Speaker 1: go out and put somebody right and say, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna fill this hole with that you're gonna have to build.
Speaker 1: But they did a good job last year of coming
Speaker 1: up with guys exactly, like Kean O'Neil, like Jay roun Kerrs,
Speaker 1: like Kayzy. I mean there's a number of them Urban Watkins.
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many of them like that. Even
Speaker 1: the thing with Keyan O'Neill, he's not a linebacker. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he's a strong safety, and you put him there at
Speaker 1: linebacker and he gets his three hundred and thirty pound
Speaker 1: eye on them. It's like, well that's kind of one
Speaker 1: hundred pound mismatch. So um, but yeah, they're running. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have we have big nickel. But big nickel didn't
Speaker 1: work last year, and it didn't really work. This didn't
Speaker 1: even try big nickels last year. They sacrifice Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: or no, not Anthony Brown. Who was the poor cornerback
Speaker 1: that ended up coming up there? Well, no, it was
Speaker 1: the little safety. The safety well, um, Xavier Woods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had him playing the linebackers. So what they need
Speaker 1: to be honest about two positions. Then we're talking linebackers
Speaker 1: and the entire offensive line. Yeah, yeah, probably be honest
Speaker 1: about the entire offensive line. They are no longer that.
Speaker 1: And you need a couple, You need a couple guys.
Speaker 1: The way I look at and somebody asked me today
Speaker 1: on the fan, that's it's like what you get a tackle?
Speaker 1: And I said, get me a tackle who can play guard?
Speaker 1: And he can tell got one guard spot, but if
Speaker 1: the tackles don't perform well, then he can go out
Speaker 1: to tackle. That should cost you a lot of money. Well,
Speaker 1: that should cost you a lot. Well. They hope that
Speaker 1: they drafted one in Alan Ball who can do something.
Speaker 1: Josh Ball, I mean Joshana cornerback. It was a little
Speaker 1: They hope they found what did Josh Ball will sit
Speaker 1: and still I mean, you know, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: when he was playing, they were like running the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit better. I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know who where whyline coach Joe Philbert, Joe needs to
Speaker 1: get on his job. I mean, I'm sorry, we're looking
Speaker 1: at coach McCarthy all the time. We're looking at Kellen.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at these position coaches. They're like
Speaker 1: lower level court officials. You might not you might not
Speaker 1: even know that you voted for them, but they're going
Speaker 1: to do their work for you, right, So that's what
Speaker 1: you need. You need somebody offense of line coach or
Speaker 1: that Joe himself, he needs to try and figure out
Speaker 1: the best way for loud Collins to not get caught
Speaker 1: for holding long time Connell Williams. He needs to have
Speaker 1: him after practice over there doing something because I don't
Speaker 1: know what offensive linemen do. Michael Lahman was talking bad
Speaker 1: about him on some show. I guess that went viral,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about these big mother brothers, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they have to they have the girth, they
Speaker 1: have the the size. What is the tech? It has
Speaker 1: to be the technique because I've seen other players come
Speaker 1: in who are lesser players than than uh McGovern and Williams,
Speaker 1: and they come in here and they do an adequate
Speaker 1: job at least against our defensive lineman. And all we
Speaker 1: need is adequate and you know what, we know what
Speaker 1: I noticed also that San Francisco. San Francisco was doing.
Speaker 1: They were their defensive front was overloading the Cowboys right
Speaker 1: side of the offensive line and tyroling. We'd get singled up.
Speaker 1: And there were so many plays I saw, like the
Speaker 1: one Bosa looped in for the sack. Connor McGovern didn't
Speaker 1: have anybody in front of him. Why are they doing that?
Speaker 1: Why is the fire the forty nine ers doing that?
Speaker 1: That's unfair. They shouldn't be able to do no. No,
Speaker 1: I said no, wait, I said Connor McGovern. I met
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. So here's him in space like looking for something, right,
Speaker 1: and Bosa loops around and he's looking over here to
Speaker 1: help the Pro Bowl tackle. And it's like, well, what
Speaker 1: about that guy there? Right? And he comes in untouched. Um,
Speaker 1: it seems like if they can overload like that, then
Speaker 1: obviously we're tipping something. We're tipping something. You know what
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Speaker 1: What do you think of that game last night? Oh?
Speaker 1: It was hard to not fall asleep on I saw
Speaker 1: that one. Guess they should have played Arizona. Huh yeah really,
Speaker 1: but it had been different than a couple of weeks before.
Speaker 1: I think, so, I think so yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think it would have been best if we wouldn't played Arizona.
Speaker 1: As you look at so, how did we lose to Arizona?
Speaker 1: How did we lose to this this last Okay? So
Speaker 1: so yeah, we get back to we get back to it.
Speaker 1: It was twenty five, twenty two and at the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won that game and then beat in Philadelphia. Then what
Speaker 1: would have been the playoffs scenario they would have hosted.
Speaker 1: They would have been the second. Well people will say,
Speaker 1: well green Bay lost to Detroit, and they wouldn't. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't have lost to Detroit, right, yeah, so they would
Speaker 1: have still had the number one seat, but they would
Speaker 1: have ended up it would have been the same state. Right,
Speaker 1: the only way they wouldn't know if they lost to
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and ended up the fourth seat, then they would
Speaker 1: have played. So that would have been motivation not to
Speaker 1: play against Philadelphia so that you could come back and
Speaker 1: play against Arizona again. Right yeah, yeah, right, could have
Speaker 1: rested everybody. I'd that work out for Philadelphia too. By
Speaker 1: the way, all that rest they got, they were still sleeping.
Speaker 1: They looked like they hadn't played a preseason game. So
Speaker 1: do you think Kingsbury's on the hot seat in any
Speaker 1: of the desert? All right, I looked this up last night.
Speaker 1: All right, Arizona started seven, and oh this year they
Speaker 1: did okay, and they went four and said what they
Speaker 1: so they wound up uh four and seven the last
Speaker 1: after the last eleven games, including the playoff game, because
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray went two and seven. By the way, Colt
Speaker 1: McCoy won, won two of those get two of those
Speaker 1: four games in the last half of the year. You
Speaker 1: were right about him. You always said about who trust him,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murder And boy he come, he came, as Nate
Speaker 1: Newton said, short gut him. That interception that picks six
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Oh god, that looked like Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz moment there, all right, So anyway, Kingsbury take the safe. Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: Three years at Arizona weeks one through seven. In these
Speaker 1: three years, he has a combined record of fifteen wins,
Speaker 1: five losses and a tie after week seven, nine wins
Speaker 1: and twenty losses. Oh my, so five fifteen, five and
Speaker 1: one the first seven weeks and from week eight on
Speaker 1: nine and twenty six years at Texas Tech weeks one,
Speaker 1: weeks one through seven, twenty seven wins, fifteen losses. After
Speaker 1: week seven eight wins and twenty five losses. Crazy man,
Speaker 1: So people figure them out well, part of that. At
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, you're playing a cupcake non conference schedule that
Speaker 1: adds to that. But also but they would also still yeah,
Speaker 1: he went to the pros, right, and so is that adjustment?
Speaker 1: In season adjustments, people make adjustments and you're not. I
Speaker 1: don't think we haven't made good adjustments. The games that
Speaker 1: we lost by halftime, you kind of said, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose this game because we never come out
Speaker 1: with something different, Like I said, the second half, the
Speaker 1: first drive of the second half, we went backwards. You know,
Speaker 1: we came out with the same lull. I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't see. I don't know. I guess I'm too much
Speaker 1: on body language. But the body language didn't even good
Speaker 1: as we came out into the third quarter. We didn't
Speaker 1: seem like, okay, guys, we figured out, let's go take
Speaker 1: care of business. I didn't think the body language looked
Speaker 1: good coming on the field at the beginning the game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said that, Francisco. You wanted that. I've said it.
Speaker 1: I said it. I said it at the time. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there watching the game at home with my wife, Okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm watching San Francisco come on the field and
Speaker 1: they looked confident coming on that field. And then I
Speaker 1: later I saw the video of the Debos boom box
Speaker 1: who someone had a humongous boom box and they marched
Speaker 1: from their every every game, right they yeah, they okay,
Speaker 1: they do it every game, but still it's working. Half
Speaker 1: of the season. They're still march out. They won eight
Speaker 1: of their last ten games. So we need a boombox
Speaker 1: at least or longer walk from the locker room to
Speaker 1: get them. I mean, because then they showed the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't like this body language. I'm
Speaker 1: saying this again. Let's just come out with better adjustments
Speaker 1: at halftime, because it doesn't seem like anyone has any
Speaker 1: confidence in what was said in the locker room. It's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's just continue with what we're doing. And to me,
Speaker 1: that is not part of a championship team that has
Speaker 1: a home game. You're playing in a home playoff game
Speaker 1: and you're it's as if you were at the disadvantage.
Speaker 1: It's like you are the one that's intimidated. And I've
Speaker 1: seen that before from the Cowboys, not only from as
Speaker 1: a as a fan and former player, but as a
Speaker 1: player as well. You can feel it from your own players.
Speaker 1: You know, defense must have adjusted because they held them
Speaker 1: do one touchdown the second half, I think, and that's
Speaker 1: the way it used the goals. Defense is all mad
Speaker 1: about what they did. They don't make the same mistakes again,
Speaker 1: but you have the offense themselves and don't follow. Had
Speaker 1: they not thrown that pick, they might have not scored
Speaker 1: that touchdown. Well, you know what, you would make you sick,
Speaker 1: right if you could have won the game? What was
Speaker 1: it twenty what was the final score? Twenty three seventeen?
Speaker 1: What if they didn't score that touchdown and you won
Speaker 1: three six? See? That's that? That that that's the off
Speaker 1: season that you hate. What if? What if? That's the
Speaker 1: off season that you hate. I hate hearing that, I
Speaker 1: hate thinking it because it just makes the off season
Speaker 1: even longer. Right and and once again, lack of lack
Speaker 1: of adjustments to me, uh, this team has. That's what
Speaker 1: youth does for you. Okay, it can work for you,
Speaker 1: nick can work against you. And I don't think those guys,
Speaker 1: I think they were intimidated by the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: and they didn't have any confidence that the coaches were
Speaker 1: going to make this any better, you know. And there
Speaker 1: were a couple of things that I saw it didn't
Speaker 1: make sense, Like San Francisco's first possession, Um, they had
Speaker 1: that one. They were like the eleven eleven plays for touchdown.
Speaker 1: It was seven plays. Never got to take that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like no third downs. In fact, there was
Speaker 1: just one second down on that drive. I mean, aside
Speaker 1: aside from the off sides to start the game that
Speaker 1: Mickey contends didn't happen. Then there was a Samuel went
Speaker 1: for nine. Samuel went for one. Okay, that was the
Speaker 1: one second down, second and nine. It's Travis Benjamin who
Speaker 1: hadn't Blaton Weeks for seventeen yards. No, wait, that's the
Speaker 1: one I was looking for, the Benjamin. Yeah, so he
Speaker 1: lined up on the right side, and so it was.
Speaker 1: It was Anthony Brown's. Anthony Brown was at least seven
Speaker 1: yards off the line of scrimmage right and he runs
Speaker 1: this crossing route to the left and there's nobody in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. And when he catches the
Speaker 1: ball and goes out of bounds, well here's Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: playing catch up from behind. Well, if you give the
Speaker 1: guy a free release off the line of scrimmage like that,
Speaker 1: and you got seven yards cushion or whatever it was,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna catch up. We've been long the angles
Speaker 1: that they've been doing that all year long. The inside
Speaker 1: crossing routes have killed us all year long. That is
Speaker 1: nothing new. You know how many catches Travis Benjamin had
Speaker 1: for the forty nine season. I think I heard it,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna guess he had four. He had zero.
Speaker 1: He had five targets all season in the regular season.
Speaker 1: He's a pump returner, he's not a receiver, and so
Speaker 1: they line him up and the Cowboys are thinking, well,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna throw to this guy. They throw to
Speaker 1: him all year. Maybe, but that's what it looks the
Speaker 1: year before. Okay, you know how many catches Travis Benjamin
Speaker 1: had last year? Zero? Zero. He didn't play twenty night
Speaker 1: team with the Chargers at age thirty. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Catches? He had six. He had six catches
Speaker 1: the year before. Over the last three years, he's got
Speaker 1: six catches. And I'm a third play of the game,
Speaker 1: he goes for seventeen yards and that was his only
Speaker 1: catch in the game. That's right, that I saw him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't know Travis Benjamin was on their
Speaker 1: team where he come from. It's it's amazing when you
Speaker 1: go back and look at the game. Some of the
Speaker 1: stuff you see you can actually be dangerous and if
Speaker 1: you're looking at it realistically, right, because I know some
Speaker 1: people look at tape and they want the tape to
Speaker 1: correspond with their opinion. Yeah right, And I think scouts
Speaker 1: get themselves in trouble sometimes with that. But you got
Speaker 1: to look at it realistically and you see that and
Speaker 1: it's like, well, yeah, you can't close that cushion. That's
Speaker 1: too much cushion for a guy like that. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: we get like four minutes left in our final show
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty one season, so let me give
Speaker 1: you an example of how what commentators say on TV
Speaker 1: shape people's opinion. We're gonna take the fake punt that
Speaker 1: worked and then what happened afterwards. I'm doing a radio
Speaker 1: hit this morning on station in Washington, d C. And
Speaker 1: so that came up and the guy, who is very
Speaker 1: good by the way, the host, Kevin Um, was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes, what were the cowboys doing? Why were they
Speaker 1: so disorganized after after that play? And I kind of
Speaker 1: had to explain to him what the intent was, right,
Speaker 1: and he goes, well, I don't know about that, because
Speaker 1: Tony Romo said that they're trying to get a time
Speaker 1: out at of them and they were just fudging. And
Speaker 1: I said, okay, let me give you the rest of
Speaker 1: the story. But this is a guy that's pretty knowledgeable, right,
Speaker 1: and he's watching it casually at home. He doesn't know.
Speaker 1: And so that was hire the perception. Yeah, the power
Speaker 1: that Romo and Collinsworth have to man to set the
Speaker 1: narrative for sports talk shows the rest of the week
Speaker 1: around the country, it's immense. Yeah, no, absolutely, And and
Speaker 1: so I had to explain to him, you know, and
Speaker 1: he was like, well, I mean, I said, now listen
Speaker 1: to me. You know, I got this, uh, and I
Speaker 1: understand what happened. Could you imagine with podcasts and stuff
Speaker 1: out there now You've got people out there doing the
Speaker 1: same thing he's doing, right, and you have his own
Speaker 1: followings that believe it. You know, we always tease stephen
Speaker 1: A on what he does, and that's just him making
Speaker 1: his money. You know, you're making money, you get your
Speaker 1: hustle on. I get that, but a lot of people
Speaker 1: they're gonna swear by that. I mean, you look at this,
Speaker 1: this this debate between Lebron and Michael Jordan. You know,
Speaker 1: people get fired up over that stuff. You know, half
Speaker 1: the stuff that's put out there, and it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with who's the greatest and who's not the greatest.
Speaker 1: That's why I hate this part of the season because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of mashed potatoes being thrown on the
Speaker 1: wall and they're just hoping stuff will stick and come on.
Speaker 1: The same thing will say, spaghetti, spaghetti. We'd never threw
Speaker 1: spaghetti on the wall. You too valuable. You finished your plate,
Speaker 1: by God before you left the table. But now with
Speaker 1: all the coaching stuff, right, and so today's supposedly Denver's
Speaker 1: here interviewing Dan Quinn, interviewing Kellen Moore, and then you
Speaker 1: know the rumor starts about, well they're gonna keep Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn and fire Mike McCarthy, and it's like, Okay, where'd
Speaker 1: you get that from? You? And I feel sam Adam
Speaker 1: Schefter last night that well, he reported that Quinn has
Speaker 1: and I saw him was on the halftime show. I
Speaker 1: think um or maybe a pregame, but anyway, he said
Speaker 1: that Quinn's got interviews lined up with four teams the Broncos, Bears, Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and Vikings this week. And but and then he adds
Speaker 1: this at the end, but the Cowboys want to keep him,
Speaker 1: and so that leads everyone to think, well, the only
Speaker 1: way they're going to keep him if he's got a
Speaker 1: head coaching offer somewhere else, is to make him the head.
Speaker 1: And you know where that stuff comes from, right, the
Speaker 1: agent for the coach. That's why Kellen Moore was a
Speaker 1: front runner for the TCU job. There was no that
Speaker 1: was crazy, that was not gonna happen. But agent gets
Speaker 1: it out there and he makes him a wanted man,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's where those guys get that stuff from.
Speaker 1: They don't get it from the teams. They get it
Speaker 1: from the agent. And the agent wants to get his
Speaker 1: guy's name out there. He's just doing his jobs. Add
Speaker 1: up he's got to get him more. I used to,
Speaker 1: you know, and and there were some guys out there
Speaker 1: that you could trust, and then there were some guys
Speaker 1: you knew you were getting used, right, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I always hated that part of it. I hated that
Speaker 1: part of it. So we'll see what happens with uh
Speaker 1: this coaching deal. See, because if look, if you're the
Speaker 1: head coach, I mean, if you're the guy looking for
Speaker 1: that or getting interviewed for the job, what's your first priority, like,
Speaker 1: if you have multiple opportunities, what's your first priority to
Speaker 1: decide where you're going family as far as coach for
Speaker 1: another job, which team, who's playing quarterback for that team? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Isn't that right? The kids going to school, that's all right?
Speaker 1: So the openings then you like Jacksonville Trevor Lawrence. Now
Speaker 1: the second thing I would look at his ownership. How
Speaker 1: stable is it? You know? And where's the owner? Because
Speaker 1: somebody was talking about Miami today and they were talking
Speaker 1: about how the owner I forget his name, he's not
Speaker 1: on site owner from a five hands on yeah, So
Speaker 1: then it's like, okay, who's the general manager? So somebody
Speaker 1: you have to answer, who are you who am I
Speaker 1: answering exactly? And what sort of a which is actually
Speaker 1: the most important, right, that's the most important, more important
Speaker 1: unless the owners Jerry Jones, and then you know who
Speaker 1: you're answer because usually when these teams that are changing
Speaker 1: head coaches, even though they might have a prospect like
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence at quarterback, he's still unproven in this league,
Speaker 1: you know, and so and how many number one overall
Speaker 1: picks have flamed out? Well, and think about me. Look
Speaker 1: at at Cleveland, Well, look at look at the openings Miami,
Speaker 1: Tom you sure? Um? And he was very high draft pick,
Speaker 1: Chicago Josh Fields, sure, first round draft pick, Denver first
Speaker 1: sale by the way, Yes they have, but I think
Speaker 1: I think they know who they're selling it too. I
Speaker 1: think they just got approved for uh to sell it.
Speaker 1: I think there was keep going Denver Vikings, Viking Cousins
Speaker 1: right now? And yeah, and are you sure that's that's
Speaker 1: the deal? Um, Cardinals? Oh no, not hadn't much yet,
Speaker 1: that hadn't happened. I'm trying to think there was, Like
Speaker 1: there's Texans Vegas now Vegas probably not bad, right, car?
Speaker 1: You can win with car, right? And I wonder if
Speaker 1: they consider as as a legitimate candidate. With Mayok out
Speaker 1: as GM, I mean, I don't know that that bodes
Speaker 1: well for rich Yeah. So because the new guy's going
Speaker 1: to come in, Yeah yeah, yeah, Houston, you don't know
Speaker 1: who your quarterback is, right, third rounder played this year,
Speaker 1: so Tyrod Taylor and then whatever's going on, I'm saying
Speaker 1: I can stay on the field. So Jacksonville, at least
Speaker 1: as far as prospects go, I mean, there's yeah, it's probably,
Speaker 1: but it's Jacksonville. But it is Jacksonville, and there hasn't
Speaker 1: been much stability there every week the New York Giants
Speaker 1: and the Giants. Yeah, sorry, Judge, there you go. And
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones jury is still out there, right although and
Speaker 1: with the GM no longer there, there's no tie to
Speaker 1: the draft choice, right. The next guy's going to come
Speaker 1: in and say, what my draft choice? He's not gonna
Speaker 1: take me down. So yeah, But isn't that funny that
Speaker 1: the team's needing head coaches also need quarterbacks, and the
Speaker 1: teams that have quarterbacks to the team that needs not
Speaker 1: at all. That's what happens in this league. The quarterback heads.
Speaker 1: Would you like it as we close it out? Would
Speaker 1: you like a list of the twenty one free agents.
Speaker 1: Unrestricted free agents. I probably know him, but go ahead, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's try lets all right, Kean O'Neil, Layton, Vanderish, Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins, ti In Secky, Brent Urban, Connor Williams, Maurice Kennedy,
Speaker 1: Jyron Curse, Demante Kazy, Noah Brown, Jake McQuaid, Brian Anger,
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory, Corey Clement, Jeremy Sprinkle, Malik Turner, Malik Hooker,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, Dorance Armstrong, Dalton Schultz. Those are your unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agents. It's about twenty one of them, about eight
Speaker 1: of them that are really crucial. There you go. I
Speaker 1: was waiting for Michael Galloping. Took a while to get
Speaker 1: to that. Well. I just read it off over thecap
Speaker 1: dot com. I don't know why they have it in
Speaker 1: the order, probably I don't know, and I think it's
Speaker 1: by their salaries last year. Yeah, and it's accurate. It's
Speaker 1: just interesting how one game can change how you look
Speaker 1: at potential players. You know, I'm not looking at Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson the same as I looked at him before the game,
Speaker 1: you know, because he threw the pass out of bounds,
Speaker 1: the backwards pass out. Oh you know what, I'm kitty
Speaker 1: when I when I went back and looked at that,
Speaker 1: the ball came out of his hands. Weird. But you
Speaker 1: had somebody trying to throw a pass with a glove on. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, but you can't tip it off though, No,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. I'm like, oh wait, let's go on. Man.
Speaker 1: I haven't been able. I haven't been able to look this.
Speaker 1: The timing rules. I jokingly brought it up yesterday, timing
Speaker 1: the timing rules in the final two minutes five minutes
Speaker 1: of an NFL game. Yeah, on that play, the Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson play where he threw the ball out of bounds,
Speaker 1: clock kept running, okay, because okay, it happened in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. Whatever, the timing rules change at the final
Speaker 1: couple of minutes because they considered it a fumble. Right,
Speaker 1: So okay, if you fumble out of bounds in the
Speaker 1: final two minutes, does the clock stop? I bet not.
Speaker 1: That was my I jokingly brought this up yesterday that
Speaker 1: the play they should have run instead of draw was
Speaker 1: the crossing route let's say ten to twelve yards down field.
Speaker 1: E Cedric Wilson, he throws it or tries to throw
Speaker 1: it backwards past a Tony and run that same play
Speaker 1: ball goes out of bounds. Clock stops. Now you're at
Speaker 1: clock dust stop. I don't know. I don't know for sure,
Speaker 1: was the answer. I don't know. I don't have the answer.
Speaker 1: I don't I said it before. I want my next Thursday. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got the answer for you. If he stays on
Speaker 1: his dog on feet, we might have a damn touchdown.
Speaker 1: How about that? Not try that? Just get one of them?
Speaker 1: Was just just the I was the fifty fifty ball.
Speaker 1: I'm still mad about that. Guys. You know that's the difference.
Speaker 1: Like you said, that's why he's the fourth receiver. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're saying if Cedric Wilson had stayed on this yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is not the time to fall. You
Speaker 1: can you can come up and you can't fall. Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: I slip, Well he'll get some new shoes. Man, you
Speaker 1: can't slip. This is not the time to slip. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is your moment you get that big contracting free agency.
Speaker 1: That's my point. That's how I started this off. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at people differently. Now, one game makes a difference
Speaker 1: in how you look at them before. So when you
Speaker 1: look at all those free agents, obviously you can't resign anybody,
Speaker 1: but that's twenty one salaries that come off the books, right,
Speaker 1: that you were counting on for this year. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you got to be very selective and you're at you're
Speaker 1: going to be at the mercy of market value, right,
Speaker 1: you know that what somebody else gonna hire, What the
Speaker 1: what they're going to offer this guy? Or can I
Speaker 1: sign somebody back on a two year deal? Can I
Speaker 1: sign you back on a one year prove it deal?
Speaker 1: They're going to have to be very selective. I was
Speaker 1: just so the offensive lineman only Connor Williams is a
Speaker 1: free agent, that's correct, Okay, I think Leil Collins has
Speaker 1: at least one year left, and seeing everybody wants to
Speaker 1: right away wants to cut Cooper, Marie Cooper, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you got to replace them, and they want to
Speaker 1: look at numbers, right, there's a lot of reasons why
Speaker 1: his numbers were the numbers this year. We spread it out.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of players out there, a lot
Speaker 1: of players, and they want to see a salary, and
Speaker 1: I forgot to look it up to see you know, okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get twenty two million dollars back in base salary. Well,
Speaker 1: what's it gonna because the cat number was twenty two
Speaker 1: this year, right, But there's gonna be there's gonna be
Speaker 1: dead money that's gonna go into the cap for sure.
Speaker 1: I forget how many he has three years? This is updated, uh,
Speaker 1: cut pre June first, six million after let's see dead
Speaker 1: money six million, cap saving sixteen million if cut pre
Speaker 1: June first, according to over the cap, that can't be right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that means he only has six They only have six
Speaker 1: million left on his signing bonus. His signing bonus was huge,
Speaker 1: right right, let me see here, or maybe it wasn't
Speaker 1: and they just made it put it in base salary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, we got a lot to explore, that's right, week, okay,
Speaker 1: a lot of research to do, a lot more explore.
Speaker 1: It says on here cut post Une first, two million
Speaker 1: dollars dead money, twenty million dollars cap savings. M but
Speaker 1: it may not be right, so don't hold us to it. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's got to be more than that, all right. You
Speaker 1: got any final mix shot for the twenty twenty one season. Um,
Speaker 1: it's on the twenty twenty two Thanks. It was ticket
Speaker 1: ticket all right, so that doesn't By the way, starting
Speaker 1: next week we will be on Thursdays at eleven am
Speaker 1: eleven for an hour every Thursday at eleven am. And
Speaker 1: if you have enough rad an hour. Yeah today we
Speaker 1: did an hour. And if you're and if you're brave enough,
Speaker 1: we'll open it up to questions. Y' call in. Oh
Speaker 1: the phone line will be working. Well, we probably get
Speaker 1: an hour when when we re you get it, we
Speaker 1: get an hour yet and we're trying real hard to
Speaker 1: get it out. You are right now, you're really treaty
Speaker 1: towards an hour today, Now I know, Chris. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here just being very patient. Okay. You the
Speaker 1: only guy you haven't not the only guys ever since
Speaker 1: said I only get paid for forty five I got
Speaker 1: the Twitter going, look at my video in Australia. All right, okay,
Speaker 1: retreat that would you? Was that? That's your family? Okay? Well,
Speaker 1: all right, so onward and upwards. Twenty twenty two, Happy
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