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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, December thirty, first, twenty nineteen season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number one on nine. Welcome to the final edition
Speaker 1: of The Break for the two thousand nineteenth season. After today,
Speaker 1: we will start our offseason schedule next week. We'll be
Speaker 1: going once a week. We're still putting that schedule together.
Speaker 1: We'll let you guys know as soon as we get
Speaker 1: that figured out. I got only got to one hundred
Speaker 1: and nine episode. Yeah, but we still got more shows
Speaker 1: that will be a part of this season. Yeah, Derek
Speaker 1: doesn't turn it over till we'll turn over to the
Speaker 1: NFL season changes. But this football scout a whole system. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I've been doing this fifteen years. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. I got it. That's sad. Wow, is kind
Speaker 1: of sad, kind of confetit all right, I got Nick Woodman,
Speaker 1: Dave Amber, We got Danny joining us as well. All
Speaker 1: five of the crew here today that have been a
Speaker 1: part of the break for this season, and today we're
Speaker 1: gonna recap. Actually what we're gonna talk about is is
Speaker 1: expiring contracts. We're gonna talk about coaches that are up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about players that are up. There are
Speaker 1: a ton of them on both sides of those. And
Speaker 1: I'll want to know from you guys what you think
Speaker 1: will and should happen with all those guys. But before
Speaker 1: we do that, as a way to start off the show,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go around the table and I want
Speaker 1: each of you just give me a quick little minute
Speaker 1: on just your thoughts on where this team is based
Speaker 1: on what you saw this season, based upon what is
Speaker 1: expected to have to happen this offseason. Just where you
Speaker 1: think if you had to give a state of the
Speaker 1: Union right now, Uh, well, where would you be right
Speaker 1: now with this team. I'll start with the older statesman, Nick,
Speaker 1: start us off. Um, what I like a little heads
Speaker 1: up on that one? Well, I want it really there
Speaker 1: is why I didn't tell you before is because I
Speaker 1: really wanted you're off Just what was on top of
Speaker 1: your mind about this team right now. They need I
Speaker 1: think they need better play on defense. I think that.
Speaker 1: I mean you can say, I mean coaching, Yeah, you can,
Speaker 1: you can say that. I mean, they're gonna need to
Speaker 1: figure this out with the staff, But um, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, more than anything, I think that they need
Speaker 1: better play. The offense was good enough at times, but
Speaker 1: the defense I think is going to be where the
Speaker 1: focus needs to be. They need to figure out question
Speaker 1: marks on defense persual with the defensive line and the secondary.
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of moving parts there as
Speaker 1: part of sels we used to say, and I think
Speaker 1: that that defense is need needs to be addressed more
Speaker 1: than anything, all right, Amber, Hmm, Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a little emotional today, and I just every year,
Speaker 1: you know, I just hate the fact that our youth
Speaker 1: is going away. You know. Every year that pass every
Speaker 1: year that passes by is another last year, you know,
Speaker 1: And I feel that in my short time that I've
Speaker 1: been here, I genuinely really felt very, very excited about
Speaker 1: this specific season. We went into training camp and I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, wow, Chris Rushar. I was so excited
Speaker 1: about Chris Rashard and everything that he was doing in
Speaker 1: the defense and everything that was going on as far
Speaker 1: as the offense and what Amari Cooper was bringing into
Speaker 1: the team, seeing Dak developed into a better passer, you know,
Speaker 1: throwing those long passes down the field. I was just
Speaker 1: very excited about the future of this team and right now,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the season came to an end, but
Speaker 1: as of right now, I have absolutely no idea what
Speaker 1: this team is going to look like next year, not
Speaker 1: just within the players but also the coaching staff. I
Speaker 1: have no clue or anything, any sense of like what
Speaker 1: to expect moving forward. So I think it's just getting
Speaker 1: over that disappointment of just another year kind of wasted
Speaker 1: and the talent that we thought we had and then
Speaker 1: the unknown, just not knowing what's going to happen next Danny.
Speaker 1: I feel like they were almost kind of like knocking
Speaker 1: on the door, like we saw so many good sparks
Speaker 1: of what this team is capable of, especially on offense,
Speaker 1: and so I still have faith in that sense of
Speaker 1: like when you look at this roster, you still know
Speaker 1: what these players are capable of, but for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: they were never able to play complimentary football. And I
Speaker 1: agree with Nick, I think The biggest issue from this
Speaker 1: team has been defense on the line and the secondary
Speaker 1: of special I mean and even really all over, I
Speaker 1: mean every position was struggling with tackling for most of
Speaker 1: the season, and so I think that's where most of
Speaker 1: it needs to be the focus, whether that's acquisitions or
Speaker 1: the draft. Whenever we get to that point, I think
Speaker 1: defense is going to have to be a really heavy
Speaker 1: area they focus on. And I think it'll be just
Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens because there are so many
Speaker 1: coaches and I think if we do get a new
Speaker 1: head coach that overhauls I mean everything, and so we'll
Speaker 1: have to see what happens there. But I think just
Speaker 1: disappointment from this year of knowing what this team was
Speaker 1: capable of and they all said that to themselves, and
Speaker 1: just not being able to get the job done. Dave
Speaker 1: round the Cell, I'm not an overly like sentimental person.
Speaker 1: I don't buy into the whole kind of I don't
Speaker 1: buy into the whole like concept that like New Year's
Speaker 1: really means anything, you know, like it's it's a fresh slate,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I don't really buy it in general,
Speaker 1: but it's really crazy and fitting Jason Garrett oversaw literally
Speaker 1: this whole decade that's about to end, like almost the
Speaker 1: whole thing, with the exception of like six months in
Speaker 1: twenty ten, and it seems like it's over now, which
Speaker 1: lining up very well for the start of a new decade.
Speaker 1: And so this whole franchise feels like it's at a crossroads.
Speaker 1: You can take it as a positive because I do
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of talent on this roster. They
Speaker 1: could make a fantastic higher You've got a quarterback that
Speaker 1: wins games, You've won a playoff game with him. I
Speaker 1: think there's all the reason in the world to think
Speaker 1: that this could trend upward. We've also just gotten done
Speaker 1: with a season where a team with talent just couldn't
Speaker 1: get it together and couldn't make the playoffs. So success
Speaker 1: is never guaranteed in this league, and if you want
Speaker 1: to look at it as a negative, that's kind of scary.
Speaker 1: If they bungle this, it could be the start of
Speaker 1: a downward trend and all of a sudden, you're good
Speaker 1: young players are good old players or not good old players,
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there thinking about the glory days where
Speaker 1: they were a Dez catch away from the NFC title
Speaker 1: game or etc. I choose to be optimistic because I
Speaker 1: believe in the talent on this team, and I trust
Speaker 1: the jones is to make the right higher when that
Speaker 1: finally happens. But it's just, you know, we're here on
Speaker 1: New Year's even I just feel like we're at a
Speaker 1: big crossroads where it could go in a really really
Speaker 1: good direction or a not so good direction. All right,
Speaker 1: So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna dive into this.
Speaker 1: You got anything else. I mean, honestly, if I had to,
Speaker 1: if I had to say what my thoughts are right
Speaker 1: now on this team, it would be I'm a little
Speaker 1: confused and uncertain. That's the best way to put it,
Speaker 1: because I look at this team and I really do
Speaker 1: believe they got a lot of talent. But there's nothing
Speaker 1: that will corroborate that for me right now, because what
Speaker 1: I've seen from this team this season suggests that maybe
Speaker 1: some of the people I thought were really talented aren't
Speaker 1: as talented or they weren't being put in the right position.
Speaker 1: And that's what I don't know. That's the part that
Speaker 1: makes me really just I really don't know what to
Speaker 1: think of this team right now. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: if and when they make this move and they get
Speaker 1: a whole new let's let's say it's one new head
Speaker 1: coach or a whole new coaching staff, or whatever they do.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how the team performs next year
Speaker 1: because that'll tell me a lot about this year. So
Speaker 1: I'm deferring my opinion on this team until I see
Speaker 1: next year's team and how they perform, and that will
Speaker 1: tell me what I need to know about this final
Speaker 1: season of this decade. All right, so let's jump in.
Speaker 1: Here's I want to do. I want to go through
Speaker 1: the roster of all the guys that are going to
Speaker 1: be unrestricted free agents. I have three categories. I want
Speaker 1: you to put them in for me. There is the
Speaker 1: priority that means that Cowboys should do whatever they need
Speaker 1: to do to get this guy resigned. There are the
Speaker 1: guys that if it works, if you can get a
Speaker 1: deal that works for both sides, make the right amount
Speaker 1: of money, that's where I want this guy to be.
Speaker 1: And then they're the guys just let them walk. It's
Speaker 1: all good. We don't. We don't. We can move on.
Speaker 1: We can find barel talent. We should find better talent
Speaker 1: than what this guy presents. What was the mental category?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. If it works so I get money, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we stick, then we do make the deal. So
Speaker 1: let's start with the one. We didn't do really good
Speaker 1: last year at this I can't remember how to within
Speaker 1: a free agency. Oh, I can't remember how the show went.
Speaker 1: I know we did this last year. Remember this year?
Speaker 1: All right, let's start with the big one. Obviously, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: tell me whether you think he's a priority, if it's
Speaker 1: if the money works, or if you should let him walk.
Speaker 1: I think he's a priority. I agree, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: it's if it works. I mean, but yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: he's the priority, but it better work finance. Its kind
Speaker 1: of both, right, yeah, I mean I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna I mean, if they play hardball here,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna just let him walk, but I probably,
Speaker 1: I mean, they can always franchise him if they have to,
Speaker 1: so that that's that's what they have in their back pocket.
Speaker 1: And you can throw I mean, if it works, as
Speaker 1: always part of it, because I mean I don't want
Speaker 1: to give up the farm. I don't want to give
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott whatever he wants. If his people want forty
Speaker 1: million dollars a year, I don't like that, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's why I won't be surprised if this draws out.
Speaker 1: But I think he's a good quarterback. I do think
Speaker 1: he took a step forward this year. Not as far
Speaker 1: forward as you would prefer, but I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you can accomplish your goals with him as the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and and once you sign him, it'll all fall into place.
Speaker 1: He won't be the highest paid, YadA YadA, all that
Speaker 1: stuff we've talked about, and it's too hard to start
Speaker 1: over really with another quarterback. I think I think he's
Speaker 1: good enough. With some guys around him, then he can
Speaker 1: take this team where they want to go. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Tavon Austin wide receiver already, lad block,
Speaker 1: Bye bye bye everybody. Yes, you should have been gone
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. I think they didn't even use
Speaker 1: him till the end of the games anyway. I just
Speaker 1: I don't think he brought anything that you didn't have
Speaker 1: in your other receivers you can't get from other guys
Speaker 1: coming in this year. Does that does that turn into
Speaker 1: a position now that you have to fill because he
Speaker 1: had a role on this team. Is that now turn
Speaker 1: into a guy? You got it? Because you got a
Speaker 1: lot of and a growing list of people that you're
Speaker 1: a roles you're gonna have to replace. You have to
Speaker 1: fill it. But I just assume you can find a
Speaker 1: fifth receiver and punt returner without I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: have to spend this crazy capital to accomplish that fifth
Speaker 1: receiver or whatever he is fourth for where you want.
Speaker 1: It's like, what, what nothings like that? I don't I
Speaker 1: didn't see that first, but go ahead, Oh it looked
Speaker 1: like wow, Like no, I was just gonna say what.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Whatever coaching staff that comes in here,
Speaker 1: what's gonna be their opinion? Because with Tavon Austin, I
Speaker 1: feel like with different coaches, every coach thinks that they
Speaker 1: can make and take Tavon Austin's talent and make it
Speaker 1: work on the field, and it just has not worked
Speaker 1: anywhere where he's been. But every coach thinks he can
Speaker 1: they can turn him into something better. And by the way,
Speaker 1: he has some skills that makes a coach think I
Speaker 1: can get get out of him right because he can run.
Speaker 1: We know that he can run, and so there might
Speaker 1: be a coach that's out there and says, hey, give
Speaker 1: me a year with that guy. I think I can
Speaker 1: do something. But there was a coach that said no,
Speaker 1: thank you, and that was Sean mcvagh. I mean once
Speaker 1: he get jumped in and saw him for a little
Speaker 1: bit and I said, oh, we don't need that guy.
Speaker 1: I feel dumb for not even saying this at the start.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard can do everything. Tavon Austin can. Good point
Speaker 1: I and it's not up to me, but I would
Speaker 1: have Tony spend the whole offseason working on fielding punts.
Speaker 1: Why can't he do that? Yeah, So, actually, like the
Speaker 1: way runs in that kind of stary, I think he'd
Speaker 1: be really absolutely all right, let's jump act. Let's take
Speaker 1: our first break. When we come back, we'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about another wide receiver, Randall cop that
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Speaker 1: September twenty nineteen. Back to the break. It is the
Speaker 1: second segment of the Break Life in the s WBC
Speaker 1: mortgage studios at the Star, we're talking about unrestricted free agents.
Speaker 1: We've gone for a few We're going to get back
Speaker 1: into a conversation on the wide receivers Randall cop So
Speaker 1: your priority is a guy they'd bring back the works
Speaker 1: or you just let him walk if it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I would bring him back, preferably on a similar deal
Speaker 1: to the one he signed this year. One preferably no
Speaker 1: more than one, maybe two years, not a lot of money. UM,
Speaker 1: I thought he worked in this offense. I thought he
Speaker 1: left a lot of players on the field. Him and
Speaker 1: Dad couldn't ever seem to get on the same page.
Speaker 1: You know, it seemed like he had a drop, a
Speaker 1: key drop in every second or third game. But I
Speaker 1: do think he was a good player, and I think
Speaker 1: he's a good locker room dude. So if it with
Speaker 1: all that, I mean, I would also I'd be open
Speaker 1: to drafting a slot receiver too, that's fine, but if
Speaker 1: it could be done for a good price, I'd before it.
Speaker 1: Now the big one Marii Cooper. I we feel about
Speaker 1: a Marik Cooper. He's a priority. He got because I
Speaker 1: think that I'll just say this real quick before you
Speaker 1: get to that. I think before the last few games
Speaker 1: of the season, I think this would have been a
Speaker 1: no brainer. He's a priority. Of course, he's a priority,
Speaker 1: and it seemed like it seemed like as those last
Speaker 1: few games played out, I think that seemed to change
Speaker 1: for some people. So where do you fall at this
Speaker 1: point after what you saw towards the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I still think he's a priority. I know that he
Speaker 1: had some whether that's drops or they didn't have him
Speaker 1: to feel for whatever reason, he wasn't performing near as
Speaker 1: well as he normally does the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I also don't think he's fully healthy. Clearly, he was
Speaker 1: healthy enough to be out there the trainers would have
Speaker 1: put him ou there. He would have put himself out there.
Speaker 1: He's had so many lower body injuries that I don't
Speaker 1: think he's fully healthy, and I'm not sure how much
Speaker 1: of that pays into it, But I still think he's
Speaker 1: a priority. We know what he's capable of. When he's
Speaker 1: on the feel he's even a decoy. I like him
Speaker 1: opposite of Gallup. He needs to be eating some meat
Speaker 1: and this he he I did not notice. Let me explain.
Speaker 1: He became a vegetarian and a while back before this season,
Speaker 1: talked to him about it. In the off season, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it. In the off season, I was talking
Speaker 1: to one of my friends I used to be one
Speaker 1: of the nutritionists here, and she was kind of explaining.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are your thoughts on this, And she's like, well,
Speaker 1: there are very biased opinions and this and that, but
Speaker 1: some studies have shown that that kind of can affect
Speaker 1: as far as injury. It can make your body be
Speaker 1: prone to more injuries when you're not in taking protein
Speaker 1: the way that it should be taken. So if he's
Speaker 1: not replacing it with the right kinds of proteins or
Speaker 1: the right amount of proteins, I am not an nutritionist.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a trainer, so I don't
Speaker 1: know about any of that. But you know, when you're
Speaker 1: trying to make sense as to why all these different
Speaker 1: injuries that he's gone through this season, I'm like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: maybe switch up the diet and try some meat and
Speaker 1: see how that works. But again, I'm not a professional
Speaker 1: on that, but I just my thoughts have kind of
Speaker 1: changed as far as him bringing him back. For me,
Speaker 1: it would be if it works with the money and
Speaker 1: all that, because I don't feel comfortable with the injuries.
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable having getting a great player for
Speaker 1: half of the games and then not so much for
Speaker 1: the other half of the game when we play away
Speaker 1: from home. I don't know why that was. How was
Speaker 1: he playing last year when we had the like it
Speaker 1: games away? It goes back to last year. It wasn't
Speaker 1: home splits or it's still it's weird how I don't
Speaker 1: get it. But if the money is good, then why
Speaker 1: not the other wife is something crazy? Then I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe not okay. I think he's a better candidate for
Speaker 1: the franchise tag or transition just because there's so many
Speaker 1: question marks still and even if you can't do that,
Speaker 1: then I would. I would sign him to maybe three
Speaker 1: year deal and and hopefully that you know, just because
Speaker 1: you're you're still trying to evaluate him. But he is
Speaker 1: a guy you invested your first round draft pick in,
Speaker 1: and you know it's hard to let him go. But
Speaker 1: you know Danny's point about him being hurt, he actually
Speaker 1: said yesterday he felt better the last day games in
Speaker 1: the first eight games and he played, you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't play as well down the stretch as he did early,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to tell. He has said some things
Speaker 1: about he knows the left plays on the table and
Speaker 1: he wants to you know, get better next year and
Speaker 1: all that. But you know, I would probably sign him,
Speaker 1: but I think getting Dack done as a as a
Speaker 1: long term deal is important to lower that value so
Speaker 1: you can maybe do a franchise tag with him. It's
Speaker 1: a good I'm glad you brought that up, because it's
Speaker 1: a good guess that whoever the Jones is hired to
Speaker 1: be the next coach is they're not going to do
Speaker 1: it without that person signing off on Dak like that.
Speaker 1: I would guess the next coaches and be like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to work with Dak. Well, let's go forward
Speaker 1: with Dak. Will that be the case for Mari Cooper?
Speaker 1: And I only wonder that because it was just a
Speaker 1: year ago that a new coach in Oakland came in
Speaker 1: and was like, I don't need this guy, I don't
Speaker 1: want him. Let's send him somewhere for a first round pick.
Speaker 1: So what will the new regime think of Amri? Me personally,
Speaker 1: I think he's worth resigning, and I know he was
Speaker 1: if he on the road and he left plays on
Speaker 1: the field. I get it had some bad games. I
Speaker 1: like what he's about. I like his approach, I like
Speaker 1: his presence in the locker room. He's made a ton
Speaker 1: of big plays over a year and a half. So
Speaker 1: I don't feel one hundred percent great about it. I
Speaker 1: understand the concerns. I think I'd still do it, but
Speaker 1: I am cure is what a new coaching staff will
Speaker 1: see in him, because it was just a year ago
Speaker 1: that a new coaching staff didn't see it see here
Speaker 1: he would be. My challenge with those who wouldn't think
Speaker 1: of a Mari as a as a priority is when
Speaker 1: you look around the NFL, there may be there maybe
Speaker 1: three guys around the NFL, two or three guys that
Speaker 1: are wide receivers at every single game are gonna be
Speaker 1: killers like they're every single game. Michael Thomas is the
Speaker 1: one that pops to mind. There are on a lot
Speaker 1: of others Hopkins. Hopkins is like that, but there aren't
Speaker 1: many there. And so when you start, when we start,
Speaker 1: kind of, I think, I think a Mari to some
Speaker 1: degree can become a victim of us only watching him,
Speaker 1: like we we focus every game, we watch him, and
Speaker 1: so we know he's good in this game and in
Speaker 1: this game that doesn't quite show up, and then this
Speaker 1: game is really good and in this game not so much.
Speaker 1: But I think that happens around the NFL, and and
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't want to like it too
Speaker 1: much to fantasy football, But if you play fantasy football,
Speaker 1: you'll know whids there's a hard position to every week
Speaker 1: be able to rely on because around the league there
Speaker 1: are very few of those guys that are every single
Speaker 1: week putting up really great numbers. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the part you have to put into context. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna let him walk, can you replace what he's doing
Speaker 1: on those great days with somebody that's going to be
Speaker 1: consistent like that all year. That is, well, his contract
Speaker 1: needs to reflect that then, you know, And does his
Speaker 1: agent feel the same way do the Cowboys? But if
Speaker 1: he is one of those guys like and it's those
Speaker 1: top two guys that are every week and he's just
Speaker 1: below those guys, then that's probably where he should be slotted, right,
Speaker 1: Julio too, Sorry, but that's the Julio Julio. Honestly, Julio
Speaker 1: is not a guy's every week either. Like Julio asked
Speaker 1: some weeks, where he's got that three catch for thirty
Speaker 1: yards date to the semantics of it, it's not a
Speaker 1: long it's not it's nice. Um, I'm I'm with you,
Speaker 1: and that's And the other thing is he is the
Speaker 1: rare receiver who is not going to be an issue
Speaker 1: if the team is winning games. Now we've seen that,
Speaker 1: like he'll he can go one for nine team or
Speaker 1: even do an offer and if they win, I really
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to bother him. That is an
Speaker 1: unusual and I think a valuable attitude and I know
Speaker 1: where you're going because that kind of with you on
Speaker 1: that everything that goes up, it also comes down the
Speaker 1: problem too, is that when things are going the other way,
Speaker 1: does he have a problem with that as well? Sure?
Speaker 1: And and all you're going off is a perception of
Speaker 1: what you think when they win and he doesn't play well,
Speaker 1: so you're kind of like, I think he's okay with that.
Speaker 1: And then all I'm going is is a perception of
Speaker 1: when they lose and he doesn't play well. I think
Speaker 1: he might be okay with that too. The second half
Speaker 1: of the Eagles game weighs almost as heavily as all
Speaker 1: of the good stuff. Like, that's how troubling it was.
Speaker 1: Where are you? Yeah? Yeah, which I don't have a
Speaker 1: good answer for it, but there's enough good stuff, and
Speaker 1: it's it's the same thing as Dak where I'm like,
Speaker 1: do I want to give this guy twenty one million
Speaker 1: a year? Not really, Like if that's what he's asking for,
Speaker 1: then it could be a bit of a fight, But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to think you could slot him in somewhere
Speaker 1: less expensive and everybody can be happy. Right, we'll see
Speaker 1: in his words said it yesterday, I mean he said it.
Speaker 1: He said he didn't have he didn't didn't play as well,
Speaker 1: and he left a lot of things, you know, out
Speaker 1: there on the field, so you know when when you're
Speaker 1: going into the negotiating table there, I mean I think
Speaker 1: that you say you can say that. I mean I
Speaker 1: think he went down last year as far as where
Speaker 1: he was when the season started in training camp. I
Speaker 1: think his numbers now, I think guys have elevated over him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a top five receiver. I
Speaker 1: think he's maybe in that next class from six to ten.
Speaker 1: That's probably where Dak is as well. But what you're
Speaker 1: paying for isn't where they rank, it's where they rank
Speaker 1: relative to their their age and what they're going to do. Yep.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to add something else real quick. And
Speaker 1: it might not matter matter depending on what happens within
Speaker 1: the staff, But I have heard within the last few
Speaker 1: months of the season people questioning his toughness on the
Speaker 1: field off the field, and not to say that he's
Speaker 1: not a talented player, but being tough as far as
Speaker 1: like maybe if it's hurting here, okay, can that injury?
Speaker 1: Can you still play with that injury? Or just being like, no, man,
Speaker 1: this really hurts now, I'm good. Things like that that
Speaker 1: I've kind of heard from people that work closely with
Speaker 1: him and it. I don't know, those things do affect
Speaker 1: what happens over on that side when you're having meetings
Speaker 1: and having game days. I mean, I use and the
Speaker 1: whole question, what was it that one game where we
Speaker 1: were talking about whether they should have been on the field.
Speaker 1: Was that in Philadelphia? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: should he be talking to Kellen Moore and being like, no, man,
Speaker 1: like put me out there. I need to be out
Speaker 1: there or just going out there exactly literally I'm going in.
Speaker 1: But more on the injuries, not the philip game, because
Speaker 1: I think that was a whole list of whatever reasons
Speaker 1: why they I'm out there, but for injuries. I wonder
Speaker 1: not this could it could not be true, But I
Speaker 1: wonder if how much it's like it's painful I'm going
Speaker 1: to contract year, Do I really want to push the
Speaker 1: pain that I'm feeling if I may or may not
Speaker 1: be here? But and that, but and it might not
Speaker 1: be fair because players got to look out for themselves,
Speaker 1: but that stuff weighs heavily in front of I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe that was something that we saw this year with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: coaches give that feedback though, and I mean, it is
Speaker 1: what it is like it's it's a tough balance between
Speaker 1: looking out for yourself and looking out for the team,
Speaker 1: and it's never gonna weigh evenly depending on who you're
Speaker 1: talking to. You know, I know that you're going through
Speaker 1: players and then we're going to go to coaches. But
Speaker 1: the thing about it is is that this goes hand
Speaker 1: in hand. And I think when you're looking at coaches
Speaker 1: with expiring contracts, um, Sanjay Law is not on that list.
Speaker 1: But I don't think Sanjay Law will be back next
Speaker 1: year as the wide receivers coach. And so that being said,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you do look at the receivers Cooper,
Speaker 1: maybe cob and and wonder maybe you know, with with
Speaker 1: a change there, that that might you know, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: bring Cooper back and it's got a different guy, maybe
Speaker 1: somebody that works better with them. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: from everything we're hearing, don't think Sanjay Law will we'll
Speaker 1: be back. Is for maybe that helps what you're saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're trying different things. It's still relatively new players,
Speaker 1: a year and a half that you've had Cooper here,
Speaker 1: and I believe this Sanjay's second year. Yeah, Okay, So
Speaker 1: that's the only coaches he knows here. Maybe you know,
Speaker 1: just trying different things with him. Which I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to torpedo your game because I think it's fun. But
Speaker 1: like a whole new coaching staff, which it'll be mostly new,
Speaker 1: if not completely new, Like they'll have different opinions on
Speaker 1: all of these guys. You mean they're not going to
Speaker 1: listen and hear what we have to say. They're always
Speaker 1: they're gonna color, They're gonna use theening. Oh they're listening.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take our final bike, will come back.
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Speaker 1: segment of the Breaklock f s WBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star War talking understricted free agents, dext on our list.
Speaker 1: I don't even know that he wants to be back,
Speaker 1: but we need to, I guess, to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Jason Witten is an understricted free agent. What happens with him?
Speaker 1: Is he walking away? At this point? I think he
Speaker 1: walks away. I think he's made that quite clear to
Speaker 1: hang up the cleat for good. It really round around
Speaker 1: the stadium. Did laugh clear he had Our photographer Jeremiah
Speaker 1: takes some photos of him and Sean Leech. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe you do that just in case, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Super emotional. Seems like the writings on the wall. You
Speaker 1: think he's having some interviews. I think he wants to
Speaker 1: be back, but I don't think he wants to play anymore.
Speaker 1: I think he wants to be the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I don't head coach, isn't I always thinking?
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't nuss Meyer's contract up? Isn't he one
Speaker 1: of the coaches? One of the coaches us on the list?
Speaker 1: The tight ends coach? So you know you want to
Speaker 1: make a four A into coaching. Maybe I don't know,
Speaker 1: you look like that. I think that's more likely, think
Speaker 1: that's what he wants, more likely, more likely for people
Speaker 1: to accept. Not for him. He's a pole vaulter. Say,
Speaker 1: I'm he's just gonna go right over the crowd. What
Speaker 1: Romo did. That's what he did in Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: We're not looking to work, not Dan Campbell and this
Speaker 1: thing up the ranks like that. I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: mean that would be wild. It would be wild, That's what.
Speaker 1: And I don't even think that's the smart play for him,
Speaker 1: I really don't. I think it's smarter to get in there,
Speaker 1: you know, learning and start figuring it out. Like if
Speaker 1: you get yourself with a really good head coaches, you're
Speaker 1: handing the dirt, you know, Like if if Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: would have never been the offensive coordinator here ever, just
Speaker 1: never coached here or whatever. And then you ask Cowboy
Speaker 1: fans what do you think of Garrett? And like, oh man,
Speaker 1: one of the best games ever won, the Thanksgiving Day Game.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that. It was good, backup solid. That's it.
Speaker 1: Like that's there now, it's like, what's Garrett? Just like yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, that's all it is. And I'd hate for
Speaker 1: that to happen to Witton, where like in five or
Speaker 1: six years, like what do people think of Witten? Like,
Speaker 1: who's a good player but couldn't coach? You couldn't you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, but you gotta give yourself
Speaker 1: the best chance to be success one. To me, the
Speaker 1: best chance to be successful is not jumping into something
Speaker 1: that you don't really know well enough to be able
Speaker 1: to be your most give yourself the best chance. I
Speaker 1: think Witten. Witten's also on a level where like let's
Speaker 1: say he became the head coach and sucked. People wouldn't
Speaker 1: be happy about it, but like they're gonna prop up
Speaker 1: the stuff that they loved and not the stuff they like.
Speaker 1: Nobody they'll forget about that. Nobody talks about Wizards, Jordan
Speaker 1: or Birmingham Barons Jordan. Nobody talks about I'm sure there was, Like,
Speaker 1: what's Gretzky a coach? He probably sucked at coaching. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like nobody talks about that stuff. It's like time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Larry Bird's car. She was a
Speaker 1: top one hundred player on that list and he was
Speaker 1: a coach twice for the Raiders. Witten has reached a
Speaker 1: level where like if he was a disastrous coach, like
Speaker 1: people would remember it, but they'll just choose to hold
Speaker 1: on to what they like. Yeah, which, but I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no precedent for that in football. I know,
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr cool, I get it. In basketball, it happens
Speaker 1: all the time. The this thing I can think of
Speaker 1: as like Mike Vrabel and even he had to start,
Speaker 1: he was like the linebackers coach at Ohio State. It
Speaker 1: would just be crazy for me to think that he
Speaker 1: would go from playing to head coaching. That's nuts, big jump.
Speaker 1: It's a huge jump. All right, Let's jump to Joe Looney.
Speaker 1: You guys think about Joe Looney, got a little chance
Speaker 1: to play there towards the end of the year. Can
Speaker 1: bring him back. I have my opinion. I don't think
Speaker 1: it matches what will happen. I would say, if it works,
Speaker 1: keep him because I think he's proven that he is
Speaker 1: valuable on that offensive line and he can play consistently
Speaker 1: in multiple positions. He filled in for Frederick last year,
Speaker 1: he filled in when Sue Philo was filling in for Williams.
Speaker 1: He has a great personality. I don't know that they
Speaker 1: will he will be one of the guys they pay
Speaker 1: just because they've been drafting offensive lineman. I think kind
Speaker 1: of have something else in mind. I would pay him
Speaker 1: if it works. I don't think that all. I don't
Speaker 1: wonder like I could see Joe Looney is almost an
Speaker 1: LP lattice or just like keep re upping it because
Speaker 1: I don't think there's going to be a super crazy
Speaker 1: market for him. He feels a very valuable role. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the chemistry and locker room aspect of it speaks for himself.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to throw shade at Joe, like
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a competitor and he takes pride in
Speaker 1: his work, but like I think he's happy with his
Speaker 1: role on this team, Like he's kind of like a
Speaker 1: you think I think so or he's already re upped once,
Speaker 1: like he had, his contract ran out and he came
Speaker 1: back to this great line, knowing that he probably didn't
Speaker 1: have a sure fire starting role, but he came back anyway,
Speaker 1: and I mean it worked out. He got to start
Speaker 1: for a season. I just I think he likes this
Speaker 1: community of this offensive line, which if one thing is
Speaker 1: not going to change, it's the offensive line. Those guys
Speaker 1: are locked in. And so I could just see him
Speaker 1: signing for I don't know, a handful of million dollars
Speaker 1: and being the swing interior alignment. And I think he'd
Speaker 1: be fine with that. But is he a priority? No pity.
Speaker 1: I am making him, absolutely make him a little higher priority,
Speaker 1: because think about like this, did Travis Frederick have a
Speaker 1: great year, I mean much better? Next year? You pack him?
Speaker 1: I do better? Well, what if he isn't? This coaching
Speaker 1: staff right but you're stuck with him for a while.
Speaker 1: Hold on, now, this coaching staff right now drafted him.
Speaker 1: They love him, Okay, they've been through all this. They
Speaker 1: saw the way he was two years ago or last
Speaker 1: year and all that, and and it was hard for
Speaker 1: him even if he wasn't as better, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: better than than Looney're gonna you're gonna ride with him,
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff, a new line, you know what.
Speaker 1: They might have to play the better guy. And I
Speaker 1: give myself more of an option to have a backup
Speaker 1: center that I know in Joe Looney in case it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out. But Frederick, he's got four more years
Speaker 1: on his deal, Okay they are he will be your
Speaker 1: starter next year. No matter how he plays, He's going
Speaker 1: to be your starter next year. I would suspect that's
Speaker 1: probably true for the next couple of years, at least.
Speaker 1: I don't know that about I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if if, but I will say this. Listen to
Speaker 1: Frederick yesterday, did you look like a guy that was
Speaker 1: gonna be playing for four more years? I didn't talk
Speaker 1: to him, so I don't know, but I'll take your
Speaker 1: word for it. All I'm saying is is that you've
Speaker 1: got a relatively cheap backup there. I would make him
Speaker 1: a priority, bring him back, because you just never know
Speaker 1: about any of those situations. And if he is better
Speaker 1: than Frederick, well then I would I would at least
Speaker 1: have him here they have. He has the flexibility, he
Speaker 1: is a good player, He's a solid backup, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have struggle in finding solid backups in the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Not only that he is healthy, freaking all these all
Speaker 1: line have struggles with back issues or whatever kind of
Speaker 1: health issues. Surprisingly Joe Looney and knock On Wood. As
Speaker 1: of right now, he has not been dealing with any
Speaker 1: kind of injury. So he's like the full package of
Speaker 1: what you want in a backup. My issue would still be, though,
Speaker 1: My issue would still be I look at this offensive line,
Speaker 1: and I think, right now, if the Cowboys are smart,
Speaker 1: they start infusing some youth into it, and what I'm right,
Speaker 1: and those guys are hurt. But but my point, I
Speaker 1: get it. But I'm saying, I look at this, This
Speaker 1: offensive line is an aging offensive line, and we saw
Speaker 1: a clear step back this year in the play of
Speaker 1: the guys that were the studs on this offensive line.
Speaker 1: The way I look at that with Frederick, I think
Speaker 1: it's a little different because I was always under the
Speaker 1: belief because of the syndrome that he had and everybody
Speaker 1: that had had that, that had played, Mark Schlereth being
Speaker 1: the one I was mentioning. He said that first year
Speaker 1: it was bad for him. He said the second year
Speaker 1: was the year when he got his shrink back and
Speaker 1: he really was able to play at the level he'd
Speaker 1: played before. So my expectation always was Frederick will be
Speaker 1: better the second year than he was the first year.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was great this year. He was Okay.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be better than that next year. But
Speaker 1: what we've seen from Tyring and what we've seen from
Speaker 1: Zach makes me start to get a little bit like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you've built this thing around those guys. If they continue,
Speaker 1: but they're going to continue to age, if the injuries
Speaker 1: continue to be a problem, you better have some options
Speaker 1: behind them. And it's not gonna be good enough to
Speaker 1: just say, well, we got this other guy, that's kind
Speaker 1: of this guy that's a veteran guy. We can just
Speaker 1: kind of throw. That's good, but it ain't a long
Speaker 1: term fix. I think they need to be thinking, how
Speaker 1: are we developing young talent on the offensive line so
Speaker 1: that if we get into a pitch where it literally
Speaker 1: is now these guys are just so old and so
Speaker 1: banged up, we got actually replaced there. You better not.
Speaker 1: You better have some replacement options. You're lumping your problems
Speaker 1: in together when they're separate things though, like you have
Speaker 1: a long term you've got long term things at guard
Speaker 1: and you've got Connor McGovern and Connor Williams, and ye,
Speaker 1: yes you do. You've got connormc governed for three more.
Speaker 1: Here you're questioning that like that with them. But the
Speaker 1: higher that that your voice goes, the more that you're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, bring Joe Looney back, because that they
Speaker 1: did try that. If both McGovern and and uh Connor
Speaker 1: Williams were like battling to get on the field and
Speaker 1: he had all these guys, then you wouldn't even think
Speaker 1: about Joe Looney. But let's not forget that, and I
Speaker 1: think it can you know, it's been out there that
Speaker 1: Looney's name was mentioned in some trade talks. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: had no interest in letting him go. I think Lone
Speaker 1: is a better center than he is a guard, So yes,
Speaker 1: you're bringing him back as your backup center. I'm all
Speaker 1: in on that. I think point Bill got to deal
Speaker 1: with your guard position. I really do. I agree. I
Speaker 1: would deal with my guard position by bringing Looney back
Speaker 1: to be my third, second or third guy. Point being,
Speaker 1: if you want to move Connor Williams to tackle or
Speaker 1: draft to tackle. I'm all for it. I think that's
Speaker 1: a great idea. That's a separate problem that that's got
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Joe. I would bring him back
Speaker 1: if the price be a speed round. Guy, I say,
Speaker 1: we're not You're We're bad at this. We're really bad
Speaker 1: at this. All right, So give me, give me answer.
Speaker 1: On Xavier stuel Philo, also an unrestricted free agent, probably
Speaker 1: probably gonna have to let him go. Yeah, I hate
Speaker 1: saying that because he's a great dude and he played
Speaker 1: well when he got his opportunities. But for all the reasons,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a crunch at some point. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I mean, you got these other guys, you gotta think
Speaker 1: that McGovern's going to be able to come back and
Speaker 1: give you something there from a backup guard standpoint. So
Speaker 1: all right, so here's the deal. There's no way we're
Speaker 1: gonna get through all these defensive players. So here's I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna talk about the specialists for the
Speaker 1: Restless show, and then we'll move to defense next show.
Speaker 1: As I said, all right, so let's talk about Kai
Speaker 1: for Bath, I bring him back. If you know who
Speaker 1: else is out there, I think i'd sign him yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think they're also probably gonna do their due
Speaker 1: diligence and see who else is available. I mean during
Speaker 1: the season, I think they were kind of limited. He's
Speaker 1: obviously kicked will while he's been here, but I don't
Speaker 1: I wouldn't necessarily say my mind is locked in on
Speaker 1: Kai format. They know who's out there right now. They've
Speaker 1: looked at everybody who's ever kicked. They know who's out there.
Speaker 1: So I would sign him, but I would bring in
Speaker 1: another guy next year, like when you know, maybe a rookie,
Speaker 1: a younger guy, and let him kicking out the off
Speaker 1: season not really knowing who all's out there in the draft. Dave,
Speaker 1: I'm sure will know this within the next month or so.
Speaker 1: But would you ever go the route of drafting using
Speaker 1: high draft no lateral I'm talking first three rounds. No no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no no no no. I mean in Spanish, no,
Speaker 1: it is. It is like the most. It's the second
Speaker 1: most mental position behind quarterback. And I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's just screws with the guy's head when you say
Speaker 1: that first. I think it's more than even quarterback. Whatever. Either,
Speaker 1: Like I Roberroguyo was a kicker. You can't tell him
Speaker 1: he just forgot how to kick, and it's because they
Speaker 1: invested that in him. They're like, you better be awesome,
Speaker 1: because we just will look like idiots. It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 1: Even drafting even fifth or sixth round is kind of like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's drafted a kicker drafted, Yeah, nothing more than a
Speaker 1: seventh round ever, yeah, like fantasy. Yeah, but I would
Speaker 1: resign four Bath. My new thing is I'm just not
Speaker 1: giving multi year deals to specialists anymore, because you don't
Speaker 1: know when they're gonna lose it until you find a
Speaker 1: good one. And then you're like, well, they want to
Speaker 1: keep them. A couple of good ones, and neither one
Speaker 1: of them looks great at I mean, Dan Bailey didn't
Speaker 1: make it through his deal, and nobody's happy with the
Speaker 1: job that Chris Jones is doing right now after several
Speaker 1: years of him being awesome. I mean, and just you
Speaker 1: should be churning that stuff all the time. And I
Speaker 1: would if I can get four Bath on a one
Speaker 1: year deal, that's great. I would still try to find
Speaker 1: a rookie. They haven't looked at every kicker ever, because
Speaker 1: nobody wants my guy. Cole Tracy from L a shoe.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it, but maybe they did look at him,
Speaker 1: maybe and they just they never brought it good. They
Speaker 1: never brought him in. I'm saying at maybe they've seen
Speaker 1: tape and they're like, we're good. Find a rookie, like
Speaker 1: bring three kickers to camp. I don't care. But even
Speaker 1: if they get four bath back, I just churned that position.
Speaker 1: I definitely would have an open competition this year. There's
Speaker 1: no way I'm going in with just one guy. I
Speaker 1: want everybody battling for it, and I I want to put
Speaker 1: him as many stress tests as I possibly can to
Speaker 1: see how they respond on What about punter, Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: he's not an unrestricted free agent, but I will say that, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he comes up in twenty twenty two, so he's got
Speaker 1: two more years. But I do think that's a position
Speaker 1: to cowboys need to think. I mean, he had an
Speaker 1: eighteen yard punt the other day, Like, come on, you
Speaker 1: know there's their high school kids doing better than and
Speaker 1: that's my Like, that's a problem. We can argue our
Speaker 1: opinions about all this, but like we all assume there
Speaker 1: will be a new coaching staff in place sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later, and they're gonna have all like they're gonna
Speaker 1: go through and look at some guys that we might
Speaker 1: see as that and be like, oh we're good. I
Speaker 1: have fun on the the market, buddy, We're fine, right,
Speaker 1: And they also know a lot about the other stuff
Speaker 1: that we may not. That's what makes it interesting. Like
Speaker 1: their priorities are could be vastly different than what we've
Speaker 1: been used to for a decade. Yeah, talk about speed
Speaker 1: round will In with the most probably the easiest one,
Speaker 1: LP Latisore. Yeah, we're all good. If he wants to
Speaker 1: come back. I mean, I feel like he's got to be.
Speaker 1: He's ready to retire. He's got to be reaching a point.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they if they're going to hand him
Speaker 1: two million dollars to long snap, I assume that's pretty tough.
Speaker 1: It is like until you forced me out of the door.
Speaker 1: Its hellist right, he's doing his cookies from here. He
Speaker 1: loves walking around with his cookies. He's good. He's gonna
Speaker 1: come back. But like he's been doing it for fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and I've got to assume he's made enough money that
Speaker 1: he doesn't need it anymore. No, but it mean, just
Speaker 1: keep stacking chips. I mean because it sounds more fun
Speaker 1: to sit around at your ranch. I don't know, you
Speaker 1: get to go to a game every week. You're playing
Speaker 1: on an NFL feel, So if you like football, at
Speaker 1: this point, you got to remember too, he's not just
Speaker 1: snapping the ball. It's not just field goals because on
Speaker 1: punts he has to run down fifty yards but they
Speaker 1: can't hit him like I mean, no, I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, he's gotta even that. When he's getting
Speaker 1: up there in age, he's still got to be able
Speaker 1: to run down there, not be a liability, run down
Speaker 1: there and make a play and not mean he's still
Speaker 1: done that, not make a play. He's got to run
Speaker 1: down Yeah, don't run down there. Well, you don't have
Speaker 1: to run you don't have to run very far if
Speaker 1: you're going eighteen yard punts, you know, like right there,
Speaker 1: if he's if he's for it, I'm for it. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying at some point he's gonna be like I'm okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm riding off into the sunset. I just
Speaker 1: know this. When you talk about long snappers, they're not
Speaker 1: important until you don't have one, like I've seen when
Speaker 1: this team didn't have one, and they were like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, where every other snap is all over the place,
Speaker 1: you know, so what's wrong? I'm seriously moving and move
Speaker 1: the camera over. I'm not talking. I'm not trying it
Speaker 1: all on, you know, seriously, I'm not trying to force
Speaker 1: the guy out the door. I'm just saying this is this.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's right up there with Witten in terms
Speaker 1: of like years of crude for the franchise. Like if
Speaker 1: Witten retires, he could set the record. Right, this is
Speaker 1: like you're he beat surpassed Witten for most games, right,
Speaker 1: but seasons Like Witten just set the record at sixteen,
Speaker 1: did he not? Yeah? And and LP's not that far behind.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll say fifteen you say fifteen years,
Speaker 1: just say who said that? So thought somebody city was fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean he came here, no. Five, So he's two
Speaker 1: years behind Winton. No, no, No, I don't think he
Speaker 1: cares about it either. I'm just saying at some point
Speaker 1: he's gonna be like enough is enough. Yeah, even if
Speaker 1: he's only playing ten snaps a game, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's now maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems like he's still relatively young guys. Money, it
Speaker 1: really is. I appreciate you guys joining his schom which
Speaker 1: you guys a happy new Year. You guys have a
Speaker 1: safe and prosperous new year. Have fun night. We'll see
Speaker 1: you guys on Monday. I'm sorry next week and I
Speaker 1: don't know what day we're gonna be on yet, likely
Speaker 1: gonna be Wednesdays, but we'll see about that. About that
Speaker 1: emergence schedule, there will be not us, but there will
Speaker 1: be a podcast that will be a grouping of different
Speaker 1: people from different podcasts, so some of us may be
Speaker 1: on it, not our targe group though. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: do like you know, Friday when the news comes down.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna you never know. You never know, all right,
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