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Speaker 1: Rams Here, Barry, My big concern is your area of expertise,
Speaker 1: and that's the Cowboys secondary. They are not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones did say today, I want to find three
Speaker 1: the fan that he expected Xavier Woods to be there.
Speaker 1: Of Jordan Lewis, we don't know. Mike. Milt Nolan was
Speaker 1: kind of He didn't give us much. McCarthy never gives
Speaker 1: us anything, but I do want to play. This is
Speaker 1: some sound from Mike Nolan yesterday. The Cowboys defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and here he is talking about his injuries to the
Speaker 1: secondary and what he's comfortable with going into this game.
Speaker 1: Week from the Rams, here's Mike Nolan. Well, there's still
Speaker 1: some questions unanswered today, but they'll be answered by the
Speaker 1: end of the week. But I believe we'll get we'll
Speaker 1: get it. You know, we'll get a few of the
Speaker 1: guys back. But it has been a little bit of
Speaker 1: a struggle along the way we had you know, has
Speaker 1: had to move some guys around. But I think in
Speaker 1: the end it actually I'll help us because we had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play some guys at some different positions
Speaker 1: that we were hoping to when we started out, but
Speaker 1: not really knowing if we'd be given the chance, and
Speaker 1: as it turned out, we were. But hum again, as
Speaker 1: the week goes along, we'll we'll make some decisions as
Speaker 1: far as you know, who's going to actually line up
Speaker 1: where when the game begins. Oh okay, so Church, take
Speaker 1: me through the coach speak of what Mike Nolan said.
Speaker 1: Break that down for me in terms of what we
Speaker 1: should expect and how healthier guys right now in your opinion, well, well,
Speaker 1: in my opinion from hearing coach talk right there. It's
Speaker 1: basically he's saying that what they have in their secondary
Speaker 1: is a couple of soft soft injury tissue injuries. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it's a big catastrophic injuries that will
Speaker 1: have these guys out for a long period of time.
Speaker 1: But what he is saying is that this first game
Speaker 1: there might be some guys in positions that you aren't
Speaker 1: a customly seeing. I mean, they drafted Robinson as a
Speaker 1: corner and he might mess around and play safety at
Speaker 1: or the safety this Sunday. So he's saying that there's
Speaker 1: a couple of injuries here and there, but with the
Speaker 1: flex they have in their secondary, a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys can play multiple positions safety, corner and nickel. That
Speaker 1: they'll be able. They'll be able to work out just fine,
Speaker 1: I believe. But the concern for me is if they
Speaker 1: do not get Jordan Lewis back in his line up.
Speaker 1: I know we have Anthony Brown in there, but I
Speaker 1: just think Jordan Lewis is their best guy in the
Speaker 1: secondary right now. He's a short tackler at that nickel,
Speaker 1: he's great in the run support, and he can blitz
Speaker 1: as well, and his greatest attribute is getting the football
Speaker 1: and taking the ball away. So I'm kind of worried
Speaker 1: about that if he's not able to play this Sunday.
Speaker 1: But from the sounds of it, it sounds like he
Speaker 1: could be a questionable decision going into it. Hopefully he's
Speaker 1: able to go because this secondary will need him going forward.
Speaker 1: But Craig, did we have you back? Baby? I sure
Speaker 1: hope so. Can y'all hear me? Yeah, we can hear you? Well? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: just to pick it back off of what Church said,
Speaker 1: that Jordan Lewis injury to me is a really big
Speaker 1: issue because if I think back to last year, I
Speaker 1: think one of his best games was against the Rams.
Speaker 1: I think he ran around the field and covered pretty
Speaker 1: much anybody that was in that slot area and made
Speaker 1: some big plays. And they will need him this game
Speaker 1: for that. And like Church said, we'll be seeing some
Speaker 1: guys play some positions that they hadn't played before, but
Speaker 1: putting faith in the defensive coordinator to call some plays
Speaker 1: that will still have those guys doing the things that
Speaker 1: they normally do, right, so you'll call it cover one
Speaker 1: and have a guy still covering, versus having a cornerback
Speaker 1: coming down and trying to feel like A, A, B
Speaker 1: or C gaps, So you know, just putting trust in
Speaker 1: him and hoping that he has a true plan if
Speaker 1: he has to go to some guys that aren't used
Speaker 1: to plan safety are playing corner and he has some
Speaker 1: in the works for them to be successful. Okay, just
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen so far, who guards Robert Woods,
Speaker 1: who's checking Robert Woods, who's checking Cooper Cup, And who's
Speaker 1: checking the rookie bad Jefferson who they're very high on
Speaker 1: out in Los Angeles. For me, I mean, if Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis is healthy, I'm putting him on Cooper Cup in
Speaker 1: the slot, because Cooper Cup, I mean that's where he
Speaker 1: did a lot of his damage last year was in
Speaker 1: the slot, being able to take advantage of nickels or
Speaker 1: safeties or linebackers in zone. So I'm putting Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: on Cooper Cup, the receiver, the rookie see you're talking
Speaker 1: about out there, and who the Rams are very high on.
Speaker 1: If Tabon Dins cracks this starting lineup, I'm throwing him
Speaker 1: on him all day. I mean, Tabon dis is long,
Speaker 1: he can run with anybody. He's great, impressed a man
Speaker 1: and man coverage. So if I'm if I'm putting anybody
Speaker 1: on him, I'm putting him on there and say, rookie,
Speaker 1: have a nice day. Lock him down. The rest of
Speaker 1: the rest of the guys I think can be Robert
Speaker 1: Woods and they're tight end Higbee I think can be
Speaker 1: easily locked down. So those two are the main ones
Speaker 1: that concern me. But I think we have the talent
Speaker 1: and the secondary to be able to contain all of that. Oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta go opposite of you on that one, man,
Speaker 1: I got okay, I go. I gotta put our best
Speaker 1: corner player on Robert Woods. And this is specifically because
Speaker 1: I don't believe in Jared Golf to be able to
Speaker 1: go through his reads and get to the third receiver.
Speaker 1: So if you lock down Robert Woods, you take away
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. He's going to have a hard time getting
Speaker 1: a third read. Especially with what we expect to see
Speaker 1: from our defensive line up this year, he should not
Speaker 1: have enough time to get to the third read. Lockdown
Speaker 1: the first two. And what we've seen from Jared Golf
Speaker 1: is he authority or he would take a set, and
Speaker 1: that is exactly what we need for this game. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you, guys, this is former players. Do you
Speaker 1: take any account of what happened last year when these
Speaker 1: two teams played out of Jerry World December fifteenth, it
Speaker 1: was a forty four twenty one Cowboy drubbing of the Ramps, Dan,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. The only thing that you take into accounts
Speaker 1: who the quarterback is, the game is the game, and
Speaker 1: last year is last year, and even from this season
Speaker 1: game two, whoever you played for the division in the
Speaker 1: first game, they will not be the same team in
Speaker 1: the second game. So you can barely even look to
Speaker 1: what happened within your division. So you definitely can't look
Speaker 1: to what happened last year. These teams will be totally different.
Speaker 1: They might come in with totally different games, totally different personnel,
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't bank on any of that. For me,
Speaker 1: I gotta disagree with you a little bit there, Danny.
Speaker 1: I think this this going from last year. They blew
Speaker 1: this team out. I forget what you said, the score
Speaker 1: was forty two to something, but they blew this team out.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why I think this is a
Speaker 1: must win for this Cowboys organization. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff coming in, you got all this
Speaker 1: hyped up talent, coming in on offense, on defense, you
Speaker 1: added a couple of guy pieces here and there. So
Speaker 1: I think this is a must win for the confidence boosts. Now,
Speaker 1: if you go out there and you lose against an
Speaker 1: LA team that lost Gurley had offensive line troubles, I mean,
Speaker 1: they got two receivers out there, Cup and Robert Woods,
Speaker 1: but none of those guys are blowing off the top
Speaker 1: of your defense. Now, if you go out there and
Speaker 1: lose that game, I think that's an extreme stream confidence
Speaker 1: deflator for the season coming up. So I just think
Speaker 1: this is a must win, which I do think they'll
Speaker 1: blow this team out, by the way. I think it's
Speaker 1: a must win. But do you think that they can
Speaker 1: look at what they were able to accomplish last year
Speaker 1: and kind of put some work into that this year
Speaker 1: and say, since we blew them out last year, we
Speaker 1: probably we probably should do the same thing this year now,
Speaker 1: just because you know, you mean, they're coming in with
Speaker 1: a totally different new scheme, new coaches and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I guess they can't really build upon what they did
Speaker 1: last year. But I know for sure they better not
Speaker 1: go out there and lose on Sunday night today. I
Speaker 1: would say if that's the case. You know, whenever we
Speaker 1: played the Jests, they could just look back and be
Speaker 1: like liquid we could beat the Cowboy because we put
Speaker 1: the work in on them last year or the year
Speaker 1: whatever should we played in previous That's true. That's true.
Speaker 1: So Church that final was forty four twenty one. I
Speaker 1: went back and just checking the stats here, Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: had eleven carries for just twenty yards in that game.
Speaker 1: Tyler Hickbee the tight end at twelve catches one hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven yards in the game. Brandon Cooks four catches
Speaker 1: forty six yards, Cooper Cup six sketches forty one yards,
Speaker 1: and Robert Woods had four catches for seventeen yards in
Speaker 1: that football game. So the defense did pretty well. Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott in that game with two touchdown passes, Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: and Zeke both went over one hundred yards. Tony one
Speaker 1: thirty one on the ground and a touchdown on twelve carries.
Speaker 1: Zeke with twenty four carries one hundred seventeen yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdown. And I bring this up from this standpoint.
Speaker 1: Remember how La dragged the Cowboys in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: they had two one hundred yards and I felt like
Speaker 1: they hadn't forgot it and that game had happened you
Speaker 1: actually within that calendar year out of the LA College
Speaker 1: sum and it was payback for the Cowboys. So that's
Speaker 1: why I just kind of wonder, is there any way
Speaker 1: we could kind of look at is there any flow
Speaker 1: you carry over into this game from from last year,
Speaker 1: just knowing the Cowboys had not forgotten what happened to
Speaker 1: them in the playoffs. My pink, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: The Rounds were not playing well last season, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys actually weren't playing well either. So I just don't
Speaker 1: see that being the case, especially especially Game one. I
Speaker 1: think this is this is a whole new, whole new thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody's watched all that the way, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: see what these two teams are week one. I don't
Speaker 1: think it'll be anything like it was last year. And
Speaker 1: I really don't think that it'll be payback or anything
Speaker 1: like that. They both teams know they didn't play well
Speaker 1: last year and they're looking for a new first start,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's stay with the Cowboys secondary here.
Speaker 1: So the fact that they have injuries going on, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys decided to go bring back a familiar face. That's
Speaker 1: Brandon Car. Once signed a fifty million dollar contract with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and he's after leaving the Cowboys, they let
Speaker 1: him go. He went to Baltimore and he's had a
Speaker 1: very good career and it had a good career up
Speaker 1: there in Baltimore, but nobody picked him up. He's on
Speaker 1: their practice squad. Now here's Mike Nolan talking about the
Speaker 1: benefits and what he likes about having Brandon car in
Speaker 1: the Cowboy organization. Well, obviously he's an experienced player. He's
Speaker 1: played both at the corner for a long time, but
Speaker 1: also at safety when he was at Baltimore, So he's
Speaker 1: got some versatility. You know, we're trying to improve our
Speaker 1: depth on the back end and and I think he
Speaker 1: adds to that depth. So you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: his experience in versatility would be the two things I
Speaker 1: liked the most. Church. So your thoughts, Brandon Car. He's here.
Speaker 1: A lot of Cowboy fans upset, a lot of Cowboy fans.
Speaker 1: I'm saying they want Earl Thomas, but you've got Brandon. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know Cowboys fans, I mean they get
Speaker 1: upset about a lot of things, but this is the
Speaker 1: one that they shouldn't be upset about. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that's coming in and he's the ultimate professional. And
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Brandon Carr. I mean this guy, he
Speaker 1: hasn't he hasn't missed a game since he entered the league.
Speaker 1: This guy is durable, and he's on and off the field.
Speaker 1: He's the ultimate professional. He goes out there and does
Speaker 1: what he has to do. He's not this you know,
Speaker 1: rad Rod screaming all over the type place type leader.
Speaker 1: He's a lead back, example type guy. And this is
Speaker 1: a young secondary that can use that type of leadership
Speaker 1: going into each and every game. He can show you
Speaker 1: how to prepare for games. He can show you how
Speaker 1: to be a professional on and off all the off
Speaker 1: the field. So I think this is an extremely good
Speaker 1: pickup for the Cowboys. He's versatile, like they said, he
Speaker 1: can play safety and he can play corner and he's
Speaker 1: played nickel in Baltimore, so he can do all those things.
Speaker 1: He's durable, and I just think this is an excellent
Speaker 1: pickup by the Cowboys. Yeah, same here, same here. I
Speaker 1: just um, I know a lot of people are like
Speaker 1: falling into the trap and thinking that he's going to
Speaker 1: be you know, the like a strictly a safety and
Speaker 1: just listening to the coach talk right there, I think
Speaker 1: that they're looking at him as owner and they're happy
Speaker 1: that he would be able to play safety as well,
Speaker 1: which kind of puts up a little red flag for
Speaker 1: me that you know, they believe that they need a
Speaker 1: little corner help, especially with these soft tissue injuries. But
Speaker 1: I've seen Brandon Carr play. I saw him play last year,
Speaker 1: I saw him play the year before. He still has
Speaker 1: a lot of the tank, and I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if he came in it took one of those starting
Speaker 1: cornerback jobs sometime throughout the season. I just I would
Speaker 1: not be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised either. I mean
Speaker 1: the way he goes about his business and just his technique,
Speaker 1: it's flawless. So I mean, he might not be the
Speaker 1: fastest four two corner in the world, but his technique
Speaker 1: allows him to stay on top of receivers by jamming
Speaker 1: him at the line. I mean, he knows all the
Speaker 1: tricks of the trade. So, like you said, d Mac,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if he came in here and
Speaker 1: cracked and started line up eventually during this season, Brandon
Speaker 1: Carr did a lot of winning when he was up
Speaker 1: there at Baltiward. Now there is another player who's no
Speaker 1: longer with the Ravens that the Cowboys, especially Cowboy fans,
Speaker 1: have had interest in. We won't let you hear what
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator had to say about Earl Thomas. I'll
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Speaker 1: you losing a bet, but that's my I'm still gonna Hey, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Brandon cars In Cowboy fans are mad. All they want
Speaker 1: to talk about is look at that catch you had
Speaker 1: against Odell Beckham Junior. They want Earl Thomas. I asked
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan about Earl Thomas yesterday and listen to the
Speaker 1: response from the defensive coordinate. I have not had any
Speaker 1: conversations with Jerry or any of them about it. You know,
Speaker 1: when it becomes serious and then maybe there'd be a conversation,
Speaker 1: But from as far is including me, thus far, I
Speaker 1: have not. Okay, so he's not. He's sitting here saying
Speaker 1: I hadn't talked to anybody all. Now. It seems to
Speaker 1: me if Mike Nolan was really concerned about Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I got issues with this defense back Yakee bro We're
Speaker 1: bringing a Pro Bowl guy. Man. Let me go do that.
Speaker 1: He's not saying that at all. So Church, we had
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones today not totally shoot it down, but he's
Speaker 1: not sitting up here waving the flag for Earl Thomas either.
Speaker 1: Then we had Isaiah standback earlier on one of our
Speaker 1: Cup podcasts, former Cowboys say he expects Earl Thomas to
Speaker 1: be a cowboy on Monday. So I'm gonna start with you, Danny,
Speaker 1: where is this Earl Thomas thing in your mind? I'm
Speaker 1: just confused on you know, if he's gonna pick up
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas, why did not pick him up this Monday?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't get that. I don't
Speaker 1: get that take. But you know whatever, you have to
Speaker 1: guarantee a salady, that's why. Because you don't have to
Speaker 1: guarantee the same if he's on the roster week one,
Speaker 1: you gotta guarantee the whole, the whole salade for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. About I still don't see it happen.
Speaker 1: You picked up a Brandon Car, what you gonna do
Speaker 1: the same thing? Pick up a player, but cars on
Speaker 1: the practice squad. So if he doesn't play week one,
Speaker 1: then then he's okay. So so we Brandon cars on
Speaker 1: the practice. He's not on the active roster yet. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you this, Earl Thomas will not be a
Speaker 1: Cowboy on Monday. That is almost a guarantee for me.
Speaker 1: And number and number and number two and number two.
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's a fit. And I think
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has been the showman that he always is.
Speaker 1: He said he wouldn't take it off the table. I
Speaker 1: think this type of stuff, you know, he loves it.
Speaker 1: He thrives off this. So of course he's not gonna
Speaker 1: let anybody know that he doesn't want or al he does.
Speaker 1: He wants that to be out there. He wants it
Speaker 1: always to be a possibility because the fans are going
Speaker 1: to continue talking about the Cowboys and Earl Thomas church.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Earl Thomas will not be a Dallas Cowboy
Speaker 1: this season. I don't believe that at all. But for me,
Speaker 1: what's more concerning is, I mean both of these coaches.
Speaker 1: You got the head coach and you got the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator saying, you know, basically we're not privy to these conversations.
Speaker 1: I mean the head coach was talking about how you know, hey,
Speaker 1: they I haven't been brought in on this conversation yet,
Speaker 1: so I don't know anything about Earl Thomas. Then you
Speaker 1: got the Mike Nolan over here saying basically the same thing, saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I haven't been you know, included in any of those talks,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure what's going on with there. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like it's kind of a
Speaker 1: I don't know, y'all see the same thing I'm seeing.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's kind of discerning to me that,
Speaker 1: you know, these coaches are saying, you know, hey, we're
Speaker 1: not privy to those conversations. You're the head coach of
Speaker 1: the football team, you're the defensive coordinator. You think you
Speaker 1: would have more input on that. But I mean that's
Speaker 1: just me Church. I honestly, I honestly don't think anybody
Speaker 1: in the building that is talking about Earl Thomas. They
Speaker 1: just trying not to give it away that they that
Speaker 1: they that you know, they want to keep it up
Speaker 1: with Jerry and keep that thing out there, that mystery
Speaker 1: out there. But I don't think anybody is talking about Jared,
Speaker 1: I mean, Earl Thomas. I don't think they're missing out
Speaker 1: on any conversation, especially being a news coaching staff. They
Speaker 1: don't want to start their type of culture. I hope not.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying, So are you saying that Earl?
Speaker 1: Are you saying that Earl? The journey is just trying
Speaker 1: to keep this Earl talk alive, to keep people interested
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys and basically keep the Cowboys in people's mouth?
Speaker 1: Is okay? All right? I like that. Take what has
Speaker 1: when hasn't he done that? I mean, he is the
Speaker 1: ultimate business man, So I like that. I like it.
Speaker 1: Is this like the desk conversation when he sat it
Speaker 1: there and said that the combine he's still dreamed in
Speaker 1: the shower about death and everybody ran exactly, exactly, never
Speaker 1: did anything with this nothing. How about we've been talking
Speaker 1: about Earl Thomas, Earl Thomas coming to the Cowboys since
Speaker 1: last year. We got this conversation has been going on
Speaker 1: for a long time, and this is exactly what he
Speaker 1: wants and it makes sense. I mean, yes, you want
Speaker 1: your your team to be talked about more than any
Speaker 1: of the team, and he accomplishes that every season, I mean,
Speaker 1: and he's successful at it. He is. All right, So
Speaker 1: let me move on to this. Mary Jones's radio show
Speaker 1: today was asked, what's gonna be the difference and what's
Speaker 1: what's gonna be the different deal? You see about Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and and the way he coaches the team, and
Speaker 1: he says that the Cowboys will be less predictable. Your thoughts, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Danny. Let's yeah, let me tell you something
Speaker 1: less predictable as in what this is. As far as
Speaker 1: I know, they built this team when Jason Garrett was
Speaker 1: here to be a running team, one of those teams
Speaker 1: that they line up and when the defense lines up,
Speaker 1: they know what, you're gonna run power, you're gonna run zone,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna run counter. They built this team to
Speaker 1: be predictable, know that you was gonna run it down
Speaker 1: their throat and run it down they throat. And when
Speaker 1: when when the Cowboys were doing that, it was oh yeah,
Speaker 1: a great job. No no, no, Then we start seeing
Speaker 1: some injuries on the old line and you weren't able
Speaker 1: to get that running game started, so you couldn't really
Speaker 1: get your play action going. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it was like, now we're too predictable. But when we
Speaker 1: were predictable and running it down people strow Zeke twenty
Speaker 1: times here, the marcol murder twenty times there. Everything was perfect.
Speaker 1: So you can say what you want to about how
Speaker 1: it was in the past, but I know that's what
Speaker 1: the team was built on. We were not built to
Speaker 1: trick and dig anybody around, all right. It was we're
Speaker 1: gonna line up and we're gonna power. Do you have
Speaker 1: anything about McCarthy and what Jerry had to say? You
Speaker 1: still gonna go and live in the past about what was?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about what we'll be Listen, listen, I
Speaker 1: knew where you were going with you. You You get about
Speaker 1: to get on the bad bash the old staff of things.
Speaker 1: So I just want to take that clear now listen, now, listen. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully if the players thought that somebody was predictable, then
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully it's a little different. Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: still the offensive coordinator, so I mean, it's still the
Speaker 1: same stuff from last year. This is not rocket science.
Speaker 1: Run to play. Let your best player get open and
Speaker 1: make a play. Get out there and start looking like
Speaker 1: the stay you're gonna embarrass yourself. So hopefully they're not
Speaker 1: too predictable. Hopefully, hopefully they're good at something. All right, Church,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I think, um for the most I
Speaker 1: think those comments were related to the defense. I think offensively,
Speaker 1: we know who we are. We're a team led by Dak,
Speaker 1: but we have an extremely great co star and Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliott who can run the ball thirty forty times a
Speaker 1: game and be highly productive. So I think that that
Speaker 1: part of the offense, I think that's just gonna stay
Speaker 1: the same. I mean, I think we all know the
Speaker 1: engine of that offense is, you know, Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. But defensively, I think when he was talking
Speaker 1: about being predictable, I think that that was true. I mean,
Speaker 1: Baron Ellie's defense, everything was out of the two shell.
Speaker 1: What I mean by two shell, everything was a two
Speaker 1: high safeties and two corners down low, and then we
Speaker 1: rocked and rolled from there, which means when safety came
Speaker 1: down at the snap of the ball pretty much every
Speaker 1: single time. So offensive started picking on that and started
Speaker 1: picking us apart, you know, secondary wise. So I think
Speaker 1: with this multiple look scheme that Nolan has gone in,
Speaker 1: I think our defense will be a lot less predictable.
Speaker 1: You'll have a lot more or a lot more different
Speaker 1: players in different positions each snap, so you don't know
Speaker 1: who's coming and who's not coming. So I think being
Speaker 1: less predictable on the defense was more what these comments
Speaker 1: were related to. But hey, we'll see what happens this year.
Speaker 1: Let me warn you, let me let me warn y'all.
Speaker 1: All right with this different looks on defense. All right,
Speaker 1: the last time we did this and we did not
Speaker 1: have a true offseason. The miscommunications and blown plays, the
Speaker 1: number of the number of those that we had throughout
Speaker 1: that season was astronomical. All right, So I know we're
Speaker 1: all excited about this, but I don't think he's going
Speaker 1: to take it too far. I hope he doesn't, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he will take it that far. We'll
Speaker 1: see safe be saved, especially with some young guys. You
Speaker 1: got a new guy on the Pregnant Squad branded card
Speaker 1: that just came in. Who has to learn the playbook.
Speaker 1: You know, it's cool to disguise and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but make sure that everybody knows where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: One of the ballish Now, don't try to talk about Danny.
Speaker 1: You're referencing a Rob Ryan defense. Absolutely, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: We just we just didn't I know, we just didn't
Speaker 1: have enough time to learn it. It was all about
Speaker 1: the skies and and attacking the offense in certain ways
Speaker 1: based off what they did previously. We just didn't have
Speaker 1: enough time to get the defense in. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: just checking, all right? So we got that. You didn't
Speaker 1: like that, Church, would you say now you don't like
Speaker 1: the Rob Royan defense? I thought Rob Bryan's defense was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I just think we had too many injuries that year.
Speaker 1: I mean, we lost Sean Lee. I mean, we a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of people on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, and it just it just didn't work out
Speaker 1: the way I thought it could work out. But I
Speaker 1: think Rob Bryan's defenses were always We're always pretty dope
Speaker 1: when you look at him, because you got different blitzes
Speaker 1: from everywhere. Quarterbacks are always kind of jacked up when
Speaker 1: they're going in their three step drops. So I thought
Speaker 1: his defense was great. He just you know, fell on
Speaker 1: injury times and he was in and out too quick.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, gentlemen, on Shaun Lee and LEL Collins the
Speaker 1: right tackle being put on injured reserves. Shaun Lee long
Speaker 1: time linebacker here, Start with you Church, Well, first, you
Speaker 1: know Sean Lee I mean, I gotta feel bad for
Speaker 1: the guy. I mean, he he only had you know,
Speaker 1: one healthy season throughout his eleven year career so far.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's tough that he's gonna be on ir.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's able to come back after these three weeks
Speaker 1: and perform like he did last year. But I think
Speaker 1: the big news here is on the injury to Lyle Collins. Yes,
Speaker 1: they say he may be able to come back after
Speaker 1: the first three weeks, but this is a guy who,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, had the best season last year as
Speaker 1: far as it comes to the offensive line. I think
Speaker 1: he should have made the Pro Ball. I think he
Speaker 1: was a Pro Bowl snub. But this is a guy
Speaker 1: that's protecting the quarterback and with him down, We've seen
Speaker 1: what happens in the past when our top offensive lineman
Speaker 1: goes down. I mean, look that happened to Chads Green
Speaker 1: when Tyrn Smith went down. I mean there was a
Speaker 1: six sack parade in Atlanta that day. So with Lyo
Speaker 1: Collins being down, and we have some guys that can
Speaker 1: fill those voids, but he's he has big shoes to
Speaker 1: feel and I think he's our best officive lineman. So
Speaker 1: hopefully he'll be able to get back sooner than later,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna miss him these first three weeks. Let me, Danny,
Speaker 1: let me jump in here on this because because you
Speaker 1: brought something up here that was something that bugged me
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys and how they ran their offensive line
Speaker 1: under the last regime, which was they didn't help anybody. So,
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith leaves the game, you put Chaz Green out there,
Speaker 1: with all due respect, everybody and their brother knows Chaz
Speaker 1: is not Tyrant. So when you see they're just running
Speaker 1: around Chaz, why not get the guys some help? And
Speaker 1: last year when Tyre and missed the games, same thing
Speaker 1: as well. I said, hey, well and they had they
Speaker 1: had Cam fleming out and they said, Tyrant, why don't
Speaker 1: they help more? He says, that's just not what we do.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, you got if you when you got
Speaker 1: a guy who's putting up a Hall of Fame resume,
Speaker 1: was just named all decade, if he leaves the game,
Speaker 1: you gotta go get some help for him. So if
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, well, if he's going to miss this game,
Speaker 1: and if Cam irving out there at right tackle struggles fellas,
Speaker 1: don't you think they need to help him out a
Speaker 1: little bit. And you think that Joe Philbin will run
Speaker 1: a different style of scheme versus just saying, hey man,
Speaker 1: you tackles are out there on your own. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. I think they gotta help them. I
Speaker 1: mean we've seen, like like you said before, we've seen
Speaker 1: with Chad's Green where the drop off was so amazing
Speaker 1: from Tyren Smith to Chads Green that I mean, there
Speaker 1: was no help for him. You could have had at
Speaker 1: lista running back coming out there and chip them. You
Speaker 1: could have had to guard, you know, have a hand
Speaker 1: out there to help them tight but they were just
Speaker 1: a tight end something. They were having their way with
Speaker 1: Chad's Green, And like you said, last year, the same
Speaker 1: thing happened. So with this here coming up, like I'll
Speaker 1: missing these first three games for sure, I mean I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope they come up with some type of scheme
Speaker 1: to where if he is struggling out there, get a
Speaker 1: running back to chip on his way out to a route,
Speaker 1: have a tight end, give a chip on the way
Speaker 1: out to his route, give him some type of help,
Speaker 1: because you do not want a SAT parade like Atlanta
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, yeah, did you go ahead
Speaker 1: from mc crae. No, no, you God absolutely, uh listen.
Speaker 1: If they don't, then I don't. I don't know whose
Speaker 1: fault it is for not giving this right tackle. Help.
Speaker 1: You should automatically in the game plan right now, know
Speaker 1: that they're going to attack him and have some plans
Speaker 1: for him. Be it read I was put meant in
Speaker 1: some situations where he has to make some decisions and
Speaker 1: slow him down, Like you said, chip them, read option them,
Speaker 1: do anything you can to slow them down to even
Speaker 1: just give Chad. I mean to give him some some
Speaker 1: confidence over there on the right taple, like you don't
Speaker 1: want to go into the game and leave him out
Speaker 1: there body so and then you know it starts going
Speaker 1: bad and all of a sudden he has no confidence.
Speaker 1: So hopefully this coaching staff does that different. That was
Speaker 1: and I knew he I will say this. I was
Speaker 1: absolutely wrong about Layo Collins because I thought that he
Speaker 1: was going to be healthy enough to play and they
Speaker 1: were just taking it easy on er. So I was
Speaker 1: I was wrong with that one. But they made a
Speaker 1: mistake in the Atlanta game that cannot be made again
Speaker 1: because that was straight up embarrassing the way that they
Speaker 1: left him out there by itself and they led a
Speaker 1: guy who's not known for sacking anybody wreck the whole game.
Speaker 1: So he got made off of that one. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: he did. He made the Pro Bowl, so um, we
Speaker 1: got to take another break here. Cam Irving will be
Speaker 1: the starting right tackles. He dealt with some injuries too
Speaker 1: during this training camp. Want to bring up two guys
Speaker 1: that I believe will be the first two to help
Speaker 1: cam Irving if he has any issues at all against
Speaker 1: the Rams. Let's jump on this. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: and dog my phone just that went out here, Yes,
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Speaker 1: went out. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back back. My
Speaker 1: good let get it. The phone just went down. Were
Speaker 1: like boom with the bluetooth onmbe here. That's that's the
Speaker 1: life part of doing this show. You a church, do
Speaker 1: you Uh, you like my fantasy football championship right over there,
Speaker 1: you see it. I'm gonna I'm gunning for one. I'm
Speaker 1: gunning for one this year. You know I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: come and last, I say that much. No, not last,
Speaker 1: but not first. All right, what you're gonna doing for Nette?
Speaker 1: What you're gonna do one for? Nette? Man? Yeah? Danny?
Speaker 1: Who are your running back? You got letter from that?
Speaker 1: Who are you rolling out there trying to win? Listen? Listen,
Speaker 1: I got I had Zeke, I had Zeke and leonarfour Nette.
Speaker 1: But now I just picked up the guy that you
Speaker 1: got me from. Uh was in Washington, and I and
Speaker 1: I and I mean I got the backup running back
Speaker 1: from um from Buffalo, Zack Mass. Yeah, I'm okay, I'm
Speaker 1: all right. I got You're gonna be all right, Zack,
Speaker 1: Zack Marks. I got to take care of you, okay,
Speaker 1: Zach Mars. If you go, if you roll with Zeke
Speaker 1: and Zack Mass, you'll be okay. So okay, listen, did
Speaker 1: you did you you heard who's going to get the
Speaker 1: goal line carries for Temple? Though? Right, let me get
Speaker 1: until until let me see what happens when they play
Speaker 1: the Saints. On Sunday. Until then, I'm just not gonna
Speaker 1: buy it just because just because Arians is saying it.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see. I mean, that's doing the
Speaker 1: right thing, trying to buddy up to Tom Brady. She
Speaker 1: all those photos. Take the time right now, that is
Speaker 1: a smart thing to do. Hey, hey, look say something, man,
Speaker 1: that's smart. If our net breaks a sixty yard running
Speaker 1: he's going to be playing in the game for more
Speaker 1: snaps than what Bruce areas talking about. He get out
Speaker 1: there and just started running over people crazy, He'll be
Speaker 1: playing more than Jones. I'm not worth it, he said,
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones. That's this guy right now. So he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna roll with Ronald Jones. So we'll see. We'll see, man. Hey,
Speaker 1: and Jerry wants the back. He dream about him in
Speaker 1: the shower. So there's a lot of stuff the coaches
Speaker 1: saying not relevant. Well, Jones is on the team, so
Speaker 1: we at least got that going the guy. We took
Speaker 1: a break here the players. Last I was speaking about
Speaker 1: cam cam Irving being the start right tackle for Collins
Speaker 1: and the help he will get, and I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: the tight ends here. They brought in black Bell, whose
Speaker 1: brand new comes over from the world champion Can City
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the free agent rookie Sean mckewen of Michigan
Speaker 1: this big Kid six five, two thirty eight. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at these two guys as possible guys who can help
Speaker 1: cam Irving if he gets into any trouble against the
Speaker 1: Rams on Sunday. Your thoughts, shoe go ahead, Matt, help
Speaker 1: him early, don't. I don't even want it to be
Speaker 1: a case where it's like, get him in trouble, help
Speaker 1: him early, Yes, yes, yes, they They'll get out there
Speaker 1: and they'll help him, and they'll start I don't want
Speaker 1: them to start chipping after we give up two sacks
Speaker 1: or after he gets blown by a couple of times
Speaker 1: started off. Help him out, give him some confidence, let
Speaker 1: him know that we got his back, and then let's
Speaker 1: put him out there one on one, you know, mix
Speaker 1: it up for him. I do not want them to
Speaker 1: go out there and say, hey, next man up, let's
Speaker 1: start off and see how it goes, and then if
Speaker 1: he needs some help, will give it to him. That
Speaker 1: that's just not a good game plan. But I think
Speaker 1: those guys can help him. I think we will use them.
Speaker 1: I think Kelly I'm gonna learned this lesson from previous
Speaker 1: from previous play calling, and he will make sure that
Speaker 1: he has has his back to style. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta go out there and help him. You gotta
Speaker 1: help him early. I mean, you gotta have him chip.
Speaker 1: Even when they're an eleven personnel and you know Blake
Speaker 1: Jarman's gonna go out for a route, you gotta have
Speaker 1: him chipping. I mean, you gotta get his confidence up
Speaker 1: early in the game to where he's like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: can block this guy. I can I can do this.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just going from myself going into a
Speaker 1: game we had to play by third year, we had
Speaker 1: to go against the Giants and a back by the
Speaker 1: name of Brandon Jacobs was in the backfield. And this
Speaker 1: guy's like six four, two fifty six. I mean, this
Speaker 1: dude was a huge dude. He's an imposing guy. So
Speaker 1: when I'm going out there, I'm like, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: have you know, he's an intimidating guy. So I'm thinking
Speaker 1: as a safety and I got to meet this guy
Speaker 1: in the hole. I mean, I don't know, my confidence
Speaker 1: was kind of shook, but that first hit when I
Speaker 1: got him Loane brought him down. It got my confidence
Speaker 1: up and I was no longer like, man, this dude
Speaker 1: is so imposing. I don't know what to do with him.
Speaker 1: So hopefully they can do that for cam irving out
Speaker 1: the tackle position. Just get somebody to chip, get that
Speaker 1: confidence up and going, and hopefully he can withstand the
Speaker 1: whole game. Make make cam Irvin tell you that he
Speaker 1: doesn't need help. Do not make him ask you for help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: make him tell you a coach. Coach, I got this
Speaker 1: on my own, But I got this on my own.
Speaker 1: Y'all can go ahead and do what y'all gotta do.
Speaker 1: I think that's smart and I love that. I love
Speaker 1: that idea. There, mcrai. Let's talk about the roster here.
Speaker 1: Two undrafted free agents made this team without OTAs, without
Speaker 1: mini camps. They made the roster of running back Rico
Speaker 1: Dowdle and the title we spoke about from Michigan Sean McKinnon,
Speaker 1: and Rico was from from South Carolina. So, gentlemen, your
Speaker 1: thoughts on those two guys making this team a team
Speaker 1: that a lot of people say is one of the
Speaker 1: most talented rosters in the National Football I think it's huge.
Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that. I mean, these two guys
Speaker 1: are undrafted rookies. There was no OTAs, there was no
Speaker 1: mini camp, and it was basically like an abbreviated training
Speaker 1: camp to where I mean most of the time, when
Speaker 1: you're undrafted, you make all your bones and you make
Speaker 1: you the coaches catch your eye when you're in OTAs
Speaker 1: or when you're in mini camp or when you're in
Speaker 1: early parts of training camp. And for those guys to
Speaker 1: not have any of that and still you know, beat out.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of guys that were you know,
Speaker 1: picked ahead of them or draft picks. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's a pretty amazing feat now. And the hats goes
Speaker 1: off to those guys. Yeah, I mean being a being
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent. Uh, I think that that is huge,
Speaker 1: and hats off to them. The only thing I would
Speaker 1: I would like them to notice it is just starting, fellas.
Speaker 1: Everything is even now. Who being a first pick in
Speaker 1: the draft or last pick in the draft, None of
Speaker 1: that stuff matters now. It's even playing field. Go out there,
Speaker 1: make your plays and get you some money, like my
Speaker 1: boy be Church did. Speaking of speaking of money, Uh,
Speaker 1: speaking of money, we saw DeAndre Hopkins get a two year,
Speaker 1: fifty four point five million dollars deal with the error
Speaker 1: Zona Cartons. Um okay, I guess that was money that
Speaker 1: Houston was not going to spend because Houston gave Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watching four years in one hundred and sixty million dollars.
Speaker 1: So there's no way in the world they had two
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars two hundred four million dollars. But he's
Speaker 1: two guys. So I think Bill O'Brien, while being criticized,
Speaker 1: if that's the kind of money the hot one, and
Speaker 1: I see why he left because they definitely had to
Speaker 1: pay Deshaun Watson the going rate one of the top
Speaker 1: five quarterbacks in my opinion, the National Football League going
Speaker 1: to that. But create your thoughts on that man. Shout
Speaker 1: out to that man. Man back that brief struck up
Speaker 1: and unload his money. Congratulations to him, man, that's that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. I'm just trying to figure out who's next?
Speaker 1: Is Dac next? I mean, we you know, we just
Speaker 1: paid somebody a hundred million, We paid somebody else fifty,
Speaker 1: somebody else seventy. Do we have enough if Houston didn't
Speaker 1: have enough, can we get it done? Or it's that
Speaker 1: gonna be up out of here paid Dack some money. Man,
Speaker 1: he just sitting here watching everybody get paid. And I
Speaker 1: saw that. They asked Jerry a question about him getting paid,
Speaker 1: and Jerry said, I think it's gonna have a phenomenal
Speaker 1: years now. He also said he also said they'll get married,
Speaker 1: and that they were that they they still playing on
Speaker 1: signing Dak Prescott. I know, I know, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: and they could have got into a cheaper rate, like
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. Man, I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who did. I'll tell you who did
Speaker 1: play their hand right, uh, Dak's agent, Todd Franz, I mean,
Speaker 1: he wasn't with it when he when they said, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: how about this thirty four, thirty five, thirty six million
Speaker 1: dollars NA, we're not taking none of that. And he
Speaker 1: was right he saw that. I mean, look at Watson,
Speaker 1: he's getting I think annually went around thirty eight thirty
Speaker 1: nine a year. I mean, and he's done. You know,
Speaker 1: I guess they're they're about on par with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: what he's done so far in his career. So Todd Franz,
Speaker 1: I mean, he played an incredible hand and now Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is looking at I'm thinking forty plus. You gotta
Speaker 1: be gotta be forty plus. Well, well it's four years.
Speaker 1: It's a four year extension, so Watson still has two
Speaker 1: years there. So it's gonna take the number down a
Speaker 1: little bit. So right now it looks like for you,
Speaker 1: but it comes down a little bit bottom line. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're if you're Dak Prescott and his agent,
Speaker 1: you feel real good that, Hey, look, Watson got there.
Speaker 1: So Watson's been paid, Mahomes has been paid. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get what we're gonna get there. I feel
Speaker 1: that if you're Jerry Jones, you may want to ask Stephen, hey,
Speaker 1: why didn't we get this back in August? Because the
Speaker 1: prices have gone up for him? But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else can I say? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: only lose the money to bury Church about this. I
Speaker 1: thought it was getting done, man, I thought it was
Speaker 1: getting done. So I am hopeful it gets done after
Speaker 1: the year. Jerry says that it is so, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: But if you're Dak Prescott, you're happy because of what
Speaker 1: Watson has gotten and what Mahomes has gotten, and you
Speaker 1: know that that life for you is gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 1: You know that. You know Dad's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: make the rent. You know he's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: make the mortgage. You know. Listen, if y'all, if y'all
Speaker 1: don't know that that Dak is on a play and
Speaker 1: see season right now, there is no guarantee that Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones is gonna pay that. If the season doesn't go
Speaker 1: as he plans and as he expects it to be
Speaker 1: with all the weapons that he has around them, there
Speaker 1: will not be a big contract. And if I was
Speaker 1: back and I had a big year, what Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: made is not even in the realm of what I'm
Speaker 1: asking for. Because once he got drafted in the first round,
Speaker 1: y'all got me. Y'all got me in the fourth. Pay me,
Speaker 1: pay me more to compensate for what I've done for
Speaker 1: you in the past. Where the value that you got
Speaker 1: out of me for being a fourth round pick and
Speaker 1: for what I'm gonna do in the future and for
Speaker 1: making me wait, I want all that. Yeah, And if
Speaker 1: you think about it, all the quarterbacks he's been on,
Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks he's been on, part of me got
Speaker 1: the Winzes, the golfs now, the Watsons, they were all extended.
Speaker 1: They didn't even have to work to wait till the
Speaker 1: end of their rookie deal to get to get the money.
Speaker 1: That had to wait all throughout his rookie deal. And
Speaker 1: I was saying, little y'all could have got this done.
Speaker 1: Y'all could have extended me then, but y'all waited too late. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta pay what you gotta pay. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what's the number right right now as we're talking here,
Speaker 1: what's the number? Guys played? Dak's agent McCray was heay, no,
Speaker 1: no, No No, Today are today are after he has a
Speaker 1: great season, because that's the only way he's getting paid
Speaker 1: if he has a great season. So we're doing today
Speaker 1: like right now. Or if he goes and takes it
Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship or Super Bowl or something, which
Speaker 1: one of them. Well, look, I mean I go back
Speaker 1: to something I read in John Findsin's book The Quarterback,
Speaker 1: and they were talking about Joe Flacco that year he
Speaker 1: turned down money from the raven said I'll bet on
Speaker 1: myself and he ended up going to Super Bowl. Flacco said,
Speaker 1: the one reason why he turned it down because he
Speaker 1: said he felt like, no matter what, somebody was going
Speaker 1: to pay him. Somebody was going to give a contract
Speaker 1: because to be a star quarterback in this league. And
Speaker 1: if Dak Prescott has a season it's eight and eight
Speaker 1: or nine and seven and the Cowboys having to miss
Speaker 1: the playoffs, there's going to be a team that goes
Speaker 1: out there and says, yes, we will sign you. The
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, no, that Dak Prescott is better than anybody
Speaker 1: on their team. It's a quarterback. Okay, it's better than
Speaker 1: anybody on Jacksonville's team right now. It's a quarterback. So
Speaker 1: so there's going to be some a mark for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: So let's just at least establish that. But let's market.
Speaker 1: Is it thirty two million? It's gonna be at thirty
Speaker 1: two He's gonna get that. But is it like but
Speaker 1: once again today are we talking today as if y'all
Speaker 1: should have paid him. De Shaun Watson's got paid if
Speaker 1: they were able to pay him right now based off
Speaker 1: what has happened or just played out season. He goes
Speaker 1: out here and he has you know, he puts up
Speaker 1: god like numbers and takes him to an NFC championship
Speaker 1: with Super Bowl, he's looking at about forty five right now,
Speaker 1: he's looking at about forty forty five. Okay, you win,
Speaker 1: you win a super Bowl, Yes, yeah, you win a
Speaker 1: super Bowl this year. Yes, yes, you're looking at somewhere.
Speaker 1: They got to work out out somehow to where it'll
Speaker 1: be looking at. He can work it up to be
Speaker 1: forty five forty five mil. Yeah, yeah, you got. I
Speaker 1: mean you got to him the man. I mean he
Speaker 1: brings home. If he brings home the hardware, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any doubt in anybody's mind. Jerial, right that
Speaker 1: check for him. I know what you said. It's a
Speaker 1: market somebody's gonna pay. Let let the Bears go two
Speaker 1: and fourteen. They looking for a quarterback to pay, all right.
Speaker 1: They got to choose between Dak Prescott, proven super Bowl
Speaker 1: winner or something or and Trevor Lawrence possibly And I'm
Speaker 1: not even sold on that guy, but I'm not. That's
Speaker 1: that's a conversation either. But that's that half another day.
Speaker 1: But let's also remember this, Okay, he won't be able
Speaker 1: to just go to the free agent market because they
Speaker 1: still have one more franchise tact to play on. If
Speaker 1: they want to so franchise tag next years. It's thirty
Speaker 1: seven meals. So the Bears and other teams won't get
Speaker 1: a shot because Jerry's gonna go ahead at least say nah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it one more time and look at
Speaker 1: but look at sixty million. We're gonna get Kirk Cousins happening,
Speaker 1: and in Chicago's gonna pay my honey and sit whatever
Speaker 1: a four year and he got another chance to get paid.
Speaker 1: This this looks more and more like that's where it's going.
Speaker 1: He'll be the black. Kirk Cousins was one of these
Speaker 1: unbelievably short Garrett ken Folk kirt so so that that
Speaker 1: may be it. All right, um boy, time's flown by.
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Speaker 1: more into this Rams matchup as the week goes on.
Speaker 1: I'll be very interested to see what this initial injury
Speaker 1: report is. Cowboys football, the season starts in Inglewood, California,
Speaker 1: on Sunday, the first ever game they played at so
Speaker 1: Far Stadium as the Rams and the Cowboys get back
Speaker 1: at it, Cowboys. I'll tell you I already put it
Speaker 1: in the Sunday paper for the Dallas Warning News. I
Speaker 1: predicted the ten and sixth season and the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: the sen and six ten and six. Yes, a lot
Speaker 1: of people are saying eleven. I said ten and six
Speaker 1: because I still have some question marks about the secondary.
Speaker 1: If I felt better about the secondary, I could go
Speaker 1: with the eleven wins. But I'm just gonna say ten,
Speaker 1: ten and six right there. Philly's got a couple of
Speaker 1: issues too, but but I believe the team. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll dive more into that tomorrow. On the Players Lives, everybody,
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