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Speaker 7: episode number ninety seven.
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Speaker 7: No, it may or may not have been Nick eating
Speaker 7: it may or may not have been David, but hellman.
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Speaker 10: So since then, I just like to test the waters
Speaker 10: when I stretch, because I know there's no way you will.
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Speaker 11: And I saw it happen one time, and I saw
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Speaker 2: We're nonviolent. Just for the record, we're non violent.
Speaker 12: All.
Speaker 2: Let's have some conversation.
Speaker 8: Let's talk.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a little Cowboys football.
Speaker 7: Let's start first with some injury updates heading into this
Speaker 7: final game. Uh, there are a couple of Cowboys players
Speaker 7: who are who did not practice.
Speaker 2: Keemon Hall, Nick Vigil who hasn't practiced.
Speaker 7: I don't think three or something that started, but he's
Speaker 7: gonna play, I would suspect, but Michael Parsons popped up,
Speaker 7: Misy Smith parked up, popped up as limited. Are we
Speaker 7: hearing anything about maybe their availability for Sunday?
Speaker 3: Honestly no, honestly no, I don't have anything for you there, Derek.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 11: I you know the one on Hall, because I know
Speaker 11: you did a nice piece and maybe that Hall would
Speaker 11: get a start and stuff like that, and I I'm
Speaker 11: not getting a good feeling on that one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that one's tough. I saw him yesterday hamstring.
Speaker 5: For Haul of the Corner. That's what we were talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw him yesterday and I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: how are you feeling? He's like good and he kept walking.
Speaker 8: That's not good.
Speaker 11: It reminds me of like Eric Kendricks. We do that
Speaker 11: with Eric Kendricks every week, how are you feeling good?
Speaker 11: And then like and then like it's you know, thirty
Speaker 11: minutes for the game, and it's like not good, not good,
Speaker 11: not good.
Speaker 7: There's so many that I love that segment y'all do
Speaker 7: with him every week because you do have to read
Speaker 7: behind the like the way he answers questions, how much
Speaker 7: time he takes to think about it before he answers.
Speaker 7: You have to read into all of that to get
Speaker 7: a real solid picture of whatever it is he's talking about.
Speaker 11: Right man, my man, he he did a great job.
Speaker 11: This good He is really good and he's interesting. But
Speaker 11: he kills you on radio because he.
Speaker 5: Will pause, yeah, like he will like.
Speaker 11: Well and then it's like that Eric, and you're like going,
Speaker 11: this is it's not good radio.
Speaker 5: Just smack your lips, do.
Speaker 8: Something something, you know, let us know you're yeah, just.
Speaker 5: Don't dead eras And but he he was, he was. Actually,
Speaker 5: we've been very fortunate.
Speaker 11: It goes way back to Joe Looney and and you know,
Speaker 11: even to Mari Cooper.
Speaker 5: You would never think Mari Cooper and I.
Speaker 11: Got in a discussion one time and like he was
Speaker 11: after me about whether the best college team could beat
Speaker 11: the worst pro team, you know, and he was default,
Speaker 11: he was, no, he's this, there's no way, Mari. You
Speaker 11: played on some great Alabama teams. I don't care those
Speaker 11: great Alabama teams. Am not beating the worst NFL team.
Speaker 11: I'm like a Mari, every one of your teammates gets
Speaker 11: drafted into the NFL, it's already an NFL team. He
Speaker 11: goes doesn't matter. I mean, he was. He was adamant
Speaker 11: about it. I mean, and he's like, man, that's the
Speaker 11: stupidest thing you've ever said. I don't, no, no, you
Speaker 11: don't know me that way. I've said a lot more
Speaker 11: stupid things than that. But no, we we've been very fortunate,
Speaker 11: you know, the PR department stuff have always kind of
Speaker 11: suggested guys, you know, to us, and it's worked out. Really.
Speaker 11: We got a lot out of Zach Mark. Yeah, Zach
Speaker 11: was actuously the very much the you know, how you
Speaker 11: doing Zach good? You know, he's one of those. But
Speaker 11: he he told some really good stories and so we've
Speaker 11: been really fortunate. It's just unfortunate too for Eric that,
Speaker 11: you know, the season didn't work out as well as
Speaker 11: it did.
Speaker 10: I really hope he can be back here again.
Speaker 13: I do.
Speaker 2: And I think he's good for that locker room too.
Speaker 7: I think it's it would be a good thing for
Speaker 7: them having back if they can get it at a
Speaker 7: good price. Yeah, all right, let's talk a little bit
Speaker 7: about some Washington injuries, because they I know, Brian you mentioned.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, they have they're really going to try to play
Speaker 2: this game.
Speaker 7: But they got Tyler Biottish Marshaun Lattimore, Cornelius Lucas, Tyler
Speaker 7: Owens all did not practice. Obviously, Beyoddish a center that
Speaker 7: obviously was here with the Cowboys last year. Marshawn Lattimore
Speaker 7: may be their best cornerback as a guy that they
Speaker 7: picked up mid season. But are any of these do
Speaker 7: any of these names jump out at us being most
Speaker 7: problematic for them if they can't play?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think so because of what's happened. What was Andrew Wiley?
Speaker 5: I didn't, I didn't what was Andrew Wiley on that list?
Speaker 8: Limited?
Speaker 11: Limited?
Speaker 8: He was upbraded's a limited yet?
Speaker 11: Okay, then if he if he's limited, and maybe they're
Speaker 11: going to try and get him ready to play, but
Speaker 11: that's their right tackle and so if he's not able
Speaker 11: to go. Lucas was the backup first off the bench
Speaker 11: against Atlanta and he got hurt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, something happened to him.
Speaker 11: And then it became Trent Scott and it was kind
Speaker 11: of like watching, you know, like, Okay, Trent Scott's kind
Speaker 11: of our you know, forty eighth guy today. You know,
Speaker 11: he's not really we didn't expect Trent Scott to have
Speaker 11: to play, but he had to play. Be interested to
Speaker 11: see if, in fact, what happens at right tackle, because
Speaker 11: if Lucas can't go and Wiley's really limited, do they
Speaker 11: really want to push Wiley with a playoff game the
Speaker 11: following week? But they need now, They they might need
Speaker 11: this game. They want this win. Trent Scott to me,
Speaker 11: would be a liability there for them at right tackle
Speaker 11: if that's the case.
Speaker 5: So please keep an eye on that one.
Speaker 7: All right, Uh, let's go ahead and dive in. Let's
Speaker 7: talk a little bit about this Washington defense. They are
Speaker 7: an interesting bunch because right now they are third in
Speaker 7: pass defense but twenty eighth in rush defense. When you
Speaker 7: dive into some of the numbers around their passing defense,
Speaker 7: they're fifth in blitz percentage, so they're blitzing a lot.
Speaker 7: They're also fourth in sack percentage. And and all that
Speaker 7: being said, they really only generated one sack against the Cowboys. Uh,
Speaker 7: and only two pressures or so, I'm sorry, two quarterback hits.
Speaker 7: That was Deron Payin who got the sack against Dallas.
Speaker 7: What did you see in that Dallas game?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: That helped Dallas maybe negate what seems to be a
Speaker 7: strength for this team.
Speaker 3: I will say I did see Frankie Louvo absolutely dominating
Speaker 3: that game. And I give credit to Brian while the
Speaker 3: game was going on, like, hey, he told y'all about
Speaker 3: Frankie louvou. This guy is awesome. But I think as
Speaker 3: the as the game went on, they they yeah, just
Speaker 3: throwing Hey it.
Speaker 8: Worked out, it worked out, while you hit one, right, But.
Speaker 3: Uh, they relied on the run in that game, and
Speaker 3: it ended up working out for them in the end.
Speaker 3: But you look at most of that game, and most
Speaker 3: of that game they couldn't generate points to save their life,
Speaker 3: and you look at the two late touchdowns that were
Speaker 3: off of a kick return. So that final score was
Speaker 3: thirty four to twenty six, but the offense really at
Speaker 3: the end of the day was only able to put
Speaker 3: together twenty points and that only accounts for a couple
Speaker 3: of touchdowns. Granted they had a couple of missfield goals.
Speaker 3: I feel like they moved the ball.
Speaker 8: Down the field really well.
Speaker 3: They tied that defensive front down and the long sustained
Speaker 3: drives really helped them in that game getting down the
Speaker 3: field because they were keeping that defense on the field
Speaker 3: for eight, nine to ten play drives.
Speaker 8: But they just weren't able to execute at the end.
Speaker 5: Can I quickly read my pregame notes for this one? Yeah,
Speaker 5: real quick. Rush completed the second most passes twenty four
Speaker 5: against the Commanders all year.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 11: Cowboys offensive line only allowed six pressures on thirty two
Speaker 11: drop backs. This tied for the fewest pressures the Commanders
Speaker 11: have allowed all season. Long that Atlanta had only six
Speaker 11: pressures given up that game. The seven point nine yards
Speaker 11: per play were the fifth most the Commanders have allowed
Speaker 11: all season. The Commanders blitz Rush nine times in the
Speaker 11: last meeting. This was the fifth fewest blitzes for them
Speaker 11: for the season. Sixty three percent of the Cowboys routes
Speaker 11: were open, which is the highest percentage the Commanders have
Speaker 11: allowed all year. Twenty five percent of the Cowboys routes
Speaker 11: were considered wide open. That's the fifth most for the
Speaker 11: season for them. So you could kind of see that
Speaker 11: they and my final one here real quick of too.
Speaker 11: Cowboys averaged almost four yards of target separation, which was
Speaker 11: the third highest allowed by the Commanders all year. Dallas
Speaker 11: played their ass off in that game.
Speaker 5: They really did. Offensive.
Speaker 11: Cooper Rush was really really good, Matt, you know, if
Speaker 11: you look at him. Overall, the number of completions. The
Speaker 11: twenty four, that's the second most they've given up in
Speaker 11: all their games this year. You know, they've played some
Speaker 11: pretty decent quarterbacks as well, So this is the challenge.
Speaker 11: But you know, Ceedee Lamb was a big part of
Speaker 11: what they were able to do.
Speaker 5: But they attacked on a couple of different levels. They
Speaker 5: went after Jeremy Chin, the safety.
Speaker 11: They got some matchups on him that proved beneficial as well.
Speaker 11: So you know, the commanders have got to kind of
Speaker 11: maybe come into this sing and rethink, you know, do
Speaker 11: we pressure Cooper rushmore? Do we blitz some more? You
Speaker 11: know they're gonna blitz. They're gonna blitz right about so
Speaker 11: I'd say thirty four percent of the snaps is what
Speaker 11: the numbers, the metrics will tell you. But it's pretty
Speaker 11: balanced across the board. When they blitz, it's not just
Speaker 11: all like third down blitzes. They'll blitz on first down,
Speaker 11: they'll blitz on second down. The blitz so but they
Speaker 11: had Dallas has got to be ready for that, and
Speaker 11: there's a lot of single high. Half their defense is
Speaker 11: single high. If you had Dak and you had Ferguson.
Speaker 11: This is where we always talk about attacking the seams
Speaker 11: and maybe this is where Dallas kind of looks at
Speaker 11: it too, with with with Chin and then also Kwan Martin.
Speaker 11: Kwan Martin was really involved in the Running Game the
Speaker 11: last time you played. And that's what you're gonna have
Speaker 11: to do in the Running Game. It's it's gonna be
Speaker 11: about blocking Wagner and Luvu. Like like my man Nick
Speaker 11: here said, I think that you have to worry about
Speaker 11: up front though for your pass rush stuff. Is Deron
Speaker 11: pain that that and they doubled him. He got doubled
Speaker 11: more when you watch it, he got doubled more than
Speaker 11: any of the other other Commander defenders.
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like they're gonna go.
Speaker 11: Into the same the same boat with with him and
Speaker 11: see how that all kind of plays out him Jonathan Allen,
Speaker 11: you know, we'll see they're really.
Speaker 5: A good team inside.
Speaker 11: But they they they held Fouler in check, they held
Speaker 11: Armstrong in check. It's the Frankie Luvus and guys like
Speaker 11: that Wagners that the ones that were that were running
Speaker 11: to make those plays in the Running Game, but also
Speaker 11: some of the pressures that they got, and they didn't
Speaker 11: get a whole lot of pressure with their front.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's take our first break.
Speaker 7: When we come back, I'm gonna ask you guys the question,
Speaker 7: how much do you think the familiarity that Dallas has
Speaker 7: with dan Quinn and his system and even guys like
Speaker 7: Dorn's Armstrong and Dante followers just mentioned, how much do
Speaker 7: you think that affected that last game? As you've been
Speaker 7: mentioned some of those numbers, Brian Cowboys offense having some
Speaker 7: of the best performance, having the best performance of their
Speaker 7: better off Washington has allowed this year. We'll talk about
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Speaker 7: by blockchain dot Com. All right, question for you guys,
Speaker 7: how much did the familiarity familiarity that Dallas had with
Speaker 7: Dan Quinn and guys like Dorn's Armstrong, Dante file though,
Speaker 7: how much do you think that affected the game?
Speaker 2: The last time the Cowboys played the Commanders.
Speaker 3: I'll say this, and I noticed this in probably the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter of that game. It was like, Okay, we
Speaker 3: haven't seen Dante Fowler, Drn's Armstrong really make a play
Speaker 3: in this game.
Speaker 8: And I don't know how much of that is them knowing.
Speaker 3: I don't think I have a great answer for your
Speaker 3: question there, Derek, but I think I think that's certainly
Speaker 3: notable whenever you look at that. I think we saw
Speaker 3: it more so on the other side of the ball
Speaker 3: when we talked about it yesterday with Mike Zimmer hunting
Speaker 3: matchups with Mike Mike Carson's after Tyler Piattish and him
Speaker 3: knowing that he could.
Speaker 8: Beat him, but defensively on the other side.
Speaker 3: I don't think I have a straight answer there for you,
Speaker 3: other than knowing that those guys really didn't make an
Speaker 3: impact in that game.
Speaker 11: I think it's funny because I think Dallas had an
Speaker 11: understanding of what they wanted to do on defen or
Speaker 11: wanted to do against the Commander's defense. I don't think
Speaker 11: the Commander's had a clue how to play Dallas Dallas's
Speaker 11: defense because.
Speaker 5: If you look at the way that that.
Speaker 11: Annuals the rush the pressures, he was like one of nine, yeah,
Speaker 11: throwing the ball and the one pass that was complete
Speaker 11: was a touchdown. It was one of nine against pressure,
Speaker 11: and they didn't have a good handle on Micah Parsons
Speaker 11: playing three technique, and you know it's it's really it
Speaker 11: was good good on Dallas understanding Dan's defense, bad on
Speaker 11: the commanders not understanding Dallas's defense.
Speaker 7: And could it also be as a part of that, Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 7: that the quarterback as a young quarterback and any experience,
Speaker 7: he has not seen the kind of things that that
Speaker 7: Mike Zimmer can throw at you. Right, and we've staying
Speaker 7: with other young quarterbacks I've had to face this defense.
Speaker 7: It can be a little challenging because it's just a
Speaker 7: lot of different things that you have to adjust to
Speaker 7: and adapt to, and that's what makes it very tough.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, all of a sudden, you're like thinking,
Speaker 11: Michaeh Parsons is going to come off the edge and
Speaker 11: he's standing right there, like, you know, three feet from you,
Speaker 11: you know, against a guy that you during the season.
Speaker 11: You're like, oh, this guy's not gonna be able to
Speaker 11: block my Parsons Alagrett, he's not going to get you know,
Speaker 11: he's not going to get over there and get this.
Speaker 11: This could be a problem. And so yeah, and then
Speaker 11: all of a sudden, you get secondary blitzes. You know,
Speaker 11: you get Jordan Lewis and Wilson coming on a blitz.
Speaker 11: You know, like you're thinking, wait a minute, the nickel
Speaker 11: corner and the safeties both are coming on this blitz.
Speaker 11: So now that plays with your.
Speaker 5: Head a little bit.
Speaker 11: And I think they I think Mike did a really
Speaker 11: good job of confusing at Danielson and Cliff Kingsbury. I
Speaker 11: don't think Cliff Kingsbury adjusted very well to what they
Speaker 11: were doing either.
Speaker 3: I will say I think they hunted matchups. I'm going
Speaker 3: back through their numbers here. They hunted Noah BNAGHENI quite
Speaker 3: a bit with Ceede Lamb.
Speaker 8: Like it was. It wasn't a lot of downfield action.
Speaker 3: The longest reception the CD know him, it was thirteen yards, exactly.
Speaker 5: Why Jordan Lewis is going to be there next year.
Speaker 3: But Lamb, please please, but Ceedee Lamb ats haend receptions
Speaker 3: for sixty seven yards well.
Speaker 11: And you know, and also to go back and look
Speaker 11: at the numbers of what they did against Frankie Luvu
Speaker 11: and Wagner, they I think they had seven completions for
Speaker 11: fifty something yards against these guys. So they hunted a couple.
Speaker 11: You know, they were kind of checking it down underneath
Speaker 11: and stuff. When when Lulu or Wagner weren't rushing they
Speaker 11: kind of worked off that, you know, they they gave
Speaker 11: up some completion so I think there was I think
Speaker 11: there were eight attempts, seven of them complete. You know,
Speaker 11: they were working off those linebackers too, so you know,
Speaker 11: good for him doing that. And I mentioned I mentioned
Speaker 11: Jeremy Chin and what what he had to deal with,
Speaker 11: you know with the three catches for sixty one yards
Speaker 11: and a touchdown. So they were hunting some matchups in
Speaker 11: that secondary. And you're right about Noah, you know they
Speaker 11: they they were.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 19: We go, that's here, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I can't wait till you get for this draft show.
Speaker 11: There are some crazy names of this clash.
Speaker 7: Cooper rushed, as Brian you mentioned earlier, some of the
Speaker 7: numbers he was. It was his best completion percentage in
Speaker 7: this game that all season at seventy five percent second games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was better than.
Speaker 5: The He was at seventy five percent this game, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then but he was second best in quarterback rating
Speaker 7: the Bucks game. Ye had a better quarterback rating at
Speaker 7: one seventeen point six. Do you think that that gets affected?
Speaker 7: Obviously their offense isn't the same without CD, but how
Speaker 7: much do you think it affects what they're able to do.
Speaker 7: Especially again in that game, they were hunting matchups, they
Speaker 7: were finding some opportunities. There were a lot of guys
Speaker 7: that got involved. How much you think that gets set
Speaker 7: back by not having CD out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it hurts, It really hurts. I mean we saw
Speaker 3: it last week in Philadelphia. This offense it runs through CD,
Speaker 3: and it took even more importance whenever Dak was out
Speaker 3: of the equation. You see Cooper on opening drives and
Speaker 3: games over the course of the season, while he's been
Speaker 3: starting finding CD building confidence, that's how he gets going
Speaker 3: in a game. He didn't have that to build confidence
Speaker 3: in the first quarter. Granted he was able to find
Speaker 3: some guys in that first quarter. Jalen Tolbert off the
Speaker 3: top of my head had a couple of them, Brandon
Speaker 3: Cooks had a MiG their down completion, and the run
Speaker 3: game helped on those first couple of drives too.
Speaker 8: But after that you saw that the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Don't have a receiving option that can just beat you
Speaker 3: over the course of a game.
Speaker 9: But also, are we expecting Cooper Rush to play?
Speaker 5: I am yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 8: I am yeah.
Speaker 3: I understand that the Trey Lance potentiality but I think
Speaker 3: with with Cooper Rush's incentive, he's going to play.
Speaker 8: I just don't think that they're.
Speaker 5: Not going to break some news.
Speaker 9: I'm just asking.
Speaker 10: I mean, there was some questions he was asked about,
Speaker 10: you know, whether Trey Lance or even will agree or
Speaker 10: we're going to see sometime this Weekend's always it.
Speaker 5: Was not like he was committed to anybody right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, And that's the thing, like I suspect, I
Speaker 7: would not be shocked if they all play.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 7: If this is like a preseason game where you have
Speaker 7: everybody take a little bit of time and get some opportunities.
Speaker 2: And stop the clock exactly.
Speaker 7: Let me ask you guys this question. So for me,
Speaker 7: I want everybody to take a chance. Give me your
Speaker 7: best argument why Trey.
Speaker 2: Lance should play in this game?
Speaker 7: Should should be the predominant player at quarterback for this
Speaker 7: team this game?
Speaker 8: See what you got?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's the little it's the last game
Speaker 3: you have him under contract. You need to make a
Speaker 3: decision on him in the offseason. I don't feel like
Speaker 3: they have enough to make a good decision.
Speaker 8: That's just me.
Speaker 3: Obviously they know a lot more on that side. Of
Speaker 3: the building about what Trey Lance can do. There was
Speaker 3: a reason why he played almost every snap in the preseason.
Speaker 3: But for me, let's see what he has against the
Speaker 3: NFL starting defense, what he can accomplish over the course
Speaker 3: of a game, and see what you could potentially be
Speaker 3: bringing back in twenty five.
Speaker 11: I'm so confused because listen to the owner general managers
Speaker 11: say the Hayes and the barn on some decisions they've
Speaker 11: made around here, you know, and that's talking about the
Speaker 11: coach and you know, but if Hayes and barn and
Speaker 11: coaches coming back, then by all means, play Trey Lance.
Speaker 11: Cooper Rush gives you the best chance to win the game,
Speaker 11: he really really does, you know. So I'm I would
Speaker 11: if you're if if there's still an indecision about the
Speaker 11: head coach, you know, and Jerry wants to win this game,
Speaker 11: you know, you play Cooper Rush, you know. So I
Speaker 11: think that's where I think, That's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 11: I mean, if you if the general manager wants to
Speaker 11: win this game, then then you need to play Cooper Rush.
Speaker 11: There's no reason to play Trey Lance. I'd love for
Speaker 11: them to play Trey Lance to shut us all up.
Speaker 11: That's really what I'd like to see, you know, because
Speaker 11: we keep asking about him, and you know, they're they're
Speaker 11: insistent that you know, they're.
Speaker 5: Trying to win games. And I don't blame him. I've
Speaker 5: been in that situation. It's hard, it really is.
Speaker 11: I mean, I'm sitting here thinking about draft picks and
Speaker 11: talking about the draft and picking. There's a difference in
Speaker 11: this draft. I think picking thirteenth and picking seventeenth, there's
Speaker 11: a difference that those you know, because right now I
Speaker 11: got fifteen first round grades.
Speaker 5: That's the lowest I've had probably in years.
Speaker 11: So I don't want to get out of that window
Speaker 11: of potentially grabbing a guy like a Banks, you know
Speaker 11: from Texas to tackle or somebody like that. That if
Speaker 11: I if I wait to seventeen, I'm not going to
Speaker 11: get him, you know that those kind of things. That's
Speaker 11: the selfish side of me. But to them, I can
Speaker 11: understand trying to win. Picking at seventeen, they don't care,
Speaker 11: you know, I care. They don't care. I mean that
Speaker 11: in a nice way. I don't mean that they don't care.
Speaker 11: But they're trying to win games over there, and there's
Speaker 11: no reason to play Cooper I mean, it's gonna be
Speaker 11: no reason for them to.
Speaker 5: Play Trey Lance. To them, there's not because they're trying
Speaker 5: to win games.
Speaker 10: I mean, I kind of want to see a little
Speaker 10: agree I've been after that the way he left. When
Speaker 10: he left on the last preseason game, he was so emotional,
Speaker 10: you know, I'm like, he had such a good game.
Speaker 10: I would love to see just for the fun of
Speaker 10: Edgar him playing and Dak calling the place.
Speaker 3: But that's not the reason Kobe Bryant went out on
Speaker 3: the sixty point game.
Speaker 8: That's how I view it.
Speaker 10: Okay, So but no, I was I totally agree with
Speaker 10: Brian and this one, Like, yes, if you're trying to
Speaker 10: win this game, obviously the best answer, best choice would
Speaker 10: be Cooper rush and have him out there. But it's
Speaker 10: just one of those things that to me, if you
Speaker 10: played Tray, what's the point at this point, you know,
Speaker 10: unless you're trying to give him a chance. Maybe, hey,
Speaker 10: it gives him the opportunity to potentially put some plays
Speaker 10: out there for another team or kind of do him
Speaker 10: a solid in that way. I don't know, because I
Speaker 10: don't know if they do have true intentions of bringing
Speaker 10: him back.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I saw I saw Desmond Howard make our team
Speaker 11: in Green Bay off one game, and you kind of
Speaker 11: and I'm saying that in a way that maybe somebody
Speaker 11: looks at their team and they go out there and
Speaker 11: they do make a they say, you know what, there's
Speaker 11: some qualities they take the preseason and then they maybe
Speaker 11: maybe there's some positive things that happened in this regular
Speaker 11: season game that like that you saw, like, okay, this
Speaker 11: week looked like.
Speaker 5: In the preseason.
Speaker 11: Now here's where he's at, and you could kind of say, wow,
Speaker 11: he's he's kind of developed a little bit this year. Yeah,
Speaker 11: so I the selfish me would love to see him play.
Speaker 11: The personnel guy that's trying to win another game is
Speaker 11: thinking Cooper rushans to play.
Speaker 3: I don't know how much his factors in, but his
Speaker 3: entire family is going to be in Dallas this weekend.
Speaker 3: His brother plays in a national championship on Monday in Frisco.
Speaker 3: So he's at North Kota State. He's a wide receiver.
Speaker 7: And I was gonna say it's one of those Dakota schools,
Speaker 7: because yeah, they are always in the Championshis.
Speaker 11: Folks in North Dakota State, I swear they need to
Speaker 11: pay taxes yeah, they do.
Speaker 2: There's a in that national championship right.
Speaker 3: Hey, I don't know if I can say this specific
Speaker 3: fast food chain on air, but there was a fast
Speaker 3: food chain here and here in Frisco that uh they
Speaker 3: have helmets of like all the local high.
Speaker 8: Schools and they.
Speaker 3: Have North Dakota State in there too, And I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's hilarious that they should.
Speaker 8: They should. They should go to.
Speaker 11: Good business, go to go to the OMNI next story,
Speaker 11: it's like a Green Bay packer convention.
Speaker 7: All right, let's uh, let's I had to add one
Speaker 7: other question before we go to our final break.
Speaker 2: Outside of Tree Lance, did we answer your.
Speaker 7: Question by the way, Yeah, we got we got to
Speaker 7: what we wanted to get to. But outside of Tree Lance,
Speaker 7: give me one other player that you think it's important
Speaker 7: for them to get an opportunity this weekend and them
Speaker 7: playing well makes the biggest impact on their career.
Speaker 5: I think it's the left tackle.
Speaker 8: I think it's as Richards.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking Geydon.
Speaker 11: Well, okay, I'm thinking because right now there's so much
Speaker 11: you know, and Trumadoga is playing far better than I
Speaker 11: ever believed he was going to play at tackle. I
Speaker 11: think that Geydon needs some momentum going into the offseason.
Speaker 5: I think he needs to see.
Speaker 11: Himself and then they need to sit down with him
Speaker 11: and say, listen, you're a very capable football player, but
Speaker 11: you have to do this, this, this and this in
Speaker 11: order to have even more success. Okay, it's a tough
Speaker 11: year in a lot of ways, the penalties, the learning curve.
Speaker 5: All that.
Speaker 11: But I think he really needs some positivity going into
Speaker 11: the into the off season where they could build on it,
Speaker 11: or a new staff could come in and who knows,
Speaker 11: new staff comes in and watches their tape and they're like, going,
Speaker 11: this guy's capable player, and then they can kind of
Speaker 11: instead of like, well why didn't Guidon play? What was
Speaker 11: Guyton's problem all year?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 11: And now the personnel guys are well, the previous staff,
Speaker 11: you know, he was having penalties and that. I think
Speaker 11: he needs some positivity going into this into the end
Speaker 11: of the season.
Speaker 8: One year.
Speaker 3: Thomas, I would like to see him get get rotated
Speaker 3: in its safety. I feel like we've been we've been
Speaker 3: clamoring for that for a while though. Austoin Richards, I
Speaker 3: would like to see what he's got on the offensive line,
Speaker 3: whether that be left tackle, right tackle, who knows. Let's
Speaker 3: let's see what he's got up front. Those are the
Speaker 3: two names that jump to mine immediately to me, and we've.
Speaker 10: Had this conversation on another show. It has to be
Speaker 10: one of the receivers out of who pick you make
Speaker 10: your pick, because all of them, I feel like you
Speaker 10: still need to show a lot more. And that's with
Speaker 10: the exception of Brendan Cooks. Honestly, I don't I can't
Speaker 10: even wait. Where's he out in his contract?
Speaker 8: Does this is it?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 20: Is it? Right?
Speaker 9: So I don't know. For some reason, I.
Speaker 10: Don't see him coming back with the Cowboys or them
Speaker 10: making a deal with him. And we've talked about you
Speaker 10: needing a second wide receiver, a legit one.
Speaker 9: I think that gets addressed through the draft.
Speaker 10: And but because of that, because of you seeing such
Speaker 10: a clear need there, one of these receivers has to
Speaker 10: step up. And the only one that I kind of
Speaker 10: take out of the mix because I think he because
Speaker 10: of the way he got here, Jonathan Mingo, I don't
Speaker 10: think he has so much to prove right this second,
Speaker 10: I would start his taking time bomb right.
Speaker 9: It's just the same Brian right at training camp. Yeah,
Speaker 9: thank you.
Speaker 12: Okay, the club, let's start the time thank you.
Speaker 8: But I think with him, there's.
Speaker 11: Some people we've already seen, believe that we've seen the
Speaker 11: time bomb with that, Yeah, but.
Speaker 10: With him, I think I'm waiting to see him with
Speaker 10: Dak and not Cooper Rush. But anyways, these receivers, I
Speaker 10: think this is the last game for them to kind
Speaker 10: of really show something, especially with CD being out.
Speaker 8: I'll say this for the receiving the receiving corps.
Speaker 3: Like you said, probably Brandon Cooks, there's probably not a
Speaker 3: reality where he's back next year. Jalen told her to
Speaker 3: be back next year, Turpin, who knows. I think that's
Speaker 3: gonna be a very interesting one as far as restricted
Speaker 3: free agency goes. If there's a guy that you want
Speaker 3: to see for me, it's Jalen Cropper. I want to
Speaker 3: see what he can do in this offense. I know
Speaker 3: it kind of it's very measly and practice squad talk,
Speaker 3: but why not let's see what the guy has. He
Speaker 3: was awesome in training camp, he was awesome in the preseason.
Speaker 3: Uh he only had one game of elevation this year,
Speaker 3: and see what he got. And then Dalvin Cook, would
Speaker 3: you elevate him.
Speaker 2: No, I would not. I think we've seen we need
Speaker 2: to see. I've seen what I needed to see. I
Speaker 2: think I'm good.
Speaker 7: You know what I will say though, to your point
Speaker 7: about value.
Speaker 8: I'm good for a real chance.
Speaker 7: To your point about Mingo, I actually would go into
Speaker 7: this game and I would say I'm going to him
Speaker 7: early in.
Speaker 5: I should try.
Speaker 7: I would try very hard to get him involved because
Speaker 7: I want to see if you really focus on him,
Speaker 7: because he won't be the focal point of the offense
Speaker 7: next year, there's no chance of that, right, But if
Speaker 7: you go into this game and say he's going to
Speaker 7: be the focal point of our offense, we're going to
Speaker 7: make him the guy that we're going to try to
Speaker 7: concentrate on getting the ball to.
Speaker 2: Because he's a big body. He can, he can.
Speaker 7: He doesn't need a lot of separation, you wouldn't think
Speaker 7: in order to be able to make.
Speaker 2: Catches and make plays.
Speaker 7: I would be trying to use him in a lot
Speaker 7: of different ways just to see what I got, because
Speaker 7: I do think that that's what he hasn't really had
Speaker 7: to this point, like, really focus on getting him the ball.
Speaker 7: I'd love to see it. And another name out thereof
Speaker 7: for you du'ce fun Deuce. For Deuce, this is very important,
Speaker 7: I think because he's getting that point in his career
Speaker 7: where he's gonna have to start figuring out how to
Speaker 7: get active, how to get on the field, how to
Speaker 7: show them that he can be a role player for
Speaker 7: them and whatever that role is. And so I think
Speaker 7: if he gets an opportunity this weekend, it's going to
Speaker 7: be important for him to make some plays.
Speaker 3: This is a fascinating conversation because there's going to be
Speaker 3: a point in the offseason where they're decide on guys
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be like, man, I wish we could
Speaker 3: go play a game right now. This is their opportunity
Speaker 3: to go play the game right now and see what
Speaker 3: they go.
Speaker 11: You know, you've played some teams earlier in the season
Speaker 11: that are really I excuse me, not the earlier but
Speaker 11: latter part of the season, really that that play with cushion,
Speaker 11: you know, and the Commanders are a team that plays
Speaker 11: with cushion. If you look at the metrics of how
Speaker 11: they play third most in the league, you know, seven
Speaker 11: yards of cushion. It's okay, does that play well for Mingo?
Speaker 11: Does that play well for Brooks? Does that play well
Speaker 11: for Tovert. You know, maybe maybe you could find a
Speaker 11: way to get some of these guys going like you're
Speaker 11: talking about, you know, just just load say Okay, we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Load Mingo up and see if he can.
Speaker 11: You know, we're gonna give him six targets in the
Speaker 11: first half and see how many receptions we can get
Speaker 11: out of that and just kind of go from there.
Speaker 10: I like your playing, but to be clear, I one
Speaker 10: hundred percent agree with you as to what the coaching
Speaker 10: staff needs to go into that game with and like
Speaker 10: a game plan where you involve him. But as far
Speaker 10: as I put that aside in the player individually, having
Speaker 10: them as an individual needing to be to have a
Speaker 10: successful game, that's where I take him out of the
Speaker 10: equation like give me if he doesn't catch the ball
Speaker 10: or whatever. I still have that grace period for him still.
Speaker 10: But the other guys, they've had their time here now.
Speaker 7: And well, but I think I think it is important.
Speaker 7: Here's why I think it's important because I think that
Speaker 7: a really great game from him makes the Cowboys think, Okay,
Speaker 7: a lot of these other guys may not be our answer.
Speaker 7: We still maybe need to go get a number two
Speaker 7: but this guy gives us some firepower. There's something we
Speaker 7: can do with him. I think it can be as important.
Speaker 7: Like you said, to think about his career so far,
Speaker 7: he just really hasn't I'm talking about I'm talking about
Speaker 7: even at this previous stop.
Speaker 2: He really hasn't done a lot for where he was drafted.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the part round pick. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: got to get.
Speaker 7: Him to a point where I also want to build
Speaker 7: a little confidence with him.
Speaker 2: Like I want him to go to my sea thing.
Speaker 7: Yes, exactly, But give him a lot of options, give
Speaker 7: him a lot of opportunities, and then once once you
Speaker 7: do that, if he shows you something, then he goes
Speaker 7: into the all season and saying Okay, I think this
Speaker 7: might be a place where I can grow. And now
Speaker 7: go spend some time with Dak in the dockyard and
Speaker 7: start figuring out how to be a part of this offense.
Speaker 7: And I think he could be a legitimate guy that's
Speaker 7: in your top three wide receivers. If he can show
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Speaker 10: going to continue what we did last time, which was
Speaker 10: kind of reviewed the season as a whole, looking into
Speaker 10: this next year. And these are areas that I feel
Speaker 10: like it's easy to answer, but hey, it is what
Speaker 10: it is after you had such a bad year. But
Speaker 10: you can look at it however you want, whether you
Speaker 10: want to evaluate like the first half of the season
Speaker 10: and see the progress that they made for the second half,
Speaker 10: or if you want to mush it all up and
Speaker 10: just see it as a whole. First, let's start with
Speaker 10: red zone efficiency, how successful they were, and again I
Speaker 10: feel like there wasn't Let's start.
Speaker 9: With offense.
Speaker 5: Zero efficiency.
Speaker 9: I mean, they didn't get their vert no.
Speaker 11: And it and a lot of it had to do
Speaker 11: even with Dak, they had some problems. They couldn't sequence plays.
Speaker 11: I think I said that the right way, it would
Speaker 11: seem like it would be an incomplete pass and then
Speaker 11: a run and then maybe a force pass again and
Speaker 11: then all of a sudden, Brandon Aubrey's got seventy five
Speaker 11: field goals in a row. You know, it just never
Speaker 11: seemed like that they were able. You know, some teams
Speaker 11: have just got a knack for how to kind of
Speaker 11: get the running game in there, how to get like
Speaker 11: a crossing route, how to get a pick play in Yeah,
Speaker 11: everybody's got that kind of that quarterback run.
Speaker 5: It seemed like we were very much.
Speaker 11: Like he would look at the play sheet and everyone
Speaker 11: that he would select was either like a negative play
Speaker 11: or one that just had no chance. I just never
Speaker 11: felt like there was any rhythm to their red zone offense.
Speaker 7: I agree with that, and I think the reason why
Speaker 7: is because most of those teams you're mentioning that that
Speaker 7: really well, they typically have a pretty good running game,
Speaker 7: and early in the.
Speaker 2: Season, Dallas just didn't have it.
Speaker 7: And I think, quite frankly, and I've been pretty clear
Speaker 7: aby where I thought the biggest problem was.
Speaker 2: It was the offensive line.
Speaker 7: And I think when you got an offensive line problems,
Speaker 7: not only can you not run the ball, which also
Speaker 7: tend to give up sacks, And how many times do
Speaker 7: we see them get in the red zone and then sack,
Speaker 7: you're back outside of the red zone, or you're having
Speaker 7: to settle for a field goal, And so I just
Speaker 7: think overall, I think I would say it wasn't as
Speaker 7: good as it needed to be, but I think it
Speaker 7: got better as the season went on, and I think,
Speaker 7: you know what the problems are. The problems are around
Speaker 7: the offensive line and using your running game effectively.
Speaker 2: And I think that.
Speaker 7: I'm thinking they should know that, so going into the
Speaker 7: off season they should be prepared to improve that and
Speaker 7: can have some better success next year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't need me to tell you anything. Twenty
Speaker 3: seventh in the NFL and scoring touchdowns on they getting
Speaker 3: the red zone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, they are.
Speaker 3: Flip it the defense. Let's let's see what the what
Speaker 3: the numbers have to say on that.
Speaker 8: Give me one moment, y'all, y'all.
Speaker 5: Have very good I want to say, I think initially
Speaker 5: they were not very good. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, all the points they gave up, they had they
Speaker 7: had to be giving up some of the zone.
Speaker 3: Wow, thirty second and the margin between thirty second and
Speaker 3: thirty first is very large.
Speaker 8: It's seven percent points.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's there last by a healthy margin,
Speaker 3: seventy three.
Speaker 11: I think a lot of Yeah, I think a lot
Speaker 11: of that had to do with what happened the first
Speaker 11: like ten weeks this season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would be interested to know what that is
Speaker 7: like over the last five six games, over.
Speaker 3: The last three thirty two, thirty one thirty twenty seventh
Speaker 3: in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Still what it was better but not great? Still bad, man,
Speaker 2: that's tough.
Speaker 8: Wow, that's tough. But yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: Most of the time, whenever I think the defense found
Speaker 3: themselves in the red zone, it was at the end
Speaker 3: of sustained drives. I mean, as most red zone drives are.
Speaker 8: But yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: But I can't really only think of a few opportunities
Speaker 3: off the top of my head where the offense put
Speaker 3: them in the red zone. I think at the Cooper
Speaker 3: rush fumble in Philadelphia, you have goodness, I can't really
Speaker 3: think of a whole lot more turnovers that were inside
Speaker 3: their own twenty unless I just can't think anything off the.
Speaker 5: Top of my head.
Speaker 10: Okay, Now, third down conversions. This is something we've talked
Speaker 10: about all year, all season long for the Cowboys. Let's
Speaker 10: start with offense. Did you see how would how do
Speaker 10: you rate the third down conversions? And also how do
Speaker 10: you feel about certain improvement in the last month.
Speaker 5: I think they've gotten better in the last month.
Speaker 11: Early it felt like that we were just like it
Speaker 11: would remember it would be like third and one and you're.
Speaker 5: Just like, God, they're not gonna get this. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: you just did.
Speaker 11: It goes back to what Derek's talking about, the offensive line,
Speaker 11: the lack of running game. They just the just the
Speaker 11: the rhythm of the play caller. It just it just
Speaker 11: didn't seem their offense had no flow to it, and
Speaker 11: so it would be like if they would convert on
Speaker 11: third and short, it was like, you know, like they
Speaker 11: needed one and they got one and a half.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: It wasn't like they popped a run or threw a
Speaker 5: pass or something like that.
Speaker 11: I just I think they were searching for their third
Speaker 11: down offense and they just they you know, initially was CD,
Speaker 11: you know it him throwing him the ball, but they
Speaker 11: didn't get it from Ferguson, who they normally get it
Speaker 11: from some of the other receivers. And then I mentioned
Speaker 11: the running game just wasn't good enough. So I think
Speaker 11: initially is bad, but I think it's gotten a little
Speaker 11: bit better with Cooks back in the lineup. CD was
Speaker 11: doing some good things and then Dawdle's ability to run
Speaker 11: the football got better too.
Speaker 3: This offense was second in the NFL last season, and
Speaker 3: third down conversion percentage this year twenty fifth. They only
Speaker 3: converted on their third downs thirty six percent.
Speaker 8: Of the times. That's another unacceptable note.
Speaker 2: That's really bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't matter who's the huge, huge it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter who's in the lineup, who's at quarterback, who's uh,
Speaker 3: you know, doing the pregame show on one oh five
Speaker 3: through the fan.
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter. It's uh, it's it's unacceptable.
Speaker 7: Well, we know where the problems that originate. Again, I
Speaker 7: think this goes hand in hand, Brian. We just like
Speaker 7: it's it's offensive line running game. If you don't have
Speaker 7: those two things worked out in the NFL, you're gonna
Speaker 7: have a hard time and a lot of these other
Speaker 7: parts of the game.
Speaker 11: Didn't it seem like just to get when it got
Speaker 11: the third down, it was just always a struggle. Yeah,
Speaker 11: Like it just you're just like, God, they're not gonna
Speaker 11: pick this up. You know, you just knew something was
Speaker 11: gonna mess up. You know they were gonna get a
Speaker 11: false start penalty or something's gonna happen that they don't
Speaker 11: really get it.
Speaker 10: Well, no, we're running out of time, so let's just
Speaker 10: quickly do the opposite side of the ball. How do
Speaker 10: you feel in uh, third down conversions on what the
Speaker 10: defense did?
Speaker 11: Seemed like early again, the teams were just having the way.
Speaker 11: As a matter of fact, there were times where they
Speaker 11: weren't even getting a third down. It was like it
Speaker 11: was like they were Yeah, it was first down convert,
Speaker 11: second down convert. The teams weren't teams were habited with
Speaker 11: They were averaging six to seven yard shot. Yeah, and
Speaker 11: you weren't even getting the third down. So yeah, initially bad.
Speaker 11: I think they've done a much better job because they've
Speaker 11: come up with pressures with Parsons, Golston's gotten better. You've
Speaker 11: seen stuff with loss and I think the defense of
Speaker 11: secondary has gotten a little bit better. When it came
Speaker 11: you know, you got Bland back. I think that helped
Speaker 11: the linebackers. I think that second half has been much
Speaker 11: better than what you saw because they couldn't do anything
Speaker 11: in the first half of the season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3: My last little guessing moment for you guys, do you
Speaker 3: want to guess where this defense ranked an opponent third
Speaker 3: down conversion percentage in.
Speaker 8: This the season?
Speaker 7: For the season, Yeah, I would guess they are at
Speaker 7: about twenty seven.
Speaker 9: Hmmm, twenty five, thirty three.
Speaker 8: They are going to be shot sixth.
Speaker 5: Ranked. Well, I thought you met the percentage.
Speaker 8: That's why I said thirty three thirty six.
Speaker 2: They were that good.
Speaker 8: Sixth Yeah, I thought it was a joke.
Speaker 7: Well, maybe it's because of what Brian was saying, like
Speaker 7: the UAFL champions, maybe because.
Speaker 2: They were rarely getting them teams were rarely getting the things.
Speaker 3: They're rarely getting this to a third down. But also
Speaker 3: I when they were getting into third down, I would
Speaker 3: love to see their average third down yardage marker because
Speaker 3: typically when they were getting into third down it was
Speaker 3: by way of pressure or sack. And that this defense
Speaker 3: did find themselves behind the sticks and go way multiple times. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I didn't that that is a noticeable, noticeable factor. And
Speaker 3: it did feel like even though the offense was not
Speaker 3: as great throughout the year, that they were still right
Speaker 3: their neck and deck every week as far as third
Speaker 3: downs with the.
Speaker 8: Other team coming against.
Speaker 2: That's impressive.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And would still.
Speaker 11: What a wrong about did it seem like that they
Speaker 11: were every time? Yes, yes, it was first in ten
Speaker 11: and they would get a gain of nine.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that's also the thing if if there, if
Speaker 7: they're putting up thirty something points, forty points, whatever, then yeah,
Speaker 7: they're not going to be getting a third down a lot.
Speaker 11: You wouldn't think they got punished at the very end
Speaker 11: on stats, they were digging a hole and they couldn't
Speaker 11: get out. Yeah, they could not get out, even though
Speaker 11: they played better at the end.
Speaker 7: All right, well here's the real quick before we end
Speaker 7: the show, tell me what the Cowboys have to do
Speaker 7: in order to get a win this weekend. What's the
Speaker 7: most important thing they got to do is go around
Speaker 7: and Tayble, make you.
Speaker 3: First, Oh, show up, because I don't feel like they
Speaker 3: showed up in Philadelphia, I really don't. I feel like
Speaker 3: the preparation going into that game was not great.
Speaker 7: So you think it was preparation. It wasn't just all
Speaker 7: the people that they've lost. Yeah, just kind of came to.
Speaker 8: It was mentioned on this show.
Speaker 3: I forget, but you wonder how much their preparation leading
Speaker 3: into that game was affected by Okay, hey we're not
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. Christmases this week, we can go ahead
Speaker 3: and start planning our offseason. Philadelphia's already in the playoffs
Speaker 3: and CD's gone.
Speaker 8: CD's gone exactly.
Speaker 3: So I if they prepared accordingly this week and they
Speaker 3: let all this coaching stuff just kind of go out,
Speaker 3: go in one ear and out the other, and they
Speaker 3: actually prepare for this game, then I think there's a shot.
Speaker 5: Control this Washington front and they did a good job
Speaker 5: last time they.
Speaker 2: Met, you know, and so their defensive front.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 11: If Dallas this offensive line played well, they pass protected well,
Speaker 11: they ran the ball well enough though, do the same
Speaker 11: blueprint would be good for me.
Speaker 10: I think what gives him the best chance is just
Speaker 10: win the turnover battle, don't give up the ball, protect
Speaker 10: the ball, and then on the flip side, obviously defense.
Speaker 10: I think they can actually in this game create some
Speaker 10: turnovers and just have the offense be able to take
Speaker 10: advantage of that and score some points.
Speaker 9: But are we picking? Are we picking? You're like whatever?
Speaker 5: Pick coach?
Speaker 2: Wow, you want to make a pick.
Speaker 9: If y'are and I'm not? Whatever?
Speaker 7: All right, we appreciate you guys joining us. We will
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